Chess Genius | Morozevich vs. Svidler - GM Yasser Seirawan 

Yasser Seirawan manages to mix good stories, deep explanation and entertainment. I watch his videos several times with an even pleasure. Thank You !

Alexander morozevich is special and unpredictable he create a masterpiece when ever he played even when he lose ...my favorite player 👏👏

This is almost stubborn Chess - instead of agreeing that the bishop on a4 is out of place, and the knight on d3 is ruining development, he finds a chance to make his bishop on a4 an attacker and develop with initiative - I love it. :D

Morozevich after his Melody Amber victory :" I came, did not see and won!" One of the greatest blindfold players!

Yasser, your enthusiasm for the game of chess makes you a good teacher, and it inspires enthusiasm in others. Personally I very much appreciate it.

Morozevich es genial, tiene una creatividad increíble y sus planes estratégicos y tácticos no son fáciles de ver.Un jugador romántico, sin duda, en una época donde las computadoras dejan poco margen para la creación de obras de arte.

Wow, Morozevich really *is* a genius! And how I delight in you, Yasser, allowing me to witness, alongside of you, how to come up with these crazy plans.

Superb analysis. Fantastic game.

More Yasser and more Finegold please!

I love these Seriwan videos, he's an excellent teacher

Yasser? Can you start giving lectures on your life in chess? Just stories, not strategy. For people who think is chess is cool but don't play.

I've got the same feeling of amazement when looking at this game. It's cryptic to say the least.. Anyway, the fact that Mr. Seirawan incited his pupils to an applause to Morozevic, well, this made him gain huge respect of mine. This is the way of educating your pupils, chess mixed up with history of chess (and history in general, but that is something I guess in us they are less sensible about), and to the way of behaving as well. It's important that you coach tells you how keres moved the pieces and the way he dressed, and so on. Things we are losing now, with engines, and other sad things leading to players being less and less human beings with strong personalities. And that's way we miss players like Alexandr Sergeyevic, one of the last romantics and one of the few not betraying his roots.

Yaz, you're awesome. Your voice inflections are on fleek for nerd chess dramatization. To my eye, this game is comfortably identifiable Morozevich realm. Just like Yaz said, with Morozevich, you're so frequently just thinking "What the hell is going on in this game?!" The positions are always so atypically cattywampus and complex. And when he's in form he somehow navigates such positions better than his opponents do, especially much lower rated opposition. I may have hallucinated this, but I believe I came across some interview with him where he was asked where his inspiration and creative playing style stemmed from. And he replied with something to effect that it's because he doesn't like playing chess, that it's boring, but he happens to be very good at it, so he plays the way he does to keep a boring game interesting. Don't quote me on this tho lol. I like to believe it about him tho because that just makes him an even awesomer chess personality in my book. Someone feel free to correct me on this if you know otherwise somehow.

It's a pleasure to watch these great lectures. Thanks!

You have a great speaking voice and obviously a great player. Watch a couple of you videos. How wonderful you are at your job.

Great game & EXCELLENT commentary/analysis!!!

I love the stories you tell and how you tell them. Fan of you, Yasser.

I could listen to Yasser Seirawan all day!

A simply wonderful video. Every chess player should watch it.

Yasser is the bomb! Wish he’d do a podcast. Interviewing great players and other people he’d like to speak with. I think it would be wise❤️🍻

Brilliance from 27 mins on. I imagine Morozevich is one of most GMs' favourites. He's almost an anti-player...works out what everyone else is doing and constructs a new strategy thus. Also, Yasser just brings pure fun into learning via chess... your chess game will improve, and i dare say so will your temperament - he makes learning and living fun. What more does one want?!

I giggled when the words "Ivanchuk" and "strange" came out in the same phrase

Morozevich has a style like Adolf Andersen, very good attacking at the King.

Amazing lecture thanks Yasser

I thank you mr.Yasser I like your way to let us know chess you are great 😃

The master who Keres played was Allan Denis rated about 2200 at the time. Keres was rated around 2550 at the same time.

5:00 amazing Ivanchuk and Gelfand story

Here is the link for that game Keres-Denis, 1975. www.chess.com/games/view?id=239457 Petrov Defense with 3. d3

Gotta love Yasser

That was a very good analysis, mind blowing.

Clap clap clap.... Morozevich is a genius, indeed. Nice comments.

I love your speaking voice.

at 32.06, there IS an attack with Q to G3 (pawn on F2 cannot take the Q because of the bishop on B6), and I really wonder how the mate can be avoided...

Really enjoyed that game and lecture thank's

keep camera still, open up field of view. makes for a better performance. The camera moving is so VERY AMATEUR!

Moro, is just great! A super talent chesplayer.

Morozevich is famous for using what are considered dubious or unsound openings like the Budapest or the Chigorin defence to the QGD and finding great new ideas but sometimes this approach blows up in his face which is why he's never been a serious World Championship contender despite( as Yasser says) the fact that he is objectively one of the few true genius level players in the world.

At 32:05 ("there's no attack"), black actually has a mating attack: 22. N.g4 Q.g3! 23. N.e3 Bxe3 24. Q.g4 N.f3+ 25. Qxf3 exf3 26. N.g6+ (prolonging the inevitable) hxg6 27. fxe3 Qxg2 mate!

Thank you again Yasser for an excellent lecture with such an ease and grace to your speaking and calculations. I had one question (I don't own a chess engine). The position at 32:00 is certainly convoluted. Would Qg5 for black not hold out for some possibilities of either Nf3+ with Rxh3 to follow? Or even a potential e3 push, opening up the b7-bishop and potential threats on g2/h1. It immediately prevents white from consolidating with Nxh6 (due to Qxg2++). Any thoughts?

what is the music

At 32:06, when Yasser says "there is no attack", doesn't black have ..Qg3 and mate in two? Or am I missing something?

Really great game indeed by Morozevich!

At 32:06 when Yasser says there's no attack, isn't Qg3 for black just winning? Edit: It is winning for black. The Ne7 from white a couple moves prior is just losing, but if white plays Ng4 without Ne7, it's winning for white.

yes, i agree about the pawn absence, but with me its usually a Queen absence... ;-)

Man i love Seirawan's lectures, more than Akobian's which i thought were my favorites. It feels like it is not just a lecture but a whole story with the pre-lecture conversation of Ivanchuk and Gelfand. But...he does have some weird behaviours during the lectures :/ Namely: 19:50 34:36 ...just examples

I burst out with laughter when Yasser said "crap"!

That is a great Morozevich game; blockading your own d pawn is usually instant death in a symmetrical king's pawn opening at any level!

amazing story about keres

Instead of c3+b4, i would have played c4, to attack the pawn chain and to open the a2-g8 diagonal

32:09 what is after Qg3?

Yeah I'm rated 1700 and the B4 idea jumped out to me rather quickly. But it was a beautiful game for white!

can human win "Deep Thought" (chess computer)?

Who did Paul caressed?

what is a chess engine

i love yasser

Amazingggg

The camera should have been focused on the chess board and not on the person talking

Impossible to read this correctly.... ?

Morozevich be more like I am “more savage“👀

Alexei is absolutely the best their is, even when he looses.

Kicking the knight on move 12 should be a common defensive move to not allow pieces to dominate a position. That knight needed kicked.

Keres was more soviet than estonian chessplayer. It's like to say Yasser Seirawan is a Syrian player.

at 28:00 can't the black rook just take the white Q?

What program is he using?

damn yasser...gained about 30 lbs..but still my favorite lecturer at 1.25x speed.

What's he doing with his glasses?

Hence proved, Big Chucky is Beth Harmon.

at 19:10 I immediately thought c2-c4...

Paul Keres last games before his death!!M

Speeding up the playback to 1.5x ... Less boring🤣

He sounds just like my doctor

Keres, but not careless.

31:59 black has m-6

Fuck! It was Just amazing.

He is from syria. Check wiki

fischer random, hahaha, nice.

25:50 has to be one of the ugliest strategically sound positions I’ve ever seen

:)

Petrof dead...

For some reason, I just don't like this GM. Sometimes I wish he would just get on with it already.