It bugs me when somebody is showing a game of champions, that they interject alternative moves "that the best in the world could have done". It is really confusing to understand----who is playing the game, and why the best in the world made those moves. Are you on coke?
Bruh thats nothing he made a guy stare at him wtf plus he ran away from the soviet union i would think thats KGB staring at me while i am playing a fucking match
This is the first one of these “Levy uploads so much oh goodness wow golly gee” comments that I actually support. You, sir, have my support. Here is a support hand: 🤚
@@Catmomila😁 It's how you rustle someone's jimmy's. Baseball players wear pairs of lucky socks for instance. You want that pitcher to have a bad game? Steal his lucky socks. it doesn't matter whether the socks were magical and lucky...it only matters that the victim believes it. 😐Next time you're at a chess tourney, let out a soft fart...See if that throws your opponent off.
Hi Levy, love your content! But I have to say, Korchnoi was previously involved in an even dirtier match - the candidates match with Boris Spassky. Again, there was a flags controversy, but the biggest issue was that Spassky decided to have another board, off to the side and to go and sit at that, only returning to the actual game board when he wanted to make a move. Understandably, this got Korchnoi really rattled. Letters were written to Max Euwe to try and intervene, the whole match got suspended while they found another venue, loads of unsportsmanly conduct happened... There's a really good book about it called Korchnoi vs Spassky: Chess Crisis, by Raymond Keane, who was a second for Korchnoi. It's probably out of print, but if you can get hold of it, it's gripping.
I went from like ≈1200 to 1700 in blitz and my rating in puzzles is 2000 which is crazy. I couldn't even imagine that I would be on that level several months ago
@Anthony Amable Feliciano No, you're not right. This is a dumb comment. The USSR was what people outside the USSR called a "communist state", meaning a state run by a communist party. The communist party used their own ridiculous terminology, where 'communism' meant post-scarcity utopia. But we don't use their terminology. In 1978, there were plenty of socialist states which had nothing to do with communism, like Israel.
@Anthony Amable Feliciano Israel was nearly entirely socialist from 1948 to 1980. Socialism and Democracy are not opposites. Yugoslavia also had worker owned business in the same way, and Britain partly socialized, as did hundreds of other nations.
Thank you for bringing Korchnoi to the board. He certainly got the short end of the stick in his chess career because of political reasons, and many people today dont know or forget how good he was. He needs more coverage on chess channels. Again, thank you.
I don't think he has been forgotten. Sure, he doesn't have the game of being world champion, but he did a lot to make chess more popular and was certainly one of the strongest players of his generation even with the USSR hamstringing him.
I believe that is the case with a bunch of players of very respected sports. I believe something similar happened to Kasparov where one time he was signing chess boards and someone attacked him with one, saying something like he respected him as a chess player, but he ruined it by getting into politics.
Until I found this channel I thought chess channels would be like watching bowling or golf. Totally on the edge of my seat. Brilliant commentary, Levy! Keep it coming.
This is a fantastic review of the 1978 world chess championship. I was 12 at the time and I vaguely remember the various controversies that had emerged. Thank you for the explanations. I also suggest you consider covering the Spassky-Korchnoi Candidates Final. I recall the drama in that match was off the charts.
The sunglasses thing reminds me of Tal - Benko 1959. Pal Benko accused Mikhael Tal of hypnotizing him, and said that he would make sure to bring sunglasses to their next match. As Tal put it, "As is often the case when confronted with an innovation that the opponent knows about beforehand, his sunglasses were met by my counterstroke: my own pair of enormous, novelty sunglasses that I had picked up at a costume store before the game. I took mine off after a few moves, when the audience's laughter calmed down. Benko left his on, but unfortunately, it did not improve his position, and he resigned before the first time control."
Your ability to make each game commentary sound like a conversation between the players is what makes your output unique and entertaining. Keep it up Levy.
Thank you for also talking a bit about chess history sometimes, I find it very interesting and you also convey it in a very appealing way. You are, as always greatly appreciated, Levy!
Yep...this is exactly the content i'm looking for. I love Levi's style and there are so many moments that people don't know about that are full of wonderful and sometimes enraging histories...can't wait to see more. Maybe Bronstein v. Bottvinnik?
This is really great! I never heard this story and you told it well. I would like to learn more about Judith Polgar and her story. No one online has really told it and it would be nice to see some more of her games or a tournament she dominated. You can also do Vladimir Kramnik as he is such an underrated Chess Champion. That Catalan was a monster.
Day 89: Of requesting Levy to cover opposite coloured bishop endgames. Especially when you have a slight material advantage of being up by two or three pawns against your opponent and you both have opposite coloured bishops as well.
@@hugothompson3914 well its not so simple in opposite colored bishops it can be a draw as your opponents bishop just restricts your pawns movement and theres no progress to be done as none of your pieces can support the pawns. This obviously depends on the position sometimes it can be winning sometimes its drawing tho
@@fedess3647 No need to go after someone personally. A lot of people in the 1000-1200 range can struggle with it, especially if they are low on time. Heck, even as a 1400 (chess.com, 1600 lichess), I've drawn games with two pawns up when I was low on time and blundered into a rook pawn-wrong colored bishop endgame or similar traps. It's a good topic to cover in a video- once someone has a specific process they can follow without having to work it out over the board, you won't draw any more games like that, even if you're low on time, because you just follow the process and don't have to think.
I got this recommended by youtube and thought "some other day I'll watch this" and instead went with "$4,000,000 Chess Tournament". Some minute into that I skipped back to this.
Excelente historia, disfrute mucho la anécdota, quiero más de ellas, no solo revivo un momento histórico sino que también aprendo mucho con vos. Gracias!
Guys, I have a question. At 7:53, wouldn't f5 just win the game for Karpov? Because Korchnoi would lose either the g4 bishop or the c3 knight Edit: Nevermind. Korchnoi just takes en passant and now Karpov would lose either his queen or his bishop. What a cool position!
Hey Levy I wanted to thank you so much for all the great videos you're making, I've seen many of these matches but going back and checking them again is amazing!! I love all of them!!
I really appreciated your insightful analysis and entertaining stories. I remember when this match happened and heard about the sorcerers and meditating gurus and whatnot. It was so bizarre!
You have made me addicted to this and appreciate you for your good work but I am a student right now so I am quitting it rn thinking of coming back here 7 yrs down the line hope I will have a lot of time and a lot of videos
I don't like the current format either. The first step should be to remove any rapid, blitz and Armageddon. Having those included in a classical WC is just ridiculous. Then maybe first to three wins, if they don't want to play for months. At any rate, imagine how much more interesting the Carlsen-Caruana match would have been in such a case.
Korchnoi defected because like Spassky and later Kasparov he was highly creative and individualistic whereas the Soviets tended to demand conformity in all things, even chess opening preparation. Thus from the Soviet perspective Karpov was the closest thing possible to the face of Soviet chess that the Soviet regime wanted. But the Soviets learned from their mistake in 1972 when they stifled Spassky's creativity. They understood that Karpov was as compliant and as much of a conformist as any great chess player they could hope for. Thus when Efim Geller objected to some of Karpov's opening choices Karpov was politically powerful enough to tell Geller "do it my way or get out." Geller stayed and contributed to Team Karpov which Karpov managed brilliantly. For those too young to remember, here is some drama from the 1978 match not mentioned in this video. Korchnoi adjourned Game 13 in a good position and was fine in Game 14 too. By rule the adjournments were to be played on the same day and when things went horribly wrong for Korchnoi in Game13, he seemed so shaken according to contemporary accounts that he soon went wrong in Game 14 too and was suddenly down 3 - 1 in the match. Game 17 as shown in this video was another late game tragedy for Korchnoi and he went down 4 - 1. Yet Korchnoi was not finished, far from it! As explained in this video the two newcomers to Korchnoi's entourage calmed him and Korchnoi won 3 games with one draw to tie the match 5 - 5 after 31 games. But the Soviets were not above dirty tricks. Thus after Korchnoi's Match tying win in Game 31 they arranged to have the late additions to Korchnoi's entourage immediately expelled from the Philippines. Florencio Campomanes, an alleged Soviet political operative was reportedly eventually rewarded for this when he became FIDE President with Soviet support. Reportedly Korchnoi's wife and son were essentially hostages in the Soviet Union as well and Korchnoi claimed that the Soviets ramped up the pressure on that front too. This all had Korchnoi understandably upset and contemporary accounts of Game 32 reported that Korchnoi was therefore off form so that Karpov won the game pretty easily to win the Match 6 - 5 and remain World Champion. Before the match it was suggested that Korchnoi was the deeper player but that his time pressure issues might be his undoing and to a degree that was certainly the case. But Soviet dirty tricks were the wild card. We saw this again in 1984 when Karpov after leading Kasparov 5 - 0 lost games 47 and 48 and his lead was suddenly 5 - 3 with Karpov clearly tiring. Normally rules are rules but the Soviets conveniently arranged to cancel the rest of the match because the players were "too tired to continue" without any provision in the rules for that. Thus for the moment Karpov remained World Champion over Kasparov's objections. Karpov was a great World Champion. Some people assert that Soviet dirty tricks in the 1978 and 1984 matches tarnish his legacy, but there is no evidence that he was directly involved in them. And in any case, given the ruthless nature of the Soviet regime, Karpov while perhaps a willing Soviet tool, was in no position to object on sporting or other grounds.
I remember all that hoorah. I was taking a break from playing at that time, but I still read the chess news. Wild business. I really wanted to see Viktor take it.
Levy says to us all, “Create a loft, loft, A LOFT!!!!!!!!” Korchnoi like “Why should i listen to this random IM in a hot pink hoodie? Imma go Ra1!” {then loses the game}
I love all of your historical content and all of your content in general. I'd be curious to see some games that a chess newb wouldn't necessarily think to look at. I have looked at some Morphy and Fischer games, but I honestly had never heard of Karpov and Korchnoi until today. Any of your content is usually very engaging, fun, and educational.
It bugs me when somebody is showing a game of champions, that they interject alternative moves "that the best in the world could have done".
It is really confusing to understand----who is playing the game, and why the best in the world made those moves.
Are you on coke?
lol (btw I'm laughing at him not with him)
Pin of shame
Wow, that was fast
Yo
Take an L. The L
This guy is gonna finish 200 years of chess history in 1 month
edit:
I wonder how long it would take Levy to cover 1984 WC match which lasted 48 games
one month? more like two weeks
@@batubatucp Two weeks? More like 1 week!
@@MrHaro187 1 week? more like one day
@@MrHaro187 1 week? More like 2 days!
@@co4160 1 day? More like 1 hour
Game 11 must be like
Karpov : nooo you can't just play my strategy
Korchnoi : *OUR* strategy
😂
Underrated comment😂
But Karpov was the soviet
And to think he would support communism
I love the irony!
"Took out sunglasses and put them on" (c) Typical Grandmaster move💀
It kind of reminds me of Hikaru
Bruh thats nothing he made a guy stare at him wtf plus he ran away from the soviet union i would think thats KGB staring at me while i am playing a fucking match
"Chat, I remember where I took this photo
I think it was 2009, I was with my step-father-"
Sa4# (s represents sunglasses)
That was to counter the hypnotist's gaze!
"He's coming off the hype of wanting to beat up the hypnotist."
That's such an incredible sentence. Like, it sounds like it should be an analogy.
Yup that’s my new analogy just like
No skin off my onion
Korchnoi sounds like a total badass
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that...that would be about right.
True, you are so right 🤣
Korchnoi: *Putting on mirrored sunglasses* "You may be able to beat me, but can you beat... yourself?"
He took “You must become the enemy” a little seriously
"You're garbage at chess."
"I'm you."
@@ladywaffle2210 ooooooooooohhhh
Here after watching the stream. Who would've thought chess has so much drama.
There are two constants in this universe: Levy's machine-schedule and our comments on it
The sun orbits around Levy's youtube channel.
This is the first one of these “Levy uploads so much oh goodness wow golly gee” comments that I actually support. You, sir, have my support. Here is a support hand: 🤚
@@callmeqt1269 Levy uploads so much oh goodness wow golly gee
Stupid people who don't know you can make videos in a row without publishing them in a row: Oh No DoEs LeVy SleEp At AlL
@@derrickstorm6976 Oh no my sleep !!
So Karpov brought a shady hypnotist so Korchnoi retaliated with 2 wanted yogi's, seems legit
The yoga variation of the hypnotist's gambit
@@rowdyabhi98 agreed
Dude, he was full of shit, how was he getting hypnotized while playing a chess game?
This is like an average Tuesday in Los Angeles
@@Catmomila😁 It's how you rustle someone's jimmy's. Baseball players wear pairs of lucky socks for instance.
You want that pitcher to have a bad game? Steal his lucky socks. it doesn't matter whether the socks were magical and lucky...it only matters that the victim believes it.
😐Next time you're at a chess tourney, let out a soft fart...See if that throws your opponent off.
2 videos a day are just something normal at this point for this man. What a content machine!
@Steve Brown what do you have to gain by saying that? Need a hug?
Damn, "content machine"? Never heard that one!
@@blazoraptor3392 he didn’t get far enough in the video for Levy to tell him he’s worth more then a queen
אשכרה
@Steve Brown tfs ur problem man? Go fuck off if you have nothing good to say
Hi Levy, love your content!
But I have to say, Korchnoi was previously involved in an even dirtier match - the candidates match with Boris Spassky. Again, there was a flags controversy, but the biggest issue was that Spassky decided to have another board, off to the side and to go and sit at that, only returning to the actual game board when he wanted to make a move. Understandably, this got Korchnoi really rattled. Letters were written to Max Euwe to try and intervene, the whole match got suspended while they found another venue, loads of unsportsmanly conduct happened...
There's a really good book about it called Korchnoi vs Spassky: Chess Crisis, by Raymond Keane, who was a second for Korchnoi. It's probably out of print, but if you can get hold of it, it's gripping.
"Someone is going to win which means someone is going to lose" ~ GothamChess
He ain't lying.
@Angelo Derecho "I agree."
@@beholdandfearme "I agree."
@@parasitecarrot6671 I, too, agree.
@@beholdandfearme "I agree that you agree."
I'm here from your recommendation
Game 17: The curse of the staring sleep therapist.
Watching and commenting today because you recommended this in a GothamGames stream. Fascinating history.
This was the chess version of a RUclips boxing match
Maybe if the youtuber was Mike tyson vs some other ex pro boxer
@@gordonramsdale there are other boxers, you know
Like a Hearns/Hagler fight 🙌🏻
except theyre playing for the win not for the money or clout lol
The Coldest Game on Netflix has a similar plot to this world championship, except its between USA & Russia in the Cold War
Gotham games brought me here
Who else got better in chess because of levy?
I went from like ≈1200 to 1700 in blitz and my rating in puzzles is 2000 which is crazy. I couldn't even imagine that I would be on that level several months ago
Who didn't?
I went from 800 to 1200 in a span of 3 months, thanks to Levy. Appreciate you dawg
I just look at the stories :)
Danger levels was enough to change my life.
I've never imagined that i would, at one point in my life, laugh my ass off of a chess history video.
facts
check the docu (on youtube) Fischer against the world ! :) :):)
Bruh I ain't even finish the Bobby video yet LMAO
He got up today and chose violence.
He said 'Yeah, let's just do two of the wildest, most impactful world championship matches ever. On the same day."
this match is better imo
@@Qhsjahajw That match was better was a chess contest and as a political war but yeah this match is even more dramatic and close.
10:28 Damn, the clearness of Russian accent though
Такое ощущение будто Леви на самом деле из России, но он конспирируется уже много лет благодаря хорошим знаниям английского
@@frozenpai он прекрасно знает русский
@@frozenpai щ
Korchnoi must have been like: omg I’ve gotta betray the whole sovietic union just to be featured in a Gotham chess RUclips video like 40 years later
Did you do it?(make it into a gotham video)
Korchnoi: Yes.
What did it cost?
Korchnoi: Making the entire soviet union my enemy
he wanted to know if he is worth more than a queen
@Anthony Amable Feliciano Friendly reminder that "communist state" is an oxymoron. The USSR was a socialist state.
@Anthony Amable Feliciano No, you're not right. This is a dumb comment. The USSR was what people outside the USSR called a "communist state", meaning a state run by a communist party. The communist party used their own ridiculous terminology, where 'communism' meant post-scarcity utopia. But we don't use their terminology. In 1978, there were plenty of socialist states which had nothing to do with communism, like Israel.
@Anthony Amable Feliciano Israel was nearly entirely socialist from 1948 to 1980. Socialism and Democracy are not opposites. Yugoslavia also had worker owned business in the same way, and Britain partly socialized, as did hundreds of other nations.
only real ones know that Levy has two types of youtube viewers those who cant watch with the kids and those who like the music
:-)
Karpov is my favorite player. He’s like a chess anaconda that slowly squeezes his opponents to death on the 64 squares
Thank you for bringing Korchnoi to the board. He certainly got the short end of the stick in his chess career because of political reasons, and many people today dont know or forget how good he was. He needs more coverage on chess channels. Again, thank you.
I don't think he has been forgotten. Sure, he doesn't have the game of being world champion, but he did a lot to make chess more popular and was certainly one of the strongest players of his generation even with the USSR hamstringing him.
Nice profile pic.
I remember my Father talking about this match. Possibly only beaten, in the conciousness of the general public by the 1972 WC.
I believe that is the case with a bunch of players of very respected sports. I believe something similar happened to Kasparov where one time he was signing chess boards and someone attacked him with one, saying something like he respected him as a chess player, but he ruined it by getting into politics.
@Blake N Not sure about your opinion but the International Olympic Committee considers it a sport.
If only my life was as consistent as Levi's upload schedule
19:56 "Karpov kinda bites himself in the foot" 🤣 I'm going to use this mashup of 2 phrases from now on, it's like a malapropism but it actually works!
Malapropisms totally work, it's ninety five percent of the sopranos writing and that shit wins Emmys lol
Lately, I'm seeing Levi videos more than I'm seeing my parents
Hahaha too true bro x
Lol this is literally me :)
It is Levy, not Levi :(
As much as you AoT stans wish it was Levi, it's spelled Levy.
Stolen joke
Until I found this channel I thought chess channels would be like watching bowling or golf. Totally on the edge of my seat. Brilliant commentary, Levy! Keep it coming.
Would love to see you cover Karpov's best tournament (Linares 1994), as it is considered one of the best singular performances of all time.
This is a fantastic review of the 1978 world chess championship. I was 12 at the time and I vaguely remember the various controversies that had emerged. Thank you for the explanations. I also suggest you consider covering the Spassky-Korchnoi Candidates Final. I recall the drama in that match was off the charts.
I've never opened and muted a video this fast.
Lololololoooo
Twitch gang reports for duty!
I'm here from your recommendation yesterday
Korchnoi with sunglasses looks lit😎
The sunglasses thing reminds me of Tal - Benko 1959. Pal Benko accused Mikhael Tal of hypnotizing him, and said that he would make sure to bring sunglasses to their next match. As Tal put it, "As is often the case when confronted with an innovation that the opponent knows about beforehand, his sunglasses were met by my counterstroke: my own pair of enormous, novelty sunglasses that I had picked up at a costume store before the game. I took mine off after a few moves, when the audience's laughter calmed down. Benko left his on, but unfortunately, it did not improve his position, and he resigned before the first time control."
I need to stop staring at your page waiting for a video
"He's coming off the high of wanting to beat up the hypnotist" is a hell of a sentence
If Levi can keep up with this upload schedule he’ll hit 1 mil in like the next month or two
W
Man, that story on 17:05 is a queens gambit movie waiting to happen right there
Nobody:
Korchnoi in game 4: s w a g
Your ability to make each game commentary sound like a conversation between the players is what makes your output unique and entertaining. Keep it up Levy.
Insightful comment.. I totally agree
One thing i'm missing from these videos is, to quote Agadmator, "Why did he resign? Well..."
Just as I'm about to start studying this video came up on my recommendations, I guess I'll have to study 29 minutes later
Don't be tempted, go study😎
I get distracted for a minute... "He's coming off the hype of wanting to beat up the hypnotist."
OK, what'd I miss.
Thank you for also talking a bit about chess history sometimes, I find it very interesting and you also convey it in a very appealing way. You are, as always greatly appreciated, Levy!
The stream from the gotham games channel sent me
I enjoy the way Lev breaks these games down. I also, like the color commentary!
Levy calculating is so satisfying
Listening to all the drama about hypnotists and yoga and sunglasses and Cold War defections and attempted murders, man, the 70s were fucking wild.
This guy is a content machine< streaming while recording new video
It was prerecorded
Agadmator : Hello Everyone
Gotham : Welcome ladies and gentlemen.
Gotham > agadmator
@@dm1896 i don't know either one lol
Fantastic Video. Much appreciated. One can only hope for such a clash of the Titans come November. Kind Regards
Really loving the chess history videos!
Loved the way you incorporated anecdotal information about the players into the game. Excellent commentary. THANK YOU
Levy Please make more videos like this. Love these!!
This format and your commentary are fantastic, I’d love to see some Mikhail Tal’s match covered like this.
As a new chess player this is an awesome way to dive into the historical matches! Keep em coming!
Sehr nett & unterhaltsam gemacht, lieber Levy Rozman 😉 … danke dafür!
Gotham sent me here from the stream 👍
this was so entertaining. one of my favs of yours mr . gotham
Yep...this is exactly the content i'm looking for. I love Levi's style and there are so many moments that people don't know about that are full of wonderful and sometimes enraging histories...can't wait to see more. Maybe Bronstein v. Bottvinnik?
My first chess book was coverage of this match. It was so over my head. All these years later you have given me new appreciation.
This is really great! I never heard this story and you told it well. I would like to learn more about Judith Polgar and her story. No one online has really told it and it would be nice to see some more of her games or a tournament she dominated. You can also do Vladimir Kramnik as he is such an underrated Chess Champion. That Catalan was a monster.
Thanks for these videos man. Improve my day every single time I watch em
Day 89: Of requesting Levy to cover opposite coloured bishop endgames.
Especially when you have a slight material advantage of being up by two or three pawns against your opponent and you both have opposite coloured bishops as well.
Are you really unable to win when you’re two or three pawns up?
Dedication. Pure dedication.
@@hugothompson3914 well its not so simple in opposite colored bishops it can be a draw as your opponents bishop just restricts your pawns movement and theres no progress to be done as none of your pieces can support the pawns. This obviously depends on the position sometimes it can be winning sometimes its drawing tho
@@rodabaixo13 just bring in the king, if you are up 3 pawns and can't win, time to play checkers
@@fedess3647 No need to go after someone personally. A lot of people in the 1000-1200 range can struggle with it, especially if they are low on time. Heck, even as a 1400 (chess.com, 1600 lichess), I've drawn games with two pawns up when I was low on time and blundered into a rook pawn-wrong colored bishop endgame or similar traps. It's a good topic to cover in a video- once someone has a specific process they can follow without having to work it out over the board, you won't draw any more games like that, even if you're low on time, because you just follow the process and don't have to think.
GothamChess is probably the only person to say: "Get ready for the wildest ride of your life" and then explains a chess game.
Yogurt-Gate is the kind of drama we need more of these days
this is one of the most enterteining vids about chess that i have ever seen! geat job!!! many thanks!
you should cover the first chess game ever recorded if you haven't already. I think that would be fun
These recap videos of historical matches are great! Awesome commentary!
Gotham Games sent me here, on this day of our lord Magnus, May 31st 2024
I got this recommended by youtube and thought "some other day I'll watch this" and instead went with "$4,000,000 Chess Tournament". Some minute into that I skipped back to this.
Levy just changed the title
Excelente historia, disfrute mucho la anécdota, quiero más de ellas, no solo revivo un momento histórico sino que también aprendo mucho con vos. Gracias!
Guys, I have a question. At 7:53, wouldn't f5 just win the game for Karpov? Because Korchnoi would lose either the g4 bishop or the c3 knight
Edit: Nevermind. Korchnoi just takes en passant and now Karpov would lose either his queen or his bishop. What a cool position!
These historical chess videos are very entertaining and informative keep up the good work
Gotham Games sent me here
This is the most exciting recap of a world chess championship I've watched.
Thank you Levy!
here from the stream 💥
"He is coming off the hype of wanting to beat up the hypnotist"
-Levy Rozman 2021
You didn't show how the game would have ended had he not resigned.
True. It isn't obvious to me how it would end.
Hey Levy I wanted to thank you so much for all the great videos you're making, I've seen many of these matches but going back and checking them again is amazing!! I love all of them!!
Future you told me to watch, $4millon game
I really appreciated your insightful analysis and entertaining stories. I remember when this match happened and heard about the sorcerers and meditating gurus and whatnot. It was so bizarre!
You have made me addicted to this and appreciate you for your good work but I am a student right now so I am quitting it rn thinking of coming back here 7 yrs down the line hope I will have a lot of time and a lot of videos
Hi from the stream
Hi from RUclips
@@jawands.5980 I also know that website, what a coincidence
@@asyndeton amazing, what are the odds
Thanks for covering this championship match, one of the greatest rivalries of all time surely.
Got send by Levy on stream
More more more! It’s so nice to have a talented content creator making so much content! I’ll definitely be watching for a long time.
I seriously miss the “first to 6 wins” format for the WCC.
I don't like the current format either.
The first step should be to remove any rapid, blitz and Armageddon. Having those included in a classical WC is just ridiculous.
Then maybe first to three wins, if they don't want to play for months.
At any rate, imagine how much more interesting the Carlsen-Caruana match would have been in such a case.
Love the energy and passion you bring to the commentary you do @gothamchess, keep up the great job!
This is the most anime chess game I've ever seen
Love the video , great story telling and educational wrapped in one
Thank you for your contributions to the chess community !
Korchnoi defected because like Spassky and later Kasparov he was highly creative and individualistic whereas the Soviets tended to demand conformity in all things, even chess opening preparation. Thus from the Soviet perspective Karpov was the closest thing possible to the face of Soviet chess that the Soviet regime wanted. But the Soviets learned from their mistake in 1972 when they stifled Spassky's creativity. They understood that Karpov was as compliant and as much of a conformist as any great chess player they could hope for. Thus when Efim Geller objected to some of Karpov's opening choices Karpov was politically powerful enough to tell Geller "do it my way or get out." Geller stayed and contributed to Team Karpov which Karpov managed brilliantly.
For those too young to remember, here is some drama from the 1978 match not mentioned in this video. Korchnoi adjourned Game 13 in a good position and was fine in Game 14 too. By rule the adjournments were to be played on the same day and when things went horribly wrong for Korchnoi in Game13, he seemed so shaken according to contemporary accounts that he soon went wrong in Game 14 too and was suddenly down 3 - 1 in the match. Game 17 as shown in this video was another late game tragedy for Korchnoi and he went down 4 - 1.
Yet Korchnoi was not finished, far from it! As explained in this video the two newcomers to Korchnoi's entourage calmed him and Korchnoi won 3 games with one draw to tie the match 5 - 5 after 31 games. But the Soviets were not above dirty tricks. Thus after Korchnoi's Match tying win in Game 31 they arranged to have the late additions to Korchnoi's entourage immediately expelled from the Philippines. Florencio Campomanes, an alleged Soviet political operative was reportedly eventually rewarded for this when he became FIDE President with Soviet support. Reportedly Korchnoi's wife and son were essentially hostages in the Soviet Union as well and Korchnoi claimed that the Soviets ramped up the pressure on that front too. This all had Korchnoi understandably upset and contemporary accounts of Game 32 reported that Korchnoi was therefore off form so that Karpov won the game pretty easily to win the Match 6 - 5 and remain World Champion.
Before the match it was suggested that Korchnoi was the deeper player but that his time pressure issues might be his undoing and to a degree that was certainly the case. But Soviet dirty tricks were the wild card. We saw this again in 1984 when Karpov after leading Kasparov 5 - 0 lost games 47 and 48 and his lead was suddenly 5 - 3 with Karpov clearly tiring. Normally rules are rules but the Soviets conveniently arranged to cancel the rest of the match because the players were "too tired to continue" without any provision in the rules for that. Thus for the moment Karpov remained World Champion over Kasparov's objections.
Karpov was a great World Champion. Some people assert that Soviet dirty tricks in the 1978 and 1984 matches tarnish his legacy, but there is no evidence that he was directly involved in them. And in any case, given the ruthless nature of the Soviet regime, Karpov while perhaps a willing Soviet tool, was in no position to object on sporting or other grounds.
I remember all that hoorah. I was taking a break from playing at that time, but I still read the chess news. Wild business. I really wanted to see Viktor take it.
This is totally unrelated but you got a nice beard bro
My grandfather has a cut out newspaper articles about this exact win in his chess board carrier. The article is from September 14, 1978.
thank you levy going through some tough times but at least I have something to wakeup to
Levy says to us all, “Create a loft, loft, A LOFT!!!!!!!!”
Korchnoi like “Why should i listen to this random IM in a hot pink hoodie? Imma go Ra1!”
{then loses the game}
I love all of your historical content and all of your content in general. I'd be curious to see some games that a chess newb wouldn't necessarily think to look at. I have looked at some Morphy and Fischer games, but I honestly had never heard of Karpov and Korchnoi until today. Any of your content is usually very engaging, fun, and educational.
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