I would love to see a book full of pause the video moments from your channel with brief explanations for the solutions on the back of the page or at the back of the book. Love the content as always
Sac your pawns so you can check the opponent's king is the deepest idea I have ever seen. this magical game of chess still impress humans day after day!
The deepest move I've ever seen was in the Alpha Zero game where it sacrificed a bishop in the middle game for what appeared to be no compensation, yet it converted that into a win in the long run. It was insane
@@alexwells8923 No link unfortunately. I can't seem to find the game again, but it was one of the wins that AlphaZero had over Stockfish in that paper. If I find it, I'll report back here
Man if only we knew when this video came out that Antonio saying Hans is playing really good classical chess as of late was kinda a peek into the madness of the chess world today
This truly is an amazing game. One of those, when I really feel how magical the game I have fallen in love with is. Incredible stuff, good to see Fabi winning again
They want him to decide before they get the venue and the sponsors, because they are worried that if he pulls out in the last moment they can lose these sponsors.
@@harshvardhan283 "The last moment" doesnt mean a day before, you dummy, it means after the venue and sponsors have been signed, which can be even over half a year before.
It was a tough situation and the format put a lot of pressure on him. Rapport collapsing mentally and gifting the game to Ian most have been incredibly troubling. As a Fab fan for over 11 years it was mind blowing and sad to see this happen. We only get so many chances, fan and player alike. It's sad to see the only man I believe giving Magnus a real match isn't there and may not be again, let alone make it to the candidates. We cannot take it for granted. He is getting older and the younger guns are on the rise. I'm happy to see him win too. Sadly it's not at the most opportune time.
After 61 Ke3, Black did play Kxe6, but any other move would allow White to force a draw. Of course, Black would not make any moves to blunder the Queen but allowing White Kd2 or Kf2 with the pawn on the board protecting it with his rook draws!!
Maybe you are right but both player will make a queen at same time but black have extra night and 2 connected pass pawn. He is the only one playing for win here. Also white has no pawn.
15:32 Do the king have to capture on E6? Can't he hide and then make it impossible for the rock to return and capture the knight with check or would that end in a perpetual ?
King doesn't have to capture the e6 pawn and can play Kd6 instead. But then you can march your own pawn forward and queen it in the next move. Black cannot avoid perpetual checks then. If black plays his King back to d8, you keep on checking him until he either captures the e6 pawn or leaves the file. When I saw the draw, I thought that he will talk about Kd6 variation as it looks cool.
@@ksasidhar @ksasidhar I just played it out on the board and I see now that if Kd6, E7, G3 then white can play Kxe2 stopping black from queeningany of his pawns with check
Hi agad, I was looking back at your old videos with a friend its hard to know when the game was played. Maybe include the date of the games even for the recent games? Thank you and i love watching your videos. Been watching you for 2 years now 😊
That ending is absolutely incredible! One has to wonder if chess was invented by men, or passed down to us by the Gods when you see things like this. Who could ever conceive of such things?
Tough Hans I do root for Hans I like his style of play and he’s a Great Chess player he gets a bad rap from a lot of people so to see him win to me means he’s overcoming controversy this game he was outplayed Goid Game Thanks for the Breakdown Analysis
Fabi played like an absolute gangster. Sacrificing material readily, and that too on multiple occasions, in order to retain the initiative made the game absolutely beautiful.
After white plays Knight c4 and black playing Queen c5 (position 4:47) it seems to me that a much better response is possible for white that may have been overlooked... a response that wins him two of black's pawns! It goes like this: white plays K c x e5 (a move that seems impossible at that moment cause that pawn is both attacked and defensed two times) and if black wants to respond to this he could only do it with his own K c x e5... now white plays Q x e6! - at the same time suddenly giving extra coverage to e5, where he now can take back the Knight.
I also don't agree on Antonio's analysis of the position they arrive at at 12:08, of which he says there's little to worry about... what about white at this moment playing Knight f7+, after which black can only respond with King d5 or c5 (whilst c6 would lose him his Queen by means of a fork from white's Knight of course).. white now can take the e5 pawn and gives check whilst he's at it!
And finally, I ALSO suspect, that white could come out of the theoretical end game, where we see Agmatador have him give up his two pawns and only still operating his Rook, whereas black has two pawns marching towards the end line and a Knight. After white would have moved his Rook to the proposed c8, he should leave it there for a moment and next move approach those two dangerous pawns in a somewhat roundabout manner, namely via g1. (A good place for white's Rook by the way would be f8, so that black's King can't come help the pawns, but I think he may have no time for that..)
Please, check a game that GM Supi played with white against "Silversik". A similar theme that he played against Carlsen, but with Queen and bichop sacrifice. Interesting blitz game. The title of the vídeo is "a mais violenta da história do canal". Second game.
"...a deadline would be weird, cause they dont have the venue, the sponsors...". Lol that's exactly why a deadline wouldn't be weird... they got a lotta things to figure out, getting sponsors before knowing if Magnus is playing is pretty much scamming the dudes, not the same at all.
12:15 but knight f7 check. Queen can follow the check by picking up a pawn and giving another check, or if the king hits the only white square, he'll be forked. GG
@@datbrnoob205 still a free pawn. Then just Queen a5 check, continue the harassment until you can pick up the c4 pawn. kn f7, b Kc7, Qe5, b KNd6, Qa5... if b Kc8 then you get a free knight with Qc5 check, b Qc7 block, Qd6 takes, b Qd6 exch, KNd6 takes. If b Kb8 then just Qb4 check. If b KN blocks on b5, just be weary of perpetual check and continue the favorable position, block the black queen's file with KNd6 and play on. Black would need to move his queen to b7, leaving the perpetual file, and his knight undefended. I think its playable but maybe I missed something clever along the way. Either way I'm a bit tired of writing hypotheticals since there are so many options lol.
Rc8 was the only move sacrificing the white pawn, because it's the only move that can result in white not losing... Although, I'm not sure what'd be the better moves afterwards 🙈🤣🤧
Hans is very good but this game shows the gap between players close to 2700 and super gms. At last Fabi wont a game after a horrendous 2nd half of candidates.
Dude I love your channel and I'm a long time subscriber and I always will be. Just one comment here or constructive feedback (and I realize might be an idiot and be wrong, so I own that): please don't start capitalizing words on video titles like all other channels are doing for hyperbole purposes. I think I follow you precisely because you don't do all that BS. Thanks again for your videos :)
King takes e2 knight, pawn to g2, rook to c1, pawn to h2, king to f2. This is as far as I went at first, but black ends up with a queen no matter how you slice it.
Actually it makes sense to know if magnus is playing or not before getting to sponsors :) ... even sponsors would like to know...or might already be asking that #suggestion
Venue and sponsors for the world chess championship depend a lot on whether the champion is taking part or not. So I respectfully disagree with agadmator on this. Fide needs to know if he is taking part or not affirmatively to go ahead with the next steps
Just wondering, at this level is it unusual to play out the queen and rook endgame for that long? i’m not clued in to all that stuff but given how early super gm’s resign endgames, is it still ‘sportsmanlike’ to try and play the rook and queen endgame when your opponent is also a 2700+ player?
At this point of the game why cant the white rook go to d7? And then next move for white would be checkmate after black could get in one check, isnt that the way it would work?
I realised Antonio didn't upload yesterday, so i figured he must have sacrificed yesterday's videos for some activity today
That's a " pause the video moment "👍
He actually needed a day off for haircut 😝
He sacrificed yesterday's videos for some action... from his woman 😃 🤣.
@@jowbloe4700 from Medo
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I would love to see a book full of pause the video moments from your channel with brief explanations for the solutions on the back of the page or at the back of the book. Love the content as always
#suggestion That'd be a great book!
And sell it for 1$, great idea bro lol
Excellent review of this intriguing end game. Antonio is the best at highlighting and explaining these complex positions. Thanks!!
Sac your pawns so you can check the opponent's king is the deepest idea I have ever seen. this magical game of chess still impress humans day after day!
Totally. Amazing idea
The deepest move I've ever seen was in the Alpha Zero game where it sacrificed a bishop in the middle game for what appeared to be no compensation, yet it converted that into a win in the long run. It was insane
@@harbhub what game was that? Have a link?
@@alexwells8923 No link unfortunately. I can't seem to find the game again, but it was one of the wins that AlphaZero had over Stockfish in that paper. If I find it, I'll report back here
@caveman Yes I believe it was Bg5. Do you know the game?
A Very instructional end game. Thank you
Man if only we knew when this video came out that Antonio saying Hans is playing really good classical chess as of late was kinda a peek into the madness of the chess world today
"Not going for the strongest move with the pawn to b4"
😂😂😂
i hope fabi does well in his next few events following the second half of candidates' collapse...
The Evans gambit joke gets me every time 😂
This truly is an amazing game. One of those, when I really feel how magical the game I have fallen in love with is. Incredible stuff, good to see Fabi winning again
Definitely one of the best games you've ever covered! Good Job!
Cool stuff indeed. Antonio's talent as a communicator is also amazing.
They want him to decide before they get the venue and the sponsors, because they are worried that if he pulls out in the last moment they can lose these sponsors.
Makes sense to me
Why would he pull at the last moment 😂😂😂, it will be extremely disrespectful for nepo and embarrassing for magnus himself
@@harshvardhan283 "The last moment" doesnt mean a day before, you dummy, it means after the venue and sponsors have been signed, which can be even over half a year before.
@@amjan ohh yes dummy I understand what last moment means, magnus knows this Mr. Genius
@@amjan you completely missed the point of my comment 😂😂😂😂
Spectacular! Niemann will remember this game for the rest of his life, I think...
Agamador I love it I just love it! You got a way with words, the amazing chess is one thing, and the masterful commentary is another.
So happy to see fabi winning!
He tried way too hard on the second half of the candidates.
It was a tough situation and the format put a lot of pressure on him. Rapport collapsing mentally and gifting the game to Ian most have been incredibly troubling. As a Fab fan for over 11 years it was mind blowing and sad to see this happen. We only get so many chances, fan and player alike. It's sad to see the only man I believe giving Magnus a real match isn't there and may not be again, let alone make it to the candidates. We cannot take it for granted. He is getting older and the younger guns are on the rise. I'm happy to see him win too. Sadly it's not at the most opportune time.
Thanks for the great content! I always enjoy watching and learning.
After 61 Ke3, Black did play Kxe6, but any other move would allow White to force a draw. Of course, Black would not make any moves to blunder the Queen but allowing White Kd2 or Kf2 with the pawn on the board protecting it with his rook draws!!
Watching your videos is very inspiring indeed. Your unique style of commentaries is very interesting and thousand thanks for the same!
After a long time, finally Agad tells us to show a position to our friends in the bar and library
Usually Agadmator says “this game will make your day” but it usually only makes my hour. This game, however, got different.
Germany has a professional darts league, a professional ping pong league, and a professional chess league. Insane!
Fabi just crushed stockfish or leela.
@15:30 when rc7 check instead of capturing the pawn the king goes to d6
Wont this still keep fabi winning?
This would let white be able to push their pawn and make a queen, and it would probably still be a draw, I think
Maybe you are right but both player will make a queen at same time but black have extra night and 2 connected pass pawn. He is the only one playing for win here. Also white has no pawn.
I am waiting for the elite players to go for Evan's Gambit just to see the happy face of the Agadmator.
This channel is unbeatable
This is what happens when you miss the opportunity to go for the Evans gambit.
Awesome sacrifices all around. Love it
Very interesting game. Thanks to Niemann for not resigning and let Caruana give a lesson about Queen vs rook endgame.
Beautiful game! Thank you for the excellent review 🙏
15:32 Do the king have to capture on E6? Can't he hide and then make it impossible for the rock to return and capture the knight with check or would that end in a perpetual ?
King doesn't have to capture the e6 pawn and can play Kd6 instead. But then you can march your own pawn forward and queen it in the next move. Black cannot avoid perpetual checks then. If black plays his King back to d8, you keep on checking him until he either captures the e6 pawn or leaves the file.
When I saw the draw, I thought that he will talk about Kd6 variation as it looks cool.
@@ksasidhar @ksasidhar I just played it out on the board and I see now that if Kd6, E7, G3 then white can play Kxe2 stopping black from queeningany of his pawns with check
What an exciting, tactical game. Great to see Fabi in good shape after a hard end to the candidates.
Hi agad, I was looking back at your old videos with a friend its hard to know when the game was played. Maybe include the date of the games even for the recent games? Thank you and i love watching your videos. Been watching you for 2 years now 😊
"...Queen and rook ending which you all know very well because you're amazing at chess"
proceeds to give detailed tutorial of queen and rook ending
Rc8 is an amazing move
That feeling when u figure out a move correctly when he tells you to find out the only move 😃
Looking clean with the fresh haircut Antonio 😎 I see you!
That ending is absolutely incredible! One has to wonder if chess was invented by men, or passed down to us by the Gods when you see things like this. Who could ever conceive of such things?
Every Hans comes up I hear "Han Smokey Niemann"
Excellent game and end game!
Just wanted to stop by and say THANK YOU Agadmator! You were the first, before any other channel.
Cheers to Fabi🎯🥂
Tough Hans I do root for Hans I like his style of play and he’s a Great Chess player he gets a bad rap from a lot of people so to see him win to me means he’s overcoming controversy this game he was outplayed Goid Game Thanks for the Breakdown Analysis
Awesome :)
Fabi played like an absolute gangster. Sacrificing material readily, and that too on multiple occasions, in order to retain the initiative made the game absolutely beautiful.
I found the best move, but for me it had no purpose, it was just blundering a pawn.
Wow! What a game. Simply beautiful. Thanks players and @agadmator for walking us through it :)
Very nice Philidor's Defense game!
#suggestion
12th round of the german Bundesliga
König Tegel - USV TU Dresden
Board 8
Dimitrijeski - Lutz
(my own Game :))
That's a great puzzle position.
After white plays Knight c4 and black playing Queen c5 (position 4:47) it seems to me that a much better response is possible for white that may have been overlooked... a response that wins him two of black's pawns! It goes like this: white plays K c x e5 (a move that seems impossible at that moment cause that pawn is both attacked and defensed two times) and if black wants to respond to this he could only do it with his own K c x e5... now white plays Q x e6! - at the same time suddenly giving extra coverage to e5, where he now can take back the Knight.
I also don't agree on Antonio's analysis of the position they arrive at at 12:08, of which he says there's little to worry about... what about white at this moment playing Knight f7+, after which black can only respond with King d5 or c5 (whilst c6 would lose him his Queen by means of a fork from white's Knight of course).. white now can take the e5 pawn and gives check whilst he's at it!
And finally, I ALSO suspect, that white could come out of the theoretical end game, where we see Agmatador have him give up his two pawns and only still operating his Rook, whereas black has two pawns marching towards the end line and a Knight. After white would have moved his Rook to the proposed c8, he should leave it there for a moment and next move approach those two dangerous pawns in a somewhat roundabout manner, namely via g1. (A good place for white's Rook by the way would be f8, so that black's King can't come help the pawns, but I think he may have no time for that..)
Antonio has that passive aggressive comment every time someone doesn't play b4.
Please, check a game that GM Supi played with white against "Silversik". A similar theme that he played against Carlsen, but with Queen and bichop sacrifice. Interesting blitz game.
The title of the vídeo is "a mais violenta da história do canal". Second game.
"...a deadline would be weird, cause they dont have the venue, the sponsors...". Lol that's exactly why a deadline wouldn't be weird... they got a lotta things to figure out, getting sponsors before knowing if Magnus is playing is pretty much scamming the dudes, not the same at all.
12:15 but knight f7 check. Queen can follow the check by picking up a pawn and giving another check, or if the king hits the only white square, he'll be forked. GG
Knight d6 to block the queen check
@@datbrnoob205 still a free pawn. Then just Queen a5 check, continue the harassment until you can pick up the c4 pawn.
kn f7, b Kc7, Qe5, b KNd6, Qa5... if b Kc8 then you get a free knight with Qc5 check, b Qc7 block, Qd6 takes, b Qd6 exch, KNd6 takes. If b Kb8 then just Qb4 check. If b KN blocks on b5, just be weary of perpetual check and continue the favorable position, block the black queen's file with KNd6 and play on. Black would need to move his queen to b7, leaving the perpetual file, and his knight undefended. I think its playable but maybe I missed something clever along the way. Either way I'm a bit tired of writing hypotheticals since there are so many options lol.
Am amazed how fabiano is already participating in a new tournament ☠️☠️☠️☠️
Why Fabi is mentioned as the most prepared GM. Especially whenever a candidate nears
360 club checking in
sees the guiocco piano on the board
HES GONNA SAY IT
Hi, can you cover a game with the Marshall defense
At 15:30 what if black plays …Kd8?
Rc8 was the only move sacrificing the white pawn, because it's the only move that can result in white not losing... Although, I'm not sure what'd be the better moves afterwards 🙈🤣🤧
Interesting end game review. I spent some time with this one OTB.
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Good stuff!
Hans is very good but this game shows the gap between players close to 2700 and super gms. At last Fabi wont a game after a horrendous 2nd half of candidates.
What a beautiful way to save the game Wow!
That b4 square should be renamed to agad1 to be honest
Hans looks like a weatherman with his photo lol
Dude I love your channel and I'm a long time subscriber and I always will be. Just one comment here or constructive feedback (and I realize might be an idiot and be wrong, so I own that): please don't start capitalizing words on video titles like all other channels are doing for hyperbole purposes. I think I follow you precisely because you don't do all that BS. Thanks again for your videos :)
Fabi always serves a masterpiece 🔥
I think it would really be interesting to see the Accuracy according to stockfish and does stockfish think its a brilliant move or not
at 15:05, why king captures knight would not be a draw? it looks like both pawns can be stopped
King takes e2 knight, pawn to g2, rook to c1, pawn to h2, king to f2. This is as far as I went at first, but black ends up with a queen no matter how you slice it.
Then pawn to h1 queen. Rook captures. G pawn to h1 queen. So it would be black queen against the white pawns, which can't really move.
Dang, what a way to win for Fabi
12:09 Nf7 and captures e5 pawn with check! - draw!
On the previous move black should have played …Kd8.
nah, the king escapes easily on c7
What a game!
surprise fabi is playing this event figure he would take it off to clear his head
15:29 if the black king goes to d6 don't black have winning chances?
“Capture Capture”.
This game is on up there with some of the best games ever played.
Actually it makes sense to know if magnus is playing or not before getting to sponsors :) ... even sponsors would like to know...or might already be asking that #suggestion
i'm up like 400 elo in the past few months, mostly form watching these vids
Antonio's hair is Very Nice 👌
Venue and sponsors for the world chess championship depend a lot on whether the champion is taking part or not. So I respectfully disagree with agadmator on this. Fide needs to know if he is taking part or not affirmatively to go ahead with the next steps
Clicked as fast as possible
I did find rook to c8 thank you very much, because I thought it was a brilliant checkmate.
What a game! Thanks agadmator (Antonio) as always for bringing this to us.
brilliant
Incredible game
at 12:36 why didn't he take Rook with Rook instead of Queen?
I hope you will follow few games from the NFL blitz event starting tomorrow.
Great game!
Just wondering, at this level is it unusual to play out the queen and rook endgame for that long? i’m not clued in to all that stuff but given how early super gm’s resign endgames, is it still ‘sportsmanlike’ to try and play the rook and queen endgame when your opponent is also a 2700+ player?
Niemann is a 2680. But yeah I don’t think it’s very common, especially amongst the top 20.
"Without error, there can be no blunder."
- I forgot who.
U fogor 💀💀
I was really bummed aged didn't bait us with saying niemann went for the Evan's gambit :/
please use other photo for Caruana, the lighting in tis one is not optimal and he look strange
I wondered how the position was possible.
Who is Hans hair stylist?? I need a new one and that looks pretty fire to me.
At this point of the game why cant the white rook go to d7? And then next move for white would be checkmate after black could get in one check, isnt that the way it would work?
At which time is the position you are talking about? Pause the video moment? Then king can just take pawn on e7 after check
what timestamp?
@@maskie4189 At the pause the video moment. After rook d7, can black stop it moving to d8 for checkmate?
@@czgibson3086 rd8 isn't checkmate though, the king takes the e7 pawn and nothing happens.
@@maskie4189 My foolishness is endless. Thank you!
at 21:54 cant you check the king with the rook anyway if queen takes its stalemate
The white king could go to G1 so it wouldn't be stalemate.
@@jeffreyprugpichailers7116 o yea i must be blind}
what a game!!!!