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This opening can destroy your opponents quickly, sometimes in just 7 moves.
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I'm Grandmaster Igor Smyrnov and I'm talking about the so -called Trompowski attack.
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Here you start off with a Queen's pawn move and your opponent will usually play d5 or Nf6,
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but regardless, your setup is always the same this move Bg5.
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And that is why I love it, it's very simple and universal, plus it's also great for blitz because it confuses your opponent right away.
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Usually they begin to think right here.
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And on top of this, it's not just a cheap opening trick, it is actually a setup and it's used by grandmasters.
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I'll show you in a moment how Judith Polgar was checkmated in 10 moves here.
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Let's say your opponent wants to counter strike, he goes knight e4 and now counter attacks your bishop,
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but you just solidify it and protect it with your pawn.
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Now this bishop is still annoying, for example notice
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that in all of these lines black cannot easily move
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this pawn forward as they usually do in the queen's gambit because their queen will be lost.
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But of course it seems very easy and this knight is kind of shaky anyway because you can potentially attack it,
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Black will just trade off your version.
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Well, looks good, but on the other hand, you got this massive advantage.
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Now your rook became active on its original position, but your opponent is still optimistic.
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He goes e6, which allows him to attack this advanced and a little bit isolated pawn right there on g5.
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But you play another sudden move, pawn to g6.
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What are you even doing here?
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Black can obviously capture me, right?
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It's not that simple.
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If I captures with the h pawn, that would be a major blunder of his rook on h8, and yet sometimes that happens.
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Of course, most of your opponents will instead capture by this pawn, which is not a blunder,
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and now it's not even clear what have you achieved so far, but stick around.
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So we go e3, your opponent develops somehow, and then you continue with development of this bishop.
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And at this point, your opponent already needs to be very, very careful, because if he plays any usual move, like develops a knight plays d5
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or infernels you already have a tactical trick bishop takes g6
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and this wins the game you attack the king but black still cannot take it because of the same
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pain of his opponent he's gonna lose the rook right there therefore that's not an option let's take it back
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but of course your opponent played bishop is on getting ready to castle
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and that looks like the best option for black right completely wrong
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because now that counts the favorite part of our Igor nation, don't judge a rook by its cover,
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suddenly that's rook takes h7 sacrifice and it wins the game.
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And it really blew my mind when I saw it for the first time, because it looks like black just did everything right so far,
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and yet got destroyed.
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I'm not even sure how to explain that, but somehow this attack works.
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Black captures it, and now you totally confuse your opponent by throwing your queen right here.
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Your opponent thinks you're crazy, right?
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What the heck?
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He can just capture it.
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But then his king starts to blush, because king realizes that this little pawn is not intelligent enough to realize
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that it is pinned and it cannot move and the king is embarrassed
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and has to retreat back but now you capture this pawn creating this checkmating net
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that your opponent really has a hard time getting out of because even
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if he tries to provide some escape square for the king it's very easy to chase the king down
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and just to check mate it to all my brothers in gambits
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sometimes you ask me in comments igor it's all good
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but will it work if i'm rated 1500
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or whatever rating you're at let me show you a game where judith polgar faced this opening as black
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and it's a really fun thing
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so memdarov is playing white another top grandmaster judith realized
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that this thing is annoying played knight to e4 just like we discussed
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and so far we talked about h4 really cool
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and tricky line memdarov chose an even simpler option bishop h4
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now what can black do now well this bishop is still pinning this pawn right can't ever move.
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Therefore, she just played pawn to d5, and now f3 kicks this knight back.
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She didn't want to retreat back to f6, because then it would be once again under this influence of your bishop,
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decided to put it to this safe square on d6, but now knight c3 hits the pawn, and again, black still cannot move this pawn,
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because that would blunder the queen, right?
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So our bishop is really tricky here, but of course, she's not going to blunder it.
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She plays pawn to c6, just defending it now e4 and
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and just look at how wide is taking over within just a couple moves how easy
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it is to bamboozle your opponent now we're attacking this pawn threatening to push the ball forward
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and sure black could potentially trade in the center she didn't
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because then what is having a totally dominant position grabbing the center having easy development
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and black is just struggling instead she decided to try to find back
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and played queen b6 hitting this pawn on b2 but maybe darov stayed cool, just played queen to d2,
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saying, hey, if you want to round a round, wasting time with your queen just to get one little pawn,
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no problem, you'll fall way behind in development, and it's good for me.
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She realized that it's probably not a right strategy, and this pawn is still hanging, therefore she just played pawn to e6, and our castle.
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Now what can black do?
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Again, we used to think that our knight is our tricky pieces, but in this case, your bishop is kind of really annoying.
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Like, black can now develop normally because you would simply capture it.
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Buy your bishop right here and force the king to move.
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Black does not want this.
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What if black played this move?
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she didn't in the game but i'll show you why right because in this case white can trade
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black needs to be careful
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because the king is right here in the center of the
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board probably black would wish to capture with this pawn so
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that this one stands as a shield
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but white can unlock it with knight takes d5 this brutal sacrifice
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and then something like rook to e1
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and again our bishop cuts the king off and it's almost a checkmate and white is winning polga realized that she
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She traded in the center
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and then played queen to a5 trying to put pressure on white a little bit slowed down white's attack.
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It looks like she's playing weird moves, but in fact, it's not the case.
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She just calculated that normal moves don't work and she's looking for options.
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Now, knight to d7 so far feels the black little bit stabilized and yet at this point, Memudarov played the decisive winning move.
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Now I'll give you a couple seconds, you may try to find it on your own.
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and the move is knight to d5.
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It's really funny how despite of all the effort black struggled to get out of the opening really.
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One of the top 10 players in the world among men is having a hard time there.
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White is sacrificing the knight and opens up this attack and
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if black's queen moves anywhere for example counters right here then knight to c zone is a sneaky checkmate.
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By the way, if you can solve tactics and puzzles that miss them in your own games,
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this is exactly what I explained in my free masterclass, the link is below.
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What about black's most usual move, pawn to d5?
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You still develop your bishop, just as always, in the Trampovsky attack, and here there is one fun fact.
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In this position, over 800 ,000 people played here pawn to e6 as black, blundering their queen in one move.
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I'm not really sure what happened, maybe they pre -moved this expecting usual queen's gambit.
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But anyway, that's quite fun.
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Now, of course, most players will not blunder the queen.
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They'll play something like knight to f6.
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And then you can take it and double black's pawns.
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Now here, advanced players in such positions sometimes capture with a g pawn.
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But that is kind of dangerous.
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Black really needs to understand how to handle this situation.
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Because for their king, it's going to be hard to stay safe.
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Black certainly would not want to castle kinside because that position is already exposed.
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And for beginner to intermediate players, this is something hard to handle.
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That's why the majority will recapture with this pawn, still expecting just normal development after that.
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And now you play pawn to e3, black develops, and then you play pawn to c4, putting pressure down black center.
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Now black could try to either defend this pawn or trade.
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Now trading is the easiest option if black tries defending it.
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Then after this exchange, this pawn on d5 is isolated
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and you can keep attacking it because notice there are no other pawns of black that could possibly support that central pawn.
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Well, you can keep putting more pressure.
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You can also develop the bishop this way and add one more attacker and it becomes annoying.
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Therefore, that's not really the best way for black and the easiest way is just to trade off pawns,
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then you recapture and so far it looks like just a normal position and it is quite normal.
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They play usually c6 here controlling some squares so
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that your pieces cannot go there and now throw bishop g4 pinning your knight.
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Again, looks like it's about to be a normal chess game, but there is a very powerful attacking plan here.
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Pawn to h3, and this plan was suggested by a computer because it sounds slightly unusual,
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you know, but as I kind of dived deeper into it, I realized that it's really, really strong.
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Now h3, you attack this bishop.
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Usually they'll drop back to maintain the pin.
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If they capture here, you could recapture with the queen in a normal way, or even ultra -aggressive pawn capture, putting your rook right here,
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then later casting queen side and just trying to checkmate black's skin quickly.
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This can be very dangerous.
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Now, if instead the bishop retreats back to h5, then you keep pushing with g4
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and you're almost winning the game right here with this super straightforward and aggressive attack on the king side,
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which is very hard for black to stop.
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Because right now it looks like there is no big danger, you just weakened your position for no big reason black will develop
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now you take on g6 they cannot recapture by this pawn
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because of your worship it's pinned they recapture this way having this nice square of pawns
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and then you keep pushing with h4 h5 opening lines for your rook right there
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and aiming to checkmate the king
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that way again black will do whatever you keep playing h5
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and now if they allow you to trade the h pawn and to open up the file for your rook,
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that'll be very dangerous for black real quick.
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If they try to keep it close, which might be a better option, there is another little trick here.
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You play queen c2, pretending like you just want to castle queenside.
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And while that's part of the plan, there is also another hidden idea behind it.
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If black plays virtually anything, let's say b5, they want to attack you as well, you can ignore that and play pawn to h6.
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And now that's really strong.
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Your idea is to trade off these pawns and then play queen to h7 checkmate, right?
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So let's say like captures here, you take and then queen h7 checkmate because of your rook.
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That's how it goes.
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Now, another question is, hey, but what if black tries to keep it closed?
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You can turn your middle game into your opponent's end game by playing queen takes g6,
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a very sudden move, and black cannot capture because of this pin, therefore the king must move, but then queen g7 checkmate.
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Another question you may have is, what if black tries to attack this bishop somehow by playing f6 or h6?
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Yes, black can, you will certainly retreat the bishop back, and if they keep chasing which is actually the most played move in the position.
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Sure, they push their bishop back, but at the cost of weakening their pawn structure on the king side.
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And after that, casting king side would be dangerous.
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You will always have an idea of pushing your pawn to h4 and weakening this pawn structure even more.
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And also, you know, open up this file for your rook.
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And therefore, again, it's kind of dangerous and black really needs to understand how to follow up.
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Therefore, for beginner to intermediate level players, these kind of advancements are usually very risky.
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So let's say that continues their development, you can even blow up the center with pawn to e4.
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At first black ball you think, hey, wait a second, this pawn is just hanging, right?
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I can capture it.
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But it's not that simple, because simultaneously you've cleared these diagonal for your queen,
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and now it forces the black king to go into this really awkward and exposed position on d7.
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You can keep attacking with pawn to d5, this time hitting the knight, and then you just complete your development, knight c3, threatens the pawn,
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getting ready to castle queen side and overall again it's just
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so awkward for black to have all these pieces right here
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and especially that king
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which is in such a big danger flag tries to trade off queens hoping to slow down your attack
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that way then you continue with this left hook
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and black is done they may still try to resist by pawn to c6
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but after the trade since classical tutorials suggest
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that you castle in an opening you can do just that
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but in this case it's not just castling that's a winning move
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because it also comes with a check and as the king moves
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that leaves this queen on e8 unprotected you can go ahead
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and grab it with a bunch of threats and an easily winning attack
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if you're facing a more sophisticated opponent they may play something like this preparing their kingside knight development
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so that now you cannot take it and double their pawns
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because they have this other knight protecting this knight on f6 therefore you should not take it right here
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that would be just a waste of time.
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Instead, you have another plan.
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You can continue with a setup very similar to the London system.
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That is why it's easy for you to play it, and your position is super solid here.
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But there's a difference.
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In the traditional London system, your dark squared bishop is placed here on f4, while right now you have it here.
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It does not seem like a big difference, but you can find a way to make use of it.
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You can land your knight on e5 at some point, and this knight is very strong, it's putting pressure all around, it's annoying for black.
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If black does nothing special, plays whatever neutral move, you can also solidify this knight by playing pawn to f4 and that is another key difference.
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Notice that this move would not be possible if you had your bishop standing there, but that's not the case and you have f4 being available.
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And now you have this stonewall system, but at a much more improved version of it with your bishop up there on g5, putting pressure.
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This knight really strong on e5.
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And sure, black can trade it, but there is always a disadvantage for black in doing so.
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Let me actually take it back, and let me show you what if black takes here on e5 right away.
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Yes, he can, but now you recapture, and there is one really detrimental thing for black that happens here.
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It pushes this knight out of f6, and it has to retreat somewhere back, because your pieces take away these two squares by your queen,
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your knight and bishop are controlling this one on e4, and therefore the knight has to go somewhere back.
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In this case, yes, you can trade bishops, that is also fine, or you can even keep it right there.
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But the main issue is that the king is now left undefended.
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There are no defenders around the king.
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And there are many ways for you to continue your attack.
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You can even throw your queen somewhere there, right away.
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And together with your two bishops, that is already getting dangerous.
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Or you can play h4.
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I'll show you one game real quick.
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That was a lot of fun.
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Initially, Black thought maybe she just wants to play something like this, but that doesn't seem dangerous.
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But suddenly White sacrificed the bishop.
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What is that?
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Black, of course, has to capture it.
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Now Qh5 comes with a check.
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The king has to retreat back and now knight to f3.
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The knight is rushing into the attack, going to g5 and then Qh7 checkmate.
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Black desperately tries to slow it down, but white goes there anyway.
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Knight to g5, threatening checkmate by the queen.
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Sure, that is the sacrifice of the knight, but after the recapture, we have seen this motif before,
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your rook on h1 is now getting active and is now enjoying your attack.
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You want to play something like g6 and then queen to h8 or h7 checkmate.
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And if black tries to somehow slow it down or trade off a little bit of pieces, that's actually a forced checkmate.
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You can go inside and then continue with pawn to g6, pulling the key out, and then queen h5 is a quick checkmate.
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If you want to be able to find tactics in your own games, my free master class is linked down below.
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And if you want to know the three main rules to prevent most of the blunders in your games, head to this video right here.
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It's going to be very useful.
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Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Master the Trompowsky Attack & Win in 7 Moves”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: pawn, knight, bishop, queen, king. Deze video bevat 226 zinnen en 3131 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 15:04. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 208 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 83% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| pawn zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɔːn/ | pion |
| knight zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈnaɪ̯t/ | ridder |
| bishop zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɪʃəp/ | bisschop |
| opponent zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˈpəʊ.nənt/ | opponent |
| castle zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | kasteel, fort |
| retreat zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɹɪˈtɹiːt/ | terugtocht, aftocht |
| sacrifice zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | opoffering |
| pin zelfstandig naamwoord | /pɪn/ | pin, speld |
| defend werkwoord | /dɪˈfɪnd/ | verdedigen |
| tricky bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈtɹɪk.i/ | netelig, netelige |
| threaten werkwoord | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | bedreigen, dreigen |
| chase werkwoord | /t͡ʃeɪs/ | achtervolgen, achternazitten |
| sudden bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈsʌd.ən/ | plotseling, plotselinge |
| potentially bijwoord | /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/ | potentieel |
| aggressive bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/ | agressief |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| slow down werkwoord | afremmen |
| take over werkwoord | overnemen |
Zinnen om te herhalen
Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:
- What are you even doing here?
- Your opponent thinks you're crazy, right?
- I'll show you one game real quick.
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | was checkmated · will be lost · is pinned |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have you achieved · you've cleared · have seen |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | pawn, which is · chasing which is |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 27 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals I'm, I'll, you're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: bishop /ˈbɪʃəp/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, intermediate /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/, universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: defend /dɪˈfɪnd/, aggressive /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/, awkward /ˈɔk.wɚd/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/, confuse /kənˈfjuːz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, sacrifice /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/, rat /ɹæt/, tactics /ˈtæktɪks/, classical /ˈklæs.ɪ.k(ə)l/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: aggressive /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/, beginner /bəˈɡɪnɚ/, ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/, regardless /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd.lɪs/, gambit /ˈɡæmbɪt/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als pawn, knight, bishop.
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