Kasparov vs. Karpov: Greatest Chess Rivalry In History

ladies and gentlemen today we will be doing an  amazing chess deep dive into the epic rivalry   between gary kasparov and anatoly karpa from 1984  till 1990. anatoly karpov is about 12 years older   than gary and was the world champion after  bobby fischer won it in 1972 kasparov was the   up-and-coming brilliant superstar who was going to  take anatoly on to dethrone him anatoly karpov was   quiet in nature a mastermind on the chessboard  playing very technical and strategic chess   but also he was loyal to the soviet union gary  kasparov brought brilliant preparation combined   with fiery tactics and dynamics and he was also  brash and fought the regime in this video i've   selected one of the best games of each match to  analyze to give credit to kasparov and karpov   and i've also selected clips of interviews and  documentaries about this rivalry so we begin this   incredible rivalry in the year 1984 as the players  have began a world championship match the format   is the first person to win six games draws don't  count in the first nine games anatoly karpov won   four times he had a four nothing lead and after  27 games he had a five nothing lead they drew some   games in the 31st game karpov had winning chances  to put awake as part of six nothing and the game   that i'm showing you is the 32nd game of the match  dubbed the turning point we've got kasparov with   the white pieces he begins with d4 knight to f6 c4  e6 and this defense against knight to f3 is known   as the queen's indian it's a very good repertoire  to have because normally white likes to go knight   c3 and put the next pawn in the center and black  plays bishop to b4 pinning this knight to the king   and this is known as the nimso indian defense  so if we back up a move you'll notice that white   played knight f3 in the game bishop b4 doesn't  come with the same pin so karpov plays b6 to kind   of supplement that repertoire we have knight c3  bishop to b7 and now kasparov plays the move a3   preventing the bishop from coming to b4 entirely  carpal plays d5 putting a pawn into the center we   have a trade and kind of strangely karpov takes  with the knight that you would think why wouldn't   he just put another pawn into the center well  the drawback of playing like this is that you   block in your own light squared bishop karpov was  a very kind of flexible player he very rarely made   obvious weaknesses in his position so queen to c2  was played now knight to d7 and now kasparov made   this capture he made this capture because there's  no real easy way here for karpov to take back he   can play e takes d5 which is what he did in the  game but if he played bishop d5 this move queen   c2 and move ago defended the center square and he  would have kicked out karpov's bishop and would   have developed his bishop to b5 or c4 castled and  he would have enjoyed a pleasant advantage and for   that reason karpov took back with the pawn bishop  g5 attacks the queen carpa plays f6 you would say   wow that's a that's a very provocative move i  mean he's got some weaknesses yeah but karpov is   basically relying on the fact that by wasting this  time in the opening kasparov is going to damage   his own position in his long-term prospects so we  have g3 g6 and here kasparov says listen i've got   no interest in bishop g2 and castles i'm from the  future h4 if you follow any modern day chess these   flying pawn pushes are very just very popular  very common the idea is to go h5 and kind of chip   away at your opponent's light squares especially  because your opponent already played the move f6   severely weakening the light squares around the  king but there are no obvious weaknesses kasparov   plays h4 queen e7 and then returns to this idea  and now plays h5 here karpov could go g5 but   this is a drastic weakening of his position and  even though for a moment he can get these pawns   the damage would be done to his light squares  by putting all the pawns on the dark squares   so karpov instead plays f5 and creates the scale  queen to d2 and now bishop to f6 karpov is trying   to fight on the dark squares with his bishop while  his pawns occupy the light squares but the problem   is that once gary plays rc1 this sort of forces  this move rook c8 not not quite forces but it's   a very natural response by black because you want  to maintain the pressure on the c file with the   exact same piece that your opponent just moved  rook to c8 and here gary played this incredible   move rook to c3 and all of a sudden it became very  clear that something had gone wrong because karpov   must have anticipated this rook c6 idea and he  would just bring the rook just the same way that   kasparov did and ultimately they would trade  and there's no problems but there are problems   and after knight g5 kasparov's on the attack  the queen goes back to e7 takes takes takes   there's an issue here if you take then i'm going  to take take and win this pawn on d5 and the   dust clears but kasparov will be a pawn up with a  queen ready to infiltrate and absolutely destroy   with this king this king is the only piece that  haven't hasn't moved in karbala's position with   the exception of the a7 pawn so the king is not  moved in like 20 moves so karpov instead plays d4   but gary finds a nice shot g7 disallowing the  capture back so this pawn will stay here forever   and you can't take my bishop because i'll make a  new queen the carp uh kasparov finds a nice shot   here takes takes takes f3 queen d5 and he picks  up one more pawn and now he's got five pawns   versus four we have two queens bishop knight  karpov is uh a good defender he's obviously a   very strategic player he's a very solid player but  queen to b3 played bishop to d6 96 it's kasparov   who's kind of creating complications in this game  uh seemingly out of thin air first of all he's   making sure that this pawn duo never connects  so they're dnf pawns where if you notice   it's kasparov who has the pawns together  both of these pawns are pawn islands   and by creating the correct trades in the end  game and evaluating the endgame traits properly   by isolating the bishop in the night kasparov and  then ultimately the queens was able to gauge the   fact that this queen end game is actually better  for him because of the split nature of the pawns   so he took on f5 queen to c1 check king f2 and  karpov went this way he actually checked the king   before taking so now it's 3-3 but after check  notice this move wins the pawn like this move   wins the pawn and then and the way the game goes  he actually gave him a few checks before that   b5 g4 b4 g5 here here carp of uh resign then you  know it it's it's mainly due to the fact that   um there is no way you can really prevent  white's attack so you cannot play like if   you play b3 for example then i can play g6 b2  right we're both promoting queen to e4 check   stopping the pawn from promoting g7 and karpov  simply resigned rather than entering this end   game which would have taken a monumental struggle  to try to draw and most likely would not be drawn   anyway because of the two on one and so on move 41  it was gary caspar of winning so it took a spar of   32 games to defeat anatoly karpov and in the  next 16 games he was able to bring the score   to five three but after 48 games and  six months of chess they suspended   the match take a look president of the world  chess federation floriancio campomanes a filipino   well-versed in greasing palms and manipulation was  chosen to announce this fact in a press conference   with the two players present that is when  kasparov decided to climb on the stage your decision is a joke it is a farce the  match must go on everyone knows i can win it   and those who interrupted the championship  have depressed for the first time in the ussr   an athlete publicly rebelled against the system and now ladies and gentlemen we move to the  resumption of the world championship they   suspended in 1984 or early 1985 because  that's how long the match carried over   this is their second world championship match  it's 1985. the format is 24 games it's first   person to 12 and a half but in the event of a  12 12 tie anatoly karpov would retain his title   the game we are looking at is the 22nd game of  the match kasparov has built up a lead 11 and   a half nine and a half anatoly in the 22nd game  has got the white pieces he begins with d4 d5 c4   e6 we have a queen's gambit declined and a very  early trade that's kind of rare i mean it's not   a bad move by any stretch of the imagination  but it is carp of clarifying the situation in   the center of the board and kasparov developing  his pieces naturally carver plays h3 which looks   like a relatively you know harmless move you  want to bring the bishop back to h2 for example   but uh it's actually not what he intends to do  at all because he doesn't have a lot of time   he's got three games and you know he's got to  score enough points so he plays the move g4 uh   with this move his idea was not to start an  attack and castle queenside no no no no karpov's   intention was to get the bishop pair he wanted to  get bishop on dark square bishop on light square   put them here and slowly out play kasparov and  like i said at the in the introduction my goal   with this video is to is to demonstrate the strong  suits of both of these players had kasparov taken   back on g6 with the h-pawn maybe we would have  seen bishop d3 queen c2 but at some point we would   have seen this move and that would have been a big  problem because karpov has not canceled his king   he has the luxury to actually sacrifice his h-pawn  that is that is a pawn sacrifice but to open and   activate his rook down that h-file while his  king can evacuate to the other side of the board   and for that reason kasparov took with the  f pawn but that is a damage to the structure   because now he lacks e and f pawns completely  so he's got a big lack of central pawn space   so karpov develops and castles his king short  despite pushing pawns in front of it because   he actually understands that caspar's pieces are  on the queen side as you can see from kasparov's   position you know his pieces are far away but  that doesn't stop kasparov from going for g5   trying to create something concrete and trade off  the dark squared bishops to at least nerf the fact   temporarily that karpov has the bishop pair and  well that's what happens but then the problem is   that even though karpov has castle this king on  the side because he has more pieces on this side   of the board and his strengths lie and his forces  lie on this side of the board he mobilizes forward   he is not concerned about pawn takes f4 he takes  it forward yes he has an isolated pawn but neither   not i can't speak it's like midnight when i'm  recording this neither of those knights can attack   him yes knight to b4 sure and then what he's going  to move his queen and then what right so rookie 8   and here you know if i if i left you alone in this  position right try it try try it while i take a   sip of my my ginger soda if i left you alone in  this position i said what is the best move for   white that guy just brought his rook he's ready to  brawl you know most of the good players watching   and i mean you know when i say good players for a  for a carpool game that might be like 2 000. like   to have a min like minimum rating to guess a move  here i don't know what that elo is i really don't   some of you just watching for enjoyment and i love  that and i respect that i don't know what that   minimum cutoff is to guess like even 25 percent  of karpov's moves but y'all might say well hey he   moved his rook i should do the same and you're not  wrong that doesn't look bad at all but he's karpov   the best move in this position has he been doing  pay attention to his plan he get he just pushes   his pawn he just gains space in the middle of this  chaos just pawn at five and i never took a sip   the idea of f5 ladies and gentlemen space  that's it he's stronger on this side   and he can play knight to f4 that's it and then he  controls the light squares because these knights   are so far away he's focusing where he's stronger  knight c7 rook f2 knight d7 he keeps pushing   he's advancing the position slowly because sparrow  is jumping back with the knights but the problem   with knights they're not very mobile especially  in positions where their squares are controlled   it's very difficult to move them around queen e7  karpa very simple h4 slow improvement gary goes   for queen e3 trying to simplify and here karpov  again plays the best move rook d1 the idea being   that that he has a plan ladies and gentlemen  this is what he does here is absolutely surgical   the best move again king to h2 he wants to  move the knight and it's guarded and then   he wants to kick the rook out so he can  bring his own rook ladies and gentlemen   i present to you the brain of anatoly karpov  bye-bye now i can bring my rook slow improvement   slow improvement knight back to g3 now we trade  up you take on d4 right so obviously i'm going to   take back no here anatoly karfur plays a move that  is so mind-boggling to me i mean this whole plan   because he saw this moves in advance no even  though karpov is down upon in this position   he's not gonna take because that would relinquish  defense of this if his knight took the pawn   no king to h3 in the middle of the game he just  walks the king forward h2 h3 g4 and he's winning   his king comes to the defense of the pawns  the whole game he has focused on this side   kasparov tries to send it off into a rook in game  but it doesn't matter and several moves later it's   anatoly karp of forcing gary kasparov to resign  just one pawn down but it's much worse than that   in rook endgame's pawn down is the is the  difference between life and death and in this case   uh it's death for gary kasparov however ladies  and gentlemen that's not the end of the story   i wanted to showcase a brilliancy of carpools  and i find this game to be very karpovia and   i wanted to show the brilliance of both  of the players not just focusing on one   with this win uh the match was 11 and a  half to 10 and a half however this would be   the final game that anatoly karpov won because in  the 24th game of the match with the score at 12   11 and anatoly karpov having to win with the  white pieces it was gary kasparov who was ready   and who played an absolutely brilliant game  which i actually covered on my youtube channel   called the game which made gary caspar of world  champion and he won the world championship in 1985. because to the young man i was who had  become world champion at the age of 22   these were strange words full of wisdom you  can't go higher than being world champion now before we take a look at the third  game in our video this game is from   the 1986 world championship match  between these two players however   there was a little bit of drama involved as  soon as gary kasparov won the world championship   the president of the world chess federation said  we're running it back in three months now this   completely violated all previous protocols they  said they would be waiting a year and obviously   gary kasparov protested gary kasparov hardly  had time to enjoy his title when floriancio   campomanes insisted on a rematch in three months  time kasparov refused asking for a longer delay i didn't understand why and how he was allowed  to have another chance so this is the 19th game   of the 1986 world chess championship match  between gary kasparov and anatoly karpov   now the story of the match within the first 16  rounds kasparov had a nine and a half six and a   half advantage that's huge three game lead 16 out  of the potential 24 games that they have to play   and now the 12 12 rule means that kasparov  retains the title since he's the champion   but karpov won the 17th game and the  18th game to claw within one game   of kasparov karpov's got the white pieces once  again let's take a look we have d4 knight f6   and now kasparov we see playing the grunfeld  defense a defense with knight f6 g6 followed   by the shot back in the center with d5 the idea  being that you bring your knight here and in many   positions give your opponent this giant center  but you use the bishop from a distance the pawn   the queen and the knight to destabilize the center  it is one of the most chaotic openings that exists   on planet earth gary kasparov utilized it for  many years and it's still utilized computer-backed   don't touch it though okay it's like the most  complicated tool in the kitchen and you can barely   you know make toast okay don't touch it don't  touch it so in this game i mean who better to play   a system known as the literally russian system  against the grunfeld than anatoly karp of the   system being this you actually bring your queen  to the center with queen to c4 and the point is   that then you take a big center and you leave it  to your opponent to set up however they want and   try to lash out at you with the flank pawn push  right and that's exactly what kasparov does but   carp of clamps he says my queen stands very  confidently on c4 the only way you're going   to dislodge it is with a b-pawn thrust otherwise  you're gonna have to somehow route this knight to   one of these two squares yeah best of luck so e6  but the thing is karpov can just castle he doesn't   need to take and open up this bishop right that's  why kasparov takes and brings out his bishop to f5   bishop to f4 just the natural developing move  now we have rook to d1 a natural developing move   but you know kasparov said about enough of  just natural development it's time to have   a fistfight knight jumps into e4 it has crossed  into enemy territory the knight is defended by   the bishop and the rope but now this bishop is  open this knight is pressuring that would remove   the defender of the bishop what is karpov going to  do well of course he will run away from the night   not because he's running away and he's scared but  because it's the best move and somehow kasparov's   pieces are without actual targets and that was  the beauty of this match like that that is the   back and forth here so now kasparov transfers the  queen to where the knight once stood and karpov   just plays a simple bishop improving move like the  queen and the bishop do not scare karpov that pawn   is meaningless but you're not meaningless you  are amazing and i thank you so very much for   making it this far in the video knight jumps  into b4 but that knight abandons the post on c7   so now there is a fork of the rooks but don't  worry that's not what kasparov blundered he   knew that was going to happen and he got to this  position in his head and he said i have a bishop   and i have a pawn for your rook anatoly uh and  you know you do have this past deep on but there's   enough complications against your queen that i'm  going to do something about that and a couple said   okay but what do i paralyze your knight now your  knight can't move cause i would take your rook   okay i'm gonna bring back my queen yeah but  remember that night that can't move gary except they didn't actually say words  to each other because that would be   it'd be pretty gangster but like  no queen a4 defends the rook   but now karpov goes for the queen trade i mean  karpov is a practical guy he's up material what   do you do when you're up material win the game  exactly trade pieces so karpov gets the queen   trade that he's looking for and then just  goes back to d2 and gets another trade now   it's funny because when you first plug this into  the computer the computer's like ah black's got   chances in the end game because this pawn's not  really scary and i have three pawns versus one   and then you let the computer think and  it's like oh nope anatoly is really smart   so look how smart anatoly is he gets his own rook  trapped and that's not even the best thing that   kasparov could have done because of f3 because of  f3 ladies and gentlemen because if bishop takes f1   king f1 you are paralyzed if you go back to  f6 thinking that you've achieved something   this was karpov's idea and then the knight is  dominated by the bishop with the move bishop   to e5 and look at this if you try to kick me out   d6 and if you do this d7 and you can't stop those  two moves if you protect i push karpov saw that   he saw this whole thing in advance i mean i  don't know i didn't ask him i'm assuming he did   he sold the whole thing if you take my rook i get  that end game and it's over and so that forced the   kasparov into just this tactical flurry which  still nets him an end game down a pawn and he   doesn't trade rooks because that would that would  have been losing so you know carp of mobilizes   and then carpo slides over then plays bishop  d4 just targets the pawn wins it and look at   this i mean this is just such a nice move this is  instead of just going takes takes right and saying   i have bishop you have knight i have an extra pawn  look what he does he trades rooks on his own terms   this is the better move rather than taking and  then moving the bishop the better move is to   give the check force kasparov to take now this is  hanging and the difference is that my bishop is   not a target anymore i've moved it out of the way  that gives me one full move to make a move and now   we have king to e2 king to d3 king to c4 and it  was in this position actually was after shuffling   once because now it's move 41 so they go uh  adjourn the game and then kasparov basically knew   that if he gave one more check karpov would go in  because after move 40 the players can adjourn the   game go back analyze this is what it used to be  like back in the day it's not how it is back now   but back in the day it would go analyze with their  team and come back kasparov knew this was hopeless   he called it a day he resigned and now karpov  just stormed back from three matches down and it's   nine and a half nine and a half in the 1986  world championship match but potentially the   craziest story about this world championship  match was that after losing those three games   kasparov accused a member of his team of actually  being a spy for the soviets and anatoly karpov   and despite the match being even after 21  games it was gary kasparov winning the 22nd   pivotal game of the match and that was the only  other decisive game since that one i showed you   gary kasparov retained his world championship  in 1986 by winning 12 and a half 11 and a half   against anatoly karpov so now we move to 1987.  how did karpov make it back to playing against   kasparov well the way it worked back in the day is  there was a series of inter-zonal tournaments that   ultimately led to a knockout event that led to a  person challenging the kind of incumbent winner of   that candidate cycle the soviets placed karpov in  that position carpal played a match against andrei   sokolov and defeated him pretty handily and  therefore ladies and gentlemen we've got karp   of kasparov episode 4. but here's the thing this  event was held in sevilla in spain which meant   it was the first world championship match held  outside of the soviet union and kasparov said that   this was a this was a big deal because the players  were allowed to talk to the media the games were   shown on the national television with the spanish  language commentary and there was also this   kasparov launched the hostilities by publishing  an autobiography just before the match   he portrayed karpov as a man of the past and  puppet of a corrupt system doomed to disappear   this book was too provocative i was 23 when i  started writing it it was the era of perestroika we talked about reforms one saw the new grand  masters coming up when one is in a hurry nothing   is done perfectly and so with that ladies and  gentlemen it's time for chess now the preview   to this game is the fact that after the first 12  rounds in sevilla it was kasparov with a six and   a half five and a half lead but you'll notice  the score on the screen well that's because   after those first 12 games remember the format 24  games potentially for the next 11 games kasparov   didn't win once now that doesn't mean he lost all  those games that just means there were nine draws   and he lost twice so he didn't win against karpov  in 11 games so now it's 12 11. this is the finale   the absolutely final game kasparov must win with  the white pieces to retain the world championship   title and he begins with something that nobody saw  coming a double fianchetto offering kind of like   a is this called a neo catalan it's called neo  catalan because there's no deep on on d4 if white   has the pawn on d4 with the rest of this kind  of kingside fiance setup it's called the catalan   but gary delays the move d4 in fact he delays it  entirely gary plays a setup which is super weird   and maneuvering but his justification for this  was what if to beat karpov you need to show him   karpov you need to not show him kasparov who  would karpa find it the most frustrating and   not at home to face himself and for that reason  it was kasparov engaging in a very deep strategic   maneuvering game the first imbalance right cd5 and  now we have bishop takes so now the structure is   mildly imbalanced so we have pawn to d4 slowly  improving c5 carp lashes out on the queen side   now the players bring the one player brings the  rook next player brings the rook knight f4 and   now a trade bishop for knight what does that mean  about the position well karpov has kind of allowed   this bishop to scope but there's no targets it's  kind of it's just in air right it's just it sees   those squares and says don't go there but i'm  not actually going to go there myself you just   don't go there so queen to e7 we have rook to  c1 rook d8 takes takes b4 takes takes queen a7   a slow strategic maneuvering game the symmetrical  structure on this side of the board of the pawns   b for a whose pawn is weaker now yes you can  argue that gary's bishop on f3 definitely as   a long range piece gives him some advantage he  has some nagging pressure here so we have a3 slow   improving move right now we have knight to f5  rook to b1 and now another swap and queen to c7   karpov is trying to stabilize he is trying to play  a position without weakness and if you look around   in carpool's position there is not a single piece  that's unguarded whereas gary has this sniper but   that bishop is not protected everything in  carpet's position is guarded and accounted   for we have the knight dropping back to d3 looking  to get into an advantageous end game that's why we   have pawn to h6 and now rook c1 because sparrow's  trying to press a little bit there knight to e7   queen slides up one square knight to f5 a4 slowly  improving again playing to the strength of the   position queen back to b1 and knight jumps into  e5 right so kasparov transfers the knight to e5   with the idea to bring in the queen over here um  and we also have to remember that the 40th move   is in effect this is move 31 so there's nine  moves to go until the players pause the game   adjourn and go home and analyze right that's a  lot of time especially with the time on the clock   knight takes a4 the point of knight takes a4 here  is the fact that uh well karpov saw an opportunity   to trade further so for example rook takes c8  and now knight takes ca okay in this position um   queen to b1 uh queen to d1 excuse me um  right quit the d1 and the story here goes   uh the story here goes that the arbiter actually  tapped kasparov on the shoulder because kasparov   was so deep in his thought he had not written like  three moves down he was so deep and thought he   hadn't he wasn't keeping his moves and it's it's a  rule you have to keep your moves and the story in   the annotation of the game goes you know i was  startled by the arbiter the arbiter tapped me   on the shoulder and basically was like hey um and  you know the interesting thing is that after rook   c8 here apparently the move queen b5 is winning  apparently kasparov's instinct was correct and   even if karpov ran away this infiltration of these  three pieces would have just given him a decisive   advantage now the win is still very convoluted  the win is still very convoluted you need to   play the only move queen d8 then you need to go  back to a fade and continue like it's it's a mess   but there was a chance but now karpov is able to  bail into some degree of escape where after some   simplification we have the following position  and karpov plays the move queen to f6 right   now at this point the players adjourn the game  so it's carp of sealing a move uh and uh and   now we have an end game bishop queen four pawns  versus three but before i show you how exactly   it was that this game concluded first i want to  show you this clip uh taken from the new yorkers   youtube channel and something that they did with  kasparov uh four of his most memorable moments in   his career take a look and the position that you  could see now it's hard to assess i still don't   know whether it's winning for white or it's draw  i would say it's 50 50. next day when i showed   up at the stage i was couple of minutes earlier  i have to say that with my coaches we have been   analyzing this but we couldn't find any decisive  ideas and then i saw karpov entering the stage that was the crucial moment because i could look  at his eyes i could look at his body and he looked   doomed i could immediately understand that he  didn't believe he could defend this position   so you heard the man he saw a carp of enter and he  smelled the blood in the water and so karpa played   the move queen f6 right queen b5 queen e7 and  basically gary had the belief in himself that by   slowly improving the position and having karpov  draining his clock time and thinking that the   position was hopeless that kasparov would slowly  find his chance and he did the crucial mistake   comes on move 45 when after playing h4 intending  h5 and softening up the pawn structure here with   these three carpet play to move h5 and the problem  with this move is that every pawn is now isolated   on a light square so the pawns are frozen none of  them can move forward because they're laser beamed   and kasparov slowly slowly routed his pieces  advanced his pawn just one square to control   those center ranks bishop to c4 he moved upon to  e4 to cut off any checks on the diagonal then he   infiltrated with the bishop in order to go to b7  with the queen understanding the simplification   to the end game would lead to bishop and four  versus knight and three but because these pawns   are all on light squares they favor his bishop and  karpov didn't go for the trade but that allowed e5   that e pawn climbing up the board isolating  those pawns again now none of the pawns can   move and we have bishop to eight infiltration  check with the queen bishop comes back to a4   why that because the bishop in the future can go  here and target that pawn that he's softened up   the queen has to stay guarding the knight then i  can't move it has to stay guarding the pawns and   ladies and gentlemen it was on move 64. how iconic  that anatoly karpov resigned the game sensing   that slowly but surely the defense would collapse  and car and and kasparov clutching out in the   most absurd fashions beating karpov by playing  like karpov to win and retain the title with 12   12 as the score and so ladies and gentlemen  this brings us to the year 1990 anatoly karp   of this time was not seated as the final boss of  the candidates but rather as a quarter finalist   and he still beat everybody he was seated in he  defeated the player players uh the likes of artur   yusuf one of the best players in the soviet union  and jan timan who was one of the best players uh   outside of the soviet union period uh from uh the  netherlands he was a dutch chess player uh and   karpov once again qualified for this match  now the first half of the match was played   in new york city hey not in this apartment i hope  not uh and the second part of the match was played   in leon in france uh i've got not much else to say  let's go so we are in game 20. after the first 19   games it's 10 to 9. the match was relatively close  back in new york but gary missed a few chances now   coming to paris uh excuse me coming to france leon  he was playing more in his element and he was at   home now spoiler alert if you've seen one of my  other youtube videos you would have seen this game   but uh that's okay it's always good  to relive it e4 e5 and he plays into a   rue lopez now at this point the players  are playing a lot more of this e45 stuff   and karpov uh plays into a line in the rue lopez  in the mainline closed uh system known as zaitsev   system named after a gentleman whose last name is  bunny or rabbit i'm actually not sure which one   bishop to b7 there's a lot of ways in these  maneuvering positions that black can play   black can put the knight back on b8 knight to  a5 uh there's also rookie 8 and bishop f8 that   system as well but karpov is a big fan of this  and earlier in this match they actually featured   all of these moves like it's move 15 they've  already played all these moves we've actually   moved 12 but even up until move 15 which you know  is uh this position after c5 this had all been   seen before this is all theory they know about  all this but we have d5 pushing in the center   we have karpov rotating his knight back to  d7 with the idea to play a certain move but   first we have to address gary's move rook a3 this  beauty this absolute beauty the idea being that   in the future you want to post up in the center  with your other rook bro going down the middle   of the board or if you move your knight you want  to have access to g3 and laser beaming that pawn   on g7 to go attack the king well my friends f5  kasparov is uh sorry karpov is up to the task   he intends to sacrifice a pawn near his king to  target the d5 pawn now kasparov finishes his plan   carpo brings the knight back to f6 to put some  pressure on the e4 pawn and here kasparov plays   a strange move strange looking move to the  uninitiated that move his knight to h2 the idea   of this move first of all you open up the queen  second of all you open up the rook to go down   this way and third of all this knight is like on  a trampoline it's about to jump here and destroy   everybody keep an eye on the knight on h2 king  28 sliding the king out of the way a little bit   of drama unfolds on the queen side it's now karpov  looking to sacrifice his c pawn to destabilize the   center and then take on e4 then maybe take on d5  now kasparov just plays bishop to b2 because he   sees an opportunity to improve his bishop uh fe4  knight e4 knight takes d5 the rook is under attack   and so it moves and here rook to e6 the rook  is patrolling this patrolling this pawn and   ladies and gentlemen what did i tell you to keep  an eye on a few moves ago this knight comes to g4   and here carpool plays the move queen eight now if  you've seen my other video you know this dramatic   moment if you haven't seen that video the queen  is lined up with the rook it wants to laser beam   this rook so this knight cannot move now at  this point it is karpov who's up a pawn but   it is kasparov who has one two three four five six  seven pieces involved in what is about to unfold   as an absolute demolition derby on this king  on h8 there is an amazing video on youtube   uh about gary kasparov's next move i'm just going  to show you the introduction it is linked in the   description but ladies and gentlemen here gary  kasparov played the move knight takes h6 and here   are some of his thoughts about this move knight  takes h6 he so he did not see this move he didn't   i didn't calculate it i i knew that it should  it should won white's winning because it's   i have seven pieces in the attack two bishops  two knights two rooks and rooks it is attacked to   queen and so my friends we enter the final phase  of the rivalry between gary kasparov and anatoly   karpov knight takes h6 carpool plays the move c3  for a variety of reasons taking this knight would   lead to some wild complications after the move  knight takes d6 feel free to check out my video   uh called kasparov's calculations explained  it goes in depth analyzing that full video   uh but if you don't want to do that c3 well  if you don't want to do i mean if you don't   want to do that it's okay but i'm going  to show you what happens in the game c3   knight back to f5 c takes b2 but even though  you've lost this bishop kasparov still has this   bishop on b1 and so queen to g4 he activates the  queen and now he's got five maybe six pieces and   black's lost the key defender of the king with  queen h4 lurking bishop c8 that's exactly what   happens if the king goes to g8 in this position he  wants to go knight g5 and mate so first he would   play king to h2 so the rook would not be taken  with a check a king move would have set up a   deadly checkmating attack that's the kind of chess  that gary kasparov plays so instead of that we   got rook to h6 sacrificing the material back the  problem with this is that after king 2h2 queen e5   knight to g5 i mean it is still kasparov  threatening all sorts of mates you cannot take the   knight because you're pinned so we have this and  now the rook infiltrates and gary caspara finishes   this game off in style by sacrificing his queen  very temporarily to deliver a check to take the   bishop with check and now karpov has to sacrifice  his queen back here kasparov had a slightly   faster win but he picks up the queen he then  picks up the rook and the end game that he   gets he has a dominant material advantage and  it was on move 41 after taking this that carp   of resigned because after knight takes that  would have been this and gary kasparov would   have been in an end game up two rooks for two  pieces with two extra pawns by winning this game   gary kasparov took a two game lead in this match  and ladies and gentlemen he did not look back   karpov won the 23rd game but the 24th game was  drawn and it was 12 and a half 11 and a half   once again and the winner gary kasparov and so my  friends that concludes the epic saga between these   two now obviously there are still many years after  1990 this is being recorded april 7th at 12 45 a.m   in 2021 the players went on to do all sorts  of great things in fact they've played games   against each other after that rivalry but  it wasn't quite the same kasparov obviously   uh very you know uh anti uh soviet or i guess  now russian regime whereas karpov is still uh   an ambassador for russian chess and still very  loyal to russia of course he's a statesman if   that's a word uh and probably uh some more  accurate ways of describing all that but   this was simply to me the greatest rivalry of all  time and it wasn't even closed these two players   played 144 games against each other in during  this rivalry 21 wins for kasparov 19 losses and 104 draws what more to say i really hope you  enjoyed this video if you made it through   the entire thing thank you once again for  your continued support if there's anything   historical you want me to cover except for  telling me to get some sleep because i will   do that uh i'm about to finish this recording uh  the video file is 66 minutes long i'm gonna edit   it all down and we will get it uploaded  and uh i will see you in the next video

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Length: 39min 56sec (2396 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021