I played Luke in a five minute tournament at the British Championships in Swansea back in the 90s when I was in my early 30s and he was probably still in single figures. He was already a star and my U.K. grade was probably equivalent to around 1650-1700. I played a beautiful queen sac. It was so good that even when he turned it down, he had to play really accurately to wriggle out of my attack but he did and he beat me. Afterwards, I bumped into him outside and he pointed at me in front of all my drinking mates and said "You're a crafty swindler". I was king for a day. A year or two later at the British in Norwich, he was regularly hanging around the football video machine. Everybody was happy to pay for him to play just so they could tell all their friends that they'd beaten the great Luke McShane.
#Suggestion Use your $5 spent on the database to search for a McShane game where he plays a rook on the second rank to d2 when the other rook is not on the second rank could have moved to d2 instead. Just so it could read as R2-D2
Wow, I cant imagine how Luke would play if chess was his primary job. He would definitely be among elite players. Adhiban is quite an opponent to outplay.
11:23 Dammit. I spent five minutes staring at this thinking, "Well, if it were me I'd just be a coward and trade everything down to win the endgame, but there must be a knockout here or he wouldn't be asking me to pause it."
It was my own intitial instinct too but i thought Kg1 was even better. What's also important to notice is that Black is threatening Qf1 mate so Kg1 brings the King closer and saves a tempo because Black's pieces are paralysed and you will take on g7 next.
I think young Luke could have pretty well finished things up, since the rook is pinned. Rh6+ Kg8 Qh5 and the king can't escape by f7 so there's going to be some blood on the board since white's king and rook are double on the h file.
Thank you #agadmator for doing such a great work. Your videos are highlight of my day for almost 2 years now. I improved my chess significantly. Keep up the good work!
So, that is the main reason to move the king, because you plan to move f4 AND there is a dark squared bishop or queen which cab deliver check or a pin.
Yeah and as a beginner I really did think the winning sequence would be to win the queen but you cannot as black's rook can interpose with rf7. Otherwise it could have ended with rh6+, kg8, qe6+, qf7, qe8+, qf8, rh8+, kxh8, qxf8+.... but a grandmaster wouldn't be stupid enough to allow this to happen though. It may happen to us 1600-1700's though.
#suggestion the birsbane bombshell from the 1985 karpov-Kasparov world championship, game 16. It' s just a strategic masterpiece with some great plays and some very nice ideas
I have been playing 5 minute blitz games on lichess, but I always end up losing on time or blundering a piece. every time. so I started playing 10 minute games and its much more enjoyable for me. I think longer games would be even better for a beginner like me, but I feel like playing online requires a shorter time format.
#suggestion I believe this is Garry Kasparov's first official game: chess-db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=4100018 Just go to the box and scroll to the very bottom to 1975. His opponent is Leonid Yurtaev.
"'Queen to b8 preparing to push a pawn"??? What?? Preparing to lose the game would have said it better. Why would a grand master remove his queen from play?? That move was when the game was lost....a knight on the rim is grim but a queen stuck in a home corner by choice is...???... a known boner..head move.
It's so racist! The white guy with the white pieces beating up on the black guy with the black pieces... charges should be pressed. And we should categorically change the colours of chess pieces to brown and beige. And include some deviations to recognize other ethnic groups too. (Don't hate - I'm only joking!)
