Botvinnik's Extraordinary English Opening
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The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move, 1. c4. A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, one of the four most successful of White's twenty possible first moves. White begins the fight for the centre by staking a claim to the d5-square from the wing, in hypermodern style. Botvinnik used almost exclusively queenside pawn openings with the white pieces. In his eight World Championship matches, he never started a game with an e4-opening, and his usual choices as White were the English Opening or Queen's Gambit.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:09 Keres
06:51 Spielmann
10:01 Sherbakov
14:21 Yudovich
18:20 Portisch
Game 1: Mikhail Botvinnik vs Paul Keres, Alekhine Memorial 1966
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bc5 5. Nxe5 Bxf2+ 6. Kxf2 Nxe5 7. e4 c5 8. d3 d6 9. h3 h5 10. Be2 Nh7 11. Kg2 h4 12. g4 Ng5 13. Be3 Bd7 14. Qd2 Ne6 15. b4 b6 16. Rab1 Bc6 17. Rhf1 Bb7 18. Kg1 Nc6 19. Nd5 Ncd4 20. Bd1 f6 21. Kh2 Bc6 22. a4 a5 23. bxa5 bxa5 24. Qf2 Ra7 25. g5 O-O 26. g6 f5 27. Rb8 1-0
Game 2: Mikhail Botvinnik vs Rudolf Spielman, Moscow 1935
1. c4 c6 2. e4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 Qb6 7. cxd5 Qxb2 8. Rc1 Nb4 9. Na4 Qxa2 10. Bc4 Bg4 11. Nf3 Bxf3 12. gxf3 1-0
Game 3: Mikhail Botvinnik vs Sherbakov, National Championship 1955
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Nge2 e5 7. O-O Nbd7 8. d3 Nc5 9. f4 c6 10. h3 Ne6 11. f5 Nd4 12. g4 Ne8 13. Be3 a6 14. Qd2 b5 15. Bg5 Bf6 16. Bxf6 Nxf6 17. Nxd4 exd4 18. Ne2 Qb6 19. cxb5 axb5 20. Qh6 Bd7 21. g5 Nh5 22. Nf4 Ng7 23. f6 1-0
Game 4: Mikhail Botvinnik vs Mikhail Yudovich, National Championship 1933
1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 c6 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bd2 O-O 8. e4 Nb6 9. Rd1 N8d7 10. a4 a5 11. Be3 Qc7 12. Be2 Qd6 13. Na2 e6 14. O-O h6 15. Rc1 f5 16. Nc3 Kh7 17. Rfd1 fxe4 18. Nxe4 Qb4 19. Qc2 Qxa4 20. b3 Qa3 21. Nh4 Qe7 22. Nxg6 Kxg6 23. Bh5+ 1-0
Game 5: Mikhail Botvinnik vs Lajos Portisch, Monte Carlo 1968
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Be6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O Nb6 8. d3 Be7 9. a3 a5 10. Be3 O-O 11. Na4 Nxa4 12. Qxa4 Bd5 13. Rfc1 Re8 14. Rc2 Bf8 15. Rac1 Nb8 16. Rxc7 Bc6 17. R1xc6 bxc6 18. Rxf7 h6 19. Rb7 Qc8 20. Qc4+ Kh8 21. Nh4 Qxb7 22. Ng6+ Kh7 23. Be4 Bd6 24. Nxe5+ g6 25. Bxg6+ Kg7 26. Bxh6+ 1-0
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Amazingly, Botnnivik got white pieces every time.
HAHA, who would have thought that in a video of botvinnik's english, he had white
@@BREAKocean He certainly wasn't playing the Sicilian, although the English has been called "Sicilian for White".
Bro he just played Mikhail Tal with black.
@@nishusaif6085 😀
Botvinnik probably invented every possible transposition out of the English Opening for Black. If he wanted to transpose to the Ruy Lopez or Kings Gambit against 1. P-QB4, he could do it. He was that good.
It is amazing how botvinnik was great enough to beat himself.
I love your descriptive commentary SammyChess. Your explanations of what is going on in the games is also reasonably understandable for a patzer like me. I am mystified why you don't have many more subscribers.
Wow! Clear, precise, and helpful for my understanding of the Botvinnik English -and chess! Thank you! 🙂
Amazing how Yudovich looks like a mirror image of Botvinnik,
And Portisch is a Porche 😂
Because it is
Sherbakov almost overcame his handicap of being a shrimp.
Very instructive games with annotations !!
Your channel is the best for learning openings!!! I wish you all sucess 😊
I appreciate how this guy doesn't go about talking too much about what ifs and shouldda overanalyzing the positions and over-talking too much and just gets straight to the point in how the hell did these awesome Chessmasters make me look like a beginner.
This video is amazing! Thanks for the great work! Greetings from Italy 🙋♂
What fantastic commentary! Subscribed. Keres was no slouch.
As someone who plays the pano against caro, I didn't realize that botvinnik never played e4 and that it was odd the attack also shares his name as well. Pretty cool!
I'm 1700 and on 17:35 I could only come up with Nd6+ and d5, but Bh5+ is such a brilliant sac that I never even considered it, wow!
As always, it was informative.
Thank you so much
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Since 2018 I have watched countless chess videos on UA-cam. You are the first and only channel to ever use the term, "luft."
Naroditsky, powerplay king, king crusher, matojelic, and even fuckin hikaru? Lol and this guy is just good AI text speak
What? Eric Rosen says luft all the time.
Really enjoyed this video. After a 17 year hiatus from chess and coming back and facing 8 year olds with vast book knowledge, the Botvinnik English was my savior.
Love your videos man
Not going to lie, when I was ~13 or so, I started studying Botvinnik and his games and playing stuff he played and playing lines with Botvinniks name in them, my USCF rating skyrocketed.
The guy figured it out.
Thanks! Everyone opens up with e4 pawn. This opening takes alot of players off guard and gave me more ideas since I open up with c4 alot and learned a few of the lines via trial and error.
Great choice of games!
Thanks a lot
Best commentary for me
Appreciate it! :)
Awesome!! Thanks!!
Your the best!
Hey brother 👋🏻 good stuff can you make a video on Emory Tate and capablanca
dude i want you to make video of Mikhail Tal's crazy sacrifices or best 5 or 6 world chess championships games from steiniz to ding liren
17:55 The king would be forced to h8, not g8 cause of the knight on f6
Did i see wrong or isn't that just Botvinnik's photo reversed in place of his 4th opponent's?
Wait, the 5th is a car, maybe all of them are a trap well set? Oh yeah, i just rechecked them and only Keres seems to have an image. Good one, Sam!
Just.... WOW
Little known fact: Yudovich was a dead ringer for Botvinnik.
Rudolf spielmann looked a little different than the photos Ive seen of him
Eh maybe its the lighting
Wonderfull rook sacrifice
Can make videos of Bobby Fischer against Taimanov , Larsen and Petrosian. Thanks ❤😊
Mikhail Yudovich and Mikhail Botvinnik looks surprisingly similar. Twins? :)
14:30 It is not even close to Queen Gambit, 2 move later we see the Grunfeld defense.
17:57 Kg8 is ilegal if the Knight is on f6, only Kh8 and Qh7 #.
First I thought you were an AI character
8:20 why not Nb5
Who is Eric Rosen?
Sicillian should be called
Idk german?
No Russian?
No mandarin
Yeah mandarin
Opposite of english😮