5 Of The Greatest Chess Games Of All Time

white is in a weird situation here uh their queen is under attack their knight is under attack their rook is under attack and this rook is under attack so all of white's pieces are potentially about to be taken and on top of that this is just checkmate what's going on guys you may have noticed that the chess set that's normally behind me is now gone and there's this massive pile of books so my parents were cleaning out their house recently and they found this pile of books and they sent it to me and let me just show you it's really heavy there is a lot of stuff here it's like two chess tactics for students i don't know why we have two copies which is basically like sort of like basic you know chess concepts so promoting pawns double threats skewers double checks forks double attack you know just kind of random stuff that you should learn pretty early on in your career i have no recollection of going through this maybe i did and i just don't remember or maybe my parents got it and they were gonna give it to me later and i couldn't tell you and then there's also these like two massive black binders with all kinds of random stuff in there like you know chess games chess lessons random like a eight the eight queen problem if you've ever heard of that where you have to put eight queens on a chess board so that they don't touch each ot each other or not touch each other so like they can't attack each other what i'm trying to say uh but that's in there like all kinds of random stuff anyway the most interesting thing that i found were these okay and it's there were different numbers so this is number one i don't know if you can see that very good there we go uh i'll probably put this up on the screen like a screenshot or something so you can see it but there was number one two three eight and ten so i don't know what happened to the other ones i guess they got lost in time or something but anyway it's a position from a famous game and it's like white to play you have to solve it and then also there's like another little section that goes with it and it talks about the game it talks about the player and gives you the notation so like this one was the immortal game you've probably heard of that adolf anderson very famous game but yeah this should be fun it should be a good uh you know learning opportunity as well and so let's get started all right so game number one is from adolf anderson and this is called the immortal game you may have seen this before like i mentioned it's very famous so what i'm going to do is show you the game now and then i'll put this what i'm looking at right now up on the screen if you want to pause and you can read through that look kind of interesting gives you some information about the game but we're going to go through we're going to get to the critical moment in the game where it's white to play and i'm going to let you have a chance to pause and see if you can find the move and if not you can just sit back and enjoy this beautiful game so here we go anderson is white and he plays the king's gambit and it's it's accepted and bishop c4 so this is actually a line that i used to play for a while and i liked it a lot it's kind of surprising bishop c4 is not one of the top moves played usually knight f3 is much more common and so one of the things about bishop c4 is you allow black to put you in check here and the point is that you're okay with that you're going to just move your king and then gain the tempo on the queen later with your knight but it's very scary if you haven't seen this before you know playing this as white but it actually does have an idea you have to be a little careful like if you're not paying attention you can just get mated but if black does try bishop c5 you can just play d4 and chase the bishop away so b5 i don't actually know if this is a common line or not um the idea is that you want to draw the bishop off this dangerous diagonal even at you know the cost of a pawn because the bishop is much you know it's not doing as much here as it is right here because there's a lot of tricks that are that come up for black here especially after the knight comes out and the knight can potentially hop in black has to be really careful so that's kind of what's going on with b5 bishop takes knight comes out and here we see the knight f3 and so even though white white kind of wasted some time with king f1 now you're getting a little bit of time back chasing away the queen with knight f3 so it's kind of a trade-off queen h6 and by the way i'm going to leave the engine off and just go through this game kind of with what what i notice about it because sometimes you have these really nice games but then you turn on stock fish and stock fishes like oh that's a bad move this doesn't even work you could have just done this and so i'm not going to look at stockfish for for these you know five games we're just gonna appreciate them kind of looking at them as a as a chess player not as a computer right so d3 knight h5 until black is like really trying to hold on to this pawn and you know it's kind of an annoying pawn uh sometimes black just ignores it and lets white recapture it right away and it's it frees up the position a little bit but when black holds on it is pretty annoying and white can't develop quite so easily so that's kind of what black is is doing also you know it looks like there's a threat here right like takes takes so black's kind of making some threats as well so knight h4 is kind of an interesting way to deal with that i mean i guess the point is that now you can just take it because there's no more rook hanging so and you're also kind of threatening to go here and let's the queen out interesting solution queen g5 so it's attacking the bishop knight to f5 blocks off the queen all right what do we have c6 rook to g1 so already this is a pretty crazy move from anderson i mean he's just saying you know what i don't even care about my bishop which if you're a new player be careful watching this game because 99 times out of 100 if someone attacks your bishop like this you need to move it right you need to move it to safety but anderson was thinking much more uh deep and and you know further into the future with than than just like one move oh i lost my bishop like he's looking at some stuff right so the bishop does get captured g4 now we kind of see his idea he's gonna start throwing these pawns at black's queen so there is on passant here but it doesn't work because then you would just take the queen right so that's not an option the knight now has to move and then h4 right and so you can see he gave it to bishop because he wanted to just throw these pawns and almost trap black's queen almost it's close h5 okay so he gets a lot of space he gets a lot of tempo moves with the pawn and then queen to f3 and so he's kind of just like all right i got some some space i yeah i'm down a bishop but i'm gonna keep attacking keep you know using my pieces so very interesting black plays knight g8 i'm not sure if that's the greatest move i guess looking at it i'm i'm thinking that black was afraid of this threat e5 attacking the knight and the rook and so they wanted to save the knight i guess like i said i'm not using stockfish so all right bishop comes out finally white recaptures that pawn and now you know black's queen doesn't have a lot of options knight to c3 okay knight to d5 now this is where it starts to get interesting because by playing knight to d5 anderson is allowing queen takes b2 which is what happened and check it out he's got problems with both of his rooks so when he played knight d5 he must have saw something right here that that he was going to do going forward right and this is actually let me just verify i believe that this is the position yes so it is white to play this is uh looking at my little sheet here this is the position that we're supposed to kind of solve so if you'd like to pause now would be the time go ahead and pause and think through what do you think anderson played next and maybe try to figure out what the idea is but don't feel bad if you don't see this one it's um it's pretty amazing all right well if you had a chance to look at that the move is bishop to d6 so he's saying i don't really care i don't really care i'm gonna actually lose both rooks and it doesn't even matter he's committing he's going all in that these four pieces he's going to be able to check mate black's king right and so a very gutsy move if you didn't calculate it all out did he calculate everything from here probably i'm guessing he probably calculated all this way back when he played 95 maybe even i don't know i don't know how early you know he saw this but the idea is that after queen takes a one which is what black played king moves bishop takes g1 both rooks are gone e5 is the idea and the point behind this primarily is that it blocks off black's queen from controlling g7 so if it were uh white's turn again white would simply play knight takes g7 check the king would have to move and then bishop c7 would be checkmate okay so blocking off the queen from this pawn and it the problem that black has is that even knowing that this is the threat what are they going to do like how are they going to stop it right uh this bishop's too far this queen's too far none of these pieces can really help this so there's not much black can do so they play knight to a6 the idea is that now after takes here king here that's not checkmate anymore because the knight can just take it right so knight a6 is the try but white has a really nice finish and this is another time if you'd like to pause and think through it's mate in two from this position white to play and if you had a chance to look at that the move is queen to f6 check and black's king can't move they're forced to take it but when that knight moves it's no longer defending this square and so the bishop can come in and deliver the checkmate so really the only pieces that white has left deliver the mate white sacrificed both rooks and the queen actually and the bishop earlier on on b5 so i mean how many points is that at 9 20 what nine 22 points i mean it's crazy right and then delivers the checkmate with the final three pieces amazing stuff you can see why they named it the immortal game um but yeah i hope you enjoyed that let's go ahead and jump to the next game all right so the next game is also by anderson so same guy he was playing white again this one is known as the evergreen game so i'm again i'm going to throw this up on the screen you can pause and read through this if you want it's out of the evans gambit and let's go ahead and take a look so e4 e5 this is the italian game and then when you play b4 this is the evans game at the point is you're giving up a pawn but you're going to gain a tempo when you play c3 and attack whatever piece black takes with it doesn't really matter you're still going to play c3 you gain a tempo and now you're ready to play d4 right away so it costs you a pawn but you get your center break you know much faster so bishop a5 is pretty common d4 castles d3 is kind of like black saying i don't want to let you get two pawns in the center and just have this really nice strong center and so rather than not doing anything and letting you take it they push now they can also take here which doesn't give you the pawns in the center but then the fact that this pawn is gone kind of opens up the diagonal for your bishop in the future right and so it's it's sort of black saying i want to keep these this pawn here because i think it's going to hinder white's development more than if i take it because eventually you know white's going to do something like queen v3 and take back that pawn if black were to take here right and then it's going to be open the bishop can come here the rook can even use this file if they want but by black playing d3 it kind of keeps white has to figure out another way to develop their pieces they can't use this diagonal and he can't put the knight there right now so that's kind of the idea d3 queen to b3 anyway lining up here on f7 queen to f6 defends it and also sort of positions the queen in a more aggressive place e5 queen to g6 rook to e1 right here and bishop to a3 so both bishops are lined up on black's king and one of the things you're going to notice about this game is the black doesn't ever get castled and that's one of the dangers when you leave your king in the center we're going to see what happens so b5 the queen takes rook b8 bishop to b6 and so everybody's kind of just developing but again look at look at black's king hasn't castled right knight to e4 and i don't really know like why black didn't castle i feel like they could have castled it any point along here but for whatever reason didn't and now anderson saw the moment to strike so this is not uh actually is this the position let me see no this is not the position that you're supposed to pause at yet but i want you to pause here and try to think through how do you think anderson took advantage of the fact that black's king is still in the center and hasn't castled if you had a chance to do that the move is knight to f6 check so it's a fork on the king and the queen so black has to take it but after they take it now you can see the problem that black has if they just try to castle or move the king then this knight's gonna have to fall and so basically white's getting back the piece and on top of that they're going to get a nice attack on the king so let me check i think we're getting close to the position so rook to g8 so black's trying to create some kind of counter attacks there's a bishop here there's a bishop here so white does have to be careful brings the other rook over queen takes f3 so you know anderson was setting this up sacrificing that intentionally because of the follow-up so let's see it's not this position so rook takes e7 knight takes c7 and now is when you're supposed to pause and think through what did white play here all right if you had a chance to do that the move is queen takes d7 sacrificing the queen uh of course black has to take it if they try to move this is just game over immediately so black has no choice they have to take it and now we have a really nice discovered check now the interesting thing here is that we can't just move this bishop wherever we like for example like here check because now the queen is going to be able to take the rook and we just lost this game over right but we can go here or here and create a double check and if you want to pause and think through which of the which of those is the better option well the only move is bishop to f5 and the reason is if we play bishop b5 black can actually play king e6 and get away and we don't have a good follow-up but on bishop to f5 double check so the king has to move right that's the only way to get out of a double check if it tries to escape this way now we have this amazing checkmate with the bishops in the rook i mean look at that isn't that beautiful so black doesn't want to do that can't go here can't go here has to go back to e8 and now we simply go bishop d7 check doesn't matter where the king moves to bishop's coming in for checkmate so i mean this is this is amazing stuff right like the guy sacrifices what did he sacrifice he sacrificed his knight then he sacrificed his rook then he sacrificed his queen and he ends up with this amazing checkmate i mean really cool stuff this is called the evergreen game um yeah and anderson was was a pretty fantastic player so anyway let's go ahead and jump into the next game all right so for this next game we're going to be looking at paul morphy so again another one of the great players from his time and he was playing white this game and we're going to get to see a smothered mate so some other mates are one of the most beautiful types of checkmates and this game has that there's also and i'm going to put this up on the screen as well but looking at this sort of sheet that talks about the game there's something going on at the bottom which i'm going to be honest with you i'm not entirely sure i completely understand that apparently reading through this it's a different type of chess muslim chess and there's like different pieces the rook was the most powerful piece and the sideways queen i guess was a different piece i i'm not really sure what's going on queen bishop if somebody knows more about that and you want to fill me in in the comments uh please do that i just didn't have time to like look into that more but anyway pause check that out if you want uh but we're going to go ahead and move forward and check out this game so morphe was uh white and here we go so we get another italian game this was pretty pretty common back then and by the way right here um no sorry right here after the night capture this is the nachman gambit which has been getting a lot of attention lately and i've actually even played it myself from time to time it's pretty fun the problem is most people now have seen it and they know that if you take this it's very very dangerous for black and so most people are like not taking it within the palm they're taking with the knight it's kind of more boring that way but anyway uh this is more kind of main line rookie one d5 um the point here is you give up the bishop to lure the queen here because you want to follow it up with knight to c3 which is actually a fork on these pieces and it's a fork because if the pawn takes you you're gonna take the queen and of course this knight can't take you because it's pinned and so you win back your piece uh by doing that so queen h5 takes and this looks very dangerous for black it's actually in equal position i've played this line from black side and it's totally fine you just have to watch out for the discover check and so that's what black does bishop to e6 is a good move knight comes in putting the pressure here bishop to b4 i think was maybe a mistake i think black is supposed to castle queenside and just get uh just get out of there get get out of the rook you know you don't need to worry about the pawn yes you lose a pawn but at least you you save your king this way um black gets attacked right and now that the knight is there black can't castle right that knight is preventing black from castling because the king would pass through check so black's in a bit of trouble now starts to bring the queen back to defend and here comes the other knight so now both knights are coming in queen to e2 knight takes g7 and let me get ready i think we're getting close to the position where you guys are supposed to pause which i'm gonna be honest with you these are hard some of these are very difficult so i don't feel bad at all if you don't find this one but king here queen g for check okay we're getting close king to d8 all right so this is the moment when uh they this is the moment that they put on the diagram that you're supposed to solve good luck is what i will say um it's not easy it's like a like an eight or nine move combination it looks like so if you want to pause and have fun with that you can if not i'll give you a chance to do that all right but for most of us i think we can move forward a couple moves and then we can pause as we get a little bit closer to the end so the move is knight to f7 check and of course the the queen has to take it because black's king can't move so queen takes f7 which kind of leads into the following sequence so bishop to g5 check bishop to e7 knight to e6 check and king c8 now had black not gone into the discovered check i guess white would have just proceeded by you know taking here and then taking here and probably get a relatively equal game um i don't know what exactly black was thinking but they played king 2 sorry they played king to c8 which was not the right move and so here i would say is a much better place to pause and try to figure out the solution to to what happened next so it's white to play and win the game you already know that the motive is a smothered mate so that's kind of a big hint if you had a chance to do that the move is knight to c5 check and the point is that black has no good way to block the check both of the blocks we would just take it so they have to move the king somewhere if they move here well that's just game over immediately queen d7 is mate so that only leaves one option which is what was played in the game but now we can follow up with knight to d7 check and the reason we're doing this little dance with our knight is we want to reposition it here because we actually want it to go to b6 and this is the smothered mating pattern right if you've seen this before you're going to be familiar with this we go for the double check so that our knight is safe right because it would still be checked from the queen so again black has to move and now that we have our knight in position we can play queen to c8 forcing the rook to capture us okay and then we deliver the beautiful mate so and by the way if you're wondering why we had to do that little dance and get our night over here i'll just show you that because i think something that i was wondering when i first saw some other mate if we were to move queen c8 immediately if black takes with the rook we're fine we can just deliver the mate the problem is they have the option to take with the king and now there's how we just lose right so that's why we had to go with like this move first because once our knights on b6 and we play queen c8 they can't take it with the king okay so it forces this which allows the smothered mate and this is kind of unique most smothered mates happen on this side of the board in the corner this one is weird it's on the queen side and there's a you know random rick and pawn on the other side of the king so that's kind of unique and so really nice stuff there by morphe um yeah some other mates are one of my favorite types of checkmates and like i said check out that uh position if you want try to figure out what's going on with muslim chess or not but it's there if you want and let's go ahead and look at the next game all right so the next game is played by bobby fischer when he was 12 years old and he was playing as black this is known as the game of the century so this is another very famous game you may have seen this before i'm sure some of you have but we're going to look through this real quickly and then when we get to the key moment i'm going to give you a chance and you can try to find what fisher played so here we go we have a grunfeld so grunfeld is when you fianchetto the king's bishop like this and instead of going into a king's indian which would be d6 you've actually advanced upon two squares to d5 and so it's it's much more of a fighting opening you might say like you're immediately kind of creating some tension and so it leads to some pretty interesting games i don't know tons of the theory i did play the grunfeld for a few occasionally for a few times it's it's very uh a lot of theory a lot you know a lot to learn if you're gonna play the grunt field but anyway let's keep going so even right here fischer plays a move that honestly most of the time i don't even think i would consider this kind of a move knight to a4 like just you know my brain when i look at this position i'm like nope can't move there and i just move on and i'm i'm like all right let's see what else can i do you know and it just goes to show the really strong players they're considering every move even moves that at first glance don't make sense right so let's talk about what's what's going on here what like what happens if white just takes the knight well black's gonna play knight takes e4 so the knight that was defending is now no longer defending it's a fork but you might say but still i mean we sacrificed a piece like what's going to happen so let's say white goes i don't know back to c2 knight takes g5 okay and you might say well not the knight can still take bishop takes d1 the queen can still take and normally giving up you know two pieces for a rook like that or working a pawn isn't really a great trade but in this case black has this amazing move queen a5 check and it's picking up the piece and so if we go back let's see what happens when king takes here i'm actually curious oh queen takes d4 and i guess black's just getting a lot of pressure yeah okay i know i said i wasn't going to use stockfish but i just wanted to see that one because i wasn't sure myself all right let me turn off stockfish again so anyway i want to just point out like this is what those really great players are looking at like every move you know they're not missing this kind of stuff so really nice move so white doesn't take it displays queen a3 get this trade and now the knight comes into e4 okay so sacrificing the exchange here white doesn't take it decides to develop and get ready to castle and that's more important knight takes c3 so another you know sort of sacrifice type of move this one maybe is a little more easy to see the idea is that the queen takes i think you're just gonna pin this and you're gonna win back uh the piece here and this bishop is going to be this is going to be really strong once you get rid of white's a dark squared bishop so knight takes c3 nice little move there there is this move bishop to c5 and we're getting close yeah it's not this position so rook feat check king to f1 and now if you'd like to pause and think through what did fischer play in this position go ahead and do that we had a chance to look at that he actually played the move bishop to e6 which is what's called a positional sacrifice and it's a positional sacrifice because you know sometimes you sacrifice pieces and you're getting checkmate or you're immediately getting the piece back you're immediately getting the material back because you're going to win the queen or you know when when when more than you sacrificed in this case that's not really happening but the position that arises is just so strong that long term the advantage kind of plays out so what's the point well first of all if white takes this it looks to me like queen b5 check is just gonna win for black and of course if the king moves that's checkmate and then if the king moves here we actually saw something very similar to this in the last game right knight here check king goes over and then what do we do that's right knight to g3 double check and this is the same pattern right you could you can see the exact same sort of smothered mate with the king and the rooks like this so pretty interesting there so that's if if white were to just take this bishop now of course what happened in the game is more obvious they take your queen so let's just see how this is gonna gonna work so black gets the bishop so lost the queen begins the bishop with check and now they can throw in this move which fischer does check and then take this pawn with check so the fischer has a bishop and a pawn in exchange for the queen again check again check now that the pawn is gone knight c3 is an option because the bishop is defending the knight here so it's a good square for it and then taking this bishop so at this point fischer has two bishops and a pawn for the queen which normally is probably not enough but in this case uh the position is so great for black it's totally worth it there's actually you know white is the big problem that the rook is stuck in the corner and on top of that there it looks like actually fisher's gonna get the rook as well too so let's see queen here rook to a4 doesn't take it right away and now he takes it and so you can see let's see a rook in a knight a rook and a knight yeah so a rook and two bishops is actually even just better if you can get three pieces for a queen it's usually better and so yeah fisher's doing just fine here and you're going to just see how so many pieces is so much stronger than a queen there's just like nothing that the queen can do okay so we had some trades and notice how fisher has pretty much all of the pieces defending each other so like these are all kind of defended this is defended this is defended this is defended that's defended this is how you want to play against a queen if you ever find yourself in the situation if you have a couple of pieces you know use your pawns to help your pieces and then use your pieces to help your other pieces and what's the queen going to do like the queen can't take anything because if the queen takes any of these you just win the queen right and so h4 i guess there's a reason why this doesn't work let's see what's the idea is it bishop here check yeah it looks like white's gonna get mated if this happens um because if the king has to go back then this is just going to be checkmate right so that's why white played this move instead of capturing they needed to keep the queen there to stop the bishop although oh yeah sorry to pin it i was like it's just a it's just a fork i can't just go there no it's pinned all right sorry guys okay b5 again notice the same kind of thing everything is defended all of black's pieces are defended so the queen is basically useless right and so you can just see how now the power of the pieces why it is helpless to stop this and we get one of the coolest looking checkmates i mean look at that it's just beautiful right so game of the century very nice one if you haven't seen that there you go and now it's time to look at the last game all right so for the last game the entire game wasn't actually included on these pages and so i'm just going to show you the position this apparently is the famous position this is from a game by william steins and yeah it's pretty amazing because and i'll throw up these on the you know screen as well you can read what i was looking at here but basically white is in a weird situation here their queen is under attack their knight is under attack their rook is under attack and this rook is under attack so all of white's pieces are potentially about to be taken and on top of that this is just checkmate so like neither of white's pieces can take this queen so for example if white tries to take this well that's game over you're getting mated or if the rook takes same thing you're getting mated so it looks hopeless i mean it looks like white is toast and yet there's an amazing amazing sequence of moves so if you'd like to pause and think through what's the solution go ahead and do that well if you had a chance to look at that the move is rook to f7 check and when i first saw this i kind of couldn't believe it because i was like wait a second first of all what happens if black takes it right that's one question and the other question is what if they just move and don't take it so let's talk through what's what's going on if black tries to take this well now it opens up the queen over here until you can take take take and well you're just winning i mean you're up you have the knight and so which is you know better so that's kind of one idea but after king g8 you might say what's the idea now well same thing rook to g7 check and again if the queen takes you're going to just simply take here and you're you're winning because you're up that piece right so that's kind of one idea and the other point is that if the king tries to move back here you've got knight takes h7 which is pretty nasty if the king takes here you've got queen takes d7 now and you're taking everything so that doesn't work for black if they try to run knight takes f6 or i guess even just queen takes d7 is made right away all sorts of crazy things and if the king tries to run in the corner you take it again and all the while the queen can't ever really take it because you've got this threat on the rook on c8 and so the king has to move and then i guess you just go back to g7 again we looked at what happens if the king goes there but if it goes back here now that the pawn is gone you've got queen two h4 there's this this let's see queen h8 i am using stockfish because this is a long line queen g7 king to e8 queen to g8 king d7 queen to f7 and now if you'd like to pause what's the move for white here it's maintenance iii you had a chance to do that it's queen to f8 knight to f7 and then queen here wow i mean there's a lot happening there but basically having seen all that what it boils down to is that black could never take the rook and so white could basically just do whatever they wanted um with the rook and actually there's one line rook here rook g7 check i don't know if i covered it did i cover this line yeah if the king takes of course there's that i think i didn't mention that so amazing stuff the rook just did whatever it wanted and uh yeah uh white uh white one so really cool games i hope you guys liked 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Published: Wed May 25 2022