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if you like chess then you've probably watched
the queen's gambit on netflix and if you've 00:00:04
watched the queen's gambit on netflix then you
probably know that beth harmon and many of the 00:00:08
other characters at some point played the sicilian
defense the point of this video is first to walk 00:00:13
you through the steps of how to play the sicilian
defense and its different versions and at the end 00:00:17
i played three games against my subscribers to
show you the sicilian defense in live action 00:00:23
the sicilian defense is an opening with the
black pieces after white's main move e4 pawn 00:00:28
to e4 the king's pawn you play the move c5
uh and the point of this or queen bishop 5 00:00:35
as said in the show the point is to control the
center with the flank pawn so that if this pawn 00:00:41
ever comes here you take and you have two central
pawns remaining versus one and that's considered 00:00:47
a slightly better imbalance for the black pieces
there's a few like i said versions of the sicilian 00:00:51
defense the way i want you to think about this for
now is whether or not white plays out the knight 00:00:56
and the pawn to d4 that's going to be the big
thing here does white actually ever play this move 00:01:02
that leads to a more open sicilian and an open
game or does white kind of keep it closed for now 00:01:08
and play it a little bit differently so
we're going to have the open sicilian the 00:01:11
closed sicilian and then kind of everything
else now the open sicilian is after knight f3 00:01:17
and the way beth harmon plays this and some of the
other characters they play pawn to d6 which is a 00:01:21
very very natural good move now white plays d4
you trade and now the knight takes because again 00:01:28
if the queen takes and that's kind of the whole
problem with this whole thing the queen takes we 00:01:32
bring out our knight and we attack the queen so
wine prefers a spot where knight takes d4 occurs 00:01:37
we play knight to f6 this is the way they play it
knight's the c3 defense and now black has a choice 00:01:44
black can play the night or which is what
is played a lot in the show the move a6 here 00:01:49
point is that this covers the b5 square from
this this and this you can play pawn to b5 00:01:55
in the future taking space defend it like
this move your bishop out move your knight 00:02:00
out and in the future you will plant the rook
where this bishop is laser beam down this board 00:02:05
down the c file that's what that's called the c
file and the position is incredibly dynamic and 00:02:11
complicated actually at this point white can play
like 15 different ways i'm not joking it's insane 00:02:17
so that's the night orf and the main
line is bishop to g5 which is uh 00:02:23
seen i believe at least one time in the show the
game between harmon and benny watts uh and there's 00:02:28
others now the one that i like the most is called
the dragon all dragon sicilians involve a bishop 00:02:35
going to g7 with the pawn up to g6 and this
is known as the uh dragon sicilian uh well 00:02:42
i was going to say for a reason i mean
i suppose if if there's ever a dragon in 00:02:46
black's territory it's the bishop because it will
stare down the side of the board and breathe uh 00:02:51
down that way and breathe fire now the best thing
for white to do here is to play something like f3 00:02:59
stopping this knight from ever getting here
because trading off this bishop would be an issue 00:03:03
playing queen to d2 so something like this because
you want to team up the bishop and the queen to 00:03:08
get in here to trade off our dragon bishop and
this pawn will protect these squares as white 00:03:16
attacks us where does white's king go when we
play the dragon opposite side long castling long 00:03:22
castling queenside castling and a crazy attack
ensues we attack white on the queen side on 00:03:29
this side of the board and white attacks us down
this way and it gets crazy in the dragon sicilian 00:03:36
and there's other versions uh with the move d6
on the second move but let's not forget we don't 00:03:41
have to go d6 the other most popular move here
is e6 and this takes the game into a totally 00:03:46
different direction again if white plays cd4
knight d4 we've got two main choices here one of 00:03:52
them is called the khan sicilian with kan a6 and
actually the point of the con is to play queen c7 00:03:59
and you go what the heck why would i do that this
doesn't make any sense which is one of the reasons 00:04:03
the con is a bit more advanced as an opening just
like the night or if there's a lot of theory you 00:04:07
have to study but it can be very tricky there is
also something called the timon of when you play 00:04:12
knight c6 and then later play a6 and later play
queen c7 and in general the structure that you get 00:04:19
uh in this kind of a sicilian of course if knight
takes knight uh you just take with the b-pawn and 00:04:25
try to push forward in the center here and then
develop naturally but in general the structures 00:04:30
and the complex of the of the squares that you
fight for when you play pawn to e6 is you like 00:04:35
to bring a bishop out to c5 b4 and the dark
squared bishop puts some pressure i play a game 00:04:42
later with the move e6 and it goes quite well for
me the bishop and the queen like to team up like 00:04:46
this because they they'll stand on this diagonal
and laser down that way the complex is totally 00:04:52
different uh there's a lot of different defenses
after e6 and the sicilian so i gave you the khan 00:04:57
the uh the timon of there's also the pin variation
which is knight f6 knight c3 and then pinning the 00:05:04
knight to the king there is the four knights or
two knight sicilian like this which is what i 00:05:09
play later there's a lot examine something pick
something i like the positions after e6 although 00:05:16
they are not seen as much in the show and there's
other things that you can play uh you can go for a 00:05:21
very quick dragon but g6 is called the accelerated
dragon and this just is a dragon the bishop goes 00:05:28
to g7 so it's a dragon kind of sicilian now on
knight f3 black can also play knight c6 which is 00:05:34
what the world champion magnus carlsen plays and
now the first game between borgoff uh and and beth 00:05:39
harmon is the way we'll transition this uh to
the close sicilian is the move bishop b5 during 00:05:45
the broadcast they have this tournament uh going
on in mexico and the commentator says borghoff 00:05:50
is intending to play a la siciliana right which
is delaying the move d4 or playing it never at 00:05:57
all to play d3 trade the bishop for the night in a
more slow maneuvering game if white is to play d4 00:06:03
like normal now you have a choice you've got
the sveshnikov sicilian kalashnikov cool name 00:06:09
back to the dragon so there's a lot of
different stuff but the close sicilian 00:06:14
for white is intending to trade and maneuver and
this is a very dense one i mean i i can't possibly 00:06:22
show you the theory here all in its entirety again
you can play it dragon style with g6 bishop g7 00:06:28
putting pawns in the center of the board finding
the right pawn breaks but just as an introduction 00:06:33
that is what the close sicilian is and more
traditionally knight c3 is considered on the 00:06:39
second move to be the close sicilian because white
wants to play f4 g3 uh one of the favorites here 00:06:45
is the grand prix attack this is what this got a
very cool name grand prix attack with e4 and f4 to 00:06:50
try to take some space now against the grand prix
and just against the close sicilian in general 00:06:55
uh i like a very early a6 i like to not commit
my central pawns so that if white does this i 00:07:01
actually just take space on the queen side then i
like to put my bishop on b7 to cut the board here 00:07:07
on this diagonal and maybe e6 and then play
for d5 so i like to go for this queen side 00:07:12
and central expansion you can give it a shot um at
the same time playing classical stuff is also fine 00:07:18
knight c6 g6 bishop g7 d6 but remember the board's
not going to open up in a closed sicilian so 00:07:24
i like to be the person opening it up i played
the sicilian defense up until i was about 18 1900 00:07:29
so that's how i would play it i would just try to
open the position as fast as possible if the move 00:07:33
knight c3 happens close sicilian grand prix attack
those are the two things that you got to know all 00:07:39
these names will be in the description now if
white doesn't move upon white doesn't move a 00:07:44
a knight on the second move something like
bishop c4 the bishop on coming to c4 in the 00:07:49
sicilian is usually bad because you haven't moved
your pawns yet so you can just play pawn up to e6 00:07:55
and then d5 and now you are just fighting for the
center and you're attacking the bishop so bishop 00:08:00
c4 is very rarely a good move against the sicilian
uh just good thing to keep in mind because you 00:08:06
push the pawns and attack it and of course white
can play c3 d4 and a variety of other pawn moves 00:08:12
c3 is called the alapin and white is trying to
play pawn d4 and take with the pawn and have two 00:08:18
pawns in the center so you have two options here
number one is to immediately go for this pawn 00:08:24
and then pawn push you jump in the middle and
develop like this but the easiest thing to do 00:08:29
here not gonna lie just play d5 i play it later
against the uh strong player and the point is 00:08:34
that you bring your queen out but there's no
knight c3 see normally you the knight comes 00:08:40
out and the queen is getting under attack but
in this version you just play pawn to d5 and uh 00:08:46
bring your queen out and then develop your pieces
naturally both knights to their main squares the 00:08:51
bishop comes out looking very nice pawn up
bishop out we're very happy it's very simple 00:08:56
the last thing that i will leave you with in the
sicilian is you will need to know the gambits 00:09:00
gambits are an entire other chapter of
openings where people sacrifice material 00:09:05
early to throw you off your game and they're
tricky like the smith mora gambit like this 00:09:10
where you take two pawns white develops tries
to pop out all these pieces and destroy you 00:09:16
and they might because the smithmar is very
tricky if you've never learned anything against it 00:09:20
if you've made it this far in
this video first of all thank you 00:09:23
thank you that's honestly nine and a half
minutes of dedication i hope you're doing great 00:09:27
i hope if you're watching at the end of 2020 which
is when i uploaded this that you got through the 00:09:31
year okay oh wait no because if you're watching it
in 2020 i hope you're gonna get through the year 00:09:35
okay i hope you have a great holiday season
if you're watching in the future i hope you 00:09:38
have had a better year than 2020 was huh what a
terrible year that was people watching in 2027. 00:09:44
anyway point that i'm trying to make here is the
sicilian is very dense uh the way the way you 00:09:49
learn it is you pick one of those variations
that are in the description that i've talked 00:09:53
about i tried to give you as many as i could and
you re-watch the video you go learn those basics 00:09:58
and you just go play i recommend playing against
humans there's many many humans on chess.com for 00:10:03
example uh review your game see how the opening
went maybe it works and maybe it doesn't but 00:10:08
this is how beth harmon and uh many of the other
players in the queen's gambit played their uh 00:10:13
played their sicilian defenses they studied tons
and tons of theory you don't have to do that you 00:10:18
can just go play some games and in the next uh
part of this video i'm going to play against some 00:10:23
of my subscribers talk you through those games
and i just want to say that there is no clock 00:10:27
involved so we were just playing slow game
hope you enjoy hope you learn much love and 00:10:32
if there's any videos that i haven't made yet
on openings that you like please let me know in 00:10:36
the comments below okay i'm ready to play against
first subscriber here uh this person is rated 980 00:10:45
in blitz chess but in rapid is 1277 so e4 c5 and
actually before the game he told me that he plays 00:10:54
uh the open sicilian which we've talked
about now of course i have a big choice 00:10:59
um i can go knight c6 but uh let's go
for no let's do it let's play knight c6 00:11:06
and we will take and then we're going to go for
the dragon sicilian with g6 so clearly this is an 00:11:12
experienced player uh now we're gonna go bishop to
g7 we're attacking this knight of course bishop e3 00:11:18
here as i've shown in the theory portion of this
video the critical line in the dragon is for white 00:11:24
to castle queen side and start some sort of attack
on our king side we will see if that happens my 00:11:30
opponent is thinking already like i said he did
promise that he knows what he's doing so i'm a bit 00:11:38
perplexed here by the early thinking but perhaps
he's just gathering himself he has not used to 00:11:43
potentially being on such a big stage now here
there's a few things you can do on bishop to e3 00:11:50
uh knight f6 right away uh is completely okay just
developing the knight to the center there's also 00:11:57
some various tricky lines with the queen coming
out to a5 that also is possible just pinning 00:12:03
here i will go knight to f6 there should be
absolutely no problems associated with this move 00:12:11
uh and uh game goes on if for example knight takes
c6 here which is a possibility we actually can 00:12:18
play d takes and if queen takes queen then we
have king takes queen and that pawn coming to 00:12:26
e5 is not the scariest thing in the world because
we have knight coming out to g4 okay so bishop c4 00:12:33
of course castling here very natural move um there
are some positions you can also actually throw in 00:12:39
the move knight g4 and the queen can take but the
queen actually guards the knight in the center 00:12:43
here so you can play like knight g4 uh and then if
queen takes knight takes and you have some tricks 00:12:51
i i don't want to go for tricks i kind of want to
get you all comfortable and settled playing these 00:12:56
systems that are that you can understand
and figure out how to play afterward but 00:13:02
there are some tricks where this is a possibility
there's also other tricks where you can play 00:13:05
knight takes pawn and then after knight
takes knight you have a central pawn fork 00:13:11
so you fork like this now on queen d2 my opponent
has already made a slight inaccuracy and it's 00:13:17
allowing the move knight to g4 now that the queen
has moved up see that's why you have to play f3 00:13:23
i did talk about this in the introduction why the
move f3 is so important to shield the knight from 00:13:28
coming to the g4 square uh otherwise you can run
into trouble and this can be bad now if the bishop 00:13:35
moves out it cannot go to h6 right so this is a
good move now my opponent plays knight takes c6 00:13:40
of course i would like to take the bishop but
then i would lose my queen and then it would not 00:13:45
make for a very good youtube video i can play
bc6 i'm actually going to take with the d-pawn 00:13:51
to open up the queen and then if i take with the
rook i'm very happy because i have control of the 00:13:57
file of course you can also play b takes and then
the game is a little bit longer in general i think 00:14:03
that if you're going to be playing the dragon
at a lower level uh the games will have a feel 00:14:07
like this where it's not so clear they're
you know both sides are kind of tentative 00:14:12
i'm actually not going to trade the queens now i'm
going to put the queen on b6 laser beaming here 00:14:17
and now we see the power of this kind of
dragon bishop here on g7 very powerful uh 00:14:21
f2 is hit a very natural looking move here
by my opponent is just a castle this way 00:14:26
and uh the f2 pawn is hanging because i
also stare all the way down to that side 00:14:31
the only drawback is this bishop but that's
life can't have everything and i can go here but 00:14:38
this trait is nice for me only from
the perspective that i open my rook 00:14:41
in reality i double my pawns i can still go for
it because of how powerful my rook becomes but 00:14:47
potentially not recommended having said that if my
opponent castles queen side i will play bishop e6 00:14:54
just to show you the power of the position how
all the pieces open up my opponent also could 00:14:59
very well blunder here make a horrible mistake
like playing the move b3 which i believe just 00:15:03
loses to various tactics on this diagonal there is
also bishop back to b3 which intercepts my queen 00:15:11
and blocks its path that probably very
well is the best move bishop back to b3 00:15:15
uh and then just uh delaying everything and not
letting me take here yet of course my next idea 00:15:20
is also rook d a by moving my queen away from the
d8 square i'm ready to play rook d8 defended by 00:15:26
my queen over on b6 and hitting the queen in the
center there's a lot of problems already to solve 00:15:32
my opponent chooses to just castle giving me
the b2 pawn i can take it and i can also throw 00:15:38
in this first if i take this pawn the knight is
also under attack that doesn't seem very good for 00:15:43
my opponent giving away b2 under normal circum
whoa i was gonna say under normal circumstances 00:15:49
uh this is okay because the queen can get trapped
so my opponent is using a concept called danger 00:15:55
levels to disregard the attack on the knight and
attack my knight in reality bishop takes c3 here 00:16:01
is just winning for me because i'm winning
a knight but i'm also attacking the queen 00:16:07
and now my knight can move at the same time i
actually probably could have also played queen c3 00:16:12
because then i hit the bishop and if there's
a trait of queens at the end i'm attacking the 00:16:16
rook so very quickly i got so excited about this
game i almost knocked the glasses off my face um 00:16:22
at the end of the day like that bishop
on g7 in this position just killed it 00:16:26
i mean we played queen b6 we attacked
a weak pawn and the opponent uh you 00:16:31
know immediately succumbed to the pressure so
dragon is a very powerful thing very powerful 00:16:37
these tactics they're they're they're constantly
brewing in the position he very well could play 00:16:43
a move like queen d3 or queen e2 gotta move
the queen here and preferably not all the 00:16:47
way back to d1 just a little bit too passive i
would consider queenie two to maintain this and 00:16:52
just keep the distant idea of potentially
trapping my queen over there in the corner 00:16:57
having said that if i just move the queen out
the rook is now under attack uh but the rook 00:17:01
would slide over and attack my queen so we're
kind we're kind of always having a conversation 00:17:06
thing about this move is that now i can move
my knight out of danger and attack the queen 00:17:12
which is why it was better for my opponent to
play queen e2 because then my knight couldn't 00:17:17
move and attack the queen now i'm creating a
threat on the queen and if my opponent takes 00:17:21
my knight i am able to skedaddle out of there
with my queen and after just 12 moves we're up 00:17:27
a clean night and we have to convert the game but
okay again i can't give you a better opening than 00:17:32
being a piece on move 12. i really wish i could
but not much i can offer you better than that00:17:41
rugby one as promised uh let's bring the
queen back to d4 of course now that you 00:17:45
are up a bishop simplification is a good thing
uh trading off for example a bishop or a rook 00:17:50
or both rooks would be fantastic so i'm not
even gonna hesitate i'm just gonna take now 00:17:55
i'd like to move my bishop oops my bishop
but the rook covers this so the first thing 00:18:00
that i'm going to do is that i'm going to
attack the bishop bishop will have to move 00:18:04
and then i will offer a trait of bishops and
i said that this was not great and it's not 00:18:10
because we're doubling our own structure
and this rook can try to get in here 00:18:13
but at the same time we are up a bishop and that
is worth a lot this pawn is under attack maybe i 00:18:19
just bring this bishop back and actually where's
this rook going i just closed the door on the rook 00:18:24
pawn to e5 does get this pawn if i take but what
if i just slide my bishop out this way to target 00:18:29
this and now i'm not even letting the pawn come
forward so the rook is locked in here with me in 00:18:34
the words of rorschach and uh i can go for a trade
but this rook's only getaway square is b7 so what 00:18:43
if i just play king king rook not in that order it
would have to be king rook and then the king but 00:18:51
at the same time we also can just be
very direct here and go for the f2 pawn 00:18:56
we can try to trap the rook at the same time we
can try to win an end game by trading the rooks 00:19:02
so for example rook d2 yeah that makes a lot of
sense a good move uh now i think i'm going to 00:19:09
what am i going to do maybe i'll bring my king
right here to e6 where it exerts pressure on this 00:19:13
rook if this rook was to slide over now i would
bring in my other rook offering an exchange the 00:19:19
game will become substantially simpler here if i
can trade one rook and obviously both the reason 00:19:25
being like of course my king goes to e6 very nice
square no check is possible here with the rooks 00:19:33
and now we're gonna shut this door again and
the rook has to skedaddle and then we will be 00:19:39
guaranteed a trait of rooks once we get that rook
off the board the position opens up substantially 00:19:46
we are going to advance the pawns on the queen
side now because we have something called a 00:19:49
queen side majority three pawns versus two and
when two pawns are traded for white we will be 00:19:55
remaining with one pass pawn and that will lead
us to victory these pawns are marching they're 00:20:00
not really something i need to worry about
of course i could play rook f8 and put some 00:20:04
pressure for example i can take here it's
not a problem and just continue my pushing 00:20:07
here the thing is my opponent has no balance
of pawns on that side of the board which is 00:20:12
good for them and i can continue to push and
what will happen is exactly what i told you 00:20:18
would happen i'm going to play b3 on the next
move which will result in me simplifying the 00:20:23
pawns down to me having one pawn remaining
on that side and then we will win the game 00:20:30
at the same time you can also offer a trade
of rogues but i'm just going to take with 00:20:32
the pawn now my opponent probably will run the
the rook back and i'd like to go here and down 00:20:38
there to get the rook out but i need somebody to
protect my pawns we're going to play bishop here 00:20:43
rook c8 and rook c1 and we're going to play just
one cherry on top here so my opponent cannot get 00:20:48
in with the king we can play rook c8 not afraid
of a check the king just slides over not afraid of 00:20:54
taking because that doesn't make any progress rook
is coming down there and then the b-pawn will take 00:21:01
and that will be the end of the game this
is five minute and five second bonus which 00:21:04
is one of the reasons my opponent uh clock
is not running out i'll play rook down to c100:21:11
and just be careful about stalemate make sure
that the enemy king always has some legal moves 00:21:16
bring in the queen here and we don't really
need anything else we can just march the queen 00:21:20
i mean march the king to the one of the back
rows here glue the king to the back row and 00:21:26
then bring the king and it should be mate
and that should be checkmate and we say gg 00:21:34
now before we just jump ahead here uh what i
wanted to say kind of early on here was that if my 00:21:41
opponent were to take on c6 and then we would take
and play this move it's actually not so bad for us 00:21:48
you can just go back and it's not easy
for the opponent to protect this pawn 00:21:50
this pawn's actually a bit overextended and if f4
we can actually play knight h6 and knight to f5 00:21:57
and d6 in the future just chipping away
at the pawn this looks good for white 00:22:02
but it's not so good it's the thing that some
people have to worry about when they're playing 00:22:07
they have to worry about this kind of lack
of space and could be a little bit dangerous 00:22:11
next person i'm gonna play is 1600 rated kind
of ping jig long time supporter of the stream 00:22:16
uh he's been in uh quite a few of my videos plays
knight f3 i was thinking he might play knight c3 00:22:25
uh let's think we played this last time this
time let's go for e6 so playing one of the other 00:22:33
versions of the i mean i don't know maybe he's
not even gonna play d4 i would imagine he would 00:22:37
play so he does play d4 of course we take now
and we have a big choice here very big choice um 00:22:43
i'm gonna play knight f6 and if he
blunder he he okay he doesn't blunder e5 00:22:48
queen a5 check uh there here there is the pin
variation as i discussed in the introduction 00:22:54
and knight c6 as well this is
called the two knight sicilian 00:22:57
excuse me or the four knight sicilian with e6 and
knight of 696 it's very tricky uh the pressure on 00:23:03
the center very early here i believe the critical
line for white is actually to try to get in here 00:23:10
and it can be a little bit unpleasant and what
you do here with black is you play bishop to b4 00:23:15
so it's kind of like the pin variation
except the move e5 is no longer a possibility00:23:21
and uh not so easy because if queen to d2 we
just take and my opponent actually blunders 00:23:28
upon immediately with knight takes e4 so this
just shows you the trickiness of this position 00:23:32
actually already white is losing on the seventh
or eighth move it show i mean it just goes to 00:23:36
show you these these sicilians can be tricky the
tactics are flying at our opponent pretty fast 00:23:41
and notice already on the eighth move of the
game that we have both central pawns remaining 00:23:46
and our opponent doesn't have a single central
pawn we can even play d5 here to glue the knight 00:23:52
into the center of the board of course my opponent
will castle setting up this as a possibility 00:23:57
i can take and i gotta tell you i can also just
go back and i'm sort of leaning toward going back 00:24:04
just because why would i take and have to move
the bishop again so my opponent's down a pawn 00:24:12
but the game is still going on of course f4
f5 here is the critical approach by white 00:24:18
like white needs to punish me for
taking such a long time to develop 00:24:23
he trades the knight on c6 which is something
you will get and we'll kind of learn how to 00:24:27
how to play with this crown of pawns
you're gonna have to bring the bishop 00:24:30
back castle and then slowly advance them in
the center this move attacks the horse but00:24:40
i don't think there's anything scary
to come out of it so i'm gonna castle 00:24:44
and now c5 is a big question do i play the move
c5 or do i bring the bishop back of course to move 00:24:50
rookie one my opponent wants to play bishop f3 i
think i will now begin active operations with c5 00:24:57
the big decision here okay taking but this is
already this is very dangerous now for my opponent 00:25:02
they've traded off a bishop now as well
so it's difficult to find compensation 00:25:07
it probably would have been better to play the
move bishop to e5 just keeping the bishop on the 00:25:12
board a3 is an interesting move because it gives
me a tough choice do i take the knight and damage 00:25:17
the structure if the queen were to take i would
take the queen would i go back to a5 and i gotta 00:25:23
tell you i'm leaning this way why would i just
trade i don't want to trade i want the queen to 00:25:28
come try to get me and i'm just going to keep on
playing cat and mouse or if the queen comes to 00:25:33
get me then i take and the difference is i would
be winning another pawn plus in a lot of these 00:25:38
positions you have the open b file to operate
with rook to b8 it's a lot of tricks and tactics 00:25:43
bishop f3 of course doesn't let me move but now
rook to b8 unpins me and hits the pawn on b2 00:25:49
another thing that i just realized is can i play
rook takes b2 in this position oh my goodness 00:25:55
and then bishop takes c3 oh my
goodness look at this little trick 00:25:58
rook takes b2 and on rook b2 i have this
defended by the queen hitting both rooks 00:26:06
so there's there's tactics in all
of these lines in the open sicilian 00:26:11
my opponent wrote me a message he said really come
on man i'm going to say i'm sorry it's for science 00:26:22
i mean listen i gotta teach you all about the
tactical tricks and in these sicilians right so 00:26:27
that's why you stuck around this long in the
video what are we at like 25 30 minutes now00:26:33
no rook rook takes b2 is a mean move
i'm not gonna lie i'm not gonna lie 00:26:36
it's a mean move but my opponent's a
very strong very game player he just 00:26:42
game saying someone's game is like such a random
adjective their game as opposed to what hobby 00:26:49
that's how i have to keep myself entertained
gotta keep on talking you know it's difficult 00:26:54
i gotta tell you it's tough to just keep talking
there's no one in this room right now it's just me 00:27:00
okay i gotta i gotta keep myself entertained and
all of you what do we do here i mean i suppose 00:27:06
we can push the pawn uh that that looks like a
good move seems like there is nothing inherently 00:27:12
wrong with just attacking the queen the queen of
course will slide over and target my only weakness 00:27:17
over here i can push this one too but you have
to be careful you have to balance your pushing 00:27:24
with maintaining good development because okay
well that's not good we don't want to queen trade 00:27:30
here if you're my opponent what i you know he
my opponent should have played queen e4 maybe 00:27:37
you know i'm not even gonna take no maybe i
will i should be i should set a good example 00:27:42
the issue is this so can i create the world's
greatest pawn chain can i can i play c3 and 00:27:49
e5 i'm gonna do it just for you watching at
home objectively speaking it's probably wrong 00:27:56
but it looks really cool oh my gosh he might
he has the easy i had to go here absolutely 00:28:01
had to play like this although now e5 bishop d5 is
mildly inconvenient i have to say so what we'll do 00:28:10
is i think we'll play rook d8 and just try to push
my pawn again just like last game using two upon 00:28:15
majority to create a pass pawn situation uh and
now maybe in this case actually i trade the rook 00:28:24
of course bishop and six versus bishop in
four pawns is winning for the person with 00:28:29
the six generally unless there are six pawns
in a row on one file which sounds insane rook 00:28:36
takes a3 now and if rook takes c4 we have backrank
checkmate which is insanely important having said 00:28:41
that if that wasn't a possibility we're still
doing good because of our outside pass pawn 00:28:47
my opponent said i almost hung back rank
i said you can do it i won't tell youtube 00:28:54
so now i'll push the pawn and
the rook is guarding the pawn00:29:00
except my opponent knows that i'm probably
narrating this entire game to all of you so 00:29:06
for science baby for science also i like that
he has the flare it's very nice very nice flair00:29:18
okay00:29:21
okay okay00:29:25
so we i mean a few things can happen here a few
things i'm gonna i'm gonna attack the bishop 00:29:30
and the next phase is going to be to bring my
king i've got to bring the king out of hiding 00:29:33
king f7 king of six uh and find a balanced way
and approach to push everything push my pawns 00:29:40
keep my root guarding everything uh not take
my own pieces bishop a6 offers a trade having 00:29:47
said that i would be losing my pawn so not the
easiest thing to do i also have a very cool trick 00:29:53
like maybe i can play like some c2 well now for
example this does force a trade but i'm gonna keep 00:30:00
bringing my king can i give a check like this
that doesn't do anything because the king just 00:30:06
comes forward so let me just push my pawn take a
little bit more central space maybe e4 and king e500:30:16
it's got to be some okay now i'm
going to play this because i like 00:30:19
i like activating my bishop
and now we will give a check 00:30:24
first if rook c2 we just take and the bishop
is not oh my opponent blunders because of this00:30:35
yeah and now i mean if that were not to happen
we would have taken the bishop and would have 00:30:39
taken the pawns i'm gonna go here i'm gonna go
here and the threat on the back rank is mate 00:30:46
kingy one's the only way not to get mated
or to give me a check that's also feasible00:30:58
and this is mate on the back rank i'm gonna say gg00:31:03
i'm gonna say gg that was an interesting one
but uh right here was kind of like the last 00:31:09
moment he traded off a few pieces and probably
he should have played bishop back to e5 uh that 00:31:15
would have been the one way to keep the position
going but still the opening was a decent success 00:31:20
and for our last game uh we are going to
play somebody who is not in live chat okay 00:31:27
i had to edit that part out because my opponent
didn't actually show up to play in time hope 00:31:31
that's okay with you my opponent plays c3 the
allopin there's a few ways to go about this 00:31:39
uh d5 is one to get an isolated
pawn structure let's go for this one 00:31:44
teach y'all how to play this my opponent
probably did a little bit of preparation00:31:50
or maybe not generally you got to prepare
one of these systems let's go knight f6 00:31:59
easy development bishop b2
is completely normal move 00:32:02
uh kind of resembles the scandinavian
knight c6 and bishop to g4 is good for me 00:32:06
not i mean not not like good like winning but
it's just it's a way to play the position uh 00:32:12
and uh you know e6 is strong taking on d4 is good
a lot of normal looking stuff here let's play e600:32:26
because i'm not really too worried
and my opponent just blundered because 00:32:29
i've got this right so i can take
that's it that's game over eight moves 00:32:38
bishop g5 and bishop f3 queen takes and
if this i take back and i'm up a piece00:32:46
the tricky sicilian gets you winning
positions and nine moves against um00:32:53
against some low rated players there
you go and here it's also important 00:32:58
actually not even lower rated players
intermediate players bishop takes e200:33:06
is what i would play here because if you
play g takes f6 they just take so you play 00:33:10
this and on queen e2 we take and life
is good play g takes f6 okay our parts 00:33:16
our pawn structure took a little bit of a
hit but such as such as life such is life00:33:33
rook to d1 i like this move that threatens
mate threatening checkmate definitely cannot 00:33:38
be a bad thing using these open files and my
opponent blunders checkmate oh my goodness00:33:47
that was a tragic ending to this video well i
will say this i will say this the sicilian defense 00:33:56
is not to be messed with we just saw a few
different ways that you can get very nice easy to 00:34:01
play positions whatever variation that they play
of course there were no close sicilians but that's 00:34:06
what you build up over the course of time hope
you enjoyed and uh apologies once again for uh 00:34:12
putting uh such a big picture of beth harmon
in the title but listen we gotta get these 00:34:15
clicks somehow don't we anyway let me know
if there's any other videos that you want me 00:34:20
to make an opening based on uh because i think
i've done a lot but i've definitely missed a few 00:34:26
in the comments below so do let me know post a
game that you play maybe the sicilian defense in 00:34:31
the comments i like to read those as well i'm sure
other people do and i'll see you in the next videoDescription:
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