Briliancy by Alekhine

[@erykhim]

Humilitation isn't getting checkmated by a pawn. Humilitation is getting checkmated by a pawn on 15th move.

[@jacksonwolf4656]

Imagine going home with your family after that. Your children will lose respect for you. Your wife will start seeing other men. Your cat will continue to ignore you. You will be plagued by dreams of pawns pushing you into the corner. You have lost everything.

[@therealestg9]

*comment of the day*

[@mikebaker63]

lol

[@misclickable]

Thanks for making me have a big laughter.

[@FrozenDarkness203]

HAHAHAHAH i want to copy paste this so bad and change the keywords

[@EternalWisdomHQ]

Jackson Wolf 😂

[@ahappypickachu]

Greatest humiliation in chess is to get checkmated by a pawn XD

[@kkkbuta5]

Greater humiliation is to get checkmated by a pawn because your king is trapped by your own pawns XD

[@oenrn]

+Kim Julian The proverbial "pwnage".

[@Watermelon_Man92]

+Kim Julian Personally I don't care what mates me. What makes me cringe is the part where I allowed my opponent's idea to work.

[@michaelnadler596]

+Kim Julian No, the greatest humiliation in chess is to get checkmated and not having seen it coming.

[@megapanka]

you don't get the upvotes you deserve, that was hilarious ahaha

[@locutusdborg126]

Very good game. I award Mato the Lifetime Locutus Brillancy Prize for his deep insight into what makes interesting chess games.

[@brianvittachi6869]

I second that motion wholeheartedly Sir.

[@4jayharris]

I love Alekhine and started thinking about him on Halloween- his birthday. I also love listening to the way Matos presents games.

[@williambunter3311]

I have always found Alekhine to be the most confident and brilliant of all great players. And I find these qualities in the games of the wonderful Judit Polgar also. Thanks very much for posting Mato. Chess-lovers everywhere owe you a debt of gratitude!

[@SlicGW]

Alekhine: "What if I told you that you'll get checkmated by a pawn on e7, on the 15th move?" Forrester: "LOL k" (15 moves later) "You've got to be f-ing kidding me"

[@phrytsak1]

Mato's commentary is so dignified and epic! This isn't chess, it's Gilgamesh, Cu Chulainn, Hercules, Sir Lancelot, and Rambo all rolled into one.

[@Vivungisport]

A chess analogy to Blitzkreig ! performed by Alekhine. Impressive play !

[@MatoJelic]

Thank you for your kind compliment

[@joshofsteel4650]

wooohoooo!!..there goes the originator of 'Alekhine's Defence'....great game!!

[@HeyKevinYT]

Black king gets pawned!

[@tubewatcher38]

"Aww No" -Always brilliant to checkmate with a pawn.

[@FreethinkingSecularist]

Thanks you very much for this video! I love how clean some of these older games are.

[@halpyman]

Mato your videos are amazing, not too long great recap, thanks for the countless hours of entertainment

[@coratris]

@Ricardojs5 I'm in doubt. it's a possibility. However it would not have halted the white attack. Bishop would move to b3, and control a strong diagonalb3 - f7.

[@Ricardojs5]

@coratris Releasing the pin on the d7 square and allowing for a d6 push or capture when white pushes up. I think that was the second mistake, after bishop a5 by b

[@gigas81]

What was that whole thing about pawns not being powerful pieces? EVERY piece is powerful in chess!

[@jongoodhew74]

No I didn't fail to set up the position properly - I am not referring to white recapturing the queen because yes it the pawn quite clearly obviously pinned. I am referring to fritz playing the move as black, and it opts to take the white queen totally ignoring the checkmate.

[@Talazorn]

The Ba3 move was a really powerful one and the one that won the game for sure. I think black was losing after that, even if he played differently and was not checkmated like that he would have a really hard time overcoming that problem with the dark squares. .

[@hasibmusic6699]

Aljehin je bio zaista velikan i po moji ocjeni prvi koji je postavio temelj danasnjega šaha.Veliki igrac na slijepo tako da je cijeli život posvetio šahu i kao je izjavio Gligoric dok je šaha on nikada nece umrijeti.

[@MrGyges]

I enjoyed this game, Alekhine playing like Anderssen. Very stylish, and presented v stylishly by you, may I say ( well, I have said :) )

[@thomasmarengi2951]

Brilliant game! Simple but elegant.

[@Alekosssvr]

Thank you Mato for all the great videos!

[@massabranca]

Amazing game! One of my favorites!

[@davidhanley]

This is a known opening issue. Black gives away his active bishop and activates white's pieces, which is worth a pawn.

[@Jdubbsify]

your videos are awesome!!! keep making them

[@predraglacmanovic7853]

Briliant!!! Thank you Mato.

[@zasetko]

check-mate with a pawn, ouchh!

[@pipdickens6105]

A really beautiful game

[@whiskolarefuerte]

As always, great video! I was wondering what you thought might happen if at 0:51 black were to have played bishop x f2? Thank you.

[@jasper5016]

@2.54 white could have moved his pawn and get free queen. Obviously Alekhine's move was great gambit but it cud be another option.

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

What an improbable way to mate someone. White also had continuation moves if the mate wasn't there, like putting his rook on d1 skewering the queen. The Black bishop check threats would be easily nullified and Black would soon lose his queen. Materially the two sides would be about equal, but White's domination of those two critical diagonals would've made it nearly impossible to overcome.

[@MaLeVo_]

@13shepi thats impossible cuz black king is in check. Black can make 2 moves: 14. ... Bd7, 15. Qxd7# 14. ... Qxd4 etc.

[@Craigevansagain]

The evil little pawn gave checkmate!

[@Watermelon_Man92]

Alekhine did the fork trick in the Ruy Lopez! Normally that thing comes up in the four knights game.

[@KillberZomL4D42494]

Coolest checkmate ever

[@soulyrasheed]

uff... sjajne su ti partije...

[@Ilheo1]

What a great pawn!

[@Dasrecord]

the passion for the game shows doesn't it...

[@jaydeep12731]

loved this one!! superb :-)

[@Graham6762]

Wow the last giant turtle died today in the galapagos.

[@XraviaEdge]

damn i love these videos!!!

[@ex59neo53]

No great players without great opponents ... and between 1895-1937 they were all making History :)

[@taparb8562]

a very beautiful game... indeed

[@FloorHockey]

mato: ohhh nooooo...!!! hahahahahahahaha too funny.

[@ShatiWorks]

i'd put this as part of the top 3 chess games of all time.

[@hunterazaola]

Ohh no. Oh no what a game. Alekhine vs Murphy the dream game.

[@santimda1990]

I remember a long time ago I came across an amazing game between Alekhine (black) and Capablanca (white), in which Capablanca launched a quick attack with queen, knight and bishop, winning a rook with the queen... but then Alekhine launched a very sharp counterattack for the win, sacrificing several pieces but delivering mate with queen and bishop... do you know this game? and can you make a video of it? it was my favourite game back then, but I don't have the book anymore :(

[@MrCorwin217]

Absolutely Unbelivable

[@RYMKYM]

How embarrassing must it be to get checkmate by a pawn.....

[@andrewdeighton5926]

Yn0rHz : even better if an En Passant capture delivers a checkmate by pawn

[@ReaLityBlue]

The king of the combinations. The Great AA!

[@Ricardojs5]

At 1:38, why not black b5? Blocking the white bishop

[@MrFaizel92]

I laughed so hard on this part! in the middle of the library!! lol

[@magnuslarsson5110]

Nice vid!

[@southernsales7777777]

i love these gems

[@13mdark]

hey mato after move 6.Nxe5 i think black should've played Bxf2+ before recapturing e5 whatdo you think?

[@13shepi]

What happens if instead of taking queen he takes pawn with bishop check, then when queen takes he takes the queen check - no check mate for alekhine then. 14. ... Bxc3+ 15. Qxc3 Qxc3+

[@Sufi891205]

14. Bxc3+ is a illegal move

[@Jokeronk]

I would like to know what is your top5?

[@13shepi]

It would be check so Aleckhine couldn't checkmate - he'd also drop his black bishop on the fork. Right? Please tell me if I'm wrong

[@rkuppal5]

Absolute brilliance by Alekhine...He is probably the Greatest chess player of all time..

[@kedrprao]

God lord. What an unbelievable game!

[@jongoodhew74]

It would appear that todays chess engines are not as brilliant as Alekhine. I put this position into Deep Fritz and also Arena, both engines opted to take the queen failing to see the mate on e7.

[@cheilas87]

The "pawn's march"

[@nebelung1]

Wonderful!

[@brianvittachi6869]

The mind boggles!

[@VectorGambiteer]

If both players played perfectly, there could be no brilliancy.

[@jasper5016]

OMG what a great game. Alekhine was great.

[@chikrug]

Beautiful

[@mahipparekh2167]

Why didn't he took queen at 3:15 ?

[@gigas81]

Of course Alekhine is a beast. He has a opening named after him! I like checkmates like this video. It shows even without a Queen you can checkmate and survive. Learn from Alekhine.

[@timwiliusa6564]

Black king got pawned

[@clsxalghazanth3757]

Alekhine is a real genius

[@jongoodhew74]

Wouldn't Qxe6 prolong the game? (Instead of Qxd4)

[@AStrangeYume]

If you move the pawn instead of the bishop on D7 (13), it does lead to a quicker checkmate, right ?

[@VFXResearch254]

If pawn takes D7 then black king can move to D8 then if pawn captures bishop then king escapes to C8

[@powergambit7995]

Brilliant

[@anirudh_12386]

move pawn to e7 also wining

[@mohamedamr8562]

what is name of program(application ) you use?

[@ex59neo53]

Great games are a question of opponent moves

[@owenivor]

Finding and destroying Forrester!!

[@notmyrealname2874]

1:37 = The End. maybe b5 would be better

[@kenjidanieldomingo88]

Why would ve Alekhine be Blundered ?? Just give me one Reason

[@resmaenrique6180]

brilliancy by alekhine! but forrester miss the counter attack 6... Bxf2+

[@khaluu2000]

Alakhine saw further xDDDDDDDDDdd

[@predraglacmanovic7853]

Briljantno...

[@bigstar66]

Her: come over Alekhine: I can't I'm playing chess Her: my parents aren't home Alekhine:

[@slipppry]

Dayum.

[@franciscoramirez6759]

17.06.2013

[@khalilkhadim9616]

Nice

[@ex59neo53]

Was that a blitz game ? or a blind one ?

[@discouniverse]

Morphy, Alekhine and Fischer were the best

[@undinele666]

Well forrester should have seen the checkmate coming....

[@SyncChrome]

Vytas Pazera Pretty sure he did. But he was lost already so it's just a bit of sportmanship to allow checkmate.

[@2thebad]

I thought R from A to D1...

[@mikebaker63]

ooh noo! Vite is vinning

[@theducksneezes4987]

checkmate by a pawn? that's humiliating

[@ex59neo53]

I think Capablanca was perhaps better than him ,and I only write about players who faced Alekhine on a game ;)

[@andreashoppe1969]

At least black king didn't die hungry. :D

[@KavasPVP]

Holy sh*t

[@samiraljubory6223]

Alekhine the best for ever

[@sygmundklimczak9802]

ich bitte um meher Alechin