Awesome show Dennis; thanks.

Another great video. Thanks for taking the time to make these (we don't all have chess coaches you know)! I liked that closed sicilian bit, looks like a fun game.

Thanks for the video.

Despite your reservations about broad questions I still found your treatment of them useful.

Thanks for a great Video!

Although you call for not too broad questions on openings I found this very instructive in a general sense and hope you will make more of these.

My problem is finding plans/ideas and finding good spots and coordination for my pieces. I consider this lack of understanding my key problem in my chess improvement (next to limited tactic skills).

Lately I have banned openings completely from my "study" to focus on understanding. I found that with my play-frequency (sometimes I do not play for months) studying openings is not helping me in understanding chess any better. It improves quick results but when I get out of opening I have the same problem further in the game: finding a plan and difficulty in evaluating the different ideas.

Result of random openings is that I am loosing for weeks in a row now. Your video gave me a sense of what to look for! Please keep them coming!

Dennis, can you do in-depth coverage of the 6.Bg5 Najdorf?

Just kidding! Great video, thanks!

sfarmer: I was planning to include that in an upcoming 15-minute video covering the entire Sicilian in depth.

That would be a heroic deed

Haha! Look forward to that one, and maybe a 10-minute session covering the Spanish - that way I'll be well armed for my next tournament.

Can a video on the new found opening discovery 1. a4! with the Frenchie501 gambit 1...b5!? be created please?

Okay joking aside, I am really grateful for these videos. JWhis kind of asked the question I was going to ask, but i will still post my original question because I think there may be a few new points to add to it. Of course, I will do it in the correct thread

Thanks for your time and effort once again, Dennis

Frenchie501

Arjen: Play over more master games, including master games in your openings. That will give you some idea of what to do with your pieces.

sfarmer29: Don't be ridiculous - it takes at least 12 minutes to adequately cover the Ruy Lopez.

Frenchie501: I don't think you want to the 1.a4 b5? gambit named after you. You might be interested or at least amused to know that IM Eugene Meyer occasionally played 1.a4 2-3 decades ago, which he would follow up with 2.a5, 3.e3 and 4.a6. I don't really recommend it, but I'd play it all the time if I were guaranteed to see 1...b5 in response.

LOL Dennis I hope you see i was joking. I was going to get my friend to play a horrid april fools and do full analysis with 1. a4, but it was too crude an idea. a4, b4, g4 and h4 just look plain bad to me, Matt Pulins youtube video on beating 1. b4 is superb.

There was a GM who religiously played 1. h4 I think, can't remember his name though. Sure I seen a book on it at a stall...