Thanks for the upload, a few (I hope helpful criticisms). The best camera work is when you don't notice the camera work, There were a few too many zoom ins zoom outs, try to concentrate on what's important, the board. Don't get impatient when they think and let the camera wander off somewhere irrelevant (like Kramnik's watch). But thank you very much, it's much better than a lot of uploads.
This game is so awesome!! I've seen it probably 5 times and everytime I'm astonished that one can play so fast, and still have an amazingly well played game :-) Most of this could very well have been two 1900's duking it out OTB!! :-)
@PocketJaces I agree with you completely that Naka was winning after the queen sacrifice from Kramnik, but these two men are just that good to know exactly how to psych out their opponent by playing wild unpredictable moves, and in Blitz (as opposed to slow) being wild and unpredictable can make or break your game. Its very similar to poker. Sometimes you just got to put pressure on your opponent, and thats what makes Kramnik's play so great here. He played the person, not the board.
well pushing the pawn to h5 cramps black's position and sometimes white tries to follow this up by gaining even more space with moves like f4 and g4. naka is just too good at blitz
Wowwwwwww this game is a masterpiece by kramnik, he calculated all Nakamura crazy tactics and beat it with 1 min left in the clock. Kramnik is the best player nowadays.
Hi everyone - ive notice there has been a bit of arguing about why Kramnik did not take the rook on a1 with his Knight. I believe that there are a couple of reasons. 1. Nakamura is a legendary blitz player - he is also a very attacking player and one of the worlds top 10 ranked players, he would not give up a rook without reason. . 2.Nakunura spent 1min 6sec on the move - so kramnik can safely assume that Nakumra would have calculated out this variation quite deeply.
Ps - sleepyeyeguy - the chess set is - DGT Sensory Board (USB) with Timeless Pieces £495.00 - and thefrancuteleac - the set size is (3.75 inch) king and the board 50mm squares 0 have a great day :)
@Armedmanx they're using DGT chess clocks and although this board looks slightly different, there are many other videos where i am confident they are using the DGT chess e-boards. i suspect the reason the board looks thinner is probably because they appear to be playing on a chss-table (the cutout hole&wire for the clock) which probably means the board is sitting inside of a cut-out as well
Thanks for making me look at this properly. It seems Kramnik had no alternative to Qd4. Saving the queen allows checkmate eg 17...Qd7 18 Nf6+ Bxf6 19 Bxf6 and white will mate with Rh8 or Qh8 (black can hang on a couple of moves by sacrificing queen and knight). Kramnik must have seen all this in his big (about 38 seconds) think on the move before. He played Qd4 and the following move instantly. A brilliant defence!
@nixthenamed ..In this case "no".In chess, you capture towards the center unless there is a clear mandate not to.A rare exception might be to capture towards a wing to create a passed pawn ending. The h7 square is still attacked whether there is a pawn on it or not.So capturing hxg is best . Also, the black diagonal g8-a2 is shown to be critical just a few moves later..so it is kept closed and e6 remains protected this way .
according to rybka kramnik was better until 15.Nxd4, when cxd4 (and then Ne3+)looks good for black, then after 16Ne4 the position seems to be slightly better for white, the decisive mistake is 20 Bd3 allowing Ne3+ which could have been prevented by 20 Re1, later Bxg6 is indeed incorrect too.
I guess it's positional strategy. That rook was doing nothing at the moment. So he keeps the knight active in the center, open a file for the queen (or rook in the future) get a pawn (and avoid loosing one), also blowing up white's center.
at 05.16 after Kramnik play Bg7f6; if Nakamura played Bg5f6 there is a checkmate for Nakamura after thaT. It can be prevented but even Kramnik prevented it, Nakamura could get certain advantage at pieces.
@PocketJaces no, he had moderate compensation for the queen. He deliberately hung his queen. Naka was a little overconfident I think, and didn't expect some of the wild unpredictable moves Kramnik threw at him.
At 5:15 black's in check, so he has to take the knight and let his queen be taken. At 5:17, if black takes the rook, white can play Bxf6 and will checkmate black in a few moves playing queen to g7 or h8 supported by the bishop on f6.
Naka tried to checkmate Kramnick like in a clubhouse style attack and kramnik defended like a pro. naka really tried to outplay him here and it backfired.
I am 2600 plus /taught chess over 40 years.Please do not call those who use the point system "patzers" .It is a logical way for new players or average players to keep track of the material balance OTB.Sub-masters usually look at moves while those over 2200 FIDE look at IDEAS to often tell them what the right move is.In any event,let us try not to put down players less successful at the game by name-calling and insulting them.We shall be judged by the moves we made in life-not on the chess board
Only patzers think in terms of points. The more advanced the player, the more weight is put on initiative, positional weaknesses and coordination of pieces. Strong players sac the exchange and pawns all the time to create an attack. Watch players under 1500 or so and you'll fall asleep as they're hanging pieces all over the board in a race to see who makes the last blunder.
After Nxa1 white has the simple answer: Ne4 attacking the g5 square and allowing a bishop to land there. Also playing Ne4 would be available, which would make stuff like Rh8+, Kxh8, Qh7 checkmate possible. Kramnik could defend against these attacks, but it would still give white the better game, whereas neglecting the rook and just capturing the d4-pawn gives a solid advantage to black. In short you can say, that whites dynamic counterplay would outweigh the loss of material if he took the rook.
I think because Nakamura was going to sacrifice his bishop by taking on e6 since he is adding pressure on it with the queen too and it's gonna be with check ... here he plays as aggressively as possible but the black king defense is strong enough.
Dont call him that. It is a really nice video with a nice angle and we can see the clock, and all that together doesnt seem to be very common. Besides it is a really nice watch : D
@SeedsofJoy you are right, Kramnik could have forked queen and bishop, but after the queen moves taking the bishop is not a good idea: 25 ... Nxd3+, 26 Kg1 and now Black cannot prevent 27 Qxh6 with strong attack
Nakamura had to find an answer to Knight h6, which would've put a second hit on his g4 pawn and one hit on his queen. I think the threat of capturing the g4 pawn with check definately would favor Kramnik's side at this point.
It's too dangerous because if his knight is on the queen side of the board, Nakamura's attack becomes very difficult to defend against. He would almost certainly have to give the material back, especially considering that it's a blitz game and he will probably miss the perfect defense, assuming there is one. I promise you, Kramnik didn't miss taking the rook, he was aiming for that fork for several moves.
It’s annoying how the cameraman, get off the board to zoom in the captured pieces. Very interrupting particularly when long period of thinking going on and the move is made missing the board.
I imagine it was because the rook wasn't really in nakamuras plan and Kramnik needed that knight to defend the incoming attack. I am pretty new to chess but I don't see how taking the rook would of helped given the situation.
@ShiranzITA hes not worried about that pawn or the exchange..Bc4 was to cut off the f7 escape square so he can set up a mate with bh6 etc..the objective is to win not worry about pawns and crap that dont really matter or effect whats going on..If you notice Nakas pressure on the king side was getting stronger and stronger..If he was playing against even me which is only 1900 id probably slip up and get mated..these two are both top 10 players in the world.Nakas down to number 6..they see it all
@scoot698 the black knight was needed to defend the king. it had to be moved back. otherwise, it would have been stuck in the corner and white's attack would have worked. I think thats the exact move Nakamura overlooked.
because the knight needs to get to f5 to protect the bishop on g7, and protect the square on h6. Naka should have played Bh6 earlier to remove black's dark square bishop
@xande43 I think the line taken was also not bad. The h4 idea looks not so good against pawn takes on e5 followed by knight d5. It is good agaionst the Knight f6 to dt7 line, but here is looks anti-positional.
@Gavondale If Qxb7, then Kramnik would probably have responded N8c6, protecting both knights and pretty much trapping the white queen there. Naka wanted his queen on the kingside, and it would've been uselessly trapped on the queenside if Qxb7 was played.
@PocketJaces You and many other players give the queen too much credit. If you look closely, you'll see that after Naka saves his rook, Kramnik had two knights and two pawns for the queen. That's 8 points vs the queens 9 points, which isn't that much of a difference, so like I said, Kramnik had adequate compensation for the exchange. It definitely wasn't a mistake.
@xJMAN07x I can't say I understand all of the nice moves, but in that case, moving his knight to the corner of the board would have been suicide with almost all of Nakamura's pieces congregating at Kramnik's kingside.
(continued) 3 Nakumura could win back the rook by force Ex - Nxa1 e6 Qe8 Qxb7 fxe6+ Kg1 Qd7 Qxd7 Nxd7 Bxe6+ Rf7 - so he would have only been temporally a rook down. Kramniks knight taking the d pawn instead was the strongest move - rybka agrees. I hope that answers all the questions about the strange knight move.
Fischer: sac, sac and mate!
Naka; sac, sac and.. hmm, where's my material?
Kramnik: Time, buddy!
That ending position of this game is absolutely flawless for black. Incredibly well done by Kramnik.
1up2275 This is undoubtedly one of the more brilliant live blitz games I've seen played on RUclips.
I'm a fan of chess and watches so I love how you zoom in on the watch :)
Thanks for actually getting a good steady shot of the board.
Thanks for the upload, a few (I hope helpful criticisms). The best camera work is when you don't notice the camera work, There were a few too many zoom ins zoom outs, try to concentrate on what's important, the board. Don't get impatient when they think and let the camera wander off somewhere irrelevant (like Kramnik's watch). But thank you very much, it's much better than a lot of uploads.
The pieces are the standard type used in most major tournaments, DGT Timeless. You can buy them directly from DGT, or from most chess dealers.
This game is so awesome!! I've seen it probably 5 times and everytime I'm astonished that one can play so fast, and still have an amazingly well played game :-)
Most of this could very well have been two 1900's duking it out OTB!! :-)
Why would anyone dislike this?
Kramnik is very strong in calculation and good defence
Love Kramnik when he points out that Nakamura's time is up :D
@PocketJaces I agree with you completely that Naka was winning after the queen sacrifice from Kramnik, but these two men are just that good to know exactly how to psych out their opponent by playing wild unpredictable moves, and in Blitz (as opposed to slow) being wild and unpredictable can make or break your game. Its very similar to poker. Sometimes you just got to put pressure on your opponent, and thats what makes Kramnik's play so great here. He played the person, not the board.
well pushing the pawn to h5 cramps black's position and sometimes white tries to follow this up by gaining even more space with moves like f4 and g4. naka is just too good at blitz
You cannot see anymore these kind of dynamic chess today.
I love how these board are part of the table.
Wowwwwwww this game is a masterpiece by kramnik, he calculated all Nakamura crazy tactics and beat it with 1 min left in the clock. Kramnik is the best player nowadays.
Hi everyone - ive notice there has been a bit of arguing about why Kramnik did not take the rook on a1 with his Knight. I believe that there are a couple of reasons. 1. Nakamura is a legendary blitz player - he is also a very attacking player and one of the worlds top 10 ranked players, he would not give up a rook without reason. . 2.Nakunura spent 1min 6sec on the move - so kramnik can safely assume that Nakumra would have calculated out this variation quite deeply.
Ps - sleepyeyeguy - the chess set is - DGT Sensory Board (USB) with Timeless Pieces £495.00 -
and thefrancuteleac - the set size is (3.75 inch) king and the board 50mm squares 0 have a great day :)
i like the way Nakamura moves the pieces
@Armedmanx they're using DGT chess clocks and although this board looks slightly different, there are many other videos where i am confident they are using the DGT chess e-boards. i suspect the reason the board looks thinner is probably because they appear to be playing on a chss-table (the cutout hole&wire for the clock) which probably means the board is sitting inside of a cut-out as well
Great play from Kramnik
..c5 and Nb4 attacking the center.
And ..Dxd4 sac the queen for pieces to create fortress
Superbe !
thanks!
This is just fantastic! Thanks very much!
Crazy h-pawn push by Naka! He likes to rumble and he rumbles with the best players in the world like Kramnik. Yarbles.
Thanks for making me look at this properly. It seems Kramnik had no alternative to Qd4. Saving the queen allows checkmate eg 17...Qd7 18 Nf6+ Bxf6 19 Bxf6 and white will mate with Rh8 or Qh8 (black can hang on a couple of moves by sacrificing queen and knight).
Kramnik must have seen all this in his big (about 38 seconds) think on the move before. He played Qd4 and the following move instantly. A brilliant defence!
Interesting...
Not so easy beating Kramnik without engine assistance, is it?
@nixthenamed ..In this case "no".In chess, you capture towards the center unless there is a clear mandate not to.A rare exception might be to capture towards a wing to create a passed pawn ending. The h7 square is still attacked whether there is a pawn on it or not.So capturing hxg is best . Also, the black diagonal g8-a2 is shown to be critical just a few moves later..so it is kept closed and e6 remains protected this way .
@LogikEngine It's to translate the game to live-tv for the spectators.
@winstonthechiu thank you very much =)
Chess cameramen are the worse....
Especially when he zoom in on Kramnik's watch :D I didn't understand why…
according to rybka kramnik was better until 15.Nxd4, when cxd4 (and then Ne3+)looks good for black, then after 16Ne4 the position seems to be slightly better for white, the decisive mistake is 20 Bd3 allowing Ne3+ which could have been prevented by 20 Re1, later Bxg6 is indeed incorrect too.
I guess it's positional strategy.
That rook was doing nothing at the moment.
So he keeps the knight active in the center, open a file for the queen (or rook in the future) get a pawn (and avoid loosing one), also blowing up white's center.
I think whoever is operating the camera is more interested in Kramnik's watch then the chess match.
at 05.16 after Kramnik play Bg7f6; if Nakamura played Bg5f6 there is a checkmate for Nakamura after thaT. It can be prevented but even Kramnik prevented it, Nakamura could get certain advantage at pieces.
@PocketJaces no, he had moderate compensation for the queen. He deliberately hung his queen. Naka was a little overconfident I think, and didn't expect some of the wild unpredictable moves Kramnik threw at him.
At 5:15 black's in check, so he has to take the knight and let his queen be taken. At 5:17, if black takes the rook, white can play Bxf6 and will checkmate black in a few moves playing queen to g7 or h8 supported by the bishop on f6.
Naka tried to checkmate Kramnick like in a clubhouse style attack and kramnik defended like a pro. naka really tried to outplay him here and it backfired.
I am 2600 plus /taught chess over 40 years.Please do not call those who use the point system "patzers" .It is a logical way for new players or average players to keep track of the material balance OTB.Sub-masters usually look at moves while those over 2200 FIDE look at IDEAS to often tell them what the right move is.In any event,let us try not to put down players less successful at the game by name-calling and insulting them.We shall be judged by the moves we made in life-not on the chess board
Only patzers think in terms of points. The more advanced the player, the more weight is put on initiative, positional weaknesses and coordination of pieces. Strong players sac the exchange and pawns all the time to create an attack. Watch players under 1500 or so and you'll fall asleep as they're hanging pieces all over the board in a race to see who makes the last blunder.
Wow what a nice game
@Thenextworldc Thanks for your explanation. I didnt see the pressure in E6 after after the Kramnik move. :-)
After Nxa1 white has the simple answer: Ne4 attacking the g5 square and allowing a bishop to land there. Also playing Ne4 would be available, which would make stuff like Rh8+, Kxh8, Qh7 checkmate possible. Kramnik could defend against these attacks, but it would still give white the better game, whereas neglecting the rook and just capturing the d4-pawn gives a solid advantage to black. In short you can say, that whites dynamic counterplay would outweigh the loss of material if he took the rook.
I like how Nak plays aggressive here!
why`d the camera dude keep glancing at kramniks watch? nice watch though
+Andre Devouisse xavier II I think you just answered your own question
This is the Kramnik i know and love!:D On a good day he can smash anybody outthere
he must have seen it, the only thing I can think of is, that he wanted the knight in range of his king so he could eventually defend.
I think because Nakamura was going to sacrifice his bishop by taking on e6 since he is adding pressure on it with the queen too and it's gonna be with check ... here he plays as aggressively as possible but the black king defense is strong enough.
Dont call him that. It is a really nice video with a nice angle and we can see the clock, and all that together doesnt seem to be very common. Besides it is a really nice watch : D
@SeedsofJoy
you are right, Kramnik could have forked queen and bishop, but after the queen moves taking the bishop is not a good idea: 25 ... Nxd3+, 26 Kg1 and now Black cannot prevent 27 Qxh6 with strong attack
The cameraman is really liking Kramnik's watch.
naka is a lot better now. what a game though
Nakamura had to find an answer to Knight h6, which would've put a second hit on his g4 pawn and one hit on his queen. I think the threat of capturing the g4 pawn with check definately would favor Kramnik's side at this point.
It's too dangerous because if his knight is on the queen side of the board, Nakamura's attack becomes very difficult to defend against. He would almost certainly have to give the material back, especially considering that it's a blitz game and he will probably miss the perfect defense, assuming there is one. I promise you, Kramnik didn't miss taking the rook, he was aiming for that fork for several moves.
@shadk89
Yes it's possible, Nakamura in blitz plays pretty agressive ;) Thank you!
I believe this is a DGT e-board and a DGT XL chess clock.
13...e6 permits the queen to attack the rook on h4. Still, even chess engines didn't see that move as better than Nxc2+ until looking 16 moves ahead.
It’s annoying how the cameraman, get off the board to zoom in the captured pieces. Very interrupting particularly when long period of thinking going on and the move is made missing the board.
Not everyday Naka loses on time.
I imagine it was because the rook wasn't really in nakamuras plan and Kramnik needed that knight to defend the incoming attack.
I am pretty new to chess but I don't see how taking the rook would of helped given the situation.
fckin awesome chess board and pieces.....gives look of elegance and kind of royal :)
@ShiranzITA hes not worried about that pawn or the exchange..Bc4 was to cut off the f7 escape square so he can set up a mate with bh6 etc..the objective is to win not worry about pawns and crap that dont really matter or effect whats going on..If you notice Nakas pressure on the king side was getting stronger and stronger..If he was playing against even me which is only 1900 id probably slip up and get mated..these two are both top 10 players in the world.Nakas down to number 6..they see it all
He's under attack, he needs all his pieces to be active.
Good picture of the watch at 4.59
@scoot698 the black knight was needed to defend the king. it had to be moved back. otherwise, it would have been stuck in the corner and white's attack would have worked. I think thats the exact move Nakamura overlooked.
because the knight needs to get to f5 to protect the bishop on g7, and protect the square on h6. Naka should have played Bh6 earlier to remove black's dark square bishop
@TheSuperScaryMonster That is the worst comment I have ever read in my life, a top tier professional chess player has a very enjoyable life.
@xande43
I think the line taken was also not bad.
The h4 idea looks not so good against pawn takes on e5 followed by knight d5.
It is good agaionst the Knight f6 to dt7 line, but here is looks anti-positional.
Naka had him - but he kind of rushed after he won the queen. gg
@Gavondale If Qxb7, then Kramnik would probably have responded N8c6, protecting both knights and pretty much trapping the white queen there. Naka wanted his queen on the kingside, and it would've been uselessly trapped on the queenside if Qxb7 was played.
supreme great angle
Am I missing something here or is Bh6 the winning move (or at least a devastating one) after Nd4?
love the ring
O jogo é difícil complicado mas só ganha e vence se jogar i for mais sábio do que seu adversário 😊🎉❤
@PocketJaces Yeah...he is a former WCH/...tremendous talent...Naka is great too,but still no match for old Kram:D
Naka was the victim of like 4 Queen sacs/Q vs. minor trades yesterday. Fun stuff.
he needed the knight in the center to defend the mate threat
once nakamura opened up the h file, why didn't he bring his dark squared bishop to h6 to remove the defender of the h8 square?
@PocketJaces You and many other players give the queen too much credit. If you look closely, you'll see that after Naka saves his rook, Kramnik had two knights and two pawns for the queen. That's 8 points vs the queens 9 points, which isn't that much of a difference, so like I said, Kramnik had adequate compensation for the exchange. It definitely wasn't a mistake.
How to ruin a better position by Naka
If I did not miss something, both of them misses ...Ne3+ at some point (But Kramnik sees it after Nakamura plays Bd3).
very creative opening by White
They make a living playing chess. As famous grandmasters, they're both probably wealthier than you are.
Who has better position in the end if there were no zeitnot?
Yes, I mean the "sacrifice" when he puts his Queen in d4. Was it a mistake?
Because he gets the rook either way. He still forked with his knight, he just waited a move.
Because it would make his knight passive and he could lose it later
@xJMAN07x I can't say I understand all of the nice moves, but in that case, moving his knight to the corner of the board would have been suicide with almost all of Nakamura's pieces congregating at Kramnik's kingside.
Man I love that chess set.. anyone know where I might buy that exact one?
cause naka would play bh6 trading off the valuable dark square bishop, tis would alow naka to easily penetrate the kings position and give checkmate
more like a human genius than a robot
Where do you get one of those chessboards man they look nice
It is called DGT E-board.
Can anyone explain me?:
5:15- Why did Kramnik sacrificed the Queen? Was it just a mistake?
5:17- Why didn't he take the rook?
at 1:10, why does Kramnik take with his h pawn? Doesn't that make the rook far more powerful against his king?
love chess and a WIS too :D
I think it's the model "german staunton", idk for sure
He wants to involve his knight in the defense on f5 where it guards against a possible mate on h7.
is it me or does that timer tick down a little faster than 1 second..
(continued) 3 Nakumura could win back the rook by force Ex - Nxa1 e6 Qe8 Qxb7 fxe6+ Kg1 Qd7 Qxd7 Nxd7 Bxe6+ Rf7 - so he would have only been temporally a rook down. Kramniks knight taking the d pawn instead was the strongest move - rybka agrees. I hope that answers all the questions about the strange knight move.
Question:
@ 0:48 why doesn't he take the pawn guarded by the rook?
I think Kramnik should have played bishop to h5. 2:02. What do you think?
How much would a chess set like this cost and where could I get one from?