Agreed. In my opinion, I think the opponent still thought he could win on time when Aman had 37 seconds left down to 10 seconds. After that, I think he also saw what Aman was doing and played along, to see if Aman could pull it off!
@@epposhright I’m sure he had a pretty good idea on the moves he would have to make so everything came instinctively to him it’s not like he was having to calculate using much time he’s rehearsed the moves so he knew what he needed to premove to make it happen Pretty Cool 😎 ♟️‼️
I first thought the title was an exaggeration, but after watching the game, I realize the title is perfect. Yes, indeed, the greatest checkmate ever given.
@@hshura09 True but he's not done it quite like this, with 6 promotions and premoving the sequence from 4 seconds on the clock. He says in his own stream that he prepared this mate sequence, and even shows off a place where it could have gone wrong if the opponent's king were placed on a particular square, but to execute like this is another level.
@@Metso-atecoNo wrong. Aman has punished many players before in similar ways. Ive been watching him play for years, he is legit doing this stuff on live stream.
For real, even Hikaru would never pull this off because his brain is wired for actually winning efficiently, he'd spend too long calculating to avoid the stalemates. Aman only had to calculate how to get the king into a single good starting position and had the entire rest of the game memorized
@@smmshoeAman explained it to his video that the king will never be stalemate nor checkmated until the last move because its on the right square, and the premoves he does was by heart since he literally invented the checkmate by himself.
@@ab8jeh no elite chess player thinks a GM will mess up and stalemate them. This happens at the sub 1000s levels but not with these guys. It’s just pure salty butthurt
I think it wasn't stressed enough in the video: the entire sequence of moves starting from Qe2 works *regardless* of black king's initial position, which is remarkable. I don't know if Aman came up with this or this was just a puzzle he knew, but this is what is truly beautiful for me.
Aman has been my favorite chess player for years. I've played his "immortal opening" for some incredible wins. He scambles in time crunch for the majority of his games as he uses his time during the game. That's why he's so good in time trouble, dude is used to it. He has many immortal games under his belt, but this one is truly a masterpiece. That's one good Bruh! 👏👏
.1972 When Fischer didn't show for the second game in Reykjavik, Spassky was given the option to accept it as a tournament forfeiture and retain the world title. People forget that he didn't want to win that way, and that he agreed to play on, that notion reminds me of what Koller does here. He could have easily resigned, but he played on. Sometimes there are aspects of chess that transcend simply winning and losing.
It's always a special day when my two favorite chess content creators come together like this! Aman has been trolling opponents who don't resign like this for years.
imagine being a knight in this royal court watching the entire court die and get replaced and the being restored to the original position with a new court.
I’ve been trying to do this for years but my best attempts result in underpromoting pieces to original position, only to then stalemate in time trouble 😂 huge props to Aman for pulling this off without increment!
@@BenHyleI think rating doesn't matter you can do it if you have winning position just need to know patterns how to move pieces..Aman did it because he's not resigned
After watching agadmator I highly suggest watching the actual game. Aman pre-moved about 15-20 moves ahead leading to the checkmate. He just sat there with his hands raised watching his pre-moves play out until the game finally ended.
Amazing mate and Black was a REEEEEALLY good sport. But something tells me White had played around with this idea before and had worked out the general idea of how to maneuver the black king to c2 for the mate. Still cool!
The sequence of moves starting from Qe2 works regardless of initial black king position (check for yourself), but I don't know who came up with this first.
Happened to me once. I let him make all moves. Minutes passed by. Knight, then a rook, then another knight, then a bishop. I let him turn them all. Move by move. Hiding behind a single pawn. And then, on the last moment, as all pieces stood on the back rank, waiting for that one last member....the Roook! I resigned.
I'm pretty sure Ben Finegold also did it multiple times during his livestreams, 3 min games but obviously against much lower rated players. This is just the perfect mate, beautiful indeed.
I did this checkmate over 30 years ago in a friendly 5 minute game. My opponent took longer than 5 minutes but I didnt claim it and he was happy to play on. I had to work it out at the time but once I saw the opponent king can go from c2 to b3 while my Q was on d4 it became easy to move my king rook to correct the timing.
I think we needed to watch this at actual speed for the full effect. ...saw the link, and i had no idea that you could premove like ten moves before the opponent plays the _first_ move
@@Romans8-9 Well, as you agreed, obviously the opponent was complicit in playing the game out that way. So not really "the greatest checkmate ever given".
@@MrFootofDavros A title like that is always going to be debatable. I wouldnt call it clickbait though, being able to premove everything is still very impressive.
Imagine getting featured on agadmator channel all excited only for the rarest of rare mate in the history of chess. Got to feel for fallen soldier Ruben Gideon Kollner respect to u sir... F
I used to write games to where I could tell you where the game would end within 9 squares and what pieces would be used to win the game. That's how deep I was into it and could approximate how many moves it would take
The final position of this game inspired me to come up with a challenge: using only legal moves (of course), find the shortest game whose final position satisfies all of the following conditions: 1. Black has no pawns 2. White still has all 8 pawns, and they're in the squares originally occupied by the Black pawns 3. All the other White pieces are on their original squares I was able to come up with a 42 move game, but I'm betting there are shorter ones out there. Have at it!
Agad usually saves them for Tals birthday as there aren't an unlimited amount of Tal games unfortunately :( If you're looking for more, there's multiple books with collections of his games, I can recommend a few if you'd like.
Going back to a previous video where you say increment or no increment. The fact that flagging is a genuine win/draw condition justified the opponent here, as he felt like there was a chance. (Yes, im fully aware that the video was probably more related to otb style games) No increment can produce wonderful games, as the thinking process behind how you play changes
8:20 is where the puzzle begins for me because you could also play Rh6-h1 immediately but it doesn’t work as well as Rd2-h2-h1 since the King would be one tempo off from having a smooth checkmate on d1 at the end.
Note it still works Rh6 Kb3 Rh1 Kb4 Qd6+ Kb3 Qd4 Kc2 Qd1# but this is 3 queen moves , instead of 2. Feels less efficient than 3 rook moves and 2 queen moves. It’s more aesthetically pleasing what Aman did!
c2 is the only square you can checkmate like this on. Other squares are either adjacent to the white king or the surrounding squares aren't all covered.
Aman only had another 8 moves before he flagged regardless of premoves (given each premove took .1 seconds and he ended on .9). He COULDNT mess up on forcing the king to the right spot for the final checkmate position
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"If you find mate in one, look for better" ~Aman Hambleton
Big props to the opponent who allows this beautiful checkmate instead of resigned
Agreed. In my opinion, I think the opponent still thought he could win on time when Aman had 37 seconds left down to 10 seconds. After that, I think he also saw what Aman was doing and played along, to see if Aman could pull it off!
I am such a poor sport, I would have resigned on the second to last move! LOL, JK
Aman only had 0.9 seconds left, so although it is a massacre in one sense, it was also very close to being a win for the opponent.
@@tjamesjonesi agree i think the opponent might have been hoping to get a draw by stalemate or time out.
the opponent was hoping to flag Aman, whereas Aman wanted to severely punish Ruben for not resigning earlier.
Him pre-moving this was even more impressive
The Queen at the end. Like 7 pre-moves in under one second. Absolutely mind-blowing.
watch the video, where he admits to have been practicing this theory of mating your opponent this way, so that one day he can punish someone
@@epposhright I’m sure he had a pretty good idea on the moves he would have to make so everything came instinctively to him it’s not like he was having to calculate using much time he’s rehearsed the moves so he knew what he needed to premove to make it happen Pretty Cool 😎 ♟️‼️
@@epposh The main issue is you can only do this to someone who is good enough to not run out of time or resign before the checkmate.
@@Hahahahaaahaahaa this entire sequence of moves starting from Qe2 works regardless of the initial black king position.
I first thought the title was an exaggeration, but after watching the game, I realize the title is perfect. Yes, indeed, the greatest checkmate ever given.
The title is not hyperbole or clickbait. Truly amazing calculation. Who thinks about this final setup with 15 secs on the clock?
This was endgame preperation. He's done this before, and it shows.
@@hshura09 True but he's not done it quite like this, with 6 promotions and premoving the sequence from 4 seconds on the clock. He says in his own stream that he prepared this mate sequence, and even shows off a place where it could have gone wrong if the opponent's king were placed on a particular square, but to execute like this is another level.
It was all pre planned
@@Metso-atecoNo wrong.
Aman has punished many players before in similar ways.
Ive been watching him play for years, he is legit doing this stuff on live stream.
I sent a link to my family (although they don't play chess and may not even know the rules) and said the same thing.
It’s hard to appreciate without seeing the premoves. Aman preps for meme endings like Fabi preps for real chess
For real, even Hikaru would never pull this off because his brain is wired for actually winning efficiently, he'd spend too long calculating to avoid the stalemates. Aman only had to calculate how to get the king into a single good starting position and had the entire rest of the game memorized
I've seen Aman do this before against a rando, but doing this against an IM is unbelievable. Props to Köllner for not resigning!
He was waiting for a stalemate
@@smmshoeAman explained it to his video that the king will never be stalemate nor checkmated until the last move because its on the right square, and the premoves he does was by heart since he literally invented the checkmate by himself.
@@jambellen3090Aman knows but anyone in black in that situation would play for a stalemate. That's what he means.
Ruben deserves a pat on the back for not resigning!
That and Aman needs to buy him a drink if they end up at a competition somewhere. This was dirty.
@@PMoneyMillion nah he’s a crybaby
He's definitely hoping for the stalemate though.
On the contrary he should resign after losing all his pieces
@@ab8jeh no elite chess player thinks a GM will mess up and stalemate them. This happens at the sub 1000s levels but not with these guys. It’s just pure salty butthurt
The chess life is weird and full of dark rabbit holes... what a fun, bizarre game.
After the king returned to his home square, Aman premoved 20 moves to checkmate which is just ridiculous
I think it wasn't stressed enough in the video: the entire sequence of moves starting from Qe2 works *regardless* of black king's initial position, which is remarkable. I don't know if Aman came up with this or this was just a puzzle he knew, but this is what is truly beautiful for me.
Seems he came up with it 5 years ago. He’s been doing some legit A1 endgame trolling like this for a while but this takes the cake.
In the video, he stated that he came up with it. Considering all the random stuff that he does, I believe him.
With a video title like that, I never believed it could truly earn it's name. This checkmate actually did... That's impressive!
Unbelievable calmness under time pressure by Aman! Would be very easy to make a slight inaccuracy and ruin the whole setup
Aman has been my favorite chess player for years. I've played his "immortal opening" for some incredible wins. He scambles in time crunch for the majority of his games as he uses his time during the game. That's why he's so good in time trouble, dude is used to it. He has many immortal games under his belt, but this one is truly a masterpiece. That's one good Bruh! 👏👏
Please share the video link to learn more details about his "immortal opening".
He's one of my favourite players too. Hey, just letting you know in a friendly way that it's *used to it.
@JohnPark-au - You're right. I'm slipping as these years blow by me. Fixed! 👍
.1972 When Fischer didn't show for the second game in Reykjavik, Spassky was given the option to accept it as a tournament forfeiture and retain the world title. People forget that he didn't want to win that way, and that he agreed to play on, that notion reminds me of what Koller does here. He could have easily resigned, but he played on. Sometimes there are aspects of chess that transcend simply winning and losing.
4:32 "This is how a man does it." Yes indeed.
Aman did a ton of crazy things before, he has many immortal blitz games.
Agadmator’s best man speech: “Hello everyone, and welcome to one of the …”
It's always a special day when my two favorite chess content creators come together like this! Aman has been trolling opponents who don't resign like this for years.
imagine being a knight in this royal court watching the entire court die and get replaced and the being restored to the original position with a new court.
I like how you calculate 😂
Aman did this to my deaf grandmother in the park, and then Eric Hansen came in and spit in her purse. Don't support these guys.
Underrated
Grats to Aman, and mad props to Ruben for not resigning at any point along the way.
He's done some insane sh*t and I love watching it. Them boys are hilarious.
For those (like me) trying to get the PGN to work, there is an error in the description. Move 97 should be Kd5 not Ke5.
Ruben: I am not gonna resign, I lost anyway. The worst that can happen is mate.
Aman: Yeah! But everyone is gonna know about it.
Wow!!!! How is that even possible, and the fact that he pre-move it!!! Chess is just insane!!! The best game ever created... Insanity....
Thanks to you, Aman and Ruben for improving my day!
Amazing. Had no idea this was even possible.
I love that you featured one of Aman’s games, Antonio. I’m a huge Chessbrah and Agadmator fan.
Queen: I need both kings next to me!
I’ve been trying to do this for years but my best attempts result in underpromoting pieces to original position, only to then stalemate in time trouble 😂 huge props to Aman for pulling this off without increment!
The vid of Hikaru supposedly premoving an entire game ending in mate against carlsen is not real lol
It’s real ! I have seen it in RUclips
@@user-gr3tg2yk6o-24_डफ़कLink?
@@user-gr3tg2yk6o-24_डफ़क Nope, it was a troll video, not real.
I have seen it and looks more like an edited and pretty imposible that anyone premoved game on Magnus.
Not bying it.
Midkaru Fraudamura could never.
Crazy,props to the opponent for letting him do it 😊
I've seen Ben Finegold do this. But I'm pretty sure it was against a much weaker player and probably a longer time control.
Usually in the same, or similar, time controls. He's got a lot of videos with it.
But, yes, usually much lower rated players.
@@BenHyleI think rating doesn't matter you can do it if you have winning position just need to know patterns how to move pieces..Aman did it because he's not resigned
When checkmate is forced,rating doesn’t matter..
Yep Ben Finegold has done it before but because he had a lower rated opponent, he had more time available.
wowwww. very impressive. Aman is a genius! This is one for the books.
After watching agadmator I highly suggest watching the actual game. Aman pre-moved about 15-20 moves ahead leading to the checkmate. He just sat there with his hands raised watching his pre-moves play out until the game finally ended.
badass by any other name
This is truly the best checkmate ever
Watched it yesterday, it was insane
Insane. Absolutely insane.
Aman is the King of disrespectful checkmates.
This was the most amazing chess game and endgame domination I've ever seen. I can't conceive of anything topping it! Stunning.
easily the most beautiful checkmate i've ever seen. and to pre-move all of it like Aman did, was absolutely disgusting
Brutal humaliation and greatness
I never thought I'd see anything like this.
I love Chess.
So much beauty.
Can you pre-move underpromotions? If not, that's even more impressive. What a checkmate! Way to go, Chessbrah!
Props to Ruben for not resigning. If your opponent beats you let them finish on their terms.
I watched him do this live while he was streaming on Twitch. I’ve seen him attempt it a few times
Amazing mate and Black was a REEEEEALLY good sport. But something tells me White had played around with this idea before and had worked out the general idea of how to maneuver the black king to c2 for the mate.
Still cool!
Ah, now I see in comments that Ben Finegold has done this too?
The sequence of moves starting from Qe2 works regardless of initial black king position (check for yourself), but I don't know who came up with this first.
The most impresive part is that he did not resign.
Looking at the position initially, I thought Antonio was just messing with us and the thumbnail was clickbait. Boy was I wrong!
I had no idea it was done with promoted pawns.
Antonio never clickbaits. That's one of the reasons I love this channel.
Every resignation is a greatest checkmate until opponent allows u to checkmate
Happened to me once. I let him make all moves. Minutes passed by. Knight, then a rook, then another knight, then a bishop. I let him turn them all. Move by move. Hiding behind a single pawn. And then, on the last moment, as all pieces stood on the back rank, waiting for that one last member....the Roook! I resigned.
Aman was setting up for the next game, during his game. What a gentleman.
I've heard about this mate 3 times, and I STILL cannot believe Aman pulled this off.
Aman's Immortal Game!
I wish there was a video of their reaction once the mate was delivered
I'm pretty sure Ben Finegold also did it multiple times during his livestreams, 3 min games but obviously against much lower rated players. This is just the perfect mate, beautiful indeed.
I've seen Aman checkmate like this on their channel in an online game too😂 "When you see a good move, always look for better"
this is nothing but pure genius, by both tbh.
I ve seen Aman and Ben do it against subs, doing it to an IM from a drawn position is absolutely insane!
I did this checkmate over 30 years ago in a friendly 5 minute game. My opponent took longer than 5 minutes but I didnt claim it and he was happy to play on. I had to work it out at the time but once I saw the opponent king can go from c2 to b3 while my Q was on d4 it became easy to move my king rook to correct the timing.
I never imagined I would ever see something like this either
Yess you finally covered it
The checkmate speaks for itself.
I think we needed to watch this at actual speed for the full effect.
...saw the link, and i had no idea that you could premove like ten moves before the opponent plays the _first_ move
Its called ben finegold's checkmate 😂
It's still theory
Aman did it first
No Aman invented it. He did it first 5 years ago then Ben did it after. This is the first time anyone has done it with premoves
Is that Aman's real hair?? Looks like it's glued on.
The Hambleton checkmate!!
It is indeed the most insane thing in chess I 've ever seen, period.
This has to be engraved somewhere! Incredible!!
That was beyond impressive
still digesting what i saw.. I need Atleast 3-4 working days to do so
After a certain point, with the opponent not resigning, he is surely complicit in allowing the game reach the end position.
You don't say.
@@Romans8-9 So it's clickbait then. Thanks 👍.
@@MrFootofDavros Why is it clickbait?
@@Romans8-9 Well, as you agreed, obviously the opponent was complicit in playing the game out that way. So not really "the greatest checkmate ever given".
@@MrFootofDavros A title like that is always going to be debatable. I wouldnt call it clickbait though, being able to premove everything is still very impressive.
Imagine getting featured on agadmator channel all excited only for the rarest of rare mate in the history of chess. Got to feel for fallen soldier Ruben Gideon Kollner respect to u sir... F
After he pre move he went out and took his camera and record his reaction.. what a boss move
I used to write games to where I could tell you where the game would end within 9 squares and what pieces would be used to win the game. That's how deep I was into it and could approximate how many moves it would take
The final position of this game inspired me to come up with a challenge: using only legal moves (of course), find the shortest game whose final position satisfies all of the following conditions:
1. Black has no pawns
2. White still has all 8 pawns, and they're in the squares originally occupied by the Black pawns
3. All the other White pieces are on their original squares
I was able to come up with a 42 move game, but I'm betting there are shorter ones out there. Have at it!
I figured out that the shortest possible game is 32 moves :-)
Kudos to the opponent for not quitting
Aman did this because the IM didn't give him the respect resignation on Titled Tuesday. So he punished him for it.
My favorite chess streamer on the best YT chess game review channel. Sweet
Please upload more Tal masterpieces
Agad usually saves them for Tals birthday as there aren't an unlimited amount of Tal games unfortunately :(
If you're looking for more, there's multiple books with collections of his games, I can recommend a few if you'd like.
@@thomashughes7336 ofc u do but people are so lazy that they prefer 10 mins video rather than reading some 5/6 pages
I am lazy too😂😂😂
What an achievement. I hope this gets some credit in the chess world.
Imagine his opponent resigning before the final move. Aman would be so pissed.
for a second in the thumbnail i thought the king checkmated all those pieces.
shows what a beautiful game chess is, endless possibilities.
That's not just Aman dooing this. Ruben must have seen it coming and accommodated it.
Going back to a previous video where you say increment or no increment. The fact that flagging is a genuine win/draw condition justified the opponent here, as he felt like there was a chance. (Yes, im fully aware that the video was probably more related to otb style games)
No increment can produce wonderful games, as the thinking process behind how you play changes
8:20 is where the puzzle begins for me because you could also play Rh6-h1 immediately but it doesn’t work as well as Rd2-h2-h1 since the King would be one tempo off from having a smooth checkmate on d1 at the end.
Note it still works Rh6 Kb3 Rh1 Kb4 Qd6+ Kb3 Qd4 Kc2 Qd1# but this is 3 queen moves , instead of 2. Feels less efficient than 3 rook moves and 2 queen moves. It’s more aesthetically pleasing what Aman did!
Yeah, feelings are better with 2-queen moves
Fischer would be crying "Pre-Arrangement!"
This man is simply overqualified.
He is not just *A* man... he is *THE* man!
That's outrageous. Never seen anything like it.
Antonio, perhaps next to each player's rating you could indicate whether it's an online rating or an otb federation's rating.
c2 is the only square you can checkmate like this on. Other squares are either adjacent to the white king or the surrounding squares aren't all covered.
He does stuff like this all the time but usually against low rated players. Amazing to see him pull it off against an IM
Wow, that's the best stuff I've ever seen!!!! Wow.... Wow!!!
WHen generations to come speak of this legend, I can say, I was there when it happened.
An incredible chess game from one of the world's foremost niche boxers.
Pre moving this checkmate with seconds on clock us crazy 😧
Hats off to Kollner who didn't play the spoiler by resigning
Aman only had another 8 moves before he flagged regardless of premoves (given each premove took .1 seconds and he ended on .9). He COULDNT mess up on forcing the king to the right spot for the final checkmate position