My Favourite Aggressive Opening For Black Against 1.d4

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I love the Dutch defense! Will make very good use of this video, thanks!

12:40 Nf2 Kg1 Nh3 Kh1 Qg1 Rg1 Nf2 mate or lose the rook after the first move Another sequence of moves Ng3 g3 Rf6 and Rh6 mate on the next move

Igor my man. You finally granted one of my wishes. Just one more wish. The Benoni defense

What about opponents doing pawn breaks ?? Like e5 or d5 ?? Which happen like 90% of the time but not shown here...would have like to see how we deal with that

Ng3+, g3 Rf6 and now is mate unstoppable with any move from white coming too late to stop Rh6+. White can play f4 and block with Bh5, but that only delays by 1 move, or Qe4 (threatening Qh4 which would be protected by g3, therefore forcing >) fxe4, Bh5 to delay by 2 moves. There is no guaranteed smothered mate with Nf2, as some comments suggest, as white can simply exchange rook and knight and get their queen into the action.

Thanks, i like the pace of this video it was easy for me to follow

One of the most informative and important videos! Thanks

I love the Dutch. So glad to see a video on it

finally. Suggestion for the puzzle: Ng3+, h2 takes g3, rook f6 and rook h6 is unstoppable(only if he sacrifices the rook and the knight)

One of your best videos. Really excellent. I go through periods of playing the Dutch but my inspiration has mainly be Simon Williams way of playing it. He doesn't usually trade that C3 knight and he tends to go for a king side attack with Qe8. Yours is similar but lots more focus on quick wins. I don't immediately see a problem with it, plus I remember Magnus used to do something similar when he played the Dutch but with the stonewall . He was a big fan of that C6 trade. Having watched Simon play titled Tuesday for years I rarely see him get a worse opening position in the Dutch, even against much higher GM opponents. So the notion that GMs can exploit it is probably just not correct

Thanks Igor . I have been stuck just using the Queens gambit declined against d4 opening bereft of attacking ideas , but the Dutch defence looks like a lot of fun , so I will give it a go 😊

Here's what I got for the puzzle (my notes for this position started on move 13 with Queen check) 13...Qxe3+ 14.Kh1 ( 14.Rf2 Qxf2+ 15.Kh1 Qxe2 16.fxe4 Bxe4 {Qxg2#, if Nxe4 then Qxc2, if Rg1 then Bxc2 } ) 14...Nf2+ 15.Kg1 Nh3+ 16.Kh1 Qg1+ 17.Rxg1 Nf2# {smothered mate} )

Wow!! I like this!! Thanks! I hope you cover also lines againts London System and Catalan! #IgorNation

Nice! I used the Dutch (being Dutch myself ;-)) many times. But it's difficult playing against several gambits used against it, like Staunton- or Krejcik-gambit, esp. if you start the Dutch with 1... - f5. Thx for your very instructive video's!

Hello Igor! in the future you could complement this dutch ( and the previous ninzo-indian video) with a variation if white goes for King side fianchetto.

Thanks a lot our coach , I played the Dutch before but you gave new ideas for it ❤

GM Igor, your videos really help me improve my chess. One request: please upload a video for countering scotch opening for black. I am not yet comfortable with scotch opening. Thank you.

Been needing another weapon agaisnt D4 for a while!

Your lessons help me improve my trading strategy. Thank you for your expertise and experience!