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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 …

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)

The Rc7 idea reminds me to always consider moves that look impossible

I doubt I would ever find Bg5-Rc7 combination. Excellent once again Matthew.

Didn't expect Rc7! I was trying to make Qxe5 haha

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.

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 👍

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

Fabulous

Engines playing with odds against humans is currently my favorite chess topic. The games they produce amaze me. Thanks for your coverage!

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).

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

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

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

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.

More or less a 3...g6 Ruy Lopez with an extra tempo

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!

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.

I'm italian and I am very happy you appreciate Mariotti like we do. Thanks!

Very nice game! Great idea to get the Sicilian expert out of his mainline theory early doors.

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!

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)

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.

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! 😅

Great content Matthew, 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.

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.

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.

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.

This was a brilliant game, can you give a link to the game or a pgn? I want to save this one!

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"

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.

"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".

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

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.

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!

Love your analysis and excitement :)

Highly instructive and insightful. Top video, 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.

Great video, looking forward to the new series 😊