The IMMORTAL GAME

[VictumRoManius]

Beautiful game. Especially the end. :)

[Kariakas]

This is a game that happened between Anderssen and Kieseritsky in 1851 as the description says. It's not the blue print for a foolproof strategy, it's not a classic trap. It's an amazing game by Anderssen sacrificing a ton of material to get a checkmate. So of course there's a lot of what ifs and "he didn't have to do thats". It's a fascinating game, thanks for uploading it.

[jkid1134]

Why does Andersen play 20. e5?

[jkid1134]

@jkid1134 Never mind, I see that he is preventing his knight from being captured by black's queen.

[minstrale]

Error at 49 seconds: Moves 10 and 11 transposed. White's g-pawn is supposed to move before the Rook.

[futuramaishot]

nice sacrifice =)

[UrAvgAzn]

@aleksuu if white didn't move his queen to f6, black's knight would have captured the bishop on e7

[cuqquascianesi]

Minchia!!

[aleksuu]

White didn't have to give up his Queen. He could have checkmated black by moving his bishop to e7 instead of giving up his queen.

[Jmaculata]

@aleksuu the knight was guarding e7 before it was baited out to take the queen

[escriticapop]

@aleksuu Nxe7

[mikeusat]

Chess more more fun and mysterious before computer analysis.

[yorrickm]

I am pretty sure theres a problem at 0:48 . White does not move his rook at this move, he moves the g pawn first and then moves the rook..

[xFerris]

wonderful

[EnegueVokatsehs]

Sometimes getting the better position is more important than larger numbers.

[pinespeakz]

@EnegueVokatsehs Not really having more pieces gives you an advantage during opening, mid, and end game scenarios.

[CopsUrMasterAndLord]

Why move pawn to b5 early on?

[callmewisdom]

why did he make that e5 move at 1:40 ?

[TheBrianTruong]

@callmewisdom So that when he goes Ng7, Black can't respond with Qxg7

[callmewisdom]

@TheBrianTruong oh, thanks

[Achilles94627]

Best chess game ever.

[narutonamizake]

Brilliantly played. I bet he had to hide his smile when he thought of this during this game

[ezejb]

the white is advance like 10moves.... nice mate..

[supertwichy7]

This man was a genius! He could've probably solved partial differential equations while solving a rubik's cube while inventing some crazy math while playing chess (and winning!) all in his sleep!

[SuperDreamliner787]

Cool!

[1LonelyStargazer]

beautiful game

[majotnf]

this is why chess is so cool.........

[abhiroopron]

I'm fairly new to chess....So probably thats why I don't get it.....Why does black play the b5 pawn without any cover for it?The white bishop is free to take it :-O

[lfroggyl]

@abhiroopron Bryan's counter gambit: Black trys to lure the White Bishop away from it's attack on the weak f7 pawn.

[chunkysajchunky]

@abhiroopron To move the bishop off the line attacking the f7 pawn, which is a major weakness for black especially in the King's gambit accepted opening.

[RK831]

Never have I won a game losing all my major pieces. Genius!

[Fastball2000]

What a beautiful mate!! This is when chess becomes art.

[dingstroyer]

gah! I'm stunned!

[EXXC0MN]

very bold sacrifices

quite a game

[VitalSigns1]

That was incredible!!!

Why is this called the "immortal" game?

[jbragadeesh]

I guess it was called Immortal because white never died although he lost almost all his battalion!!!

[RandyIsC0o00o0L]

@jbragadeesh Shut up not much, he still have two knights babe !:) lol

[KBoogs719]

@VitalSigns1 it's called immortal because when u rip shit up like that, u go down in history immortalized in the game of Chess.

[Colingoesfast]

Damn thats the most thug game of chess I have ever seen lol

[pauljanson]

I like!

[Nadrealis]

You guys have to realize, things that are obvious today, weren't so obvious back then. Theory has taken a long time to develop into what it is today. Things in the future will seem obvious but we don't know them now.

[jbragadeesh]

Well said.. That is the beauty of chess, beauty of life as well

[FlameTongue22]

Indeed, indeed. Well said, my good sir, to you as well.

[bierbuik]

@jbragadeesh Explain how that is beautiful please, seems more like a cause of frustration to me.

[LKC9215]

@bierbuik White lost a Queen and both Rooks yet still won the game.

[vardalos1980]

@Nadrealis Exactly my friend.! Thats why personaly i dont accept to compare the old grandmasters with the new ones. How u can compare person who develop chess theory (Alekhine, Capa, Lasker, etc) and players (Anant, Gasparov, Kramnik, etc) who studied it. Sorry for my bad english

[Prash158]

the move at 1:40 confuses me.while there is so much going on , why would he make a passive move like Na6 ? maybe he calculated and saw no danger .He missed the queen sac i guess..

[SlackersJournal]

I am not suggesting I'm better then Anderssen or Kieseritzky by writing this, but there were some bad moves in that game. Way too open and fluid. Even pushing relaxed.

It's a nice mate though. Real nice.

[kkatkkong]

I see a few things you REALLY don't see in modern chase players, but back then people had different opinions on what was a strong or weak move. Weird how the game is still able to have paradigm shifts and new play styles all these centuries...

[Prash158]

it was not played this quickly when it was actually played obviously.

think about that

[BR177]

evergreen is better than this one

[papakuck]

niciest game ever...rlly great..no comm..those guys were masters of chess...

[getrockneteblume]

But while I can admit that Bxg1 instead of Qxg1 could be just a blunder of Kieseritsky I am completely fazed about why he schould play Na6 instead of Nc6 later on. That is a very unusual move (one doesn't develop the knight on such a bad square unless one is forced to - nothing prevented Kieseritsky from developing it on c6) that makes me think that the game - as presented - has been composed. Notice that the knight developed on its usual square c6 would have prevented any mating moves from A!

[spooky0834]

i am sorry,but you are wrong.if Knight goes to c6 we have Nc6-Nxg7+,Kd8-Bc7#.checkmate again

[blackbtty123]

The idea behind that move was he tried to stop Bc7. It worked in that respect but there was nothing he could do to stop checkmate.

[getrockneteblume]

This is so nice that it must have been composed. I mean why would black play Bxg1 instead of Qxg1 to capture the other rook?? Of course the bishop at c5 was attacked by the white bishop but the queen move would defend it while at the same time attending to the same objective (capturing the second rook at g1) and would also threaten Qf2+ with the next move while the move played Bxg1 makes completely no sense considering later continuations (the only one could think of would be slow Qd4, Qf2)!!

[supermann121]

He didn't capture with the queen because forced checkmate followed two moves later. Queen has to protect the g7 pawn :)

[ManhattanProject9]

Listen to what the man says dude.

The whole point of the advancement of the pawn prior to the Ng7 was that the Queen was protecting g7.

If you took the rook with the Queen that would have been your last move since you'd no longer be protecting that square. Your bishop would not have saved you.

Ng7+, Kd8

Qf6, Nxf6 (or pxfg)

Be7#

The position was lost as soon as black stopped protecting g7.

[christopherm2k]

sound?

[whitewizard122]

I am amazed. Thank you, I was looking for this game to be reproduced.

[jbragadeesh]

In 1851

[Chess8x8]

hey very nice vid :D i uploaded that game too on my vids.

[Ratipharos]

Wow, no wonder it is called the Immortal Game.

[Gamecubesupreme]

The guy gave up his Queen and both his Rook in order to check-mate his opponent. If you can't even see what he did, you should probably learn the game before you talk.

[Hawkhunter07]

multi learn the game of chess, don't be a fucking dumb ass

[alinusD]

@multipurposetool Because you don't know how to play chess?

[homeworksuks]

thats a crazy game

[jameson63926]

wow

[deekblue128]

the greatest game ever i wish it was narrated

[jesuistahmid]

@deekblue128 there are many narrations of this game actually

[plaguekia]

Wonderful (:

[eggba]

A truly great game!