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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: Welcome to the Internet Check Club.Checkmate.Okay, welcome everyone.This is going to be my second lecture thatI'm going to do on ICC Internet Chess Club.And this time it's going to be on my mostfamous opening that I master in the SmithMORE Gambit.The SmithMORE Gambit is the Gambit in the SicilianDefense, where white plays D four instead of theusual knight of three, followed by D four.White plays D four right away.Now black, white might now opponent mightthink, would that be a good move?Well, what if CTeX D four?Now the natural response is queen takes D four.But now we always teach beginners notto develop your queen too early.This is probably the primary reason why mostbeginners would not want to play T fourbecause it lets your queen out too early.And most importantly, now the knight can develop andchase the queen around and gain a tempo.See, after knight of three, queen isstill going to be developed like this.But this is good for white because now white hasa lot of center and there is just no wayto chase this queen out from the central square.And the queen controls a big part ofthe board and white just a little betterbecause they have the control of the center.But it's not the case in the other case.After D four C takes, what do you think we should play?Well, we play a Gambit, C three,usually in a lot of openings.When we play an early D four, we do not recaptureon D four, we end up usually playing a gambit.Actually, very often we end up playing a gambit.So C three and now say black takes. Okay?And now black just decides to develop a knight.Would this be a good move or a bad move?What do you think?Well, the natural instinct is to just keepdeveloping pieces knights before bishops like knight ofthree would be a logical move.However, if you look a little more carefully andyou see how the position, how the pieces areplaced for black and for white, we realize thatwhite has a much better move.What if white plays E five?All of a sudden knight can't go here, can go anywhere.The queen controls these ones and Donald squares 98.And all of a sudden we have a lot of tempos gained.And now we're much better because we have apawn in his territory, which is always very importantbecause then we get a big advantage.The position is tight for him andwe just keep developing put pressure.And black has a very hard time developingbecause the night can't come here anymore.This is not NIH. Six is not good.So white is better.So what black has to make sure is that beforenight of six, they should play D six, right?Because otherwise E five will be an annoying move.Now, in the Smith Moore gambit, this E Five moveis one of the key moves you want to make,because if you play E Five, if you end upplaying E Five, pushing the knight back or putting otherkinds of pressure, it gives black a very hard timebecause the opponent's in his territory.And if there is no way, no good way ofdealing with it, white is going to be much better.So in Smith Mora, whenever you play itfor white, you have to always think whenyou're playing black, can white play E five?And if they can, you want to try to make amove that will not allow it in the best case.Now, in this case, it looks likeE Five is not that good, right?Because black has one two attackers, two defenders forthe square, and white has only one attacker.So it looks like it loses the pawn.So what do you think?Did you prepare and D five?Well, first of all, if white just Castles, blackcan play E six, bishop B seven, Castles.And it looks like, for now at least, black ispretty safe because they have a solid center, it's hardto break through, and they're up a pawn.I mean, maybe white has a slightly betterposition, but black is up a pawn.So usually in this gambit, you often want to seesomething forced, something quick to really set a challenge.So let's think.Let's analyze E Five and see if it's good.Okay, let's say black recaptures with a knight.Is that a good move?No, not at all.Because of Knight takes e five, we cannot take back.Why?Because of Bishop F seven.And we get the queen.So all of a sudden, we lose a piece here.What about d?Takes d five.Now, that might be a little easier.So what do you think white should play here?Well, now, here, white can startlooking for a lot of tactics.Queen B three, just E six, so we can't quiteattack F Seven slowly and get away with it.We have to do something a little faster.Maybe Bishop takes F seven, but afterKing takes knight takes C five.Unfortunately for white, black doesn't have totake, and they can just play here.And then black's fine, black shows upa piece, and white has nothing.Okay, so the best move is Queen takes D eight.Now?What if King takes D eight?What do you think is the best move?Is it Bishop takes F seven, ni Gfive, or Bishop B three or something else?Well, if you think Bishop takes up seven, itcould be a good move in one case.But not in this case, because even though wewant a pawn, remember, we're still down two pawns.And so we're still down a pawneven if we get back one pawn.And since this move doesn't reallyset much of a challenge.Black can do something very annoying for white e six.All of a sudden that bishop has aslight chance of being trapped later on andperhaps it will not be trapped like this.It might get away, but still now black is the onesetting challenges a little bit and black still have a porn.And obviously white doesn't want toend the party like this.So white has to make sure they set morechallenges and play a very good move nike five.Because we realize now we have twoattackers on this pawn, no defenders.So that means even if you try something king Eeight or bishop six, it will not help us.For example, king E eight, you canjust take and obviously we're attacking this.So bishop six, we just take and then we play.Nine of seven, get the rook.So so as we see, we cannotreally defend it in a good way.And all of a sudden a rook is attacked.All of a sudden the best move is king C seven.So not only it gains a tempo with winning apawn, but look what it does to the king.Check again if king D seven, bishopB three, and then we check again.And that's going to be close to mate ifking B six, also very close to mate if.A three, followed by B four, very close to Mate.So the only move is king B eight.And now we have a pretty solution to all of this.We have winning move.Let's watch this carefully.Temporarily sacrificing a knight.Now, we're not taking the rook, but insteadwe're threatening bait by endpinning the knight.And the only way to defend Mateand the knight is play here.But now we'll get this rook for free.And let's count the material.Now we're up in exchange and look at the king and thisrook and the bishop and the black bishop out of eight.They're all doing nothing.And white can just come 94, 96 soon to win this bishop.And the game just absolutely lost.Down exchange and terrible position,just terrible for black.So this is a very important position that we allwant to make sure we know and feel comfortable with.Okay?So you might wonder what happens if nightx V eight.What do you think is the best move?Well, if you think nitx c five.Well, in that case, black can just play Asix and then play E six and then defend.I mean, again, the idea is white sacrificed thepawn on D four, so that's one pawn.And then they sacrifice on E five,so that's two pawns, two central pawns.So when you sacrifice two pawns, you haveto make sure you do something very forcedand quick, otherwise you'll end up with nothing.Just gaining back one pawn is not going to be enough.So in this position, unlike king takes D eight, whereyou play 95 here you come from the other side.What do you think you should do?Obviously not 95 because of takes, but 95.Now blacks in trouble.97 is a threat.And let's look at all possible defenses.What about 96?Well, now we use the popular theme called overloading,actually removing a defender as we see this knighton E six defends C seven square.So what should we do to that knight?Just take and then check and winthe rook or win this piece.What a bishop b six.Now, bishop six might be a little tricky movebecause you're trying to take the bishop, trying toget something for that rook and then trying totrap that knight in the corner so you canend up maybe without material, who knows?And you do not want to take likethis because then we allow the knight defending.But in this case, all we dois just check, take the rook.And now Kim of knight 65forking the bishop and the king.And now we're sure to beup material no matter what happens.What about King D? Seven.Is that a good move?Not at all.Because what happens now?This pawn is undefended.All of a sudden, the kingis nicely trapped, has no moves.The only move is king back.And now checkmate in one move, all right?And by the way, from what Iheard, 19 hundreds lost like this once.And my student once beat his opponent like thisin a fairly big tournament for his team.And it was a nice feeling because looks like the hardwork pays off when you end up getting mates like this.And obviously I got some mates like thisover ICC, but that's not as important.But this is just showing you that the SmithMOREis very tricky and if you go wrong alittle bit, you can be in big trouble.Okay, so rook B eight, only move, and nowknight X five threatening Mate and only move 96.Again we take and then blacks in trouble.So we do E six, and now White can do both ways.They can come here, then get thisbishop, and then the pawns are even.So that's fine.And White has a two to one advantageon the queen side and two bishops advantage.So White should be better or 97.Check and keep setting challenges.What's a threat here?Two threats actually.Bishop takes a seven, bishop C five.If king D six, bishop F four, threatening this.If the king goes back, rook T one wins the game.Okay, so king E seven, bishop three, and now thebest move is B six because that defends everything, okay?So now rook D one, stopping kingD six and putting more pressure.And now black's in trouble because after B795 threatening 94, 96, and Black really feelsuncomfortable here, you know what I mean?Very uncomfortable.And the king is still dancingaround even though White's down pawn.I'm sure most people will prefer toplay this position out for Black.Okay?So let's go back.Okay, so after e five, we realizethat taking is a very bad idea.So all of a sudden we realize thatafter knight of six, black has a hardtime and let's try some other defenses.Moving the night away.In that case, we still put pressure on him.E six takes, 95 takes.All of a sudden we see that BlackIsrael busted and they're still not Castled.And now a very powerful move.95 can take.And Black is very good here, extremely good here.No Castle, just down opponent, alot of pressure, very active pieces.97, we have a move even powerful.Obviously we can still play E six.It's a pretty common idea with the knight moves,but you know, if you want, you can eventake like this, be a little more fancy.Now Black cannot take like thisbecause Mate is coming pretty soon.Or like this, mate is coming pretty soon.So king E eight, only decent move orking G eight and now takes queen takesotherwise bishop takes queen B three. Check.Winning that pawn.And now castle.And White's much better because king is in abad position and White just keeps setting challenges.And even though Black sub opponent, again,black has a lot of trouble.So as we see a logical move, nightof six looks like we defended everything.And yet we still see black has a lotof problems whenever we see that a logical move.Even following a few opening principles, notjust one, not two, but a few.And still Black has trouble in the opening out of this.That really means white tried very hard to seta lot of challenges and played very accurately.And that shows a sign of a good opening,good gambit, because we see pressure on that seven,we just always try to play five.So let's think.What should black white play? G. Six.Still we play five.And again, taking is not goodbecause of what we just saw.And if bishop G seven, we can play bishop F four.Try that.Or we can play here.And then castle, this pawn is hanging.White still much better two bishops,but we can even play here.Now play something like this andactually put even more pressure.Or like this, and then just play here.And as we see here, white down two pawns.But it's very hard to defend becausewe're threatening this followed by bishop six.If king moves king eight.Bish takes up 795, threatens very tough position.And finally, what should blackplay after Bishop G four?What should white play after Bishop G? Four.Well, in that case, white can play bishop seven.Ni g five. Common move.Every time you pin too early, this can happen.So every time you try to play BishopG four, it's preferred to be Castled.You should be castled preferably.And also knight of six should probably be played.And also you can play queen Bthree here, threatening this and this.So the key moves against bishop G four areQueen B three and Bishop takes F seven. Key ideas.And you have to really be careful with the F seven andthe B seven square when you want to play Bishop G four.That's very important if you want to declineagain with any game, but not just more.Now, let's say black plays just E six.On that case, bishop C four doesn't make as muchsense because as we see, F seven is already blocked.In general, you want to prepare for one Black Castles.So then you might end up playing bishop D three.And if you play you five, youput pressure on the H seven square.Important point is that if you cannot attack Fseven anymore, if you know it in advance, usuallyyour best square is bishop D three for theBishop because then you attack H seven.That's why we always say the rule knightsbefore bishops because you know you're going todevelop knights in C three and F three.And the bishops you don't know yet.And as you see, after E six,you can make a better move.And as you see, D six covers the Cseven diagonal, h two, B eight diagonal, the Cseven square, more or less, whereas bishop F four,whereas bishop F E six, bishop F four.Now, we'll put pressure here.And if D six, then you can play bishop C four.And from there on, you have a line.I mean, things can go either way.We'll go over that in parttwo of our SmithMORE Lectures.But the point is, here you put a lot of pressureand you have ideas like night B five coming up.E five, trying to stop D fiveand control a lot of squares.Now, here's a trap which you should always tryto make sure you keep in mind of.After Bishop F four.Usually after e six black.If they know the line, they end up playing 97, 96.This kind of line to try to try to not play 96because of E five and try to get try to get pastthat e five move to not let them affect them.So therefore they play 97, 90 G six.And the Smith Moore to try to stop that.Is 90 G. Seven.A good move here?Not at all.Because what look what happens.That's it.Game is over.Two threats, no defense, ten moves.That game is over, mate.This actually happened in one of my games once, overthe board games and a lot of ICC games.So very common trap.And obviously D five doesn't help because you can playbishop C seven gaining the queen and E 596, mate.So the only move really is queen A five and now this.And now we get this rook.So the game is over.95.Very important move.And that's why bishop f four is good, becauseif they play 97, you're in good shape.And if they play 96, you're still in good shape.You play E five, you have a great position.And if they play a six, try to play this, prevent this.Then you play E Five.And then you end up putting the bishop here.Pressuring this.You step stop D five, temporarilyput still anchor that pawn here.And then just keep putting pressure again.We'll analyze more of that in parttwo of our SmithMORE Gambit Gambit lecture.All right, final touch in the SmithMORE.What's important to know in the SmithMORE is that if youplay Smith more and for some reason they decline it.This is one of the few openings, whereasif opponent declines it, you are much better.For example, D three, most common decline, declining.And a lot of grandmasters played it against me.And even though they might know the opening well, theystill want to feel comfortable in what they're doing.But then I'm just better, because that transforms into whoeverknows the Morazzi system with two points on C four,e four controlling the center, really stopping that C fivemove, and then Bishop takes C three.And again, we'll go over that morein our later lectures on Smith more.But the point is, white's better here.Similarly, 96 white has a strong center, orD five, white still has a strong center.The queen's out early.So a lot of these lines, we see that whitehas an extremely strong center in a strong position.They're slightly better.So the main thing that we learned from this opening isthat it sets a lot of challenges, and one little mistakecan give you a hard time the rest of the game.And as we see, even in the good linesthat Black plays in the later lectures, we'll seethat White still has a way of gaining abig advantage and setting challenges after challenges.That's what's important.Setting challenges after challenges andnot letting Black have. Breathing room and just keep making the bestmoves and giving opponent a hard time.And obviously, if you know how to playand know the routines, it's much easier.For example, the main thing that we learned is efive is one of the key moves in The SmithMORE.And we learned that the squares that we look for totry to pressure are C seven, F seven, and after theyplay e six and Castle H seven is a square it.So basically, we now know a little bit about SmithMORE.And whoever wants to try it, I wish you best of luck.It's a very good opening.Brings a lot of excitement.I started off fresh, and I just startedplaying tournaments, and all of a sudden, Ikept analyzing and learned on my own.And before I know it, I knew it.I started winning big games in The SmithMORE.For example, I'll show you later on the trap in my next lecture,where I want to beat a 2300 to get an Im Nor.And SmithMORE has got me a lot of good thingsin my chess career thus far, and very good openingbecause it sets a lot of challenges, gives black nobreathing room, gives black a lot of hard time.So that means, for example, a 2100 player, if theydon't know it well, they can play this game like1600 because they'll have a hard time playing it out.And you can get a lot of good wins, a lotof upsets, or a lot of easy wins with this opening.And similarly, what's important is just as important isthat when opponent declines, white has a great game.And okay, so thank you very much for watching this.I hope you all enjoyed it.And hopefully you'll all start playing TheSmithmora and start enjoying it more.And hopefully soon my new lecture willcome up on SmithMORE, part two.This was part one.And hopefully those who watched mylecture for Beginners, they enjoyed it.18924