Great Players of the Past: GM Alexander Morozevich

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 13 фев 2024
  • Alexander Sergeyevich Morozevich is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Morozevich is a two-time World Championship candidate, two-time Russian champion and has represented Russia in seven Chess Olympiads, winning numerous team and board medals.
    This lecture was recorded on February 05, 2024 in Roswell, Georgia. This video is sponsored by Alex Bussei.
    04:11 Alexander Morozevich vs Konstantin Sakaev, Russian Championship Super Final 2007
    21:05 Alexander Morozevich vs Vladimir Kramnik, Tal Memorial 2008
    30:32 Alexander Morozevich vs Gata Kamsky, Russian Team Championship Rapid 2016
    If you're interested in sponsoring a lecture of your choice, email Karen at karen@atlchessclub.com
    Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF...
    Signup or gift a chess.com Premium membership to get access to their lessons, remove ads, improve your chess, AND help Ben at the same time!! Upgrade your chess.com membership or join! - go.chess.com/finegold.
    Buy Merch today! ccscatlmerch.com/
    Watch live at / itsbenandkaren
    Donations are appreciated at: streamlabs.com/itsBenandKaren...
    Follow me on Twitter: / ben_finegold
    #benfinegold #chess #AlexanderMorozevich
  • ИгрыИгры

Комментарии • 85

  • @zainquadri1206
    @zainquadri1206 4 месяца назад +30

    Dear God...! I would have never thought of Alexander Morozevich as a player from the past... Times are changing and I'm getting old...😓

    • @PwnageSeason
      @PwnageSeason 4 месяца назад +2

      truth hurts

    • @haroldwhitney6130
      @haroldwhitney6130 3 месяца назад

      Me too friend, that is life.

    • @sorryforbatenglish
      @sorryforbatenglish Месяц назад

      my brain: Ben will talk about some 19th century player who coincidentally shares the name, I'm sure.

  • @lysanderspooner1865
    @lysanderspooner1865 4 месяца назад +61

    Best chess videos on the internet. Except for one thing.

  • @northsta
    @northsta 2 месяца назад +2

    I saw Morozevich live at Eurotel Trophy Prague 2002. The pinnacle of my chess experiences 😍

  • @marcosdelima7484
    @marcosdelima7484 4 месяца назад +11

    I saw Morozevich live at the Lloyds Bank Masters back in 1994 in London. I used to wander over to the hotel where the tournament was being held and watch his games. It was his first international tournament, and he was destroying everyone, eventually winning it with a score of 9.5/10.
    Immediately after this tournament, he turned up at an elite tournament as a spectator and sat in front of me, and next to Carol Vorderman. Carol, who had gone from clever maths person on a words and numbers gameshow called Countdown to clueless chess presenter during the Kasparov-Short match for the ill-fated PCA, introduced herself to Morozevich and effusively told him how she'd heard so much about him. It was so surreal to me at the time watching the two of them attempting to have a conversation.

    • @germank7924
      @germank7924 4 месяца назад

      Moro was the Ding of his time!

  • @glum_hippo
    @glum_hippo 4 месяца назад +8

    Thanks!

  • @lordjaraxxus3864
    @lordjaraxxus3864 4 месяца назад +10

    1 dan is ~2100 and 9 dan is ~2900 and so on

  • @1987caki
    @1987caki 4 месяца назад +7

    Thank you, Ben. I have learned a lot from you.

  • @douglaslarosa8782
    @douglaslarosa8782 4 месяца назад +2

    Awesome games! I'd like to see more of Morozevich on 5 minutes with Ben :)

  • @GoblinFM
    @GoblinFM 4 месяца назад

    Great video Ben, highlighting such a flamboyant player. One of my favorites from the early 2000's.

  • @axeldenivet8421
    @axeldenivet8421 4 месяца назад +1

    Merci pour ces vidéos . J'aime me plonger dans les styles de ces grands joueurs.

  • @physics223
    @physics223 3 месяца назад

    Morozevich is such an exciting and enterprising player, I hoped he didn't quit but had his health problems. At his peak, when I was much younger, he was an absolute beast and always played aggressive chess.

  • @mikerahal
    @mikerahal 3 месяца назад

    Very enjoyable. Lovely first game, I hadn't seen it before.

  • @pelicans456
    @pelicans456 4 месяца назад +2

    yeah I really like this series

  • @David-tm9wr
    @David-tm9wr 4 месяца назад +1

    Go Ben!

  • @CFHYD
    @CFHYD 4 месяца назад

    Great video. Nice shirt Ben.

  • @palm1231
    @palm1231 7 дней назад

    great video! in the Sakaev game, the bad Bh7 reminds me of a comment in the Kmoch book "pawn power in chess"
    white bishop is so bad, white does not defend it, and black does not even take it, as it would make some needed space for white
    :-)

  • @callenkoester9078
    @callenkoester9078 4 месяца назад

    loved these games and moro's playstyle. rh2!

  • @andrejbogdanov2816
    @andrejbogdanov2816 4 месяца назад +2

    So crazy to think of Morozevich as a player of the past. Somewhere around Covid it seems like he just stopped playing. It's "Sakaev" btw. Not "Sakeev".

  • @fabian13333
    @fabian13333 3 месяца назад

    Thanks

  • @chrislipniewicz200
    @chrislipniewicz200 4 месяца назад

    Great !

  • @jannisbockmannkominis4265
    @jannisbockmannkominis4265 2 месяца назад

    Great video morozevich is in a category with mamedyarov as aggresive d4 players

  • @ircjesselee
    @ircjesselee 4 месяца назад +3

    From playing chess to playing Pokémon Go? Suspicious.

  • @FatalxClouds
    @FatalxClouds 4 месяца назад

    Wow moro was freaking awesome i loved that crazy style

  • @Danuke2011
    @Danuke2011 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for this GM Ben. I used to find Morozevich very entertaining and hoped he would be the next champion brining back the spirit of Morphy back into elite Chess.

  • @koenvanalst8380
    @koenvanalst8380 4 месяца назад

    First game, really nice

  • @user-re7jn4os5u
    @user-re7jn4os5u 4 месяца назад

    You are the best human being period

  • @erickent4248
    @erickent4248 4 месяца назад +1

    Morozevich is the same age as me, so now I am a great viewer of the past. Possibly the future too, who can say?

  • @Slywolf1992
    @Slywolf1992 4 месяца назад +1

    Yay new lecture. I love the 5 minutes videos too but watching that goddamn Ryan Reynolds ad for just 5 minutes of video is excruciating lol.

  • @andrewstolzmann2663
    @andrewstolzmann2663 4 месяца назад

    A Finegold Morozevich video is almost too much for me. Just all of my favorite chess sh1t.

  • @Munchie3777
    @Munchie3777 4 месяца назад

    Moro is one of my favorite players too ^.^

  • @danjeory3659
    @danjeory3659 4 месяца назад

    That first game was crazy. It really felt like black was fine until the pawn grab on h6... But even after that, there were times when you felt Black should be able to hold white off and then press home the material advantage. Worth studying

  • @jeffn9952
    @jeffn9952 4 месяца назад

    "I don't normally make chess moves, but when I do, they're absolutely brilliant"
    - the most interesting clam in the world

  • @abcdefghilihgfedcba
    @abcdefghilihgfedcba 4 месяца назад

    cool games but I was curious to see some Albin, used to play that when I was 1400ish FIDE lol

  • @thedilletante4401
    @thedilletante4401 4 месяца назад +1

    Morozevich plays blitz on Lichess off and on still.

  • @bluefire6470
    @bluefire6470 4 месяца назад +2

    I would love to watch a blind chess tournament.

    • @andrejbogdanov2816
      @andrejbogdanov2816 4 месяца назад +1

      You're only allowed to watch blindfolded though

  • @Kyuken_C
    @Kyuken_C 4 месяца назад

    The first game would easily pass as one of those AlphaZero vs. Stockfish 8 ganes from 2008. An insane positional bind.

  • @andrejbogdanov2816
    @andrejbogdanov2816 4 месяца назад +1

    Love how you just run over "Nh3 - completing development (I guess)"

  • @germank7924
    @germank7924 4 месяца назад

    Now this is unintentionally funny as Moro is much younger than Ben!

  • @nondercrom
    @nondercrom 4 месяца назад

    1 Dan pronounced "don" is a first degree black belt in martial arts.

  • @quarlmephystodot2201
    @quarlmephystodot2201 3 месяца назад

    morozevich vs fischer would have been a HUGE match. but alas, even kasparov beat him.

  • @kmarasin
    @kmarasin 4 месяца назад

    13:45 Na7 makes much more sense to me than winning the pawn

  • @YouKilledMyFather
    @YouKilledMyFather 3 месяца назад

    The way he chews the remains of his last meal, and sucks on his teeth are like ASMR in my ears. Keeps me coming back.

    • @glum_hippo
      @glum_hippo 16 дней назад

      I urgently wish you hadn’t said that

  • @richardmarcosek1786
    @richardmarcosek1786 3 месяца назад

    He's an amazing chess player, but at least on one occasion, against Hikaru Nakamura he played a Four-Knights Game and they drew, so I guess: 'Exceptions confirm the rule' :-)

  • @mothecat776
    @mothecat776 4 месяца назад

    Heyv GM Ben. I'm surprised that Kramnik didn't accuse Morozevich of cheating!!

  • @shadowfantasiesf8556
    @shadowfantasiesf8556 3 месяца назад

    The videos are still produced and there are still the same jokes. Great.

  • @andreitiberiovicgazdovici
    @andreitiberiovicgazdovici 4 месяца назад

    The Albin Countergambit (especially the variants played by Morozevich) is not that "suspicious" of an opening: to date with computers there is only 1 variation (the one with white's early a3/b4) which gives a clear advantage to white on move 10/ 12, and it's an advantage of +1/+1.2, it's not that black finds himself in a totally lost position... and in any case, up to 2200 elo, perhaps 1 in 10 people knows exactly that specific variant. The vast majority, being used to the queen's gambit, find themselves "out of book" at move 6/7... if you know the theory well, you can beat even quite strong players with the Albin, I say this from experience.

    • @fallintoadream
      @fallintoadream 4 месяца назад

      Hmm I think it is pretty suspicious, in fact I read that it was on the no-fly list

  • @trent797
    @trent797 4 месяца назад

    You're right: I'm on youtube and I am thinking "Who is Sakaev?"

  • @dennysnedry239
    @dennysnedry239 4 месяца назад +1

    no french defense :(

  • @bahmankargosha4946
    @bahmankargosha4946 4 месяца назад

    Kasparov himself played 7.g4

  • @peterflom6878
    @peterflom6878 4 месяца назад

    1 Dan is about 2200

  • @justsomeboyprobablydressed9579
    @justsomeboyprobablydressed9579 4 месяца назад

    Hmm...even super grandmasters sometimes move a knight five times and then trade it.

  • @Chessdummy
    @Chessdummy 4 месяца назад

    Almost makes me want to unban online chess. Give me some kind of assurance that someone else will not move my pieces for me to unintended squares to assure my loss!?

  • @malachickisawesome
    @malachickisawesome 3 месяца назад

    🥹

  • @paulpaul6042
    @paulpaul6042 27 дней назад

    from the past=? whys that? hope not

  • @KironKabir
    @KironKabir 4 месяца назад

    2 GMs, vaat else?

  • @sethpuckett9807
    @sethpuckett9807 4 месяца назад

    h4orozevich

  • @imeprezime1285
    @imeprezime1285 4 месяца назад

    Chess was too easy so he shifted to GO 😂

  • @renehenriksen1735
    @renehenriksen1735 4 месяца назад

    Man what´s Vladimir Kramnik doing in a video about the creative Alexander Morozevich? Oh he was once worldchampion. But not a popular one. And certainly not a worthy successor to Kasparov. He was lucky to defeat Kasparov. In my view Kasparov could squash Kramnik like a wormy apple.

    • @ericbrandt5609
      @ericbrandt5609 4 месяца назад +1

      Kramnik did not lose a game in his match against Kasparov. I understand not liking his style but he was one of the best of all time.

    • @wesleykipp
      @wesleykipp 4 месяца назад +3

      The numbers disagree - Kramnik +5-4=40 Kasparov. Garry had his chances 🤷‍♂️
      He may or may not have been popular then, and he's definitely crazy now, but it's hard to argue he wasn't a worthy WC.

    • @Kyuken_C
      @Kyuken_C 4 месяца назад

      The Berlin is just another Ruy Lopez defence, and modern players crack it from time to time. Kasparov didn't.

    • @ericbrandt5609
      @ericbrandt5609 4 месяца назад

      He was so well-prepared that he totally negated Kasparov's 1. e4. I don't consider superb match preparation "anti-chess" but can agree to disagree. @DLB-po6nn

    • @imeprezime1285
      @imeprezime1285 4 месяца назад

      Yeah, Kasparov wasn't himself in that match. In one game he failed to convert advantage, in another he blundered badly in the opening. OTOH. Kramnik was at his career peak during the match. When you combine that the outcome wasn't strange