@Nunchucks67 There are wires going from the board and from the clock, because they are electronic chess boards and clocks, and they are connected to a server that can shows the games and the time on the clock live on internet. Nowadays almost all important tournaments are live on the web to thousands of chess fans, who can watch the games exactly as if they were right there looking at the board and clock.
@Myoldnamesdontwork I'm not too sure what you mean by "looping", I guess repeating the same position over and over. There is a rule in chess "draw by three-fold repetition", if the position repeats itself 3 times, one of the players has the possibility to call the arbiter and request a draw. In big matches usually an arbiter is always close by. To avoid "conceding" a draw, one needs to make different moves (to avoid 3 times the same position), and that's quite hard to do when little time is left
Thanks for your comment. Remember in blitz the goal is to win, and so one does not tend to want to "hold a draw" or play "simple" moves. 50...Kxh5 is of course better but after 51. Rc6 white has easy play and my white knight can become a headache for black in time trouble. By playing 50...Rd2 black was hoping for a possible ...e3 which would win f2, but that never happened.
The King + pawn at the end is an easy win and you will find it in every chess endgame book. The player with the extra pawn has to help the pawn become a queen by taking the opposition (standing in front of the opponent's king) then after the king moves advance to the other side and the pawn will queen for sure.
This blitz game was played at 3 minutes for the whole game per player plus 2 seconds increment time per each move played. That's the new FIDE time control for blitz games played at the world blitz championship. Adding a small increment to each move makes the games much better quality than they used to be with "old" chess clocks and a time control of 5 minutes per player per game.
GREAT video. You and Natalia Zhukova are my two Favorite female players :). Hope Natalia gets the (regular) GM title soon . She deserves it :). Thanks !!
In chess, up to the last second, there are 3 possible results, win, draw or loss. You've got to be totally focused and concentrated to try to achieve the best result you can.
@noxtradamentus to make sure that a move is made before the clock is pressed. the board has pressure sensors, so that it will be able to detect a move.
@Zepplinne The boards and clocks are electronic and are connected live to the internet so that everybody can watch the games live. In such tournaments there are at the same time many thousands of people watching the game in their browsers and on their phones.
Sorry, the arbiters only allowed the cameras on the other side so they could see the clocks in case of need. Since it was a FIDE official blitz championship, the time control was the official one of 3 minutes plus 2 seconds added per move played.
@Myoldnamesdontwork It's a chess clock, to measure time. Chess games are played with a limited amount of time for both players (otherwise the losing player might think "forever" to avoid losing), for example 5 minutes for the whole game, or 1 hour for the whole game. If time runs out, you lose the game, regardless of the position on the board. This blitz game was played at 3 minutes for the whole game per player plus 2 seconds increment time per move.
Alexandra, you are a great player and I'm a fan of yours! See all his matches on youtube, looking for inspiration for my playing. It's a shame that here in Brazil, chess is not much practiced. Congratulations, beautiful champion!
@tonycomeau622 The time control was the official FIDE blitz time control, 3 + 2, which means 3 minutes for the whole game + 2 seconds added each move. It about the same as 5 minutes per game but it's better because it avoids the risk of losing on time with very large material advantage.
All openings are playable. Games are not won in the opening, but in the middle game. The goal of the opening is to reach a "playable" middle game. You can get very interesting middle games playing 3. e5 in the Caro-Kann.
It's an electronic board and clock that are connected together and go to a computer so that both the moves and the time can be shown in a java applet live on the Internet. There can be thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of people who are watching the games of important tournaments live on the Internet.
Pretty much all my chess games are in the GigaKing database included in the chess software Chess King. This one is included there for sure, as well as over 1,300 of my other games played in official tournaments. GigaKing has over 5 million master games.
@zepplinne it is not from the clock to the board it's from both the clock and the board to a computer which is how the officials know exactly what each move was and when it was played... :)
@Phplover1 Sure it's possible to play ches much faster. However the goal is to play as high quality chess as possible given the little time you get in a blitz game.
This RUclips channel "chessqueen" is mine, and so the posts in my name are mine. If you have questions not related to the video, you can always email me, my contact can be found on my web site.
Trying to understand this game better but can't find it on chessgamescom... There is another very similar game but it's from the 60th Russian Women's Superfinal.
@noxtradamentus because it is a special board that is conected to the computer,so every move is transfered to the monitor to people see it there and in the internet.
I'm not really experienced but could You explain me who come that blonde girl moves(6:39) from F7 to F5 and other woman hits it from E5 to F6 is it some kind of rule I don't know? coz I thought it would be possible to hit it to F6 only if a pawn would be on F6. Thanks
I am playing and will play lots of chess tournaments in 2013, this month in Geneva, then possibly Belgrade, Washington, DC, Tashkent, Moscow, Beijing, and probably some more. All information about my tournaments is on my web site.
Holding one's head helps to concentrate better. The opponent is not really able to look at the eyes and "guess" what I am looking at, in any case, I could be looking at a bad move, also a good chess player looks at variations all over the board, so the eyes move a lot. It's just a question of concentration.
Most top chess tournaments nowadays are broadcast live over the web to thousands of chess fans, thanks to electronic chess boards and clocks. You can find the web addresses of such tournaments on the "FIDE" site, or on chess blogs, for example my blog "chessblog". A good site that relays live games is "chessbomb".
I love the semi-slav defense. It is an extremely solid opening. I have been learning it. However, usually the lightsquared bishop is inside the pawn triangle and fianchettos after B5. Blacks king stayed in the center a long time. Very intense game.
@foxlimacharlie That's called the "en passant" pawn capture. Check wikipedia to find out how it's done. In chess there are only two "strange" moves 1) Castling, where you move simultaneously King & Rook, and 2) En passant, where you can take a pawn immediately after it moves 2 squares as if it had moved 1 square. Exact definitions are online! It's great you're learning chess, good luck in your study!
@ChessQueen Hi Alexandra I notice your hands are held to your face to aid concentration - but do you think it is good sometimes to also "Step back" from the board? I think it was Alekhine who even used to get up and look at position from opponens point of view occasionally =) [perhaps not in blitz LOL, that'd be a bit chaotic...] I like your videos :)
If you Googled it you'd be able to find it out. In 2006 I played the Mexico Rapid Chess Invitational. I won 2 out of my 3 matches, against Mexican GM Gilberto Hernandez (2551 ELO) and against legendary GM Viktor Kortchnoi (2607 ELO) from Switzerland. I only lost one match against GM Sergei Karjakin of the Ukraine (ELO 2672), who eventually ended up winning the tournament, with 4 points.
especially the blonde one is a marvel... she could win so many times but she always found a way to change her position from a good one to an wtf one :P
I really admire how Valentina Gunina fought and battled all the way to the end against Alexandra!! I hate it when grandmasters just give up so quickly after they lose their queen or major pieces!!
CAPABLANCA SAID: PLAY THE OPENING LIKE A BOOK, THE MIDDLE LIKE A MAGICIAN AND THE FINAL LIKE A MACHINE. AND YOU DID IT! GOOD SITE AND CONGRATS ALEXANDRA!!!
I noticed your hands up to your forehead a lot during the middle game. I've often wondered if players will shield their eyes to keep their opponent from glimpsing at you to see which pieces you're concentrating on to better guess your next moves. Or is it just a natural physical reaction to someone in deep thought?
sorry for my stupid question maybe (i'm a begginer), but at the start you both move so fast, can you really see the opponent's moves? i mean, if for example, i do a stupid or wrong move, will you notice?
@JohnBlack666id Chess is a very fair game - practice daily and you will most certainly get better. Write down your moves when you play chess, then review the game with someone a little stronger than you and ask him/her where you could have played better. Each time you play you will enjoy it more and win more! Good luck!
@Norvegicus7 Thanks for your kind comment, I'm glad you like my videos. Sure, to get better you need to have passion and love of chess that allows you to train and play chess without counting the hours. A good training tool could be the chess software Chess King as well as some Tactics Training programs. I use them and they help.
@TheBirdBrothers Sure it's useful sometimes to step back, but not in blitz :-) Some players also close their eyes or look to the side, and imagine the position in their minds.
Oh I see now. Thank you for the explanation! So it's when the kings would be reversed that the 'defender' can be in front of the pawn and drawn, i thought it was this. But the king was the wrong side!! Thank you so much, great videos!
@kofeinas Sure, it's a rare move, called "en passant", when you can take a pawn as if it had moved 1 square. Check the exact rules on Wikipedia (search for chess en passant capture). There are very few special moves in chess, castling is one, and en passant is another.
@kokudouful For those of you who don't speak Japanese (like me), this is what Google Translate says it corresponds to: "Chess - I work out really well. Kosutenyuku indeed! ! Tactical move, but could not understand at all, just awesome win by a single pawn! ! It was pleasant match was like the other players do not give up until the end."
That's called taking a pawn "en passant", you can google it or look in Wikipedia, it's a special rule in chess, just like castling. Luckily, there are very few such special rules in chess! :-)
As Frank Marshall said "The hardest part of chess is winning a won game". In blitz it's even more so. And don't forget knights are extremely dangerous in blitz, so in practical terms knight and pawn can often hold their own against a Rook and create significant threats. Houdini 2 agrees with this and the position from the 23rd to the 43rd move is evaluated as about equal. I missed 23. Nh5! which is crushing. She missed a few better moves in the endgame. It's normal, it's blitz!
Apart from the 2 kings I had a pawn at the end, and I managed to take the opposition with my opponent's king which guaranteed that my pawn would make it to the last 8th row and would promote to a Queen. It's very easy to mate a lone king with a Queen, which is why my opponent resigned.
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I really enjoy watching these games on youtube, thanks for uploading . . . . .
@Nunchucks67 There are wires going from the board and from the clock, because they are electronic chess boards and clocks, and they are connected to a server that can shows the games and the time on the clock live on internet. Nowadays almost all important tournaments are live on the web to thousands of chess fans, who can watch the games exactly as if they were right there looking at the board and clock.
@Myoldnamesdontwork I'm not too sure what you mean by "looping", I guess repeating the same position over and over. There is a rule in chess "draw by three-fold repetition", if the position repeats itself 3 times, one of the players has the possibility to call the arbiter and request a draw. In big matches usually an arbiter is always close by. To avoid "conceding" a draw, one needs to make different moves (to avoid 3 times the same position), and that's quite hard to do when little time is left
@Eli121296 The ratings were approximately in the following ranges: Kosteniuk 2500-2520 and Gunina 2460-2480.
Thanks for your comment. Remember in blitz the goal is to win, and so one does not tend to want to "hold a draw" or play "simple" moves. 50...Kxh5 is of course better but after 51. Rc6 white has easy play and my white knight can become a headache for black in time trouble. By playing 50...Rd2 black was hoping for a possible ...e3 which would win f2, but that never happened.
It's a very good game; thanks for posting your videos :)
The King + pawn at the end is an easy win and you will find it in every chess endgame book. The player with the extra pawn has to help the pawn become a queen by taking the opposition (standing in front of the opponent's king) then after the king moves advance to the other side and the pawn will queen for sure.
nice game Alexandra... and nice video, thanks
This blitz game was played at 3 minutes for the whole game per player plus 2 seconds increment time per each move played. That's the new FIDE time control for blitz games played at the world blitz championship. Adding a small increment to each move makes the games much better quality than they used to be with "old" chess clocks and a time control of 5 minutes per player per game.
GREAT video. You and Natalia Zhukova are my two Favorite female players :). Hope Natalia gets the (regular) GM title soon . She deserves it :). Thanks !!
In chess, up to the last second, there are 3 possible results, win, draw or loss. You've got to be totally focused and concentrated to try to achieve the best result you can.
@noxtradamentus to make sure that a move is made before the clock is pressed. the board has pressure sensors to detect a move.
Welcome back Mrs. Kosteniuk! Wonderful endgame display.
@noxtradamentus to make sure that a move is made before the clock is pressed. the board has pressure sensors, so that it will be able to detect a move.
@Zepplinne The boards and clocks are electronic and are connected live to the internet so that everybody can watch the games live. In such tournaments there are at the same time many thousands of people watching the game in their browsers and on their phones.
Sorry, the arbiters only allowed the cameras on the other side so they could see the clocks in case of need. Since it was a FIDE official blitz championship, the time control was the official one of 3 minutes plus 2 seconds added per move played.
@Myoldnamesdontwork It's a chess clock, to measure time. Chess games are played with a limited amount of time for both players (otherwise the losing player might think "forever" to avoid losing), for example 5 minutes for the whole game, or 1 hour for the whole game. If time runs out, you lose the game, regardless of the position on the board. This blitz game was played at 3 minutes for the whole game per player plus 2 seconds increment time per move.
Alexandra, you are a great player and I'm a fan of yours! See all his matches on youtube, looking for inspiration for my playing. It's a shame that here in Brazil, chess is not much practiced. Congratulations, beautiful champion!
It was the 2010 Women's World Chess Blitz Championship.
Unbelievable endgame. She was down three pieces. Excellent performance Mrs K
@tonycomeau622 The time control was the official FIDE blitz time control, 3 + 2, which means 3 minutes for the whole game + 2 seconds added each move. It about the same as 5 minutes per game but it's better because it avoids the risk of losing on time with very large material advantage.
All openings are playable. Games are not won in the opening, but in the middle game. The goal of the opening is to reach a "playable" middle game. You can get very interesting middle games playing 3. e5 in the Caro-Kann.
@ChessQueen Thanks for answer. I knew already about castling but this one was something new for me. Going to try it sometime indeed. Cheers.
It's an electronic board and clock that are connected together and go to a computer so that both the moves and the time can be shown in a java applet live on the Internet. There can be thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of people who are watching the games of important tournaments live on the Internet.
Pretty much all my chess games are in the GigaKing database included in the chess software Chess King. This one is included there for sure, as well as over 1,300 of my other games played in official tournaments. GigaKing has over 5 million master games.
well done , its a big dream for me to play chess like you. I study now hard with chess king . and analyse your games with Houdini. :)
There are videos Kosteniuk playing against Karpov, Kasparov or Ian Neponiachitchin? How can I find then?
I love That....great Video....
@zepplinne it is not from the clock to the board it's from both the clock and the board to a computer which is how the officials know exactly what each move was and when it was played... :)
@2530611 Yes I have videos of me playing Karpov, several of them. Kasparov stopped playing competitive chess when I was a kid.
@Phplover1 Sure it's possible to play ches much faster. However the goal is to play as high quality chess as possible given the little time you get in a blitz game.
This RUclips channel "chessqueen" is mine, and so the posts in my name are mine. If you have questions not related to the video, you can always email me, my contact can be found on my web site.
Trying to understand this game better but can't find it on chessgamescom... There is another very similar game but it's from the 60th Russian Women's Superfinal.
@noxtradamentus because it is a special board that is conected to the computer,so every move is transfered to the monitor to people see it there and in the internet.
I'm not really experienced but could You explain me who come that blonde girl moves(6:39) from F7 to F5 and other woman hits it from E5 to F6 is it some kind of rule I don't know? coz I thought it would be possible to hit it to F6 only if a pawn would be on F6. Thanks
I am playing and will play lots of chess tournaments in 2013, this month in Geneva, then possibly Belgrade, Washington, DC, Tashkent, Moscow, Beijing, and probably some more. All information about my tournaments is on my web site.
Holding one's head helps to concentrate better. The opponent is not really able to look at the eyes and "guess" what I am looking at, in any case, I could be looking at a bad move, also a good chess player looks at variations all over the board, so the eyes move a lot. It's just a question of concentration.
Most top chess tournaments nowadays are broadcast live over the web to thousands of chess fans, thanks to electronic chess boards and clocks. You can find the web addresses of such tournaments on the "FIDE" site, or on chess blogs, for example my blog "chessblog". A good site that relays live games is "chessbomb".
i love you kosteniuk
@TheConstipatedcamel quality of the game or of the video ? :P
btw agreed on the second
I love the semi-slav defense. It is an extremely solid opening. I have been learning it. However, usually the lightsquared bishop is inside the pawn triangle and fianchettos after B5. Blacks king stayed in the center a long time. Very intense game.
Can White come out better than with an equal position in the Caro-Kann advanced variation (I mean this with 3. e5 ...)??
Why were there wires going from the clock to the board? I have never seen this before.
Fantastic.
4:20 Perhaps a simple combination? White takes knight on c5 and then after exchange rook can take b7? Ideas?
@foxlimacharlie That's called the "en passant" pawn capture. Check wikipedia to find out how it's done. In chess there are only two "strange" moves 1) Castling, where you move simultaneously King & Rook, and 2) En passant, where you can take a pawn immediately after it moves 2 squares as if it had moved 1 square. Exact definitions are online! It's great you're learning chess, good luck in your study!
I have been watching: 70% Valentina, 20% Kosteniuk, 10% Chess :)
@ChessQueen Hi Alexandra I notice your hands are held to your face to aid concentration - but do you think it is good sometimes to also "Step back" from the board? I think it was Alekhine who even used to get up and look at position from opponens point of view occasionally =) [perhaps not in blitz LOL, that'd be a bit chaotic...] I like your videos :)
If you Googled it you'd be able to find it out. In 2006 I played the Mexico Rapid Chess Invitational. I won 2 out of my 3 matches, against Mexican GM Gilberto Hernandez (2551 ELO) and against legendary GM Viktor Kortchnoi (2607 ELO) from Switzerland. I only lost one match against GM Sergei Karjakin of the Ukraine (ELO 2672), who eventually ended up winning the tournament, with 4 points.
What was the time control?
Why is that board plugged into VGA connector. Are the moves being displayed on a TV?
I love seeing ladies play chess. I enjoy that game just as much!
Я люблю вас Александра.
@oncemarkonce Did you mean "smart chess players" ?
that fork was rather brutal...
Shame we can't see the clock. No idea what the time controls are.
I've been to Mexico in 2006 and I liked it very much!
@TheConstipatedcamel set to 480p and it will look good
@suzanneramdane Yes I was recently in Rabat, Morocco, I loved that trip! We promoted chess a lot!
Speed chess is so damn thrilling.
Also, how is it possible that Kosteniuk and every single one of the opponents are so attractive?
Que videos desconocía que tuviera una cuenta en you tuve sr kosteniuk
especially the blonde one is a marvel... she could win so many times but she always found a way to change her position from a good one to an wtf one :P
you're making me discover women chess. Thank you for sharing your pieces of life
How and when does one get to see you playing in 2013?
you say we can watch these game played live??? from where ? can anyone give me a webadresse ?
Is this game in any database. .. can you send a link so I can study this game
I really admire how Valentina Gunina fought and battled all the way to the end against Alexandra!! I hate it when grandmasters just give up so quickly after they lose their queen or major pieces!!
CAPABLANCA SAID: PLAY THE OPENING LIKE A BOOK, THE MIDDLE LIKE A MAGICIAN AND THE FINAL LIKE A MACHINE. AND YOU DID IT! GOOD SITE AND CONGRATS ALEXANDRA!!!
Was it 3min with 2sec increment or 5min
I noticed your hands up to your forehead a lot during the middle game. I've often wondered if players will shield their eyes to keep their opponent from glimpsing at you to see which pieces you're concentrating on to better guess your next moves. Or is it just a natural physical reaction to someone in deep thought?
can someone explain me why Gunina played dxe4 instead of Nxe4
I like ur playing style alexandra
sorry for my stupid question maybe (i'm a begginer), but at the start you both move so fast, can you really see the opponent's moves? i mean, if for example, i do a stupid or wrong move, will you notice?
@JohnBlack666id Chess is a very fair game - practice daily and you will most certainly get better. Write down your moves when you play chess, then review the game with someone a little stronger than you and ask him/her where you could have played better. Each time you play you will enjoy it more and win more! Good luck!
@Norvegicus7 Thanks for your kind comment, I'm glad you like my videos. Sure, to get better you need to have passion and love of chess that allows you to train and play chess without counting the hours. A good training tool could be the chess software Chess King as well as some Tactics Training programs. I use them and they help.
You won the game in the ending, not in the middle game. How happy have you been with your middle game during this game ?
Nice game !
@TheBirdBrothers Sure it's useful sometimes to step back, but not in blitz :-) Some players also close their eyes or look to the side, and imagine the position in their minds.
Oh I see now. Thank you for the explanation!
So it's when the kings would be reversed that the 'defender' can be in front of the pawn and drawn, i thought it was this. But the king was the wrong side!!
Thank you so much, great videos!
she is a real chess queen, by the way she promotes the game!
@gzimkelmendi0 It's a called "En passant". I don't feel like describing it but you can look it up on Wikipedia or a chess website.
Why is the clock connected with the board?
Indeed 44...Rc4 would have given black a big advantage. Remember it was a blitz game and it's never over before it's over.
instructive endgame, thanks
Uh kind of new to chess but how did white take that pawn at 6:43 ?
@kofeinas Sure, it's a rare move, called "en passant", when you can take a pawn as if it had moved 1 square. Check the exact rules on Wikipedia (search for chess en passant capture). There are very few special moves in chess, castling is one, and en passant is another.
Gunina missed that Knight fork!? And she lost the rook. But then still a tricky endgame!
Wasn't the king + pawn at the end drawn?
very nice exchange sac!
@ChessQueen omg you are the hottest, and smartest and strongest of them all miss Chess Queen!
No. If Nc4+ (I suppose this is what you meant), then black can take the knight with the pawn dxc4. Grandmasters rarely miss obvious tactics ;)
it's easy to mate with pawn if you know a technique, and even if you don't you can change your pawn for queen so... it's basically a won game
arrrrrrrrmooooossssooooo !!!!! Best regards!
@kokudouful For those of you who don't speak Japanese (like me), this is what Google Translate says it corresponds to: "Chess - I work out really well. Kosutenyuku indeed! ! Tactical move, but could not understand at all, just awesome win by a single pawn! ! It was pleasant match was like the other players do not give up until the end."
@jeanjeudy Three pieces? Which one? She won because her opponent made a blunder and lose rook...
That's called taking a pawn "en passant", you can google it or look in Wikipedia, it's a special rule in chess, just like castling. Luckily, there are very few such special rules in chess! :-)
Girls that play chess........so wonderful!
I wish my gf would play chess with me : (
Oh yes, I would notice! ;)
10:40 is possible Nxe4 dxe4 Kxe4 white wins.
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As Frank Marshall said "The hardest part of chess is winning a won game". In blitz it's even more so. And don't forget knights are extremely dangerous in blitz, so in practical terms knight and pawn can often hold their own against a Rook and create significant threats. Houdini 2 agrees with this and the position from the 23rd to the 43rd move is evaluated as about equal. I missed 23. Nh5! which is crushing. She missed a few better moves in the endgame. It's normal, it's blitz!
Apart from the 2 kings I had a pawn at the end, and I managed to take the opposition with my opponent's king which guaranteed that my pawn would make it to the last 8th row and would promote to a Queen. It's very easy to mate a lone king with a Queen, which is why my opponent resigned.