Hi there.
In this lecture, let's look at the so-called mainline historically fruitiness of the past.
This is really deep opening territory, thoroughly analyzed, so much so that a lot of grandmothers
are choosing different first moves, the English opening or move one has greatly increased in popularity
in recent years.
Grandmothers are interested in winning and not necessarily following the most beaten path.
There's a difference between popular paths and trying to win chess game.
So quite often the English opening has been used.
DeFore has risen in popularity.
So are the first moves like DIPHONE and CIFOR.
So E4, though, is the most forensically analyzed opening and within that the order pairs is one of
the most forensically analyzed variations.
So we see in the main line of the ASX Bishop A4 might have six white castles.
We see he's seven now, why it shouldn't take because it's no good here, but after he won, why is
friends, think tank and black plays quite often B5 should be free and now desex six seefried black
castles.
And here we are at moved nine.
And it's important to be specific with move numbers.
Look at this index above.
So move nine.
There's a number of names, variations, the Powell neck variation, the three, the Yates and Bacolod
Zubov racial defo or Bogalusa Bell rising before the sugaring version age and then black plays A5.
Yeah, the H3 might be Ade's version, which is a favorite of Mangahas Coalson this night.
Retrade the Broyer variation is a real favorite with our current world chess champion, the Zaitsev
variation B seven.
The competition named after Anatoly Karpov D7, a fantastic world champion.
I gave Garry Kasparov a hard time.
The Comal variation Bishop ESX, the SMEs.
They got Vasily Smith of another great world chess champion six.
And there's also Queen D7 attributed to Spacelab as well.
So, yeah, those are very, very important mainline variations to know about.
So it all kicks off her move noin.
Now let's rewind back.
So aside from that main variation, if we go back and rewind to move free, Black does have some unusual
alternatives other than assets which I love playing.
My favorite person is G six, which is the spirit of the fence.
So many of these.
So again, I don't think capturing my bishop and then 97 and sort of Kingside Avalanche later, I like
doing that, but that's going all the hair.
The Cosio defense is also sometimes used by grandmasters as a surprise weapon.
So this is my favorite personally.
The Birds defense is a bit of a trap, more of a trappy line.
Yeah, I mean white.
Can just take with an advantage.
There's ways of getting a clear advantage.
I don't really recommend the defense too much.
It reminds me of it's not quite the Spanish game.
And the Italian game seems to have you know, there is Ninety-four here, which is a trap, which is
well worth knowing about where one gets mated.
So in the trap section, you might to review that.
But here five, it kind of reminds me it's not quite the trap line.
It is a legitimate defense.
But the fence named after Henry Bardes, so we have also the Stinnett's defense here.
It seems like a little bit of a passive move and it can be deferred until later, delayed, deferred
until later that its defense.
But it is kind of like the position can be quite solid.
We have also very aggressive Schliemann defense at five.
We have the classical defense Bishop C5 and we have the dreaded Berlind defense.
And this is definitely not this might be lost, but it's definitely not least because Vladimir Kramnik
has made this a formidable weapon of choice and yet another reason why modern grandmasters are not playing
onea for as much.
It's got a really, really solid, reliable reputation, the Berlin defense, and has been used on recent
world championship matches.
So Black really is potentially threatening to take on a for here as an example of the dreaded Berlin
defense.
If White Castles Black takes this pawn now say, you know, to make moves like rookie one day for,
say, DeFore and the Queens are kind of answering each other quite quickly here.
And actually, there's a situation now where black attacks that night on B5 encouraging this and then
encouraging this and encouraging white to take the queens off.
But the situation here, black does have that bishop power, even though black has double pawns here,
this is fought to be fairly solid, even though blacks also lost casting rights because the queens are
off the boards.
You know, the verdict on this position is far from clear.
A lot of grandmasters are simply avoiding playing one E4 because of this very, very solid Berlinda
fans.
So, yes, it's kind of the bane, the grandmaster level.
So it's definitely a good weapon of choice with the black pieces as well.
If you want something super solid and bypassing a lot of the royal of the pads, very believe it or
not, just don't move.
Free the ball in the fence.
Just just bringing out the other night.
I know it's it's a lot of big territory to know.
So just to recap, if White Castles 964, you need to be prepared for rookie one or D for.
So defo you had that bishop encourage why to kind of swamp off the Queen's and it's actually a fine
position for black.
Check out the slam games there.
OK, it's very theoretical and trendy.
So OK, I hope this is just a very, very quick tour of some of the major name variations through the
ages in the world powers, one of the most theoretically analyzed openings in chess.
And it's nice, I think, culturally to know at least some of the names and the world champions and
other great players that have given contributions to the world powers over the last few hundred years.
OK, and so much.