Fischer, Spassky, Larsen Miniatures | Games to Know by Heart - GM Yasser Seirawan

[@TheCodingProject]

Born too late to explore the world. Born too early to explore the stars. Born just in time to listen to GM Yasser Seirawan.

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[@davidq.1321]

Yasser is such a good and nice teacher

[@popesinbengal]

More Yasser please! He's the best teacher on the team, a real role model!

[@deadeye4520]

As always, Yasser breaks it down succinctly with a silky smooth presentation. Excellent video!

[@jeffclassics]

i like GM Yasser in depth thinking and explanations. Thank you sir for a very informative contexts.

[@vernie7882]

This guy just has a soft, warm and welcoming face and voice that are a perfect match.

[@clausmarcuslund3551]

No one inspires me more to improve my chess than Yasser. Thanks for another wonderful video.

[@Yaruko]

There isnt enough Yasser!

[@michaelthomheadley]

That first game is truly one to know by heart. So awesome.

[@4AdamDuane]

I love this gentleman's smile. Just great. Thanks buddy for the video and enthusiasm.

[@harabas3499]

all of Yasser's videos are simply priceless!!! so please analyze more classic games and games by world champions

[@abebuckingham8198]

Lasker was a mathematician and he spent a lot of time on the checkmating move. It was said that there are very few opportunities to checkmate with a king moving alone and he felt it was more beautiful this way. I'm sure his background in mathematics made him appreciate the brevity of the move as well.

[@shrayanmajumder7517]

Classic Yasser, love his lectures!

[@skyary5977]

Welcome back Yasser! I've missed ya.

[@nikhilraj6343]

the fischer game was really awesome. ..............😊

[@scarscrews]

It's either called Larsen opening or the Nimzo-Larsen attack which sounds better in my opinion -What are you playing ? - *Violent Arms Movements* The Nimzo-Larsen attack *roar*

[@hikmathussein5563]

GM Yasser thank you for your efforts!

[@robertehrenworth3310]

Good video. Great games and good explanations. Seirawan is very clear and engaging.

[@danielgautreau161]

At 7:29 (Larsen-Spasski) after ...Bc5, Magnus Carlsen (White), in a tournament when he was world champion, played Nf5.....Correction: Larsen was 2.5-1.5 on board 1. He won game 2, drew game 3, and beat Stein in game 4.

[@nicolainrregaard4819]

That first game was amazing!

[@andrewptob]

I saw that one before but it is incredible

[@rezganger]

Very nice!One can never (almost) get enough of these oldies... But I would really like to see more of Christian Chirila lecturing!!! Cheers.

[@Barkotek]

When he essays a lecture its gonna be EXPLOSIVE

[@MadderMel]

Living Legend Yasser !!

[@younis24de]

Awesome lecture!

[@billbrock1958]

Minor correction: Larsen actually won Board 1 in USSR-World 1970 2½-1½: he won game 3 against Spassky and game 4 against Leonid Stein.

[@peppermints666]

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaank you very much Yasser for this great Lecture, again :)

[@FirstNameLastName-tc2ok]

read that in Yasser's voice

[@johnfrasmu]

Yasser is mistaken as to Larsen's score on Board 1 in the USSR-Rest of the World match After losing Game 2 as shown by Yasser, Larsen came back and defeated Spassky in Game 3...Spassky's first loss as world champion. Spassky was benched in Round 4 and Larsen defeated the substitute Leonid Stein So Larsen ended up with the creditable 2 1/2 - 1 1/2

[@jal2550]

Love Yasser!

[@candostdemir3870]

Thanks for the great video yessar! When I read the tittle (the games to know by heart) the first game I remembered was Paul Morphy's mate with queen and an exchange sacrifice. I don't remember the year game was played nor his opponents (but I remember he had two opponents at once.) but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I think that, that game should also have a screen time on your great videos sometime. Thanks for what you've taught to us. Thank you!

[@PatrickRecordon]

4:30. Paul Morphy vs Alonzo Morphy... Checkmate was done by castling (but yeah, really rare to mate that way)

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Happy birthday Yasser :)

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[@panivino28]

Great work. Thanks

[@gillesrenard2267]

very clever and clear analysis! Thanks!

[@franckauger9490]

With Yasser, chess is a subtil battle of ideas. Smooth pedagog

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[@frovis7426]

More Yasser :)

[@augustgreig9420]

>25:58 What about 1.Ne4? That stop's mate. If 1... Nxf2+ 2.Kxf2 f5 3.Nd2 Qg2+ is not mate and the king can run away.

[@sebastianraedler8574]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@Uerdue]

Even Edward Lasker knew about Ben Finegold's rule about always choosing the most efficient mate. :D

[@Narrowcros]

Another example of Fischers amazing tactical strength

[@fburton8]

I think I'm gonna love this series... :)

[@Hornbaek]

Beautiful. Just beautiful!

[@coxscorner]

The R. Byrne - Fischer game is is my favorite Bobby game I prefer it over the "Game of the Century" played earlier against D. Byrne. It is also right up their with the Evergreen Game as my favorite game of all time, certainly in the top 10.

[@tharkanzox1493]

Seirawan has scored wins against karpov, kasparov, topalov, anand, spassky, korchnoi, and tal.

[@justanotheruser6468]

At 23:40 (i guess) why not just play rook check winning the queen? I mean it looks very promising to me

[@pfsloan2597]

Great stuff!

[@bakibol7244]

great lecture.

[@soniansmith1451]

I love you Yasser have my Yasserkin!

[@ruuudeboiii]

yasser is my hero

[@beedwarf]

"If you don't move that knight at D3, we can sign score sheets and the game is over." :D 21:05

[@MartinHavlik]

awesome here is one I like but can't certainly memorize it, just the gist. Polugaevsky v Ftacnik - Luzern 1982 Ftacnik immortal 1 not playing obvious tempo on queen 2 timely break in center 3mechanism how to keep on going attack and sparkly sacrifices

[@TheAlex-dl6vz]

Larsen checkmate is beautiful

[@cygnustsp]

Yasser is so good. He also used to have an amazing moustache.

[@tims7174]

Im wondering which Chess software they are using to showcase the lectures. Looking for a suitable program to play learn craft. Ideas? Hello from Germany

[@mikecantreed]

Tim S looks like chessbase

[@AnonPax]

really good video, thanks

[@caseybroadfoot5227]

sierrawan is awsome, amazing coach

[@mohamedmaher1605]

What does he use to display the chess game?

[@courtinbaptiste5232]

The title is wrong. Lasker played the first miniature, not Larsen.

[@furkankarakaya26]

Courtin Baptiste he said it true

[@courtinbaptiste5232]

Well, yes. But it doesn't make the title of the video right, does it ?

[@furkankarakaya26]

Courtin Baptiste title of the video doesnt say games in order , and why you understand it as it says so ?

[@courtinbaptiste5232]

The title gives the games in reverse order. Spassky and Fischer won the second and third game that Yasser presented. Lasker won the first, but Larsen is mentioned in the title instead. What don't you understand ?

[@furkankarakaya26]

Courtin Baptiste right

[@eliask5867]

Click on 12:33 many times and it will sound funny😂

[@AM-sp6je]

Try 16:00

[@Sarah-no7lv]

Is it really super important to know games by heart?

[@lc0597]

no, just ideas

[@joelledix3085]

20:40 Mr Yasser Seirawan are you teaching chess to fat seal?!

[@wooki321]

long live the Bob Ross of chess

[@rpd350]

Paul Morphy vs Alonzo Morphy "Polymorph" (game of the day Jun-21-2010) New Orleans ? (1850), New Orleans, LA USA Chess variants (000) · 1-0 Checkmate after castling......

[@stevenm2722]

Does Yasser's laugh remind anyone else of the Joker?

[@bobfree1226]

that is why Fischer is ,and was the GREATEST of all.

[@ellazolman7516]

「内容を明確にする必要があります」、

[@platitudeomenw441]

bobby fishcer was too afraid of Boris spassky

[@AM-sp6je]

Evil Laugh @16:00

[@Yasserxzz]

kk

[@سوريمفكر]

Hey sir , I am now in front of a house in Damascus that has your Family's name on it , what a world to be alive in . small world isn't it ?

[@ababyatemydingo4926]

11:25 "Russians never retreat" Oh really? 1812: France invades Russia, and Marshall Kutuzov. . . orders a retreat and Napoleon's days as empereur are numbered. Perhaps this throwaway line from GM Seirawan was not intended literally and was simply unintentionally racist?

[@johngoldner9898]

Oh yes, Yasser Seirawan knows it all. He is an authority on every subject. For example, aside from being one of the top chess players in the world thirty years ago, he is available to provide a lengthy dissertation on the merits of your third draft feature film screenplay, even though he has never written for the cinema and has no background as a filmmaker. But that won't stop him from coming forward in front of a potential financier and proclaiming that your script "has serious flaws". He will even provide you with a grade for your creativity--like 80%, as if it was some kind of high school communication arts project, and he is the teacher. Of course he is qualified to pass judgement on the development of a project like "An American Genius" because he has spent his whole life looking at chess.

[@soniansmith1451]

I'm saving this for my French fries. That shit is salty.

[@soniansmith1451]

I’m a chess artist, with a FIDE rating of under 1200. Here’s my opinion on your screenplay: www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Am.Genius.pdf 1. Paul Morphy: an unhinged man? Why because he was good at chess? He was a logical giant. He fought for his way of life and travelled around the world coming from very little! 2. I don’t think painting Paul Morphy as a paranoid Sherlock Holmes/Bobby Fischer hybrid is a good picture. Try crayons. 3. Did you get beat in Chess and imagine every chess player as a psychopath? It sounds like you’re here taking it out on Yasser and your screenplay looks like you’re taking it out on Morphy. For a high school communication arts project it’s the right amount of angst… 4. I sincerely doubt anyone doubted Morphy’s promise as a young chess player. He was beating people as good as you then. 5. The angst goes on and on, apparently: “They be at that special kin’ a checkers y’all play on Sundays.” Sounds authentic to a white guy. 6. Apparently everyone is precisely normal around someone like Morphy, wondering why he is playing chess at all, and questioning is decisions to participate in tournaments…rather than encouraging him...like they did.. 7. Why are people talking during the chess game and giving suggestions…Oh yeah movie…same reason why there is 2 seconds of introduction to a character before a marriage proposal… 8. OK, I can’t read further, I give it an 80% but it’s missing the facts, if you added in the truth, or maybe changed some of the stuff that isn’t true, you could have a 85% or maybe an 87. Don’t push it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy Check out that page, it's got some information you could use.

[@johngoldner9898]

Oh so you're a "chess artist" Sonian, with a sub-1200 rating. That makes a lot of sense. I doubt you are any kind of artist. As for your list of points about "An American Genius", I will address each one: 1. Yes, Paul Morphy was unhinged at times towards the end of his life; that is well documented. And this was not because "he was good at chess?" He did travel around the world, so to speak, but he certainly didn't "come from nothing". His family had wealth and influence. 2. What does Paul Morphy have to do with Sherlock Holmes? 3. No I don't imagine "every chess player as a psychopath" and I don't know where you come up with that from either my criticism of Yasser Seirawan or the content of the screenplay itself. 4. Where does the screenplay ever suggest that "anyone ever doubted Morphy's promise as a chessplayer"? There are a number of scenes in the first part of the script in which it is clear that everyone recognizes his exceptional talent. The obstacle that he faced was the attitude conditioned in him that chess was not a respectable occupation for a young man of his class and education. 5. You have a problem with that line? Do you imagine that an uneducated black maid in the mid-nineteenth Century would speak impeccable English? 6. What is "precisely normal" supposed to mean? It sounds so stupid. The people around Morphy behave in different ways, depending on their relationship with him and their objectives. His friend Charles Maurian encourages him to play in chess tournaments; his mother Telcide does not. 7. People are talking in chess games when they are of a casual nature, in a club or cafe, or they are watching from a sufficient distance so that the players cannot hear them, and speaking quietly. And there are several scenes with Nicole Duprey before the marriage proposal, not "2 seconds". We can suppose that they have spent more time together as well. It's called using your imagination. 8. You can't read any further, Smith? That really breaks my heart, since you are no doubt very well connected in the film industry, just like your hero Yasser Seirawan. He took it upon himself to proclaim in front of Rex Sinquefield, and others, that "An American Genius" has "serious flaws" because it wasn't all about Howard Staunton's refusal to play a match with Morphy, even though the script devotes at least a dozen pages to the affair.

[@soniansmith1451]

You aren't supposed to respond to trolls. I give this response....the worst grade imaginable...an A minus minus!

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[@dg19de]

why is the last game a miniature when it goes into and endgame? why are you showing well known games and don´t analyse them? were you bored?

[@somebody9112]

Didn't know any of the games, maybe don't watch the video then?

[@Hot6Sauce]

What are you talking about? It doesnt go into the endgame. Qd7 is the last move of the game.