"Rubinstein's Immortal Game" || When Sacrificing the QUEEN isn't Enough!

[@vrishankpandey8537]

The fact that Rubenstein's immortal game with a queen sacrifice as well as a rook sacrifice just indicates how famous this victory should be cause look at that bishop pair slicing like scissors and with a modern approach this game should be considered a minature!

[@rvns24]

it’s always nice to see agadmator covering old games

[@nishaadrao7584]

So many parallels here with Anand's immortal against Aronian with the knight coming to g4 and the queen to h4, and the snipers just waiting in the other corner! The bishop pair is truly from hell, and fully operational.

[@karthikravichandran4]

They do often compare those two games!!

[@brendanquerey7162]

Had that same thought!

[@dark_rit]

Yeah watching this it's so similar to Anand's immortal indeed, but this features a queen sacrifice as the biggest difference. Bishop's are so strong when the board opens up for them it's nice to see.

[@joneichelberg6432]

Anyone subscribed to the channel for 5 years deserves kudos! But if you remember he covered this game five years ago, you deserve SUPER KUDOS!

[@abhirammsd3728]

In all of chess, there is nothing more beautiful than a bishop pair cornering the King.

[@JaredLebowitz]

Vishy's immortal reminds me of this. Monster bishop pair impacting the game from long distance, multiple pieces hanging at once, adding complications and threats with every move. A masterpiece!

[@mihaelfitz]

The type of game that makes you fall in love with chess. Majestic.

[@vvkentertainment435]

Thank you Agad. May you be blessed with abundance, prosperity, great health, immense wealth and happiness

[@vaibhavdpunjabi0152]

I will watch this every morning while I travel to work for one full month !

[@stephencolwill148]

Not only the Bishop pair from Hell, but the Rook pair too. If that wasn't enough you also have the Queen plus Knight combination from Hell as well.

[@littlegalois]

In fact those pieces were directed by an artist from hell

[@mayankmakadiya2532]

someone will be from heaven too

[@emmahird2795]

Very much in Rubinstein's positional style. His attacks didn't come from nowhere - he put the pieces there so he could get a crushing win.

[@byrdis1a1]

Ha you're funny

[@d1nonly155]

„Hello everyone!“ Just makes my day better.. keep up them frequently uploads 👑

[@MrWuster]

Rubinstein has been a lifetime favorite player of mine. This remarkable game is high chess art. A masterpiece.

[@humbertojesusguillenymoral6550]

Funny thing. In the 1958 Soviet Chess Championship, In the game Geller vs Krogius, the position reached up to 18 e5 was the same as In the game Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, but with reversed colors!. Geller instead of 19 Rac1 played e4 and won In the ending.

[@p75517]

'Sorry about that, against the white pieces.' - Akiba Rubinstein

[@grawl69]

At 5:11, after 15 moves, the position is completely symmetric (!) apart from the black developed rook and the black having the next move, which means white lost two tempos up to the moment.

[@randomd_dued_45690]

Ah a return to the classics after a looooong time! Refreshing.

[@LionHGH]

Thank you for making this video on my birthday! It's been a tough day as it's the first without my mother. She took her own life a few months ago. But this definitely brightened my day!

[@kennystimpson2775]

Hey happy birthday dude, i hope you and your family are doing okay.

[@LionHGH]

@@kennystimpson2775 Thank you sir. I appreciate the sentiment!

[@nicktomato7]

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[@LionHGH]

@@nicktomato7 thank you for taking the time to write this. I really appreciate it. I will absolutely check that musician out. Have a wonderful day. You just made mine

[@LionHGH]

@@nicktomato7 I love it. I wonder if it's called October sky because her mom died in October. My mom died October 3rd. 🥺

[@fuadalalam]

Waited so long for the remake of this masterpiece.... finally inner peace😊

[@brawnstein]

The most sinister laugh by Agad at 11:05

[@LisEverywereWhaching]

my neighbours woke up

[@misternewoutlook5437]

One thing to like about chess history is that it all remains current. Basic rule changes to the game happened in the very distant past, so we can examine positions just the same as any era. The only rules chess has moved ahead from olden days with are the introduction of clocks, three-fold repetition, the 50 move rule, and other minor regulatory facets not directly in conflict with the game's classic structure.

[@augustedupin9576]

Yes, and it is just amazing to see how our understanding of the game deepened over the years through the insights of the earlier masters. Modern engines have kind of killed that process. But hey, if you are not a professional and just an enthusiast like me, what's better than enjoying classics like this one.

[@misternewoutlook5437]

@@augustedupin9576 Yeah. Engines have put finality on everything. But for a couple of obscure puzzles, they have solved chess in the everyday sense. This does take away our own deductions and mocks the commentaries from the masters and authors in the old chess books. Sure, it's fun to explore those errors with the engines, but again, that finality puts any further arguments to rest.

[@KofiKrules]

It must have been electric to play a game like this over the board. I could not imagine that feeling.

[@krisss42]

Definitely one of my favorite chess classics. I remembered suggesting it a while ago for this game's remake. Never failed to deliver the good stuff!

[@SoftSounds-Studio]

You're awesome dude. A great Teacher!!! I'm following the channel for more than 5 years. YAY!

[@omprakashbaruah9425]

তুমি বাংলা?

[@SoftSounds-Studio]

I'm Assamese bruh.

[@P.sherman45]

I dont even know when did i started watching agadmator. I think i have seen all his videos in the past 4 years

[@SoftSounds-Studio]

I'm pretty sure that i have watched all the videos as well.

[@P.sherman45]

@@SoftSounds-Studio antonio is a great guy, he deserevs it all

[@simonmultiverse6349]

Medo is probably thinking, "Why does Agadmator talk to himself all the time? I know that we dogs do that a lot, but not ALL THE TIME!!! I'll never understand these humans."

[@shouldersofgiants4649]

Aronian vs Anand Wijk 2013 is essentially a repeat of this game!

[@lifeonastring]

The archetype of the Bishop pair from hell! The greatest chess game, just my call

[@NathanHarrison7]

Probably the most beautiful series up to mate I have ever seen. And these guys did all of their calculus without chess engines assisting them. Incredible. I wonder how the top GM of that time would match up against a modern GM? Guess is NO contest. Favor modern GM.

[@agadmator]

Give Morphy 6 months to train and it's anyone's guess 😁

[@seanferguson5460]

Lovely finish. Keres has been lauded as the greatest chess player who never made world champion but I think Rubenstein would be another candidate for that title. In fact, if you haven't already, I'd enjoy a series from you about such players.

[@divyankbatham9173]

Mondays usually aren't usually great but this game made my monday great. Thanks Agad

[@mohammadaminsarabi6207]

Perfect games: the best moves (accuracy) Immortal games: best aesthetically pleasing move among the best moves (accuracy + beauty)

[@rohangeorge712]

alpha0 has perfect games probably. idk tho chess is complicated so many combinations we cant be 100% if thats the perfect move optimally.

[@nalgene247]

And only two draws, at that! A man of true chess culture.

[@hiimbonsai]

Applause for this masterpiece.

[@andreitiberiovicgazdovici]

One of my fav players, i also play his variation in the french defence

[@coxscorner]

Definitely in my top 10 greatest games of all time.

[@dwaynekeenum1916]

Who are 1-9

[@puranjaysaha1536]

The moves f4,e4,e5 by white made the black bishops ... Bishop pair from hell ! That's how wonderful chess can be ...

[@janchristensen356]

Pride and sorrow indeed...the good stuff! Game 6!

[@MPthewho]

I just returned from the future, where it is the year 2032. Agadmator just published a remaster in 120 FPS and I just came to check this rubish 60 FPS version. Anyway.. I am going to skip the 24 FPS version and jump for another 100+ years too check this game in person.. then I will go further back in the past and become a butler for Paul Charles Morphy. Life is great!

[@KingColllll]

Really shows the power of the Bishop pair! Absolute monsters this game

[@tamirkatz1584]

Love your channel and this game One funny moment in this video was when you mentioned that this game was played on Dec 26 making it a Christmas miracle. However both players were Jewish :)

[@Khneefer]

0:54 - City in which the game was played is Łódź and u can read it as "Woodzh"

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

Thats a bishop pair from the eternal fires of Hell with a capital H! You could sit there and sac queens, rooks...whatever, and you only need the slightest compensation for it because your Bishops will still be there completely crippling the opponent with constant pins, threats, and stiffling pressure.

[@avinashnayak7398]

*Anand's immortal* and *Rubinstein's immortal* games covered in 60 fps Mission accomplished

[@e4e6mate96]

Hello.. this is probably my favorite game of all time. Thx for everything you do.

[@robw9986]

Akiba Rubinstein! One of my favorite masters of the past.

[@davidgoble8891]

Rubinstein was just as good if not better than .... Lasker Alekhine and cappablanca... He should have been the world champion but was never given a fair shot.... It is some pretty sad stuff if you research it

[@michaeljanapin9528]

This calls for a Rubenstein Saga!

[@stevebuhrt3504]

Every time I see a Rubenstein game I feel sad, he was a brilliant player and he could’ve been right there with Lasker and Capa if he didn’t have a mental health crisis

[@abhishekjain3148]

5:12 the position is symmetrical here except for the white rook still tucked with the king. White squandered his first-to-move advantage and is now even a move behind in development, making black 2 moves ahead.

[@nicbentulan]

I encounter the name Akiba Rubinstein when studying rook endgames!

[@FAMFriendsAcrossMap]

The Vishy version of the game is also one the bests ever played.

[@fancytoxicsoda]

Hey Agad, I would like to see more Rubinstien games if you have them.

[@1Mayoii]

Me too, would love too see more of his games

[@10leonz]

#suggestion

[@sarcastaball]

I would like to see less of your comments. Thanks! :)

[@johannes417]

There are a lots of great games from Rubinstein

[@sarcastaball]

@@johannes417 no there aren't

[@vivekjoshi5207]

"It takes two to make a master piece of a game..!"

[@AthosRac]

Amazing game. Powerful bishops.

[@feedraccoon7184]

agadmator jesi gledao kod Lexa u podcastu nedavno da te Michael Saylor (jedan od najvecih btc bullova a i najjacih investitora svih vremena) hvali !! :D koliko sam izriko pozitivno ...!svaka cast !i ja volim da pogledam tvoje analize i komentare na sah, pored coffechessa omiljen yt kanal za sah.Vise ga gledam nego stignem igrati u zadnje vrijeme x) Svako dobro care!

[@agadmator]

Jesam, odličan je Lex. Hvala!

[@isaki4869]

Ah, finally see another bishop pair from hell again after some time

[@johnsmith1474]

I've been here a couple years, I very much appreciate these redos. That said, some kind of upload numbering convention would be nice.

[@Drac0710]

Keep showing such videos with storytelling. We love it.

[@philipr1567]

Rubinstein played b4. No wonder Agad enjoyed this game.

[@siddhantx]

The mating patterns and lines in this game are very similar to that of Aronian-Anand Wijk aan Zee

[@MichaelCecil]

Agad: Maybe people are less interested in this, but you mentioned that the Rotlewi-Rubinstien game was, according to Botvinnik "the first famous modern attacking game." Would you be willing to show any "pre-modern" famous games? I'd be very interested (and hopefully others are too) to see what much older games in the pre-modern fashion look like. Just a thought. Keep up the great work. p.s. If anyone is able to do a "History of Chess" series it is you.

[@dannyrus1979]

He already did an entire saga on Paul Morphy, you should check that out.

[@MichaelCecil]

@@dannyrus1979 True and good point. I watched the Morphy saga but I was thinking even before those days...

[@tomciozarzinho436]

@@MichaelCecil Is this one old enough? ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5WVhapqntF7bdE Also this one should be interesting for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJPaeKFnmbWKj6M

[@MrK623]

The problem with the Morphy game even though his opponents consulted on the moves and he didn't have sight of the board as he was watching the opera, is the fact that Morphy was the strongest player in the world at that time, a GM (which the title did not exist yet). These 2 opponents were not even mediocre club players at today's level. Of course Morphy was able to toy with them. Great games have more appeal when the opponents are also strong players.

[@rickharold7884]

Yea that’s beautiful. And quite an EVIL slicing bishop pair.

[@Nnnmmmkkk]

I cannot believe that such a great game was played in my hometown:)

[@1on1z3d]

I sacrifice my Queen the exact same way in half my games.

[@JoeDidIt]

pretty amazing that i havent seen this one yet

[@theashpilez]

I find your videos most satisfying.. Live Long and Prosper....

[@alecmisra4964]

How on earth did these guys hold so many deep lines in their heads?

[@Adam-tr1xu]

The tournament table suggests Akiba was Russian but he wasn't, he was Polish

[@marko311098]

Łódź is more like Would, but with "gie" sound at the end :)

[@cammysmith227]

Hey Agad! Thanks again for your amazing content. I would like to take this opportunity to expand our collective knowledge with the information that Łódź (the town in Poland) is correctly pronounced somewhat more like 'Woodj'. The various diacritics on the Polish letters give this away. You are usually very good with pronunciations in so many different languages but of course no one knows them all and I mean only to attempt to share some knowledge with this slight correction!

[@tylerackroyd6843]

Surely seems to be one of my favorite games that I've watched. What an amazing attack he found. Such a feeling it is. I've pulled off some cool things as well. But I'm sure not anywhere near the consistency

[@ramachandra776]

The move Rh3 by Rubinstein seems to equal Marshall's Qg3 which was showered with gold coins . Rubinstein should have contended with Lasker for the world championship title but he did not have financial backers . Curiously , both the players of this game suffered from mental illness in their final years . Or , in Rubinstein case , he hid in a sanatarium faking illness to escape the Nazis .

[@felixcortez7604]

Rubinstein was certainly mentally ill. In fact in WWII he had been put in a sanatorium by his wife. One time a nazi came to see him and asked him if he would like to go to a concentrationcamp.He replied with: Yes i'd like that very much. The guy concluded then that he really was crazy. He had a difficult time in that sanatorium and was desperate to get out. Rubinstein was very lucky then

[@anthonyberard3507]

I read he was bothered by an imaginary fly for some time. Others plainly saw his illness for some time. It wasn't faked.

[@stevebuhrt3504]

No he was legitimately ill, he suffered what was thought to be a schizophrenic episode that led to him suffering from psychosis for the rest of his life. The Nazis can to the sanitarium and asked if he wanted to join the war effort and he said “I’d love to!” and they knew then he wasn’t all there

[@jerryshunk7152]

Absolutely gorgeous, Akiba !!!

[@ex59neo53]

115 yo game and still giving us a great lesson in chess :)

[@Nicks721]

Agadmator: shows and also reads the table with the standings that says very clearly that Rubinstein was second in this tournament. Also agadmator five seconds later: Rubinstein managed to win not only this wonderful game but also the whole tournament.. That's why we love him!!!!

[@jayyy5270]

We should be grateful. If he didn't have that trait, he'd be a GM and not making chess videos.

[@agadmator]

The standings are of a different tournament, not the one in which the game was played. Game is 1907 and the standings are of 1911 Karlsbad tournament

[@Nicks721]

@@agadmator ohh sorry then,my fault, I didn't understand correctly. But you must also admit that you are quite a suspect for that kind of errors 😉😉😉

[@davidcopson5800]

@@agadmator I understood that clearly. I don't know why others didn't.

[@ardytanaleon9163]

Hey man… really love the channel.. More power..!

[@tomswiftyphilo2504]

I don't think Akiba Rubinstein went in much for Christmas miracles.

[@schwindsichtigaderechte5293]

Thank you for the good stuff!

[@DolemiteSammich]

what a wild game

[@agastyakumarsingh2358]

this game reminded me of the title that agadmator put for morphy which was: "sac a rook to sac a queen" even though it was reversed in this game

[@azero79]

ah yes, 60fps chess gameplay, what else do we need

[@edwardcolle8606]

In my opinion Akiba Rubinstein was the real world chess champion between 1905 and 1920

[@lukemarks3281]

Nobody comes here for the picture resolution, but when you've already done it all and are the best, I guess there's nothing left to improve but that.

[@anhucpham1099]

This might be the first time I saw all variations that he mention after I solved guess the move. Crazy

[@michaelprigmore5251]

#suggestion ***PLEASE COVER THIS GAME **** Carlsen vs. Li Chao, Qatar Masters (2015), Neo-Grünfeld Defence: Goglidze Attack, 1-0.[games 6] Playing against one of the leading Chinese GMs, Carlsen finds a winning attack by sacrificing his queen in a sharp position.

[@gennersly3840]

Max Euwe against Savielly Tartakower at Venice ITA in 1948 (If you hadn’t made an analyzing video about this game before). #suggestion

[@P.sherman45]

This video was special and great. Keep it up

[@cygnustsp]

Yep I remember your 2017 videos

[@ΕγκλιΚ]

If I'm not mistaken, this game resembles a game played by And, I think against Aronian, but I'm not sure

[@nosystem1098]

There are players out there who could die very happy if they never did anything but play just one game like this.

[@nematoad7]

Incredible game truly a modern attacking game amazing forcing moves

[@penta4568]

I found the Rxc3! But the queen sac was unintentional😭

[@RobFlaxMusic]

Absolutely beautiful game.

[@philipstrange60]

Fantastic!!!

[@rajkalkani6379]

This game reminded me of Anand's immortal against aronian

[@jonathanlechman]

Wow! Great game! Thanks Agadmator!

[@ChessMess]

This is great, my favourite games are the old ones!

[@gicacraiovean2235]

I agree is a masterpiece,very nice the precisión of Rubinstein

[@FAMFriendsAcrossMap]

At 11th place, I see Alexander Alekhine ❤️, future artist...

[@drzlecuti]

Wonderful. (The added bonus: When you said that Rotlewi was sometimes referred to as George but that Gersh was most appropriate, I thought of the popular US composer George Gershwin, who was born as Gershowitz -- son of Gersh. Thus...Gersh Gershwin?)

[@Agadarai]

Please check Rubinstein vs Duras 1908 the mate that never happened