Blitz Kosteniuk - Skripchenko (1)

[BerylBite]

This is charming. dexterous minds amaze me.

[Fand421]

At 8:30 it looks like black can play a nice move, Ng4.

[simoncuming41]

sweet accent!!!

[MoR1c3AN]

When is the best time to advance your pawns for attack? And good game :)

[evitigre]

esa rubia esta para clavarla!!

[lucho10campeon]

le chuparia todo a la rubia.

[blasphemymaster]

Don't you have to do a checkmate to win? The king was safe at the end.

What am I missing?

[ChessQueen]

It's not necessary to go all the way to checkmate. Usually when there is a big material disbalance that would make it fruitless to defend it is customary for the weaker side to resign before inevitable checkmate.

[sunilson1986]

lol im guessing u dont play blitz much :D

[mathsmusicandchess]

White's going to queen her 'a' pawn. Then she'll be able to checkmate black quickly. Even 34 seconds on the clock will be ample and it's black that's behind on time. I couldn't see Skripchenko check the clock though. Maybe she's good at doing that out of the corner of her eye...

[Vasyukov]

I find the cuts to members of the audience watching the game a little bit distracting as I'm trying to concentrate on the 2-D board. Great game though!

[floreswn]

i love this game :P

[seifip]

Thank you for a great commentary!

[RapDeRaphael]

q mala es la francesa por dios

[chessvideoguy]

Very well presented - I find it instructive to hear what you saw and what you missed during the game! Opening preparation insights are also quite useful :-)

[puretone711]

thats right!! very rare bishop b6! :)

[lightnessss]

the horses scare me more than the bishops, each time i lose there is a horse in cause lol so i try to eat them quickly

who is this french woman ? i ask because im french myself ^^

[Sorcerer88]

one advice: try not to call out the moves too much, but concentrate on commenting. We see what's going on on the board, we'd rather hear your excellent explanations. Other than that, nice videos!

[BrooklynNY1992]

Alexandra is like a russian female Bobby Fischer

[classicrockforever5]

I can't really see Alexandra running away to Iceland for the rest of her life. She also doesn't seem very anti-Semitic

[BrooklynNY1992]

When I said she was like Bobby Fischer I was saying that her talent is similar to him.

[classicrockforever5]

I know, but I couldn't resist. :)

[8thArmada]

hahhaha

[NODDYFISCHER]

Did someone mention Fischer? Thou shalt not call Noddy Fischer 'anti-Semitic', after all the good in the world I've done!!!

[Ruxistico]

well... Fischer was somewhat of a nutjob, albeit a brilliant chessplayer

[erflb]

A dream in the shape of a woman! Amazing player!

[SvenTwelve]

better than porn.

[Zakdayak]

THANKS FOR POSTING MORE!!!

I must say however, not playing g3 or Be3 (to win the Knight)is a rather strange oversight for such a strong player

[griff868686]

Kramnik fell into mate in one against Fritz. They aren't perfect.

[Zakdayak]

Yes of course, but that was playing a match and going at the end of what was probably a 4 hour game. Kramnik also has health problems sometimes.

[Zakdayak]

And somebody give a thumbsd up - OBJECTIVELY it's still a strange error.

[chrissaboy]

FIRST!