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🔹The BEST Chess Opening Against 1.e4 – Every Move is a Trap! –
In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov talks about the most trickiest and trappiest chess opening gambit for Black against 1.e4. It is the Rousseau Gambit (or Ponziani Countergambit) from the Italian Game (Giuoco Piano), which happens after the opening moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 f5.
This gambit has a lot of tricks and traps along the way which helps Black to win within just 10 moves in these lines. GM Igor Smirnov also answers the most common questions asked by the students, walks through the most common responses of White, and shows you how to punish them.
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00:00 Rousseau Gambit for Black
00:28 General ideas for Black, why 3…f5
02:11 1) If White plays 4.Nc3
02:39 2) If White plays 4.Bxg8
05:52 3) If White plays 4.exf5
09:37 How to find the best moves in any position?
09:57 4) If White plays 4.d3
13:23 Quiz for you: Can you find the best move?
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► Chapters
00:00 Rousseau Gambit for Black
00:28 General ideas for Black, why 3…f5
02:11 1) If White plays 4.Nc3
02:39 2) If White plays 4.Bxg8
05:52 3) If White plays 4.exf5
09:37 How to find the best moves in any position?
09:57 4) If White plays 4.d3
13:23 Quiz for you: Can you find the best move?
This gambit is so powerful and tricky. It is so effective to gain free elos!
I picked up this this opening as my rebuttal to the Italian after your last video on it and it has served me well, gaining lots of ELO, but here is a warning for anyone who wants to play it. This line is very very complicated, and there are a ton of best moves that are totally unintuitive.
Nice .. thank you.
For the quiz. Qg3 can cause a pause in the attack
Kindly reduce lengthy explanation and stick to demonstration.
To answer the puzzle question: 1.h4! Qxh4 2.g3 leaves White hanging on, but Black is still better.
Q g3
this is the Vienna gambit but for black.
1.Qg3 looks like the way to go. White can take Black's Queen if 1. … fxg3 and if 1. … Qh5 or Qg6 then 2.Bxf4 leaves White down two pawns for a piece but White is not getting immediately mated.
You said that and i quote '' The good move is another one, we gone talk about that in a moment'' and you have never mention it. The move d4
Looks a bit like the Schliemann's defense with the f-pawn gambit and the e-pawn push.
For the quiz I considered h4 but tbh I would probably play queen takes bishop, the reason is that white is lost already so why not at least get some material for the queen.
Qg3 since the pawn on f4 is pinned. If fxg3 then Bxg5. Black has still a strong position. If the black Queen goes somewhere, then either QxBg4 or Qh4 depending where the black Queen goes to.
Another Great lesson 👍 thanks GM. Igor Smirnov.
Mostly scenario of chess games went this way, I guess.
Igor, thank you for all your great videos! In this video, at 9 minutes 24 seconds into the video, what if white, instead of 1. Nd2, plays 1. B x d5 check?
After f5 BxNg8 I was pulling for fxe4 hitting Nf3 so black can retain castling but after Bb3 exN Qxf3 White threatens mate and Qe7 is kinda ugly with no d5 available… but a knight sac after f5 BxNg8 fxe4 Bb3 d5!? Gives black a big positional edge, easy development and the knight has to retreat….
Indeed, a the great Kings gambit for black: Rouseaux.
Nice video👍
Thanks or this video, i won a game in 15 moves with them resigning after i sacrificed my queen
I lost my match using this against a 1183 fide rated 💀
Opponent also watch the video
Is Kh1 the move?? It opens a counter attack on the queen
Have been using the Rousseau, Lucchini and Jaenish (against Ruy Lopez) gambits for about six months now. It's a lot of fun, and can be effective in faster time formats. Also great because I'm a Vienna player as white. I do sometimes get myself in trouble as I'm a Caro Kann player usually… and there's lots of patterns I don't yet recognize or know with d5 defence.
Great. This is by far my favorite opening and I learned it from you!.
But I still miss a lot about the 4. d3 Bc5.
There are so many options more common than the ones presented. One is 5. Be3, ok no more attack plans (at least for this newbie here), another is if the proposed combo after 5. Ng5 lands and the opponent instead of castling does the very very natural defense with pawn g3 against your Queen. Again, all over.
Qg3
Love it!
Stop saying "and the game is over" when one player loses a piece for a pawn. You're not teaching GMs here, you're teaching amateurs. We don't automatically win when our opponent loses a piece for a pawn.
Qg3 slows down the attack from black
Qg3
Isn't this just a worse Vienna gambit?
Good day GM.. out of all your books where should I start.. should I start from the grandmaster secret's? Or is there any orders to where to start and finish last…. Thank you very much 💖
2:02 when did you talk about the right move for white?
My brain is in pain
Well by not being impartial and objective it's easy so make it look good by only showing bad moves for white. If this gambit is so strong, why does it never accur at high level chess (Tata Steel for example, not even in challenger or women section)
5:00 What if Qxh7 pawn instead ? My rook is doomed
13:23
h4, Qh4
g3, f4->3
Qf7 check, King-d8
then i don't know 🙂
GREAT REAL BEST STUFF AS ALWAYS !
queen to g3 and when the pawn takes whites queen our bishop takes their queen
At 5:07 what if queen takes undefended H pawn first?
@ 3:50 he says the knight going back to g1 (forced move) is like the player is resigning and setting up for the next game – LOL – savage.
great video, about 1950 rating and this helped a lot
Qg3 is the best move according to the engine but personally, I like Bxf4. After Exf4, H4. White would most likely go Qxh4 or Qh5 to protect the bishop on g4. Either way after Qxf4, can slide the queen back to h2 to defend or trade queens. Imo, it's a better position for a lower rated player like myself.
Thank you for this video👍👏💪
Looks very much like a delayed king's gambit. Perfect!