Eric Rosen recently played this exact line against someone in the winter marathon. He too found an amazing way to win. I think it may have actually been 20 move prep for him.
@@Joe-bb4yihis sacrifice were often dubious (“There are two types of sacrifices, sound ones and mine” - Tal), but I wouldn’t say that he “blundered everything until his opponent played a bigger blunder”. He wasn’t a chess hustler at Washington square park, he was a super grandmaster
Don't be fooled by some of his modest and self-deprecating writing - despite their sometimes melodramatic appearance, Tal's sacrifices were remarkably sound. Remember that he set a record for the longest unbeaten streak that lasted over forty years. He wasn't just some loose cannon, he was a world champion and even by modern engine standards a very accurate player. Even when Botvinnik beat him in their WC rematch, he didn't refute Tal's sacrifices, in fact he did the opposite: he avoided sharp tactical positions. Super-GMs don't run away from dubious sacrifices, they eat them for breakfast. For Botvinnik to refuse to fight Tal in sharp positions just goes to show how fearsome he was in that domain.
Jonathan is from another planet of chess I have been watching you for over a month now and I have learned so much. Your style of play is aggressive and intuitive and so creative, You have clearly proved to me (if not everyone) that chess is a game of unlimited beauty! :) Keep it up and thanks.
I was just looking at the line they prepped only a few hours ago. It's cool to see it be brought down! Also cool to learn that Jonathan started learning chess when he was 21, because I am that old now and started about a year ago. 12 hours a day though?! I see I could be working much harder.
Stafford games are so fun to watch. White's always +1000000000 as long as they find the one stupid move that makes no sense to a human in a short time format game.
I think since Alpha Zero we've all learned that pieces are worth nothing if they can't be active. I'm not as deep into chess as most of you, I'm sure, but that is an evolution I've witnessed as someone on the fringe, in the last bunch of years. I think that is the concept behind these sacrifices, and the really crazy advanced AI is able to bring it to an extreme most of us can't conceive. I also love that this style of "romantic" play reminds me of Tal and Polgar, two of my favorite players.
If you find the opening e4 e5 boring play a different opening. I would reccomend the Sicilian dragon, I dont play it but i have heard it to be good and not as theory heavy as something like the najdorf. The only potentially boring lines of the Sicilian are some closed sicilians.
At 9:49 if king c2 after check and queen takes rook, after bishop D1 that’s a trapped queen, however it is still completely winning for black as the pieces are paralysed to keeping the queen in there lol. So my calculation is pointless lol
