I laugh and smile with every single time Agad does something spontanious and delivers every single video like we all are his mates and hang out with him at the bar and library. I love his style. Happy birthday Tal!
I would rather see a non edited version with a few mistakes, than some perfect video that is edited. I love this channel too much to sweat the small stuff
Ikr. I really love the vibe in videos. Really homemade stuff, still with great insight and analysis. Taking phonecalls etc. during video recording is so funny imo. :D
Perhaps Tal's greatest flex was that he played the Evans gambit only twice in his life . he didn't need the greatest move ever played to bamboozle his opponents . Even a month before his death , he managed to defeat then world champion Kasparov in a blitz game . Kasparov spoke of Tal :- " Tal was absolutely unique. his playing style was of course unrepeatable. I calculated the variants quickly enough, but these Tal insights were unique. he was a man in whose presence others sensed their mediocrity " .
I’m relatively new at watching the Grandmaster Games but I’m so impressed by Mikhail’s Games incredible moves sacrificing pieces and getting Great Results a player like him unique and maybe never again ?
He was world blitz champion i think in 1988, and held the longest winning streak of 94 wins during 1973-4 until his record was broken by Ding Liren few years ago. So, 1973 was Tal's prime.
Not True! No zero super grand Master tournaments in 1960-1973! Fischer won zero super grand Master tournaments only inter zonals 1962 1970! Fischer was Second in Santa Monica 1966 behind blunder maker Spassky! Fischer did not win Havanna 1965! Fischer beat the weakest chess World champion Boris Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! Fischer beat Spassky 10 wins 15 draws 5 losses in 1992 at age 49! Fischer score 58,33%! Spassky was 162nd world ranking and rated 2558 in 1992! So we get Fischer rating 2617,78 in 1992 at age 49! Lasker won the New York tournament in 1924 beating world Best scoring 2875 elo at age 56! Fischer 2617,78 versus Lasker 2875! Karpov has won over 160 super grand Master tournaments! Fischer won zero! Fischer Lost 5 times against awful blunder maker Geller! Carlsen is 100xtimes better than Spassky and Geller! Carlsen would beat Fischer 30 times easily! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 999-1 easily!! The highest tournament elo rating score is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 StLouis elo 3080! Karpov 11/13 Linares 1994 elo score 3040! Alekhine in San Remo 1930 elo score 3040! Fischer his best tournament score only 2990!!
Tal's 70's era deserves greater attention. Tal's play is rock solid by engine standards, but with no loss of his youthful creativity and activity. In many ways, a pinnacle.
It's a great thing when you watch an Agadmator video and you feel the humanity behind it. Thanks for not "tailoring" your productions. They are perfect.
I've been watching your channel for over a year now. Pretty much every day, I'll watch a video. I watched it while I was locked down, I watched it while I wasn't. Just wanted to voice my appreciation of your contribution, to youtube, to chess and to my evenings. Much love Antonio
Wow, what absolute surgical precision here, with such complexity too! Amazing play indeed. I can see why you guys call Tal GOAT now! Magnus might in fact need to improve just a little more -- for that, truly. And explains why Garry was also not a unanimous shoe-in for that honor after 30 years as WC and as powerful as he was too, or Fischer even then too. Thanks.
Like two heavyweight champions trading blows in the middle of the ring for 12 rounds. Neither had a glass jaw. Tal landed one final blow and Spassky crumpled.
I used to have a collection of Spassky's best games (yes, a book). His style was very attacking and he seemed to prefer wide open games with lots of tactical possibilities.
Watching games like these is one of the moments you may see brilliance, foresight, and beautiful preparation of strategic plans… wow! Thanks for this. More games of legends pls….
while agadmador was fixing the pictures and kept talking saying shit like "that's the good stuff" and other things made me realize that i rewatch these videos cuz agadmador treates us as family as we can see this is his everyday life and makes us a part of it and how passionate describes games while the best doggo is lying behind doing his own thing making this more wholesome! Also when the Tals game began, it gave the second reason of how good aga describes positions emotions and everything that makes chess my favorite game ever. Thank you agadmator! i would really join your classes if i had you as a teacher
I absolutely love how you react naturally when you make a mistake during your presentation, or when you get distracted and excuse yourself while filming. It makes your channel very casual. 👍 That is, on top of your excellent presentation skills. 😂
As in life itself, spontaneity can be much more entertaining than precision. Modern Chess sometimes makes you feel you're watching someone proving a theorem rather than playing a game. To such an extent that Alpha Zero seems more human than most humans
Great game and analysis - it's this kind of game that make me realise how boring 99% of my games are....feeling like a toddler proud of crawling around on all fours until this marathon runner comes by....
Most impressive,I have my eyes wide open in wonder.Spassky with the Queen and two Rooks placed like that and Tal with the Queen,Rook and Bishop just playing with him,amazing game from Tal,love it!Antonio show us more Tal and Josh Waitzkin games.
I really loved it my special teacher Your voice is just touching to my heart The way you are explaining game like the war bigins I really loved your channel thank you brother From india
#suggestion You should do Spassky series as well. One of most underrated champions, player who was just burned out buy a two WC cycles that he won, but still, one of the greatest chess talents ever.
There was mate in one in 14:00 so pawn was moved to prevent mate not to prevent something :) i doubt spassky was interested in juicy pawn there. Great movie as always!
Can't we all appreciate how raw Agadmator's videos are... *Considers simply editing out mistake... Agad: I already said too much I'm not starting the video over if you have something to do go ahead really quick...😂😂
I couldn't help noticing the jacket Boris wore in that picture and wondering how Bobby Fischer would have reacted to it if Spassky had worn it when playing against him in the world championship.
Morphy wouldnt have much chance, newer era player have much more resource to study and have more scientific training, thus objectively better (tal probably know 2000 more opening variation and 300 engame table). But if morphy is given more resource and have longer career, it would be hard to say.
Aaron Sung wtf, if Morphy had resources available of theory, he surely would have studied it, and also in 1858 Morphy is known to play the best moves, even though theory knowledge was not upto par, so you cannot just predict it
@@lancerlobo1332 read it again. With tal having theory at tal's era, and morphy had theory at morphy's era (which is close to none), tal would have huge edge in opening and endgame, thus much more likely to win. But if they are given.the same theory to study, it would be hard to say. They are both best player of their era, morphy is much more dominating, but his era is much less competative then tal's: at morphys time, most players are not full time chess players.
If Tal had qualified as the challenger in 1975, Fischer might have defended his title because he liked Tal and Fischer's paranoia might have been lessened against Tal.
Antonio, I would love for you to do a preview/prediction type of discussion on the upcoming world championship. Analyses and breakdowns like that with your insights would be enjoyed by our community, especially those who are new to chess. We'd very much like to know on who you'd think would win between Magnus and Nepo, and what things you think would they need in order to do so. Thanks! More power!
#suggestion Antonio, Please discuss Misha's philosophy of chess from his books and demonstrate the same through his games. The question : "Why Tal used to sacrifice?" To this he has clearly answered and explained - please discuss that.
Agad: "Tal opens with d4..." me: "Wow! I bet he destroyed any prep Spassky did since Tal always opens with e4..." Agad: "...Sorry 'bout that." me: "...Way to get my hopes up for an even crazier game than usual."
The imperfections in Antonio's videos are what make me love them so much. The "sorry about thats" and just editing on the fly are hilarious
A little video editing would go a long way. It would be cool if he had a background, at like a coffee shop, or library or something.
@@CFLsurfr no…
A bar or library would be great, maybe a few friends too
@@CFLsurfr no..
@@CFLsurfr no...
“Tal opens with d4. Which is not true. He is playing with the black pieces”
"Tal changes the rules of chess. Black goes first now!!!"
That's the good stuff!
I really am in a deep dark forest now
And as of move 1, we have a completely new game.
Truly a magician
I laugh and smile with every single time Agad does something spontanious and delivers every single video like we all are his mates and hang out with him at the bar and library. I love his style.
Happy birthday Tal!
I would rather see a non edited version with a few mistakes, than some perfect video that is edited. I love this channel too much to sweat the small stuff
me also. improvising like any good musician would.
Ikr. I really love the vibe in videos. Really homemade stuff, still with great insight and analysis. Taking phonecalls etc. during video recording is so funny imo. :D
I totally agree! I wish more people made videos like you’re just having a conversation with someone.
Perhaps Tal's greatest flex was that he played the Evans gambit only twice in his life . he didn't need the greatest move ever played to bamboozle his opponents . Even a month before his death , he managed to defeat then world champion Kasparov in a blitz game . Kasparov spoke of Tal :- " Tal was absolutely unique. his playing style was of course unrepeatable. I calculated the variants quickly enough, but these Tal insights were unique. he was a man in whose presence others sensed their mediocrity " .
Tal....ha. I could have beat Tal. ... No I couldn't.
Kasparov said he must calculated lines. Tal SEE them. Great mind !!!
I agree with you the man is a calculated Chess Champion unlike all others What Skill this man possesses Magical 🧙♂️ 🤩
Possessed
I’m relatively new at watching the Grandmaster Games but I’m so impressed by Mikhail’s Games incredible moves sacrificing pieces and getting Great Results a player like him unique and maybe never again ?
Tal winning this tournament against those opponents in 1973, almost 10-11 years past his prime, shows how great of a player he was. Truly a magician!!
No, it's still a very strong(young) tal even not in his prime
Tal was not past his prime here. Many argue he was a stronger player in the 70s than 60s
@@andrewptob yup,he hardly lost a game during this period,his record was broken by Magnus.
He was world blitz champion i think in 1988, and held the longest winning streak of 94 wins during 1973-4 until his record was broken by Ding Liren few years ago. So, 1973 was Tal's prime.
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This golden era of chess has a certain vibe to it. Total kickass games
Ikr...no engine, just pure big brain
Not True! No zero super grand Master tournaments in 1960-1973! Fischer won zero super grand Master tournaments only inter zonals 1962 1970! Fischer was Second in Santa Monica 1966 behind blunder maker Spassky! Fischer did not win Havanna 1965! Fischer beat the weakest chess World champion Boris Spassky only 17 wins 10 losses! Capablanca would beat Spassky easily 8 wins 6 draws zero losses! Carlsen would beat Spassky easily 6 wins 6 draws zero losses! Fischer beat Spassky 10 wins 15 draws 5 losses in 1992 at age 49! Fischer score 58,33%! Spassky was 162nd world ranking and rated 2558 in 1992! So we get Fischer rating 2617,78 in 1992 at age 49! Lasker won the New York tournament in 1924 beating world Best scoring 2875 elo at age 56! Fischer 2617,78 versus Lasker 2875! Karpov has won over 160 super grand Master tournaments! Fischer won zero! Fischer Lost 5 times against awful blunder maker Geller! Carlsen is 100xtimes better than Spassky and Geller! Carlsen would beat Fischer 30 times easily! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 999-1 easily!! The highest tournament elo rating score is Fabiano Caruana 8,5/10 StLouis elo 3080! Karpov 11/13 Linares 1994 elo score 3040! Alekhine in San Remo 1930 elo score 3040! Fischer his best tournament score only 2990!!
Tal's 70's era deserves greater attention. Tal's play is rock solid by engine standards, but with no loss of his youthful creativity and activity. In many ways, a pinnacle.
Tal pretty much ladder mated Spassky while he still had a queen and two rooks on the board...
Amazing
I un-ironically love that agad never edit outs his mistakes/phone calls/answering the door. it makes me laugh every time
Same lol, no other youtuber would be comfortable leaving that stuff in but I love that he doesn’t care lmfao
It feels oddly candid when he does that. It adds charachter
"I would start the video but i already said lot of important staff" We improvise Agadmator is a legend
9:19 "So instead after C captures on D4 Spassky runs for his life..." Chess comedy gold!
And all started because he wanted to keep that extra pawn at the corner of the board. There is some life lesson here 🤔
Agad was dropping gems this whole video. “It’s defended until it’s not.”
It's a great thing when you watch an Agadmator video and you feel the humanity behind it. Thanks for not "tailoring" your productions. They are perfect.
The man is so real. Swiftly editing away . The swag of Antonio 😂🔥
I absolutely love it when he covers tals games 😍😍
After all Tal is our guardian here 😊
@@obalalama yes
Two Tal games in a row? We are living in a bless
I like how agadmator doesn’t cut anything out of his videos he makes it feel like a conversation
i love how little agad edits his video, even though there is need for it. i am not complaining, i love it.
"Tal opens with 1.d4"
Hold on, there must be something wrong here....
Tal saga continues! Yesss! Thank you, Antonio!
I've been watching your channel for over a year now. Pretty much every day, I'll watch a video. I watched it while I was locked down, I watched it while I wasn't. Just wanted to voice my appreciation of your contribution, to youtube, to chess and to my evenings. Much love Antonio
The „magician form Riga“ struck again! Always a pleasure to see this brilliancy!
What a bloodbath, Spassky and Tal's clash of styles is brilliant
Wow, what absolute surgical precision here, with such complexity too! Amazing play indeed.
I can see why you guys call Tal GOAT now!
Magnus might in fact need to improve just a little more -- for that, truly. And explains why Garry was also not a unanimous shoe-in for that honor after 30 years as WC and as powerful as he was too, or Fischer even then too. Thanks.
Played in TAL-lin, Estonia
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Who needs to edit when raw uncut beuty is what we enjoy. Amazing vids all day every day. What a game! Very inspiring!
What a game! We don't get to see many like this from top players these days or maybe they aren't getting much exposure. More Tal is never a bad move.
Like two heavyweight champions trading blows in the middle of the ring for 12 rounds. Neither had a glass jaw. Tal landed one final blow and Spassky crumpled.
Truly nothing brightens my day more than a Tal video by Antonio.
Imagine everybody is talking about you, such a wired looking guy, smoking all the time, no hair at all, but won the whole tournament in such a Style
We need more Tal birthdays in a year, agadmator. :)
I used to have a collection of Spassky's best games (yes, a book). His style was very attacking and he seemed to prefer wide open games with lots of tactical possibilities.
Watching games like these is one of the moments you may see brilliance, foresight, and beautiful preparation of strategic plans… wow! Thanks for this. More games of legends pls….
while agadmador was fixing the pictures and kept talking saying shit like "that's the good stuff" and other things made me realize that i rewatch these videos cuz agadmador treates us as family as we can see this is his everyday life and makes us a part of it and how passionate describes games while the best doggo is lying behind doing his own thing making this more wholesome! Also when the Tals game began, it gave the second reason of how good aga describes positions emotions and everything that makes chess my favorite game ever. Thank you agadmator! i would really join your classes if i had you as a teacher
I absolutely love how you react naturally when you make a mistake during your presentation, or when you get distracted and excuse yourself while filming.
It makes your channel very casual.
👍
That is, on top of your excellent presentation skills. 😂
As in life itself, spontaneity can be much more entertaining than precision. Modern Chess sometimes makes you feel you're watching someone proving a theorem rather than playing a game. To such an extent that Alpha Zero seems more human than most humans
@@markhughes2556 😁
Wow! Tal really does take his opponents into the deepest, darkest forests where they never return...
I always get excited now when both pictures are black and white. Tells us the match was worth digging up.
Glad you covered this, it's one of my favorite brilliancies by black. One of Tal's Immortal Games for sure
I am glad that you made a Tal video, please keep showing more Tal games, i keep watching the same playlist :)
Great game and analysis - it's this kind of game that make me realise how boring 99% of my games are....feeling like a toddler proud of crawling around on all fours until this marathon runner comes by....
Beautiful game. The move from the last pause-to-think section was so Tal!
I've never tired of listening to your game analysis, Antonio.
this was a great game. Doesn't have the same sacrifices tal is known for but i found this positional maneuvering by this behemoth very exciting.
Most impressive,I have my eyes wide open in wonder.Spassky with the Queen and two Rooks placed like that and Tal with the Queen,Rook and Bishop just playing with him,amazing game from Tal,love it!Antonio show us more Tal and Josh Waitzkin games.
I don't know how you do it Antonio but the complete lack of editing is charming where a lot og other people would come off as unprofessional! Kudos!
The tal's games are always so enjoyable!
Another great player we don't see often is Akiba Rubinstein.
Is there any saga in preparation about him ? 😁
I really loved it my special teacher
Your voice is just touching to my heart
The way you are explaining game like the war bigins
I really loved your channel thank you brother
From india
Agadmator : " Tal starts with d4 "
Me : "NANIIIIII!!!"
Agadmator : " Tal had the black pieces "
Me : "OOOFFF"
Me: Why do you make comments in this stupid format?
You: "OOOOFF"
The magician's game sare astounding hope I get to see a full tournament or anything like that from agad...
If you decide to do another Tal saga, you could call it "Still more to Tal" :)
Or even immorTAL games.
I like what you have to say and the way you say it, which is why I watch several of your videos a day!!
Tal, Petrosian, Spassky. Seeing these games on the channel always improves the day by a lot. Even when there's a draw, it's very exciting.
bro its like he is having an actual conversation i love the fact that he doesnt edit that stuff out
#suggestion
You should do Spassky series as well. One of most underrated champions, player who was just burned out buy a two WC cycles that he won, but still, one of the greatest chess talents ever.
Amazing. Just that easy. Tal made no attempt to force anything. Just one strong move after another.
Love these classic games. Modern chess has its fair share of brilliancies, but too often resembles Stockfish vs Stockfish.
I really like the way he compliments himself after correcting his mistake: "That was very nicely done"! :)
There was mate in one in 14:00 so pawn was moved to prevent mate not to prevent something :) i doubt spassky was interested in juicy pawn there. Great movie as always!
I love when i can find 1 puzzle movu in video like i did it now..., very good video just keep makin them, respect from Croatia.
I love how intensely Tal is staring at b4
Can't we all appreciate how raw Agadmator's videos are... *Considers simply editing out mistake... Agad: I already said too much I'm not starting the video over if you have something to do go ahead really quick...😂😂
This game is a textbook example of the bishop pair from hell being ABSOLUTELY fully operational!
that was one awesome Capturefest!
Seeing Antonio mutter to himself while casually fixing the interface offscreen is unreasonably entertaining to me.
I couldn't help noticing the jacket Boris wore in that picture and wondering how Bobby Fischer would have reacted to it if Spassky had worn it when playing against him in the world championship.
Can't believe this famous game is close to half a century soon !!!
Love the play by Tal the Chess magician. Attack from all sides and angles
Spassky runs for his life.... LMAO😂
I’d give my life savings to see Tal vs Morphy
Morphy wouldnt have much chance, newer era player have much more resource to study and have more scientific training, thus objectively better (tal probably know 2000 more opening variation and 300 engame table). But if morphy is given more resource and have longer career, it would be hard to say.
Aaron Sung wtf, if Morphy had resources available of theory, he surely would have studied it, and also in 1858 Morphy is known to play the best moves, even though theory knowledge was not upto par, so you cannot just predict it
@@lancerlobo1332 read it again. With tal having theory at tal's era, and morphy had theory at morphy's era (which is close to none), tal would have huge edge in opening and endgame, thus much more likely to win. But if they are given.the same theory to study, it would be hard to say. They are both best player of their era, morphy is much more dominating, but his era is much less competative then tal's: at morphys time, most players are not full time chess players.
Keep up the good work,love the content I being a sub since 1000
I think Tal is the only player to defeat 5 World chess champions in their prime
Who are the 5?
@@theoneonly8472 borris Spassky, bobby Fisher, mikhail Botvinik,garry Kasparov,
@@princeprasad8026 I’m not positive but Idt Tal ever beat fisher in his prime
@@theoneonly8472 bro u should know even candidates players are stronger and tal defeat Fisher in candidate tournament..
@@princeprasad8026 are you talking about the 1959 candidates tournament, when Bobby was 16 years old?
What a game..what a game... the magician always mesmerize us.
Crazy game. Shout out to my guy agad quality content as always
If Tal had qualified as the challenger in 1975, Fischer might have defended his title because he liked Tal and Fischer's paranoia might have been lessened against Tal.
I'm afraid Tal's bishop with be quite operational by the time your friends arrive
Spassky is a great attacker and has a beautiful style game
It's awesome!!! (I didn't see the video yet, but how else would it be when Tal plays and Agad explains it)
im so glad he gave me permission to do something in the meantime
Antonio, I would love for you to do a preview/prediction type of discussion on the upcoming world championship. Analyses and breakdowns like that with your insights would be enjoyed by our community, especially those who are new to chess. We'd very much like to know on who you'd think would win between Magnus and Nepo, and what things you think would they need in order to do so.
Thanks! More power!
Agad is now doing free roam on chess analysis,That's the good stuff
Yeah, that's right, agadmator having fun. We don't need to be tied down to a saga. Just show some good games with a little history.
“That’s the good stuff..”
My son loves that lol
Wow. Vicious attack and end. No
Mercy. beautiful
"Queen to G2 checkmate is playable" 😂😂😂😂
2020 Agadmator: “Sorry about that.”
2021 Agadmator: “Hold my beer.”
Rxf3!! Beginning of the end for Spassky great move from Tal quite a devastating endgame from Tal very masterful Great game thanks Agadmator
I've never seen such a strongly connected rooks frozen in that manner.
10:42 what happens if you move Be5 instead? It also attacks the pawn h2 is it anyway better than b4?
Respect to the magician
So this is that fabulous Spassky's hair. Very nice.
Tal won the tournament with 1,5 point above 2nd place and 3 points above 3rd place...majestic
#suggestion
Antonio,
Please discuss Misha's philosophy of chess from his books and demonstrate the same through his games. The question : "Why Tal used to sacrifice?" To this he has clearly answered and explained - please discuss that.
that is a really fun game! why don't they play like that anymore?!
Mikhail is one of my favorites of all he’s just Awesome Brilliant games I wish I had skill like that man did
5:18 "This is a complete mess, but it's perfectly fine."
At 13:46 if W plays Qg3? hoping for repetition (..., Qf5/ Qf3), then B has Bxf7+! for if Kxf7, Qf5+ or Qxf7,Qxc1+!
Agad: "Tal opens with d4..."
me: "Wow! I bet he destroyed any prep Spassky did since Tal always opens with e4..."
Agad: "...Sorry 'bout that."
me: "...Way to get my hopes up for an even crazier game than usual."
Wow what a beautiful game
You had me at Tal vs Spassky :)
Those were some deadly checks after the Bishop sac; the King was helpless.
Good video ,thanks Antonio bro.