Win FAST with the Fajarowicz Gambit

Are you looking for something that you can play against a d4 that is very exciting, really fun to play and also gives you the opportunity to win very quickly? Well, you might want to try the Fujarowitz

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. This is something you can play against d4. You play with the horse. f6 and after c4 you play e5 this is the budapest

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only after recapture instead of playing the main plan which is knight to g4 with some ideas of potentially recovering this epon you are going to play knight to e4 and this is a very fierce gambit is something where black is basically saying I don't even want to try to get that pawn back.

I'm just going to play to be active at all costs. I'm going to trust the dynamics of the position I'm going to take. create interesting complicated positions where the imagination will go very far and a creative player could generate all kinds of interesting ideas that lead to a lot of fun and let's delve into this, not so much in theory, but what I have actually decided to do for this video is to show them a lot of miniatures. There are so many traps, some of which people might know about, like the amazing and mind-blowing queen trap, if you've never seen it.

It's going to blow your mind, uh, and all kinds of different little traps. I've decided to organize it this way rather than delve too deeply into the theoretical side of things, but I want to do a quick basic overview before continuing. in these games and before I show you the seven really quick wins for Black and what I do want to say about this opening is that the knight to e4 is a very annoying move for a player, especially if he has nothing in I don't care because the horse is doing very well. I mean, not only could we have tactical threats against f2 at some point, but we're also basically preventing white from making a natural move like the knight to c3 because if you wanted to play this. move now or in the next moves in addition to being able to play bishop to b4 by fixing your knight we will always have the option to take this by doubling your pawns you now have double pawns you have an isolated pawn at the end The game will always have objectives and in a position like this, even If we somehow don't get this e-pawn back, we will always have some kind of compensation due to the destroyed structure on the white queen side, which is why white needs to come up with a better plan in this position and there are basically two options. principals at the upper level.

You can see that there are basically two very popular options that do not deal directly with this knight at least on the first move and that would be knight to f3 this is by far the most principled move it is the most logical piece that you want to develop but you will notice that there are also a3 which scores very well for White this is often touted as the real antidote to Fujarowitz is probably What I would recommend if you are playing white is this a3 move which removes this b4 bishop from the equation and we will see that these are the two most popular moves , so when we begin our studies of the miniatures.

We'll dig a little deeper into the theory and show you some games where this happens, but there's also another subset of moves that I consider debilitating moves, any move that White can make that tries to eliminate this e4. knight immediately, this type of moves would be something like knight to d2, just in order of what is most popular, it is an attempt to solve the problem of the knight being on e4 immediately, there is also the queen on c2, this It's just attacking the horse directly. and then there are a variety of other queen moves, the queen can go to d4 d5 and do something to try to get the knight to move away.

There is another line that is not so popular in the master database. I don't think it's ever been played, but you. Beginners might play, we know the c3 knight is a bit of a mistake, but another way to try to dislodge the knight that would end very badly for White would be the f3 move and you can probably already see some clues as to why this might be wrong. , if you have any experience crushing people who have played f3, you will know that the h4 queen is a huge piece of this puzzle, but there is actually a stronger move, so you might want to think about it for a minute, but I'll go. ruin this and get to even better things uh bishop to b4 is an even better move to close the door this is forcing white to put something in the path uh of the king so there's no escape, you'll see why that's important in just a minute but now after queen to h4 you can see that there is only one way to escape from check and now white is basically doomed because after g3 we are taking here and if you step back immediately this is just a checkmate you can also imagine White could try something a little different in this position and realize that there is no time to even catch this knight.

You can imagine them taking on b4, but this is also devastating for the white knight on e4 and the king has nowhere to run, so this would also be a checkmate. you can get some ideas, which is a little hard for white to come up with a good plan, but let's jump right into the games and see what's going on here, so black sash wit the gambit here it is, it's on the board and let's start with a game where white played the most common knight move to f3 but then fell into one of the most epic traps of all time, in any opening this is like a mega giant trap and before we dive into it.

I want to briefly explain that there are a couple of different moves here that could be played. I'll even put them in the leading chess database so you can see what amateur players will tend to fall into, but the basic ideas. Can you play the strongest line bishop to b4? This is the way stockfish would play. There is d6, which is a move where you will surrender. And then there's this b6 move that was played in the game and we. You'll see the monster trap that you could be setting for white and then there's a variety of other moves, so black actually this is a really flexible opening where you have a lot of opportunities to freestyle and do it your way, so If you're feeling this is a good opening for you, before we dive into b6 and take a look at some of these traps, I want to point out that this is what stockfish would recommend, this is the strongest way to play for black and immediately raises a great question and you will see why some players would like to play a3 just to avoid all this mess because now White already needs to decide if he is going to put a knight in front of his bishop or he is going to put a bishop on d2 and plan to Black is basically the same after any of these, now you are going to capture this and after the knight takes, you are going to try to win this e5 pawn and you are almost sure. to be able to do it after the knight to c6, for example, you can imagine that a3 is played if they don't play a3, if they play e3, you just try to get this pawn back, but if they take it, you'll go here.

We'll play the queen on e7 and all we're really trying to do is get this e-pawn back, so if the queen goes to c3, this would be another attempt by White to try to hold on to this pawn for as long as possible. Imagine castling e3 and eventual rook to e8 and we'll be able to get this pawn back now that you can, this is the most solid way to play, maybe that's not why you're playing the Fujarowitz gambit, maybe white is playing this. Waiting for some time when you get a position like this, White can maybe argue that my structure is slightly better.

My chances of a minority attack are slightly better, but this is probably not objectively White's best attempt to try to win this game or punish this tactic. but maybe this is not the reason why you play with the wit of the fajar. Look also, I just want to quickly point out that if instead of the bishop they go with the knight, it's basically the same thing. uh sometime we can go here and then when we are. he asked, maybe they play e3 and just ignore things for a little longer, but every time they ask us, we'll go to something like this, we'll go here, we'll eventually win, even if you go here we'll castle, uh, we play. rookie eight and we'll eventually get this pun back, so boom, let's take this on the next move.

Okay, it's a good variation for Black, but that's probably not why you're playing this and d6 is something we're going to come back to. and look d6 is an important option just to keep in mind if you get recaptured, you retreat and basically your point in a line like this is hey, I'm going to develop pieces very quickly. The queen goes to e7, maybe f6, maybe I castle queenside. maybe he'll get some kind of attack, we'll see lines where this happens in the future, but there's also this line that's really hard to resist when you know it exists and it's this move from pawn to b6 and now this is going to be the game we're in. checking right now and b6 seems to be sensible, it's quite normal, in this structure, to play bishop from b6 to b7, but it looks like potentially black has made a serious air and you can imagine, especially if there is a low game.

If a qualified player played this you would say, oh yeah, they just made a mistake with the queen on d5 and White is already excited. White is thinking I'm going to win this game and then you can play this extraordinary bishop move to b7 and now White's. You have to slow down a little because you are now about to enter Black's position. There is an incredible move: you sacrifice the bishop that White takes and now the knight to c6 and you immediately realize that the door is closing on the white queen and Black now. ready to play knight to c5 and this would just trap the queen, uh, so if you randomly move the knight to c5, the queen has nowhere to go and black wins, so what would you do here with white?

I mean, I think most people would play. queen to a6 and your idea is that you are going to flee, so now if black plays knight to c5 you will be able to flee and although the queen enters diagonally with the bishop, there is really no good way to take advantage. of the situation as black, so you need to be a little smarter and come up with a little better move in this game and this is what happened in this game, how are we going to make sure we keep the a3 square defended when we play knight to c5 well black came up with the bishop to b4 so you throw this check so that after white blocks with something you can now play knight to c5 and the queen is very close to being trapped with the bishop here on b4 now there is no chance to run to a6, you still have the b5 square and black must be careful with one more move, eh, and that is that you must exchange immediately, it seems that you are about to play a6 and catch the queen, without However, if you do this right away, you are at least giving White the option of grabbing a couple of pieces and, surprisingly, it would actually be White who has material in this position, but if you are careful, get rid of the bishop and only then will he play a6.

Take a look around and the queen is really trapped. This is one of the scariest traps you can play in this game, so it's an idea worth knowing for both sides where you play b6 and if they go in, you'll be able to win the queen, beautiful things now let's continue our research with another game uh this is another fajara woods gambit but this time let's take a look at ba3 the most popular move sorry this is a3 potentially the antidote to fjarowitz and I wanted to show this. one because this is another b6 opening and let's take a look at what happened here, white played the queen on c2, it's the same if they decide to go in, you play bishop on b7, but what if white is a little more clever ?

Well, I like it. this game also because there was another trap that black came up with in this game after the bishop to b7 knight to c3 uh, white has solved the problem of how are you going to deal with this guy playing a3 without letting us pin by putting the queen here keeps so much pressure on the knight that we are basically forced to exchange, but now Black made a very clever move in this position and set a very nice little trap that I think would be very easy for an opponent to drop and you can see by the ratings they are actually relatively decent players in a long standard tournament game and after a5, which seems fine, just a good solid prophylactic move, maybe white was thinking of playing b4 by placing the bishop on this diagonal, So you know I will. just play a5 now, I'll close it long after the knight gets to f3.

White got a little wake-up call here and Black made an absolutely tremendous move. Can you see the winning move for Black here? I'm going to do pretty well. quickly, so if you need more time, always make sure to pause the video, but here black played bishop on b4 and this is the move that wins on the spot. It's tremendous. You have nailed the queen to the king. You're skewering the queen to the king. and most importantly, you cannot retreat with this pawn because now, after a takes b4, we are not only attacking the queen, but we have opened the door.a-file, so now we should be gaining material no matter what, so if the queen takes here, Grab this rook and White is not only down on material, but he is also in tremendously bad shape, having to deal of defending this position, so it's a fantastic little trap to keep a pawn on a5 and hit it with the bishop on b4, a really cool one, stringing the pieces together, okay?

This is one of the most popular. I hope you haven't seen it. One of the most popular traps that I want to highlight and this is something that happens in this position and the reason I put this one in this is. Probably the shortest game. I believe there is a six move trap here and it is also one of the oldest examples of this trap happening. So I also want to show you the most common way this trap could occur, which is actually quite interesting, it is one of the traps. which most people tend to fall into when you look at the a3 database, white's best move and now after. d6 we had mentioned that b6 was an option here, let's take a look at this d6 move which has the idea that if they recover the capture immediately, we will recover it and prioritize development. it's just a normal tactic where we are disappointed, that's great, but you have to be a little careful here with white, there is already a little trap and in this game the opponent played g3, we will also take a look at what if do they play the f3 knight?

That would be the most popular move, but can you see the winning move here? This is already a mistake for White. Now the winning move is the knight takes f2 and suddenly you can see what is happening. We have bifurcated the queen and the rook and if white decides to take it back, now we see that the queens are lined up, so the bishop taking g3 is the winning move, after white takes it back we take the queen and win the game now, which is really more incredible. about this, at least in my observation, if we check this entire game in the database, this is the Fujarowicz gambit a3, big move d6, you can see that it is the most popular move, um, if they take with the pawn, it is they will almost certainly lose.

So Knight F3 is what most players will play. There are 6,000 games, more than a thousand of them have been taken immediately. About 2,000 people will play Knight F3 and everyone else will just play something totally different, but if they accept this pun, they are almost certainly going to lose if they just toe the line because after the bishop takes, the f3 knight goes and you can see it's 856 games out of 1700, so about half of the people will fall for this if you jump into this, it's the same thing. Exactly what the knight takes f2 and if the king takes the bishop g3 uh-oh the king can't even run back to protect the queen so anything you take with you will lose a queen, this is a good idea to know If you play the d6 line, this is an important thing to know because this is one of the games that most people will end up falling in love with.

This game is not actually a miniature. This is the only type of longer game I saved here, but it's actually the game it inspired. that I did this whole conference, I was watching this at night, I was watching some frajarowicz games and I was playing guess the move on my phone and when I saw this game I thought, oh my God, this is tremendous and this is how it led me to do this full video now these ratings here may not be accurate this is two airmanas this is the computer chess tournament uh this was a game played in 2003 but some very strong players and you can see that white is even the highest rated opponent in this position and white played the pawn move to a3, the best move for white, fantastic, black played the knight to c6, obviously d6 was the main move potentially, but whatever this gets us there, Black played the line with d6 where you capture a pawn.

Take this out and what I love about this game is that White played absolutely normal. White simply took the pawn and then made the most logical normal development moves you could ever make and then immediately got punished for it, so you'll see exactly what a knight on d2 means a very logical move trying to undermine this knight and the Black needs to continue developing to keep the pressure on what you want to do is that you are playing very dynamically you are losing a pawn you develop your pieces as quickly as possible queen to f uh sorry, bishop to f5 with the idea that next you can put your queen somewhere, whether e7 or f6, you can castle the queenside very quickly and you can play for some kind of initiative in the middlegame, white decided to take black. and after e3, white just says: you know what I'm going to develop this bishop, maybe e2, maybe to d3, I'll castle and I'll play the game from there.

Now comes the queen to e7, bishop to e2, castles long and now Black has made a threat, so Black managed to castle first, Black already has all the minor pieces out and now we are threatening the bishop with b4 to potentially win this queen, so White has to waste another turn doing something with this queen and in the The queen to a4 game is what was played by putting the queen on a safe square, although it is not necessarily doing much in this diagonal, we're not too worried about what's happening, at least not yet, and when I saw this, I came to this. position I'm lying on the bed in front of my phone and I say, okay, I'm playing, guess the move, it's fine with me, but how is black going to attack here?

And when I saw what the black women came up with, I was very excited. Black made a fantastic move here, pawn to g5. This is how you continue to get the initiative and know what we are going to play with the pawn to g4. Next, we'll kick your horse and potentially reveal an attack. this g-pawn, so white already has to do something to save this pawn, so white played what I guess would be the most normal and logical thing you could think of. You know you don't have time, for example, leave me. make some random attack move on the other side we will play g4 this is not what happened in the game and you can't go here because of the queen you will have to come back but then the g pawn this is what I'm talking about this is one of problems for white so instead of playing b4 or something white has to take the time to defend the g pawn and they played castlings now the king is the one defending the g word game but now black played . amazing combination and another thing that was really cool, you can think about what black should play here when I put this on my phone engine at the end of the game, this computer didn't see it, it was a stockfish version. obviously for mobile so it's not like the strongest version of stockfish ever but I couldn't find it so can you come up with the winning attack that my phone didn't come up with?

From this position, it logically starts with g4 knight to d2, but well, now, how do you continue the attack? The way to do it is with a notable sacrifice. The bishop takes h2, the king takes the queen, h4, the king comes back and now you have to continue, you know you've gone for it. I have sacrificed a whole piece, but where is the mate? It is actually a double bishop sacrifice. The bishop takes g2, so even though you defended g2, I'll take it anyway and after you recover, I'll be much

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er at getting something. of these pieces in the attack and it is noticeable that you are up, well, two bishops because I sacrificed two bishops, but all your pieces are on the other side of the board, so the queen checks the king back g6 uh g3 sorry and suddenly White faces this checkmate attack and it seems that Black is going to crash into the knight f3 played trying to defend the h2 square and now the rook comes to g8 and another piece enters the attack uh, White played e4 as if White was paralyzed waiting to see if death comes, try to play e4, nothing really happens and the only problem in this incredible attacking game is that Black could have played the g2 pawn in this position and you will take this with check discovered mate or I'm going to play this move on the next move, uh, but instead Black decided to take this, which also leads to mate, but yeah, a little bit slower after this check, the king ran to e3, if you come back, there will be a mate control attack. after here all you can really do is block, you can see the king get trapped and this rook is playing a powerful role in this attack.

He is actually blocking the king from escaping and instead we saw after the queen on h6 white resigned before playing. Obviously you could give away some stuff, look how pretty this tower is, all the pieces are very well coordinated, you would have to play here, but I guess checkmate is here, followed by here, it looks like a mate. that could have been delivered in the game, so that was fantastic and I thought white was really just playing model chess, you just develop the pieces, you take the pawn, you develop it into pieces, you get castled, but in this game it ended up being destroyed, here's other. game, let's see, we have the Fujarowicz gambit and this time we are going to delve into what happens when the opponent plays the queen 2v2.

This would be one of the most popular ways to try to undermine this horse, so we no longer discuss what happens in the two most popular moves. What happens if White simply decides to try to get rid of this knight? Well, there is another amazing game that happened in this position and it happened after d5. It's worth noting that again you always have options. As there are always many different ways for Black to play, the bishop to b4 would be the most popular way to continue from this position and again you are likely to get a stronger position where your main objective is simply to get this back. epon this is always the way to continue recommended by the computer, it is always the strongest but not necessarily the most exciting, but obviously you will get a very similar position to the one we have already seen, you play knight to c6 hey, I just want to get this pawn you defend it I attack it if you play e3 I can take this pawn if you play here you know we'll trade some things and eventually we'll get a position where I can get the pawn back and we I can play a dry position like this where I mean I can say I'm marginally better or something like that, but whatever it is, there is another option, a betting option available to you against the queen on the c2 line and it is this move that actually scores very well for black. and it is to move the pawn to d5 and this gives White all kinds of opportunities to take this pawn because obviously now we can take Passant, we can take this guy, but the main point for Black is that we are going to develop our bishop as

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as possible. as possible bishop to f5 is our next move some combination of bishop to b4 I don't mind taking as many pawns as you want I'm going to develop my pieces as quickly as possible and in this game we saw Black set up a Very good trap after the pawn takes d5, so our knight is now hanging, white has two pawns up and they are right in our face, it looks very scary, but instead of just recapturing one of them right away, which is perhaps the soundest approach that you can play. bishop to f5 whatever I don't care uh my next move is potentially to go here deliver some checks I'm looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the queen, it doesn't work right away so after white plays knight to c3 for example, uh, what are we going to do?

It looks like we can't play here because of this, although this is what happened in the game, we'll see what happens, uh, and it would seem like, hey, maybe we can go here and attack the queen. attacks the rook, but this is actually a mistake, not because of the queen's check a4 but e4, so this is the mistake that black could make, where even if you are able to recover this rook, I mean, the material is technically the same in this position. The knight is a little trapped and, oh my God, look at that, so those aren't the threats Black is making.

We're not necessarily making a direct revealed attack against a revealed attack against this queen, but instead Black did play. bishop to b4 in this position and I mean, at first glance, it's like this is just a big mistake by the passer. White is a particularly high rated player, he detects the tactic immediately, who is this guy? He doesn't have a rated queen on a4 and suddenly it's like how are you going to defend this bishop if you play knight on c6? I'll just be able to take it if you don't, I'll take your bishop, but this is exactly what Black played.

Black played the knight on c6 by hanging the knight. to the pawn defending the bishop and White fell for the bait, White bit the knight and now Black is winning absolutely. This is an amazing trap that is really great against the queen line c2 and the winning move, drum roll, the knight takes c3 and suddenly we. They are attacking the queen and there are none of these pieces that you can recover, soexample, if you take this knight, we take here, check, you have to block with this guy, we are not interested in the rook, we are interested in the king.

This would just be a checkmate, this is understandable if you decide, hey, I'm going to take this, guess what the queen actually had a major responsibility on this diagonal, this is checkmate and the knight and queen are coordinating for an attack. of mate now. This match actually ended in this position. There was another game along similar lines. I put this one in just because it was a little shorter, where White tried to find a way out of this position and came up with the queen on b3, okay? I can't capture anything, my queen is under attack.

I play the queen on b3 and now black has many options to win, like the knight on a2, just super dumb mega wins, but in one game a fantastic move was also made here, bishop to c2, another attacking move. The queen and black have three pieces hanging, but white can't take them all and every line is going to cause problems. Now it is the bishop that is blocked for the queen, so if you take the knight, for example, it is the bishop that is helping. the queen gives the checkmate, the bishop is blocking the queen from the d1 square and again you just can't take anything so there is no time to take this because they are checkmating you and if you take this, for example now we have the opportunity to do something that is a discovery that actually works, so the knight to e4 basically forces you to go here where, after we recover, you either hand over the queen immediately or allow us to do this beautiful checkmate on the king so I thought it was fantastic, one of the coolest traps you can play in this opening, let's have another one, this is the Fajarowitz gambit and again we are taking a look at the queen to c2.

This was similar, but potentially has one of the most common. -known traps in it, again we are taking a look at the queen on the c2 line, but instead of d5 immediately in this game it was the bishop to b4 and instead of having a knight on c3, White put the knight on d2, so a little. Different, but a lot of the same themes apply here and now, after d5, I wanted to put this one in to show not what happens after this, but what happens if they decide to take on Pissant. Well, in this game we saw the same thing. move with white, wasn't interested in any of the material, played bishop to f5, you know, I'm not worried about recapturing this guy, I want to defend my knight and potentially at some point, hey, maybe some kind of discovery will be discovered.

Certainly, White is a little uncomfortable with the bishop hanging there, which is why the queen went to a4. However, this time, when we play the knight on c6, it's not even a big deal, because our knight is not hanging this time, there is no pawn on d5. White plays a3 and this is probably the losing move here in this position. We are seeing that White is punished if he does not develop immediately and try to get all the pieces out. It's very easy to get punished from the start, but we've also seen that if White castles, sometimes there are these crazy g5 g4 double bishop sacrifices that you have to worry about too, so in this game a3 was played and now the knight arrived at c5, this is an important move to take into account.

In these positions, c5 is like a normal square for a knight to come back and attack the queen and there is really only one square that the queen can return to, I mean the queen will return to d1 and must stay safe, without It doesn't matter how white does it. I made a little mistake here and got a little greedy and decided to launch this move, probably hoping that Black would just recapture this pawn, but now Black has a winning move, so you can go ahead and pause and try to find this one as Well, it's one of the most common themes you'll see in normal Budapest.

If you have ever played Budapest with a knight on g4, you will probably recognize this theme immediately instead of taking the black pawn played here. setting a very nasty trap and white probably now needs to surrender the queen to avoid the trap because if you run away, this is what happened in the game, black can now take advantage of the fact that the queen is in this e-file and surrender a smothered mate with a knight on d3. It's so fantastic that it's kind of a cheat that you need to know about, maybe this is a little more basic, but it's something you need to know if you ever play Jess, Buddha's Best Gambit, but also chess. here is another one on the same topic, this is the fujarowitz gambit and this time we will see the knight to d2, this is the most popular way to sand in the patzer database, but also the master database, the knight to d2, is one of the most popular ways to continue and, again, there are many different potential ways for Black to play.

You can always play bishop to b4. This is always an option available to you. You can probably trade this, but perhaps the knight to c5 would be a little more popular. that that, um, those are always available options: Black in this game played knight to c5 and then knight f3 knight f uh knight to c6 starting to put a little bit of pressure on this guy, it's worth noting that if he ever b4 gets into these types of positions you can always drop the knight back and if they play a3 you will usually play a5 trying to do some tricks here on the a file and you are trying to get a structure where you can have this available for one of your knights , you create the c5 square and then, whether you're giving up a pawn or not, you can play d6 or not, you can plunder or not.

Now you have knights who can head to the c5 square, so at least you have some good squares for your pieces, although you know you are down, that's what happens when you play this gambit, but if they don't play b4, you continue and in this game White played b3, which I assumed was going to be like a big mistake overall, I think White should try to castle a little faster, but the computer didn't care, so this is a good b3 move, you're going to playing bishop to b2, you'll actually make sure he took the pawn, White wants to make sure he keeps it, but now d6 Black just says I was never interested in the pawn in the first place and played the queen on e7.

Black says I'm going to get your pawn back and now have enough people defended and uh oh, you should be able to spot this one a mile away, Black to play and win, it's easy for the d3 knight to double check the smothered mate, like this So those are just a couple of fun gambit fejaro games, I hope you guys do them. Really like this, let me know, subscribe, goodbye, if you feel trapped like a queen, no mistakes, only sacrifice, and dressed well, you may have sadness, never be a chicken when you lose.