Agadmator is so unintentionally funny, from his slow mo moves to how he casually shuns certain moves and just scoffs at how badly you'd get destroyed if you played them. Absolutely love this guy and watching his vids invigorate my love of chess.
I've noticed that the world's top ten or twenty players can push the pawns defending their king, leaving their king defenseless, and amazingly they can get away with it. They are the only ones who can.
I think they're very good at calculating whether their attack is fast enough to survive the weaknesses they've created, and that's the main reason the top 20 players are able to get away with it more often than their lower-rated compatriots.
@@21abhinavpatel Well put! That's true too of many other elements of their strategy. As you say, they calculate precisely how many moves it will take for the attack to succeed, and whether their opponent can overcome their defense in fewer moves than that. The rest of us can't make such a sophisticated calculation. I've lost many games because I overestimated by a move or two the speed of my attack or the slowness of my opponent's attack.
@@21abhinavpatel Exactly. Everytime I try to replicate their strats I get insta checkmated because my king is defended by one pawn against 2 knights, a bishop, a rook, 3 pawns and a queen.
Funny you said this on a video where someone got punished for pushing their pawns in front of the king? But yeah, he's not top-20 so maybe that's what you meant? You can see Gukesh pawns in front of his king is still unmoved.
No doubts the queen sac is amazing... But the poor knight on g5 also deserves a bit of a mention.! What a game by Gukesh...all the Indian youngsters are playing spectacular chess and entertaining us..happy that someone suggested this game to Antonio.
I really liked the way you recapped the moves again at the end starting at around 9:10. I'm a relative beginner so maybe lots of your other viewers don't benefit from that, but for me, watching the moves again now knowing how the game ended really helps me understand why they're so powerful. With the context it's even more enjoyable watching those moves a second time.
I don't think Pakistan ever had a GM. But Bangladesh on the other hand have few GMs and they are good, fought well at chess olympiad recently. Good luck to them both!
I am completely new to Chess and I have been watching your videos for a while now, but I have learned a few things that I see in almost every chess game. Always keep your king behind pawns, never get a check from a knight as you can’t block it with anything, don’t let the opponent’s pawn cross midline, avoid the opponent’s two knights attacking together, and have some space for the king to move.
Antonio, you do an amazing job choosing nice games for us. First a queen side castle into a fork, and now this!! I can't believe how a hundred's of years old game still yields jaw dropping moments in 2022 on a regular basis.
@@mridgaf3233 yea but still that guy played horribly exposing his king to the bishops and queen like that. like sure u attack but u gotta defend ur most important piece as well
It is not explicitly mentioned at 8:10, but QxB2 by black would have resulted in R to H7 checkmate by white, that is why the queen is just completely immobilized and helpless
Thank you for the advice. I would have played the knight to c6 with black, called it the 4 knights variation confident it was the best move in the position
lol yeh me too I sometimes sac my Queen then immediately resign because the forced checkmate I have seen 10 moves in advance will be too embarrassing for my opponent.
Anyone else notice the board flickering a bit in this video? Thought my monitor was breaking or something but it stopped when I paused the video. Around 4:00-4:30 is where I really started to notice it.
Amazing indeed from Gukesh. Gawain is also very attacking and so the game between them have to be a great ride for sure. Its just that he met someone who is a juggernaut at the moment. Look at him beating David today from a worse position once David made one mistake and it was resignation 5 moves later !!!
The point where a mistake or blunder happens in these games should be pointed out in my opinion. Otherwise it's really difficult to make out where exactly the mistake occurred.
Agadmator usually does precisely that. In this case, I don't believe there was a blunder. It's just that pushing the pawns defending your king only works for the very top players. You can't really call it a blunder, because they do it and win. For the rest of us, just don't do it!
@@GeraldM_inNC probably the clearest example of a massive blunder I've seen in high level games, i mean it loses a whole piece. It's just a basic principle not to push pawns defending the king when there are not one but 2 monster bishops and a queen scoping it
@@smolytchannel5062 yeah I can't even tell what he calculated wrong, the position looked so hopeless from the moment he weakened the king side cause of the white bishops as well as white controlling the centre.
Agadmator mentioned that on move 21. ... Qd6 was required. He actually played 21. ... Bc8. That was the beginning of the end. Here is some of Stockfish's evaluation. 13. ... Na5 +0.5 14. ... Bh6 +0.94 17. ... Rce8 +0.96 18. ... f5 +1.83 21. ... Bc8 +3.54 You can see that f5 was pretty bad but then Bc8 was losing.
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa sacrificed his Queen against Jan-Krzystof Duda in the Julius Baer Generation Cup (2022). It's a thrilling game, can you make a video on that game, pretty please?
Not to take away from his brilliancy, but it seemed very intuitive that white would be activating the bishop pair from hell. Black opened up his kingside, white had 2 bishops, the diagonals threats were apparent. The queen sac was just a poisoned piece positioned to allow white to pile up alongside the hellish bishop duo.
Sir in that critical position on the pose the video moment I think Bf7 is also winning as it will lead to checkmate in a different way. Anyway great game very greatful for you sir to showing search games to us thanks.
@@coldtruth4u no wonder American chess players don't perform well in team events. They have no reason to perform for the country Historically, Russia, Armenia and China are the best teams because all are homegrown talents
On the surrender move at 8:15 what would have happened if black played queen captures bishop at b2? I feel like there was a way out but I'm not that good at chess so maybe I just don't see it?
"...when they see it they will love chess for the rest of their lives..." The more complete lives have such experiences if you ask me. Everyone can use such a life change.
?? Bf7 threatens nothing, why does black has to capture the bishop on f7, and with the queen nonetheless??! Even if it's captured by the rook, losing the bishop and the knight isn't worth in a million years lol
A lot of young guns round the world are playing excellent chess - be it Arjun Erigaisi, Abusatarov, Pragg, Hans Niemann, Keymar and more. But Gukesh is by far the most creative of this lot, only Firouza among the juniors is more creative than this guy. Gukesh will make for interesting creative chess viewing in coming years.
Agadmator is so unintentionally funny, from his slow mo moves to how he casually shuns certain moves and just scoffs at how badly you'd get destroyed if you played them. Absolutely love this guy and watching his vids invigorate my love of chess.
And apologising like he killed my dog because he moved the piece to the wrong square
@@h____hchump8941 "Oops I dropped the queen"
@@h____hchump8941 I've seen so many videos at this point my go to 'my bad" phrase is 'Sorry about dat'
Don't forget casually roasting the players who can't find a grandmaster's ideal move to get mate in 8 moves.
"of course we have to look at what happens if b4 is played here..."
Been a while since the Morphy head was rewarded, but well deserved!
Who else was awarded ?
I can't even remembered the last time it was rewarded.
@@reivaldoaurelio4895 It's savored for the very very best. That and Agadmator forgot
🚨 Spoiler alert 🚨
…oh wait 🤔
'Awarded'
"The kind of game that you show to beginners and they love chess for the rest of their lives..." What a very profound, and accurate, statement.
Lasker vs Thomas omg🤣🤣
I've noticed that the world's top ten or twenty players can push the pawns defending their king, leaving their king defenseless, and amazingly they can get away with it. They are the only ones who can.
A modern thing as well. The soviet school would admonish such moves.
I think they're very good at calculating whether their attack is fast enough to survive the weaknesses they've created, and that's the main reason the top 20 players are able to get away with it more often than their lower-rated compatriots.
@@21abhinavpatel Well put! That's true too of many other elements of their strategy. As you say, they calculate precisely how many moves it will take for the attack to succeed, and whether their opponent can overcome their defense in fewer moves than that. The rest of us can't make such a sophisticated calculation. I've lost many games because I overestimated by a move or two the speed of my attack or the slowness of my opponent's attack.
@@21abhinavpatel Exactly. Everytime I try to replicate their strats I get insta checkmated because my king is defended by one pawn against 2 knights, a bishop, a rook, 3 pawns and a queen.
Funny you said this on a video where someone got punished for pushing their pawns in front of the king? But yeah, he's not top-20 so maybe that's what you meant? You can see Gukesh pawns in front of his king is still unmoved.
Congratulation to Gukesh for winning the rare and coveted Morphy's head!
Top notch play by Gukesh!
No doubts the queen sac is amazing... But the poor knight on g5 also deserves a bit of a mention.! What a game by Gukesh...all the Indian youngsters are playing spectacular chess and entertaining us..happy that someone suggested this game to Antonio.
Knight on G5 chilling like who cares.
I really liked the way you recapped the moves again at the end starting at around 9:10.
I'm a relative beginner so maybe lots of your other viewers don't benefit from that, but for me, watching the moves again now knowing how the game ended really helps me understand why they're so powerful. With the context it's even more enjoyable watching those moves a second time.
8:03 Gukesh Morphs to his final form
I see what u did there
That end of the game was just CLASS! GG
I'm from the future. Not only did Gukesh qualify for the candidates. He won!
As a Pakistani I find myself rooting for Indians in chess tournaments
How is chess culture in pakistan,I hope any top player comes from pakistan
@@keshavmundada4791 ya there is a kid, maybe u-10... But i think he would have to leave his country if he wants to pursue his chess culture..
It's good to see love between neighbors. I miss playing chess with my Cubano grandfather. Someday I hope all people are united and free.
I don't think Pakistan ever had a GM. But Bangladesh on the other hand have few GMs and they are good, fought well at chess olympiad recently. Good luck to them both!
Do hou have indian ancestors?
I am completely new to Chess and I have been watching your videos for a while now, but I have learned a few things that I see in almost every chess game. Always keep your king behind pawns, never get a check from a knight as you can’t block it with anything, don’t let the opponent’s pawn cross midline, avoid the opponent’s two knights attacking together, and have some space for the king to move.
Absolutely, those are all things to bear in mind. Once enough material is off the board, the king can advance to attack.
Anand still in top 10 is impressive.
What a beautiful exploitation of open diagonals!
Hi, I enjoy your comments in mato's videos cuz they're informative as well. Stay safe and thank you ✨
The "bishops from Hell!"
Young Morphy: I am tactics
Gukesh: *let me introduce myself*
Morphy is Morphy with 84 percent win ratio
Great game, wow. It really was Morphy-esque!
I'm quite impressed that Gawain Jones was able to figure out the response to the move at 1:02 that even stumped the world champion Magnus Carlsen
Antonio, you do an amazing job choosing nice games for us. First a queen side castle into a fork, and now this!! I can't believe how a hundred's of years old game still yields jaw dropping moments in 2022 on a regular basis.
Gukesh: Take my Queen.
Gawain: No thanks.
Gukesh: No, I insist. Take my Queen.
Gawain: Okay.
Gukesh: Muuuhuuhahahhaaaaahh
Gukesh deserves to play a tournament against super GMs to see how he fares.
Future world champion!
Weeeeeeell...
Gukesh vs Liren
Finally!!! Thank you agad❤️
For some reason Kasparov came to mind more then Morphy. What a brilliancy sacing the d pawn.
Thank you for explaining ❤🎉
#suggestion: compilation of slow motion moves
Gukesh demolished the opponent here!
Always a pleasure bro🏆
the final move reminds me of rubinstein's immortal, moving the rook and leaving the queen pinned.
This is true.
The only channel that almost never bored me and will never. I wish I had listened to my academics so well. 😁😂
White plays so much stronger than black. Hard to believe it's only 100 elo difference.
I was thinking the same thing.
100 elo is a massive difference at the top level
@@mridgaf3233 yea but still that guy played horribly exposing his king to the bishops and queen like that. like sure u attack but u gotta defend ur most important piece as well
Truly, Antonio's Morphy head is something any international level chess player aspires for, though it comes with no certificate or prize money.
It is not explicitly mentioned at 8:10, but QxB2 by black would have resulted in R to H7 checkmate by white, that is why the queen is just completely immobilized and helpless
Agadmator is a chess investigator 👌 The way you analyze chess games are insane bro keep up the good work greetings from 🇸🇴Somalia
An alternate title for this video could have been "Sir Gawain and the Three Knights".
its been a while since I was this early on your videos, good content
7:20
Antonio, you are just golden, my friend. Your dry humor makes me rotfl every time.
Thank you for the advice. I would have played the knight to c6 with black, called it the 4 knights variation confident it was the best move in the position
".....And when I say SLOW MOTION, it means I'm gonna do it in circular motion too 😅". - Agad
Truly Spectacular stuff from Gukesh!!Thanks Agadmator
7:24 I'm imagining Gukesh moving his queen like this in the actual game. Brilliant.
I sac my queen too. Involuntarily.
LOL. Me too!
lol yeh me too I sometimes sac my Queen then immediately resign because the forced checkmate I have seen 10 moves in advance will be too embarrassing for my opponent.
im even better i sac my king.
That was a great game to watch! And well narrated too.
Very good presentation... thanks agad.
Simply brilliant. Gukesh, Arjun and Paggu are the future Magnus the magnificent.
Gukesh's Immortal
Wow! May him be blessed with more and more abundance, prosperity, great health, immense wealth and happiness
Anyone else notice the board flickering a bit in this video? Thought my monitor was breaking or something but it stopped when I paused the video. Around 4:00-4:30 is where I really started to notice it.
Amazing indeed from Gukesh. Gawain is also very attacking and so the game between them have to be a great ride for sure. Its just that he met someone who is a juggernaut at the moment. Look at him beating David today from a worse position once David made one mistake and it was resignation 5 moves later !!!
Wow! A game for the ages. Congrats to Gukesh
Yo love ur vids
I will have to go rewatch some of the Morphy saga now
The point where a mistake or blunder happens in these games should be pointed out in my opinion. Otherwise it's really difficult to make out where exactly the mistake occurred.
Agadmator usually does precisely that. In this case, I don't believe there was a blunder. It's just that pushing the pawns defending your king only works for the very top players. You can't really call it a blunder, because they do it and win. For the rest of us, just don't do it!
@@GeraldM_inNC probably the clearest example of a massive blunder I've seen in high level games, i mean it loses a whole piece. It's just a basic principle not to push pawns defending the king when there are not one but 2 monster bishops and a queen scoping it
@@smolytchannel5062 yeah I can't even tell what he calculated wrong, the position looked so hopeless from the moment he weakened the king side cause of the white bishops as well as white controlling the centre.
Agadmator mentioned that on move 21. ... Qd6 was required. He actually played 21. ... Bc8. That was the beginning of the end. Here is some of Stockfish's evaluation.
13. ... Na5 +0.5
14. ... Bh6 +0.94
17. ... Rce8 +0.96
18. ... f5 +1.83
21. ... Bc8 +3.54
You can see that f5 was pretty bad but then Bc8 was losing.
A lot of times a single blunder would not cause the game but little little inaccuracies will add up and finally leads to the ultimate demise
Goatkesh
How a GM could expose his king in such a glaring way is hard to fathom.
fr bruh especially with that bishop pair and the queen idk what he was doing i would never make those moves.
This shows the matchless beauty of chess,when handled by a Master,a game for reference.
Hate to seem my favored Gruenfeld brutlaized in such a fashion.
I honestly think the pawn sacrifice setting it all up was the truly impressive move.
At 7:01 can we play Bishop f7?
Will it work?
agadmator sense of humor on another level 😂 ... love it.. never gets old..
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa sacrificed his Queen against Jan-Krzystof Duda in the Julius Baer Generation Cup (2022). It's a thrilling game, can you make a video on that game, pretty please?
On a seperate note, I really dislike that Giri fella. Anyone else feel the same?. I don’t have a legitimate reason there is just something about him.
yes, lots of tactics. Loved the game
Excellent!
I like the philosophical touch your quotes are getting :)
Thank you for comparing Gukesh to Paul Morphy. Super game by Gukesh.
Amazing game. :) Thank you.
What a game gukesh , Great
I've been laughing at the slow move move for a billion videos and somehow it never gets old
Pretty fitting day for a Queen sacrifice.
Not to take away from his brilliancy, but it seemed very intuitive that white would be activating the bishop pair from hell. Black opened up his kingside, white had 2 bishops, the diagonals threats were apparent. The queen sac was just a poisoned piece positioned to allow white to pile up alongside the hellish bishop duo.
Agadmator: checkmate in 8 moves.
Me, who can’t even spit mate in 2: interesting
Just find checks that can't be captured / pinned...
I love the slow motion man!
Sir in that critical position on the pose the video moment I think Bf7 is also winning as it will lead to checkmate in a different way.
Anyway great game very greatful for you sir to showing search games to us thanks.
A missed opportunity to color the morphy head indian brown ;) Excellent content as always Antonio! Many thanks!
And you think of skin color!huh
I enjoyed the show!!
'i dropped the queen'
hilarious
The stuffed animal dog looks so realistic!
Slow motion was really really a wonderful idea.
10:10 wow USA with 4 of the top 10 chess players in the world.. no other country even has 2! 😮 🇺🇸
And only one is american😂
so from phillipines
fabi from italy
levon from armenia
@@shailendra9564 even Nakamura is asian, but America really need to work rather than buying players.
@@shailendra9564 you’re making an even better case for USA, good point! Your point is people love to leave where they’re from and go to America 🇺🇸
@@coldtruth4u no wonder American chess players don't perform well in team events. They have no reason to perform for the country
Historically, Russia, Armenia and China are the best teams because all are homegrown talents
@@shailendra9564 team events..? Bro it’s chess no one has ever watched a team game in their life lol unless your life is chess
On the surrender move at 8:15 what would have happened if black played queen captures bishop at b2? I feel like there was a way out but I'm not that good at chess so maybe I just don't see it?
Rh7 mate
@@keralacitizen Lol ty how did I miss that haha
honestly i like the pawn sacrifice better than the queen sacrifice. but he definitely deserved the morphy head. what a nice game to see. thanks agad
Awesome. Such a powerful attack that was unexpected and with a Queen sacrifice to boot.,
Good game Gukesh. Agadmator please show my game with Queen sacrifice as well
Dear agadmator,i found the move bishop to F7 at 7:03 .Will any engine treat it as 'brillaint' for 1300 rated like me?
"...when they see it they will love chess for the rest of their lives..." The more complete lives have such experiences if you ask me. Everyone can use such a life change.
Every sentence ends in ahh, umm, uhhh
Sir Gawain Jones and the Black Knight
Another example why queen is not always beneficial to be saved till the end...😂
That was such a brutal finish. I know 100 elo difference is big but the opponent is still a 2600+ player and got outplayed to such a high degree.
He is former 2700
@7:05, instead of queen sac I thought of the move Bf7, forcing Qxf7 Nxf7+ and win the Queen😊 of course Q sac is the best
?? Bf7 threatens nothing, why does black has to capture the bishop on f7, and with the queen nonetheless??! Even if it's captured by the rook, losing the bishop and the knight isn't worth in a million years lol
Is there a Morphy Head playlist?
Amazing!!!
that white queen is tough! Beautiful chess. congrats gukesh
Slow motion was a nice touch
I believe the last time a player was awarded the Morphy head was Dubov when playing against Svane in 2019. Forced mate in 13. Great stuff.
Where is Dubov
I want him active in major tournaments ASAP
His games are so beautiful, last game I remember was him against vidit
Wow what a game,i like the slow motion queen capture bishop
This game belongs in the sorcery series
It was clear that the queen sacrifice speaks for itself
A lot of young guns round the world are playing excellent chess - be it Arjun Erigaisi, Abusatarov, Pragg, Hans Niemann, Keymar and more. But Gukesh is by far the most creative of this lot, only Firouza among the juniors is more creative than this guy.
Gukesh will make for interesting creative chess viewing in coming years.
Gukesh is the youngest among all
Gukesh looks so much better with a beard!!!