How Magnus REINVENTED Chess and Became #1

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5 ай бұрын

In this video, we'll take a look at Magnus Carlsen, the world's #1 chess player and how he has changed the game of chess.
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@2199SPUDMAN 5 ай бұрын

One of the most epiphany-level realizations I had in my quest for a 2200 rating was that the purpose of the opening was NOT to get an advantage (it's great if you do!), but to simply get a sound middlegame that I knew "how to play". How-to-play means that you understand 1) where the pieces are best placed in relation to the pawn structure 2) what the most common tactical motifs are in the position 3) where the pawn breaks and levers are and 4) where your king is the safest. This last one is a hallmark of Magnus's play -- his king is always safe BEFORE he does anything active. If you combine all this this with studying pawn structures and pawn theory (holes, weak squares, color complexes, backward pawns, open files, etc.) and basic endgame theory (knights vs bishops, basic rook endings, king triangulation and critical squares, etc.), your rating will explode -- guaranteed.

@mwangikimani3970 5 ай бұрын

Very true. Yet even at 2200 your positional understanding is laughably inferior even to an average IM but definitely on the right path.

@arightscepter 5 ай бұрын

That about as safe as you'll ever see a king.

@ahmeds.mansour1293 5 ай бұрын

This comment is phenomenal.. thank you!!

@2199SPUDMAN 5 ай бұрын

@@mwangikimani3970 I wouldn't say laughably inferior at all. Having played a number of them OTB, the difference between a 2200 NM and a 2400 IM is mostly in theoretical knowledge and perhaps calculating ability. Being a titled player is whole other level of commitment beyond your club-level national master.

@thombendtsen399 4 ай бұрын

Yeah. Simple.

@rogermartin8435 5 ай бұрын

You do produce very informative and compelling commentaries. Thank you very much.

@vladmarcu3536 5 ай бұрын

Well, one thing you missed to point out is that Magnus knows most of openings. He adopted this style in order to provoke an imbalance and to build on it. But he could not do this if he was not expert in openings also. He needs to know the opening in order to assess when is the optimal time to deviate from it.

@vladmarcu3536 5 ай бұрын

@@leonardmccannon3136 It is not at all pointless nor obvious. Beginners could watch this video and may believe that arguably the best chess player of all times did not care too much about established openings. Which is completely false.

@leonardmccannon3136 5 ай бұрын

@@vladmarcu3536 if I will remove the comment as a courtesy only.

@shadeburst 5 ай бұрын

The Carlsen games that I've viewed, he specializes in attacking the corner where the opposing king is castled. The rest of us spend all our time trying to control the center.

@leep1667 5 ай бұрын

It's amazing how quickly Magnus makes a 2700 player look like an amateur

@sausage4mash 5 ай бұрын

i think kasparov said of Magnus, he is a deadly combination of karpov and Fischer

@kaldrazadrim 5 ай бұрын

I like Magnus and Fischer games best- Good job

@kid5Media 5 ай бұрын

Fischer was also a master of the end game.

@cmsmadeeasy Ай бұрын

I love your postings. 80% because your analysis is so instructive, 10% because you do games I remember from my youth (you know, when you said things like p-K4) and not just the stars, and the final 10% because I just luv that akcent - sounds like a real cowboy to my terribly British ear, old chap.

@chessdawg Ай бұрын

Yeah, I let the old descriptive notation creep in once-in-awhile.

@noegojimmy 5 ай бұрын

This is becoming my favourite chess channel, just after a few videos seen.

@KingoftheWelsh 5 ай бұрын

Solid information and well presented. Thanks for the video! I would enjoy watching a Nezhmetdinov or Tal game from you as well

@FloydMaxwell 3 ай бұрын

Spectacular example of the GOAT's methods. Cold blooded efficiency.

@phillipkleopas7230 5 ай бұрын

Magnus does one thing. Target opponent ponds. Have more pawns at the end game so you can promote to queen

@shadeburst 5 ай бұрын

I like to keep a rook for the end game to push a pawn. The newly crowned queen gets zapped immediately but your rook takes so you have traded a pawn for a piece -- maybe even for a queen.

@RealityCheck1 5 ай бұрын

"I don't think the opening is that important. It's what you do after it that counts." - Magnus

@silentbullet2023 5 ай бұрын

than you for the great clarification.

@fransvoogt5145 4 ай бұрын

It's unbelievable. I have seen Etienne litterally crush so many players. He's a real great great champion. But Magnus is playing on God level...

@banzaiburger9589 5 ай бұрын

Club level players spend far too much energy and time on the opening because let’s face it, it’s the most “fun” part of the game. Just getting a playable game and focusing on middle/end game is the way to go, at least it did for me. Thanks for the game John!

@chessdawg 5 ай бұрын

Definitely!

@StephenRahrig 5 ай бұрын

You think the opening is the most fun part?? I dread openings because i haven’t done all the memorization that others have done, and I just want to play chess!

@2199SPUDMAN 5 ай бұрын

@@StephenRahrig Indeed! I always found the opening to be stressful when I was rated 1800-2000 USCF. Now I know this was due not approaching opening study correctly. I recall reading through all the Batsford opening books and the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings and not spending time learning the lines that were =, but instead looking for lines where one had an advantage. Not the right approach!😉

@pepefrogic3034 5 ай бұрын

Openings are boring

@bring-out 4 ай бұрын

I think it's more correct to say people tend to focus on the openings because if you screw it up you struggle in the early middle game and perhaps indeed the rest of the game. That makes people underrate middle and especially endgame. Some might think it's fun to trap opponents in the openings though, I give you that.

@timothymcbride5092 4 ай бұрын

Clear explanation. Very instructive, thank you

@KennyHenrick Ай бұрын

thanks so much for the time that you put into this production

@i.g.l.z.9215 4 ай бұрын

A very comprehensible breakdown of an interesting game, thank you!

@elisanyafunnels 5 ай бұрын

Love your videos brother. Wonder if you would give us your opinion on the current candidate's situation. A few players are making custom tournaments to artificially boost their ratings and sneak into the candidates via the rating slots.

@ashoksafaya5397 5 ай бұрын

No immediate check advantage of atleast on move. Nice game to watch,thanks.

@user-bl9cl8jq2l 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff dawg!

@user-zx6rg4ol7i 4 ай бұрын

How about Bobby Fischer...he invented the Fischer Random Chess or the so-called Chess 960? Only him introduced this kind of chess game...wherein chess pieces at the back rank are placed in a non-standard positions.

@leonardonunes8932 4 ай бұрын

amazing content, congrats!

@Youtube-JOYFUSION999 5 ай бұрын

Great comments and good game has been chosen as well. Thank you.

@williamwelch1978 5 ай бұрын

That's why Magnus has no Rival like Hikaru Nakamura said!

@rpralica Ай бұрын

I love this channel and I would like to know the name of this chess commentator because his analyzes are excellent.

@walterbrownstone8017 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic lesson! Didn't his dad write an endgame book or something?

@werderlebenslang4576 5 ай бұрын

Couldn't you argue that Kramnik's style of play also emphasized the endgame before Carlsen became one of the best players in the world?

@tarjeiforus7293 5 ай бұрын

great channel

@Ryu53898 5 ай бұрын

Actually Qd3 is still theory

@Ryu53898 5 ай бұрын

Even Qc2

@Grey-Elder 5 ай бұрын

Is it at all possible for you to give us a few seconds to guess Magnus’s NEXT MOVE! The ENGINE SAYS! Thanx

@MartinZanichelli 5 ай бұрын

You can pause the video before John tells the next move and try to guess it.

@shadeburst 5 ай бұрын

Criminally Black didn't bring his queen side rook into the game until it was too late. Get all your pieces working! Create more threats and bring more power to the point of trade. A piece just sitting there looking pretty might as well be off the board.

@andrewmays3988 3 ай бұрын

Well spoken!!! GET ALL YOUR DOGS IN THE FIGHT!!!!😊

@jeremyreid9582 5 ай бұрын

In chess, the openings and middle games are just distractions. Only the END GAME matters.

@arepasexo 5 ай бұрын

The game also end if you get checkmated.

@1594simonsays 5 ай бұрын

@@arepasexolol exactly, ask Tal what he thinks about this comment

@dagifelner9298 5 ай бұрын

At 3:51 - why does black mit Take the pawn at F2?

@chessdawg 5 ай бұрын

It is defended by the bishop at h4.

@josephcarbone5379 4 ай бұрын

Thank-you

@maggizmurf 5 ай бұрын

good video

@compromisedssh 5 ай бұрын

There’s nothing unique (to chess) about the way Magnus approached the game, and it was frankly the obvious thing to do. Lots of strategy-based competitions have cyclical plans of attack. In American football, there was a formation called the wildcat that was effective decades ago (the ball gets hiked to a running back, effectively giving the offense an extra player under the circumstances). It fell out of favor when opposing coaches solved it. Then, when the formation and all its plays faded past the institutional memory of all the practicing coaches, the Miami Dolphins brought it back and made the playoffs for the first time in forever. By leveling up his end games, Magnus did sort of the same a thing. Oh- you guys only know how to play great openings now? Welp.. what if I don’t cooperate? Guess what. I’m gonna force you to beat me in an end game if you hope to win. That’s what I’VE been practicing because I decided that Grandmaster A beating Grandmaster B because A knew the first 14 moves of an obscure opening when B only knew the first 13. That’s not chess. You guys are just having flowchart memorization match-ups and it’s boring. (Obviously i don’t know his actual thought process, but that’s how it poetically plays out in my mind lol)

@1594simonsays 5 ай бұрын

You are right, this is bobby Fischers line of thinking also. Go listen to him talk about chess in his later years. This one of the reasons he invented Fischer random aka chess 960 to try and save chess from memorizing theory and dulling it's creativity entirely