it's wholesome how he's the one that laughs the most out of his own jokes

@pepperwestwood

9 ай бұрын

😂 The Jackie Martling of chess

@xxx333mmm

2 ай бұрын

@@pepperwestwood wtf i didn't know that guy but checked and yeah he laughs at his jokes the same ;D

It’s easy to forget that Yasser was a super GM. Top 10 at his peak

@GEM4sta

2 жыл бұрын

Yasser was never a super GM, but yeah he's good

@Sharkmoves

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEM4sta if you only consider 2700+ GMs super GMs then yeah, by definition he was not. The avarage elo however always rises due to a mathematical thing, just google it if you don t believe me. Now if we reconsider that he was 10th in his time…

@GEM4sta

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sharkmoves so should I consider 2450 IMs from his time GM instead because the general playing strength was lower? Super GM isn't top 10. If you want to say he's top 10 then you say he was top 10. Super GM is 2700, there are plenty of them that aren't top 10.

@noone-qu5ec

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEM4sta By that definition Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian, Viktor Korchnoi and Paul Keres are not Super GMs. I doubt the Super GMs today can beat these guys in their prime. Don’t make it sound that there is no elo inflation. Yes, IMs then can be considered GM strength if the number of tournaments today are the same as their time. Easy elo.

@merdishakki

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEM4sta his peak was 2769

There was a point in time where Yasser was one of THE best chess players in the entire world.

Yasser cracks me up everytime. Both stories and storytelling are awesome!

Gotta love yassir

My favorite bit of info about Yasser is that despite seeming like the nicest and most soft-spoken guy in the world, he had a 4-0 lifetime record against Tal. Tal was of course a crazy killer and had a winning record against Bobby Fischer.

@nza1804

2 жыл бұрын

Damn, I knew Yasser was a top 10 player at his peak but I never knew he had a positive score against one of the greatest World champs let alone a perfect undefeated plus score

@vdre6741

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the Tal of 1980 wasn't the great Tal. that we know.

@EGarrett01

2 жыл бұрын

@@vdre6741 His peak rating was literally in 1980, lol. He was World #2.

@jedinxf7

2 жыл бұрын

@@vdre6741 that is about as ignorant a comment as you could have made. Tal was far stronger in the 1980s and had one of the longest undefeated streaks in history then (not broken until ding liren and then magnus in only the last few years).

@vdre6741

2 жыл бұрын

@@jedinxf7 My bad. I misunderstood. I thought his health problem came back at this period ans affect his results. It's look like I misunderstood or I was thinking about another period of his life. And I haven't yet read this part of the book. I an actually in 1965 lol

If Bob Ross ever dissed a friend.

@juststoic3809

2 жыл бұрын

That’s actually funny😂

@GEM4sta

2 жыл бұрын

Bob Ross actually completely stole his friend's brand and company, so pretty ironic comment really

@lunalove2259

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEM4sta I had not heard that. I'll have to look into it, thanks :)

This has got to be in the top 5 best Yasser story's I have heard.

Yaser and Aman, two awesome dudes. Love it!

Yasser is a legend! what a great personality

Love the Karpov story and Yasser's storytelling, but I'm low-key impressed with Aman's endgame. Yeah, okay, it is a fairly simple pawn endgame where he draws as the black King can't infiltrate, but look how calm Aman is with seconds left on his clock. I know he is a GM, but if I am that low on time (drawn position or not), I lose my marbles, hang all my pieces and then hang mate in 1 xD

@garbour456

2 жыл бұрын

he also plays blitz chess like 6 hrs a day lol

@11hitmanDagenius

2 жыл бұрын

wtf is lowkey? use insignificant or not a big deal instead.

That was savage... Hahaha Yasser just dropped the 🎤 on Karpov

Yasser's laugh just brightens up everyone's day 🤣😂

That's hilarious. YS has got a terrific sense of humor!

yasser was far stronger than what we imagine him to be

Great story, beautifully recounted. Yasser is gold.

Great story!

Yasser has the best stories xD

Yasser has a very wholesome laugh

The best part is that Karpov knew he was one of the ones he beat :P

@GEM4sta

2 жыл бұрын

Why do you think he would know that? I kinda doubt he did

I swear his laugh is more contagious than Covid

Ahah this is hilarious

Hilarious story

GM Yasser

Yasser won the first Tata Steel tournament.

Bing Bang Boom

Karpov: hUh.

Took me a while to realise he referred to Anatoly as Talia not a girl lol

@pedestrian2530

2 жыл бұрын

Russians shorten the name Anatoly as Tolia, Tolik, Tolyan, etc.

@nza1804

2 жыл бұрын

@@pedestrian2530 thanks, didn’t know that

Bwahaha! Fucking Yasser is a national treasure.

One of my favorite GMs gets his ass kicked twice by Yasser, hilarious!

🤣🤣🤣

Hahahahaha.

obviously karpov will have a low win streak, he's a no risk type player and doesnt always try to win, so in a tournament or match if he needs a draw to win, he will draw. Anyways the real achievement is to have a long streak of super tournament wins. Which Kasparov,Karpov have not bobby

@Pasharamus

2 жыл бұрын

true, chess is like war. You don't need to win every battle to win the war. P.S. Fischer didn't want to face Karpov despite the conditions being similar to the modern ones - first to X points wins. If all games drawn, the champion stays the same. As much as I admire Fischer's games and creativity, he seems to be too much of a diva. But maybe I lack some insight.

@OzarksCreekandTimber

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pasharamus I would describe Fischer as more of an eccentric and definitely a little crazy.

@nguyentienchung9913

2 жыл бұрын

@@OzarksCreekandTimber Fischer is pretty insane. Also a massive mysogynist and somewhat racist.

@ardgeighw5174

2 жыл бұрын

Pavel, the insight you lack is that Fischer had to face all of the USSR virtually alone. Soviets were huge cheats. As to the rest of the commenters I don't think Fischer was crazy, just more insightful and honest than most.

@stephenmcqually2983

2 жыл бұрын

Lighten up man, it was a funny story

Karpov dominated world chess for a decade. Neither Fischer nor Seirawan came close to that.

@donuttsu9233

Жыл бұрын

who?

Based on what I can find on chessgames (and I may be mistaken), it looks like Yasser is misremembering slightly and instead scored 7.5/8 in eight games with a draw in the middle? I'm getting four wins at the end of Phillips & Drew Kings in London followed by a draw and three wins at the Toluca Interzonal. His wins are nothing to sneeze at, though, comparable to Karpov's six at Linares 1994: Yasser got Ljubojevic, Karpov, Nunn, Miles, Kouatly, Portisch, and Adorjan, conceding a draw to Ivanov.

Yasser has higher FIDE rating than Eric Hansen wtf ?

@juyifan7933

2 жыл бұрын

Yasser was a top 10 player a few times during late 80's to early 90's. Nowadays he's retired, he hasnt played a classical tournament game in a decade, so Eric is currently a lot stronger. But prime Yasser would be a favorite against Eric.

@JICM25

2 жыл бұрын

@@juyifan7933 In wikipedia it says: FIDE rating: 2620 (February 2022)

@juyifan7933

2 жыл бұрын

@@JICM25 Sure, thats his rating. But it is completely dated since it is based on games played over a decade ago. He hasnt played a tournament in quite a while;

Please some respect for Karpov - The eternal XII-th World Chess Champion

@nonnenhut

2 жыл бұрын

Blablabla..... relax and enjoy the funny story.

Not the same quite… in Karpovs day And prime i believe being a Gm meant you were top 50… in other words the only way to reach the 2500 norm was by having top 50 strength… so yes Karpovs is more impressive imo