Best Chess Opening for Black Against 1.e4 in 2024 [Win in 8 Moves]

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Millions of players who play the Fried Liver Attack as White mostly rely on Black playing the dubious move 5...Nxd5. Instead, you can play this aggressive variation that GM Smirnov shows which gives Black a completely winning position in just 8 moves!

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00:00 Best Chess Opening Against 1.e4 For Black
00:16 Beat the Fried Liver Attack as Black
01:22 Winning line for Black against the Fried Liver Attack
02:10 How Black gets -2 winning advantage
03:42 If White plays Qe2, pinning the e4-pawn
04:44 If White plays Bb3 instead of Bb5+
07:01 White's attempt to attack with Qf3
10:41 If White plays Bd3 instead of Ba4
12:36 White's common opening mistake, 4.Nc3

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[bashamstra]

Love how you tackle common mistakes, keep doing it! As a serious club player I love your videos and I predict a great future for you and your channel (well with over 300K subscribers you are already big now). Entertaining, instructive and to the point! Keep them coming we love it!

[albertdeckel]

Great lesson!! I have faced this opening multiple times and was never sure what the best way to respond was/is. Thanks for your generosity in sharing this.

[jcb]

I would like to thank you very much. Your videos have really helped me. To be more precise, I have adopted a lot in my opening repertoire.

[brnogd]

Hey Igor! Love your videos, watched a ton of them and still watch them at my free time. I progressed from 600-1430 ELO just because of these videos :). One thing I would love to know how to play is exchange variation in ruy lopez, since I always have problems defending the instant attack. Anyways, keep doing this!❤

[jonson]

Thanks a lot. I will test these counter measures soon.
I have been struggling a lot against this opening, since I dont know what its called (beginner).
At best I can defend against, but then its very hard to get tempo and get my king out of the center area.

[eyestoseefe]

Best chess teacher on YouTube
Only chess channel I have subscribed to
Keep up the good work Igor

[platosocrates]

Where can I practice this? Also the early queen attack videos. I would love to practice this with a kind of learning chapter. Is there a practice course?
because I realize that you can watch those videos over and over, but much better is to play them on a board or online.

[markusrohmann]

Just ran this on some1 165 rating points higher than me; now at 8:52 they moved their Q elsewhere, but I followed the same principles and beat them badly. Had 2 queens at 1 point and they had to lose a rook to take the new 1 (a pawn essentially), pinned their Q to their K; got their Q and had a lot of tense fun.

Thank you Igor!🙂😀

[amoycadaverine]

Good day GM Smirnov. Can you do a quick guide what to do against Bird opening (1.f4) when playing as black.

At first glance it looks a bad opening as it opens the king side but the follow up Nf3 shuts down the quick check from Black.

Thank you and good luck for your future contents.

[V_ChessGuy]

Thanks!! Can you cover if white goes Bb5+ and then c6 dxc6 bxc6 and Be2?

[iTsRebell]

I really like your videos and the ideas and improvement are awesome! It helped me a lot in my games. Thank you sir 😇🍀

[iankemp]

An interesting sideline at 12:30, White can block the attack on his Q with d3 which superficially seems to save him as he's ahead in material. But then exd3 Qd2 (keeping guard on f2) dxc2+! Ke1 cxb1=Q! Rxb1 Bb4! still winning the Q, as the P and N that could have interposed have been eliminated. Another fun line!

[gamal]

at 6:13 where you say the queen is pinned on e2, was that an error? Reason is they can exchange queens with bishop recapturing on e7.

[meow_meowh]

there's a sideline here at 6:58 for white if it takes fxg4


avoiding the check mate threat for some time and giving some time to the white queen and other pieces to counter play

[vivekdahiya]

That what I expect for GM Igor. Everything you show makes sense no cheap trick like other ytbs.

[JomariGuitarTV]

wow great tutorial thank you coach, but what if your opponent tries to counter attack in 2:14 and move b4 to attack your knight ?

[joshualandry]

These tricky lines are a blast, however I think it would be really helpful to have a breakdown of the ideas in the mainlines as well. No one seems to cover these.

[TS]

I've won several games just this week against this exact attack including an 11-move resignation yesterday with 100% accuracy. It's very common. I don't always catch the Fried Liver right away but usually spot it before I move Na4 and remember to play d5 first.

[GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters

00:00 Best Chess Opening Against 1.e4 For Black
00:16 Beat the Fried Liver Attack as Black
01:22 Winning line for Black against the Fried Liver Attack
02:10 How Black gets -2 winning advantage
03:42 If White plays Qe2, pinning the e4-pawn
04:44 If White plays Bb3 instead of Bb5+
07:01 White's attempt to attack with Qf3
10:41 If White plays Bd3 instead of Ba4
12:36 White's common opening mistake, 4.Nc3

[jboushka]

There is also the Fritz (....Nd4 instead of, ,,,Na5) which is fun for Black (White can get mated in about 9 moves in one line)