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Silicon Road is all about the best chess on the planet and how to learn from it! This channel shows how to use chess engines like Leela and Stockfish as powerful training partners in the opening, middlegame and endgame, and help you improve your chess in exciting and modern ways. This channel showcases the games of top engines such as Stockfish and Leela which feature powerful opening novelties, amazing tactics and fantastic endgame technique! We also dive into human games - modern and classic - and uncover fresh new ideas and surprising conclusions with the help of our silicon assistants!
I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler: a 2-times British Champion ranked in the world’s top 50 for many years and a prolific author. My three most recent books - Re-Engineering the Chess Classics (co-authored with my childhood coach Steve Giddins), The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement, and Game Changer (written together with Natasha Regan) are all about learning from and training with engines.
I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler: a 2-times British Champion ranked in the world’s top 50 for many years and a prolific author. My three most recent books - Re-Engineering the Chess Classics (co-authored with my childhood coach Steve Giddins), The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement, and Game Changer (written together with Natasha Regan) are all about learning from and training with engines.
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: The Italian Fury! Mariotti-Eppinger Italy 1969 1-0
This video is in the Re-Engineering the Chess Classics series! To celebrate the publication of my new book (written together with my childhood coach Steve Giddins) I am examining a series of classic games - just as we did in the book - using the creative engine analysis techniques I described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" At the same time, I get to indulge my current obsessions for a couple of classic players ;)
This series of videos spotlights the great Italian player Sergio Mariotti, Italy's first grandmaster whose love of gambits and attacking play earned him the nickname (given by the British Chess Magazine apparently!) of "The Italian Fury"!
This game is a bright and breezy Sicilian hack featuring a very interesting anti-Najdorf system with some rather cool engine improvements to boot!
My sincere thanks to Claudio Logallo who responded to my Twitter and Mastodon appeal for information about Sergio Mariotti by sharing the vast amount of information he has gathered about Mariotti's career. I hope the planned book does come to fruition! Any mistakes are mine as my Italian is not very proficient!
Mariotti was born in 1946, became an International Master in 1969 and became the first Italian Grandmaster in 1974. From 1975 onwards, he was an amateur, fitting his chess in next to a full-time job in a bank.
He was an exceptional attacking player and his talent was such that no less a player than Mikhail Tal said of Mariotti that he would have been World Champion if he had been born in Russia. And indeed when you consider the players he beat brilliantly in the 70s and 80s - Korchnoi, Gligoric (twice), Polugayevsky, Benko, Andersson, Nunn - all of them in their prime, then you realise how strong he was!
For Italian speakers out there, do also take a look at th-cam.com/users/GAMBITOCLUB which is a series of 17 videos (some additional games) in which Mariotti demonstrates games himself!
I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler, a 2-times British Champion, and ranked in the world’s top 50 for many years. I’m also a prolific author. My latest book "Re-Engineering the Chess Classics" appeared in May 2023. It uses the techniques described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" to analyse afresh thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters.
"Re-Engineering the Chess Classics" is available from here:
www.newinchess.com/re-engineering-the-classics (Paperback English edition)
www.amazon.co.uk/Re-Engineering-Chess-Classics-Reappraisal-Thirty-Five/dp/9083311260/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1683579197&refinements=p_27%3AMatthew+Sadler&s=books&sr=1-1 (Paperback English edition)
"The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" - which came out in October 2021 is, just like this channel, all about learning from and training with engines.
The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement is available from here:
www.newinchess.com/engine-training (Paperback English edition)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/9056919830/ (Paperback and Kindle)
forwardchess.com/product/the-silicon-road-to-chess-improvement (Digital)
"Game Changer" came out on 20th January 2019 and won the prestigious ECF Book of the Year and FIDE Book of the Year prizes for 2019! The award-winning Game Changer - written together with Natasha Regan - brought the amazing chess games of DeepMind’s AlphaZero to the world. The Game Changer chess book is available in print and digital versions from these links:
newinchess.com/game-changer (Paperback English edition)
forwardchess.com/product/game-changer (Digital)
www.chessable.com/game-changer-alphazeros-groundbreaking-chess-strategies-and-the-promise-of-ai-/course/19061/ (Digital)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/9056918184 (Paperback and Kindle)
www.amazon.de/Zeitenwende-Schach-AlphaZeros-Bahnbrechende-Verheissungen/dp/9056918850 (Hardback German edition)
#siliconroad
#matthewsadler
#reengineering
This series of videos spotlights the great Italian player Sergio Mariotti, Italy's first grandmaster whose love of gambits and attacking play earned him the nickname (given by the British Chess Magazine apparently!) of "The Italian Fury"!
This game is a bright and breezy Sicilian hack featuring a very interesting anti-Najdorf system with some rather cool engine improvements to boot!
My sincere thanks to Claudio Logallo who responded to my Twitter and Mastodon appeal for information about Sergio Mariotti by sharing the vast amount of information he has gathered about Mariotti's career. I hope the planned book does come to fruition! Any mistakes are mine as my Italian is not very proficient!
Mariotti was born in 1946, became an International Master in 1969 and became the first Italian Grandmaster in 1974. From 1975 onwards, he was an amateur, fitting his chess in next to a full-time job in a bank.
He was an exceptional attacking player and his talent was such that no less a player than Mikhail Tal said of Mariotti that he would have been World Champion if he had been born in Russia. And indeed when you consider the players he beat brilliantly in the 70s and 80s - Korchnoi, Gligoric (twice), Polugayevsky, Benko, Andersson, Nunn - all of them in their prime, then you realise how strong he was!
For Italian speakers out there, do also take a look at th-cam.com/users/GAMBITOCLUB which is a series of 17 videos (some additional games) in which Mariotti demonstrates games himself!
I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler, a 2-times British Champion, and ranked in the world’s top 50 for many years. I’m also a prolific author. My latest book "Re-Engineering the Chess Classics" appeared in May 2023. It uses the techniques described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" to analyse afresh thirty-five of the most fascinating and complex chess games ever played by World Champions and other top grandmasters.
"Re-Engineering the Chess Classics" is available from here:
www.newinchess.com/re-engineering-the-classics (Paperback English edition)
www.amazon.co.uk/Re-Engineering-Chess-Classics-Reappraisal-Thirty-Five/dp/9083311260/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1683579197&refinements=p_27%3AMatthew+Sadler&s=books&sr=1-1 (Paperback English edition)
"The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" - which came out in October 2021 is, just like this channel, all about learning from and training with engines.
The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement is available from here:
www.newinchess.com/engine-training (Paperback English edition)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/9056919830/ (Paperback and Kindle)
forwardchess.com/product/the-silicon-road-to-chess-improvement (Digital)
"Game Changer" came out on 20th January 2019 and won the prestigious ECF Book of the Year and FIDE Book of the Year prizes for 2019! The award-winning Game Changer - written together with Natasha Regan - brought the amazing chess games of DeepMind’s AlphaZero to the world. The Game Changer chess book is available in print and digital versions from these links:
newinchess.com/game-changer (Paperback English edition)
forwardchess.com/product/game-changer (Digital)
www.chessable.com/game-changer-alphazeros-groundbreaking-chess-strategies-and-the-promise-of-ai-/course/19061/ (Digital)
www.amazon.com/gp/product/9056918184 (Paperback and Kindle)
www.amazon.de/Zeitenwende-Schach-AlphaZeros-Bahnbrechende-Verheissungen/dp/9056918850 (Hardback German edition)
#siliconroad
#matthewsadler
#reengineering
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Silicon Road: Leela gives Knight Odds! Piece up? Have another pawn!
มุมมอง 4022 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
In July 2023, the Leela team introduced a feature called WDL (Win/Draw/Loss) Contempt. Behind this austere technical name, there's something amazingly cool! Leela is able to play in a risky and aggressive style, unbalancing positions to maximise its winning chances. One of the cool side-efects of this ability is an amazing strength at odds (handicap) chess, where Leela gives the opponent a knig...
Silicon Road: Leela gives Knight Odds! The immortal 4-piece sacrifice game!
มุมมอง 7064 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
In July 2023, the Leela team introduced a feature called WDL (Win/Draw/Loss) Contempt. Behind this austere technical name, there's something amazingly cool! Leela is able to play in a risky and aggressive style, unbalancing positions to maximise its winning chances. One of the cool side-efects of this ability is an amazing strength at odds (handicap) chess, where Leela gives the opponent a knig...
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: The Italian Fury! Mariotti-Kortchnoi Rome 1982 1-0
มุมมอง 4877 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This video is in the Re-Engineering the Chess Classics series! To celebrate the publication of my new book (written together with my childhood coach Steve Giddins) I am examining a series of classic games - just as we did in the book - using the creative engine analysis techniques I described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" At the same time, I get to indulge my current obsessions for...
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: The Italian Fury! Mariotti-Polugayevsky Budapest 1975 1-0
มุมมอง 5939 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This video is in the Re-Engineering the Chess Classics series! To celebrate the publication of my new book (written together with my childhood coach Steve Giddins) I am examining a series of classic games - just as we did in the book - using the creative engine analysis techniques I described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" At the same time, I get to indulge my current obsessions for...
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: The Italian Fury! Mariotti-Gligoric Zonal 1969 1-0
มุมมอง 66412 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา
This video is in the Re-Engineering the Chess Classics series! To celebrate the publication of my new book (written together with my childhood coach Steve Giddins) I am examining a series of classic games - just as we did in the book - using the creative engine analysis techniques I described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" At the same time, I get to indulge my current obsessions for...
Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Exchange pieces, ignore pawns! Leela-Caissa TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Entrenched squares! Leela-Caissa TCEC Swiss 7 1-0 This video is in the Great Engine Games series! Another lovely game from Leela in which a single dominant theme - the domination of Black's passive dark-squared bishop by Leela's knight - is pursued from beginning to end. A classic demonstration of the technique of exchanging the right pieces to leave the oppone...
Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Entrenched squares! Leela-Ethereal TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Entrenched squares! Leela-Ethereal TCEC Swiss 7 1-0 This video is in the Great Engine Games series! It's a lovely opsitional squeeze from Leela starting from an opening position that suits its style down to the ground. An early (book) advance of the g-pawn in a Budapest Gambit secures Leela the f4-square for its pieces in perpetuity. Leela uses this asset beaut...
Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! One of the best attacks ever! Equisetum-Leela CCC Rating Brawl
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! One of the best attacks ever! Equisetum-Leela CCC Rating Brawl This video is in the Great Engine Games series! An absolutely glorious attacking game from Equisetum against the mighty Leela Zero! Were there any pieces that weren't en prise during the game?! Some wonderful attacking chess and some heavenly quiet moves to complete a fantastic win! I’m grandmaster ...
Human Games: Ljubojevic-Kortchnoi Linares 1985 1-0
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This video is in the Human Games series! While reading a biography of the great Viktor Kortchnoi, I came across a description of a stunning queen sacrifice that had been played about him by the equally great Yugoslavian player Ljubomir Ljubojevic. It was this game... and it didn't disappoint! I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadler, a 2-times British Champion, and ranked in the world’s top 50 for many y...
Human Games: Budapest Olympiad 2024 Lithuania-Germany Stremavicius-Keymer 1-0
มุมมอง 83421 วันที่ผ่านมา
This video is in the Human Games series! A game that caught my eye from the recent Budapest Olympiad. Keymer's 3...h6!? in the opening (modern chess!) leads to a complicated middlegame where both players display great ingenuity. Keymer parries Stremavicius' creative temporary piece sacrifice well but a fatal misstep (overambition?) leads to a brisk tactical finale! I’m grandmaster Matthew Sadle...
Silicon Road: Great Engine Openings! The Anti-King's Gambit 2...f5?!?
มุมมอง 93821 วันที่ผ่านมา
Just a fun little video: an opening beloved by Soviet master Sergei Belavenets... 2...f5 against the King's Gambit! All the analysis in the video can be found in the Lichess study I am now using to publish my analysis: lichess.org/study/GJ5NRo9a/nAejPJQP This analysis has mostly been performed with the Torch engine (versions 2 and 3). A huge thanks to Andrew Grant and chess.com for allowing me ...
Silicon Road: Great Engine Openings! Obsidian's hint against the Budapest ! Part 9
มุมมอง 88828 วันที่ผ่านมา
The Olympiad in Budapest stimulated me to take a good look at the Budapest as it seemed fun to take a look at the official opening of that fine city! This series of 9 videos looks at the ideas behind the Budapest Gambit and dives into the creative engine recommendations for White against it. This ninth video looks at a creative idea suggested by the new Obsidian engine while I was analysing the...
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-L.Steiner Podebrady 1936 1-0
มุมมอง 402หลายเดือนก่อน
This video is in the Re-Engineering the Chess Classics series! To celebrate the publication of my new book (written together with my childhood coach Steve Giddins) I am examining a series of classic games - just as we did in the book - using the creative engine analysis techniques I described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" At the same time, I get to indulge my current obsessions for...
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Soultanbeieff Ostend 1936 Draw
มุมมอง 442หลายเดือนก่อน
This video is in the Re-Engineering the Chess Classics series! To celebrate the publication of my new book (written together with my childhood coach Steve Giddins) I am examining a series of classic games - just as we did in the book - using the creative engine analysis techniques I described in "The Silicon Road to Chess Improvement" At the same time, I get to indulge my current obsessions for...
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Bogolyubow Stockfholm 1930 0-1
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Back to Crazy! Stockfish-Komodo Dragon 3.3 Matthew Games 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Book Kemeri 1937 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Book Kemeri 1937 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Keres Helsinki 1935 0-1
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Keres Helsinki 1935 0-1
Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Playing ugly! Leela-Halogen TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Playing ugly! Leela-Halogen TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Grob Ostend 1936 0-1
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! It's all about the squeeze! Leela-Obsidian TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! It's all about the squeeze! Leela-Obsidian TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Stahlberg-Naegeli Prague Olympiad 1931 1-0
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Breaking all the rules! Leela-Seer TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
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Silicon Road: Great Engine Games! Breaking all the rules! Leela-Seer TCEC Swiss 7 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Spielmann-Stahlberg Match 1933 g4 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: Spielmann-Stahlberg Match 1933 g4 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Leonhardt-Tartakower Karlsbad 1907 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Leonhardt-Tartakower Karlsbad 1907 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Leonhardt-Loman London 1904 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Leonhardt-Loman London 1904 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Bogolyubow-Leonhardt Magdeburg 1927 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Bogolyubow-Leonhardt Magdeburg 1927 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Leonhardt-Rubinstein Ostend 1906 1-0
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Leonhardt-Rubinstein Ostend 1906 1-0
Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Schlechter-Leonhardt San Sebastian 1912 Draw
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Re-Engineering the Chess Classics: the crazy Leonhardt! Schlechter-Leonhardt San Sebastian 1912 Draw
This has become my favorite channel, I watched every single video, I own 2 of your books, consider me a Fan :) i hope you keep on making videos for a long time
This series of videos spotlights the great Italian player Sergio Mariotti, Italy's first grandmaster whose love of gambits and attacking play earned him the nickname (given by the British Chess Magazine apparently!) of "The Italian Fury"! This game is a bright and breezy Sicilian hack featuring a very interesting anti-Najdorf system with some rather cool engine improvements to boot!
I can't help but wonder if Caruana has been watching this after seeing the Caruana-Shankland game in the US championship last night.
Rc7 is a beautiful idea, really need to be very paranoid playing these strong engines. Limit complications as much as possible.
Love how Leela makes sense of the improved development she has on account of the missing horse :) would love to see her have a go with rook odds too …
Yes it does speed things up quite a bit having one piece fewer to develop! 😂😂 Weel you know there is lichess.org/@/LeelaRookOdds and even lichess.org/@/LeelaQueenOdds 😊😎
I managed to be the first person to beat it in 1+0(and still no one else has beaten it in this time control to this day)
It took me like 200 games but in a lot of them i resgined really early because i knew it would be impossible to convert in 1+0 Tried close to every opening out other and found one that worked
😊😎
The Rc7 idea reminds me to always consider moves that look impossible
Yes it totally shocked me too! 😊
I doubt I would ever find Bg5-Rc7 combination. Excellent once again Matthew.
Thanks Allan! It took me completely by surprise too - it's whyI liked this game so much! Best Wishes, Matthew
Didn't expect Rc7! I was trying to make Qxe5 haha
Yes me too! Rc7 was pretty cool! 😊
Back in March, we watched Grandmaster David Navara beat Leela in a knight-odds match (th-cam.com/users/liveb04MPlCSL24) but Leela has made another huge jump in strength. In this series, we look at some of the spiciest games...and they are AMAZING! Somehow in this game, Leela achieves equality already by move 12 - by sacrificing a pawn on top of the handicap piece! - and then a winning position by move 17! The detail is a brilliant rook sacrifice on move 23 that rips apart Black's position!
This game was against a 2010 in 10-minute in lichess? 2010 on lichess is not strong at all any engine could win with knight odds. Why not show wins against strong players.
Plenty of games against strong players! There's also room for beauty in chess!
Wow! Leela is my favourite engine and demonstrates why right here in this game! Thanks for sharing all of this, your channel is so good 👍
Yeah this is something only Leela can do! 😊
Ahhh leela my queen,glad i had a bath before i met up with her tonight.
😂😂
Wonderful. Another example of the wonders of engine chess. Thank you as always
Thanks Allan! 😊
Fabulous
Ah thanks! I loved it too! 😊😊
Engines playing with odds against humans is currently my favorite chess topic. The games they produce amaze me. Thanks for your coverage!
Glad you're enjoying them! These are just something completely unique! 😊 😊
Back in March, we watched Grandmaster David Navara beat Leela in a knight-odds match (th-cam.com/users/liveb04MPlCSL24 on this channel) but Leela has made another huge jump in strength. In this series, we look at some of the spiciest games... and they are AMAZING! This game features a sacrifice of 3 pieces (4 including the odds knight!) which leads to a wall of pawns washing over the black position. Within 29 moves, Leela has checkmated the opponent's king on its side of the board!
Today's stat: Position Count ( Approx. ): 46,656,277,090 And there are 15 opening 1st moves now, which have same score (e4 and d4 are not leading anymore).
Wow! That is massive! 😯😯
@@SiliconRoadChess it seems to me you don't even need an engine anymore, for two reasons: first, most moves you can check with CDB, and second, even if move is not evaluated yet can evaluate it with CDB big networked computers much faster than even on Chessify cloud servers (let's not even mention home snail PCs)
Additionally 16:50 I guess Keymer didn‘t fancy …Bxe3 because of this Na4 thing, he probably didn‘t see all these complications that you showed, he is human after all
Yeah it is tricky to evaluate and it's not that tempting against a player you might be thinking of trying to beat.. it might have been different if he'd been playing Magnus!
First of all I‘d like to say that I really like your educational videos:) Secondly, I would like to lose a few words about the white player, Stremavicius. In July this year I played a classical game against him (I was very lucky to win, but that‘s not the point) and only while preparing did I notice what a fascinating player he is. Afterwards I even made a collection of his games. Since you do a series about the ganes of interesting players checked by modern engines, Stremavicius might be a noteworthy name:) I could make suggestions about the games of his that I like the most
Oh go for it! I didn't know him at all but I really liked the way he played this game - showed a lot of imagination!
I think engines follow the same principle Mariotti is using of letting the opponents piece drift away from the king seeking counterplay elsewhere before going for a decisive attack
Yes he seems to have the kanck of getting his opponents to do that! It's uncanny because they must have know he was a really good attacking player!
Looking at these games, it feels like Mariotti and Nezhmetdinov were cut from the same cloth. Nezh also played a brilliant attacking game against Polugaevsky - one of the classics! And while his game against Korchnoi ended in a draw, there was a similar idea of giving Viktor the queenside, while trying to squeeze out a victory on the opposite flank. As you say, Viktor was so combative, he would willingly enter into these risky double-edged contests.
Yes Viktor was always trying to keep life in the position but here he somehow ended up leaving his kingside empty of defensive pieces. And Mariotti is one of the worst people you could do this against! 😊
More or less a 3...g6 Ruy Lopez with an extra tempo
Yep! The extra tempo is always worth less than you hope but it does normally help you avoid the riskiest lines that you might face with Black!
This series of videos spotlights the great Italian player Sergio Mariotti, Italy's first grandmaster whose love of gambits and attacking play earned him the nickname (given by the British Chess Magazine apparently!) of "The Italian Fury"! This game is one of Mariotti's most famous victories, sweeping aside the great Viktor Kortchnoi - at the peak of his powers - with some non-standard opening and middlegame and a powerful final attack!
Hello, Mr. Matthew, if I find someone to publish the Chinese version of your book "GAME CHANGER", can you license the Chinese version of this book to us for only $1 copyright fee? - Chinese publishing houses publish chess books. For so many years, almost none of them have made money, and all of them have lost money. Therefore, it is almost impossible to find a publishing house to produce chess books. Unless someone is willing to buy 2,000 books from the publishing house at one time, the publishing house will not make a project. Hope to get your reply! Thanks!
Ah I'm not involved in anything like that. You'd need to ask New in Chess but I wouldn't hold out much hope!
@@SiliconRoadChess thank you!
The highlighting of the contrast between generals vs specifics and how implementation of the specifics in those days lead to formation of generals was great. I grew up with a nimzowitchian base and d5 does look "natural" to me somehow.
To me as well! I couldn't beleieve it when I saw the engine evaluation the first time! 😂
I'm italian and I am very happy you appreciate Mariotti like we do. Thanks!
Ah thanks! 😊 I've had a super time analysing these games - about 15 in total - and I could have picked out many more. He really was a superb player!
Very nice game! Great idea to get the Sicilian expert out of his mainline theory early doors.
Yes 4.Qxd4 is a pretty good line - I've played it quite a bit myself and somehow always got intersting games. Mariotti had a nice selection of ways to play against the Sicilian... including the Wing Gambit that we will see in later videos! 😊
This series of videos spotlights the great Italian player Sergio Mariotti, Italy's first grandmaster whose love of gambits and attacking play earned him the nickname (given by the British Chess Magazine apparently!) of "The Italian Fury"! This game is another wild Mariotti attack that confuses a battered Polugayevsky who starts move 36 with 2 extra pieces and reaches move 41 with a 4 pawn deficit!
The Italian opening is known as the beginner's opening, but this year, including Carlson, various top players use the Italian opening in major competitions. Therefore, this incident also shows that the Italian opening has strong vitality and unpredictable and intense progress. It is recommended that Dr. Matthew continue to study the Italian opening and make it a 20-30 video work, so that more people can benefit from it! - In addition, the semi-Slav defense is also a very old opening. Now Carlson occasionally plays this opening when playing black chess. It is recommended that Dr. Matthew also make ten half-Slavic defense explanation videos! Looking forward to your work! Wish you all the best!
Hello Mathew! I played the modren Benoni for years, with tons of analysis, I found out that the following versions are the best for black: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. f4 Bg4 and there is that one too 1. d4 e6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 exd5 4. cxd5 d6 5. Nc3 g6 6. e4 Bg7 7. f4 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 Nf6 I wish that I will find it played in some TCEC games)
Thank you Matthew! I am studying Moskalenko's book/chapter on dxe6 right now but I don't think I will ever dare to play Be2-g4...
It's Bc8-g4@@jeroenschuil1084
You should! 😊😊😊
Exciting chess! Many thanks for the stream Matthew. It took me back to the days when I used to meet the KI with 5. Be2 and 6. g4. I seem to remember putting together some sketchy repertoire based on a few games of Genrikh Kasparyan. Ah ... wild times ... nowadays, I'm opting for the less stressful Makogonov variation.
Ah we all get older and wiser! 😊😊😊
Very interesting game! Speaking of Candidates games, my coach yesterday put a position in front of me that was White to play and win - I took a good look at the position for 10 minutes and came up with 26.Ne2! He then let me know that the game was Sadler vs Dreev (1997) and I thought, "Well, Sadler's a super-GM so even though I have the benefit of knowing the motif he surely saw it as well..." Coach: "He went awry with 26.Rxd6? instead." That must've been quite upsetting! 😅
Yeah a trauma! I got distracted somehow, lost concentration - maybe too hyped / nervous 😢
Great content Matthew, thanks!
Ah thanks! 😊
This series of videos spotlights the great Italian player Sergio Mariotti, Italy's first grandmaster whose love of gambits and attacking play earned him the nickname (given by the British Chess Magazine apparently!) of "The Italian Fury"! This game is the first game of Mariotti's I ever saw when I was just 9 or 10 years old, and his name has resonated in my mind ever since! The great Svetozar Gligoric was brushed aside by a tornado of attacking play!
Bogolyubow - Alekhine Hastings 1922. Game of the century.
Ah I don't like Bogolyubov losses! 😉
I find it quite striking how tight leela's play was, the entire game for white relies on creating threats one after another, such that black had no time to activate the bishop, almost like leela saw the endgame from the start.
Yes that's really impressive indeed. It does have the feeling of almost having been seen out to the end from the first move!
I looked at the month-by-month performances of lichess games of leelaknightodds and right now in October it seems to be a good 200 elo stronger than it was in March. Would love to see a proper match again.
Yeah could be quite spicy! 😊😎
Hi Mr Salder, I hope you don't mind me asking this but what kind of chess program do you use for analysis with engines? Sorry if it's a silly question, I don't really know that much.
No worries! I tend to use Fritz GUI for my engines. I think there are better choices but this works fine as my needs are basic!
@@SiliconRoadChess thank you!
This was a brilliant game, can you give a link to the game or a pgn? I want to save this one!
I'm really sorry I can't seem to reacht it anymore on chess.com. I don't know whether they have cleaned things up but I can't go that far back in events any more. Sorry!
I found your reaction to Soultanbeieff's Nxe4 sac interesting. When I saw Nxe4, I started cracking up, thinking, "wow, what a hilarious troll", while you mentioned that Black's pawn mass looked "worrying." I guess you were thinking more, "I'm up a piece but maybe have some difficulties; +1.5 ish", while I was thinking "I have more horse in opening. +3"
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Lovely. Reminds me of some of Magnus’s games, where after exchanges he is left with the better minor piece. It looks like simple chess, but is anything but.
Yes it's quite amazing judgement. Struggling a bit to work out how you could make that sort of judgement in your own games... I know I'd just be spending all my time during the game kicking myself for not taking a free pawn 😊 And yet that feeling of having cashed in too early by grabbing material is very familiar too!
"the overwhelming positional advantage that Leela feels it already has" I don't know much about AI in general or about Leela & Co in particular. But I doubt Leela feels or knows she has a positional advantage. That is human thinking. I suppose Leela calculates an awful lot of lines from here and not taking the pawn gives her better results. Humans think in terms of positional advantage. And sometimes the computer eval shows them, there is none. Because there is always a move the opponent can play to prevent you from materializing any advantage (in many cases a human has very little chance to find all those moves, so for a contest between humans it is an advantage). That's the difference between human thinking and machine "thinking".
Yeah, it's just a choice of words. But it's not all calculation: the quality of the evaluation is what makes this possible. If it was just calculation then pre 2017 engines would have played like this and they certainly didn't!
Hello! I recently found out your channel and it's fantastic! Really congratulation. Actually i have a question: i tried to found the answer by myself watching the Leela opening repertoire but i don't found the answer In a video (Dojo) one of the hosters says that in the caro the favorite Leela line for white is 2.Nf3 d5 3. D3 Which is actually the reason why i got interested in engines opening lines and found your channel But in Leela opening repertoire i don't even found such move being mentioned. Can i know more about it? Also considering that such line does really well looking at master database
Hmmm I don't think it's Leela's favourite line tbh - the Advance Caro-Kann is what engines generally prefer - but I guess this line is not as dead as it looks! The best way to learn about it is to organise some engine games of your own from resulting positions that interest you (as I do on this channel) Really instructive!
@@SiliconRoadChess Thanks a lot for your kind reply! In your videos the Advance was indeed the suggested line: therefore my question. It seemed weird to me also that Leela suggested that line; but at least this mistake led to your channel. Again, congratulation and sorry to bother: I still have to figure out how to run different engines on my PC and whether or not my old laptop can resist to them ahahaha
@@Anish-x3w No problem! In general Stockfish is pretty strong on anything but Leela needs the more expensive hardware (graphics card) to be strong. Leela fans have to sacrifice more for their favourite engine! :)
This is fascinating! I'm curious to know the extent to which engine play and analysis has confirmed or refuted the old dictums of chess, such as "always take towards the centre", "knights before bishops" and "don't bring your queen out too early". Some of this 'knowledge' is kind of obvious and will be baked into the evaluation function, although that may make it a self-fulfilling prophecy to some degree perhaps. What's really interesting to me is seeing the counterexamples, i.e. where the engine has clearly gone against received wisdom but has obtained an advantage as a result.
Ah I have a very interesting example of that coming up in the next series! 😊😊
@@SiliconRoadChess Fantastic... I will keep a look out for that!
Nc3 was really nice! I appreciate that you tell us how the different engines do against each other from different positions, it really makes the video more enjoyable!
Ah thanks! Yes I can't imagine analysing in any other way now tbh! Really gives you so much insight to see actual games taking place rather than just a number on a screen!
Love your analysis and excitement :)
Ah thanks! 😂😊
Highly instructive and insightful. Top video, thanks.
Thanks! 😊😊😊
How Leela played with b5 and not capturing the pawn is actually a common theme in the Ruy Lopez. I play the Arkhangelsk with both colors. Out of experience i have learned with black i never bothered about the b5 pawn when it is attacked with Na3, while as white i am most of the time not interested in it either. Often I capture it anyway, because as white you often dont have a better plan either. What I often have trouble with is judging the strength of a knight on d5. In this case it was strong on d5, but I have the feeling Leela had to see 20 moves ahead that it was indeed the case. I remember Carlsen games with black both in the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian where white has a strong knight on d5 and Carlsen completely plays around it as if it doesnt exist.
Yeah the judgement was very fine indeed. That knight really paralysed the black position... I guess the difficult judgement is working out whether you have follow-ups to incerase or transform the advantage this knight gives you. That's what always gave me agonies at the board. Trying to understand whether you have chosen a durable advantage that can be developed further or whether you've gone down a path that just fizzles out!
Great video, looking forward to the new series 😊
Thanks! Looking forward to it too: some really lovely chess to come! 😊