The biggest difficulty I've had with chess is the "middle game". This video explains the strategic reasoning. Someone once commented that a lot of players can memorize openings, but when a game goes "out of book", they're lost as to what to do. Most chess books that I've read focused on tactics (e.g. if take, take, take, take, and then take) without ever getting into the positioning. This video goes into the positioning, and elucidates old maxims like "control of center squares".
great video! Super cool to see how a concept as deceptively simple as "control d5" can become such a heated and complex conversation between two champions.
Excellent analysis! I was NOT seeing most of the things you pointed out. Once you explained what is going on, the game was so much more enjoyable and intense. In the end it seems like that innocent looking a3 pawn grab by Kramnik did him in. So i am thinking he didn't see what was about to happen to him on the e and f files either! 🙂
My guess is that Kramnick saw the position was losing before he played QxP (Qxa6), and tried to maybe throw Carlsen off balance. Didn't work. I have seen games in which both players made "computer best" moves, then one makes an off-move ... and the reply is ALSO an off-move. Maybe inside the player's head he thought his counterpart had seen something he failed to see, loses confidence, and makes an off-move himself. Carlsen wasn't buying Kramnick's avocados on sale, half-price.
Thanks as always for the analysis Jerry. I always struggle against fianchetto'd bishops, I never have a clear plan, trying to fight for a central square along the diagonal to block it seems straightforward as an idea but this is an excellent example of that, love the concept of forcing the opponent to put a pawn there.
Before judging, please consider to mind, that without doubt Владимир Крамник is the Milhouse van Houten of the chess universe. And don't get distracted by the black dyed hair, it's natural colour is blue.
Master class in obtaining a good knight versus a bad bishop. Notice how black's pieces and pawns ended up on dark squares with white's pawns on white squares.
Hi Jerry, at move 22, can white consider the move f4 instead of directly recapturing on d5 with Bxd5? I am looking at Bxg2 and feel that Bxg2 fxe5 Bxh3 exf6 Bxg4 Qd5 Re8 Qg5 and suddenly white's winning. So, Bg2 is off the cards, I guess. This way, white can keep a piece on d5. Although, he made compromises on the kingside.
@aleattorium ah, OK. I thought it was a shot at Jerry for his previous video about bot accounts on lichess, which, for obvious reasons, will not stand!
After f5 there is no way to get to the king for white. The E pawn would be backwards, black can pile up on it with the major pieces and put the knight on f6->e4. H4 break is met with h6, and it takes to long to occupy that file for white.
@@erbalumkan369the outpost is e5, simply you move the rook and put the knight there and white can't attack it with the bishop, he has to sacrifice the exchange in order to remove it.
