One of The Deepest Moves Ever Played in Chess | Breyer vs Esser (1917)
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Gyula Breyer vs Johannes Esser
"Esser's Mess" (game of the day Sep-07-2018)
Budapest (1917), Budapest AUH, Jul-??
Slav Defense: General (D10)
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bd3 Bd6 6. f4 O-O 7. Nf3 dxc4 8. Bb1 b5 9. e4 Be7 10. Ng5 h6 11. h4 g6 12. e5 hxg5 13. hxg5 Nd5 14. Kf1 Nxc3 15. bxc3 Bb7 16. Qg4 Kg7 17. Rh7+ Kxh7 18. Qh5+ Kg8 19. Bxg6 fxg6 20. Qxg6+ Kh8 21. Qh6+ Kg8 22. g6 Rf7 23. gxf7+ Kxf7 24. Qh5+ Kg7 25. f5 exf5 26. Bh6+ Kh7 27. Bg5+ Kg8 28. Qg6+ Kh8 29. Qh6+ Kg8 30. Qe6+ Kf8 31. Qxf5+ Kg7 32. Bh6+ Kxh6 33. Ke2 Bc8 34. Rh1+ Bh4 35. e6 Qe7 36. Qf4+ Kg7 37. Rxh4 Qxe6+ 38. Kd2 Na6 39. Rh5 Qf6 40. Rh7+ Kxh7 41. Qxf6 Bg4 42. Qh4+ Kg7 43. Qxg4+ Kf6 44. Qf3+ Ke7 45. Qxc6 Rg8 46. Qxa6 Rxg2+ 47. Kc1
Gyula "Julius" Breyer (30 April 1893 Budapest - 9 November 1921) was a Hungarian chess player and 1912 Hungarian national champion.
In 1912 Breyer won the Hungarian championship in Temesvar. In a 1920 tournament in Berlin he finished first (+6−2=1) ahead of Efim Bogoljubov, Savielly Tartakower, Richard Réti, Géza Maróczy, and Siegbert Tarrasch. Breyer had a plus record against Max Euwe (later world champion).
In 1921 Breyer set a new blindfold chess record by playing 25 games simultaneously. He also edited Szellemi Sport, a magazine devoted to chess puzzles, and composed at least one brilliant retrograde analysis study.
Heart disease cut short Breyer's promising chess career. He died in 1921 at the age of 28 in Bratislava. He was buried in Bratislava and after exhumation in 1987, was reburied in the Kerepesi Cemetery in Budapest.
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You forgot to tell the story behind this move:
At the time when this game was played, there was a rule that said that if you had touched a piece that has no legal moves, you must move with your king. So basically what happened is that Breyer saw that Bh4+ messes up his plan, but he didn't want to play Kf1 just like that, because it would seem suspicious and his opponent will most likely figure out the trick behind this mysterious move, so he "accidently" touched his pawn on e5. Of course his opponent demanded him to move with his king and then played a normal move, as he thought he had just earned a free turn, and the rest is history.
Wow! Thanks for giving the nice insight!
Damn
talk about psyching your opponent! that's just evil, LOL.
this story is better than the video
Now that is the actual deep move
My sacrifices are so deep... That i lose the game before they work
Good one😂
You are not alone in that!
Hahahsha, you made my day with that one.
Im going to use this line in chess discussions
+gabri gamer
Make a sacrifice in the first game that only pays off 3 games later. Deep.
Thanks for taking my suggestion; it's one of my favorite games of all time.
You are an excellent game suggester
You're the man now, dog, man.
Congrats in your quest
You have improved our vast knowledge with this excellent suggestion
We should thank you
Breyer was ahead of his time, even his haircut would be playable today
i think Johannes Essers haircut in this picture is better.
Haircut to A1
Andrew V *AND* his ice cream is amazing too!!
pætur av Húsabrúgv lmao ya XD
Esser's haircut is way ahead of his time too! The hoodie is still in fashion today lol
one of the best comments i read in a while
It's immense to see how GMs think. When agadmator plays out all these scenarios that could happen if a certain piece is moved, then refreshes the computer and you're taken back to the actual moment in time, and he says something like "this is what they saw", it's like damn.
The moves are played out in various degrees of freedom giving the grandmaster a deeper insight into the position after the moves are played and whether there is material or spatial advantage to close out the middle game and go into the end game. A pawn may be all that's needed
8:26 "it's hard to say if.. ( ͡⊙ ͜ʖ ͡⊙).. IF IT'S EVEN THE GREATEST MOVE..." 🤣
Luis N He found the move
Loooool
Bruh😂😂😂
I remember play Esser back in the early 1900's and I don't ever remember him wearing a hoodie like the one you've depicted.
You obviously didn't watch the video 🤦♂️
I'm confused are you like 100 yrs old or sum
Great video, again, sir!
8:28 is one of the scariest glitches of all time, lol.
haha great catch
Yeah it's better when the dog glitches (runs upside down for 10 minutes)
:)
Black night checks the king!
Happy 101st anniversary (of this game) to Breyer. Deep move, and plus it's never easy to defeat a Nazgul.
Someone really needs to do a study of the guy in the black hoodie. He's in a lot of good games.
0:37 "At one point they meet." Probably the greatest understatement about a chess game ever made.
You look like Johannes Esser.
you must be new to this channel
Same feeling😂😂😂
Radical Unity It was a joke
@@panda4247 You must be unable to understand a joke
I watched cus of his look
"You have to keep the drama going"
such a beautiful quote
love the way you started pointing out particular situations that often occur in games and giving advices
I really like your format for analyzing the games. I have watched many others but yours are interesting, succinct and presented in a very easy friendly manner.
"For those of you were able to do it, congratulations, you are an excellent.....uhhhh, rook mover." Lul.
This guy with his explanations and consistent uploads is like the Anton Petrov of chess
True. They *are* very similar in character
"What a move to start the weekend indeed." Best chess channel on TH-cam and also some of the best, most interesting analysis you will find anywhere.
"Congratulations you are an excellent thinker" I love it!!👏👍 Even better with the weekend right around the corner!!😂😂 Best chess videos ever, keep it up!
Can someone make a compilation of agadmator's derp moments? I love em 13:55
HAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT TOO
Actually!!
Lmao xD
Not a bad idea...
Could try a hardstyle remix on that, if you find 5 other 😂
13:55 love the way you laughed 😂
Hahahah
Eh heh
"You have to keep the drama going, that's what makes a chess game great" Agadmator, 2018.
I mean I’m 14, but *THIS* is deep!
Your reddit is showing
who cares
"...then it's even worse, you're getting rook to h6 check, and now you're gonna lose the queen for nothing. And also you're getting checkmated"
Someone needs to keep a record of agadmator's lines guys
I heard the quote ‘a bad plan is better than none at all’ attributed to Saveliy Tartakover.
I love how agadmator includes the viewer through every step of the way
FYI Stockfish9 infinite intelligence tells me the following:
24... Kg7 is the losing move for black, since 24... Kg8 would have given black a draw, since white could not have any longer given a check with his c1 bishop.
I love your videos, and I don't think engines are so helpful for producing massively entertaining and dynamic analysis such as yours. That being said, I think it would still be cool if for such games if you would always quote when and what is the *first* move of the best refutation as well as what really was the *first* losing move :)
Also, @16:47 you say that 35.e6 is a very nice move by white, but it is actually a losing move in theory because black can then simply exchange his awkward c8 Bishop for that pawn, unlocking his position (instead of 35... Qe7). That game would then continue with black also giving up his other blocking h4 bishop in order to develop his knight, thereby finally freeing up his rook, leading to a normal endgame with black having an extra knight.
In fact, the best white could have done there is to settle for a draw by repetitively checking black's king after having exchanged his rook for the bishop with 35. Rxh4+.
It is a bit awkward for me to make myself a parrot of stockfish9 here (I am myself a very average chess player), but I thought the above points may be of interest to the youtube "readers" ;)
@DaulphinKiller Thx, the additional research, if not always perfect, is appreciated by the viewers/commenters; it does not distract from the beauty of the games and the comment section is available as an optional resource, not a distraction from the video anyway, and can save me time when checking out chess positions and analysis as well.
I was totally expecting the deep move to be the thumbnail move. You got me haha
Main reason I watch so many of this guys videos is to observe the dog's actions.
Bobby Fischer: sacrifices minor pieces
Mikhail Tal: sacrifices queen
Me: sacrifices king
3:23 I know what you mean, had a chess engine insist on a move over a move that delivers checkmate
Does the “move the King on an illegally touched piece” still pertain? If that story’s for real, my esteem for Breyer in this game just went up 2000%. Brilliant.
#suggestion Ivanchuk Vs sergey karjakin amber tournament 2008 rd4, ivanchuk sacrifice the queen for two pawns.
Fourth
yeah!
Fifth
#suggestion Ivanchuk vs Sergey Karjakin, Amber tournament 2008 r d4....yooo
Yeah!
"King to f1, there will no be bishop to h4 check in the future"
-Agadmator, 2021
Agad....... since you asked for suggestions how about this one ......what about doing a series on all .....well not all but maybe the top 10 openings in chess and the guys that created them and how they were created for instance the Ruy Lopes ... Stienits... Alikine.... Nardof....Nimzo.....and the like..... it would be fun history and also very practical for learning purposes on how to play those open just a suggestion one of a thousand I'm sure you have but I thought I'd give it a shot soon as I get a few dollars saved I'm sending it into you boss..... make the game enjoyable to play again thanks a lot buddy looking forward to your next video.....yogi
#suggestion nice one too
#suggestion this would be very insightful
Thorough and thoughtful analysis, lot of interesting ideas, no unnecessary talk, grade A work!
As someone who casually plays for fun, I like these moments in the videos where he asks you to try to find the 'move', I just randomly pick a piece that may not be an obvious move 😂
Me too and I'm right a shocking amount of time. I can never find the right move in a game, though. :(
One of my most favourite matches. Thank you agad! Thank you who made the suggestion!
your enthusiasm for the game warms my heart every time I watch your new video, keep up the great work!
Agadmator: what a move!
Breyer: I was trying to castle, but I put my king in the wrong square.
#suggestion David Paravyan vs Saveliy Golubov from the Korchnoi Memorial 2018. Maybe one of the best over the board games of the year and definitely a brilliancy.
"A Marshall attack is better than no attack."
- Jose Raul Capablanca
@Agadmator what do you say? :D
#suggestion christophe van dee lee VS hesseling 1983 one of the most greatest tactican battle i ever see
Coming back to this vid 6 months later and it still boggles my mind. Breyer is calculating 15 moves out.
But not the tactics at the end it seems! The 'deep move' I feel is more conceptual than pure calculation.
@@davidcopson5800 knowing the times and the individual, especially in light of the "oops" move story, it is also possible the man didn't miss the tactic, but that he merely didn't play it so as to prolong the game knowing that he was winning anyway. He might have considered that after the "debate", it was polite to give the opponent some hope.
The deepest move to be made in chess is a move made by my dad while playing with me...
Legends say that he still hasn't decided his 2nd move
after 100 years of actual game.. still trilling n giving goose-bumps.. thnx for video sir :)
I love hoodie player games!
Old but gold yeah??
looks more like darth vader.. iam yor father.... chhrr|r
It´s funny that singer of Korn is your top donator :D great video btw!
I love when he says captures captures captures .....
MEE TOO LOL
Excellent video and analysis! Enjoyed and learned a lot!
These are the games I subscribed for :)
15:19 "of course all of you see the move"
Me thinking a way to keep checking the king without losing my queen.
It's indeed one of the deepest moves ever. 😍
So the hardest move to find is not always "knight back" (Ivanchuk).
Indeed a deep move! And another inspirational video for my weekend, thanks Antonio! Yet, I really don't know enough games to know how much "deeper" other moves are.
Miss the dog.............
I love that you wear a hoodie whenever there is a hoodie player lol
Thank you, you just made my lonely meal alot better
haha. I normally watch a chess game here, while I eat. he found his niche.
Svaka cast, uzivam u klipovima
Quote suggestion:
"Never tell me the odds!"
-Han Solo
"You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it."
Same guy.
@agadmator its great when you say the names of the classic players because for many of us it is the first time we are hearing them pronounced correctly ; ) . for example , tartakower ("TART-uh-cower")
agat thanks for making me .... a good player
Nice of him to dress as Esser for the video
#suggestion
Could you analize
Capablanca vs Lasker 1921 game 5 were Lasker thought that he could win but lost
I thought it was done by agad before? I don't remember tho..
#suggestion*
Lasker didn't had advantage in any game of that match, aside being white in that match.
@@andresberger6240
I know but he thought that he had
That spelling on analyze threw a whole different meaning for a second there... :/
You can find lots of pics of Dr. Johannes Esser on Google images. Maybe not back when this vid was made.
Great video Agad, Can you do a game from Parham Maghsoodloo?
He just won the world Junior's championship with one round to go and with rating performance of 2935.
Sure :)
Cant find a better chess channel than yours. I would even pay to watch your vides. Amazing content. Much appreciated. 🙏
Favourite chess channel, Bob Ross of Chess
What time is it in Croatia? It's exactly 12am here
18:45 right now
Passed pawns must be pushed, to become "happy little pawns".
I watch this channel a lot during the day, but it's also my go to thing when I can't sleep :)
#suggestion Another deep tactical calculation from the pre-WW1 era is Janowski vs. Tarrasch, Ostend 1905, where Janowski, a strong GM of that day who (along with Tarrasch) had played WC Em. Lasker for his World Title, allowed Tarrasch to trap his Rook on the seventh rank by blocking its retreat with a Knight, thereby giving Janowski's trapped Rook an open shot on the now semi-open 7th rank into Tarrasch's K-side fortress. Somewhat reminiscent of Breyer's decoy/bait maneuver except this was a subtle lure to get the opponent to move his N off the rank, as opposed to Breyer's subtle maneuver to ensure a vital tempo during the ensuing attack. Also the opening was an exemplary exposition of the London System (ECO: D02) and was given as an Illustrative Game in Andy Soltis' opening Treatise on The London System.
Ok take a moment to find the best move and be an excellent player
Pauses and looks into your soul
Nice look back --- Loved it.
I feel like i need to play this at 1/2 speed.
Keep up the great work, I really enjoy your channel
#suggestion David Paravayan vs Saveily Golubov Korchnoi Memorial 2018 round 6
Pls cover this magnificent game , it is one of the best attacking games of modern chess era......
"You have to make the drama going,what makes chess great"😂
Agadmator
I Like agamator videos so much so i call my self agamator in school #AgamatorTheBest
Would be better if you changed it to agaDmator instead
AGADmator
Your reviews are phenomenal! Good videos as always...!
Hoody time! Love! Nice look aga! BÄM!
And in this position, this excelent suscriber draws his hoody!
Would enjoy your presenting Euwe vs Breyer Vienna 1921 ~
The problem is that whenever i come up with a master plan i end up losing my queen😂
😂😂😂😂😂
The move at 7:20 k-e4 is something I couldn't think through myself. Only after he explained it did I understand how good the move is
Sir...do you have a postal address you can share? If you don't have it I would like to send you the book"Russians vs Fischer" A treasure trove of information that you would enjoy and I think would help with the excellent presentations you provide.
Maybe you could ask agad, if he has a postbox/safe in a post office... Just an idea 🤷🏻♂️
c/o KGB
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Great Channel man! So inspiring and educational! Keep up the good work :D
Noone:
Agadmator: *violently shows possibilities*
Incredible Game !! Although black opening moves were unsound and white was not precise, the attack was very insightful... Very good work!
8:03, thank me later
No thanks I actually have interest in chess
THANK YOU!!!!
@@dinobrya2 wow ur gay
Morpher Why would you say this ? Having an interest in chess and skipping to the main part of the video is 2 entirely different things.
@@morpher728 I am not "gay" but you are childish.
The pillow next to Agad looks a lot like a cat, half of the video was spent questioning whether or not it's a cat or not
In reality: White accidentally touches his King, and black says, “You touched your King! Now you have to move your king, HAHA!!” White argues against this stupid rule and black says that is how he used to play back while he was in prison, so then white moves his king...
Why do I enjoy your video so much, gddmn?!
I need to do some work, man.
when you ignore WW1 draft and play chess
war is a racket.
-Maj Gen Smedley Butler
Reminded me of the recent blooper game I played recently. It is the mastery of the closing and maneuver of the pieces that spell the actual outcomes.
The deepest moves... Did they move the pieces under the board?
they moved the pieces under sea level
Ay caramba!
He move his king out of check 7 moves before it was checked 🔮
@@bleach4038 if their game was played in Holland (Esser was the chess champ of Holland), then may literally have been played below sea level.
very very instructive attacking game. Displays attacking techniques very explicitly. I'm happy that you shared this game with the chess community. Hopefully as a result, out rating will go up 100 points
Wow really a brilliant move .. Thank you for the channel and the videos .. You are a excellent chess commentator..😉
Your videos are excellent mate.
I don't think he "saw" all that, but rather "intuited" that leaving his king exposed would result in a loss of tempo during an attack.
Could you make a few more videos of Gyula Breyer games, I would love to watch one between Reti vs Breyer if there is any
You said you couldn't find any additional information on Johannes Esser, but as I wanted to expand my vast knowledge, I went out and found some more information about him.
- His start to chess is quite an interesting one. After the loss of his father and grandfather, which caused his mother to become quite reclusive, in his teens, the young Esser successfully negotiated the sale of the family home and the purchase of a new property. Esser soon after distinguished himself as a chess player, in quick order defeating all the renowned players in Leiden. Together with a group of fellow students from the lyceum, he formed a new club, which rapidly achieved national recognition.
- He gained a place at Leiden, the oldest university in the Netherlands to study medicine. Early on he developed a profound interest in anatomy which led to his assembling a remarkable collection of malformed skulls. However, he maintained his interest in chess, often playing in tournaments abroad, and wrote a column for a daily paper, which paid enough for him to complete his medical studies in comfort.
- In 1903, he graduated in medicine from the University of Leiden and shortly thereafter was crowned Dutch National Chess Champion. After completing his doctoral thesis at Gent, he then set sail for South America as ship’s surgeon and during the voyage visited both Central and North America. The captain in whom Esser found a worthy chess opponent telegraphed ahead to the chess fraternity in Caracas, Venezuela that the Dutch champion was on board and a tournament was organised in which Esser took part on his arrival.
There were also a few photos I was able to find of him thanks to his work as a plastic surgeon, so while it's always nice to see the hoodie make a return, it wasn't necessary here. Hopefully I helped expand all of your subscribers' vast knowledge with this info!
This comment needs to be bumped up.
Excellent vast knowledge.
the magnetism and intrigue of chess is not knowing if your next move wins or loses
Sometimes I just wonder how many of these godlike plays are just simple moves in their heads but it turns out to be really good afterwards
I think above a certain elo it becomes less.
At 4:00 I think the reason the engines prefer Nf3 is that the f2 pawn is suppose to be guarding the king, not attacking.