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0:00 it's not easy to surprise your opponent right on the third move but that's exactly what you do with this chest opening called the Via Gambit and today we're going to have a quick crash course onto this opening which is really aggressive and Universal I'm Grandmaster Igor smov and I'll show you everything that you need to know to play it yourself or to face it while playing black and the very first thing that I love about the Vienna Gambit is that in this position the most commonly played move by black PA takes A4 is already quite a major mistake it allows you to push your central point forward chase away their Knight and at this point your Pawn will realize that the S has no convenient squares to go to it can't go to the central squares because your knight took them away similarly it can't go into this direction because your queen controls those squares of course
0:45 they might Retreat the Knight back to G8 but in this case you may as well suggest them to try it again next time so that is of course a very sad alternative we'll talk about this in a second but for now let's talk about this move Queen to E7 where they're trying to play this trick pin your pawn and attack it and they're trying to avoid this undesirable Retreat back to its original Square so what do you do that well you play Queen E2 a symmetric move which guards the pawn and also unpin the pawn therefore it still pushes black to do this thing Knight to G8 that is really sad not only because they had to horse around with this Knight but on the next turn they realize that they still cannot develop this Knight normally and therefore they cannot complete development of their their King side so what do they do
1:32 usually they will at some point play this move Pawn to D6 trying to trade off this annoying pawn and that would be a losing blunder if they don't play D6 straight away but they play something else then you just play D4 the move which you're going to play and you grab the center you're getting ready to get back this spawn on F4 laugh is good again your OPP is stuck they need to complete their development so at some point they're highly likely to still play this move Pawn D6 and as soon as they do this you have a winning trick you've got Knight to D5 double attack you're hitting the queen as well as this Pawn on C7 and this threat is pretty strong because it would also Fork the king and Rook therefore the queen needs to move in such a way where it would guard this Pawn on C7 somehow so they're going to move it to d8 or D7 somewhere but it doesn't really matter at all cuz
2:18 in both cases we're going to sack the Knight anyway and on the next move follow up with another totally unexpected double attack and you win by the way if you watched my past videos about the rules of Gambit for black you can easily notice the similarities cuz the Trap is basically the same and the Vienna Gambit is kind of like the Russo Gambit with reversed colors which is great for you because you can basically play the same opening both as white and black back to the main line as we already know taking this Pawn on F4 is actually wrong as that allows you to push your Central Pawn forward and drive their Knight away those tricks with Queen to E7 is not going to be helpful for black as we have seen therefore they have nothing better but to move the Knight back to where it started now you play Knight to f have three just developing your night plus it also fulfills an additional useful function
3:05 it covers this H4 Square just in case so that your poron can never jump there and check your king which in some variations might be unpleasant so here goes something like Pawn D6 offering the trade of Pawns of course we're not going to trade ourselves this would only help them to develop their Bishop therefore you continue with your plan D4 you grab the center you're getting ready to get back this Pawn on F4 and to develop your Bishop simultaneously if you can do this basically it means that you're opening worked out and you dominate in the center you have greater space greater development everything is just Superior so your opponent will probably take her on E5 it's probably the best thing they can do and now there is a slight challenge for you now taking on E5 is not really good because it allows them to trade off queens and it's not the end of the world but it's not what you want because you want to attack to Checkmate
3:50 them and to be the next m t so what do you do here I recommend that you go Bishop C4 just go for the quick development and for that crushing attack now a little caveat if you are ahead above like 1,800 I'd say stockfish recommends Bishop B5 intermediate check first go into that direction but for those who are below 18800 let's keep it simple just go Bishop C4 straight away that is just the easiest approach so your idea is to just prioritize quick development and to attack him so you don't worry about little pawns you want to go ahead and crush him so as he takes here on D4 you still don't worry about them you bring the bishop out Bishop takes A4 and now if your oppon captures this KN on C3 because so so far it looks like you're playing give up chess now you shock down with Bishop takes F7 and you win a brilliant miniature so what's
4:37 the trick they can't take this bishop because that will leave the queen on d8 undefended you'd grab it and also keep your attack going therefore King to E7 looks like a better option maintaining this defense but now you still don't care about material you just go after the king you play Queen E2 check forc it to capture the bishop and now you just continue attacking with this Knight check and now black has a very unpleasant choice if the king moves anywhere along the E file that would fail to this discover check and attack of their Queen and again you grab the queen and then you keep attacking because their King is still exposed so that's not really an option the only alternative for them to not go to this file and not to go to this Square because it's controlled by your knight
5:23 would be playing King F6 it looks of course really weird to just march with the King forward while the rest of the for me is still undeveloped but it's not that easy for white to finish the game so you got to know the trick and the trick is you sacrifice the other Bishop Bishop G5 really cool that is a skure they have to take it but now Knight to F7 is the strongest Fork you can ever come up with and after the king moves you can then grab something and keep attacking if the King goes here to F6 you could take the queen but it's even stronger to Castle which is in in this this case actually an attacking move it is checking Black's King and after that covers you can not shy away from sacrificing some more material to open up the king completely you're playing in
6:10 style of morphe or tall and finish the game in style interestingly enough if your opponent tries defending this Pawn on E5 by their Knight this may lead to quite similar variations this move is also wrong because after the trade on E5 and then you keep pushing your central pawns forward they're faced with the very same challenge you still attack their KN on F6 and it still has no convenient squares to go to because you control all the squares in front of his Knight therefore they'll have to drop it back to G8 wasting some time for that back and forth movement then you still play Knight to F3 everything very similar to the previous variation at some point they'll wish to play D6 to undermine your Central Pawn hoping to enable this development in the future but you don't care you just develop quickly and you attack them you go Bishop C4 give it up this pawn and then
6:56 give up the other one as well after they capture it you go Knight G5 you team up against their Pawn on F7 and they're done they cannot def defend this Pawn anyway so if they take the Knight or do anything else Bishop takes F7 starts this attack the king needs to move and now you just keep checking it all the way till this really elegant and cozy Checkmate in this position the only move that keeps black in the game is a counterintuitive idea black shouldn't take her Pawn on F4 they shouldn't defend their Pawn on E5 instead they need to counter strike in the center with Pawn to D5 now now luckily for us only a minority of players are aware of this and when I check the database the average rating of those folks were around 1900 so if you're below that you will rarely see this counter striking
7:41 move Pawn D5 and anyway it only leads to an equal position so it's not the end of the world after this you will take on E5 they'll recapture on e4 now they have the strong Knight on e4 and you do not want to take it straight away because if you do that they'll basically do the same thing to you now they have this annoying Pawn that your knight from being developed you do not want that so instead you still wish to fight this Knight and the move which I would recommend is the move Queen to F3 just putting more pressure to this Knight and try to force black to make an exchange on your terms because if they now take it you can recapture by this Pawn which also helps you to overprotect your Center for example if they play Knight C6 a very tempting natural move developing a knight attacking the
8:26 Central Pawn this is a quite a big positional because now you can solidify our center now it's really strong and you totally control the game it's hard to believe this but this is actually a strategically winning position for a right because if you think about different positional factors then you have more space thanks to this Pawn you control the center you've got two semiopen files for your Rooks you've got these two nice diagonals for your Bishops and you've got a clear plan for the middle game attack somewhere there on the king side you can also bring your knight into the attack Etc so it's clearly positionally winning for white by the way if you wish to dive deeper into positional chess I've got a free Master Class where I explain all these things in Greater details you can check it out by clicking the link below the video If you will and the only thing
9:14 that I wish to add here is if they try to play Pawn F6 to undermine your Center do not take it that would be really bad that would only help them to activate their pieces so instead just play Queen H5 and go for the kill now there's no way for them to save their King if they go G6 for example you can just go ahead and Sack the bishop open up the king completely and on the next turn you have way too many threats for them to handle really like so much for example if they try Rook G8 to push away your queen that only leads to an Instant Checkmate so what is the correct way for black if your opponent is well prepared and checked it up front with stockfish they're likely to play 9 to C6 the main line played by GMS where they don't take on C3 themselves but they uh batt on
10:00 this Counterattack in the middle of the board and then you need to stop this thread by play and Bishop to B5 pining this Knight now this Knight takes E4 threat is real therefore they're probably going to trade on C3 anyways and at this point black still needs to be careful because you're still putting up some pressure it's nothing too serious but nevertheless this Knight is pinned this queen is quite active putting pressure down these diagonals and if your opponent just plays some trival moves you know such as this thing you may play Bishop F4 Castle Queen side put the Rook to this open file semi open file I should say and start attacking them and it also becomes quite annoying for black that is why in this point it's important for them to know this forceing maneuver which equalizes the game it's Queen H4 check which doesn't seem to make sense at first because you can
10:45 easily cover but then they swing the queen to E4 trade off queens and neutralize your attack that way so objectively speaking at this point you got to trade queens and go for this equal end game and that would be okay because normally chess is an equal game if both sides play correct moves but if you want to spice it up there is also one more opportunity for you to try it out to play in the Gambit style you can play Bishop E3 and Gambit this Pawn on C2 and if black accepts this Pawn that you play Knight E2 you still prioritize quick development and although at this point it looks like you messed up because after Queen takes B2 not only you're down two pawns but he keeps attacking you but then you've got a really great move casting kingside now usually it's a standard move but in this
11:31 particular case it creates this devastating attack along f file and it sacrifices the bush Pawn B5 that's why I'm saying that is a great move and at this point black is already gone there is no way for them to defend you're having this pressure along the f file plus this bishop is putting pressure if they somehow guard this Pawn on F7 you're going to play Knight D4 and add more attack and there's no way for them to solidify everything if let's say they just decide to grab even more material then you take this point Pawn King goes and now still a little bit tricky you'd wish to play Bishop G5 but they can just cover so the better way is to play Knight D4 first this is a double attack this which distracts the final defender of the black king this knight from C6 and once it traded off you're not going to recapture you're going to play Bishop
12:17 G5 check and mate as we have just seen main lines used by PRS are very complicated and therefore a lot of am players prefer to Simply play Pawn D6 just to guard their Central Pawn and avoid all this complex Theory however it is a timid move that does not challenge you at all and just allows you to double down on your attack and basically it means that your Gambit worked out now you attack this Pawn on E5 for the second time in a row at this point actually it's better for them to take here on F4 because there is no Central push E5 driving away the Knight which used to be a problem but nevertheless you can have the other Cal solution just push this Central Pawn forward grab the center and get back this Pawn on the next turn with a far superior position you grabb the center you have better development better space Etc if they try
13:04 to hold on to this extra Pawn that leads to a famous nightmare variation we start off with this Knight to to D5 move attacking the pawn for the second time the only way for down to guard it would be to move Pawn to G5 which at first looks quite good for black but don't forget that's a nightmare of variation so we sack the KN right here he's clueless he captures it and there is no way back anyways and now you sack the queen and all of a sudden on the next turn this is this highly unusual Fork which forces the king to move and then you get your queen back plus you're going to win his Pawn on the next turn and their position is destroyed all right so far we've been talking about black playing Knight to F6 but how about the other Knight of course they could play Knight to C6 just symmetrically and in this case I'd say that you're at the
13:50 Crossroad I have other videos where I explained how to play The Bishop's opening so if you want to take it nice and slow you can go Bishop C4 and then Pawn D3 and then Pawn F4 and just build up your attack gradually it's a really great way for white I'll drop a link below the video in the description if you wish to check it out or if you want to be like the most aggressive then you can go for this the Vienna Gambit once again with Pawn to F4 now you attack them in the center again as we know the only principal way for them would be to accept the pawn sacrifice now you don't have the central push which you used to have with their Knight on F6 now you don't have that option but there is also another move which is very interesting it was used by Carlson and it's to move Pawn to D4 now at first it may seem like just a standard move you grab the center
14:36 you want to get back here sacrifice Pawn on F4 with a good game it's all good and it's a standup move but there is a caveat at first it looks like what blundered to move Queen H4 check but of course when Carlson plays it you know it's not a blunder so he played King E2 and he was playing it against nisi so what's the point of keeping the King on E2 is it the Bon Cloud not really he wants to play KN of three three kick away this queen and after this the king can slide back to F2 and white actually has a great position therefore black needs to rush so black played D6 preparing for the bishop attack and white still played Knight F3 hitting the queen black is now willing to back down he goes Bishop G4 pitting the Knight but now white can snatch this Pawn on F4 and ironically even though the king looks
15:23 Awkward on E2 but overall White's position is actually pretty solid he wants to just play G3 off this queen Play Bishop G2 and then bring the king back to F2 with an absolutely normal standard position in fact he'd be completely dominant again there is one thing that white needs to take into account like could take on F3 which he did which also opens up this discovered attack of the bishop and if white doesn't want to drop the bishop on F4 they have to play this bold move King takes F3 looks weird at first it's like Bon Cloud Gambit improved and white was supposed to have a knight there not a king but again it's not easy for black to attack it so black played Knight F6 and now G3 part of White's plan hitting the queen and after this check it turned
16:09 out that this was the beginning and the end of Black's attack the king successfully rerooted back to G2 basically white castled even though or officially now these Queens are opposite to each other and after the trade of Queens it turned out that white successfully fooled black now he's got all the standard advantages of the vi Gambit when it worked out perfectly well White's got the strong Center two Bishops more space and white is attacking that castled white played Bishop C4 hitting this Pawn on F7 also E5 is coming and black realized that he's going down he tried this counter trick with a temporary sacrifice and Fork but white countered this Fork by his counter Fork he played Knight G5 and although black could get the bishop back Knight takes F7 delivered a counter fork
16:57 and black resigned but luckily for us most of your opponents will even miss the opportunity and in this position after Pawn takes and pawn D4 when you grab the center and are getting ready to get the pawn back most of your opponents will not even notice that there is this queen H4 track opportunity because the most played move is Bishop B4 like just tries to complete their development but it doesn't do much now after Bishop takes F4 you're totally solid and moreover they usually continue with one more mistake Bishop takes C3 Bishop in general is a little bit stronger than a knight so there should be no such trade for no reason so it's good for you and after this the only little note that I would like to suggest basically it's very easy to play it with white you control the center you control everything have more space you control all the lines and diagonals the only little notice in this position it is better to develop this Knight not to F3
17:43 but to E2 just to keep the E file the the f file open for your Rook as you're going to Castle there so let's say both sides castle and now your Rook is actually doing a good job along this file and is supporting your attack and that's why we do not want the Knight to stand there and block the rook and now it's very easy easy for black to lose the game because if they play any trival move such as this one then Bishop G5 basically wins the game on the spot so you pin the Knight you're going to capture it your Rook is doing a great job adding pressure so after any move of black you're going to capture it because of your Rook they cannot recapture with a queen that will lose it so they'll have to open up their King and create a bunch of weaknesses now you can just attack them let's say queen D2 hits the pawn and now you're winning the game easily in whatever way you wish you can
18:28 bring the Knight some more forward kick the Bop out you can stack Rooks on the f file you can attack any how you want it's easily winning moreover if they wish to defend this Pawn by the king they'll miss this sniper shot and you win if you wish to level up your chest overall check out this free master class over there and if you wish to check out my video about The Bishop's opening because The Bishop's opening and the vi Gambit complement each other really well check out this video right here
