what a gentleman, to annotate one of his losses with such clarity and patience and even apparent enjoyment. Just brilliant. Glad you made it to the Candidates' Matches, Yaz! You deserved it. Sorry you didn't win and get to challenge GK.
Ha, this speaks to the wonderful game of chess that DOESN'T get played... he spends 20 minutes talking about a possible line with all kinds of really cool fun stuff that he didn't end up playing. I remembered that from my games... I'd play OTB and go home and go over it and think "is that all there was?" because the UNPLAYED game was so much bigger than the played game.
I really enjoyed all of your lectures and if you read this one a day I really want to say you are awesome . In fact I'm from Egypt and I got those amazing lectures very helpful thank you Mr Seirawan
+penearth HA! I'm right now eating EVERYTHING I can find from that man! He's funny, polite and a great teacher for the youngsters ... A TRUE gentleman! ;O)
That a knight becomes more powerful the more it is supported by your other pieces is such a valuable lesson, i on my own would have never figured that out, i definately try to adapt this knowledge into my own games.
Missed this video on publication date, and just now watching. TY for a fascinating 41 minutes. Watched it straight through. As I recall GM Robert Byrne was the chess columnist for the NYT in those days. Can we hang the flawed analysis on his door?
Wow. That was a heck of a game. Korchnoi was really something special and so were you, Yasser. You both deserved to go to the Candidates tournament. Who was the WC that year ..... Karpov or Kasparov?
@ 19:33 The line given seems not correct, as mate can be prevented by Qb6+. Qb6+ picks up the hanging rook, which means Black will get the other rook and White has to opt for this instead: Rxf8+ Kg7 and Rg8+ Kf6. But this seems ok for Black.
If anyone brilliant stumbles upon this vieo and comment. I'd love to hear any thoughts on a trasnposition from KID (i assume just the NIMZO) into a hedgehog. I'm prepping hedgehog against my rival who plays the english. But i'd love to play it more proactively against D4 if possible to get practice in as no one seems to be playing the english at my level.
Sorry, Yasser, but at the 21:10 mark, there is no mate on h1: f2 is available to the White king, and you have nothing to bring against it to trap him there. And at the 21:58 mark, the White knight is no longer trapped.
Serrawan's stories are good, and he's a good lecturer. He speaks a bit slow though, so I find need to increase the speed of the video to stop my mind from wandering off while he's speaking.
Has anyone in this area of the chessworld ever heard about the Nesjmetdinov-gambit in the Siesta-variation of the Ruy Lopez? I´ve seen it in Jakov Estrin´s little red book about gambits, which in my language is called "Gambit-play in chess". It´s just that no one seems to have heard about it and even the strong computer-engines doesn´t seem to know about it. Strange I think.
I wonder if in the past 9 years the young woman (sounded like under 12 years old) has become a master -- she spoke up with confident and accurate moves.
+Dan Kelly I would mention other (perhaps more innovative) players like David Bronstein or Paul Keres! According to Boris Spassky Kortschnoj (as we spell him in Switzerland where he lives) is a 'chess worker" (meaning not that much talented as others but he worked very hard for his success - nothing wrong with it). But you could see the differences in his World Champion matches against Anatoly Karpov! Kortschnoj lost three times (including the 1974 candidates final)!
@@fundhund62 That's just speculation. We'll never know. ;) But it's important to mention that even in 1973 Spassky was stronger than Karpov! Spassky won the UdSSR Super Championship ahead of Karpov! :D
@@fundhund62 Though Spassky won the tournament! :P The direct game isn't that important! That could have gone in either way. Because I already mentioned Spassky in my comment!
Malvegil357 Me It is very well defined on wikipedia. It's a pawn structure (mainly for Black) where he exchanges the pawn in c5 and puts pawns.on a6, b6, d6 and e6. The manoeuvring of the pieces are also very typical.
But why was Seirawan playing for a win at times when he knew all he needed was a draw to qualify for the world championship? The logic of risk vs. rewards doesn't match up.
Why does Yasser have to recapure the knight on g6 with his f pawn after the knight sacrifice on g6? Doesn't that mess up his pawn structure and give him worries? What is so bad about hxg6?
+John Brown Taking with the f pawn gives him potential counterplay pn the open f file, and pressure on the white kingside, while taking with the h pawn opens up the h file, where black can't place a rook for play, and he is more likely to get mated on the open h file
So I looked back at the video and I feel you are wrong. The h file is not opened for white, and there is no counterplay black can get on the f file. The g pawn firmly protects f3.
im confused on the part at 32 min after bxf3, why does whige have to take back? cant he slide rook over check, the bishop defends king, then whotes bishop attacks blacks bishop and king cant do much
@@kylefogel3994 I don't know what I was thinking 4 years ago, but I wouldn't play that move now, it seems pretty bad since black can then just take the queen for free. I am not 100% how it would play out but even after not playing chess for more than 3 years I would say that would be just a bad move for white.
@@kylefogel3994 Don't worry, when I first wrote that comment 4 years ago I was 1700, no matter how good you actually are, you will always make blunders... but you will make them less often as you get better for sure.
