This series really brought me into chess, within those 4 months i learned alot, my lichess rating went from 1200 to ... jk it didn't change at all and i still suck at chess
Nope, the story of this series is just so awesome. Even if you exclude the international politics of it, the mind games going on with where the games were played, how they were recorded, who was watching, what they were sitting in, what they were playing on, what kinds of pieces they were playing with, and the list goes on. Just so awesome.
Bravo Agadmator. This was a brilliant concept; to take the story of the famous 72 final right back to the source, and begin from the beginning. A great story, very well told. I thank you warmly indeed.
@@mastrake There is a scene in the movie Pumping Iron where Arnold and some others are working out and there is a sign that says 'Mentzer is Coming"....a reference to Mike Mentzer. It would be great to see Bobby in the foreground, with the Russian chess machine looking on, "Fishcer is Coming".
Fischer ended (more accurately "interrupted") 20+ years of Russian domination in chess, and propelled the game into mainstream consciousness resulting in more players able to make a career from chess. This week SerraL (of Finland) ended 20 years of Korean domination over Starcraft II. Just thought I'd share some nerd news from another game.
From the beginning? I was alive when it was happening. And it was a big deal. I love the analysis. I didn't understand it at 12. 45 years later, finally...
Story about that image: - "Bobby, can you please go out in this chess board like blanket so we can take a photo of You? - "Why?" - "You know.. Just so in future everyone would go:"What's the story behind the picture.. xD""
When you said "5 months" I thought that can't be possible, I thought it was only a few weeks. This has been such an entertaining series with all the events happening around Fischer and your awesome commentary that I didn't realize how many games we actually seen. This is truly the best chess channel ever and I'm so happy I found you, and also that your channel keeps growing steadily, every time I check you get 1k more subscribers (I have been here before 50k!) Such a long journey expanding our (now) vast knowledge and it still feels fresh and exciting as the first day!
Loved the whole Bobby Fischer journey to World Champion ... since you started this series back in July ... it is a testimony to how great man was in the world of chess... probably the GOAT.
Thank you for this fabulous series on the 1972 championship. My older brother and I were young teens when the Fischer-Spassky championship was played, and we were avid chess fans. My brother was a good player for his age, and I was a bad player for any age. The only way we had of following the matches was by newspaper (no internet or 24-hour cable news in those days!). There was a short paragraph in the next day's paper about each game result, and a listing of the moves. My brother and I spent hours reliving the matches, and he understood a lot more than I did. He was very sure early on that Fischer would win the championship. I was less certain. It is fantastic to be able to relive this championship after these 47 years by means of your videos.
binged watched this series again a year after watching it the first time. my knowledge was not vast the first time around. it is even more amazing the second time around with a year of agadmator videos expanding my brain. Fischer, Fischer, Fischer!
Thank you Agad for this series! 4 months of completely free, entertaining, high quality and educational content about Bobby Fischer. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge!
what a journey, thanks so much for the in-depth coverage. nobody was ever going to beat bobby fischer in the early 70's. he was just too good, he was the best.
Antonio, first of all I would like to thank you for this wonderful series of those brilliant commentated Spassky vs Fischer games at all from you. You put a lot of work and studies into it to share with us and that in a really humble and gentle way. Please keep up your good things in the future that everybody would be able to watch your videos as long as possible.
After completing this series, I went and watched the 60 Minutes interview with Fischer from 1972. I've always heard the stories about Fischer but I think he was a very interesting and complicated person.
I want to say that I am happy you didn't tell us until the very last video how many games were in the series. I liked watching the games for their own sake, not knowing how many were coming and thus deducing who won which games. So happy for the lack of spoilers.
I've just finished the Bobby Fischer series after watching for the last 6 months or so since getting back into chess , thanks for the great coverage of these games! It's been so interesting and insightful.
SoaraPerformance The 1978 title match between Karpov and Korchnoi was full of bizarre stories that I’m sure would be “compensation enough” for the more modern chess
You are the best agadmator!! Thank you for this Bobby Fisher series, he's my favorite chess player and I watched every video of this series from start till here! Thank you so much!
To be truly honest, I didn't watch most of the onboard activity for this playlist, but I absolutely loved listening to agadmator tell the story of Spassky/Fischer. The history truly comes alive with the addition of the commentary. This play list is a work of art and I feel as though my vast knowledge has been thoroughly expanded.
I really enjoyed this series. I learned so much about Fischer and Spassky. Your commentary was very entertaining! I enjoy chess even though I am not a very good player. It seems that I enjoy watching chess videos almost as much as I like playing. Cheers!
That was one hell of a journey. I feel like a much more amazing subscriber after this. Thanks for making this Agad, always enjoyable watching your creations.
I have subscribed to your wonderful channel when there were not more than 50K subscribers agad! never even missed one of your your videos since then, I am delighted to see its reaching 300K. your channel and your approach to chess analysis is undoubtedly one of the best there is! warm, friendly and thorough. well deserved sir.
Thanks Agadmator, I've really enjoyed reliving the match through your series. I was around when it was played and didn't understand it as well as I do now, thanks in large part to your commentary and analyses. Also thanks for supplying links to further research it!
Very well done series, thank you for the work you put in. I really enjoyed the Fischer stuff as I find him a very interesting man & obviously a brilliant chess player. Ty!
Fisher is by far the most interesting player of all time.I would even suggest #suggestion Last match of James Robert Fisher..I really really believe that many people would like to see it..Thank you
Dude, I was here to celebrate 1.000 subscribers and watch this channel evolve in so many ways. Besides completely crazy -though equally justified and fair-, it also feels poetic that your are close to 300.000 subs, finishing the Fischer Story and so close to the Carlsen-Caruana match. Keep up Sir, this is just great =)
Excellent work! I really enjoy your historical coverage of chess and hope you continue to look back so we can appreciate the progress we've made in this great sport.
Robert James Fischer became wold champion and spasky is true legend thanks for entertaining us agadmator chess chennal if I not watch any of your Chess video on RU-vid every day I feel I not live that day
never been so happy for a HELLO EVERYONE, cannot wait for the upcoming world chess championship match and for your videos on the games :) EDIT: wow 15 likes , never been so famous !
This was really quite awesome in its historically substantive nature. As a history major who's study was largely on the sub discipline of "micro history", I really can't stress this point enough. You seem to really appreciate the balance that historians are trained to achieve between primary and secondary sources on the one hand and critical analysis of both on the other. If I could have one thing to improve the quality of the experience, it is that a play list of this match would be available, separated from the other Fischer videos. Thank you so much for all of your effort.
An excellent series and a true chess saga it was like having 21 Star Wars movies made - you need to watch all of them to know the story completely. Boris Spassky a real class gentleman considering they were in the cold war era. Looking forward to your next series.
