The biggest difficulty I've had with chess is the "middle game". This video explains the strategic reasoning. Someone once commented that a lot of players can memorize openings, but when a game goes "out of book", they're lost as to what to do. Most chess books that I've read focused on tactics (e.g. if take, take, take, take, and then take) without ever getting into the positioning. This video goes into the positioning, and elucidates old maxims like "control of center squares".

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

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"That was an interesting game by Carlsen"- Vlad Kramnik

Your analysis on the pawn majorities and positional chess, very instructive. Nicely done.

@ChessNetwork

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. They were the key features in this one. 👍

great video! Super cool to see how a concept as deceptively simple as "control d5" can become such a heated and complex conversation between two champions.

@ezekiel7467

6 ай бұрын

And, it seems Carlsen won the "d5 control". The white bishop's mobility was restricted, the black knight eventually became a masterpiece.

It's always fascinating when a single square is fought over so fiercely.

Very interesting game, I must say.

Loved the analysis. Great game. Well played. Thanks again for all you do.

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

👍😊

Back when Kramnik wasn't a salty blogger

@xtc8460

6 ай бұрын

@@nicbentulanis this a copy pasta

@mohammadanwar9848

6 ай бұрын

Back when Kramnik wasn't broke

@danielgolay8387

6 ай бұрын

Lol

@danielgolay8387

6 ай бұрын

Vlad the complainer

"Carlsen was most likely cheating." - V. Kramnik

Thanks Jerry, for analysing this beautiful game.

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

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Very instructive game - thanks!

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

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As a statistician, Super GM and 8 Michelin Star chef, I can confirm with supreme confidence that Carlsen was cheating.

@quazzydiscman

6 ай бұрын

I only believe the word of 9 star Michelin chefs...😤

@JJ-kl7eq

6 ай бұрын

I may not be an 8 Michelin Star chef, but I did eat the breakfast bar at a Holiday Inn express this morning. It was interesting.

@declaredjeans7555

6 ай бұрын

​@@JJ-kl7eqThanks, this comment got me!😄

@CarterBrandon7

6 ай бұрын

🤨

@dodekaedius

6 ай бұрын

As a six star General, i don't care

Carlsen’s Knight sparkled throughout, while Kramnik’s Bishop was blunted by a “friendly” Pawn.

Love your analysis video 😊😊 but can u bring some more computer games?

A very good analysis in middlegame concept.

Jerry,Thanks so much for your analysis. Both your choices and analyses are great and instructive

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

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An illuminating analysis. I am working on some training around the concept of fighting for one square this should help. Thanks Jerry.

Excellent analysis as always.

Super instructive, thanks.

Thanks as always for the analysis Jerry. I always struggle against fianchetto'd bishops, I never have a clear plan, trying to fight for a central square along the diagonal to block it seems straightforward as an idea but this is an excellent example of that, love the concept of forcing the opponent to put a pawn there.

..*LOVE YOU, JERRY* ❤ From the bottom of my Heart, I Thank You for doing these Videos 🙏

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

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Amayzing analyse, Thank you

Happy Belates Thanksgiving Jerry! Wishing you and yours well! 🦃

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

Happy 🦃😎

Really helpful,, thanks a lot 👍🏿👍🏿

great breakdown CN~!!

Good game, good commentary.

Excellent analysis! I was NOT seeing most of the things you pointed out. Once you explained what is going on, the game was so much more enjoyable and intense. In the end it seems like that innocent looking a3 pawn grab by Kramnik did him in. So i am thinking he didn't see what was about to happen to him on the e and f files either! 🙂

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@davesmith5656

6 ай бұрын

My guess is that Kramnick saw the position was losing before he played QxP (Qxa6), and tried to maybe throw Carlsen off balance. Didn't work. I have seen games in which both players made "computer best" moves, then one makes an off-move ... and the reply is ALSO an off-move. Maybe inside the player's head he thought his counterpart had seen something he failed to see, loses confidence, and makes an off-move himself. Carlsen wasn't buying Kramnick's avocados on sale, half-price.

Excelente análisis.

@ChessNetwork

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

Very interesting accuracy statistic

love the recent magnus videos

Before judging, please consider to mind, that without doubt Владимир Крамник is the Milhouse van Houten of the chess universe. And don't get distracted by the black dyed hair, it's natural colour is blue.

@mstorgaardnielsen

6 ай бұрын

Wouldn’t it be Милхаус Муссолини Ван Хаутен?

Thx Jerry 😊

In Kramnik's subconcious, he thinks Magnus cheated on him on this game

Well enjoyed with educative analysis, so nice to watch greats at job.

@ChessNetwork

6 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@ashoksafaya5397

6 ай бұрын

Thanks

so you are saying Carlsen had 98% accuracy in this game? Interesting...

@danielgolay8387

6 ай бұрын

?

@aleattorium

6 ай бұрын

@@danielgolay8387 this is referencing recent accusations Kramink made at Nakamura, saying he cheated

@danielgolay8387

6 ай бұрын

@aleattorium ah, OK. I thought it was a shot at Jerry for his previous video about bot accounts on lichess, which, for obvious reasons, will not stand!

98% accuracy wow

TY GM 👍

Watching gms play is like watching magicians at work. Fortunately, we have Jerry to breakdown the trick for us mere mortals

Master class in obtaining a good knight versus a bad bishop. Notice how black's pieces and pawns ended up on dark squares with white's pawns on white squares.

Great thumbnail

Superb game. Magnus made it look simple

Kramnik went off a cliff at the end there :)

Those titles are intriguing 😅

10:07 f5 is the first move that came to mind for me. Is there some reason why it doesn't work?

@arnoudh6203

Ай бұрын

After f5 there is no way to get to the king for white. The E pawn would be backwards, black can pile up on it with the major pieces and put the knight on f6->e4. H4 break is met with h6, and it takes to long to occupy that file for white.

Good party. I liked. Black was good position.

Interesting...

Vladimir found this game interesting

upload titled tuesday plz

Hi Jerry.

Kramnik thought he was cheating

10:02 Could white push the pawn further to f5?

@TheFreeM93

6 ай бұрын

He can but this will make an excellent outpost for knight.

@erbalumkan369

6 ай бұрын

Which outpost is that? F6? White could play e4, lock things up.

@TheFreeM93

6 ай бұрын

@@erbalumkan369the outpost is e5, simply you move the rook and put the knight there and white can't attack it with the bishop, he has to sacrifice the exchange in order to remove it.

@erbalumkan369

6 ай бұрын

Ok i see. But white has a white bishop to counter that knight. Would like to have seen the analysis of that line.

32..Nd3 would have been killer, still can't move the 2nd rank rook due to mate in one, after the 1st rank rook moves, Nxf2 is curtains!

This video dropped 13 minutes ago and already has 201 views and 26 likes? Add me to the list!

@grouchomcgrouch4150

6 ай бұрын

I subscribed and hit the notification bell so many years ago now, Jerry is the best.

Play more tournaments jerry!!

My feet black

MAgNuS cHEAteD!!

Comment nr 100

Well obviously Magnus cheated!!!1!!!

Vlad the complainer

Carson Magneto really cheated this time huh

carlsen cheated prob

@nicbentulan

6 ай бұрын

Why are all of Magnus' cheating victims Jewish-or-American? - Alexandra Kosteniuk - 2009 blitz WCC - Alireza Firouzja - 2019 blitz WCC (MVL is Jewish; 1 decade later cheats again?) - Danya Naroditsky 2x - lichess 2020 & 2021 - Ian Nepomniachtchi - 2021 classical WCC - Sergey Karjakin - 2022 candidates - Wesley So - 2022 WFRCC (define 'slow rapid') Source: p1w4Rr-jr

Don’t need disgusting parlsen who doesn’t need to be champion Someone else needs to be champion

@owensmart2514

6 ай бұрын

I think you’ve been knocked across the head a bit too many times

@guillaumelagueyte1019

6 ай бұрын

Pagnus Marlsen

@yusufyusuf1998

6 ай бұрын

lmao