"The purpose of a move is to make the next one easier." - Emanuel Lasker. This video perfectly highlights that with the Blumenfeld Gambit! Black's development flowed like clockwork after e4, while White struggled. Great lesson, thanks!

@stevenorth1564

28 күн бұрын

Wonderful quote hope I remember that!

Fun fact: Alekhine has the highest win% ever with 71% excluding Morphy

@user-id5pb2de5e

27 күн бұрын

What’s Morphys?

@bjordsvennson2726

26 күн бұрын

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Thanks for playing out these games I know I went through multiple times as a child. Just without the fancy new algebraic notation these new kids use :P I miss you referring to "king bishop" and "king knight" a lot as in the olden days, nice hearing it in this game!

@ChessNetwork

28 күн бұрын

👍☺️

@juanfranciscobrizuela

28 күн бұрын

New and fancy? It is the standard FIDE notation since 1981. It's been 43 years!

@deadbeefmonster

28 күн бұрын

@@juanfranciscobrizuela lol, true. Just Alexhine games were in descriptive notation back then, it was slow to catch on. MCO helped before the advent of chess computers people leaned on.

@AG_247

27 күн бұрын

​@@juanfranciscobrizuelaPerspective Matters. 43 years might be twice your lifespan, but it's barely 20% of professional chess' lifespan, or maybe half the lifespan from the OG comment here.

@chrishauser5505

27 күн бұрын

I played chess heavily in high school in the 70s. Algebraic notation was "new", and practically all chess books used the old notation. It's like knowing how to drive a manual transmission: most kids will never know that fun. 😎

The game taught me to be more patient in my positions. Something I need.

Wow! Thanks for sharing, Jerry. This is already a model game for the Broomfield counter gambit, which will inspire me in my future games.

@ChessNetwork

28 күн бұрын

👍

Genius play by Alekhine, I wonder how strong he would be in modern times spending more time on chess and having more knowledge, definitely 2800+ player. Tarrash was also a genius player with very deep positional understanding in those times, and was by the way a doctor

@lukacalov1988

28 күн бұрын

I agree Alekhine is easily 2700 Probably around 2800 strenght

Chess from those times just has something magical, I can't even describe it. Thanks Jerry. Also: you know, the game is literally legendary, when there are two players competing against each other who have an opening named after them. Awesome coverage!

Great game and instructively explained as always. Fun to see each of Black's attacking moves opening the door for the next.

What an incredible game by Alekhine! This countergambit is amazing!

alekhine was a chess monster he showed his opponents no mercy..

What great minds. Love all of your videos. Keep up your great work.

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

Thank you 😎

One word comes up to me while watching Alekine's play, it is "Diabolical".

When I played actively, this was the opening I disliked most to play against.

Once again, awesome analysis of a great game thanks Jerry. And Tarrasch was no piker.

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

Thank you Steve. 👍

Wow. Alekhine's moves flow like clockwork.

@Tod_oMal

27 күн бұрын

Capablanca's Spirit...

Amazing game! Will take a look into this variation soon

İ love the old time chess play's

@mr.nobody2515

28 күн бұрын

Me too, in those times there was so many genius players who basically invented chess opening theory and deep knowledge and understanding of chess without computers, golden time of chess I think

@intrance96

24 күн бұрын

@@mr.nobody2515 I agree, i'd say perfect chess is boring chess :)

Wow that is a stunning game! Black barely needs to sacrifice anything, such an elegant game. Thx 👏

This is the second game I memorized after the Opera game. My coach told me it shows how powerful the mobile pawn center can be and how to use it.

"0 inaccuracies? Reported for cheating." -- Lichess user

love seeing games from this era on the channel

Thanks Jerry..👌👌👌

Having unopposed central control can lead to a dangerous attack

White was on the backfoot from the middlegame.... they were pushed back.

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

That’s the power of e4. 👍

Very cool game!

Man a superGM life must be tough. Imagine playing a game with 90% accuracy and get crushed like that. How do you proceed? I love chess because it teaches you to be humble and go on. Great stuff Jerry, greetings from Spain

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

Top players are extremely resilient in-game and in-between games. Nice to read you’re enjoying the content from 🇪🇸. 👍

The Spirit of Capablanca all over Alekhine's place.

Great game. Very entertaining. 😊

I recognize the finish from this game from "the woodpecker method" - cool to see how this came from a blumenfeld gambit

Hi Jerry, its everyone

Lovely game.

Brillianvy indeed

He's my favorite player!

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

👍😎

The whole show was dizzying! All the way from “How he get that beautiful position out of the opening again?” Then the incomprehensible magic begins in earnest. Thanx Jerry.

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

e4 is 💪

This is a great lesson for a mid-rated player. Studying your last loss, working your way backwards from the lopsided ending, finding each exchange and hung piece felt forced in the situation, trying to find the initial mistake that led to the disaster - how often do we make it all the way back to 7. e3? We don't often sense the danger as early as we need to.

With all this deep positional and tactical feat that's almost a century old people nowadays when Magnus Carlsen castles his king or move his black bishop to black square they say oh my goodness it's the first time in chess we see such playing. Thank you for the precious analysis.

Amazing how he made white seem like a total patzer. The rook on a1 never moved.

Good to see some games of human vs human instead of computer vs computer.

thx

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

Welcome 👍

Jerry!

Don't tell Jake and Amir about this Counter Gambit

@ChessNetwork

27 күн бұрын

Nice one! ☺️

@YungLilBoii

27 күн бұрын

@@ChessNetwork whoa. You got that reference?

First. Thanks Gary, awesome video ❤

@zwischendurundmoll3968

28 күн бұрын

Gary? Jerry u mean?

@irfanyamashita7184

28 күн бұрын

Who is gary?

I have heard that Alekhine is pronounced ah-lee-OH-kheen. Don't know if that's correct or not, but it could be. For sure it is improbable that AH-lec-kine is correct. Edit: I looked it up. The man changed his name from ah-leeOH-heen to Alekhine to make it easier for French and English speakers. The original is in Cyrillic and I'm not going to look up some typographical program to print it. I guess any pronunciation is acceptable.

@welp...

28 күн бұрын

The change you're referring to is merely a spelling one, the extra "e" in the end. Regarding pronunciation, Alekhine himself always insisted that the correct one is ah-leh-heen, but unfortunately for him the ah-leeOH-heen version is what became widespread among Russian speakers in USSR because it's kinda more "logical" to our tongue.

every time I watch one of these videos I just feel more stupid. (but I love them)

Hi Jerry.

What a massacre and Tarrasch was no easy player to do this to with black!

Hi Jerry, You haven't streamed in a while Hope you are doing well and can stream more often soon

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OMG

Very pretty.

Never heard of Blumenfeld but very easily and early destroyed white center. Yeah white got an early g5 pawn but so what

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@ChessNetwork

28 күн бұрын

Thank you

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@jrbrown1989

28 күн бұрын

Why are my other attempts to comment getting removed?? Just trying to say that I "tookathingor2away". Is that a forbidden phrase or something??

@AtomicBl453

28 күн бұрын

@@jrbrown1989 meshed together words are probably prohibited to prevent bots from spamming links.

@jrbrown1989

28 күн бұрын

@@AtomicBl453 the words were not mashed together originally. I mashed them together afterward to circumvent the removal algorithm

@ChessNetwork

28 күн бұрын

🤷‍♂️I can see your comments.

@TurkeyMeat

28 күн бұрын

It could very well be a common bot phrase recently that got blacklisted or something. Weird.

What a game ❤