Hi there.
In this lecture, I'm going to talk about the Queen's Gambit and yes, there's a really popular Netflix
series, which is a must see.
It's so well done.
It's brought a lot of new attention to chess worldwide and is actually inspiring me to do this course
so that you are equipped, if you are going to try out chess, to have some exciting ideas and the openings
in the middle game and the end game to really see the excitement of chess and a whole load of other
tips.
So I'm hoping this course is going to show you some of the beauty of chess, which you might have glimpsed
that from the Queen's Gambit.
But here we're talking about the Queen's Gambit, the opening which they got the name of the series
from the opening is DeFore D5 and you play Seaforth.
This is Queen's Gambit territory when CIFOR is played.
Now, Black has various major option options they might decline is the gambit and the play ESX, so
this used to be the most popular option by far.
You know, if we're talking, you know, 1960s, 70s, 80s, but nowadays a lot of grandmasters are
playing C6, this line of defense.
This is kind of the new main line when I say mainlined the most trodden paths.
So when you look at these bases, if you were able to on your database, look at more recent games,
some databases don't allow you to put in filters, but you see that the trends, the modern trends,
C6 is is one of the more popular.
And there's also the queen's going to accept it.
So this is where they accept the gambit.
Now, one of the key differences I like to point out why C6 might be trendy compared to ESX is the CIA
bishop.
This crops up in a variety of different openings across even efore and therefore that this bishop is
sometimes an issue.
Now with C6, it keeps the bishop open, at least for a little while longer.
But most of them or not.
Paradoxically, you might think this bishop is actually enclosed with ESX later for practical reasons
that actually godding base.
So there's a lot of theory with the slope of the fence, but the initial kind of feeling is that the
bishop might be potentially freer than ESX and both have some of the same mechanisms later for trying
to handle this issue.
Sometimes the bishop energetically is fixated on the queen side.
Later of this is removed and looks down this whole diagonal.
So anyway, so when we play CIFOR, the Queen's Gambit, so ESX used to be the old mainline DHC has
never been that popular and C6 is kind of the new mainline.
Nowadays, most grandmasters play C6.
The Slav defense is all the rage on other weird and wonderful stuff.
If I play a lot myself.
Bamblett.
It's a wonderful gambit of having a huge amount of fun and entertainment with of even Beeton's and I
am some GMES with it on Blitz.
Anything can happen anyway.
But these gambits, if they're not prepared for it, you can get a really entertaining game after defore.
So the various distinct ideas, it's kind of a wedge pawn.
You're driving in the opponent's position.
There are some interesting traps to be aware of.
If you do play this, for example, and they play routinely a free that actually you have Bishop before
check and this could get nasty of the Bishop detA taking her.
If they take, you can actually play.
It takes effort to check.
And in this position, you can do a really wacky move, believe it or not, to get a big, huge advantage.
Can you guess why that is so little chess puzzle for you here?
This is one of the major traps of the album Count Kamat.
OK, you'd like the king not to be protecting the queen, and you can do this by actually taking on
one, but not getting a queen instead on the promoting a special case the other night, and it's CHAC.
So they have to deal with the check.
And if they play this now, Bishop Reforger and you've basically won, you've, you know, you're going
to take their queen after so quite crushing stuff.
I mean that's a trap.
That is a must know.
So that's why E3 is is a no no because before generally it's much better for black after that.
But Albon counts.
You don't just play it for the trap.
You play for a lot of other rich ideas.
I had a lot of entertaining games with that anyway.
But there's also.
OK, let's go from the website so we can see sex is the sugar in the fence named after Mikael Chigorin,
who is the adopted father of the Soviet CESCO.
You had very creative ideas and contributions to chess.
We have Bishop AR5, the Baltic defense.
We have C5.
The symmetrical fenceless is hardly seen nowadays.
Grandmaster level these these last few options.
In fact, the major ones seen that grandmaster level usually are just the Queen's Gambit declined,
the Queen's Gambit accepted and Slav defense.
These others are much, much rarer, much rarer at a higher level of chess.
So yes, it's very, very rare.
But and Marshall is not thought to be that good, the Marshall defense.
But Frank Marshall did have some success with that.
G six is not thought to be that good.
Now, key Trappes, if we stick to the most common thing your opponent might do that they don't know
what you're doing with this and you can play the movie for and if they cling on too much to the pawn.
Yeah, there's this trap you just need to be aware of.
I mean, if you can actually do a lot of damage to your opponents, if you take you play nicely free
here.
There's a key move which I've covered elsewhere in the trap section.
But let's test you here.
What does White play for reinforcements?
What does White play in the super crushing move in this position, which winds lots of material if black
carries on playing terribly?
OK, the move for whites is Queensferry.
So you're hitting that rook of the C6 now rook takes a six is devastating.
If they take care, you take on C6 is check.
They have to impose their queen, you take their rook, they come back, you play check and then you
take the night.
So it's almost like a seesaw chat going almost.
You're scooping up a lot material via checks, bouncing there via checks, huge crushing position.
When I first did a video on YouTube about this, it was called a cheap video by a major site that was
like quite a fuss made about it.
But it's a standard trap.
And I picked it up from 500 monster games of chess if you want to add to your chess culture.
So 500 lost games of chess elaborated on this trap.
You can get a great deal even from the old chess books.
So but be warned, it might have the old rotation unless they revised that the old descriptive notation
wind you up compared to the new, you know, short abbreviated algebraic notation.
But anyway, there's a lot of literature out there.
We can pick up a lot of tracks, but that's like an essential trap within the Queen's Gambit.
So, yeah, the Netflix series was based on a real opening, but it's not quite a real gambit because
it's so damaging.
If Black tries to cling on to the pawn like that, it's just really, really damaging to their position.
If they play a move like Bishop ESX, they've kind of blocked in their pieces and you got ways of really
doing a lot of damage in other ways later positionally.
So, yeah, it's it's an interesting opening.
If you want to try out the form, broaden your horizons and experience of possessions.
But when you first start out, my recommendation to you is try and keep the game stats, call Bofors
black, get a feel for tactics.
Tatties is what is going to win you the most games and winning the most enjoyment and let you have a
lot of encouragement along the journey of learning all about chess.
The more strong you are as a tactical monster, as earlier on, you're going to enjoy all aspects of
your chess because tactics are relevant in the opening, in the game.
In the end, game tactics going to win new games and give you joy.
And certainly give me a kind of lifetime of joy being a tactical player.
And, of course, you should have an interest in all the other aspects of chess because they will also
boost your results and the stronger and stronger opponents you play your needs, other skill sets to
gain advantages.
OK, so that's a key trap to be aware of in the Queens game.
These are the key names, variations.
OK, I think that's enough for a basic intro to the Queen's Gambit.
That's how much.