1972: Bobby Fischer's World Chess Championship 

Totally agree, I didn't know him but he gained my respect.

A Good sport, is hard to find, Thankfully they were abundant back in the day

Bro,he was happy too inside He knew playing Bobby would be in the best conditions Id think rather than the revenue demand,everything was normal. Chess players didn't had really good conditions to play back then

Spassky said that he was content with letting Bobby proclaim his ridiculous demands because he was confident Fischer would give them the best circumstances for their match. Both absolute madlads in their own right lol

@@zerksez9963 this 100%!

Boris Spassky is a great player, it's just that the story of Bobby Fischer completely outshine it

He could have beaten Fischer tbh

And how it basically took bobby his whole life to get his first win against boris is pretty overlooked too... Boris beat him for years and years before bobby ever got a win against him.

@@johndotcue not back then. Bobby was a juggernaut, obsessed and relentless. He destroyed the entire Russian team. When the GOAT is at his peak, he is unbeatable.

I'm glad that this video actually respects how good Spassky was as well, this match has been covered many times but this is the first one I've seen that properly recognises that both were great players.

yo he sure got his course

Ikr

@@--tooblivion2559 I know right

He's long dead and that really doesn't make any sense. I mean wouldn't he just use engines instead?

@@thesnackbandit issa joke

And Im here to say that we r almost the same,just a black background 😭😭😭

and I'm just here to bring you back down to earth Jeffery. go clean your room

Levy say the line! what is more important than a queen

@@i_______i________i_______i6073 you are a dark mode version

so he's saying you're a king, which is pretty useless

LOL

And yet he wears none of them, not even the Vienna gambit

LoLed

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BWAHAHAHAHA!

Same 😀

He deserve that title more than everybody else!

Amen.

@øranuto husband yeah why? I really like levy but if he isn't good enough he just won't get the title of gm, i would like him to get it, but he doesn't deserve more than the othere IM

@øranuto husband he teaches people, he had almost won against are current world champion, and made 500 elo too 1500 elo. So why not

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He has over 10600523785437543736+ he’s magic

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@@laughingstar3945 Quasi-hoodies

@@laughingstar3945 But hoodies are made out of hoodies?

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And we hope both sides of the pillow are cold :))

lol he does he said it a couple video ago

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Bobby Fischer 1943-2008 StockFish 2008-Present Coincidence? I think mot

looks fishy to me

Fischer was not Stockfish 16! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 999-1 easily! Fischer vs Geller in 1967 17:exf7??? 17:Rook f6! wins easily! Fischer vs Stein famous Bishop f5!, but earlier 26:Knight f7! or 26:a3! Fischer vs Larsen game one 1971 Fischer move bishop f3??? Bishop d6! wins easily! Fischer vs Spassky in 1966 olympiad Fischer moved Queen a6?? Rook e3! wins easily! Fischer was not a computer!

@@RaineriHakkarainenliterally nobody said Fischer would beat Stockfish. They’re saying Fischer was the “Stockfish” of the time. Sure Fischer has lost. So has Stockfish. Considering computers at the time were not advanced, Bobby dismantling the Greenblatt proved that. Not sure what you’re attempting to say.

A gentleman when winning AND losing, unlike Fischer..

@@MrJoao678 and Kasparrov, he made such a big deal that Radjabov saced his knight and won a game against him. Very unsportsmanly

@@MrJoao678 Don't speak when you ain't know shit...Fischer and Spasky were good friends ... Fischer was against the Soviet union not individual players...and he respected Spasky so much... Also he was the only person who visited Tal when he was in hospital... Yeah Fischer was a bit arrogant but not a bad person

Fun fact: Spassky was a player of the Kings Gambit. He never lost a game in which he opened with the King’s Gambit.

@@syedtauheednabi2357 Fischer was a paranoid supremacist whose library featured Mein Kampf and many other anti-jewish racist books and who wrote in his own notebook that "It is time to start randomly killing jews". Not just "a bit arrogant". Great at chess though.

I definitely agree

Why do you Write like this

@@geniusdrummer643 it seems that He is replacing the Commas with a New paragraph

@@geniusdrummer643 it is poetry after all

@@Marco-sm9bu ah yes "it seems that, He is replacing the, Commas with a, New paragraph"

same lmao

KC, you're the OG chess content creator and I've been watching your videos for nearly a decade. Your immense catalogue and in-depth, at times philosophical analysis is unmatched. Keep up the great work! PS: Would love to see more videos on Firouzja, I think he's brimming with potential to be one of the GOATs of chess. I think he's the one that'll first dethrone Magnus. Such an exciting player.

Lol

Had Karpov defeated Fischer, he might have had a better reputation than Kasparov (whom many consider the Goat or top 3 at the very least).

I agree largely….. can you imagine if Fischer had stuck around till the 80s or maybe even 90sss we were definitely robbed

Key metric is to check out the accuracy of players compared with chess engine play. According to this, Fischer had a 97.51% alignment with modern engines. Carlsen is slightly higher... BUT... Carlsen has grown up playing with the help of engines. One could argue that much of modern chess is who can memorize the most engine moves. So having the highest accuracy according to engine play before engines is simply INSANE. Bobby was the goat OTB. Too bad he went crazy...

Before this blows up

In Agadmator’s pond (jk, it’s not like Antonio has exclusive rights to this stuff, it’s great getting more perspectives)

He has caught the youtube algorithm

alright buddy

@@groceries2321 read it again

Just curious, were you rooting for Fischer? He seems like such an unlikeable drama queen looking back at it. I wasn't born at the time of the match, so it would be interesting to know what the contemporary perspective of him was.

@@irjake At the time, I just thought that Fisher was the 'great white hope' to beat the Russians at a game that they had dominated for years.. I knew about him, but I was surprised by how emotionally unstable he became. He did a lot to raise the profile of the game of chess, and to improve the conditions for everyone. We can thank him for the time-increment idea, and, of course, the Fisher Random idea. Yes, I was rooting for him to win, and when he did, the worldwide chess community was looking forward to a long and glittering reign as world champion, but it was not to be. His demons caught up with him, and, for reasons that were never clear, he refused to defend his title against Anatoly Karpov. He just faded into obscurity until he re-emerged for that replay against Spassky. His tirade against the USA cost him his US citizenship, and only Iceland was prepared to give him sanctuary. I find it all so very sad.

@@davehumphreys1725 I didn't know that he lost his US citizenship, but didn't he have some... interesting views on Jews and women? What were those? How did people respond?

@@halfway7690 he lost his US citizenship because of the 1992 tournament with Spassky. It was played in a war torn area that we had sanctions on. He was a fugitive from justice til he caught in Japan without a valid passport.

@@davehumphreys1725 The most genius of minds are also the most troubled. Be glad your not like Fischer.

Bobby Fisher would have walked. There wouldn't have been a match. Spassky would have remained World Champion -- but it would have meant little as Fisher had shown he was the best-- crushing everyone he played......

@@snapone2011 Except he hadn't shown it against Spassky and the one game they played Spassky won and then Bobby threw a tantrum. Fischer walking 2-0 down would for sure not have shown he was the best lmao

Maybe we should acknowledge that spassky was a sportsman. High level chess players seem to live for the challenge and less for the politics of the game.

@@TioAceite Fisher was always having as you want put it in "tantrum" mode. But he had at least three things things going for him---he was always fighting to improve chess, it was not unusual for him to walk out in the middle of a tournament fought for more money for the players--he had the highest Fide rating by far, he had proven he was the best by crushing- Petrosian, Korshnoi, Benko, etc Won The US Open 11/0 several times.. Don't know how old you are but I would go to see the candidate matches. Bobby Fisher to chess was like Mohammad Ali was to boxing. He was the best..World Title or not.

@@TioAceite Spassky won three games, two games with white and invalid match (because Fischer did not come). Meanwhile, Fischer won 7 games, 4 games with black. This should show that Fischer is twice better than Spassky like Magnus is twice better than Ian. Bruh

*Laughs in how to win at chess ep 10*

Yeah he is. Bobby Fischer was so dominant and will always be up there as one of the best. I wouldn't even say he's a machine, more like an AI

@@self-righteousideologue9398 Think they meant gotham.

@@self-righteousideologue9398 I meant Levy, but you are talking in facts

NOT TRUE.! Fischer and Kasparov Are Not The greatest Best Ever! Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky 17 wins 11 losses! My old computer tought 5:22 minutes Capablanca-Reti game move and solved! Same computer tought 4:37 minutes Kasparov-Kramnik game move and solved! The.computet telling The Truth! Capablanca better than Kasparov!. Capablanca would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 8 wins 5 draws no loss! Magnus Carlsen would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws no loss! Emmanuel Lasker would Beat The Prime Boris Spassky easily 5 wins 7 draws no loss! The highest tournament score result elo rating is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 St Louis Elo rating score is 3080!. Fabiano Caruana The world Record Holder 3080!. Karpov in Linares in 1994 11/13 Elo rating score is 3040! Alekhine in San Remo in 1930 elo rating is 3040!. Bobby Fischer against The weakest chess world champion Ever Boris Spassky in 1992! Fischer 10 wins Spassky 5 wins 15 draws! Boris Spassky was 162th World ranking in 1992! Spassky was rated only 2568! Fischer scored 58,33% score.against Boris Spassky in 1992! .So we get Fischer's.rating is 2617,78!. Emmanuel Lasker at age 56 years old won The New York tournament in 1924! The top The Best were in The New.york in 1924!.Lasker did not faced 162th world ranking players! Lasker.elo rating at age 56 is 2870!.The computers Will some Day tell The who is The greatest Best chess player Ever!!The.player whos moves The computer thinks The longest thinking Time and.solves! Bobby Fischer not The favourite because The computers solved Fischer famous moves easily!!

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lol

Explain?

Cameramen* also the cameras back then made noise which isn’t something most players enjoy and also applied unneeded pressure.

@@brysongarland4094 Fischer was uhh eccentric, load cameras was annoying enough for most players but Fischer absolutely hated them.

@@deeznoots6241 Fischer was... different but it clearly made a difference to him. Any master level player should be able to figure out that Bxh2 is a terrible idea in that position, let alone Bobby freaking Fischer

@@deeznoots6241 also, apparently he had hyperacusis.

lol I like a guy who has no delusions about how good he is at something. People like that bug me so much, I usually find out I am actually better at things that I do, than I often realized. Chess is not one of them,---at least, not yet. :)

Trouble is a lot of the game isn't shown, it's really more of a puzzle devised by IM Jeremy Silman. That being said, Ron not only had to avoid getting checkmated, but he had to do so while avoiding losing a Rook (Hermione) and a Bishop (Harry).

Don't know if you're specifically looking for Levy to analyse it but Agadmator has done a video on it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L7RIDfDG8wY.html

@@jackurokawa3838 yeah but he was in the game so he should remember it

i don't think it will happen anytime soon

@@nezn7230 still can happen and I'll wait till that day :D

@@nezn7230 still can happen and I'll wait till that day :D

Technically true, but psychologically it's different. When it is Fischer (who's only a challenger) that demands things, and those demands are met, and he's effectively deciding about the conditions, it becomes HIS match, HIS territory. It's a psychological blow to the ego of the reigning champion. Is it rational? No, but humans aren't 100% rational creatures.

Where did he do that?

@@polytopiahu1015 Sometimes he'll mention Exodia (forgot the timestamp for this video) or some other cool thing the main character did.

@@polytopiahu1015 11:26

That’s why he is the GOAT

Look up winning with the bongcloud pdf, it's the immortal chess book

Oh, no.

@@katyusha1283 He is gonna lose some ELO and bits of his sanity, lmao. 😂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fYh57wZAmTo.html

Clearly, the most powerful women Chess players of that group, on-par with Masters Roberu and Izuru.

It's a garbage movie that doesn't even show the games correctly. Better watch Bobby Fischer against the world documentry.

@@RAjat9590 to be fair, the movie wasn't really about chess, it was about Bobby and how his mental state started declining. The acting was fine and I enjoyed the story

@@aleksaprelic9827 lol, really? It's about a world chess champion and you say it's not about chess? What was the reason for his mental health declining? Not chess? In the first game they show after Bxh2 Bobby resigned and stated it as a blunder whereas Bobby missed one idea some moves later which Levy explained very nicely. I feel if you show chess, then show it correctly else don't show it. That's the only reason for queens gambit becoming a success since chess is correct in it.

@@RAjat9590 Bobby's enemies made that movie.

i found it mediocre to be honest (loads of narrative cliches), and Maguire totally miscasted as Fischer. i wonder what it is that makes one consider it a "really good movie".

Hanging pawns did a series on it

@@stanleytime9193 HP is honestly the best channel for openings and their plans. He has covered hundreds of openings, virtually all of the popular ones.

@@0willow0 yep, he's awesome

Well, he left for France a few years after the WC match.

Me too! (Without the snack eating)

@@kaininjago6161 same :( I have no good snacks

I don't wanna wait to get the snacks when a gem like this one comes out

nice profile picture mate

@øranuto husband Lol. Did I say ONLY Levy creates beautiful content? Learn to appreciate man. My opinions need not match with yours for me to be correct or wrong.

@øranuto husband whats wrong with u huh!?

@øranuto husband great bro. You made a very important point. Now you can leave, thanks for making yourself look dumb

except fischer actually knows what he's doing and he backs that up with his creativity and genius in games. Unlike players who just memorize openings without doing anything special. I'm sure you see the difference.

Just e4 doesn't narrow it down very much yet. Not to mention he actually played the English opening in the best game of this WC match

just because he hates it doesn't mean he's going to be playing the fucking bongcloud in world championship games

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Cause why the frick not

@@polytopiahu1015 yup

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woah dude, your consistency is on another level

He made a Yu-Gi-Oh! Waking the Dragons reference in a previous video as well.

@@NateROCKS112 ...so Levy is into Yu-Gi-Oh apparently. Or at the very least he watched the abridged series

@@alexandrumarin8981 waking the dragon is a card that came out in 2018 or 19 I’m not sure so he must be pretty aware of modern yugioh it’s crazy the guy talks about the 2 best games in world 😵

from the moment he became WC he had nothing to gain and (in his mind) everything to lose. It makes Kasparov's reign triply impressive - his longevity and the way he dominated consecutive generations. Kaspy is the god of chess. Fischer is Loki.

he said in an interview that he felt different/empty the day after he won the championship

i think it's the opposite. he had already been (kind of) insane, but held it together thanks to chess - and a clear goal he could fixate on. once this was gone, his mind had nothing to hold onto and began falling apart.

@@vibovitold why the hell didnt he challenge kasparov if he felt so empty?

@@scottwarren4998 They were 20 years apart, mind you.

There are ppl who are brain dead and therefore lose out on the greatest youtuber of all time. And some other stuff too

@@polytopiahu1015 Bro, I am a big fan of Levy