Hello Mr. Agad, today i hit the magical 2000 elo in rapid. I started almost 3 years ago during the first lockdown, and you were one of the first channels i subbed to and always a pleasure to watch. I cannot put into words how much you help me and how much you are doing for the chess community. Thank you so much Antonio, please never change.
@@RickyRicky-002 thank you, i won't lie to you, i kinda just got them from the start. I ranked in at 1300. Eric Rosen was very instructive too. Generally, you should learn two to three openings for each side that you know in and out. That way you start on the right foot. Obey the opening principles: 1. Develop your pieces 2. Place pawns in the center 3. Get castled 4. Strive for a setup 5. Obstruct your opponents plan Knowing openings is important, you will not just avoid mistakes, but also save precious time. For the middlegame, look for plans. Probably the hardest thing in chess is to come up with plans. Generally speaking, you just look to improve your pieces. Bring the knights to outposts, get the bishops on good diagonals, centralize your queen, get the rooks to open files. If you can correctly improve your position, you will force weaknesses. Weak squares, favorable trades, loose pieces, overextended pawns, backwards pawns and what not. Play against these weaknesses. Pile up on them. The pressure might overwhelm your opponent and make him blunder. The one tip that probably helped me the most is the following: Don't trade if you don't gain anything. If your opponent offers a trade, try to defend your piece in a way that your position improves if they capture. Let me tell you one thing. Chess is difficult, and teaching chess in a youtube comment isn't going to improve your rating. Learn, play, and most importantly: Have fun. It is a slow struggle, you will plateau sooner or later, but don't let that slow you down. Progress will come, it just takes time.
I think Fischer had more respect for Tal than any other player of this era, the stories of Bobby going to the hospital to visit Tal are a testament to their friendship.
You do an outstanding job explaining everything from beginning to end in your videos. Intro, back story, game, history, conclusion. Very comprehensive and easily digestible. Your format is elite. It's not easy to execute so congrats on cracking that code.
@UCw9Mf5EWw1MdlS3gT5Q41VQ He did I've watched them. The particular one in discussion is 5 years old. The sound quality isn't as good and I say his overall delivery has just gotten better.
@@studdpuppy85 Nepomniatchi, Firouzja, Rapport, and Aronian all play plenty interesting chess and perform very well. Players like Duda, Caruana, Giri, and Karjakin put me to sleep
@@ethangilworth7891 Let’s use Magnus as an example. You see him sometimes play some questionable chess to shake things up, and he loses much more when he does that. I’m just saying unfortunately the key to being the best of the best and winning the most games demands extremely precise stockfish like play.
@@studdpuppy85 I would say Magnus plays relatively interesting chess. Perhaps not the most interesting but he is much better than the likes of the few that I mentioned
Who is Agadmator? To the blind, he is the light. To the hungry, he is the bread. To the sick, he is the cure. To the lonely, he is the company. To the sad, he is the joy. To the prisoner, he is the freedom. For me, he is everything.
4 of those games were against 16 year old Fischer at the 1959 Canidates, when Tal was in peak form. Not to take away from Tal's brillant play but he also didnt play vs 1970-2 peak Fischer.
@@jamesknapp64 it is the same old song "16 year old BF". So what did Fischer have to lose, then? If he had beat Tal at 16, you would have said, "...and he was only 16 years old". Since he lost most games, same excuse, he was only 16 years old. Accept the stats. Period.
@@iaber1698 It's kind of like the FIDE rating system... A really strong player has everything to lose and nothing really to gain from playing a much weaker player. Convert the rating system to giving credit of the two hypothetical players and it's the same mirror image. A strong player beating a weaker player doesn't gain much rating/respect. A weaker player beating the stronger player gains tons of rating/respect- both the same with ratings. Saying "accept the stats" is akin to neutralizing the credit/respect given (same with the rating system) which isn't really fair. The fact he was 16 years old SHOULD bear weight on either outcomes you call excuses and is why top players don't like playing against weaker players. It's just the way it is. Period.
Hi agad I'm interested in the saga of effin Geller. He defeated almost every big name in chess history tal, Fischer and who not. Kindly cover it too. Thank you #suggestion
Remake please. You have found your grove. You were always good and entertaining but your newer content has just the right mix of humor analysis depth that facilitates learning while being just really fun to watch. So yes if you have any inclination to remake please do sir.
@@timothylee2772 Carlsen is fantastic especially in the endgame but Bobby Fischer in his prime was as good if not better wish we could have seen them play :(
#Suggestion It would be great addition if you could add the pictures you show us in the description, because you have very nice photos regarding chess, although we can search the web and can find it, but it will be a lot handy if you could add it in your description by uploading it on some google drive or dropbox link etc. Also, some times you have photos that are shared by some excellent subscriber or chess enthusiast and are really difficult to find on web. Please, consider this maybe for some special videos only, it would be a huge plus. And lastly, thanks to you for making our days and weeks and months and years wonderful by making these videos. 💯*💯*💯
10:23 in this position there is also a move that doesn't work but i think it was worth it to mention it. It seems that white can capture the knight on e7 and if rook recaptures then queen captures rook on g8. But it does not work because black won't capture on e7 , but will play rook to h8 instead , attacking white queen and threatening mate.
For Fischer At 10:25 instead of the recommended line, white plays Bxe7, rook g8 is undefended and white doesn't have time to recapture. Feels better for white unless I am missing any tactic.
I'm glad that you suggested it but bishop can't be saved in any way. After bishop captures on e7, the rook g8 comes to h8(defended by queen) attacking the queen and the queen had to retreat to d3. After that, rook d7 can capture bishop e7.
@@kartikbhardwaj37 Queen cant retreat because of Qxh2#. White would have to counter with Rae1 offering Queen trade. Rxh7. Rxe5 Rxe7 White would still be bad though but reaalllyyy marginally. . Am not great with Endgames so cant say who the endgame favors, but seems equal-ish
I think Antonio secrectly didn't show this game on purpose, so he could make our lives 50 times better by doing it now, when we tought he had already shown every Tal-Fischer game. Love Antonio.
There was an interesting line you missed at 10:22. If the Bishop captures the Knight on e7, then it can't be recaptured, because the rook on g8 hangs. But Black has Rook to h8, forcing White to sac the Queen by taking the rook to avoid mate in 1. Then White can retreat the Bishop to b4, and the game continues with Black having a queen, but their pieces are disorganized, and White can start working the open b file with the rooks.
@@sterbern6762 I don't know. Depends on Black's continuation. But Black couldn't do anything too threatening their Queen on h8 and the rook hemmed in the middle, so White could move the Queen's Rook to the B file to prepare to move it to b3, to add pressure to that pawn, or even just to double the rooks on the B file. White's bishop couldn't take the pawn right away because in this variation, the Queen guards that forward pawn from h8.
#suggestion since evryone is talking about the format of the world chess championship, i have a good idea and your channel is the only way to talk about my idea, i think the format should stay at classical time, but they should give them prepared positions like they give engines and player plays it once with black and once with white, but they have to make formats a lil more quick so players can play two classical games in the row, maybe one hour games
Dude, you're all over the place. I can't tell when some moves are in the game or if it's you just lost in semantics just to come back to the game. Usually not this bad. This one was hard to follow
@10:22 I see that the bishop could have taken the knight on e7 and captured the unprotected rook on g8. Did fisher miss this or am I missing something here?
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Hello Mr. Agad, today i hit the magical 2000 elo in rapid. I started almost 3 years ago during the first lockdown, and you were one of the first channels i subbed to and always a pleasure to watch. I cannot put into words how much you help me and how much you are doing for the chess community. Thank you so much Antonio, please never change.
Congratulations ! How did you do the basics ? Guide me please.
Jesus it’s already 3 years ?! Wtf
@@RickyRicky-002 thank you, i won't lie to you, i kinda just got them from the start. I ranked in at 1300. Eric Rosen was very instructive too. Generally, you should learn two to three openings for each side that you know in and out. That way you start on the right foot. Obey the opening principles:
1. Develop your pieces
2. Place pawns in the center
3. Get castled
4. Strive for a setup
5. Obstruct your opponents plan
Knowing openings is important, you will not just avoid mistakes, but also save precious time.
For the middlegame, look for plans. Probably the hardest thing in chess is to come up with plans. Generally speaking, you just look to improve your pieces. Bring the knights to outposts, get the bishops on good diagonals, centralize your queen, get the rooks to open files.
If you can correctly improve your position, you will force weaknesses. Weak squares, favorable trades, loose pieces, overextended pawns, backwards pawns and what not. Play against these weaknesses. Pile up on them. The pressure might overwhelm your opponent and make him blunder.
The one tip that probably helped me the most is the following: Don't trade if you don't gain anything. If your opponent offers a trade, try to defend your piece in a way that your position improves if they capture.
Let me tell you one thing. Chess is difficult, and teaching chess in a youtube comment isn't going to improve your rating. Learn, play, and most importantly: Have fun. It is a slow struggle, you will plateau sooner or later, but don't let that slow you down. Progress will come, it just takes time.
Same literally here. 2100 in rapid for 3 years even though i play blitz 95% of the time and im also 2000 in blitz
Hey Ludwig
I think Fischer had more respect for Tal than any other player of this era, the stories of Bobby going to the hospital to visit Tal are a testament to their friendship.
I heard hé didnt give him anything ZERO conterplay
Tal played sicilian against Fischer and unlike the other soviets, he did not deliberately get into long, drawish positions against him.
Danke, daß du das sagst. Ich denke auch so.
@@thomashl6416 ye do realise that Fischer ain't a German, right?
@@Dave.Mustaine.Is.Genius Right. I read his biography. He was an Icelander.
Chess video with Tal is like seeing any championship matches in real life
yeah, and specially it becomes even better when agad is narrating it.
You do an outstanding job explaining everything from beginning to end in your videos. Intro, back story, game, history, conclusion. Very comprehensive and easily digestible. Your format is elite. It's not easy to execute so congrats on cracking that code.
His content is addictive because of how well formatted it is.
Im still 700 for 10 years :)
@@skeptic010 that's not possible!!! In 3 years I reached 2000 and in another 3 years I got to 2280!
Yes please a remake of Fischers first win would be highly appreciated!
I was thinking the same too, but that vidoe is a classic agadmator video.
@UCw9Mf5EWw1MdlS3gT5Q41VQ He did I've watched them. The particular one in discussion is 5 years old. The sound quality isn't as good and I say his overall delivery has just gotten better.
the old video is fine i think!
+1
+1!
I'm a simple man, I see an agadmator video covering a game between Fischer and Tal, I click.
After a long time... Seeing Bobby and Tal is awesome.. Especially seeing hem together
Instantly a better day when Antonio uploads a Tal video
Thank you for bringing back Fisher's games!
One of those amazing fighting draws. I wish top players still played like this today
lol how ignorant.
They do and they lose.
@@studdpuppy85 Nepomniatchi, Firouzja, Rapport, and Aronian all play plenty interesting chess and perform very well.
Players like Duda, Caruana, Giri, and Karjakin put me to sleep
@@ethangilworth7891 Let’s use Magnus as an example. You see him sometimes play some questionable chess to shake things up, and he loses much more when he does that. I’m just saying unfortunately the key to being the best of the best and winning the most games demands extremely precise stockfish like play.
@@studdpuppy85 I would say Magnus plays relatively interesting chess. Perhaps not the most interesting but he is much better than the likes of the few that I mentioned
Good to see you doing the old classics again Agad. Enjoyed this. Maybe it's because the old games are richer in terms of history too.
At 0:40 is where the magical monologue "have I shown you this game " begins. Agadmator you're a pure legend
Who is Agadmator? To the blind, he is the light. To the hungry, he is the bread. To the sick, he is the cure. To the lonely, he is the company. To the sad, he is the joy. To the prisoner, he is the freedom. For me, he is everything.
bro is simp
Agadmator Christ
Thats a little over the top.
Amen
> To the blind, he is the light
you mean useless?
I’d love for you to do a remake of Ivanchuk’s immortal vs. Kasparov. The final position of that game boggles my mind
#suggestion
He made it, why remake ?
Fantastic game but why do you think a remake is needed?
Agadmator I appreciate your precise analysis
Who is the most brilliant world champion? I want ur assessment
A true professional youtuber; I enjoy your content very much, thank you for all the effort that must go into it
When 2 legends play they make a masterpiece like this
The most amazing chess game I have ever seen!!!
Agadmator:
" It's interesting to see what bishop has in store for this".
Oh Antonio! You spoil us!
He does!
This was such an enjoyable game,it feels more like the players played spontaneously than today
No machines in that time
Amazing game from the golden era of chess.
Thats an incredible game 😮
Hello Agad thank you for constant quality content ✨️
when you see Tal, then Fischer in the same video, you press the like button before it even starts
I do that with all of Antonio's posts now. Not a chance it's going to be bad
Tal’s stats against Fischer speaks volumes about the great magician.
4 of those games were against 16 year old Fischer at the 1959 Canidates, when Tal was in peak form. Not to take away from Tal's brillant play but he also didnt play vs 1970-2 peak Fischer.
@@jamesknapp64 it is the same old song "16 year old BF". So what did Fischer have to lose, then? If he had beat Tal at 16, you would have said, "...and he was only 16 years old". Since he lost most games, same excuse, he was only 16 years old. Accept the stats. Period.
@@iaber1698 you don't think Fischer's play changed at all between 1959 and 1970? Lol
@@iaber1698 It's kind of like the FIDE rating system... A really strong player has everything to lose and nothing really to gain from playing a much weaker player. Convert the rating system to giving credit of the two hypothetical players and it's the same mirror image. A strong player beating a weaker player doesn't gain much rating/respect. A weaker player beating the stronger player gains tons of rating/respect- both the same with ratings. Saying "accept the stats" is akin to neutralizing the credit/respect given (same with the rating system) which isn't really fair. The fact he was 16 years old SHOULD bear weight on either outcomes you call excuses and is why top players don't like playing against weaker players. It's just the way it is. Period.
@@jamesknapp64 I think Tal in 1970s was stronger. He got the peak rating of 2705 in 1980.
When 2 of the greatest chess minds of all time clash..
🔥🔥🔥🤗🤗
Really love Tal. I've been studying his deep dark forest style and it's not easy to comprehend.
I watched the sequence of trades @10:55 about six times, and I’m still mystified at how brilliant it is from both of them.
I am From India
I like ur analysis
And i wait your video eagerly
God bless you
Yes please!!! Do a remake! So interesting!!
Hi agad
I'm interested in the saga of effin Geller. He defeated almost every big name in chess history tal, Fischer and who not. Kindly cover it too. Thank you
#suggestion
A saga of Alekhine has been teased before by Antonio (in his Vera Menchik video)
Efim Geller was an effin strong GM 😁
Great work . Love what you doing thanks a lot from North Africa 🇲🇷
i'd like to thanks you for all your video. very nice to watch
Again i was checking if he uploaded a video, and he does one of the best one.
It’s nice when you revisit these games anytime for any reason 🙏👋
Remake please. You have found your grove. You were always good and entertaining but your newer content has just the right mix of humor analysis depth that facilitates learning while being just really fun to watch. So yes if you have any inclination to remake please do sir.
all of a sudden, first move itself becomes a new game!! lol (love your dedication Agad)
Fischer the arguably best player of all time vs Tal the greatest sacrificer in chess history
Better than Carlsen?
@@timothylee2772 Carlsen is fantastic especially in the endgame but Bobby Fischer in his prime was as good if not better wish we could have seen them play :(
Tal is the best obviusly
I have butterflies on my stomach every time i see Bobby's games.
Yes, we want a remake pls Agad!
#suggestion
"I have like 3000 videos"
MASSIVE flex sir, there is definitely a reason for your success.
#Suggestion
It would be great addition if you could add the pictures you show us in the description, because you have very nice photos regarding chess, although we can search the web and can find it, but it will be a lot handy if you could add it in your description by uploading it on some google drive or dropbox link etc. Also, some times you have photos that are shared by some excellent subscriber or chess enthusiast and are really difficult to find on web. Please, consider this maybe for some special videos only, it would be a huge plus. And lastly, thanks to you for making our days and weeks and months and years wonderful by making these videos. 💯*💯*💯
What a rich game with these juicy variations and positions and as the Ding legend said: “ I believe in positions “
Always happy to see Fischer
The game was covered in "My 60 Memorable Games" titled... A dazzling array of fireworks
10:23 in this position there is also a move that doesn't work but i think it was worth it to mention it.
It seems that white can capture the knight on e7 and if rook recaptures then queen captures rook on g8.
But it does not work because black won't capture on e7 , but will play rook to h8 instead , attacking white queen and threatening mate.
Thanks for explaining that, read comments before video and got stuck on the same part and remembered this. Appreciate that!
@@afgnshha white can continue with Rae1 and get into a slightly worse endgame... but it's the type of endgame which Fischer can win against anyone.
Bf6
12:28 bobby fischer was so strong that even his knight can be called queen. "attacks fischer's queen" XD
For Fischer
At 10:25 instead of the recommended line, white plays Bxe7, rook g8 is undefended and white doesn't have time to recapture. Feels better for white unless I am missing any tactic.
I'm glad that you suggested it but bishop can't be saved in any way.
After bishop captures on e7, the rook g8 comes to h8(defended by queen) attacking the queen and the queen had to retreat to d3. After that, rook d7 can capture bishop e7.
@@kartikbhardwaj37 Queen cant retreat because of Qxh2#.
White would have to counter with Rae1 offering Queen trade. Rxh7. Rxe5 Rxe7
White would still be bad though but reaalllyyy marginally.
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Am not great with Endgames so cant say who the endgame favors, but seems equal-ish
@@ayushjena4257 it's the type of endgame Fischer would win EASILY against anyone.
@@KublaiKhan2025 I take that as a good thing for Fischer.
I wish Fischer mentioned my recommendation in his book. 😭😅
@0:39-1:07 Seriously wondering if he was stroking out there...my brain almost melted. I'm glad he finally decided to have it shown.
In the Amsterdam Interzonal Tournamen in 1964, Tal played amazing games. Worth a look.
Who are the two gentlemen looking over Fischers shoulder? I can't figure it out.
Incredible video. Unreal
dude i play like this
almost every day &
yes because of you
man i made it to 2080
on Lichess today 🙏☯️
In the famous photo of the game, Tal is playing the move 7…Ne7, sacrificing his K-side pawns, with a smile.
What I'm surprised more is when Fischer visits Tal when he's ill in hospital and played a game there.
Wakha 3lik
I would love 1961 bled chess recap of Fischers and Tals games in particular. #suggestion
Tal defeated Botvinik's use of the french ❤
Yep, definitly like to see a remake of the other game 🙂
Great Game SuperGreat players Superstars Fischer and Tal two of the Best
I think Antonio secrectly didn't show this game on purpose, so he could make our lives 50 times better by doing it now, when we tought he had already shown every Tal-Fischer game. Love Antonio.
Amazing. Out of the blue I watched a Fischer v Tal game just yesterday. I never seek out older games. Then you make a vid on it the next day? Weird
Nice to see a Fischer game!
a Fischer video on a tuesday, bless you agad🙏
what a beautiful match . it's so a wild thing to watch fisher , he's realy a ''thing''
Perfect caption doesn't exist.
Fisher vs Tal: hold our chairs
#suggestion Tal Vs Nezhmetdinov 4th game. I have been waiting for this one for long
Hai... Your Channel is Amazing...
There was an interesting line you missed at 10:22. If the Bishop captures the Knight on e7, then it can't be recaptured, because the rook on g8 hangs. But Black has Rook to h8, forcing White to sac the Queen by taking the rook to avoid mate in 1. Then White can retreat the Bishop to b4, and the game continues with Black having a queen, but their pieces are disorganized, and White can start working the open b file with the rooks.
Ehh I dont like it. Why give black that much activity? Whats the nezt move for white
@@sterbern6762 I don't know. Depends on Black's continuation. But Black couldn't do anything too threatening their Queen on h8 and the rook hemmed in the middle, so White could move the Queen's Rook to the B file to prepare to move it to b3, to add pressure to that pawn, or even just to double the rooks on the B file. White's bishop couldn't take the pawn right away because in this variation, the Queen guards that forward pawn from h8.
Wild game by 2 legends of chess.
Like you could look at the piece positioning of the board at any moment and it will still look like a classic game in underway
Enjoyed the standings & all the rest 🙂
Didn't know you were Croatian cheers from one fellow to another 🤝🏼
Glad to see your orthodontics removed and your channel truly thriving.
Keep up the great vids Agad
thanks agad, excited to watch this
Very nice game and interesting remarks.
Amazing to see
#suggestion since evryone is talking about the format of the world chess championship, i have a good idea and your channel is the only way to talk about my idea, i think the format should stay at classical time, but they should give them prepared positions like they give engines and player plays it once with black and once with white, but they have to make formats a lil more quick so players can play two classical games in the row, maybe one hour games
I'm a simple man I see Fischer and Tal I click the video
10:22 why not after qxe5, bxe7? Leaves the rook unguarded. Am i missing something?
Then rook h8 and you have to give up the queen to stop mate
Very different from today's morden era playing solid. Always fire on board those days.
please show more bobby matches and AI chess matches as well. thanks for content
Keep up the good work 😎
Fantastic game. Two geniuses with golden sabres.
Dude, you're all over the place. I can't tell when some moves are in the game or if it's you just lost in semantics just to come back to the game. Usually not this bad. This one was hard to follow
@10:22 I see that the bishop could have taken the knight on e7 and captured the unprotected rook on g8. Did fisher miss this or am I missing something here?
Come on, R-h8 is not hard to see.
Agad, you need to make the Petrosian vs Spassky game with the pawn storm. WILD.
10:24 - if Bishop xe7 then you remove the only defender of the rock in g8, next move Queen xg7 with check... Am i wrong?
At 10:22 after Qxe5, why not Bxe7 winning the Knight? Rook on d7 can't recapture the Bishop since the g8 Rook is now hanging.
Come on, R-h8 is not hard to see.
7:38 the rook could be moved after the check from the queen?
Considering the beauty and sheer strength of the b4 move, please analyze games started by 1. b4. Best regards.
#suggestion
Crazy Attacking Game
Rajkot Bogdanovic vs Albin Planinc
Yugoslavia Championship 1965
I did not played to watch a chess game today but all of a sudden I did and it was tal fisher
13:26 i just woke up from coma. Thank Agad for making me aware we are in the year 1960.
Popüler bir kanala geldik. Güzel videonuzu ilgiyle izledik. Tebrik eder başarılarınızın devamını dileriz. Yolunuz ve bahtınız açık olsun. Videoyu beğendik ve _ LİKE_ beğenimizi gönderdik. Elbette bu güzel kanalı destekliyoruz.
Sevgi, saygı ve sonsuz başarı dileklerimiz iletiyoruz.
b4 being the supreme move is the greatest running joke of all time, in any medium
@10:22 after queen takes on e5 why not bishop takes takes knight on e7?
even if black rook sacrafices taking pawn g2 white still gets out ahead..
Come on, R-h8 is not hard to see.
1:00 bruh they spelled his name wrong.
The prophet vs the magician. 🔥🔥😎