Control the Center, They Said

[@zebra3stripes]

"Always look for the square left behind." Medo enters to make sure nobody else is sleeping in his bed.

[@JustARandomGuySurfing]

You deserve a pin

[@mtekleel]

Did u play chessmaster 9000?

[@yoyashuyo3485]

It was in this position Medo showed a very cute face.

[@DunklerZebralord]

When you moved the Knight for the discovered check... "It looks umm.. cooler. The Pawn is kind of attacking the Knight." I swear 1000 or 2000 ELO, chess players are all the same at heart LMAO that was hilarious

[@pairot01]

The difference being that at 1000 they often wouldn't realize the pawn was protecting the square, and they also wouldn't realize it was a discovered check.

[@DunklerZebralord]

@@pairot01 1000s definitely see discovered checks or know when a pawn protects a square, you're being insane. 1000s are not 500s lol.

[@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n]

@@DunklerZebralord I bet he himself is only 1200 and considers himself equal to 2000s to Diss o 1000s

[@pairot01]

@@DunklerZebralord Not always

[@FlourescentPotato]

@@DunklerZebralord 1000s breathe with their mouth open lol

[@anshul7886]

I have been watching this channel for 6 months now, and it has improved my game which I couldn't even improve in last 6 years. Thanks agad!

[@shivakumarvakada1880]

While Agad is more entertaining, You can also subscribe to NM Robert Ramirez's Chess4ALL KZbin channel to improve on chess .I recently discovered his channel. He is a chess teacher with great teaching style

[@tuddgrimley8532]

Daniel Naroditsky's teaching game is strong too. But I always come back to Agad because the channel has an undeniably good flavor.

[@anshul7886]

@@shivakumarvakada1880 thanks. will do that

[@anshul7886]

@@tuddgrimley8532 yeah its more entertaining

[@chessersarthak]

Oh same Last 6 years I have been playing chess but only after I knew about online chess and all youtubers and all I improved

[@kindasweaty7219]

They’re gonna remember agadmator as the guy who captured the chess worlds heart

[@Gorilla.24]

#respect agadmator 💯

[@comic4relief]

...and as the "Hello! everyone" guy.

[@AC-kb1dc]

Captures captures captures

[@comic4relief]

He is one of your more humorous chess annotaters.

[@comic4relief]

@@AC-kb1dc S'yeah!

[@icarusflying1814]

It could have been a horrendous stressful day, but “HELLO EVERYONE” always makes me smile for some reason 😂

[@roccomuscarella4041]

It's the frequency in his voice.....mind control lol he mastered it!

[@mariob3864]

I love your avi

[@GregoryWonderwheel]

Yes, and when followed by "the good stuff" always makes me laugh

[@dragonizzlenite]

Lame

[@dodekaedius]

This comment is the equivalent of facing tons of problems in life, but to prefer to look away and/or have some drinks

[@MartinGall1]

I love how Fabi casually grabs the pawn before immediately surrendering. It's like "well, i'm gonna surrend, but at least i'll get your pawn!"

[@lucaspaiva8659]

7:07 Kf7 is a losing move for black due to Nxg5+. The f6 pawn is pinned, so the queen falls

[@karlokulas5677]

You are right

[@tylerhug1918]

Dude immediately when agad said that I was like 🧐, I don’t think that is a move for fabi, 😂

[@simonx6767]

It's really difficult to find a good move for black in that position. But yeah, blundering the game there is a bit too early.

[@Stefan-ih9kd]

Hearing ‘Hello everyone’ is always a highlight

[@EEFTARUNA]

15:16 most relatable thing, I always prefer to discover check with a piece hanging even that is not a best move .feel free to raise your hands who else relate this

[@cattycats4]

I applaud you Antonio for making such polite and respectful videos, using an engine to see all the moves of a human game it would be so easy to criticize a lot of moves, and instead you just show a few lines that the computer wouldnt consider blunders or errors and then move on with the game as if no mistakes have been made and in reality its human vs human and you interpreted it correctly , bravo Antonio. (for example I put in the Morphy vs Anderssen game 5 into the analysis and the computer is not polite)

[@robertjamesfischer4900]

7:08 kf7 loses on the spot because of Nxg5+ forking the queen

[@OhmicContact]

Every minute I watch Agadmator is a better minute of my life.

[@gregshortall]

He never asks and I haven't yet but plan on kicking him a few bucks

[@JustARandomGuySurfing]

12:19 "A very similar position but a different one" ~Agadmator 2021

[@DrDeuteron]

I played my 1st chess game (since 1974) against a 1400, and made it to the endgame down 1 pawn, with my play based solely on Agadmator's aphorisms.

[@subhodeeeep]

Excellent come-back

[@harivatsaparameshwaran4174]

Glad that your chess skills are fully operational again :)

[@akiyamamio810]

Since 74'!!! That's a long time sir! May I ask your age?

[@talphazero1036]

@@akiyamamio810 I wanna know too. Probably a good 62 if he played seriously in a school club and stopped at 15.

[@fractalinfect3454]

lol

[@oussemaharrathi382]

"90 minutes per player for the first 40 moves then for the rest of the game you get an additional 30 moves" agadmator 2021

[@johanatrindade6705]

Lol Whatever Antonio says has to be true

[@MrEliasQueiroga]

7:07 I think Kf7 loses on the spot to Nxg5, cause the pawn is pinned and it will come with check forking the queen.

[@fractalinfect3454]

Good eye.

[@pratikparmar8709]

14:26 "I always think it's much nicer to mate the opponent with a pawn"

[@Jamesjohnson22412]

@12:20 "a very similar position but also a different one" - Agad 2021. This is the reason why I always watch your video. Learning and laughing at the same time 😁

[@AM_-wg1hj]

7:09 Agadmator rated 1900+ fide casually hanging a royal fork with Nxg5+ if Kf7

[@vatsalmodi96]

Ok he missed it, big deal.. Give your sarcasm some rest bro

[@mannacharya4088]

Pins trick beginners like me

[@taylorcagle9885]

To be fair he doesn’t play seriously much anymore and it’s not like he’s doing a super deep analysis taking his time or anything I mean he’s just quickly running through these games giving brief analysis. I would’ve missed it too lol I mean I did

[@pelxy]

No need to be so rude about it we all make mistakes, just point it out no need to berate him

[@AM_-wg1hj]

@@pelxy yeah I forgot that IM Levy hung his whole queen in a guess the elo episode lol

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

agadmator: World's best chess KZbinr. agadMedo: World's best fetch KZbinr.

[@painleroux9486]

Men i have been watching for a while and i actually got better thanks to all the analyze and stuff u do . thank you men you are the best

[@jyotsnasrivastava6373]

7:09 kf7 blunders queen to NxG5 as pawn is pinned

[@federicoparatcha8623]

Yess. When I saw that, I thoght maybe I'm missing something (like allways), so I copyed and pasted the pgn to analize and found it's the pgn from the last game of Carlsen Fedoseev in the World Cup

[@pozzowon]

3:25 "it's not very often..." Indeed, there's 36 positions in Chess960 with knights in B1 and C1, only 3.75%. imagine how few on chess regular

[@wesleykedrowski6692]

@7:09 you can’t move the king to f7 because knight takes g5 would result in a royal fork and the pawn is pinned so it cannot capture the knight

[@YourPhysicsSimulator]

Today's quote sounds like something I would say if I blundered a royal fork

[@jasonisrael8849]

first time he ended video not saying “continuing with coverage of the morphy saga” in over a year!!

[@rodolfo6reyes640]

Sad

[@gokberkyilmaz439]

that hurts a lot

[@8461529]

Finally

[@guidoguidoch2581]

#suggestion for the next "saga": The 1961 Bled tournament. One of the greatest tournaments ever with amazing games by Tal, Fisher and so on

[@CuriousCouple]

Thank God no boring morphy saga today!

[@philipr1567]

Ooooh you heretic!

[@TheBloofyx]

8:22 "and it was in this position that medo joined the game"

[@pfavayi]

The way you explain possible moves is excellent And it's teaching.... I have improved so much inches from listening to you when you explain the games like this.... A million thank you....

[@nikhilkasarle8501]

The cool facts are just so amazing about fabi ❤️

[@taothao6495]

Wow!!!! Awesome job at Pronouncing Jeffrey's last name. You said correctly.

[@danielrb8]

Just one correction: Fabiano didn't resign. He lost on time before playing Rxd3

[@ItachiUchiha-dg9nr]

8:22 king f7 is a blunder. White has Kxg5 which comes with check and forks the queen.

[@jesseertman3889]

When I play chess in real life I hear agadmator commentating it in my head

[@ThatGodlyHuman]

Finally seein grandmasters using beginner concepts.

[@georgesmith4639]

Medo brilliantly forking Antonio and his doggy bed.

[@michaeljanapin9528]

Nice Chair. And in this position Agad left us to ponder Fabi's next move. Thanks Medo.

[@theonenonlybass]

No one but agad could bring out the artistic side of chess with such great style..

[@bryantcullen1377]

My man stops, lets the dog in, and hops right back in to a complex chess game without a pause...this guy is crazy smart, and super prepared.

[@DirkDjently]

Chess Master 9000 shoutout! bringing me back to the late 90's before my nearly two-decade hiatus from chess

[@canoli72]

Look for the last square. Amazing advice.

[@johnwamsley1896]

Control the center, they said. They also said watch the square left behind. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll have to remember to do that.

[@pphedup]

Been awhile since I visited. I like your new set-up, Agad. Medo, always look to the bed left behind. 14:24 Line 1, Pg4 mate. Power to the grunts.

[@yanivmagrala8383]

Just love u man. Thx for all your higky insightful, well made videos

[@asmolbean9300]

Everyone quoting 7:00 fork blunder but nobody talking about agads walk off to see medo lol that was so cute

[@ArthurSeijiNishikawa]

Medo

[@herrmilan6551]

Medo/Meda is like a bear cub or like a "cute" nickname for bears. Could also be used for teddy bears

[@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n]

Yes

[@soumyajitroy5239]

Jeffrey definitely showing his class at this age

[@oldjude1987]

"Yes! Um, it was Meadow...sometimes he just uh, pops up" ❤

[@kaioken9997]

Found a pretty cool smothered mate variation for Fabi after the hypothetical line Antonio showed - 12.fxe5 Ng4, 13.Bxe7 Qxe7 14. Qxd4 Nc6 15. Qd6 Qg5 …..16. Nc3! Qe3+ 17. Kh1 Nf2+ 18. Kg1 Nh3++ 19. Kh1 Qg1+ 20. Rxg1 Nf2# Fun stuff!

[@LikeWagon]

"When you see the discover check, look for the cooler move" -Agadmator probably

[@easymodegaming7334]

At 7:07 Fabi could do a lot of things. But he can’t do king F7. Instant royal fork. Just pointing an oversight. Thanks.

[@easymodegaming7334]

Again mentioned at 8:17. Everytime I hear king F7 it hurts in this position.

[@ALCATRAAAZZ]

@10:07 Maurice suggested Nh4, with the idea Rf6 if gxh4 is winning. Therefor Nh4 is winning. Actually Fabi did not resign but lost on time, also JX could not find the move Nh4 after the game in the studio. Poor time management by Fabi this game

[@vrup]

7:08 brilliant move

[@jacobtennyson6186]

Kf7 is a TERRIBLE BLUNDER!!!! Nxg5+ will win the BLACK QUEEN, pawn is pinned...

[@mrprince6467]

@@jacobtennyson6186 have you ever heard of sarcasm ??

[@jacobtennyson6186]

@@mrprince6467 Yes bro..

[@mrprince6467]

@@jacobtennyson6186 cool bro

[@n20games52]

Always enjoy seeing a Caruana game, even if he loses.

[@YidSlayer]

Caruana is regressing so much since the WCC lost against Carlsen. Even now he is surpassed by Ding from the current #2 rating eventhough Ding is as much regressed as him for the last two years.

[@doncar9]

It's rough at the top.

[@scottscheule]

I suspect Fabi is some sort of bird that was accidentally raised by human parents. Which really makes his accomplishments extraordinary.

[@nate8106]

What time control fits the "e" stand for? I feel like should know this but I'm blanking.🤷‍♂️

[@anandacharya9919]

#Thank you very much, for current events 🙏

[@keizan5132]

#suggestion Paolo Ladrón vs Eduardo Iturrizaga definitive game for the Spanish Championship played in Linares. Itu won the title with a Dragon. Not sure if you will find it quite amazing, but it's undoubtedly a very important game.

[@oliverwest5336]

agadmator puts a letter on the robot head to indicate the time controls, r for rapid, b for blitz, c for claasical, what is e for?

[@radoisloco]

15:36. why isn't Knight h6 a move?

[@chuckg4812]

Medo comes in..."oh, you're talking to that box again.." 🙂

[@walkeronline6183]

"For those of you who were able to do it, congratulations on realising it exactly the same idea which we have discussed twice,the only difference is it works this time." Me:(who was thinking it couldn't be the idea which was just covered cause it was failed twice) "The moves I thought were calculated,but God I am bad at maths."

[@ianmarktorres3261]

Does someone know why he changes the E in the beggining? I mightve missed the vid where he explains it or im just confused

[@xx-jk1iq]

if c on the robot stands for classical, what does e stand for?

[@duryodhan903]

Exhibition game

[@jefftheless]

Got my first start into chess with Chessmaster 9000! Love the shoutout

[@legatemichael]

At 8:19 isn't king to f7 vulnerable to a knight takes g pawn forking king and queen and exploiting the rook pin?

[@Cicero7217]

And it was in this position that Medo popped up

[@xooperz]

#suggestion Karpov vs. Korchnoi 1974 Candidates Final. Has the greatest group of tactics ever by Karpov

[@carlo09kaloy]

The svidler - so game have a quite beautiful ending

[@ArthurSeijiNishikawa]

What does the E in the robot stand for?

[@everyone9399]

I realized that I was waiting for a morphy saga video

[@bodymindlinks4]

Agatmator will never give me a 💓

[@gillywibble]

I loved the Josh Waitzkin series on Chessmaster 9000!

[@earlking6430]

Awesome quote by Agadmator

[@WatermanViolinStudio]

what is the time control? Agad says @1:41 19 minutes for the first 40 moves and then another 30 moves after that...good job overall agad!

[@calvogalatra]

7:07 does this move lose the queen?

[@steelfil672]

1:44 what happens when your additional 30 moves run οut?

[@user-gx8du1te4y]

Well Agad meant to say an extra 30 minutes, not moves.

[@steelfil672]

@@user-gx8du1te4y you don't say

[@Hilltycoon]

Fabi casually wearing a Dead by daylight mask in the thumbnail

[@reddd-77]

I thought that too but it's not

[@Hilltycoon]

@@reddd-77 I know, but it looks exactly like dbd 😂

[@tawheebalboraihi1245]

1:58 Game Starts

[@lakshyabang4254]

#suggestion MVL vs Fabi. These two never disappoint.

[@masterstacker2833]

A very interesting and instructional game.

[@oldjude1987]

"So a very similar position but also a different one"

[@aadilharoon1807]

What does the e stand for?

[@heyyymal]

Love from India 🇮🇳❤️

[@axizeaus6500]

Ahh, time to wanting to play chess, brutally crashed at first game and loath my stupid brain again.

[@arpitnayak18]

At 7:10, doesn't Kf7 just lose to Nxg5? Forks the king and queen.

[@yuristremel]

Yep. He missed it

[@michaelwei7577]

The g pawn would take the knight?

[@discharm210]

@@michaelwei7577 You mean f pawn? Its pinned by rook

[@arpitnayak18]

@@michaelwei7577 but it's pinned by the rook.

[@michaelwei7577]

You are all right. It was stupid.

[@wodzimierzwosimieta2758]

12:38 - isnt rxf7 just winning for white?

[@harivatsaparameshwaran4174]

Hey Agad can you sprinkle in some Nepo games in anticipation for the world championships.

[@overlord6843]

7:08 isn't King f7 just a blunder?!

[@TheLincolnrailsplitt]

Anthony loves Caruana.👍

[@SrikanthChess]

Very nice explanation brother

[@Draconisrex1]

Been a long time since a Caruana video.

[@tyewarren5712]

I learned a lot from Josh's series in Chessmaster9000 too. But it was called "The Space Left Behind," not the Square. Minor correction. No big deal. It means the same thing anyway. Love you channel bro. That Morphy saga was epic! Thank you for paying such respect and homage to the Great American genius. My favorite player ever.

[@allbyrs4903]

Finally sinquefield cup 🎉🎉

[@pphedup]

Like in every year.

[@freddydumont3137]

8. Bg5 was played in 2010 already by Bobarykin against Khantuev. 10. e4 is a new game 29. Raf1 instead of Qxb5 is a good alternative Nxd5 exd5 Qg4 (Qxd5? Nh4!! and black is in a losing position) Bobarykin - Khantuev 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 cxd4 5. O-O d5 6. Nxd4 e5 7. Nb3 a5 8. Bg5 a4 9. Nc1 Be6 10. c4 dxc4 11. Bxb7 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 Ra7 13. Bg2 Bc5 14. Nc3 O-O 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. e3 a3 17. bxa3 Rxa3 18. N1e2 Na6 19. Nb5 Ra5 20. Nec3 Nb4 21. a4 f5 22. Nd6 Ra6 23. Nb7 Be7 24. Nd5 Nxd5 25. Bxd5 Rb8 26. Bxe6 fxe6 27. Rd7 Kf8 28. a5? (Rc7) Rc8 29. Rd2 Rc7 30. Rb1 c3 31. Rc2 Ra7 32. a6 Rxa6 33. Rb5 Ra1+ 34. Kg2 e4 35. Na5 Rd1 36. Nb3 Kf7 37. Nd4 Rd2 38. Rb3 Rxc2 39. Nxc2 Bf6 40. Kf1 Rd7 41. Ke1 Rd2 42. Nd4 Rd3 43. Rb7+ Be7 (Ke8 is better) 44. Rc7 Kf6 45. Kf1 Bd6 46. Rc4 Be5 47. Nc6 Bd6 48. Nd4 Ke5 49. Nb5 Bb4 50. Kg2 Kd5 (Ba5 is better for black ) 51. Rxb4 c2 52. Nc7+ Kc5 53. Na6+ Kd5 54. Nc7+ Kc5 55. Na6+ Kd5 1/2-1/2

[@JohnDoe-oj8dz]

What little "e" was he talking about? I cannot find it.

[@ledieguet]

David Kimura always there

[@priyabratamallick9230]

What does the 'E' stand for? Anyone?

[@keenancoutinho5721]

7:21 kf7 and then ng5 forks the queen and white wins