Hi there.
In this lecture, I'm going to introduce you to one of my favorite weapons of choice, especially in
online chess, we wanted to try and win as many games as quickly as possible.
It's not the Swiss format.
It's the all you can eat format where you as soon as you when you get paired with another game, you
know.
So sometimes on some sites they're called arenas and so on.
Others, you know, it's been called war zones in the past.
Okay.
But they're the as many games as you can get in basically type.
And in those two months I personally prefer opening's which do increase the probability of me winning.
So might my things become a little bit happier, but not to the point that that's completely terrible
openings, that they don't compromise my position to that level.
I don't like to give myself a lost position on purpose in general.
So here we see fall.
I play for quite often of E5.
I love playing like Sifry.
It seems a lot of people are not really prepared for the so-called Vienna game.
So 94 is the Vienna game and if 96 has played, I like playing at four in particular against Let's have
sex and I think take this is actually leading potentially to huge trouble.
They've been a bit greedy here, but the thing is also they've released the brakes on your --.
You can push the -- forward.
And now they realize probably in horror that the NOI hasn't really got useful squares.
If the night goes here, we can just take it because we haven't obstructed our queen or Queen's got
a sign of H5 here.
We haven't played a a free.
So that's the horror they kind of perhaps realize and quite a lot players don't like playing night ninety-eight,
if not yet.
It seems like a silly retreat.
And in fact, yeah, it's a free rules out Quiñones for chag and then after defo you have what seems
to be well is usually I love this a fantastic game.
You can actually avoid the exchange of Queens here.
So here you don't play this because then they can take off the queens.
You keep all the pressure going with queen to after bishop, even Queen takes a five and you're going
to get your pull them back with interest after Bishop takes four, you're actually frazzling that pawn
on C7.
And if they play this, you've got a lead in development and it's a very, very pleasant possession
with great options, great opportunities.
You've actually got a rook, which is potentially aggressive later on this fall as well.
You got a great use of the five squired.
This is a lovely position to have the opening.
But black, believe or not, I mean, they might even play worse than this after the taking the pawn
five.
What if they didn't retreat the Knights?
And they played Queene seven now here you're almost going to win straight out of the opening.
This is a very, very bad idea, very bad because, OK, they pin the pin, but you just jump in here
with Queene, too.
So, again, they're in that quandary.
Where do they move the knights?
They can't move them anywhere without it being taken.
So they have to go back to the gate.
But here is a worse situation because the queen is now on a seven subject to what I'd call tempo game,
where you win time.
Basically, time is a major factor on the chessboard.
Some of the great players like Paul Morphy, they would often get the so-called initiative, which is
a representation of extra time on their opponents, extra development, extra piece activity, and they
use that time and swap it for another advantage, quite often a crushing, you know, king attack.
Now, here we can gain a tempo, which is a very important thing in chess, potentially.
So what do they do here in this position?
So if they have this position, so let's say they go back up.
So we have five Queene, seven queening, they go back.
DeFore is a very, very good move here.
So if you don't have to use your tempo again immediately, this is a really cool move.
You're waiting them, waiting for them to make an even greater mass here with a move desex.
This is them making a huge mess of the position.
And now you spring in with 95 hitting the queen.
And this is really problematic for them.
Really problematic.
Let's say they play Queen the eight, you have to completely crushing moves her and 1967 check is one
of them, so hair of the queen takes, then you can play, he takes the sex check and you'll be winning
their queen.
So, yeah, this is this is very, very interesting.
Very, very interesting indeed.
And by the way, if they play a move like Queen Age for check, you know, it's harmless.
They have to go in the fancy seven after this check in on this occasion to play King one.
They have to go and the fans over here later again and then hand back to the same tactic, you know,
98, C seven and eight, 66 is Jack.
Or, you know, it's so strong, the position.
There's different ways of willingness of the king, the one queen that you can actually even just play
this 866 Jack and in 1967, Jack.
And this is awful, losing the rook as well.
It's a really crushing position.
So all of this is set off because you're unsuspecting opponents, you know, play you know, you play
mighty Siegfried and they're playing routinely that maybe they haven't seen this something that you
play for.
It's like a polite version of the so-called king's gambit, but not as risky the Vienna game.
My inspiration for it was saying Andrew Horne, a very talented player, beat Van Starin, a grandmaster
right next to me on a board at one of the lowest back monsters.
So Andron then he got like a gentleman that told me he got on, I am known, but he did so well.
And his systems like the Vienna game really shined through, you know, shone through.
And I picked up the Vienna game as a result of that.
But there is a good line for black.
Now, let's say you're playing the black pieces.
What's the antidote?
What what's the black to hear you OK?
OK, I'm going to tell you you play D5.
This diffuses to a large extent the Vienna game.
There's stuff to research it, to follow up research.
If you really want to take this seriously, any parts of this course you want to take seriously, you
might want to research later.
So I'm giving you an announcer pointers for you for further study.
So here, let's see you play D five and they play offtakes.
Now you play 1984 and Twelfth and play continue to be free and there is an invitation for the check
that is line.
It's not that bad at all.
Usually players were black.
The best thing is to ignore that.
Just take on Seefried, double the opponent's pawns and then play ninety-six.
Ask them about this pawn and you generally get a nice game of black.
You can play the fool trying to disconnect that pawn and extend the scope of your pieces.
And you could even try to take that pawn out and later try and cancel on the queen side.
And this is to Black's advantage, actually.
Yeah, I know.
So I am a little bit naughty knowing that black can equalize with best play.
And believe me, I do get punished by the stronger players.
If I do, dads play the game and I always have that sinking feeling of regret.
There's a balance in chess, I can tell you completely theoretical, correct chess.
By the openings, things would be boring and solid and dull.
It's good to have a definitely at least as with a lot of things I've said in the course, at least you
have awareness of the whole spectrum of traps.
There're ups and downs for both sides, at least have the awareness because in some game contexts or
against certain players with certain rating, you may have that requirement have to win quickly.
That's a very, very popular online format.
There's all you can eat format because NSW, the problem is with a Swiss format where basically you
have to wait for every single game of around the finish for the next round to be bad.
So this popular All You Can Eat format encourages in a way this bias towards winning quickly.
I know I'm a fun lover in chess.
I love to have fun from chess.
And so sometimes I do take the risk, especially against low rise opponents or just generally on the
fast.
The time limits against anyone to play the Vienna game is to take a little bit of a risk.
But the more you know about the Vienna game, the more you can get usually a good position, at least
even in the critical lines.
You know, it's it is a legitimate opening the Vienna game, but it's not that popular at the super
supreme level 93.
There are other ways of continuing the position rather than playing this for.
But sometimes as a quick point scorer, I would say it's worth checking out, especially against your
weaker oppositions and especially on the fast assignments.
It's a little bit more.
Trappy, yeah, the problem of trappy openings in general.
The ones which really compromise your positions, OK, for the ones which sometimes compromise your
positions, you have to judge, is it worth the risk?
Is it worth the risk?
OK, so it's not all cut and dry.
So but be aware of the Vienna game and its tracks for both sides, because at the very least, it contributes
to understanding of what's going on on the chessboard, that this kind of the late king's gambit, you
know, a relic, the romantic air of the king's gambit just played in such a manner makes.
A very interesting weapon in its own right, but also the king's gambit is a great weapon in its own
right and a very dangerous weapon.
You know, the great Boris Spassky, a possible champion, use that to beat Bobby Fischer.
And Bobby Fischer was so miffed.
You know, he wrote a refutation of the king's gambit by the Vienna game.
Some people regard it.
I mean, I regard it as a kind of polite version of the king's gambit where you're delaying it.
And ideally, you wait for this because if you if you did this, if your opponent does that, I mean,
it's more risky for me.
They can actually just take and kind of hold on to the pawn.
Actually, they can sometimes hold onto this pawn or you have to parry the check.
So you can't even do that because you have to pay the check.
So you end up carrying the check and then the queen has got sign of G5.
So then G5 happens and this isn't so great as as far as I'm concerned.
My experience, as soon as I see 96, there are polite ways of playing this with Jeoffrey with minimal
risk yourself.
So this is an interesting situation where you've got a fairly solid position and you've got a good attacking
prospects.
So quite often I play like this and later I still like getting a kind of attack because I jump in this
pawn and then I play for F4, F5 gaining space.
So that's another way.
If they play, you know, if they don't react with my offense by play 96, that's to be borne in mind
as well.
You don't have to go for remember, the follow up is key.
That often makes a move good or bad.
The follow up.
Yeah.
So also bear in mind, when you're in some sort of puzzle mode and someone asks you what is the best
move, don't just guess the moves.
You need to know all the follow ups.
That's the beauty of chess.
You need responsibility not for your just your move, but how are you going to follow it up after.
So anyway, so if they play not have sex yet, I'll say on first time controls, I've won my fair share
of Thomas online, even with James James in them.
And I've used the Vienna gambit here, the Vienna game here as a quick point score because a lot of
people just just don't have a clue about this after five, they just don't have a clue.
And so quickly, seven is what you're really looking for with a huge advantage to be gained.
Very, very quick zap of the opponents in the heat of the night.
Take C7 e takes and just putting their queen as one nightmare scenario for the opponents.
OK, so an awareness of all these traps, the tactics, how they work is only going to contribute to
understanding of the chess.
But you don't always have to play these dodgy traps, but just at least be aware of them and how they
work the mechanics.
OK, that's so much.