Opening Traps, Gambits, & Rare Ideas MASTERCLASS | ft. Grandmaster Aman Hambleton
I joined GM Aman Hambleton of @chessbrah to spill lots of secrets about our favorite tricky openings, weird gambits, and crazy ideas! Study the games and openings featured in this video: lichess.org/study/vziEX4WV Timestamps below!
0:00 What to expect...
1:50 How I moved into the Chessbrah apartment & small talk
4:53 The plan for the stream
6:35 Aman's Dubious opening leaking into classical chess
7:25 My Secret List of rare openings
11:00 XQC inspired opening idea
15:50 Magnus Carlsen’s cool idea against Hikaru
17:58 How to find tricky openings?
20:50 AMAN’S Garbage Openings of Greatness
22:20 A Playable Fred Defense/Bong Cloud?
27:20 GAME 1: King’s Gambit Delayed Bong Cloud
36:00 GAME 2: King’s Gambit Falkbeer Countergambit
42:50 Cool Traps in the Falkbeer Countergambit
48:50 Wesley’s So’s CRAZY MOVE
51:48 NIFTY TRAP against London System
54:20 GAME 3 — Benoni Gambit leads to 3 BISHOP MATE
1:01:10 BENONI GAMBIT ACCEPTED EXPLAINED
1:06:10 GAME 4: Grand Prix Sicilian
1:18:30 2 Knights Attack vs Caro kann
1:31:50 Weird Queen’s Gambit Line
1:33:55 How to win at Copy Cat Chess
1:35:45 STAFFORD GAMBIT TIME
1:56:05 Benoni Gambit Meets Danish Gambit Inspired Smith Morra Gambit
2:03:16 Wing Gambit and other cool lines against the French Defense
2:06:35 g3 Sicilian & more tidbits of wisdom
2:09:20 Englund Gambit GMDerek Trap (kind of fail)
2:19:50 Aman’s Favorite Opening Hands Down — Owen’s Defense
2:23:50 NASELWAUS GAMBIT
2:25:23 Hikaru’s secret weapon to beat every GM
2:27:23 London Fun
2:28:50 My Favorite Dumb Dirty Opening (Tricky Budapest Gambit)
2:31:05 Traps AGAINST the Budapest Gambit
2:33:45 Best London Trap and conclusion…
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