Every Chess Opening Explained in 12 Minutes

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0:00 Queen's Gambit
0:23 King's Gambit
0:39 Italian
0:56 Caro Kann
1:17 Spanish
1:35 Sicilian
1:57 London
2:21 Blackmar-Diemer
2:36 Danish
2:59 Scandinavian
3:19 Modern
3:35 Smith-Morra
3:48 Benoni
4:03 Grob
4:14 English
4:28 Benko Gambit
4:46 Evan's Gambit
5:05 Dutch
5:25 Bird's Opening
5:40 Englund Gambit
5:53 French
6:11 Elephant Gambit
6:34 King's Indian
6:55 Ponziani
7:11 Alekhine's Defense
7:27 Latvian Gambit
7:43 Philidor
7:58 Scotch
8:11 Queen's Gambit Declined
8:26 Nimzo-Indian
8:38 Polish
8:56 Vienna
9:10 Stafford
9:29 Dragon
9:45 Barnes
10:00 Pirc
10:13 Nimzo-Larsen
10:28 Indian Game
10:43 Russian
10:56 Slav
11:10 Reti
11:24 Najdorf
11:43 Blackburne-Shilling

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[exranz]

damn i was waiting for the intercontinental ballistic missile

[Very-Cute-Cat]

"The sicilian is the most exhaustively studied opening"

The Grünfeld defense: 😬😬😬

[lollollol]

Missing some serious mainstream openings seen a fair bit at the very highest level (and various other levels). The Grünfeld Defence, the Catalan Opening, the Marshall Attack, and the Bongcloud, to name three.


Ok, three and _a half_

[strminecraft]

Why is the Nimzo-Indian’s picture a minecraft pig 😂

[vharmi.]

Hmm, I do wonder who that silhouette is for the Stafford gambit...

[ferdinandionita]

The dedication you have is incredible. Great vid as always

[Gon]

As a beginner, I can say that this video opened my horizon of possibilities to keep in mind, excellent content, part 2 please !

[edoggo]

That is not the modern, that just transposes to the pirc. An actual modern defense generally follows the tiger’s modern which is g6 bg7 d6 *a6* preparing b5 nd7 bb7 c5

[sc]

He forgot the North Korea gambit, the gambit where you can only use half of the chessboard and can’t cross the border😂

[auxuriousz]

Didnt even mention tennisson gambit: ICBM variation, fell of fr

[dyw__]

Bro did the pirc dirty smh i love that defense

[CPSingh-bddi]

10:12 as someone who has won almost 80% of his matches in Pirc defence I’m offended 😂😭

[Yogiclef]

Your video helps many. Clearly people here know bunch different openings but still this video is supplementing to thousands.
Please make more content similar to this.

[musicaspiringto]

I love that the Stafford Gambit picture was a silhouette of Eric Rosen. Very subtle

[nikolayselivanov]

No Bongcloud Attack? The strongest opening in the world.

[vlr]

Nice speedrun idea is to play every opening to explain each idea behind it

[justchessjustcheck]

05:33 2.g4 is an amazing move for White, absolutely no drawbacks whatsoever!
All beginners should play this move!

[swatijain]

all the openings are:
queens gambit
kings gambit
italian game
caro-kann defense
ruy lópez opening (also known as spanish)
sicilian defense
london system
queens pawn opening: blackmar gambit
danish gambit
scandinavian defense
modern defense with 1.d4
sicilian defense: smith morra gambit
benoni defense: modern variation
grob opening
english opening
benko gambit
giuoco piano game: evans gambit
dutch defense
bird's opening
englund gambit
french defense
kings pawn opening: kings knight, elephant gambit
kings indian defense
ponziani opening
alekhine's defense
kings pawn opening: latvian gambit
philidor defense
scotch game
queens gambit declined
nimzo-indian defense
polish opening
vienna game
petrov's defense: classical, stafford gambit
sicilian defense: open, dragon variation
barnes opening
pirc defense
nimzowitsch-larsen attack
indian game
petrov's defense
slav defense
réti opening
sicilian defense: open, najdorf variation
indian game: blackburne shilling gambit

[dankness]

This was a cool video, but I’m not sure how to feel on it, on one hand, it’s amazing you managed to sum up most chess openings so quickly, but on the other hand, you decided to cover variations, like in the Sicillian, you mentioned the Sicillian, then you mentioned the smith-morra, then you mentioned the dragon and the najdorf, a similar thing happened with the queens gambit, you mentioned it, then went over the Slav and QGD independently, and if you had done that for all openings and all variations, we would’ve been here until the heat death of the universe, and that’s just the Sicillian variations, great video overall though

[unholyXromance]

didn't go over the bong cloud, or the cow