THE PTERODACTYL DEFENSE!!!!
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Chess Openings: Learn to Play the Pterodactyl Defense
Good chess openings for black against d4 can be hard to find, but the Pterodactyl Defense is a great option for black against d4. The most popular chess openings for black include the Nimzo-Indian, King's Indian Defense, Benko Gambit, Slav Defense, Dutch Defense, and many more. However, with the Pterodactyl Defense, white is usually not well prepared against it which is partly what makes it so dangerous. We fianchetto our bishop, put immediate pressure in the center of the board, and look to fight for the win. The Pterodactyl Defense is a chess opening in which you aren't looking for a quiet, positional game. The Pterodactyl Defense creates so many imbalances in the position, one of the crazier lines being the Beef Eater Variation! In the midst of aggressively fighting for the win, the Pterodactyl is good in chess opening moves, chess opening strategy, chess opening lines, chess opening principles, and chess opening theory. The Pterodactyl Defense is also a good chess opening for beginners who have an attacking style. It teaches good chess strategy, while also bending the rules a little to create imbalances in the position. One of the most common results of the Pterodactyl Defense is for white to get weak pawn structure, which we as black look to attack for the rest of the game. We hope you enjoy learning more about how to play the Pterodactyl Defense!
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I've been playing this for a couple months, for the name alone. Keep finding strange new variations. Queen pteranodon, quetzalcoatl, austriadactylus, rhamphorynchus.. Great for escaping theory. I rarely see a main line. Thanks for the video, I like the knight A6 move!
not good enough to beat my friends on main lines as they are all chess gods, this is so good for forcing them away from what they want to do hahah
Obvious question: why is it called the Pterodactyl?
Anyway, funny to see so many alternative answers to 1.d4, the opening is solid so important to find unexptected answers
thank you Solomon!
Thanks for sharing the Pterodactyl Defense.
I like the Rhamporhynchus line
Thanks for sharing the pterodactyl defense.
Hi Solomon! Enjoyed the video. I play the Modern Defense a lot and this video helped me with some key ideas of the opening. However, I was wondering if you could make another video on the Modern Defense but covering a d4 & e4 set up with white, instead of the Queens Gambit style opening shown in this video. This is just because I have faced a lot of games with white having that massive central pawn control and will have a hard time combating it. Regardless though, great video on the Pterodactyl variation.
thanks
Great vid, very clearly explained. Keen to use this to spice up dull d4 games
Thanks Jeff! Glad you liked it. Ya the Pterodactyl is super fun and unique. No boring positions come out of it.
I enjoyed the video thanks. There is a lot of interesting play in this opening.
You got it James! Ya the Pterodactyl is (just like it's name) very unique.
Jurassic park...
Nice eye
I’m gonna play the pterodactyl attack
Let me know how it goes!
@@TheChessGiant i already play 1.g3/1...g6 every game xd though my black winrate is higher than my white because I just wing it after 3/4 moves
will tell you if I do any better
@@TheChessGiant gave it some initial tests and chess engine Stockfish seems to believe that 2.bg2 essentially swaps the colours and gives black the +0.3 advantage that white starts with.
2.nf3 or 2.c4 and delaying the fianchetto to move 3 seems to be the “recommended” for white while for black it does say bg7 is the best second move. I think the reason is that pterodactyl looks to eventually make threatening the center with knight/pawns advantageous but white is already safe to do so at move 2 while black is not.
It becomes even more clear when the engine says black’s best moves are 1..d5 2..e5 3..c5 4..d6. Black is given the free time to move e and c pawn to protect d6 for the d pawn to easily move to.
However, many opponents will find themselves thrown out of comfortable territory since it is literally playing black with white pieces and they may not notice and end up playing as if they are still down in tempo and follow the defensive game plans of the black side (trying to equalise an advantage - that was already given up for another more subtle advantage). It essentially gives you twice as much time to learn a black opening as opposed to learning one for each colour.
I think that the pterodactyl defense can be used with a different turn order for white to remove some of the less advantageous lines/responses but the ideas by move 4+ are still applicable
Edit: important thing to note: White is at an advantage if black plays 2..c5 and not e5. In fact, either colour should respond with d4+e4/d5+e5 as opposed to 2 c4/c5, so I’ll need to read more on that response
This Opening hast several namens: Dzindzi Indian, or "Sniper"
2:36 why can’t you push the pawn to defend both the knight and queen
Hey Connor, great question! So, the pawn does defend both, however it is "overworked." Notice how it is defending both the queen and bishop. Here white can take the queen, and the pawn cannot capture white's queen and also keep defending the knight. So white takes queen, we take queen back with the pawn, and now our knight simply falls. Hope this helps!
Как на русском такая защита называется, не подскажет кто?
Hi the chess Giant, I have chose this as part of my repertoire for black, do you know an opening for white like this?
Hey! Ya there's technically not an opening like this for white. However, you could start of the game with g3 and Bg2 for white and hope black starts off with moves like d5 and c5... really up to you! And if black doesn't do this but instead plays thinks like Nf6 or e5, you could always go into a King's Indian attack or Hippopotamus Defense as white. Hope this helps!
"Chosen," not "chose."
@@ems3832 The comma and full stops should be outside of the speech marks, so before you be petty about grammar make sure you sort out your punctuation.
11 minutes to learn a defense nice
there is some guy going around saying he invented this opeining loool but he calles it the sniper XD
Lol who haha???
@@TheChessGiant just search the sniper opening u will find him easily
@@TheChessGiant FM charlie storey
How in the world do you only have 8.4K subs? What is wrong with people?
Ayy thanks for the hype man! We will keep putting in the work and hope to grow!
I think that in some of these variations, you are overoptimistic for Black.
Didn't mishka do this?
Wouldn't surprise me! It's a good chess opening and would fit his style of play.
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