From watching these videos, I've increased the number of games I've won. Through the genius of watching AlphaZero beat its opponents, I've learned one simple thing... Play lower rated opponents.
Anna, Your coverage of this particular game is an extremely well-thought-out lesson for players of such a wide range in ability. This is a superb tutorial of chess. Very good job! - j q t -
UPDATE: Hey folks! Thank you for your kind words about my AlphaZero videos! I don't have new AZ videos on this channel but I have created something even bigger: an entire chess course (Attack like a machine!) highly influenced by AlphaZero's play, with the main chapter dedicated to AlphaZero's attacking chess. You can check out the preview video and find out more about the course here: www.chessable.com/anna-1
Thank you for your enthusiastic and very clear explanations. I am really enjoying Alpha Zero reminding us humans about chess dynamics and that material isn't everything. Somewhere Alexander Alekhine, Rudolph Spielmann, and Mikhail Tal are smiling down on us.
8:50 "You don't want to play chess on autopilot, That's when you miss chances". Imagine people took that advice on how to live life. I swear, most people act as if thinking hurts.
Thank you very much for the eye opener possibilities to playing chess in a different manner. I have just started playing chess again after a fifty year hiatus and I love being taught/shown how to think again.
Great video. I played along with Droidfish. It didn't get most of these moves. Alpha zero had a >= 1.0 advantage most of the time and just kept improving. At the end it was >= 4.74. It's amazing how it puts the opponent in zugzwang.
Wow! This is a masterpiece, both the game and your explanations. How AlphaZero is a master eliminating the opponent’s pieces through the positional game sofocating blacks pieces until Stockfish dies from asfixia due to strangulation.
Anna, your accent is adorable. About g2:f3 move - I read about such moves in Siegbert Tarrasch book, I believe it called "Die moderne Schachpartie" (1916). Alpha Zero reminds me of Sultan Khan.
At 10:20 I did guess the pawn. I think a lot of people underestimate the king's fighting ability. There are no bishops left after that one is taken out, and the Queen can't immediately put AlphaZero in check. I'm a casual player (although maybe I'm slowly becoming more than a casual player, since I'm watching videos like this) and I think there may be an advantage in not having a lot of experience when it comes to keeping an open mind.
Love these Alpha Zero games, and I also like your fun analysis. 😊You are the best teacher of chess I think. You make it fun and interesting . Thanks 😀love xx Brian
You are the best chess teacher that I know. I subscribed to many good ones. You are the best, most talented. Thanks a lot. Thanks to you I love AlphaZero. I think it plays totally new 3-dimensional chess as opposed to old 2-D Nimzowitsch style. Please, continue this journey to the depts of AlphaZero plays.
Gosh, I love you, Anna, I love when someone realized the best Chess Instructor are now AI(Artificial Intelligent)and except it, and goes on from there. You have listened to your fans and chosen to teach us through the best Chess instructor in the Universe, not Stockfish, not Komodo, not Houdini, not, etc.., But AlphaZero! Who has now beat/crush them all (human or computers) handly. Thank You, Master(Anna Rudolf), for teaching us from the Best(AlphaZero) in the Universe.
All seems so logical when you explain everything Anna. To know it would work out well in the endgame takes good chess knowledge and experience. Thanks for posting.
OMG what an amazing game, and what and amazing job job Anna is doing explaining this. "Its a Monster" (the Bishop on f6). Indeed it is, and so are you, Anna! Thx and Love
if you noticed A0- only moved the pawn in front of the king after getting rid of the opponent's bishops. opened files were not a problem but the diagonals.
I like how alpha zero plays and the way it takes the g file open to iniatiate an attack on black's king. Now I tried it out in my games and it went well thanks Ana and I don't want to blame you for that reason.
I wonder, have we seen an increase in the popularity of the English after AlphaZeros rise to fame? Regardless, very nice video. You make everything seem easy and obvious, which is the trademark for any great teacher.
02:50 Oh, please! There's one - and only *one* good move here: of course you sacrifice the queen on d4. Can't you see that beautiful diagonal *d4-a7* for little bishop? 11:00 but *Garry* would have seen that.. Anna=my favorite chess commentator.
In his discussion of the Najdorf GM Naiditsch shows the game Anish Giri versus Maxime Vachier-Lagrave where MVL has an isolated h-pawn, double isolated f-pawns, an isolated d-pawn and his only two connected pawns are on a6 and b5. MVL won an amazing game. Watching this game allowed me to immediately see the gxf3 capture. I had a harder time with Nxd4. Old habits of keeping pawns connected and in the center haven't died just yet. Maybe because I realize it's going to be at least another week of study before I play like MVL.
Oh common ! like your commentaries on alpha zero, better then the rest of the gm's. Sad that you stopped, I really enjoy watching your observations, and listening to your commentaries on them, please up load more, I am very interested in this, especially as a 2v2 chess player! HAHAHAHHA!
Love your analysis and enthusiasm but even more than that, when you talk about game strategy for example: 'Do not automatically retake without thinking. Do not play chess on autopilot.' Such great and needed advice. And of course much more pleasant to look at than, for example, a Ben Finegold video.
9:20 I was actually thinking taking with the pawn since it means two less move for your knight to threaten that good position you pointed out earlier! I'm generally pretty bad at chess cause I have trouble seeing a lot of things, and I'm in particular really bad at spotting checkmates which doesn't help xD (I can draw with two queen vs a single king that's how bad I am with checkmates o/), but I think I'm pretty good with general positionning and tempo ideas, things like favoring move that leave you with the initiative, or favoring move that strengthen your position. That's probably cause I mostly play ccg (card games like magic) where those ideas are rather important so I translate them well to chess. So I actually have a lot of fun watching alphazero games cause it's like, what I wish I could do when playing chess without the dumb blunders xD
@3:53 AZ, simply moves back its Q parallel to bishops for added protection. Also it's planning to move knight to h4 or g5 in the near future. So yeah the typical human player moves is to chase down black's light bishop and exchange with a knight. AZ doesn't care much about ranks on pieces, but only active pieces ready for attacks or sacrifices anytime for positional and strategic advantage to win the game.
Excellent video, and by watching this, I think I know who can play like Alpha Zero and maybe stand a chance against it. That's Vassily Ivanchuk on a nice and wild day.
ANNA --- As you so keenly described, after gxf3 White opened the g file preparing kg2 with a long-term attacking plan against the Black king. White’s unchallenged dark-square bishop controlling the long a1-h8 diagonal played a key role in Alpha Zero’s decision to play gxf3. This plan gave White complete control over the board, with little or no effective counter-play for Black. Although the gxf3 plan did not…in and of itself…lead to a “forced mate” or a decisive gain in material for White (through tactics), it DID ultimately lead to a winning endgame for White, as you clearly demonstrated. My question is this: After gxf3 was there a better continuation for Black that could have stymied White’s attack or at least equalize? So, after gxf3 was the end result inevitable???
Steinitz would have been impressed - he felt the king should have more attacking potential in the middlegame, but he could never quite make it work convincingly.
Hi Anna First thank you for your great lesson . now I'm on time 28:09 the black Q to e8 simultaneously lifting up the white K to g4 how now the turn is to white Q tx black Q ? I didn't get it
At 16:20 I have an interesting suggestion. Why not 1. Qe2? Threatening Qxh5+! leading to mate. Kh7 loses the queen. Maybe Rh8 is an option, but still 2. Qxh5+ gxh5 3. Rh6+ Kg8 4. Rxh8#. Or if 2. Qxh5+ Kg8 (best defence) 3. Qxh8+ Kxh8 4. Rxg6+ Kh7 leads to mate. After 4. Rxg6+ white should play 4 ... f6 5. Bxf6+ picks up the queen and several pawns.
Everyones "Anna more Alpha Zero", I'm going against the grain and saying Anna more lower rated player game analysis. I love her personality when analysing games, she makes it so interesting and instructional. Kingscrusher, I'm afraid I've found a new love, Anna.
Hi Anna - I like how your lessons encourage thinking which, to many, will be counter-intuitive - it's really instructive. Can I ask what software you use to record chess videos? I would like to record a couple about the Dragon, but interested to ask how you split the screen, etc?
8:07 "the move would be" Me: gxf3 "Nxf3 without thinking" Me: but black has no attack and that wastes a tempo if we're trying to play Nc6 "first lesson of the day, you should never re-capture without thinking" Me: I am one with the machine.
Yes! I was thinking "no human would make this move" - wait now.... am I an android? 😱 I am pretty aggressive (and often reckless) in attacking, and for me gxf3 would have been an immediately obvious move - a half opened rank aiming at black's king position, with potential to really pile it on... yes please!
Anna Rudolf, and the attack of AlphaZero. Nice demostration, how the value of piece never can be superior to his dynamic position; incluiding his King and his bischop. Hard to keep't in mind but not AlphaZero. 🍎Beautiful Domination🍎
the doubling pawns by alpha zero at kingside is justified , he can bring queen back to checkmate position and if black defneds with pawn , he can tempoopponents queen and get a monster knight , i would have done the same and then even we get a new open file to the black queen
It's nice analysis but none of us will ever play like AlphaZero. I'd like to hear you discuss more about how we can incorporate his style into human games.
I loved this analysis! Great game choice and clear explanations :)
Only 7 likes and no comments .. that’s strange
This was a year ago when they were significantly less famous
I only want to hear about AlphaZero from AlphaAnna! Interesting analysis!!
AlphaAnna LOL
From watching these videos, I've increased the number of games I've won. Through the genius of watching AlphaZero beat its opponents, I've learned one simple thing...
Play lower rated opponents.
🤣🤣🤣 I was expecting something interesting.
Anna, you are the AlphaZero of chess teachers/commentators/analysts !! Thank You !!
Anna, Your coverage of this particular game is an extremely well-thought-out lesson for players of such a wide range in ability. This is a superb tutorial of chess. Very good job! - j q t -
I am really loving this series on Alpha Zero.
me too
Lasker: "When you see a good move, look for a better one."
UPDATE: Hey folks! Thank you for your kind words about my AlphaZero videos! I don't have new AZ videos on this channel but I have created something even bigger: an entire chess course (Attack like a machine!) highly influenced by AlphaZero's play, with the main chapter dedicated to AlphaZero's attacking chess. You can check out the preview video and find out more about the course here: www.chessable.com/anna-1
Thank you for your enthusiastic and very clear explanations. I am really enjoying Alpha Zero reminding us humans about chess dynamics and that material isn't everything. Somewhere Alexander Alekhine, Rudolph Spielmann, and Mikhail Tal are smiling down on us.
Loved your comment
8:50 "You don't want to play chess on autopilot, That's when you miss chances". Imagine people took that advice on how to live life. I swear, most people act as if thinking hurts.
Why aren't more such content? I really love these and request Anna to continue more on this series...
Thank you very much for the eye opener possibilities to playing chess in a different manner. I have just started playing chess again after a fifty year hiatus and I love being taught/shown how to think again.
Penguin ymous similar here. I gave up chess about 25 years ago but this AlphaZero development has sparked my interest again.
Man, Anna is so informative while being likeable! Always looking forward to these!
Great video. I played along with Droidfish. It didn't get most of these moves. Alpha zero had a >= 1.0 advantage most of the time and just kept improving. At the end it was >= 4.74. It's amazing how it puts the opponent in zugzwang.
Anna, I enjoy your commentary the best of all that I have viewed! Excellent!! Thank you so much!!
In all of the Alphazero games the end game is Stockfish crowding their king with their pieces. Just as Alphazero intended.
Positional advantage leading to attacking advantage > material advantage. Entertaining and educational!
Wow! This is a masterpiece, both the game and your explanations. How AlphaZero is a master eliminating the opponent’s pieces through the positional game sofocating blacks pieces until Stockfish dies from asfixia due to strangulation.
Love your analysis and explanations :)
Great vid, all clear and very well explained. thank you very much IM Rudolf for sharing these explanations (+the fun)
"Don't ask me why. Ok, you can ask me why" lol :-D
I recently came back to chess. I have been watching your vids endlessly!!! Already trying to make A0 type moves!!
Not fussed about the chess but I think I'm in love with Anna!
Anna please more alpha zero games (with out TCEC opening book)
it doesn't matter to the pieces but at the end, it wins, that's so awesome
Anna, your accent is adorable. About g2:f3 move - I read about such moves in Siegbert Tarrasch book, I believe it called "Die moderne Schachpartie" (1916). Alpha Zero reminds me of Sultan Khan.
Thanks for these amazing videos Anna. Would love some LeelaChessZero vs. Stockfish games (especially given that it finally beat Stockfish in TCEC).
Educative, fun and charming (as always). Congatulation Ana! A great video... 😊
At 10:20 I did guess the pawn. I think a lot of people underestimate the king's fighting ability. There are no bishops left after that one is taken out, and the Queen can't immediately put AlphaZero in check. I'm a casual player (although maybe I'm slowly becoming more than a casual player, since I'm watching videos like this) and I think there may be an advantage in not having a lot of experience when it comes to keeping an open mind.
Damn, I need to see that episode 2 ASAP... !
And since I just subscribed, I've noticed I have a 4th one available..... I'm going to need some popcorn.
Love these Alpha Zero games, and I also like your fun analysis. 😊You are the best teacher of chess I think. You make it fun and interesting . Thanks 😀love xx Brian
I was hoping to see a new alpha episode for such a long time, thank you Anna
You are the best chess teacher that I know. I subscribed to many good ones. You are the best, most talented. Thanks a lot. Thanks to you I love AlphaZero. I think it plays totally new 3-dimensional chess as opposed to old 2-D Nimzowitsch style. Please, continue this journey to the depts of AlphaZero plays.
Gosh, I love you, Anna, I love when someone realized the best Chess Instructor are now AI(Artificial Intelligent)and except it, and goes on from there.
You have listened to your fans and chosen to teach us through the best Chess instructor in the Universe, not Stockfish, not Komodo, not Houdini, not, etc.., But AlphaZero! Who has now beat/crush them all (human or computers) handly.
Thank You, Master(Anna Rudolf), for teaching us from the Best(AlphaZero) in the Universe.
All seems so logical when you explain everything Anna. To know it would work out well in the endgame takes good chess knowledge and experience. Thanks for posting.
Fantastic lesson. Your videos are changing my game! You are so clear and nice to listen to.
OMG what an amazing game, and what and amazing job job Anna is doing explaining this. "Its a Monster" (the Bishop on f6). Indeed it is, and so are you, Anna! Thx and Love
if you noticed A0- only moved the pawn in front of the king after getting rid of the opponent's bishops. opened files were not a problem but the diagonals.
I like how alpha zero plays and the way it takes the g file open to iniatiate an attack on black's king. Now I tried it out in my games and it went well thanks Ana and I don't want to blame you for that reason.
I've been missing your chess streams :(
I wonder, have we seen an increase in the popularity of the English after AlphaZeros rise to fame?
Regardless, very nice video. You make everything seem easy and obvious, which is the trademark for any great teacher.
Just got back into chess, this was very helpful. Thank you
Fantastic instructor chess video. The best I have ever seen.
Excellent and funny analysis. Would love to see more.
One of AZ's favourite attacking setups is having an open file and an open diagonal onto the enemy king
Really like the lecture about dont auto capture. Good analyzes
02:50 Oh, please! There's one - and only *one* good move here: of course you sacrifice the queen on d4. Can't you see that beautiful diagonal *d4-a7* for little bishop?
11:00 but *Garry* would have seen that..
Anna=my favorite chess commentator.
In his discussion of the Najdorf GM Naiditsch shows the game Anish Giri versus Maxime Vachier-Lagrave where MVL has an isolated h-pawn, double isolated f-pawns, an isolated d-pawn and his only two connected pawns are on a6 and b5. MVL won an amazing game. Watching this game allowed me to immediately see the gxf3 capture. I had a harder time with Nxd4. Old habits of keeping pawns connected and in the center haven't died just yet. Maybe because I realize it's going to be at least another week of study before I play like MVL.
LOVE your chess analysis! informative AND fun! can't believe i only just found your channel!
Anna: See the power of the King!!!👑👑👑👑🤴🤴🤴🤴
Abish Mathew: First time?
😂😂
Oh common ! like your commentaries on alpha zero, better then the rest of the gm's. Sad that you stopped, I really enjoy watching your observations, and listening to your commentaries on them, please up load more, I am very interested in this, especially as a 2v2 chess player! HAHAHAHHA!
I love these videos. It's like traversing deep space - you always discover something new. I've watched enough Sci-Fi to know! 😎
Love your analysis and enthusiasm but even more than that, when you talk about game strategy for example: 'Do not automatically retake without thinking. Do not play chess on autopilot.' Such great and needed advice. And of course much more pleasant to look at than, for example, a Ben Finegold video.
Just subscribed! you're voice is so welcoming it feels like I'm discussing chess with a friend :)
9:20 I was actually thinking taking with the pawn since it means two less move for your knight to threaten that good position you pointed out earlier! I'm generally pretty bad at chess cause I have trouble seeing a lot of things, and I'm in particular really bad at spotting checkmates which doesn't help xD (I can draw with two queen vs a single king that's how bad I am with checkmates o/), but I think I'm pretty good with general positionning and tempo ideas, things like favoring move that leave you with the initiative, or favoring move that strengthen your position.
That's probably cause I mostly play ccg (card games like magic) where those ideas are rather important so I translate them well to chess.
So I actually have a lot of fun watching alphazero games cause it's like, what I wish I could do when playing chess without the dumb blunders xD
Humans see the activity looks good. Stockfish sees that material is even for many moves to come.
Funny, sharp and utterly entertaining. Love this. Keep it up
All your videos on aloha zero are amazing
@3:53 AZ, simply moves back its Q parallel to bishops for added protection. Also it's planning to move knight to h4 or g5 in the near future. So yeah the typical human player moves is to chase down black's light bishop and exchange with a knight. AZ doesn't care much about ranks on pieces, but only active pieces ready for attacks or sacrifices anytime for positional and strategic advantage to win the game.
*wife gives birth*
*holding newborn baby*
"Anna has a new AlphaZero video out?"
*drop newborn baby*
It’s all good. The baby fell on all fours, crawled straight to the nearest screen, and watched Anna’s video. 👶 👍
@@johnvonhorn2942 I think you'll find that you were the one that went too far
That baby was me. Thanks for the ADHD and autism, dad.
@@danfg7215 Then played us lot at chess and won 😎
Plot twist: Anna dives from an unseen location and catches the baby.
Stockfish: rook = 5
Alpha zero: bishop =(3 or 7)
You are the best Alpha Zero interpretator! Thanks for the lesson.
Thanks for the content Anna, great tutorial! Alpha Zero could solve the worlds problems
Excellent video, and by watching this, I think I know who can play like Alpha Zero and maybe stand a chance against it. That's Vassily Ivanchuk on a nice and wild day.
ANNA --- As you so keenly described, after gxf3 White opened the g file preparing kg2 with a long-term attacking plan against the Black king. White’s unchallenged dark-square bishop controlling the long a1-h8 diagonal played a key role in Alpha Zero’s decision to play gxf3. This plan gave White complete control over the board, with little or no effective counter-play for Black. Although the gxf3 plan did not…in and of itself…lead to a “forced mate” or a decisive gain in material for White (through tactics), it DID ultimately lead to a winning endgame for White, as you clearly demonstrated.
My question is this: After gxf3 was there a better continuation for Black that could have stymied White’s attack or at least equalize? So, after gxf3 was the end result inevitable???
Anna, at 2:48, are you subtly trolling Alex by saying that Qd4 (which would be the Botez Gambit) isn't a good move? ;)
Gambit Accepted
We need more match analysis videos!
Gorgeous analysis.
Steinitz would have been impressed - he felt the king should have more attacking potential in the middlegame, but he could never quite make it work convincingly.
0:55 That reminded me of Guru Pathik for some reason...
**chukles** "Good one, **serious tone** moving on."
N i thought u we're great at regular speed,man 2x is just a delight! You're so cool Anna.
AlphaZero reminds me more of Paul Morphy than any other chess player I have encountered.
Love that “rook g8 to g6 is a great plan”
One of the greatest and most beautyfull games i ever sow, i am supprise no other comentators pik it to show at least far as i know
Hi Anna First thank you for your great lesson . now I'm on time 28:09 the black Q to e8 simultaneously lifting up the white K to g4 how now the turn is to white Q tx black Q ? I didn't get it
At 16:20 I have an interesting suggestion. Why not 1. Qe2? Threatening Qxh5+! leading to mate. Kh7 loses the queen. Maybe Rh8 is an option, but still 2. Qxh5+ gxh5 3. Rh6+ Kg8 4. Rxh8#. Or if 2. Qxh5+ Kg8 (best defence) 3. Qxh8+ Kxh8 4. Rxg6+ Kh7 leads to mate. After 4. Rxg6+ white should play 4 ... f6 5. Bxf6+ picks up the queen and several pawns.
Everyones "Anna more Alpha Zero", I'm going against the grain and saying Anna more lower rated player game analysis.
I love her personality when analysing games, she makes it so interesting and instructional.
Kingscrusher, I'm afraid I've found a new love, Anna.
If you had stated that the Kings pawn opening was more common would the outcome have changed? I seem to recall that Alpha Zero liked the E4 opening.
* Want to see Anna tell analysis Alpha zero in 2022 ! *
Can you do all of the alpha zero games? You can explain it better than others. We are looking forward to it. Your alphazero videos has a lot of views.
32:12 I was also thinking about capturing the bishop with the pawn. But I don't know enough about cheese to know if it was a good move
More AlphaZero games, please!
Hi Anna - I like how your lessons encourage thinking which, to many, will be counter-intuitive - it's really instructive. Can I ask what software you use to record chess videos? I would like to record a couple about the Dragon, but interested to ask how you split the screen, etc?
Would it be possible to use a darker board? The light board is hard on my eyes to stare at.
I agree with ya
I stretched some nylons across the monitor. Just explain to the wife first that you are watching chess on the internets.
Frank Spencer imao
Great video Anna i don't really understand much about chess yet but these videos are definitely helping ^^
8:07 "the move would be"
Me: gxf3
"Nxf3 without thinking"
Me: but black has no attack and that wastes a tempo if we're trying to play Nc6
"first lesson of the day, you should never re-capture without thinking"
Me: I am one with the machine.
Yes! I was thinking "no human would make this move" - wait now.... am I an android? 😱
I am pretty aggressive (and often reckless) in attacking, and for me gxf3 would have been an immediately obvious move - a half opened rank aiming at black's king position, with potential to really pile it on... yes please!
@@j.lahtinen7525 I would also like to say I would still play knight takes, because I would somehow give black a way to attack in this position :C
@@TheShadowblast123 Did I mention my tendency to be a bit reckless? 😁
Look at this beast in the corner........Ouch, one second i thought she can see me !
rofl
Wonderful! So exciting ! Thank you so much,
John (basil)
You should have played Motoko Kusanagi in that live action Ghost in the Shell movie!
In the minute 16:20 what happens if alphazero plays instead of Qd3 Qe2 threatening Qh5 and Rh6++?
Anna Rudolf, and the attack of AlphaZero.
Nice demostration, how the value of piece never can be superior to his dynamic position; incluiding his King and his bischop.
Hard to keep't in mind but not AlphaZero.
🍎Beautiful Domination🍎
the doubling pawns by alpha zero at kingside is justified , he can bring queen back to checkmate position and if black defneds with pawn , he can tempoopponents queen and get a monster knight , i would have done the same and then even we get a new open file to the black queen
It's nice analysis but none of us will ever play like AlphaZero. I'd like to hear you discuss more about how we can incorporate his style into human games.
Love these videos! Great Analysis Anna
i love the way she says diagonal
Thanks very much! I do think that I would play gxf3 in the key position as the powerful dark-squared bishop would inspire dreams of checkmate at g7.
You are a Great Teacher!
Very good analysis from Anna. But I wish to see Alphazero play black against stockfish.
I think you can download the games.
10:01 A movement likes this pops up in my mind two names: Mikhail Tal and Vassily Ivanchuk Lol...
29:34. When a bishop is worth more than 2 rooks, meanwhile my bishops are worth 2 licks and a slap