7 BEST Queen Sacrifices In Chess History!

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7 Queen Sacrifices by Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Nezhmetdinov, Vassily Ivanchuk and Hikaru Nakamura.
0:00 Intro
0:28 Mikhail Tal
4:24 Nezhmetdinov
8:35 Vassily Ivanchuk
12:04 Hikaru Nakamura
14:42 Bobby Fischer
18:28 Kasparov
22:22 Magnus Carlsen
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[@Itstimetorecover]

I really don't like you, but I can't stop watching your content

[@apotato1213]

Already pinned lmao

[@northmd]

Thou shall not hate levy

[@avinashvaluveri3903]

Pin of shame

[@tris8331]

the pin of shame

[@starlord4724]

Pin of shame

[@lorenzocib9445]

Ok, it's cool to sacrifice the queen to be mentioned in a KZbin video years later, but let's talk for a second of Karjakin that decided to lose to two queen sacrifices for being mentioned twice in the video, absolute hero

[@karadonda]

And another one against Dubov last year 😂😂

[@aabishegaabi6047]

@@karadonda yeah 🤣😅

[@ourdailybread8874]

He knew he was going to get into a Gotham chess video a few years later

[@mundanes]

They say karjakin is good on defending so brilliant plays only work on him I guess

[@imslickzz1630]

He's the absolute definition of "I've won but at what cost?"

[@Will-zi6fn]

“Somewhere Eric Rosen yells Oh no my queen” 😂😂

[@meemerboi5812]

*THIS*

[@finnfreudenberg5568]

If he does that, I wouldn't dare to take it.

[@satrancklipleri4025]

timestamp please

[@rencylibimathew1090]

19:41

[@sabkxw9834]

same lol

[@calitostorres]

Hikaru's inmortal queen is the most counter-attack based sequence of moves i have ever seen and Bobby's queen sacrifice it's a technical creative beauty

[@stijnderksen1837]

The Nakamura sequence feels like a puzzle position you wouldn't believe anyone could ever get to, let alone find in a real game

[@adiaa5951]

agreed, my favourite game all time

[@tangsolaris9533]

Sacrifices are fun when you're not the one being sacrificed

[@yelloe_birb]

or gambiting all your pieces, yes

[@Ducky-432]

i usually gambit my king

[@yelloe_birb]

@@Ducky-432 same

[@stefanmirea5305]

@ African tribes intensifies

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

This would be even funnier if it was aplied to chess.

[@jordanalex6880]

“Hikaru proceeds to go on a series of moves, where he *doesn’t care*” 12:40

[@xenoduck3189]

he really doesn't care, no chat, he really doesn't

[@chromso]

chat i literally don't care chat, wow chat i don't care, chat i LITERALLY don't care, chat i don't care, chat please i don't care, chat i dont care at all chat please stop chat ple

[@chrisbotos]

I laughed so hard when he said it😂

[@eightnine4802]

My guy, he 'literally doesn't care,' he doesn't care.

[@maddiethemadovich]

I scrolled down through comments just to see this one and i'm not disappointed

[@risinglabyrinth5977]

19:23 im 99% sure that was a villager "hmm" lmao

[@oofusmcdoofus]

Levy will sell you chess courses for emeralds

[@catandfishfc]

Magnus' Queen sac was incredible following it live. Impossible to win a world championship in a more beautiful manner, even if it isn't a super hard spot.

[@Ethan-ne2lh]

7 BEST King Sacrifices in Chess History next please!

[@diyanshu5573]

Huh I guess levy wants me to send some game

[@secretunknown2782]

@@diyanshu5573 I bet I will be in that list

[@alphanumeric3662]

Then comes Mr Vidit Gujarati one and only king sacrifice 😂😂

[@clarkalarcon4057]

"If the king does not lead, how does he expect his subordinates to follow?" -a genius

[@secretunknown2782]

@@clarkalarcon4057 -this comment is from the video king sacrifice in which vidit sacrificed king against hikaru 😌

[@rysi0k110]

"There's no difference between blundering Queen and sacrificing Queen " -Me an 800 rated player

[@petterw2332]

No words have ever rang this true

[@Drakeysoccerboi]

I’m 1800

[@petterw2332]

@@Drakeysoccerboi ok

[@sexygamer5281]

@@Drakeysoccerboi ok (3)

[@OpticIlluzhion]

@@Drakeysoccerboi ok

[@gheffz]

In my option, game 2 is absolutely incredible, Nez's sacrifices starting with the Queen... even invisible to engines, initially. Given it was a classical game makes it even more incredible, again in my opinion.

[@carpediem7286]

Great selection! Some other notable mentions: 1) Carlos Torre Repetto vs Newell Williams Banks (1924) 2) Stefan Levitsky vs Frank Marshall (1912) 3) Edwin Ziegler Adams vs Carlos Torre Repetto (1920) 4) Yuri L Averbakh vs Alexander Kotov (1953) 5) Georg Rotlewi vs Akiba Rubinstein (1907) 6) Lubomir Ftacnik vs Ognjen Cvitan (1997/98) 7) Boris Gelfand vs Baadur Jobava (2011) 8) Laszlo Szabo vs Kenneth W Lloyd (1960/61) 9) Edward Lasker vs George Alan Thomas (1912) 10) Alireza Firouzja vs Murali Karthikeyan (2019) 11) Alexander Alekhine vs Friedrich Saemisch (1923)

[@no_genius]

I’d have to go for Morphy vs Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard, it’s barely even a queen sac but it’s a fun game. Also it would be interesting to see some games where the sacrifice doesn’t quite work, to remind us that they’re human too (and the ideas can still be instructive)

[@martenj.s.7331]

I always loved, how Tal's opponents were often tired of his attacks and resigned soon.

[@josephlitjc6430]

His opponent was probably like "That madman just made a 42 move sequence to win 2 of my pawns into a completely winning endgame, Nope nope nope"

[@Scientist93]

I thought we were gonna see Bobotsov vs. Tal, but Albero vs. Tal is also pretty good.

[@siddharthamishra1999]

It wasn't soon, 2 pieces is a lot better than a rook if there is no other compensation

[@kareemyasser5445]

Yes he is really amazing I wish Gotham bring more of his games

[@martenj.s.7331]

@@siddharthamishra1999 Even Levy 3:34 said that his opponent had enough although the material was close to be balanced. But i guess you are some undercover GM better than those titled players.

[@smusherthinker7221]

So, did you sacrifice your queen? Hikaru: Well yes, but actually no.

[@RotterdamFeyenoord1]

Indeed this was no sacrifice

[@user-qf6ud5pl3d]

It is a sacrifice, it was just not taken

[@thesupersisters6415]

@@user-qf6ud5pl3d botez gambit declined

[@aminity548]

@@thesupersisters6415 and than forced to be reconsidered

[@grantdillon3420]

Dat anarchy chess reference in the title tho

[@ekanshsingh3896]

These queen sacrifices are so educational like you understand the concept of sacrificing ~ to gain huge positional advantage or counterattack. The sheer combination of rook , knight and bishops is so deadly

[@difficxlt1490]

“I’m playing Karjakin? Okay let’s prepare a queen sac” -everyone

[@maximegoy5429]

"I am geographically challenged" is pure poetry.

[@pim4095]

He's not geographically challenged, he's just American.

[@fusettimatteo]

@@UsurperUrsus that roast had no right to sound that good

[@joetucker971]

@@pim4095 dsammit, I was going to make this Joke 😂

[@ilishmach5538]

@@pim4095 boom roasted

[@maxmarks3503]

Ironically Nice is in fact in the south of France, but he pronounced it wrong.

[@thepronoob1972]

If this is not 7 matches of Eric Rosen saying, 'Oh no, my queen', I will be pissed.

[@thesupersisters6415]

I was

[@abishekkarthik9603]

Magnus' queen sac literally blew my mind. Like, that was such a beautiful move.

[@edfishgaming]

“This rook is immortal” **gets taken*

[@kkbeatss]

rook: *cries*

[@beastmode_4049]

19:43 I can hear Eric saying “Dahhh... forgot my knight was pinned”

[@moonbow5019]

Knight*

[@mros9254]

12:36 Duck sound

[@shigami8327]

Hahahaua

[@kurumi394]

"The fundamental understanding that you don't need royalty on the board" King: _laughs_ I'm in danger.

[@PieterSielie]

as a 900 rated player this video inspired me to sacrifice my queen a lot more ! Thanks Levy !

[@jagrathty2743]

Oops I spot a mistake.. Did you mean "Blunder my queen "? Instead of " Sacrifice my queen"? (To be clear, I trying to joke as another 900 player)

[@rohangeorge712]

@@jagrathty2743 when u explain what ur doing it doesnt really come of as a joke, not really funny u know

[@Kichuplayz]

@@rohangeorge712 bro it’s been 2 months

[@kaloyankolev9804]

give update

[@cYc1e]

as some1 else said you mean BLUNDER queen, any "blunder" GMs make are a sacrifice, they know what they're doing unlike you

[@ChairmanRingo]

I watched some documentary on youtube about the development of chess playing computers. So the first time they tried to apply machine learning to train a chess computer, they just fed a neural network a bunch of GM games and wanted to see how it performed. When they tested it, the computer played a normal opening then immediately 'sacced' its queen for no reason, since it had learned that in GM games when someone just yeets their queen they almost always win in the next 5 moves, so it thought that was how to win. Got me laughing lol

[@kaustubhgupta46]

That's interesting. Could you send a link to the documentary?

[@ChairmanRingo]

@@kaustubhgupta46 Sure! It mainly focusses on Deep Blue and the first times it played Kasparov but I really enjoyed it :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqipY2VvipeVl5o&ab_channel=FredrikKnudsen

[@kaustubhgupta46]

@@ChairmanRingo Thanks for sharing!

[@burneraccount7398]

@@kaustubhgupta46 Still got the link?

[@NeonBeeCat]

I miss when machine learning was niche ans cool...

[@SmartenLasVegas]

I really like your presentation style, very friendly. Thx for the History-lesson and to made me play chess and like it.

[@kkbeatss]

12:40 Hikaru not caring since 2010 😭😭

[@nothinghere7585]

“Double digits aren’t possible” Me: allow me to introduce myself

[@Trynottoblink]

Spongebob: I’m 60 (Elo) and I’m proud

[@infantiltinferno]

Now I really want to see some of your games.

[@gcpd9524]

Can u go into the negatives?

[@flatearthtruth1298]

@@gcpd9524 I dunno. Maybe I should try to get below 100 on an alt.

[@MegaNardman]

*Trying to resist making a joke about Hikaru's most recent queen sac*

[@2185wisai]

I really don't care

[@fangfang3967]

@@2185wisai nobody asked

[@IndianArma]

@@fangfang3967 we do, because he just doesn't care!

[@2185wisai]

@@fangfang3967 Mate, its from a joke where Hikaru goes "I literally don't care" Get cultured

[@donkbonktj5773]

@@fangfang3967 r/woooosh

[@silverlabguy9670]

Love these videos. I'm learning so much on chess history, precious knowledge well delivered :D

[@vladimirtchuiev2218]

The Kasparov one was the best, it's insane how deep the computation is and what balls of steel to make a positional queen sacrifice in a game like this.

[@michaelc8192]

biggest hikaru queen sacrifice was him throwing chessbae to the wolves

[@wcsartisans9565]

Nice

[@user-js8ud3ub9p]

we all just have grey pfps with a letter in the middle?

[@Kastrom_]

What happened?

[@gowthamb8189]

LMAO NICE ONE

[@mekan0001]

@@Kastrom_ It's crazy to me that some people have enough of a life to still not know what happened. Edit: Believe me, it's not worth your time to go down that rabbit hole. Short story, chessbae was toxic, did some mean things to people, and was fired.

[@AdityaPatel-yx2dk]

12:43 Hikaru literally doesn't care 💀💀💀💀

[@alonshoval6267]

He just dont care, he litterally dont care

[@senior.toucan6370]

Don't care bye

[@chrisbotos]

I was searching for this comment 🤣

[@Eleuthero5]

The Frank Marshall queen sacrifice is absolutely the most amazing because the sacrificed queen is thrust into a nest of Lewitsky's pawns.

[@EarlSmith2469]

Hikaru's artistic mastery is unmatched in Gefland Vs Nakamura with his sacrifices... Mind-blowing.

[@mahri9022]

Tal: yk what I’m feelin generous today so take my queen Tal opponents: ah shit here we go again

[@tobiasrizzo5854]

"There are many types of queen sacrifices. Your's, mine, and these guys. Mine are slightly better than yours" Sad Botez noises

[@tesone6783]

@Loren Swan I tink it is a reference to the famous Botez Gambit

[@bigtexnick2188]

that last one was just so unbelievably awesome and brilliant, that should be The Greatest Move of All Time

[@widevinetest2725]

Keep the formal educational content coming, this is very helpful

[@SchrodingersTag]

So glad i found this channel. Currently binge watching every vid in its entirety bc gotham makes chess so addictive. Entertaining and educational, favorite channel rn.

[@thesupersisters6415]

You are here too?! You are the most familiar person I have in the internet

[@SchrodingersTag]

@@thesupersisters6415 nope. Your thinking of *Just Some Guy With A mustache* . Im just one of his imposters

[@kakarotx69]

@@thesupersisters6415 believe me he is telling the truth

[@chriswaudby1084]

I agree

[@avinashshah5271]

absolute content machine

[@thebus3181]

Original comment

[@derpybird5629]

Original comment

[@zhaneshirkey6788]

@@thebus3181 original comment 🙄

[@avinashshah5271]

@@thebus3181 wasn't trying to be original was trying to be factual

[@alexrigano8339]

@@avinashshah5271 fair enough

[@MrPerrisC]

Love your content, just subscribed, for me, far more exciting than queen sac or even smother is mate with a pawn, I cant get enough of those

[@crazypomp927]

I literally just watched Agadmator's video on that very same Ivanchuk game at #3, and now I get to see that beauty again here. Ivanchuk is a glorious bastard.

[@lennertdevoldere7000]

The 7 dislikes are from the queens who were sacrificed...

[@sustavofring]

More like the opponents

[@sammspasm7421]

This comment is sad af dude. cause it doesnt exist anymore :

[@iyedbouazdia3594]

@@sammspasm7421 I got really disappointed when I saw this comment too

[@sammspasm7421]

@@iyedbouazdia3594 one minute of silence for the absence of the dislike button. RIP xD

[@iyedbouazdia3594]

@@sammspasm7421 F in the chat boys

[@TheKrazyLobster]

Queens when Hikaru sits at the board: *sweats profusely*

[@akshatvats7992]

That's the effect Hikaru has on women

[@notdk3870]

I was losing so bad in a match by losing 9 material but then I did a double horse sacrifice to deflect both rook and queen then checkmate One of my best plays I've ever done

[@TrapConnoisseur.]

Me takes their blundered queen Ai : BRILLIANT

[@d.spencer.124]

Levy: We're currently in Germany with the white pieces... Me: So where are the black pieces then?

[@mahri9022]

Sergey fell victim to 3 crazy queen sacrifices. Vassily, Magnus AND dubov

[@chair547]

He also sacrificed his reputation

[@MindManiacMarcus]

I believe I played my first queen sacrifice game just about a week ago. It was more of a 'go ahead and take my queen', then mate in 1 with my bishop. I don't know if that counts but he took the bate and I was very happy.

[@dipakbhatt16]

awesome collection and explanation of the queens sacrifices.

[@xDMrGarrison]

The queen sacrifices where they get long term compensation and end up winning in 15+ moves are absolutely mindblowing. Just one of the most beautiful things in chess :D

[@davidcopson5800]

Then look up Dubov v Karjakin, 2020.

[@argiearias2300]

Levy deserves more. He is an absolute content machine. Love ya man

[@viksharma8954]

Levy: I am geographically challenged Me: I am challenged

[@berserker7913]

You forgot Paul Morphy when he sacrificed his queen against Lous pulsen

[@Ducky-432]

i clicked on this video faster than daniel naroditsky's premoves

[@katluvsya]

same

[@thebus3181]

Not faster than Tang

[@georgeskhater487]

@@thebus3181 nah man nothing's faster than tang

[@arshshah2303]

this guy is the most influential influencer that can influence influenced people. Like foreal.

[@kylel3784]

Wtf

[@m_uz1244]

7,139 languages in the world yet this man chose to speak straight facts.

[@kidforall9408]

Levy, your chess principles have really helped me win games! Thanks a lot!!! 😀😀😀

[@PapasFritas-gj3gv]

Ngl watching this after years and just spotting the first sacrifice in a matter of second of though is just amazing I actually improved

[@SurrealSnowman]

“You are not a gm until you have sacrificed your queen” -Some grandmaster

[@imranroy4731]

*chess boner*

[@BkerBker]

Would you ever consider doing a video on some of the queen sacrifices by grandmasters that didn't work out? There must be some but you don't hear much about them. Loved the video btw keep it up mate 👌🏿

[@PigHumanoid]

That’s just called a blunder

[@coreygolphenee9633]

Coming from a tcg background a piece being so powerful that losing it means you lose is so awesome, having one piece that can lead to a minus 10 is something that almost never happens in MTG

[@joeyp1636]

I've seen all of these games before, it's good to see them again. Thanks

[@N7Slayer]

been following you since the queens gambit, nice content i watch some of your vids regularly if the title catches my fancy, and yet as someone who have played chess very seldom throughout my life, the most interesting thing i as a newbie heard you say was: the queen isnt there to protect the king, the queens job is attacking. and thats something you dont learn from a chess rulebook. would be nice to see a video from you where you give lil nuggets of ingo that to you or anyone above 1000 elo would seem logical but that chess affictionados might not know.

[@gunnarkoger2259]

thank you levy, since i started being a viewer and replicating some of your openings and ideas i gained around 600 points (: i appreciate you and your content and all that you do for the chess community

[@Static2332]

Great Video, Here are some of my picks if you make a sequel. Which you should. stefan levitsky vs frank marshall 1912 Yuri Gusev vs Auerbach 1946

[@bgmarshall]

4:04 G5+, Kh5, Bg4+, Kh6, Rf6# Causes the opponent to have to sacrafice the queen to get rid of the bishop (if you take the rook Nxf3 is mate) or the bishop for g6 (you can't play the same moves as black just take with h7 because if this happens after Bg4+ white has Kg6, which was taken by h7 before and if you move your rook white just takes) (playing Nxg6 won't work because Bg4+ is no longer gaurded by the knight) I am rated 600 so very high chance I'm wrong, but I think I'm decent at puzzles when I actually go down the lines

[@FutsuDokou]

The Queen may be the most valuable and majestic piece, but its not as valuable and majestic as you levy.

[@hallohallo9892]

Sweet

[@NerdiousMomentos]

this brings "oh no my queen!" to a whole new level

[@thinh3]

the first moment i looked at the thumbnail, i thought someone sacrificed 7 queens, i didn’t think it were 7 people

[@Love42966]

Very cool bro. Loved the presentation. Keep rocking.

[@marsenic0]

Man I really love your vids, they help me a lot and make me a better chess player, Keep up the great work man!

[@lajan5911]

why does the explanation of the queen sacrifice sound like a war documentary?

[@lajan5911]

@Loren Swan cool

[@MASTERCLASS515]

The last one Magnus I mean I saw that one but thats what amazing is the fact that is possible to see and stunning looking Tal ones are just insane next level dimension crazy shit

[@Kshitij-ci6ef]

Fischer was so good at chess, that he saw 65 years into the future and decided to sacrifice the queen.

[@ihavetopowerofgodandanimeo2551]

These and every time I blunder my queen, but somehow manage to pull it back

[@cg7316]

"the rook is just immortal" One second later- "gets taken"

[@narendratanty4604]

You are amazing in analysis.. My friend... Thanks for this great video

[@distantcastle8249]

I would love to see you go over the greatest chess games with multiple queens on the board.

[@a.singhg3683]

Literally, every time I feel down a new Levy video comes out and makes the day bearable again.

[@bobbwc7011]

Levy: 7 best Queen sacrifices in chess history Garri Kasparow: Let me introduce myself...

[@ottokasbauer1986]

19:50 “somewhere in the background you can hear eric rosen going ‘oh no my queen’”😂

[@priyankmethia4810]

Basically in this video levy shows us all oh no my queen moments of world class players Imagine super gms saying "oh no my queen" in over the board games when they sac their queens 😆🤣

[@jaydenvandenberg882]

Clicked faster than a pre move moves

[@slimey_37]

Pretty moves take too long i agree

[@nilssunnemar1532]

Levy, you are simply immaculate. Your Chess Content is absolutley astonishing and I don't know if you actually realise how manifestly good it really is. Seriously. Your intimate personality gives reminds me that there are actually great human beings out there in the world. Never stop with what you do! (Also, I should neck myself for writing such a long comment)

[@ShubhamKumar-rw9lk]

Vocabulary increases by a 100%

[@xrrvgames4585]

Suggestion : you should have covered dubovs brilliant sacrifice too!

[@ChainxBlaze]

I half expected a “oh no my queen” Eric Rosen compilation.

[@g_edgr]

Clicked faster than my mom hanging up on me when I call

[@nakeemgd9184]

Day 2 of telling Levy he is worth more than a queen

[@roughlyunderscore]

I appreciate you

[@thenerdgamer5778]

Let's go :)

[@BananaWasTaken]

Queens have an ELO of 9, even I am worth more than a queen

[@nakeemgd9184]

@@BananaWasTaken dude, just no

[@thesupersisters6415]

@@BananaWasTaken lol

[@juancarrera6446]

Hey man youre a great KZbinr creator, i have a lot of fun with your videos, Keep going

[@DanielJayRobison]

Very nice!! Great explanation of every game!!

[@viertelkuchen]

Day 4 of translating Levy's titles to German: "Die 7 BESTEN Damen Opfer aller Zeiten!"

[@kennystimpson2775]

Warum?

[@viertelkuchen]

@@kennystimpson2775 Inspiriert von einem Russen. Hat keinen weiteren Grund.

[@salatieljyrustumanan4929]

Queen: "I fear nothing in this world" Tal: *says hi and waves his split-hand* Queen: *shudders*

[@guynamedfrancis]

imagine accidentally giving your queen away as a 121 elo player but you missed the mate in 3 with queen sac 💀💀

[@irbomusic]

6:39 I love how every time this guy yells, his mic just dies and makes it 100 times funnier

[@vitek2806]

Ростов на Дону (Rostov na Donu) is Rostov on Don in Russian

[@dmitryfi9778]

Damn! Russian is such a complex language to understand :( By the way, I think the other guy's name from the moment with Rostov on Don should be pronounced like chérnikov, not cherníkov :)

[@vitek2806]

@@dmitryfi9778 I dont rly know how his name should be pronounced. Cuz it can be pronounced both ways xd. Chèrnikov is based on word "cherny" which is "black" on Russian. And Cherníkov is based on word "chernika" which is a "blackberry"...

[@janganesh]

Eric rosen: oh no my queen Levy: time to make contant about this

[@Zythria]

That final Queen to give the win, was dazzling. I suck hard on Chess. Never took the time to learn, I just know things go there and I lose. But forcing the king (Or pawn) to move only to then not but two turns later, make that same move that had to be played be your undoing. What a wild card play.

[@FloydMaxwell]

I agree with your Top 3 of all time. Great video. Thank you.