where we sacrifice our knight to expose the black king i have made a video for this as well you can check it out by clicking on the i button above so that was the italian game guys if you're enjoying the video so far do hit the thumbs up button right now okay now what if after eNUMBER_TOKEN your opponent plays cNUMBER_TOKEN this is the sicilian defense another popular opening that black can force you to play to counter this i would suggest you learn some basic and common variations of the sicilian a lot of black players like to see the open sicilian because that's what they are most comfortable with so a setup that i would recommend for white is the closed sicilian which begins with knight to cNUMBER_TOKEN not only does this reduce the attacking options for black but this is comparatively a simpler variation for white to handle since there is not much theory you have to study anywhere he goes be it knight cNUMBER_TOKEN or dNUMBER_TOKEN you can just go for gNUMBER_TOKEN then slowly develop your pieces free inside of the bishop strengthen the center fNUMBER_TOKEN is an aggressive move that you can play then bring out this knight and just advance on the king side and attack the opponent as right you can't go wrong by much just stick to your game plan and you'll reach a very good position by the middle game okay now let's look at the three openings for black but before that i would like to thank better health for sponsoring this video better help is a great online platform focused on better mental well-being well the pandemic and the social isolation have clearly shown us how important it is to take care of our mental health when we are feeling low and our everyday life is being affected it is very important to take the help of an expert we need someone to hear us out and give us honest and educated advice and better help gives you exactly that you can be anywhere in the world and just with a few questions about your feelings and preferences better health will match you to a suitable professional therapist with expertise in your area of concern you can connect with your counselor over phone or video sessions or even chat with them and you can even change counselors if required that makes better help so much more convenient and affordable than traditional offline therapy plus it's completely secure as all counselors are licensed professionals so basically betterhelp wants you to start living a happier life right now all you need to do is sign up with this link URL_TOKEN stock that's better SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN to get NUMBER_TOKEN of your first month link is in the description box below so go and check it out all right now let's look at some solid opening moves for black we again start with a setup based opening against dNUMBER_TOKEN you can go with knight fNUMBER_TOKEN now white can't play eNUMBER_TOKEN because of this knight so let's say he goes to cNUMBER_TOKEN then gNUMBER_TOKEN knight cNUMBER_TOKEN then you can fianchetto the bishop and now the moment he goes eNUMBER_TOKEN that's when you play dNUMBER_TOKEN you don't want him to push eNUMBER_TOKEN and attack your knight that's why this dNUMBER_TOKEN move is important then knight fNUMBER_TOKEN and you simply cassette this is what we call the king's indian setup and you can play this against anything literally anything let's say instead of dNUMBER_TOKEN white starts with eNUMBER_TOKEN as i told you earlier if he plays eNUMBER_TOKEN you will just immediately play dNUMBER_TOKEN to stop him from advancing forward this opening is called the pierce
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