Letsplaychess.com Instructive game: Winning the c4 pawn!

[TheGlistengem]

7:30 ... position is as such that black has established pawns on light squares which results the dark square bishop in a strong & active piece... I wonder why WHITE didn't forced the black bishop to trade for his Knight .... a move like Nc6 (Folking Black Queen & Black's dark Square bishop) & just trade of the bishop with Knight...! What will be the positional loss for Black ... i think the white would had to reorient it structure or it's light square bishop would be a silly one on the board.

[jamesjddong]

2:23 you said "retarding" hehehe, ok a bit immature lol

[wem511]

I had forgotten about these videos on utube, very enjoyable

[darkteknical]

This is one of my favorite videos so far. I'm new to chess and I really liked the begining where you explained the Queen's Gambit alittle.

Thanks.

[kingscrusher]

Thanks - I did want to cover some basic opening theory which is almost taken for granted, but perhaps should be mentioned in youtube videos for those newer to the game.

[xclosertotheheartx]

good vid. just a humble request, could you analyse the bilbao tournament games where topalov won and anand could not even win a game. keep on!!!

[kingscrusher]

Yes that was a very strong tournament indeed - I have done one of the games today - Topalov vs Anand (1-0).

[spartanica]

what a horrible situation for white, i was thinking nightmare too most of the way through. great refutation of the kings indian attack transposed to the english.

thanks

[chesshistorian]

What software do you use for the chessboard ?

Great video.

[kingscrusher]

Chessbase

[furrer08]

New video, great video, great game, great commentator, Just GREAT!

[dogma1316]

instead of the gambit of the a pawn on a3, wouldn't Nc6 forking the queen and dark squared bishop been better for white?

[kingscrusher]

Qd6 seems adequate to protect the bishop on b4

[xtreme1002003]

It still would probably have been better. White's definitely worse either way, but at least he wouldn't have been in as bad of a position.

[nedwardgnap]

Thank you very much for the videos kingscrusher, they are very instructive and enjoy them a great deal