when mr. Yasser starts off a 50 minute lecture with the words "oNe Of ThE tHiNgS tHaT" with his so charming voice. You know it's going to be a great lecture
@Yasser, after watching this video, i fell to my knees in admiration. Admiration for your lecture and how good your game was. Astounded and dumbfolded by this particular video. Your videos are a chess treasure. And you are the greatest chess teacher ever! Hope you can produce more and more videos. On behalf of all the chess fans in the world, thank you so much for the lectures so far!
Furthermore, in the game beginning in 22:40 has too a few inacurracies. Nowadays, it's known that the move 9.d5 at 31:43 is in fact the best move, who has no refutation! The best move against 9.d5 is nevertheless 9...Nd4, and white has a little edge after 10. Nxe4. Seirawan's line 10.Nxd4 exd4 11.Bxd4 doesn't quite work for White because 11...exf3! (and not 11...Bxd4), a move that doesn't lose the Bishop because if 12.Bxg7, then 12...Qe7+ takes the Bishop back and White can't castle anymore! Even more funny, the sacrifice played by Seirawan in 42:06 11...Qxg5 12.Qxg5 Ng4 might even LOSE !! (11...Qd7 or 11...fxg2 were better and Black has a small edge). Why is it so? Because after the very nasty 13.Nb5! discovered in 29.08.2013 and perhaps even earlier, White has a double threat, 14.Nxc7+ forking king and rook and 14.Nxd4 removing a strong attacking piece. Even if Black can take the queen back, he can't withstand the material imbalance without great skills. On a "perfect" play of both sides, white has an edge (a knight versus three pawns)
i was playing a game with my uncle recently in which i saw a knight that my queen was eyeing defended by his own queen that seemed like it would cause a lot of trouble to my king-side and leave myself out-numbered positionally. so i took it. i got a knight for a queen and three pawns which actually activated my pieces and led to an eventual checkmate that he didn't see coming. materially, he had four pawns, two rooks, one knight, one bishop, and the queen and i had four pawns, two rooks, a knight, and a bishop. i'm not sure why they some still follow this point-value system as it is explicitly defined as being relative by rudolf spielman. i've been having correspondence games a lot recently with one person and we don't bother to say "hey, this queen is nine points, so i'm going to exhange it for two rooks!" we don't even give a crap about that point value system because a rook that's completely inactive might as well be off the board.
simply incredible............wow....this has to be the best chess video i hav seen on youtube. Awesome work sir. I've faced very similar positions u showed and dint hv the slightest idea of what to do ........thanx a lott for this video.
What a great video. He shows not only how, but why we play this stupid game. A normal person wouldn't spend the time. We don't pretend to be normal: we're chess players.
At 32:36 black is better off if he captures f3 pawn with pawn versus recapturing with the bishop. If white bishop captures the bishop at g7 then the black queen can check at e7.
I wonder when RU-vid will start working properly again like it once did. Nowadays watching a clip is a challenge when it keeps stopping every second or so minute.
There are a few inacurracies: in 9:32, White doesn't play 15.Bg5, which violates an opening law, but the more precise 15.Be2, not fearing 15...Nxe3 16.fxe3 and the d4 pawn is protected, e3 being much harder to attack. Two valuable assets for White are the c5 or even c6 outpost and/or the half-open c file. The Pirc variation starting at 10:30, as pointed by Vizor5Ds, goes not like this. At 17:30, the game is not Hecht-Tal but Bobotsov-Tal, 1958!
33:10 I think moving the knight infront of the queen still works. After bishop takes knight, you use the pawn as inference. The queen captures the pawn, then knight attacks queen, clearing the way for your queen, to check the king and then come back down to pick off the bishop.
At 13:20 what is the continuation after Ne5 instead of h6? Moving the queen leads to Nxg4 winning, and something like ...Bxe2 Nxd7 ...Bxd1 Rxd1 ...Kxd7 leads to a position where white has 2 minor pieces for a rook (and 2 pawns)
Interestingly after Yasser's Queen sacrifice stockfish is still saying white is better, however I think black has to play extremely sharply to capitalise on his position while white's is easier to play. Beautiful sacrifice.
+Force Tan are you sure? I've put this into stockfish again and it is showing white has the advantage after the queen sac, and that the position was relatively even if white plays something normal like Qd2
Yes I am sure. I went through all variation stockfish gave me, after the knight came in and start checking the black king, stockfish consider sacrificing his queen for a minor piece and gain back positional advantage, something human player won't consider that's why his opponent lost the game. As Yasser mentioned, moving the queen first in that position is a mistake, his opponent should attack the knight and making him retreat his knight otherwise he can move the knight in and check him to death xD
Wow! Crazy variations in the end! :) That's why we are better off nowadays with chess engines, cuz back in the 70-80 how you wouldn't trust those thick opening books? :)
the best move in the critical position is Bxh6 if Qh4+ then g3 Qh5, Bxg7 consequently (as black) you will be down 2 pieces because at this moment your rook on h8 and knight on c6 are both hanging, yes white also has 2 pieces hanging but if he moves one piece and you take one, your other piece is gone, you're still down 2 pieces (conclusion: you can resign) [continuation Rg8, dxc6, Rxg8, Ng1 (or Nc1)] black will be left with a bishop only, white has 2 knights and bishop
Great Videos ... Chess is a neverending story. At 32:30 ... Sd4 is possible! ... Sd4 Sd4: ed4: Ld4: ef3:! (that's the trick) Lg7: De7 ... and De2 is not possible because of pawn f3 ... Blck get's back the bishop Lg7 and is better.
I think it's worth mentioning that in the last game after white plays d5 black can simply reply with Nd4. Yasser missed the fact that he has the zwischenzug "exf3" after white trades on d4 leaving black with a small advantage.
What? Nd4, Nxd4 exf3, you just play Nxf3...taking with the knight that took his knight on d4, and black is down a piece. Nd4 is the best move but not for the reason you gave. The correct line is Nd4 and if Nxd4 then exd4, Bxd4 and then exf3. And black is much better because whites kingside is shattered and if Bxg7, Qe7+ picking off the bishop.
Turns out black *can* play Nd4. If white plays NxN, it goes PxN, BxP exf3! (This is the move Seirawan apparently did not consider). When White takes on g7 Black has Qe7+, regaining the bishop and the advantage. White's best reply to Nd4 is therefore not taking on d4, but rather Nxe4, with roughly equal chances.
albi bushi I see it's been a while since that comment but I suggest you check out for "Wei Yi's Immortal" as they call it. Brilliant chess, because of the queen! Cheers.
It's interesting. Stockfish 16 NNUE thinks in that last game that white is always better at +1 even after the Qd2 "mistake" and that d5 & Nxe4 hold the advantage. Yasser is correct that dxc6 wins on the spot. Even after the queen sac and eventually Ng4, the only move to hold any real advantage for white is Nb5 threatening Nxc7+. That's a very intuitive move for humans too just keep greeding like that.
I'd love to see a follow-up to this video: Yasser analyzing that final game with the help of Stockfish (or another strong engine). When I played through the game with Stockfish, it was consistently finding amazing resources for both sides that made it seem like Yasser was playing checkers instead of chess.
