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  • Let's ignore the fact that he made the blunder and see what he was thinking when he made that move.

    By what I can see (I may be wrong), is that any other move apart from Qh7# being made, wins for black. If the queen exchange is not made, black wins with a back rank mate. If it is however exchanged, black wins the pawn race and wins the game. White can get the queen first, however on the next move a1=Q+, Qe1 ... Qxe1#. The king wins the pawn if white tries to prevent this with a knight check.

  • mama kiti

  • The king of all blunders!

  • Wow, the hair on the back of even MY head stood up on the knight move--i.e., I wouldn't have missed it, and would have seen the imminent danger of the knight poised to move where it did. And I mostly suck at chess.

  • Kg8 best move

    

  • @Jmaculata I'm a bit confused. How do you not see that it is a big mistake... he lost to a simple mate in 1.

  • black is ahead of that game most of the time but wow i'm even surprised too!!!

  • lol! This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in youtube! :)

  • Does the chess engine name, "fritz", was taken from this player?

  • @mukmin01 That is the engine playing as white.

  • Looks like one of the checkmates I landed back in high school Scholastic championships.

  • Kramny playing for material. big mistake.

  • @Apoic123 honestly when you make a statement like that you should justify. I don't see how kramniks mindset was to aim for material gain nor do I see why it is a big mistake

  • taking the bisship whit his kn was the failure, it opened the line for rock

  • lol

  • i honestly didnt see that coming..

  • It's like everything in this world, sh1t happens !! :-)

  • horrible game.. Yall both deserve to lose,

  • See World Champion Chess Strategies at "Chess Thinking Systems"

  • 2:08 is the BIG mistake. Instead of moving the (black) queen to E3, he should of instead moved his King (black) to G8 to avoid checkmate.

  • Sorry I don't know chess very much, what's the OBVIOUS mistake here?

  • @Booboorella should have done something to prevent the mate

  • @sniperdude5236 Oh my god lol I see it now... What a blunder!

  • nice error!

  • Any chess players smoke weed?

  • @maxpower789z Ha. I wondered the same thing. I do it all the time, it doesn't seem to improve or hurt my game as far as I can tell.

  • Any chess players smoke weed?

  • for those who couldn't spot it, the bluder is at 2:07, kramnik played Qe3 without noticing white had a mate in 1.

  • @apfrezende Thanks for explaining, pal.

  • So fake

  • notice that at 2:00 if the "white queen" killed the "black bishop", then the "black queen" would kill the "white queen". So putting the "black bishop" there, was not a mistake but a strategy to attract the "black queen" in order to kill her. So not moving the king but trying to kill the opponent's "(white) king" was basically the last mistake. Too bad he didn't see that move coming..

  • I guess when you're so engrossed in high level position play you miss the simplest things. Kramnik had Fritz dominated and if the queens came off it would have been game.

  • 46 people have no idea how unlikely it is for a GM to miss a mate in 1.

  • @TamaNewb Or maybe they hate it due to a GM missing a mate lol. Eitherway nobody's perfect and I think it's a morale boost to see a GM make such a mistake showing beginners there's no shame in it.

  • A beautiful came with a sweet mistake!

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  • This was the greatest blunder by a former world champion. But man, he was close to beating the machine that most of us couldn't. This video only shows how far I am compared to Kramnik's brilliance.

  • He was insanely close to winning imo. Either way theres no way that Deep Fritz could have saved it's Queen AND Rook if Kramnik went to G8 instead.

  • For those who can't find the blunder... The very last two moves: 34... Qe3??? (Kramnik's major blunder) and then Deep Fritz responded with 35... Qh7 mate.

  • Sorry im not really good in that, but where was the mistake? It was to fast for me^^

  • @Melachion He missed Qh7 checkmate. 

  • it's called being human

  • игра дибильная особенно последний ход черных

  • i love it how "R&B club classics" is the advert for this chess video xD

  • Black can checkmate by the next move. Equal moves made by both players. Think about that...

  • which move is exactly the wrong one?

  • @WantedReward93 The error comes by Black, right after White takes the Rook on f8. That's at 2:08. The error move is Qe3 because it allows the mate.

  • @trod999 What would be the best move after B x R? Pg6?

  • @Crimlitig8r Kg8 and it's a draw - Qe4-Qd5+-Qe4-Qd5+ - and black Kg8-Kh8-Kg8-Kh8 ... it's the only thing black can do for not losing, and white can't get more than a draw in this situation ...

  • @Crimlitig8r But maybe I'm wrong and it is possible for black to win by taking the pawn, but I don't think so, the Queen can alway check the King - but maybe it's better for white to got ot f5 first to save the Knight - but g6 is rubbish, because the Knight will take the pawn with a check ...

  • hahaha.. mega fail

  • probably kramnik got paid by chessbase, they are like the mafia.

  • Todavía recuerdo estar viendo la partida cuando se retransmitió por Internet y no acabarme de creer lo que acababa de ver. Tuve que frotarme los ojos varias veces. Y en ese momento era el campeón del mundo.

  • because off the retake he simply forgot that the Nxf8 also had another purpose.  :-( It happens...

  • oups... 02:07 some time doing and the best player mistakes... not only the amateur

    

  • But before that he played very well to get such an advantage against a computer programm.

  • it's always hard with both queens on a relatively open board, it puts huge pressure on both players as this are positions that you can't really study and thus are less confident playing. Fritz was wise enough to go into an "endgame" where tactics that can be calculated predominate rather than human creativity.

  • This is a typical mistake i would do.

  • at least frtiz did not laugh ^^

  • yes Qe3 was a verry bad mistake when rook F1 was checkmate but you have to give him credit he played a great opening and middle. mistakes happen we arent robots

  • oh wow! even i saw that one coming... and am the stupidest chess player you can ever find!

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  • Black actually had the edge, right untill he got his ass mated..

  • that was the worst move by a GM, the real blunder is, he should have seen the mate.....

  • @MrBigEnchilada no shit

  • white was in big trouble too.

  • I think the real blunder was taking the rook, just before that. ...Re8 instead of swapping rooks makes White's isolated e-pawn is and Black's ultimate passer on the far end will be big problems for black. He gave black equality, then made the more obvious blunder.

  • @Odhinn222 i think its the same mistake. When he calculated the position he didnt see the mate at all. so he thought that white had to take the queen , because if white queen takes the b4 pawn Black Bishop d2 will win the knight. and after the queens are of the board its an easy win for black

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  • @nitish448 Black get white get a checkmae on the last few moves or last move

  • @nitish448 The last move of white, Queen to e4, because the mate one move later was preservatable.

  • @involuntaryspasms--checkmate, the game is over. the black king is in check, he has to get out of check before he can make any other move....but, he cannot get out of check....game over

  • Black should have counter-mated =  Draw

  • This was just a game versus Deep Fritz? I get smashed by Deep Fritz all the time... :(

  • he might be in a zeitnot.

    this is an end-game and probably he didnt have much time to think. so he rushed himself into a quick decision.

    even world champions make stupid mistakes in zeitnot.

  • @aryavolkansen He was not in zeitnot. He was thinking carefully for over a minute before making the mistake - one of the very rare moves in chess history that deserve a '???'

  • lol Vladimir Kramnik noob

  • Why can't black counter-mate on e1?

  • @DragonBice

    Are you joking? Qh7; White checkmates Black. White wins. Black Loses. At this point, the game is over and Black cannot "counter-mate".

  • @involuntaryspasms How come? If Black counter-mates, the game is a draw?

  • @DragonBice

    No. There is no such thing as "counter-mating". This game is lost in 1/2 turn (either white or black's), and there is NO chance to redeem a checkmate by "counter-mating". White would have already checkmated black, ending the game before black can retaliate.

  • @DragonBice

    There is no such rule, you have to look at it like this when a king is checkmated he has no were to go and will be captured the next turn. Who ever loses the king first loses the game. If you counter checkmate you will still lose the game as the opponent will capture the king first.

    Atleast thats how i look at it.

  • dont see the mistake...

  • A 4th grader could see qh7 mate

  • hey i might sound like an idiot. But how would this have played out if he noticed this really bad mistake and moved his pawn to from g7 to g6?

  • @oryxfreeride or g7g5, I guess black is a lot better then. Black's last move Qe3 seems to win in all other situations [except where white can give mate or check]. cause queen-trade otherwise is forced for white and Blacks bishop can easily dominate the white knight, not to speak about the a and b pawns that will be easily promoted if the queens come off.

  • a Costly blunder indeed!

  • Yeah, no man. This is what I call a "mistake by gobbling." Players seem to get too caught up in gobbling pieces, they miss out on noticing checkmates they could have avoided. I'm always preaching: Step 1: Look for potential checkmates on your king. Step 2: Study your opponents last move, and figure out why the moved it. ..etc I see this all the time. If you notice, you'll see a lot of people fall victim to gobbling. If you notice your opponent is a gobbler, you can set them up with sacrifices.

  • @moonblink Hey gobble gobble gobble my poop

  • He was already losing anyway. Every move that would defend against mate results in losing the game as well. Kg8 would end up in 1)Qc4+,Kxf8 2)Qxc1 and white is better. Black playing g5 will be tactics for white: 1)Ng6+,Kh7, 2)Ne7+,Kh8, 3)Nc6, Qf7, 4)Qe2, Bxb2 and white will make a queen first with check.

  • @noxure can you explain to me in your first variation how would white win after 1)Qc4+,Kxf8 2)Qxc1 Qe7??!?!?!?! I mean in the worst case its a drawing... you simply play a3 and maybe black will never win with perfect play but althought I am not a GM I don't see how white will advance without losing the game...

  • @BenMarru You're right, my mistake. 3)Qf8+ If black tries to trade queens then you go to Qc5+ to get eventually on d4, or you keep on checking on f5 / c8 (draw). Black can also get his queen on f8 at some point where you play Qc4 THEN black can play a3, you take and when black takes back you move your king to g1 to free the queen. Phew... followed by another tediously long queen battle; probably a draw as well.

  • i think the problem here was that a human would probably not have played a move like Nf8 especially having the back rank very weak (looks at least a very unnatural move although perfectly playable). So I think Kramnik overlooked completely the position of the knight and worried about the pawn advance he saw an immediate draw withQe3 , unfortunately there was a mate threat he didnt see

  • can someone explain what the mistake was :/

  • @PeterM1997 ..Qe3

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  • @PeterM1997 The mistake was not seeing that his opponent was threatening mate-in-1. Kramnik moved Qe3 and should have used that move to defend against mate. A lot of people make a big deal out of mistakes made on the highest level, but EVERY GM has made similar mistakes. I guess it is just easier to see World Champ mistakes. That said, Kramnik is a MONSTER who is one of the best chess players in the history of chess!

  • to be fair, he was also really close to beating the computer too, just one move away so...i'll let it pass this once

  • to hbe fair he was playing REALLY WELL up until then i think he had the upper hand IMO !!! unlucky funny how i wouldnt make thiss error but the chances of me drawing with kramnick are about as close to nil as possible liol !!!

  • Time to play e=mc*!

  • I think he should Kg8 instead of exchanging the queen :D

  • i don't really understand the 17 dislikes ... were you expecting a bigger mistake or ..?

  • @mehdigoudarzi

    who cares the opinions of morons?

  • @mehdigoudarzi A bit of commentary would be nice.

  • @mehdigoudarzi well, there is NO introduction or whatsoever

    there are NO further annotations, there are NO further comments, it's just putting up a video on YT where you get a hypercam or something and run the game and upload..

    not really neat

  • can someone tell me what happend? ^^ im new to chess, so i didnt understand one word of the other comments.

  • @nejnej00 Basic translation is that Black missed where white could have him in checkmate in one move. Black forked white's king and rook, without realizing that for white to capture black's rook would practically be checkmate.

    That's my take on it, at least.

  • @IncendiaFox ah ok thanks.

  • Steinitz once castled directly into a mate in 1. That was a simul game though.

  • it was his only winning match against df, but!!!!

  • Clearly black was winning until the mistake.

  • FAved!!!!

  • if he would have played g5 the game would have been very interesting....

    his bishop was a stronger piece than fritz's knight and his pawns on the a and b columns were extreamlly dangereous to the white, aspecially if they would have swapped queens at some stage of the game....

  • Trying to hang onto the pawn at the beginning with b5 is known to be a very bad idea. Surely Kramnik was aware of this.

  • @Achilles94627 that's a really dumb thing to say especially if you consider that Kramnik is playing. Sure he blundered a mate but that doesn't imply anything about QGA being a bad opening if you try to hold onto the pawn...he was able to develop his pieces just fine...in fact he didn't hold on to it and got rid of his backward c pawn. What's you're rating like 1500?

  • @rookman64 Whoa. Easy tiger. I just heard that trying to hold onto the pawn was a bad idea. Sorry if you found that offensive.

  • @Achilles94627 Don't worry about it. I don't like when people start talking in an argumentative tone either, especially for no reason. They just want to sound intelligent; sort of like a ruse used to cover up their insecurity. It's really condescending and immature. Yeah, what's your rating, rookman82?

  • How embarrassing.

  • Computers don't make oversights like Kramnik did. This is the problem of human against computer.

  • the black is noob is so simple

  • @footballskillz77 Qh7 mean that Queen moves to square h7. Align the letters and numbers together to find h7.

  • That's hilarious

  • can someone explain me what this Qh7 , c4 Nf6 , .... means?

  • @footballskillz77 Go to wikipedia and type "Algebraic chess notation". Cheers.

  • @footballskillz77 Qh7 stands for Queen to h7 (The square number)

    c4 is a pawn move, if it doesn't have a capital letter before the move it is a pawn move, as pawns can only move one square forward or diagonally to capture. so c4 obviously means you moved your c pawn forward to c4

    N stands for Knight and f6 is the square it moved . (Knight to f6)

    Qxf6 The x signifies a capture and is said Queen takes f6, you don't need to specify which piece is on the taken square as there can only be one piece

  • @footballskillz77 Say... Qh4+ This means "Queen to h4, check" meaning once it has moved to h4 it is checking the king.

    One confusing notation is O-O this stands for King's side castling, O-O-O is Queen's side castling.

    Also say...Ba2# This stands for Bishop to a2, checkmate.

    If you want to signify a pawn capture it would be bc4, you miss out the takes as if pawns change files it is obviously a diagonal capture. This stands for "Pawn b, takes pawn c4"

  • White could have won simply with 58.Qg8+ Ke7 (Bf7 59.Qd8 and mate next move) 59.Qxg6 and now both Rxd4 and Rxg4 fail to 60.Qg7+ Ke8 61.Kd6 and mate next move. But he saw something even quicker: 58.Kd8 and indeed, Black resigned, not seeing anything against Qe7 mate—or that Rxg4 would give him a winning position. The logic is that with his last move, White didn't only threaten Qe7 mate, but also interfered with his Queen's access to c8, which he needed against Rxg4. Black also hadn't noticed this

  • hahaha i remember this

    i thought it was kasparov who blundered, not kramnik

  • what incredible bad explanaition. n ot even telling who is who (s/b)......

  • @Alexon88 Look at the info. It says Deep Fritz vs. Kramnik, so apparently, Deep Fritz is white and Kramnik black.

  • He probably wanted to trade material down since he had 2 pawns ready for promotion.....

  • Eventually the checkmate's power will weaken and people will begin fighting again. This time they will use the weapon themselves and once more know true pain. And then for a short time peace will come again, ... it will give birth to short periods of peace within this endless chain of hatred .... THAT IS MY WISH

  • @chicoriante .... naruto?

  • nani nani? dattebayo

  • what the hell?

    axb5 cxb5 Qf3

    wins a bishop or knight

  • @namikaze57 That works with the white pawn on e3, not on e4.

  • When I saw the position b4 the last position I was thinking, "Oh, a draw, good work Kramnik".. And I went to have some food, and when I came down I dropped my dish and yelled: "WTF?!" xD

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  • I am not sure, but wasn't there live comment by a GM (think it was Seiwaran) that also was thinking about what Kramniks plan would be after the next move of the computer.

    If the knight was on f6 instead of f8 kramnick probally spottet the mate.

  • at what time in the video was this inevitable? (when the blunder happened)

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  • @TisforTaco At 2:00 he should have played Re8 (or at 2:04 after Be3 Nf8, black would have to play Kg8 to avoid mate)

  • Poor Vlad....haha it happens to all of us i guess ,-) humans blunder...that's how it goes :)

    if a world clas GM can miss a mate in 1, ok then we can all feel somewhat more at ease with our own silly mistakes! ,-)

  • wait, why was he holding onto the pawn in the first place?

  • I would have loved to see the expression on that guy's face when the assistant played the checkmate.

  • at 2:08 the king should of attacked the knight on f1. he has to save the knight then black is up another pawn. with a queen protecting a pawn advancing on the a row.

  • meh, this was a lost position anyways... the knight is immune, because of Qxb4, and from there he only needs to carry his pass pwn home. black doesnt have time to deliver mate on the 8th rank to prevent that and the black king is under cunstant pressure

  • sorry i meant 1st rank =)

  • @chrism216 ok lets say king g8 then qxb4, all it takes is qe3 and white queen is pinned, has to defend against checkmate on e1, has to protect knight f8 and pawn on b2, and qe3 could easily take advantage and take e5 pawn. He could have won this, just looked like he rushed things at the end.

  • 1. ... Kg8

    2. Qxb4 Qf7

    3. Qe1 Bxb2

    and then?

  • I am not good chess player but to me it looks that Kramnik was better 2:09 but he was under pressure,same thing to kasparov so he was thinking about so hard and dont look simple moves and if Kramnik was better before that I am happy cause best chess player is human(and that somebody beat rybka 3 and all other chess engine)

  • g5 was the best move I think

  • The main reason why Kramnik fail to see this is because he had missed an important step in his analysis.

    Before playing a move, a master has to look through the eyes of a patzers and look out of any Obvious threat !!

    A simple tactical threat would often skip the eyes of a player (no matter how strong he is) after the first few minutes of evaluation of the position.

  • that was an embarrassing moment. Kramnik made his move and got up to use the bathroom. The operator delivered checkmate, and he grabbed his head in shock.

  • This is the consequences of too much thinking

  • sry, Kg8 xD

  • i think that Kg7 was a better move than Qe3 xD

  • it always makes me feel better when i lblunder and lose a game, i rememver that kramnik, anand, and kasparov all blunder , and i feel good

  • so who won this match?

  • deep frtiz kramnik is playing black

  • If u look in the description and see the computer listed first, that means he is white. Kramnik is listed after the computer ( Deep fritz vs. Kramnik) so he is black. As you can see, white wins.

  • what time he had?

  • Qh7 is mate!!!

  • @cremnik no shit.....and you got 13 likes for this comment too? wow....

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  • It is good to know that Kramnik played brilliant against a computer here (but blundered).

  • If Kramnik didn't do that last blunder, it could have been an easy draw...

  • Qg1 isn't mate. You're dropping a queen.. It's too bad since this position was a draw.

  • Queen to G1???

    -____-'

  • i used deep junior to analyze this position, says it is a draw 0.00 points for both sides

  • Your an idiot, hes in checkmate...

  • if only you knew the difference between your and you are. sigh. perhaps you should stop the mud slinging...

  • Deep Junior (and generally any UCI engine) will say the score is 0.00 when the position is already a mate for one player (i.e., there are no more legal moves left and the king is in check).