Thrills and Nils | Grandelius vs Vachier-Lagrave | Tata Steel Chess 2021
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Grandmaster Daniel King presents Grandelius vs Vachier-Lagrave from the Tata Steel Chess tournament 2021. Support on Patreon: 🔥 / powerplaychess ►Support via PayPal (💲): www.paypal.com...
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Grandelius' play has been absolutely inspiring. Going for it every game! After round 4 he and Caruana (and others, yes) were tied at 2.5, but Grandelius had two wins, a draw and a loss whereas Fabi had one win and three draws. And it's not like Grandelius had easier games, remember, he beat Duda! Just absolutely inspiring play so far in this tournament, not playing for draws and playing aggressive chess. Making a win against the current Candidates Tournament leader and resident Najdorf expert, MVL, look easy! As you folks across the pond say, Grandelius has been playing brilliantly.
It's still early in the tournament! Look for a Magnus comeback, because as usual he is off to a slow start.
When watching King's Najdorf analysis , it is impossible not to realize his extremely well grasp of the subject.
The beauty of long tournament games. What a monster Grandelius is, that was just amazing to watch seeing everything working perfectly for him. Definitely the game of the tournament so far
Man I hope Nils breaks through 2700 soon
We love a spicy najdorf!! Thanks Dan
Thanks for the video, GM Daniel King! I became your fan when a discovered your Winning with the Najdorf book - a masterpiece!!
We can criticize MVL for sure, he is one of the few players who love to go pawn down without much compensation, habit which Peter Leko and Jan Gustaffson called "French School of Suffering". :D But I think Grandelius played an excellent game. I would not have converted that game, and many people would not as well. Very well played. The conversion did not seem easy at all, I had no idea what to do during the live commentary. Even Peter Leko said he did not see any clear paths. :)
That's a good point, you can have a theoretically winning position but what is the plan? He did make it look very easy, all the more impressive.
@@crazymulgogi I think this game should be used for studies. For human eyes, it feels black has enough activity to draw. Instead, Grandelius found the complete engine line to win. :) That's incredible. I remember Peter Leko was saying that for human, it looked incredibly hard to win.
A good lesson in prioritizing understanding over memorization for opening play! Great channel!!
Maxime had a bad day. Nils succeeded in exploring an obscure part of the opening and at the board the Frenchman's judgment was lacking. This is modern professional chess!
@@PowerPlayChess Thanks for the reply Daniel! Yes of course I'm not criticizing SuperGMs, I was more thinking about the 1700 student who sees the 2700 study openings, memorizes 20 moves in the Marshall and then blunders on move 21, resigns by move 22.
@@ChessDiagnostic Indeed.
It’s almost midnight. But I don’t go to sleep before I watch this video!
Every time I see a game with MVL, it's him loosing in the Najdorf. I wonder how I still believe in him being the expert in this line :)
Yes
Great game and great commentary, as always!
I really enjoy watching your videos.... very instructive!!!
Slow torture from Grandelius really squeezed the position precisely.
Stunning game from the Grandelius
Looking at this from an amateur's perspective, this whole game is a bit ridiculous. Maxime played, what, 17 moves of theory, and as soon as he forgets what theory prescribes burns a lot of time, finding the wrong move, just giving up a pawn and going down without being able to show even a tiny bit of counterplay.
Impressive play by White, but can we really call this a playable opening if one memory lapse throws the game?
Naturally it is a playable opening. Grandelius succeeded in exploring a line that Vachier-Lagrave had not researched well. This is modern professional chess! The Frenchman failed the stress test at the board. It can happen, but he will be kicking himself for not researching the variation well enough, but also for not choosing ...Nh5 at that critical moment. He saw the move but talked himself out of it as 'too risky'. Sometimes players have bad days. And Grandelius definitely had a good one.
The poisoned pawn variation giving back the extra pawn (e6) just to have a position that sucks. Oh and giving an extra pawn as a present... (b7) :)
@@PowerPlayChess thanks for your insight, well that makes it all the more impressive (at least to me) how easy Nils makes it look to defeat such a strong player. He found the right plan and executed it flawlessly.
@@apienootiemiesie9852 I watched another analysis video by Jan Gustafsson, where he shows several wild lines that with "precise play" all end in a draw. So paradoxically "the sharpest lines are sometimes the safest lines."
7:03 If the only "improvement" for black would involve allowing an instant draw against the 120 pts lower rated opponent, that makes me question how good of an opening choice these highly-analyzed ultra-sharp lines really are...
All it took was a courageous Nils Grandelius and a rest day to prepare to take the "Najdorf expert" down!
6. Bg5 is not a refutation of the Najdorf nor a forced draw. After 6...e6 7. f4 the modern path is flicking in 7...h6 8. Bh4 to put the bishop on a more vulnerable square. But MVL choose the "Old" Poisoned Pawn, and then a sideline within it, perhaps hoping to avoid Nils' preparation. And Black has a number of alternative tries on move seven such as 7...Nbd7 (in Yannick Pelletier's Najdorf DVD), the aforementioned 7...h6 (discussed at length in Milos Pavlovic's "The Modernized Najdorf").
Nils played very well, and Maxime didn't play as well.
As Peter Leko said, MVL didn't do his homework because the move ... Qe6 was simply bad. Leko hopes Maxime learned a lesson. Maybe MVL thinks he doesn't have to study that hard -- even in his own limited repertoire ! -- because he can defeat or hold his opponent tactically anyway (except a handful of elite players like MC and FC). Good to see that punished because MVL is better than this.
Elegant game eloquently annotated.
What an interesting game - yet another reason I will be avoiding this line in my own games! Nils showed clearly how sharp you really need to be - the game spiralled out of control so quickly for black.
Keep going, Nils!
an accomplished victory
MVL has been leading the candidates for more than 8 months
I didn’t realise the Swede was so young - it seems like he’s been roaming our Nordic chess landscape for a very long time. But of course he’s old compared to Firouzja. Anyway, although I’m a bit of an MVL fan, I’m delighted in Nils’ success!
What's the point of Qe6 though ?
He could have gone for a draw, repeating the knight move against the rook. Chose not to do it. That, imho, was where he went wrong, trying for more than he had. His apparent lack of respect backfired. Of course, it's very easy for me to say that, after the great analysis by Daniel.
It isn't a case of declining a draw and certainly not a lack of respect. Maxime simply didn't trust ...Nh5, believing it lost too much time. It was a case of poor judgment.
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MVL lost despite playing Najdorf? Hard to believe!
It's hard to digest that MVL lost despite playing Najadorf
Apparently, people confuse "plays the Najdorf all the time" with "is an expert in the Najdorf". 😁
@@crazymulgogi maybe, this time he lost so you can say like that
@@sushilpatel7710 in the end this will stimulate Maxime to work harder and show stronger play next time. He keeps bravely playing sharp openings, it's rarely boring.
Or maybe Firouzja or Nepo will inspire him and he'll try the Caro Kann or French.
@@crazymulgogi yeah we know these GMs are super talented, hope anyone will be a worthy Opponent for magnus in future and we will see some interesting and thrilling chess
Could this game be the" immortal" of Nils Grandelius? Actually really impressive game and tournament for him!
Immortal is a bit much, basically MVL played the wrong move by not doing his homework, and didn't really have any compensation for the lost pawn. It feels as if he was already demoralised after the Qe6 mistake.
@@crazymulgogi yes i agree, MVL made a mistake but maybe he forgot Nh5 or didn't want a draw, that's why i used "could", but without any mistake there's no win.
But Qe6 and Bd8 were bad & unforced moves, that's true. Anyway kudos to Grandelius to have found the right path to victory.
@@yoannhappe9281 It is absolutely a game to feel very good about for Grandelius, no complaints there. :-) As I said elsewhere, Peter Leko simply blamed MVL's bad preparation. At this level you can't get away with that.
His career in super gm has just started
so the arrogant frenchman with 3 names goes willingly into a variation known to be bad and poisonous without even researching about it...great disrespect towards Grandelius
seriously don't play that Qb6 variation! Be7 is much more sound to play
I would also dissuade amateurs from playing ...Qb6 - not because it is unsound, but because it is too complex.
I am sure the game and analysis are good. However, Netherlands is in a shutdown. People are now even not allowed to go out from homes! Economy is destroyed, unemployment skyrockets, people dying left and right (obviously, not from Corona primarily). I know a number of young chess players who committed suicide.
Why the hell is this tournament taking place? Rich guys need even more money? Why is it OK for those low moral people to come to NL and play while all the chess clubs are closed??? EVERYTHING is closed!