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5 Best Chess Youtube Channel to Follow and watch in 2022

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Looking for the best YouTube channels to follow to improve your chess and stay up to date on the latest chess news? Here are 5 of the best chess channels on YouTube for you. 1. Gothamchess : Gothamchess is the most popular chess-related YouTube channel, with over 1.5 million subscribers. Levy Rozman, an international chess master, owns the channel. During the Corona situation, his channel quickly gained popularity. He continues to entertain millions of people every day with his charismatic style, excellent content, and visually appealing thumbnails. He publishes a wide range of chess-related content. It has historical matches, recap of current games played by best players of the world, funny chess games of lower rated players, openings video, endgame turorials and what not. He also has a second youtube channel named "gothamcity" where he publishes interviews of famous chess personalities and short videos from his twitch stream. His channel is specially useful and informative ...

Crazy Queen sacrifice in the Italian opening! Even engine doesn't see it coming!!

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Do you like when someone sacrifices their queen and end up winning in absolutely brilliant fashion? I am gonna show you one such brilliant queen sacrifice that can happen even in your games. (I had it myself).  We start with one of the most popular openings at all level. The Italian opening :  Then after 3.Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Bg5 d6 6. O-O we arrive at the following position: Now we chase the white's bishop with 6.h6 7.bh4 g5 8. bg3 The surprise starts now . We play h5 here, threatening to trap the bishop with h4. But notice white can play Nxg5 and go for an attack on the f7 pawn, which resembles the knight attack or the fried liver attack. WE DON'T CARE! we trap the bishop with h4! Then after Nxf2, the best move for black is Qe7 after which engine gives advantage to black( at a high depth). But we will discuss another move here. We will take the bishop with hxg3, SACRIFICING OUR QUEEN!. After knight captures the queen, Engine doesn't see it coming! Lichess Engine at a low dep...