Mikheil looks like the the evil headmaster of your boarding school. Kantholi looks like your cool uncle that helped get beer for your 16th birthday party.
it's funny you mention it, the British grandmasters are forbidden to sacrifice the queen. India, as a member of commonwealth, does not have such a strict rule, but you are frown upon if you sac the queen and don't win a brilliant game afterwards.
Kantholi is not exactly his family name but his native place, as is the custom in Kerala, South India where he is from. So it is more apt to call him Ratnakaran, or Ratna for short. Which agadmator does so well.
The computer analysis of the queen sacrifice is really interesting. The engine recommends not sacrificing the queen and instead capturing the pawn with the queen, but if you make this move, the engine immediately evaluates white as much better. But if you go against the engine's recommendation and sacrifice the queen as Ratnakaran did, the engine suddenly evaluates an improvement for black.
that legit doesnt make sense on the engine's part, thats some bad evaluations then lol. its like dont make the move, but if u make it, u get an advantage
@@rohangeorge712 That's because engines don't consider all the lines. They only consider those that look decent. So a queen sacrifice without immediate advantage is probably not considered by engine. But when you play the move and engine goes deep into that line, that's when it realises that it's a good move.
Just checked lichess analysis of this game. It shows +1.3 after c×d5 and recommends Q×d5 after which evaluation is +1.4. After playing N×d5 the evaluation goes to 2.5. With B×Q it drops to 0.4 and with Knight capture it drops to 0. The most interesting part of the analysis to me was that at 4:54 engine suggests the same move that he played instead of capturing the bishop. At this moment engine says take the c7 pawn and it's still a draw but after the move in the game it's -1.1.
This is a very interesting game. Most of the time when you see a queen sacrifice, it is based on an impending checkmate. Here, black gives up the queen early in the game, yet completely dominates, and there really isn't much white can do. It really shows you just how powerful a superior position, and piece development is.
Such games are very rare because Queen sacrifices are very dangerous and not many players take such risks against titled players, but also because of the fact that their is usually some drawback or way that the enemy can pounce back. These games are truly out of this world and should be enjoyed to the fullest because of the great thought and effort put into them. Great production agadmator and marvelously played Kantholi Ratnakaran (got to give him respect for a move that maybe players like Anand, and Carlsen wouldn't have played.)
15:43 if you hear that sound, congratulations. You are an excellent hearer of subtle fart noises and if you just wanna enjoy the show take a deep breath.
I've been watching your videos and they have really helped me improve my game I went from 1400 to 1700 since I started watching. Also my grandma taught me how to play. I dont live near her, so we dont really get to play. But every birthday of hers I go over and play. I beat her for the first time in a first to 5. She cried with happiness. I've never seen her smile so much. Thank you x
I Appreciate it, but loving all chess players irrespective of nationality would be better IMO. We are all humans who have a mutual interest in chess and are here to have fun!
What amazes me is your ability to pronounce Indian names so accurately! And there is no doubt that you try and know the pronunciation before you make the video. Kudos to that!
As a newbie with 29 years and no training, I went from 900 to ~1600 in aprox 7 months at 1-min bullet at Lichess. I've even beated a 1,8k as a 1,4 once - something I could never hope for, lal. Got to thank Agad, Suren, Daniel Leite, Anna Rudolph and the other YTs for making me interested on this fascinating game! Keep it up with the good job, Antonio! Cheers from Bra-fucking-sil =D
one dislike so far from Mchedlishvili. I showed this to my family, the experts, and they said " Of course that black wins- his pieces are on top of the board and easier for them to go down on whites pieces". me: whaaat...
Slightly off-topic here, but just wanted to say that your name pronunciations are so on-point, & not a moment of hesitation before saying both names. You got the Indian one absolutely perfect. I wish everybody associated equal importance towards getting people's names right!
Matori, tek na ovom klipu sam čuo da si komšija; iz nekog razloga sam mislio da si Rus; ne znam zašto... Svaka čast za klipove, gledam ih već neko vreme, iako nisam neki šahista; prosto je zanimljivo. Inače sam profesor engleskog, pa svaka čast i za tečno pričanje jezika. Velik pozdrav iz Novog Sada.
Look above at the Mikhail Tal's quote about the dark forest !!!!! In my country it is very unusual, because only time two man sit alone in a car, is to travel to edge of dark forest and make bang bang bang in anoos
Truly masterful play by black. I have been exploring the English opening for a few weeks now and was wondering about this "Reverse Sicilian" and if it was real. Great video!
2:38 Nxd5! I sometimes refer to moves like these as gateways to what I call "deeper chess". For me deeper chess is chess where the computer's evaluation is jumping all around... My Stockfish with just 17 ply in it gives the position only +2.6 for white (considering that Black is down an entire Queen!) and and on move 12. Be6 (after following the computer line just like the players did the computer is giving the position as a draw with only +0.4 for white (ply 21 now) so I'm pretty sure that Alpha Zero playing with Black could win this game any time against Stockfish since that on move 12 the game is a draw but a kind of a draw where by a single mistake by any side will be a terrible blunder... So deeper chess can only be reached by crazy non symmetrical positions where there is some material imbalance but the game is still a draw. This is like a second layer of chess that will always remain hidden unless someone crazy enough starts probing it. For example the Traxler is yet another gateway to deeper chess where the more you dive into it the more you find interesting variations. People say that the number of possible chess games is an immense number and I think that the only way to reach those hidden chess games is to seek for those unbalanced positions that engines really suffer and their event horizons starts kicking in every early!
I do not know why I find the sacrifices as something comfortable at the moment of playing chess, but it makes everyone think "that boy is coool af he gave his queen for that pawn 🤣"
keep up the good work...im not much of a player but i really enjoy watching these videos. Amazing ... Im really enjoying the background facts and history, that is really adding a lot to your videos!!!! So thanks !!
The difference between Tals Queen sac and others Queen sac.. Others queen sac: Hmm Let's see what I can do now😅 Tal after a sac: See what I can do now😈
I keep coming back to this game. Yes, if you're Indian, you can take pride in it and that's okay, but the beautiful thing about chess is than anyone can take joy in a game well-played. It comes down to 2 guys, 2 sets of pieces, and a chessboard. It's not about nationality, but about making good moves. To sac a queen so early in the game in such a fluid position and come out on top--what can I say but 'wow!'
I showed this game to a hot girl in a bar. She said "What's the idea, here? That isn't the main line. You are not a most excellent developer of pick-up plans"
Mikheil looks like the the evil headmaster of your boarding school. Kantholi looks like your cool uncle that helped get beer for your 16th birthday party.
It really keeps surprising me...
German law allows beer and wine with 16.
Kantholi, the cool math teacher. Mikheil, the grumpy chemistry assistant.
Andrew Erickson lol
Man well said 🤣🤣🤣
Kantholi looks like a father who would beat his kid in front of his class
You are only UA-camr that pronounces Indian names very correctly.
Love from India
Akshay Bharate Not even Indian youtubers pronounces Indian names correctly?
@@pronemanoldbutyoung5548 you must be dumb.
@@theoneaboveall6751 Since he was obviously just joking, maybe you are the one who is dumb?! (and also not very polite)
Overlordsen maybe he wasn’t joking? Hmmmm....🤫🤫🤫🌚🌚🌚😜😜😜🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Does Google Translate do okay with the pronunciation of Indian names, or should we look elsewhere?
"I always sacrifice my queen, sometimes intentionally."
-Ben Finegold
"I always sacrifice my queen, and lose miserably."
-Me
he wanted to win the game so he made the losing move -Ben Finegold
Lol
Maybe try the opposite. Try to lose your queen. What did George say? If you know your thinking is bad, don't listen.
The beauty of the chess is that if something doesn't work, there's probably good reason that it doesn't work.
Pablo Escobar really knows his chess tactics😂
The Eastern Escobar
As a colombian I really hate how Escobar has become so famous 😩
Nailed it😂
hahaha
lol
" . . .He wants to punish his opponent's insolent play." LOVE IT!
Someone:God save the Queen!
kantholi: I don't need one.
it's funny you mention it, the British grandmasters are forbidden to sacrifice the queen.
India, as a member of commonwealth, does not have such a strict rule, but you are frown upon if you sac the queen and don't win a brilliant game afterwards.
That's so interesting.
@@johnrubensaragi4125 surely he us joking?
panda4247 I searched it up, and absolutely nothing came up, so it’s obviously a joke
@@panda4247 such creative BS lol
Sometimes I do queen sacrifice...... But for Resignation
Haha nc
You made ne laugh. Hahaha
:D
I know, right? To hell with that bitch.
I was about to say the same thing.
I am the swiss Tal, but most of the time, I end up sacrificing my king.
🤣🤣🤣
Lmao plus comment of the day.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Well i guess im not that bad then😂😂
*I showed this to my family*
They looked at me in silence
_they don't play Chess lol_
Hahhahahah damn, this is funny
this made me laugh so hard LOL
😂😂😂
Ahahaha 😂😂😂😂
@@Larsykfz303 I think that's just huge amounts of sarcasm and hyperbole. Lol
Really no one will do a queen sacrifice against a player who is better than him :
Indian im: hold my chicken biryani
Lol 🤣
Lol
😂😂😂😂
In case of Ratnakaran, it's more like "Hold my Bisibele Anna"
@@sircosm kantholi is from kerala meanwhile Bisibele anna is a karnataka dish. I think Malabari Chicken Biriyani is more apt.
Really proud of Mr. Ratnakaran ,keralite from Calicut,Indian Railway staff member,International Master from India
Its not just patriotism but also being grateful to identify yourself by only the country you belong to.
Did you teach him?
Mm keraleeyan anu alle
Aha. Malayali aayrnno
@@gokulkpeethu6642 aney
If you blunder a piece in the opening you can say it is a Gambit ;)
we already have some naming for them, such as "Botez gambit" :)
@@shaykh5555 Hahahaha, the Botez gambit
"You can always call your blunders sacrifices" - Aman Hambleton
@David Huang You just have to win the game.
😂🤣
-Quote of the day 10:20
“ Lemme just have a nice sip of my water “
- Agadmator 2019
“Every move is like a slap in the face” LMAO
"You have gained title: Indian Tal"
Ability: when queen gets sacked you win the game
his games are actually crazy. It's a pity he is not a gm.
😂thats a pretty damn good ability. man i need ability that says when my king gets mated, i win the game. man i would win all games then 😂
Kantholi is not exactly his family name but his native place, as is the custom in Kerala, South India where he is from. So it is more apt to call him Ratnakaran, or Ratna for short.
Which agadmator does so well.
I’d show my family but they’d be too scared of the Tal quote.
Tal is smoking his Cuban cigar up above whilst watching this 😎😎
Not really. He ded
@Oissev Onos there you go. I almost lost faith in UA-cam.
The computer analysis of the queen sacrifice is really interesting. The engine recommends not sacrificing the queen and instead capturing the pawn with the queen, but if you make this move, the engine immediately evaluates white as much better. But if you go against the engine's recommendation and sacrifice the queen as Ratnakaran did, the engine suddenly evaluates an improvement for black.
that legit doesnt make sense on the engine's part, thats some bad evaluations then lol. its like dont make the move, but if u make it, u get an advantage
@@rohangeorge712
That's because engines don't consider all the lines. They only consider those that look decent. So a queen sacrifice without immediate advantage is probably not considered by engine. But when you play the move and engine goes deep into that line, that's when it realises that it's a good move.
Just checked lichess analysis of this game. It shows +1.3 after c×d5 and recommends Q×d5 after which evaluation is +1.4. After playing N×d5 the evaluation goes to 2.5. With B×Q it drops to 0.4 and with Knight capture it drops to 0. The most interesting part of the analysis to me was that at 4:54 engine suggests the same move that he played instead of capturing the bishop. At this moment engine says take the c7 pawn and it's still a draw but after the move in the game it's -1.1.
Important thing was he gave up Queen for 1 knight.
That was the bizarre part.
But the fact is he didn't capture that right away...
@@manoojkumaarbalasubramania3878 thats what high-level players do. See the whole game out before acting.
WOW, that´s one of the most exciting chess games i´ve ever seen!
That knight capture in slowmo @60fps is sooo awesome. 😀
specially the part when pawn bleeds and its all red drops in the air and camera shifts slowly from side to side.
"Queens are temporary
Pride is forever"
- Kantholi
This is one of the most amazing games I've ever seen. He deserves the title "Indian Tal" for this game alone.
This man continues to slay the name pronunciation game 👏👏 I applaud you
When Antonio says "this game is a must see," I pay attention! What a delightful game that was!
Jeez, what a beast. calling him tal is so fitting.
Once, I calculated how I will win the game in 10 moves after sacrificing my queen.....
But
Then I realized I didn't have Queen
*have
*HavE
Good one boss👌😂
@Pichkalu Pappita bruh it's have, take it from a native speaker.
No, “didn’t “ is always used with the present form of the main verb.
This is a very interesting game. Most of the time when you see a queen sacrifice, it is based on an impending checkmate. Here, black gives up the queen early in the game, yet completely dominates, and there really isn't much white can do. It really shows you just how powerful a superior position, and piece development is.
I feel this unbelievable. I was privileged to play against ratnakaran during my school and college days.
Such games are very rare because Queen sacrifices are very dangerous and not many players take such risks against titled players, but also because of the fact that their is usually some drawback or way that the enemy can pounce back. These games are truly out of this world and should be enjoyed to the fullest because of the great thought and effort put into them. Great production agadmator and marvelously played Kantholi Ratnakaran (got to give him respect for a move that maybe players like Anand, and Carlsen wouldn't have played.)
Nezhmetdinov & Tal would be proud :)
and also all of his tactical predecessors as well.. Alekhine, Spielmann, and of course the legendary
Morphy...
"Activity above all !", this was against the idea of balance of power, just beautiful....
I second that! _(The greatest moves are done during the most active games at the highest risk.)_
15:43 if you hear that sound, congratulations. You are an excellent hearer of subtle fart noises and if you just wanna enjoy the show take a deep breath.
A year later, how does this not have more likes😂😂😂
@@iMP05T3R because it probably wasn't a fart
It's distortion in audio so. It happened twice in the video
It's because the king couldn't move to e2 as it was guarded by the bishop on b5
I heard that and I thought he mouthed it to represent a lost game or bad move.
6:10 since when did discoveries start being nice instead of nasty?
Damn Ratnakaran's mustache is so solid it almost looks drawn on
Greatest Queen sacrifice but no water sacrifice by agadmator
I've watched this match more times than any other chess match. It's brilliant and a master piece.
I've been watching your videos and they have really helped me improve my game I went from 1400 to 1700 since I started watching. Also my grandma taught me how to play. I dont live near her, so we dont really get to play. But every birthday of hers I go over and play. I beat her for the first time in a first to 5. She cried with happiness. I've never seen her smile so much. Thank you x
Chris Peacock gj man, u’ve made the lady proud. Have u referred her to agad’s channel? 🤣
@@joshepjohnson2761 I have we have watched 15 videos together. Even though i had already seen them
There's no way anyone can comment on all those options and moves so quickly. My theory is he has a really deep voice and it's played at double speed.
Insane game. Tal would be proud.
That's why i love indian grand-masters.. they always come up with interesting yet, unknown openings that will make yourself want to play against him.
Indian Tal. IT. Suits perfectly for us Indians 😂
Dr. MG M sahi khel gya bhai!
also a theme of sacrificing(or something else) woman (in this case queen) describes modern indians as well
@@mariomanojlovic3407 was thinking more like Serbian B*****s 😂
@@mariomanojlovic3407
It does?
Could you elaborate on that?
@@xCorvus7x, he is referring to the largely outdated practice of sati or suttee.
Who are Indians here?!
Do you know how much we respect you as chess players? 💕
🙏🙏🙏
I Appreciate it, but loving all chess players irrespective of nationality would be better IMO. We are all humans who have a mutual interest in chess and are here to have fun!
@@aarfeenanees9147 maybe he means he thanks India for inventing Chess
Every country has good chess players.
If u see me play you will have doubts.
I checked in stockfish. Nxd5 (giving up the queen) was an accurate move. In the 1st half of the match, he played like an engine.
“Let me just have a nice sip of my water...”
I don’t know why I had to laugh out loud
For queen sacrifices, please cover Kotov Averbakh 1953. PLEASE
#suggestion
Lol, i was reading a book yesterday and it talked about that one game/sacrifice.
Time really flies! I subscribed last time you only have lesser 15k or 20k subs then now ALMOST HALF A MILLION. Just wow lol
Great quote by Tal. Describes his playstyle perfectly.
What amazes me is your ability to pronounce Indian names so accurately! And there is no doubt that you try and know the pronunciation before you make the video. Kudos to that!
As a newbie with 29 years and no training, I went from 900 to ~1600 in aprox 7 months at 1-min bullet at Lichess. I've even beated a 1,8k as a 1,4 once - something I could never hope for, lal.
Got to thank Agad, Suren, Daniel Leite, Anna Rudolph and the other YTs for making me interested on this fascinating game! Keep it up with the good job, Antonio! Cheers from Bra-fucking-sil =D
keep it up man, love ur content 👍 🌹
One of the more complex forward thinking game. Brilliant man
Beautiful game. I saw it live but your coverage is amazing. Well done. Keep it up
You can't have ANiceSipOfMyWater® without asking us to pause the video and find the move that Black played. Not fair buddy
What a great video of a great game. The slow-mo replay was pure awesomeness. Thank you!
Please put both players in thumbnail, so it won't spoil stuff :D
What???
I like how you setup the room including the vacuum cleaner in the back. Makes everything look warmer and more familiar.
He sacrifices his Queen and plays so perfectly without it, every move is Just perfect without mistakes im amazed what an player this man is
Truly incredible, I wonder how far he planned it
Wooowww.. Awesome..
Agad... India loves you
one dislike so far from Mchedlishvili.
I showed this to my family, the experts, and they said " Of course that black wins- his pieces are on top of the board and easier for them to go down on whites pieces". me: whaaat...
bakerman12 Yeah dude, Isaac Newton invented gravity
🤣🤣
Underrated comment
😆😆😆
Simply awesome.. Normally I don't use this adjective (awesome). But today I am using it . A brilliant game to say the least. What a game! Thanks .
I wwould love to see more Ratnakaran!
Slightly off-topic here, but just wanted to say that your name pronunciations are so on-point, & not a moment of hesitation before saying both names. You got the Indian one absolutely perfect. I wish everybody associated equal importance towards getting people's names right!
games of International master's are more interesting than Grand masters.
Also less accurate
Big if true.
Actually true, more interesting play
agreed
Matori, tek na ovom klipu sam čuo da si komšija; iz nekog razloga sam mislio da si Rus; ne znam zašto... Svaka čast za klipove, gledam ih već neko vreme, iako nisam neki šahista; prosto je zanimljivo. Inače sam profesor engleskog, pa svaka čast i za tečno pričanje jezika. Velik pozdrav iz Novog Sada.
Look above at the Mikhail Tal's quote about the dark forest !!!!!
In my country it is very unusual, because only time two man sit alone in a car, is to travel to edge of dark forest and make bang bang bang in anoos
Truly masterful play by black. I have been exploring the English opening for a few weeks now and was wondering about this "Reverse Sicilian" and if it was real.
Great video!
Can chess be sexy ?!
YES
Yaa cause in chess and sex there is one common factor and that is
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Position 😁😄😃😀
Even without a queen 🤣🤣
I never thought about chess in slow motion...but damn that agadmotor voice in the background with a nice slow moving knight makes it awesome!
But for me no need to sacrifice queen, opponent will take without my permission , wtf
The only chess channel where I can watch Chess and be entertained as if im watching Netlix...Samo naprijed Antonio!
I sacrifice pieces often. It mostly works for the opponent.
I usually end up sacrificing my king. I guess I don't like monarchy.
2:38 Nxd5! I sometimes refer to moves like these as gateways to what I call "deeper chess". For me deeper chess is chess where the computer's evaluation is jumping all around... My Stockfish with just 17 ply in it gives the position only +2.6 for white (considering that Black is down an entire Queen!) and and on move 12. Be6 (after following the computer line just like the players did the computer is giving the position as a draw with only +0.4 for white (ply 21 now) so I'm pretty sure that Alpha Zero playing with Black could win this game any time against Stockfish since that on move 12 the game is a draw but a kind of a draw where by a single mistake by any side will be a terrible blunder...
So deeper chess can only be reached by crazy non symmetrical positions where there is some material imbalance but the game is still a draw. This is like a second layer of chess that will always remain hidden unless someone crazy enough starts probing it. For example the Traxler is yet another gateway to deeper chess where the more you dive into it the more you find interesting variations. People say that the number of possible chess games is an immense number and I think that the only way to reach those hidden chess games is to seek for those unbalanced positions that engines really suffer and their event horizons starts kicking in every early!
I do not know why I find the sacrifices as something comfortable at the moment of playing chess, but it makes everyone think "that boy is coool af he gave his queen for that pawn 🤣"
keep up the good work...im not much of a player but i really enjoy watching these videos. Amazing ... Im really enjoying the background facts and history, that is really adding a lot to your videos!!!! So thanks !!
Agadmator started a new trend in chess with his video about queen sacrifice 😂😂 i would like to know how many of it failed in the last period 😂
A really spectacular game definitely worth seeing!
This is one of the weirdest games I’ve ever seen.
Odlicno, svaka cast na prezentaciji
The difference between Tals Queen sac and others Queen sac..
Others queen sac: Hmm Let's see what I can do now😅
Tal after a sac: See what I can do now😈
One of the most existing game I watched
Thanks for your video! and keep doing your work 👍
Clicked as soon as the notification popped up
let me just have a nice sip of water😂😂😂... hilarious
After seeing thumbnail pic I thought Pablo Escobar playing chess.
I keep coming back to this game. Yes, if you're Indian, you can take pride in it and that's okay, but the beautiful thing about chess is than anyone can take joy in a game well-played. It comes down to 2 guys, 2 sets of pieces, and a chessboard. It's not about nationality, but about making good moves. To sac a queen so early in the game in such a fluid position and come out on top--what can I say but 'wow!'
If I saw those people from photos in the street, I would run away xD
yeah. how the why they are playing this game LOL
loved the slow motion shot of the sacrifice!
I hope I will be able to sacrifice my queen and win the match one day, One day.........
Tournament from my state... :)
Goa, India
thank you agadmator for covering this.
The thirst gambit declined!
Yes, Tal was famous for his sacrifices 👍🏻very beautiful and brave power play, bravo Kantholi! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is chess! great game, thanks for finding it and showing it !
14:16 - Black rook to D1. White king has to move to F2. Black pawn promotes with check. White king has to move again. Black is up a rook and a bishop.
Ah the famed Scottish Georgian Grandmaster Mikheil McHedishvili
6:31 Is knight to c2 a possible move for Ratnakaran? Knight attacks rook and queen, bishop attacks queen as well.
*NO* , KNIGHT PROTECT E-6 square , if knight goes to C-2 ,
White bishop capture black bishop on E-6 with a check
@@hemasingh8033 thanks! That makes sense now!
I showed this game to a hot girl in a bar. She said "What's the idea, here? That isn't the main line. You are not a most excellent developer of pick-up plans"
hahahahaah
Successful night? 😉
cringe
Fantastic game, and as usual, superb analysis.
Thanks.
Im picturing him actually trying to show this game:
"Honey!! You have to see this game!!"
"Shut up!! Stop it with this chess thing!! I dont care!!!"
First Murali Karthikeyan, now Ratnakaran.... World beware of the Indian Juggernaut!