15 Years I Searched for This Game...

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Mikhail Tal vs Alexander Koblents
Riga (1961), Riga LAT
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. Main Line (B99)
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd4 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. Be2 h6 11. Bh4 b5 12. e5 Bb7 13. ef6 Bf3 14. Bf3 d5 15. Ne6 fe6 16. Bh5 g6 17. Bg6 Kf8 18. fe7 Kg7 19. Bg3 Nf6 20. Rhe1 b4 21. Re6 bc3 22. f5 Qb7 23. b3 Qd7 24. Be5 Qe6 25. fe6 Kg6 26. Rf1 Nh7 27. Bh8 Rh8 28. Rf8 Rf8 29. ef8Q Nf8 30. e7 Kf7 31. ef8Q Kf8 32. Kd1
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[@Spynarina]

Nobody watches your channel to “just see the moves.” We watch for your extra trivia and commentary. Anyone could cover the moves, but you’re the reason we watch these videos! Forget the people who don’t like it, the extra stuff is the heart and soul of your channel, and nobody wishes to see it changed!

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Such unfortunates 😅

[@illarionbykov7401]

You got it right. There are dozens of channels out there which cover just the moves. They have much lower view/subscriber stats. There's also a variety of websites with PGN databases where you can review "just the moves"

[@davidwagner6116]

Also, I can see why you would remember that game for 15 years. What a brawl!

[@alvarolorentearevalo8312]

Totally agree 😊

[@indianfan1029]

The truth lies somewhere in between. Firstly I absolutely dont wish to see "just the moves". Or i would go to some database. On the other hand I also dont want to see infinite rambling about things which may not be very related to the game/etc.

[@NeelotpalamTiwari]

Who's not interested in a little backstory ? I love it when you there's something about the game, a little context about the players, an old photo of the game or the tournament.

[@abebuckingham8198]

I'm not interested in it. That being said, he always makes it super easy to skip so I get what I want and you get what you want.

[@TheSilonaught]

I love it! Might as well play a computer if you’re not interested in the story.

[@alpha007org]

I'm interested. That's why I'm subbed to this channel.

[@brianbanks703]

irrelevant, silly and childish. Do people now really consider films a reality??!! ok for children of course then we should outgrow, develop, maybe into real culture

[@svit1971]

My father loved Tal. We discovered your channel during Covid times and it turned out to be a topic of conversation every single day. He in India and me in the US sharing games during our conversation and moves on WhatsApp. He particularly enjoyed the Tal and Fisher sagas. I lost him last year. How I wish he got to enjoy this lost masterpiece. Thank you for the trivia and stories. Context is everything and you are a wonderful storyteller.

[@chessandmusicwithoskiez6241]

Beautiful comment. This is what chess is about.

[@aniketwavare1139]

Tal sacrifices one queen to sacrifice two more queens and still wins the game.

[@dark_magician_sdy]

Nice spoiler

[@goncalofernandes8764]

@@dark_magician_sdy what else did you expect?

[@Raventooth]

I just sacrificed a queen on Tal's memorial statue in Rīga.

[@FabianMabunda]

I also dont like the backstories, but i just skip ahead instead of complaining because i know others like the backstories. Keep the great work going, Antonio

[@ishaypr]

​@@Raventooth😂r CC a week❤ CC the😂 wen

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

The craziest part for me is how Tal is seemingly hanging pieces left and right, with only his attacking initiative on the enemy King sparing him the loss of more material. He cleverly unwinds his hung pieces with tempo as he balances defending his own king while keeping the pressure on his opponent. Then when the smoke clears in the endgame he's up a meager pawn somehow, as if this was all precisely calculated to give him a slight, albeit winning, advantage.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Hanging pieces but co ordinating an attack being down material his minor pieces played a big roll collateral damage

[@tjhallett]

Well said.

[@Puschit1]

And my favourite part of all of that: Those are always sacrifices like here that the opponent has to accept. Imagine being forced to take pieces while knowing "this is Tal, I know it's trap" three times in a row ...

[@carsonmiller1353]

I watch every video you post. Not once am I clicking the video for the moves. I watch your videos for the love you put into it, the history you share, and the environment you create. We all love your channel for you, not the moves.

[@jessejordache1869]

A Nick Cage movie using THAT GAME is just ridiculous.

[@jestice75]

Nick Cage should have played Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice.

[@zulfarisekapermata3056]

American artist playing russian game

[@gustavttt4148]

I'd rather have a Nick Cave song with that name

[@turtle752436]

Thank you, for me it was an amazing game. The intro was well worth it too. The hapstance of the unlikely source, an unrelated recent movie, that Tal was both his own and his tutors achievement, and a record at that, and ofc any game with such a wild sacrifice is enough for anyone to fall in love afresh with chess.

[@rahuldesai7777]

The game is meaningless without context or the situation in which it is played! We absolutely love your insights setting the backdrop of the game. If I just had to see the moves, I wouldn't have come to a KZbin channel! I appreciate you taking a deep dive into history to create an interest amongst your audience

[@kosv9331]

Classic chaos by Misha. What a coincidence I am going to pick up life and games of Mikhail Tal after 1 month of waiting

[@kryu007]

The attacker knows his attack can be refuted..He has to gamble but at the same time he couldn't show his hesitation on the moves he makes...Tal had great psychological influence over the board....

[@da2nd2nn]

Bro, your enthusiasm for chess and all of it's greatness is what makes your channel so much better than everyone else's! You are my favorite streamer. Watching your channel for just the moves is a blunder!

[@philipsaoud244]

That was madness! Koblents played brilliantly just to stay in this game.

[@ubonabasiobot7720]

If it's a Mikhail Tal game, expect it to be chaos!!

[@bhaskarchakrabarty2420]

Had Tal taken care of his health & was a bit disciplined then he would be impossible to beat !! Even GMs today cannot comprehend his sacrifices!! Truly a Legend & my favourite Chess player of all time !! Thanks a lot for all the Tal content

[@tumunu]

I honestly think that Tal's medical problems were beyond what medical science had to offer at the time, and particularly in the Soviet Union. For example, I had ulcerative colitis in the 1970s. We now know it's an autoimmune disease, but at the time, nobody had even heard of autoimmune diseases. Nobody knew what caused UC. I asked, and the doctors would just shrug and say "maybe a virus." Now I'm really glad that science has progressed, and today's UC (and Crohn's) patients have options I never had, but I would take issue with anyone who said that the reason I haven't had a large intestine for 45+ years is because I wasn't taking care of myself. Not only did I not know what was really going on, but the new immunosuppresive drugs that target IBD hadn't been invented either. Your thoughts about Tal's brilliance are spot-on. He was a legend in so many ways. I once heard about this one time where he was picked up and thrown in the local drunk tank overnight in the middle of a tournament, after the first day's 40-move round. When they realized it was Tal they picked up, and they were Russian (i.e. all chess players), and his tournament status, the story goes that his very jailers stayed up all night with him, analyzing his position! This is what I call stone-cold hero stuff.

[@omarimartin9502]

Mikhail Botvinnik said the same thing about Tal.

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

I doubt though. Now there are modern engines that players can use to refute his sacrifices

[@tumunu]

@@aronuchukwuezugo615 Well, Tal played before there were computers. He did what everybody did in his time. His main tactic was to move away from established lines quickly, and complicate the position, and look across the table and metaphorically say, "in the next five hours I'm going to crush you with my raw chess-playing skill" and he usually did, until his health problems got him. I'd also like to mention, since he was still around was I was younger, that Tal was beloved by the entire chess-playing world, not just in the Soviet Union. I'm sitting here in the USA and the Cold War is swirling around me, and everybody still loved Tal. Americans no exception.

[@kirjuschaks]

Fischer in his prime 72' was just better (than any grandmaster). The only one who potentially could compete is capablanca.

[@philipr1567]

Every day is like a birthday when agadmator posts a Tal game!

[@wtfpwnz0red]

"I sac my queen" "But Tal, you already sacced your queen" "I SAC MY QUEEN AGAIN"

[@indianfan1029]

To be honest, the first one was the only real sacrifice.

[@thekurdishtapes8317]

And another one!

[@braveeee774]

As Tal said, it was a very very deep dark forest.

[@alisrour5280]

We all watch your videos to enjoy the content and the commentary. Those who say they only want to watch the moves are missing out on the heart and soul of this channel. And none of them will ever know why B4 is the strongest move in any position. Keep doing what you're doing because you're doing great.

[@kamerona]

The stories and the context of the games is what got me interested in your channel in the first place.in fact your stories are one of the reasons I got interested in chess again. I hope you never change that!

[@CNCTEMATIC]

I love how excited you are about this game, and I can see why. I feel like I understand your passion for the game when you show the beauty of this one

[@lindsaygaga4587]

Please never change the way you do your videos, It's been the same since the beginning of your channel❤❤❤

[@milanshukla6815]

Tal's synonym is magic in the dictionary of chess.

[@johnsimmons8456]

This game reminds me of the games I play these days, where it starts with theory and then evolves into a complex middle game with amazing attack and defending ideas, the top engine moved being found again and again, followed by a win as a result of being a pawn up while having a better position. And then I woke up.

[@sinethembayantolo]

This was some high level Chess, no Engine and no KZbin streamers just advanced thinking.

[@sushicooking]

Agadmaor casually submits a completly different game in the description.

[@BenAlternate-zf9nr]

He's just trying to trick us.

[@the69fury]

Love Tal...well done, great game to see.

[@mchauhan4]

Please continue the storytelling agad. They are what make your channel unique!

[@davecorry7723]

_SUCH_ camera clarity. You're clearer on-screen than the laptop I'm watching this on.

[@christophermarshall527]

I love your commentaries, histories, photos, and stories, don't change!!!

[@Lupinicus1664]

And it is games like this that gave Misha his nickname of Magician of Riga. Thanks for sharing! I've been a Tal fan since the 60s and had not seen this game either.

[@stephengreen6497]

You’re chess analysis is great but your channel is what it is because you allow your personality and humor to be on display. Please don’t ever stop

[@syedratul2108]

As soon as you announced the Tal game in the evening, I presumed about a queen sac. To my surprise it not 'a' rather 3 queen sacs! Please bring out more Tal games agad

[@c.arijit98]

The best thing about your channel is the stories. Never cut it short @agad. Those who are interested in moves can use the time stamp.

[@deadpoolgaming8161]

*This game reminds me of Deep blue vs Garry Kasparov,,, deep blue sacrificed its knight in that game,,,* thanks for sharing such beautiful content, absolutely loved it,,,, Keep up the good work 😊👍

[@ronjohnson9690]

I think the stories add a depth and personality that other channels don't have. Keep it up.

[@iecns89]

The summary of what’s played at the end without other lines is particularly useful! Thanks Agad!

[@joshblacksheep7348]

I love the backstory and facts about a certain game. I’ve always been interested about that in all parts of life and chess games narrated by agadmator isn’t any different!

[@questinfarrow]

Incredible! And the fact you eventually found this game from a Nick Cage movie is even better!!

[@Kibria-yy7js]

#suggestions: Smyslov vs Tal, 1964 USSR team championship. Tal demonstrated brilliancy in every aspect of the game. Tal neutralised opening idea of Smyslov. In the middle game, Tal sacrificed Queen for only a rook ( not even any minor piece), Smyslov gave back queen soon. Then came the endgame where Tal methodically converted bishop pawns vs knight pawns endgame. It would be a treat to everyone.

[@MaritimeSunset]

Thank you for showing these Tal games, you are the best chess channel on youtube :)

[@namigaabbasov]

You are doing great! And of course, keep doing the great work! Your commentary is really educating and makes your videos very interesting!

[@robertschreur5138]

Beautiful game! Great commentary. Thank you.

[@vaibhavmoon6958]

I absolutely love Tal's games The backstory of how you found the game was amazing! Keep them coming❤

[@michaellacy8510]

These older master’s games have a lot of heart. Love it.

[@gigagamingacademy]

New camera looks great! Love watching you watch The Magician from Riga

[@gigagamingacademy]

Which camera is it? I need it for League Coaching.

[@abhirammsd3728]

It was quite surprising that I had not found this game in your channel, after having watched it on another channel. At last we have it.

[@Juskinen]

A great game and a great story to accompany it

[@coreyburton8]

thank you for the game and I loved the recap at the end! appreciate your commentary so much! thanks

[@arman2339]

I like the quick summary of the game and key moments at the end.

[@Ikemefuna_steve]

This video is just Beautiful , Tal remains the only true Magician.

[@piyushjha757]

Yesss yesss finally a Tal game. Thanks Agad❤ and cheers to the new camera.

[@anugrahpandey]

I saw this game a few days back, i fell in love with how tal played. Magician❤

[@obsidaisy7776]

Whenever Tal plays you just know it's going to be crazy.

[@gabrielk2295]

It is a pure crazy game. It could have been played by computers - the position is so complex I love how Tal has several hanging pieces during the whole game but still is in control, he seems not to worry. This game is for the ages

[@drommeprins1]

Great find and video! Enjoyed it very much🥳 Congratulations with new camera and hope you are well

[@cholongsesangtam1626]

Hello agad your introduction to the games are most important as it really portays under what circumstances the players are playing. Whoever watches ur channel only for moves must be chess master and you'll be knowing the percentage of masters among ur subscribers.

[@davidmartin7163]

How Tal found those sacrifices within the madness is amazing. The magician from Riga indeed

[@mariawilson2315]

I like the commentary. Keep up the good work!

[@borjewahlen6917]

I agree about the language. It's not many Englishmen, Americans, Swedes, and so on that speak English so clear and correct. He is ofcourse interesting to watch because his ways and knowledge about chess.

[@Bobby-fj8mk]

Yes a gem and way beyond most chess players.

[@jaranth]

I can get "the moves" anywhere... but I enjoy the commentary and anecdotes a lot!! Keep it up!

[@LavrencicUrban]

I LOVE THE STORIES; KEEP THEM COMING TONI!

[@DMADHU]

Loved the backstory. Who doesn't. Always like the way you explain the variations and congrats on your new setup 4k and all new gizmos

[@NeilTheHippy]

I always look forward to a Tal game. Thanks Antonio 👍🏻

[@DexterHaven]

Great variations shown. Good work.

[@rtej89]

The title intriguing. The game is amazing. I'm glad you found this gem💎

[@subhendubiswas1525]

A true off-handed and unique art piece by Tal.

[@isard00]

Your channel is the perfect example of how to make extremely high-quality content, and well-deserved revenues, all in decency and class. Thank you!

[@erikb3799]

This is a masterful Tal game. My friends at the bar and the library must see this. Glad you found this game.

[@johnsmith-jj1gz]

excellent find, thank you

[@spacecomunication]

I feel happy for your for your new camera :D

[@bhgtree]

Every Agad fan comes for your excellent info and commentary, please don't shorten your vids and leave them without intro etc.

[@arsilvyfish11]

Just get filled with excitement when I see your excitement for this game. Interesting stuff!

[@cliffstar913]

I really enjoyed the story and the game as well. Thank you Agadmator

[@shaynebernard]

The satisfaction when you finally find that book, movie, song or chess game you have been searching for.

[@voltolini6193]

I've also been looking for a Tal game that i actually saw in THIS CHANNEL! I think it was some 2-4 years ago, I only remember that Tal played a very strange opening in a fast game against someone and the guy said: "Of course you used it in a fast game. I'd like to see you try in a classical". And so, once they played again, Tal used that same strange opening and won the game as well. It was something in the queen's side. Some time ago I went to your db and I spent an afternoon looking for that game, but wasn't able to find it.

[@sarangmahajani7177]

Thank you for sharing this with us❤❤

[@Paulsinke]

Thanks for an awesome game! I love the backstory and the historical context, "just interested in the moves" people are fine individuals I'm sure, but that's not why we love your channel! thanks for all your hard work!

[@cyrillebreton9009]

We should see more Koblens games, he seems like a solid dude

[@jose.valdez666]

this game is absolutely incredible thank you Antonio

[@user-ni3ph7sv1i]

more TAL please , with commentary. Thank you sir

[@internationalVloq]

You are the best Chess - KZbinr , keep up the great work , love your videos and your touch , much love from Morocco

[@tomlammerse2186]

The backstory an analysis is great! But with complicated and beautiful games, I do like the 'just the game' at the end, just to enjoy the beauty as is now that I understand it because of your analysis

[@shaundiltz5821]

What a beautiful game and thank you for bringing this to us. Wow

[@michaelbauers8800]

I was just reading a book on Tal, by Tal. And Koblents gets discussed a lot of course. Cool you posted a game with them.

[@huntera5767]

I love the backstory you provide, agad

[@user-si3xq3ux7g]

What an amazing game!!! Thanks Agad!!!

[@ashwindeshpande2400]

I bet your satisfaction level must have gone through the roof after finding this game.

[@Jedi_Judo19]

Beautiful game again Agadm8r!!

[@resu2026]

Amazing Game! Thank you Agadmator, you are the best

[@machineFa8]

Tal games are just fantastic

[@AxisofHonor25]

It’s felt like 15 years since the last Tal game. You have officially scratched the itch!

[@omarsekariyeh4215]

thank you agadmator ❤

[@PastTime777]

I'm sure Suren is proud of you. A game I've looked for is where Anand played Carlsen years ago (not recent). Anand played the W pieces. After a few moves in the opening, Carlsen made a move with his bishop to protect a piece, and from there Anand forced every move by pushing his pawn up the B or C file. The pawn could not be taken. It was an amazing game but when I search I can't find it.

[@theotherside7504]

Madness on the board. It is exhilarating to see Tal's matches!

[@daviddurbin7682]

Absolutely fantastic

[@ryanchun5536]

One of the most entertaining and dynamic games I have ever seen.

[@robinthomsoncomposer]

Thanks for taking the trouble to find and analyse another great Tal game.

[@albertosierraalta3223]

I watch the videos for the history and analysis but the recap at the end of the game is still very nice to see

[@patrickshanghai2064]

cool story. thx for that. love the old chess days.