Brutally PUNISH Scholar's Mate & Early Queen Attacks

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Some tricksters will try to humiliate you with the Scholar’s Checkmate.
While any good chess player is aware of the Scholar’s Mate and know how to defend against it when their opponent tries to trick them, it is important to punish that lame trick.

And that is exactly what you’ll learn in today’s lesson. GM Igor Smirnov will show you how to punish Scholar’s Mate and early queen attacks from your opponent.

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00:00 Scholar's Mate & Early Queen Attacks
01:53 Even top GMs try this (Carlsen, Naka, etc.)
02:21 Punish Scholar's Mate & Early Queen Attacks
03:05 First little nuance to know
04:20 General strategic rule: Attack in the center
06:36 Trapping the White Queen
07:15 BEWARE of this trick!
09:05 Winning position for Black
10:53 Computer's brutal move
11:39 Countering White's correct response
13:55 Trapping White's active knight
14:54 Puzzle: Ding Liren vs Jorden van Foreest

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[is]

I've noted that most people who try the scholar's mate rarely know what to do if you know how to counter it. It's really annoying when you just want to play a good game of chess.
I remember one particular game where the opponent wasted his entire opening by continuing to run away with his queen, while I simply kept attacking the queen while developing my pieces. All in all, one of the most satisfying wins I had.

[BobChess]

Me on the way to crush my scholar mate friend

[KocaMetallec]

I swear this is the best channel on entire YouTube for beginners
Not Eric Rosen, not Nakamura, not Gotham Chess, not Chess Brah etc..
I don't know much about this GM but watching just a few videos of him instructing is a no brainer that this is THE BEST beginners teacher out there
Well done sir!

[Kagpaw]

I really appreciate you and your channel. So many people explain things in a way where they assume you know something that is obvious to them, but not to a beginner or intermediate player. Your explanations are so concise and easy to follow. Thank you and God bless!

[GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters

00:00 Scholar's Mate & Early Queen Attacks
01:53 Even top GMs try this (Carlsen, Naka, etc.)
02:21 Punish Scholar's Mate & Early Queen Attacks
03:05 First little nuance to know
04:20 General strategic rule: Attack in the center
06:36 Trapping the White Queen
07:15 BEWARE of this trick!
09:05 Winning position for Black
10:53 Computer's brutal move
11:39 Countering White's correct response
13:55 Trapping White's active knight
14:54 Puzzle: Ding Liren vs Jorden van Foreest

[Costavka]

11:28 The queen really said "Oh I can't take this rook? Welp, imma take the other one"

[jimkyle]

In the puzzle at the end, White plays 1. Ne5 threatening to capture twice with his knights on f7 and thus checkmate the Black King. If Black defends with 1... Rf8 then White plays 2. Rc8 threatening 3. Rxf8 mate and if Black plays either 2....Rxc8 or Bxc8 then Black once again captures twice on f7 with his knights with checkmate.

[SGever]

This is exactly the kind of info I need, even if the next 10 times this happens will probably be me forgetting the sequence and having to rewatch the video!

[sohamnandi]

I think Nd6 or Ne5 will work, if Nd6, Rxd6 cannot be played because of Rg8 checkmate. So a possible continuation can be Nd6 Rf8 (f7 is threatened twice) Rc8 and here I can't see a defense for Black because one of the defenders of f7, either the rook or the bishop must capture the rook on c8 to stop Rxf8 checkmate. Here we can capture f7 by the knights and deliver checkmate. Also, instead of playing Rc8 we can first capture f7 (this works because eventually the rook has to come to f7 leaving the back rank completely unprotected so we can follow up with Rc8)
I also think Ne5 works for the same ideas.

[ojplugrsa]

Regarding the last puzzle, not really sure about my answer but it looks like it works. it goes as follows:
1. Ne5 Bxc5
2. Nxf7+(either of your nights does the trick) Bxf7
3. Nf7#
Or if black tries to block this by playing Rd7 or Rf8 you simply play Rc8!! he/she has no choice but to capture your rook, if that happens you apply the same night moves. Remember Ne5 should be the first move.

[jpc]

I just love watching these. So clearly explained and it gives me such a good arsenal of defense against standard openings. Great content, best I have seen.

[michaelrobinson]

With the puzzle, it seems to me that dislodging the Black Bishop from the a2-g8 diagonal is key so I'd try this

1. R e5 (threatening the Bishop on e6 with the aim of following up by taking the Bishop then taking the undefended pawn on the next move for checkmate), any move loses Black the crucial Bishop but I can't predict what move Black would choose.

If the Bishop takes the Knight then it would go like this

1. R e5, B x c4
2. b x c4, R f8 (since Black needs to protect against N x f7 #)
3. R e8, B c5
4. R x f8 +, B x f8
5. N x f7 #.

If Black moves Bishop to d5

1. R e5, B d5
2. R x d5, R f8
3. R d8, B c5
4. R x f8 +, B x f8
5. N x f7 #

if the Bishop doesn't move

1. R e5, R f8 (anticipating that I'd take the Bishop and follow up with N x f7 #)
2. R x e6, f x e6
3. N d6, ...

By this point 4. N f7 +, R x f7. 5. N x f7 # is inevitable.

Although given my track record at Chess Puzzles, there is probably some important thing I've overlooked which derails everything.

With regards to Early Queen attacks, I keep getting frustrated by the following

1. e4, e5
2. Q h5, N c6
3. B c4, g6
4. Q f3, N f6
5. Q b3 (making another double attack on the f7 pawn which I don't know how to refute)

[phidybee]

Have to thank you for sharing the O'Sullivan's gbit video, so I opted to try it out against d4 which is essentially a polish defence transposition, don't like it against e4 because if white plays 2 C4 instead of 2 d4 it simply no longer works, but I'm really enjoying it against d4, so many sharp lines nd traps & what's interesting is I've had a 75%win rate with it against players of roughly my rating and I'm still nothing like proficient in it, but we"re getting there, thanks again 👍👍

[Bigboibeven]

Even if no one tries the scholars mate, I really like the positioning of the knight and bishop that opens up the diagonal on whites rook. I'm a big fan of revealed attacks, and that one is just a beauty

[jambangpisang]

1. Ne5 Rf8
2. Nexf7+ Bxf7
3. Nxf7+ Rxf7
4. Rc8+ Rf8
5. Rxf8# 1-0 {ding dong checkmate}

[judemoralesU]

I have favorite channels for different reasons. Igor is one of my favorites for instructional. Thanks Igor, backing up those bishops has helped me a lot!

[Barbutt]

Quickly becoming a big fan! Rekindled my in depth study of openings I often use and never knew I was using!

[chandankumar-ircz]

Nice video Igor as usual 😊 but generally once black has castled then White will start his pawn storm by h4/h5 to open black' position which is worth analysing . Hope to see that if you cover in future🙏

[czarlguitarl]

N to D6 is a bold move that sets a nasty trap, if black recaptures that knight then it's Rook G8 checkmate. Since black can't capture that knight, it must cover the F8 square but it seems too little too late. White moves rook to C7, and I believe it's over for black as whatever black does white responds N-F7.

[alainzanchetta]

1. Ne5 Rf8 2. Nxf7 Bxf7 3. Nxf7 Rxf7 4. Rc8 Rf8 5.Rc8# ?