Great Players of the Past: Yasser Seirawan Part 1
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2023
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Yasser Seirawan is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. This lecture was recorded September 11, 2023 in Roswell, Georgia.
08:51 Yasser Seirawan - Jan Timman, KRO Match 1990
19:53 Yasser Seirawan - Anatoly Karpov, Phillips and Drew Kings 1982
29:02 Yasser Seirawan - Vasyl Ivanchuk, Groningen Candidates 1997
34:59 Vlastimil Hort - Yasser Seirawan, Bad Kissingen 1981
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Ben, if you spent a whole video just talking about Yasser and not showing any games, that would make an excellent video!
And talk about what he had for dinner on a specific date?
@@GymChess I like stories
Yasser and Ben are the two people that did the most for chess in the UA-cam age. You can scream hikaru and levy all you want but they were grinding out commentary and analysis of excellent games by the likes of “w”esley “s”o while levy was still making PIPI in his pampers.
Jerry from ChessNetwork should also get some recognition too
Jerry and John "Big B". Hikaru is a great player and very fun to watch. I never understood why people would watch Levy more than 5 seconds. But it's OK because I don't understand a lot of stuff...
@@berktung8410 true. I forgot that Big Johnny Bart was also an OG Chess UA-camr. Thanks for reminding me
Watching levy is the most shitty thing you can waste your time in
Since the earlier UA-cam days kingscrusher and chessnetwork were the most productive channels. CN still uploads regularly. He's a legend. Ben is fun and Yasser is a nice guy so you can give them that. Now Naroditsky is the best. But having Nakamura and even Carlsen streaming is some incredible gift to all chess nerds.
"Randomly selected", poor Freddie Mercury of chess, famously plays for the USA and has to deal with that. Yasser is a beast on the board and the most gracious of people to know. A superb teacher and a charismatic force of nature.
I was at this monumental lecture where Ben didn't flip the board for the last game. A very rare and exclusive event
In the late 1980s the 5-time Florida champion SM Gary Sanders (2450-ish) was my chess teacher. He played blitz against Yasser many times. Gary said the games would be played very quickly and Gary would get a good position. Then Yasser would do something strange like move his knight to the rim. Gary would pause to think, then try to punish the error. The game would then begin again being played fast, and Yasser somehow would always win the endgame. Gary shook his head as he could not understand what happened. =)
I played Yasser once. He beat me! He was very gracious in the analysis afterwards. Good guy.
Ben you seen rejuvenated. What ever you are doing keep it up.
I can confirm...I am not Ben or a GM...
I bought several of Yasser's chess books when I was a kid. I loved those books, he is an awesome chess teacher. Now I spend all my time involving chess watching Ben lecture and play. My two favorite chess personalities, and this is a three part series. Oh my this is awesome.
Yasser and Ben are the people who I admire most.
Yasser is my all time inspiration as an American Chess player. Great Chess player, Great Teacher. His Legacy exists and has impacted so many things in the Chess Community. A Great man.
Yasser is everyone's favourite Chess Uncle.
It feels like it's the 100th upload of the video about Yasser ahahaha
Never enough though
This lecture was recorder like a week ago, but i get how you can think otherwise
Loved seeing the game vs Karpov. The only chess book I've read front to back was his Play Winning Chess, and he covers this game briefly so it was very nostalgic to recognize it again. I hadn't thought about it since.
Yasser and Ben just great. Yasser the perfect gentleman. One rampaging little kid sabotages a lecture from him with nonstop questions while he answers patiently. While GM Finegold. No talking. Partial credit. Raise your hand when you want to say something. Rule 2. Don't raise your hand. Bathroom over there. Well, the list goes on
Yasser has mesmerizing lectures, both on ChessBrah and the Saint Louis chess club channels. Well worth a watch.
Yasser has such a wonderful, creative way of playing chess, all his old games are so interesting. I'll always remember his game that he lectured on where he defeated John Nunn, it was also a Caro Kann and he won with an amazing attack on the queenside where Nunn had castled. Who wouldn't be proud to beat a straight up genius at chess? I know I'd tell everyone, forever.
GREAT lecture! Alas, I think some of my games are in the best games collections of some of my opponents.
Developing a bishop in the end game. Good job. :)
I was hoping you would open with "Thanks to our sponsor, Yasser Seirawan"
The only thing I have to add is that Danya’s Yasser impression is excellent.
Danya's impressions of anyone are excellent lol
I’d give Danya’s impressions an A for effort and humor, but they’re pretty awful. 😂
"Carlsen is the world champion now." Poor Ding, getting no respect at all. As expected.
I think if he also defeats the next candidates winner, that would really solidify him as a champion in more peoples minds. It's unfortunate for him, I like DIng a lot, but I think this is the only way he can take a step out of Carlsen's shadow.
That tells you all you need to know about the word "random" in the phrase "random selection"
Ben I'd love if you did a series of Peter Leko. He is such a great commentator idiots like me can understand the games! And he was world number 2 or something
Update: you already did it 3 months ago!! Wonderful!!
18:45 Obviously silly, but if you premove Rd8+ black could play QxN (giving away the queen except you premoved something else) followed by Qg8 and you have to win the pawn-up endgame which I think is possible but black doesn't have to resign yet
Ben and Seirawan are peak chess rizz. Aman brings Yasser on chessbrah when he needs the female demographic to tune in.
in the first game, where did Jan Timman actually go wrong? i cannot fathom it..........
32:28 what an impressively bad position for black.
1. King in the center, unable to castle or get to the edges of the board anytime soon.
2. The center is full of rooks and pawns which can move to open up the position. It's not a dead center. Black's missing e pawn and black's c pawn are the reason why the center can open up. Black decided to move both of those pawns to weaken his own center.
3. Every black piece is doing jack and shit to protect the black king, and they're perfectly positioned on the edges of the board, doing nothing, coordinating in no way, shape, or form. Well, that knight on c5 is really well defended, but other than that...
4. Black's pawns have created weak squares all over the kingside, and doing very little to protect the center, and they're doubled or backward or not defended by other pawns because they're at the base of a tiny pawn chain. The b pawn, the d pawn, both f pawns, the h pawn, and by extension the g pawn, are all doing nothing, are weak, ineffective, or currently being attacked, or their movements have made weak squares. The c pawn shouldn't have moved. The a pawn isn't going to defeat white all by itself.
It is just such an ugly position to look at. Never do this.
Ivanchuk's a legend but his play that game was pretty suspicious. Trading the dark squared bishop early and pushing on the queenside is the exact opposite of how they teach you to play the KID, so when that happened I was like "must be some special GM home analysis"
But then he gets a borderline lost position out of the opening and is totally blown off the board by move 20 lol
I guess Ben has forgiven Yas for taking his job. LOL
when are you going to do a Great Players of the Past: Magnus Carlsen
Min 19 against premove Qxe6. Still losing against Rd8, just in a king and pawn Endgame
He played Ng5 with advantage 😂
"that was some Yasser attacking wins"... That prolly was all Yassers attacking wins :p
That was Dick Cavett, Ben
No wonder Morphy was so good!
It's pretty nuts how good Ben looks now since he went Vegan. Go Vegans. Go Ben!
My first 2 chess books, back before electricity ... Bobby Fischer Teaches chess , and Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser.
Come on, Karpov? I could beat Karpov!
Your opening statement is an illegal move because you could watch the video in the future..