you know what, Guys, I thought I was watching Seirawan's videos to improve my chess level... bullshit : i watch them for the mere pleasure of the suspense, of the story Mr Seirawan tells us, of the voice, of the smile...
Yasser is the best lecturer! Just love his delivery, so relaxed =) And he actually has meaningful dialogue going on with his audience, really goes out of his way to answer all their questions in-depth, then just returns to his lecture plan. What a cool guy! He's my favourite, but Finegold and Akobian are great too.
That over zealous kid in the audience asks too many questions, I know for sure I'd get irritated if the guy was spouting out barely relevant questions while I was trying to give a lecture - especially for RU-vid! Yasser makes the most of a sorry situation by using politeness to mask his questions. I mean, one question is fine. BUT when he asks a question every move and then some - especially as no other audience members are being that annoying - it really gets in the way of the lecture for me. But Yasser did a good job of dealing with it. He certainly has a legendary store of patience!
What a wild game! And what a fascinating lecture (as always) by GM Yasser Seirawan! Nice bonus: The anecdote at the beginning about how Seirawan was distracted during the game, and how GM Nunn could not even *comprehend* distraction... John Nunn is a genius by any definition - but Yasser won the game.
This is an absolutely wonderful, beautiful lecture. I've watched in many times since it's been posted, and its multi-level depth is matched by its clarity. A rare gem. We're very lucky to have Yasser.
Fascinating ! I just finished the game & worked through a few different endgame mating scenarios for the last 10-15 moves, approx., depending on what white chose to continue the game to the end...Seirawan played a beautiful game that day! I really enjoyed it as well as the final question, which he graciously answered with white's inaccutacy, h5, actually allowing black to move the bishop to h7 with tempo, thereby giving black the time needed & altering the outcome !
Is there any place besides youtube where I can get more chess commentaries by Seirawan? He is the best. I bought a collection of his best games from chessbase (highly recommended) I breezed through them.
as a caro kann player this was very instructive. black sometimes has too many development options, and sometimes too few, it's crazy but lots of opportunities to undermine white and plans are always clear for black
he should be the only one to ask questions. if he asks for questions then he can take questions. some of the questions seem to be like “i’m so smart i just want to show i know alternative lines” and distract from the magic storytelling
How do you prevent the mate if you play Ra5 instead of Qa1 ? Even if White do check on a8, after Kc7 there is no more check and it's mate for black with Ra1 !
At the time when Black's B at a3 and Q at c3. Checkmate at... 1. ... Qxb3+ 2. Ka1 Qc3+ If 3. Ka2 then Bxc1 4. Rxc1 Ra5+ 5. Ka2 Ra1# If 3. Kb1 then Rb5+ 4. Ka2 Rb2+ 5. Ka1 Rxc2+ 6. Ka2 Qb3+ 7. Ka1 Qa2#
The story about the Caro and the Soviets is true, except it was a different variation than the one Yaz mentions in this video. It was the two knights. As far as I'm aware, Fischer only played the exchange variation once. It was against Petrosian in the Soviets against the world.
