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Rapport, Richard (2762) - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime (2761)
Knockout | Belgrade FIDE Grand Prix (chess24.com) [1] 2022.03.09
D87 Gruenfeld, exchange, Spassky variation
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 c5 8.Ne2 O-O 9.Be3 Nc6 10.Rc1 cxd4 11.cxd4 Qa5+ 12.Rc3 e5 13.d5 Nd4 14.Bd2 Bd7 15.Nxd4 exd4 16.Rc1 Qa3 17.Qb3 Qxb3 18.Bxb3 Rae8 19.f3 f5 20.Rc7 Bb5 21.a4 Bd3 22.d6+ Kh8 23.d7 Rb8 24.Bb4 Be5 25.Bxf8 Bxc7 26.Be7 Kg7 27.e5 b5 28.Bf6+ Kf8 29.e6 Bd8 30.Be5 Rb6 31.Bxd4 Rc6 32.axb5 Bxb5 33.Kf2 Ke7 34.Be3 Bb6 35.Rd1 Bxe3+ 36.Kxe3 Rc3+ 37.Kf4
00:00 Hello Everyone!
00:55 Game Starts!
04:11 Completely New Game!
05:50 Pause the Video!
10:35 It Was In This Position
12:52 Contributions
The Belgrade FIDE Grand Prix is the 16-player second of three legs of the 24-player 2022 FIDE Grand Prix that qualifies two players to the Candidates Tournament. Each player competes in two of the three tournaments, with the 16 players divided into four groups who play a double round-robin. The group winners advance to a knockout. Tiebreaks at any stage are played on the following day. Players can earn a maximum of 13 points for winning a leg.
Players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. In case of a tie a 15+10 two-game match is played. If still tied, a 3+2 two-game match follows and then, if needed, an Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counts as a win for Black. If more than two players are tied a round-robin tiebreak is played. Official website: worldchess.com
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[@kohalmiendrekristof2312]

The most amazing part is that Ricsi defeated Maxime in Grünfeld, the opening he is the most comfortable in, and plays against really everybody no matter what rating. To find some line which he not comfortable in, and a so dominating win is huge. I hope Ricsi makes it to final (and to candidates tournament), he is playing great chess recently, can be an other breaking through point here.

[@sandorszabo2470]

"Mostanában" sokat fejlődött, egyre "finomabb" partikat játszik. Jó lenne ha a többi "fiú" zárkózna fel szépen. A lányok között van egy pár egészen tehetséges, pár éven belül komoly eredményekben bízom.

[@puma2766]

És nem csak, hogy eredményes, de nagyon innovatív, szép partikat nyer. Hajrá Ricsi!

[@Sharkmoves]

@@sandorszabo2470 nem gondoltam volna, hogy találom majd Tanár Urat :)

[@derekbaker4763]

Maxime has been pounded many many times playing that opening.

[@raylopez99]

Rapport is a genius and it reminds me of the Marshall Attack in the Ruy Lopez, the master Frank Marshall prepared this attack for ten years before he sprung it on an unsuspecting Capablanca, but Capa refuted it over the board. Lesson: even if you are a book genius you will lose if your opponent can calculate well.

[@chuckcheese4805]

"And now rook back to the starting square. Not the starting starting square but the second starting square." -agadmator 2022

[@manomishra]

You beat me to it.

[@m.u.550]

What a meaningless comment

[@alekhinesgun9997]

@M. U. Irony

[@kamitebyani5309]

Best comment 😆

[@joonpak]

@@m.u.550 by Agadmator, Chuck Cheese, or you?

[@TadashiTravelTours]

@7:56 ahh the power of the fully operational bishop pair. excellent

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

03:23 in his repertoire, in his toolbox, I always liked "in his back pocket"

[@mustafaharford6393]

Richard Defeated MVL even without using his rock and without castling

[@MinutemindEN]

Yes Ricsi is a professional player

[@askthepizzaguy]

Those bishops and pawns were so brutal white didn't need his kingside rook.

[@robertpsotka3525]

I was going to post that it was a Union Rook ( sitting back and letting everybody else do the work).

[@vivekjoshi5207]

Absolutely

[@benr3799]

Agadmator, I have not seen a video of yours in almost a year. You bring light to my life. I love you sir. You’re funny as hell and I’m so happy you are still making these EXQUISITE videos. Thank you

[@josuke21]

RAPPORT WELL DONE!!!!! Top 10 in the world !!!!! LESSS GOOOO, YOU CAN WIN LEG 2!!!!!!!

[@josuke21]

@Afalku same!!

[@mekkler]

That's the power of the bishops, fantastic!

[@mdb831]

Not the starting starting square, but the second starting square. Never change dude please don't ever change.

[@davidhughes7174]

Well Played Richard, a wonderfully talented and original master.

[@xethnyrrow]

That was a pretty savage beating to be honest. Great game.

[@MinutemindEN]

Yeah right, that was a pretty brutal beating and it was a great game.

[@jaceks6338]

Yay, Rc7! I think it's the first time I ever "felt free to pause the video and found the winning move"!!

[@Dyllyn133]

I have never found both moves before 😎 watching this channel is teaching me something

[@bhough410]

Thankful for Rapport being more prominent the last couple years! Chess has largely become a game of memory at the top tier, it's so much more mechanical/theoretical since the use of engines. Richard has been filling the large void since Chucky doesn't get many invites to top tier tourneys. Hard to imagine the possibilities if Rapport was committed to tourney play as much the others in the top 10?!

[@gouravnigam1987]

Actually this one is first victory of rapport over MVL in classical chess

[@josuke21]

More to come :) But it won't easy ofc

[@gouravnigam1987]

@@josuke21 i doubt that 😅 i mean you can clearly see that MVL isnt playing at his peak and we all know what kind of monster he is when he is at his peak on the other hand i think rapport is playing at his peak right now and ofcourse any 2700+ at there peak is no joke so we just have to wait and see

[@josuke21]

@@gouravnigam1987 that's what. I told it won't be easy though

[@Idn5244]

Rapport defeating Maxime to secure his top 10 in classical chess

[@josuke21]

Awesome!

[@Stl71]

An amazing game! How the white's Bishops danced on the board!

[@gabrielalmada25]

#suggest has been a while since we saw the last Fischer game, so u maybe can show a Nice Game he played with white against Miguel Najdorf in Varna 1962 . Greetings from Argentina!

[@igorz4582]

Why do latinos always need to state the country they're from? Greetings from brazil

[@Shreyy17]

@@igorz4582 and Asians too Greetings from India

[@_.perme._.kadum._]

“still nothing out of the ordinary. This is something Maxime knows in sleep” 😂

[@eriktempelman2097]

Do the Agatmator bingo: "completely new game" "nice prophylactic move" "b4, always a good move" "... (pausing while reaching under the table" Just kidding, great content, as always.

[@amishasahini4413]

"f5, never a good move"

[@rafadawabe]

some nasty discoveries

[@johnthompson5741]

“Sorry about that”

[@j_sum1]

That's the good stuff.

[@uubuuh]

of course knows this...

[@dfjanus8014]

rapport playing god level these days

[@Teccler]

In the days of Znosko Borovsky Maxime looked like to have a winning position before moving his rook to C8: but we are in the 21st century now & accurate openings aren't enough anymore!

[@Josh_Fredman]

Maxime will be adding this humbling experience to his vast knowledge!

[@chikajinanwa9179]

Bishop pair from hell🔥🔥

[@ramachandra776]

" he who does not move the b-pawn when the b-pawn has to be moved always loses , with white or black " 🙂 . Maxime should have played b5 .

[@rahulvignesh2775]

The joy of finding the move . Yayyy! And the follow up move, I was considering between pawn to A4 and kF3 and would have preferred kF3 (only because I'm still learning how to utilize and play with Bishops).. the way Rapport moves his bishops, I'm getting a feel of how Magnus would play coordinate his bishops to advance passed pawns.

[@ndnd7614]

uncharacteristic of MVL to miss a rook move to the seventh rank, which no matter how you look at it, looks really strong and natural to play

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

He wanted to take advantage of white's king being in the center of the board by opening the position

[@pedrorengel9603]

That's the strength and the weakness of MVL's play, he invites dangerous positions.

[@blackoutgenez]

hikaru was doing a live analysis and showed that mvl was winning/better positon in all of the lines except for the d6 push inbetween move which hikaru says that MVL prolly missed in his calculation

[@torikipitt750]

He had to play pawn f5 or he loses the rook to bishop b4 (so he thought)

[@torikipitt750]

6:05

[@piyushjha757]

Been waiting for it 🔥

[@lightsviewpodcast6011]

I watched this live today, great stuff

[@TheHawk007]

Was waiting for it🔥🔥

[@williamgoss4691]

Fantastic play by Rapport and fantastic guidance by Agamator.

[@cyanhallows7809]

“I try and pretend I’m a professional chess player but come on look at my results” - Richard Rapport

[@kimgysen10]

Rapport on fire! Big fan of Maxime, but this was probably a surprise to him. Very impressive and original combo, strange it was relatively unknown!

[@erica8863]

What a wild game. I somehow managed to find the Rook to C7 move but I didn't appreciate just how absolutely dominating Rapport's position would be with just the Bishop pair and the passed pawns. He was literally unable to castle and the other rook never entered the game but Maxime was basically rendered helpless. Really shows you the power of pieces in the right position rather than the "innate" value we assign the pieces.

[@pawnstorminreno]

take a drink whenever MVL plays black pieces!

[@coxscorner]

I love the Gruenfeld but it took a beating in this game.

[@calendar9136]

Nice thumbnail pic of him thinking, cold.

[@IHWKR]

Terrible feeling to have that you've lost before you even sat down at the table.

[@PeterM8987]

What??? Talk about being disrespectful towards MLV

[@IHWKR]

@Peter Marendy grow up kid. It's not being disrespectful.

[@17lobb]

And it was in this position I subscribed to Agad

[@mscir]

Great fun, thanks.

[@brandonmiles8174]

Rc3 in the open looked great to me. Then the Rc7 line was the most obvious one to me. Feel like I'm on a roll with the rook.

[@rickharold7884]

Long love King Richard!!! Slicing and dicing with those bishops

[@PeakPotential46]

Dang rapport's combination of attacks after the f5 move by maxime ruins his position, 🔥 I think this is one of the incredible games that i've seen.

[@kb5019]

Good game Richard 🙂👏🏾

[@haiminhtrantrong2433]

We can call this The Dance of Four Bishops.

[@mihuuuu]

beautiful rook lift

[@pokerstar2926]

5:04 ??? Rapport is using the white peices, not black

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

1. White's king was in the center so Maxime tried to open up the position. But that was a blunder. 2. Rapport was basically playing with a rook down, because his h1 rook had not entered the game, yet his attack was too strong. 3. Both players had the bishop pair, but maxime's bishops couldn't neutralize Rapport's own even with the help of the extra rook. This is what makes chess elegant 👌🏾😍

[@acousticmeatus8141]

Richard is on fiiirrrreeeee dayum

[@prokoksik1234]

#suggestion Maybe Mr. Agadmator you can do a video about the longest chess game ever played and the shortest chess game ever played? Love your vids!

[@JeremyRobertWalker]

MVL was in sleep-mode.

[@S810X]

It was in this position that I saw a new video uploaded one minute ago.

[@rodrigopavez6322]

#suggestion today was Fischer's birthday

[@baerayyani]

As Indians say "bhai yeh toh shuru hone se pehle hi khatam ho gaya"

[@Neonator08]

You da man Agadmator!

[@moon4tzuyupokeonce41]

Wowww, This video's title is NGNL's reference... (No Game No Life) I'm loving it...

[@clementdeazevedo5469]

Maxime's defense is yet impressively resilient.

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

That's right

[@denzelurieta9206]

What is MVL’s repertoire against 1.c4?

[@claykeen485]

What an awesome move!

[@davidcopson5800]

Which one?

[@claykeen485]

@@davidcopson5800 The move you never saw coming! The rook move back

[@davidcopson5800]

@@claykeen485 Thanks for the explanation.

[@kapilras]

When rapport moved rook to seventh rank and attacked MVL bishop. Why not go on offensive. Fxe4, followed by exf3 check and both rooks r in game for black

[@CuriousCouple]

lol may be rapport was as surprised as MVL after he played f5 while preparing this line of grunfeld, he probably was like '"yeahh! got you stockfish...good luck running with your king" and then stockfish: Rc7😅

[@jde007]

Wow what a game.

[@dantedeloden]

yeah i instantly saw rook c7 line. i was like holy crap once that rook hits the pigs that bishop is stuck and all pawns are free to run. very strong line for sure.

[@yousifahmed5410]

I can't believe that agadmator would miss Bobby fischer birthday... "There are tough players and nice guys, and I’m a tough player." - Bobby fischer

[@davidcopson5800]

I wouldn't say move 19 is "before it begins".

[@wolfgangmozart9099]

Nooooo! Hopefully Maxime will bounce back!

[@kgk4782]

What if after f5 and c7, just sacrifice the Bishop and go for e4? Because whatever white plays, you can check next turn or begin a death march with your pawn, no?

[@nikitastsakirakis8946]

Thats what I was wondering too.It seems to me that its more difficult for white to calculate after the e4 capture than after a bishop salvage so i was a little surprised no to see this possible move addressed

[@JeremyRobertWalker]

what a weird game

[@n20games52]

Very impressive bishop pair! LOL

[@TheMarksT]

Awesome game by Richard!

[@daviddurbin3249]

Crushing

[@user-ob3ks9wk4c]

رائع

[@misternewoutlook5437]

Fischer's birthday. A good game for him to enjoy.

[@stevenvary7324]

Go Richard! HAJRA RICSI!!!!!!

[@sauravgarg7193]

5:50 is it also wining after Bb4? We are wining exchange after this move ig

[@mohammadkazim4395]

A big fan, thanks for the game. Please include engine eval bars in all of your games, that will make it more interesting.

[@AhsimNreiziev]

He would want the eval bars to be accurate, and that would take too much processing time. He has stated this in the past.

[@abdullahalshafat3552]

First like given, before the video begun...

[@BonasBuden]

I'm a novice in chess and can't quite get it why that pawn to F5 move was so detrimental? Can someone please explain.

[@sampathn4429]

Good game

[@Mornepin]

Rapport's beating everybody, what's going on ??? Nobody can stop this man.

[@contactbalaji333]

Classic example of Bishop pair

[@mikavaljevo]

This game should be an example how dangerous is a bishop pair when the truly master is playing. Great game by Rapport!

[@PeterM8987]

So MLV isn't a "truly" master?

[@Vmac1394]

Rapport is the dark horse player I've been waiting for. Plus his name is Dick Rapp, there's so many puns that can be made.

[@AkhilIsaacJohn]

Damn, haven't been here this early

[@azigazibelabacsi]

Finally a Rapport game! Thanks! Go Rapport! Go hungary! :)

[@maganogm784]

On move 14 how did you know it's a completely new game, which chess database are you using?

[@jamestrojnor-barron5075]

It's a GM data base. Just Top GM games played.

[@MrAndMrsGrover]

@@jamestrojnor-barron5075 does he mean the position or also the specific move order to get there? Thanks

[@eruwa1550]

@@MrAndMrsGrover specific move order too, usually he specifies if necessary

[@maganogm784]

@@jamestrojnor-barron5075 so the name of chess database that he uses is called grandmaster chess database?

[@khann2159]

When the Gruenfeld is played it means one of the players will be crushed

[@mr._baum153]

I hate comments that say "First"

[@niccolopaganini1782]

Indeed

[@mohammadali1972]

give this man a trophy

[@mr._baum153]

@@mohammadali1972 thank you. I randomly saw this just uploaded

[@rainersustinkins8377]

"First"

[@hpostal9]

second

[@egads3696]

Take a shot every time he says d4

[@chandir7752]

I hope MVL can win game 2 and the tiebreak cmooon

[@markfarhoomand7302]

Where is Alireza? Haven't seen him participate in the last few tournaments, I think in all of 2022 so far.

[@polillaWins]

7:22 and what's it wrong with B f6 blocking

[@simontimothy7051]

2:57 why not b5,b4 by Black?

[@musa071]

hmm, what if after rook c7, he took e4 ? Kinda tricky. it would be three pawns for the bishop plus a better position.

[@franktuyl]

I agree - no reply from anyone?

[@musa071]

@@franktuyl lol, there's something more i just noticed. If he actually take e4 and the rook captures the bishop then it's game over for white cause no matter where the white king goes after the discovered checks, the white h rook will either fall or the pawn get promoted, unless the king captures the pawns then in this case the white bishop is lost in a fork.

[@juela2092]

​@@franktuyl @Meuse @K GK, i thought this too so i put it in a (mediocre) engine, the engine points out that after ...fxe4 white has d6+ Kh8 Rxd7 exf3+ and because of the pawn on d6 white has Re7, blocking the check and blocking the e file rather than moving the king, saving the position for white. black will still get a few pawns for the bishop, for example after Re7 the engine suggests ...Bf6, Rxe8 Rxe8+ Kd1 fxg2 Rg1 Rd8 Rxg2 Rxd6 black for the moment has 3 pawns and traded off the advanced f pawn for white's advanced d pawn, but it seems in this position this is not good enough against the bishop pair as the engine evaluation seems to fluctuate between +2.5 and +3 as i let it run nonetheless the engine does give ...fxe4 (or ...Bb5, a4 then ...fxe4 extremely similar) as the best line for black (ie better than what was played in the game trying to save the bishop), and at least to me the position after Re7 still seems quite interesting, so i do wish agadmator had addressed it in the video

[@juela2092]

@@musa071 tried to also tag u in my comment but idt it worked

[@franktuyl]

@@juela2092 @Meuse Thankyou for your analyses! Yes, agadmator should have mentioned some of this!

[@MinutemindEN]

Yes Ricsi is a professional player

[@RISING-RK0711]

Anish is not in candidate 20222?

[@usptact]

I smell MVL was too confident.

[@jansupronowicz1300]

So, in what sense the game ended before it begun? I don't get it.

[@tonymontana7305]

I had rook to c7 😁