i checked Rxd4 with stockfish and at 28 moves deep it says it's an inaccuracy but then at 30 moves deep it says it's the best move. garry kasparov is insane
well if you're not joking, the way engines calculate lines is a lot more complete than a human, so when it oscillates between moves like that at high depth it's doing so for reasons well outside of the grasp of a human
Kao You know computers are coded by humans, right? Computers can obviously perform these calculations faster than humans, but all the reasoning behind their calculations is in their code.
@@CM-ky5go what you said is true for stockfish but wrong for alpha zero. Alpha zero is based on ML meaning that they did something like this, they started with a white and black player agents each start with a random algorithm to play and every time they loses they fixes a little bit their algorithm then they tell them to play billions of times against each other at the end you have two amazing players for both white and black but you do not know how they work. No human can understand their algorithm. Alpha zero is considered the best chess engine (it never loses to stockfish) but no one (including the people who wrote it) knows how it works, they only understand the algorithm that takes the previous engine and fixes it a little bit they do not understand the final algorithm created by the program for each player.
Not only that, but, moreover, the King is threatened to be immediately taken, so he must move but, as we mentioned earlier, he cannot move. And there is no way to eliminate the threatening piece in a single move, not even with en passant, and nor is there even a way to block the attack. All this contributes to the set of premises that lets us conclude that it is indeed checkmate.
@@teodorul9280 That would be technical writing. True creative writer would be able to produce a 20 novel series on the Rise and Fall of the King of Topalov.
Topalov seems to end at the receiving end of an immortal game against world champions . Prior to this , karpov's immortal was against topalov in Linares 1994 . Also , before anand's immortal against Aronian , there was one game against topalov which was considered his immortal . But topalov was happy about his game with Kasparov . his reasoning was it takes two players to create an immortal .
@@rendezvousonmemorylane I believe it’s called that because these individual games “immortalized” them as some of the greatest players ever. Karpov’s immortal is also a great one as mentioned above! TheChessNetwork did a great breakdown of it. :)
Topalov said thet he saw that it isn't ok for him to take the rook, but he did it to see what kasparov prepares for hours of thinking all this moves, thanks for Topalov. After this game Kasparov said that before sacrificing the rook he already saw this position where black king on his side of the board(16 moves ahead). Kasparov turn the beast mode there)
I am so proud to be Bulgarian for people like Veselin Topalov. This man will be one of the greatest and most humble people I've had the chances to meet. And he played very well against legends like Kasparov even sometimes getting the best of them :) God bless him and Garry for this game.
also in these memorable games, you have to give credit to the loosing player defending so well that a magnificent game can be created, there are many games where a player was about to create attacking masterpiece, but because the opponent blundered, it was over too soon and from the outside it looks like an ordinary blundered game. so well played topalov, from what i have seen he played on a stockfish level, but garry even surpassed the engine...
@@hansmahr8627 Well that sounds strange to me that Garry would thank him, I don't see anyone not taking the rook, even Garry did not have a full compensation calculated, he sacrificed it based on a strong hunch (like how many great players have tried a sacrifice based on a hunch and in the end it went wrong, like for example recently in the Nakamura Carlsen final in 15+10 rapid, Carlsen sacrificed a full rook and even a piece at one point, hunting down Nakamura's king, and despite engine finding a perpetual check, Carlsen did not and lost once Naka hid his king in a corner behind his rook and queen, so Carlsen also had a correct hunch but was unable to execute it duo to lack of time, as he had under a minute on the clock in the endgame). I would bet even Carlsen would accept the rook, like what else could Topalov do, not accepting the rook would result in a much worse position for him.
Modern chess players: Chess before computers was completly wild Also them: This man played such great moves that even computer's can't interpret them...
I had actually one good game. I sacrificed all my pieces exept bishop and queen. I thought to surrender after I sacrificed my last rook but my enemy surrendered before me:D. Computer shown that I should checkmated my enemy in any variants:D
Garry might not have made all top moves but he created an incredibly poisonous position where Topalov had to grapple with ghosts and dodge laser beams just to stay in the game even while up a whole rook. Garry's such a boss.
17:40 Qxa6+ is +0.99 but after it plays Qxa6+ into c3+ it immediately jumps to +5. Crazy how Garry can see winning lines that even stockfish needed someone to manually input the continuation for it to realize it was winning. I know its not set to a high depth but still, very impressive.
seems it's winning/advantage white at high depth from the moment the rook sacrifice is accepted '.' , which is almost as impressive as that about perfect end game
This game is so deep with so many possibilities. It's insane to think that the computer has trouble seeing a human idea. After seeing you show all the lines and creativity, it's definitely the most beautiful game I've seen so far!
Im a painfully mediocre chess player myself but still I can really appreciate the beauty of this game (with a little help from Hikaru ;) ). Thanks for this analysis!
Honestly. Idk if it's the way Hikaru explained it or if the moves despite being so beautiful and complex are just simple to understand, maybe even both, but even as someone who literally loses to a 250 elo in 3 moves this was such a beautiful match.
With the more recent improvements to chess engines nowadays, and by analyzing with a beta version of the upcoming Stockfish 16, here are some corrections to the evaluations that I think people should know about: First of all, if you want to have a deep and thorough analysis on a game, make sure to enable infinite depth in the engine settings! Hikaru had the depth of the computer limited to depth 22, and that was one of the biggest reasons why it missed so many moves, as you can see from this comment. It'd probably find a lot more of these moves if the depth was infinite, but it also probably was improvements to Stockfish as well. 2:56: The reason why d5 actually isn't a good move is because after takes takes Black can play Nb6. I am no chess grandmaster, so I don't know exactly why this is good, but I would assume that Nb6 allows for Black to initiate a very nice attack on the White king, maybe with the rook and the queen, and White can not do anything with the weakened pawns to make an advantage. 3:08: Apparently, Garry needed to open up the center with dxe5 here before rerouting the knight to b3 with Nc1, that way he could find time to stack the rooks on the d-file. 4:41: g3 isn't actually a bad move, it is just not the best move. 5:04: As you could see on the evaluation, Topalov actually should have opened the center with d5 now in order to get a very small -0.3 advantage. I guess Kb8 might have been too defensive. 5:28: According to my analysis, Ba8 might actually be the best move in the position. It is a very close second behind d5. Honestly, I think Ba8 and d5 should both share the best move in the position lol. 6:40: The evaluation shown by Hikaru here is actually the correct evaluation. It is about -0.6 on my analysis. 7:12: Rxd4, Garry's brilliant move, is definitely the best move in the position, but it actually isn't the winning move. The move gives about -0.2 eval. The second best move, Nc6+, is about -1.6 eval. 8:16: Amazingly, the losing move in the game was actually taking the rook sacrifice! cxd4 by my analysis is actually a blunder, giving +1.66 advantage for Garry. Topalov actually had to play Kb6, which gives black a small -0.5 advantage. 10:38: The true evaluation is actually over +2 here. For the next couple moves, just removing the minus sign actually gives the true evaluation lol. 13:39: Here, there is actually a +4 advantage by playing Ra7 first before Qc3 here! I don't know exactly why, but it definitely has something to do with the location of pieces more favorable for White by doing Ra7 before Qc3. 15:50: Surprisingly, yes! Qc4 is actually the best move. The Rhe8 continuation that Stockfish attempted to give is actually a complete blunder, going from a +2.7 position to +5. The reason why Rhe8 is a blunder is because after Rb6 and Ra8, White can play a brilliant move Bf1!! The idea of Bf1 is to remove c4 from the diagonal the queen is on to eventually kick the queen off the diagonal protecting checkmate. If White were to have another turn, they could play Rd6, a rook sacrifice to lure the queen off the diagonal, and now since the queen can't go to c4 because the bishop eyes that square, the game would be completely lost (+15). Now you can laugh at Stockfish for giving such a bad suggestion! 17:20: Kxa3 is actually an inaccuracy, going from +3 to +4. Instead, Black should play Rd1+ in order to keep the king safe behind White's pawn. I assume the version of Stockfish Hikaru was using didn't understand the king's vulnerability on a3 and just saw the checkmate idea, or it just couldn't think to a deep enough depth to see the problem. 17:50: Here, the evaluation literally jumps up to the literal exact eval my analysis was having lol. 17:56: Stockfish will change its evaluation on a position a couple moves back because its seen the winning line. If you are analyzing a game and show the computer a winning line, then once you go back to the beginning stockfish will usually show the winning line you made on the next depth update. This happens a lot for extremely complicated chess puzzles. From 17:50 onward, since Stockfish finally understood the problems Black has, it evaluated the positions correctly for all of the remaining analysis Hikaru did.
I don't know how many times I've seen that Bf1 move, but it tickles and delights me each time. Thanks for this analysis from one of my favorite top GMs.
Deeply analyzed the position with stockfish 13 and even though there is some weird engine line that defends for black Rxd4 is actually the #1 move stockfish recommends at depth 50.
I've lectured this game many times through out the years... it's always one the kids get inspired by even if they don't understand much... fun to get a current top players perspective on it
Such a beautiful analysis, and as usual delivered with blistering efficiency and thoroughness. Hikaru's real talents are in both his speed+thoroughness combination as well as his ability to provide comparative examples not only of positions quickly, but of what other top players (e.g. Magnus) might do instead. His open and honest critiques are so refreshing!
20:57 someone asks if magnus would have found it.. i mean, this is a legendary game, one of the best moves ever made in chess, there's a reason garry thinks this is his best game, it's a brilliant move, i dont think anyone would have found it, it was just garry's day.
When I started learning chess and whatching videos that explained professional chess i got extremly desmotivated because the explanations were too robotical. This type of videos are so educational and enjoyable. I Hope that you make more videos like this!!
It's so cool seeing the progression of chess skill. I'm only like 1120, but at first it was learning to stop blundering pieces, then it was seeing checks, mates, and tactics, then it was learning some openings, then it was understanding minor sacrifices, seeing how captures restructure the board, learning sometimes that trading to simplify is the best thing you can do, getting decent at end games and discovered checks. I can feel myself progressing a lot, but know there is so much room to grow. I love watching world class champions and games anywhere above the 2000 range. It's insane to see how even 2500 players tower over 2000s and 2800s+ tower over them. To be able to see such a deep game and be willing to sacrifice a rook so early is absolutely astonishing. Sacrifices are something that is still far beyond my skill level, but something I'd like to one day get better at and work into my game. I never really grew up playing chess and never picked up the pieces until about 6 months ago at age 25, so I have next to no background in history and absolutely no formal teaching in theory or openings. But your channel has helped me a lot to appreciate the game and come to love its infinite beauty. I really like the way you analyze the game and pay homage to past legends. You don't overanalyze every single move, but instead focus on the ones that matter most and that change the landscape of the game, then run through the options of why seemingly unintuitive moves were played to follow up.
What an incredible video! Thanks Naka, because every time I saw this match I really feel i am looking some masterpiece, and with a such commentator like you is even more enyojable! regards
This was DEFINITELY a Garry's immortal. I've seen analysis of this before, but I think you did more justice to it/broke it down more thoroughly. Keep'em comin'!
I need more Hikaru analysis videos. I love Agadmator’s, Eric Rosen’s, Gotham’s, even Finegold’s despite his corny jokes. But it is just a different experience having a superGM casually explain mind boggling moves that other people may just write off as too complex for them to understand.
The fact this was at the end of his career too; this wasn't a young Kasparov playing on youthful exuberance, this was a chiselled, experienced Kasparov who still played chess like it were an artform
bro what like 10 brilliant moves in a row. This game really is insane, like it's exactly the type of chess I've been wanting to see. The tactics behind that rook sacrifice go so deep that a computer seeing 20+ moves out couldn't see it. The moves to make it work, a second rook sacrifice, a bishop sacrifice, another rook sacrifice, the possible pawn checkmate, in honest truth I don't think I'm exaggerating when saying Kasparov played with an alpha zero level of skill here. I mean it's just not a sacrifice where he sees like one crazy move and then the rest kind of make sense, it's crazy move after crazy move in a row and he found them and sensed them in advance.
Thank you for showing appreciation for those that came before you and not just dismissing their games as suspect because the computer says so. Beauty lies in the flaws not in perfection.
Thanks! First time I came across this game was in 2007. It has never ceased to amaze me every time I have looked at it since. Stunning masterpiece from Kasparov.
Probably because 1. Its hikarus stream. Its respectful to let hikaru do his thing on hikarus stream. And 2. Hikarus fans just have beef with levy for no reason. I wouldnt want to talk either.
Hikaru great video!. Stockfish and Komodo 99% of the time will win by brute force but there is a living element to chess beyond pure calculation that as you've pointed out before is encapsulated by pattern recognition. Its amazing during a game to see patterns coming together and in this case Gary was always one step ahead of Topalov because he was able to combine his amazing insight on this level with solid calculation.
What's funny is that Garry actually did calculate the line until Rd7;distracting the Queen!!; contrary to what Hikaru said. Garry said so on Tyler Cowen's podcast. So he calculated more or less 14 crazy moves, which makes Garry even more terrifying!
Amazing, even more so that it shows that playing Pirc black always loses in the end, I know it firsthand, as I always lose playing Pirc, but it looks so good
Spectacular game! Some of those tactics are mind boggling. Regarding the Carlsen comparison I think he would never put himself in such a precarious position to begin with. Thanks for the analysis. Cheers!
I've come to enjoy seeing games analysed more than once, especially if agadmator's done an analysis. There's more time to go into more sidelines and more explanations. It makes a great game even better
Yeah, i got that feeling, finding the best move before the analyst says wise, feels so intelligent, play online and blunder the queen Sometimes find the best move doesn’t mean you’re good at chess, you just use your portion of luck on that move and now your day is terrible.
It makes me think about Kasparov's game against Karpov: at some point he sensed a checkmate was coming. In that case, it was the number of pieces on the attack, here it was mainly positionally. But then to finish it of you need to be able to calculate like a world champion. So: crazy, but not Tal-like crazy.
8:00 Local SF 12 sees the Rxd4 at depth 28, but even at depth 50 thinks that black has a slight advantage if ... Kb6 (-0.46). After ... cxd4 SF sees the move Re7+ immediately but eval shows white losing, it takes depth of 35 for it to see that white is actually winning, and at depth of 45 the evaluation is crushing +6.47 13:50 SF rates Ra7 at +7.81 at depth of 42 instead of the move that was played (Qc3) which it rates at +0.71 so maybe there is some crazy computer defence there.
8:17 That's really impressive. It took my installation of NNUE + Stockfish a good amount of time to figure this one out. Black shouldn't take the pawn due to the scams shown in the vid that white can pull on black. Black should move Kb6 and just threaten the knight instead of taking and play from there. Due to white getting their pawn back, my computer tells me it's more or less an even game. Honestly this is super impressive from Kasparov, glad to have seen this game :).
Interesting thoughts about Carlsen probably not finding the idea of Rxd4. Wonder how may chess players could find it. Probably Tal, maybe Topalov in his prime. Fischer maybe. However if you turn the tables and had Carlsen and Kasparov try to find some really high level positional idea from a Karpov or Capablanca game it would probably be the other way round
i checked Rxd4 with stockfish and at 28 moves deep it says it's an inaccuracy but then at 30 moves deep it says it's the best move. garry kasparov is insane
troll comment?
@@Wtahc how is it troll? i legit tried with stockfish 12 (clean without any tablebases) and it had to go 30 moves deep before seeing the move is good
well if you're not joking, the way engines calculate lines is a lot more complete than a human, so when it oscillates between moves like that at high depth it's doing so for reasons well outside of the grasp of a human
Kao You know computers are coded by humans, right? Computers can obviously perform these calculations faster than humans, but all the reasoning behind their calculations is in their code.
@@CM-ky5go what you said is true for stockfish but wrong for alpha zero. Alpha zero is based on ML meaning that they did something like this, they started with a white and black player agents each start with a random algorithm to play and every time they loses they fixes a little bit their algorithm then they tell them to play billions of times against each other at the end you have two amazing players for both white and black but you do not know how they work. No human can understand their algorithm. Alpha zero is considered the best chess engine (it never loses to stockfish) but no one (including the people who wrote it) knows how it works, they only understand the algorithm that takes the previous engine and fixes it a little bit they do not understand the final algorithm created by the program for each player.
"this is checkmate... The reason this is checkmate is because the king can't go to any squares"
Thank you Hikaru
Not only that, but, moreover, the King is threatened to be immediately taken, so he must move but, as we mentioned earlier, he cannot move. And there is no way to eliminate the threatening piece in a single move, not even with en passant, and nor is there even a way to block the attack. All this contributes to the set of premises that lets us conclude that it is indeed checkmate.
@@u.v.s.5583 i bet you can right me a 20 page essay explaining how in that position the king is in checkmate
@@teodorul9280 That would be technical writing. True creative writer would be able to produce a 20 novel series on the Rise and Fall of the King of Topalov.
@@u.v.s.5583 i like ya
Hikaru referencing Gotham :)
Me: resigns after blundering a pawn
Kasparov: feeds his rook to a pawn and wins the game
Wait why do you resign just because of a pawn
@@amitkerurkar8685 Major disadvantage
@@amitkerurkar8685 its just a meme bro
@@amitkerurkar8685 end game ?
@@amitkerurkar8685 because chess
Hikaru analyzing an all-time classic from the 1990s
Refers to the right triangle, sniper's nest, connect three, juicers...
I love it.
Just wow.
It's all the same since chess was invented.
OOPS SPAGHETTIOS
The classic pokimane vs puzzles double attack
Topalov seems to end at the receiving end of an immortal game against world champions . Prior to this , karpov's immortal was against topalov in Linares 1994 . Also , before anand's immortal against Aronian , there was one game against topalov which was considered his immortal .
But topalov was happy about his game with Kasparov . his reasoning was it takes two players to create an immortal .
Topalov played nearly perfect except he had to find a move that could be found after calculating 20 + moves ahead . So he can't be blamed
oh I didn't know their best games were called "Immortal". That's such a cool title!
@@rendezvousonmemorylane I believe it’s called that because these individual games “immortalized” them as some of the greatest players ever. Karpov’s immortal is also a great one as mentioned above! TheChessNetwork did a great breakdown of it. :)
@@rendezvousonmemorylane "Immortal" implies the game will never die, which happens when it is no longer remembered.
@@soccrstar4 these players are immortalised well without these particular games. Your reasoning is wrong.
More content like this! This was thoroughly enjoyable
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Mano eu já tinha visto essa partida, comecei o vídeo só pra ver ele explicando e ver se era o mesmo game e acabei vendo os 24 minutos sem querer kkkk
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Topalov said thet he saw that it isn't ok for him to take the rook, but he did it to see what kasparov prepares for hours of thinking all this moves, thanks for Topalov. After this game Kasparov said that before sacrificing the rook he already saw this position where black king on his side of the board(16 moves ahead). Kasparov turn the beast mode there)
that's insane
its not ok to take the rook, but objectively it is the best move. you will lose the game much faster if you dont take the rook.
Stockfish: Your resign now.
Gary: Checkmate.
Stockfish: ???!!!!
Deep Blue laughs in the background.
Gary: You may Stalk fish little engine! But I Stalk WHALES!!!!
I am so proud to be Bulgarian for people like Veselin Topalov. This man will be one of the greatest and most humble people I've had the chances to meet. And he played very well against legends like Kasparov even sometimes getting the best of them :) God bless him and Garry for this game.
also in these memorable games, you have to give credit to the loosing player defending so well that a magnificent game can be created, there are many games where a player was about to create attacking masterpiece, but because the opponent blundered, it was over too soon and from the outside it looks like an ordinary blundered game. so well played topalov, from what i have seen he played on a stockfish level, but garry even surpassed the engine...
That's true. Kasparov also said he's thankful that Topalov accepted the rook sacrifice because it led to an incredible game.
@@hansmahr8627 Well that sounds strange to me that Garry would thank him, I don't see anyone not taking the rook, even Garry did not have a full compensation calculated, he sacrificed it based on a strong hunch (like how many great players have tried a sacrifice based on a hunch and in the end it went wrong, like for example recently in the Nakamura Carlsen final in 15+10 rapid, Carlsen sacrificed a full rook and even a piece at one point, hunting down Nakamura's king, and despite engine finding a perpetual check, Carlsen did not and lost once Naka hid his king in a corner behind his rook and queen, so Carlsen also had a correct hunch but was unable to execute it duo to lack of time, as he had under a minute on the clock in the endgame). I would bet even Carlsen would accept the rook, like what else could Topalov do, not accepting the rook would result in a much worse position for him.
@@niklFIT Just as a note, Topalov could have stayed alive by not taking the rook and playing Kb6
Garry: **sacrifices rook**
Topalov: why do i hear boss music?
Modern chess players: Chess before computers was completly wild
Also them: This man played such great moves that even computer's can't interpret them...
I sacrifice my pieces exactly like Kasparov the only difference is that after 10 seconds i resign
I had actually one good game. I sacrificed all my pieces exept bishop and queen. I thought to surrender after I sacrificed my last rook but my enemy surrendered before me:D. Computer shown that I should checkmated my enemy in any variants:D
Hahahaha
Levy: hey man you're stealing my career
Antonio:
agadmator:
Youre just Someone passing by
kingscrusher:
@@blarblablarblar antonio is agadmator lol
I thought you were saying "Giri" and that made me really confused until we got to the game and I realized it was "Garry"
The game Gery is actually short for Gergana in my country and I was wondering if this was some genius Bulgarian woman chess player
Giri Kasparov
He's actually saying Giri
he said kasparov several times before saying gary
Anish Kaspalov
Garry might not have made all top moves but he created an incredibly poisonous position where Topalov had to grapple with ghosts and dodge laser beams just to stay in the game even while up a whole rook. Garry's such a boss.
Awesome game, I can't imagine Carlsen ever sacking two rooks like that out of the opening...
@@kasparov9 he doesn’t need to he’s betta
in the 30 moves sequence he played the only moves.
17:40 Qxa6+ is +0.99 but after it plays Qxa6+ into c3+ it immediately jumps to +5. Crazy how Garry can see winning lines that even stockfish needed someone to manually input the continuation for it to realize it was winning. I know its not set to a high depth but still, very impressive.
seems it's winning/advantage white at high depth from the moment the rook sacrifice is accepted '.' , which is almost as impressive as that about perfect end game
I think the chess dot com engine is really bad ,stockfish 12 would have found this easily
This game is so deep with so many possibilities. It's insane to think that the computer has trouble seeing a human idea. After seeing you show all the lines and creativity, it's definitely the most beautiful game I've seen so far!
Im a painfully mediocre chess player myself but still I can really appreciate the beauty of this game (with a little help from Hikaru ;) ). Thanks for this analysis!
Honestly. Idk if it's the way Hikaru explained it or if the moves despite being so beautiful and complex are just simple to understand, maybe even both, but even as someone who literally loses to a 250 elo in 3 moves this was such a beautiful match.
Definitely this is the greatest chess game of all time. No question.
Octopus Knight is better
12:45
"The human brain does not function the way the computer mind does"
-Hikaru 2021
Love it
Queen Sacrifices?
Garry: Hold me Rooks
With the more recent improvements to chess engines nowadays, and by analyzing with a beta version of the upcoming Stockfish 16, here are some corrections to the evaluations that I think people should know about:
First of all, if you want to have a deep and thorough analysis on a game, make sure to enable infinite depth in the engine settings! Hikaru had the depth of the computer limited to depth 22, and that was one of the biggest reasons why it missed so many moves, as you can see from this comment. It'd probably find a lot more of these moves if the depth was infinite, but it also probably was improvements to Stockfish as well.
2:56: The reason why d5 actually isn't a good move is because after takes takes Black can play Nb6. I am no chess grandmaster, so I don't know exactly why this is good, but I would assume that Nb6 allows for Black to initiate a very nice attack on the White king, maybe with the rook and the queen, and White can not do anything with the weakened pawns to make an advantage.
3:08: Apparently, Garry needed to open up the center with dxe5 here before rerouting the knight to b3 with Nc1, that way he could find time to stack the rooks on the d-file.
4:41: g3 isn't actually a bad move, it is just not the best move.
5:04: As you could see on the evaluation, Topalov actually should have opened the center with d5 now in order to get a very small -0.3 advantage. I guess Kb8 might have been too defensive.
5:28: According to my analysis, Ba8 might actually be the best move in the position. It is a very close second behind d5. Honestly, I think Ba8 and d5 should both share the best move in the position lol.
6:40: The evaluation shown by Hikaru here is actually the correct evaluation. It is about -0.6 on my analysis.
7:12: Rxd4, Garry's brilliant move, is definitely the best move in the position, but it actually isn't the winning move. The move gives about -0.2 eval. The second best move, Nc6+, is about -1.6 eval.
8:16: Amazingly, the losing move in the game was actually taking the rook sacrifice! cxd4 by my analysis is actually a blunder, giving +1.66 advantage for Garry. Topalov actually had to play Kb6, which gives black a small -0.5 advantage.
10:38: The true evaluation is actually over +2 here. For the next couple moves, just removing the minus sign actually gives the true evaluation lol.
13:39: Here, there is actually a +4 advantage by playing Ra7 first before Qc3 here! I don't know exactly why, but it definitely has something to do with the location of pieces more favorable for White by doing Ra7 before Qc3.
15:50: Surprisingly, yes! Qc4 is actually the best move. The Rhe8 continuation that Stockfish attempted to give is actually a complete blunder, going from a +2.7 position to +5. The reason why Rhe8 is a blunder is because after Rb6 and Ra8, White can play a brilliant move Bf1!! The idea of Bf1 is to remove c4 from the diagonal the queen is on to eventually kick the queen off the diagonal protecting checkmate. If White were to have another turn, they could play Rd6, a rook sacrifice to lure the queen off the diagonal, and now since the queen can't go to c4 because the bishop eyes that square, the game would be completely lost (+15). Now you can laugh at Stockfish for giving such a bad suggestion!
17:20: Kxa3 is actually an inaccuracy, going from +3 to +4. Instead, Black should play Rd1+ in order to keep the king safe behind White's pawn. I assume the version of Stockfish Hikaru was using didn't understand the king's vulnerability on a3 and just saw the checkmate idea, or it just couldn't think to a deep enough depth to see the problem.
17:50: Here, the evaluation literally jumps up to the literal exact eval my analysis was having lol.
17:56: Stockfish will change its evaluation on a position a couple moves back because its seen the winning line. If you are analyzing a game and show the computer a winning line, then once you go back to the beginning stockfish will usually show the winning line you made on the next depth update. This happens a lot for extremely complicated chess puzzles.
From 17:50 onward, since Stockfish finally understood the problems Black has, it evaluated the positions correctly for all of the remaining analysis Hikaru did.
I don't know how many times I've seen that Bf1 move, but it tickles and delights me each time. Thanks for this analysis from one of my favorite top GMs.
Deeply analyzed the position with stockfish 13 and even though there is some weird engine line that defends for black Rxd4 is actually the #1 move stockfish recommends at depth 50.
I love how diverse your content is! Game commentary, postgame analysis chessmemes and everything in between.
I've lectured this game many times through out the years... it's always one the kids get inspired by even if they don't understand much... fun to get a current top players perspective on it
The game just made the bar looked like an idiot. Awesome game by Garry!
Such a beautiful analysis, and as usual delivered with blistering efficiency and thoroughness. Hikaru's real talents are in both his speed+thoroughness combination as well as his ability to provide comparative examples not only of positions quickly, but of what other top players (e.g. Magnus) might do instead. His open and honest critiques are so refreshing!
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20:57 someone asks if magnus would have found it.. i mean, this is a legendary game, one of the best moves ever made in chess, there's a reason garry thinks this is his best game, it's a brilliant move, i dont think anyone would have found it, it was just garry's day.
Have to admit you really broke this game down to the bone so yeah thanks for the great breakdown mr. Hikaru "Juicer" Nakamura
You really explain this analysis in such a great way that even I can understand the brilliance of this game. Thank you Hikaru!
When I started learning chess and whatching videos that explained professional chess i got extremly desmotivated because the explanations were too robotical. This type of videos are so educational and enjoyable. I Hope that you make more videos like this!!
It's so cool seeing the progression of chess skill. I'm only like 1120, but at first it was learning to stop blundering pieces, then it was seeing checks, mates, and tactics, then it was learning some openings, then it was understanding minor sacrifices, seeing how captures restructure the board, learning sometimes that trading to simplify is the best thing you can do, getting decent at end games and discovered checks. I can feel myself progressing a lot, but know there is so much room to grow.
I love watching world class champions and games anywhere above the 2000 range. It's insane to see how even 2500 players tower over 2000s and 2800s+ tower over them.
To be able to see such a deep game and be willing to sacrifice a rook so early is absolutely astonishing. Sacrifices are something that is still far beyond my skill level, but something I'd like to one day get better at and work into my game.
I never really grew up playing chess and never picked up the pieces until about 6 months ago at age 25, so I have next to no background in history and absolutely no formal teaching in theory or openings. But your channel has helped me a lot to appreciate the game and come to love its infinite beauty.
I really like the way you analyze the game and pay homage to past legends. You don't overanalyze every single move, but instead focus on the ones that matter most and that change the landscape of the game, then run through the options of why seemingly unintuitive moves were played to follow up.
What an incredible video! Thanks Naka, because every time I saw this match I really feel i am looking some masterpiece, and with a such commentator like you is even more enyojable! regards
This was DEFINITELY a Garry's immortal. I've seen analysis of this before, but I think you did more justice to it/broke it down more thoroughly. Keep'em comin'!
I need more Hikaru analysis videos. I love Agadmator’s, Eric Rosen’s, Gotham’s, even Finegold’s despite his corny jokes. But it is just a different experience having a superGM casually explain mind boggling moves that other people may just write off as too complex for them to understand.
The fact this was at the end of his career too; this wasn't a young Kasparov playing on youthful exuberance, this was a chiselled, experienced Kasparov who still played chess like it were an artform
What a great analysis. Your love of the great games and your willingness to share that with us is much appreciated.
Hikaru ive been watching since naka knockouts episode 1. This was one of your best videos. Thanks
He also talked about how he used intuition and didn’t necessarily calculate his queen sac against Karpov in ‘90.
Maybe he was guessing.
bro what like 10 brilliant moves in a row. This game really is insane, like it's exactly the type of chess I've been wanting to see. The tactics behind that rook sacrifice go so deep that a computer seeing 20+ moves out couldn't see it. The moves to make it work, a second rook sacrifice, a bishop sacrifice, another rook sacrifice, the possible pawn checkmate, in honest truth I don't think I'm exaggerating when saying Kasparov played with an alpha zero level of skill here. I mean it's just not a sacrifice where he sees like one crazy move and then the rest kind of make sense, it's crazy move after crazy move in a row and he found them and sensed them in advance.
I feel that Hikaru is trying to slow down a bit when talking, I really appreciate it, everything is more understandable this way.
i love that comment at 9:15 where u explain why this is checkmate , priceless
I'm proud a bulgarian participated in that game as a one.
Thank you for showing appreciation for those that came before you and not just dismissing their games as suspect because the computer says so. Beauty lies in the flaws not in perfection.
THX 4 Sharing this INCREDIBLE game ! ByTheWay ; great to see how Gary's intuition outsmarts Stockfish's ratio !
Truly an immortal game ❗
In my eyes Gary Kasparov
will always be number one ❗
Thanks! First time I came across this game was in 2007. It has never ceased to amaze me every time I have looked at it since. Stunning masterpiece from Kasparov.
People are commenting before they even finish the video
Got a problem?
You did the same thing
Hikaru's appreciation is no small talk. If he says a move is incredible, you can trust him.
Levy was so silent on the Hikaru's stream and than he started his stream and cannot stop talking :D
Probably because 1. Its hikarus stream. Its respectful to let hikaru do his thing on hikarus stream. And 2. Hikarus fans just have beef with levy for no reason. I wouldnt want to talk either.
@@Chris-kl3zy there is no beef
@@Chris-kl3zy if you saw that stream, than you know Hikaru let Levy talk about chess situations, but he didnt talk much
Loved this, had actually just re-watched Agadmator's take on the same game, was interesting to see you'rs as well!
Garry Kasparov was brilliant in his day. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Hikaru, I love this immortal, showing Kasparov is a monster
I am so happy to have found this video. It completely changed my mind about chess. Fascinating game.
Hikaru great video!. Stockfish and Komodo 99% of the time will win by brute force but there is a living element to chess beyond pure calculation that as you've pointed out before is encapsulated by pattern recognition. Its amazing during a game to see patterns coming together and in this case Gary was always one step ahead of Topalov because he was able to combine his amazing insight on this level with solid calculation.
First vid of 2021 starting with Hikaru. Noice.
What's funny is that Garry actually did calculate the line until Rd7;distracting the Queen!!; contrary to what Hikaru said. Garry said so on Tyler Cowen's podcast. So he calculated more or less 14 crazy moves, which makes Garry even more terrifying!
Tbh Topalov played a nearly perfect game except for one move which could be found after calculating 20 moves ahead. So can't blame him.
actually the opening itself sucked...that is what lost his game. The foundation he laid didn't serve him good
Thank you for this. I am memorizing this game right now to give me some peace as the world goes to war.
Plz make more of these. The speed that you went through the moves, and your insight was excellent!
Amazing, even more so that it shows that playing Pirc black always loses in the end, I know it firsthand, as I always lose playing Pirc, but it looks so good
Spectacular game! Some of those tactics are mind boggling. Regarding the Carlsen comparison I think he would never put himself in such a precarious position to begin with. Thanks for the analysis. Cheers!
3:32 The question is, was the ahhh a good "mmm delicious" ahhh, or a bad "I burned my fking mouth" ahhh, or ... ?
You explain why and what if better than anyone else. Hope to see more vids like this I love it
Imagine defeating a super Grandmaster with just intuition...
Nakamura- "The most funniest top level chess streamers I have ever found" - GM Sagnik Ray
Elo - 2680
Carlson: I'm in a funk
Hikaru: Magnus will probably be the greatest of all time soon.
Pretty sure Hikaru has Stockfish installed in his brain.
*in his lipstick.
Beautiful game and wonderful analysis. Thank you Hikaru!
Garry Kasparov be solving level 100 puzzle in real game.
"Oops, spagetti-o" 😂
I remember this game. Karpov had some pretty good games too
17:30 Hikaru says "oops, spaghetti-o"
Damn, that really was amazing. Delivered on the title of the video for sure.
Everytime I watch this game, I hear how Agadmator explains the moves ..
Sorry about that.
9:21 ah yes, the sorcerer's check
By the way Gary Kasparov is a super genius. That beat Super Computer calculating a billion moves per second.
I've come to enjoy seeing games analysed more than once, especially if agadmator's done an analysis. There's more time to go into more sidelines and more explanations. It makes a great game even better
17:37
Sheldon cooper:- shrodinger's king 🤣
20:54
Me: "oh you just pin the rook with rd7"
2 minutes later:
"In this position gary found this beautiful brilliant move, Rd7"
😳
Yeah, i got that feeling, finding the best move before the analyst says wise, feels so intelligent, play online and blunder the queen
Sometimes find the best move doesn’t mean you’re good at chess, you just use your portion of luck on that move and now your day is terrible.
@@KinGembuL haha, so true
It makes me think about Kasparov's game against Karpov: at some point he sensed a checkmate was coming. In that case, it was the number of pieces on the attack, here it was mainly positionally. But then to finish it of you need to be able to calculate like a world champion. So: crazy, but not Tal-like crazy.
Best way to start 2021
8:00
Local SF 12 sees the Rxd4 at depth 28, but even at depth 50 thinks that black has a slight advantage if ... Kb6 (-0.46).
After ... cxd4 SF sees the move Re7+ immediately but eval shows white losing, it takes depth of 35 for it to see that white is actually winning, and at depth of 45 the evaluation is crushing +6.47
13:50
SF rates Ra7 at +7.81 at depth of 42 instead of the move that was played (Qc3) which it rates at +0.71 so maybe there is some crazy computer defence there.
8:17 That's really impressive. It took my installation of NNUE + Stockfish a good amount of time to figure this one out. Black shouldn't take the pawn due to the scams shown in the vid that white can pull on black. Black should move Kb6 and just threaten the knight instead of taking and play from there. Due to white getting their pawn back, my computer tells me it's more or less an even game. Honestly this is super impressive from Kasparov, glad to have seen this game :).
Kb6*
@@khalilangelo4605 bababooey
happy new year to mr chessgod himself
0:08 nah Hikaru u da best
I can’t believe how well made the thumbnail was
I concur with the general opinion: this is a great format and we all wish for more brilliant games reviews by Hikaru.
The first words my dad said to me this year were “why are you such an asshole?” After I messed up the champagne pop😭😭
The first thing my little brother did to me was hit my computer no words at all
pog
Rip
Hey I think your father hates you
@@slapdagger5693 Excellent observation
Gary's intuition was off the charts...
I came up in the Bobby Fischer era. But now I get it: Gary is all that
Hikaru is slowly turning into agadmator
Analyse atleast one game of Tal.......it will be incredible to know your thoughts
Even tho I am new to chess this was quiet enjoyable. Keep up this kind of content bro
11:20 I thought there was a mosquito flying next to me
We want more videos like this please! :)
Interesting thoughts about Carlsen probably not finding the idea of Rxd4. Wonder how may chess players could find it. Probably Tal, maybe Topalov in his prime. Fischer maybe. However if you turn the tables and had Carlsen and Kasparov try to find some really high level positional idea from a Karpov or Capablanca game it would probably be the other way round