Very impressive and instructive. But its sadistic not to give the remaining moves. Victor desperately sacrificed his queen( Qe1) and Seirawan folded the game up convincingly.
Amazing how Korchnoi arrived at Bc5 almost purely by process of elimination. "I calculated all the other moves in the position, they all lose, Bc5 it is."
The method of elimination, to me, is the only imaginable way how great players come up with very counter-intuitive moves (such as Shirov's famous Bh3). Makes me think of Sherlock Holmes and his "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Excellent presentation by GM Seirawan. Certainly one of the best chess analysis lectures I've seen in years. An amazing win against GM Korchnoi, who was at or near the height of his strength at the time.
You can't just cut off the story at this part and leave us hanging! I could check the game result by googling it, but I want the story behind of it! Come on man :(
1:50 - It's ridiculous that we give the GM title to a World Junior winner. The idea that you can become a GM without ever even *_playing_* a GM, let alone beating one, is ridiculous.
@@blairschirmerx1711 Has that actually happened though? With so many young GMs, it would seem there's an almost 100% chance that the World Junior champion in any given year will either be a GM already or an IM who had to defeat probably at least 2 GMs en route to the title.
I am a beginner chess player in my mid-30's so I feel like I have about 30 years of catching up to do on some people. This is a really fantastic game study that I enjoyed a lot.
This statement is also true about me, I am a passionate player but still a beginner on my mid-30’s. Even though I learned the basics of chessmen moves when I was 8 yrs old. Chess is not popular among arabs, and the other barrier was the language. My English only improved at college when I was too busy for chess.
VIDEO PRODUCER: please remind the presenters that when they walk to the screen and start pointing moves with their fingers -the youtube audience will not be able to see any of that. Thanks for the great uploads.
Thanks for uploading this, my third time watching this. Great insight into the world of top level play. One clarification if anyone has the time, at 37:00 the line ended with Qg6+ then Ke7, and someone said Q takes rook but I cannot see the line that would lead to Q takes rook.
Actually, in 24 black moves dxc4 then Bc2 and black has the strong Bc5 instead of what Yasser shows leads to a drawish possition. He must defend his rook with some passive move, theres no mate threat if he exchange rooks then he face a back rank trouble. The best answer is king h2 then maybe Bxf2 and g4 the possition is equal. That was the critical point that yasser should have evaluate a little bit more. Anyway great lecture as always.
i like your video but keep in mind for future that you did alot of pointing to the wall board and talking about moves but we can not see what you are doing when pointing to the wall
Sometimes Kortschnoj (as we write his name in Switzerland) was not really an idol. He just sometimes got upset when losing (throwing the board and pieces on the floor)! ;(
I wonder if after Kf1 black couldnt proceed in unnatural way plan Qd8, Be7-f6. I understand that it looks ugly, but on the other hand White will also have problems with developing attack due to missplaced king, and black good pawn structure.
In the final position at the end of the video, how does W respond after 1. Rf4+ Ke6 ? I assume B is busted after 1. Rf4+ Ke6 2. Qe4 , but maybe Korchnoi can hold on?
macnolds Rf4+ Ke6 Rxe5+ Qxe5 Bxe5 Kxe5 Qe4+ Kd6 and black position is busted with king in middle of the board. White easily scoops g7 pawn and it goes down hill from there
why does Korchnoi sacrifice his queen right after the end of this video? Can someone better at chess explain why? It seems even more losing than he already was! The end of the game goes 30. ...Qe1 31. Ne1 Bb2 32. Nd3 Ba3 33. Nf4 Rgd8 34. Qg6 Kg8 35. Qd3 Rd7 36. Qd7 Rc8 37. Kh2 Kf7 38. Ng6 Ra8 39. Ne7
It's not really a sacrifice. He exchanges a queen for a rook and a bishop, which is pretty fair. The queen's capture of the rook on 30...Qxe1 gives a check, allowing Korchnoi the extra tempo to capture the bishop 31... Bxb2 on his next move. Korchnoi's pawn move on 28 was probably actually intended to draw Seirawan into exactly this kind of trade. Maybe he was hoping that by taking out two of white's attackers, he would be able to neutralize white's attack, and that by trading down his piece advantage would begin to have more weight. This was working decently well until move 38 when he walked his rook into a forking tactic, which is exactly why he resigned next move. Although to be fair, it's hard to say where else he should've been putting his rook, all of his pieces were pretty restricted right up to the end, with hardly a good square for any of them.
Me: GM Seirawan, what's your favorite thing to eat with a bacon and tomato on toast? GM YS: "I prefer... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sBsmHlHakbI.htmlm50s"
