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alright then let's dance

cause uh tonight

we're gonna do something a little bit different

I want to do something slightly off beat tonight

uh so we'll look at this position here

and then we'll read the comment

from the person on YouTube that uh

submitted this opening

uh we'll get it on the board really quick

let's uh let's get to it alright

so d 4 and we'll be checking it out from uh

Black's point of view tonight and night

f 6 okay

so far everything's perfectly normal

uh black is taking control

he's not letting you play e 4

so white will almost always play c 4

the idea is to play Knight c 3

and then try to get e 4 in if black allows it

and okay we have a ton of moves here

so the most popular is E6

and then usually you get a Nimzo Indian

but you could get a Queen's Indian or a Catalan

depending on on White's mood

you might also expect uh

the king's you know Indian or maybe if you play here

maybe you'll get a Grunfeld

who knows uh

this move is you know

more popular than what we're gonna see tonight

so is this uh even this is

but tonight

we're gonna be looking at the move Knight to C six

so a very unusual move

and this leads us into the Black Knights Tango

so not only is it a cool name

I wanna read the comment from me love peas too

can you guys cover the Black Knights tango

it's not very popular

but there's nothing wrong with it smiley face

so yeah I think that's pretty accurate

and it's interesting

cause I always ask people before my lectures

you know

what do you guys think of this opening and whatever

and you know

the the resounding response this week was well

that's terrible you can't be playing this I mean

look knight to C6 right it just looks awful

but I do tend to agree with me love peas

because I do think you get some sound positions

and I think no matter what line they play

you will get a perfectly fine and playable position

I don't think it's dubious

it's a you know

it's not the wandering king that Danny Machuca loves

you know

you're not just playing ridiculous moves on purpose uh

I think it's fine and here uh

there's actually three moves

that we're gonna be looking at tonight

so we'll check out three different games and it's

it's uh it's very provocative right

you're pretty much I'm daring you to try to crush me

get the big pawn center kick my knight around

and that's why it's called the tango

they can attack your knight

kick it all around the board a couple times

and Black's gonna

hope you create a lot of weaknesses in the process

and okay

White's gonna just try to crush you immediately

so the three main moves here are d 5

so we'll take a look at that first night to c 3 okay

that's a logical enough move

and then uh

okay but it does allow the move e 5 by black

which is why the most popular response is knight to f 3

so we'll take a look at that last

but let's accept the challenge

let's see d 5 uh

can white just blow black off the board

does this move work cause if it does

then this might just be refuted right

if we just get all of our pawns out and crush black

then that would mean you couldn't play this way

so this is you know

a critical line we wanna see if it works

and your knight is attacked

so you gotta move it

and it's sort of similar to Alekhine's defense right

where they you know

you encourage them to attack your knight

and you move it around only in the Alekhine

normally the pawns

it's the e pawn that makes it to here

and white sets up his pawns on dark squares

but in this opening

you're gonna see white set up his pawns

on light squares

which makes a little bit of a difference

for one thing

when black gets a chance to attack the center

which he's gonna need to do

when he gets the chance

he's gonna play the move like e six

which unlike the Alekhine

when normally you attack the center with d 6

this enables black to get his bishop out

so he's usually going to one of these two squares

and the black side just from personal experience

this is something I used to play a lot

is usually easier to play than white

because your plan is almost always the same

and it's usually white that has to

decide what setup he's gonna pick

and for some reason occasionally

when I have openings that I do really well with

I just stop playing them so this one

I used to play it all the time

I had good success

and then I just stopped playing it for some reason

so I don't know something about my personality

that's that's something I do a lot uh

alright already we have a threat

so we're gonna go take your pawn

so white has to be really careful here

and I think people unfamiliar with this position

make a lot of mistakes uh

there is sort of uh the move you want to play is e 4

which is very possible that's actually the main move

but you know

some people will defend with the queen or the pawn or

you know they'll even they'll only go to e three

and today we're gonna look at a game where somebody

played queen to C2 and they

you know it's not like a big developing move

you're not getting a big center but uh

we'll look at this one which it has a good point

so right so the queen here

alright we're defending the pawn

we're defending e 4

so we're ready to push our pawn and we're defending c 3

so in a lot of lines whenever we get checked uh

we're gonna you know

they're gonna be able to put a knight here

and the knight will be safe

cause the queen will be protecting it

so you might not be able to damage white's pawns

but it is worth showing uh

one game just because it's

it's so outstanding

I wanted to show this game where somebody really

really tried to crush black and you know

just really went for it

they're gonna play F4 and just try to crush him okay

so black here played this move

of course uh

not here

you know you're not just winning this pond because uh

what does what does black have or sorry

what is White's move here

there's actually two moves that win pretty easily

right queen e 2

which is definitely one of the ways um

and then yeah it's hard for you to sort all this out

also

queen to d 4 is a little more accurate cause then yeah

you know the computer wants you to like

sack your knight and you just take it with the queen

uh so we got black has to be a little bit careful there

so he attacks the center and white goes for it right

I'm just gonna crush you

I'm gonna push all my pawns

so you gotta move your knight and alright

things are looking you know like OK for white you know

if I get a few more moves

I'm gonna get my knights out

I'm gonna protect my center uh

you can play here immediately

white showed a little bit of restraint in the

the following game here um

and let's see if I can tell you who this was

this was Elberg Simulink from a

a 1999 correspondence game so okay

so he took and now what's going on here

the knight jumped in so after he takes

are we getting trapped in there

what's what's going on what's what is Black's big point

well whenever you move your f pawn

you wanna be looking for the

the big queen check and whether

you know that works and can win you the game

so here the move queen h 4 is a very good move uh

you have to block with your g pawn if you don't

you know anywhere you go with the king

you're gonna end up getting checkmated

so you gotta play this move and at the right moment

we're gonna play night takes

G3 and exploit the fact that there's a pin here on the

H file

okay but he played a slightly more accurate move

he threw this check in

and this gives

white the opportunity to make a big mistake

which happened in this game

he should just develop his knight

if he plays bishop to d 2

which is what happened in this game

he's putting his bishop in a pin

this will be you know

important in just a second here

so now he takes all right

so he's threatening to move the knight

so you gotta do something

and white was counting on this resource

knight to f three

but he's actually in some serious trouble here

because black has an outstanding move

so I I had to show it when I saw this okay

I have to show you this game uh

so you might want to pause your videos at home

and we'll see if our audience here can figure out

what did black do in this position

cause it it's an amazing move

night takes F4 threatening night takes E3 check awesome

right awesome yeah

so yeah night takes F4

so I don't yeah

but white was shocked here like what

impossible

and the point is yeah

if you take the queen as Dennis said checkmate

so that would end the game right there

so wow yeah

that just came out of nowhere

if this bishop weren't pinned

then you'd be able to just take this

and the combination wouldn't work

so okay and the game continued uh

white got his bishop out of the way

it was attacked and after this trade

black played another amazing move

so the good moves just keep coming for him

and this time queen h 3 so the same motif yeah

if you if you take the queen

you're gonna get checkmated so very clever stuff uh

he decided to move his rook

and after he took the knight here

black was up 2 pawns and his king is much safer

and he got a very easy and nice game to play

so black was able to convert this

so that does show the danger

you can get into a lot of trouble

you just try to blow them off the board uh

that can get you into some trouble here but okay

we're gonna look at a another game right now

and this is Benito versus Monolache from uh

2,006 so the player uh with the white pieces was a 21

and the player with black was close to 25

so a big disparity in rating and

and it showed in this game so okay

Queen c 2 we should attack the center um alright

white gets the big center that he wants

and now black will make a decision uh

where are you gonna put your your bishop

and are you gonna take here immediately or not

in the game he decided to take immediately

which you don't have to and he threw in the check

so he's decided where he wants his bishop to go

and you can defend either way

I think this move makes the most sense

that's the most natural square for the knight so okay

you could also play bishop to d 2 with you know

that's a little bit of a different game

but alright for time we'll just we'll focus here

and now there's one big mistake you can make

when you play this

so if you're if you play this as black

you really gotta know this one trick

or you can lose a lot of games fast

black is probably considering two moves

either castling or d 6 but d 6 is a horrible blunder

um so white here has a little tactic

so let's see see if we can find it

you can pause your video uh

do you see what white would play in this position

do you have it I believe it's queen a 5 check awesome

alright Dennis is on fire tonight

Queen a 5 check and okay you can't save your bishop

so whatever you do you lose your bishop boop

alright so that's a recurring theme

cause you get these positions all the time

where you can play the move d 6

but you wanna make sure you're castled

or that there's no check on h 4

on a 4 sorry

okay so he castled first

excellent

and in the game a little bit of a mistake was played

it's kind of hard for white here

he needs to come up with a plan

how should he develop his pieces

and black will usually do the same things

he'll move his knights around

get his bishop out

and it's white that has to decide

how are you gonna set up your pieces

and okay in the game he chose Bishop to G 5

which is a mistake and a very instructive one um

so we'll look at that

but I think it's it's worth wondering

you know what happens if we play F4

isn't that a critical line

uh what happens in here

so I'll just show one brief line that could happen

alright so White's gonna defend the center

Black's gonna attack it and we'll just get

some position where we've castled here

and you know white is about to have a big advantage

he has the nice center

if he can get a couple more developing moves

if he could just had the move h 3 in it would stop

you know

Black's good move that he can actually play here

but after night to G 4

Black is just in time to uh get something going

his leading development was just

enough that he could get a

a good position here and already there's

there's some problems

based on the fact that bishop to C 5 check

is really annoying and it's

it's a pretty serious threat

so he has to do something

but let's blunder so we can we can show the point

we'll just move the bishop

and we'll allow bishop to to c 5 check

and after the king moves

I mean there's nothing else uh

the move that I

think most people would play here will work

but there's an even better move

so I guess

what would you guys play in a position like this

it looks like we're getting them good here

how about e three with the bishop

what's that e three with the bishop e 3 with the bishop

all right

you're just trying to trade dark squared bishops

is that your is that your point

and then if I take yeah the knight will fork me okay

so what if I defend this square

okay

I just don't want you to put one of your pieces here

and I don't want you to put a piece here

so these are all common motifs in this position here

so I if I get one move

maybe I'll be able to stop all your threats

so that's an interesting idea

and it works

if your opponent plays along and takes your bishop

and you get to fork them

but I think most people here would probably

play night to f 2

that looks like a good move

and white is compelled to take with the rook cause

you know

not taking you're there's gonna be some problems

so this does win an exchange and so that's pretty good

but there's an even stronger move here

and that move is night takes h 2

the point is pretty much whatever you're doing here

I'm bringing my queen in and this bishop is you know

stopping your king from moving

so the real point to if you take

you just get checkmated you wouldn't be able to take

and this is a little bit stronger than

if you had just put the knight on f

2 in this position but it just goes to show

whenever white spends a lot of time

you know attacking all of your pieces and

you know moving all of his pawns forward

especially that f pawn a lot of bad stuff can happen on

on some of these diagonals here

so okay

so we castled first in the game Bishop to G5

and this is a nice mistake to make cause uh

it's something that I see a lot of

you know people doing

and here it's a 21 player that

that did it

you don't usually want to make this pin

when Black's move h 6 is a

is a good move so whenever you play bishop to g 5

you always need to be calculating h six

and here uh

white really doesn't want to take the knight

I mean that's

why would you you know

just give your bishop away for a knight

if you were going to do that

you probably should have just stayed home

and try to stay on your natural diagonal

uh so yes

so he must go back here uh

he could go back but also that's

you know that's

that's probably his best move

he should just retreat uh

he went back and now uh

he's gonna compel white to take this knight anyway

which is why this move wasn't very good

white at some point is thinking about playing f 4

so it makes sense to want to move this knight

just so that f 4 doesn't come with tempo

and here you get to attack the bishop

so now white pretty much has to take the knight

and then admit that he's worse

so this bishop's square didn't really work for him uh

one point is if we go back here

black has a simple little tactic

hopefully you guys can see it

uh he can just take this pawn

so yeah exploiting the pin

so that's why white he has to take this

and we take back and Black's position is much better

we got the two bishops

it's not obvious why White Center was pushed

and something that seems to happen

uh occurred in this game whenever you play this line

people always from move 1

they're thinking you know

I gotta crush you

there's something wrong with this opening

I need to always be thinking about crushing you

and that kind of lasts long into the game

even when people are worse or something

they're still thinking well

I gotta just keep doing something crazy and crush you

to prove that this opening is unsound

so here white went queenside

which is very dangerous but maybe he's still hoping

all right

I'm still gonna get these guys rolling somehow

someday and I'm gonna attack you

and my attack is gonna be faster

but it turns out that's

that's probably not the case in this situation

so okay black needs to make a move uh

let's let's get our pieces out

and Black's attacking plan is

he's gonna get this bishop out of the way

and he can open the C file at his choosing

and he can bring one of his rooks to the C file

and that's coming pretty quickly

white on the other hand

if he chooses some sort of slow attacking plan

uh like all these moves it's gonna take him 3

4 5 moves to even start his attack

and black will be a little bit quicker over here

so uh he decided again not a developing move

but he doesn't want after night to uh

f 3 for black to be able to play Bishop to g 4

so that's why he played here and okay

so we see it striking at the center

and he really doesn't mind

he's hoping that you take this because opening the

the B file is gonna be excellent for black

and the fact that you have

you know weakened ponds there in the center right

you got some hanging ponds

that's not as important as the dynamic

play that Black's gonna get

so lots of these positions in the tangle

they end up being really dynamic

where it's more important

to have active and powerful pieces than

it is to have a healthy pawn structure

because in this situation

everybody's playing for checkmate here

so okay he got his knight out

he got the bishop out of the way

now a rook is coming to c 8 and alright

it's not easy to play white in this position

let's see what he did

so he moves the king out of the way

and either Rook can go to C8

but uh alright

he's he's looking pretty good in this position

okay

so alright not the not the best

maybe he did want to uh make sure his rook was always

protecting this deep pond

so we'll see what happened now

uh he took the knight and it's you know interesting

this was always something that white had to calculate

what happens if he takes my knight

will I have to take with my queen or with a pawn

and he took with a pawn if you take with the queen

which is also you know a thing

it might even be a little bit better

once you see the game you might think that this

the position you'll see here is a little bit better

so black can either just grab this pawn

and he's a pawn up um

black is much better in this position so

but he can also not do that he can just take here

not win any material in this line

after something like this

he's not up any material but his position is great

this knight is looking at all these excellent

dark squares

the rook is gonna swing over here and if knight to B 3

one of the points is bishop to a four

and whatever you do next we

we grab this guy and we just continue putting our

our pieces on good places

and it'll be a tough endgame for uh

for black to ultimately win

but he's a lot better

so he should have really good chances of winning

uh so you can compare that to the game

cause what happens in the game is he takes uh

with his pawn

okay so we take in the center

and this guy is particularly weak

so white

black needs to come up with a way to attack that pond

and there's there's a couple different ways to do it

Rook to c 5 is fine

and you have two knight moves that can do it

and he chose the more active one

so knight to f 4 and you have some problems

how do you defend your pawn

one problem for instance is uh

you can't move your knight away

because either rook takes c 3 or bishop to f 5

I mean bishop to f 5 looks pretty crushing here

uh would be pretty bad for you

so notice this knight is also defending the f 5 square

which might be important in a lot of these lines here

so he decided queen to B 3

it's also worth noting that if uh

c 4 one way black and just keep attacking is b 5

and okay this is gonna be quite good for him uh

you can't take this either way

we're gonna open this up

and we're gonna start attacking

so he decided Queen b 3

that's the way to do it and alright

he attacks the pawn again

so he had to defend with his c pawn and now how to

to keep attacking here uh

well the move he played in the game was fine

I think

it's a move a lot of people would play on autopilot

here he brought his rook over alright

doubling your rooks

which is obviously very good for him

but I

he did miss a chance to play an even stronger move

which is b 5 and yeah

it's hard to to do anything about that uh

for example

if you take with the knight what would black play here