A Magical Chess Opening for ALL Levels

Showing you a fun new opening video: The Scotch, in particular the Potter Variation. A very easy opening for beginners who are looking to get good at chess.

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 (4... Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 (
6... Nd5 7. c4 Nb6 8. Bd3 Bc5 9. O-O O-O 10. Nc3) (6... Ne4 7. Qf3 Ng5 8. Qg3
Ne6 9. Bd3) 7. Qe2 Nd5 8. h4 d6 (8... a5 9. c4 Nb6 10. Nc3 Qe6 11. Qe4 Ba6 12. b3) (8... Qe6) 9. c4 Nb6 10. exd6 Qxe2+ 11. Bxe2 cxd6 12. Nc3 Be6 13. b3 Be7 14. Bg5) (4... Qf6 5. Nb5 Bc5 6. Qe2 Bb6 7. N1c3 a6 8. Nd5 Qd8 9. Nxb6 cxb6 10. Nd6+ Kf8 11. Be3) (4... Qh4 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Be2 Qxe4 (6... Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 Qxe4 8. O-O Nge7 9. Bf3 Qh4 10. Nb5 O-O 11. Nxc7 Rb8 12. Re1) 7. Ndb5 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 Qe5 9. f4) 5. Nb3 Bb6 (5... Bb4+ 6. c3 Be7 7. f4) 6. Nc3 Nf6 (6... Qf6 7. Qe2 Nd4) 7. Bg5 h6 (7... O-O 8. Qe2 Nd4 9. Qd2) 8. Bh4 O-O (8... d6 9. Qe2 O-O 10. O-O-O Re8 11. f3) 9. Qe2 d6 10. O-O-O *

0:00 Intro + How To Learn Openings
1:12 Scotch Opening
3:40 POTTER VARIATION
6:23 Nf6 BY BLACK
11:38 SCARY OTHER MOVES
15:45 I LOVE YOU ALL

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[makytondr]

“There’s nothing to fear in the Stafford gambit”


—Eric Rosen laughing maniacally in a dark corner—

[joejitsu]

I have never noticed you look like Harry Potter. Now I can’t unsee it! Lmao Don’t worry mate. He’s highly respected here in England 😂👍

[tibby]

"Don't fall for the Queen's Nonsense."
New name for the Wayward Queen Attack

[dkpandey]

And it was in this position that Lord Voldemort resigned the game. Why did he resign? Because there was no good move here. If Voldemort goes for Avada Kedavra, Harry has this sneaky move Expelliarmus and the position is completely lost for the death eaters.

[dhdhdhdhd]

The throbbing variation is still the best variation of the scotch

[antichrist.superstar]

No wonder I’ve been seeing this more often on Lichess. Whenever Levy or Eric release an opening video like this I start to see the opening all the time in online games.

[maxwell]

"There is nothing to fear in the Stafford Gambit" Oh Levy.... I wonder what Eric Rosen would say about that ^^

[sumantchopde]

I love watching these videos of yours but I forget all this theory when actually playing.

[johnvuillemot]

You should do a cosplay of that insane daniel Radcliffe meme but instead of two guns photoshop an advertisement for your opening courses on each hand

[SanDiegoMarvelWow]

Love this guy. He seems like a normal dude who just happens to be a chess genius. Really appreciate his insights. Great job.

[icelick]

"there's nothing to fear in the Stafford gambit"
this must be Eric Rosen's paid actor

[ASuddenRose]

"Nothing to fear in the Stafford" causes me to shoot nervous glances at Eric Rosen's channel.

[jadenrrose]

I've been playing the Scotch from 400 up to 1100, and you're absolutely correct about ...NF6. I would say probably 70% of the time I see Nf6, 25% of the time I see Nxd4, and like 5% of the time I see Bc5.

[justinchen]

Looks like potter has started a youtube channel. That will be 5 points from Gryffindor.

[iwersonsch]

"Oh, my opponent is pushing a pawn on the kingside, perhaps preparing an attack. Let me just push a pawn on my queenside in response."

[gokulsanil]

Levy: There's nothing to fear in the Stafford
Eric: Am I a joke to you?

[HungryForPi]

Oh look, Harry Potter is playing chess :p

[MrSupernova]

Great tutorial! I love the Scotch opening as white and I realize now that I've been playing it wrong all along. I'm going to research this opening further and learn all the lines. Thanks!

[chrisfromph]

15:05
Gotham: Don't take because u get checkmated

xQc: horsey go brrrr

[sjegannath]

I play Bc5 against scotch because I fell into a lot of scotch traps and lost many games so I decided to look up the scotch game on agadmator's channel and saw caruana and carlsen playing scotch. That game's analysis helped me learn that GM's reply to scotch is Bc5 and I've been playing it ever since to avoid any opening disasters.