I know this feeling all too well. It's very disappointing when you have a crushing position and the computer points out a million ways to win and you manage to find one of the very few concrete lines that loses the advantage. Still it was very instructive and analysing games like this can be really helpful to improve I think.
Anyone demanding higher rated opponents just slow your role! Especially on ICC John does NOT get to choose his opponents in the pools, which is what makes the pools very intriguing for a huge audience, not to mention the ratings are more accurate due to this more randomized-but-somewhat-close-rating pairing.
I actually saw one or two of these tactics prior to being played! I feel like a light went on or something.....then it was quickly extinguished, hahahaha!
i repeated the video again and again from 13:00 to 14:00 and i think from a mikhail tal stand point i could see tal making the h4 move. honestly i think that after white plays 19.h4 white is threatening knight xf6 witch i thought was strong. let say 19. h4 19.(i dont even see a good move for black) b5. 20. Nxf6 exf6. 21.f5 Rh8 trying to defend with rook on the king side even more. black hopes to get both rooks over to the kingside perhaps. trying to defend. NOW I AM LOOKING AT SOMETHING REALLY STRONG IT SEEMS. after 21. Rh8 play the very strong looking 22. Bxh5 the reason we played h4 was to stop black form playing and to me it seems that after h4 whites has so much coordination on the h5 sqaure so why allow black to have that resource and disrupt whites coordination. so after the bishop sacrifice on the h5 sqaure. 22.Bxh5 gxh523.Nxh5 and i think black is busted. ok lets go back (A)19. h5 Ng4 just the immediate 20.Nxh5 opening the b1 h7 diagonal (A) 20. gxh5 queen c2 then to follow knight g5 and the bishop on e2 can come to d3 or if the knight moves on g4 and the bishop is attacking h5. i mean black is busted. i think. i would not be-afraid to sack a piece in that variation. on the (A) variation you still have that powerful pawn on e6 and eventually your rook on f1 will be engaged after f5. this is just too much for black so lets what else black can do after (B) 19.h4 Nfg4 20.f5 Bd4+ 21.Kh1this wont work either. back to the original variation 19.h4 (NO B5) Rh8 21.Qc2 Kg8 22.f5 Qa4 and i think that move needs to have !!!!!!22.Qa4 black is busted. i did these variations on my chess board and did not check them with chess engine.
Morning John. Question about chess.com analysis. when I rerun a game and comp declares an inaccuracy , and suggests another move is this a definitive move or are some of the comps suggestions too strict?
Not for this video, but I don't know where to post this. I grabbed from Jerry's stream moments after the win with 0.0 left on the clock! i.imgur.com/Gj92bHi.png. Super-exciting, almost enough for me to join twitter to maybe catch the rematch!
Conocí tu canal hace unas semanas y ya vi la mayoría de tus vídeos. Excelentes partidas y excelente comentario. Sigue así John, saludos desde Mexico!
+Mauro Gracias, Mauro! ¡Salud!
I know this feeling all too well. It's very disappointing when you have a crushing position and the computer points out a million ways to win and you manage to find one of the very few concrete lines that loses the advantage. Still it was very instructive and analysing games like this can be really helpful to improve I think.
+フィッシャー00769 Definitely - it's one of the more soul-crushing feelings chess :) Thanks for watching/commenting!
Anyone demanding higher rated opponents just slow your role! Especially on ICC John does NOT get to choose his opponents in the pools, which is what makes the pools very intriguing for a huge audience, not to mention the ratings are more accurate due to this more randomized-but-somewhat-close-rating pairing.
"unusual waters", good name for a tributary scandinavian metal band. Fins channel theme song? somebody get on that!
If i remember correctly, Hartikainen is from Estonia originally? Although, his surname is Finnish.
I have played Hartikainen in a pub. Lost though...
I actually saw one or two of these tactics prior to being played! I feel like a light went on or something.....then it was quickly extinguished, hahahaha!
+scottdpt12 Nice, Scott!
i repeated the video again and again from 13:00 to 14:00 and i think from a mikhail tal stand point i could see tal making the h4 move. honestly i think that after white plays 19.h4 white is threatening knight xf6 witch i thought was strong. let say 19. h4 19.(i dont even see a good move for black) b5. 20. Nxf6 exf6. 21.f5 Rh8 trying to defend with rook on the king side even more. black hopes to get both rooks over to the kingside perhaps. trying to defend. NOW I AM LOOKING AT SOMETHING REALLY STRONG IT SEEMS. after 21. Rh8 play the very strong looking 22. Bxh5 the reason we played h4 was to stop black form playing and to me it seems that after h4 whites has so much coordination on the h5 sqaure so why allow black to have that resource and disrupt whites coordination. so after the bishop sacrifice on the h5 sqaure. 22.Bxh5 gxh523.Nxh5 and i think black is busted. ok lets go back (A)19. h5 Ng4 just the immediate 20.Nxh5 opening the b1 h7 diagonal (A) 20. gxh5 queen c2 then to follow knight g5 and the bishop on e2 can come to d3 or if the knight moves on g4 and the bishop is attacking h5. i mean black is busted. i think. i would not be-afraid to sack a piece in that variation. on the (A) variation you still have that powerful pawn on e6 and eventually your rook on f1 will be engaged after f5. this is just too much for black so lets what else black can do after (B) 19.h4 Nfg4 20.f5 Bd4+ 21.Kh1this wont work either. back to the original variation 19.h4 (NO B5) Rh8 21.Qc2 Kg8 22.f5 Qa4 and i think that move needs to have !!!!!!22.Qa4 black is busted. i did these variations on my chess board and did not check them with chess engine.
Morning John. Question about chess.com analysis. when I rerun a game and comp declares an inaccuracy , and suggests another move is this a definitive move or are some of the comps suggestions too strict?
Always better to go through and have the engine on rather than having it go through for you. You can try other moves and see other lines.
On move 22, why not Nxe6, forking the queen and rook?
+SnapeDiesPg658 because bishop takes knight and the pawn pair is broken at the end.. his light bishop is bad anyways
Not for this video, but I don't know where to post this. I grabbed from Jerry's stream moments after the win with 0.0 left on the clock! i.imgur.com/Gj92bHi.png. Super-exciting, almost enough for me to join twitter to maybe catch the rematch!
what is the name of that chess program?
+Sargis Papazyan This is the BlitzIn interface for the Internet Chess Club (ICC).
+John Bartholomew thx
Hey John, this is Guys!
+dhyanais I should throw this in sometime and see how many people notice ;)
Tough loss but kudos to your opponent
+Matthew Dearle Yes, he made the most of his counter-chances!
i really think that h4 made white lose some coordination...
Fins against a Finn, I don't know which Fin to cheer for. #teamirlscandi :D
+Kehkioishii Team Fins, obviously :)
I believe Markku Hartikainen is from Estonia originaly.
at move 19 i thought h4 yourself was strong
uhh.. yeah.. its heartbreaking when u dont convert a plus four eval.
+Dhruv Jain Definitely.
how dare you loose this game :-) chess is difficult, isn't it ?
+Roelof Berkepeis Always!
John - love your videos, but it would be great if you stop calling people "they". How about some "he", "his", "she", "her" ?
If you don't know the gender someone using "they" is the only accurate way of referring to them