I would love to see a book full of pause the video moments from your channel with brief explanations for the solutions on the back of the page or at the back of the book. Love the content as always
Man if only we knew when this video came out that Antonio saying Hans is playing really good classical chess as of late was kinda a peek into the madness of the chess world today
Sac your pawns so you can check the opponent's king is the deepest idea I have ever seen. this magical game of chess still impress humans day after day!
The deepest move I've ever seen was in the Alpha Zero game where it sacrificed a bishop in the middle game for what appeared to be no compensation, yet it converted that into a win in the long run. It was insane
@@alexwells8923 No link unfortunately. I can't seem to find the game again, but it was one of the wins that AlphaZero had over Stockfish in that paper. If I find it, I'll report back here
This truly is an amazing game. One of those, when I really feel how magical the game I have fallen in love with is. Incredible stuff, good to see Fabi winning again
15:32 Do the king have to capture on E6? Can't he hide and then make it impossible for the rock to return and capture the knight with check or would that end in a perpetual ?
King doesn't have to capture the e6 pawn and can play Kd6 instead. But then you can march your own pawn forward and queen it in the next move. Black cannot avoid perpetual checks then. If black plays his King back to d8, you keep on checking him until he either captures the e6 pawn or leaves the file. When I saw the draw, I thought that he will talk about Kd6 variation as it looks cool.
@@ksasidhar @ksasidhar I just played it out on the board and I see now that if Kd6, E7, G3 then white can play Kxe2 stopping black from queeningany of his pawns with check
They want him to decide before they get the venue and the sponsors, because they are worried that if he pulls out in the last moment they can lose these sponsors.
@@harshvardhan283 "The last moment" doesnt mean a day before, you dummy, it means after the venue and sponsors have been signed, which can be even over half a year before.
It was a tough situation and the format put a lot of pressure on him. Rapport collapsing mentally and gifting the game to Ian most have been incredibly troubling. As a Fab fan for over 11 years it was mind blowing and sad to see this happen. We only get so many chances, fan and player alike. It's sad to see the only man I believe giving Magnus a real match isn't there and may not be again, let alone make it to the candidates. We cannot take it for granted. He is getting older and the younger guns are on the rise. I'm happy to see him win too. Sadly it's not at the most opportune time.
After 61 Ke3, Black did play Kxe6, but any other move would allow White to force a draw. Of course, Black would not make any moves to blunder the Queen but allowing White Kd2 or Kf2 with the pawn on the board protecting it with his rook draws!!
Hi agad, I was looking back at your old videos with a friend its hard to know when the game was played. Maybe include the date of the games even for the recent games? Thank you and i love watching your videos. Been watching you for 2 years now 😊
Fabi played like an absolute gangster. Sacrificing material readily, and that too on multiple occasions, in order to retain the initiative made the game absolutely beautiful.
Maybe you are right but both player will make a queen at same time but black have extra night and 2 connected pass pawn. He is the only one playing for win here. Also white has no pawn.
That ending is absolutely incredible! One has to wonder if chess was invented by men, or passed down to us by the Gods when you see things like this. Who could ever conceive of such things?
"...a deadline would be weird, cause they dont have the venue, the sponsors...". Lol that's exactly why a deadline wouldn't be weird... they got a lotta things to figure out, getting sponsors before knowing if Magnus is playing is pretty much scamming the dudes, not the same at all.
After white plays Knight c4 and black playing Queen c5 (position 4:47) it seems to me that a much better response is possible for white that may have been overlooked... a response that wins him two of black's pawns! It goes like this: white plays K c x e5 (a move that seems impossible at that moment cause that pawn is both attacked and defensed two times) and if black wants to respond to this he could only do it with his own K c x e5... now white plays Q x e6! - at the same time suddenly giving extra coverage to e5, where he now can take back the Knight.
I also don't agree on Antonio's analysis of the position they arrive at at 12:08, of which he says there's little to worry about... what about white at this moment playing Knight f7+, after which black can only respond with King d5 or c5 (whilst c6 would lose him his Queen by means of a fork from white's Knight of course).. white now can take the e5 pawn and gives check whilst he's at it!
And finally, I ALSO suspect, that white could come out of the theoretical end game, where we see Agmatador have him give up his two pawns and only still operating his Rook, whereas black has two pawns marching towards the end line and a Knight. After white would have moved his Rook to the proposed c8, he should leave it there for a moment and next move approach those two dangerous pawns in a somewhat roundabout manner, namely via g1. (A good place for white's Rook by the way would be f8, so that black's King can't come help the pawns, but I think he may have no time for that..)
Please, check a game that GM Supi played with white against "Silversik". A similar theme that he played against Carlsen, but with Queen and bichop sacrifice. Interesting blitz game. The title of the vídeo is "a mais violenta da história do canal". Second game.
King takes e2 knight, pawn to g2, rook to c1, pawn to h2, king to f2. This is as far as I went at first, but black ends up with a queen no matter how you slice it.
Tough Hans I do root for Hans I like his style of play and he’s a Great Chess player he gets a bad rap from a lot of people so to see him win to me means he’s overcoming controversy this game he was outplayed Goid Game Thanks for the Breakdown Analysis
Hans is very good but this game shows the gap between players close to 2700 and super gms. At last Fabi wont a game after a horrendous 2nd half of candidates.
12:15 but knight f7 check. Queen can follow the check by picking up a pawn and giving another check, or if the king hits the only white square, he'll be forked. GG
@@datbrnoob205 still a free pawn. Then just Queen a5 check, continue the harassment until you can pick up the c4 pawn. kn f7, b Kc7, Qe5, b KNd6, Qa5... if b Kc8 then you get a free knight with Qc5 check, b Qc7 block, Qd6 takes, b Qd6 exch, KNd6 takes. If b Kb8 then just Qb4 check. If b KN blocks on b5, just be weary of perpetual check and continue the favorable position, block the black queen's file with KNd6 and play on. Black would need to move his queen to b7, leaving the perpetual file, and his knight undefended. I think its playable but maybe I missed something clever along the way. Either way I'm a bit tired of writing hypotheticals since there are so many options lol.
Venue and sponsors for the world chess championship depend a lot on whether the champion is taking part or not. So I respectfully disagree with agadmator on this. Fide needs to know if he is taking part or not affirmatively to go ahead with the next steps
Rc8 was the only move sacrificing the white pawn, because it's the only move that can result in white not losing... Although, I'm not sure what'd be the better moves afterwards 🙈🤣🤧
Actually it makes sense to know if magnus is playing or not before getting to sponsors :) ... even sponsors would like to know...or might already be asking that #suggestion
Just wondering, at this level is it unusual to play out the queen and rook endgame for that long? i’m not clued in to all that stuff but given how early super gm’s resign endgames, is it still ‘sportsmanlike’ to try and play the rook and queen endgame when your opponent is also a 2700+ player?
I was wondering this too, but now that I'm looking at it again, I think the critical point is that if Kxh1, Qh4+, Kg2, then Nf4+ forks the king and queen... Though I'm still not seeing how that's better for black because after Nxg6, Rxg6, white has two knights and a rook for the queen. I would put the position on Lichess analysis board but it's too much of a hassle on my phone sorry
The line that agadmator says in all of his videos covering decisive games: And it was in this position on move __ that _____________ resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done.
He sometimes also says this in drawn games, "and it was in this position that both players decided to resign the game or rather they agreed to a draw".
Dude I love your channel and I'm a long time subscriber and I always will be. Just one comment here or constructive feedback (and I realize might be an idiot and be wrong, so I own that): please don't start capitalizing words on video titles like all other channels are doing for hyperbole purposes. I think I follow you precisely because you don't do all that BS. Thanks again for your videos :)
At this point of the game why cant the white rook go to d7? And then next move for white would be checkmate after black could get in one check, isnt that the way it would work?
Look, Magnus is a good person, and will not insult Ian by refusing. He's obviously concerned about losing a few steps, it's been evident this year, but he's Magnus and so NOT Fischer in that regard, and I truly believe is willing to suffer dethronement rather than simple reticence.
I realised Antonio didn't upload yesterday, so i figured he must have sacrificed yesterday's videos for some activity today
That's a " pause the video moment "👍
He actually needed a day off for haircut 😝
He sacrificed yesterday's videos for some action... from his woman 😃 🤣.
@@jowbloe4700 from Medo
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I would love to see a book full of pause the video moments from your channel with brief explanations for the solutions on the back of the page or at the back of the book. Love the content as always
#suggestion That'd be a great book!
And sell it for 1$, great idea bro lol
Man if only we knew when this video came out that Antonio saying Hans is playing really good classical chess as of late was kinda a peek into the madness of the chess world today
Excellent review of this intriguing end game. Antonio is the best at highlighting and explaining these complex positions. Thanks!!
Sac your pawns so you can check the opponent's king is the deepest idea I have ever seen. this magical game of chess still impress humans day after day!
Totally. Amazing idea
The deepest move I've ever seen was in the Alpha Zero game where it sacrificed a bishop in the middle game for what appeared to be no compensation, yet it converted that into a win in the long run. It was insane
@@harbhub what game was that? Have a link?
@@alexwells8923 No link unfortunately. I can't seem to find the game again, but it was one of the wins that AlphaZero had over Stockfish in that paper. If I find it, I'll report back here
@caveman Yes I believe it was Bg5. Do you know the game?
"Not going for the strongest move with the pawn to b4"
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A Very instructional end game. Thank you
i hope fabi does well in his next few events following the second half of candidates' collapse...
This truly is an amazing game. One of those, when I really feel how magical the game I have fallen in love with is. Incredible stuff, good to see Fabi winning again
The Evans gambit joke gets me every time 😂
15:32 Do the king have to capture on E6? Can't he hide and then make it impossible for the rock to return and capture the knight with check or would that end in a perpetual ?
King doesn't have to capture the e6 pawn and can play Kd6 instead. But then you can march your own pawn forward and queen it in the next move. Black cannot avoid perpetual checks then. If black plays his King back to d8, you keep on checking him until he either captures the e6 pawn or leaves the file.
When I saw the draw, I thought that he will talk about Kd6 variation as it looks cool.
@@ksasidhar @ksasidhar I just played it out on the board and I see now that if Kd6, E7, G3 then white can play Kxe2 stopping black from queeningany of his pawns with check
Definitely one of the best games you've ever covered! Good Job!
They want him to decide before they get the venue and the sponsors, because they are worried that if he pulls out in the last moment they can lose these sponsors.
Makes sense to me
Why would he pull at the last moment 😂😂😂, it will be extremely disrespectful for nepo and embarrassing for magnus himself
@@harshvardhan283 "The last moment" doesnt mean a day before, you dummy, it means after the venue and sponsors have been signed, which can be even over half a year before.
@@amjan ohh yes dummy I understand what last moment means, magnus knows this Mr. Genius
@@amjan you completely missed the point of my comment 😂😂😂😂
Cool stuff indeed. Antonio's talent as a communicator is also amazing.
So happy to see fabi winning!
He tried way too hard on the second half of the candidates.
It was a tough situation and the format put a lot of pressure on him. Rapport collapsing mentally and gifting the game to Ian most have been incredibly troubling. As a Fab fan for over 11 years it was mind blowing and sad to see this happen. We only get so many chances, fan and player alike. It's sad to see the only man I believe giving Magnus a real match isn't there and may not be again, let alone make it to the candidates. We cannot take it for granted. He is getting older and the younger guns are on the rise. I'm happy to see him win too. Sadly it's not at the most opportune time.
Spectacular! Niemann will remember this game for the rest of his life, I think...
Agamador I love it I just love it! You got a way with words, the amazing chess is one thing, and the masterful commentary is another.
After 61 Ke3, Black did play Kxe6, but any other move would allow White to force a draw. Of course, Black would not make any moves to blunder the Queen but allowing White Kd2 or Kf2 with the pawn on the board protecting it with his rook draws!!
Watching your videos is very inspiring indeed. Your unique style of commentaries is very interesting and thousand thanks for the same!
This is what happens when you miss the opportunity to go for the Evans gambit.
Thanks for the great content! I always enjoy watching and learning.
"...Queen and rook ending which you all know very well because you're amazing at chess"
proceeds to give detailed tutorial of queen and rook ending
Usually Agadmator says “this game will make your day” but it usually only makes my hour. This game, however, got different.
I am waiting for the elite players to go for Evan's Gambit just to see the happy face of the Agadmator.
Very interesting game. Thanks to Niemann for not resigning and let Caruana give a lesson about Queen vs rook endgame.
After a long time, finally Agad tells us to show a position to our friends in the bar and library
Germany has a professional darts league, a professional ping pong league, and a professional chess league. Insane!
This channel is unbeatable
Hi agad, I was looking back at your old videos with a friend its hard to know when the game was played. Maybe include the date of the games even for the recent games? Thank you and i love watching your videos. Been watching you for 2 years now 😊
Fabi played like an absolute gangster. Sacrificing material readily, and that too on multiple occasions, in order to retain the initiative made the game absolutely beautiful.
Awesome sacrifices all around. Love it
That feeling when u figure out a move correctly when he tells you to find out the only move 😃
Fabi just crushed stockfish or leela.
@15:30 when rc7 check instead of capturing the pawn the king goes to d6
Wont this still keep fabi winning?
This would let white be able to push their pawn and make a queen, and it would probably still be a draw, I think
Maybe you are right but both player will make a queen at same time but black have extra night and 2 connected pass pawn. He is the only one playing for win here. Also white has no pawn.
That ending is absolutely incredible! One has to wonder if chess was invented by men, or passed down to us by the Gods when you see things like this. Who could ever conceive of such things?
At 15:30 what if black plays …Kd8?
Beautiful game! Thank you for the excellent review 🙏
"...a deadline would be weird, cause they dont have the venue, the sponsors...". Lol that's exactly why a deadline wouldn't be weird... they got a lotta things to figure out, getting sponsors before knowing if Magnus is playing is pretty much scamming the dudes, not the same at all.
Rc8 is an amazing move
I found the best move, but for me it had no purpose, it was just blundering a pawn.
Looking clean with the fresh haircut Antonio 😎 I see you!
Why Fabi is mentioned as the most prepared GM. Especially whenever a candidate nears
After white plays Knight c4 and black playing Queen c5 (position 4:47) it seems to me that a much better response is possible for white that may have been overlooked... a response that wins him two of black's pawns! It goes like this: white plays K c x e5 (a move that seems impossible at that moment cause that pawn is both attacked and defensed two times) and if black wants to respond to this he could only do it with his own K c x e5... now white plays Q x e6! - at the same time suddenly giving extra coverage to e5, where he now can take back the Knight.
I also don't agree on Antonio's analysis of the position they arrive at at 12:08, of which he says there's little to worry about... what about white at this moment playing Knight f7+, after which black can only respond with King d5 or c5 (whilst c6 would lose him his Queen by means of a fork from white's Knight of course).. white now can take the e5 pawn and gives check whilst he's at it!
And finally, I ALSO suspect, that white could come out of the theoretical end game, where we see Agmatador have him give up his two pawns and only still operating his Rook, whereas black has two pawns marching towards the end line and a Knight. After white would have moved his Rook to the proposed c8, he should leave it there for a moment and next move approach those two dangerous pawns in a somewhat roundabout manner, namely via g1. (A good place for white's Rook by the way would be f8, so that black's King can't come help the pawns, but I think he may have no time for that..)
Please, check a game that GM Supi played with white against "Silversik". A similar theme that he played against Carlsen, but with Queen and bichop sacrifice. Interesting blitz game.
The title of the vídeo is "a mais violenta da história do canal". Second game.
Just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU Agadmator! You were the first, before any other channel.
What an exciting, tactical game. Great to see Fabi in good shape after a hard end to the candidates.
Antonio has that passive aggressive comment every time someone doesn't play b4.
at 15:05, why king captures knight would not be a draw? it looks like both pawns can be stopped
King takes e2 knight, pawn to g2, rook to c1, pawn to h2, king to f2. This is as far as I went at first, but black ends up with a queen no matter how you slice it.
Then pawn to h1 queen. Rook captures. G pawn to h1 queen. So it would be black queen against the white pawns, which can't really move.
#suggestion
12th round of the german Bundesliga
König Tegel - USV TU Dresden
Board 8
Dimitrijeski - Lutz
(my own Game :))
Every Hans comes up I hear "Han Smokey Niemann"
Tough Hans I do root for Hans I like his style of play and he’s a Great Chess player he gets a bad rap from a lot of people so to see him win to me means he’s overcoming controversy this game he was outplayed Goid Game Thanks for the Breakdown Analysis
Hans is very good but this game shows the gap between players close to 2700 and super gms. At last Fabi wont a game after a horrendous 2nd half of candidates.
Very nice Philidor's Defense game!
Cheers to Fabi🎯🥂
Wow! What a game. Simply beautiful. Thanks players and @agadmator for walking us through it :)
That's a great puzzle position.
Am amazed how fabiano is already participating in a new tournament ☠️☠️☠️☠️
sees the guiocco piano on the board
HES GONNA SAY IT
Excellent game and end game!
12:15 but knight f7 check. Queen can follow the check by picking up a pawn and giving another check, or if the king hits the only white square, he'll be forked. GG
Knight d6 to block the queen check
@@datbrnoob205 still a free pawn. Then just Queen a5 check, continue the harassment until you can pick up the c4 pawn.
kn f7, b Kc7, Qe5, b KNd6, Qa5... if b Kc8 then you get a free knight with Qc5 check, b Qc7 block, Qd6 takes, b Qd6 exch, KNd6 takes. If b Kb8 then just Qb4 check. If b KN blocks on b5, just be weary of perpetual check and continue the favorable position, block the black queen's file with KNd6 and play on. Black would need to move his queen to b7, leaving the perpetual file, and his knight undefended. I think its playable but maybe I missed something clever along the way. Either way I'm a bit tired of writing hypotheticals since there are so many options lol.
That b4 square should be renamed to agad1 to be honest
Interesting end game review. I spent some time with this one OTB.
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What a beautiful way to save the game Wow!
Hi, can you cover a game with the Marshall defense
I think it would really be interesting to see the Accuracy according to stockfish and does stockfish think its a brilliant move or not
I did find rook to c8 thank you very much, because I thought it was a brilliant checkmate.
This game is on up there with some of the best games ever played.
15:29 if the black king goes to d6 don't black have winning chances?
Fabi always serves a masterpiece 🔥
Venue and sponsors for the world chess championship depend a lot on whether the champion is taking part or not. So I respectfully disagree with agadmator on this. Fide needs to know if he is taking part or not affirmatively to go ahead with the next steps
Rc8 was the only move sacrificing the white pawn, because it's the only move that can result in white not losing... Although, I'm not sure what'd be the better moves afterwards 🙈🤣🤧
16:46 why not k×e2????
Actually it makes sense to know if magnus is playing or not before getting to sponsors :) ... even sponsors would like to know...or might already be asking that #suggestion
please use other photo for Caruana, the lighting in tis one is not optimal and he look strange
surprise fabi is playing this event figure he would take it off to clear his head
Just wondering, at this level is it unusual to play out the queen and rook endgame for that long? i’m not clued in to all that stuff but given how early super gm’s resign endgames, is it still ‘sportsmanlike’ to try and play the rook and queen endgame when your opponent is also a 2700+ player?
Niemann is a 2680. But yeah I don’t think it’s very common, especially amongst the top 20.
I was really bummed aged didn't bait us with saying niemann went for the Evan's gambit :/
i'm up like 400 elo in the past few months, mostly form watching these vids
Can anyone explain me the position on 10:10
I was wondering this too, but now that I'm looking at it again, I think the critical point is that if Kxh1, Qh4+, Kg2, then Nf4+ forks the king and queen... Though I'm still not seeing how that's better for black because after Nxg6, Rxg6, white has two knights and a rook for the queen. I would put the position on Lichess analysis board but it's too much of a hassle on my phone sorry
I guess having all those extra pawns in that position would be a decisive advantage for black
@@tuddgrimley8532 thanks
I missed Nf4+
Hans looks like a weatherman with his photo lol
Awesome :)
Dang, what a way to win for Fabi
at 21:54 cant you check the king with the rook anyway if queen takes its stalemate
The white king could go to G1 so it wouldn't be stalemate.
@@jeffreyprugpichailers7116 o yea i must be blind}
at 12:36 why didn't he take Rook with Rook instead of Queen?
360 club checking in
The line that agadmator says in all of his videos covering decisive games:
And it was in this position on move __ that _____________ resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done.
I thought is was 'hello everyone!'
He sometimes also says this in drawn games, "and it was in this position that both players decided to resign the game or rather they agreed to a draw".
Yes! He has great style and I love it when he says "Welcome to the good stuff" and "This is the good stuff"
Dude I love your channel and I'm a long time subscriber and I always will be. Just one comment here or constructive feedback (and I realize might be an idiot and be wrong, so I own that): please don't start capitalizing words on video titles like all other channels are doing for hyperbole purposes. I think I follow you precisely because you don't do all that BS. Thanks again for your videos :)
I hope you will follow few games from the NFL blitz event starting tomorrow.
Why is the quality unavailabe? :o
What a game! Thanks agadmator (Antonio) as always for bringing this to us.
Antonio's hair is Very Nice 👌
At this point of the game why cant the white rook go to d7? And then next move for white would be checkmate after black could get in one check, isnt that the way it would work?
At which time is the position you are talking about? Pause the video moment? Then king can just take pawn on e7 after check
what timestamp?
@@maskie4189 At the pause the video moment. After rook d7, can black stop it moving to d8 for checkmate?
@@czgibson3086 rd8 isn't checkmate though, the king takes the e7 pawn and nothing happens.
@@maskie4189 My foolishness is endless. Thank you!
Who is Hans hair stylist?? I need a new one and that looks pretty fire to me.
Good stuff!
I wonder how many of the new subscribers he tricked to learn the Evans gambit.
But at the 15:29 Pause The Video! moment, what if black king doesn't capture 2nd pawn? Then white no longer can draw.
Look, Magnus is a good person, and will not insult Ian by refusing. He's obviously concerned about losing a few steps, it's been evident this year, but he's Magnus and so NOT Fischer in that regard, and I truly believe is willing to suffer dethronement rather than simple reticence.
12:09 Nf7 and captures e5 pawn with check! - draw!
On the previous move black should have played …Kd8.
nah, the king escapes easily on c7
After watching many incredible games from The Candidates, I thought there would be a letdown of great battles for a while. WRONG
"Without error, there can be no blunder."
- I forgot who.
U fogor 💀💀