The Impossible Checkmate!? | Tal vs Botvinnik 1960. | Game 16

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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Mikhail Tal
Tal - Botvinnik World Championship Match (1960), Moscow URS, rd 16, Apr-23
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation. Accelerated (E24)
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bc3 5. bc3 Ne4 6. Qc2 f5 7. Nh3 d6 8. f3 Nf6 9. e4 fe4 10. fe4 e5 11. Nf2 O-O 12. Be2 c5 13. de5 de5 14. O-O Nc6 15. Bg5 Qe8 16. Nd1 Qg6 17. Bf6 Rf6 18. Ne3 Rf1 19. Rf1 Be6 20. Qd3 Rd8 21. Nd5 Rf8 22. Nc7 Rf1 23. Bf1 Qf7 24. Qd6 Bc8 25. Na6 Qf4 26. Qd5 Kh8 27. Qc5 Be6 28. Nc7 Bg8 29. Qf2 Qe4 30. Ne8 Qg6 31. Qf8 e4 32. Nd6 Ne5 33. c5 Nd3 34. Nf5 Ne5 35. Ne7 Qf7 36. Qf7 Bf7 37. Kf2 Bc4 38. Bc4 Nc4 39. c6 bc6 40. Nc6 a5 41. a4
Tal vs Botvinnik 1960
Moscow
No sooner did Mikhail Botvinnik regain his title, the chess world became entranced by charismatic young Latvian named Mikhail Tal. Tal won the 1958 interzonal tournament at Portoroz, then helped the Soviet Union to retain the Chess Olympiad; before going on to win the 1959 Candidates Tournament with 20 out of 28 points--a point and a half ahead of second place Paul Keres.
Tal often sacrificed material in search for the initiative in chess. With such intuitive sacrifices, he created vast complications, and many masters found it impossible to solve all the problems he created over the board, though deeper post-game analysis found flaws in some of his conceptions. Although this playing style was scorned by ex-World Champion Vasily Smyslov as nothing more than "tricks", Tal convincingly beat every notable grandmaster with his trademark aggression.
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if the person likes chess.

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True.. : )

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[@ChrisHyde537]

Tal could achieve an impossible checkmate with just a stare.

[@noahzaqout5735]

i agreed

[@wesc.bradshaw4595]

lol Interesting that Tal and I have made the same mistake. Only difference is I make that mistake in the current position on the board, rather than visualizing 10 moves in the future.

[@samovarmaker9673]

And there I was staring at the thumbnail thinking "how on Earth is this checkmate"

[@GaganSingh-nx2yv]

Well you can bribe opposite knight.

[@Rick-the-Swift]

That's me asking that very same question every time just before I'm mated: "how on earth is this checkmate"😆

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[@adarsh5870]

In this game Tal took himself to a deep dark forest where he saw 2+2 = 5

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[@frankiegee6135]

Player: “I don’t understand Tal, you literally just gave me pretty much all your pieces including queen! Thank you Tal: You’re welcome, checkmate!

[@spyshinobu2346]

Masterpiece 😂😂

[@andreaumk95]

"You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5" Famous last words

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Like the joke about the child predator who takes the child into the forest, and says "you think YOU'RE scared? I'm going to have to leave these woods ALONE!"

[@colinjava8447]

@@medexamtoolscom well it's nothing like that at all really. It's about giving your opponent obscure positions to deal with hoping they crack under the pressure and time pressure and play a bad move as opposed to rape and murder

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@@medexamtoolscom With a username and jokes like that I do not want to be alone with *you*. :P

[@darshant.9472]

Were those actually his last words

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"...and the path leading out is only wide enough for one"

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[@chessmatters]

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[@the_beer_hunter6606]

#suggestion I would really enjoy if you made Kasparov's path to world champion like you did with Tal. I really enjoyed this series (I still do) and I would truly want to see more of the similar player 'paths' like this one. Thank you in advance, and as always, love your content, you are truly amazing. Proud to be your countryman!!

[@HeisenbergBrB]

king_of_ thorns If he covered Kasparov's match with Karpov, it would take him more than 100 videos, excluding the ones he has already covered.

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@@HeisenbergBrB It would be worth It anyway

[@jmdesp]

Well I'm old enough that that one I followed in real time ! 😁 No internet at the time, and no cable TV with so many channels that you would have had a chance to have a transmission of chess match on it, but that now forgotten feature on TV that was teletext, and they managed to fit a chess board in ascii art inside !

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[@zayyh4294]

I think I'm missing something, I don't understand this anecdote.

[@guitarbrother1234]

The owner said he lived 500 years there. The owner WAS the ghost.

[@zayyh4294]

boy do I feel stupid

[@xadrezbrasil]

Tal looked like a drunk guy driving a Ferrari at 120mph

[@thefunfam7480]

Kinda, like Al Pacino in the movie “scent of a woman” when he’s driving the Ferrari

[@chessmatters]

totally incredible

[@inemanja]

There are good chances that he was drunk during this game!

[@kilimanjarno]

I love Tal!! 1. I love the passage from the book,the hallucination over the board; Tal is always a human being first. He never stopped being a human, a humble poet, a servant of art, whatever his standing in the chess pantheon. 2. I love at 9:33 hearing you say " Tal doesn't want to risk it". Doesn't want to risk drawing with three pawn islands against 4 pawn islands and doubled c pawns! The category "what Tal considered a risk" is one of those wonders of the world which endeared him to chess fans forever. I watch this series as if we don't yet know the result of the 1960 championship. Thank you.

[@kulturedyobbo]

Absolutely. Most or nearly all players would not want to admit to that little embarrassment .

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I used to watch porn after work. I now watch your chess channel instead.

[@thomase9514]

👍👍

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me too. I think internet chess is kicking my porn interests

[@adamleckius2253]

The better kind of mating

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Chess > porn

[@arunjyotibanik7878]

It feels soooo satisfying that I am not the only one who is hallucinating while playing chess.

[@chessmatters]

almost all hallucinates hehe

[@jiffpop5143]

Gotta lay off the shrooms

[@richardfeynman5560]

Tal hallucinated over the board... I very much appreciate both players for really fighting it out in every game and not looking for easy draws. Many thanks for this great analysis!

[@nomibe2911]

The best Chess commentator on KZbin.

[@xadrezbrasil]

wow! the way Mikhail Tal process his thoughts is really really out of this world!!!

[@srir.5282]

PD: If Any1 wants to know something about the 1959 candidates tournament, feel free to ask!

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How were the candidates chosen?

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Who won ?

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Fabi!

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@@jinxblaze I'm pretty sure he wasn't born then

[@davidmartin7163]

Tal was seeing ghosts in this game. That’s ironic. Usually it’s Tal’s opponents are the ones seeing the ghosts. The magician from Riga is my favorite chess player. 😃

[@Noelito40]

Beautifully explained as always agadmator, "hallucinating over the board" haha!!...Can you imagine the pressure the players were under,...it's the world title, the slightest slip and you lose, nowhere to hide on a chessboard!

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13:39 “ the knight on f5 is pretty much doing the same thing as it was on e8, except for much more “ classic Agadmator 😆

[@9181shreyasbhatt]

This is amazing!!! and its is even more amazing to those who have read "Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 by Mikhail Tal" you do capture the essence.

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Another One!?

[@AndreaCremoni]

I almost had a reason to close KZbin this time, thanks Agadmator!

[@hunkyvenky]

even i was hallucinating while watching, i even paused the video n was wondering how in the seven heavens it is a checkmate with the black knight protecting the h7, i felt like tal for a moment there 😂

[@chessmatters]

really drives me to hallucination too haha

[@ToBeeWiseTV]

Why is it checkmate?

[@cnussbau]

It's not, Tal thought (hallucinated) that the white knight was in the g5 position

[@PascalWings]

Can you believe it? How do we deserve these uploads 😍

[@bluenetmarketing]

Your comment about reaching move 38 and not being able to see everything is notable. Fischer said he used his advantage in physical and mental endurance to win many of his games. He simply stayed more mentally alert and "in the game" because of his superior endurance. This won him many games throughout his career.

[@AkshaySinghJamwal]

4:46 It's nice to know that GMs of even Tal's caliber are still only human.

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The good thing about these draws is that we get to see more great chess.

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[@UnleashTheGreen]

Tal and Fischer, the two most exciting and ingenious players ever.

[@sameetkhadka8438]

this guy is flash I mean I say this in every video and this time I am really shocked and well happy

[@95sam]

Thanks for including and sharing the part from the book in the video

[@jerryricks8389]

Beginning chess player here. I really like how you present games--very quickly and with dense exposition and commentary.

[@jammasterlee]

it's kind of a bummer that it took massive engines to change some of the opening theory. kinda wish some genius had just come along.. oh well. is there nothing left to really discover in chess?

[@LoneWolf-lk6gj]

@11:31 If you take the Night (Bxd5), you can always retreat the Bishop (Bg8) after Qc8+. That was the main reason Be6 was played....

[@alexalcan]

The funny thing is that if for some reason Botvinnik had the same idea and did the "checkmate", Tal would probably take the Queen precisely with the black knight that was "defending" it.

[@cael3132]

I love his nonchalant attitude, makes it that much better

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How lucky are we to live in the age of internet and agadmator? Being able to enjoy high quality chess with background informations and dry humour... Canˋt get any better.

[@singh.jayesh1866]

It's 1:31 a.m. here in my country and I was about to sleep but I had a hunch that u might do another Tal video... I checked my fone and there it is...keep it up Tony it's always a pleasure :)

[@stojadin6608]

Tal was actually incredibly humble for admitting his bad calculations. Nothing was stopping him from never even mentioning that, however he still told the truth.

[@saraths9044]

That paragraph from Tal's book was indeed a nice addition

[@savilahmed9859]

#suggestions Alekhine vs Capablanca world championship series..

[@ryanzdral8895]

yes

[@benhassineiem]

A SUPERB GAME!! Batlle of mind amid some inaccuracies. I enjoyed it

[@MrLuckychewy1]

Really enjoyed this one Antonio - thanks for your contributions :-)

[@SuiGio]

What a game! What a rush!

[@hellboy92ification]

Really appreciate all your hard work!! I’m enjoying all of your videos.good work man!

[@blackrock1009]

Kasparov for Tal- he was the only one I knew who didn't calculate the variants, he saw them. An ordinary man has to calculate, to think this through, but he just see it all. It occurs in great musicians, great scientists. Tal was absolutely unique.

[@vishalchavda3663]

In those day, if the game is continue from last position on next day, then if players agreed on draw.. then would next game start on the same day or on next day??

[@TG-to5nf]

vishal chavda I don’t know but next day makes more sense to me.

[@nicholasgranat2999]

vishal chavda next day

[@quagapp]

If a game was adjourned it would take place the next day in most cases. Although I once adjourned a game for dinner. The rule in the 60s was something such as 5 hours or 6 I forget or 40 moves whichever was first. Then the player to move had to make a sealed move that only he or she knew. The adjudicator or director would keep the envelope until the game was resumed. Some very great games arose because of adjournment analysis. It was also possible even with all the time to overlook a move which I did once missing a move that was not a direct threat but enabled me to win a Queen and then there was a fork which won my Q and I was material up...I had more material but I lost. My opponent was a young woman at our club (int he 80s).

[@MrSiwat]

Great analysis. Really enjoyed that. Thanks.

[@hankfrance4559]

With how fast Agad is at posting videos I half expected round 12 of the 2018 championship tournament

[@theehammaton.8811]

6:20 We have a lot in Common with Mikhail Tal,hallucinating over the board.😂😂 Perhaps am a G.M my self.

[@bhargabdas]

At 14:25 knight to f4 would've been better for tal. White will either lose both queen and knight or get check mate...or if g2 pawn moves to g3, black night can move to e6 with an attack on white queen, also guarding the g7 pawn. Plus the discovered attack on white's knight. White queen can obviously take a pawn but still i think a queen, a knight and bishop can stop a passed pawn easily. I may be wrong. Bdw i love your introduction i.e " Hello everyone!!"

[@NotElusivePanda]

5:54 how is that checkmate?

[@guitarbrother1234]

He explains shortly after that Tal was mistaken and thought the black knight was actually a white knight in this position. One of the events Agad said tal was 'seeing ghosts on the board'.

[@amoswhite6942]

Those were the ghosts and hallucinations on the board that he mentions shortly after, if you listen to the analysis and explanations.

[@mosa0564778798]

not check mate 5:30🤣

[@Richard_Nickerson]

It's not, and that's the whole point. Way to pay attention to the video

[@blekmetal8140]

@C Lopez "are you are" guy is trying to be clever. Get down of your horse , he just misheard something

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Really enjoyed the novelty of directly reading from the book!

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Best Chess Channel on KZbin..many greetings from Germany

[@nottoday3817]

That moment when you draw so much that you start hallucinating about losing

[@timwolber833]

"Have a great rest of the evening." Best outro ever

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Presentation is king .. same game . Lot of channels and this the best .

[@shuckLedurkins]

Everynight i watch these before bed, and every morning i rewatch it.

[@harrisongreene3487]

damn we're up to 1960 candidates now, only 58 years of content left to binge watch!

[@katie-st8nx]

I've done that before more then I want to admit. I love that tal made me feel slightly less crazy lol.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Mikhail Tal truly incredible player Great Game from both legendary players Tks Agadmator

[@MichaelHarrisIreland]

Amazing, that hallucinating, made me feel better about it happening to me.

[@AJ-et6rx]

Moral: don't drink vodka before a game.

[@fitstar8871]

Lol vodka was the reason he became so good 🙄

[@divyanshumishra4146]

4:09 Bro..... I seriously thought it was the part of actual game..😀😁😁

[@AliaoftheKnife]

Antonio, I haven't seen this latest video yet but I wanted to ask how come you never ask us "what's the idea here?" Anymore? That used to be your version of MatoJelic's "killer move!" Thanks for all your great videos.

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Koji si ti kralj 750000 pregleda ne moze se doc vise do tebe 2 reklame

[@corvoattano5632]

You make really good job man! Thanks a lot.

[@codonauta]

“Tall alucinating over the board “ :)

[@harshivpatel6238]

Quite the quote

[@0mattp0]

Love the channel and videos. But how is that checkmate at 5:45?

[@angwinardianggono1471]

This video make me feel confidence that even GM Tal makes mistakes just like I did

[@krishnaprasad5243]

Edutainment related channel.I spend most of time to watch these channel.

[@aadits5624]

10:12 Queen attacks the king on g1 -Agad 2018

[@Dybbouk]

Botvinnik's strategical genius against (the faulty) tactical genius of Tal!!!

[@matejsedlacek3113]

Thank you for publishing yet another marvelous game, keep it up. Love ya!

[@oceanbaadal.8070]

This game played 30 years before i born and even that time there were so strong chess players.

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I have seen almost all of ur videos but in this u look the most handsome and similar to linardo de capreo . Love and respect from india.

[@marcelmasque5030]

I make that kind of miscalculation all the time, last week I thought I'd found a beautiful variation with a sacrifice only to realize halfway through that there would be a pawn in the way of my queen and it didn't work.

[@leorgoldberg3189]

Marcel Masqué There are two kinds of players, those that has happened to, and complete liars.

[@chilliram]

Hallucinating over the chess board cracked me up!

[@onetimeonthegoodfoot]

You, sir, are an international treasure.

[@johnnypastrana6727]

What an exciting match...they put on quite a show...

[@gunjanshellar1987]

i fell off couch laughing after hearing agad say tal saw ghosts!!! its so funny!!! XD XD

[@Dheemanth-it8ew]

Be blessed by the divine. Dear sir did u won any world championship?

[@nickshtenikov1261]

Tal vs Botvinnic - 1 in the top of the most epic anime fights

[@Luke-kv2ot]

"wasting time hallucinating over the board" is my game strategy tbh

[@Rick-the-Swift]

Mikhail Tal: Doctor, I keep seeing ghosts on the chess board. Doctor: Did the glasses help any? Mikhail: Yes. Now I see them much more clearly.

[@jruf155]

First video I saw that was a draw on the channel. Didn't think I'd enjoy it so much

[@TheKawww]

Love everything about this match

[@talparness7131]

yeah i’m 2 years late but d still dope hearing you say my name for 17:31 minutes

[@dwachira]

Wow! I'll look for the game finishing moves. That was a nice battle to watch.

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These are outstanding videos! I really love them.

[@NaMnAmg1v3Away]

So in this position that Tal stopped hallucinating 😂

[@imsammy1343]

Your accent is so soothing. Are you from Croatia?

[@kappablanca5192]

He is

[@dr.allmight7810]

i enjoy your narration very much! keep it up bro

[@varadkousadikar9424]

Tal vs botvinnik is great series...plz also cover Anand kramnik wcc series...we can learn lots of tactics from such games :-)

[@tennisblood]

I didn't like Nh3; would have never even considered it. Surprised Botvinnik made this move twice in 2 games of this match...

[@kingbeats6948]

How is 5:48 check mate?? Nevermind lol

[@denizsurmeli]

he explained that he says "tall was hallucinating over the board." so tall thought that the knight in g5 was white, despite the fact that it is black. also that's why the title is "The Impossible Checkmate!? ". I dont understand how you didnt get it

[@casper14301]

@@denizsurmeli I don't understand how you don't get that Tal's name is spelled with one "l".

[@denizsurmeli]

Casper Lindberg lol the hunter becomes the hunted

[@casper14301]

@@denizsurmeli indeed haha.

[@jimmase5696]

your knowledge of chess is very impressive