THE CZAR UNDER WHICH HE WAS BORN WAS NOT PETER BUT NIKOLAY

Your insertion (within quoting Andrew Soltis) is incorrect. Botvinnik was born under Czar Nicholas II (1868-1918) not Peter II.

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İnsanlara satranç teknikleri aktarmaya başladığımda beklediğim gibi bir kaç düzine yıl içinde ben satrançta tanrıyı bile yenerim lafı geldi😊

I would hate you to miss: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWjcfHdrh9Fqbqc. Menchik country!

Great information, and quite a brutal game in the end -- for Schlechter or worse.

What I find quite strange is, that even though on the crosstable of the 1939 Women's World Championship, Sonja Graf is shown as "stateless", on the crosstable of Moscow 1935, Emanuel Lasker is shown with the Swastika flag!?! Don't they have any decency? Lasker was of Jewish descent and was driven into exile just a few months after Hitler's rise to power in 1933. The Nazis confiscated all his property and forced him to spend his last years in poverty in foreign countries. Ok, I just checked the Wikipedia page for Moscow 1935, and apparently by now someone pointed out this faux pas, and they replaced the Swastika with today's German flag (which of course was not in use until 1949, but well, at least it's better than the Swastika...)

Another enjoyable and well-researched documentary! However, I had to chuckle when you stated "Steinitz could not represent England in the Olympiads"... I would have been very surprised if he did, considering that Steinitz died in 1900 and the first Olympiad was held in 1927.... 🙂

"unerklärlich" does not mean "unclear", it means "unexplainable"...!

thank you for this gem

Hi Lucas, Thank you for your awesome video on Rubinstein. I have an original volume 1, I didn't know it was volume 1, and for that matter there is a volume 2! About increasing one's rating / strength at ridiculous speed : Fischer went from 1726 to 2626, 900 points in 2 years!! Love your videos! ❤

"a couple hundred views"

Please do more!

I found out he played A 20 game simul by my house in England and still can’t understand why

Thank you for this historical as well as technical view into the life and games of the Iron Tiger (or "Iron Boa Constrictor"). Very illuminating🙂

Most of the videos in the series have the proper volume, and It'd be great if the default volume for this one could be turned up a little.

The supposed picture of Bronstein looks like it's one of Spassky.

19:28 Har Har Har

Excellent vid by the legendary Lucas "Anova" Anderson

Wow interesting to note cops were jerks back then …Toronto 1932…well, the more things change the more they stay the same

This was really great thank you ❤

Wow!!! #How is this gem 💎 hidden on KZbin! It captures my heart literally at his first video. GREAT!!

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Did Petrosian ever play against a Botvinnik Computer program???

beautiful video.

Tnx so much for that

On my second watch-through of the series, but in chronological order (since it makes the most sense to me to see how the ideas build), truly fantastic stuff.

this was really great way to learn

There is a claim made around 1:37 that Cuba had the 2nd "best" economy in the western hemisphere before the revolution. This really needs correcting. By "best" he clearly means best for the tiny elite of rich people for whom it was a playground. Most people in Cuba were dirt poor. The revolution led to massive improvements in health standards, literacy, child mortality etc. so for most people, the economy was far better after the revolution.

It’s “AL-uh-kine”…

Well done

These lectures on chess history are a great treasure to the chess community worldwide. It would be sooooo good to have more of them!

I don't think you interpreted the name bolshevik right. Bolshevik was a fraction of the communist party. Basically there was the radical group which was minority of the communists and the tame group which was vast majority. Somehow the future bolsheviks annoyed the real majority so much that they simply abandoned a meeting, and then they pushed through some kind of motion and had the majority on that vote. From that point on they called themselves bolsheviks and the other the mensheviks. Later on the mensheviks were essentially exterminated (killed).

Very nice video, but the V1 "buzz bomb" only made its buzzing sound while its ram-jet engine was running. It wasn't in any sense "guided". It would be more accurate to call it an "early cruise missile" or perhaps suicide drone.

the audience needs to wear shock collars that activate anytime they suggest a move without any follow up lol

With these guys' research level, imagine if they were able to get a good editor for some cool graphics for the video.,,

Hans-Joachim Hecht became GM in 1973.

tal best of all times

On his famous web page Tim Krabbé calls Ba3 in the AVRO game the "Most overestimated move of the millennium" and says the move is the "first move that comes to mind here, and it's pretty easy to calculate."

The Russian revolution was not a revolution - it was a coup d'état.

Grigoriev was the famous composer of pawn endgames.

The "famous" five queens game is a variation form the game Grigoriev-Aljechin won [the fictitious variation!] by Grigoriev, not Aljechin. In reality there were no 5 queens and Aljechin won the game as Black.

There is a nice anecdote about Sämisch - a very strong blindfold payer - playing blindfold. After WWII he had to play many blindfold performances in order to earn some money. On one occasion he was fooled: Ha had to play against club players and they had prepared a devilish strategy. Half of them played 1. ... g6 and the other half played 1. ... d6. On the second move some of the g6 players played Bg7 others played d6. Later some of the Bg7 players played Bf8, others played d6 and so on. After a few moves Sämisch war completely confused and resigned all games.

Dreckseele literally is dirt soul. By the way Zukertort (Jankiel Ezechiel Cukiertort) looks like Zuckertort = suger tart. However, I ma not sure if Cukier = Zucker. Anyway it should be pronounced Tsookertort or possible with a short "u".

Very good videos & powerpoint.

It's more accurate to describe Tal as the shortest reigning World Chess Champion as opposed to your description as shortest living champion.

Thanks for putting this together Lucas , thanks for these old films and pictures of Keres and details on Estonia, my father's homeland that he and his parents escaped after WWII. For what it's worth, I note that the NY Times reports that he was married with two children.

Lucas did your history of blindfold disappear or is a the video with Timur gareyev i thought there was one with slides though. Or is it still there and i can't find it? edit: ah i see, it's still there

9:17 Photo of Flohr, not of Mikenas.

how did Timur and Warren do in the simul?