Letsplaychess.com presents - Alekhine - Saemisch 1923

[Minkki82]

This is fuking brutal

[Summanininruhu]

Alekhin is the best chess player ever....

Beating Capa is enough to make him best player of all time.

[TEDOVSKY]

I used to think alekhine was the best closely followed by fischer, but after an exhaustive study of kasparov, alekhine,capablanca, botvinnik,smyslov, tal, lasker, tartakover,petrosion, korchnoi, karpov,bronstein, kramnik, anand, , games that took me 7 long years. (1877 games!) i am of the opinion that gary had in his prime the same type of energy, fire, and imagination (not to mention his enormous risk taking) of the titans of the past, and for me, GARY KASPAROV is the greatest of them all.

[masterkuprij]

Just the best!

[mauriciochess]

awesome

[st1ckycheese]

R.I.P. Alekhine. You were one of the best and most creative chess players of all time. it was a tragedy for the chess world when your life was cut short. I would have loved to see how your brilliant mind would've performed against Fischer and Spassky in their prime.

[stuffyfreerunner]

danke aljechin für diese wunderbare partie =)

[sahal111]

typical alekhine... the best of all time

[idlenessss]

This queen sacrifice would be difficult for me to see if i were black, so its somewhat understandible that saemish missed it, but It would not be so hard for me to find if I were playing white, especially in standard time control, in about 5 minutes i would work out all the relevant variations. For world class players I tihnk this is the equivalent of a blunder on saemish's part...most of the time, BOTH players would see the idea in advance so it would never occur.

[Ruxistico]

maybe today some would see it. Back then it must've been shocking

[dragonheadofthewest]

@idlenessss yeah right.......

[profd65]

@idlenessss

You're a fucking idiot. But you're right about what one thing: "it would not be so hard" for someone like you to lose his queen. I'm sure you do it all the time.

[ILLUMANOV]

VERY NICE

[KittyGotSued]

wow..just...wow

[dariyahoo]

is worth to say that both were playing without looking to the board that makes alekhine's combination more spectacular

[Schachgrossmeister]

the game was played in Berlin,Feb.1923,

Aljechin wrote,3.Bf1-e2 ...im Wiener Turnier

(1922)spielte ich geg. den selben Gegner

3.d2-d4.Durch den Textzug bereitet Weiss

die Rochade vor,um erst nach derselben das

Spiel im Zentrum zu beginnen...

18.f5 x e6! Falls Schwarz nicht durch 18....Nd7-f6 ohne jede Kompensation einen

Bauern verlieren will,bleibt ihm nichts anderes uebrig,als dieses Damenopfer anzunehmen.

[candidatemaster]

Aksan yakıyo kardeşimin. Helal olsun. Paylaşıma devam

[Thatwasnotme]

Great video!

[andsanp]

that was fascinating

[brrrdman85]

Wow! A winning queen sacrifice is pretty much the holy grail of chess in my opinion. I think there is a Tal game with a bizarre queen sacrifice that gave him a winning position, though it was not as direct as this one.

[furrer08]

What about Tarrasch´s Dg3!!?