So many good candidates, I even want an Alekhine Saga; I only voted for Karpov because I think we should do it while he’s still alive to see our love for his games. Chess greats unfortunately have short lifespans. Hopefully he’ll be an exception.
Completely agree. The story behind all three Polgar sisters is like a kind of scientific experiment conducted by theirs father. Insane story, much more interesting compared to any chess champ I think.
I voted for her but my number is Karpov and will be happy if he wins as well. I really hope we don’t have a morphy saga cuz we already have seen several of his games and the play by most of his opponents was poor. Other than andersson he has no good competition
@@Dax_Maclaine Precisely. Morphy was a beast but sometimes, his games feel more like studies than actual games (unlimited respect for the guy nonetheless). On the other hand, I do not believe a Morphy saga would be that long. So even if I do want to see more of Judit, I could live with a Morphy saga. But I would also love some more Karpov; I do realise he is considered like a very positional and some even say boring player. But he also was a beast, and the little I know of his story, his title won without playing Fisher, the lack of consideration due to that, the endless match to Kasparov, etc... All this make me feel he also has a story I would love to know more of. Now this being said, does Antonio really just want to inform us a bit more on these two so that we are more knowledgable when voting, or does he really show what he really wants? meh... in the end, Medo will pick :D
Suggestion: do some Tal games that Tal lost. Some game where Tal tried to play his typical game, attacked but was defeated due to good defence. I think it would be interesting to see.
It's OK, you are here to expand your vast knowledge. Also if they ask you why didn't you study for the test, you can say that everybody knows that you should study the endgame first.
I had difficulty choosing between polgar and karpov, so this is great. "Only 30,000 votes so far" never would've imagined 2 years ago that agadmator would have this much popularity... im actually quite proud to be a very early excellent subscriber
I like Polgar style, I prefer more agressive moves rather then defensive ones. But I have to admit Magnus Carlsen vs Judit Polgar: World Blitz Championship 2014, Dubai, was such an amazing game by Magnus, so cool and calm against such an agreesive attack and the end was incredible. GAME: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9iAa7WYi9OA.html
I’d love to see a series on Judith Polgar, I think she’s a very inspiring player, she reminds me of Tal. They both create devastation by just focusing on the jugular and aren’t distracted small piece gains, or indeed larger losses ...
Oh wait! A game between Karpov(second on the poll) and Polgar(third on the poll) and a quote by Morphy(first on the poll). Agad is illuminati confirmed... :)
@Prasanth Sridhar . I play OTB classical tournaments with games lasting as long as 5 hours. I've played all kinds. The difference with positional players is that they rely on theoretical moves that may or not be sound when you consider all tactical maneuvers. I do my best to combine positional chess with tactical combinations 8-9 moves deep when I can. Fischer was great at this and played some of the most instructive games. Far too many of these positional players think they can win every game pushing pawns. Unless you play like Karpov or your idol Petrosian you'll find out eventually that shuffling pieces around will only get you so far. That said Karpov was also a great tactician and not to be taken lightly due to his positional style. Fischer demolished Petrosian in the Candidates leading to the '72 championship match. Your argument of defense being "more exciting than offense" sounds very one sided to me. What's your online or OTB rating? I play just over 2000 rating in all time controls although, I'll admit that positional chess is my weaker point.
@Prasanth Sridhar .I haven't seen that game. If you have a link and don't mind posting it I'd be glad to look at it. Below is a link to one of the most beautiful chess games I've ever seen and after you see it you'll wonder why it looks so easy (Fischer vs Barnes). Fischer has the ability to play with brutal efficiency and accuracy even by today's standards. That is why Fischer at his peak is my favorite player of all time. In my opinion he was the most balanced/complete player in the history of the game until chess engines turned the first 15-20 moves into a memorization contest that more times than not lead to drawn games. In another game Fischer played a positional masterpiece against non other than Petrosian - link below as well. Good luck with your chess! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QHydkEARVKE.html&ab_channel=ChessNetwork ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PVp9WbVw_DQ.html&ab_channel=agadmator%27sChessChannel
How do you feel about doing a second round of voting where we will have a choice between the two most popular sagas from the first round? I think that it's more fair because a saga might win a plurality without necessarily having a majority in the current system. #agadmator
Something I love is that the audio level in your videos doesn't vary much. I know exactly how loud the entirety of your videos are within the first few seconds. Love you agad
The polgar saga intrigues me the most. I'd love if you did it! Karpov is a brilliant player, but I feel like Judit's story would be more interesting and enjoyable.
This is what I love about chess... with few aggressive well thought well executed attacks u create a devastating barrage of attack that choked out the hell out of the king By the way can u please Sir Agadmator make a video of the Game between Sokolov vs Judith?
You don't sacrifice a rook against someone like Karpov: totally agree. But you don't ignore a bishop pair and a rook surrounding your castle, against a chess hellcat like Polgar. Well, if you do you'll learn very fast why you should not. Judit, simply put, is one the most scary attackers of chess history. Like Rocky Marciano, she keeps punching you with lethal brutality until you go down. One of the best chess players in history and among my favorites, together with the crazy genius Tal and the great artist Paul Morphy. I know that players like Fisher, Kasparov or Magnus are overall superior, but their games are too complicated for me to understand. To see Polgar fighting these super intelligent aliens and take them down with fearless mental strenght is oddly satisfactory. Like someone thinking: I can take her punches and survive... No, really: you can't.
It's worth to mention that Karpov loss only 9% of his official games. Amazing chess genius. But also interesting fact is that Botvinik (I think) said for 12 years old Karpov that he is lost case - untalented for chess. Karpov's score against Polgar in classical games is 8 wins, 3 losses and 16 draws.
Lol :) Really? Karpov untalented?!? As far as I remember he won a USSR Junior Tourneament at about 16 and became Candidate at 23 or 24 years old. Btw it has to be said that he reached his peak in his 40s, in his unbelievable 1994 Linares.
@@Sletty73 yes, it is mentioned at least in Karpov`s memoires "My sister Kaissa" (yeah, pretenduous name, but the book is great. I don't know, if it is translated to any other language except Russian). He guessed, that such judgement of the soviet chess patriarch was due to comparatively bad knowledge of openings by a little Anatoly. Opening were the life of Botvinnik like endgame for Kapa and sacs for His Majesty Tal.
@@edwardshowden5511... Magnus has 15% of losses, Kasparov 7%. But Magnus had 1751 and Kasparov only 1568 games in database, since Karpov has 2474 games.
@@vladavasiljev Very interesting 👍 1500 games or 2500 it doesn't matter really, 1500 is a veery large sample. Even 100 games against GMs would give an accurate approximation 🙂 But we have to remember that Magnus played better opponents.
@@aligindahouse7777 ngl, Karpov's positional brilliance in the Ruy Lopez (closed and Berlin in particular) have helped me a lot in notching up wins from turning small advantages into big ones. That and his opposite colour bishop endgames and rook endgames are very instructive. Hell, I hope Karpov does a guest appearance on this channel for a lecture :D.
I don't comment often but I'd love to see a Polgar saga. Both because generally, women in chess can use more of a spotlight for various reasons (e.g. even this comment section isn't free of misogynist jokes) but also because she has a very interesting personal story and a play style I enjoy a lot. So yeah, Polgar would be awesome!
@@stefanstojadinovic2486 bruh this is about showing popular games and players from history , it was never about nationality .... So stupid...... If its like a world championship and players are actually playing each other then that's one thing , but this literally a poll to see which new player does the majority of the audience want to see .... God .....
Judit Polgar Saga please sometime soon! I met her when she was a very little girl because I played in the unrated section of the New York open the same year as her sister Sophia. Sophia and I finished with the same points 5 1/2 - 2 1/2 and I could have played her in last rounds but I played the only other guy that I could have been paired with. Not only is Judit by far the best female player ever, she's also one of the best attacking players of all time.
I know Judit Polgar is running a distant third in your polling, but I very much hope you will cover her saga. Not only is she the strongest female player of all time, but she has defeated most of the male world champions active during her career.
Hi, thanks and congrats. I'm very late but would consider giving us the Karpov saga? Another year? I know he was not the most popular when he was World champion but his games are the ones I enjoy most, even the ones he lost. So many economical moves.
Honestly, I think you should do the Judit saga. As the most followed chess RU-vidr, you could have real positive influence on the future of female chess
2:42 -- Alternatively, instead of Bf5, push b5, denying the 5th-rank rook-lift altogether. (If b5, Rb1, then a6, and Black enjoys a very nice queen-side. If White counters a4, only then Bf5 with tempo because now the White rook is already on b1.) 9:18 -- A blunder for the ages (because now White has mate-in-8); paradoxically, Qc5 was Karpov's best move on the previous turn (i.e., instead of the imprudent pawn-snatch).
Question for anyone- do young players ever learn old notation any more. When I started playing, we used have notation like N to KB3, B-N5, P-Q4 , etc. I think the a-g and 1-8 system is WAY more efficient and easier to learn, but just curious if younger players are familiar with the old style. Maybe they have to know to study from old books ?
what a fantastic game. please consider to do judit's saga after you finish with morphy's saga. i love players who attack and rush and sacrifice instead of playing like an engine. it feels more human. also, if somebody doesn't know, she has a fantastic ted talk. go check it out! ;)
I saw this game way back my elementary days.. it was on the chess book on 2004 edition idunno the title but kramnik was at the cover.. and I saw also a game of spundiev vs pezzica w/ a nice queen sacrifice.. i hope agad would view this game also.. Nice game for judith.
I am really looking forward to Judith Polgar saga. Because my style of game was some what similar to her. And it is not bad idea if we try to understand what is chess in a female point of view.
From WHERE in the Netherlands? I guess that would be 'Hoogovens'? That word could be translated as 'high ovens', indicating the type of equipment used to melt steel out of raw iron ore. It is pronounced unrecognisably differently, the next series of sounds are in it as they would sound in English: H - oh - g - oh - v - uh - ns. Hoogovens predominated nowadays Tata Steel tournament, as Indian industrial giant Tata bought that large steel mill late in 2007. EDIT I am wrong, it was in Hoogeveen [H - oh - (hard) g - uh - v - A - n] tournament in 2003
Hi thank you for such interesting video I find this 2 bishop sacrifice line very interesting can u make any tutorial specifically on this or if you have already made anything then can u share the link please ☺☺
Speaking as the most ignorant chess person on the site, it's nonetheless very surprising to me that Karpov played Qc5. Could he have been in time trouble? The threats seem so exposed!
Hello everyone. This is my first comment not only on ur channel but on RU-vid itself. I learnt many things about chess from u Agad. Tnx a lot. Keep going
