Magic Mechanism of Sacrifice in Chess. Alekhine vs Podgorny 

The calculated variations are always so beautiful and tricky. One little mistake and all the advantage is gone.

I love how he writes in his annotations. Him and Keres are my favorites.

I adore the old school of chess, they played crystal clear but still deep, Alekhine and Capablanca masters of masters!

Like walking on a tightrope, difficult even for grandmasters, let alone for us, players of modest posibilites. Apart from Alekhine, only Morphi, Nezhmetdinov and Talj could do something like this. Congratulations on the choice of games and your extremely high-quality analysis. One more thing! Your English is very easy for me to understand, probably because my native language is from the group of Slavic languages, and I assume you speak Russian well. Greetings from Serbia!

An excellent game by the Great Alekhine. The first pawn sacrifice (10. a3) makes sense in that White shouldn’t passively defend a threat from Black so early in the game. With such a lead in development the consequential attack refutes Black’s greediness. Then, the move d5 begs to be played constantly, but there are so many black defenders influencing the center that the consideration to sacrifice the exchange is great. The combination of d5 - axb4 - Nd2 - Qxe2+ in order to finally directly assault the enemy king was lovely, and I believe ultimately boils down to the fact that White employed creative resources to achieve central control which was worth even more given the centralized king was present, and Black’s failure to prevent the energy build up of the combination (@ 7:11, exchanging via BxN to remove both a white defender of d5 and limit the tension between a3 and Bb4, as opposed to non-dynamically fighting for d5 instead) allowed for Alekhine to be the master of the ‘explosion’ and take the control of the game.

Such high quality chess videos - thank you.

Simply amazing. Thanks for describing this game. A sequence at 13:40 (with the Black Knight on e7) Qxe7 Re8 would have been fatal if the White Queen moved (and not been captured), because ... Rxe1 would be checkmate. You have to admire any player who can exert Alekhine like this.

you should add a light colour frame to the board when discussing alternate scenarios. Easy for viewers to understand when discussing alternate scenarios involving several complex moves and then falling back to actual game.

Brilliant moves and clear explanations, as usual. Thanks

I realy like the way you explains the moves, great video

Keep up the vids!

So comprehensive commenting Just veeery useful and interesting😎✌

Wonderful!! 👏👏🙏🙏

Alekhine' is my chess hero!!!

Very helpful for me conceptually. Thanks for this lesson

A very nice, dynamic game. I must say though I had few times a position close to the main one cause I played the Alapin I did not dare to sacrifice the rook in the corner. But after this game I will sacrifice the rook when I will have the opportunity 😅

Great videos, thank you😊

So the strategy is to increase the potential energy so that when released, it comes out stronger? When I search for candidate moves on every turn, should I try to limit my options to the moves and plans that increase potential energy if my calculations entail it does not lead to a losing position? 3:35 a3 is very nice but how do I proceed after O-O-O? Maybe Bg5?

He is АлЕхин not АлЁхин for Christ sakes 😛