Akobian at the 2014 Olympiad | Mastering the Middlegame - GM Varuzhan Akobian

[@bhdr111]

simply the best instructor I ve ever seen

[@nathanielanderson4898]

This is the best teacher I have found so far on Utube.

[@eydok5114]

Dude lowkey roasting the entire audience xD

[@Saint_Magnapinna]

...they're KIDS

[@zacharysherry2910]

Up and coming Ben Finegold... Roasting a room of 9 year olds LMAO 🤣

[@mrtampham]

wow one of the most instructional lectures I've seen. rewatching it again 1 year later makes me realize how much I still have to learn. bravo.

[@jamesflagg4824]

This dude's videos are the best imo. Very informative and straight to the point. I only wish they had a room mic so i could hear the students comments/questions better. But Akobian is great at repeating them either way.

[@marekbanaszkiewicz6338]

Excelent endgame. It shows how much theory you need to know to play like this. And many thanks to Akobian for wonderful lecture as usual. I am big fan of him and I'm trying to watch all his videos.

[@jtekholm]

I love the videos by Varuzhan! Simply amazing, especially for a new chess learner like myself! Such valuable information through and through!

[@mikevillanueva8664]

I could tell he had a huge meal prior to this class. Had heartburn throughout the whole video lol

[@lostblue5651]

34:16 what a beautiful move... akobian's lectures >> all

[@asadshah6996]

absolute legend i always watch his ideas whenever i am trying to relax

[@brianfinnegan9700]

absolutely love this guys videos, so incredibly instructive

[@Joshuadaniel-d8h]

Another masterpiece lecture from Gru !!!

[@Scy]

Finegold: Never play F3 Akobian: Always play F3

[@LemonChieff]

When your king isn't on g1 f3 doesn't expose your king quite as badly. Here it doesn't matter with the king on e1

[@shogun6291]

I play f3 as opening and busted 1600+ in classic

[@Chris.M]

Completely different type of position. Here King is centralized and f3 is strong.

[@penta4568]

Lmao! Yeah I saw f3 but immediately remembered GM Finegold so I didn’t think that could be the answer

[@KiroSave]

This intro in my brain forever

[@venkystanley9180]

excellent lecture. Akobian lectures are becoming increasingly addicting these days.

[@bobby2ram]

Thank you very much for this wonderful game explanation

[@tharindanimnajith3525]

Brilliant game! Brilliant lecture!

[@pnw2455]

Who else pauses these to try and figure them out?

[@user-gm7pb2ou2t]

Exactly!!!

[@GregorChess]

Amazing Video on a really exciting line in a othervise little dull opening ! Also the Endgame study is useful :)

[@skakofilsanonims4434]

25:34 is this is the so called Luft move?

[@mammutit]

well he was playin against a strong german grandmaster so the luftwaffe had to be attacked

[@udai414]

Fart with effort on 25:34 :D

[@danagboi]

He pushed for a victory

[@kealohabraceros7617]

This is the type of analysis I came here for, thank you.

[@drorbh11]

lol! even a slight groan after haha

[@fif5616]

Another one at about 28:53

[@chicagomusicvideos]

One of those middle game nuances you have to muster.

[@diosn6909]

I find this lecture one of the most instructive from st louis club!

[@jagadishathaluri3346]

Your lectures are top class.But mike for students is a must.we MI’s the important questions.we don’t hear their replies properly.please look into it..

[@ianallen738]

This is an exceptional game. White has pushed pawns across the board and castling isnt even mentioned until 12 minutes in. I love your lectures, GM Akobian, but I wish you would post some commentary addressing this issue, ie the long-game regarding king-safety.

[@ianallen738]

As soon as i posted that he started talking about this in the video. /facepalm.

[@charlesdarwin180]

Nice rook endgame.... Where subtle moves prevail.

[@srinikethvelivela9877]

that game just ate my mind

[@elbay2]

Ouch; that was complicated!

[@williamkleitsch1153]

This guy is a great teacher!

[@laishramimocha8667]

Very Instructive and easy to remember

[@Saschaborg]

Today's a good day: another Var lection.

[@aamirbhat7284]

I like his method of teaching

[@benjaminvmobile]

In between about 10:00 and 12:00 he talks about a hypothetical line of moves where "you are not afraid to lose your rook." Do you remember this? Why are you "not afraid to lose your rook?" I see that you would get his knight and a pawn back and maybe some positional advantage. Am I missing something else please?

[@mdarshaq5143]

It didn't completely make sense to me either when I saw it, but when you plug this into Stockfish 14, it basically says that every move except Bxd5 is downright losing (at least -2). Funnily enough, moving the rook away isn't even one of the top 3 lines! My guess about the logic behind it was that the resulting pawn center and the knight + pawn from Bxd5 was enough compensation for the rook. Turns out, even that doesn't fully make sense, because Stockfish just sacs the rook and then Qxc3 instead of Bxc3, and it thinks the position is equal. What's truly wild, though, is that as black, it's not even the best line (at depth 32) to take the rook. Instead, after Bxd5, ...Nxb2 Bxc4 Rac8 Ke2 Be6 Rb3 Bxc4+ Nxc4 Qxc4+ Qxc4 Nxc4 Rxb7 Nd6 Rxa7 Rc2+. Crazy sequence to trade down into this endgame.

[@ditch-1196]

Bring your rook into the game(C1 D1 E1) ,then to the 7th rank& place both rook at same column .Everytime Block an isolated pawn ,and never move the piece you blocked with( here it is a knight in F3). Keep attacking the queen if it is in the middle of the board.

[@fhadenal-mutairi3294]

I don't know why akobian doesn't go to complicated (unclear) positons.. that's why I love his style!

[@BabyFischer]

23:00 Optically my knight is better. But in fact is not better. So you need to understand that.Chess is basically searching of this truth, in pure Robert James Fischer style...

[@nilsp9426]

+Euclaz Barlad Importantly the rook endgame is favorable for white is my message about this exchange. What matters is what stays on the board, not what came off :)

[@marekbanaszkiewicz6338]

Indeed. "Knight is optically better" is one of my favorite sentences in this lecture.

[@khudoyorrakhmatov7530]

28:55 is another strong gassy attack

[@undercoveragent01]

16:18 Why not H4? Would this be a bad move? Can anyone tell me ,please?😇

[@Blaisem]

What happens if white plays pawn E4 at 22:10? The idea is to remove black's pawn in the middle to allow white's king to advance and white's knight to move.

[@warriorofice33]

That 40th move was a big blunder under time control, good for you.

[@dontmessw1thme]

10:40 till 11:30 what a great sequence

[@psychoreaper86]

25:34 LOL

[@JimLink]

...Did he fart?

[@emmayy67]

+JimLink deep breath..FWOOMP!...exhale....sly grin

[@petkopetkov5009]

cool video, very instructive

[@karolydavao8979]

very good :) Perfect lecture

[@VanHaleNNoodle]

17:25 can someone please explain why he needed to move king f2 and then pawn to f4 instead of going first f4? Thank you

[@sudeonder4856]

Because he was planning to exchange queens , as I understand..

[@berksezer4751]

Because if 1.f4 Qe4 2.Qf3 Bf5 3.Qe4 Be4 The bishop is better placed on e4 than on d7. And if 1.f4 Qe4 2.Kf2 Bg4 3.Qb1 Qe7 The queen on e7 prevents the white rook from coming to c7, making keeping queens on the board a viable option, which is preferable for black. In the lines played in the game (after Kf2 first) the black bishop, since it could not have come to the g4 square with tempo as in the lines starting with f4, had to be developed to a square which will either block the queen's sight to the c7 square or will create problems defending the isolated d5 pawn after declining the queen trade.

[@BruinChang]

In order to predict the position precisely after several moves, should I see it one by one progressively, or using possible positions in combination?

[@varmamahesh9725]

+1, I too need the answer for this

[@PeterUKTV]

11:30 not sure if this is solid as all pawns are on dark squares

[@WiggTheMobileBarbR]

This guy is cold 🥶 with it

[@quagapp]

It is a good lesson though, I had trouble finding some (quite a lot) of the moves. Partly as I forgot this was a "positional game" when he started with g4!? after the exchange...

[@PeterUKTV]

3:35 actually audience is right bishop isn't developed before rook

[@rohamtavakkoli7562]

Killer chess moves + chemical warfare = 100% win

[@LordDeuce-ul7my]

Nice game!

[@Gixeer75]

nice leson ... thx

[@lucas_delarge]

What a lesson!

[@muhammadnabeel2602]

which software he used

[@renekrsnadasa14]

Can someone explain something to me?

[@musicguitar]

Chess is hard. Endgame is the hardest. I usually swindle my opponents in time trouble. But then again, I’m not a professional.

[@quagapp]

Chess is a terrible game. The only joy is if you win (or possibly draw) but if you win the loser suffers. Even Svidler said he is tormented every time he loses. But it is like an addiction, I keep playing it and keep playing bad moves but still sometimes winning with bad moves! Or losing won games....

[@powerpug964]

Lol thats the same with literally every game, chess is an amazing game

[@muhammadsaad4373]

This lecture is veryy good, nothing against the guy but man fibegold sure has spoiled us with his jokes

[@leenaoleenatarun]

Waooo, nice sir, thanks , U r garret Kasparov by playing teaching and looking also

[@gruminatorII]

Why not take the H pawn before exchanging the queens

[@gruminatorII]

nvm losing the rook

[@hismind3053]

Great teaching thanks

[@isolatedgirl]

idea is great

[@MercuryGodz]

Sup soltini, u down for a match

[@duyngo2370]

5:37

[@mixedvibes9613]

you can never watch a long chess video without someone coughing. but my god that cough on 23:12 i hope that man is okay.

[@livingfreelyinspired7400]

Did you say Hare Krishna

[@HolyBucketsYT]

So I'm a beginner here, but why doesn't black take whites pawn, pc4 in the early game, it would be free.

[@unknown-gy8jz]

Nice

[@jimmyalderson1639]

Always play f3

[@albertarce1135]

He looked physically and mentally upset this time, he lost his patience 😅

[@Gixeer75]

nice middlegame ... gg

[@ricaelamial8556]

That fart though..

[@parnadBhattacharya1234]

F3

[@smaklilu90]

the kid who is figuring out the moves might have an engine on his phone or something

[@meghanherbeck9465]

I kind of had no idea what this dude is saying.........Kinda..........

[@kylemguile9980]

so did team usa beat the nazis?

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

Wow, a lesson from a human who can't even survive the middlegame against Stockfish. He's 900 points weaker and therefore teaching us BAD moves. Learn directly from the machines.

[@archaicnymph2977]

He learns things for the engine and is synthesizing the information so that a child can comprehend it.

[@Reptex_cs]

Im sure you're good in chess, but you really need a course in teaching. Those are 2 different things.

[@KF1]

Maybe you need a course in learning. I found it very informative and engaging.

[@Reptex_cs]

@@KF1 Already have one..

[@vkvk3525]

This the guy that cheated Wesley So

[@namandafria3223]

Finegold: Never play F3 Akobian: Always play F3