Botvinnik Invents The Positional Exchange Sacrifice?! - Best Of The 40s

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Botvinnik Invents The Positional Exchange Sacrifice?! - Best Of The 40s - Liublinsky vs. Botvinnik

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World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik was an INCREDIBLE positional chess strategist and chess explainer. Don't miss his explanation of his incredible positional victory over Liublinsky, one of the first of its kind!
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@drakewilson6913 3 жыл бұрын

I love the psychological damage botvinnik does with this move. White still has a decent position after the sacrifice but it felt like he was holding on for his life for the rest of the game

@tancheesheng6513 3 жыл бұрын

Cant believe that this channel is so underrated

@berndgrill1386 3 жыл бұрын

I found a very enlightening comment on this game some years after seeing it for the first time. I believe that Botvinnik's strategy was altogether not so convincing, even if he certainly did make the most of it once given the chance to install his rook on d4, after which his play was basically flawless. Your helpful comments prove that you well have understood Botvinnik's concept and are able to explain it to a broad audience. The very deep point of the aforementioned comment (unfortunately I can't remember the author) was that White should have played his queen to c2 first instead of moving his knight to c3. This would have allowed White to exchange a pair of rooks. In this case, Black's play would have turned out far less effective if he had opted for the exchange sacrifice again on d4. The reason for this is that in the stem game White's two rooks proved totally ineffective whereas Black made good use of his remaining rook. If you took a pair of rooks off the board after Botvinnik's iconic exchange sacrifice, the difference would become clear. If Black refrained from the exchange sacrifice, his pawn structure would clearly remain shattered. Naturally, expecting Liublinsky to understand all these details over the board would have been pretty assertive since Botvinnik's concepts were so daringly new in those days (and later endorsed by Petrosian). As of your other question: I put some thought to it, but I was unable to come up with an earlier example. I will keep on looking though ;-)

@berndgrill1386 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if this one qualifies for your definition of a purely positional exchange sacrifice, but I believe it does. In the game Lilienthal - Ragozin, Moscow 1935, Black's move 27... Rxe3!! must have been quite shocking for White. The move once and for all stops White's intended e3-e4 without any clear attack in return. Amusingly, Ragozin even sacrificed a second exchange a few moves later in the game! Maybe this could become one of the best games of the 1930s if you intend to follow up with that decade after the 1940s!?

@berndgrill1386 3 жыл бұрын

Just to make matters clear: with "this one" I was referring to Ragozin's example, not to Botvinnik's sacrifice, which is simply the mother of all exchange sacrifices.

@amosdraak3536 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, more Botvinnik ✊✊ The Soviet Legend and the ‘professional’ chess master. Amazing analysis, preparation, and study by him and very awesome methodical play by him this game Good stuff 👌👌✌🏻✌🏻