Great Players of the Past: GM Karl Robatsch

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  • Опубліковано 19 тра 2023
  • Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... Karl Robatsch (October 14, 1929 in Klagenfurt - September 19, 2000) was a leading Austrian chess player and a noted botanist.
    07:54 Karl Robatsch - Vlastimil Jansa, Chigorin Memorial 1974
    18:17 Karl Robatsch - Francisco Jose Perez, Capablanca Memorial 1963
    25:49 Karl Robatsch - Gerald Hertneck, Austria Team Championship 1995
    31:44 Karl Robatsch - Rene Letelier, Capablanca Memorial 1964
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  • @ericrobinson7184
    @ericrobinson7184 Рік тому +11

    These great player series are just excellent, smashing commentary, and filled with wit2dimwit lore. Ben is so under-rated!

  • @richardmarcosek1786
    @richardmarcosek1786 8 місяців тому +2

    It should also be noted that he won this Gold Medal among Board 1-players with 84.4 % win ratio ! AHEAD ! of Tal and Fischer (73.3 % &
    72.2 %), not an easy thing to do I reckon... His individual percentage was also higher than Botvinnik's and Keres', who both scored 80.8% on boards 2 and 3. Pretty darn impressive. - Thank you Mr. Finegold for this lecture, and thanks of course to the sponsor! PS: the pronunciation is fine, you just forgot about the 't' - think of 'Ch'attanooga 'Ch'oo-'Ch'oo, so its 'Ro-baTsch, same as in 'chase' or 'chat'

  • @IfNedWereHere
    @IfNedWereHere Рік тому +4

    The finest of golds

  • @rumpi001
    @rumpi001 Рік тому +11

    Steinitz is technically Austrian (even though he was born in Prague) so not sure Robatsch was the strongest Austrian Player in history but he was an outstanding player! Great to see a lecture on a fellow Austrian!

    • @klodm.2064
      @klodm.2064 Рік тому +1

      Also, wasn't Schlecter Austrian

    • @ondrejkasparek3654
      @ondrejkasparek3654 Рік тому +2

      @@klodm.2064 he was, and don't forget Ernst Grünfeld was Austrian too... and btw Vlastimil Jansa (much later) won the World Senior Championship

    • @rakib17874
      @rakib17874 11 місяців тому

      CORRECTING Ben 😮😮😮😮
      INCORRECT!!!

    • @zwergenkoenig6628
      @zwergenkoenig6628 2 місяці тому

      @rumpi0001 when the austrian-hungarian empire still existed all the people of the mainlands especially czech, slovakia, hungary were and felt like austrians since they lived together for several hunderets of years. it was their nationality.

    • @zwergenkoenig6628
      @zwergenkoenig6628 2 місяці тому

      eliskases was pretty good. same level as robatsch but not as tactical

  • @wesleythomas9131
    @wesleythomas9131 Рік тому

    Love this series. Go Ben!

  • @perrymiller9533
    @perrymiller9533 Рік тому +1

    Thankyou for your lectures!
    You are a smart guy, and I love your quirky sense of humour!

  • @anandbenegal
    @anandbenegal 3 місяці тому

    30:40 was the ultimate "the truth hurts" moment lol^

  • @PsychedelicRealities
    @PsychedelicRealities Рік тому

    Great games, and with Ben's presentation even more great as always, go Ben, thank you sponsor, great choice!

  • @mustaregis
    @mustaregis Рік тому +1

    Thanks for the lecture! Would be nice if you made a lecture about Karpov :)

  • @A51838
    @A51838 11 місяців тому

    these lectures are the best

  • @trent797
    @trent797 11 місяців тому

    Thanks Ben and thanks Martin for sponsoring.

  • @justchessminiatures1167
    @justchessminiatures1167 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for the video. Carlos Torre, Mecking and Panno next, please.

    • @danbrooks5060
      @danbrooks5060 Рік тому +2

      I believe all the lectures in this series are sponsored by individual fans who get to pick the player.

  • @faithmalajka9768
    @faithmalajka9768 Місяць тому

    I miss you, Papa! 🙏✨

  • @Rspknlikeab0ssxd
    @Rspknlikeab0ssxd Рік тому +1

    Yo that first game was tactically outstanding

  • @GraemeCree
    @GraemeCree 4 місяці тому

    It used to be that 1. P-K4 P-Q3 was the Pirc Defense, and 1. P-K4 P-KN3 was the Robatsch Defense. But for a while books combined the two and called them both the "Pirc Robatsch Defense". Somewhere along the way that went away, and the Pirc is just the Pirc again. You never hear it called the Pirc Robatsch in modern books.

  • @shanastroskyphazer8172
    @shanastroskyphazer8172 Рік тому

    Awesome Ben thanks ! I will sponsor a lecture on GM Boris Alterman next pay ASAP thanks

  • @slayinkittys2843
    @slayinkittys2843 Рік тому +1

    Surprised never done a video on lajos portisch

  • @malachickisawesome
    @malachickisawesome Рік тому

    Let’s go Ben

  • @tim2.7182
    @tim2.7182 Рік тому

    Wang Chung! That tied me up in knots.

  • @qazzaqstan
    @qazzaqstan Рік тому

    Hertneck appears to have been about 2600 in 1995, it is always strange to see someone that strength get tactically crushed

  • @celinelorenzo3642
    @celinelorenzo3642 Рік тому

    Hi Atlanta !!As usual our descendant number one we love of the great pirate (not micha Tal which was also one of the chessboard )but benjamin hornigold....??(i like the very speaking face of ben when he doubts)another treasure from ages,not from carabeeans that Robatsch tactics games :a sweet "douceur qui fond sur la langue "

  • @Evilanious
    @Evilanious Рік тому

    14:30 I'm not 2000 and from Ben's preamble I saw: Nxd5, cxd5, Bxc3, Qd2, resigns. (Assuming that's the variation, I'm not there in the video yet) Certainly a GM can see what I can see.

  • @redeyedmonk
    @redeyedmonk 9 місяців тому

    "He's in Wang Chun" Lmao 40:00

  • @tomswiftyphilo2504
    @tomswiftyphilo2504 11 місяців тому

    I was hertneck after a fender-bender gave me whiplash

  • @michaelfavata2720
    @michaelfavata2720 Рік тому

    05:25 that was magnus carlsen who said that

  • @chrismyers7433
    @chrismyers7433 Рік тому +2

    The game Connect 4 came out six years before the game Robatsch--Jansa, as shown in the video, was played.

  • @tomswiftyphilo2504
    @tomswiftyphilo2504 11 місяців тому

    why is that unusual? Lots of chess grandmasters study botvinnik

  • @TheRealRussell
    @TheRealRussell Рік тому

    @22:31 after ...Bxf6, isn't Qxe4 just unstoppable mate in 2?

    • @andrewkarsten5268
      @andrewkarsten5268 Рік тому +1

      Well, sort of. I think that is better than what Ben gave as analysis, but after …Nf5 Qxf5 black can play …Qxd3. Obviously losing, but maybe the computer prefers Ben’s variation for some reason, but no doubt white is winning in either variation.

  • @anonymousAJ
    @anonymousAJ Рік тому

    29:45 What about Rf5? Saving the rook, attacking the queen, and if Qg8 there's Rf8 protected by the bishop

    • @mgsxx
      @mgsxx Рік тому +1

      Qe8 will be mate

    • @anonymousAJ
      @anonymousAJ Рік тому

      ​@@mgsxx oh right

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety Рік тому +1

    So apparently Ben wouldn’t be embarrassed if he missed pawn takes queen. Very suspicious. 🤔

  • @klodm.2064
    @klodm.2064 Рік тому +1

    Weird you didn't mention Botvinnik, who was also like a doctor of computer science.

    • @suezuccati304
      @suezuccati304 11 місяців тому

      Also an electrical engineer

  • @virioguidostipa5681
    @virioguidostipa5681 Рік тому +1

    About orchids I only know that the name means "testicles" in Greek. But in chess I am equally knowledgeable!

  • @kmarasin
    @kmarasin Рік тому

    Qd2 is filthy

  • @12jswilson
    @12jswilson Рік тому

    14:11 not gonna lie, I would also have played Nxd5

    • @12jswilson
      @12jswilson Рік тому

      21:15 I was thinking f6 because it reminds me of Fischer-Benko with Rf6

  • @Demian_R
    @Demian_R Рік тому

    Who doesn't have a good Vlastimil Jansa story?

  • @germanchris4440
    @germanchris4440 11 місяців тому

    It was Carlsen, not Kasparov, who said Nunn was too intelligent to become world chess champion.

  • @mepex
    @mepex Рік тому

    go me, I was only wrong half the time, better than usual

  • @atwarwithdust
    @atwarwithdust 11 місяців тому

    You can edit Wikipedia, you know.

  • @aaronaragon7838
    @aaronaragon7838 Рік тому

    Next up: best games of Ginger GM.