Michal krasenkow was actually born Mikhail Azos on Nov 14 ( tal was born on 9th Nov) . he wanted to pursue a career in mathematics but when that failed , he enlisted in the soviet army . After the dissolution of USSR , he wanted to emigrate to France but his visa was rejected . he got a call from his polish friend and thus found himself in Poland .
@@Dan1elAndrade Wiki says he was born in Moscow, and was playing for Soviet Union until 1992. But also gives his name as Krasenkov (which is international transciption from Cyrillic). @Rama Chandra, how do you know his name was Azos?
I agree. White punished him. While black was wasting moves, every move White made improved his own position while creating more problems for black to deal with. It's hard to get an attack going while you're on your heels retreating
That's an excellent description of Magnus. I scarcely ever see a Magnus game that makes me ooh and aah like I do for Morphy or Tal, but as you say it's a slow strangulation.
@@GeraldM_inNC I admire how he's so confident in his endgame conversion skills that he will only go into positions that benefit him there. He doesn't try to go into lines where the outcome has uncertainty that he will need to calculate. He let's his opponents make the mistakes and then capitalizes on it brutally
Immortal Agadmator quotes: "Hello everyone!" "It is in this position that we have a completely new game." "That this position has never been reached again." "So feel free to pause the video and win this for..." "It was in this position on move __ that _______ resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done here."
So yeah, it was quite the game. If you found the move, you are indeed a very good finder of excellent moves, but if you just wanna enjoy the show.... so yeah... and ... resigned as there is nothing more to do. Why did he resign..... because captures captures captures and there is nothing more to be done. So yeah, I do hope you enjoyed the game, and do have an excellent rest of your day.
Beautiful game.. stunning really.. one passed pawn, 2 passed pawns, total control of the game. Seemed like white was giving black a lesson on how to use the pieces to perfection
I miss Medo acting crazy in the background. Maybe the new place is too comfortable or he is getting older and lazier. Love that he is always there though. And ofc the chess.
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Krasenkow at the European Championship and he proved to be a very kind gentleman. Not only was he ready to give me his time, but I also observed him watching games of other lower rated players and being happy to generously answer their questions. I was very impressed by his demeanour and more than happy to see him claim the 4th spot!
Dragon openings often fail to the Marcozy bind. Black's e-pawn needs to protect the d5 square by advancing to e6. There are too many weaknesses to cover with the pawn on g6 instead of g7. Capturing the knight on d5 gives White an endgame advantage...
At 8:17, couldn't white play 40. Nc4, which both threatens the queen and opens up an attack on the undefended knight on d7? And if the queen goes back to d8 to defend the knight, then you can just pile up on the piece and eventually white will win it (e.g., 41. Qd2 Rb7 42. Nd6 Rb6 43. Ne4 and now if the rook goes back to defend on b7, then 44. Rcd6 and there are now three attackers and only two defenders). You usually mention when you can go up a piece, so I was wondering if there was some subtle trap I was missing. But Stockfish even at a depth of 35 likes it too.
#suggestion is it possible to cover the last game of Kramnik Leko 2004, quite a high stakes game as Leko has to win, Kramnik needing a Match Draw only to retain the Classical world Championship.
48 isn't exactly old. Korchnoi was still ranked in the top 100 FIDE at age 75, Keres won tournaments at age 59, Steinitz was still world champion at age 57,, and Korchnoi himself lost a rapid game to 89 year old Mark Taimanov.
"Either he's living a very healthy lifestyle, or he's like tal, not living a healthy lifestyle at all but it's still going great for him." Hahahaha. I guess we're all too used to seeing super GMs playing solid risk free chess that when we see games like this, we forget just how strong old Russians GMs can be and how aggressive they can play. No one would bat an eye if Kasparov, tal or any of the old Soviet grandmasters or former champions played attacking chess, so I don't see what's so surprising that a 50 years old GM can play a game like this. It's not like the other person was Carlsen.. Not to take anything away from Michal, this was a great game and very entertaining.. but yeah.. even a 2000 ELO player could on a good day vs the right opponent could also pull a game like this off, just as entertaining and aggressive.
No, I afraid it isn't. Pawns can only advance 2 squares in their first move. After that, they can advance only 1 square per move. The pawn in g3 had already made its first move, so it could only advance 1 square. In this case, to g4. In addition: even if the pawn in the g column could have advanced to g5, the black King could have escaped by moving to g6.
No, because after the queen is captured there is no mate as d6 is covered by the bishop. If you play Rd3+, the king makes it to g8 or h8 and you're down too much material.
