6 Sacrifices For The CHECKMATE! 

Shirov, indeed, studied under Tal (they're both from Riga). His book Fire on the Board is one of the most recommended by chess teachers for those interested in tactics. Another fun fact: back when Kasparov broke from FIDE and was organizing his own World Chess Championship, a 10-game match to decide who was going to be the challenger was played between Shirov and Kramnik. Shirov won that match, but then his match against Kasparov never happened for reasons not yet fully clear, even almost theree decades later. Kasparov blames his partner at the time, Luis Rentero, who was helping to organize and sponsor the event. The fact is that Shirov earned his title shot fair and square but was cheated out of it. In the end, Kramnik went on to play and beat Kasparov to become the World Champion, as we all know. Shirov didn't receive a dime in the whole ordeal.

@@iiwi758that’s very interesting thank you for sharing. This style is extremely similar to Tal so that makes a lot of sense.

Def. Mikhail inspired game!! One of my fav players

​@@iiwi758Man, I love educational youtube comments, please don't stop writing them!

😂😂

Most definitely black is 100 elo in these videos

Actually the opening is for blitz and bullet. Strong players can fall for it. MVL played it against Hikaru recently. Hikaru was struggling to defend, however MVL still lost.

​@@dylanmartin2890this was against a gm, shirov is not playing against 100 elo guys

​@@dylanmartin2890checking the database I was wrong. This game comes from 1990 back when shirov was young and only a 2500 and he was playing against a 2200. But by no means the mistakes from black were that bad as that from someone rated a 100 elo as the position was incredibly complicated and was never seen before

Yeah, if black just ignored some of those sacrifices and chose to develop pieces

In fact, well beyond B:f7, this variation is standard. I remember it from Glazkov & Estrin's "King's Gambit". Still, well done, Alexey!

* just * ?

​@@dsanimemistaker1750he's acting like it's nothing 😮

That's the point is to win

Bro spent 30 bucks to win 30 million

@@dsanimemistaker1750 bros acting like hes a gm lmao

This feels like one of those games where you're either playing a 200 or a GM, there is no in between.

3 before the end

Nah white just was drunk

So this line is well understood as the Muzio gambit. You’re basically giving white everything he wants. So he probably saw multiple check mating attacks as soon as black took the knight with the pawn.

This is a well known line in the king's gambit. Your opponent usually doesn't know what to do and just takes every sac, and then you murder him. Coming from a king's gambit player, it's a fun opening.

Thanks

But Vishy was also a student of Tal

Because after queen takes queen the pawn cannot take white's queen because of the rook that pins the pawn, it took me a bit to figure it out too

Sure, but why give a mate in 2 when you can give a mate in 1? And winning the Queen back is not as pretty, don't you agree?

@@Nobody-df4is I wanted just to make sure it's a checkmate and there's a meme going in the chess community to longer your games by taking the longest mate possible. Mate in 4 instead of mate in 1:D

Yes, mate in 2... But then white loses on time... :)

Qf8

faster checkmate with Qf8

still checkmate anyway

Opens up the path for the Queen to deliver mate at f8. It threatens mate in 1.

@@iiwi758 Nice, thanks 👍

I mean itd be easier to look up pgns than manually play the games.

Wtf are you on about?

Quiet kid

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