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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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 😂😂😂

[@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 😂

[@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"

[@VicenzoV]

"And with this last move from Bareev, we have a completely new game."

[@totalcomputerdependency]

💀💀💀

[@MrDimitriFaustin]

Bareev really hates draws.

[@gonzalo4658]

MrDimitriFaustin 🤣 🤣

[@gonzalo4658]

🤣

[@LeventK]

Ahahahahahha facts

[@tryagain_ww]

And Anish loves it

[@LeventK]

@@tryagain_ww Caruana*

[@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

[@joeyp3452]

Wow as an expert on blunders this is pretty good. I usually make moves like that if I'm too stoned.

[@gonzalo4658]

Joey P hahahah 😆

[@Richard_Straker]

Wow you’re so cool for smoking weed.

[@thesoundofsilence77]

@@Richard_Straker Wow you're so cool for not smoking weed.

[@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.

[@bensmart1545]

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

[@arian3164]

I once had a same situation. It was a 2100 match and I spent half an hour thinking about this most elegant move. It would win in a beautifull way. I was so excited to play the move, but then I forgot to play the most basic first move (because in my mind it was already played) which lost me the game immediately. My opponent shook my hand and took off, before I could say anything.. I never felt as much regret in a chess game..

[@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...

[@kune2327]

I come here to relax. Thank you agadmator.

[@gabrielesimionato1210]

2017: look at this game, it was played by humans. 2217: look at this game, it was played by humans.

[@Astrobrant2]

Did you mean to write "by computer" for 2017? If so, I have to wonder why your comment got 103 likes. You would probably wonder, too. Or maybe I'm missing something.

[@WisdomThroughGod]

@@Astrobrant2 i think he means in 2217 its from the view point of a computer saying "look at the humans playing chess" but idk

[@Astrobrant2]

@@WisdomThroughGod Yes, that's what he said for 2217. I get that. But it makes no sense if 2017 is exactly the same thing. He must have meant "computers" there instead of "humans".

[@mikahamari5994]

I think that 2017 means how humans played and made blunders. This is said by human. In my interpretation 2217 means that humans used to play chess. This is said by computer. This means some kind of Terminator-like scenario of AI taking control or then less dramatically super computers have in the future solved chess entirely and nobody plays it anymore. In both interpretations 2217 would mean that computers (AI) are so advanced that they are can explore (or destroy) the history of humans.

[@vanshkalantri6599]

@@Astrobrant2 you lack basic sense and humour congratulations you are liability to world and your parents

[@giacomomeluzzi280]

9:17 he must have been really confused. "what the hell can I really just checkmate him?"

[@yousefsobhani9502]

@ck I doubt it. If he second-guessed himself he never would have played it after only a few seconds.

[@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126]

​@@yousefsobhani9502 Sure he would. If the rook is undefended, it's a back rank mate. There can't be any tricks if you already won. You can second-guess yourself all you want, but if you can't see a checkmate when it is handed to you, you aren't a grandmaster. If you are a former world champion, it's only going to take a couple seconds, and even if you can't quite believe it, you'll play it in the end.

[@yousefsobhani9502]

@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 So you typed out a paragraph that completely agrees with my comment? Lmao thanks

[@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126]

@@yousefsobhani9502 No. I'm saying even if he second-guessed himself, he's still going to play the move in seconds.

[@yousefsobhani9502]

@@honourabledoctoredwinmoria3126 second guessing the fact that it's checkmate? I know grandmaster are still human but it would be insane to assume that there was any doubt in Karpov's head when he played the move. Maybe he was a bit confused but that's as far as I'd go.

[@jx14aby]

I liked your explanation. Bareev thought the exchange of rooks had already taken place. A simple mental lapse. Probably happens to surgeons, only then people die.

[@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!

[@johngrey5806]

Your facebook notification made me check my facebook.. until I realized it was just a recording.

[@agadmator]

+John LaBrie Sorry about that, was sure I turned it off, but it seems I haven't

[@johngrey5806]

Don't worry, it didn't bother me. It just confused me! :)

[@Faterson2007]

I also started checking all of my tablets...

[@hoedoe5981]

@@agadmator no sorry about that in the video but you saved it with the comment

[@angelandsoulsoul2924]

I paused the video just before you announced the blunder and thought what is the worst move that the gm could reasonably play, and to be honest there are hardly any bad moves!! Then I thought to myself maybe ba7? But I thought surely not possible for anyone over 1400 to play this at long controls must be another subtle move I cant spot and then when you announced mpve I was like damn!!!!!!

[@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

[@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.

[@TheMiwaro]

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

[@harryandruschak2843]

I cannot pin down the exact game, but I have a memory of SAMUEL RESHEVSKY making a move, a blunder, that could have let his opponent mate him in two. A second blunder occurred when his opponent did not notice the mate in two. Two consecutive blunders.

[@georgie3]

Makes sense, you don't expect a strong opponent to blunder so spend all your time thinking what strange new and dangerous move is this ... defending instead :)

[@TREmreprogaming]

So this is the biggest blunder in chess history... *Hold my beer*

[@kelleyeidem667]

I make all the right moves in the wrong order.

[@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

[@H5748awat]

I'm not a great chess scholar, but for me the most famous blunder was Chigorin's 32. Bb4, which lost him his vital world championship game against Steinitz in Havana in 1892.

[@imamoronand9199]

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

[@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!

[@dub-jscrub-j2762]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@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. 😁

[@lisashelleybutterfly]

Thank you for all the effort you put into these, it's been nice to watch you analyze a few special games almost every day. Also, your dog is so cute! :)

[@tomaspapak61]

For me and for a lot of other people - the biggest GM blunder was made by Kasparov himself! Kasparov with King, Queen and Bishop vs Georgiev with only King. Result - STEALMATE!!!!

[@gregkleinfall1901]

The term is actually Stalemate, but after reading your comment I think I like Stealmate better since it is a play on words. As in stealing a mate from your opposition. Bravo Tomas.

[@davidmuller7522]

Wtf Tomáši nauč se psát stalemate

[@colinmurphy2214]

Stalemate is an insult to the integrity of the players, imo

[@hoangnart]

stalemate

[@paolovincedelgado559]

This comment section is a nice touch to r/woooosh

[@tomaskalyniuk4233]

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

[@aaronalfer2615]

I paused the video and started thinking, what he could do wrong. Bishop to a5? It's still fine. Rook captures on d5? Fine. The only thing I could think of... No fucking way!

[@harrisbobroff9813]

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

[@sirblankenship]

8:50 for the blunder beginning :)

[@xxAutoFlowxx]

For his "utter" knight. Being an Italian from NYC I love the lingo...

[@abdurrazzak305]

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

[@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

[@marth8000]

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

[@kylerkidd4834]

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

[@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? :)

[@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

[@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

[@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 :)

[@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.

[@andrewmorton3344]

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

[@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.

[@ibrahimjaleel5900]

What ever it is, either he played in his mind or probably he didn’t see, that’s the biggest blunder I have ever seen by a higher rated player of his caliber. Thank you for sharing.

[@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

[@imranqqq7307]

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

[@Zzz-ui4mt]

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

[@anishpandian2619]

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

[@bobmakin4991]

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

[@greense65]

Another possible explanation for Bareev's move: He was contemplating exchanging rooks on d5 on his next move and moved Ba7 as a prophylactic move so that it would not be under attack by white's knight when it captured the black rook back on d5. Now what Bareev thought Karpov was going to do on his move before the rook exchange on d5--other than capturing his rook and mating him straight-away--I have no idea.

[@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

[@crboxRTS]

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

[@Aruesx]

I forgot I had autoplay on and then HELLO EVERYONE and it startled me

[@antiquetalk1633]

I am surprised that such blunders are so rare in the upper levels. Look at the mistakes made every day in our world: politics, trades, stupid statements, poor choices of judgement, etc. I can think of brilliant moves and strategy in chess, it's the simple things that are my undoing because I trust my instincts too much. Great show! Wayne

[@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!!

[@andrewfrank7222]

Agree. I think the blunder was simply his mind was ahead of what had actually happened. Like when you start typing a sentence, miss a couple words that you hear in your head, and the sentence on the screen is missing those words.

[@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.

[@sawyerdonley2317]

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

[@bogdannazwisko5084]

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

[@PinkasBrown44]

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

[@prathameshjadhav2422]

9:52 Totally I thought same that he already capture rook and in his mind he was thinking what do next

[@cinegraphics]

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

[@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.

[@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?

[@TroyaE117]

You explain things very well my friend.

[@charlesmiller6281]

This is beyond blunder. This is Princess Bride-level "Inconceivable!" lol!

[@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.

[@fonroo0000]

Wait did this guy just say Ben Shapiro contributes to his channel lmao

[@davidgindi1192]

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

[@anishalle761]

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

[@alcidesduartefalcao2577]

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

[@thephilosopherofculture4559]

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

[@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.

[@TheBassBaritone]

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

[@sniffableandirresistble]

That Ivanchuk one was a doosie too against Anand with Maurice freaking out on commentary....lol

[@ebwholesaler]

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

[@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!

[@seanf5634]

I guess it could happen by lack of concentration. The only other explanation is the game was fixed (wager, etc), and Bareev threw the game.

[@georgie3]

True.. but you would not expect someone to throw the game so dramatically that he is forever in the list of top blunders

[@ETHANGELIST]

This was definitely a beautiful and glorious blunder

[@romerogonzalo]

In that picture, Bareev looks like Sergey Karjakin's father

[@agadmator]

+Gonzalo Romero Argüello I actually thought this exact thing :D

[@dpayO2]

Me too. He's a dead ringer.

[@SaleemRanaAuthor]

I have to admit, you're right. I've never seen a blunder of this magnitude before.

[@24pavlo]

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

[@rcwilson6106]

He asks if this is the biggest blunder ever. The answer is: it's something I would do. Which automatically means the answer is a resounding yes.