The Outrageous Orthoschnapp Gambit... Explained!

Jonathan Schrantz explores his favorite secret weapon against the French Defense... the absolutely outrageous Orthoschnapp Gambit! Learn how to sacrifice a pawn in the hopes of a powerful initiative and blow your opponents off the board with this powerful opening that will take many opponents by surprise.

Jonathan also explores how to study an opening using the Lichess database even when there are fewer than 10 games in the master database.

0:00 Intro
1:35 What is the Orthoschnapp Gambit?
4:40 Main line
6:55 I'm in the database!
14:09 Declining the gambit

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[danielrangel]

Jonathan you are one of the best people, I learned a lot of chess with you. Hope you have a great day

[nathanng]

I just beat a 2100 with an Orthoshnapp!! (i'm like mid 1500). They were thrown off at the start and lost their a8 rook and even though I subsequently made a ridiculous blunder [hung my queen] they were too frazzled to see it and it led to mate!!! Hooray!!!

[ivanviehoff]

The best response for black to the f7 threat is ...Qd7. The game stats visible on the screen clearly show this. As we learn from other sources, this is because then you can castle out of trouble fairly quickly, and enjoy your extra pawn. French Defence players should learn this, and be pleased to come up against a chancer who tries it on them.

[AndersBylund]

It's been two and a half years since video came out, pulling analysis from roughly 2, 000 games on Lichess. Now, using the same search settings (no bullet, ratings 1600+), I see approximately 100, 000 games in the same database. Did Jonathan bring that much attention to it, or is Lichess that much more popular in general now? (Probably a bit of both...) At the same time, not much has changed in the Orthoschnapp Gambit's effectiveness! Black now does a little bit better with moves like 5. .. Nh6, but the move choices you see at, say, 4:40 in the video form a very similar graph today.

[bossbaby]

Please make more attacking crazy gamblits btw love your content

[FearlessBolt]

I thought chess was boring until I met the vampire chicken you are so passionate and fun much love

[DavidEmerling]

After 1.e4 e6 2.c4 d5, Stockfish wants white to capture with 3.exd5 with a perfectly even game. Stockfish thinks 3.cxd5 gives a slight advantage to black - but it's miniscule. (-0.13). 3.e5 is evaluated as (-0.22). This is after thinking for a depth of 54 plies.

[balaji]

And 9:26 is not forking the rook and kni8 the rook can play b6 and it is protected by c7 pawn and c7 is protected by Queen e7.

[ELOFIDE-sbqk]

Sir I am a French defense player plus come to my aid and tell me the refutation to this gambit

[giovannispinotti]

So probably it is the time to throw that 2.b3 Papa-Ticulat gambit in the dustbin and go for this more daring line...

[MANCO]

Hi Jonathan and fellas. I need help. I play french with black and i don't know how to duel with classical french alekhine chatard attack. There's absolutely no video on YouTube about that for black.

[balaji]

In 9:26 bxc6 is check and can take the rook and a4 e8 diagnol is open qa4 and taking the hanging bishop lot of ideas u missed

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[anupamasharma]

I think I'm the guy who played most no of times against this gambit man... twelve times in a row ... wow.

[doctorheart]

give me a book name that teach this variation, thanks

[bjornviir]

you ever play a guy who is 1200 and they are doing crazy gambits and traps, i think they are 1900 sleepers in disguise under lower alias just to get their kicks beating every average guy....

[ediw]

I regret that you stopped chess openings explained on SLCC lectures. For some reasons sure. Take care and be safe.

[nooneatall]

If I played chess the way the engine wants to play I'd honestly bore myself to death