CRUSH People with the Scandinavian Defense!

This is a great chess opening for beginners and intermediate players: The Scandinavian Defense. The strategy, tactics, and tricks are great.

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 (3. Nf3 Bg4 (3... Nc6 4. d4) 4. Be2 Nc6 5. O-O (5. d4 O-O-O) 5... O-O-O 6. Nc3 Qd7 7. b4 Nf6 8. b5 Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Nd4 10. a4 Qf5) ( 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3) (3. c4 Qe4+ 4. Qe2 Qxe2+ 5. Bxe2 Nc6) 3... Qa5 (3... Qd8 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O Nc6) (3... Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. Be2 Nc6 7. O-O Bf5 8. Be3 O-O-O) 4. d4 (4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. O-O e6) (4. b4 Qxb4 5. Rb1 Qd6 6. d4 Nf6 7. g3 Nc6) (4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bc4 Bg4 6. O-O Nc6) 4... Nf6 5. Nf3 (5. Bd2 c6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Bc4 e6 8. O-O Qc7 9. Re1 Be7) 5... Bg4 (5... Bf5 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bd2 c6 8. O-O Qc7 9. Re1 Be7 10. Rc1 Nbd7) 6. h3 Bh5 7. Be2 (7. g4 Bg6 8. Ne5 e6 9. h4) 7... Nc6 8. O-O O-O-O 9. Be3 e5 *

0:00 Intro
0:21 THEORY
12:16 GAME 1 - 1200
21:30 GAME 2 - 1800

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[PolrisTired]

Levy: Imma give them a slight positional advantage for educational purposes
Opponent: _immediately blunders queen_

[waters]

Me, not a Scandinavian player, learning the “GM/cheater” lines so I can beat Scandinavian players

[iVesperX]

8:48 "if they block with the knight, idk that's just kinda stupid looking"
lmao I love this channel

[Sifo_Dyas]

I love how when Aiden blundered his queen, Levy captured it in about 0.1 seconds, and then said he thought about not capturing.

[aprivatechannel]

Pawn takes d5 : 0:52
Knight attacks the queen : 1:18
What we have to developpe : 2:33
If our queen is targeted : 3:01
If white does not occupy the center : 3:19
Why you cant castle queen's side if they occupy the center : 4:00
What you want to be looking for : 5:09

[masoomshafi]

Levy: I almost didn't wanna take tbh
Also Levy: Takes the queen in half a second

[matthewmiller]

When I play chess with my family, they don't let me castle because they've never heard of it and my brother thinks it's a dumb rule.
Edit: Finally had an opportunity to play en pessant against my mom. She told me she saw it when searching for "the best opening move in chess", but I still haven't played it against my brother, who will definitely have a different reaction lol.

[ajiteshveeramachaneni]

Is it bad to bring out the queen?
Levy Rozman: *Yes'nt*

[Jwmt]

Fun fact - the oldest chess game that we have on record (with the current rules) from 1475 uses a Scandinavian Defense

[prim]

8:52 "If they block with the knight, I don't know, that's just kinda stupid looking, that's my evaluation"

Brilliant

[Synochrina]

The Scandinavian Defense: Throbbing Variation

[satchelcowles]

Hi Levy, I find it really helpful when you repeat the key steps of each part you're teaching.
For instance, in the Qd6 variation, after explaining the first few moves you come back and emphasize: "when you move Qd6 you HAVE TO CASTLE THE LONG WAY".
This method, where you repeat, summarize/underline the most important part one more time before moving on to the next part helps us mere chess mortals memorize it.
You don't always do this but it's really helpful when you do! Please keep that up :)

[sigurdnf]

finally someone will explain why all these people leave their queen like an idiot in the middle of their board

[lifeinabox]

This video really helped me go from having no real clue how to get solid positions w attacking possibilities w black to winning more games than I’m losing in response to e4. Thanks Levy!

[HristoGochev]

I watched the video today, studied it for couple of hours and then I started playing. I am 1500 and my oponents are very confised when I play the scandinavian. I literaly am crushing with it!!! It will be my standard e4 response from now on! Thank you Levy! You are great!

[maruwanshahbandar]

"The likelihood of facing it is very unlikely" well not after this video..

[helloguys]

This video itself will be the reason why we will face the "BEST MOVE" against us during a match

[eggyolk]

"If someone plays this against you, you're either already a 2200, or you're playing a cheater"

Shit how do I play this as white now.

[Tipodatubo]

*TAKES QUEEN INSTANTANEOUSLY*
"I almost didn't wanna take"

[Hanyamanusiabiasa]

Neutral Ending : The opponent losing a tempo trying to save a queen

Good Ending : The opponent moving a queen to c6, getting pinned and losing queen

Bad Ending : The opponent is too aggresive, and you lose one hanging rook then lose another rook because skewer