Caleb Denby tours through the flank opening 1.b3, popularized by Danish grandmaster Bent Larsen. See three of the most classic games of Larsen’s Opening.
2017.07.31
Bent Larsen vs Brian Eley, Hastings 7273 (1972): A01 Nimzovich-Larsen attack, modern variation
Baadur Jobava vs Zaven Andriasian, Fujairah Masters (2012): A01 Nimzovich-Larsen attack, modern variation
Bent Larsen vs Raymond Keene, Teesside (1972): A01 Nimzovich-Larsen attack, classical variation
I say… Val Kilmer as Martin de Porres,,, sort of…
What happened to Jonathan Schrantz?
what if the opponent opens differently.
what if the black castles on Queens side rather than kings side.
We need to see more videos with Caleb Denby ! He explains lines clearly, he is to the point and interesting to watch and listen. Good video, hope to see some more !
Excellent video. Well done
Great lecture! Thanks, Caleb.
Along with the games could you also include the results?
he is a good teacher.
Seems like every case Black is purposefully castle into the diagonal the white dark square bishop controls. Showing us a game how it works where Black castles queenside would help.
Eley is not a GM. He has no FIDE title.
You should do a video on the comparisons of the English opening from the black side.
Get a haircut!
I can't believe that it's as high as #6 in popularity… I've used it in the past, and I kind of liked it, but I'm not sure it should be used so much that it makes it to #6.
Thank you veri much, video is perfekt,!!!!!
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Wow, that hour was fast, fluent and likeable! Thanks for that b3 presentation!
I approve of this video.
Good job on your lecture.
Matt Larsens opening would be g4
Great instruction but his hair infuriates me for some reason
Where is Jonathan Schrantz? D:
Larsen was a very strong player.
Bc4 seems much more natural.
Can anybody here tell me what is the apps or software they're using for this tutorial. Thanks… im amazed about that arrow thing its just best for tutorial
What's the software he's using to demo?
I have uploaded a short interview with Bent Larsen from 1989. It's in Danish but I have added English subtitles. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wpFTgstet4
I played against this today, having no real knowledge of the theory. I was able to create a very closed game on the diagonal he wanted to open by playing 2. …D4 and then a counter-fianchetto on my own kingside. It was a very strange game that involved some very messed up h6 ideas, but it was quite fun and I was able to play it to a win with black so I must have done something right. 🙂
This is so amazing Caleb Denby speaks exactly the same as Jonathan Schrantz
(See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxUuueHFfFs ) .
The same diction, the same accent, the same sentence construction.
The only difference is the tone of voice.
Did they attend the same school, or live in the same neighborhood or share some other unusual link?
Maybe wait till you have facial hair before you deign to teach
What if you start with Nf3…b3…Bb3?
Most my games opponet fianchetoes its own darksquare bishop
I get the opening of the channel to attack the black pawn, but I would probably have pushed the D pawn. The queen backs it, the bishop, the knight. His center falls idk.
Maybe a higher rated player would have been better.
bishops on e7 and d7 against this opening is asking to get hammered in the poop hole
There seems to be times when white could try trading his bishop for blacks knight to weaken the e5 pawn, would that ever be done, or is the bishop that value
Lol thats Caleb denby
Great video. Very interesting.
It's so hard try to understand this being a foreign
very helpful 🙂
I didn't know Jake from two and a half man knows to play chess this good
I approve of that haircut
Ben Finegold said that he occasionally plays the Larsen Attack and looked at some of Bent's games and found Bent was normally totally lost out of the opening but won anyways, so maybe don't play it exactly like him
Its Ad the beast opening. Nothing else
Is he Jake from" two and a half man" ?
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9:02 there is nh6+
I'm over 1900 now in official chess rating in Canada and I play 1.Nf3 and 2.b3, or Reti 1.Nf3 with 2.c4 and I get decent games with these openings and I don't have to study so much opening theory. I am happy with my results.
I tried to play 1.d4, 1.e4 etc but I'm more of an English/Reti/Larsen type player.
The Nimzo-Larsen set up vs a King side fianchetto is very interesting
b3 must have something to it because Nakamura plays it in bullet chess a lot.