How To Play The Queen's Gambit

welcome everybody to another 10 minute chess  opening video today we are looking at something  

that so many people have requested the queen's  gambit now i'm actually going to include a little  

bit of material here on both sides i rarely  do that but first we're gonna start out with  

the queen's gambit for the white side and i'm  gonna give you a few weapons to be aware of  

with the black pieces as well the queen's gambit  begins after the moves d4 d5 and c4 the point is  

that you are gambiting upon you are giving away  a pawn early uh and what you want in exchange for  

this pawn is you want two pawns in the center  right because that pawn has now moved it has  

seated control of the center and in a perfect  world white will then take that pawn back with  

the bishop which has now opened up with the move  on to e4 and white has a dominant center notice  

that now what happens is that black is left  with one central pawn and white is left with  

two central pawns which is which is good that's  at a very elementary level that's really what  

this is all about now from a theoretical chess  standpoint i want to address the queen's gamut  

for beginners intermediate players and honestly  if you're watching this somehow as like a 2000  

i'm still going to include something that might  be useful for you so if you're going to play the  

queen's gambit on move 2 you should be aware of  the queen's gambit accepted any time this pawn  

is taken accepting the gambit does not lose for  black by any means you should know what to do  

against that i recommend that you do take the full  center and there's some dangers if the opponent  

just defends like this you can already begin  to play moves like a4 undermining this pawn and  

creating some serious weaknesses for the opponent  if the opponent plays a6 you just take and they  

can't take back because of the rook if they take  back if they play c6 you now can uh take once and  

then just develop your knight to c3 and it's again  difficult to defend this pawn with the tactic a6  

you just take and there's a exchange down on the  other file which is going to be an issue at the  

same time you also can just kind of develop  your pieces and if black spends all the moves  

in the opening just defending one pawn black  will fall behind in development considerably  

there are other defenses so the two ways to  reinforce this pawn with pawns this is the  

queen's gambit decline which i'll also flip so  you see it with the black pieces queen's gambit  

declined is a legendary unbreakable tier opening  if you haven't watched the opening tier list  

that i did along with hikaru it is seen at all  types of grand master level blitz rapid classical  

does not matter it has not been broken for many  many years uh and the point is that black will now  

play knight f6 bishop e7 and castle now there are  branches of the queen's gambit uh declined some