That bit of commentary around 3:10 when Agad mentions the Karpov Korchnoi game in the same position is a perfect example of exactly why he is the best chess video maker on youtube by a mile, such great videos.
I watched that sequence of moves several times. I've never seen anything like it. The artistry of Capablanca simply sculpted blacks pieces to where he wanted them to be.
That rook dance starting around 11:15 is one of the most satisfying and brilliant sequence of events I have ever seen. Cap was a magician at the midgame, truly.
12:30 is definitely the sweetest combination in the game, though Joe DiMaggio could easily be referring to Re8! which continued at 11:15. Capablanca played too many amazing sequences
Karpov also didn't capture Qxb7 in the 1974 world chess championship (55 years later) @ 2:16. It took chess ENGINES to discover that advantage. Capablanca's move Re8 @ 9:56 is simply brilliant !!
OH MY GOD! For the first time, I actually found the move at 9:57 even before Agadmator told me to pause the video. I am now officially an Excellent Lifter of Rooks.
As an inexperienced player I am learning a lot from some of these videos in regards to having well placed pieces on your own side of the board (see the knight in this game). I tend to not be satisfied unless I attack all the time and that is how I get myself into real trouble. Patience and always have a plan B.
*Castling OFFICIAL Chess RULES States:* *_(I am a stickler for the rules!)_* Castling is a *king move,* and so the *king must be touched first.* If the rook is touched first instead, a *rook move must be made.* Once the player touches a rook in the process of castling, they must castle with that rook if it is legal to do so. If the player completes a two-square king move without touching a rook, the player must move the correct rook accordingly if castling on that side is legal. Otherwise, the move must be withdrawn and another king move made. If the player touches both pieces in attempting to castle illegally, the king must be moved if possible, but if there is no legal king move, then there is no requirement to move the rook. -- If you review the behavior of castling closely, you should notice that when castling *Rook first,* it not only appears awkward, but doesn't follow the appropriate chess piece hierarchy and piece value. When the King is moved first it follows the more appropriate chess hierarchy. Because pieces like pawns cannot go backwards, it is important to follow the appropriate moves during chess. You touch a piece, you move that piece, your move is done. Because chess is extremely competitive, it becomes necessary for the rules to be upheld fairly. *Unintentional* Illegal castling is the most popular illegal move in chess because players touch their ROOK FIRST. It's painful to lose a game to this, more often than you would think, mistake. I hope this helps. Thank you. _Excellent & Brilliant _*_"agadmator's Chess Channel",_*_ I highly recommend SUBSCRIBING and/or DONATING._
@Blejz No one, in that case. I am referring to deliberate cheats and back room planning. Most people might not think cheating is something good players do but when it comes to competitive anything, I was shocked to find people doing it far more often than you might think. in fact, these cheaters claimed that an experienced player should know when to cheat and when not to. Meaning they had an entire philosophy on it. There are a couple of cheats in competitive sports/games right now that I have my eye on, that in my opinion, are a disgrace but they don't care and people are applauding them for it. It sucks but it's a reality. I don't like playing chess against cheats but I am always ready to do so.
Capablanca's brilliant opening moves to the Petrov illustrates his deep knowledge of opening theory to the Petrov. He left himself in a comfortable middle and end game which Capa easily exploited.
Capablanca had a presence that seemed to intimidate most opponents but I have a feeling that Alekhine would not have missed Bh4. It was the one chance. After that, Capa was in machine mode.
That Bh4 move was eerily similar to Ivanchuk-Anand in a different Petroff's position. I saw Bh4 coming because of that game, which was one of my favorites when taking up the Petroff's 30 years ago. (It happens that Anand's position was unsound until he won, but it was very creative and he did win.)
@7:51: When the black bishop is "trapped", pushing Pawn G4 will save the bishop because it will threaten a nasty rook-check discovery by pawn capturing F3
While it is said by some experts and chess theorists that Capablanca had relatively little knowledge of opening theory, I propose that that he had an innate or instinctive command of opening principles. If he was "poor" at openings, he would have little chance of getting beyond move 15. He was able to get into the middle game and beyond in a very high proportion of his games. Would he succumb to current opening tricks and gambits? Did he succumb to experts on openings? I don't think so. Here is a quote from Wiki "He wrote several chess books during his career, of which Chess Fundamentals was regarded by Mikhail Botvinnik as the best chess book ever written. Capablanca preferred not to present detailed analysis but focused on critical moments in a game. His style of chess was influential in the play of future world champions Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov." I don't think a player like Capablanca enters the top 3 of all time greats by being poor at openings. A lot of players these days wrote learn openings from engines but after their opponent deviates from opening theory on move 10 or 15, they are lost.
10:06 - I'd move White E2 to E8. Black is forced to capture with Black rook unless he wants to trade a queen for two rooks. 11:16 - I would have tried Black Rook to D5 to D1 not D5 to D4.
#suggestion yesterday there was a great queen sacrifice game played by the Indian IM ratnakarn, it would be really nice if you could show that game here!
Im still unable to understand and remember the positions of attacks and defences like peterov defence, kings indian etc. Any suggestions r guide please?
After Rb8, Qa6 is a good idea. Brings the Queen into the nice diagonal so it can actively defend on the king side. It's just trading a pawn, so it's not that great for example after Rxb2 now after Qa6 then Qd3 just going after the rook, it would be very hard to defend it since the other rook is stuck on b2.
@Pablo Man Yeah, that's a good explanation,thanks... I have an impression in this match that Kostic often easily give up the pawn,without good compensation,and that's not a good idea against Capablanca... He lost all three matches because he was down a pawn.
@@lordstarship827 Hmm yes,you are right,from a6 Queen can go back into the game... But black's rook on B2 is also on active square,I would say.. but ofc I am 1500 player,and I am probably wrong :D Thanks for answering :)
Огњен Томић It's not that much of an active square compared to Qd3. Plus, your rook is stuck on the queen side while you are attacking on the king side. With the addition of the Queen, white can easily trap the rook, pick it up, and bring the queen back to the game. That's why black brings the rook to g1. He tries to make the queen stuck the entire game, and it works.
4:24 Great content as usual, but unfortunately this is not the winning idea that was discovered after the game. The winning idea was after 12. Nf1? Bxf3 13. gxf3 Nxf2 14. Kxf2 Bh4+ 15. Ng3 f4 and black would have had a decisive attack (source: Ludek Pachmann, Eröffnungspraxis im Schach, 1st edition 1976, p. 52).
7:48 Black should move to g5 and white cannot move to g3 because black is moving g4 and this is strong attacks for black! White after can’t take Bishop because white is loosing Rook!
10:07 What about Bd6? Either you trade the bishop for a rook, or you trade rooks while having a tempo since your bishop on b6 is attacking the rook on f8.
Must be horrible, playing such a good chess like Bora did, no blunders , no mistakes really , even playing actively and attacking, but you still can`t even come close to drawing , let alone winning a game.
Depends on the situation on the board, but generally I'd prefer to have two minor peaces for a rook (only the mating pattern is somewhat complicate although it of course works).
Depends on the situation. Typically 2 minor pieces are more valuable than 1 rook. Points-wise 2 pieces are worth 1 point more than a rook (6 vs 5). A rook is sometimes better in certain situations such as endgames.
Eric Vinnetona Generally speaking, knight (knights ride the horse, so we call it knights usually) and Bishop is better than rook. A knight (3 points) and Bishop (3 points) is better than the rook (5 points). With a knight and bishop, you can be more active cover more space than a rook because of two pieces. You can pin or double attack the rook later. You can trade one of the pieces for the rook, but the rook can’t trade because it would be losing trading. Or another idea is you can use your knight and bishop to support a pawn push to the end of board. Rook will have a hard time stopping it with the knight and bishop defending. In exceptional cases, a rook could be better than the knight and bishop. If the rook and some pawns can dominate the knight and bishop and the rook helps promote a pawn first then a rook is better than knight and bishop in that case.
@@hughtube5154 I do not want him to see this. He will not do an entire saga just because a subscriber requested that. I am just doing propaganda for the upcoming electoral campaign after the Capablanca saga ends. There will be a vote and I will certainly vote for Karpov. I want to see his matches with Korchnoi
@Oissev Onos yeah, after Karpov a Lasker Saga seems very exciting, especially his match against Tarrasch (one of the five/six chess pairs of enemies, besides Capablanca- Alekhine, Petrosian - Korchnoi, Karpov - Korchnoi, Karpov- Kasparov and Kramnik - Topalov). I like games between players who hate each other:)) . Regarding the saga concept, I would like shorters sagas (or wathever is the plural for saga), concentrating around world chess championships. Why? Because in simple tournaments we often find unknown players, and despite the fact that the games may be interesing, I appreciate more and more the trivia around the games. In Candidates and WCC we find that. And that's why I do not want a Rubinstein or Morphy Saga for now.
That bit of commentary around 3:10 when Agad mentions the Karpov Korchnoi game in the same position is a perfect example of exactly why he is the best chess video maker on youtube by a mile, such great videos.
That rook cleanup at the end!! 36. Re6 and then 37. Re5 and then 38. Re8+... brilliant! This kind of endgame play is what I need to practice.
Superb play!
I watched that sequence of moves several times. I've never seen anything like it. The artistry of Capablanca simply sculpted blacks pieces to where he wanted them to be.
Now did agad really blundered his glass of water or is he playing the thirst gambit?
Daniel Chéquer he was not well during other video shoot
Now he is fine again💯💯
He was playing the ill gambit back then.
Ba Duuum Tss
That rook dance starting around 11:15 is one of the most satisfying and brilliant sequence of events I have ever seen. Cap was a magician at the midgame, truly.
12:30 is definitely the sweetest combination in the game, though Joe DiMaggio could easily be referring to Re8! which continued at 11:15. Capablanca played too many amazing sequences
can we get a "capablanca didnt know theory - agadmator" t-shirt/hoodie/coffee mug
I feel like capablanca is a part of my life now!!!!!!!
4:54 "old school no water break...."
10:08 "second break without water"
15:00 "so yea"
Karpov also didn't capture Qxb7 in the 1974 world chess championship (55 years later) @ 2:16. It took chess ENGINES to discover that advantage. Capablanca's move Re8 @ 9:56 is simply brilliant !!
OH MY GOD! For the first time, I actually found the move at 9:57 even before Agadmator told me to pause the video. I am now officially an Excellent Lifter of Rooks.
If you think about it...
You will have a "last chess move" before you die...
Make it a good move.
1:E4
MrJoshie333 ... I’m going to flip the whole board up into the air with pure rage. That’s what I usually do when I’m losing.
I'll resign before Life gets to checkmate me ♚👈
Ke2
Dont bother making any moves..it may turn out to be a blunder
Thanks for the upload, Sir Agad!
Ivan Marasigan from Philippines. 😊
100 years, still awesome!
As an inexperienced player I am learning a lot from some of these videos in regards to having well placed pieces on your own side of the board (see the knight in this game). I tend to not be satisfied unless I attack all the time and that is how I get myself into real trouble. Patience and always have a plan B.
I am not tired of Capablanca series at all.
You only get one chance at life, so reach for all the gusto you can get.
Pardon me while I take a nice sip of water.
*Castling OFFICIAL Chess RULES States:* *_(I am a stickler for the rules!)_*
Castling is a *king move,* and so the *king must be touched first.* If the rook is touched first instead, a *rook move must be made.* Once the player touches a rook in the process of castling, they must castle with that rook if it is legal to do so. If the player completes a two-square king move without touching a rook, the player must move the correct rook accordingly if castling on that side is legal. Otherwise, the move must be withdrawn and another king move made. If the player touches both pieces in attempting to castle illegally, the king must be moved if possible, but if there is no legal king move, then there is no requirement to move the rook.
-- If you review the behavior of castling closely, you should notice that when castling *Rook first,* it not only appears awkward, but doesn't follow the appropriate chess piece hierarchy and piece value. When the King is moved first it follows the more appropriate chess hierarchy. Because pieces like pawns cannot go backwards, it is important to follow the appropriate moves during chess. You touch a piece, you move that piece, your move is done. Because chess is extremely competitive, it becomes necessary for the rules to be upheld fairly.
*Unintentional* Illegal castling is the most popular illegal move in chess because players touch their ROOK FIRST. It's painful to lose a game to this, more often than you would think, mistake. I hope this helps. Thank you.
_Excellent & Brilliant _*_"agadmator's Chess Channel",_*_ I highly recommend SUBSCRIBING and/or DONATING._
@Blejz No one, in that case. I am referring to deliberate cheats and back room planning. Most people might not think cheating is something good players do but when it comes to competitive anything, I was shocked to find people doing it far more often than you might think. in fact, these cheaters claimed that an experienced player should know when to cheat and when not to. Meaning they had an entire philosophy on it. There are a couple of cheats in competitive sports/games right now that I have my eye on, that in my opinion, are a disgrace but they don't care and people are applauding them for it. It sucks but it's a reality. I don't like playing chess against cheats but I am always ready to do so.
Those games when there were no engines
Just brilliant thought process
They are truely legends💯💯😮😮
Great Lesson!
When is the next saga starting? Love the capa saga but looking forward to the next one
in notification, i saw the word "Capablanca" and ran to watch
Capablanca's brilliant opening moves to the Petrov illustrates his deep knowledge of opening theory to the Petrov. He left himself in a comfortable middle and end game which Capa easily exploited.
Capablanca had a presence that seemed to intimidate most opponents but I have a feeling that Alekhine would not have missed Bh4. It was the one chance. After that, Capa was in machine mode.
Everytime I find capas game I find smile on my face...
That Bh4 move was eerily similar to Ivanchuk-Anand in a different Petroff's position. I saw Bh4 coming because of that game, which was one of my favorites when taking up the Petroff's 30 years ago. (It happens that Anand's position was unsound until he won, but it was very creative and he did win.)
@7:51: When the black bishop is "trapped", pushing Pawn G4 will save the bishop because it will threaten a nasty rook-check discovery by pawn capturing F3
Mark Zlamal yes
Nice find. Now you have to go back.
True, but how would black respond to fxg4 which attacks the rook? Now both his bishop and rook are under attack!
@@vinithradhakrishnan8969 Damn... you're an excellent finder of counter-moves! I see now that there would be 2 pawns blocking the checking rook...
Great rook maneuvers!
A typical positional masterpiece by Capablanc...
Uh huh "Capablanc"
How capablanca moves moves is like a piece of art.
Liked before watching❤️
you rebel. we simply cannot allow likes before viewing. LOL
😂😂
Ya but on this channel and biu biu pubg player on his channel only I like the video before watching...
3:27 Capablanca's famous ignorance of opening theory bites him again! 😂
Does Capablanca not know much opening theory? I never knew, thank you for improving my vast knowledge.
We need some merch that says "Completely Winning"
Pablo has donated 4 €
Respect, this guy has determination.
@Λερα ελλαδα
D E T E R M I N A T I O O O N
agadmator blunder at 4:56
12:23 Wow good idea
Thanks Agad.
I was attacking but this saga change my perspective.
How much opening theory did Capablanca have? It’s been so long It’s eluded my memory
While it is said by some experts and chess theorists that Capablanca had relatively little knowledge of opening theory, I propose that that he had an innate or instinctive command of opening principles. If he was "poor" at openings, he would have little chance of getting beyond move 15. He was able to get into the middle game and beyond in a very high proportion of his games. Would he succumb to current opening tricks and gambits? Did he succumb to experts on openings? I don't think so.
Here is a quote from Wiki "He wrote several chess books during his career, of which Chess Fundamentals was regarded by Mikhail Botvinnik as the best chess book ever written. Capablanca preferred not to present detailed analysis but focused on critical moments in a game. His style of chess was influential in the play of future world champions Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov."
I don't think a player like Capablanca enters the top 3 of all time greats by being poor at openings. A lot of players these days wrote learn openings from engines but after their opponent deviates from opening theory on move 10 or 15, they are lost.
DEAD HORSE.
This is why 100 years later, we are watching a Capablanca saga and not a Kostic saga...
We need either a Lasker or an Alekhine saga after this series.
I was about to fall asleep, when... HELLO EVERYONE! 😀
capa is the greatest
14:31 "it would be very hard for BORAT to win this match" hehe borat yaksjamesh!
Imagine Capablanca used Agadmator's channel to prepare for his matches
If that was possible he would be reigning world champion today 🤣
Old school way 👍
Thanks agad
10:06 - I'd move White E2 to E8. Black is forced to capture with Black rook unless he wants to trade a queen for two rooks.
11:16 - I would have tried Black Rook to D5 to D1 not D5 to D4.
After Rxf8+ Kh7, Qg8 looks strong, even if Rxe1
Capablanca barely lost. Even in black he most times won
I thought kostic could do something in middlegame but capa was too much for him.
15:09 Everyone misses the bishop to h4 move... agadmator 20th june 2019
thank you man
#suggestion yesterday there was a great queen sacrifice game played by the Indian IM ratnakarn, it would be really nice if you could show that game here!
Dehydration is a serious threat. Consider preparing some new school water for the next video :)
Might get the Merkel shakes. Or is that only if you hear the anthem of the country you despise too.
Yeah, she hates her country. And her country hates her as well.
He doesn't have water theory...
Im still unable to understand and remember the positions of attacks and defences like peterov defence, kings indian etc. Any suggestions r guide please?
12:16 why not knight D4??
I have lost thousands of game and I have learn nothing. Pitty!
5:18 I found Nxf2 and if black accepts Kxf2 then I thought that THEN bishop to Bh4 would win the rook but missed the obvious defense of g3 lol
Actually the game you mention karpov vs korchnoi is semifinal candidate 1974
@5:58, Why not go Bf2+ forking the King and the Rook instead of moving the Rook to F6?
well its white to play.. so he blocks with the knight.
7:07 Why not just Rb8 and you win back the pawn?
After Rb8, Qa6 is a good idea. Brings the Queen into the nice diagonal so it can actively defend on the king side. It's just trading a pawn, so it's not that great for example after Rxb2 now after Qa6 then Qd3 just going after the rook, it would be very hard to defend it since the other rook is stuck on b2.
@Pablo Man Yeah, that's a good explanation,thanks... I have an impression in this match that Kostic often easily give up the pawn,without good compensation,and that's not a good idea against Capablanca... He lost all three matches because he was down a pawn.
@@lordstarship827 Hmm yes,you are right,from a6 Queen can go back into the game... But black's rook on B2 is also on active square,I would say.. but ofc I am 1500 player,and I am probably wrong :D Thanks for answering :)
Огњен Томић It's not that much of an active square compared to Qd3. Plus, your rook is stuck on the queen side while you are attacking on the king side. With the addition of the Queen, white can easily trap the rook, pick it up, and bring the queen back to the game. That's why black brings the rook to g1. He tries to make the queen stuck the entire game, and it works.
05:30 What about Kxf2?
Can you do Vladislav Kovalev vs Vladislav Artemiev in the karpov poikovsky tournament?
At 1:23 can someone tell me why c 3 instead of B x knight on e4? thanks in advance
3:29 - Same ol' Capa, I guess.
Agad can do a video on the recent queen safrice by ratnakaran yesterday??pleaseeeeeeee
7:17 why not Rxe7? It wins 2 pieces for the rook. After Qxe7 the knight is unguarded. Did I miss something?
Old school without "the magnificence zip of water". Its a Tal move
When you will finish this saga
Nice game
4:24 Great content as usual, but unfortunately this is not the winning idea that was discovered after the game. The winning idea was after 12. Nf1? Bxf3 13. gxf3 Nxf2 14. Kxf2 Bh4+ 15. Ng3 f4 and black would have had a decisive attack (source: Ludek Pachmann, Eröffnungspraxis im Schach, 1st edition 1976, p. 52).
hey Antonio did Capablanca even lose 100 games in his lifetime? if not it makes the quote above the board a bit funny
7:48 Black should move to g5 and white cannot move to g3 because black is moving g4 and this is strong attacks for black! White after can’t take Bishop because white is loosing Rook!
One opportunity to blow do not miss your chance to blow you better lose yourself in the queen trades
Queen to E8 Mile.
10:07
What about Bd6?
Either you trade the bishop for a rook, or you trade rooks while having a tempo since your bishop on b6 is attacking the rook on f8.
Huh? That doesn't work for anyone?
What? Then black will just capture the bishop with the queen. White just loses a piece for nothing
@@maxalabama
Oh, didn't see that.
Thanks ^^'
@@maxalabama Gotta spend money to make money.
Why was Kostic loosing every game ?
Must be horrible, playing such a good chess like Bora did, no blunders , no mistakes really , even playing actively and attacking, but you still can`t even come close to drawing , let alone winning a game.
#suggestion
Me vs my neighbor. Game from 2007 (Queen sacrifice due toilette issues)
XD
hello from Syria everyone
@Oissev Onos yes I am,thank you :)
hope you are a fine day too :)
Hello from Chile
alt. line, rather than Bh4, Nxf2
Hey Agad, from 1974 to now is not "some 50 plus years", as you say in the vid. Am I missing something?
I believe he meant that it was fifty plus years from when this game was played (1919) to 1974.
Clicked so fast I made a sparkle.
DID anyone noticed agadmator's dog on the background?
Where is the dog, does he have something against Capablanca?
bro can you improve your mic.. it is a bit of a high pitch..
One opportunity
Was i the only one that got distracted by the beautiful doggo in the back.?
Meadow is playing well.
I wonder how Capablanca ever learned how to play chess. I don't see him loosing hundreds of games.
Capablanca doesn't want to do anything terrible
As a beginner at 1100 rating I need the answer what is better a horse and a Bishop or a rook
Depends on the situation on the board, but generally I'd prefer to have two minor peaces for a rook (only the mating pattern is somewhat complicate although it of course works).
Depends on the situation. Typically 2 minor pieces are more valuable than 1 rook. Points-wise 2 pieces are worth 1 point more than a rook (6 vs 5). A rook is sometimes better in certain situations such as endgames.
Eric Vinnetona Generally speaking, knight (knights ride the horse, so we call it knights usually) and Bishop is better than rook. A knight (3 points) and Bishop (3 points) is better than the rook (5 points). With a knight and bishop, you can be more active cover more space than a rook because of two pieces. You can pin or double attack the rook later. You can trade one of the pieces for the rook, but the rook can’t trade because it would be losing trading. Or another idea is you can use your knight and bishop to support a pawn push to the end of board. Rook will have a hard time stopping it with the knight and bishop defending. In exceptional cases, a rook could be better than the knight and bishop. If the rook and some pawns can dominate the knight and bishop and the rook helps promote a pawn first then a rook is better than knight and bishop in that case.
Ok thanks for the input guys
You can't eat a rook or a bishop. So go with the horse.
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There was another move! Knight takes f2 attacking the bishop. If king takes knight then you bring bishop to h4 winning the rook
Tom Shani you can play g3 to block the bishop
bleach How fast should I delete my comment?
please fix the arrows :(
Wait, capablaca didnt know opening theory? 😲
How tf did i find the first idea that capablanca and boris missed hhahaha im an amazing finder of moves that capablanca and boris missed
Hello everyone!
i found 2 moves when he gave 2 secs but i have no idea why i found it.😅
5:0 for Capa. I don't know, just guessing.
Karpov Saga
If you want Agadmator to see your request, use #suggestion.
@@hughtube5154 I do not want him to see this. He will not do an entire saga just because a subscriber requested that. I am just doing propaganda for the upcoming electoral campaign after the Capablanca saga ends. There will be a vote and I will certainly vote for Karpov. I want to see his matches with Korchnoi
@Oissev Onos yeah, after Karpov a Lasker Saga seems very exciting, especially his match against Tarrasch (one of the five/six chess pairs of enemies, besides Capablanca- Alekhine, Petrosian - Korchnoi, Karpov - Korchnoi, Karpov- Kasparov and Kramnik - Topalov). I like games between players who hate each other:)) . Regarding the saga concept, I would like shorters sagas (or wathever is the plural for saga), concentrating around world chess championships. Why? Because in simple tournaments we often find unknown players, and despite the fact that the games may be interesing, I appreciate more and more the trivia around the games. In Candidates and WCC we find that. And that's why I do not want a Rubinstein or Morphy Saga for now.
What's your favorite Agadmator line?
Reply to my comment your opinion.
Evans Gambit
I'm here early, I'm an excellent subscriber :-)