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No damiano defense?
Idk why but for some reason as an 1100 when I'm black, people I play after 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 I'm more likely to face 3. Qxd4 than 3. c3 and it confuses me lol
so a hysterical american says don't learn any opening or counter-defence/attack. They really have something missing, prob because of their pseudo-education (cartoons, video games etc). "Get outta here""!!! Uneducated by definition.Pitiful
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Listen here bro since I started taking your training course. I've added over 259 points to my rating! Thanks so much for the training. I still have a lot to learn
Got to say I generally enjoy your videos, but lately I am more than a little bamboozled and it feels like you're just yelling "you moron!" at me all the time…
I used to play the Scotch because as a beginner it was easy to understand 🙂
5:13 No not everything else is bad. You definitely need to know how to handle f5. You need to know when to play Qa4, and you need to know when and how to delay recapturing in the centre. Many things are counterintuive in the Ponz.
What about the durås gambit? :p
I think that the worst opening is for white: e4 Qh6, like over 350 elo nobody falls for that and you just will end up losing your queen because you are overextended
English is my favourite 🥲
You should like a guy who hates every opening in chess because it has theory and variations.
I dont like the Ruy Lopez just because for both Black and White so many moves are time wasting and non-productive. I usually put my white bishop at e2 or g2 and occasionally at c3. This is an important bishop and I dont want to expose it to possible loss
I completely disagree with levy on the ruy lopez. It’s my main opening with white and I almost always get a good position out of the opening despite not really studying it. I find that it gives me good practical chances even in unfamiliar variations. I feel like once you gain an intuitive understanding of it it becomes incredibly powerful and instructive. At least I find that no other e4 opening is quite as good. But to be fair I’m a 1400 so I really shouldn’t even be worrying about openings and instead working on endgames.
you american fool. shut up.
I always outsmart ruy lopez. its the easiest to counter
You cannot take shortcuts. Sure, you can trick a few weak opponents by playing Ponziani or Albin's Countergambit or other rare openings, but the "big" ones, that is, Ruy Lopez, King's Indian, Queen's Gambit and the Sicilian, are complex for a reason: they are rich in ideas. You can learn a lot by studying them. If you want to really make progress, to become a serious chess player, you have to learn serious openings. Even if you don't end up playing them, you will learn how to play typical positions, you can understand positions that occur via transpositions from other openings, you can improve your tactics by studying the Sicilian, for example, etc.
Good stuff!
I was a chess trainer for kids in a chess club.
Before learning an opening, learn the principeles and the ideas.
don't blow the kitchen up, haha
Agree with all of this BUT…
There does come a time when playing richer more complex openings develops you as a player.
How do you think Levi feels about the Ruy Lopez?
Sure in this video you are understmating every 0-1800 elo player
Totally speaking from experience: I used 100 hours to study the toy Lopez
It's actually not too bad. Only for Beginners it's slightly complex
There is nothing wrong with the Ruy Lopez or also called Spanish opening
me 500 rating : favorite opening the Ruy Lopez about 4 mins into the video video am very sad;_;
Bongcloud stonks
Off to study EVERY SINGLE LINE of QGA. They will never see it coming.
Levy, why are you constantly mentioning lichess? You said you don't support communism😂.
This video shows you have to learn all stuffs to know top 4 worst openings
And this is what Gotham did
Simply incredible!!
I literally quit playing the queens gambit and switched to the scotch game because KID is just difficult to beat at my level
I totally agree that you shouldn't play the QGA with black unless you are a very high rated player. First problem is, even very low rated 1.d4 players know how to regain the pawn or proove compensation for it in case they can't regain it immediately, it's like the first thing they learned after picking up 1.d4. Second problem is mainly psychological: the white player WANTS you to take the pawn, and you do that, in my opinion that's a bad idea. Third problem for me is, the middlegame positions of the QGA are, in my opinion strategically difficult to play for black, because white usually has the upper hand in the centre, and unlike in the sicilian for example black doesn't get much in return
Levy — u are such a genius! I love watching your Chess videos; they are so helpful! ♟
This sounds like a wonderful rage about novice students requesting to learn advanced openings 🙂
Are you smoking meth?
with 1.Nf3, if my opponent plays KID i prefer to play into samisch or smyslov but with 1.Nf3 i usually have to play into classical which is fine but i dont like it as much
opinion on the Kalashnikov Sicilian
For white london and for black kings indian. Those two openings got me the most wins. To me they where the easiest to get into.
ruy lopez if perfectly fine.
I play the move queen blunder . Works just fine ……
For the opponent .
ok cool video… anyways im going to play bong cloud for like hundred times
"What of black doesnt know any openings?"
Me trying to study italian but seeing this video instead :
I have just realized the people who play this against me at 1200 just think the entire point of the Ruy lopes is to actually take the E5 pawn and that's it. They think they are a pawn up for the rest of the game. It seems like nobody they play punishes that and it works for them. Then what follows when QD4 happens is the equivalent of that Kia master in that viral video "MMA fighter against a Kia master", where the Kia master can't believe he just got punched in the face for the first time.
Some of the opponents get so thrown-off they just sacrifice the knight, taking the f7 pawn, probably thinking it's the knight that's lost there.
i just played the english and won. false information in this video.
(WRT @Gothamchess suggesting Kan Sicilian) I actually agree with it… I beat a player above 1500 or 1600 (rapid OTB in FIDE) with Kan to secure my first OTB win v/s rated player
Play the Ruy – but play the Qe2 Worral or d4 Center Attack Ruy.
So don't play the Ruy Lopez (some Spanish priest to blame), the English, the Sicilian Najdorf (Fischer is to blame for that), the Queens gambit accepted (the TV show is to blame), the Semi Slav, the Grunfeld (Fischer again to blame).
*Challenge Accepted*. (Except for the QGA because it is positionally unsound.)
It is good to learn because you know what not to do and what to do when someone plays it against you. Levy has learned it. The reason he tells you not to learn it is because he knows how to counter it and why it's bad. He knows that because he learned it. It is one of the things that made him a master. Of you want to be as good as him you should learn everything he knows. Now you are probably not gooing to be as good as him. But i still want to try.
I stopped playing the Caro-Kann it causes me a 70% lose rate with black