BEGINNER GUIDE TO THE ITALIAN GAME

Hello everyone! This is a no-nonsense guide to playing the Italian Game, designed to show a beginner everything they need to know to start playing.

PGN:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 (2... Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 (3... exd4 4. e5 Nd5 5. Qxd4 Nb6 6.
Nc3) 4. Nxe5 d5 5. Bd3 c6 6. O-O) (2... d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6.
Bc4 O-O 7. O-O) 3. Bc4 Bc5 (3... Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 (4... a6 5. Nxf7) 5. exd5 Nxd5
(5... Na5 6. d3 Nxc4 7. dxc4) 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 (7... Ke8 8. Bxd5 Nd4 9.
Qf7#) 8. Nc3 Nb4 9. O-O) (3... h6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Nxd4 6. Qxd4 d6 7. O-O) 4.
c3 Nf6 (4... d6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Nc3) 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2
Nxe4 (7... Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 O-O 9. O-O) 8. Bxb4 Nxb4 9. Bxf7+ Kxf7 10. Qb3+ d5 11.
Qxb4 *

0:00 Intro
0:34 Philidor Defense
1:09 Russian Game
2:09 Italian Game
2:36 Giuoco Piano
4:27 Two Knights Defense
6:23 Other Variations

[hamzaabdalla]

Very short, yet simple and easy-to-understand. You explained twice as much in 3x less time than the way GMs explain it.

[dundun]

You are the only person who talks about sidelines. Thank you

[jacobdrollinger]

Great guide to the Italian game ! Incredibly thorough and easy to understand. Thank you !

[Huislife-sg]

Thank you, this is a great video that I would recommend to many people. I have learnt quite a lot of things about the Italian, which I have always played before.

[aamzteraam]

Best video on the italian. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much

[philliprichards]

My absolute favorite explanation of the Italian. Thank you

[aditiballal]

Love the easy to understand opening vids! Wish youd upload more often. Expecting the same with the Najdorf Sicilian! ❤ from India

[Proutt]

Thanks for this, good to see more beginner content

[louaymasbah]

5:47 someone might think that noone will play like but I have faced this knight move and won by checkmate and that i believe was my second 100% accuracy match

[rileythomps]

love this man! i play the italian game every time lol ❤

[TweetyFam]

Have been waiting for so long - when is the Najdorf sicilian coming :(

[anthonya]

Just learning this opening.
What do you do, when they moved their pawn to e5, then move their other pawn to d5??

[munnagupta]

I am learning about this openings but I am confused that do we need to remember these all😅 because it's very very hard for
Me now for its like using your brain but if yes what is the moto of the opening

[cjz_]

can you do the Spanish and evans gambit? :D

[SFTQ]

ok evertime i play my bishop gets fisted by 2 pawns from a+b 7 they just push them down but nobody on youtube has ever seen that or why isnt anyone talkin about that ???

[nickrougier]

HOW AN 860 ELO PROVES WHAT A RUBBISH OPENING THE ITALIAN - DEUTZ - MAX LANGE IS... This game went by the book for the first 7 moves (and how rare is that?? One in 1000 games) - Black and white doing exactly what Igor, Alessia Santeramo, Miodrag Perunovic, Gotham Chess et al advocate. So you cannot accuse White of not playing it properly - he did : precisely. It proves the Italian is one of the worst openings out there and when Igor begins his video by saying it is one of the most popular in the amateur levels - well that's why they're still amateurs... 1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Bc5
4. O-O Nf6
5. d4 exd4
6. e5 Ng4
7. Bf4 ... Exactly by the book and this video

These first 7 moves are exactly by the book. Black is expected to castle short here (as per the video) so that white chases away the knight on g4 via h6, the knight retreats to the only safe square : h6 and white takes it with his Bishop wrecking the pawn structure in front of Black’s King.

Proving that "castling within the first 10 moves" is yet another gross piece of mis-advice from the so-called experts this 800 ELO does no such thing. Instead he proves what a rotten opening the Italian / Deutz Gambit / Max Lange is and why it should NEVER be attempted, by the brilliant but often condemned move…

f6 !! which only goes to show the experts talk absolute rubbish when advising against playing f6 in any circumstance.
8. h6 fxe5 White chases away the Knight regardless but it costs a pawn
9. Re1 d3 White pins e5 trying to cling on to the erroneous notion that the Italian is a half-decent opening but Black only proves
10. cxd3 Bxf2+ that it is foolhardy...
11. Kh1 Bxe1
12. Qxe1 d5
13. Bb3 O-O
14. hxg4 exf4 The Middle Game reveals all the flaws of the dreadful Italian opening
15. Nc3 Bxg4
16. Bxd5 Kh8
17. Ne5 Nxe5 White tries desperately one more time to make a horse race of the game but
18. Qxe5 Qh4+ his Italian opening was so awful and created so many weaknesses it is too late
19. Kg1 f3
20. Ne4 f2
Resigns

So my message to all amateur players is to stop using this garbage. There's no point learning one of these anyway - you only play White some of the time and in most cases up to 2000 ELO Black doesn't even answer 1.e4 with e5 anyway. Do you wanna try playing the Italian against Caro Kann, Sicilian or Scandinvian? yeah good luck with that!! DO NOT PLAY THE ITALIAN.

[justahuman]

What I just learned from this video is that the Vienna is better

[mitvelkez]

I can't watch your content because every other word you say is "like"