Biggest Blunder in Chess History - Karpov vs Bareev - Linares (1994)

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Anatoly Karpov vs Evgeny Bareev
Linares (1994), Linares ESP, rd 2, Feb-??
French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System (C07)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. ed5 ed5 5. Ngf3 Nf6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. Bd7 Nbd7 8. O-O Be7 9. dc5 Nc5 10. Nd4 Qd7 11. N2f3 O-O 12. Bf4 Rfe8 13. Re1 Bf8 14. Ne5 Qa4 15. c3 Qa6 16. Qe2 Qe2 17. Re2 Bd6 18. Nd7 Bf4 19. Re8 Re8 20. Nc5 Bc7 21. Nd3 Bb6 22. Nb3 Kf8 23. Rd1 a5 24. Kf1 Rc8 25. Nd2 a4 26. a3 g5 27. Nf3 g4 28. Nh4 d4 29. cd4 Bd4 30. Nf5 Bb6 31. Nb4 Ne4 32. f3 gf3 33. gf3 Nc5 34. h4 Rd8 35. Rd5 Ba7 36. Rd8#
The 12th Annual Linares Super Tournament held from February 23rd to March 14th, 1994 was the first Category XVIII event ever held. Fourteen of the world's best players, including both World Champions, competed in a round robin format. The participants were (in order of Elo): Garry Kasparov (2805), Anatoli Karpov (2740), Alexey Shirov (2715), Vishwanathan Anand (2715), Vladimir Kramnik (2710), Vassily Ivanchuk (2710), Gata Kamsky (2695), Boris Gelfand (2685), Evgeny Bareev (2685), Alexander Beliavsky (2650), Veselin Topalov (2640), Judit Polgar (2630), Joel Lautier (2625), and Miguel Illescas-Cordoba (2590). When asked about the strength of the tournament, Kasparov famously stated that the winner could consider himself the world champion of tournament chess. Ironically, it was to be Karpov, his longtime rival, who would be the man of destiny, culminating in the greatest single tournament performance of all time! Karpov won the whole ball of wax, undefeated with an astonishing 11/13!!!
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[@ghilesziat8103]

Not only loosing the rook but finding the only move that loses instantly ... this is a brilliancy

[@jotage3446]

genius indeed

[@onafets38]

..it's a different kind of chess puzzles!

[@PhilomathBret]

*losing

[@anosmianAcrimony]

Anyone can lose a piece; it takes a grandmaster to lose instantaneously

[@tylerross9706]

ghiles ziat I know of any move he could of played, he choose suicide.

[@pokerandphilosophy8328]

3:20 "This is a small advantage but I'm Karpov so it's enough for me..." Great strategy!

[@atmunn1]

Best strategy in chess: Be a world-renowned chess master.

[@Blinknone]

Except that you really don't want to give Karpov a small advantage :p

[@extrudersfx4571]

I tried that a few times, but apparently I’m not Karpov.

[@FrancoisTremblay]

@@extrudersfx4571 you're not Ben Finegold either.

[@Rotyi323]

He was like: Pause the video and find the losing move for black. For those of you who were able to do it, congratulations you are Evgeny Bareev.

[@imanranjbar9833]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@_Fury]

Haaaaaaa

[@paperpopper1290]

and for those of you who just want to enjoy the show, the move was bishop a7.

[@rohithjacob4699]

@@paperpopper1290 🤣✌️

[@therealclp7488]

Lmao

[@pingdingdongpong]

These people are like blunder amateurs. I blunder like this in my sleep man.

[@maxnullifidian]

I wonder if chess players ever "take a dive" as in boxing?

[@bobmakin4991]

@@maxnullifidian yes more than u know or can prove

[@gonzalo4658]

lmao df

[@TheSBleeder]

@@maxnullifidian Yes they do.

[@MrZwartwit]

Walt F. My opponent once lay down his king on the chessboard and gave up on turn 1. Did not want to inevitably loose so he gave up.

[@ashmaterial]

My biggest blunder is starting every chess game

[@szrolltroll]

Yep same, I have problems with chess openings:")

[@sergeirachmaninoff876]

bruh

[@TheSBleeder]

Do what I do: Just resign after the first move. Impossible to blunder.

[@hiphopriffs7775]

I don't quite get this game. You seem to be doing everything you should do and in the blink of an eye the opponent's knight is attacking your king, queen, bishops and towers all at once.

[@kamogelomabea3592]

@@hiphopriffs7775 😂😂😂

[@BeerdyBruceLeeCentral]

This happens to me alot, I make the move in my head and forget to play it on the board. But only in blitz games. It's strange that this happened to a super GM in classical.

[@markiemo7480]

Argon Its actually an english word stop commenting with your ingnorance.

[@bleach4038]

+Markiemo it isn't

[@ArnoldTheHobbit123]

Could be under time pressure i guess

[@bernardfinucane2061]

No Markiemo, and furthermore "its" is not short of "it is" . It's never good to put grammar errors in remarks correcting the grammar of others. ;-)

[@panda4247]

Writing "its" instead of "it's" is like writing "your" instead of "you're" and it is the same as writing "my" instead of "I'm"

[@ericsbuds]

I generally blunder about 3 times per game. I always notice the wrong move as soon as I let go of my piece.

[@akkrambederi3295]

@jessesam wtf you talkin about

[@90Jacobelee]

hahaha

[@ebwholesaler]

So play anything THAT YOU WOULDN'T PLAY !...

[@arthurcaron9453]

If you play online to enable the option to confirm your move

[@aryansaxena8678]

This is more relatable than intended 😂

[@Marlboro100sfan]

so there is chance for me to become chess grandmaster

[@llollo7631]

Marlboro100sfan not realy... you are not going to become GM for this, but you can continue to hope

[@___717.]

jqbtube well said

[@yunuscaba1393]

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[@sarpharbalioglu9532]

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[@juanmartivelasquez1725]

No

[@Man-jf6lz]

9:09 for the blunder.

[@hyzercreek]

I will thank you later

[@harnageaa]

@@hyzercreek still didn't thank him

[@devpatel7154]

Abcde 😂😂😂

[@uwotm817]

@@hyzercreek we are waiting

[@hyzercreek]

@@uwotm817 Its like a bottle of catsup, isnt it?

[@squealer42]

Karpov: "Come on, I've been trying to trade pieces this whole game. I just want to take my 1/2 point and prepare for tomorrow." Bareev" Really, you want a draw? Karpov "Well, you know I'm Karpov, and therefore I should win. But, unless you help out, we're going to grind this one to a draw" Bareev What, you want a helper mate in 1 like this? Karpov "Well I didn't actually have that in mind, but yes, that'll work! Thank you." Bareev No, I was just demonstrating. That wasn't my real move!......

[@gonzalo4658]

squealer what the uck

[@igorchymo3427]

the biggest blunder I did encounter in this video was when I checked my messenger and tried to find a msg that was never received

[@cristallew3334]

Oh, that explains it! I kept hearing notifications and going to Facebook and wondering why there weren't any new messages there! So frustrating...

[@bensmart1545]

I could qualify for this title with every game i play.

[@ぬんぬんビム]

Somehow the fact that Ba7 is only one square and is completely irrelevant to the position (aside from hanging mate in 1) makes it at least 7x funnier.

[@nery_0n]

it's funnier the fact that bishop was also defending the d8 before moving

[@Johann757]

I think the explanation he gives, that he was thinking ahead and kind of forgot the rook exchange still had to happen is right.

[@EirTheGhost]

I think he just wanted to give up

[@flyingjibberish]

M B, that's why it's the worst blunder. As well as giving mate in 1, the move has absolute zero logic behind it. A five year old child playing their first ever game wouldn't make that move.

[@Hallands.]

Greatest blunder I ever saw - *and hard to beat* as it turns a favorable endgame into checkmate in one.

[@kune2327]

I come here to relax. Thank you agadmator.

[@vidjdub]

ben shapiro recent donations lolol

[@jsaltirov]

Vid Jakljević Dubiel give him a break $2 is great deal for a Jew.

[@notyou6674]

okay, this is epic.

[@joshhfletchh4841]

or a joke...

[@marcuslarwa9098]

vidjdub I was looking threw the comments to see if that was really Ben Shapiro. Does anyone know if it really is.

[@BodhiGeraci]

@Daniel Burke Spotted the Americlap, you have no freedom.

[@dhvanitmehta7028]

I am from India and right now time is 12:09am. I can't sleep without watching your daily videos. And yeah just because of you I have started again the chess. Thank you so much. 🙏

[@VaibhavSingh-qi5cz]

Dhvanit Mehta mee 2😓😂

[@tusharkamble1506]

bro even i don't get sleep without watching his games.....BC saala lat lag gayi hai😂😂

[@enocherone]

you guys are fucked

[@bhardwajr01]

Mujhe bhi!!?!

[@banjo3465]

Me too!

[@TheMiwaro]

this really made me laugh for some reason...not only blundering the rook but instantly getting checkmated.

[@kelleyeidem667]

I make all the right moves in the wrong order.

[@lukeseymourcasenas7834]

From MatoJelic, to agadmator. Thank you for your great games, Man. It helped me a lot.

[@davidwyatt940]

When I started to chuckle at the blunder I remembered the Queen that I hung in a game that was in my favor not two days ago. Sometimes, the plan for the future overrides one's vision of the present.

[@harshilsangal6226]

Sick quote bro

[@rakeshjain582]

Harshil no quote is sick as long as u have the sense to understand it

[@dub-jscrub-j2762]

Bareev: Blunders a rook and the game 600 Players: Brilliant

[@imamoronand9199]

There’s something hypnotic about Karpov’s name and eyes

[@leeroyjenkins6061]

Karpov: "Style? I have no style." Me: "I'll say. Look at that haircut." 😂

[@gartyqam]

What's wrong with his hair it looks normal 2 me

[@ewqdsacxz765]

@@gartyqam Not sure what the OP is on about, but maybe it's about bangs going out of fashion, too much hair covering the forehead.

[@gartyqam]

@@ewqdsacxz765 who said bangs were going out of fashion please give me a reliable source

[@ewqdsacxz765]

@@gartyqam Haha, maybe they're not after all. I'm just talking out of my ass. Don't shoot me.

[@gonzalo4658]

HAHAHAHA

[@magnafire1]

He definitely thought he played it. When he was check mated, he flipped the table over and said, Gary taught you how to take back moves and secretly put them back on the board. 😁

[@hectorbustamante8310]

I’ve never seen such a bad move ever so yes it deserves the title biggest blunder ever! Great content I enjoy very much your knowledge in this beautiful game. Keep the great content going!

[@marth8000]

He already played the move in his head... relatable.

[@tomaskalyniuk4233]

When I read the title I immediately thought of every game I have ever played

[@harrisbobroff9813]

Blunder is a two edged sword, I blundered into watching just One of your Games, and getting hooked by your Videos!! Thanks

[@novirasputin2]

I asked GM Bareev about this once. He was tired from an overseas flight and in time trouble. These things happen. Just ask Vladimir Kramnik who blundered a mate in one, or Chigorin who lost the world championship on a mate in 2 blunder. One thing I learned in the past 20 years is the folly of judging a player by their worst day, game, or move!

[@crboxRTS]

Amazing video. Was expecting click bait, but that was indeed a mind boggling move

[@PaleGhost69]

Even bigger than a scholars mate?

[@sethreece5579]

Fools mate is worse than Scholars mate

[@snowfromflame6711]

Never forget the ChessNetwork stream

[@nicoalva79]

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[@michiel7716]

Imo it's definitely funnier, playing a super serious game and towards the end...poof!

[@gonzalo4658]

Seth Reece fuck you

[@andrewmorton3344]

They say "a bad day at the office", however, the mental experience ranges from jovial irritation to suicidal thoughts.

[@imranqqq7307]

How could it not be? Instant checkmate for literally no reason.

[@ap9390]

Nobody: Me: Gives away my queen away for a pawn Also me: Pretends that all of this was the part of the plan

[@Richard_Straker]

You wrote in script format? Never seen that before.

[@abdurrazzak305]

Why am I binge watching an explanation of a game I neither play nor do I even understand..

[@anishpandian2619]

I was waiting for “ you can pause the video and try to find the biggest blunder in chess history “

[@roscoecoltrain6260]

One of the amazing things about this game is that at such high level of ranking these players rarely ever play to check-mate, one or the other will typically resign a few moves before it even gets to it.

[@Zzz-ui4mt]

Bareev be like: "I wish there was an undo button"

[@faizanyounis2199]

i started watching your videos like a month ago because i thought your style of explaining the moves was very interesting and easy to understand (btw your sub count was around 29 k then). Congrats on getting to 35k subs :)

[@agadmator]

+Faizan Younis Thank you Faizan :)

[@pathutchison9866]

They didn’t interview the guy and ask him what the f happened?

[@HoldenNY22]

I am not a Chess Historian, but that is my question. What did Bareev have to say? Probably, I just screwed up. LIke some earlier comments say- I made mistakes like that. When God rest his Soul and I was playing Chess against my father when I was growing up , he would usually let me take back blunders like that. Hey a lot of baseball players drop easy catches. Even the best of us can make a mistake.

[@kylerkidd4834]

Love your content, I learn some new ideas every game you show.

[@bobmakin4991]

My fav chess thing to say "and it was in this position he resigned

[@innertubez]

Thanks for this amazing breakdown! Dan Heisman would probably call that blunder a "quiescence error." Certainly a top candidate for biggest blunder ever for top GMs as they are supposed to be way past quiescence errors of this basic nature. EDIT: Also your dog in the background is so cute! loool

[@tomatoesandradiowire482]

I love this guy’s dry ass humor. Even the way he says “I actually prefer this game because it was played between humans” sounds like a sly joke

[@davidgindi1192]

I have to rewatch the entire video now because I was expecting Karpov to make the blunder the entire time

[@sawyerdonley2317]

Anybody see Ben shapiro on the latest donation box? 😂😂

[@3chords490]

The psychology of this is quite interesting. In all walks of life , blunders like this often happen because the person is so skilled that they think that they couldn’t possibly make such a mistake. In short , the fact that the blunder just seems impossible to make is what makes it possible. For example , you would never think that an airline pilot could shake the tailplane off a perfectly good plane for no real reason and crash it , but it did happen once.

[@bogdannazwisko5084]

This is my favorite chess chanel. You strike The perfect notę.

[@inothernews]

Greatest blunder I think it's Larry Christiansen vs Karpov! Completely unforced error in the opening by Karpov! Game ended in 6 moves I think.

[@tkokesh]

12 moves: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1069116 But Anand once lost a game in 6 moves: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1018015

[@alexdrago4363]

Same blunder was made by Lê Quang Liêm against Kasparov this year in Sent Louise where he not only missed rook in some tactics or something like this but just framed it in one move and it wasn't even time trouble. The second place is by Kasparov against Georgiev where Kasparov made stalemate in position where opponeny has only king

[@yourn4m3h3re]

"If Karpov thought that was compensating enough, then I believe Karpov." This lovely sentence sounds so Slav. :)

[@dragmio]

Yes it does. I'm agadmator's countryman. "Enough of a compensation" Happy now? :)

[@michaelrocke5721]

Great 👍 explanation of the game as usual. The dynamics of chess definitely displays our human side. Great explanation 👌 of how that blunder happened. Gramasters have numerous positions in their head while calculating. Sometimes they forget to prioritize their analysis. This game is an example of that.

[@Blacksheeplegends]

Ivanchuk vs Anand... that is the greatest blunder in chess history

[@alephnull4044]

Nah this one is better.

[@Krishnajha20101]

Pedro Dupree But then that was a blitz game.

[@Blacksheeplegends]

Krishna Jha yes... a blitz game with 50 seconds on the clock!!

[@ETHANGELIST]

This was definitely a beautiful and glorious blunder

[@SSmitar]

What a dubious blunder. Alright, I'll see myself out.

[@thomaschen2046]

wrong channel dude haha

[@PaladinswordSaurfang]

It's "a DOObious move"

[@MAVO92]

Has anyone been working on this system?

[@alcidesduartefalcao2577]

In fact this was an incredible blunder. Thanks to show it to us.

[@tomatoesandradiowire482]

Did he say Ben Shapiro contributed to his channel at the end there?

[@rkarcade7417]

I actually agree. Sometimes you analyze the moves in your head and you may be stuck with the variations and simply miss the threat that you already have covered while planning. It happens both in real and online games.

[@PinkasBrown44]

That´s why Karpov is laughing in that portrait Picture.

[@martinirving3824]

I'm going with the hypothesis that Bareev had already done the rook exchange in his head and was thinking of the next move.

[@pranavkhetan6692]

I think Fischer capturing pawn by Bishop in world championship first game was the biggest blunder because first the kind of player Fischer was and the stakes and drama behind. But if simple looked on material common sense terms terms then this is bigger.

[@itachi60001]

the problem is that he still had a draw and the blunder wasnt capturing the pawn :P

[@jessejordache1869]

A brilliant King sacrifice.

[@chrisegg7936]

"biggest blunder in chess history" was right in the title and I STILL wasn't expecting it to be this bad

[@TheBassBaritone]

I always lose because I think that something like that would be a good move.

[@robertlembo]

My favorite blunder will always be Ivanchuk missing a mate in 1 against Anand 😂

[@francisvinquiote300]

"Okay, you have advantage. But I am Karpov, this is enough for me"

[@ebwholesaler]

He HAD to go (urgently) to the RESTROOMS... - " BISHOP A-7 " 😢💩

[@erberlon]

Fischer vs Spassky, Rekykjavik, World Championship 1972, 29. ... Bxh2 will always be my favourite blunder

[@antoniomontana5778]

From now on, I won't feel lonely in blunderland!!!

[@stilltraceable6753]

I really don't like how the like button doesn't change color when I click it anymore

[@thephilosopherofculture4559]

Bareev must have been bored to suicide by Karpov's game. Karpov is the king of boring the opponents into suboptimal moves.

[@besmart1360]

Today I played a classic game in a tournament and my opponent give his rook like Borriev but I was for black pieces. Good video, make more :)

[@anishalle761]

Karpov: *moves pawn* Analyzer: this is actually a blunder. It is a forced checkmate in 30 moves

[@phillipleblanc7823]

First, thank you for giving me back my love of chess. Second, has a grandmaster ever made a move and then instantly thought "Oh my God, What the hell am I doing!!!" after they immediately saw the stupid blunder? You know, like what I do :-)

[@stanleytime9193]

Well, kasparov did this to judit polgar when she was 17. He took the move back though

[@cinegraphics]

Bareev: "I badly need a vodka" Karpov: "Me too" Bareev: "Ok, I'm gonna move this bishop here"

[@fabiopalma4429]

It's like playing a serious game of snooker, and in the middle of the game, with lots of tension, you just hit a colour ball with the cue and not the white. So funny

[@patronsaen2464]

"I'm Karpov, this is enough for me" lol

[@abap32]

If i try to watch you videos on my TV there are some layers constantly blinking and making it unwatcheable. Still enjoying it on my pc of course!

[@oslang1]

Difficult to imagine a bigger blunder. My 9-year-old niece thinks that was dumb.

[@gonzalo4658]

oslang1 oml 😭

[@chandlertheeditor2404]

The biggest blunder in chess history was when Bobby Fischer lost his bishop against Spassky. It isn't as bad of a blunder compared to some others, but it was such a huge game that it tops the list. The drama of Fischer Vs Spassky popularized chess in the U.S.

[@24pavlo]

11:04 didn't know Ben Shapiro follows chess.

[@EnriqueMoreno4311007]

Great channel, a bit more explanation on why will be great for beginners like me.

[@beanie3427]

Highkey wondering if its THE Ben Shapiro that donated lol

[@HotBusDriver]

2$, so probably yes

[@davidc5191]

One of the most famous blunders I'm surprised no one mentioned was Rubenstein-Nimzowitch, San Sebastian 1912 where both these great players missed the same mate-in-two.

[@kimgysen10]

The man probably thought... if I can't be the world's first, I'll have to do something else to be remembered... and he did!

[@azharudeensalim]

Upload the second game agad bro...i hav to sleep

[@agadmator]

+azhar salim Alrighty :P

[@azharudeensalim]

agadmator's Chess Channel thanks for replying. I really appreciate your content selection.good work bro 😍

[@ABCTraveler-ol5oj]

I never blundered and never will blunder because . . . . . . . I use engines :)

[@georgetosounidis5545]

There have been blunders like this before, even by Super GM's, even by WC's. I believe the phenomenon has been called "spotaneous blindness" or "momentary blindness", something like this. It's been attributed to something like what you described, or let's say that after calculations upon calculatons the human mind will make these mistakes at some point or another, especially since we consider 1000's of games. We can think of it as perhaps the opposite of a relatively weak player, where if you present them a position and ask them to play a move, they might miss a mate in 1, however if you present them the same position and tell them "white to move and mate in 1", they will always find the correct move.

[@NotQuiteFirst]

Here's another video covering this blunder in more detail kzbin.info/www/bejne/qorGqod3r9OKmbs

[@nicoalva79]

this explains everything

[@samuelrosenbalm]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqbOqoCPpZehpdE

[@ostensiblyyours6311]

Wait a sec, is it THE ben shapiro? The guy who keeps owning stupid people in arguments?

[@ostensiblyyours6311]

Damn,,,

[@le0nz]

Gee is pretty dumb himself

[@demneptune]

keeps owning stupid people in *stupid* arguments, but yeah, i was wondering is it *the* guy, clever chap, wasting his time talking politics.

[@frysebox1]

well, him being jewish and donating 2 dollars checks out so yeah I'm pretty sure it is

[@Oblivic]

well that was racist.. is donating 2$ is somehow bad in your opinion? is it better to not donate like the majority of the people watching these videos? Plus I don't understand what ethnicity has to do with being cheap, but lets play your game.. Mark Zuckerberg donated around 1.6 billion dollars during his life, and he's Jewish.

[@jatinsharma9300]

I wish they had recorded this! I'd like to see how a GM loses like that

[@pratyushbhatt1712]

Finally I saw an Ad in Agad's video,

[@gerryyaum]

"I'm Karpov this is enough for me!" Great Line

[@MotoGreciaMarios]

What a nice commentary. Thanks a lot.

[@CaradhrasAiguo49]

#suggestion Petrosian vs Bronstein, Amsterdam Candidates 1956, Round 2. Tigran reduces Bronstein into mindlessly moving the knight around for 7 consecutive moves before blundering a full Queen right as Bronstein's flag was about to fall

[@cubixrube182]

I'm surprised that I'm not in this video...

[@kevinperera131]

I think it was Anand-Ivanchuk, where Ivanchuk missed the mate-in-one and eventually lost on time. That was my favorite blunder.

[@v1asec]

Maybe he was just trying to prevent the knight capture from coming with tempo ... and trying to keep an eye on his own knight as well. And somewhere in the thought process he forgot about the rook needing the protection for one more move :)

[@1WBo55]

LOL. Dude said he probably made the Rook trade in his mind already. LOL. This was great