hello Mato....we celebrate teachers's day in india every year on 5 of September . i have improved in chess and a lot of credit goes to you. i know its late but still i wish you belated happy teachers's day on behalf of every indian who watches your video to learn and improve. keep these tutorials coming. :)
That was one of those extended endgames where the strategic considerations were clear at every stage. That made it unusually instructive. Thank you, Mato.
Locutus D'Borg yeah I agree.For the record Aleksandar Ignjatovic are you from Belgrade I think I remember you we played at Drinka Pavlovic decisive game for municipality champion :)
Locutus D'Borg carlsen couldn't even defeat karjakin convincingly. Old legends didn't have super computers top players these days have. Giri doesn't even deserve his current rating, aiming for draw and playing safely is much more easier than finding mindblowing attacking combinations with sacs like alekhine, tal, nezhmetdinov, and fischer used to do, but thanks to computer analysis today, we will never see those kind of plays again. That's why I cheer for wei yi now, he's not the best (perhaps he will be, but not today), but he's the last remnant of attacking good-old-days chess. Today, chess is boring without players like wei yi and rapport. And sadly, mature top players are boring, even nakamura has lost his entertaining aggresiveness since he became older.
I can only imagine the tension not just on the board but between the two players themselves. Sweating, avoiding eye contact while the crowd is biting their nails as they await the next move.
Love Mato's commentaries. I am always a little surprised that when people, who know a lot more about chess than I do, put out these lists of the all-time greatest players, that Alekhine doesn't rate higher. He is often around number 10 or somewhere with Capablanca considerably higher. They were both great players, we know. But Alekhine was such a phenomenal player, the way he beat Capablanca convincingly in this match when Capa was still at his height. To say nothing of Alekhine's tournament record. Alekhine, over the years developed his style from one of a primarily tactical, combinative, player to that of an all-round stategist, as demonstrated in this game, on a level with Capablanca, without losing his combinative edge. Admittedly, Alekhine was weak in denying Capablanca a return match, and twice played world championship matches against the less than great Bogolyubov. So it would seem that despite the great 1927 triumph, Alekhine was still not altogether confident of his chances against the great Cuban?
It is clear that Alekhine knew that Capablanca was far superior, which became evident when he said, "even today I don't know how I was able to beat Capablanca."
Seeing 2 masters go head to head on the Queens Gambit declined always ends up with a huge fight, i'm surprised Capablanca didn't take the chance to Draw or Stalemate it! Incredible...
What a battle! Mato, thanks for uploading this very instructive game. I think you should concentrate more on games with endgames like this one in spite of (awesome) suicidal attacks and that sort. Thanks again.
I didnt really absorb the excitement of this game until the a pawn out on its own and then the white king getting to g7 and h6 kept me watching until the end.
At 0:37, would it be wrong for white to play c4xd5 ? Basically guarantees going a pawn up early, and it's what my chess engine says to play.. Was Alekhine looking at something potentially sneakier by playing e3? Another quick question: at 0:50, white plays Bd3. Is there any benefit to that move other than getting it out of the way for a kingside castle? Would Be2 be any worse? Capablanca ends up taking the c pawn shortly thereafter, forcing Alekhine to take back with the light squared bishop. Does that technically cost white a "tempo," since he has to move his bishop twice early on? Thanks in advance, I'm still somewhat of a beginner...
Legendary match and a lot of controversies about the incoming world champion games. The whole system of "finding" the challengers at the beginning of XX century was a joke from fair play idea.
All grandmasters have the capability to work out a winning combination within 5-6 moves from a position reached under normal play or by chance. Only Alekhine had the skill to set up a winning combination position. This is why he was voted the best chess player of all time ( vote taken by chess grandmasters only)
I played a game VERY similar to this, I love end game strategies. They are always on the precipice of game winning variations, with each move! My friend taught me end game moves, they are so important. The trickiest part was the king opposition when dealing with that pawn. ~Thanks again, Mato. Love your videos.
Must have been strange for such a precise player as Capablanca to be beaten in an endgame. He could've resigned earlier it seems. Was there bad blood between them?
It struck me, considering this was a game from a world championship match against the formidable and once almost unbeatable Capablanca, how smooth and straightforward this win was for Alekhine. Was almost going to say easy, but that might be pushing it too far. After some skirmishing in the early middlegame, along a pretty well-trodden pathway, Alekhine with some ease picks up a pawn. And as Mato says, Capablanca is suddenly a pawn down with no compensation. From there Alekhine just grinds out a winning endgame which, at that kind of level, is mainly a matter of technique? One shouldn't say it is easy, of course. Certainly not this 'one' writing now, whose endgame play is so risible as to be virtually non-existent. (If I don't secure a draw, or much more rarely a win by the middlegame, I am pretty much sunk.) But it just seemed too easy, repeating myself now, from that rather well known variation for Alekhine to pick up that pawn, with no concession in terms of position? Then, he ground out the win a manner that just never let Capablanca breath?
Because White's Rook was cutting off Black's KIng from helping his Rook attack the pawns. THere's no way BLack can win from that position, especially as the White King is tucked safely behind his pawns as well, so no perpetual checks to force a draw.
+TimurTolibayev a5-a6 kxa4, a6 ra5, a7 axa5, kxf7 ra5, kf6 then a5 .. black would have to give up rook and white`s king would hunt the paws... messy!! did i miss something?? looks white is doing better.
wondering if Alekhine would have beaten Botvinnik had he lived. Alekhine seemed to have the ability (among others) to rise to the occasion. There might never have been that Soviet dominance in chess had he won... According to Wikipedia Alekine died in Portugal "in unclear circumstances". I say no more.
capa in 1922 deliberately set high requirement for the challenge since he was afraid to lose his title to Alekhine...and actualy the title was given to him by a jew lasker in order to avoid playing with Alekhine...later bolshevik jews killed Alekhine during the tournament since Alekhine was unbeatable even at age 54...they even twice put Alekhine into the prison (acusing him that he is an anticomunist) like later they did with Fischer
2 Chess legendary giants, couldn't get any better.
hello Mato....we celebrate teachers's day in india every year on 5 of September . i have improved in chess and a lot of credit goes to you. i know its late but still i wish you belated happy teachers's day on behalf of every indian who watches your video to learn and improve. keep these tutorials coming. :)
+Zoozoo Mall Thank you
That was absolutely amazing to watch, two power houses bashing each other with anvils. I have to say that was THE best chess match I've seen so far
That was one of those extended endgames where the strategic considerations were clear at every stage. That made it unusually instructive. Thank you, Mato.
This game proves that both players would kick ass even today.
Aleksandar Ignjatovic Alekhine would have made fun of Karlsen,Karjakin,Caruana,So and co
I doubt it. Carlsen is a true phenomenon.
Locutus D'Borg yeah I agree.For the record Aleksandar Ignjatovic are you from Belgrade I think I remember you we played at Drinka Pavlovic decisive game for municipality champion :)
Locutus D'Borg carlsen couldn't even defeat karjakin convincingly. Old legends didn't have super computers top players these days have. Giri doesn't even deserve his current rating, aiming for draw and playing safely is much more easier than finding mindblowing attacking combinations with sacs like alekhine, tal, nezhmetdinov, and fischer used to do, but thanks to computer analysis today, we will never see those kind of plays again. That's why I cheer for wei yi now, he's not the best (perhaps he will be, but not today), but he's the last remnant of attacking good-old-days chess. Today, chess is boring without players like wei yi and rapport. And sadly, mature top players are boring, even nakamura has lost his entertaining aggresiveness since he became older.
Aleksandar Ignjatovi
brilliant. Thanks so much Mato. What a joy to be able to go through a game between two such giants of chess.
Excellent lecture. Thanks for your work from Michigan USA!
I can only imagine the tension not just on the board but between the two players themselves. Sweating, avoiding eye contact while the crowd is biting their nails as they await the next move.
Alexander Alekhine was super..... Classic....
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Mato the way you analyze the games sends chills down my spine, as if this is a game of life and death.
That was an incredibly intense game
Amzing game
Two genius brains clashing.
Thx Mato
I’m puzzled why mato didn’t tell his viewers here that this victory made it 6-3 to Alekhine and with it he became world champion!
Awesome endgame strategy .. Without any computer analysis .! TRUE LEGENDS!!
Thanks for the videos Mato!!
Finally a game of legends
Love Mato's commentaries. I am always a little surprised that when people, who know a lot more about chess than I do, put out these lists of the all-time greatest players, that Alekhine doesn't rate higher. He is often around number 10 or somewhere with Capablanca considerably higher. They were both great players, we know. But Alekhine was such a phenomenal player, the way he beat Capablanca convincingly in this match when Capa was still at his height. To say nothing of Alekhine's tournament record. Alekhine, over the years developed his style from one of a primarily tactical, combinative, player to that of an all-round stategist, as demonstrated in this game, on a level with Capablanca, without losing his combinative edge. Admittedly, Alekhine was weak in denying Capablanca a return match, and twice played world championship matches against the less than great Bogolyubov. So it would seem that despite the great 1927 triumph, Alekhine was still not altogether confident of his chances against the great Cuban?
It is clear that Alekhine knew that Capablanca was far superior, which became evident when he said, "even today I don't know how I was able to beat Capablanca."
I love Alekhines carless atitude to his a-pawn. Play the endgame like like beast.
refreshing to see both player making the best moves
one of the best match ever
"This pawn on a5 has a dream to become a queen" lol. Another great video from Mato, as always, very interesting and instructive.
wow. what a game. a tough ending but very instructive. thanks, teacher!
One of the Best chess Match of all times
First finally. Great vid as always. I found the KILLA move
+TheTacticalRabbit - AW Tactics & Strategies it's impossible for u to have watched the whole video
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Seeing 2 masters go head to head on the Queens Gambit declined always ends up with a huge fight, i'm surprised Capablanca didn't take the chance to Draw or Stalemate it! Incredible...
Battle of the of the Titans !
Nice. Thank you.
Awesome match thank you Mato for good explanation and analysis. You presentation is also awesome...😎😎😎
alekhine n° 1 chess player of all the times
What a battle! Mato, thanks for uploading this very instructive game. I think you should concentrate more on games with endgames like this one in spite of (awesome) suicidal attacks and that sort. Thanks again.
I didnt really absorb the excitement of this game until the a pawn out on its own and then the white king getting to g7 and h6 kept me watching until the end.
Sometimes one extra pawn is all it takes for these super GM's to win a game
thats the same with any elo lol
Amazing game!
Beautifully narrated
Mato, When you say hi...... it gets me goosebumps. Dont know why, but it is.
At 0:37, would it be wrong for white to play c4xd5 ? Basically guarantees going a pawn up early, and it's what my chess engine says to play.. Was Alekhine looking at something potentially sneakier by playing e3?
Another quick question: at 0:50, white plays Bd3. Is there any benefit to that move other than getting it out of the way for a kingside castle? Would Be2 be any worse? Capablanca ends up taking the c pawn shortly thereafter, forcing Alekhine to take back with the light squared bishop. Does that technically cost white a "tempo," since he has to move his bishop twice early on?
Thanks in advance, I'm still somewhat of a beginner...
"Hi, this is Mato." HUZZAH! **Liked video**
Really a very instructive endgame, such endgames can easily occur in amateur games as well!
what a battle!! wow
Wow wht a battle.. 👌 👌
Thx Mato
Legendary match and a lot of controversies about the incoming world champion games. The whole system of "finding" the challengers at the beginning of XX century was a joke from fair play idea.
A fantastic game by white. Very instructive.
5:09 it would be nice if you had played the continuation 1.Rd8 g6-g5 2. Rh8+ Kh7-g6 3. Rh8-g8+ Kf5 [ 3... Kg6-h7 4.Qg7# , 3...Kg6-h5 4.g2-g4+
God created Alekhine and declared, "Thou shall rule the world of chess!"
3:42 why didnt he take the knight with his knight? why is rooke to e1 a better move? im really new to chess
Because otherwise queen takes a1 rook.
How ?
The rook on a1 is hanging and would be scooped up by the queen with check, resulting in black winning back the h-pawn.
All grandmasters have the capability to work out a winning combination within 5-6 moves from a position reached under normal play or by chance. Only Alekhine had the skill to set up a winning combination position. This is why he was voted the best chess player of all time ( vote taken by chess grandmasters only)
Only an Alekhine fan could say such a thing. It is well known that most world champions consider Capablanca to be the greatest of all time.
At 7:31, wouldn't f6 be a better move for black, preventing the king from advancing?
+Akshay Singh Jamwal After a6, Rxa6, Rxa6, Kxa6, then White's King is placed to munch through the black pawns. Slow, but sure, I think.
+EdMcF1 Ah, yes. Thought black could make it back but Ke4 to Kd5 cannot be prevented, and white has opposition. Thanks!
aww man I added this to my website of Great Chess Players but Chess School does not allow playback on other sites.
Magnus Carlsen brought me here :).
I played a game VERY similar to this, I love end game strategies. They are always on the precipice of game winning variations, with each move! My friend taught me end game moves, they are so important. The trickiest part was the king opposition when dealing with that pawn. ~Thanks again, Mato. Love your videos.
Exciting game!
Why is that last move the one to resign on? How does white respond to Kd6?
What a game.
At 5:08 how about pawn to d5?
how would Alekhine or Capablanca fair against Bobby Fischer?
Alekhine is the only unbeaten world champion (also is Carlsen but not for long) so.i think might win vs Fisher
Wrong, Max Euwe beat Alex Alekhine in 1935 and took his world title, but lost it back to Alex in the rematch in 1937.
robert gilmore alekhine and capa stronger than fischer
but i don't know how they killed him
1 alekhine 2 morphy 3 tal 4 capablanca 5 fischer and kasparov the best for ever
@5:08 can't black just play f6 after Rd3 preventing checkmate?
+Tyrone Biggums Then Qc7+ is also checkmate, the pawns trap the King, and the Queen cannot intervene.
+EdMcF1 oh wow
Alexander alekhine used to play like Mikhail tal he was also like to attacking game I like the way he played
No, Mikhail tal played like Alekhine. Alekhine played insane moves way before Tal,s mom dreamt of giving birth to him.
Alekhine the best for ever
+1 like for Alekhine, +1 like for Capa and +1 like for Mato
I see no mention that the endgame was featured in Rook and Pawn Endgames by Smyslov and Levenfish. An ending that bears study.
Really!!
What a battle!!!
Must have been strange for such a precise player as Capablanca to be beaten in an endgame. He could've resigned earlier it seems. Was there bad blood between them?
it was the last game of the world championship, thats why capa tried until the last breathing
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What a great game
This is war in Chess! 👏
3.35 y not knight takes knight?
y he takes with queen?
So was 23. Qa5 almost decisive? And was then 22 Qe6 a mistake or a little blunder?
It struck me, considering this was a game from a world championship match against the formidable and once almost unbeatable Capablanca, how smooth and straightforward this win was for Alekhine. Was almost going to say easy, but that might be pushing it too far. After some skirmishing in the early middlegame, along a pretty well-trodden pathway, Alekhine with some ease picks up a pawn. And as Mato says, Capablanca is suddenly a pawn down with no compensation. From there Alekhine just grinds out a winning endgame which, at that kind of level, is mainly a matter of technique? One shouldn't say it is easy, of course. Certainly not this 'one' writing now, whose endgame play is so risible as to be virtually non-existent. (If I don't secure a draw, or much more rarely a win by the middlegame, I am pretty much sunk.) But it just seemed too easy, repeating myself now, from that rather well known variation for Alekhine to pick up that pawn, with no concession in terms of position? Then, he ground out the win a manner that just never let Capablanca breath?
Mato, is 82 the game with the most moves you have uploaded to this channel?
Why didn't he capture the knight at 3:44?
cptnoremac Q*A1+
Ah, I see. Thanks.
Strange that Mato didn’t mention that with this victory Alekhine became world champion.
u have the nicest chess commentator voice
interesting.. this game might increase our chess games.
why did he resign?
Because White's Rook was cutting off Black's KIng from helping his Rook attack the pawns. THere's no way BLack can win from that position, especially as the White King is tucked safely behind his pawns as well, so no perpetual checks to force a draw.
Nice
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Like a long boxing match...
9:23 a6 and black cant stop little bro isnt it?
+Haydar Odun King takes rook, and the black rook goes to a5.
Re4 was amazing
Capa should have resigned at move 81 not move 82.
even way earlier
amazing game, especially no keres here !!!!!11o
... played a move and... resigned 🥇
I can't believe you didn't show how white won the end game, I was a little stumped over it.
9:26 What about a5-a6? Looks winning for white
+TimurTolibayev then u would loose ur rook and ur a pawn
+Merdothekid ah yes, I missed Ra5 at the end
the word is lose, not loose
faciendminuend 10x Einstein for correction
+TimurTolibayev a5-a6 kxa4, a6 ra5, a7 axa5, kxf7 ra5, kf6 then a5 .. black would have to give up rook and white`s king would hunt the paws... messy!!
did i miss something?? looks white is doing better.
No comparison to those two delberts playing this years chess championship.
good game.
The game kinda transposes into london system
Count Dracula loved chess....who knew?
Hi, this is Mato
I found the move Re5 at that moment 9:28 💪
wondering if Alekhine would have beaten Botvinnik had he lived. Alekhine seemed to have the ability (among others) to rise to the occasion. There might never have been that Soviet dominance in chess had he won... According to Wikipedia Alekine died in Portugal "in unclear circumstances". I say no more.
at 9.29 would pawn to a6 could have been good too and have won the game
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at 7.13 why didnt black just take the pawn
82 moves
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What an end game
Talk about a game going to the wire
Alekhine nunca le dio la revancha a capablanca.
+pepe pepe Si hubieran jugado otravez Capablanca lo hubiera destruido
si se la dio pero capablanca no pudo reunir el dinero.
+Jose Sanchez Alekhine > Capablanca
between these guys it was always going to come down to who had white pieces
capa in 1922 deliberately set high requirement for the challenge since he was afraid to lose his title to Alekhine...and actualy the title was given to him by a jew lasker in order to avoid playing with Alekhine...later bolshevik jews killed Alekhine during the tournament since Alekhine was unbeatable even at age 54...they even twice put Alekhine into the prison (acusing him that he is an anticomunist) like later they did with Fischer
5:29 ROOK TO d8 force to take at queen....
Then Qg7, offering trade of queens, and if queens trade then it is a draw, which Alekhine didn't want.