Garry Kasparov vs The World

[NecrorceN]

Psychological move? He was in check.

[radeamardiatna]

Sophisticated...!!!

[TheDayIsNotLost]

God, this is incredible! I bet you Kasparov felt so epic after this! I know I did after listening to the music while watching this XD

[ciuffoZanetti4]

i dont understand why the world would get forked at 0:28

[hoskinsds]

Which side did the world play?

[rafaelbdb2]

@hoskinsds BLACK! Garry won!

[cmelan]

1:28 what is the psycological move?

[Julian911riot]

only chuck norris can beat kasparov

[XxMalcolm]

black had a poor endgame. outplayed kasparov but could not finish it off.

[gaiachaos2000]

Horrible endgame by black.

[atreya87]

at 2:27 I see no reason why black had to sacrifice pawn pushing it from b5 to b4. I'm sure others pondered this too. If so, I apologize for asking the same question. From this point on, I wonder if a series of repetitive checks on the white king could have resulted in a draw. Also, I'm wondering why at 2:24 when Kasparov uses Queen to check the king, why Black King didn't move up the board to B3 instead of A1 and eventually progressing towards defending pawn at B5.

[MorphyGenius]

Hi! Where did you download the music from? I have looked for it but I haven´t found it yet.

Thanks :)

[lolimnoteighteen]

this is lame. kasparov could've been a man and played black instead of hogging white just to win. paul morphy would win even IF he was given black

[hipcrio2]

@lolimnoteighteen , Lol he was playing the thousands of people I think he deserved white. for all you know people used chess engines and I bet th majority of players were GMs.

[lolimnoteighteen]

@hipcrio2

i know :P, just saying : paul morphy was best

[TheChessMaster1245]

So COOL I can't believe Garry challenged the whole world. Epic, man

[mejinsai]

@codfanboy1020

A rook is worth 5 points. The World got a knight (3 points) and two pawns (2 pts total). The only downside is the doubled up pawns

[Cooking2405]

2:52 i actually thought the king was talking :S

[Legolas8811]

At 2:03, what would be wrong with ...Nh8? Seems like it gives black a few extra turns.

[thegambitking]

1:30 Kh1!! LEGEND

[tweakmeup1]

Wow! This game is an EPIC. This will go down in history! Amazingly, Gary Kasparov was able to win the end game, even though, I thought he is already loosing it.

[FerDensetsu]

Dude, all the music you put on your chess videos is just amazing!

[STJukes]

@FerDensetsu Thanks :)

[firefight33]

Any reason why at 1:29, kasparov moved his king to h1 instead of g2. I guess there'd be a forced loss in 85547382 moves if he did...

[MrDerf13]

Garry! what a nutter, really wish he'd come back, or at least play some exhibition matches against the current top 10

[supermario21a]

black played well but i didn't agree on every move

[sysweed]

@codfanboy1020 A rook is usually valued at 5 points.

[callmeback2]

where can i find music like this...

I want to feel EPIC while driving to work!

[STJukes]

@callmeback2 lol xD. This music is from Medieval 2 Total War: Kingdoms. You can try looking around Youtube for its soundtrack :)

[STJukes]

@codfanboy1020 No... The world played very well. That move at 0:27 Qxe4 was perfectly fine. It would have been a Rook for a Knight and two Pawns to make an arguably equal position. The world saw the fork and allowed it to happen :)

[WhiteTrashSingers]

Why did the world resign? They both had the exact same amount of pieces and could have played, well, forever...

[cekinxxx]

@WhiteTrashSingers kasparov would promote the pawn before

[WhiteTrashSingers]

I think this was awesome that they did this.

[FDGOD74]

wtf? why 2:26 the world played b4??? stupid move

[LitheInvestments]

Fitting song, if I could sum it up in 2 words "Russian Dominance"

[slatz20]

He did not play vs the World...i didnt play with..

[ttaggart12345]

@slatz20 nobody likes a smartass

[aristotledixit]

maybe a better music was possible for this video, like this one for example

v=pFS4zYWxzNA

[NewVahan2]

Kasparov is the BEST! Too bad he quit playing - he can still be very good. Forget about politics, Garry, come back to chess! Thumbs up if agree.

[aaanker]

@NewVahan2 How do we know that he isn't still playing? Sometimes it is nice to take a new username and just play or 'play' - out of the spot light.....

[Billcrazy18]

@semasiologistics No the truth is that this is a great vid...if you see it twice or more yopu understand everyhting...analysis is too tiring...so in the title the person who is written first plays with the white peaces (and the other one with black ones).I think u r wrong here,man

[bliink182]

Why was blacks pawn moved up at 2:28????? he just gave away the pawn

[PunkRocKs182]

next match! chuck norris vs the world! and if that happens , i would offer draw to chuck immediately , coz we all know we cant defeat chuck , haha!

[anfighter1]

I missed it, who's black and who's white?

[ninjajesus81]

This would be like Usain Bolt racing against the whole world. He's the fastest person in the world, so no matter how many people are behind him, they still can't win.

[shockeychap]

@ninjajesus81 - Not exactly. Garry Kasparov is arguably the single best individual. However, chess is one of those games where multiple people sharing ideas can oftentimes find something better than what any individual might have done. It's not a task that's limited to one person like running. Instead, try to imagine a treadmill with gearing that enables it to run at the sum total of all of the individuals running on it vs. Jesse Owens by himself. That's closer to what Kasparov was up against.

[ninjajesus81]

@shockeychap Yeah, my analogy wasn't that good, but yours was way off. If you added the speed of 50 thousand people, there's no way Bolt could win. If the average person ran 5 MPH, which is extremely slow, Usain Bolt would still have to run 250 thousand miles per hour to win.

That would be literally impossible, whereas, obviously, the chess scenario was possible.

[gauravianeja]

at (2.15) instead of playing "P-b5" the "Q-c2" should be played by black it will give him a check and queens will b exchanged..and white can easily stop the white pawan and advance his pawn to queen......

[motrinpain]

any reason everyone voted against taking the pawn at 1:25!!!!

[STJukes]

Yeah, something to do with the position failure of black. I'm not too sure to be honest. Wikipedia mentions it briefly.

[shockeychap]

@motrinpain , capturing the pawn would have cost the world team two pawn advancement moves toward queening. (One move in the capture, another in the retreat of the bishop.) Kasparov knew what he was doing by offering the pawn.

[andthatsforthewin]

@motrinpain I believe I can answer that question. If the pawn takes on g3, then the pawn on f2 retakes and the f file is opened for the rook. That prevents the Black king from moving to the right in order to stop the h-pawn's advance, hence the pawn queens. Here is a sample variation: ...fxg3, fxg3 Bxg3, h6 Ne5, h7 Nf7, Rxf7 Kxf7, h8=Q. Here's another from h6: ...Be5, h7 Bg7, Bh6 Bh8, Rf8 Nd4, Rxh8 Nf7, Rf8 Nxg5, h8=Q. While only my analysis, I think those two lines are conclusive.

[snake96300000000]

What do u mean by the (WORLD) ?

[STJukes]

@snake96300000000

50,000 people voted on a move to play against Garry and the move with the most votes were played.

[RandomWalkTheory]

I still have my Kasparov vs. the World shirt =)

[xCamorrAx]

great match

Kasparov is one of a kind

[RK831]

The reason why the world lost? Because two teenage girls were part of the panel. Granted, they were excellent chess players in their own right, but neither of them were grandmasters. Together they influenced the world to vote their novelty ...Qe6! move instead of castling. Instead of Qxe4 I would have O-O instead.

[elnasser1]

excellent

[classicmusic05]

where can I get the PGN file of this game?

[rufjvm2008]

Play against Kasparov's two queens...

mmmm... bad idea

[starfleetoffcr]

I remember participating in this!!

[STJukes]

Oh cool, wish I could have been a part of it.

[chrism216]

can you please tell me the name of the song??

[Fluffisnoterm]

Sorry, actually I wanted to say that they kind of ignored the fact that they'll lose the right to castle.

[STJukes]

Not necessarily a bad thing though... Thanks for Analysing :D

[Fluffisnoterm]

Hilarious. They really missed the fork. But what we shouldn't forget is while they did win back material, they lost the right to castle without compensation.

[STJukes]

They saw the fork and predicted that they wouldn't be able to castle. They knew that after all this that the game would be even on material. They didn't win back material because they knew from the start that everything would be even, the vast majority of the 50,000 people are very strong players... Just thought I'd clear things up :D

[chrism216]

castle was not important in this game for black. they saw how material was dissapearing very quickly and didnt think the king should leave the middle. although the king casteled on the g file would have prevented those 2 pass pawns, who knows what would have happened. black lost by only 1 turn though.

[MrTofuRobot]

music? lol

[shan9084]

i know they came out even on material in the end but much rather a single rook than a knight and two pawns in the middlegame

[shan9084]

how on earth did 50,000 people miss that knight c2 fork?????

[STJukes]

A "Rook" for a "Night and two Pawns". Even matirial. They knew what they were doing.

[Altair565]

Nice music.

[gsera1]

I don't understand why they resigned? They could have made it a draw with there queen consecutively checking Kasparov of which he would use his king to just keep circling around his pawn.

[STJukes]

Kasparov's 2 queens would adventualy gang up on blacks queen.

Deep Thought actually calculated chackmate.

Whites king would make it into a corner were if black checked, white would be able to block with the queen and black can't check again.

[DryNogin]

To think the world was not smart enough to avoid the all-too common rook and king fork

[STJukes]

They knew what they were doing. They won a knight and two pawns for a rook (even matirial). Plus the position was relativly even.

[Asthaar8]

Cool game. Wish i could have been part of it ^^

[1saifullah]

when did this happen

[STJukes]

This happened over the internet in 1999.

[fmandwc2]

Wow! This is an epic match! Should have many millions of  views!

[STJukes]

Thanks.

[TheKINGFEDOR]

LOVE the music ^^