The Genius of Mikhail Tal

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  • Опубликовано: 12 июл 2023
  • Featured is the game between Mikhail Tal and Alexander Tolush from the 1957 USSR Championship. Tal opts for the Sämisch Variation to defeat Tolush’s King’s Indian Defense. Tal’s kingside attack is successful in large part due to the significantly fixed structure, and is kickstarted by the interaction between his g-pawn and g-knight. Pay special attention to Tal’s kingside minor pieces and observe how each carries a concealed threat.
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Комментарии • 109

  • @Lazokopulos
    @Lazokopulos 10 месяцев назад +142

    When I see Mikhail Tal in a title I have to watch it.

    • @michaelhays
      @michaelhays 10 месяцев назад +9

      Easily the most entertaining chess player I've watched

    • @jacobdrollinger4802
      @jacobdrollinger4802 10 месяцев назад +3

      Me too!!! Mato covers his games extensively.

    • @SouradipG
      @SouradipG 9 месяцев назад +2

      That's me

    • @michaelmassaro4375
      @michaelmassaro4375 9 месяцев назад +1

      Love Mikhail So Awesome Expect the Unexpected 🤩♟️💯

    • @michaelmassaro4375
      @michaelmassaro4375 9 месяцев назад

      @@michaelhaysI agree incredibly entertaining he comes up with some Beauts

  • @user-sf8cs3sz2i
    @user-sf8cs3sz2i 10 месяцев назад +93

    As with most of Tal's games, you want to put 10 or 20 exclamation points across his moves for the beauty, purity, and surprise, he was a poet warrior on a chessboard, he wasn't afraid to lose.

    • @echoes6092
      @echoes6092 10 месяцев назад +2

      The most impressive part to me about it is even in the games with no one outstanding move, I still want to put an exclam on every single move.

    • @mikecantreed
      @mikecantreed 10 месяцев назад +1

      I didn’t see any exceptional moves in this game. Not recapturing the pawn was interesting but other than that it was just Tal making normal moves versus a guy who didn’t know how to play the KID.

    • @tmpwow4282
      @tmpwow4282 10 месяцев назад

      ​@mikecantreed He probably just thought that c5 is interesting although dubious though he ended up being punished hard. He definitely still understands the Kings Indian better than the majority of titled players.

    • @nicksgmail9663
      @nicksgmail9663 9 месяцев назад

      @@mikecantreed You sound like an actual clown trying to say that he doesn't understand the KID. He understood it better in this game than 99.99% of all players, and must've thought to himself he knew it to play it in a game. Do you also say that professional football players don't understand how to throw the ball if they make a bad pass?

  • @grouchomcgrouch4150
    @grouchomcgrouch4150 10 месяцев назад +49

    So glad to see you uploading regularly these days. You are the Bob Ross of chess!

  • @stoutlager6325
    @stoutlager6325 10 месяцев назад +31

    The most impressive thing about Tal to me is the length of moves he's able to maintain pressure. A game like this is a great example of that. Sure he won some beautiful miniatures with his trademark attacks but games that lean towards the longer side like this are on another level. Tolush spent nearly the entire game scrambling around trying to hold the whole house of cards together. Tal never once let him get a moment to breathe.

  • @moesheri9385
    @moesheri9385 10 месяцев назад +24

    As always, Jerrys videos are the best😊

  • @sarimufti7915
    @sarimufti7915 10 месяцев назад +18

    Best chess channel, we are grateful to you Jerry!

    • @ChessNetwork
      @ChessNetwork  10 месяцев назад +7

      Thank you for the compliment.

  • @kevinolson7660
    @kevinolson7660 10 месяцев назад +12

    Tal is definitely one of the greatest attackers in chess history. Very Paul Morphy like.

  • @WtItCbtLoR
    @WtItCbtLoR 10 месяцев назад +6

    Tal's my favorite and this is the best chess channel going these days. Thank you, Jerry.

  • @AnilKumar0227
    @AnilKumar0227 10 месяцев назад +2

    1:25 am here in India,just received notification from chess network.

  • @gana7206
    @gana7206 10 месяцев назад +6

    Bishop b1 is an incredible conceptual move

  • @rick4400
    @rick4400 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks for posting this. I love your commentaries, and live games too.

  • @misha4422
    @misha4422 10 месяцев назад +3

    Your insights into the “why” of moves and strategy are always so clear.

  • @abominationdesolation8322
    @abominationdesolation8322 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is great inspiration. I'm currently experimenting with openings that push as many pawns as quickly as possible. This game made me realize I'm overextending myself. I think pushing the f & g pawns, instead of balancing with stronger pieces, is what's wrecking my game. It's not feasible to push your entire legion of pawns forward during early and mid game because your king is critical to defending them but lacks the mobility to follow them. Hence why I keep getting crushed by the players who leave their king's pawns on their starting rank tucked away in the corner. Meanwhile my bishops are getting cut off by my own knights because I need the knights to trade off against infiltrating pieces. Either the bishops get cut off or they get traded for knights; either way I don't know how to play it to my advantage. I know my strategy is faulty but it's important to figure out *exactly* why; maybe avalanche style play has its niches if I only figure out how to see them.
    My reasoning for trying to push pawns early is because in most games, when played accurately enough, both sides stay equal and trade down to an endgame. And, obviously, the more advanced your pawns are during the endgame, the better. But trying this strategy is messing up my ability to even get *to* the endgame.

  • @gbu32
    @gbu32 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great explanation of the game. Thanks for going over it.

  • @vladimirtimoshenko9618
    @vladimirtimoshenko9618 10 месяцев назад +1

    Impressive and educational! Thank you!

  • @gregoriopalofuego9808
    @gregoriopalofuego9808 10 месяцев назад

    Magnificent commentary, Jerry.
    Thank you.
    ♟️

  • @dinethwijayawardana8838
    @dinethwijayawardana8838 10 месяцев назад

    Great video! I hope you continue to upload regularly

  • @nnerival6125
    @nnerival6125 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love your work

  • @RoyGazoff
    @RoyGazoff 10 месяцев назад +1

    The game is superb, and I absolutely liked the reportage

  • @TheJmh19
    @TheJmh19 10 месяцев назад

    great video - well explained. thanks

  • @kulkidspin7691
    @kulkidspin7691 9 месяцев назад +1

    amazing commentary i love it

  • @nagatouzumaki99
    @nagatouzumaki99 10 месяцев назад +3

    Hi Jerry! It's everyone.

  • @joseraulcapablanca8564
    @joseraulcapablanca8564 10 месяцев назад

    There are several classics Tal To,ush, this is certainly one of them. Thanks Jerry

  • @wetdities4921
    @wetdities4921 10 месяцев назад

    I tryrd to subscribe again on this video. Your getting really good at this bro.

  • @ramilparedes9930
    @ramilparedes9930 10 месяцев назад

    Very informative

  • @lenz6293
    @lenz6293 10 месяцев назад

    Incredible instructive and straight forward how Jerry comments this classic kingsindian Sämisch variation.

    • @yeahno3167
      @yeahno3167 9 месяцев назад

      It's all the same-ish to me - ben finegold

  • @senordonkfish4375
    @senordonkfish4375 10 месяцев назад +1

    Great video

  • @doncar9
    @doncar9 10 месяцев назад

    Keep them coming Jerry.

  • @chittareddy
    @chittareddy 10 месяцев назад

    Best in the business. Cheers Jerry

  • @marksfeir7615
    @marksfeir7615 10 месяцев назад +1

    youve done it again Jerry

  • @RicardGomes76
    @RicardGomes76 10 месяцев назад

    Ty GM 👍🏾

  • @kevinmalone3210
    @kevinmalone3210 5 месяцев назад

    Tal had a very creative way of attacking his opponents positions. The way he would make his moves were brilliant. His nickname, The Magician of Riga, was well earned.

  • @retrospect
    @retrospect 10 месяцев назад +6

    Sometimes I want to watch these videos at night before bed but can't since Jerry doesn't describe full notation in his videos. Would be incredible if we could have a video with full notation said by you when describing games because your videos are top tier. Thanks 😊❤

    • @user-sf8cs3sz2i
      @user-sf8cs3sz2i 10 месяцев назад +1

      I watch his games to sleep too but imo it would be too much to ask since it would impede the conversational flow of the video with labor

  • @jasper5016
    @jasper5016 9 месяцев назад +1

    There can be better chess players than Tal but there is no Tal. No one can play like him. A real magician from Riga.

  • @abdurrahmaan5212
    @abdurrahmaan5212 8 месяцев назад +1

    He is something extra ordinary, a poet in the chess board...

  • @reydemayo8906
    @reydemayo8906 10 месяцев назад

    Great game....

  • @manishchoudhary6404
    @manishchoudhary6404 10 месяцев назад

    Hey! I love your videos and would like to know which theme/website is that

  • @alexroc172
    @alexroc172 10 месяцев назад

    thanks Jerry...so much to learn from Tal's style about positional ideas.

  • @Hungnguyen-nl6id
    @Hungnguyen-nl6id 10 месяцев назад

    Jerry, Why don't you continue to analyze the chess games of the supercomputers? I really like you doing about it. I hope you will continue to do so. Thank you very much.

  • @sarimufti7915
    @sarimufti7915 10 месяцев назад

    Jerry, any chance you can have the engine bar on the side. This is very nice to visual during the analysis.

    • @ChessNetwork
      @ChessNetwork  10 месяцев назад

      With the board/pieces I use, including a bar isn’t an option.

  • @ex59neo53
    @ex59neo53 10 месяцев назад

    Imho there are great players you love to watch ,and those you want to learn from ,and there are players like Tal that you just admire without conditions :)

  • @DevdevRetlub-oj3lf
    @DevdevRetlub-oj3lf 10 месяцев назад

    3:20 that's sick

  • @eminkirakosyan8779
    @eminkirakosyan8779 10 месяцев назад

    SATISFIYING TO SEE YOUR OPPONENT BEING CRUSHED

  • @VitoPlaysGames
    @VitoPlaysGames 10 месяцев назад +2

    Jerry the GOAT

  • @MsiLaskar-
    @MsiLaskar- 10 месяцев назад

    I am from Bangladesh and in Bengali language "Tal" means mad . Tal is really Tal🔥🔥

  • @kennethward4985
    @kennethward4985 6 месяцев назад

    I learned a lot for tournament play from Tal. I started playing tourny chess late, but I have beaten several masters with simply exchanging my rook for a knight and cracking open his king. They just don't see that coming from an 1800.

  • @giuseppemiosi3716
    @giuseppemiosi3716 10 месяцев назад +1

    funny that always in Tal's games after a piece goes on a square where it can be captured apparently for free, jerry starts saying " what other options do you have?"

  • @samulikarjalainen6107
    @samulikarjalainen6107 10 месяцев назад +1

    And yet all the calculators like Keres defeated the magician. His playing style worked very well against Fischer. Keres in his prime would have had the same record against Fischer as his fan boy. People focus too much on Spassky and Iron Tigran when real chads came from Riga and Narva.

  • @eprox-y3248
    @eprox-y3248 10 месяцев назад

    Tal slices through defenses like a lightsaber through Swiss.

  • @precioustreasures6045
    @precioustreasures6045 9 месяцев назад

    I really like the saemisch system against kings india.

  • @muskyoxes
    @muskyoxes 5 месяцев назад

    The last chess player to just have fun

  • @jessejordache1869
    @jessejordache1869 10 месяцев назад +1

    Tolush was Tal's long time second, wasn't he? Or at least after this tournament (Tal won the USSR Championship before he'd qualified to be an IM).
    [edit: I was thinking of Alexander Koblentz.]

  • @ianattong6989
    @ianattong6989 10 месяцев назад

    Tal the Warrior on the chessboard !!!

  • @ankitchauhancr7
    @ankitchauhancr7 10 месяцев назад

    Pure domination

  • @jinntakk
    @jinntakk 10 месяцев назад +1

    My favorite player of all time is Mikhail Tal. Jerry has a lot to do with it.

  • @haseebmohamed5726
    @haseebmohamed5726 10 месяцев назад

    Most beautiful, uncle Tal

  • @anon-san2830
    @anon-san2830 10 месяцев назад

    At move 21, why not pawn to h6? Can someone explain why giving up the knight is better?

    • @bartholomewtheiiijr.386
      @bartholomewtheiiijr.386 10 месяцев назад +2

      Pawn h6 and you would've settled down your own attack, you stop that pawn from ever opening up the position, and not only that but the dark bishop will go to f6 and avoid being captured. Whites dark bishop is probably a bit better than his invasive knight in the position, so he'd rather not trade off his dark bishop for blacks, so he would have to retreat and again the attack is cooling down. Taking out the dark bishop for knight means that whites dark bishop is uncontested and is more powerful, and also removes a crucial defender of blacks king.

  • @amosdraak3536
    @amosdraak3536 8 месяцев назад

    Tolush seems to have played an opening basically as “bad” as the Sicilian Dragon and Tal just played extremely natural moves. But maybe because at the time Tolush didn’t know how bad the opening was he felt like Tal played well, but I feel like a lot of us could play the same moves and win in a blitz game. Anyone disagree?

  • @marcmaster7911
    @marcmaster7911 10 месяцев назад

    10:59 we all know tal is the only one that can laugh in the face of stockfish

  • @jeffreyknapp945
    @jeffreyknapp945 10 месяцев назад

    You said move 9 is c5, but the score sheet says d5.

  • @F4R4D4Y
    @F4R4D4Y 10 месяцев назад

  • @jumpingship3001
    @jumpingship3001 9 месяцев назад

    Tal was the Tao of chess.

  • @IntercomFPV
    @IntercomFPV 10 месяцев назад

    Why not 27. Bg5 attacking the queen and threatening Qxh7+?

  • @MoonBurn13
    @MoonBurn13 10 месяцев назад +1

    I must be psychic - and not in a good way! It seems like everytime I’m playing an opening with my longtime friend and long distance chess opponent, the VERY next game I see from you, Jerry, is the exact same opening I’m playing! In this one, it’s all the way down to the Saemich of the Kings Indian! Then I feel like I’m cheating, because we go by the old rules of the Correspondence Chess League of America: You can refer to BOOKS/literature between moves, but no “electronic aid”. 😕
    Oh well, I’ll try to forget whatever I learnt here.
    Which should be easy, since this was very uncharacteristic of Tal’s play - positional and closed - right up to the last phase.
    Maybe that was Tal’s strategy in this one - to play completely out of his opponent’s expectations?

  • @prakgm5959
    @prakgm5959 9 месяцев назад

    Is this re-upload?

  • @chess_poemschess
    @chess_poemschess 10 месяцев назад

    new Jerry upload from 2 hours ago!? Don't mind if I do 👀

  • @rahultnnambiar9251
    @rahultnnambiar9251 10 месяцев назад

    Have watched many thriller movies of Tal, and still, in awe of them. 😎😎

  • @Sole-Survivor
    @Sole-Survivor 10 месяцев назад

    LIKED

  • @uniktbrukernavn
    @uniktbrukernavn 10 месяцев назад

    Using your opponents doubled pawns as a defensive resource is clever and not something a low level player like me would really consider, the urge to recapture is too great and knowing I'm a pawn down would affect me.
    This is the reason why I'm not a GM (plus a million other reasons).

  • @VijayThakurMD
    @VijayThakurMD 10 месяцев назад

    Jerry at this point is just drawing non sense lines on board for a good a thumbnail
    Still a good video 😁

  • @loplop7029
    @loplop7029 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hi Jerry.

  • @DanZhukovin
    @DanZhukovin 2 месяца назад

    Mikhail Tal made Alexander Tolush look like Alexander Toilet.

  • @costaran
    @costaran 10 месяцев назад

    feeeeedbaaaack

  • @colin351
    @colin351 10 месяцев назад

    HI JERRY IT'S ME

  • @rivun2809
    @rivun2809 10 месяцев назад

    If someone does this in internet today, or maybe even in OTB the phrase will go like this "you know boris today I played a cheater"

  • @joelabraham6834
    @joelabraham6834 9 месяцев назад

    Tals amazing but I feel hes a GM who is hard to learn from. Im only 1300 rated and trying to emulate Tal would be catastrophic for me.

  • @varadarajcuram2238
    @varadarajcuram2238 10 месяцев назад

    Tal isvtallest in Chess

  • @yonatandavidbronznick7733
    @yonatandavidbronznick7733 10 месяцев назад

    queen a5 on move 12 than queen c7 on move 14 is odd

  • @DanFrederiksen
    @DanFrederiksen 10 месяцев назад

    Well, is 90% accuracy really all that good? even against a strong player yet only managed 87. Tal may have magical games but not sure this was one.
    I suspect that after Qd2 move 8 with the battery that stockfish would have unspeakable plans for the swift murder of black.

    • @kevinmalone3210
      @kevinmalone3210 5 месяцев назад

      You can't compare Stockfish to a human player. One is a cold calculating unfeeling machine with an elo rating of 3400 or more. A human is so much more, despite being unable to win against it.

  • @AnonyoX
    @AnonyoX 10 месяцев назад

    Tal must have been disappointed; he could not get to do any sacrifice, esp. no intricate ones.

  • @peterthegreat996
    @peterthegreat996 7 месяцев назад

    40….Qd3+doesn’t that lead to a perpetual? Obviously black can’t fork room and king and take the rook but it seems a perpetual is possible

  • @KF1
    @KF1 10 месяцев назад

    :)

  • @KING_NIMROD
    @KING_NIMROD 10 месяцев назад

    Hey Jerry, youre my favorite chess channel and i dont like watching absolutely anyone else.
    I like to watch English openings because it seems different, i noticed you have videos where its involved and youre playing Black. This deeply saddens me and it makes for a sad day. Please play the English opening as white or i will dislike all of your videos despite you not being bothered by it at all.
    Thank you much love.

  • @DeuceGenius
    @DeuceGenius 9 месяцев назад

    Gg

  • @mikecantreed
    @mikecantreed 10 месяцев назад

    Maybe I’m the next Carlsen but I didn’t see any genius in this game.

  • @joeybeann
    @joeybeann 10 месяцев назад

    I disagree

  • @davidharrison6757
    @davidharrison6757 10 месяцев назад +1

    Please stop showing so many sidelines that didn't happen.

  • @rinvino
    @rinvino 10 месяцев назад

    I didn’t like this video. The narrator’s comments are lengthy without substance and poorly timed especially the analysis in the beginning. Also the wording is not precise. “White is up a piece” that “piece” is a pawn.

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey 10 месяцев назад

    Pieces sequestered on the back rank is never a good idea

  • @davidstar2362
    @davidstar2362 10 месяцев назад

    Detroit Michigan 48221. Thank you very much. I sub, liked and commented : Video paid for.