Chess Lesson # 50: Queen’s Gambit | Chess Openings The Right Way

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It’s time to start playing the Queen’s gambit. This opening is one of the most popular ones it has been for many years -especially at the top level. My main goal is that once you finish this class, you have everything you need to start playing the queen’s gambit as the white pieces. I will explain what a gambit is. Then I will prove to you that it’s okay to sacrifice the pawn on c4. Many of my students won’t play this opening because they are paranoid about not being able to get the pawn back. That’s why I will show move by move how to get the pawn back or even more than that in some cases. Likewise, you will learn the plans you need to follow in case they decline the gambit. Finally, I will show you a couple games played by professional Chess players.

00:00 Intro
02:10 What is a gambit in Chess?
05:30 The Queen’s gambit accepted
07:17 The Queen’s gambit declined
09:32 First master game (with the queen’s gambit accepted)
14:45 Second master game (with the queen’s gambit declined)

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We finally have a strong and well organized opening course for White and one for Black. With these and the FREE beginner to master level playlist from this YouTube channel, it’s all about consistency over an extended period of time 😎💪 ⬇

[mikhailvarkovsky]

I think nobody compliments your thumbnails (miniaturas) enough. The azure color is nice and friendly; also sometimes you add a very subtle touch of humor in them, like the David statue covered with jeans or the isolated pawn thinking "Fellas...?" I loved those. These kind of things are funny in a sense they elicit a smile without turning the videos into a youtube channel full of memes, although everytime you say "endgame" in your tutorials I'm hoping you add a Thanos face for like half a second for a comedic effect, lol. I've learned a lot of the Pirc defense, more than I could possibly have imagined in my wildest dreams. Thanks bro. Saludos desde Argentina, camarada

[jarrettpeterson]

You are my favorite chess youtuber by far. I recommend your channel to everyone i meet who is learning chess or even for the better players. Your 100+ playlist would easily fetch several hundred dollars on masterclass or something similar and you have it here for free. Really appreciate all you do.

[sushantkulkarni]

Your playlist is gold, bro. Thank you for these instructive videos!

[ramkumarr]

I have never played a gambit in 3 decades of my amateur chess. I will try this gambit some time. I rightly guessed the puzzle.

[rolandoorro]

You are a very good teacher, master. We hope to still hear from you though you'll become grand master someday.
Wishing you good luck, sir.

[desmundreid]

This is a great video! The Queens Gambit is by far my favorite Opening with White and it is helping me climb up the Lower Ranks. Thank you very much! Definitely learned some great tactics.

[talesthatresonates]

i came to know about queen's gambit from the Netflix series now finally learning it.

[andrewmays]

Beautiful !!!! You have an incredible mind and powerful gift of teaching. THANK YOU 😇

[mychessnotebook]

Thanks for another great video! I just finished watching the first 50 videos in order and learned a lot. Thank you so much. Also, at the end, after Bh7+, I like the variation where Black goes Kh8. Then White takes the rook with his knight protecting the bishop, and if Black takes the queen then Nxf7 is checkmate! I'm going to continue watching all the videos in order and doing all the practicing you suggest. I hope to catch up to your current videos soon.

[bggines_]

I am an avid qg player but this is my first time to see this kind of attack! So cool🥰!

[mehdila]

i love how much time we have if we use it (tempi) the position that we have, full control of the center, we can attack before the openent can organize his pieces ifi we use this opening in the right way i love it !!!! we have many possiblity, and i have many ideas now for attacking etc etc ... strategics idea, i love strategy and positionel heheh

[aryanbansal]

just reading the title i thought you were gonna straight up sacrifice ur queen😂😂
i was so so curious to know how it was gonna proceed but then i saw that it was a pawn lol

[sebastianknop]

A great vid which lets me start playing the gambit!

[AH-gkqs]

Brilliant video. I play the QG and do pretty well for someone with my rating, but I only know a few lines. This has given some new possibilities. Really enjoyed the games too. Would be great if you could do a couple of follow up videos some time.

[pietervangompel]

That last check is beautiful, thanks for the video (it's entertaining but I also learn a lot from it)!

[hasannasr]

I love your lessons so much! Keep up the good work.
I will tell all my friends about your channel 😊

[sleepyx]

At 16:41take back with the knight is fatal because after Nxc3 a peiece will drop because the bishop is undefended.

[psychojustin]

Completed watching the First 50 videos in learnt a lot .. Thank You So much Coach....

[exuviumisopods]

Thank you, I am playing the Queen's Pawn opening, but this one seems better.

I haven't yet reached to you later videos, so perhaps you have already done what I am going to propose: the weaknesses of each opening, or at least of the most played openings would be great.