BEST Chess Opening for White (2024) | Crush Your Opponents!

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In this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov shares with you the best chess opening for White that you can use in 2023 to crush your opponents. It’s a relatively new opening variation unknown by your opponents. Therefore, you’ve got a great chance of winning lots and lots of games easily!

It is the Goring Gambit from the Scotch Game which happens after the following moves: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.c3, which is an improved version of the Danish Gambit.

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00:00 Best Chess Opening for White, Win More Games in 2023
00:27 Drawback of the Danish Gambit
01:34 Scotch Game: Goring Gambit, Double Pawn Sacrifice
02:58 Surprising move discomforts Black's position
04:30 Brilliant combination wins the game for White
05:07 If Black plays Nxd5 instead of Nxe4
07:13 If Black avoids cxb2
09:03 Achieve your chess goals in 2023

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[Easymoney]

Igor you are a gift to the new generation of chess players. This content is so valuable and for you to pump out amazing videos for free is so honorable. Thank you sir .

[lwandomasoka]

What's Christmas without Igor's great chess content 🤝🏿

[christiangro]

Merry Christmas, Igor. Thanks for your dedication to chess and helping us getting better ❤️

[soulfulplywood]

I'm a 1550 at 14, trying to branch out my openings. Watched a few videos of yours, and dang. I'm definitely subscribing man! I'm competing for a leadership position in my school chess team, and you're helping!! Appreciate this content

[Zyrexia]

Let me 100% real, there is no one (on youtube at least) who explains chess openings and tactics in such details and in a very sweet sweet voice.

[EfficientRVer]

I've been playing the Goring Gambit regularly for 50 years. It is my favorite opening as white. The position you show at 7:45 happens at least as often as them taking the second gambit pawn, , if you consider their last move e6 as being equivalent to h6. I treat them interchangeably, for two reasons. First, the line I respond to it with, O-O, almost always causes them to do the other move, transposing and making it not matter which move order they choose. O-O and Qb3 are extremely similar in strength in the "grandmaster or engine" sense, but Qb3 alerts the opponent to danger more quickly. If in the position you show, my O-O provokes h6, and in fact for most other responses, I play Re1, to delay Qb3 one more move. It leads to many fewer lines I need to know, and that 3-move combo is as strong as anything coming out of lines from playing Qb3 immediately. Different opponents may grab the second pawn at any point along the way, and when they don't, you at some point need to take it. While there are specific cases where taking it with the queen is good, playing my move order (O-O Re1 Qb3) happens to prevent me from taking it with the queen in situations where it should be taken with the knight. The older I get, the fewer tricky things I have to remember, the better.

It is rare to find someone who plays very precisely against the Goring Gambit, and I actually enjoy it when they do. More commonly, they fall into traps in predictable ways. In just my last 6 online games as white, I've had mates on move 10 and move 7 using the Goring against opponents my strength (1300s). That's unusually fast. One had fallen into a terrible trap, found the key move to escape it, then blundered by not making the followup move that was the only reason to have made the key move. He missed seeing that it was mate in one, versus escaping the trap down a little material but setting a trap I've fallen into myself one time, never again.

It's a fun, beautiful opening. If you play it often, you'll find recurring themes in your games, showing you what the possible "great moves" and "brilliant moves" in similar but different situations tend to look like.

Since watching your video on the Rousseau Gambit as black, that has become my most commonly played opening as black after white plays e4. I'm surprised at how many people play the Italian as white, and how many are taken by surprise with the Rousseau. Now if I can just stop opponents from playing d4, I'll be happy, though I do well against it.

[ezzo]

I've only just started to play chess regularly and learn the game properly and the rabbit hole I'm now in is fantastic! Thank you for these videos and merry christmas (or other celebrated holiday!)

[gamal]

Insightful! Ironically just yesterday I was really getting an understanding behind the fianchettoed bishop, how lethal it is and you displayed that well with this classical e4 opening.

[Christiaan]

Thank you GM Smirnov, was looking for an Opening against 1.e4 that i can feel comfortable with and also that i could understand the positions reached, The Sicilians I've tried out they don't work for me neither 1.e4 e5...i never really liked those positions that those openings produced...so down the line i went and neither the Caro Kann nor the Center Counter seems right but this opening you showed us is just great, i can grasp what I'm suppose to do and what to play for, you are a born chess teacher and very underrated in my opinion!, thank you again Merry Christmas and a happy new year even though Christmas has come and gone already, God Bless!👍

[keeganmurphy]

Hey man only started playing chess again recently, thanks for the videos mate appreciate it. We’ll spoken well explained 👍

[copdatchoppa]

I think someone tried this position against me. I think so because their position in game looked very similar to this. At first I thought they were aiming for some weird scholar's mate trick. I declined the gambit and played in such a way where I used my knights to prevent their bishop from going to certain squares. And they ended up with such a messy opening. I could be wrong, but the position in this video just looks very similar to something i've experienced before in a game..

[MaximeSenza]

Messed up a bit in the order but fell back on my feet ^^
I've tried it on a couple games and it's definitely a fun opening, thank you for your content!


[Termination "senzaaa a gagné par abandon"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. c3 dxc3 6. O-O Bc5 7. Nxc3 O-O 8.
Nd5 a6 9. b3 Nxe4 10. Bb2 b5 11. Bd3 Ng5 12. Nf6+ gxf6 13. Nxg5 fxg5 14. Bxh7+
Kxh7 15. Qh5+ 1-0

[threedeafears]

i tried this on Lichess. 95% of the people do not follow the black moves AT ALL. and things turn very messy quickly!

[bpn]

This is the one of best opening for white in Chess.

I win in the first match by opening this trick.

Thanks a lot...

[albertdeckel]

Thanks for this, and all the amazing lessons in 2022!! They have made such a difference in my game ...and maybe they will be able to help me beat my son in a game someday!!!

Keeping you and your loved ones in our thoughts!!

[dangelvette]

Merry Christmas my friend and thank you for all the wonderful lessons I'm definitely going to buy some of your courses this year

[gregorykl]

Hello, everyone! I wanna share with you one interesting fact! I d been playing chess for a year, but I really played it: I analysed every single game, watched a lot of streams, chess youtubers. My rating was about 800. Recently I've started playing there (cause before I had a kind of fear of loosing), but surprisingly I reached 1600 easily. It happened 3 weeks ago. I had been sitting there before I lost the access to my account. After I made new one, and I had to go through some kind of calibration. VERY surprisingly It went okay. Firstly, it was hard, because the rating was about 1600. But I won. After, a very strange thing happened. At 1800 my opponents started to miss mate in 1! As the calibration gives you a lot of points, I went through 1800 with only 2 games. After that, there were normal games, one was very hard (I lost, I ran out of time), but others I won by their silly mistakes. Now I am 1971. Guys and Igor (if he reads it), I don't think that this is my rating, but at the same time it seems very fairly, cause I didn't cheat (of course). I don't know what to think. I won against the opponent with rating 2047. I saw it only in YouTube videos. How do you think, am I so smart or it's just luck? Also, I want to thank Igor for his videos. I won 1 game using his trap (I mean that the opponent didn't notice it and couldn't handle after). That's all. Thanks all. I am gonna keep you in touch in next Igor's videos (lol)

[hg]

Usually they don't take the pawn on move 3, but that made me study the scotch which isnt too bad. Had great success with this if they do take though! So much fun playing this variation

[ConsciousExpression]

I've been using this to great success. People just don't seem to know this line. They don't like taking all three pawns usually, but it doesn't matter all that much, because I get developed so much faster than them anyway. This is pure gold at my level of chess (don't ask I'm not gonna tell my rating).

[aBetterWorldTogether]

Pretty freakinggood channel man ! You explain very well ! Thank you!