I Found An Overlooked Opening To Beat 1.e4

What's up guys today ?

I'm gonna be teaching you an overlooked line that you can play against E four as Black .

Now growing up , I would go to tournaments and I was , I would always be excited when I would get paired as white because I knew that I was gonna most likely get into a decent position out of the opening and have good chances to win the game .

But when I would play as black , I would feel like it was always an uphill battle .

Like I would just get into these bad positions out of the opening .

I'd be fighting to not get checkmated in the 1st 10 or 15 moves .

If I was lucky , I would make it , you know , through to the middle game .

And maybe by the end of the game , I would get into an equal position and try to play for a win .

I just really didn't feel comfortable , comfortable for a long time playing as black .

And I've read some comments , some of you guys have said the same thing that you struggle playing as black .

And so I think this is going to give you a nice option to play against E four .

So the line that I'm gonna be showing you guys is out of the Sicilian defense .

Now , you probably think of the Sicilian as being a super advanced uh highly theoretical opening where you have to know lots and lots of theory , you have to have studied it for years and years .

But what you're gonna find out is that there is this particular line that I'm gonna show you that that's not the case .

All right .

And so we're gonna be focusing on the main line .

So nine to F three , I'm not gonna be covering the sidelines here .

The other sidelines that white has are focusing on the main line nine of three .

And the move that I'm gonna be teaching you guys today is a six .

This is called the O Kelly variation .

And surprisingly , it's hardly played at all .

It's played about 2% of the time from this position as black .

Vast majority of people here are playing night C six and D six and then pretty many also play E six .

And then sometimes you see G six but A six is very rarely played .

And when you first see this move , it's kind of like , well , shouldn't we be developing our pieces or fighting for control of the center or getting ready to castle our king ?

Like , what are we doing ?

Pushing this random pawn over here on a six ?

Well , it has to do primarily with the fact that in a lot of the variations in the Sicilian defense , the B five square is a very crucial square .

And you know , sometimes you end up playing a six later anyway .

But if you don't , let's just say , for example , uh we play some other moves , this is always a possibility that you have to think about , right ?

Like maybe , you know , this night comes in over here or this night comes here or the bishop puts you in check .

And if you ever play E five to kind of strike at the center , you still have to think about this and this pawn can become weak and you can get attacked by a knight .

And um it's just something that you kind of always have to think about .

And so it's not actually as bad of a move as it might look , it's a very um useful move for us because immediately we put a stop to any ideas that white might have .

And here's the really interesting thing in almost all Sicilian variations for black .

Anything that we might play and almost all of them , a good move for white is to play D four .

It's just , it's just what you do if you're playing against Sicilian , you play , you know , you play E four , you play 93 , you play D four very , very natural and common move .

And actually , it's the most common move played here with over half of the games , you know , reaching this position people playing D four .

And it turns out this is actually not a good move , it's just not a good move for White .

Um And it has to do with a particular line which I'm gonna show you in just a second .

Now , of course , White doesn't have to play D four .

There are some other options that they do have here .

And by the way , I should mention , this is a new course that I just released on my course page .

So if you want to check that out , I talk about all the other options uh as well in there that white can play .

But for this video , I'm kind of giving you away part of that course for free , I'm gonna , you know , cover completely what you need to do and what you need to know against D four .

But I'm just mentioning if you do want at the end of the video , if you feel like you've learned and you want to start playing the system and you want to get the rest of the lines , check out the course , the link will be in the description below .

Like I said , it's a brand new course , um just released it the other day .

But for right now , let's go ahead and continue with D four , which most people are going to play D four , especially if they haven't seen this before .

Uh And they don't understand the idea .

They're just gonna go for the natural you know , D four .

So we're gonna take it and they could take with the queen .

Most people aren't gonna do that because then we just attack it with our knight and they lose a tempo .

Doesn't really make a lot of sense .

Most people are gonna take with the knight and now we're gonna play 92 F six attacking the pawn .

And this is a very standard Sicilian idea .

So this is not gonna be surprising to , to white just yet .

And most people are going to defend it with the knight .

This is really a logical move , develops a piece , defends the pawn and most Sicilian players are going to be familiar with , with this idea , right ?

And now is where we surprise them .

OK ?

Now is where we surprise them .

We play the move E five .

And normally when you're playing the Sicilian and you play E five , you have to think about what happens if the night hops over to B five , you also have to think in the lines where you've played D six , right ?

You have to think about what happens when the bishop comes out and puts you in check .

OK .

Uh So just going back to the beginning for a second to show you what I'm talking about in the main line , Sicilian with the night or you would start with D six and then after D four takes night F six , night C three , if you were to play the move E five right here .

There's a , there's a very real possibility that that white's gonna play something like this bishop to B five check .

And if you just play this sort of natural bishop D seven , they're gonna take you .

And however you take doesn't really matter .

They're gonna hop over to F five and already white has a nice advantage .

OK ?

You have a weak pawn here .

You can't really defend that too , too well , you have a , a hole here .

You also have to watch out for night B five and it's just not good for black , right ?

If we compare that and we go back to the line that I was just showing you after a six , right ?

D four takes , takes night of six night C three E five .

There is no more bishop to B five check .

There's no more nine B five there .

You don't even have to think about that because we've already solved that problem by playing a six .

OK ?

And at this point , the best thing for , for white to do is to just say , OK , you know what the opening didn't work out for me .

I'm just gonna retreat and say , you know what , OK , fine .

It's an equal position .

Black surprise me and the game goes on .

But if they don't want to do that , which most people who are playing , you know , the Sicilian as White , they're trying to get advantage .

They don't want to just settle for some equal position , they're gonna try probably to go forward and attack you and if they do this and now you can play the move D five .

OK .

We have both of our pawns in the center now .

And white actually has a big problem with this night over here .

For example , if they take us , guess what ?

They just lost their night , can't do that .

If they take here with the night , we can just take it .

And again , they can't ever take with the pawn or they're losing their night over here .

And so if they take with the queen , well , then we just trade the queens and again , we win a piece in all of those variations , right ?

So that's kind of the big problem that white has .

All right .

So they can't really take our pawn .

Um Probably the best thing that they could do would be to play bishop to G five .

But even here , we can play the move D four gaining space with tempo .

And again , it's a very awkward position for white .

Most people in this position make the mistake and play nine to D five trying to be aggressive and take advantage of this pin .

And if you'd like to pause and think through what's the move that we can play here as black , we just have a winning move .

Well , if you had a chance to look at that , the move that we play is simply bishop takes F five .

And we're actually just winning a piece because if white takes us back , well , then their night is um undefended and we can just take it right .

So we win a piece that way .

And if they try to , let's just say , trade off the night first with a check , we take back with the pawn .

And again , we have an attack on the bishop so that they do take our bishop , we take their bishop and again , we come out with two pieces and white only has one .

We win , we win a minor piece , right ?

And there's no way around that for white .

They just lose a piece if they play 9 to 5 .

So that's a very common .

I won't say it's a little trap .

It's just kind of a tactical error that white can make .

Uh but you just win a piece if they play that .

And so what they need to do is um either retreat the night or take here on F six if they take here , uh we can simply take back and the night's gonna go somewhere again , it can't go here or it loses a piece to the same idea , right ?

So it has to kind of retreat , let's just say night to E two .

And this is a pretty comfortable position for us .

Um White has kind of gone backwards .

We have a very annoying pawn chain here in the center .

We have more space and this is just very pleasant to play for black going back .

Um The other thing that's that people will play sometimes in this position is Knight to G three instead of bishop to G five .

But on night to G three again , we play D four .

It kick the night away and once they retreat , we have this really nice move uh queen to B six .

And the interesting thing about this position is look at white's pieces for a second .

This bishop is stuck .

It would like to come out .

But the knights blocking it that night doesn't really have anywhere that it can move to unless it wants to go back to G one which doesn't make a lot of sense .

The bishop can't go this way to be to be Keto because this night is blocking , right , which also doesn't really have a lot of good squares .

You can't go there , you could go here , but then you're gonna get captured .

I don't know how good that is .

This bishop is the only other piece that white needs to develop .

Um But you then you lose this pawn .

And so it's kind of like white's already in it .

You know , we're on move eight and it's like , I don't even know what white can play here right there .

There's not a lot of options for white .

Uh We have ideas of H five H four trapping this night over here or just simply developing our pieces to good squares .

We have all sorts of options .

This is the dream , right ?

This is the dream position to play for black and it was very simple and , and white didn't really do anything like blatantly obviously wrong .

If we go back and look at these , these moves very , very obvious .

Most natural move for white was D four right here .

Super obvious move .

You got to defend your pawn , why not do it and , and develop a piece and then natural kind of like try to be aggressive , try to find a place for my night to go .

You can't go anywhere else , right ?

And it's just not a good move , right ?

Like I said , they , they should really go back .

Uh Even if they go back to F three , bishop to B four is kind of the other idea that we have in this position , we have quick development and already we're putting some serious pressure on the center and White has to figure out a way to deal with that .

After uh bishop D three , we can play D five again .

I mean , look at this , this looks great .

We're ready to castle .

We , we're threatening to play D four and win a piece .

We're threatening to take here and fork these pieces .

Um White has to figure out how to deal with that .

We've got very natural developing moves to follow up .

We have all sorts of options with our queen , right ?

And it's really that simple .

OK .

So I wanted to show you guys this line because when I was , you know , preparing and , and creating this course , I just couldn't believe that it's not played more often .

I mean , this is a really solid option for Black , in my opinion .

And um yeah , I hope you guys enjoyed this video .

I hope you learn from it now , like I said , of course , White doesn't have to play D four .

They could play some other things which I do cover in the course .

Um So if you're interested in , in learning a little bit more , you know , check that out , but you can actually just take what I gave you right now , start playing this as black and in a lot of your games , people are going to be playing D four and you can go right into right into that line .

One other thing I want to show you real quick , I just put together this little PDF .

It goes along with the course .

Um And it's just kind of like a summary of what you learn in the course .

And it's , it's kind of just to jog your memory .

It's , it's , you know , kind of gives you what's the main idea of the O Kelly ?

What , what are we doing here ?

Some diagrams and you know , we talk about how it's most common response is bad for White and I'm not gonna give away everything but uh very , very short little PDF S like 16 to 18 pages , I think or just some , you know , little stuff like this just to kind of give you an idea .

Um But yeah , that's included in the course as well and I think you're gonna have a lot of fun .

I think you're gonna be excited to play against E four .

And um yeah , let me know what you guys think , what your experience is with this move .

And um for those of you who are interested , I'll see you inside the course .

Like I said , link is in the description below but having said that stay sharp , please mark , take care .