This video and the previous one have led me to re-evaluate Anatoly Karpov. I guess I saw him as little more than a workman-like player who gained the world title by default and just filled a gap between Fischer and Kasparov. But I now see that Karpov was a truly great player in his own right. If I thought about it a little more I would have realised that his defences against Korchnoi, and the way he pushed Kasparov to the limit in the long series they played proved he was pretty special. But I didn't think until I watched your videos. I never bothered to buy a book of his games. I now see this as an omission. Thanks again for the great work, you guys.
Martin Mitchell I'm glad to hear you re-evaluated Karpov. I went into preparation for the lecture with a similar mindset, but reading Karpov's autobiography really opened my eyes.
Hey - all these 'K's ... Korchnoi, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Khalifman ... if I changed my name to Kitchell, do you think I might play just a little bit better?!
Martin Mitchell Turning the M into a K is probably good for 50 elo points, but if you then Russify it as Kitchov, I think your rating would go up a further 100 points. Even if it didn't improve your play, it would destroy your opponents' morale.
Kasparov certainly deserves that people making lectures about him should pronounce his name correctly. This should be a sign of respect. Other than that, you guys have made a great series of lectures. Both Wein and stein rhyme with whine.
Kasparov is overwrought in his disdain for Karpov, who was his only worthy challenger. He might have run roughshod over the other GMs in championship matches. Karpov's sharp match play validates Garry's status more than tournament results do.
I think Gary Kasparov is one of the most inventive and creative players of all time. With such an energetic and active mind I think it´s hard for any chessplayer to live up to Kasparov´s standard. Even though Magnus Carlsen is rated higher I don´t think his chess-skill is greater than Kasparov´s. As Kasparov once mentioned, theory doesn´t stimulate creativity and originality or even encourage it. Many players of today are often pure memory-machines or theory-players. But someone like Kasparov is able to create theory or see beyond it. That´s true understanding of the game. I think the only player besides Kasparov who was capable of doing this was Mikhail Tal. And funnily enough or maybe as a consequence of this, Tal didn´t contribute much to opening theory or theory in general. He played his own kind of chess, which at that time often was on Planet Tal.....
As much as I love Capablanca and his pure genius and approach to chess, and as much as I have heard that Fischer just picked up pieces and they always dropped in the right place, I do believe that Garry is the best ever hands down. Better than Carlsen. Garry's games are pure masterpieces.
Lucas, I just want to point out that Nikitin is also alleged to have been a KGB agent, as was Krogius and probably Karpov. See, "The KGB Plays Chess". It is interesting that Kasparov and Botvinnik got along so well, considering that Botvinnik was a staunch Communist and Kasparov became pretty anti-Communist later.
This was a very engaging lecture but there are recurring clips in the audio that can be very distracting and even annoying. I've also heard similar audio issues in other lectures. It would be good if you could remedy this problem in future lectures.
+Christopher Cunningham Could you describe the audio issue? If it's a hum, like from electrical interference, we do address this in later presentations by recording the audio in a separate program, then filtering out the hum.
+Lucas Anderson Would love to see a response to this.. Could have changed the entire outcome of the game, no? Perhaps Lutikov was so on the defensive he forgot how to attack??
Excellent vid !! BTW Weinstein is not Russian it's Yiddish. And you pronounce it just like a lot of names in Yiddish like Stein, Steinitz, Einstein, Bernstein, Burstein, Rubinstein, Greenstein, Edelstein... and so on ..By the way there were strong chess players jews with these names. The meaning of this Yiddish word Weinstein is stone-wine. This is seemingly the mean, in German either .
Hey man you didnt do ANY research about Karabakh. Im from Azerbaijan and everyone, and even armenians admit that Karabakh is an Azeri region. It was occupied by Armenia in 1988-93. And its still war for that region. So please be more careful while research
