The Unbeatable Urusov Gambit - Chess Openings Explained

[@dw29421]

When you think you're learning something complicated and an 8 year old walks in

[@aionlover3981]

But he's an Asian 8 years old, so it's like an american 21 years old equivalent or something like that.

[@StefanSpycher]

EXACTLY what i was thinking. lol .

[@Canttouchthis04]

You gotta watch out for little kids who are super interested in something. They learn AMAZINGLY quick and become very proficient. Everything is easier to learn when you're younger. I had every single person on every American bill ever in circulation memorized at five years old lol. Idk why, but it was interesting to me at the time. Same went for videogames, baseball, and soccer. I was playing super mario Bros at 3 years old and beat it at 4. I've met plenty of little kids who were scary good at what they loved.

[@lamphaven3087]

I’m that kid

[@don__hector7845]

@@aionlover3981 lol

[@NXeta]

"I'll test the audience once again, give yourselves a moment to.." "KNIGHT TAKES F7??" There's always that one guy

[@NXeta]

33:35

[@Alkalite]

a

[@ariamohebi6622]

Your right i saw mate in 7 after that

[@florianleis6793]

lol the king of sums.

[@corycobb3095]

always haha

[@MutinyFever]

Thank you for this gambit, Jonathan. I've been a King's Gambit player for many years, and I've been looking for another opening with the fun of the KG but a little more solidity. I've been playing Bishop's Opening since I watched this video, with the Urusov whenever my opponent allows, and I have had great success. Rare to find an opening that I can adopt with success so easily. This is extremely comfortable to play.

[@trevbarlow9719]

Same. Loads of traps that can arise from this.

[@anishnehete]

😃 😃

[@MrChrisdube]

I like the Albin (e5) as a reply to the Queen's Gambit.

[@f.d.3289]

yes. i only recently disscovered the Urusov Gambit via Stockfish and the Lichess database and booooy I was blown away -- this is so easy to play, your moves are all natural (even the sacrifices) and Black's natural moves are usually blunders XD This is exactly what a gambit should be --- it's pretty sound, you totally open up the center and your pieces totally rule the board by move 8. I finally found my perfect gambit :)

[@mariusdafunk]

6:27 put such a huge smile on my face. thanks for another entertaining and insightful lecture!

[@captjuanco5766]

The Office vibes

[@deadfIag]

Aaron, please don't leave that door open.

[@Jacob-sb3su]

for the love of god Aaron. Usurov USUROV

[@ezramorrison7330]

Urusov*

[@berndwaldow3401]

It's a scary world outside, so don't go outside, stay home and play chess for your whole life -like Jonathan did, i think...

[@AT-qm8gv]

I left the door open

[@marcosmadeira4130]

@@AT-qm8gv now the scarry monster are coming after us

[@eduardbeiline8353]

Thank you Jonathan for the wonderful video. You made my day!

[@shidqi1435]

nice👍

[@rockyg147]

I'm learning Chess,respect too you.Wish you all a Happy New Year.

[@edwardbottle1018]

I'd like to see the chase variation of the Alekhine but I'm happy to watch whatever opening you decide to do. Keep up the great work!

[@blubberbooty]

I Love this channel! I am 56 years old and i've been playing chess for 50 years! I was in my first tournament when I was 6. I learn a lot watching this young lad. I would simply love to challenge him to a game. Rete or not here I come. Get it?

[@p1nesap]

great rapport amongst CCSCSL instructors shines through.

[@kevinmcmahon50]

Thanks Jonathan. Great video that I've watched a couple of times now and is really easy to follow.

[@rlittlefield2691]

I have played this for years, now I know there is a name for it.

[@divyanshuryuzaki1510]

😂😂😂

[@dgarza421]

Yep called "chess"

[@ishaboy5090]

@@dgarza421 somehow you made me laugh

[@zeroh8887]

U all dead

[@artofwar4644]

I guess you have to change your opening

[@walterparker2641]

Easy to follow and very succinct lecture.

[@OswaldChisala]

So, this will definitely seem dumb, but the first 16 seconds sounded like he was on an old school freestyle rap 🙌🏽😂. Okay, back to the video.

[@youare2ez4]

Oswald Chisala Yeah xD

[@freedom9729]

U right

[@superposition9497]

that little dude aaron was funny

[@jaredmcgary159]

This guy is a beast and a great teacher, keep up the good work your respected by many of us in the chess community. Also never dumb it down for thee unpassioned or slow people, keep setting the highest standards so we can reach it. love watching your videos personally knowing you bout to go in. keep that firery personality that sets you apart from the rest.

[@gordonabner7857]

I love people like you willing to teach with the same energy as you would use to play the game.....Thank You for that and all you have done for the Game.........

[@beeble2003]

Been a while since I watched a Schrantz lecture. Forgot just how good he is.

[@gratitude62]

great vid, and definitely my style in the making. thanks a lot...it was fun watching how much you enjoy the material.

[@mrpossibilities]

It’d be nice if every now and then, when a teacher is showing us a new line, if they just showed the whole line before starting to interject alternative moves. It becomes overwhelming and frustrating. At a given point, the amount of alternate lines pile up in my brain and it wnds up being just confusing. Just show me how the original line goes and then we can go into the details of alternative moves each side can play.

[@harryhoudini8466]

Couldn't agree more👌👌

[@kwiecienk92]

I'll be devoted to one subject. During the 17th European Individual Championship I watched and tried to analyze some Grunfeld games. I was especially interested in Piorun-Kunin at round 7 (it is still in progress as I'm writing) and was wandering what you think about these lines. It covers the material you said you are going to explain anyway: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc Bg7 7. Nf3 There were some other crazy games in Grunfeld as well (vide Swierszcz-Stefansson round 5). Probably even more than I am aware of, since I have little time now and am able to follow only the games of my countryman.

[@thomasrogers3008]

Whenever people play E5 against my E4 i play this and i have a brilliant time with it. Thanks Jonathan and Saint Louis Chess Club. Have been trying to learn the Max Lange attack, Morphy attack and a couple of other E4, E5 lines to compliment my knowledge of variations in this sort of opening too. I've found that barely anyone will take on D4 but people do often take on E4 with their Knight, leading to some exciting lines. A lot of people are playing D6 against me too at the moment (when declining the gambit) this is a bad move and fun to exploit - imo.

[@uluafaese8393]

"You left the door open!" Lol. Love this video. Love the classroom environment.

[@orionp.9476]

17:05 "Bishop takes d5" -- "That's bullsh-" "well yeah something had to take d5." lolololol I love these lectures.

[@ProudNitro]

lol he actually says "I was close" but you're right, on 2x speed it sounds like "That's bullshit"

[@Britishbirdsnests]

My favourite after the accepted gambit is bishop captures on f7 followed by knight to E5. Requires very accurate defence from black to count whites attacking options

[@htasul]

He looks exactly like my old biology teacher, except he was Welsh so it didn't feel right to watch - still great video though.

[@DavidU1957]

Nice presentation Jonathan... you have breathed life into this line

[@melodychest9020]

By far the best lecture from Jonathan to date! Up there at the 1800 level and beyond! So many tactical continuations the likes of which would be so tricky in a tournament game for under 1800s. Would love you to cover the Scandinavian as we get that a lot in online blitz games with black attacking right off the bat! Thanks for a well researched video on the Urusov .. excellent!

[@andreasavraam6898]

in the d6 variation,in 29:45 min,if 15. ... Nxe7 then 16. Bxf6, what happens afterwards,there is a variation 16. ... Bg6 and if 17. Qh6 then 17. ... Nf5 prevents the mate on g7 and attacks the queen and is also protected by the bishop on g6,so i assume better for white would be 17. Nd4 preventing the black knight from going to f5,then the only response for black would be 17. ... h5,otherwise the white queen is going to h6 with mate to follow. after that white could play 18. Qg5 attempting to go to h6,or 18. Rg1 pinning the bishop and threatening to take the pawn on h5 with mate to follow,in both cases the only response from black is 18. ... Kh7. Then white could play 19. Ng5 attampting to take the black knight on e7,but i think in the Rg1 variation much more aggressive is 19. Ne4 threatening check on g5. The bishop can't take on e4 because then the queen would take on h5. another continuation for white is if he plays 17. Re1 or 17.Kd5 , which both lead to opposite color bishop but white has 2 knights extra and black has a rook extra and an extra pawn, which it's unclear. long story short, i can't find a continuation with definite mate or large advantage for white, any comments or something i missed?

[@badjaeaux]

probably the best chess teacher on youtube so far

[@Josh38414]

There are so many problems with this. At 14:00 QE7 and even after they accepted they get out easy. This move is never mentioned here. At 15:42 the problem is you say there is a better move, which they didn't play, and when we play against that better move, we have no idea what to do then. This comes in huge at 17:50 where without black making that stupid move, there is no pin on the bishop, and it just takes your rook.

[@CLAX1337]

You have not explained clearly. 14:00 is white to move, and Qe7+ accelerates white’s development, while also putting the queen on the most scrutinized square on the board.

[@rcksnxc361]

Well I suck at chess but I finally beat a level which I couldn't have beaten without this trick I used this gambit... It kinda declined but I made another "variation which wasn't mentioned here" where I sacrificed a rook for "queen or checkmate" I got the queen and checkmated like a few minutes afterwards... Woo finally :D Thanks for the trick

[@CharlySardo]

I played this as my main line to a rating of 1994 USCF. It was not the gambits fault I did not progress. Even better, my main line as black was a Latvian against e4. I had a 6 round "40 in 2" tournament with a performance rating of 2372 with this repertoire. (ok everyone doesn't take both pawns or even play e5... and of course there were some KID's and Gruenfields) but this was all I wanted to play. Urusov and Latvian. Don't even ask about my Be3 French.

[@hennessey415]

17:29 knight takes black bishop, (white bishop is pinned). Blk queen takes knight on g5 queen takes queen pawn takes queen, white knight c7 fork rook and king?

[@chinmayaprakash]

At the given timestamp, White is already down a minor piece and after Nxc7+ Ke7 Nxa8 Rxa8 material trade-off is even. But White would be hard placed pressing its advantage of a superior pawn structure against Black since it is down a bishop and a knight against the black rook.

[@jacobrivas3359]

3:34 i didnt know the hodgetwins like chess

[@HughMorristheJoker]

That 1909 game was a classic. I was there!!

[@FrankBakulov]

This video is all about the beauty of chess! Wonderful

[@sinisamilisavljevic8833]

"Creepy crawlies? I just came from there, no sign of them."

[@yoannhappe9281]

ECO Code seems to be C24: Bishop's Opening, Urusov Gambit, Keidansky Gambit instead of C43: Petrov, Russian Game, Modern Attack (found on chesstempo) Nice and clear lesson, I'll see the other ones! Funny to see that in every chess club there's always one painful guy in the audience :))

[@thomasbrooklyn1820]

One of my favorite violin riffs.

[@gonzalo4658]

This is the only chess guy that just gets straight to the point and starts moving pieces.

[@Wuschel1990]

12:09 What do you have against the move Bxd5 Qxd5 followed by Knight c3? you have to move your Queen and I can take the Knight on e4 with my Knight on c3.

[@chinmayaprakash]

Only that you have given up a good bishop for a bad knight in order to win back a pawn. And after Nc3 Qh5 Nxe4 O-O, Black has solved its development problems with ideas of Bg4 and Nc6. And it is still up a pawn and holding on to its bishop pair.

[@lecioperyjunior1690]

3:00 "First of all we take e5" Opening Qd5 threat is useless considering Qf3 threat is already at hand, specially Nf6 can be followed by xe5 forcing Qf2 and the enemy has his queen already moved and blocking black bishop. Also, in 4:04 you don't really need to capture with the bishop. You can kick the knight using f4, and then the knight Ne6 to allegedly block e5 pawn, but you can proceed with e5 and if knight escapes is mate. Even the Nb4 countermeasure threatening the queen can be answered easily with Qe2. Not really sure he missed all of this or if I am missing something clearly obvious that completely nullifies whatever I said.

[@lecioperyjunior1690]

I almost forgot: at 16:48, Qh5 is the charm. His attempts to "not die" seems to have almost failed. After Qh5, f7 is pinned. If g6 or black queen is moved anywhere, then white Qxd5 and knight is lost. If Qxd5 taking white queen, Rxd5 and queens have just been exchanged, without material recovering from black. If any other random move is done, except castling, like doing c6, then white can Rxe6+ and f7 can't do squat about it. Even further, King can only escape to f8 because Qd7 implies in a loss of queen after Qxd5. Actually, if I were playing black at this rate, I'd rather believe that I had sinned badly because apparently God has deserted me.

[@stevem9529]

At 8.39 black bishop has white king in check, so does this not mean the castle that follows about 10 seconds later is illegal?

[@topneorej]

47 dislikers preferred another color chess board XD

[@FlexoSolace]

topneorej Too bad, it looks pretty cool

[@abdul-wahiddacosta8450]

306 now :/...

[@inlove4rock]

nice opening, idiot sounds ...

[@inlove4rock]

nice opening, idiot sounds ...

[@huiyuanwang9621]

Wow.

[@shriramsverma]

At the time 49:46 in video queen goes to F8 there is mate in 2 Followed by Qg5+ The only way to protect the king is Qg7 Q*g7+ mate

[@OmniRadio]

I really love this opening and the multiple possibilities that will happen

[@xc5103]

Hahaha I like how this guy lectures. Very good.

[@exquisitecorpse4917]

The Benoni is a good one to cover - it's actually sound, there are a lot of example games, and it's sharp enough to create "interesting" games for the bloodthirsty spectators (though I don't mind seeing something solid once in a while....all of this sacrificing on f7 is like eating ice cream for every meal)

[@user-ts2co4ov5h]

Benoni is hardly ever played in GM games now...Black loses too much

[@Supware]

I'm really enjoying Schrantz' lectures. Seems to really know his stuff and communicates it perfectly

[@giacomoguarnieri2461]

Very nice opening, and very nice explanations! Many thanks!

[@user-MetalAngel]

Actually, even if your opponent plays Nc6 before Nf6, you can still play d4. So, play would go like this: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4. d4... and after black takes exd4, then you push 5. e5 driving away the King's Knight.

[@doce.9755]

a better game to show would be Timoscenko vs Karpov, Fendrisch vs Steiniz and another one where in Lasker was black. All the three world champions where destroyed by the urusov in these games.

[@patarsianturi3756]

so interesting to follow this class, nice teaching from the Master

[@yanisokamisensei327]

excellent video thank u sir

[@jericosha2842]

I like this teacher. Easy to follow

[@stevewithington7640]

Brilliant video! Loved some of the turns of phrase. Thanks ☺

[@viettungnguyen1692]

Very great video but a small issue i found that in 29:47 if Black play Nxe7 is the good move because then Bg6 and if you play Qh6 Black will play Nf5 aim for your Queen and take back the advantage :)

[@Majora1988]

So I think a solid opening might be a good idea since we did a bunch of fun gambits in a row. How about the classical QGD or Slav?

[@Majora1988]

+Majora1988 I definitely learned not to accept this gambit as black, though I would be much too scared to take with the knight after queen takes. Great lecture again Jonathan!

[@htasul]

that's a paddlin'

[@teresitaginacabioc198]

Majora1988 what abut if night takes the dpawn and if he reply Qh4

[@hjalteandersen1473]

Add 17:38 - isn't white down material if black recaptures the rook with Nxd5 rather than Bxg5?

[@darrenwebb2779]

At 32:03 in the knight move (bishop sacrifice declined) ... BxB ; I prefer Qh7# over NxB ;-) Very enjoyable video. Helpful for building up attacking skills. Thank you.

[@drakky3051]

Darren Webb and White loses by doing an illegal move. :)

[@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions]

this video helped me up my rating by well over 100 points, not sure what it did, but thanks! I find most people dont take with the knight, and some rarely take with the pawn. but I really like taking away the persons right to castle.

[@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions]

now only to work on my end game, I still suck without the queen, trying to use it as least as possible.

[@GirGir183]

Lol, at 6:24 I thought he was talking to his opponent on the chess board. I thought Erin Lynn was his ethereal chess opponent. I thought he was referring to the act of "not castling". "Leaving the door open" meant something different to me. Don't you know there's bad guys out there. Close the back door and prevent the scary monsters from getting in......pure chess.

[@NXeta]

LOL

[@JimmyJJJohnson]

Brilliant.

[@prestonarmes1400]

Very informative. Thank you for the video.

[@ldeans5620]

I think it's unlikely I'll ever actually use the Urusov gambit in over the board play, but Jeremy's lecture has probably improved my chess playing anyway.

[@FourthRoot]

At 16:51, what about Rxe6+ followed by Qh5 and Ne5. eventually black's king will be either very exposed or white will regain material and have a better position.

[@tobiashorowitz9676]

I like this gambit.

[@dcipher2612]

12:05, Bishop D3, then after block move, D3 takes E4, then after D5 takes E4, rook takes E4. Then possibility for F3 to take D4 and the bishop takes and then queen takes backed up by rook no?

[@chriszablocki2460]

Seems effective. KZbin REALLY thinks I should know this one.

[@jemir8012]

Thanks for the nice chess videos. I am new in chess but i found your lecture helpful to new chess enthusiasts. I hope i can request chess opening someday..

[@stingraymarines5168]

Thank u sir jonathan..your videos are very helpful..hope to play a game with you in the future😊

[@arumugamsatasivam85]

Really very good I am coming up age of 50 I have playing since agg of 8 every Sunday we play chess, i will try this

[@miked2543]

8:56.... Ya, I'm cool with transposing into the Danish. In fact, I think I prefer the Danish through transposition than by attempting it outright.

[@x.jayrex]

29:55 Bishop g6 ? if Qh6 Nf5 Trade Queens? if Rg1 Qd7 threatening Nf5 and if Rxg6 fxg6 the Queen helps out. With two Rook sacs from white Black should has material compensation for his open King right? Does that work?

[@missjessgem]

how about a video about the Deutz Gambit? 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d4

[@HipsterEatinShark]

I beg to differ! 😂 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Bc5 4. Nxe5 Qe7 5. Bxf7+ Kd8 6. O-O Qxe5 7. c3 Bd6 8. d4 Qxh2# 0-1

[@stevejobs9851]

Dear Sir, I have a better move instead of Qh5 at 42:00 time. I think Qh5 is good but the following below is also not bad. Please correct me if I am wrong. White Black ============== Qh6 Rg8 Re8 Qxe8 Rd1xND7 Resigns

[@teejay5511]

Loving the "i'll show you what the computer thinks" strats...... really insightful. He doesn't know da wea.

[@shidqi1435]

thx jonathan☺👍👍👍

[@josephkessinger9081]

Vienna game,taimanov Sicilian,Breyer variation of the Ruy Lopez

[@krileym]

6:24 - (Aaron Lin enters stage right, leaving the door ajar, fearing neither monsters nor creepy crawlies, promptly prepares notebook, and swiftly writes URU SOV, with proper spelling)

[@rk1darko]

19:48 White can play Knight d2 or Pawn g4 to prepare an escape for queen before black plays Pawn g6.

[@Brandon-pf7oq]

Wow many gambits I enjoy stem from e4 d4! (I also enjoy playing the Scotch Gambit which conveninetly opens up many things)

[@weoweoteo]

44:15 “that’s curtains” 😳

[@hili1755]

excellent video, thank you !

[@OwenRona]

Hi great lecture! I have a question about a variation when the White’s Queen gets trapped at 19:55. Would it be better to try to deflect the F7 pawn away by sacking the Queen with Qxg6? So when the F7 pawn retakes the Queen, then white completes its goal by taking the hanging bishop with Rxe6 while maintaining all kinds of pressure on Black’s King? Many thanks! 👍 Edit: just subscribed!

[@OwenRona]

Never mind, I now see the importance of getting the Queen back ASAP and being down a rook is better than being down a Queen.

[@aquaknight21]

At 12:30 mins, why not defend the black horse with the queen, he would be forced to castle to the right or attack with his queen or he would find a double attack on queen to king and horse to rook 1H. Seems like a better move and easy counter to your left castle strategy.

[@chesstrainersarthak6439]

He is an excellent guy he explains well

[@spacefieldtime]

always liked this opening and nice video analysis to complement the Rutgers webpage....

[@augustgreig9420]

Wow. When I played in middle school, I found this opening and believed it unbeatable. Amazing I was right.

[@jitutrivedi6132]

thanks jonathan !!!!!

[@roycastanares6597]

Hello Sir, this has a counter attack for black, What if I play 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. dxe5 and what if black play Qh4, clearly black has the advantage. Please clarify.

[@sauryasircar5326]

Smith Morra Gambit! I've been seeing it so often in my state.

[@Alientcp]

A few years ago i was in a tournament. Before we started, a friend told me that he had the sicilian def all studied up. I said, man, i can crush that easily with the morra gambit, it was a joke, but he took it seriously. He was and still is way better than me though. We got paired in round 3, me as white and i started e4, which i always play no matter what. He also started the sicilian defence. Since we were already there, i said, why not? and followed up with the gambit. You should have seen him, he got really nervous, started to sweat like if he was on a marathon, got in the ugliest position to avoid any traps and gave me like a 30 mins lead in time. It was hilarious. After a few mistakes i lost the game, but the memory of watching him struggle against my bluff alone made my day. Poor guy, he needed an extra shirt, he was all soaked up with sweat. I cant stop laughing hahaha.

[@romangargiulo8350]

Jonathan says there are no tricks with the Knight in the position as 31:30 here against bishops taking on h6 but I've been playing this gambit against the machine and in a similar position she plays Kd4 and I could not find any good response to that. Any ideas??

[@meganekko-moe1754]

46:59 There are one move that takes you to a checkmate with white. Move rook in E4 to E8, then the black rook eats that, and you eat that rook with queen. If he doesn't eat the rook at first, you eat his rook with the queen and checkmate.

[@kingdespair4918]

You're only thinking offensively. After e4 rook moves to e8, blacks queen moves to a3 square forcing white to move his king in b1 and mate on the next move. This is why white needed to move his d1 rook to create an escape route for whites king.

[@nmrxcb]

1.e4 e5 2.bc4 kf6 3.d4 exd4

[@yashcherivirala]

at 19:32 why Kf8 is the best move ? I think playing g6 gives more advantage to black. Am i missing something here ?

[@zenitsu0328]

Please answer me.. thanks.. @48:37 what if black bishop captures the rook? it will be a turnaround for black or not? thanks

[@legionstark2905]

I like this guy he's smart and funny I wish he was my chess instructor.

[@traxler4855]

He is your instructor, as long as you watch

[@slaveincave1714]

Nice Tutorial. Thanks man