You Can Win 71% Games With This Opening [Top GMs Trapped]

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You have been my favorite content creator for years now. I run a chess club in Connecticut and I will be on TV next month teaching chess. The episode has already been recorded and I gave you a shoutout! Igor Nation! Anyway, you got me hooked on the Bishop's Opening, and after studying and playing chess for many years, I finally just competed in my first USCF tournament. I tied for first place in the 1500 and under section with a final score of 4-1! In my last game, vs. a 1485, I played the Bishop's Opening as White and finished my game in just 12 moves! Happy birthday, and thank you for not just teaching traps, but for helping your subscribers to learn tactical motifs and develop positional understandings as well. You can find the PGN of my Bishop's Opening tournament game from last weekend below 😁 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. f4 d6 6. Nf3 Ng4 7. Ng5 O-O 8. f5 h6 9. Qxg4 hxg5 10. Bxg5 Qe8 11. Bh6 g6 12. Qxg6+ 1-0

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Your parents made a brilliant move this day many years ago!!

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Actually they made a brilliant move 9 months before this date

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Happy birthday, GM Igor. 🎉🎉🎉

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Only sacrifices can be brilliant moves, more like a great move

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Bro knows his audience well "Gms fell for this trap" proceeds to show Anand in thumbnail

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Anand's game is at 9:55

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@@aseemsharanI think his point was that anand destroyed the world in the vishy vs the world game

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► Chapters 00:00 Bishop's Opening, Best Chess Opening For White After 1.e4 00:28 1) Black plays 2...Nc6 01:08 1.1) 4.Qg4, powerful early queen attack 02:04 GM Igor Smirnov Birthday Special 04:21 1.2) If Black avoids the queen trap 05:37 1.3) Mamedyarov vs Harikrishna 07:38 1.4) if Black plays 4...g6 08:55 Hikaru Nakamura winning with the Bishop's Opening 09:53 2) Black plays 2...Nf6 (Vishy Anand trapped) 10:12 2.1) Vienna Hybrid variation, 5.f4 13:38 2.2) Early Ng4 by Black 16:09 2.3) Early castling by Black 16:36 2.4) Bg4 pin on your knight

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Happy Birthday Master Igor! 36 proudly years playing and helping Chess to grow up. Enjoy.

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Thanks for describing many variations of bishop opening.

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Happy birthday🎉 Igor I am so grateful for all your informative videos on chess. Have a good one 🙏

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Happy birthday Igor! i am a huge fan since many years and I have my first fide tournament this week. Wish me luck!

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Happy Belated Birthday Igor. This video is great.... really cool opening and traps. Love your videos.

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Happy birthday man! Can you cover caro kann tal variation

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Happy Bday Igor. Your the Man. Bring on the bishops opening Bro. Big Respect

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Great video! A few times before I felt too much time went to trivial stuff, but you are not Levy Rozman with his young inexperienced fans, and here you are back full speed and depth! Watched it twice. Happy Birthday Igor!

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It's the Bishop's Opening, baby! Happy Birthday, Igor -

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Happy birthday GM Igor, thank you for the high quality Chess content over the years.

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Happy birthday igor 🎉🎉 stay healthy, Stay blessed and keep on creating amazing videos like this one!! Just a beautiful top up to your earlier bishop's opening video!!

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Happy belated birthday Igor! Thanks for all the knowledge

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Happy birthday!!! Could you also expand on what to do if black brings pawn to d5 after you play pawn e4 and bishop c 4? It would be really helpful!

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Hi Igor my brother, happy birthday 🎂 Keep up the good work, love your channel

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Hello Igor. Mamedyarov vs Harikrishna Time: 7:19 what happens if after King to G8 followed by Knight to G5, King to H6...hoy to follow?

[@cohwyncubb1572]

Maybe after king to G8, Bf7+, king h7, Knight G5 +, king h6, knight to e6 discovered check from bishop on C1 " IF" queen doesn't block then checkmate in 3 as king moves back to h7 then the knight on g6 moves to f8+ rook forced to take knight f8, then Bishop g6+ is brilliant sac if king takes on g6 then knight on e6 takes rook on f8# as all escape roots are taken away by the bishop on C1 and the rook on f1 and knight on f8. If the king doesn't take the bishop that was on g6 and runs up to either g8 or h8 then Rook on f1 takes rook on f8 and it's defended by the knight on e8 which is also a checkmate. So the queen should have defended you take with rook then pawn takes then your Bishop takes with a check and your up 11 points

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This was helpful!

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igor you've improved our opening and also even the middle game therefore i suggest that make the videos that is consisted of the end game. its a massive help to us. love you forever

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Wow! This is a really fun opening. Thanks a lot.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY IGOR!!! You're one of the main reasons why I went from 100-1302 in almost a year! Some of it self taught so it was really 1000-1302 but still made me feel like I was a 100 elo player. Again HAPPY BIRTHDAY and thank you for helping everyone!!!🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁

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11:00 - 16:00 looks a lot like Luchinni Gambit for Black, just with reverse colors.

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