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

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In my opinion,this is one of the few channels that can provide quality entertainment for more than 10 minutes

[@peihu3201]

if the person likes chess.

[@Eaglesky1]

True.. : )

[@xDMrGarrison]

I hate chess but I just come here for his awesome voice.

[@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"😆

[@KatieLifts]

@@GaganSingh-nx2yv and king

[@adarsh5870]

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

[@rohithjacob4699]

lol

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Best comment yet

[@erberlon]

Ryan Flanagan you got issues dude.

[@miyukiteishi9051]

@@ryanflanagan9624 bro?

[@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

[@medexamtoolscom]

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

[@bitzibaerlie]

@@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

[@umuttezcan1663]

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

[@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!

[@wolfgangwilhelm9699]

One time Agadmator wanted to buy an very old house. But he was scared, because he heard, that there should be ghosts in the house. So he asked the owner, if there were ghosts. The owner answered: no, I already live 500 years in this house. But I haven't seen any ghosts in this house.

[@kilimanjarno]

:D :D :D

[@vishaltripathy3620]

nice one

[@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

[@Hey-id5lb]

agadmator best youtuber!!

[@chessmatters]

yes really

[@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.

[@pedromayorga874]

@@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 !

[@kaitailor5414]

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

[@thomase9514]

👍👍

[@zyxonian1]

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

[@adamleckius2253]

The better kind of mating

[@edrash1]

@@adamleckius2253 underrated comment lol

[@jaymieharris7936]

Chess > porn

[@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 .

[@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

[@xadrezbrasil]

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

[@nomibe2911]

The best Chess commentator on KZbin.

[@srir.5282]

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

[@alienrenders]

How were the candidates chosen?

[@jinxblaze]

Who won ?

[@AnastasisGrammenos]

Fabi!

[@Krosis_]

Sahith Reddy whooosh

[@nisargshah5470]

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

[@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!

[@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!

[@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. 😃

[@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.

[@gabize]

one of yours best videos, not only providing historical context but also showing "computer" moves. this is why yours is the best chess channel

[@AkshaySinghJamwal]

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

[@kamitebyani5309]

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

[@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

[@chubbera7185]

Another One!?

[@thedotacliparchive]

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

[@sameetkhadka8438]

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

[@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.

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While I only play chess 2 times a year, I enjoy this channel immensely. My favorite pleasure is Samuel Lloyd's chess problems.

[@PascalWings]

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

[@UnleashTheGreen]

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

[@vejito11]

I would really like the subscriber count to move quicker! Can we all have a unified push to at least like every video? I hope at least a few of you are with me!

[@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....

[@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).

[@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.

[@savilahmed9859]

#suggestions Alekhine vs Capablanca world championship series..

[@ryanzdral8895]

yes

[@cael3132]

I love his nonchalant attitude, makes it that much 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 :)

[@michaelmassaro4375]

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

[@hellboy92ification]

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

[@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?

[@jerryricks8389]

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

[@benhassineiem]

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

[@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!!"

[@95sam]

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

[@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

[@maheshkumartak3096]

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

[@SuiGio]

What a game! What a rush!

[@saraths9044]

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

[@nordlead2302]

Best Chess Channel on KZbin..many greetings from Germany

[@user-sb8vw7jx6z]

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.

[@heerarnair6868]

Thanks

[@MrSiwat]

Great analysis. Really enjoyed that. Thanks.

[@katie-st8nx]

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

[@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.

[@0mattp0]

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

[@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.

[@johnnypastrana6727]

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

[@sanswelt8746]

Really enjoyed the novelty of directly reading from the book!

[@krishnaprasad5243]

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

[@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.

[@augustuscasey2285]

What program do you use to replay the games, and what do you think about chessbase 14 I’m thinking about buying it

[@AtomicOnionTree]

Just use Stockfish it is free and a very powerful engine.

[@amitdangare4607]

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.

[@shuckLedurkins]

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

[@SirSmokeAlot8866]

Game start at 1:10

[@Dheemanth-it8ew]

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

[@onetimeonthegoodfoot]

You, sir, are an international treasure.

[@MrLuckychewy1]

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

[@varunchakraborty1981]

@5:43 as you said , how that position could be a check mate ? Black king can't cut white queen ?

[@imsammy1343]

Your accent is so soothing. Are you from Croatia?

[@kappablanca5192]

He is

[@hankfrance4559]

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

[@TheKawww]

Love everything about this match

[@matejsedlacek3113]

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

[@jmbbanksy]

11:28 if Qc8 why Bg1 wouldn’t work? Black would a piece up am I right?

[@aadits5624]

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

[@varadkousadikar9424]

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

[@Squealings]

I’m confused at 5:45 would the Black’s Knight simply capture the queen? Getting out of check?

[@edwardpinder5634]

At 11.28, if ....Bxd5. Qd8, Bg8 doesn't look too bad for black??

[@theehammaton.8811]

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

[@corvoattano5632]

You make really good job man! Thanks a lot.

[@rudrakshraheja7487]

At 13:18, the black knight can take d7 square threatening queen's position. Is that playable??

[@divyanshumishra4146]

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

[@nottoday3817]

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

[@sidravi400]

At 9:12 can we take the b7 pawn ahead and thereby attacking the a6 knight

[@MichaelHarrisIreland]

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

[@harrisongreene3487]

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

[@Dybbouk]

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

[@jruf155]

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

[@Multi-Talented]

At 10:44 after Black's Be6 ..is it possible to capture the knight on a6 because if u captures the knight on c6 by the queen .then same threat is there after Qe3+. Kh1 and Qf2 ....then white will not defend the bishope and mate

[@charleskeller3233]

At 7:45 of the video you are showing a position where the Black Knight has captured the white knight on e7 and then the white queen has followed this move by capturing the Black Rook on d8 with check. You then state that after some sort of block by black, that the White Queen follows this by checking on f8 which delivers checkmate. Did you mean the white queen delivers checkmate on e8 rather than f8 or did I miss something? I can only see the black queen blocking on e8. Thanks in advance for the response!

[@gunjanshellar1987]

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

[@mikeyonce2323]

5:45, how is that checkmate? Or am I missing something? Thanks

[@timwolber833]

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

[@im4broke643]

In the video at 5:08 of 17:31, I do not see the annotation working as shown in the video. Move 16...Nxe4, 17 Rxf8... does not work as the video shows a Nf2 for white. Please correct this.

[@angwinardianggono1471]

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

[@Enigmaprince]

11:28 I dont get why its terrible if Bxd5? U mentioned yourself if king gets check Bishop can always retreat to g8 :)

[@acesu5785]

Is there no adjourned rule now adays?

[@alliejr]

After Black Knight to e5 (14:30), why doesn't White checkmate with Queen to g7 takes pawn?

[@rajeshpandya1990]

Ta 6:08 time check from queen does not end the game as you said , the black king can take white queen