Anand vs. Gelfand | World Championship 2012 (Part 2) - GM Varuzhan Akobian

[@joaocdap]

GM Varuzhan Akobian is the most instructive chess teacher in the internet, he is not affraid to reveal his preparation and years of experience to help everyone he can. Thank you for your honest content. I will always support your chess.

[@cicerocasimiro]

João Pedro That's very true

[@edmundasjauniskis9347]

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[@ilyamofidian1288]

Special thank to Saint Luis chess club for sharing all of these for free. Shows the high cultural level of a society. I am a Persian living in Kuala Lumpur and I improved a lot in the past two years by following lecturers by GM Akobian, GM Finegold, GM Yaser Seirawan and others. Please reflect my special appreciation to these special people.You people are very close to my heart. Thank you !

[@MagicSmoke11]

Thanks. I was looking for this very important WC match analysis..!!😊👍

[@elbay2]

That Kramnik endgame was great; thanks for showing this!

[@unknownabyss8922]

Var, the best!!!

[@Sn28sept]

I guess after Qf2 the only saving move is Nc6 with the idea of bishop moves then knight checks and Qf3 saves everything. But the problem is you can take the knight with the pawn after Nc6 but still it's playable as Bronstein showed against Botvinnik.

[@MrSunilson]

Early in this vid when white plays Nge2, akobian mentions he used the same knight move in his game against botchkev( dont think im pronouncing it right )..anyone got a link to that game? Really would like to see it, thanks.

[@fredinsigne2457]

frddie very good lecturer direct to the point no sidetalk

[@shainsha1662]

He is bestest coach

[@Celicaw8]

My engine says that Nc6 is a move which almost saves black (+2.00, still much tho)

[@JimLink]

Fix it! Fix it, later to win it!

[@kindouse5761]

35:30 why not Re5 and protect the pawn ?

[@ZiggyZugzwang]

+İbrahim Turna I guess you could protect it for the moment. But by the time you eventually play g5 it's gonna be hanging anyway. And then you have to move the rook back to e1 and f1 to protect the bishop as happened in the game. So Re5 doesn't accomplish anything other than protecting a doomed pawn and misplacing your rook.

[@kindouse5761]

+randalph yeah i was thinking about placing King on f3 so that you can protect your g4 pawn push. That way you will be able to protect h5. Then you can play h4 and Bg5+ to force his king to go back and push your pawns.

[@ZiggyZugzwang]

İbrahim Turna interesting. yeah, now I wonder as well :D. Maybe it doesn't matter that much whether there are one or two pawns on the h-file. Or Kramnik just saw that giving up the pawn is winning and so he didn't bother protecting it. who knows (not using engine).

[@kindouse5761]

***** Yeah he saw a faster way to win so he went for it probably.

[@edmundasjauniskis9347]

10:13 after Qh4+ Kd1? ( Qf2 Re8+ Be2) black can play Ng3

[@lumberjack3008]

Repeating each game is good for the students in the class but not necessary for a video lecture.

[@Isaiah_McIntosh]

+lumberjack3008 The class is always mainly for the student in the class so it likely won't stop and frankly dont think it should.

[@Mamsecks]

+lumberjack3008 I usually repeat them by myself anyway. Watch each game twice, since I'm not good enough to really gain the memories from a single watch. Now I don't need to rewatch this one :P

[@Zamppa86]

I wonder what level these guys in the audience were if they could not name the opening was a King's Indian Defense! I totally understand one can't name all the variations but come on! If one is calling oneself a chess player then one should recognize a King's Indian when it pops up on the board...

[@nilsp9426]

In my opinion, Gelfand really deserved a little more credit for his performance in the World Championship. If there had not been these awkward tiebreaks, who knows what would have happened.

[@ZiggyZugzwang]

+Nils Petras He had his chance and then blundered the queen in 17 moves (or something). He is world champion in the ancient game of coulda woulda shoulda :D.

[@nilsp9426]

***** Well he played 12 Games against Anand and overall looked a smidge better. This game obviously he did not even play like a grandmaster...

[@fhadenal-mutairi3294]

Boris Gelfand.. like to go to sharp & complicated.. that's why he loses to much by 2500+ player.. thank you akobian!!