Year ago a psychologist developed a theory that child prodigies were not born, but raised that way. He tested his theory on his three daughters, raising them all to play chess, not forcing them, but actively encouraging them in a game they enjoyed. Those three daughters would all become GMs. That psychologist was Laszlo Polgar, his youngest daughter is of course Judit Polgar.
@@fredbawden1468 But so what though? Even if just one person finds out about it, isn't it worth it? For example. Me. And I've been following chess since the boom like a lot of people and just learned it.
Hey Levy! Blue shirt guy here! 😀I did see the tactic, but not as fast as Polgar did 😉 (2100 lichess myself) It was really nice to have 2 champions playing each other in your club, it is called "Asociacion Amigos del Retiro" and be in the first row at the same time. Magnus, Judit, Anish, and later Naroditsky were very friendly and close with everybody. Chatting and joking between them and with the public too. Also, Anna Crawling was streaming live for her Twitch channel. The atmosphere created was fantastic and it was overall an unforgettable experience. I also would like to congratulate you on the covering of the games and your constant content creation. Really enjoy it! Keep it up!
She's unanimously regarded as the best female chess player of all time, former top 10 player. Just because you never heard of her until now, it doesn't mean she doesn't get credit lol
Top 10 in the world for officially about 2 years. You probably know a lot more about her than people like Morozevich, who both peaked higher and stayed in the top 10 for much longer. He was n.2 at 2788 elo, right behind Anand. Yet you probably barely even heard his name.
@@a.s.04 Yeah, she gets a lot of recognition and for good reasons. But she is far from underrated. If anything, it's the opposite. I am not downplaying her talent, but people act as if she could have become World Champion if she had more luck. She participated in the World Championship 2005 tournament and came dead last. 8th place with a horrible TPR of 2610. 4½ out of 14. 1 win, 6 losses, 7 draws.
I don't know if people understand how good Judit was. I mean, this is a park game for fun, a serious Magnus is a whole other story, but this woman has humbled pretty much every single world champion in serious classical games, and still there are people that won't acknowledge her as one of the very best ever.
She has beaten many top rated players including world champions, but if you expand the analysis to a larger sample size of encounters with these super GMs, you’ll find that her record was dismal. It’s possible to beat an incredible GM once if you’re a very strong chess player, buts it’s far more difficult to do so consistently and overwhelmingly in longer matches. So while Judit is certainly the greatest female chess player of all time and an incredible chess player in general, she shouldn’t ever be considered in the conversation for the top ten greatest chess players of all time.
No offense but she is for sure not one of the very best ever. She is the best female chess player of all time and have taken games off of some world champ but if you actually look at her overall records against them it is abysmal.
FIDE ratings rarely lie, and Judit's peak was 2735, which is close to the last place finisher of the current candidates. Which means at her peak she was a decent contender with top GMs, and definitely have had favorable games against world champions. But from an overall standpoint she is still few ranks worse than world champions. But WHO CARES, JUDIT IS A LEGEND
Just so others can see it as you didn't show it. I thought it was super classy when Judit asked if Magnus wanted a rematch he said something along the lines of, "It's a better story if it's one win". He knew people would be talking about this match and had the humility to not just even the score which would have been a much less interesting story. Class act. Or he was just scared of her now....lol.
The tactic in this game was not difficult for any master to see. She has played much more difficult moves in many games. It os surprising that Magnus missed it. His Bishop was obviously overloaded to any good player. Not really an impressive move.
Judith always was an absolute tactician, all her games are over the top aggressive, full of tactics, Magnus also went straight to her playing ground, probably out of respect, plus that's a fun way to level the playing field, and then she just took him to school :D That was quite a fun game. I am glad to have access to such entertaining content, if I were to say something in a constructive manner, I would love for Gotham to just listen to the footage, sound and all, then analyze afterward, anyways, ty for this, have an excellent rest of your day xoxo!
It makes sense, really -- playing her favorite opening may hurt his chances of winning this game, but greatly enhance his chances of learning something he can use in a future game that he considers more important.
@@mabel3989 Exactly. In this video from the other side of the table Anish sees it immediatley and no one else does: At 2:35 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hvbZCRid5CY.html
We're always making jokes about Levy making videos with Magnus, but I don't think we realise the immense luck we got having Magnus as a champion and representative of chess. It is not common at all for a world champion to be that wholesome, and I think we must not underestimate the way this affects the entire game. Of course there are other strong players with a similar personality that we could imagine in the same situation, but at the same time there are also many of them who would never just sit in a park and chill with friends and random people. Chess used to be competitive and intimidating, a very secretive niche. Although many people have demonstrated to still have this mentality, Magnus is all about fun, which is (or should be) the most important and positive aspect of any game. Purposefully or nor, he made a lot to popularise chess, and I hope the next champion, whoever will be, preserves this kind of attitude towards the game.
really liked this. i like how the whole chess community - super GMs, chess streamers, and us mere mortals - have come together in Madrid during this candidates. special times! and you played an important part in that too of course by covering the event and collaborating with the likes of anish giri, anna cramling etc. well done!
Absolutely love Judit's approach - she hits it like she's playing poker, playing the player not the board. I mean...this is the woman who beat Kasparov _by playing one of his own lines_ !!!! Absolute monster, in the best way possible.
This is so awesome. On one side of the city, a bunch of men are fighting over who may possibly get a chance to battle it out with Magnus. And here comes Judit, and kicks Magnus’ ass in the park. Poetry 😂
Why dont you complete your thought and say that since Judit 'kicks Magnus’ ass' that she is now the greatest player ever and would beat him in a tournament setting? Hater.
Levy you inspired me to play chess and I went from 300 Elo to 1063 so thanks Levy I will still watch you and one day I’ll be 2000 and I’ll thank you that one day again
Thank you Levy! Thanks for the constant entertaining, and for the huge humility towards your viewers. I mean I'm from hungary and It feels so lovely when we hear our players name: "Ricsi" or "Judit" as we actually pronouncing them in our country. It seems a small thing for the first time, but you are actually put tons of effort in these little details and it feels delightful because these little details makes your content such great. Keep it up Levy. And thank you sir! :)
Judit Polgar and Magnus Carlsen's head to head scores in tournament games is 22 wins for Magnus, 2 wins for Judit and 10 draws. Kasparov beat Judit 17 to 1 with 6 draws. She has negative scores against almost all other grandmaster. When she defeated Kasparov once in a rapid game, people were saying that she was better than Kasparov.
Aaaannd, your point is? Nobody in this comment section, me included, would win even one game against any world champion, or Judit. You gotta remember, when Judit was playing games against (and sometimes beating) the likes of Kasparov, no other female chess player was even close. (Except maybe her sisters) Now, 15-20 years later, even retired, she can still keep up with arguably the best player who ever played the game. That's pretty effing legendary if you ask me, and she deserves our respect. For me, her style is similar to Ivanchuk's: when they're in their best form, they play with surprising creativity and incredible accuracy and can smash the best players in the field. But their style is risky, and they can't always get the kind of position they excel at. Another similar player is Rapport: he didn't do amazingly well this candidates, but he's dynamic, exciting, creative, and he always fights. Maybe had Judit played it "safe", taken more draws, or simply had the kind of support the men had back in the day, who knows? Her results would likely be more representative of the absolute firecracker she is.
"She has negative scores against almost all other grandmaster" No. You don't get to 2700+ Elo and #10 in the world by not being able to beat any other grandmasters. It's true that she doesn't perform as well against generational talent, but the two people you named are arguably the two greatest players of all time. Pretty much no one has a positive record against those 2 guys. She's way beyond your average GM.
@@defer114 It's true that Kasparov and Carlsen are the greatest of all time but many people think that Judit is the same calibre as them. BBC called Judit one of the greatest of all time for beating Kasparov once. They didn't bother mentioning that Kasparov defeated her 17 times. Polgar has a negative score against these players: Anand, Bacrot, Bu Xiangzhi, Gelfand, Giri, Yifan Hou, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Karpov, Kramnik, Leko, Morozevich, Hikaru, Ponomariov, Seirawan, Shirov, Topalov, Carlsen, Kasparov.
@@chessytchannel123 So you admit that when you said "she has a negative score against almost all other grandmasters" that was a blatant lie? The BBC saying she is one of the best of all time is just as much misinformation as what you posted. Of the people you listed most of them have been top 5 in the world at one point or they started playing high level chess when she was on her way out. Having negative scores against those players doesn't mean there were not hundreds of GM's she has a positive record against. What you posted is just not true.
@@defer114 BBC did call her that. Also she has a negative score against those gms and tied against many others. The only world champion she has a positive score against is 50 year old Spassky in retirement.
Wish there was some way to get more of the retired legends back into playing, for this intergenerational content. Maybe like a smaller-stakes Sicilian championship?
Be3/Qd2/f3 is a good set up against most Sicilians, but I remember getting caught out when I tried this as White in the Kan Variation: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 Bb4 7.Qd2?! Nf6 8.f3 d5!. 7.f3 Nf6 and the prophylactic 8.Nde2 seems to be the only way to make it work against that move order. There are also some lines of the Accelerated Dragon where Black can gain a tempo over the Yugoslav Attack by playing ...d5 in one move, so White needs to throw in Bc4 and Bb3 first and encourage ...d6.
Magnus specialises in grinding wins from apparently drawn looking positions, someone that’s an excellent attacker like Judit might snipe a win from time to time in a blitz format
@@account2198 bruh, she was literally number 8 in the world at one point. Feeling the need to throw some cold water on everyone's praise of Polgar makes you look like an absolute clown.
@@andreitiberiovicgazdovici yes, come on now be remotely realistic. What is there to win for him trying hard in a park? He is like almost a decade world champion if he tried his best in a cassical game he wouldnt even lose 1 in 100 games against anyone who isnt in the top 20 global players.
I love how two World Champions just play against each other for fun and not just for the sake of a tournament. You can see that both Judit and Magnus are having fun together. It's refreshing to see Magnus laughing and having fun with his chess games instead of being competitive with it.
@ Actually Judit never played for women world championship title.
2 года назад
@@shadowkatake its not. There is woman world champion and world champion. World Champion includes also woman. In any tournament there is woman category ( only woman can compete ) and there is open categorY ( both men and women can compete but always men are competing ) any men top 100 can become woman world champ if they were woman. And as I said, its not gender neutral for woman world champion. there is no " male " champion, its open. same thing with WNM WFM WIM WGM , there is no MGM ( male grand master )
One thing I have always appreciated about Judit is that she does not get psyched out by her opponent. Regardless of who is across the board she shows no respect and goes at them, and just plays her game. I think that is why she has beaten so many great players.
Thanks to you levi. I've got my intersest back on chess after watching some of your video. From all your video, I really liked guess the elo series and every video that have magnus inside. Your video really inspiring me. Because of that my elo went to 900 from 1200
Heartfelt thank you for all of your content chess and otherwise. I enjoy watching your recaps and all other chess related videos. You helped reignite my passion for chess back in late 2019 when I stumbled across your channel. So happy the community is growing. Let's get to 2 million!
I was once preparing for a specific opponent I knew would play a particular line in the Najdorf. I took games off the database and studied them for black. It was her’s and Kasparov’s as black that were those games. She’s quite simply one of the very strongest players in history.
Judith has an average ELO 2650-2700. Complete outsiders of chess can't appreciate at what level this woman plays exactly.Just for a moment , take a step back and consider what level and duration of preparation and natural talent , all this requires. Even, forget talent . Just consider the countless hours over the board. A dedication worth at least one lifetime squeezed into the few most productive years of our youth .A dedication worth 100 human years squeezed probably between years 7 and 27. That's harsh, and few know it , because few have walked this path Also, just the elo difference typically means that Judith will win at least 1 of 4 to 1of 3 games against Magnus. This means at least ignorance for people impressed of a win of Ms Polgar rather than expect it. This is why even the notorious Hans Niemann is expected to win significant number of games against Magnus at 2600 -2700 elo. And just winning one out of ten is not a surprise but less than expected. Unless you think the Elo system is worthless , so we can begin an argument anew...
Judit!! Entertaining game with a savage finish. Both players are just so relaxed and respectful - a great day for chess in the midst of the Candidates. Thanks for the review!!!
And it’s likely to stay theoretical since a complete solution would require storing more data than could be accommodated by the entire universe. Even if you could use individual atoms as bits there’s just not anywhere near enough matter in the entire visible universe to store the complete game tree for chess.
Judit is undoubtedly one of the best players and i don't just mean in female.Like she has retired so long ago and i know that this was just a friendly game but still she beat the current world champion. That's really great.👍👍👍
Really sad we never saw a sicilian in WCC 2021. Like Nepo didn't want to face Carlsen's Sveshnikov and Carlsen didn't want to face Nepo's Najdorf, so Nepo ended up in closed ruy's and Petrov's which I don't associate with his style as much.
You say you don't understand bishop c6, but it's obviously to defend the pawn. Now, if bishop b6, queen takes, and the queen can't take on d7. And if white captures the light square bishop with his own, either before b6 or after, black simply recaptures with the queen and still defends d7. You also said Magnus could have played pawn to b4, but you didn't explain why. It's only because it's stops the threat of bishop to b6 that you can play it ! If bishop to b6, pawn takes night, threatening the white queen. If bishop takes, both queens come off the board and the attack is gone. But what if white takes back with his pawn ? Isn't the threat still there ? The black queen is still under attack and if it moves anywhere it's mate ! No ! Black has bishop to a3 check ! The king has to move to b3 and now the black queen can take the black bishop with check ! not giving white anytime to play queen d7 checkmate ! You say you would show the details... I'm doing your job there man ! 🤘
Great Game Judit!! For some reason, Magnus played an opening he was not completely familiar with, played somewhat passively and then bit on a pawn he shouldn't have. We have all done that I think but we don't expect that from world champions! As many have said - it was in the park and a blitz game which is all true!
Urm... Judith is female. The chess community wants to encourage more females to enter chess. There is a lot of pressure to demonstrate that women can be as good at men at everything, including chess. As the #1 chess champion, it's a big win for the feminists if he loses to Judith. He lost because he intended to all along.
Man, Judit's style of chess is just so entertaining to watch - you know she's always going to do her best to play fighting chess, and try to push for winning chances. It's similar to Rapport's style, which was a high point of the candidates, even if it caused him to lose a few games. Anybody can see that playing this way isn't the best strategy to gain the most elo, or score the best at tournaments, but it's easily the most fun way to play. It's always a pleasure to see Ms. Polgar play!
According to Wikipedia, there are 39 female chess players who hold the GM title. Not WGM--GM, like Hikaru, Danya, Magnus, and so on. TIL Judit is one of those 39.
Judit was at the time of reaching her title of Grandmaster, the youngest person to do so. And 2 years before that she became the youngest person ever to reach top 100.
He is the best at any time (except maybe under 1-2 minutes) formats but of course less the time available more often blunders happens, even at high level. And of course Judit was a top 10 player, even if she is long retired currently
He is not the best in Blitz right now. He is #5 in the ranks but has been #1 in the past, so of course you would expect him to win vs a retired player.
okay someone please help me out. At the game's end, why can't Magnus take the knight with his bishop? the game can still continue. tell me if I'm wrong.
It's a shame how many cringey virgins come crawling up from the floorboards and basements anytime someone expresses admiration for Judit Polgar. You say that legendary players like Ivanchuk, Bronstein, Larsen, and Korchnoi were amazing, no one chimes in to contradict you. Acknowledge one of the FIDE world champions like Topalov as a world champion, all's well. Mention that Judit is a legend, and the 1200 elo virgins swarm out to insist that only world champions deserve high praise. No one with a 2000+ rating or a girlfriend says these things.
I'm the guy with the white t-shirt behind Magnus,watching this live was crazy
2 года назад
Why people are making this a big deal? This is a friendly match, Magnus didn't care. I know when Magnus loses it's big news and everyone making a video about it but it's just seems odd. If someone comes and is unfamiliar with chess, he/she can think that Magnus is a bad player lol , because everytime he loses every big chess channel uploads a video. But Magnus won wijk an zee and Norway chess 2022
As much as I would like think that Judit is or was as good as the top players, I can’t. She would have been dominated if she played Magnus in a series of 10 games that he was giving 100 percent effort in. In fact, she would have been dominated by most super GMs of today. Winning one game at a park bench doesn’t prove much at all.
Cool, Bobby Fischer would get utterly crushed by Super GMs today, and Magnus Carlsen would get utterly crushed by Super GMs in the future, so your post is completely pointless and even partly nonsense(Judit is just retired since 8 years by now, and normal Super GMs would absolutely not dominate games with Super GMs who where still active less than 10 years ago, the development since then wasn't that extreme).
@@gunchar06 Even when Judit was active back then, she was getting dominated in head to head matchups with the great players back then. So I don’t understand your point.
@@ironeagle4274 Are you stoned right now? Judit Polgar was straight up in the candidates and top 10 chess players of the world in her time, that obviously wouldn't even be possible for someone who gets allegedly dominated by exactly the players she was part of.
@@gunchar06 She finished last in the candidates and scored 4.5/14 meaning that she was dominated. If scoring 4.5 out of 14 against top rated GMs isn’t a sign of being dominated by top players, then I don’t know what is. Also, the peak rating of roughly 2730 that she held was temporary and proven to be inflated when she lost over 100 rating points in that tournament against players that were simply far better than her.
@@ironeagle4274 You're really stoned, right? Someone who gets dominated by top players would score 0 to 1(with almost Gladstone Gander lvl luck) out of 14 in the freaking Candidates(hell many top players never even make it into the Candidates), do you even understand what that is?
Well, Magnus isn't bongclouding here, but he's clearly just playing for amusement, and barely paying attention. That takes a couple hundred points off his practical rating. Watch Magnus' face carefully at 2:48. There is a small twitch. He realizes instantly that he is toast.
Would basically any other normal move besides Rc8 be mostly fine? The problem with Rc8 seems to be that it prevents the possibility of escaping the Bb6 attack & simultaneously defending the checkmate threat, via Qc8.
awesome game ! I like some of the chess com RCC games recently like Sam Sevian VS Aronian , pawn structure what pawn structure I thought was a good title for this game or sac and trap .
In the first minute You say that regardless of sport it's quite rare to see generational talents play against each other. Well, i'm a below 1000 rated player but I can use a search engine and check what you are saying, and lo and behold "Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Judit Polgar 11 to 2, with 5 draws. Only rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Judit Polgar 9 to 2, with 4 draws" So they've played each other over 10 times. You can't start making comparisons with "other sports" when in boxing even the same generation of fighter wouldn't fight each other 10 times, let alone across generations. And you want to go with saying that chess is a sport, ok, but have you ever seen a competing sports woman with the physique of Judith Polgar? When have you ever seen a sports athlete that can't do a pushup? Maybe some other sport no normal person considers to be a sport! (though granted the olympics considers chess a sport)
Gotham I found mate in the exact 2nd minute white needs to play d4 bishop to b6 attacking the queen so if magnus takes white Queen goes to d7 and it’s mate
