Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation Traps [70% Win Rate]

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► Chapters 00:00 Ruy Lopez, Secret Chess Opening Weapon 00:45 Exchange Variation 4.Bxc6 01:36 Proof: 70% Win Rate After 7 Moves 02:37 1) If Black plays 7...Nf6 03:08 2) If Black plays 7...c5 03:36 3) If Black plays 7...Qf6 04:50 4) If Black plays 7...f6 (only correct move) 05:49 Variation-1: If Black plays 5...Nf6 06:51 Variation-2: If Black plays 5...Bg4 09:02 Variation-3: 3...d6, Steinitz Defense 09:38 Variation-4: 3...Nf6, Berlin Defense 10:45 Puzzle of the day

[@resop3]

1. ... Bxe5, then if 2.Nxe5 Qxd4 wins. If 2.Qxe5 Re8 wins. And if 2.Qxd8 Bxc3+ wins a pawn.

[@Mrpopperer]

...and completely destroys white pawn structure on the queenside for a easy win

[@GT19873]

At what point? Can you give a timestamp?

[@janetlucas833]

I love your teaching videos! So clear, memorable and helpful. thank you!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks!

[@robertdawson4502]

I like the move c5. The pawn is protected by the Bishop and white needs to move the queen to either c4 or f4. If moves to c4 move Qe8 which causes 0-0 then take pawn with Bxe5 If Nxe5 then Qxe5 and Black is up a pawn and protecting the Pawn at c5. There may be more to this, but I'm not a high rated player like you.

[@devthemasked4343]

for puzzle Bxe5 queen cannot take because of Re8 so if queen takes queen then Bxc3 and we trade bishop then we take the queen

[@freegracetruth77]

At 7:04 . After pawn to h3, black can move their bishop to h5, maintaining the pin on the knight and preventing white from capturing their e5 pawn.

[@maaartinkovar]

Then white would play g4, black would retreat Bg6 and white would play Nxe5, taking the pawn and attacking black’s bishop at the same time

[@mikestubbs1708]

One major problem is that in corresponding chess games, people are using top grand-master games, as well as chess computers like Lichess, Fritz and Stockfish....so many of these lines are easily sidestepped by the computer analysis! At the higher level, say above 2300 or so, they simply do not work...unless the opponent is half asleep!!

[@vigneshwarvigneshwar7367]

1) Bxe5 2) Qxe5 re8... Queen is pinned... That's why e5 is blunder

[@michaelg9359]

my score has gotten progressively worse since watching your videos

[@cikonianiggra1415]

After e5 and Re8 probably Bf4 and afterwards after Ng4 for white O-O-O. So I think that e5 is possible. Very good video again. You are practically the only GM /chess youtuber, besides the fellow from The chess for the Soul - in Russian language/ whom I am watching. Thanks for your work. I am more than 70 years old so I will not make the hollow to the Earth in the chess branch. I am greeting you.

[@CS-en5xz]

Bishop takes pawn is an option but you can also pin the pawn 1st with the rook

[@deloford]

Pinning with the rook loses a piece after castles

[@chanimal66]

Ive got really mixed results with Ruy Lopez, sometimes it works out great, but sometimes I get entangled in crazy positions. I'll stick with this opening though and try to master it

[@scarviochannel3126]

Your explanations are really clearly. Thanks Sir !

[@RafaBS17]

puzzle queen e7 pinning the pawn and after castle bishop c5 counter attacking the queen and then save the knight

[@andragon2485]

This is way to complicated. After Qe7 white simply castles and the fork still is there. You cannot take as the pawn is attacked and defended twice. When doubling with the rook white simply uses his rook as well. Given at this point white cannot take anything with the pawn as it would hang mate. So you problay would have to attack the queen somehow which will have to relocate. And after that it has way to many options to calculate further. You can probably get the pieces saved but it all depends what white does

[@harveyschonwald]

...Qe7 loses to 00, Bc5, Px'f6, and now black's Q is en prise

[@RafaBS17]

@@harveyschonwald yes i missed that apparently i checked with the computer after bxe5 black has to take the queen and the bishop takes c3 with check and then grab the queen and you are a pawn up

[@leyland1956]

@@RafaBS17 You are right and not only a pawn up but your opponent now has doubled and separated pawns.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

I've read a lot of good ideas for black's next move after white's pawn to e5 move, but it seems to me that the reason why this is not a good move is that white has not castled.

[@josephsalmonte4995]

I'm only 1200 ELO & my opponent's never play moves that obviously hang a piece, lose the queen or give an easy checkmate 😭

[@DecrepitBiden]

Truth

[@_.Madness._]

I am 1200 ELO too and my opponents play better than Magnus Carlsen.

[@deloford]

They do, when you are 1500 you will see them 😂 check back some of your games on the engine and look to see where you were +6 and then a move later back to 0. The best way to improve is to makes sure that at least 10% of your chess time is reviewing games you lost. This made a dramatic difference to me and I went from 1100 last year to 1600

[@Khan-sf5kz]

OMG, 1 day ago. Just when I needed it the most! Gonna play this in the tournament tomorrow.

[@josephputnam6617]

epic. great advice

[@nicholaschang000]

for the puzzle: Black pawn c5?

[@arthurcencil]

Could you make a video about how to attack someone who is doing nothing? Like if they already played their setup and are just shuffling their pieces back and forth, waiting to get a reaction from you.

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks for the interesting suggestion.

[@deloford]

Good suggestion for a video, the key ideas I have are 1. Look to take space, advancing pawns and make sure you are attacking as many of the squares in the opponents half of the board 2. Look to attack their king again with pawn attacks and your minor pieces. 3. Look for weakness in the opponents pawn structure such as backwards pawns. 4. Make exchanges to in such a way that you open up lines of attack for your pieces. 5. Similar to 4 get your rooks onto "open files" 6. Look to stack your 2 rooks or queen and bishop such that you increase your "ownership" of diagonal or vertical squares. 7. Like 6 go further to own space, "the legendary triple stack" as Hikaru calls it, thats 2 rooks and a Queen all on the same vertical attacking near their king, if you can combine this with another piece like a knight or bishop its very hard to defend! 8. Bit more advanced but now you need to think about pawn structure, for example if you exchange off their white bishop while you still have yours you need to make room for your white bishop by placing your pawns on black squares 9. If you have 2 knights, try to keep them protecting each other, Hikaru calls it "deeese knights" when they are in the opponents territory but very hard to clear. 10. Another Hikaru one try to create , a "Bastion", that is a knight or bishop protected by a pawn that cannot be attacked by another pawn. Just some thoughts of my own, perhaps some of these are middle or end game but these are all the things I am thinking about as we come out of the opening.

[@arthurcencil]

@@deloford Thanks for this, I happened to have a game like that today so this comment came in handy.

[@nimascolari1508]

Bishop e7 and Knight f6 is something I face a lot playing against 2500 level CPU

[@LookTourMe]

Almost perfect explanation, I would wish I could provide myself

[@findanohaiduwa4018]

....1.Qe7 2. O-O Bc5

[@imlostlmao]

Re8 pins the pawn??

[@deloford]

This effectively loses the game after white castles youre in a lot of trouble. You can chase the queen away but you will end up a piece down

[@imlostlmao]

@@deloford dang, im bad. peak i was 601 iirc

[@alejandroayalamaldonado2817]

Excelente.!!! Gracias.!!!

[@LookTourMe]

The only move left unmentioned is pown b7 takes c6 and the game has equal chances

[@michalp79]

I need some advice how to play faster!

[@sahilprajapati685]

Owen defense for balck part 3

[@skatchannel2024]

Does this work against 2000-2100 rated players?

[@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele]

what if black takes your bishop with the b pawn instead of the d pawn?

[@michaeltellurian825]

Wondering the same thing. The normal "rule" is to recapture towards the center, so recapturing with the d pawn violates this principle. Recapturing with the b pawn seems to be better because the doubled pawn can be used to support a pawn push in the center, with a good chance of being able to undouble the c pawn in the future. However, recapturing with the b pawn opens up the b file. I'm unclear as to how this could be exploited though.

[@andersjonsson8403]

@@michaeltellurian825, I fully understand Your idea to play bxc6, but then You can immediately play Kxe5, without first have to play Kc3

[@greenenoiseaudio]

I just played a game like this. The opponent pushed the d pawn to d6 so when I moved the bishop in to threaten the knight they took with the b pawn but it leaves that pawn as a target with no natural defender. When black makes normal developing moves from this position like Be6 (to avoid being stuck behind that new c6 pawn and Qe7 (with a view to pushing the d6 pawn to attack the center and opening an attacking lane for the queen) it means you can move you Qa4 looking to take that pawn on c6 to fork the King and the rook on a8. You can effectively wipe that side of the board out with your queen once that b7 pawn takes the bishop.

[@edl5731]

Three candidate moves Re8 (as others have mentioned) but also Qe8 and Qe7. Not sure which is best.

[@Fishy_17]

Or just Bxe5

[@I_am_Itay]

Its interesting but seems to work just at low level games. How can white mix things after 5.f6 or 5.Qd6?

[@dhairyashah6369]

after e5, bxe4, qxe5 and re8 simply pins the queen to the king and you lose your queen

[@florianscompositions]

At 4:10 after Bg5, can't Black just play f6 and save itself quite nicely?

[@souseta]

what if at the beginning after Bishop takes knight. they retake with B7 pawn instead of the D pawn?

[@knighttraitor]

As he explained the bxc6 will left black with with less advantage compared to dxc6 which opens up black's queen & diagonal path for queen's bishop

[@souseta]

@@knighttraitor so we can do similar lines for Bxe6?

[@StrangeChickandPuppo]

Whatever you accent is, I love it

[@frostyrobot7689]

Nice. Pretty sure I've fallen to this more than once.

[@TomJones-tx7pb]

The best move for black 5.. f6 was not covered.

[@ivanopitera7425]

What happens if black replies with a knight on e7 after bishop b5?

[@pate2683]

Hi Igor! At 3:00, what can I do, if black plays pawn to c5? My queen is in danger and her way to G7 pawn is blocked.

[@ramkumarsekar9223]

what if they move the bishop h4

[@davidsurtees3500]

I used this opening and won easily in 17 moves. My rating is only 1282.

[@davidlamarca899]

Very good lesson as always but as many other opening its very hard to memorize and to apply concretely the line..depend on what the other player do and if you remember correctly the theory...in practice it's very often something orhers..But anyway nice lesson and suggestion as always...thank you

[@piregister]

Best move for black on the 5th move is 5......., Qd6?

[@blackmadonna6024]

Yyyyyeeeaahh my opponents made every move BUT the ones in this vid 😂

[@walterbrownstone8017]

Like a dummy I started with the Ruy Lopez. But I need to say that when you're 12 or 1300 nobody knows theory so it's okay.

[@ashmigchess]

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[@pettym3]

you move the rook and pin the pawn to the king @11:00

[@k0u0s0h0a0g0r0a0]

At 3:00, why can't white do this . 1 castle, 2. Pin the piece with the rook to win it back?

[@joelcollander1973]

Does it work at 2000 lvl?

[@Glicerol]

no :)

[@Warfreak]

Bxe5

[@dheemanthchakravarthyho882]

Hi sir I'm from India. Can I get the membership certificate from your REMOTE CHESS ACADEMY.

[@blueberryoatmeal4009]

POV: Realizing you have played one of this guy's students with Black

[@ogram7]

Re8 maybe

[@dhairyashah6369]

sir I'm 800... Please help me out in complex endgames

[@The-Cosmos]

70%? So finally i can increase my elo!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Good luck

[@myzspivey2839]

Bright 🍬 🤩

[@ronaldlangbecker8368]

As black, I'd play d5 first.

[@anurajsuhash]

Dont go to sivathiran class

[@anurajsuhash]

i am just kidding

[@DEB-830]

this will work only below 1400-1500! 😑

[@littlezombie9621]

This will not work with literally any tournament player, even the 1000 players I know wouldn’t play any of these

[@nicoanazco9016]

i went from 800 to 1450 elo in 2 days with this opening

[@woshdndndj2103]

Bartholomew coming for u

[@Kitchentodinningrecipes-wh6xy]

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