The BEST Beginner Chess Opening
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0:00 Intro
1:20 The Moves
9:52 Game 1
16:15 Game 2
Moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 (3… Bc5 4. d4 exd4 5. cxd4 Bb4+ 6. Nc3) (3… d5 4. Qa4 dxe4 (4… Bd7 5. exd5 Nd4 6. Qd1 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3) (4… f6 5. Bb5 Ne7 6. exd5 Qxd5 7. d4) 5. Nxe5 Bd7 6. Nxd7 Qxd7 7. Qxe4+) 4. d4 exd4 (4… Nxe4 5. d5 Ne7 6. Nxe5 d6 7. Bb5+ c6 8. dxc6 bxc6 (8… Qb6 9. cxb7+ Kd8 10. Nxf7+ Kc7 11. bxa8=N+) 9. Nxc6 Nxc6 10. Bxc6+ Bd7 11. Bxe4) 5. e5 Nd5 (5… Qe7 6. cxd4 d6 7. Bb5) 6. Qb3 Nb6 7. cxd4
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Why do you always change the title?
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Thanks for all the content, always entertaining and enjoyable to watch and learn.
Could you make a similar video but for if you play King's pawn and they play Queens pawn as that is what I face most often.
thanks for this video im literally shredding right now
Hey Levi and comments, I know I have to trade when I'm winning martials but what do I do when I am winning positionally? I'm having trouble punishing opponents' bad positions due to their openings. It would be great if I can get some help.
Why did the title change lol
After watching this video, Magnus Carlsen has now peaked at 3382, as predicted by the thumbnail.
I think a little mention of the Vukovic gambit would have been good its by far the sharpest line in chess and a bit of coverage might have been nice but it may be in a course you have so im not sure
Now every 400 – 900 will play this gg levy
I feel smart after this video, because I somehow play this opening already. One day I was like, what if I do this… lol
What about the Ponziani Countergambit? What should white play against that?
Only legends know that the video was called, "how to get 500 elo" or something similar
bro why does he change his video titles always
This won me a game already, opp played main line till move 4. Thanks
TF IS GOING ON I WAS JUST TRYING TO LOOK AT THIS OPENING AND I RANDOMLY OPENED YOUTUBE FOR MUSIC AND SAW THIS VIDEO
I played it until 1400, it was very good to get a large center
Delete the video please, i don’t want them to know
Today1700 play this opening i crushed the white pieces
bro, i suck at chess and tried this. i beat someone about 50 points higher ranked, and i was blundering all over the place.
Now I know what I have to counter for the next week and learn the theory to destroy people that trust in that, thanks levy
Can I send someone a game and tell me where I could've done better?
Bro thinks he can teach us something
god damn it this is the opening i was just studying
Nah this bout to me dangerous to me if i try it.
I literally play the ponziani all the time, so thanks for letting people know how to defend it :/
Already played this before seeing this video
Did the title just changed before my very eyes?
solid opening thanks ! I'll definitely add it to my repertoire.
Thanks Levi! Now I only hang 2 queens instead of 5.
broooo all i play is the ponziani now everyone is gonna know it
And just yesterday I finished my opening study for the Ponziani after five years of playing only d4.
Yeah imma just stick with the Vienna and the Caro-kann
5:30 levi asking me if im not glad clicking on this video, I am glad I did actually, thanks.
I just played like 4 or 5 games of rapid and tried to play the panzioni (or however you spell the name lol) and my opponents never played e5 against e4. I played against 1 scacilian, 2 Scandinavians, and either something else or I was playing black the rest of the time. I don't remember lol
I must hurry before everyone watches thos
5:30 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
3:54
The first ever cut in a Gotham video I have seen.
This is hilarious, because love this opening, and I love the fact that so few people know about this, and as soon as you said easy and tricky opening I thought waaait… it's not gonna be ponziani and it actually was.
Finally a ponziani opening from gotham! I was waiting for it 🤓
4:28 im stupid why can't you block with the bishop
Edit: Nvm they would lose the queen
I literally clicked on this thinking it's ponziani and I actually got it right💀
Better change the title back to how to gain 500 elo Levy..
The worst has happened – Gotham just made a video on one of my favorite openings, and now nobody is going to fall for any of the traps 😂.
3:55 bless you
My favorite opening is since I’m such a low elo I get these stupid scholar mate attempts where I just immediately am up a queen and maybe a bishop or knight. It’s so dumb
I always played f5 as my third move against this opening and it's not even mentioned. Games where I mindlessly play Nf6 by mistake always go poorly.
I have a funny game where I accidentally played Nf6 then followed it up by Ng8 (wasting 2 moves) and then f5. I somehow got a winning position after that.
missed a bishop sacrifice followed by knight fork of queen with check
It’s funny how this guy tries to teach chess but isn’t even a grandmaster, please humble yourself sir
ok listen all you need is to watch all the guest the elo and you good until a 1000