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I played a game when i was tired and blundered a queen for a rook. On the next day i found out the engine thinks it's a brilliant move but i just didn't find the mate. Thank you for showing us the brilliant game Igor!
CHESS COM ENGINE IS SO WEAK YOU RIGHT CASTLE IS ALSO BEST MOVE ALMOST EVERY MOVE TAL DID IS BEST IMAGINE HE PLAY CHESS TODAY EVERONE WILL THINK HE HAVE 4000 STOCKFISH IN IS HEAD
Hello! I am unfamiliar with the Magician from Riga being called a Wizard. Don't get me wrong, no dispute from me, he is a Wizard/Magician/Gobsmacker. From what source did you get the Wizard name for him?
Fischer quit Chess at 29: Ga Ga 🥁🥁🥁🥁 Ga Ga Carlsen quit defending World Championship at 31: Ga Ga 🥁🥁🥁🥁 Ga Ga Tal played a tournament when he was supposed to be in the hospital: Dum Dum Dum Da Di Da Dum Dum Da Di Da Da Di Da Tal at 55 defeated Kasparov in 18 moves, 1 month before his death: Dum Dum Da Di Da Aa
Ive watched so many videos about great games but this has to be the best, besides the game itself being breathtaking, it also works really well with your explanations and the humour. Thanks for another excellent video
Yes you were spot on in mentioning in a casual way "everyone does sacrifices but Tal always somehow manages to win in the end". Most of his games were just extraordinary brilliance. I personally have found that if we are not afraid to lose, we become much better attacking player. And thats why we fail to find attacking players in round robin open tournaments. Because people would love to take a draw rather than take a chance to win. Its all in the mind
I have noticed that it's the mindset which makes the difference between winning aggressively. We all play for points in open chess tournaments and don't just think about playing with our strengths
@@RamKumar-gy9nbI think I more or less understand Tal today, and I'm not just trying to be smarter than anyone by saying this either. My hope is simply that some people may expand their thinking and their own enjoyment of chess. What made him a good player, is that he really and truly "played". Stop and think about what this really means. Its deep and if you get you just get it. Watch his games unfold and the moves fit when looked at in this lens. Chess is too complex for Tal or stockfish to have foreseen the things that came in this game. He's playing and taking it as it comes, with some calculation if it's going to be necessary to play onward. You're on the right track, when you say not afraid to lose, but it's more than that. He's playing for fun, for the thrill, to create, and enjoy the sublime art, and the poetry that emerges when two people create something together in a chess game. When things at some point work out fantastically on their own, when an opponent impresses with the depth of their ideas, ideas that arose in response to the unique game created for the fun of it. It's a beautiful thing, and I think Tal saw it, admired it, and aimed to bring it to life with whoever was willing to play the game to share it with them.
Never seen anything like this before. Going to have to examine more of Tal's games. The blocking move with the bishop on g6 was such a killer outpost for the bishop so early in the game. Seeing those weak squares early and taking full advantage is the name of the game. Nc6++ forking king and queen looked good at first but better yet is Ne6#. Simply amazing. Always look for a better move.
► Chapters 00:00 Mikhail Tal's Brilliant Sacrifices 00:55 1) Knight sacrifice for checkmate 01:32 Stockfish is impressed with Tal's sacrifice 03:15 2) Another knight sacrifice 04:07 Totally unexpected move by Tal 04:42 3) Bishop sacrifice 05:19 Puzzle of the day: Can you find the best move? 05:44 4) Rook sacrifice 07:00 Forcing checkmate by the h2-pawn?! 07:38 Tip to visualize & calculate many moves ahead
Tal was from a different planet. He was a sorcerer. Tal epitomises the saying ' Chess like love and music has the power to make men happy'. Chess is so much richer for his coming. He would have looked at stockfish with disdain. Stockfish is for ordinary mortals including Fisher , Kasparov , Carlsen and the rest. Tal's genius was unquantifiable.
7:56 to practice visualization: _your task is just to visualize the variation you already know. And by doing so, you isolate this single skill of visualization (you do not mix it up with anything else), and by keeping focused, that's how you develop your visualization_
@ 5:23 after Queen takes White Bishop a5, black can give double Check by moving Knight to Ne6 (Discovered Check by black Queen too.).. It's a Checkmate !!!
2:56 In this position, I was thinking Ne5 was the best move. It threatens the black rook and must be stopped with the knight trade. if the knights trade dxe5 opens a threat on the knight , still locking down the kingside and preparing a discovered attack with a future Ba5. Is there something I am not seeing?
4:09 Instead of c5, why not Ba4!! If black takes the bishop, Ne6++. Bus since the Queen is pinned, it cannot flee to a6 and will be taken next move. I saw this in less than 5 seconds. Did I miss a refutation?
06:01 -- wait, isn't *RfD1* ( _instead of_ Tal's *RaC1* ) a *FORCED checkmate in a few moves ??* Weird that he didn't go for the best move, considering how well he'd played until this point... :O .
@4:11 can anybody say why pawn c5 is the best move..??we can win the queen in this move itself right..lyk if we play bishop h5 forcibly pinning the queen..and if the queen takes our bishop, knight e6 checkmates..as queen was the one protecting the e file..we can directly play knight e6#..pls anyone explain why c5 is the best move and bishop h5 isn't!?
Black will happily sacrifice the queen and win the knight because they are already far ahead materially. Pawn c5 ensures that there is an open file to continue the attack, leading to a checkmate.
4:08 why not bishop a5 • it pins the queen to the king and if the queen takes the bishop then kne6# • If black ignores then just take the queen and either knight or pawn takes you just take the D pawn and create a battery with your rook there's a good chance of checkmate after that
In your variation, like the game, Tal is going to give up the queen for three minor pieces, which is considered roughly equal. So you can assume Tal likes the position after c5 better. Why? That's another question, but the game as played reminds me of the old quote my Nimzovitsch, "the threat is stronger than the execution." By delaying pinning the queen, Tal creates a situation where black has no breathing space, and is forced to react to Tal's threats on every move. If, instead, he pins the queen, then the material exhange takes place, and Black has more time and space to play actively. That's my best guess, anyway.
I absolutely love pawn checkmates. Although I play a mid-range bot w three take backs. Still I lose half. Any game that I do over a bad move I consider a tie. Or I resign instead of check mating. Don't want to hurt the bots feeling and have it say I cheated.
Tal's opponent in this game was Lembit Antsovich Oll. It was a rapid game played in 1986 according to my database. BTW Stockfish 16.1 easily finds all of Tal's moves except one where Stockfish disagrees with Tal's 18. Rac1 since it is significantly weaker than 18. Rfd1. I'm not sure what version of Stockfish the author of this post was using, but Stockfish16.1 finds these moves by Tal quite easily even using a single core on a laptop.
you could but after pawn takes knight on d4 you take queen pawn takes back then white take pawn on d4 pawn gos e5 chasing the queen away and open file for bishop as well So basically the line your saying is ba5 exd4 bxb6+ axb6 qxd4 e5 qc3
Tal is smokin'...Do you know that microprocessors are working with smoke? Once the smoke gets out of them, they do not work any more...That is what Tal has done with Stockfish!
Tal never been considered underrated, in fact the whole world admired him as the father and inventor of brilliant move and Tal has always been considered as the greatest attacker in the history of chess.
I am amazed the Stockfish couldn't see that far ahead. The Monte Carlo tree search must of skipped these crucial lines of play because of the sacrifices.
I think so. I noticed the engine often seems confused by sacrifices. Then the next move will be a brilliant move. Its like it cant see all sacrifice lines. Or see how someone who is not a computer will fall for certain sacrifices. It just doeant think like a person.
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Stokefish is trash calculate everything Tall doesnt calculate he knows 😂
At 4:08 cant he pin the queen with bishop??
Tal: *breathes*
Stockfish: brilliant!!
when tal was born brilliant moves knew they are gonna get hunted
So true
I played a game when i was tired and blundered a queen for a rook. On the next day i found out the engine thinks it's a brilliant move but i just didn't find the mate. Thank you for showing us the brilliant game Igor!
Stronger stockfish finds c5 is actually the best move, thus this is a perfect game by Tal
3:00 you mean c4, not c5
That pawn move was lame, imo.
Tal was useing stockfish 16 in 1960s
CHESS COM ENGINE IS SO WEAK YOU RIGHT CASTLE IS ALSO BEST MOVE ALMOST EVERY MOVE TAL DID IS BEST IMAGINE HE PLAY CHESS TODAY EVERONE WILL THINK HE HAVE 4000 STOCKFISH IN IS HEAD
@@GG-vl7rnoh uh sorry dude take all My things please don't hurt me
Tal is too much for stockfish to handle. Seriously, he was just mysterious chess legend
Tal stared through the chessboard. He always strived for artistry. They didn't call him a Wizard for nothing. Long live Misha.
Hello! I am unfamiliar with the Magician from Riga being called a Wizard. Don't get me wrong, no dispute from me, he is a Wizard/Magician/Gobsmacker. From what source did you get the Wizard name for him?
Tal is not normal chess player. He is the magicians.
Fischer quit Chess at 29:
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Carlsen quit defending World Championship at 31:
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Tal played a tournament when he was supposed to be in the hospital:
Dum Dum Dum Da Di Da Dum Dum Da Di Da Da Di Da
Tal at 55 defeated Kasparov in 18 moves, 1 month before his death:
Dum Dum Da Di Da Aa
Sarcasm right ?@@Shivraj57_Chess
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@@Shivraj57_Chesssomeone has been watching a lot of reels
Ive watched so many videos about great games but this has to be the best, besides the game itself being breathtaking, it also works really well with your explanations and the humour. Thanks for another excellent video
Yes you were spot on in mentioning in a casual way "everyone does sacrifices but Tal always somehow manages to win in the end". Most of his games were just extraordinary brilliance.
I personally have found that if we are not afraid to lose, we become much better attacking player. And thats why we fail to find attacking players in round robin open tournaments. Because people would love to take a draw rather than take a chance to win. Its all in the mind
I have noticed that it's the mindset which makes the difference between winning aggressively. We all play for points in open chess tournaments and don't just think about playing with our strengths
Whether he wins or loses, most his games are brilliant at least in idea, full of creativity.
@@RamKumar-gy9nbI think I more or less understand Tal today, and I'm not just trying to be smarter than anyone by saying this either. My hope is simply that some people may expand their thinking and their own enjoyment of chess. What made him a good player, is that he really and truly "played". Stop and think about what this really means. Its deep and if you get you just get it. Watch his games unfold and the moves fit when looked at in this lens. Chess is too complex for Tal or stockfish to have foreseen the things that came in this game. He's playing and taking it as it comes, with some calculation if it's going to be necessary to play onward.
You're on the right track, when you say not afraid to lose, but it's more than that. He's playing for fun, for the thrill, to create, and enjoy the sublime art, and the poetry that emerges when two people create something together in a chess game. When things at some point work out fantastically on their own, when an opponent impresses with the depth of their ideas, ideas that arose in response to the unique game created for the fun of it. It's a beautiful thing, and I think Tal saw it, admired it, and aimed to bring it to life with whoever was willing to play the game to share it with them.
Never seen anything like this before. Going to have to examine more of Tal's games. The blocking move with the bishop on g6 was such a killer outpost for the bishop so early in the game. Seeing those weak squares early and taking full advantage is the name of the game. Nc6++ forking king and queen looked good at first but better yet is Ne6#. Simply amazing. Always look for a better move.
► Chapters
00:00 Mikhail Tal's Brilliant Sacrifices
00:55 1) Knight sacrifice for checkmate
01:32 Stockfish is impressed with Tal's sacrifice
03:15 2) Another knight sacrifice
04:07 Totally unexpected move by Tal
04:42 3) Bishop sacrifice
05:19 Puzzle of the day: Can you find the best move?
05:44 4) Rook sacrifice
07:00 Forcing checkmate by the h2-pawn?!
07:38 Tip to visualize & calculate many moves ahead
6:44 actually for the rook sacrifice moment.. but thank you for the timestamp..
actually stronger stockfish is calling this stockfish dumb for c4 because it is best move for it
This is so inventive, it is a pleasure to watch. Thank you for sharing this marvelous game.
5:25 Ne6 Checkmate (double check and discovered check)
Exactly, that's what I also thought
Yes bro
I've never thought about sacrificing a piece to pin multiple others.. Very cool.
5:23 Ne6+# ... Double check to King by Queen and Knight, Knight also covers c7, Bishop cover e8, Queen covers d7.
Checkmate !!
Its Ne6#
Knight to E6 is a double check, and also checkmate as the knight covers the C7 escape square!
Thanks Igor..another beautiful demonstration...I want to play more like Tal !
Thanks GM!! Very Instructive & Educative Content!!
When Tal's opponents think they are winning ....they are actually losing 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
best comment of the day, well done😂😂
Wow what a beautiful game! Tal plays with a seemingly effortless simplicity.
interesting advise with the visualization, nice video!
Glad you liked it!
Tal was from a different planet. He was a sorcerer. Tal epitomises the saying ' Chess like love and music has the power to make men happy'. Chess is so much richer for his coming. He would have looked at stockfish with disdain. Stockfish is for ordinary mortals including Fisher , Kasparov , Carlsen and the rest. Tal's genius was unquantifiable.
Thank you for watching!
Had I been Tals opponent here I would have resigned from playing chess for a long long time 😂😂 This man was a Knightmare to play against
While the game itself is amazing, the tip for developing visualization skills is a gem and will probably be the best part of this video.
7:56 to practice visualization: _your task is just to visualize the variation you already know. And by doing so, you isolate this single skill of visualization (you do not mix it up with anything else), and by keeping focused, that's how you develop your visualization_
05:28 knight to b3, discovered check, picks up the queen
*c3
Knight to b5 is checkmate
It wouldn't be a Mikhail Tal game without a brilliant move
The visualization tip at the end is sooo good…
Igor, great advice!!
at 4:02 p to e5, why didn't Tal play B a5 right away ? He gets the queen right away, or the opponent gets mated with knight check on e6
i agree
After exd4 Bxb6+ axb6 black has 3 pieces for the queen.
Stop! you had me at lamentation
5:22 Knight to b5, discovered check. As the knight now attacks c7, and the bishop was already attacking d8, it's checkmate.
what if knight goes to d7?
Hi igor, can you make a video about 1.b3 vs f5? Thanks
When tal starts sacrificing pieces the only move for the opponent is to resign and have a beer 😂
@ 5:23 after Queen takes White Bishop a5, black can give double Check by moving Knight to Ne6 (Discovered Check by black Queen too.)..
It's a Checkmate !!!
5:25 the best move is knight B3 discover check take the queen.
2:56 In this position, I was thinking Ne5 was the best move. It threatens the black rook and must be stopped with the knight trade. if the knights trade dxe5 opens a threat on the knight , still locking down the kingside and preparing a discovered attack with a future Ba5. Is there something I am not seeing?
@4:05 instead of c5 bishop to a5 works too, if I an not missing anything
04:00 how about white plays ba5 after black plays e5?
At 5:24 knight C6 forces king move (double check) and then black loses the queen with no compensation.
Think for something better. 😉😉
@@Beshoy_Nabil So I'm missing the mate... Knight E6? That looked so passive, but it's actually a mate. Silly me.
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No problem. Relax. I think you will never miss such mates afterwards.
4:11 I expected Ba5
4:47 am I blind or is Ne6++ not just mate?
At the 4:07 point could he have played bA5 instead of the pawn move? Couldn't the knight jump in for check on the next move?
Tal is always legend of chess
that's such a pretty game
so many interesting and surprising moves
1:12 why is Witty Alien claiming it to be his own gambit?
_"Stockfish doesnt like c4"_
My SF likes c4. Gives it +2.5. What version of SF are you using and with what NNUE file?
5:23 Nc6# -> it's a discovered check.
Nc6 is not a checkmate Ne6 is checkmate , there is no chekmate cuz the knight doesnt cover the c7 square which the king will escape to
4:09
Instead of c5, why not Ba4!! If black takes the bishop, Ne6++. Bus since the Queen is pinned, it cannot flee to a6 and will be taken next move.
I saw this in less than 5 seconds. Did I miss a refutation?
at 4:10 why not play ba5 instead of c5?
4:21 instead of c5, could tal have played bishop a5 ? threatening the queen and Ne6 chekmate?
when he said checkmate by the h2 pawn i thought he was joking lol
Tal is one of My favorite chess players I want to play like him.
5:29 Ne6 double check and mate
Thank u too much ❤
@ 4:10 instead of pawn c5,....bishop a5 - queen a5 - knight e6 ??????
Exactly what I was thinking, is there a refutation to this?
Tal proved that human brains are more powerful than robots machines and he advised us that we should never give up improving chess.
At 5:28, the best move is Ne6 checkmate.
06:01 -- wait, isn't *RfD1* ( _instead of_ Tal's *RaC1* ) a *FORCED checkmate in a few moves ??*
Weird that he didn't go for the best move, considering how well he'd played until this point... :O
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@4:11 can anybody say why pawn c5 is the best move..??we can win the queen in this move itself right..lyk if we play bishop h5 forcibly pinning the queen..and if the queen takes our bishop, knight e6 checkmates..as queen was the one protecting the e file..we can directly play knight e6#..pls anyone explain why c5 is the best move and bishop h5 isn't!?
I saw that too :)
Black will happily sacrifice the queen and win the knight because they are already far ahead materially. Pawn c5 ensures that there is an open file to continue the attack, leading to a checkmate.
4:08 why not bishop a5
• it pins the queen to the king and if the queen takes the bishop then kne6#
• If black ignores then just take the queen and either knight or pawn takes you just take the D pawn and create a battery with your rook there's a good chance of checkmate after that
In your variation, like the game, Tal is going to give up the queen for three minor pieces, which is considered roughly equal. So you can assume Tal likes the position after c5 better. Why? That's another question, but the game as played reminds me of the old quote my Nimzovitsch, "the threat is stronger than the execution." By delaying pinning the queen, Tal creates a situation where black has no breathing space, and is forced to react to Tal's threats on every move. If, instead, he pins the queen, then the material exhange takes place, and Black has more time and space to play actively.
That's my best guess, anyway.
bro was ah freaking genius...
Do you have a master class in improving long-term strategy?
Move is Ne6, double discovered chek and mate. Simple😊
Tal was THIS close to playing the alien gambit
5:26 Ne6# (double check)
At 4:02 why not ba5 qxa5 ne6#
4:13 white can play Ba5 roght?
Stockfish confused with pawn C4 😂
Can u move Ba5 instead of c5 attacking the queen...
I absolutely love pawn checkmates. Although I play a mid-range bot w three take backs. Still I lose half. Any game that I do over a bad move I consider a tie. Or I resign instead of check mating. Don't want to hurt the bots feeling and have it say I cheated.
After pawn to e5 by black I found mate in 2 or winning black queen by playing dark square Bishop d2 to a5. 🎉
3:59 why don't he play disop to A5
What's the full name of the opponent and what year? Thank you
Tal's opponent in this game was Lembit Antsovich Oll. It was a rapid game played in 1986 according to my database. BTW Stockfish 16.1 easily finds all of Tal's moves except one where Stockfish disagrees with Tal's 18. Rac1 since it is significantly weaker than 18. Rfd1. I'm not sure what version of Stockfish the author of this post was using, but Stockfish16.1 finds these moves by Tal quite easily even using a single core on a laptop.
in 5:26 its c6 beacuse it has double check and discover check
Ne6 is mate
Tal was amazing 😊
That's why Mikhail Tal is consider the greatest chess player
I think this game is very similar with mikhail Tal VS lambit oll
its martine gambit??
4:02 bishop to a5 could have win the queen because if queen takes on a5 then knight to e6 is a checkmate..
Correct me if I'm wrong 🙏
you could but after pawn takes knight on d4 you take queen pawn takes back then white take pawn on d4 pawn gos e5 chasing the queen away and open file for bishop as well
So basically the line your saying is ba5 exd4 bxb6+ axb6 qxd4 e5 qc3
4:09 instead of c5 i think ba5 is better move
What an amazing game.
Ne4 to c6, doublecheck, then wining black Queen on h5
04:06 Bishop a5?
Tal is smokin'...Do you know that microprocessors are working with smoke? Once the smoke gets out of them, they do not work any more...That is what Tal has done with Stockfish!
You sir just invented fire
Knight d6 is a Brilliant move + Checkmate
I am every bit as good at sacrificing as Tal. But unintentionally. 😂
Ne6 mate saw in seconds
5:27 i think white knight can go to e6 to give a discovered double check and checkmate
Tal is my kind of guy. ❤
Tal was one of the most underrated players of all time. His vision was and remains unequaled.
On the contrary, he has always been very highly rated
Tal never been considered underrated, in fact the whole world admired him as the father and inventor of brilliant move and Tal has always been considered as the greatest attacker in the history of chess.
4:07 Why don't just play Ba5 here?
My idol Tal is a chess genius
3:59 but isn't there just Ba5???
Tal is a genius
Nd6 Double check and mate if Nc6 than black can escape
Time 5.29 white better move is kb3
I am amazed the Stockfish couldn't see that far ahead. The Monte Carlo tree search must of skipped these crucial lines of play because of the sacrifices.
I think so. I noticed the engine often seems confused by sacrifices. Then the next move will be a brilliant move. Its like it cant see all sacrifice lines. Or see how someone who is not a computer will fall for certain sacrifices. It just doeant think like a person.
Sorry in advance, but it's either "must have" or "must've".
"must of" doesn't make sense and is just wrong.
Ne5# no one can sac like tal bro
5:29 Nc6 is checkmate
5:31 Ne6 checkmate