Top 10 WORST Blunders By Chess Grandmasters

ladies and gentlemen welcome to this video that i hope is going to inspire you to be the best chess version of yourself today we are going to be taking a look at the 10 worst blunders in chess history almost all of which were played by some of the greatest grandmasters who ever lived so if they're capable of hanging pieces or checkmates at the highest level you should be absolutely okay sitting on the toilet and blundering pieces of your own and before we jump into the games i just want you to say hello to my newest art piece that i've added to the room it's a sculpture that weighs like 30 pounds and it's called coffee cup money this cup is so iconic to new york city diners it's so chaotic it's so fun and i figured it fit my personality so i decided to get it also now that i'm reviewing it live on stream it's tax deductible so love you irs i don't exactly remember how it looked but let's get into the games our first horrible blunder is set in havana cuba in 1892 our two protagonists are mikhail chigorin and wilhelm steinitz two of the best players in the 19th century absolute pioneers of the world championship throne and we're actually there for the 23rd game of the world championship match uh between these two players now after a king's gambit which is how you know it's 19th century chess the king's gambit is played after e45 f4 and constantly paved knight f6 e5 knight h5 is actually a very trendy modern main line uh nowadays white likes to take the center and basically black hangs on to this pawn by virtue of the fact that g4 is met with amposant otherwise the knight would just be trapped which by the way probably made ambassador even like a rule people got tired of getting their pieces trapped like this they were like you know what no i want i want to implement on poisson so after an opening where black does begin to fight back for the middle we have some uh exchanges white decides to give away the center pawn on e5 to take the knight on h5 and potentially open up the position uh with the double dage pawns taking on e5 queen trade but black uh decides not to take with the bishop and rather what comes in with the knight to maybe go to d4 maybe come into c2 not right away but in the future because all the pieces are on the back rank bishop f4 bishop f5 and materially speaking uh it's equal but black is better because black has a bit bigger target here and obviously white's pieces are slightly lagging in development although obviously the double pawns are not very pretty anyway that's not why we're here we're here to see the blunder so let's keep moving rookie eight here comes one black rook white throws the knight forward the bishop has to retreat out of danger white throws the second knight forward now we see the difference in the quality of the knights right they're not on d1 and e1 they're on g5 d5 doing stuff now black plays bishop takes e5 taking the pawn we have another trade here and now rook c8 at this point it seems like white kind of has figured out their position but black does maintain an initiative by virtue of how active the pieces are the rooks are really strong the bishop covers all entrance points here and after knight to d4 the initiative now immediately turns over to black king f2 and now actually steinitz utilizes his potential weakness as a deflection to get the bishop off the diagonal because then you know he's going to win important squares over here white decides not to take instead moves his bishop to d6 the knight jumps back to d4 that's actually crazy look at that c takes d4 allows check here and here steinitz is all in but he he actually doesn't realize the fact that even though he wins the pawn black i mean black's attack is gone i mean i i don't exactly know what happened here but it's 1892. okay chess was insane back then the guy just gave up at night for no reason uh and now he's like well i still have an attack uh i'm gonna somehow get my bishop over here and i'm gonna win the game okay so king g7 rookie eight in comes to gordon threatening made of his own bishop f8 now bishop h6 that's just gonna be checkmate i mean that's that's it the game is over if he gets bishop f8 and bishop h6 so f5 trying to get the king a little bit of breathing room it's completely lost here it is over all right all he has to do is play check force the king to the back rank i mean i don't know play knight e6 now move back the bishop forever stop mate push the pawn like black has no counter play at all but he plays knight to e6 rookie seven so he kind of tangles his pieces and now the bishop is kind of defending two things at the same time so we have rookie two d5 this little cl clump here is not so clear what's happening here now we have rook to d2 and in this position mikhail chigorin was like you know what i don't really want to lose this rook um sorry i don't want to lose this pawn sorry that's that's a pawn that's not a rook all right you clicked on this video i'm supposed to have some chest knowledge that's upon it he's like i i don't really want to lose this pawn but i don't have much else that i can do so what i'm going to do is i'm going to force this to get taken and then i have a little tactical trick bishop to b4 so that if he takes my pawn i have this very tricky fork and then it takes i take with check or i take with check and then i win both rooks back i'm so smart boom boom boom but bishop to b4 folks that bishop used to guard this this guy blundered maton 2 one of the greatest players of the 19th century blundered mate and resigned after rook takes h2 because after king g1 has just made one of the classical double rook on the second ranked mates in the world especially when the king is castled because the king's own rook boxes it in otherwise the king would be able to run this dude straight up in a dead one position went full guess the elo that's the first known episode of guess the elo right here it's dude hung mate and too that's how you know this is going to be a good video let's go to the second game we're going to fast forward now to 2015 and this is in berlin germany this is the world blitz championship we have magnus carlsen already the world champion and vasily whose name is actually now vasil at the time of this game uh it's vasili uh he officially changed it i think a few years ago uh but that's neither here nor there there's also a very funny clip of this game very complex posit uh position opposite side castling uh and here magnus plays the move knight e4 trying to trade the bishop yvonne shook plays bishop d4 attacking the queen now we have queen d2 queen a2 queen f4 it's crazy that evan chuck is just hanging out here with the queen and taking pawns which could potentially just open lines to his own king but he doesn't believe in magnus's attack magnus's bishop is completely stuck here it's not really doing too much and magnus plays b4 now it's gonna get spicy all right very spicy i'm talking like third to last hot sauce on hot ones spicy b4 black plays bishop e5 attacking the queen and obviously the players don't repeat moves here yvonne should play c4 keeping the b file closed such an instructive move otherwise bc5 occurs so you play c4 knight c3 queen a6 now we have queen d2 rook c8 i mean at some point the position has to open up it's coming don't worry play z3 and magnus seems to be building something up on that queen side but not so fast because ivan shook here plays this move and now you know this structure is not going to survive too long this bishop is in here the queen pressures bishop pressures rook pressures and this rook is coming one more pawn move and white's entire position is going to fall apart so magnus says me take pawn on h file that is the most disrespectful move i've ever seen in my life he's like i'm gonna create an attack on the queen side you're gonna create an attack on my king i'm just gonna take a free pawn i'll give it i don't give a damn magnus carlsen who are you yvonne all right pog boom boom someone's gonna lose in the next few moves pawn takes f4 bishop f4 queen slides back ivan chuk says open up i'm knocking on that door so magnus plays f takes g3 tries to call the bluff yo watch this move rook to f1 now in this position white should sacrifice the queen because after bishop f1 and rook f1 it ain't pretty but you're gonna survive but it's really tough to do that in blitz in blitz magnus went rook f1 that's not a problem queen f2 is coming in i'm gonna keep my queen around here and stop it and hear evanchuk damn near fell out of his chair because there's queen to g1 which magnus just overlooked i highly recommend you go look at this clip on youtube it's really really funny um yvonne chuck like picks up this queen and just plops it down here and then magnus resigns because it's maintenance ii it's maintenance ii with queen g3 or rook g3 and there's many uh did i say mate into well it's made in two including this move so mate into queen g1 and then queen g3 or roo g3 from here it's made in one there's also mate and two here you know but um yeah magnus carlsen in a blitz scramble hangs a checkmate hangs a long queen move and then proceeds to storm out of his chair uh and uh yeah there's a couple of highlights from that tournament i highly recommend you go check it out let's go to the third game this one is also a favorite on youtube it is the game between vichy anand and gary kasparov one of many many battles um the this one we also can pick up around move 20 in the middle game uh gary has created a very powerful initiative uh with his kingside pawns without actually uh castling his king he did this in many different sicilians when he played against anand uh and uh well i mean now he has to convert it the problem is his position is a little bit double-edged just a little bit and there's enough risk in the position although he's got some knight hanging out on a3 constantly pressuring on on c2 um and of course you know geneva switzerland 1996. i don't have to preface it it's all there uh wrap it in blitz event now queen a5 also a clip of this game you can go find it h4 gary is coming in with h3 g3 i mean he's right there and um i mean he's he's on the verge of just completely blowing apart white's position he transfers his knight into this nasty post on c3 from where the knight is hit the rook is hit the pawn is hit this hits this hits and meanwhile the king cannot escape um i featured the game in another video where gary ended up getting his queen to a8 and damn near checkmating on g2 uh yeah gary was like the master of these sorts of positions so knight d3 rook c1 now gary's like all right i'm gonna take this pawn it's a free pawn i'm gonna take it knight takes e4 f5 i'm gonna keep the e file closed so that anant can't create counter play anan just tries to open up something because his position is not very good he's got to create some sort of complications so he goes knight f5 and he's still down uh two pawns he's two pawns down clean two pawns he's not gonna resign obviously because there's enough play left in the position that he you know he can uh maybe create some chances just maybe there is something that gary might mess up so what does gary do brings both his pieces he's gonna take on e3 he's gonna trade queens he's gonna trade knight for bishop he's gonna be up two pawns in an end game anand is not going to get that counter play that i mentioned earlier and anand is going to resign that's a pretty good game plan rook 2e1 now here black has a lot of moves uh black can take on e3 with that knight knight e3 queen e3 queen e3 rookie 3 castle something even f5 by the way because if the rook takes then this rook takes this pawn and now once black gets in it's just over i mean black is so defended here um and white's position is just totally dead black can play f5 and f4 now black can also castle f5 or take um and now you might be wondering well what's the difference between taking on e3 with the knight or the queen and clearly because parv also was thinking that it really doesn't matter it's the same trade right because the queen's gonna take so he played queen e3 and then his eyes became the size of like grapefruits like there's a really funny clip because as it turns out queen e3 loses because here there is the blunder heard around the world queen takes g4 now the queen is hanging the rook is hanging and the bishop is hanging and in one move after 33 moves of 32 moves of greatness the 33rd move that black play lost in the game it's still not over but it's quickly gonna get out of hand kasparov now has to castle and sack his queen to have a bishop and a rook for it queen takes h3 both pawns are gone queen comes into d7 and starts beating up everybody the queen is pissed off y'all she is pissed off just beat everybody up all right a5 you gotta save some of the pawns king g2 just making sure there's no weaknesses on the king knight b2 knight c4 and the thing is you're gonna have to move one of those pawns and the problem is that black is paralyzed black has two pieces that just can't play right now so d5 knight d6 and anand is not going to look back he hides his king on the edge of the board because it's safe there and the queen is still pissed yo she's still going for that king king h7 knight f7 you have to take it otherwise knight g5 or even knight e5 this king is completely safe now that gary is down a rook and a he's down a knight and a bishop for a queen he's gary kasparov but uh you know he ain't gonna win down a queen even though white's king is looking a little perilous completely safe completely safe and um anan goes on to win on the same square on g4 where he actually won the game originally with queen takes g4 so a massive blunder absolutely massive blunder just forgetting that the queen stops guarding g4 that's a concept that i like to introduce to viewers as continuity when you make a move you have to remember what's attacking and what's defending the square dare i say i am not i am not coaching kasparov that's not what i'm doing but we all have these oversights so let's go to the fourth game back into the historical archives for this one it's tigran petraecian the original not peepee uh versus uh david bronstein and uh this is a match-up i mean obviously by the way the the the flags are interesting because uh i'm pretty sure petraecian uh played under they both played under the soviet union kind of jurisdiction if you will on um but uh yeah patrician is you know known for making chess massive in armenia and he is armenian um and uh brunshtain is i believe even jewish so his family is from there but anyhow you know flags have to be the flags anyway 1956 candidates uh looking to play the world championship match white has a really good position petrician was known for his defensive abilities and his positional skills and he plays the move knight d2 he moves the knight out of the way so that brunch stain uh his knight has no nothing to trade for and it's gonna get kicked out and then he's going to continue to dominate the center squares and then he will make progress into the position okay as promised and now black wants to create counter play with b5 so naturally you want to play the move a4 okay h5 i mean you might as well right so he plays h5 massive risk taking and petr cian is like look bro i could do it too i mean we're we're way ahead of our time super gm's love to do this in 2021 but they were doing it in 1956 um so uh in the netherlands by the way f5 might as well just try to keep going forward every pawn move you make you're making damage to your position though these two squares are now terrible so white plants the knight on d5 king to h7 b3 knight f3 i mean everything is coming forward positionally speaking borderline just dead lost position for uh for black as white just utilizes the the weaknesses that black has created i mean what is this i mean it's adorable that the king and queen just choose to give each other a hug on move 22 but that is not the way the chess pieces are supposed to be organized e4 takes knight goes back to d2 sacrificing a pawn temporarily the knight is coming back now what started happening at this point of the game is that black was also running really low on time and back then i'm pretty sure they didn't have bonus time they didn't have bonus time and they didn't have like delay i mean if you ran out of time you ran out of time or you know the game was adjourned but we're not at that point there so uh as the story goes was walking around a lot he was coming back to the board he's like yo my dude your position sucks bro like resign i'm late to my smoke break i don't even know what that means but so he just kept coming back and slowly slowly slowly putting the pressure i mean literally you're about to watch black just make a bunch of nothing moves as white expands on the queen side making progress um knight f5 there's nothing that black can do rogue d1 like look i mean like the knight is just dancing i mean he can't move this knight can't move anywhere it can't move anywhere and if rook 2 a8 i mean great and then that's it you're not not going to move anywhere else knight d4 knight c6 i mean he's just not moving he's literally just moving his knight back and forth he has no moves and here petrarcian was like all right it's time to go in time to go in queen d6 you know maybe i'll play queen c7 um maybe c5 c6 bc you know rook b whatever okay knight g5 i don't know knight g5 knight e6 and so here bran stein was like well i mean i'm going to kick your queen out knight five and petracian came back to the board and played this move and he hung his queen in one move and resigned yeah i got nothing else to say about this game let's go to the next one our fifth example will be familiar to some of you if you've been following my recent content um uh this is uh levon ranyan from armenia youngstav duda from poland and we have a french defense uh if i'm covering the opening you know it might be a short game so d4 d5 a win hour so a classical french with knight c3 supporting the center black develops the bishop to b4 to try to you know undermine it very dynamic play now begins white locks the center black continues to attack it and is fully invested in giving up this bishop and damaging the structure the problem with giving up the bishop is that queen to g4 comes and g7 is very difficult to defend however due to dynamic play black is actually completely uninterested in guarding the g7 pawn at all this is known as theory and here black sacrifices these two pawns two pawns while the night guards the rook the open file exists and black is quick with counter play on white structure that is the way this works from a theoretical standpoint very interesting stuff super complicated uh now white plays the move knight to e2 preventing queen to c3 with check and queen to e5 with check now black needs to be precise so he plays knight c6 white plays f4 making sure it's impossible to take on e5 d takes c3 queen d3 all seen before all of this has been seen before and you're not really supposed to take this pawn as far as i remember theoretically speaking you either wait a little bit to take this pawn you wait for black to commit a certain development pattern it's very common that white just pauses everything in place h4 and maybe even h5 and maybe even h6 because at a certain point even though black can castle this way black is gonna have to defend the pawn like black can't just let the pawn go the whole way so even something like this is not completely farfetched it's actually not white uses the pawns as a shield for their own position and just pushes the pawn but you have to be very very careful when you take on d4 because what can happen is something like this and your queen is sort of stranded out in the open and black can castle create threats against it can create threats against it and you haven't developed quickly enough so queen d6 he tries to trade queens and dude is like no no no no no your queen is a problem no queen trade queen no queen trade ragnan here was like if i develop my bishop i'm going to lose my pawn if i move my rook to then develop my bishop i'm still going to lose my pawn now if i play bishop to e3 well then knight to f5 that's pretty unpleasant as well so i have an idea i'm going to develop my bishop out this way and create this threat and maybe if knight f5 i'll play bishop a3 rook d1 i'll attack the queen it's going to be great so black played knight f5 and arenan continued his plan after 5 minutes and 43 seconds of calculation potentially analyzing a5 queen c3 rook c8 you know analyzing this different stuff and he hung mate hung made in one the bishop on a3 used to protect that square he got mated and as far as i know it was not a mouse slip i said this in the video of the recap of the game this is one of the engine moves in this position to play rook c3 and i mean maybe he clicked the wrong piece before he clicked the square i don't know i didn't ask him but he never recorded that so yeah pretty crazy let's go to the next one the blunder heard around the world 1972 game number one between boris spassky and robert james fisher aka bobby fisher this was a crazy world championship i highly recommend taking a look at my video i made a video about this match um yeah absolutely wild stuff and uh i'm just mildly distracted with something that just popped up on twitter in the middle of recording anyhow let's get into this game now we're not going to analyze the whole thing uh what we should analyze is from around the 20th move right around here why because it's a completely equal game two pawns two pawns four pawns four pawns and the same pieces knight bishop dark squared bishop each you plug this into an engine it doesn't even give you an evaluation it says why are you still playing stupid just offer a draw now you can play on and the way you would win this is to plant your pieces on more active squares uh repel your opponent's forces by virtue of your pawn structure bring your king at some point let's let them play it king f1 king f8 yep knight to e4 um and they trade rooks now bobby plays f6 knight d6 and his idea is he he could be looking to get in here potentially right but the truth is that white is just more active here so after something like hear take take it it's just i mean it's just a draw right so spasky plays b5 and you would say wait a minute well that can't be taken but that can that is a free pawn on h2 um yes but it's it can't be taken because after bishop takes h2 white plays g3 and this bishop is stuck um there is actually no way to rescue it um if you play this is a very standard thing if you ever run away like this with a bishop you have to understand that after something like bishop g1 there was always this move and then king f1 kh2 a king g2 so if you're gonna do this you need to rescue your bishop with a flank pawn so something like h5 h4 and now you see the problem if takes beautiful you get out so right now it doesn't work you can't do that so bobby did it he played bishop takes h2 which is nuts it was completely nuts the whole world was like g3 king e2 king f3 his bishop is completely trapped after tay after something like hg3 fg3 i mean that's literally it his bishop was completely trapped i mean maybe he thought he was escaping and just forgot about this i don't know but as the game goes on the bishop has won and it's still still a a tough end game to win but when one guy has a bishop and the other guy does not it makes the end game significantly more winnable so what spassky needs to do is uh make black run out of moves you see a guy with a king in pawns is gonna have to at some point give your king the right of way like exactly like this and the king shoulders you away you win his pawns and all you need to do is remain with one pawn that's not an a pawn because if the color of the promotion square is not the same as your bishop with a flank pun it's a draw but in this position robert james fisher resigned now if you know anything about this match that was the only game that went this way i think he may have lost one more game but he he won a lot of games and he won the world championship so this clearly woke him up but wow bishop takes h2 in a completely symmetrical bishop and six ponzi chen game it's pretty crazy that that happens but compared to some of the other stuff in this video it's really not not so nuts all right next one this one might be the shortest one of the entire video we're in the netherlands it's 1993 it's anatoly karpov with the black pieces one of the best players of all time and larry christensen one of the greatest american players of all time super aggressive playing style awesome player and we have a queen's indian karpov's favorite we have a3 so a3 prevents the bishop from coming to before it's an interesting variation a little bit tricky to play with uh with the black pieces bishop a6 so karpov immediately goes for this making white commits something either the pawn the knight the queen something so he plays queen c2 black plays back to b7 arguing that the queen is a little bit better placed behind this pawn white plays knight c3 and is ready to play e4 so karpov strikes in the center and then takes on d4 and plays knight to c6 um i think knight c6 is a sly i think i think this whole structure for black might be slightly inaccurate i think they play bishop c5 nowadays but knight c6 uh this is really the problem is that if you take with the d-pawn structure symmetrical bishop sucks so takes and christensen here can develop his bishop can attack the knight or can develop this bishop on the dark square diagonal carp of here plays knight h5 and attacks the bishop bishop goes here now what black has to do here is figure out how he's going to develop because if he puts the bishop on c5 that's maybe not bad and actually structurally speaking this is also completely fine uh or he can develop to e7 which is just a little bit more passive and i think white will just get a comfortable position by kicking this night out and then kicking it out again however he can also develop his bishop to d6 with the idea that after something like bishop tv2 he's going to go knight f4 so karpov on move 11 played bishop d6 and probably anticipated that christensen would be playing g3 to prevent knight 2f4 but after bishop d6 white wins the game with queen d1 and there are two hanging pieces and anatoly karpov resigned after only making 11 moves probably the worst loss of karpov's career and he did not lose many games to people not named gary kasparov because they played probably over 100 games against each other well over 100 games yeah 11 moves 12 moves crazy it's 1987 and it is the world championship match between karpov who we just saw and kasparov who we saw earlier a wild game a really really wild game uh this is kasparov getting karpov into the territory he likes which is just chaos uh this king is on h3 for reasons unknown um defending the pawns uh uh kasparov has the two on one the very famous two on one in the grunfeld defense this was a grunfeld and both sides are about to have very weak kings so queen to e6 obviously also low time because it's the late it's a 30 to 40th move so time is low uh this pawn is under fire uh we have king h2 so he's he's kind of giving this up um now b takes a four so because he's giving this up because if queen takes g4 then the queen side falls apart and kasparov obviously didn't like that so he decided to take on a4 and now rook b4 so karpov gives up the a pawn to go for the knight on c4 but that allows knight d2 which is very scary because if you take this you get skewered and if you trade queens to get out of the skewer now this pawn just starts going but knight d2 but both these players were unbelievably good at calculation rook a4 knight f1 king back to h3 and kasparov plays rook to d1 rook to d1 that's nuts like this dude is pulling up in this position um bishop f4 gives the king a little bit of breathing room but rook d1 karpov plays queen c2 just trying to hit that rook a little bit uh and he's always got queen a2 queen c4 ideas still to trap uh to trade the queen but this is this is under fire so what what what is kasparov gonna do attacks the queen queen slides over and now he plays the absolutely gangster move h5 like everything in kasparov's position defends each other it's absolutely unbelievable look at this he says this king is normal i mean it's it's he's so close to winning and then karfa plays bishop e1 disconnecting stuff and causing the wires to begin short-circuiting oh my god what do you play so he plays queen d7 he backs up and hits the rook where's the rook going queen is going to a6 the queen goes to a6 to defend the rook and create a threat which gary kasparov didn't see gary kasparov saw this and played rook two a one which is a crazy looking move the idea of rook two a one is that if you you you can take this but then mate is threatened obviously kasparov's time was low right mate is threatened on g4 rook a1 threatens all sorts of crazy stuff hg4 rook g4 and this but kasparov forgot about his king and karpov played queen takes g6 and gary kasparov resigned because now this is protected and this is not you will win the rook and you will not be mated sometimes in positions of total head spinning complications you do absolutely ludicrous things because you're just looking at one to two move combos before your flag falls before you lose on time and you play moves like rook to a1 and your opponent glides the queen across and you just look at it like what have i done and then something probably gets thrown let's go let's keep moving it's the world championship match the rematch between magnus carlson and vichy anand were in sochi russia 2014 and after a sicilian khan the morocci bind i always say that wrong so please forgive me we get an end game the queens are traded early and then we have this structure so white has the ugliest pawn structure ever invented but black has dark squared problems because black has like all this liability over here right so king c7 and magnus decides to play h4h5 he's actually also a little bit maybe ahead of his time uh brings the rook into the game and it's really difficult to decide with black what do you do because if you play h6 great you play h6 but you freeze your own structure a bit if you don't play h6 then i'm gonna play h6 and you're gonna have you're gonna have to go here you can't let me in and now my pawn will lift here forever so i'm gonna try to get to h7 in the future so black does do this and magnus is just going to try uh to create some play down the middle line but anand was right there with him okay so rook to g3 rook g8 knight f8 nice and solid position he's like bring it how are you gonna gr how are you gonna get through me okay bishop e3 magnus is like i'll figure it out hg knight takes rook h5 all right defending this pressure on h6 bishop c6 now why doesn't magnus just go here because the rook needs to guard this pawn so for example knight e5 and now black is actually just in time with some counter play you can't take on h6 with the bishop because uh there's some tactics here maybe even just 95 straight away rookie 5 ruchi iii fg3 and black is playing this for a win if not just completely winning because white again has a very stupid pawn structure so you can't take yet so magnus is like all right that's not a problem i know i can't take root g4 i'm going to keep slowly improving my position bishop d1 rook d a bishop c2 just pop kingdom seems like i can't you know do anything with my bishop king d2 magnus carlson plays king to d2 with the intention of bringing the king over maybe f3 blocking out the bishop and slowly slowly slowly picking this pawn up and king d2 loses the game king d2 loses the game because the king should not just boldly walk like this when there are bishops knights rooks 92 sorry king d2 loses tonight takes e5 a move that looks impossible because you're not going to take the knight because you're going to lose your rook you're gonna take the rook first and then take the knight but you've walked your king where there is a switch and so in between move boom you've now downloaded two pawns if king e2 i take back you're just you're dead and then i take on g2 you're dead and if you go like this i check you that might have been what was missed the fact that the knight can jump behind the pieces check the king one more time and now take so king to d2 but for the first time in the video the opponent misses the response a double blunder in the world championship a slow game they both had tons of time and they both missed it and now magnus scurries over to e2 hides the king on e1 and is just dominating and vichy who didn't know what to do ended up also walking this pawn to a3 and that can also be a liability in the end game because white has the dark squared bishop so magnus goes and attacks the pawn right keeps the pieces and finally sacrifices away the bishop for the knight not sacrifices starts picking up the pawns that's three turns three pawns four pawns are about to fall four pawns with h6 and b6 and before we can even get to that point uh vichy resigns absolutely insane blunder this was i remember sitting there like what they both missed it but it's not as good as the last one our tenth and final game is in germany in 2006 d fritz versus vladimir kramnik who dethroned gary kasparov as world champion he was world champion himself for many years and a pioneer of many many modern opening ideas uh and this is their first game so he's getting settled he had played a queen's gambit uh accepted actually very early and played a very intriguing line with b4 like i mean you know trying trying to neutralize the computer with an opening that potentially wouldn't be expecting and the position uh that we saw when we started was right here when black just plays the move rook to c8 to defend this pawn in these kinds of structures if black can play c5 black is going to be completely fine if black can actually play it what white can do is create an attack on the king utilizing the central space advantage but now that white has traded off the light square bishop that bishop is always very useful to attack h7 that bishop is gone so black is probably without any problems so black plays c5 now the engine's gonna have to figure out some sort of plan here right so what does it do it goes to try to attack on the king side i'm not stupid all right i know a thing or two about chess right that's what the engine's trying to do meanwhile it's giving up its a4 pawn engines are really good at just being like yeah yeah yeah take that i don't care i don't take it it's fine so queen takes a four now knight c5 takes take take on e3 and now we have this so clearly kramnik not scared of f7 bishop c5 now he could have also played rook f8 but he's like i don't care i've calculated correctly my king is absolutely safe on h8 he's not wrong because this knight is never getting to g6 and by the way even if it is then king g7 so if the knight somehow finds a way to get to h5 and actually create a checkmate thread that would be a miracle because that's a lot of turns so queen comes back to f3 and black is fine here black is a totally good position rook f8 queen e4 and again don't forget it's the first mat it's the first game of the match so even though black might be better um black is actually completely fine with the draw the human is completely fine drawing the first game with black from the stronger side right so rook fd1 um was it the first or the second game it might be the second game actually this whole time i've been saying it's the first game it's early in the match it's early in the match anyway rook d1 queen f7 kramnik is creating the play on the king side and has the two on one all end games are good for black because of the better structures queen upset queen asap rook f8 rook of he's like yo the engine's trading pieces with me now here black can take this night this is a very important moment black can take this knight and try to torture the engine in a queen and rook end game by the way even in a rook end game if you want although obviously the more pieces you trade higher chance you can make a draw right so kramnik decides no no no i'm all in i'm vladimir kramnik and i can give up this e6 pawn and i don't really care because i'm going to take a check and then i'm going to get this rook now the problem here is that uh you're obviously allowing this to be taken and your king is left alone at the mercy of the queen of the night so you have to make sure that you safeguard your king right so something like king g8 attacks the knight kicks it out uh a3 obviously you can't play um because there's all sorts of threads on your king but what kramnik played here was this move any hung mate in one he hung mate in one so i hope you made it this far in the video folks and truthfully if they can blend her like that and i can blend her like that then it's okay that you blender like that as well it's really a fascinating journey that we're all on here um on these 64 squares and you know sometimes it's painful sometimes we we feel the greatest bit of happiness uh but we're all in this together let's make our mistakes together uh and let's gain that sweet sweet elo together peace out i'll see you in the next video get out of here

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Length: 38min 19sec (2299 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 05 2021