Again flawless, very funny and instructive. I did know about the story because I have the book written by Tal, so I got excited when I saw the title of the video. In this way I think that you proved you pay close attention to the details and this can only make your channel more great and interesting. Love that you play tournaments with your subscribers. Hope I can play against you in the next one. :))
Great stuff. Aggressive technique often produces miracle positions. The games you choose show your genuine love for the beauty of the game as well as insight in the meaning of its grand protagonists.
agadmator, when I pay off my debt and gain funds then I'll will donate but as of right now I am currently dead broke. Cheers to that day and I'm sure you'll still be forgetting to turn the volume up.
Another fan-tastic and instructive game, and I liked that comment too, got me excited: "Most would consider this a draw, but it's Tal's move." Should be in a movie. I had to go back a few times cus I didn't hear it and wondered what you were saying, but I finally heard "If he can't calculate it then probably a hippo can't calculate it either," but I know now I heard wrong. XD I forgot the name of the guy playing Black that's why. Vasiukov! Duh duh duh. I was thinking that at 10:40, the threat remains the same, so 1) f7+ Rxf7+ 2) Kxg6 and no matter where the rook goes, he can't defend Rd8# so either has to accept mate or give up his rook which is obviously losing, but I double checked and missed 2) Kxg6 Rd7. Those tricky defense mechanisms. I really love Tal's intuitive nature. Sometimes there are just things you can feel without having to tangibly say so. Not all sacrifices have to be so concrete and said out loud why something works. I think many a player misses this opportunity, the same way most adults overintellectualize language. This is why babies learn so fast. They don't overthink things. They just open themselves up, make mistakes for years at a time, and are finally molded (naturally it seems) into grammar machines and without ever having taken a single grammar class. Most children are fluent by age 5 with language, and it's not because they have been told out loud every day why and how grammar works for them to make proper sentences. It's from hearing tons of language and making tons of mistakes to end up with the finished product: intuitive (and naturally) refined language. If more people learned chess this way, more people would be like Tal and stop being so afraid of intuition and losing. It's ok to lose 1,000 times in a row when you've never tried something before. But if you stop trying, you'll never learn.
Always knew how destructive and unorthodox tal was in the middle game..never knew he could play end game this will threatening mate in the game and winning a position that looks draw is absolute genius
May I request something? Go through chess openings, and examine every single move. In depth tutorials on openings are rare. I think that would really bring out your channel viewership. Do some specific line like sicillian dragon, and really examine all of white's possible responses after the dragon position is reached, not just the common ones. For a low rated player like me, a lot of my opponents will play the uncommon responses and I have no idea how to respond to their ideas.
You are missing the point. There are a lot of high-quality videos on openings made by high rated players. Agadmator's videos are about the beauty of genius's chess games.
Willy Ontoria said it well. There really are a lot of videos on this subject. I do have a plan with Jozarov though for such a subject, for him to cover this aspect on my channel, but that is still in planning. Thank you for suggesting though :)
Davin Shaun sometimes it isnt about the studying every single move there is, but to understand simple strategy and piece placement in order to get better position, also play a lot
Sky Pixelin has got a good suggestion. Dereque Kelley is my favourite channel on chess openings as well. Check it out, it also has a video on the Caro-kann opening.
I mean, make me understand: Tal's opponent was there, looking at him with reverence and thinking for 40 minutes "Wow, this guy is a genius! He's calculating every mathematical possibility with an amazing concentration" and Tal thought for 40 minutes about a hyppo drowning in a swamp and about helicopters, ropes and water rescues just to say, almost an hour later: "Okay, for me that damn horse can drown". in short, genius and madness.
Most probably the image of drowning hyppo comes from famous (in Russia) poem for kids "The Telephone". It is famous enough to be translated in English, so you can read it as well. In original the last two lines means something like "Whew: It is really a hard work to pull a Hippo out of swamp". And it is kind of a proverb in Russian. So I believe it is the reason why Tal start thinking about Hyppo in a swamp while making hard work of chess calculations. “Who’s there-Hello!” “It’s the Rhino.” “What’s wrong, Rhino?” “Terrible trouble, Come on the double!” “What’s the matter? Why the fuss?” “Quick. Save him …” “Who?” “The hippopotamus. He’s sinking out there in that awful swamp …” “In the swamp?” “Yes, he’s stuck.” “And if you don’t come right away, He’ll drown in that terrible damp And dismal swamp. He’ll die, he’ll croak-oh, oh, oh. Poor Hippo-po-po………………” “Okay… I’m coming Right away!” Whew: What a job! You need a truck To help a Hippo when he’s stuck! In full you can read it here: www.tania-soleil.com/telefon-chukovskogo-na-angliiskom/ P.S. I've wrote it, so everybody could increase their vast knowledge :) Feel free to tell that story to your friends in a bar or a library :)
One of the best channels on youtube for chess. Thank you for this agadmator. But why do you have a russian accent if you are croatian. Btw in the last move tal would just puah pawn instead of capturing pawn and its mate in 1
Aldo Zulfikar I think that is the point of the story. Trying all sorts of means to rescue something that does not need to be rescued and put yourself to peril doing it
+Pierre Groussac Hahaha. Well, since 0,0005 of my viewers are from Croatia, it would be a shame to waste a good game. I could do it on stream though if you join sometimes :)
Come on man, people need to grow up. Your mother tongue is Croatian--so what? I just want to hear what it sounds like. A whole broadcast. Of course most of us won't understand anything, but what difference does it make? This is a fun chess channel. Five minutes of Croatian? We'll survive.
Cute dog! Really enjoy your videos BTW... entertaining and informative and well paced. There's a lot of dry and boring chess videos on RUclips but yours have a good mix of theory, background stories and anecdotes, so keep them coming. Also your preference for covering more dynamic and attacking games is more engaging too.
in the end, there is no point if the king captures the pawn on g6, if you push f7, you get a mate in 1 edit: never mind, if rook captures on f7, it comes with check so no mate in 1
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agadmator is actually the dog in the background,the human in the front just does lipsyncing
RayVitoles I lol'd so hard actually, thanks
HGAHAHA
Opposite velontriquism
LMAO
You are genius
Tal tried to save a hyppo for forty minutes. Since he could not, he decided to kill a horse too.
Equality at its best
It just so happens that "hippo" is Greek for "horse". "Hippopotamus" translates to "river horse".
@@ongbonga9025 wow, 'nilski konj' means hippo in serbian and it translates to 'the Nile horse'
@@ongbonga9025 in Hindi its called river horse too
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Most consider this to be a draw, but it's Tals move!
Hahahaha, glad you caught that :D
Frank Gee I've noticed that too lol
Frank Gee Well, more due to his opponent's inaccuracies. As was said, stockfish concluded a draw.
6:23
Man! Don't you just love how courteous agad/antonio is. I mean he said " Thank you for your donation sir, it means a lot to me" for a dollar.
Fast forward to October 2020 and see his top donation.
"After Tal is coming for you, the last thing you want to do is grab another pawn" -Agadmator
A turn later: his opponent grabbed the pawn
I laughed at that lol
But rashid will treat him like a novice. See the two games agadmator uploaded in which tal played like me
Again flawless, very funny and instructive. I did know about the story because I have the book written by Tal, so I got excited when I saw the title of the video. In this way I think that you proved you pay close attention to the details and this can only make your channel more great and interesting. Love that you play tournaments with your subscribers. Hope I can play against you in the next one. :))
"Oh what a task so harsh
to drag a hippo from a marsh"
Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky
That's the one!
Rare to see Tal winning an instructive endgame, good to see
0:34 "sorry about that" even in 2017 Agadmator with the signature move
Rewatching old agad videos in 2021 and realizing hes getting thousands of dollars in donations now. Respect to the first donor
1:20 when Botvinnik describes Tal, it makes me feel like i can say i play like Tal.
In the spirit of Mikhail Tal
Thanks!
Great stuff. Aggressive technique often produces miracle positions. The games you choose show your genuine love for the beauty of the game as well as insight in the meaning of its grand protagonists.
Thank you, Mr. Morphy. I show the games I enjoy, thought some people might enjoy them as well :)
What makes tal unique, is that in an endgame that greatest chess players like capa,fischer and magnus play like an engine, he impose magical tactics.
love these old vids
Thank you for posting. I had heard the story many times but never seen the entire game, so it was great to see it finally! Very good channel too!
Thanks Nyctasia. I do love this game as well as the hyppo story. Glad you enjoyed it
Wow, the first donation, truly historic.
I'll never be as good as Tal, but that's okay as long as I can have a dog.
thanx agadmators for wonderful video
Tal shows how to convert a draw into a win. A genius & my fav.
i love this man
You really are the greatest chess youtuber. Thank you sir !
agadmator, when I pay off my debt and gain funds then I'll will donate but as of right now I am currently dead broke. Cheers to that day and I'm sure you'll still be forgetting to turn the volume up.
Thanks for the game :) mikhail tal is always my favourite I'd love more games by him
this is the first time i see tal play to an endgame like this.... great!
Stumbled across your channel by chance, and I'm here to stay! Thanks for the insightful commentary and awesome games =D
Thanks man. Welcome aboard :)
Great Job on Analysis ! good video ! thanks !
What the hell, i just feel a deep conection with tal. My intuition always tells me to play the same moves.
Every one feels the same
And I end up losing 😅😅
Pretty amazing! Tony's first one dollar donation! Cudos to Gradutin!
Great video, great hippo story, great commentary.
Thanks Dylan :)
Watching on loop. Tal is my favorite.
Great commentary you deserve more donations
+Jason Alaska I only enabled donations yesterday and already received 6. So I am very grateful :)
your upload speed is amazing I love watching these every day...but gonna be a sad day when you start running out of amazing games!
Jonathan Bray There are too many amazing games, I think, to be able to run out of them :)
Most definitely educational !!! TY !!! 😁✌
Another fan-tastic and instructive game, and I liked that comment too, got me excited: "Most would consider this a draw, but it's Tal's move." Should be in a movie.
I had to go back a few times cus I didn't hear it and wondered what you were saying, but I finally heard "If he can't calculate it then probably a hippo can't calculate it either," but I know now I heard wrong. XD I forgot the name of the guy playing Black that's why. Vasiukov! Duh duh duh.
I was thinking that at 10:40, the threat remains the same, so 1) f7+ Rxf7+ 2) Kxg6 and no matter where the rook goes, he can't defend Rd8# so either has to accept mate or give up his rook which is obviously losing, but I double checked and missed 2) Kxg6 Rd7. Those tricky defense mechanisms.
I really love Tal's intuitive nature. Sometimes there are just things you can feel without having to tangibly say so. Not all sacrifices have to be so concrete and said out loud why something works. I think many a player misses this opportunity, the same way most adults overintellectualize language. This is why babies learn so fast. They don't overthink things. They just open themselves up, make mistakes for years at a time, and are finally molded (naturally it seems) into grammar machines and without ever having taken a single grammar class. Most children are fluent by age 5 with language, and it's not because they have been told out loud every day why and how grammar works for them to make proper sentences. It's from hearing tons of language and making tons of mistakes to end up with the finished product: intuitive (and naturally) refined language.
If more people learned chess this way, more people would be like Tal and stop being so afraid of intuition and losing. It's ok to lose 1,000 times in a row when you've never tried something before. But if you stop trying, you'll never learn.
You inspired me.Thank you :)
Inspiration ❤️👍🏻🙌🏻
I thought the Hippo referred to the white king....it looks like the rear end of a Hippo on your video chess board :D
Excellent game and good commentary!
Great video! Fantastic game
Always knew how destructive and unorthodox tal was in the middle game..never knew he could play end game this will threatening mate in the game and winning a position that looks draw is absolute genius
Best chess video title award
Beautiful Game, Beautiful story
Thanks for the hippo.
I like the quotes you put at the top
Thanks. So far, it was only one, this is the first video I changed it on :)
Its nice to see Antonio has become a lot more confident now than then
7 Years later, Antonio still owns "Sorry about That"
May I request something? Go through chess openings, and examine every single move. In depth tutorials on openings are rare. I think that would really bring out your channel viewership. Do some specific line like sicillian dragon, and really examine all of white's possible responses after the dragon position is reached, not just the common ones. For a low rated player like me, a lot of my opponents will play the uncommon responses and I have no idea how to respond to their ideas.
You are missing the point. There are a lot of high-quality videos on openings made by high rated players. Agadmator's videos are about the beauty of genius's chess games.
Willy Ontoria said it well. There really are a lot of videos on this subject. I do have a plan with Jozarov though for such a subject, for him to cover this aspect on my channel, but that is still in planning. Thank you for suggesting though :)
Davin Shaun sometimes it isnt about the studying every single move there is,
but to understand simple strategy and piece placement in order to get better position,
also play a lot
Dereque Kelley covers many of the openings really well. If you're having problems understanding opening theories, you could try checking him out.
Sky Pixelin has got a good suggestion. Dereque Kelley is my favourite channel on chess openings as well. Check it out, it also has a video on the Caro-kann opening.
Good game... Good commentary...
What a weird beginning. White looked so passive until about 1:12 I had a hard time believing it was Tal :D
WOW that endgame was masterful
At 6:30, I was sure the move Bf7 would be played. Then if Rxa7, Re2. If Ra8+ then Kh7, and if Ra7, Kg8...
At 5:25 why didn’t the rook take the bishop instead of the queen? Like was it just a blunder? Or was there something else behind this
nice game man, thx a lot :)
I mean, make me understand: Tal's opponent was there, looking at him with reverence and thinking for 40 minutes "Wow, this guy is a genius! He's calculating every mathematical possibility with an amazing concentration" and Tal thought for 40 minutes about a hyppo drowning in a swamp and about helicopters, ropes and water rescues just to say, almost an hour later: "Okay, for me that damn horse can drown".
in short, genius and madness.
Most probably the image of drowning hyppo comes from famous (in Russia) poem for kids "The Telephone". It is famous enough to be translated in English, so you can read it as well. In original the last two lines means something like "Whew: It is really a hard work to pull a Hippo out of swamp". And it is kind of a proverb in Russian. So I believe it is the reason why Tal start thinking about Hyppo in a swamp while making hard work of chess calculations.
“Who’s there-Hello!”
“It’s the Rhino.”
“What’s wrong, Rhino?”
“Terrible trouble,
Come on the double!”
“What’s the matter? Why the fuss?”
“Quick. Save him …”
“Who?”
“The hippopotamus.
He’s sinking out there in that awful swamp …”
“In the swamp?”
“Yes, he’s stuck.”
“And if you don’t come right away,
He’ll drown in that terrible damp
And dismal swamp.
He’ll die, he’ll croak-oh, oh, oh.
Poor Hippo-po-po………………”
“Okay…
I’m coming
Right away!”
Whew: What a job! You need a truck
To help a Hippo when he’s stuck!
In full you can read it here:
www.tania-soleil.com/telefon-chukovskogo-na-angliiskom/
P.S. I've wrote it, so everybody could increase their vast knowledge :) Feel free to tell that story to your friends in a bar or a library :)
GM Vasiukov still plays today. He participates in the World Senior Chess Championship always as possible. He is still a very strong player.
10:48 f7 in fact would be better since it will lead to force mate
Amazing endgame in this one.
Such a good game 😃i knew the sac was on g7 but i could not find a respond to bishop taking c4 attacking tal's queen
One of the best channels on youtube for chess. Thank you for this agadmator. But why do you have a russian accent if you are croatian. Btw in the last move tal would just puah pawn instead of capturing pawn and its mate in 1
When I see the position is won, I just show any move that wins. Thanks for this :) I don't know about the accent though :)
Wow what an endgame player
Thanks !!
4:19 is a Bishop xD5 a good move? You can capture Rook or another Knight for free (imo for free)
Started from 1 dollar donation to 1 bitcoin donation. What a journey!
I'm convinced Agadmator spikes his dog's food with Ritalin for added effect on screen!
Ur the man..
this is how it all started :-)
I like how you state the obvious with lines such as 'this is quite losing' and 'this is winning' :)) and where's your dog????
5:20 took the Bishop with rook instead of Queen?
Might be too late but still...Qxh7 would be a checkmate so black captured the bishop with queen and position it so as to avoid that checkmate
sayyed Aasim I think I meant black rook from e8 to capture white bishop at e4. Black rooks have some defense but white still wins imo
this is my favorite chess game. my safe port
05:10 Why didn’t he just play pawn to q3
Tal read next days newspaper, it said, tal spent 40 minutes on that bishop move and made well thought move😂😂. Tal just smiled to himself
5:06 why not pawn g3 by tal?
it's losing
Because Tal saw that G3 would mean an extra move not sacking the Knight
Dragutin, the OG.
Hippo could swim you smart people!
Aldo Zulfikar I think that is the point of the story. Trying all sorts of means to rescue something that does not need to be rescued and put yourself to peril doing it
The hippo was stuck in a marsh in Tal's story. It won't drown, but it would probably starve to death if left there.
Trust me...this endgame is as precise as stockfish
Why not Rxe4 at 5:23
yayyyyyyy Tal saved the drowning Hippo
If possible start Anand saga
10:10 why not Rd3 instead of Bd3 ?
Did not see that move. Thx
“If he can't calculate it , then Vasiukov can't calculate it either”. Tal was like - he didn't study calculus so.. I can play it.
Vasiukov died today. R.I.P to an amazing Chess Grandmaster. May the Chess gods show him favor.
Agad hope you are overflowing with donations now. It's your hArdwork and passion for chess
why not play f7+ Bxf7 Rd8# instead of king takes pawn at 10:42
Very good game
it is so funny that the line is called kasparov attack, when he was 1 year old on 1965
Unlike Tal, the dog looks very quiet..
After Re1 why can not play q x e1 is not explained? White will get 2 rooks
in 5.38 what happens if q×a5
because he learned this he started to sacrifice a bit too much
Any chance that you could present a game in Croatian? I've never heard the language. Just curious what it sounds like.
+Pierre Groussac Hahaha. Well, since 0,0005 of my viewers are from Croatia, it would be a shame to waste a good game. I could do it on stream though if you join sometimes :)
Come on man, people need to grow up. Your mother tongue is Croatian--so what? I just want to hear what it sounds like. A whole broadcast. Of course most of us won't understand anything, but what difference does it make? This is a fun chess channel. Five minutes of Croatian? We'll survive.
+Pierre Groussac Ok, I will consider doing a short game :D
Thanks agadmator. That's fair. Have a great day.
That hippo had no choice
But to sleep
at the end instead of Kxg3 Tal could sacrifice rook by playing Rd8+ and after Kxd1 Tal plays f2+ and promotes to queen the next move
I like your dog
All Tal here Tal this but at the end dragutin steals the show lol
Lovely endgame. Easy to watch video.
I'll send you 5 rocks if you tell me how.
+Andrew Unger Thanks a lot Andrew, it took me a while to go through the endgame, though :) What do you mean by rocks? :D
I spotted many moves of tal I should start learning chess
What's your dog's name?
+craftycurate Medo
Cute dog! Really enjoy your videos BTW... entertaining and informative and well paced. There's a lot of dry and boring chess videos on RUclips but yours have a good mix of theory, background stories and anecdotes, so keep them coming. Also your preference for covering more dynamic and attacking games is more engaging too.
One dollar donation.. is that guy from netherworld
in the end, there is no point if the king captures the pawn on g6, if you push f7, you get a mate in 1
edit: never mind, if rook captures on f7, it comes with check so no mate in 1