Victor the Terrible | Korchnoi Creates a Miniature for the Ages 

I think at the end of this game Werner desperately needed a Hug....

No human can willingly trap his own knight?? I have trapped my own queen willingly due to bad calculations.. 😂😂

Could you imagine needing 6 wins nowadays for the world championship, Magnus or Fabi already having grey hair after the decision.

You may not be some top level grandmaster Antonio, but you are teaching so many people about chess, and patiently providing knowledge for both novices and advanced players. Imo, you are doing something amazing, and someone like Magnus Carlsen should be honored to be in a painting with you. Thank you for single-handedly rekindling my love for chess.

Having a wife is like a chess game ending with opposite color bishops - Viktor Korchnoi

At 13:24, if knight takes G3 with check, the only move would be pawn takes knight. And then bishop captures on F3 would be checkmate, right?

It's really refreshing to see such classic vintage game these days...

I really like the "captures captures" t-shirt. But I would even more like a "captures captures captures captures captures captures captures captures captures captures captures captures" t-shirt

Wonderful game. A Korchnoi saga would be great. Also, the last name of Viktor’s opponent is pronounced Hoog (same sound as in ‘pool’)

08:45 Loving the four knights diagonal position in this game... looks magnificent

What a genius player Victor was...one of the goat's for sure.

If he had put the photo in a trash can behind him as he went on and on about how much he liked the photo it would have been the funniest troll of all time 😂

No GM in the whole world could see how it's forced mate in 30 moves for black after 67. Kg6. As a matter of fact, no super computer other than Sessi could see it. Therefore, nobody should feel bad about it 👍🏼😎

Korchnoi was amazingly complicated tactician, who tended to go for the win. The top GM's nowadays could learn to have balls like him.

4:44 forgets to say ‘sorry about that’

Thankyou for welcoming me to this wonderful game

Yay! New vid. Wohoo! This is such a wonderful picture from the excellent subscriber.

#suggestion At some point I’d enjoy seeing a series on Korchnoi. From my limited exposure, he seems to have some commonality to Tal and Nedzhmedinov (and perhaps Morphy) in his attacking approach. It would be cool if there was a way to have an automated list of suggestions that viewers could add to and also vote on. In general, I think you’re mostly on the way to achieving this, but here are my broad suggestions. - The Best Games Of World Champions ~1800’s to present - The Best Games Of the Best Players that never won a world championship - The Best Example Games Of the Major Openings, Defenses, Gambits and attacks (including a history and background segment about each) - Specific Players: * Kasparov * Kramnik vs World Champions * Polgar vs World Champions * More Of Morphy & Tal * Best Of Alpha Chess Zero, if they release the rest of the PGNs * Continued additions to Leela Chess coverage as it moves up the TCEC rankings (but only games that are interesting or noteworthy for some reason) - Current and recent prodigies (ie, who are the current young teen stars to watch and how are prodigies of the past 6-7 years doing now) - An organic approach to completing coverage of all the World Championships. (You’ve done a lot of these already. Rather that picking a WCC match and covering every game, I’d suggest starting with the interesting/noteworthy games from each Championship - especially from the eras with large numbers of games. I’d also be interested in a secondary channel that is more “blog” vs game analysis oriented. On such a channel I’d suggest: - Your Opinions on Chess topics. Examples: “How Should Championship Match Ties Be Handled?” “How could the Championship process be improved?” “What are the 5 or 10 things FIDE must improve on?” “Suggested reading - a continuing series” “Chess Tools (software, apps, web resources etc) - continuing series “The Making of” an Agadmator analysis video. (I’m guessing that at a minimum, every minute of air time is backed by 5 or many more minutes of prep work. Take us through the process from receiving and researching suggestions, through the prep analysis, etc). “Thoughts in Evolving Competitive Chess” - a continuing series. Example: Greg Shahade has suggested that World Chess Championships based on classical time controls are costing the sport viewers, fans and sponsorship money. I’ve got my opinions. What are yours? “Are women only events helping or hurting the development of top tier female competitors?” “Should their be a FIDE Bullet Chess Championship?” “Should a contract to organize chess championships be competitively bid periodically - or should AGON have a monopoly forever?” “Should FIDE have open and audited records?”

Can't believe how easy you make it to follow along with these different matches...thanks!

What an excellent subscriber. That is a fine piece of art.

The crazy thing about Agadmators channel is that you watch every video, I’m subscribed to over 100 channels and I believe this and maybe Doug Demuro and Brandon Harding (three very different channels, I know) are the only channels where I watch EVERY video, keep it up, can’t get enough!

Did I hear Karpov series? :D

Y'all remember when Korchnoi beat Karpov 4 times in a row in the WCC? (of course Karpov did eventually win the match)

Congrats Antonio for you being notified as a valued member by the RU-vid community. You deserve it Antonio. Keep up the good work👍

Sure, we don't mind you going into Korchnoi's games, starting from his Interzonal games, then the Candidates all the way to him facing Karpov himself.

Merch is perfect. Nothing more I could ask for

dude you are an excellent youtuber. yesterday you had one logo on your merch(pretty much). we told you what we wanted and literally within hours you gave us what we requested. that is how you run a youtube channel. thank you and keep up the good work

@agadmator love your videos and I watch them everyday. Hallo from Zimbabwe

There are gems like this scattered all throughout the MegaBase.

i remember when i was little playing chess with my brother and my dad, i didn't know anything about openings or anything but i was played what i learned later was the reti opening. Although sometimes not bg2 sometimes bh3. Since as a little kid i often thought "well the bishops gonna no good behind that knight"

Your display of Korchnoi now gives me great joy

Love Victor! Let's see some more of his games. Love how he stood up to the Russian establishment.

Incredible game. I'm happy to say I found the winning bishop move and mate sequences! Agadmator, one question: at the critical position, 9:49: can't the white knight move to a4 attacking the black queen? Black would have to give up the bishop pair or move the queen, correct?

Keep the good work up Agad. One day that painting will be a reality

Is the Tal game ready? Because it's already November 18th in India 😅

Instead of Qe2, doesn't Nxg3+ win? Edit: nvm, only looked at it after queen took, so instead of seeing it was Qxe2 I thought it was just Qe2, forgot the pawn was there

9:56 the rook is protected by the bishop on g5 but most likely not the way you want to go.. you wanna take back with the rook

Wow! This was one of the most amazing checkmates in history! =)

At 11:35 if rook captures no need to capture the rook back...queen to f1 is checkmate

My idea here was Queen capture Bishop with check, king move, queen moves back to check King moves back and Knight captures pawn with a discovered checkmate from the bishop. So many Checkmates wew lad.

I enjoyed that Game 6 comment from G. Kasperov. Thanks !

First-time commenting.. I found your channel a few weeks ago, when I started playing chess again after several years. You have the best format, and you shake up the routine and always keep things interesting! It’s your fault I’m an Ivanchuk fan now. Keep up the great work and congrats on RU-vid’s endorsement! Add the discord link again, please!

"I was actually staring at it for quite some time. It's really, just, a wonderful piece." Love it.

Actually, at 9:58 isn’t the rook being protected by the bishop on g5?

A beautiful mate, if carried out!

Beautiful painting

A beautiful masteriece by Victor from decades ago!

Victor was a beast Loved his comeback against Karpov

I really missed your dog so much. And finally he's there... ❤️❤️

man, that blitz game between Karjakin and Pragnanandha (tried my best with the spelling) was brutal. It is really a must for your channel. :-) #sugestion

I like when you put up the rating at the time the game was played

My favourite Viktor game: the one he played against Polugaevsky 7th mg Evian 77.

In case people don't know, there's a great documentary that's currently on hulu called "Closing Gambit" which will definitely increase your vast knowledge of the 1978 World Chess Championship. It really makes you appreciate how great Korchnoi was and what he risked in that match.

This must be one of the most brutal miniatures in the archives.

Great video! Keep up the great work. (8:17) I would've also pushed c4.

Happy to see a game from El Terrible Korchnoi, he is my favorite chess player 'cause of his history :D

13:30 best part of all videos agadmator creates.

Thirty years ago, I played a small tournament. Believing I was moving toward victory, I felt confident. At some point in one of the games, my opponent moved a single knight about five times in a row and nailed my queen-I had no defense that I could see. Thinking that I had been the victim of some deep calculation of which I was incapable of discerning, I offered my opponent a soft drink to go over the game with me and he accepted. At the critical points (the knight moves), he pointed out that he had no legal move where he didn't lose a pawn or a piece. Furious with myself, I fought off the impulse to grab back the soda. Yes, you can trap a lot more than a knight.

That picture f’in dope!

Congratulations George! You are an excellent Subscriber

Beautiful, finally something creative.

loved it, great video

A Korchnoi series would be appreciated.

Agad should make a video on why so many people are tripping up at 13:25 by thinking Nxg3 is a winning move, I find it to be a very odd phenomenon

Just joined your server agad. Lovely community.

Very minor thing but at 9:58 if Nd1 is played this may be playable as the rook is protected by the bishop, not all that clear to see though

Terrific content on this channel!

Now that's beauty...

Korchnoi’s final move eluded me. Brilliant play.

12:00 "Black is up a piece and winning the game" Magnus Carlsen said no in game 6 to that :D

Perfect timing

At 13:28 knight captures g3 is way simplier and quicker😀

Thanks, I really enjoyed the video! What about knight to g3 on the last move for black?

Like the discord server. I remember Korchnoi from back in 78.

1:43 i bet tal would find that in his sleep, but tal is just a different breed

That was a beautiful game! 😮😮

#suggestion could make a q&a video for 300k celebration

Another correct and more natural and obvious move at 13:09 is Nxg3.

There's also a checkmate in 2 a knight sacrifice. Knight on g3. Pawn is forced hg3. Then bishop takes bishop.

I like the classical white plastic clock on the picture...

At 13:20 the black knight taking g3 pawn is a forced mate after the black bishop takes on F3

Has he never seen Mikhail Tal play chess, I've just watched 3 games where Tal sacrifices his queen, seemingly without any compensation only to win in the most unbelievable way.

Knights seem to relish in attack or defence, otherwise they just hang around polishing their armour.

9:54 Agadmator blunders his speech. Infact, the rook would be defended by the bishop!

Missed Win in two moves: Knight to G3 and Bishop to F3

I would really enjoy going back in time and Showing the position To BOBBY FISCHER were Caruna could win against Carlsen would Fischer find all the engine moves in endgames I don't think so but still

Awesome game How I wish to see a game like this in current championship!!

Korchnoi doesnt win.. He styles at you!!

The clock on subscriber's painting looks to me like the old good Yantar popular in USSR and communist countries like Poland. I played on them all my youth. Just wondering if Magnus had ever an opportunity to use this kind of clock. He might simply be too young for that :)

The painting is hillarious

I enjoyed this very much.

Korchnoi went into Beast mode.

Very amazing...great video and lesson mr agadmator...can you play some GMW Medina from indonesia

May be you can place this beautiful piece of chess art in your studio so that we can appreciate the excellent knowledge of painting art . A token of appreciation at least

At 12:37 you can just Knight capture G3 pawn, then White are forced to pawn capture (because check) then light Bishop capture F3 Bishop and checkmate !

Regarding yesterday's game: it was really funny to read in most of mainstream media how 'Carlsen barely saved a draw as Caruana missed victory'. Nowadays every copy-pasting journalist with a good engine can become a grandmaster.

The quote!!!

Merchandise suggestion: A hoodie with a picture of the hoodie guy with the caption 'in honor of the hoodie guy, I'm wearing a hoodie'

Genius.

After queen to e2 in the end, before resignation, how about knight to G3 check, won't it work?