Learn the King's Gambit With Me ♔ ASMR ♔ Spassky vs. Fischer, 1960 ♔ Chess Opening Tutorial

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The King's Gambit is a chess opening that I have long been fascinated by. World Champion Boris Spassky played it throughout his career and never lost, so I figured I'd start with his games in my journey to understand this fascinating piece of chess theory. In 1960 Spassky famously beat Bobby Fischer with the King's Gambit, which spurred Fischer to write his famous article "a bust to the King's Gambit" in where he shared analysis that was so convincing, that most players simply dropped the KG from their repertoire. But not Spassky!
You can go over the game yourself here: www.chessgames...
And here is the pgn:
[Event "Mar del Plata"]
[Site "Mar del Plata ARG"]
[Date "1960.03.30"]
[EventDate "1960.03.29"]
[Round "2"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Boris Spassky"]
[Black "Robert James Fischer"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "57"]
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. h4 g4 5. Ne5 Nf6 6. d4 d6
7. Nd3 Nxe4 8. Bxf4 Bg7 9. Nc3 $6 Nxc3 10. bxc3 10... c5
11. Be2 cxd4 12. O-O Nc6 13. Bxg4 O-O 14. Bxc8 Rxc8 15. Qg4 f5
16. Qg3 dxc3 17. Rae1 Kh8 18. Kh1 Rg8 19. Bxd6 Bf8 20. Be5+
Nxe5 21. Qxe5+ Rg7 22. Rxf5 Qxh4+ 23. Kg1 Qg4 24. Rf2 Be7
25. Re4 Qg5 26. Qd4 Rf8 27. Re5 Rd8 28. Qe4 Qh4 29. Rf4 1-0

[@Lars_Maassen]

I love the concept of us as the viewers learning go play the kings gambit along/together with you

[@SharonRivasLaurel1998]

This is the reason I started loving chess and his videos too 🥰

[@jesuschrististhesaviour]

We need more Opening Videos 😊

[@ItsAsparageese]

Seconded, I hope he's inspired to do many ongoing videos and series about opening theory, especially when he presents them by riffing off beautiful example games like he does so well 😊 This video combines the best of all his styles/themes IMO

[@danielcrase]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA! The Kings Gambit has became my favorite opening in the past month, and I’ve been watching lots of videos on it, and I even saw this game BEFORE on a video I watched! That is the definition of divine timing. Thank you 🙏 Edit: that repeating is great! And showing the queens gambit similarities, great! Makes the video longer too, win-win.

[@ItsAsparageese]

It's even win-win-win-win, because it's win-win for us viewers and win-win for his content quality/strategy 😂

[@danielcrase]

@@ItsAsparageese thats win-ception. 🤯

[@goodblokefairly]

Love it. You have such a strong fundamental understanding of chess that it help me when you explain the meaning behind each move in these complex board states. The histories behind the games adds quite a lot of depth and makes for a really engaging experience. I appreciate the hard work you put into your craft!

[@ASMRChess]

Thank you!

[@TheNitram8]

I love the idea of having something like an "enlightened classmate" rather that an all knowing teacher. Hearing you speculate on why some moves where played was very usefull.

[@jackdyer4440]

Yes! These opening tutorial videos are my favorite, so excited to learn!

[@emanueldehner7882]

As an Argentinian, your pronuntiation of Mar Del Plata Its smooth, you have a really good spanish speaking

[@kikewickens6324]

Babe wake up the GOAT just uploaded.

[@exodust3114]

You make learning new openings so easy, thanks for all your hard work! 👍

[@staplegolf9595]

If you made a bunch of videos about different openings and different tactics and tricks I think everyone would like that

[@MrScenicVisions]

can’t get enough of the tapping. we need more of it

[@index7840]

five pawns on the fourth rank by move five- such a characteristic King's Gambit position - unique and crazy looking to me - love it.

[@Chrispbacon94]

I really love the way you teach in your videos it’s obviously a lot slower than real chess but you don’t ever make it feel condescending and chess can often feel like something so huge and massive that there’s no room for beginners. The more I learn I realize just how dramatic and different each match is! I’ve always wanted to learn how to play and I find myself more exited as I start to actually understand everything

[@obcl8569]

Love learning with your videos. Perfect pace, mellow m ml focused. It's excellent, I've learned a few openings with your videos. Idk why it feels appropriate to mention this, but I'd like to share this story with you: I started playing chess about 5 years as a grown woman. My son loved it, it was a chance to learn something I'd always wanted to learn and, most important, an opportunity to hang out with my son 😊 (I'm also certified mediocre at Nintendo (many consoles, MANY games), as well as Pokemon, Zelda, MTG, Nerf gun warfare, and a few others). I became increasingly interested until I was reading books on chess & taking notes. Now we play for real - cut throat. I'm so happy I learned, it truly feels liberating to the brain, & helps problem solve in every day life situations. But most importantly, we spend quality time doing something we both love. He's a whole lot better than me - i have beaten him before but mostly bLove learning with your videos. Perfect pase, mellow, focused. It's excellent, I've learned a few openings with your videos. Idk why it feels appropriate to mention this, but I'd like to share this story with you: I started playing chess about 5 years as a grown woman. My son loved it, it was a chance to learn something I'd always wanted to learn and, most important, an opportunity to hang out with my son 😊 (I'm also certified mediocre at Nintendo (many consoles, MANY games), as well as Pokemon, Zelda, MTG, Nerf gun warfare, and a few others). I became increasingly interested until I was reading books on chess & taking notes. Now we play for real - cut throat. I'm so happy I learned, it truly feels liberating to the brain, & helps problem solve in every day life situations. But most importantly, we spend quality time doing something we both love. He's a whole lot better than me - i have beaten him before but mostly by chance lol - but we share a passion for something beautiful. I will always be grateful to chess for that. y chance lol - but we share a passion for something beautiful. I will always be grateful to chess for that.

[@MegaSchwarzesSchaf]

I like the new format - it's nice to hear your thoughts about possible moves. I think it also encourages the viewers to do the same before seeing the actual moves, which I really like.

[@fruitytangerine17]

King's Gambit is my favourite opening for white! Nice series idea :) I'd recommend showing a game with the Muzio Gambit (a line of the King's Gambit), especially the Triple Muzio Gambit, one of the craziest most sacrificial openings there is

[@aenizzz]

OMG!!! you did the iconic intro! i've been waiting so long, thanks 💞

[@cjsmr]

Let me say, I’m only halfway through the video but so far I am loving us going through a game together, it’s really cool to have the same thoughts and it feels like we are learning about a famous game at the same time. It’s very surreal! I would enjoy more videos like this where we are going through iconic games together for the first time!

[@Kubooxooki]

This is a great way to learn basic openings. Great concept. Very enjoyable video!

[@braydenfontaine1666]

I think this was awesome, learning with you! It could be cool if you livestreamed these and then posted them as videos after too

[@ASMRChess]

Good idea!

[@ItsAsparageese]

Great idea! It's never occurred to me before it would be so fun to see him discuss games like this in a streaming format, if he would enjoy doing so. The element of having a chat/live questions would be fascinating to see!

[@Morgan1Hay]

This was inspiring to learn the play by play & try to guess the moves before revealing them. Incredibly enjoyable

[@timothysmith8047]

You know you're gonna get a good night's sleep when a new ASMR chess video drops

[@ItsAsparageese]

Your channel remains criminally underrated in the chess scene for now, but I've been commenting about it all over the place! Your algorithmic-heyday is coming soon, I'm sure of it 😁

[@AS-yi1gj]

Is that a thing? If we interact people will watch the videos more?

[@ItsAsparageese]

@@AS-yi1gj To at least some extent, yes! Especially if we specifically name this channel in our comments elsewhere. I've been trying haha

[@AS-yi1gj]

@@ItsAsparageese That is so nice :)

[@ItsAsparageese]

@@AS-yi1gj Aww thanks, no you 😁 lol

[@ceo54]

OMG I was just looking at the channel and this video came up after I refreshed the page I love your videos

[@ASMRChess]

Nice! Thanks :)

[@trocycling1204]

I love what you're doing with these. They're super engaging.

[@Basthyyy]

Thank you so much!!!!! I am asking for these type of videos since ages if you remember , finally i got one, next one do a black opening ahah

[@ZenPossum]

I like the King's Gambit with 4. Nc3 as recommended by Simon Williams, leads to some nice lines where you can sacrifice an entire rook or simply allow black to capture a knight on f3 in order to get a massive attack.

[@dracodominus2800]

I really enjoyed this. Listening to your thought process as we went through the game was awesome.

[@dusk5121]

Just when I was heading to bed :) great timing! Much love ❤️

[@KimiiiRaikkonen]

Love the concept. Hope to see this format with alot of different openings. Kindoff like an introduction to the open, and also a famous game high level game where it's played. To make it interesting for yourself aswell, you could choose openings you don't know much about. then we both learn, you do great content and we consume it. :D

[@VistaASMR]

I'm going to be so much better at chess once i've finished all your videos! Very educational 👍

[@Sandfox07]

It feels so good finally guessing some moves right, especially weird moves like Kh1

[@chandlerantill3925]

Oh man, I've been hoping you'd teach the kings gambit and now I get to nap and learn this!

[@teamrecon2685]

I cant get enough of your videos breaking down these openings. Thank you

[@abstrail]

Want more of these videos please! What an amazing concept, instead of trying to figure out alone we can now disect matches played by GMs and learn openings in asmr. Also the setup, lighting and angle is spot on. Subscribed!

[@MinJyo-Ciel]

first ever video from you thatt i watched without the intention to sleep ... i love this format my dude

[@EwokHugger210]

This was as enjoyable as it was enlightening. Keep doing this format, for sure.

[@ashtonalexander2431]

This is an amazing series idea! I'm hooked

[@likeidksomething3142]

22:58 is so nice😭 when he realizes he thought of the same move

[@swagmund_freud6669]

Coming back to this video a year later, still really love this opening. I tend to play pawn D4 after they accept the gambit and I must say seeing black hesitate and eat up their clock wondering how on earth they're supposed to respond to that, gets quite addicting.

[@partialmarvin6259]

Been playing the Queen’s Gambit all the time since your video on it. Looks like it’s time to shake it up😄

[@AS-yi1gj]

Haha. Me to!

[@Mawble]

Revisiting this a million times while I try to learn the Kings Gambit!

[@williamsenneway2131]

Great to see the thought process unfolding in real time as you learn. Very helpful for an improving chess player. Studying the theory to understand why certain variations are best would be interesting.

[@timuvarov7596]

Thanks for an informative and relaxing tutorial for this amazing opening!

[@pitstopmotion8169]

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[@wartallearth7797]

This was so helpful, I reviewed a few other games with this opening and finally felt comfortable enough to play against some of my co workers who are in the 1100 to 1500 elo range. UNDEFEATED today.

[@ASMRChess]

Way to go!!!

[@wartallearth7797]

@@ASMRChess have you ever made someone genuinely upset and resign while using the dragon Sicilian? That happened in my 2nd game today after I checkmated with white and the kings gambit again.

[@Mauve_Suave]

Omg a new concept of asmr❤

[@TV-nl2te]

Im so addicted to ur channel bro. I've watched almost all ur vids like 3 times over. Love seeing a new vid in my feed keep up the amazing work

[@ASMRChess]

Thanks for watching!!

[@lewispayne2254]

Had to come back to this video 4 times cus I kept falling asleep ! But I love the new video concept :)

[@BLARGHFLESH]

The board sound along with the voice really scratches my brain 😋

[@ooomph9602]

I love this opening 💗

[@prozacdick]

i am so excited for this upcoming collection of videos!

[@BREAKocean]

My 4th favorite opening featuring one of my most favorite players!

[@jc-pe6ue]

This is the best channel on KZbin

[@bincouwehand2034]

i love to see that ur account is growing

[@franciscotorilo4333]

Something about the King's gambit theory will be very nice. Your opening videos are pretty good. ❤️

[@faroukdebbaj5929]

I think we need more theory !! cool video the format is great

[@constantinedelvecchio7110]

Please continue making more of such videos!

[@danelsewhere370]

I think this is a great concept. It's riveting to watch and very enlightening. Seeing your guesses come true is also fun, because we viewers are also guessing. One request: I felt a little let down when you revealed that Fischer resigned. I wanted to see what checkmate would look like from that position. Can you show us some speculative endgames and wins?

[@ASMRChess]

Yes I try to show a checkmate sequence whenever possible. However grandmasters often resign 20+ moves before checkmate because they can see the game is lost no matter what, and that can be hard to show.

[@noahpires9098]

I think the new format is very engaging and educational for content. Look foreword to your next video.

[@kevindasilva7080]

I love these kind of videos and you make it so relaxing!! One thing though, what pieces are you using, they look stunning

[@matthewshaw8122]

Great video. If you’re looking for interesting top-level King’s Gambit games played more recently, Vasily Ivanchuk has played a few nice ones. Ivanchuk vs Leko (2020) is a good one - Agadmator made a video covering it at the time.

[@ASMRChess]

great suggestion!

[@LazyAlligator]

I love the sound of your voice and your chess board. It's amazing

[@kamikazexd1125]

19:43 Queen takes h4 is not wrong but just not the best move according to stockfish. allthough if white plays bishop takes d6 like you said black is crushing with pawn to g3, threatening mate and the bishop has to sacrifice to stop it

[@ASMRChess]

Interesting! Thanks for pointing it out!

[@mrboot6444]

Love these types of videos they're so helpful

[@fodk7021]

Relaxing +++ Informative +++ Relatable+++ I love it

[@deeweegee618]

Loved this. I say pick an opening and dissect it for a month using different games as examples to explore variations. You can also throw in articles about the openings and variations to get famous chess players` take on it.

[@LauXtP]

I never expected to hear the name of my city when you said where the match was played. What a nice surprise

[@dan_polyuha]

Following your thoughts is an amazing experience. Please keep on!

[@jesse396]

I love the educational chess videos, thanks heaps man!!!

[@markwareing3845]

Loved the concept.

[@saveriocorbo9302]

I was just thinking "uff cannot sleep" and opened youtube.... thanks

[@timdunks9240]

your videos are amazing but could you do another one about learning a chess game when blindfolded as it was with the opera game? it really helps with visualisation . Fantastic work😊

[@ItsAsparageese]

This would be so cool! I recently started trying out the Invisible Chess podcast and I'm enjoying that so far, and I think I was mostly inspired by/made to believe I could truly learn to visualize chess because of successfully memorizing the Opera Game thanks to our wonderful creator here. 😊 It'd be so cool if he made content to help train that skill too. Could be an interesting way to change/play around with the visual medium by showing a blank board sometimes and showing pieces other times as he sees fit, etc, idk

[@titanten7582]

Greatesr channel Loved the analyzing

[@UrMuddur]

I’m super down to continue with this series. Might I recommend a game with Judith Polgart (sorry for the spelling). She apparently had a very unique approach to the opening by using the bishop instead of the knight. Would be curious to see your take on it

[@ericrobertson5130]

I agree that blocking with the rook was a little odd since the attacking piece was on the diagonal. There's no inherent threat to the pinning piece. If the Queen was on a rank or file, the Rook would have been better. The Rook was stuck the rest of the game. May not have mattered, but interesting, anyway.

[@TheEvilKiryu]

Why are the chess pieces so beautiful

[@ASMRChess]

They are well made and I have good lighting

[@angelkuhnpost]

Amazing video! :) I wish to watch more King's Gambit :D

[@jdlemmon16]

Thanks for not only me teaching me how to play chess, but help me sleep man

[@BethanyLowe8773]

I enjoyed this a lot, but it's so relaxing that it put me to sleep on about five different nights so I've very little recollection of the beginning by the time I've reached the end 💤 success! I would like a little more finger drumming on the board etc as that is so tingly.

[@RupeshKumar-lw8fb]

I want more openings theory. The chess class is fantabulous

[@oskarpaul7623]

At the start you were thinking about playing d4 as the third move for white. Just wanted to point out that this looses immediately to queen h4

[@Emp._Peter]

I don't like learning with you, I love it!!

[@FFrogMilk]

I’m trying to learn it but I keep falling asleep!!! I’ll keep trying though!

[@MTrevi_]

I'd love more history videos!

[@RyuPhrog]

Love this idea and would help me out a lot

[@agustin.tidona]

as a six or seven year experienced(?) asmr consumer, i love the idea of chess classes on asmr. Nevertheless, i think that it will get better if the ambient & table sounds are louder as the voice, or lower the voice

[@felixgeorg3689]

I really like the format. There is a really great game between rapport and adams in the kings gambit. Maybe a game like that from nowadays, than some old history or something

[@chessty]

Great video :)

[@uncrowned64]

I love love the Kings gambit this is gonna be an awesome video

[@anthonyouellet98]

I like this format 100%

[@ASMRChess]

I like this comment 100% :)

[@colton1016]

The Knight on D3 was the unsung hero .

[@pedronunes8766]

Love it! Keep it up!

[@oxygenlung]

I like learning with you, it helps a lot for me

[@VladtheInhaler]

The King's gambit is how a true chad opens

[@pritamsarkar6796]

I think we can also relax after learning the kings gambit

[@PhoenixXx_22]

Could you make one about the Ruy López or the Italian?

[@ASMRChess]

Yes I will

[@tripxdillon]

My favorite opening will always be a good ol Scotch. Any chance we can get a video on it?

[@ASMRChess]

Yes one day :)

[@sitikini4508]

great concept and format

[@KingAlpaca]

One of your best