Vasyl Ivanchuk's Games from Linares 1991

[@ibazulic]

The first game Ivanchuk vs Kasparov is an amazing masterpiece. To beat Kasparov in his peak like this is nothing short of amazing.

[@h0wnr681]

I think it's considered to be Ivanchuk's immortal game, it's definitely in my top 5 favorite chess games of all time. Just a stunning strategic coup.

[@mno7pro323]

Qh8 is the saddest move I have ever seen in my life Kasparov probably didn't believe he was losing like that to this guy

[@Budha3773]

@Keith Alfred Anthony Donovan true, but it wasn’t about Kasparov in that game

[@fingerprince_]

I've watched all of Ben's lectures and this is easily my favourite. This event is such a great moment in chess history, Ivanchuk playing at his best like this is surely some of the most intelligent and inventive chess ever played. To beat Kasporov (during a good tournament for him!!) in such a way, both strategically and tactically utterly outplaying him, it's ludicrous.

[@KeithWhalen11]

That position is incredible. A star-studded back rank being protected by the nakedest king of all-time.

[@justchessminiatures1167]

And can you name those to whom you could apply the term “genius”? Ivanchuk, Carlsen and Anand. -Judit Polgar

[@wingzacademy369]

Kasparov is super genius

[@antonmladenov161]

Wish I could like this video more than once, always love Chucky's games!

[@sasquatch2]

You can like this video twice, this is a repost

[@socksgratecheese]

I'm glad i got a chance to like this video twice! Ben your analysis is the best.

[@lavitaingiallo2767]

Nooo a reupload... very suspicious. Btw beautiful lecture. Go Ben!

[@Evilanious]

Always repeat!

[@r.mcdonnell8614]

Uploading the Ivanchuk video (gestures) again

[@hideomituns2184]

Mr GMFinegold looking happier and healthier recently. Thanks for the lecture. Was really insightful. Recaps of Wijk were top notch as well.

[@dw3yn693]

This lecture is from March 2021 its just a reupload from the old channel

[@leagueaddict8357]

@@dw3yn693 Oof, poor ben being called a poor aging guy

[@gishena]

Thanks Ben, I remember you telling this story, was searching for it for a long time!

[@williamangelogonzales148]

Chess start 6:00

[@GustavoLL25]

Extraordinary comments by Great Master Ben!! Looks the games easier to understand...

[@Kommaer]

I think this lecture has somehow escaped a lecture playlist!

[@LittOnTheFifty]

Ivanchuk is a monster -- one of my favorites from my parent's generation. Second, of course, to Ben! Go 1969!!!

[@kdub1242]

Two pairs of games - one for each of you.

[@Jabadamazo]

Why at 11:00 is is Kasparov not playing E5? It opens up a nice diagonal for the bishop and forces a tempo on the queen. Clearly I'm missing something - can someone better than me explain that? Seems an obvious move to me. Thanks!

[@brigidwell]

I'm just speculating here, but it seems like ...e5 loses more ground than it gains. It seriously weakens the d5 and f5 squares which don't have pawns to cover them due to the way the opening was played, and white knights can pounce into these squares very quickly. The tempo is probably worth much less than normal in this position since it's slightly closed and both sides are strategically building. I like the idea to try to help Black's LSB, but ...e5 it may make things even more bottled up for his DSB which is an even more awkward piece. Black needs a plan to reliably unwind his position, and he was probably looking desperately for anything he could including a possible e5 break, but here it would've probably led to white immediately attacking.

[@Jabadamazo]

@@brigidwell Wow, there is so much about chess I don't understand lol. Thanks! I appreciate the input.

[@majidabdi9743]

Good lecture. For the Karpov game, perhaps explain how RC6 (passive defense) neutralizes g4.

[@Opferschach]

Could it be that I have already seen that lecture almost two years ago on the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Atlanta channel?

[@robertr7923]

Yes. The date is 3 March 2021 it says at the start

[@Stromecek1000]

wait i've seen this lecture before

[@hindifandubs]

Yes this is an old lecture. It was on youtube earlier.

[@Janet_Airlines802]

The game against Kasparov when he had all his pieces in one corner of the board, was amazing to do that against a prime Kasparov. I’ve read Kasparov was always nervous paying against Ivanchuk, don’t know if that’s true or not.

[@andriyandriychuk]

Damn! Just watched this lecture but on UA YT channel! I'm from Ukraine 🇺🇦 Proud 💙💛

[@YoussefRahoui]

One of the greatest games ever played. Ivanchuk’s Mona Lisa.

[@MagmaTeja]

got here so fast the video title says Vasyl Ivanchuk

[@vasivasi4892]

Me too hahahaha

[@MrCheeze]

That title is correct.

[@FrogSkull]

It's the Ukrainian version of his name (Vasili is the Russian version), which he started using after the invasion.

[@duncanglen3452]

Love the interjection at around 9 mins 😂

[@GozarianGozar]

Love me some Ivanchuk

[@yotoober1]

Looking at Vasyl's '91 Linares, Can you do a video on the best tnmt performance of ALL TIME? KARPOV '94 Linares Score: 11/13 no losses Perf rating: 2985 😮 There were 6-7 future/current world clampions or WC Candidates in the tnmt. Stock 🐟 would be proud. And what would be today's inflated rating of 2985 almost 30 years later? Like 3100 😯 A virtual human Stockfish 🐟

[@websnarf]

The impression I had, was that the tournament was "tainted" by a kind of weird incentive by the then president of FIDE Campomanes. He paid players bonuses for playing "exciting" games, or penalized them for boring draws -- I can't remember whether it was one, the other, or both. So, everyone was playing unusually aggressively. Except for Karpov, because he just doesn't play that way. The result was that when everyone was playing against Karpov, they were playing like they were uncontrolled patzers playing cheapos, which Karpov just ate up for lunch. At least that's how I remember it, which would explain why nobody bothered to really analyze the games from this tournament, or make much note about Karpov winning with such an absurdly high score. I think Fabiano's massacre in St Louis several years ago is still the true best performance in a tournament of any chess player in history.

[@thechosenone1192]

fabi at 2014 sinquefield? beating 7 top 10 players in a row at 3105 rating perf.

[@chanky1000]

8:40 good to remember

[@jeffreyfisher3115]

I never knew how much wood Ivanchuk could chuk until I saw this video.

[@andyjackson2891]

17:28 Kasparov creates the first Chess 960 losing game as black.

[@yotoober1]

Anatoly Karpov crushed the field with a performance that I personally believe has never been duplicated to this day. Following copied from a from a chartroom: The Ultimate Boa Constrictor, Karpov, playing for the slow accumulation of microscopic advantages the opponent not noticing until all of a sudden, he realizes that his position is lost. (Just like 🐟 plays! 😫 ) In my opinion, you could easily make the argument that Karpov was the greatest champion ever. He twice defeated the arguably best player never to become world champion, Korchnoi. He jumped to a 5-0 games won advantage against Kasparov, in the WCC Match, whom many consider the greatest champion ever, before political shenanigans stopped the match. ***His performance in the 94 Linares Tournament will never be duplicated again, scoring *11/13 no losses* for a tournament performance rating ELO 2985!! With ratings inflation of 28 years, ELO would probably be easily 3100 today! A virtual human Stockfish 15 🐟 decades before it's time. Also, that tournament included at least 6 or 7 future world champions and or world champion match runner ups from all chess orgs., FIDE, PCA/GMA etc and you could even technically add the women's future world champion Judit Polgar. (whom Kasparov cheated against in that game, double touching a piece, caught on camera 📸) The talent in the 94 Linares Tournament was incredible. The field at Linares 1994 was one of the strongest ever, and Kasparov prior to the event commented that the winner could rightly call himself "world champion of tournament chess". He were to regret having said that. 😒 Karpov smashed 🔨 the chess world elite to bits and pieces with an amazing score of 11/13 (+9 =4 -0) and a record performance rating of **2985**, (Google it!) after having won his first 6 games and left Kasparov and Shirov 2.5 points behind. This was arguably the greatest achievement in the history of tournament chess They were: PCA World Champion Garry Kasparov (Elo rated #1 in the world), FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov (#2), future WC Viswanathan Anand (#3), WCC candidate Alexey Shirov (#4), WCC Candidate Vassily Ivanchuk (#5), future WC Vladimir Kramnik (#6), future WC Gata Kamsky (#7), WC Candidate Evgeny Bareev (#8), future WC Boris Gelfand (#9), GM Alexander Beliavsky (#16), future FIDE WC Veselin Topalov (#20) from Bulgaria, the best female player, future Women's WCC Judit Polgar (#22) from Hungary, Joel Lautier (#26) from France, and Miguel Illescas Cordoba (#68) from Spain. Of the the top 10 players, only Valery Salov (#10) was missing. Amazing feat not even today duplicated by Carlsen! 🏆

[@1man1bike1road]

saw him in gibraltar shook his hand a living legend of Chess

[@andriyandriychuk]

Ukraine also has Muzychuk sisters, they're good at chess

[@f.d.3289]

8:55 sounds like someone fainted

[@strangelyrepulsive77]

korchnoi was almost 60

[@NickKravitz]

Where does Ben publish the zoom link to watch his lectures live?

[@andriyandriychuk]

Ivanchuk is the most famous UA GM, born in Lviv, Ukraine

[@doesntMetter1]

So he beat the former, current and future world champions in the same tournament? What a beast!

[@chrisSo91]

Why did Kasparov play kg7? That looks like the most anti-positional move I've ever seen.

[@g412bb]

Even the best SGM's know that the outcome of a game against Ivanchuk is an uncertainty.

[@f.d.3289]

crushes one world champion after the other, but the main takeaway here is that he is a good checkers player xD

[@1010tuta]

Go ben! Etc

[@georgesikonomou3895]

I have a silly question but why didn't Karpov played in that tournament? Was he sick or something?

[@jorghofmeister5225]

Ivanchually, he won the game.

[@sniffableandirresistble]

How was Topolov ever World Champion seems so unremarkable

[@abdulrahmansalameh8540]

No talking

[@ahrrydepp493]

Re

[@liorlioravraham9630]

qg8

[@zacharyheflin6794]

With a name like IvanChuk you know your in for a hard fight

[@quarlmephystodot2201]

why does he grrr his voice so fake

[@allanturmaine5496]

Which will win, my love for Ivanchuk's games or my disdain for listening to this man talk?

[@gregory6903]

🤡

[@allanturmaine5496]

@@gregory6903 honk honk, Gregory. Get off my comment.