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hi all are like to ask an interesting
questions they and try to discuss it
with example games the interesting
question is some why play in inverted
commas the main lines of openings so the
top mainline it doesn't mean like side
variations about things so i'll try and
give a concrete example well I think the
main line is like be four c5 I think the
main line here the mainline move is
considered to be like f free i'm now why
would it be considered to be the main
line moves plane I free with the idea if
you use played the four so it's a black
plays d6 then usually play for tonight
free is considered my long as it has
this idea of exchanging the center point
for the platform in Sicilian that was
that was easy to say that this is like
main line and they call it by the open
society because you're opening up the
game but there's also like the clothes
Sicilian so you could play night see
free and then aim to keep the position
close they're not play d4 so for example
you could play this close variation and
ok have you done serious damage your
position by playing in such a manner
hair so you just pinch her your bishop
and you kept position close so you
haven't played the mainline bak sam what
does each kind of opening goof you if
you checked on wiki it
I tried to find an answer to this
question of what is the main line it's
like trying to ask the question what is
the meaning of life the universe and
everything
it sings i don't think anyone knows
anymore i think we have opening
explorers for example which give us you
know statistical probabilities for
example night a free 96 what would you
consider this is a tricky question for
you can see the mainlines play hair
if blacks intense giving the signal that
they're going to play the Sicilians
version curve
ok the most trouble on past history is
still at the four but if you don't know
like the opening theory of the Sicilians
version called you might be in trouble
if you follow this is as the mainline
most children path and instead you know
in recent years an alternative second
most popular move on chastain com is now
Bishop b5 which is also been tons like
an anti-estrogen cough so there are
these opening trends and fashions as
well against different opening systems
be factored in
so like you know the most-played
openings in the last two years is going
to be different to what was played you
know in different areas of chess and
really when you play main lines i think
in this example of say this version
called which i used to play as black I
welcomes our players with white if we
take black perspective playing d4
because I you know read up on stem games
on specially carve and you know I
enjoyed playing the imbalances which the
opening created so for example you know
here so I knew I began to you know that
there are two main moves hair Bishop
takes f6 and 95 and officials have sex
you know you kind of accepted double
pawns and it play might go like this and
ok so I welcome that if people wanted to
play the main line against my Sicilian
specially called I welcomes there but
then this is Bishop b5 raises its ugly
head and maybe I blind Paul George you
know he popularized that before the
grandmasters I think the Grandmaster
secretly looking at games of amateurs
and finding out systems we should help
them win against fellow grandma sins so
that's less little joke go and i doubt
it but for some reason Bishop b5 became
popular as an alternative approach
against 96
and you know to even be terms auntie
Sicilians freshly cut off
I'm doesn't doesn't know the name for it
which specific names for these lines but
if you for example wanted as white to
play the Sicilian dragon then I'm you're
talking about loads and loads of theory
will both sides meet needs and have very
good memories or something to know all
the latest games inside the Sicilian
dragon in the mainline invite comments
where whites is is going to Castle
queenside you know there's just tons and
tons of theory I I think Bishop c4 is is
still popular and it goes something like
this and who knows after that I'm not
dragging specialist but some you know
Chris water dragon specialist for
example butter you know the main lines
we can see that sometimes they incur
this owners of having to know tons and
tons of Stan games not only from the
past but also cheap up-to-date with tons
and tons of stem games so here's another
example in in the french defence and I
don't know what you could consider
actually the main line against the
French defense is clear cuts in this in
this position would it be the winner
with night see free or would it be the
tarish with might be too
now both modes are heavily trodden and
also very popular online it seems the
most popular most since the ED now maybe
it's because people don't want to know
all the ferry and just play either
because it simplifies the position with
a symmetrical pawn structure so it
represents low learning overheads
because i don't think the importance of
new games coming out gonna radically
alter the strategic picture here i'm
black could attempt to play violently
and maybe consequence I but even then
you know why it's got to see friend be
four you know that this problems for
black so this kind of low overhead of
Josh is interesting compared to might
see free or like the two in fact I'm i
think some GM's when talking about opens
like the cara con have recommended like
an exchange here to avoid having to
learn tons of theory and supership the
fray this is this is an easy to play
system against the caro-kann is it
mainline know is it easy to keep abreast
of all the games you know emerging
around the world and now we've got like
the weekend chest whatever
yes it probably is easier so what is
really the benefit of nine all the
mainline i'm opening theory anymore for
either side when people are really
tempted now to just avoid it anyway
in fact and in the last londonclassic
someone choking I come to this tour
months i'm trying places it in and at
all your supplies that you avoid the
Sicilian and so here it was intelligence
visiting I'm you know the London classic
knee and he's right you know people
applying all sorts of things
unfortunately you know much on the wrote
this book on the sea free Sicilian and
and this boring dull move became popular
and even really classic lines like how
they're playing you know they helping
seyfried specializing it so you know you
learn all this theory in your main lines
and it all gets voided you know or susan
has it that it might by m night see free
or someone else will play maybe even
this modest which can transpose of
course into he the sea free Sicilian
lines when one black plays this is
getting the transition to see free
citizen territory so so really it seems
that for a lot of black systems are
there are white systems which avoids
playing the main line so obviously they
give other advantages and in particular
if we flip the board again i mean i've
been experimenting as you can see or
with be free recently because i think
it's an inch
I thought it was instinct and against
the fiber ceases but two of my recent
over the board games are demonstrating
otherwise and now
leaning towards you know maybe when
people places i should actually consider
you know one of the main lines against
the French defense now what I'm going to
do next is is just run through a quick
overview of what statistically is
popular let's take that angle if we
consider what statistically popular that
might give a clue of what main lines are
but also I think main lines to be
statistically used a lot there must be
an underlying for a score bases are now
the clearest that i can come up with
recently for a recent video was against
the corec on actually where I indicated
actually and i had a a recent GM win on
the ICC in not not in this variation my
panel public or whatever but actually in
in this variation I i think there's
actually an underlying theoretical basis
which my good friends are Paul George
ooh recently explained to me on the
phone and basically he said it very
simply that White's is using the first
four ranks of the board and black is
like cuddles
well with that advanced born there
Black's hold on on the first free
actually now i'm coloring all these
squares in and maybe this will motivate
you to actually play the main line of on
the cara con which is this kind of
exchange of light squared Bishop and you
do get more territory than black
so yeah we can continue you know--with V
6 and say I'm Bishop b2 Bishop DC's
castles and basically you know you end
up with potentially and you know more
territory than black and black plays and
c5 at some point and you should really
know what's due and sometimes you know
you want to exchange off the dark
bishops as well because there might be
some in a dark square issues that i
mentioned before so the main line
has a theoretical basis to it you know
against the french defence why was the
windows were so popular and was this
because you know in the Soviet school of
chess that MakerBot think was
popularizing imbalance very which now
Simmons is now talking about as well but
in imbalance very basically and to win
more games you have to be prepared to
give the opponent possibly winning
advances and explained in exchange for
compensation so in the winnower the main
line without you know black is giving
you know why the two bishops but there's
potential counts plates and protection
that rain games and little booklet was
winning this game is actually in the end
game and I'm breaking from queenside
later you know keeping his King safe
you're casting queenside and he was
world champion for a long time so he was
like using the winnower and I think
actually Fisher had a relatively bad
success rate playing winnower as white
so sometimes on the mainlines create
these imbalances and I suppose it's the
imbalances which are the underlying
attraction for why people would play
certain systems and maybe there's an
attraction to playing the trash that you
want to have like more space in the
center like here you might want to UM
aim for more space so you play like this
because fundamentally and as well as
being trodden path there's an underlying
theoretical basis here then if you can
maintain this pawn chain then you've got
more space
I'm like this is all offset this
continue our struggle really that I have
is that you need to be a bit of a
bookworm and very good
ideally with your memory fail to
remember all the stem games and keep on
top of the newsstand games so this
massive overhead it seems um does
promise this idea at least in these
systems of the Viking against the French
that you have these certain imbalances
which fundamentally give you certain
advantages and
opponents certain advantages and if you
if you weren't lazy and a lot of online
plans are against the French and they
just play the exchange they basically
killing off the imbalances in in the
position with this symmetrical pawn
structure and the same with this low
overhead system which I've seen
recommended against the CARICOM is
almost killing off some of dynamic
potentials in position but but it's not
a severe because actually what has been
happening farm black handsome and see
file and if white plays see free later
then black potentially has a minority
attack plan later
so there's clearly stated plans even if
you don't play like main lines of
systems and in fact you can actually
even play like these change French with
a vengeance with with c4 I think this
performance is played that so even in
the offbeat lines there's still
interesting ideas that you can back them
up with so this comes to my . who enough
is playing main lines is it just also
want the top professionals applying
because let's take other examples
against d4 in the capital blanket era it
seems that this was you know that the
thing to do the Queens gambit declines
but recently we all know now that some
all the Queens Bishop is an issue and
that had to be continually resolved in
some ingenious way in a lot of games and
kept bank was content to play this
because actually you know he didn't
really place too much value on learning
opening theory because he found in accra
in his time most of the time and also he
valued that link to the endgame even
said recommended friends and everyone
really learn the endgame first then the
middlegame any hope things because back
in his time where the Queens gambit
declined was kind of the main line in a
very commerce um you know though there
wasn't so much very lucky around and you
don't have to follow you know the latest
game soon Winchester latest news around
the world was instantly available and
analyzed with engines and all that but
that nowadays we recognize that
unfortunately and the slot which is
slightly dull is taken over as
kind of mainline system against the four
but is there a fundamental basis for
this I guess there is because it
actually it still can test the center of
fundamental concern and but also it
doesn't him in that Bishop so maybe
there is a justification for the Slav
defense becoming the main line approach
to d4 and now recently because of the
London classic i bought two volumes of
fabric and the motto of the books
quality chest motto as a book publisher
is something like are playing the main
lines avoid getting bad positions or
something like that but average
recommendations are actually more of the
Catalan variety rather than what I
considered to be pure main lines so
often he's like you know even like
against the Greenfield recommending so
the ground filled defense for example
recommending like early Finch shadows
actually don't take my word for this
check this held but there might be like
g freeze recommended some point against
different systems it seems g-free was
was a pet you know recurring idea within
that and and but that book wasn't really
claiming main lines that was just the
motto of the book publisher cool quality
chess so so basically one of my said so
far I think there's a huge controversy
it seems and no one's actually tackling
this question of what of what are the
main lines
why are the main lines the main lines
although what the top players are
playing all they want statistically is
being played only want statistically is
getting the biggest success rates
I mean and and also you know in the
context of online chance
why would you want to play main lines in
five-minute games i mean if you play
something unusual
surely the opponent set new problems
that they have to think about like you
know I've demonstrated a bit that you
know even the wing gamut can win all the
king's gambit especially is
picking dangerous and yes it wouldn't be
considered mainline I'm you know to
avoid the password but you know if you
go into the boiler PES here's another
example you know there's the dreaded you
know Marshall if you play this stuff you
could be just not doing yourself a big
favor as you imagine especially if your
opponent has just swallowed and
memorized a book on the marshal gamut so
you played into this main line and then
you end up wasting two hours of your
life getting like hack attacks on the
kingside or something because you forgot
the theory at some point here or the
opponent has some new game somewhere
maybe Adams has played a new maneuver
with with with the marshal
so what was the point in playing the
main line here so you might have some
regrets
well you know you might say actually a
lot grandmasters are now avoiding on
this airplane a4 here
actually there's an engine engine I'm on
the lookout single day for so that's
kind of auntie and they call that and
see Marshall these things pop up with
auntie in their name instead of playing
the main right why don't you play this
anti-system anticipation called and see
Marshall are the anti systems taking
over as the main lines but i just want
to touch on other subjects in the recent
londonclassic I'm another on my Michael
Hennigan who once sneaked in to win the
British championship him and David know
what they're very naturally talented
players and and also AM you know there's
sometimes playing openings which nothing
to do with the main line because what if
your approach to the game which did save
yourself maybe like have a blanket in a
way that he wanted to first be brilliant
and the end game and then the middle
game and if you've got a reasonable
position for the open at least the Delta
you know exploit that rather than having
a great Division from the opening but
continually filing after but those are
the in the days of Kappa blanker but you
know look at this game
Michael Hennigan was playing okay a
lowly ratings i am but sometimes he has
very good results Jack rods he places
be free unfortunately the same form with
g-free against another grand master and
you know he got massacred but g-free
work to treat against shot rod because
really you know there's a question here
of underlying chess ability which which
camp blank was alluding to in the middle
game in and game so it looks as though
why it's got nothing from the open thing
yeah but Jack rod gets a bit impatient
and maybe you know improvises because if
you don't play main lines and people in
devised then also you know they might
not actually be playing a very good
moves while inch improvise
so although you know black seemingly
aggressive idea who is something i would
use this is a friend be four is a good
antidote maybe to try and break open B
file and exploit the bishop
so this is completely away from main
line open for just playing G free men in
black have aggressive intentions and we
see here black again aggressive
intentions going to give the fishing
pole neat little trick here is that
going to work against Michael Hennigan
well here the C files just been ripped
open because of that they be four so
there's some values on the horizon for
black even though he's got his fishing
pole trick in looks like aggression in
the night be four but this is now
snapped up HD allowing Queen takes e4
and now this exchange and now black king
came under a very quick sudden deadly
attack because my work just play Bishop
be free now Roxy several work on the 7th
you know how many mainline openings
would you get such major trump cards as
your bishops pointing menacingly at the
opponent's king everything in fact
pointing at the opponent's king now can
you honestly say in main line open fairy
you have such a brilliant position as
this and this was from 1g free so black
didn't last too long here he played rook
takes a friend after Queen d7 Bishop
takes be for the last move was 85
forcing rest
ignation i think one of the reasons is
that Bishop takes you to the roxy is
amazing so this game demonstrates and I
think norwood was playing G free with
great success as well and he wasn't
really an opening parents and you know
he still became a grandmaster but you
know if you have a very strong middle
game 10 game and I guess this echoes
kappa blanker that you know he wasn't
that bothered about opening theory in
any case but you know you can build up
massive trunk cards in any case
especially it seems you know when the
opponent improvises because you know
they're out of their pet systems they're
out of the mainline books you know
so what do mainline what does mainline
theory serve does it serve you know the
ability to sell lots and lots of chess
books always apparently claims main
lines that you're supposed to be playing
we have this onus on this all-time of
what we're supposed to be doing is it
going to give us happiness i don't know
i'm not convinced
what I find a happy in my chest at the
moment is playing gamuts and positional
sacrifices and I love my online chess as
well because that some convenience and I
love you know the hearts Congress where
I played the Kings gambit in one and you
know I began it's not an exciting i was
like the Kings engine I don't want to
play this laughs I'm aware the slab
defense is now the main line to be four
but I refused to play at the moment and
i have some grandma's like some school
he used to play this lava now he's he's
playing more fun it seems he's playing
Dutch defenses and and other stuff and
he seems to be enjoying the chest again
so i think the main lines can't be
expense of your enjoyment of the game
and if that's the case you know why
aren't gambits more popular I raised
this question on on the chess cute café
earlier which I invited to come and
discuss this subject with me if you want
to come to chess cute later i'll give
you a link against that video the kids
crash cafe launch ask you because I
really would love to discuss this
question with you about main lines you
know what what are their purpose
I i see that in some main lines there's
a fear at school
underpinning of certain witnesses from
an opening but in other cases you know
why not just have fun especially at club
level if the opponent places Sicilian
you know why not play the winged gambit
for the more Smith gambit you know get
leid environment and then you know
hopefully you're going to find tactics
which will tell your parents King apart
later you know all those other systems
like um you know the Grand Prix attack
which used to be popular was that David
rooms has fantastic success with Grand
Prix you know like attack systems with
you know f5 later as rick dangerous like
for the black king
I think my book on that so there's
always like the sidelines are the
sidelines you know not worthy of us to
play and if so why not
so I hope there's some food for Ford's
there isn't downsides to displaying 1 g
free by the way I guess I should show
you the other game which was a bit
disaster in the same torment of Michael
Hennigan so I'm just going to close this
game and hopefully works what we'll have
a look at another Hannigan game against
them with Donald so he he played g-free
against the mcdonalds who was higher
rated but this is the case was the game
block is the opening or just because the
opponent's sometimes more dangerous you
know tactically on that particular day
so Neil MacDonald play black ok he
equalised kind of equally easily rather
and he got and worse than that black
managed to get a good attack on Michaels
kingside unfortunately but there was a
very nifty move actually which I'm sure
wasn't parotid particularly against this
system or make it was part of
preparation but the nifty move comes up
here very shortly doubling on f4 and it
seems like Queen Bishop and rocket I
down to f4 hair and now black actually
I'm after be 4k make sure the queenside
initiatives not going anywhere after
room after here's the nifty move which
brings back black decisive quick attack
always quit
because as Michaels our attack was
successful he's going down in this
system now of the Queen to h4 because
his Queen stuck over there
black skins got no issues but look at
the White King has got issues
so here's a downside of of playing you
know maybe not mindful that g free isn't
the golden bullet either i just wanted
to make that clear
the game ended here so that was a bit of
a crush but there was a bit of a problem
here because Bishop takes a free
checking on winning the pitcher is it
was getting nasty
so yeah you can't you can't i'm not
trying to say play G free or or you know
nothing has got a guarantee in chess but
maybe what I'm saying is we don't have
to be a slave to the main lines anyway
comments or questions on youtube thanks
alot