Alexander Alekhine: Top 14 Amazing Chess Sacrifices of all time!

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[Event "Hastings"]
[Site "Hastings ENG"]
[Date "1922.09.21"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Efim Bogoljubov"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A90"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r3qr1k/2pb2p1/5n1p/pp3p2/2PPpP1P/2QnP1P1/3N2R1/R2N2KB w - - 0
29"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "1922.09.10"]
[Event "Baden Baden"]
[Site "Baden Baden DEU"]
[Date "1925.04.25"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Richard Reti"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A00"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r3r1k1/1pq2pp1/2p2n2/1pNn4/P1QN2b1/6P1/3RPP2/2R3KB w - - 0
26"]
[PlyCount "30"]
[EventDate "1925.04.16"]
[Event "NED sm"]
[Site "NED sm"]
[Date "1933.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Heinz Erwin van Mindeno"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r4rk1/ppp2pp1/2bpq3/6PR/3Qn3/5N2/PPP2PP1/2K4R b - - 0 15"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[EventDate "1933.??.??"]
15... f5 16. Ne5 dxe5 17. g6 1-0
[Event "Banja Luka"]
[Site "Banja Luka"]
[Date "1931.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Vasic"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C15"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r1bqk2r/pppn1pp1/4pn1p/8/3PB3/B1P5/P1P1QPPP/R3K1NR w KQkq - 0
9"]
[PlyCount "5"]
[EventDate "1931.??.??"]
9. Bd3 b6 10. Qxe6+ fxe6 11. Bg6# 1-0
[Event "London"]
[Site "London, ENG"]
[Date "1922.08.12"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Fred Dewhirst Yates"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D64"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r5rk/2R2Rp1/b3pN1p/3p1p1P/p2P1K2/Pp2PPP1/1P6/8 b - - 0 36"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[EventDate "1922.07.31"]
36... Rgf8 37. Rxg7 Rxf6 38. Ke5 1-0
[Event "Karlsbad"]
[Site "Karlsbad CZE"]
[Date "1923.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ernst Gruenfeld"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D64"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "2qr2k1/5pb1/p5pp/1p6/3Np3/P2nP3/NP2QPPP/3R2K1 w - - 0 30"]
[PlyCount "10"]
[EventDate "1923.04.28"]
30. f3 Rxd4 31. fxe4 (31. exd4 Bxd4+ 32. Kf1 (32. Kh1 Nf2+ 33. Kg1
Nxd1+) 32...
Nf4 33. Qd2 Qc4+ 34. Ke1 e3) 31... Nf4 32. exf4 Qc4 33. Qxc4 Rxd1+
34. Qf1 Bd4+
0-1
[Event "Odessa"]
[Site "Odessa"]
[Date "1918.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Boris Verlinsky"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C21"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r3r2k/ppq3pp/3R4/4N1B1/4P3/1Q6/PP2b1PP/2R3K1 b - - 0 23"]
[PlyCount "6"]
[EventDate "1918.??.??"]
....
[Event "Kemeri"]
[Site "Kemeri (LVA)"]
[Date "1937.06.25"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Samuel Reshevsky"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B05"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "Rnk5/1p1r2pp/1Pp2pq1/2B1r3/1P6/7P/6PQ/5RK1 b - - 0 34"]
[PlyCount "6"]
[EventDate "1937.06.16"]
....
[Event "London"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1928.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Alan Linnell Fletcher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A31"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "1rb2rn1/p5bk/3pP2p/q1pP1p2/1p2nP1N/3QB2P/PP4B1/3NRRK1 b - - 0
25"]
[PlyCount "14"]
[EventDate "1928.??.??"]
...
[Event "Kecskemet"]
[Site "Kecskemet, HUN"]
[Date "1927.07.03"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Fred Dewhirst Yates"]
[Black "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C11"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/p7/1pQ2nk1/5p2/5PpK/P1P5/3r3p/8 w - - 0 75"]
[PlyCount "2"]
[EventDate "1927.06.26"]
75. Kg3 Kh5 0-1
[Event "Moscow"]
[Site "Moscow"]
[Date "1915.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "Nikolay Zubarev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E32"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "4rr2/pb1nqp1k/1p2P1pp/2pP4/2P3n1/3B2N1/PB1Q2PP/4RRK1 b - - 0
22"]
[PlyCount "8"]
[EventDate "1915.??.??"]
...
[Event "Tarnopol blindfold"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1916.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Alexander Alekhine"]
[Black "M Von Feldt"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r2qr1k1/pb1nb1pp/1pp1pn2/4Np2/2PP1B2/3B1N2/PP2QPPP/R4RK1 b - -
0 14"]
[PlyCount "8"]
[EventDate "1916.??.??"]
...
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[@dannygjk]

Alekhine was a beast. I bet even today he would wreak havoc among most GM's.

[@elmerpalado5475]

Alekhine had a penchant in blasting his opponents of the board in a dozen moves or so that is why Alekhine is a beast and my favorite player of all time.

[@sonarbangla8711]

Besides being a beast he was the best, after Morphy.

[@brianbernstein3826]

KC you need to make a Kingscrusher top 10 sacrifices video!

[@wa1ufo]

Very nice! Alekhine is my favorite player in history. Thanks

[@Macgki]

I actually don't have enough to keep upwith your uploads recentlly due to my exams, but I will have a at least 6 hour kingscrusher session on wednesday, when everything is over :D

[@apk8340]

Thanks a lot for this lovely piece. No one’s moves has ever surprised me more than those of Alekhine. To me he is the greatest but i enjoy All the great games and players

[@kontrapunkti]

Aah yes, my favorite GM! Have to come back to this video after work....

[@refl3ktor]

The underpromotion to knight resulting in mate was my favorite! So whimsical. What a marvelous way to win. In Alekhine's play there is an every-man sort of brilliance. A certain accessibility. Would i have seen that knight underpromotion? Probably not, but *maybe* because it is so sensible and rational. It's almost as if he is saying to audience, "there. Now that wasn't so hard, was it?" and you almost feel it isn't, perhaps it truly isn't at that point. How he develops these endings, as one of your quotations mentions, is quite beyond me! Absolutely my new favorite player! Thanks again, KC!

[@ajinkyashendre6666]

ty for sharing this amazing games :D god bless you

[@kingofyoutube7]

Such a good video. I enjoyed watching, thanks.

[@MordimersChessChannel]

Good choice for the Top Amazing Chess Sacrificies, thanks for sharing

[@MrWuster]

Nice series. Thank you, KC.

[@FreeMan1990PK]

thank you! some great games!

[@aubreysteele4466]

"Sir, I am the book." Funny as hell, but true. I played over one of his games in which the concluding combination was spread out all over the board 14 moves deep to win a knight and the game. And he did it all on his own-no computers and no "seconds." There are many great players around today with higher ratings and I am a fan of theirs, but truthfully for about three or four years after Alekhine won the championship, his opponents after the first move could offer a draw or resign.

[@tottenvillelegend826]

Alekhine is one of my favorite players

[@technowey]

Thanks for yet another great chess video. Subscribing now.

[@vtzeh]

Love the greatest sacrifice videos

[@pennyozon172]

Wow. Great stuff.

[@v.gopalakrishnan350]

Alekhine, Grandmaster of complex combinations, always amazes you! Thanks for these wonderful posts and expert comments!

[@SBGif]

You blundered at 39:09 :). You played Rcxd8, which is what black would of hoped for. It allows Qc1+ and then g5. I'm sure white played Rexd8, after which black resigned.

[@LifetimeLoner]

Thank you for presenting us some of Alekhine's greatest sacrifices. He is my favorite chess person of all-time, and I think he is the ultimate attacking player, even more so than Tal. His brilliant combinations demonstrate the artful nature of chess. On a side note, I would include his blindfold game versus Saemisch in 1923 where he sacrificed his queen and converted a mate with his minor pieces.

[@naphackDT]

Actually, the comparison to Tal is not that fair, to be honest. They played in different ages, when different playstyles were around. If you look up Tal's sacrifices, it's almost always throwing a bishop into the opponents pawn structure around the king to wrench it open. Back, when Tal became champion, the dominant playstyle was a structured, systematic one. As the opponents weren't trying to aggressively gain space and force their way into his space, but rather tried to build up a solid attack, while leaving not much space for counterplay. There was not much chance to get into those messy situations, where a pile of opposing pieces are standing concentrated at one spot of the board in some sort of mexican standoff(though admittedly, Tal loved those positions and tried to force his opponents into them). If I remember correctly, Botvinnik was the one, who introduced more systematic, positional play and during his long reign, many players started to adapt that style.

[@KillianDefaoite]

25:44 Rd7 has to be good for white here! Sets up smothered mate!

[@iNemoden]

23:00 knight takes b2 was an option as well?

[@palmarius104]

I believe Alekhine was the most dominant player over is contemporaries of all time post Morphy.

[@Chisdai1000]

Yes ur right orchestra. I wasn't thinking right

[@xandror]

I couldn't figure out how 7:45 wasn't a drawn position, but I figured out if you sacrifice the D5 pawn you can take white's remaining pawns with the king. I'd definitely not resign in this spot in case my opponent doesn't know this =).

[@behzadbehzadan6032]

At 6:07, if white plays Rh3, black will play Ng4; not Nd5 as the commentator wrongly mentions!

[@Chisdai1000]

at 25:30 what about the amazing looking Qg8! - this forces the rook away from the f file and allows white to trade queens while getting a rook on the seventh - i dont know if this is any good, can someone tell me if i am correct or not please?

[@siquenoquenoquesi]

I think the mistake is when you say "it forces the rook away from the f file", because black can take the Queen with the King and black wins (I think).

[@TIMS3O]

16:45 isn't the Qxe5 queen sac crushing too with g6 as a follow up?

[@UnstableVolt]

Qxe5 Kf7 and black survives.

[@KillianDefaoite]

8:55 is Ra3 also good here for black?

[@buf4wil]

6:08 the refutation to Rh3? is not …N:d5, but …Ng4, threatening …Q:f2+ Kh1 Qg2 mate. If the Knight moves (even for N:g4), Qg2 mate comes immediately. So White has to go back to Rh2 N:h2 winning the exchange.

[@paparocas1]

dude i just wanted to say dat at paris if he takes the rook at d8 with the rook form c8 black might get a chance with queen c1 check and the king h6

[@geoffreywu4304]

At 38:00, kings crusher says "Now let's go to paris", but I guess he misspoke or didn't include it in the description.

[@willyh.r.1216]

AAA was the first human SF16. RJF was the second. SF16 is obviously the third.

[@mohammadrezarezaei6751]

alekhine was one of the strongest chess players world had ever produced.

[@ianclarke5404]

That must be the hardest to see with castles and knights so close

[@Dunebug1985]

at 33:10 the word possesssed has 3 s'es...

[@ganjalfthegreen1574]

15:10 what about rook h6?

[@bautistakeithcharles3302]

Just saw the same concept from Dubov

[@yacinechina4770]

can carlesen do that ? out i didnt think he can

[@malcolmabram2957]

Capablance on a video on KZbin called him. Dr. A-lek-in.

[@iNemoden]

37:00 bishop takes f5 is mate in 2 as well

[@siddharthbhonsle9514]

its mate in 3 cause of kg4

[@e4e6mate96]

That last one was the dirtiest thing I've ever seen 😅

[@vipinchandrasingley1514]

Alkhaine was super player indeed.

[@KillianDefaoite]

4:06 Can't white just play Nb3 and be up the exchange after ...c1=Q Nxc1 Nxc1

[@manojlives]

24:16 why did not king move out and instead queen protected the king.

[@UnstableVolt]

Kf1 Rxd1+ Qxd1 Qxa2 and black is a piece up and winning easily. Same reason if Kf2.

[@manojlives]

Sorry after Rxd1 if Kf2 was played what will be the series of moves . I can see white king escaping easily.

[@UnstableVolt]

Sorry my bad, I thought you meant the position just before... If the king steps out at 24:16 then the queen is hanging... Black is left with rook + bishop vs knight.

[@manojlives]

Thanks Mathew . queen is hanging . but can very well escape . and white with queen and knight is way better. I don't see a way white queen can be captured . can u pls share how the white queen can be captured ?

[@manojlives]

Sorry my bad .. Didn't see the pawns .

[@oscarbetancourt1462]

paul keres #1

[@ice-iu3vv]

why does virtually nobody pronounce alekhine correctly (alleh-keen)?

[@andremendoncabastos5103]

For me it's one of the most amazing games ever. Of course, it's not mathematician perfectly, but, I believe that he had to calculate too much too achieve the final position!Another thing is more recently people have learn with grandmaster's books, oppening books, and recently, chess engine to play very acurate oppenings, but, it make the game dull. In the past some of master don't play too acurate, so there are almost infinity possibilities of chess board formation and more enjoyable(at least to watch) games.

[@geoffreywu4304]

Which game are you talking about?

[@andremendoncabastos5103]

Like the video below(or above) depends of your POV...

[@dannygjk]

Once a GM leaves his book he will not play the rest of the game 100% accurately. Check the top players of today, they also play inaccuracies. Also today's GM's take less risks. They play more carefully.

[@ANSIcode]

I do like watching this, however I don't think that all examples are actually as spectacular as they're presented. Without seeing the brilliant moves leading to a position like the one in game 1, this becomes a display of flashy tactics. While that isn't necessarily a bad thing, I would much rather see positional brilliancies, as I expect many would.

[@focusaddiction3460]

After Kasparov, the best player!

[@anmaraloush1081]

No ..he is much better from Kasparov ..no doubt I like Kasparov but Alikhine really much better .

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[@sara31786]

iv watched lots of your "greatest sacrifices" vids and never once do u mention the greatest sacrifice of all our lord jesus christ

[@manuelgarzahernandez9605]

I had the intention to watch this video but it's much blablabla, talking and talking and no action... Boring.

[@KillianDefaoite]

manuel garza hernandez Would you rather he just blitz through the games with no explanation and put zero effort into his videos?

[@redkola1498]

In 23:14. Qc2 is good. But why not 1.Qg4? (Note because It's threatening Both the pawn on g2 and rook).