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Fun fact - it was these games against Larson that made the Soviets realize Taimanov did not intentionally lose 6-0 to Fischer and that he shouldn't have been punished as such. Fischer was simply playing at a 2800+ level (or whatever) in an era where no one had access to stockfish.
This is an important point. How good Fischer was WITHOUT access to study engine lines. It’s why I get confused whenever someone anoints Carlsen the best ever. How can you compare eras fairly? Can you imagine how good Fischer would be with the same advantages todays players have.
@@brianmcgee127 exactly! I have expressed the same logic as you with numerous people who have crowned Kasparov or Carlsen goat. They think I don’t know what I’m talking about. My money is on Fischer!
Larsen played this same line against Tal in the Candidates. Commentators said it was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Tal said in his book, that if it was a simul, he'd think his opponent overlooked it, with the king being forced onto e6, but obviously with Larsen that can't be the case. Tal sank into thoughts and after 40 minutes calculating found some sort of defense and didn't sac.
@@GMIgorSmirnov Little bit same kind of position happened in 1970`s between Karpov and Korchnoy. In one game Karpov offered a knight against Victor. Victor thought for sure that " I can take his Knight, but should I take it ? After all, I am now playing against world champ. " After long thought, finally Victor left Karpov`s knight on board. Rudi Rafael
@@user-qt5eh9wb7g yes I play chess both daily and poorly. The original comment said BF always had a brilliant WINNING move up his sleeve. I responded except for win he lost. If someone said Michael Jordan always won the game I'd say except for when he lost. It was a joke friend, don't cancel me.
What a beautiful tactical play, This video is very helpful... My chess coach and I hooked up the other day for a 4 hour lesson. We covered chess openings, This further helps me along. Thank you again
► Chapters 00:00 Powerful Chess Opening Trap by Bobby Fischer 00:17 Bobby Fischer vs Bent Larsen 00:51 Alekhine Defense Trap: Common Tactical Pattern 03:19 Keep attacking the Black king 05:11 78% Win Rate: Nxf7 Tactical Pattern 07:18 Scotch Gambit Trap with Nxf7 Idea
I think Fischer knew Larsens' personality and knew he wouldn't accept a draw, even with black. He thought he could beat Fischer and said so before the match.
@@GMIgorSmirnov But why not Pawn to E6? Then king flees to F7 and if Kc7xRa8 then Qc3 check and QxBc4. The material would the roughly equal, and White's knight is trapped in a8.
You keep saying "Then this piece HAS to move here" and "this piece HAS to move there"... No it doesn't The only reason those pieces HAVE to move to where you say they do is because it's easy to get out of. It's only a winning move when you are moving pieces for both sides.
Being a GM and losing in 10 moves is unfathomable to me. It's like everyone before Magnus had some sort of mental disorder that made them bad at board games.
@@chazvidz9239 I found if you play the AI consistently with tips enabled they'll show you different variations and you just memorize the responses. AI definitely doesn't blunder as much as humans that's for sure.
maybe someone has to explain to you guys that the goal of chess is to have the opponent's king in an awkward and unsafe place while your King is seating safe smoking his pipe
Stockfish won't make the move 6:25 Pawn-H6. When you pick the most common move from a database with a hugh number of matches played by nuBs, the most common move can very often be the wrong move. This is especially true when tricky traps are involved. A database only composed of matches played by advanced+ level players would give you much better results, since many of the junk moves would be eliminated from the statistics..
It is possible to win in 10 moves or less, but that's not what chess is all about. We play chess for the fun of it, and to explore. I don't think even the pro chess players go in there looking for a mate in any amount of specific moves.
with the second method you can not cheke mate. you are blundering. Th openent can use knight or solder to blok. If the black openent move the night it will block the queen and you can not checkmate. what a blunder talk.Also at 7.41 scott ambit does not work will eat by kght instead of solder unless the player is not experianed. The whole thing is not for thinking person is just to full people that they learned somethig. Very dissapointing to present this.
Lichess player database isn't good for traps because people make bots to play against each other to inflate (and later sell) high rated accounts, using trap lines. That way it doesn't trigger the bot detectors (stockfish doesn't fall for traps) and human review of a game is inconclusive because maybe someone fell for the trap. But dig deeper into those games and you'll see one account falling for the same trap line over and over for like 100 games in a row.
❤ unbelievable! Exactly this Kamikaze style of playing is what i have been trying insistently, i thought it was against the book, but i was so sure of this principle because you are basically forcing the opponent to move where you actually need him to!
Do some videos with less options the back and forth losses the point in the end I'm seeing 9 million other things and the video losses the point of you making it
3:53 If I were black here I would have gone Queen G4 and hope to trade off the queens. Is there a reason not to? If no trade at least protecting the C4 check. Edit: after further inspection I guess black is screwed regardless 😂
Alekhine defense trap looks so fun but it's very risky isn't it? What if, instead of 1. Nf3 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6, black plays 3. ... Bf5? That ruins the gambit and white is simply down a pawn, with a hanging knight. 3. ... Bf5 seems a natural move (if not as common as Nf6) even if black suspects nothing (or at least doesn't know this gambit). Is there a "backup plan" for white in the case of 3. ... Bf5, or is it really just risking it all on the hope that black plays 3. ... Nf6? Thanks for the great lessons!
This is a blitz game played at the Santa Monica blitz, 1966. Wade/OConnell's Fischer book mentions this game and says that Evans in Chess Life says that after 10...Kd6 Larsen said "now I play for a win!" Evans says then "he got slaughtered after 11 c4..."
Thanks. I played in the USCF from 1967 to 1986, and followed BF closely, soon as I saw the opening moves, I thought, where the HELL was THIS game from?!?! Thanks for clarifying. However, it seems strange that BF, who was famous for not playing for draws against anybody, would, apparently, do so with the White piece, no less, in a blitz game. I've no idea why he repeated moves, nor what he intended if Larsen had not deviated. I remember Larsen crowing about him getting the top board over Fischer to play against Spassky in the 1970 "USSR vs the Rest of the World" and he, Larsen, got squashed in, like, 18 moves. I also remember him writing a column that "explained away" his 6-0 loss to Fischer that was titled, "Unlucky Heat Wave in Denver" (where the match was played, lol.
@@tubeerv After his lost match against Lasker Tarrasch "explained away" the disaster having suffered from the sea climate in Düsseldorf (Tarrasch lived in Munich ). Düsseldorf has no "sea climate" - this is plain nonsense, still hundreds of miles to go.
@@tubeerv Tarrasch was rather dogmatic, but he was a great player and was called "Praeceptor Germaniae" since many players learned form his famous books. It must have been a great triumph for him to beat the equally dogmatic Niemzowitsch in a spectacular game. His life was very hard - he lost all three sons very early. One died in WW I, one committed suicide and one died in an accident. Of his 3 daughters one died very young, too. At least he died "early enough" - in 1934 - not to suffer from the Mazis. On his tombstone is engraved (of course in German): Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch Arzt und Schachgrossmeister, Praeceptor Germaniae What a tombstone!
Why did he resign? If queen take night, bishop take queen, check. Then either the pawn comes up to block and threaten, or king moves to light square. Then bishop goes back, check. Then what? If king goes back, then it will be a draw, going back and forth. I can't see a place for the queen to check in one move, so that opens the door for more blocks.
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Why do you keep saying "Chak" ? The word is "Check".
OMG, I NEED THAT SO BAD! WHERE DO I SEND MY MONEY!!!
Fun fact - it was these games against Larson that made the Soviets realize Taimanov did not intentionally lose 6-0 to Fischer and that he shouldn't have been punished as such. Fischer was simply playing at a 2800+ level (or whatever) in an era where no one had access to stockfish.
Yeah, that's the nutty thing about Bobby. He was a god at chess before computer analysis was even CLOSE to him.
This is an important point. How good Fischer was WITHOUT access to study engine lines. It’s why I get confused whenever someone anoints Carlsen the best ever. How can you compare eras fairly? Can you imagine how good Fischer would be with the same advantages todays players have.
@@brianmcgee127 exactly! I have expressed the same logic as you with numerous people who have crowned Kasparov or Carlsen goat. They think I don’t know what I’m talking about.
My money is on Fischer!
Kasparov for the win!
@@gooddognigel9992 under your argument morphy is the best ever.
Larsen played this same line against Tal in the Candidates. Commentators said it was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. Tal said in his book, that if it was a simul, he'd think his opponent overlooked it, with the king being forced onto e6, but obviously with Larsen that can't be the case. Tal sank into thoughts and after 40 minutes calculating found some sort of defense and didn't sac.
Thanks for the interesting addon!
@@GMIgorSmirnov Little bit same kind of position happened in 1970`s between Karpov and Korchnoy. In one game Karpov offered a knight against Victor. Victor thought for sure that " I can take his Knight, but should I take it ? After all, I am now playing against world champ. " After long thought, finally Victor left Karpov`s knight on board. Rudi Rafael
Fischers games are always fascinating,always had a brilliant winning move up his sleeve.
Yup!
Except for when he lost.
@@nonedefense8296 everyone loses at times. Do you even play chess?
@@user-qt5eh9wb7g yes I play chess both daily and poorly.
The original comment said BF always had a brilliant WINNING move up his sleeve. I responded except for win he lost.
If someone said Michael Jordan always won the game I'd say except for when he lost.
It was a joke friend, don't cancel me.
@@nonedefense8296 pathetic
Thank you for this fantastic video ! I'm a beginner in chess & finds this chess tactics and moves really interesting and worth trying !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for being a good coach for us beginners. Subbed.
Thank you GM Smirnov !! This is fun and awesome
He has an amazing American accent.
What a beautiful tactical play,
This video is very helpful...
My chess coach and I hooked up the other day for a 4 hour lesson.
We covered chess openings,
This further helps me along.
Thank you again
Thanks, Mike! I'm glad the video was helpful and timely for you.
That was fun to watch. As are all your videos. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
► Chapters
00:00 Powerful Chess Opening Trap by Bobby Fischer
00:17 Bobby Fischer vs Bent Larsen
00:51 Alekhine Defense Trap: Common Tactical Pattern
03:19 Keep attacking the Black king
05:11 78% Win Rate: Nxf7 Tactical Pattern
07:18 Scotch Gambit Trap with Nxf7 Idea
Scoth gambit trap Nxf7
@@artemiollena2358 :
Scotch Gambit Trap *+* Nxf7 *idea*
Apparently, you are too youngvto know Fisher never played for a draw.
I stumbled on this knight sac a few weeks ago. Great in Bullet because the constant checks take so much time off your opponent's clock.
I'm glad you're having good results with it!
Very enjoyable video. I was a big fan of Fischer in 1972 when I was a young newlywed working at the local shipyard.
Just bought soft soft! So excited to get started!!
I might be missing something here, but why can't the black queen simply move to b5, take the white knight at 4:42 and avoid checkmate?
When you're walked through it, it all seems so clear. But whoever calculated all this to start with was a fine chess player indeed.
Ryt🤞
It is very interesting.
I notice ,you have talent in commenting., good luck!
Where did you get that software that shows different win rates in the openings? REALLY COOL!
It's Lichess.
Merci c'était très pédagogique👍
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I learned chess after the match series between Fischer and Spasky. But never could see a match of Fischer. Now I understand why he was great.
Hey first time viewer, long time chess player. I really enjoyed these analysis. Great chess content. You've got a sub from me.
I played Larsen in a simul back in the 70s and he crushed me in 14 moves! Just as well I wasn't playing Fischer.
Larsen was a brilliant player, of course.
I think Fischer knew Larsens' personality and knew he wouldn't accept a draw, even with black. He thought he could beat Fischer and said so before the match.
Wouldn’t Qb2xNb5 have saved the checkmate? Larsen then could have countered Fischer’s bishop check with the pawn or his bishop.
That would prevent the checkmate indeed. However, White will have a huge material advantage and Fischer would definitely win with an extra queen.
I’m confused why black can’t move Qb5 capturing the Knight. White can then play Bb5 capturing the Queen and mate but then Kf7 is available?
@@GMIgorSmirnov But why not Pawn to E6? Then king flees to F7 and if Kc7xRa8 then Qc3 check and QxBc4. The material would the roughly equal, and White's knight is trapped in a8.
Just tried this trap on one opponent, and it worked!
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Beautiful
You keep saying "Then this piece HAS to move here" and "this piece HAS to move there"... No it doesn't The only reason those pieces HAVE to move to where you say they do is because it's easy to get out of. It's only a winning move when you are moving pieces for both sides.
As always, I remember the first move and from there it is all downhill because I am not a good chess player!😁
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memorising moves someone else tells you to make doesn't make you a good chess player
@@m1nt9reen Actually, I am a superb player right up to the second move!
Black Queen could gave chess and then take the bishop for free!!!
4:51 - King pawn push blocking the queen?
Weak move.... the king is wide open
@@TheRomanianWolf actually i am amature, can u explain clearly how its a weak move?
@@meanonymous7135 Knight c7 checkmate
@@nolongerhuman1939 king e7?
@@meanonymous7135
My bad
After King e7,bishop c5 for checkmate
Nice
Pride goeth before a fall, Larsen should have taken the draw against Fischer :)
Nice,but which enemy will start with the Knight instead of the pawn😭
Fischer beat him like a drum!
Being a GM and losing in 10 moves is unfathomable to me. It's like everyone before Magnus had some sort of mental disorder that made them bad at board games.
It's called pressure. Anxiety. Human frailty. Overthinking.
ikr, i guess thats because there were no engines then
tried this opener against hard AI and they just don't seem to play it this way. they'll often open up with a knight after I open with mine.
AI is soo different from real ppl in blitz game
@@chazvidz9239 I found if you play the AI consistently with tips enabled they'll show you different variations and you just memorize the responses. AI definitely doesn't blunder as much as humans that's for sure.
Someone should seriously look for Bobby's son.
Hi GM Igor Smirnov, I am a fan!
What's the name of the app he's using for analysing?
Where can I find these dat base
maybe someone has to explain to you guys that the goal of chess is to have the opponent's king in an awkward and unsafe place while your King is seating safe smoking his pipe
Iam selling the Stockfish Buttplug at Amazon.
Who would want a used buttplug?
There will ever be one Fischer
Stockfish won't make the move 6:25 Pawn-H6. When you pick the most common move from a database with a hugh number of matches played by nuBs, the most common move can very often be the wrong move. This is especially true when tricky traps are involved. A database only composed of matches played by advanced+ level players would give you much better results, since many of the junk moves would be eliminated from the statistics..
It is possible to win in 10 moves or less, but that's not what chess is all about. We play chess for the fun of it, and to explore. I don't think even the pro chess players go in there looking for a mate in any amount of specific moves.
Great job sir
*** Thank U for this Excellent Game & Your Helpful Explanations ! Cheers ! 🎉❤😂😊😊
Using the knight in the fried liver instead of the bishop keeps a strong follow up bishop surprise check on the king winning the queen. Genius.
with the second method you can not cheke mate. you are blundering. Th openent can use knight or solder to blok. If the black openent move the night it will block the queen and you can not checkmate. what a blunder talk.Also at 7.41 scott ambit does not work will eat by kght instead of solder unless the player is not experianed.
The whole thing is not for thinking person is just to full people that they learned somethig. Very dissapointing to present this.
Most importantly, fried liver attack elimates casling.
Alexander Alékhin's name is pronounced ah-LYEH-hin in Russian and ah-LYEH-kin in English.
Lichess player database isn't good for traps because people make bots to play against each other to inflate (and later sell) high rated accounts, using trap lines. That way it doesn't trigger the bot detectors (stockfish doesn't fall for traps) and human review of a game is inconclusive because maybe someone fell for the trap. But dig deeper into those games and you'll see one account falling for the same trap line over and over for like 100 games in a row.
You are now my favorite online teacher, Igor! At what age did you become GM?
This first play of Larsen - horrible mistake - make possible to take by the knight f7. Thank you - very good video.
I think the lesson is if you play the Alekhine you better know it pretty good.
black was definitely what i call ogre chess player. lets take all materials!!
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❤ unbelievable! Exactly this Kamikaze style of playing is what i have been trying insistently, i thought it was against the book, but i was so sure of this principle because you are basically forcing the opponent to move where you actually need him to!
What happens if 3…Bf5 instead 3…Nf6. It seems not obvious for white to justify the gambit…
I wish the commentator would stop rambling, about ratings! And just explain the two sides of a move. Good and better?
Absolutely filthy… I love it
i put this video on 2x speed, just so i didn't have to listen to the commentary, and could watch the real mastery at work...
what about 11... e6 instead of 11... N7f6?
12. cxd5 exd5
13. Bf4+ Ke7
14. Bd3 Nf6
... and black can hope for a draw
Am I the only 1 who see this is more than 10 moves??
At 5:07 couldn't the queen just capture the knight on b5?
Bishop takes queen... are you serious with such a move???
Oh yeah I didn't see that 😅
Larsen: "I'm playing for the win, bitch"
10 moves later..
Larsen: "Oh"
Do some videos with less options the back and forth losses the point in the end I'm seeing 9 million other things and the video losses the point of you making it
3:53 If I were black here I would have gone Queen G4 and hope to trade off the queens. Is there a reason not to? If no trade at least protecting the C4 check.
Edit: after further inspection I guess black is screwed regardless 😂
Alekhine defense trap looks so fun but it's very risky isn't it? What if, instead of 1. Nf3 d5 2. e4 dxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6, black plays 3. ... Bf5? That ruins the gambit and white is simply down a pawn, with a hanging knight. 3. ... Bf5 seems a natural move (if not as common as Nf6) even if black suspects nothing (or at least doesn't know this gambit). Is there a "backup plan" for white in the case of 3. ... Bf5, or is it really just risking it all on the hope that black plays 3. ... Nf6?
Thanks for the great lessons!
In their prime, at their very peak, Fischer would destroy them all!
Igor, your accent is definitely very interesting. I wasn't able to tell where you're from just by listening to you.
Very interesting. But I wish the commentator spoke more slowly.
This is a blitz game played at the Santa Monica blitz, 1966.
Wade/OConnell's Fischer book mentions this game and says that Evans in Chess Life says that after 10...Kd6 Larsen said "now I play for a win!" Evans says then "he got slaughtered after 11 c4..."
😂
Thanks. I played in the USCF from 1967 to 1986, and followed BF closely, soon as I saw the opening moves, I thought, where the HELL was THIS game from?!?! Thanks for clarifying. However, it seems strange that BF, who was famous for not playing for draws against anybody, would, apparently, do so with the White piece, no less, in a blitz game. I've no idea why he repeated moves, nor what he intended if Larsen had not deviated. I remember Larsen crowing about him getting the top board over Fischer to play against Spassky in the 1970 "USSR vs the Rest of the World" and he, Larsen, got squashed in, like, 18 moves. I also remember him writing a column that "explained away" his 6-0 loss to Fischer that was titled, "Unlucky Heat Wave in Denver" (where the match was played, lol.
@@tubeerv After his lost match against Lasker Tarrasch "explained away" the disaster having suffered from the sea climate in Düsseldorf (Tarrasch lived in Munich ). Düsseldorf has no "sea climate" - this is plain nonsense, still hundreds of miles to go.
@@rainerausdemspring3584 Yeah, Tarrasch was, if memory serves, a CRUSTY old sucker, and I see where the Great Dane BL got his "inspiration" from, lol.
@@tubeerv Tarrasch was rather dogmatic, but he was a great player and was called "Praeceptor Germaniae" since many players learned form his famous books.
It must have been a great triumph for him to beat the equally dogmatic Niemzowitsch in a spectacular game.
His life was very hard - he lost all three sons very early. One died in WW I, one committed suicide and one died in an accident. Of his 3 daughters one died very young, too.
At least he died "early enough" - in 1934 - not to suffer from the Mazis.
On his tombstone is engraved (of course in German): Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch Arzt und Schachgrossmeister, Praeceptor Germaniae
What a tombstone!
Larsen played like a total patzer here. Anybody with good chess intuiition would smell that a mate was there.
Slava Ukraina
Chess is a simple game. Two people play and Bobby Fisher wins.
What should white do after black plays bishop A5 on move 3 ??
Yay I learn another opening trap next mission convince my classmate to put his pawn to g5😂😂
Fried fox 🦊 gambit is more fun to play against Alekhine's imo
Brilliant video...thx .....an important reminder to always have The Beginners Mind....that's how we keep learning from the greats !
Not really a trap. Kd6 is just a most terrible move by black.
Black can save itself from resigning if he plays Bd7
plz tell me a great chess software
I'm a intermediate player
Interesting, can't find the game online, must keep looking...
"Free masterclass" is what made me unsub. It isn't free at all.
2 mn 44s Kd5 instead of Kc6. Do you think of this variant ?
Not bad
Yay the trap worked 😆 feels really funny to pull off
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Why did he resign? If queen take night, bishop take queen, check. Then either the pawn comes up to block and threaten, or king moves to light square. Then bishop goes back, check. Then what? If king goes back, then it will be a draw, going back and forth. I can't see a place for the queen to check in one move, so that opens the door for more blocks.
Bro he is literally up a full rook it is +4.99 for white.
Other knight
Im just getting into chess. Is it weird that I have to slow down the videos??
Why didn't black queen take king at the start?
Very Strong 💪 power openning game and tactics
Wow wonderful bobby fischer
minchia ti sei scoreggiato...ma quanto piditi?
Should've used an ICBM.
It was just a blitz game.
Black response like a mediocre not like a pro
Game could have continued by Bd7 block
4:45, Why black resign if black can play bishop D7 to stop the chechmate? is't because he loss the rock and most likely lose the game?
NOBODY in chess tournaments play until checkmate... 99% of the games finish by resignation when the position is lost.