Bobby Fischer’s memorable ZUGZWANG

[@Qhsjahajw]

We really need a playlist for all his 60 games from the book

[@jamesnix4556]

Yes that would be great

[@takatotakasui8307]

You got the right idea

[@longdongbongchong]

Yeah, well go BUY the book cheap ass. There's your "list".

[@n8style]

@@longdongbongchong lmao

[@bdpv025]

Please 🙏

[@DeuceGenius]

Hell ya. People don't make vids like these anymore. They all just stream blitz. These made my game improve more than anything.

[@copicmarker1021]

True, I remember when I first started playing chess, hours of blitz did nothing to improve my rating. I watched some longer games by strong players and I shot up by a few hundred in the following weeks.

[@markhenrychristensen]

I agree 💯 percent. 👍 👌

[@glyoko9001]

Not only did Fischer not initiate any trades, he made sure that all trades would further activate his pieces. As the saying goes, "To take is a mistake."

[@rithessa]

since the championship this year you've been making nothing but excellent videos, but this one is brilliant. thank you for introducing me to this game

[@modfather1964]

Am only a beginner in chess but every lesson, every game is a rabbit hole leaving me wanting more. I never knew this world existed. I'm amazed with how you teach and explain, brilliant. Thank you Jerry!!

[@MrSupernova111]

Fischer was a brilliant player. Even by today's inflated elo standards he would be rated 21 in the world with his peak rating. I highly recommend studying the likes of Fischer, Karpov, and Capablanca.

[@modfather1964]

Thank you. Am on it!!@@MrSupernova111

[@dodekaedius]

I'm always stunned about the high quality of your content. Very rarely seen here. Your light shines brightly

[@captainoldspices3119]

Jerry, thank you for covering this game and mentioning your insight on patterns of recapturing. That is brilliant! I think my gameplay might just "improve a rank" as a result. : ) Have a great day.

[@jacobgiles5107]

the commentary here is awesome. i'm new to chess and the visual explanations of different scenarios and why they would/wouldn't work is an awesome tool for beginners like myself to understand the logic behind specific moves. for example at 4:30 you do an awesome job explaining why the specific move would not work out in white's favour. cheers!

[@mohammadjafarian9894]

Thanks Jerry. It really was instructive.

[@lucmalafarina1807]

Great content, as usual. Thanks Jerry.

[@ADIEXS97]

Great video, very instructive!!

[@drturki10]

I still rewatch ur Playlist.. the best

[@baconian_road_construction]

Wow, that's amazing. I never really understood the "don't trade on your opponent's terms" principle until I saw your explanation of this game.

[@gunnarvaneekhout1462]

Hi Jerry, amazing video as always! I was just wondering what happened to the ‘improve your chess rating’ series? I really enjoyed that one! Also a new episode of beginner to chess master wouldn’t hurt😉

[@orrimoch5226]

Wow great insight..I have a inner feeling that this idea popped many times in my games but I didn’t know that Fischer mastered it! Thanks, You are an amazing tutor! 🧑‍🏫

[@MrSupernova111]

Another thing that Fischer excelled at was in creating passed pawns. We could probably narrow Fischer's middle game strategy in this game to creating a passed pawn and simplifying into a better endgame with the dangerous passed pawn on board. One amazing example of creating passed pawns is Fischer vs Kalme 1958 where Fischer creates two connected passed pawns in a difficult endgame with four rooks on the board. Another is Fischer vs Larsen 1958. Thanks again for the instructive review!!

[@WtItCbtLoR]

Thank you, Jetrry. This is so instructive. Always improving the position recapturing.

[@jamesdelb6885]

Thanks Jerry. Excellent tips. Eagle eye noticing the recapture king.

[@angoor101]

Great game by the king of chess, Bobby Fischer. It must take a lot of preparation for making a video like this. Thank you.

[@smhollanshead]

Jerry, I love your analysis of chess. You really love the game.

[@paulinogavilan965]

Instructive analysis. Thank you Sir.

[@MrSupernova111]

Absolutely beautiful game! I have seen and studied this game in the book "Fischer Rediscovered" which has the original 60 games plus another 40. One thing that is clear is that Fischer loved his light color bishop from the white side in the Sicilian. He seemed to always make the most use of it. Thanks for reviewing another masterpiece! Thanks!

[@joeystenbeck6697]

Such an instructive explanation and game, thanks!!

[@Schachspieler-]

Recapture- strategy...nice! Very interesting!!!! Thanks Jerry!

[@felixccaa]

my chess trainer always said: let Your opponent do the work of capturing

[@YosefMohammad-hz2si]

I like that

[@markhenrychristensen]

Excellent analysis of the game. Definitely worth sunscribing. Thx. 👍👌

[@jdrive03]

Excellent analysis. That is actually how I play now. Not always, but I am hardly ever initiating a capture, I have every piece defended if not once, twice, and sometimes triple and quadruple protection, and I am never afraid to exchange Queens if need be. A friend taught me the difference between poor development of the power pieces and good development. Disguising the development with re-captures is pretty slick.

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

To take is a mistake, demonstrated incomparably well by Fischer, good analysis thanks Jerry.

[@CarlosCastroRomero]

You are a treasure, Jerry. Thank you.

[@n8style]

Very instructive lesson, thank you!

[@RyanEmmett]

Nice game by Fischer, and what a final position! Thanks Jerry.

[@howardking3601]

Great video! What a useful insight! This will definitely add a tool to my bag of tricks, Jerry. Or rather a new way of looking at the game. Thanks!

[@scasey1960]

Great videos & analysis

[@jackmonday4690]

What a great video

[@jakit0556]

hi jerry, its everyone

[@kitrichardson2165]

That was a very well done discussion and I feel I learned an important point about correct chess play. Good job!

[@ItIsYouAreNotYour]

Very cool pickup on the pattern. I for whatever reason knew that was going to be the reason, I think you gave a solid hint without rewinding.

[@moesheri9385]

Thank you Jerry 😊

[@2fishes-q5h]

Actually, this a good game for practicing board control. Great tutorial

[@MasonSmith-y8r]

awesome analysis! thankyou

[@panosgiannakeas1980]

That was an amazing revelation! To me brings in mind another game by capablanca where the same concept of exchanges appears...Capablanca - Salwe and allies, exhibition game, lodz 1913

[@chrishauser5505]

Very nice, Jerry. Thanks as always.

[@ulyssebuonomo4148]

Really instructive, thanks !

[@gbu32]

Excellent Analysis! It must be nice to play the game on your opponents side of the board.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Word of the day: "Recaptcha".

[@Elo-hv3fw]

Lesson of the day : Instead of messing around, you might want to start with the English alphabet.

[@mrwilliamsingleton]

Masterpiece - thank you Jerry!

[@WayOfHaQodesh]

HalleluYAH, thank you so much for going so thoroughly into this pattern and match.

[@ChrisTopher-nr1vb]

Book is still in print. Amazon delivered me a copy

[@Rspknlikeab0ssxd]

It's really a great book, it's one of my favorite two (the other being "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played"). I'm somewhat biased, since the other book was the first chess book I learned from, and Bobby Fischer is my favorite chess player, though. It's really interesting to look at Fischer's analysis and put the games into an engine. Sometimes they disagree with each other's analysis and trying to figure out why is someyimes difficult but rewarding imo Fischer loses 3 games in there, his loss to Spassky is very memorable

[@jercki72]

Bb3 is such a nice move here, cutting off the knight, threatening to go to e6 if the knight ever moved and crucially taking away 2 of the 3 squares from the king that defend the knight

[@bluecocacola]

note to self: to recapture is better than to initiate capture more often than not as it improves your piece's position. Thanks Jerry

[@MrSupernova111]

I would argue that's a matter of technique to achieve a larger strategy. In this game Fischer forced black to trade into an endgame in which white has a passed pawn and is clearly winning. Strategic understanding is critical in addition to technique.

[@Jaylooker]

Maintaining tension can lead to favorable trades by improving your pieces when the opponent releases it.

[@fanomezanaandriamalala9723]

Thank you for the great lesson

[@cobeferraro3464]

Excellent game by the Legend Bobby Fischer!

[@baileyroche]

I wonder what it was about this game in particular that got you to sit down in silence and go over it OTB? I really enjoyed the analysis.

[@ChessNetwork]

No good reason really…just felt like moving some physical pieces I guess.

[@2Oldcoots]

Bobby was the Greatest of all time!

[@pi5tolpete989]

Great advice at the beginning I'm very impulsive I'm only in low 1400s so I'm trying to get as many tips as possible

[@dingowalli]

For the move at 8:22, what if the reply is just to go Knight back to d7 after bishop retreats to b3. Just to keep the Bishop off the a4 square

[@lillemy5062]

Then the plan continues with c5. Bouncing back and forth doesn't stop the main plan.

[@NewDawn-jb8sy]

Great content as always, Jerry. Do you have any advice on how to get better for a 1200?

[@zurigheid]

Just some generic tips: Don't just play blitz/bullet, play some longer time controls too, so you can have time to really think about your moves. After a game, before looking at the engine, go through it again and try to find what you (or your opponent) could have done better. After that look at it with the engine and see if you found the right idea/ moment in the game. When looking with the engine, don't just look at the moves it recommends, but try to understand why those moves are best and ask yourself: "What can I do to find this move next time?" Last but not least, losing is part of improving. If you get frustrated or tilted when you lose, take some time to regain your composure before going into the next game. Go to the kitchen to grab a glass of water, or stand up from your desk and do star jumps or something. Anything to physically remove yourself from your computer, it helps with mentally resetting as well. Good luck trying to improve!

[@NewDawn-jb8sy]

@@zurigheid Thank you very much!

[@zFreacker]

7:37 really reminded me of the structure resulting from a sicilian sveshnikov, especially from the carlsen vs fabiano world chess championship match

[@alvarocastroregueiro]

what a game its the law of complete domination

[@iskandertime747]

Wow, like a boxer depending on counter punches for offense.

[@rolfstorz3745]

Excellent commentary’

[@jeffersonthomas1269]

At 7:26 moving the pawn to e5 a black square should have been reconsidered. The white square bishop controls the black knight now. Had the capture d5 been made the knight would have been happier. At that point a happy knight is all that mattered in life.

[@achaean4780]

As a beginner I generally assume if Jerry didn't mention something then I'm missing something obvious, but I still wonder what makes taking with the pawn on d5 not worth considering

[@kikinozka]

@@achaean4780 I guess black would be stuck with an isolated pawn under serious pressure from white pieces.

[@richardfabrizio8998]

Nice choice, Jerry

[@bluecocacola]

Hi Jerry it's everyone

[@Alan-megan]

Definitely learned again at each and every video. The only major problem is attention span.

[@uniktbrukernavn]

12:09 Second best move for a fighting chance is still a losing move. I thought that was kinda funny :)

[@Multiscrime]

Am I the only one who thought this was going to be a game against Ronald Finegold? Anyway, nice video as always Jerry, cheers!

[@frafilipo9829]

Thanks. Very interesting!

[@v1991c]

when black played g6, one of the main goals was to get out of the check from the bishop. if that is not played, the C file is way too dangerous to defend against pawn advances as white does not need to waste a tempo to move the bishop. black played g6, white moved the bishop, therefore the tempo advantage was kept and that also led to Fischer applying pressure the way he did. but if g6 was not played, i believe the game would have been lost a lot faster

[@markphc99]

Amazing

[@LoneGunmanProd]

6:33 "To take is a mistake"

[@isocle]

I think your engine analysis might have missed the power of 24. c5. The continuation given by SF16 is 24. c5 dxc5 25. bxa5 (not Bxd7) bxa5 26.Bc6, at which point black doesn't really have any good response on the queenside, as Nb8 is just sidestepped by Bb5, engine recommends just playing f5 instead of Nb8 (though it is very close). However it looks like even still with perfect play it's a draw most likely.

[@philosophicaljock]

"I wonder if you can pick up on what this pattern is as I play through the game" No! I'm an idiot.Just tell me😅

[@Areyoutalkingtome-q1s]

I found Bb3 somewhat easily. What I want to know is I've lost so many games to higher rated opponents ( I'm usually around 2100) because I'm one pawn down, or rarely even, and I get stuck with a zugswang position. How to improve? I know don't get myself a pawn down to begin with.

[@finestruction]

Thanks

[@bluecocacola]

your voice sounds a bit different than usual

[@danielbspinola]

Wonderful

[@Mefisto5000]

One piece that Fischer moves superlatively is the bishop (not mentioning the others... hehe)

[@herbertmische8660]

Great, fantastic and immortal Bobby Fischer!!! Respect forever!!! 👍👍👍

[@superfisto]

crafty counterpunching

[@DeuceGenius]

Man look at Bobby go

[@jairocabral3952]

Excelente trabalho!!!!!! Seria possível a um SUPER COMPUTADOR COM INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL ralizar um super combate entre FISCHER X CALRSEN??????

[@ChessNetwork]

Thank you 👍

[@tomasseeber]

Excellent exposition!

[@isavenewspapers8890]

17:30 Isn't Black performing a recapture of a recapture?

[@looinrims]

More memorable than I am

[@TymexComputing]

Hi everyone!

[@loplop7029]

Hi Jerry.

[@trumplostlol3007]

The knight is often better when it can get to the opponent's side. By capturing pieces, you are allowing the opponent's knight to march forward. The bishop on the other hand likes the long range attack. By not recapturing the opponent's pawns, the bishop can remain on its own side and cover more squares for both attack and defense.

[@hasb826]

💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏

[@Poverral]

my strategy is to chop before chop, not that it would win me any games, I'm just trying to have some fun :D

[@ReflectionOcean]

Recapture is usually better because it improves the position of the recapture piece

[@RicardGomes76]

TY GM

[@KF1]

😺

[@Alan-megan]

51 years old n don’t even know how to set up chess board properly, memory is shit these days but learning still at 1/2 century. I have noticed that fisher always moves his minor piece forward with idea of strengthening attack options if opponent makes a mistake. Honestly I’m so beginner level that I just learned n understand about ranking positions. No idea beforehand… Anyways with such levels I was still able to beat top rated players…. The only problem was that I was slow as shit in every move!!

[@colinjava8447]

Queens go on the d-file, or their own colour square.

[@مرامعبدالله-ل9ز]

حديث عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه قَالَ: قالَ رَسُول الله : (مَا مِنْ يوم يُصبحُ العِبادُ فِيهِ إِلَّا مَلَكَان يَنزِلَانِ، فَيَقُولُ أحَدُهُمَا: اللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِ مُنفِقًا خَلَفًا، وَيَقُولُ الآخَرُ: اللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِ مُمْسِكًا تَلَفًا). متفق عَلَيْهِ. عن أبي هريرة :: أن رسول الله قَالَ : : أنْفِقَ يَا ابْنَ آدمَ يُنفَقُ عَلَيْكَ) أَنَّ رَجُلًا سَأَلَ رسول الله : أي الإسلام خَيْرٌ؟ قَالَ: تُطعم الطعَامَ ، وَتَقْرَأ السَّلامَ عَلَى مَنْ عَرَفْتَ وَمَنْ لَمْ تَعْرِفُ - متفق عَلَيْهِ . . مناشدة سا التكِ بالله َالْجَليلُ الْجَبَارَانَ . تَنقَذَنَا قَبْلُ أَن نَمُوَتْ مَنَ شِدِتْ الْجُوع : قال عز وجل [[ ما أفاء اللَّهُ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ مِنْ أهْلِ الْقُرَى فَلِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ وَلِذِي الْقُرْبَى وَالْيَتَمَى وَالْمَسْكِينِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيلِ كَي لَا يَكُونَ دُولَةٌ بَيْنَ الْأَغْنِيَاءِ مِنكُمْ وَمَا عَاتَى كُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَمَا نَهَىٰكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانتَهُوا وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِن اللهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ ]] اني انتُخيَكِ اني دخلة على الله ثم عليك اني في وجهك اني اختكِ اني اثرجَاكِ اتُوَسِلُ الْيَكِ انقذنا لوجه الله يشهد الله يأخي ان من الصباح حثا الان يحرم علينا الاكل غير الماء ) (اخواني اني اقسم بالله العلي العظيم على كتاب الله انني بنت يتيمه من اليمن ومعي اخوان صغار اقسم بالله على كتاب الله ان اخوتي ماعاد يقدرو ينطقو بكلمة من شدت الجوع وصاحب البيت يريد الإجار او بيخرجنا إلى الشارع و اني اسالك بالله وانشدك بمحمد رسول الله يا اخي لوانت مسلم وتحب الخير واتساعدني ولو ب 500 ريال يمني ان تتواصل معي اوتراسلني وتساب على هذا الرقم 00967737505247 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولا تتاخر وايعوضك الله وتطلب اسم بطاقتي وترسلي ولا تتاخر وايعوضك الله بكل خير فيا اخي انت رجال إذا شفت اسرتك جاوعين تعمل المستحيل من اجل تامن لهم الاكل ولكن انابنت عيني بصيره ويدي قصيره ليس لي اب مثلك يسمح دمعتي ويحميني من الذل والاهانة واخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وانقذنا قبل أن يطردونا في الشارع نتبهدل او نموت من الجوع انا اقسم بالله الذي رفع سبع سموات بلا عمد وبسط الارض ومهداني لا اكذب عليك بحرف هذا الرساله واني ماطلبتك إلى من ضيق ومن قسوت الضروف والحال الذي أحنافيه وانا وأسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعدتنا لا تتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خير الجزاء يارب😭😭😭💔💔😪😪😭😭💔😭😭

[@tofinoguy]

Fewer pauses, please.

[@KingoftheJuice18]

There are plenty of other people who just speed through games, if his style doesn't work for you.

[@NeO-wh2cv]

Honestly it takes some getting used to but when you do it becomes very helpful

[@jorgecondorchoasupa3411]

Mucho bla bla bla le quita el interés

[@achillesyoutube8773]

Hi Jerry, it's everyone! @ChessNetwork

[@grantfraser5430]

Reminds of a variant I created to instill a more strategic approach. The basic idea was to avoid simply exchanging pieces. The driving rule was that if an exchange occurred where equal material was lost by both sides then the initiator immediately loses. Most people would rather just play chess though.