14-year-old Bobby Fischer vs Dr. Max Euwe | The "Unpublished" Game | 1957

[@thejupiter1744]

I’m old and met and played Euwe as a teenager in Amsterdam in 1969. Of course I was quickly crushed but he was so polite and spent a good bit of time going through my mistakes. I felt so honoured facing the man who beat my hero Alekhine , and thus became, be it briefly, world champion.

[@MrCubFan415]

The jupiter That’s cool!

[@billhamton8441]

Alekhine is also one of my favorites

[@benhadar622]

So..

[@betstr5890]

How old are you sir ?

[@gonzalo4658]

Lmao just stop

[@guillermoazuara8088]

12:14 - "Multipurpose move: flight square and a battering ram". The way you bring the board alive with your words is what makes this such an excellent channel. Not only a chess channel, but an excellent entertainment channel. You're the Bob Ross of chess, Jerry.

[@jimmynelson7713]

I watch these videos every night and I’m still trash at chess.

[@generaladvance5812]

You and me both :)

[@ramonestefano]

So it's a club.

[@eddieandadrian9208]

Same!

[@JellyMonster1]

Yeah, me too!

[@yake12]

Jimmy Nelson preach

[@seasideman]

I love your style of explaining things Jerry, thank you. You make complicated positions easy to understand, even for such a relatively poor player as myself. It's also very helpful that you explain why certain moves are not played, as well as why the ones that are played work.

[@ChessNetwork]

Thank you

[@paulregulski6719]

Yes ditto; very good commentary !

[@JulesMoyaert_photo]

Very good CALM commentary!

[@bigmattcat]

What seksdeth said Jerry you the man, and have a great style. Of all the analysts I listen to you the most

[@shaikriyaz1874]

Mr Max Euwe was being generous, being a gentleman of sorts I guess. Great game, exploiting those light square weaknesses. Thank you, Jerry 😀

[@royplayer]

Obviously they were nurturing a possible future world champion.

[@benhadar622]

Simplsty and understand the part that you uxshaly have no control on the game. The comp have more

[@JosephGelis]

That is "Dr." Max Euwe. Doctors are a little sensitive about their prefixes.

[@TioRubens1]

"This bishop is just a tall pawn" hahaha

[@abebuckingham8198]

I think he meant Tal pawn!

[@stomachfat]

Tal rolled over in his grave hahah

[@milojames5593]

best line ever

[@AndyZach]

So true, so often!

[@Gaba-oo4qb]

I think he meant that bishop has the value of a pawn

[@OtesOtesOtes]

Euwe has a spot in heaven for teaching Fischer to draw sensibly

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

And Fischer is in hell, playing the Devil and winning to the great annoyance of Satan's majesty.

[@hiothezebra]

Great respect for Dr. Euwe for that ending.

[@bsrasmussen]

It's interesting that, 15 years later, Euwe presided over the Fischer-Spassky match as president of FIDE.

[@robinsinpost]

I played against Euwe for about 40 years ago in a simultaneous game. It must have been a few years before he died. I lost, as most of us did.

[@n8style]

IMO Euwe didn't want to take Fisher's spirit for the game away considering he was young and a great talent

[@mits_6131]

I agree.

[@winsersery]

I sometimes do the same in my games against youngesters. This is nice gesture which may help them build some self-confidence. Besides I am sure Fischer learnt his lesson he needed from this match. Mr Euwe is a gentleman who, I think, thought the same by offering a draw.

[@fatebringer3931]

I read the title, watched the match (loved it) until "draw offer" because I thought Fischer would win, after all it is Bobby Fischer. But until I read the comments, I had completely forgotten this was 14 yo Bobby Fischer! Utterly amazing!! I think many of you are right, Dr. Euwe was being a gentleman and a scholar to offer a draw to an up and coming Master at Chess. Thanks for the video. Accepting the draw also says a lot about Bobby Fischer, especially for his young age. I have children; as many know, they often have a hard time admitting defeat!

[@SlayElsair]

Very insightful explanations and scenarios. No dull talk, straight the point. I'm actually sad a like and a subscribe is all I could give. Hope you make a lot more!

[@Nwl11]

You can always find something valuable to take away from each of these analysis videos. Thank you Jerry!

[@kayasper6081]

Very well comented and analized video, really learnful and interesting. Thanks!

[@johnwarner3968]

Always excellent analysis. I enjoy your channel very much. Thank you for this great game. 👏🙏

[@Bob94390]

Thanks for publishing this game with such excellent comments.

[@TheCaioFTR]

The draw was a birthday gift lmao

[@AlbertEinsteinSpock]

Dr. Euwe was very gracious. One has to remember that Fischer, like everyone else, lost games/matches. Even the 2800-rated grandmasters had bad games. I'm guessing Bobby's rating was probably closer to 2500 at age 14.

[@beaglerott]

Well done! I find your video commentaries much easier to grasp than written articles.

[@Tizen]

Thanks for the analysis Jerry. I've been watching your daily uploads for a few weeks now and it has been very enjoyable. Your audio quality and speaking voice makes it easy to listen to you for the length of these videos. You do a wonderful job of explaining each player's moves and even the side step exploration of "what if X was played" is enlightening. Please keep up the good work. Do you have any videos that break down and explain some of the common openings? You normally gloss over those, but for people who don't have a lot of experience in that area, it might be nice to watch a primer video with that sort of prerequisite information. Thanks again!

[@dattatreyadutt8103]

Dr. Max Euwe -- ever the Gentleman!

[@thelordananas1741]

Great video Jerry! Thanks for all of your great content. :)

[@Nlsnightmare]

Wow, jerry is going all out with content! Thank you man, you are amazing!

[@good-questions]

Hey!!! Thank you so much for all these amazing matches and the commentary. Excellent!!!! Thank you!

[@threethrushes]

Fisher was still a young lad and Max Euwe showed class, humility, and wisdom in offering a draw despite having obvious winning chances.

[@Galakyllz]

Thanks for the great commentary. Your placement of the "pause here" quizzes are also very enjoyable. Please keep them in your future videos. :)

[@bradenstewart6270]

I thought this game was gonna be a brilliant Fischer win and then the more i watched I was like oh snap he gonna lose then it drew and I’m like dang plot twist

[@douglas7656]

honestly I think you have the best commentary on KZbin

[@mcdr1961]

Man, this is "the" chess channel! Many thanks from Rio, in the middle of carnival...

[@brandonclayton5182]

Good commentary & at pace I can follow with interest. Thank you.

[@thomasjackson2223]

I just love this channel.

[@whong09]

I've never seen a game like this where one side has all their pieces surrounded and paralyzed by the other side (literally surrounded on all four sides). Makes me think of the battle of Cannae where Hannibal baited the Roman army to unsafely advance to a point where his elite troops on the flanks could wrap around and envelop the Romans from the rear. Very cool game.

[@erezsolomon3838]

It happens a lot in Stockfish's games. It's one of the most fascinating ways of playing.

[@josebatxu32]

The upside down v shape the pawns and bishop make at the end really reflects the roman central charge, and the light squares around it makes it like trying to stop rain with an umbrella that only has the wires. Also fitting that the destruction of white was about to come from the rear, just like Hasdrubal's carthagenian cav. Great reference

[@sulista-consulting]

Great video, love from Czechia!

[@firstlast446]

Glad to see a slightly longer game on one of these game analyses.

[@robinsinpost]

I once played a simultanious game against Euwe i Holland for many years ago. Nice guy.

[@robinsinpost]

@@observersum1180 Nice guy. 😊

[@patricktrice8615]

Thank you, Jerry. Am definitely going to be checking your feature out on a regular basis!

[@alanramirez7123]

I thank ChessNetwork for these videos. They really helped me improve my games.

[@Euquila]

The palace was surrounded by the black pieces. The white King and Queen had no choice but to agree to the demands.

[@chucknola484]

lol good one

[@Craigevansagain]

I couldn't have said better myself.

[@MindfulPersonalGrowthop]

bravo

[@Maddie01022]

Dude good job with the video

[@mrmarkstv6585]

Fischer hated drawing games XD

[@bmac555]

Especially Pictionary.

[@zogzog1063]

What about drawing pictures?

[@dr.boring7022]

What about drawing swords?

[@JosephGelis]

He even hated when an opponent resigned. He wanted the glory of checkmate.

[@danno1800]

Thanks for this wonderful game!

[@gazlink1]

6:38.. Can someone explain what's wrong with Queen to A4, a punch at the knight, is it that the queen gets locked up with Pawn B4 to defend the knight and lock the queen in?

[@gazlink1]

Wait.. No, the black pawn at C5 can take the white at B4, then the next white from C3, then the black dark square bishop can come in to throw a punch at the white queen.. Can't see what's wrong here..

[@MrVvulf]

I think it likely you're correct in the assessment of Fischer's mindset on accepting the draw. Another possibility, common in very competitive youngsters with great ability, is that Fischer felt the offer was condescending and wanted to refuse on principle - "beat me or I'll beat you". I'll caveat that by saying I don't think Euwe was the type person to be condescending, he was certainly a gentleman.

[@Chunda8]

It was quite Fischerian to be disappointed in the draw, but this is clearly won for Black. Great annotation, thanks for putting this up, very helpful.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

But now you know why the history of this game was at the bottom of a pile for 50 years. I can see it. When it came to chess, Bobby just could not throw anything away. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Sans his world championship and millions in endorsements. Off the chess board, he was totally ignorant. But that is common for people who spent all their time getting good at one thing.

[@brunoverlinden9154]

Euwe was a math teacher and lived by stimulating young people.

[@lehmanbrothers6938]

Bruno Verlinden My great uncle went to jail for something similar

[@dr.boring7022]

@@lehmanbrothers6938 Bruh

[@notsharingwithyoutube]

Yours is my favorite chess channel.

[@CalebEmbry]

You do an excellent job explaining the game without slowing the pace too much.

[@davidlogat9338]

Thank you !

[@jbeyersphdheartmath]

Very instructive! Thanks!!

[@valentijnraw]

That was very nice of Euwe to offer a draw! Jerry did you know there is a video on youtube of Euwe and Botvinnik playing a blindfold game for Dutch television? Its really interesting! I will find the video and post the link as a reply beneath this comment

[@valentijnraw]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHLHaIR5pq11qKM

[@DrumApe]

Wait. At 9:29 F3 is a hot square, hit by the white bishop, so the pawn move to F4 should be illegal. Right?

[@robt2577]

No? Why would it be illegal? The first move made with each pawn may be one or two squares forward and there is nothing preventing them from moving through a square threatened by an opponent's piece(s).

[@jaapvandertuuk9307]

Indeed,in 'die gesammelten Partien von Robert J.Fischer' there's only the first 15 moves.Euwe remembered that the game went on the lines of Botwinnik-Euwe,Leningrad 1934.Thank you very much for this!

[@2Oldcoots]

Excellent Analysis!

[@ChessNetwork]

Thank you Philip.

[@ACherimoya]

Just watched the entire 17 minute 24 second video! Exciting finish!

[@veto7767]

It's amazing how you can watch 17 minutes of a video only a couple minutes after it was posted! Teach me your ways.

[@mikedegger3626]

i only watched until 17:10

[@vilmabusquets558]

Hi Gerry (Hope that's spelled correctly), the Dutch name Euwe is pronounced like "Ao va" with the accent on the first syllable. Love your postings, Chig

[@EarthSurferUSA]

And I thought Polish names were difficult to pronounce authentically, with 3 times the letters for confusion. :)

[@zott607]

Very interesting ending! Thanks Jerry

[@DoctorHomunculous]

very gracious of Euwe to offer the draw here. i think bobby was reluctant because he was trying to figure out if he should graciously accept or go down fighting. who knows if he cared about such gestures, being the strong personality he was

[@henkoosterink8744]

Strong? He was an sociopath.

[@frawding9438]

Interesting thumbnail! Gotta say, I've never seen that photo of Fischer before.

[@DAVIDDAMIENR]

Thank You

[@TheMrBennito]

why isn't there more of Euwe's play available on YT? He was a very good player!

[@ysbrandd]

it is cause he is an underrated champion, people call him the weakest champion yet I think he might be underrated in that regard. He is what the current champions could build off of because he popularised publishing opening books and prepping lines. I even have a book from 1947 in which he explains lines in the nimzo indian!

[@duanearcher7576]

Euwe perhaps the most underrated WC. Played some beautiful games, exquisite endings and wrote many fine chess books.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

He was Sensei.

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Euwe is German for 'owl.

[@ysbrandd]

agreed, a lot of people forget he is one of the players that created the way chess is played today by prepping lines and studying openings, and a lot of his lines are still extremely usable!

[@glennhall2729]

Good stuff. Thanks

[@tamirtsogbayar3912]

Hello Jerry. I'm love watching your videos. i have a idea that if you prepare like this video from the book is called "zurich international chess tournament 1953" i belive that would be great. thanks for your videos.

[@michaelmoran4420]

I'd say Euwe was a nice guy.

[@alipunga7091]

Well explained!

[@krisgen29]

ah jerry, you left me in suspense! what happened in the end, with the fischer/euwe match up? i'll have to search for it...

[@lamok19901219]

What happens if 42.bf2 instea of rf2?

[@JayCee235]

I was just looking for a new chess video... Scary timing on the upload, but thanks.

[@miguelpanta]

400k views. wow. way to go jerry. my fav chess commentator.

[@Pope_Smoke]

On minutes 12:47 on your video, why didn't Fischer play the h2 pawn to h4? to counter the Black h 7 pawn.

[@GKizer]

you commented about the in-between move, but don't you answer an in-between with another in-between, taking the bishop with a check, then taking the threatening knight with any rook? maybe I missed something.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

With interjection of other play, we do miss something. We miss the game that was played and why it was played that way. We are not mind readers, so when the YT guys play their own game, it is because they can't see what was being thought by the players, and can't shut their own game off in their minds. Which is why their study is not good enough to actually win against the people who played the game.

[@honeybadger2171]

Bobby Fischer was only 14 at the time maybe that was the reason i enjoyed it any because it was a unseen game i love Fischer games

[@shaunozzyoz425]

new to this why are they called files???

[@lysssky2]

at 14:00 i feel that returning the material with an exchange sacrifice would help alleviate the pressure from the attack

[@chukwudube3234]

12:00 As Euwe probably knew Fisher was going to play Rb6 to exchange rooks next move, what's the idea with playing 28 ...Rg6, wasting a move (instead of e.g. playing Qg4 right away)? Are there any subtleties to notice that explain Rg6? Thanks in advance!

[@CommanderShepard05]

poisoned pawn. Superb narration !

[@lolwhatyesme651]

@3:41 but white also an intermetzo, as the knight on c6 could take black's dark square bishop with check?

[@othman31415]

nice videos, keep up. thumbs up

[@AntoineMaloney]

This is the third of your Bobby Fischer videos I've watched, really enjoyed - and passed on to others - but surely Max Euve's name is pronounced 'oovuh"'? Grew up in chess (in Brooklyn and Connecticut) at the time much of this was happening, following Bobby, and very excited by it all. Many thanks for your work on these.

[@rezganger]

I wonder if it would be possible to get one of Tals score sheets...That would look nice on the wall,yes?!

[@DavidMartinez-tr1pe]

Why can't you put the black queen on f3 then the bishop on h3 8:07

[@tinocasadeitherezo6063]

Thank you for the game. Really a mystery what happened to them!

[@MassimilianoFarris]

Holy Cow i'm not getting the point at 3:38, isnt 13. Nxc6 really winning a piece?! i mean 13. Nxc6 Nxc1 14. Nxe7+ Qxe7 Raxc1 isnt two N and B for one N and B, the point being that Nxe7 comes with check? What am i missing?

[@mrchessnmath9476]

Thanku john

[@barrydavies4786]

Great game & commentary

[@Fortmik]

This is a fantastic game! Wow.

[@alexanderherbertkurz]

Thanks ... interesting how the initiative changed from white to black ... where did it happen? Was winning the pawn a mistake?

[@goncalofelicio6738]

why can't queen return to c4, at 7:10?

[@annadoesroblox6205]

I wouldn’t be able to play a move like g3 even if it won me a pawn. Weakening light squares in an opposite color bishops position is just scary.

[@DucksDeLucks]

Excellent commentary. I learned something about control of c5 in this opening and the ..d5 threat. Why did Fischer play f4? That looked bad on principle.

[@daves5623]

Me too ~ I admit I watch for pure entertainment.. it is all memorization for openings and I don’t have the desire

[@Eric-xt3os]

Maybe there was time pressure to explain the draw??

[@walterdabrowski918]

At 17:03 ???

[@DeBillie58]

Fascinating game, thanks to commentator #1!

[@joejackson7140]

I love Jerry. No idea who he is, but I love to hear him talk about chess

[@Sephiroth1x1]

Hi, Jerry. 10:46 after Be3 instead of Rd8 why not Be2 deflecting black Queen and threatening Qxh2 checkmate?

[@srijanchakraborty220]

Excellent! Can you upload Fisher vs Spassky 1972 world chess championship matches?

[@michaeltieber3550]

In the final position, I would have played Bd3 followed by Qxd3, Qxd3, Kxd3, Rxf1 which ends in 5 pawns and a bishop versus 4 pawns and a rook. Looking at the material I would say that favours black, but even if the a and the d pawn are on white squares, they are very weak. if they would fall, b and c pawn would get too strong... But as a world champion playing against a 14-year-old I would have at least tried this endgame. plz tell me if I have missed an important detail, or if my prediction about the endgame is wrong.