Anand's Immortal ♔ Aronian vs. Anand, Tata Steel 2013 ♔ ASMR Chess analysis of a historical game

Aronian vs. Anand, Tata Steel 2013 is one of the most beauitful and amazing games ever played, and it naturally fits in my series on the immortal games.
Please note that this is an ASMR video and is made to relax your mind and help you drift off to sleep while you slowly get lost in the beautiful chess universe.
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[Event "Tata Steel Group A"]
[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]
[Date "2013.01.15"]
[EventDate "2013.01.12"]
[Round "4"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Levon Aronian"]
[Black "Viswanathan Anand"]
[ECO "D47"]
[WhiteElo "2802"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[PlyCount "46"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4
7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 Bd6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qc2 Bb7 11. a3 Rc8
12. Ng5 c5 13. Nxh7 Ng4 14. f4 cxd4 15. exd4 Bc5 16. Be2 Nde5
17. Bxg4 Bxd4+ 18. Kh1 Nxg4 19. Nxf8 f5 20. Ng6 Qf6 21. h3
Qxg6 22. Qe2 Qh5 23. Qd3 Be3 0-1

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Wonderful video, as always. Someone mentioned they preferred having a second board on screen, but in my humble opinion it’s much better this way! Just having the big chessboard at the center is more immersive and helps focusing on the game. I personally find the second board overlay very distracting. Just my two cents ;) love your channel, keep up the good work!

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Lovely video. Crazy how the light-squared bishop moved a grand total of one square during the entire game, when the game had barely begun, and yet it all always ended up coming back to him. What a beast a well placed sniper can be.

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Vishy really went "oh no my knight" "oh no my bishop" and "oh no my rook" all at the same time lol

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I love these videos! Just some feedback from this humble viewer. I like having the overview HUD of the game. Makes it easy to follow from both sides. Also ... Nice touch with the subtle rain sounds. Good stuff.

[@ASMRChess]

Thanks for your feedback :) I'll consider bringing back the 2d board. It is a lot more work though, but I'll see what I can do. The rain is actually not an effect - it was literally raining outside when I did the video.

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this is probably the best game of anand. even computers ( i used an engine to analyse the game ) have a hard time understanding the key moves of the game

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yep if you run them at low depth like the chess.com engine they won't get the key concepts in the game.

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if you listen closely you'll notice that it is actually raining outside in this video. I'll consider bringing back the 2d board.

[@mcdonaldseggandcheesebiscu978]

24 moves spanning 50 minutes sounds pretty crazy right? In the first three minutes of the video, each side played 15 moves each, leaving the remains 9 moves for each side spanning over 45 minutes. Such brilliance in so little moves

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Watch my video on the Sicilian Defense :) there is a game from their match in there :)

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Anand really went: Oh no! All my pieces are hanging!! Anyways.... CHECK MATE

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29:30 Correction: Black is not winning if white plays h3 and gives back the exchange.

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From india around 1,500 years ago but most of us have been playing the European version of chess for over 500 years.The Europeans revolutionized Chess and made it better.Obviously the pieces were changed but that's a normal thing.I mean there are Mexican chess sets,chinese,etc...anyway here are the things that Europeans changed about chess over the centuries... 1. They are the reason a pawn can move two spaces on the first move.Indian chess a pawn could only move one space at all times 2. Europeans changed the board to a checkered board where the indian version is not checkered 3. Castling was added by the Europeans 4. The Europeans added pawn promotion to the game when a pawn reached the other side 5. Europeans added a Queen to chess and made her the most powerful piece.The indian version had no Queen but had a counselor which could only move two spaces diagonal 6. Europeans changed the Bishops' powers so it could slide the entire board,in india this piece was the Elephant with limited powers i think the Western version of Chess is definitely the most enjoyable to play.

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oh and En passant was also added by the Europeans which some chess players don't know what that is,it's french for "in passing" yeah one has to admit that Europeans made chess a better game.Perhaps the game needed to be improved upon?

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Much prefer just this board on screen. It's a unique feature of the channel. The digital board would relegate this channel to the swaths of other chess analysis channels and cheapen the aesthetic and mood. Plus, I am extremely new to chess and have no issue understanding the game playing out on the physical board so clarity shouldn't be a consideration. Cheers for the great videos! P.s. please tab the board more like before haha, even when you do here you the mic doesn't pic it up as much :)

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The rain makes it so much better

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can you do a no talking video 😍 I love that one where you scratches piece all over the board, it makes me sleepy

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yes there will be videos on Magnus Carlsen in the future! :)

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[@zsoltpallanki7954]

Could you please do the Caro-Kann defense next? I have tried it against a lv 1500 AI and it worked like this (I had the black): 1. e4 c6 2. d4 b5 3. Qf3 d6 4. Nd2 Nf6 5. Qc3 g6 6. a4 bxa4 7. Qb4 a3 8. Rxa3 Qc7 9. e5 dxe5 10. Ndf3 exd4 11. Qxd4 Bg7 12. Bf4 Qd7 13. Rb3 Qxd4 14. Nxd4 Na6 15. Rxa6 Bxa6 16. Nxc6 Ne4 17. Be5 Bxe5 18. Nxe5 0-0 19. Nc6 Bc4 20. Bh3 Bf5 21. Nxe5+ Kg7 22. Rh4 Nf6 23. c4 Rfe8 24. cxb5 Rxe7+ 25. Kf1 Rae8 26. f4 Ne4 27. Nf3 Nd6 28. Ne5 Nxb5 29. Rg4 h5 30. Rg5 Nd4 31. h3 Nc6 32. Nxc6 Re1+ 33. Kf2 Rxh1 34. Re5 Rxe5 35. fxe5 Rb1 36. Ke3 Rxb2 37. Kd3 Rxg2 38. Kc4 Rxg2 39. Kd4 Rxh3 40. Kc5 Re3 41. Kd4 Re1 42. Kd5 h4 43. Nxa7 h3 44. e6 fxe6+ 45. Kd6 h2 46. Kc6 h1=Q+ 47. Kc7 Qh7 48. Nc6 Rc1 49. Kb6 Rxc6+ 50. Kxc6 Kg8 51. Kb6 Qf7 52. Kc6 Qe8+ 53. Kd6 e5 54. Kd5 e4 55. Kd4 e3 56. Kc4 e2 57. Kd3 e1=Q 58. Kc4 Qb1 59. Kc3 Qd8 60. Kc4 g5 61. Kc5 g4 62. Kc4 g3 63. Kc5 g2 64. Kc4 g1=Q 65. Kc3 Qgc1# 0-1

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Where did you buy this board?

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That intro was just sick

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Thanks

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Question: I cannot find the online game that you use could you please tell me the name of it. Keep up the great work and have a good time

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do you mean chess.com?

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Is that rain? Fantastic!

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My most favourite players of all times - 1. Garry Kasparov 2. Vishy Anand 3. Bobby Fischer 4. Mikhail Tal 5. Paul Morphy

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[@Melanie12047]

16:20 But what about f5 from black, cutting of the bishops connection to the knight?

[@mvuitdb]

Why wouldn’t you just check mate after the moves d4-d5-c3-c6, then queen to a4

[@Legu4283]

23:20 it can also be met with pawn eats queen. ??

[@mcdonaldseggandcheesebiscu978]

34:33 If white moved there dark squares bishop to d2 and then played pawn takes bishop then I think they would be fine because the rook is cleared, but unfortunately he can’t have that extra move

[@mcdonaldseggandcheesebiscu978]

There would probably still be some checkmate that could either be easy to find or impossible, my 1000 rated brain can’t understand either of them

[@ASMRChess]

@@mcdonaldseggandcheesebiscu978 even if white is allowed to play both Bd2 (bishop to d2) AND dxc5 (pawn on d takes bishop on c5) black would still be winning with Qh4 (queen to h4). black Qh4 white Bxg4 black Nxg4 white h3 black Qg3 and there is not stopping the checkmate without giving up massive amounts of material (pieces)

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42:40 Why not Nxd6?

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Can u do a video about chess openings please