Brilliance from Atlanta

Bill Melvin vs Robert Cunningham
Atlanta 1994
French Defense: Winawer. Positional Variation (C19)
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 Ne7 5. Nf3 c5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 Bd7 8. Bd3
Ba4 9. O-O Qa5 10. Bd2 Nbc6 11. c4 Qc7 12. cxd5 Nxd5 13. dxc5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5
Qxe5 15. Qg4 Bc6 16. Rae1 Qc7 17. c4 Nf6 18. Qxg7 Rg8 19. Rxe6+ fxe6 20. Bg6+
Kd8 21. Qxf6+ Qe7 22. Ba5+ b6 23. Rd1+ Bd7 24. cxb6 Qxf6 25. b7+ Ke7 26. Bb4+
Kd8 27. bxa8=Q+ Kc7 28. Ba5# 1-0
1-0
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[@shashikantjagadale541]

amazing game... brilliant...hats off

[@Jimmy-Lap]

MatoJelic is the best chess lecture! Thank you Mato!!!

[@Firesign_chats]

This goes into my top 10. AWESOME

[@mpeterll]

Awesome game. Thanks for posting. I didn't see the checkmate until you told me it was there. I found the other moves though, and had already figured on QxR, going into the endgame two pawns, a bishop and a rook up.

[@alkowsky]

Wow ! This game deserves a brilliancy prize.

[@stefanholbek2449]

+Al Kowsky I still have a blue mark on my chin ... after it hit the table! ;O)

[@mknchng]

Mato. I've said it before but, I want to say it again. Thank you so much for making these vids. Watching them has become an addiction.

[@GlenMacDonald]

A southern beauty. Thanks for sharing this gem, Mato.

[@Santiagobateria]

Thank you Mato for another Lesson. You make a simple chess game seem like a proper battle with the awesome commentary.

[@ananananify]

One of the best game I've watched so far. And I watched +500 Mato videos...

[@jamescioffi3796]

WOW!!!! this was one of the most interesting games ive ever seen!

[@giovannicappello6309]

one of the best game I ever seen...seems a Tal game!

[@vallishabm9434]

mato.. continue your work by showing us more and more beautiful and very instructive games.

[@nivomorvant4610]

Great game. Thank you Mato for this smart choice.

[@altair91100]

Wow! Beauty of chess captured in one brilliant game!

[@Jonathanpaulm]

Stunning! Thanks, Maestro Mato!

[@Checkm8isFEELINGood]

this is brilliant

[@VikramBharadwajHelloWorld]

Best game I've watched. Thanks Mato :D

[@edwardalexandercrowley42]

A nice game. I usually play the French Defense and need to see games played with it! Thanks.

[@Derisoireetsardonique]

What a serie of spectacular sacrificing attacks!

[@brianvittachi6869]

What a beauty. Thanks Mato.

[@rajeev803]

never seen such kind of amazing moves !!!

[@musungu79]

Simply amazing!

[@sashmunel]

Whaooo, briliant... Thanks, just keep doing...

[@tesshu2me]

What a game, Mato! :-)

[@irelligious85]

indeed that was a great chess game! thanks Màto!

[@CHESSTERUK]

Smashing game and analysis, thatnks Mato.

[@ANormalPerson232]

very beautiful game Mr.Mato,,,,,Like a TAL

[@pierre45a]

Feels like I sat through an epic movie

[@AndresFelipeUsmaVillada]

Thanks for another awesome chess vid, Mato!

[@ahonaotokodesu7719]

FANTASTIC!!!

[@Narrowcros]

I think I will give this game a like, well worth it

[@acacar89le91]

Odlična partija. Svaka čast. Sjajan komentar.

[@daonap]

Thank you, Mato.

[@johntoth3375]

Very impressive! I hope Melvin gets a lot of recognition for his games. It's based on pins. But the anticipation of these pins comes from two or three moves before the pin is applied. It's quite far from "one threat moves". I will go back and check it out again. As I will do with the Efim Korchmar's immortal. Very instructive. Thx!

[@yellowdart6666]

that q g4 though. so dynamic.

[@Flickeralex]

what a fantastic tactical game!

[@fporretto]

Wow. A combination ten moves deep, with one surprise after another. Is Melvin a known master?

[@KristofferStalsberg]

This is nuts. Wish I could calculate like this guy

[@stalin666666]

Brilliant!!

[@AmmasSaha]

Divinely inspired!!

[@predraglacmanovic7853]

Brilliant...

[@Hei2enberg]

thank you mato.

[@akshatsharma2064]

mato! i luv ur videos

[@piyushsharma5938]

Brilliant

[@ranchump]

wow. one of the better games ive seen by mato

[@simonwilson1901]

Excellent game.

[@Potrice1337]

Sick game!

[@twopaddles1]

wow great game.. Mato, without you I wouldn't have trained myself to see the killer moves. I don't mean to say this just for chess purposes, but also in real life situations too!

[@cameront3768]

Every time I see a beautiful chess game, I say the same thing...( THIS IS THE BEST GAME I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!)😃 I wonder why!!!

[@jc7868]

amazing

[@MAMP]

My mind is blown.

[@sherratto3087]

Great game!

[@isithardtobestupid7568]

great game

[@lowlypeasant]

Genius.

[@GlenSify]

Seriously good game.

[@booyaskooya]

So many killah moves!

[@MajedAlShamsi]

Not too cunning now, Mr. Ham. Not too cunning.

[@gerikarazi5693]

wow

[@Auberoni]

Veoma lijepa igra

[@KillaIzNargilla]

W O W !

[@alexab200926]

I guessed the killah move! I guessed the killah move! woohoo!!!

[@AvangionQ]

That was nucking futs!

[@Seth-IT]

The black is really good too, but didnt see the depth of the variation when Q takes Pg7, whata brilliant game

[@jeksu2]

best game ever

[@MrManfromUA]

nice

[@groth901]

difficult but very nice game!

[@chess_is_a_vibe]

CLOSING THE FILE!

[@roo7uae2009]

i thought in 7;24 R*d7 followed by pawn c6 but material well be equal with advantage to black nice game Mato i wonder what game we would get between nezhmetdinov and bobby fischer

(Comments by: Bill Melvin) Chess players often analyze their game with their opponents afterwards, but never have I seen any chess players discussing naming a game. Oh sure, we have the Evergreen Game and the Game of the Century. We even have the Game they Showered with Gold Pieces and the Immortal Zugzwang. Doubtless other games exist which are much less famous but have been given names. Presumably the winner or some magazine columnist comes up with the name. I've never played a game which has been given a name, but recently had a magical hour in Atlanta where everything went better than planned. Hmmm... what to name it? Kyle Therrell gave me a shiny penny for my efforts, but Game they Showered with a Shiny Penny left something to be desired. Perhaps the character of the game itself can be used to come up with a name? The game, which was certainly extraordinarily brilliant, was not exactly planned. It seems that I did not see everything at the time of the crucial combinations and I was indeed quite fortunate that things worked out as well as they did. Yet, the combination was evidently quite sound as a strong computer played the same moves as I did starting with move 17 and considered me to be ahead by over a Pawn at all times. This chess game reminds me of Mr. Magoo: the cartoon hero who is aware of little but always comes out of dangerous situations doing just fine. Everything that Mr. Magoo tries, no matter how reckless, turns out fine. Yet this is no doing of Mr. Magoo, he is just consistently in the right place at the right time. This time, the man was in the right place to get a chess game named after him! I now present: The Immortal Mr. Magoo.

[@cameront3768]

To get to mate, he had to calculate 21 individual piece moves. Did he think that far or did he make the best moves after a few calculated accurate moves? That is the mystery of chess.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Wow. Mikhail Tal isn't dead.

[@muckerwood]

at 7:09 B to d5 instead of d7 and black could live a bit longer. In fact white would have to continue to calculate perfectly and change attack strategy (Q to f3) but would still win.

[@joefrom4600]

Victory favors the Bold. I don't get it I have no hair and still cant win!

[@colinserbu2006]

why couldn't black play c4 attacking the Bishop earlier

[@apostolvictor1099]

Rxe6, found it ! woohoo killah move ! this is what happens when your king is not safe

[@apostolvictor1099]

+Apostol Victor Bg6+ also :D simply mind-boggling once you start going into the variation

[@davidtadeu]

unbilievablo muu

[@pradeepbhai007]

Mato you seem to have put on weight ....

[@ДинкоКиров-ф3д]

+Pradeep Chandra lolz! can you just voice detect?!

[@MohMoh-mw9ml]

Hi, this is Ha..mo, and where is Hamo, Hamo is not a city, just kidding .... then I play a move and Kasprove suiciiiide!

[@georgebush7223]

Saw none.Difficult

[@anirudh_12386]

great game

[@petersmythe6484]

Very good game!