Chess Opening: A Trap in the Veresov [Part 2/2]
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at
1:28 pm
This is a trap in my primary opening, the Veresov. I will show how, after 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4, to punish the inaccurate 3…Bb4?! This video is about the tactical – but bad for Black – continuation 5.Qg4 Nxc3. A brief discussion of the related Pin Variation of the Sicilian is also included.
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Hi. I like your videos. I’v allways enjoyed chess but I’v mostly studied (very little) end game. What opening lines do you think would be good to start analyzing.
Continue studying the endgame by all means. If you are just getting into opening theory, study the Ruy Lopez, that is the most popular king pawn opening.
what chess program is that?
ChessBase 9
Interesting opening as a counter against the indian defences, i think i’ll learn it in the near future.
Hey Matt. I’m currently learning to play the Veresov. Bought the book written by Nigel Davies.. and I have to say, this line seems to be an awesome improvement.
Thanks for all your video’s regarding the Veresov, they are really helpful.
I think 3.e4 was not covered because it’s just a French, it’s not “Veresov-ish.” Davies is marketing the opening .. he presents lines for people who want to play d4,Nc3,Bg5 in all cases and get accustomed to those positions… but objectively I feel 3.e4 is stronger for White than 3.Bg5.
I do like that book though. The coverage of the middlegame plans is excellent (and that’s what I look for in an opening book).
Great video as ever Matt just got back from a Chess match myself and a bit tired, but I will study this in more detail at the weekend.
I used mainly Nigel Davies material when I was playing the English Opening a while ago and he is quite good at explaining things – which a lot of GMs arent. The problem is he markets a lot of his stuff at club players, and with certain lines he as much as says No need to worry youre pretty little heads with this stuff and skirts round it. Still I can say anything about his Veresov book as I hadnt even heard of it until now.
but 5. ke8-f8 avoids much of this for black right?
Good comment! I totally forgot to mention Kf8. Yes this is very possible. Gives a flight square for the queen on e8, so Bg5 is not fatal.
I like 6.a3 for White, with the same ideas as in the 5…g6 variation. The difference is that Black can safely take twice on c3.
6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Nxc3 8.Qg3 looks like a good gambit … lots of space, two bishops, dislocated Black king.
This gambit isn’t forced of course. 6.Bd2 also looks quite pleasant for White.
You know what would be really cool?
A game between you and jrobichess. not to know who is the best, because you 2 are exelent, but to make a commented video and expose a lot of ideas there.
Exelent video as always Matt, thank you.
Hi Matt, I know that d5 and e6 are possible responses to the Veresov, but I was wondering what you think about c5, for a benoni type structure and maybe you could do a video on it in the future? Thanks
You mean like 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5? I could do a video on that.
Yeah, that would be great!
Hi Matt, I just had a game with the variation you mentioned at around 7:00 of this video.
At 7:30 you say that whites next few moves are going to be pawn moves. But actually white threatens mate in one with Qg8+. So blacks only choice really is to take the pawn with the queen.
Actually Black can stop this mate with a d pawn move, but then White plays f7+ and f8Q+. That’s what I was referring to.
Nice job getting your opponent to that position!
that would be a very uninteresting game… jrobi doesnt know much about chess
Thank you for taking the time to make the video. I learned alot from it.
I like how the king says “Part 1″ at the start, hehe
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.e4 dxe4 4.d5 Nf6 5.f3 exf3 6.Nxf3 e6 7.Bb5+ Bd7 8.dxe6 looks interesting
yea you vs jrobi would make a cool video
The more I’m watching your videos, the more I like chess. I used to play online, on a casual way, just for entertaining. Now I get a lot of pleasure to learn more about a couple of opening, usually taken from your explainations. Thanks Matt :p
Thankyou for your time in uploading this video. This analysis has helped improve my opening strategy tremendously. Even as black it has helped my game since I usually try to transpose into the nimzo-indian or accelerated french, or sicilian taimanov variation.
Thankyou for your time in uploading this video. This analysis has helped improve my opening strategy tremendously. Even as black it has helped my game since I usually try to transpose into the nimzo-indian or accelerated french, or sicilian taimanov variation.