Chess Tactics: Esteban Canal - NN (Simul, Budapest, 1934)

[postnubilaphoebus96]

Damn, I hate it, when it seems like it doesn't work and later you spammed the whole video...

[postnubilaphoebus96]

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[sadlonelylad]

1:15 bishop c3 then if pwonc3 qc3 check then a1 then q d4

[aslegue]

"Pawn a3 attacks bishop on b4, but this is not a real attack, black actually saw that this attack was not real..." pause and think.. "this was a mistake cus white can just take bishop on b4...":...... WHAT THE F....

[ooooooohmy]

@aslegue are you completely simple. obviously the position changes between him saying the threat is not real and it becoming 'real' - that is he castles, meaning he can now take the bishop due to a forced mate. i suggest before u start dissing him u actualy study the position a little longer.

[aslegue]

@ooooooohmy yes you are right. I am not dissing him at all, i think vorojtsovs videos are great. all of them. this one just confused me a little bit, but often when you think too much, you miss out on the little important things. sorry

[lazimofo90]

0:20 swallow.

[chenf983]

if the castle didn't happen, the forced mate would not happen that way

[cekinxxx]

still don't get why castle was a mistake

[lazimofo90]

wyork

[lazimofo90]

wyork

[john17972]

Black should have castled king side.

[MagoMinelli]

To be honest, I didn't expect that... at all. I did see the queen sacrifice though (after vorojtsov said that there was a forced mate that is.)

[Wisdombluetooth]

@MagoMinelli that is our problem newbies...we only sacrifice pawn or mostly a rook..

[commodoreherring]

i do it and i understand.



[Eva413]

whenever he tells me to pause his face when i do is amazing xD

[GetMeThere1]

The question for me in such examples is always: what can be learned in general, to improve one's game. In this case I suppose its the recognition of the extreme power of two bishops and a queen all poised to sweep onto the opposing king (and controlling a huge swath of the board). Of course, it's difficult to think about that when one sees an outcome ahead of getting both his rooks swept off the board!

[Carabin33fr]

@GetMeThere1 I dont think that's what you should remember. Any piece can have great power in a given position. What's important is being patient and analyzing everysingle possibilty and planning ahead at least 2 moves. You also need imagination. Basically, white imagined the attack first (asif the queen wasn't there). He imagined it by recognizing as you said the potential power of the bishops + Q Then the the rest is classic strategy: getting rid of the defender.. with sacrificing if necessary.

[boomqwer]

Damn ... I would have never thought so complexed

[commodoreherring]

i do it and i understand

[ultranoob802]

dam you talk slow, tal is awsome but dead :(

[zangeefer]

Awesome...you really viewing great matches

[maxsagibgareev]

why cant'he just take a pawn on b4 rather than rook on a1? [03:39]

[bierbuik]

@maxsagibgareev because then he's down a bishop

[bierbuik]

@maxsagibgareev That would mean black is down a minor piece versus a bishop which is bad for black.

[MRr3n3gade]

@bierbuik true, but he would have avoided mate very early

[bierbuik]

@maxsagibgareev I mean pawn

[kostasrallis]

@maxsagibgareev coz you lost a bishop for a pawn and thats losing also

[Sopeker]

How long have you been practicing english? Just interested in.

[astroblogger]

I prefer playing Ne5 for black as soon as first rook is down..

[ceskarybna]

i guess our teacher  didnt saw Ne5 hehe

[Ruxistico]

@astroblogger you do realize that the queen will fall then? This game was over after 0-0-0

[melidacast]

huy hermano buena la partida..pero casi me duermo

[bigshot1973]

how come 99/100 ppl put loose for lose??

[fapexis]

at 3:20, when white king is in check, cant you just move the bishop in front so you dont loose the other rook?

[davidklausa]

Sure, but then white can't force mate, and the first rook was sacrificed in vain. The justification for sacrificing the rook was to mate, and moving the king to d2 forces mate, or for black to return the queen.

[bassieeee7]

Sacrificing the other rook is part of the plan from white. If white blocks with the bishop on d1 it cannot mate the black king on a6 like it did now, and white will be behind in material.

[bigshot1973]

why would you want to interpose the bishop when the whole point of trading down bishop for rook was to lay the mate, and after Bc1 the Q can simple play xb2 and the bishop cant now lay the mate on a6, leaving white down in material. after the king moves though black has the dilema of losing his queen or defend the mate, either way losing.

[halfbreed02]

or the knight

[rolfch1p]

I think that black should have played Ne5 after taking the king moved to d2. This would stop the queen sacrifice and give the king an escape square. After the bishop captures, black can safely capture the rook because now the king has an escape square. Black will also be materially ahead.

[cLiPz0r]

Did you forgat that the black queen is threatened after Kd2??

[rolfch1p]

Well, After Ne5, black can't sac anymore so he would have to take the knight with the bishop. Then, the Queen can take the rook because the king is given an escape square (d7). If the rook takes the queen, after the exchange on f3, black will still be okay. He will have a rook for 2 minor pieces, but he still may have fighting chances.

[cLiPz0r]

No fighting chances at all. a horrible position ... Pawns falling everywhere, awesome bishops... no chance against a good player :)

[cLiPz0r]

And with computer analysis, you will see that axb4 Qxa1+ Kd2 Ne5 Bxe5 Qxh1 Qxf7! is devastating. The Mate threat on c7 forces black to sac a rook with Rxd4+ Bxd4. (for ex. Rd7 Qe8+ Rd8 Qxe6+ Rd7 Qe8+ Rd8 Bg4#). Now black has to play Nf6 in order to prevent similar mate combinations. After Qxg7 blacks position is totally hopeless as he will lose another piece (Rg8 Qxf6 Qxg2 Qxe6+ Kb8 Qe5+ Ka8 Qa5 forcing black to exchange queens by Qg5+). Like I said, Rxa1 is also won, but Bxe5 is even stronger.

[PabloPena108]

after Ne5 White would just take the knight Bxe5. And after Qxh1 Qxf7 black has only one move to stop mate on c7. Rd7, then Qe8+ Rd8 (forced) Qxe6+ Rd7 (forced) Qe8+ Rd8 Bg4+ f5 Bxf5 mate.

[ceskarybna]

however Ne5 is in a psycological view the best try

[VeritasVoce]

Huge mistake to castle that side with Bishop and Queen coordinating on the diagonals like that. Literally locked his king into the position.

[solojam]

black got 0wned!

[behi667]

I think you already made a video about this particular game.

[trixapete]

yes!!! sergei is back!!

[Fakenstien]

Not really.

He's just re-uploaded old videos in higher quaility.

[jrobichess]

Good one!

[ArmSor]

Why can't the black queen take the pawn on b4?

[SuperiorHawke]

It would've ended faster.

[tomthecool]

Black would still end up a bishop down, since the white bishop can take the pawn on A7.

[n8iveidiot13]

yes if black didnt castle than he wouldve been able to move out of his position with the queen and he wouldnt have to be forced to get that rook

[TachiRdiesDirty]

great

[Beatle6767]

so proud of myself for seeing this before the rook exchanges haha

as always, great, extremely relaxing video. Glad to see you're posting a few of these again

[esunsinverguenza]

I have a question...can Black castling when White is attacking b8 whit its bishop?

[SantahClaus]

Same question I had...

[Playncooler]

no cant castle trou a attacked sqware.

[Playncooler]

i mean the king cant pass trou attackd sqware the rook can.

[Garbonzo07]

dude this guy is great luv his vids man

relaxing idk i just love chess

[paulb30012]

Nice game. Very bold. Losing 2 rooks and a queen could be demoralizing, and would appear to be a lost game. But white pulls it off so subtly. Very nice.

[Swordsage]

Wow, this was an interesting and rather beautiful game. When I saw queen take the rook, It took me a while to see it the consequences. But when I did, I said to myself "oh no..." because I knew how the game would end then. and it went the way I thought: Rook is taken, White's queen is sacrificed, and then the Mate. Well played.

[raptriforcee]

It's an old video reposted. But better quality. Thumbs up. Still love his accent.

[shoefrmperu]

finally a new video