Ultimate Blitz Challenge: Wesley So vs. Garry Kasparov [Wesley's Immortal!?] 

During the commentary, Yasser said that Wesley "literally didn't give Garry a chance to breathe." Wesley actually got up from his chair and put Garry in a rear naked choke.

Damn that was badass. Being able to see that in blitz boggles my mind.

A "fair distribution" lately: Karjarkin winning the candidates, Magnum Carlsen winning in Norway, Caruana winning the US Championship, Nakamura winning the Blitz, and Hou Yifan back on the throne amongst the ladies! And with players like Wesley So, Giri, Li Chao, Eljanov, Kramnik, Topalov, Adams, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Wei Yi ... plus a dozen more up there, none of the above can relax for a moment! And with your channel, John, I feel like a spoiled child! Thanx! ;O)

Wesley So's immortal blitz game is one will NEVER forget. He has the courage & natural genius to defeat Kasparov or any other chess great alive. Bravo! I study this one just to feel happy during a given day. Our champion: GM Wesley So, the great!

The game between Caruana and Kasparov in the last round could be shown in a your video, it looks like one of the classic attacking games of Kasparov.

The crazy thing is, if Garry didn't blunder two games in a dominating position on the first day he might have actually won the tournament. Granted it's blitz and these things happen, but this was one of the best chess events I've watched in a long time. If they can fix the commentating and make the presentation a little more easy to follow,I could see this type of event becoming very big for chess.

Oh man when I saw this live I was anticipating this. Can't wait to hear what you have to say!

That was a Morphy game played by white! As Kasparov told and it was a masterpiece!

this is a game after my heart ! thanks for sharing John

thanks for covering this. this game was amazing. edge of the seat all 10 minutes and yasser almost fainted xD

Basically, Wesley has proven himself to be the most imaginative, and challenging, opponent for Carlsen...

"Those Bishops are monsters" - Antonio "Agadmator" Radic

great review John. Keep sharing

Brilliant game ever by gm wesley so against the former world champion gm gary kasparov...

best blitz game I have ever seen and I have seen lots of blitz games

John, I dont think the h6 move was done out of desperation by Garry. White was threatening among other things Ng5 with the knight jumping to e6 or the queen coming to f7.

I watched this game live, 1 of the very rare games you will find where kasparov is crushed within 25 moves!

What are your thoughts on the fact no one "flagged" through 18 games? The players attitude towards the tournament, an aspect of the time control, the level of the players, or other???

White's light squared bishop should be in the hall of fame of monster pieces. In the resigned position, queen takes bishop is forced. White then grabs the rook on C8 check. King goes to F7; the monster bishop delivers the deadly check from b3 which finishes the game very quickly after queen takes C6 check.

Unbelievably cool game by Wesley, especially since his opponent was Kasparov.

The Immortal blitz game.

that was a great game, thank you, to bring that game to your analysis playlist :)

Nice analysis! Thanks! Well worth sharing. And what a story, what a great event, what a great group of players. No one can doubt Wesley So belongs on the team. Guys - with these players our US Olympic team is the highest rated in the world! The US has not won gold since 1976 (when Soviet countries did not even take part!) We have a real shot at gold with no excuses. And icing on the cake = Kasparov donated his prize money to our team. WOW.

Paul Morphy with Mikhail Tal recipe 😆

i watched this kasparov blundered in a couple of games aswell. hope to see more of him and karpov should play aswell great to see an oall the old guys go at it!

Guys one question- (I'd appreciate if Sir Bartholomew could help with this)-- At 3:53 in the video , why didn't kasparov play Nc6 ? (In future that knight could have jumped to d4 creating a good blockade on d file).

John I picked up on the quiet move B-a4 straight away but thought; no that couldn't be right its to simple haha so spent about 10 minutes trying to figure something out but all roads seemed to lead nowhere; so it just goes to show especially in Blitz sometimes first instinct is correct. The one consolation is I got the move RxB pretty quickly and as you point out the pin has far more worth than the exchange. I've only recently taken a look at Wesley's games and his recent play on lichess is amazing and think with the top 10 you could throw a wet blanket over all of them they are just that good. Anyway hope all goes well with the GM norms it seems like a really tough thing to do. Peter

Please upload the rest of the games that were played,esp Kasparov vs Nakamura.thanx for the good work.

6:55 I like more Knight F7+

Kasparov is still the best no matter if he loses or wins and his history is a good witness.

wow, absolutely incredible. A good comeback by hikaru too

At video time 9.15: Instead of playing the seemingly ingenious move Ba4, why couldn't White simply take on c6 with check? A possible continuation being: Nxc6 Qe6+ Nc-e7 Bc5 with what seems to me massive pressure on Black's King. Could anyone please refute that idea for me. Otherwise I will not understand what was so clever about Ba4.

Thanks man you have a good logic ...for me I think it is f3xe5,f6xe5; f2f4 and i figure the rest out later it feels right.

what does he means at 00:33 - 00:44? Carlson beated Hikaru fast? am I right?

thanks - enjoyed it

Really a good game from Wesley and super analysis but can a 5 min game be an immortal ? Why do all show this game and not Garrys fantastic last game against Caruana ?

It was "Morphyesk".

John, were you recording when you ran into Fabi on ICC the other night? I wanted to see your perspective.

whats a 3 second delay? like an increment?

im designing a rocketship for the last days and i cant even play chess ..deym !

why does he say in the intro that nakamura can't beat carlsen?

Gambit gambit gambit.

hey John how did it feel to play against fabiano

Why was the threat of Bxe4 never an issue after move 13?

at 7:20 why just don't take the pawn on e4 with the bishop

Caruana is weak in fast time controls

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So now Wesley is the greatest of all time?

Kasparov is a great chess player. But never appreciated as a blitz player. In the 80,s in his prime he cannot touch the old Mikhail Tahl on blitz....

7.07 everyone we can invite to the party and pile on LMAO :)

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A blitz game 'immortal'? "He who analyzes blitz is stupid" -- Kramnik