Winning Chess Opening TRAPS in the Bishop's Opening

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov talks about one of his most favourite chess openings for White, which is the Bishop's Opening happening after 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4.
This opening comes with a lot of attacking ideas and deadly traps for White. Very often, Black's most natural-looking moves and the most played moves lose the game for them very badly.
In this video, you will learn some really cool traps and winning ideas for White after Black responds with 2...Nf6.
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► Chapters
00:00 Bishop's Opening for White
00:37 Line-1: 3...Bc5 most played move
02:55 Trapping the Black Queen
03:37 Line-2: 3...Nxe4 Aggressive Gambit Style
05:11 If Black plays d6 to defend e5
05:59 If Black plays f6 to defend e5
07:28 If Black declines exf4
08:52 Can you find the winning combination?
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[@GMIgorSmirnov]

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[@Cocos_Cyber_school]

9:05 Nd6 forking the King and a Queen. If Black takes by pawn or bishop doesn't matter, you put your bishop to g6 and in all of sudden Queen is caught.

[@zToui]

Wow that’s awesome

[@suthu730]

Thanks to my blitz training...Got it in 10 seconds

[@TheCheeseBrothers]

so sacrifice a knight and a bishop for a queen.

[@georgekosinski8957]

Are you related to the grandmaster?

[@Cocos_Cyber_school]

@@georgekosinski8957 nope :)

[@slamfire6005]

I always try these traps you mention but they don’t seem to work when the other player has no idea what to do and keeps making random moves that end up ruining it.

[@Inveterat]

I would never move the way he proposes, they just seem like bad moves to make him look good.

[@Jimmy.J.]

👍🏻

[@mrk8212]

I feel seen

[@tobymurphy6744]

I mean if they bring their other knight out, it's just two months defence in the Italian. And anything else you just take the centre with d4. Both these lines if they do anything other than what's suggested it's like plus 3 or 4 to white and if you need it up just analyse the game and learn from it

[@patrciaclemons8183]

@@tobymurphy6744 your mean?

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters 00:00 Bishop's Opening for White 00:37 Line-1: 3...Bc5 most played move 02:55 Trapping the Black Queen 03:37 Line-2: 3...Nxe4 Aggressive Gambit Style 05:11 If Black plays d6 to defend e5 05:59 If Black plays f6 to defend e5 07:28 If Black declines exf4 08:52 Can you find the winning combination?

[@robherrera6178]

Just another good video. My chess game has improved alot since using your technical moves

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Glad to hear, Rob

[@RM-ud2cm]

your playlist of videos, on Bishop's Opening, is great. for this playlist, can you make an index video, showing how the videos of the playlist relate to each other? thanks!

[@michaele.2583]

Yes, after knight e5 black can't mimic anymore, but that doesn't mean it has to castle short next move - could also play the Busch-Gas-gambit and go out with the other knight, simply ignoring white's threat of infiltrating on f7 - there are still promising lines to treat that!

[@christiankreiner8071]

I love this Opening!!! i Played it always on OTB ! and i have always a good position :D Ty soo much for the lots of videos

[@Edge_Of_Paradise]

(Nd6+, Bxd6, Bg6) pins and wins the queen. Note: If you are a beginner, watch out for the false refutation (Rg8!?) appearing to counter-pin the bishop to your queen. Check is your trump card here (Bxf7+) this forces the black to either step aside (to d8, e7, or f8, which loses immediately to (Qxg8) or play (Kxf7) which loses the tempo and allows (Qc4+) skewering the King to the rook. For more fun, (Kf8) is the only move which doesn't lose the rook immediately, but after (Bh6+) black is left deciding if he's going to give up the rook (and a LOT more) anyway with (Ke8 or Ke7) or try the better looking (Rg7)... which leads to a forced mate in 5 with: (Qg4) as the rook is pinned, double attacked, and black has NOTHING to defend it with. Their entire position is passive and crumbling. (h3) may attempt to distract you, but the threat is an illusion. (Qxg7+), (Ke8) forced, (Qg8+), (Ke7) forced, (Bf8+), (Kd8) forced, (Bxd6#) checkmate. Never forget the power of check.

[@nightfuryderanged1858]

Answer for puzzle: 1. Nd6+, Bxd6 or cxd6 2. Bg6 ✅ - 📌 pinning the Queen Reason for knight to d6 check is for the royal fork, forcing black to focus on the current threat of the knight threatening the king itself and the queen, while at the same time we are a step ahead, because the bishop resting on d3 is now free to go to g6 to pin the queen to the king. So by the time black finishes reacting to the immediate threat of the royal fork by taking the knight with the pawn on c7 or with the bishop resting on f8, it's too late to save black's queen, since our light-squared bishop can freely move to g6, and more or less, the game is over.

[@PotatoChess-we7rj]

your chess notation is wrong Bxf6 means bishop takes on d6 but bxf6 means the B pawn took on d6 🤣🤣

[@nightfuryderanged1858]

@@PotatoChess-we7rj oh dear! Whoops... Typo! It happens once to everyone ... Does it?

[@brass4235]

@toto next time try to correct the person in a helpful way, and not in a mocking abd insulting way. It's gross. And doesn't "Bxf6 / bxf6" mean Bishop /pawn captures on the 'f6' square? Not the 'd6' square as you've stated.

[@rynbsstt]

Love your content Igor!

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks :)

[@manojshirsat1864]

Dear sir i watch' your all'video, really amazing, you institution of chess, my chess game improved.... thanks Sir God bless you

[@resop3]

1.Nd6+ cxd6 (else Nxf7 +-) 2.Bg6 winning the Queen for two minor pieces.

[@rahulrmc1613]

Wonderful .. thanks

[@Beery1962]

8:59The combo: N-D6, followed by B-G6.

[@patriciozazzini3182]

greatest chess channel. Do you have a video to counter queen's opening?

[@togerait]

this opening is discussed on many youtube channel, now this is becoming the most played.

[@BobChess]

This gambit is very crazy tricky! I have ever analyse this gambit and the best move are very weird and unnature!

[@herotrojan1645]

the combo is Nd6+ if cxd6 then Bg6 pin the queen.. double pieces attacking the black queen of Nd6 and Bg6

[@user-cx3jy6un7g]

At 6:33 cam we calture the pawn as the opponent will have to calture our knight then we slide our queen with a check and he must defend it with pawn to g2 then we give another check by sliding queen to e5 and then capture his rook ?

[@i2357mbusiro]

6:41 🤣LOL "So Far black plays CHECKERS"

[@nishusaif6085]

The nice little combo is knight d6 and after pawn takes pin the queen with bishop g6!

[@vincentayotte2412]

at 5:23, what if black plays bishop e6 ? doesn't he succesfully defend ?

[@jaymobile4146]

In my experience, these videos always show the opponent making moves that never really happen. 😂😂😂

[@justinas1204]

What if the first knight they develope is the queen knight protecting the pawn? What to do then?

[@someonerandom9939]

1:53 Why would black take with the rook instead of just moving the queen?

[@gorkemgulan]

First check with the horsie then bishop skewers queen and king on g6

[@MANCO513]

Make a chessable course on this opening plz

[@musicstudy7610]

9:04 kd6+, if knight get's taken by pawn or bishop, bg6 pins and traps queen If king moves knight takes queen anyway

[@musicstudy7610]

It's nd6**😂😂

[@user-cx3jy6un7g]

At 9:06 we sacrifice our knight on h6 and if he captures with the bishop we move our light squared bishop to g6 pinning his queen

[@vivaangupta277]

after f6 what about nxe5 fxe5 qf5+

[@brass4235]

Here comes The BOOM!

[@DavidEmerling79]

You start off with 1.e4 e5, 2.Bc4 Nf6, 3.Nf3 Bc5, 4.Nxe5 - black could now plays 4...Nc6, if white responds with 5.Nxc6, he's basically playing into a Stafford Gambit. If white plays either 5.Bxf7+ or 5.Nxf7, he's basically playing into a Traxler Counterattack. Basically, the game has become a variation of the Busch-Gass Gambit. Maybe I missed it, but it seems you never address 3...Nc6 which transposes from a Bishop's Opening to a Two Knights Defense.

[@Truffle_Pup]

To be fair, if Black knows the Traxler then this is all null and void. Nice to know though Igor, some great moves.

[@drugdje914]

And if white knows the refutation of traxler black is still doomed

[@davidtj8846]

Black rarely knows all the best moves in the traxler and just hopes that white is unprepared, and even if black does know all the best moves, the top engine line still gives white an advantage

[@ThisSentenceIsFalse]

I usually just play Bxf7 against the Traxler.

[@Truffle_Pup]

@@drugdje914 I agree, but if you allow it White is doomed. Hence my comment. This is not an anti-Traxler video my friend

[@drugdje914]

@@Truffle_Pup well this is not supposed to be anti traxler video in the first place. And engine gives clear edge to white in traxler so white is never really doomed if not for blunders

[@PotatoChess-we7rj]

9:07 Nd6+!! does not matter how black takes it we play Bg6!

[@laugernberg4817]

How to continue after Nc6 at 0:51 ?

[@YarHernandez]

8:11 doesnt the queen just go back to E8? now the horse is hanging if it moves you take queen if not you take horse then threaten queen

[@valin4120]

I’m a fairly new player, but when I watch the part about trapping the black queen, how is the queen trapped? Wouldn’t black just play knight Nf6 again? Then white exf6, then gxf6. Now you have a black pawn attacking the bishop and the queen is perfectly safe until there can be another attacker against the f6 square? Is there some combination I am missing?

[@BigDBrian]

There's a reason he said *nearly* trapped. Black can save the queen but it requires sacrificing material.

[@mindmirror1838]

I love the game

[@michaelkopietz5921]

What will happen after taking e5 with the knight, queen goes to e7 according to the "funny version"? I´m German, so please appologize my bad English.

[@TheyCallMeRoyalty]

Knight D6 forced pond take then Bishop G6.

[@stevebrook954]

what about the traxler

[@MichaelDelsignore]

Someone crushed me with this bring out his queen after I forked his queen and rook.

[@darrellmiddleton6615]

I've been playing on the app on my phone but I get stalemate and draw most games

[@mindmirror1838]

That is the same opening I use

[@karenbash1363]

3:35 - Knight f6. I can't see here why black had to resign.

[@ppsAU1330]

Nd6+ → bg6

[@Zywl]

8:11 I think here you forgot to mentio that Queen to E8 is the best move for black, not so difficult to find and it protects both the queen and rook, white's attack is not really that good?

[@bingobint4994]

Ummm... There's a bishop between queen and rook so queen can't protect rook.

[@Zywl]

@@bingobint4994 but if the knight takes the rook you lose your queen, the knight cannot take therefore the rook is protected

[@MSW916]

I followed well until Nf3 but then he did nxe4 so I did nxe5 and then he just did d5 😅😅

[@EclypsiFire]

There is no way to save black s queen. Pretty sure it’s knight d6+ (forking king and queen). Black must take the knight with his pawn. Then you follow with bishop g6, attacking the queen and X ray the king.

[@jamshidutenov8701]

Nd6 and bishop g6

[@Ajay143Love]

Nd6 is the move. But if that is the move, we should have executed that move one step before only.

[@nononono.]

1. Nd6+ , cxd6 Or Bxd6 ; 2. Bf6 queen gone!

[@razaulkarimmaizvandari3420]

Your going back videos

[@87rtlandry]

Nd6+, exd6 (Bxd6)… Bg6!

[@nononono.]

Nd6+ opponent captures knight bishop to f6

[@saiesasrikarkommaraju736]

Nd5 cxd5 then Bg6 Pinning the queen to the king

[@kushunadkat9087]

I love your videos but I don’t think any of the higher rated players would fall for that kind of tricks

[@cstevens16]

I try this and even the computer doesn't move the same for this trap to work

[@johndyamparo5605]

Perfect move simply and easy

[@GMIgorSmirnov]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@diskuslars7527]

Well...i Play Chess since 4 Weeks in the Age of 40 ...but i would think Nd6...Threatening King and Queen...so Black has to Go for D6 with Pawn or Bishop..then Bg6....IT doesnt Matter what Black moves..His Queen is lost

[@catur9835]

👍

[@emmatalmadge1473]

Bishop to c4 sets a trap for the Queen. That’s all I see

[@carlaberia]

King to H5 made me laugh

[@user-yb7mu8oc2y]

Nd6 Bg6 And u win the queen

[@TeeGar]

I has tried but teh peeces make bad but i sometime win tho

[@EnergyCenterTV]

The computer never plays standard

[@madhumitasharma2020]

Hi

[@lapsuscalami2252]

Knight to d6 check, and then bishop to g6.

[@berndrickert5510]

3:09 black can move qe7 and the white lady looks very loney. bg6 would only worsen the loss in material. This is a fast win or die attack with litte chance of success. Even if white castles first, I don't like it.

[@williamswan3711]

Knight to D6

[@19stalkern]

In the beginning, why can’t he mimic? Yes, you fork, the rook and the queen, but can’t he do the same?

[@sarom2595]

Very beutifull, but.. Some black defensive moves are ignored. ‼️

[@joshuasimpson6920]

Igor I know you smart and I studied a lot of your lines or advise in the beginning.. but like with this video .. no one will ever play d4 like that.. please post more content with lines that are a little more realistic.. much respect don’t mean to offend

[@authorjamieljones]

These moves do work on players 1300 hundred and below.

[@peterbago4574]

1300 hundred is actually 130000. I think his includes everyone. :)

[@bugra312]

Nd6

[@kairobonete2245]

This won't work on me

[@chessmentor63]

Just transpose into the Two Knights with 3...Nc6 if it's part of your repertoire after 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6. Or in the Boden-Kieseritsky line (which he refers to as a Stafford reversed) after 8.f5 of course not 8...g5?? but rather 8...Qg7 and Black retains his pawn advantage and has consolidated. ...g5 should only be played after 9.fxg6 hxg6 10.Qg4 Kd8 (protects the bishop on c8 and thus threatens ...d5) 11. Qg3 and NOW 11...g5. This GM is NOT doing amateurs any favors by showing them SHIT openings.

[@nbi4220]

Agreed. 10... Kd8 isn't even difficult to find. To avoid embarrassment how about spending a few minutes checking lines with Stockfish? And why even recommend the Boden-Kieseritsky? If you want to play a Bishops Opening gambit then play the Urusov which is way more principled. OTOH finding these errors makes good homework exercises for my students. 😉

[@romansavciuc9373]

Next move is rook

[@mannycastel5997]

nd6 check-pxn ,bg6 fork the queen and king

[@fansans5140]

most of the time they will just do a scholar mate

[@kamiljania9718]

Fourth

[@misa-qc1kv]

G8h

[@user-sw4kd5rj1c]

That is plain wrong. 3. d4! Is mainline.

[@user-le7pu3es6b]

Wrong idea

[@shafhashmi6995]

Can't solve the puzzle 😭😭

[@bestnobx]

Its the Nd6 and check the king and the queen, then if knight eat by pawn then bishops to g6 laser beam pinning the queen and defended by your queen. U will get the queen

[@Inforza]

Nd6+ Bxd6 Bg6

[@reading9376]

Nd6 Bxd6 Fg6

[@princecubearciso3631]

1stttttt 💝💝💝💝💝

[@maontheus2054]

naucz sie grac pozdro

[@begzodubaydullayev9204]

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[@alexmbrenckle195]

Bishop-c4

[@bhaveshsinhchavada9855]

Nd6, Bxd6, Bg6, Qxg6, Qxg6...

[@hansanaliyanarachchi1716]

Nd6