Kasparov's Revenge! || "Fall of the Wall"

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Garry Kasparov vs Vladimir Kramnik
"Fall of the Wall" (game of the day Dec-21-2009)
Astana (2001), Astana KAZ, rd 10, Jun-01
Spanish Game: Berlin Defense. l'Hermet Variation Berlin Wall Defense (C67)
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Ne4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bc6 dc6 7. de5 Nf5 8. Qd8 Kd8 9. Nc3 h6 10. h3 Bd7 11. b3 Ke8 12. Bb2 Rd8 13. Rad1 Ne7 14. Rfe1 Ng6 15. Ne4 Nf4 16. e6 Ne6 17. Nd4 c5 18. Nf5 Rh7 19. Bf6 Rc8 20. Bg7 Bg7 21. Ng7 Rg7 22. Nf6 Ke7 23. Nd7 Rd8 24. Ne5 Rd1 25. Rd1 Nf4 26. Kh1 Rg5 27. Ng4 Rd5 28. Re1 Kf8 29. Nh6 Rd2 30. Re5 Rf2 31. Rf5 Kg7 32. Ng4 Rg2 33. Rf4 Rc2 34. Rf2 Rc3 35. Kg2 b5 36. h4 c4 37. h5 cb3 38. ab3 Rc5 39. h6 Kf8 40. Nf6 Rg5 41. Kh1
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00:00 Hello Everyone!
In 2001, during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Kazakhstan's independence in the wake of the Soviet Union's dissolution, a double round robin chess tournament was held in the capital city of Astana. Six of the world's best players, including the world champion, participated in the category XX event. The participants were (in order of ELO): Garry Kasparov (2835), Vladimir Kramnik (2797), Alexander Morozevich (2749), Alexey Shirov (2722), Boris Gelfand (2712) and Kazakhstan's number one player Darmen Sadvakhasov (2585). Kasparov made it nine tournament wins in a row on his streak to ten with his undefeated victory here, in sole first place with 7/10.
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[@brukujinbrokujin7802]

Kramnik after watching this : It is statistically impossible to draw every berlin defense

[@mognuscarlson5393]

He hoped everyone would find this interesting

[@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd]

Marry cristmas everyone😂😂😂ho ho ho

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

@@MislavIvkovic-sx8vd Especially if your wedding day is today eh.

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

It's a small detail but I love that you always try to put pictures of the players from back when the game was played. Adds to the experience. Merry Christmas Antonio, cheers to you

[@anthonyvincel7266]

Definitely not always lol, but I do agree and prefer time appropriate pictures if available

[@d4slaimless]

@@anthonyvincel7266 he might indeed always try. Not always successfully. And I as well like when you can guess time period from players appearance.

[@teejayreyes9145]

12:42 It was Tal that said to Fischer "A knight is a knight." When asked by an interviewer what his thoughts were to Fischer's statement that he can defeat Nona Gaprindashvili with a knight down.

[@CoverBydAn]

Merry Christmas Agad and the community! This is one of the very few channels on youtube with a host with substance, and a community with class

[@daviddurbin7682]

Santa Tal giving checkmate to all fellow gms lol

[@Modern_Nietzsche]

Imagine Tal coming to the board wearing a Santa hat.

[@CoverBydAn]

You mean… Santal! What a missed opportunity 😂

[@ronjohnson9690]

MERRY CHRISTMAS agadmator. Thank you for your time and energy for such superior content. Hoping all goes well for us through the coming year and maybe 1.5 million will be subscribed!

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Merry Christmas Agadmator and fellow Chess enthusiasts Enjoy your day Enjoy your Chess 😅

[@rickharold7884]

Kasparov games are always so fun and magical!! Win or lose.

[@ralph0149]

#suggestion Alekhine-Capablanca 1927 World Championship match Buenos Aires. Not all 34 games of course (unless you like marathons).

[@jonathancauley5345]

Merry Christmas! Thank for showing this masterpiece!

[@grandmasterrickrichi]

Kasparov had a great attacking technique.

[@fuiscklam4087]

Sretan Božić i sve najbolje, Agadmator!

[@LordFred69]

Merry Christmas and thanks for all the content this year!

[@freshfalcon3996]

Merry Christmas Antonio!!! Thank you for hosting the best chess channel in the world.

[@chesscomsupport8689]

Did Hikaru pick the game for today?

[@nicbentulan]

3 questions Q1 - Why are chess players more dishonest than 9LX players? Eg there hasn't been a cheating scandal in a classical 9LX tournament. Q2 - Do you side with Wesley, Bobby, Hans (axis of evil) over Magnus, Garry, Hikaru (allies of evil) ? Q3 - Which of the ff facts do you deny? H1 - Hikaru cheated Levon. G1 - Garry cheated Judit. G2 - Garry cheated Vishy. G3 - Garry cheated Daniel Edelman. G4 - Garry cheated in 1999 MSN game. G5 - Garry cheated Alexei Shirov. M1 - Magnus cheated Anish. M2 - Magnus cheated Sergey. M3 - Magnus cheated Alireza. M4 - Magnus cheated Wesley M5 - Magnus cheated Danya TWICE. M6 - Magnus cheated Nepo. M7 - Magnus cheated Alexandra Kosteniuk. WBH1 - Bobby cheated no one. WBH2 - Hans cheated no one (as an adult). WBH3 - Wesley cheated no one. WBH4 - Hans supposedly cheated 100x, but Magnus definitely did as described in kBOrtdiGDrM or VInHv6ZS818 - cbarr81 asked: Do you ever log onto as an anonymous player, and just crush people for fun? - Magnus admitted in an AMA: Once in a while I’ve used some of my friends accounts and won a couple of games… or a lot… Source: p1w4Rr-jr --- Good guys vs Bad guys Note: they correspond. Eg Wesley Vs Magnus Bobby Vs Garry Hans Vs Hikaru Christopher Yoo Vs Andrew Tang Dina Vs Andrea etc - Axis of Evil = Good guys: wesley so, hans niemann, bobby fischer, sergey karjakin, vlad kramnik (still! See below), ian nepomniachtchi, alireza firouzja, nodirbek abdusattorov, andrii baryshpolets, vishy anand, jan-krzysztof duda, chesscube, Sergey's hypothetical pure 9LX parallel, christopher yoo, leela, ferdinand marcos sr, ben johnson of perpetual chess podcast(?), elon musk(?), donald trump, andrew tate - Allies of Evil = Bad guys: magnus carlsen, hikaru nakamura, garry kasparov, daniil dubov, veselin topalov, liren ding, aryan tari, vincent keymer, arkady dvorkovich, peter heine nielsen, richárd rapport, PCA, FIDE, andrew tang, stockfish, prospero pichay jr, lex fridman(?), mark zuckerberg(?), george bush, piers morgan - axis of evil (female) = good girls: tingjie lei (or paikidze), janelle frayna, dina belenkaya, sara khadem (or carissa yip), robbi jade lew - allies of evil (female) = bad girls: wenjun ju, bella khotenashvili, andrea botez, atousa pourkashiyan - nakamura, nemo zhou --- Note on axis Vs allies: They're not just good Vs bad. They're also axis of evil Vs allies of evil. They're both evil but in different ways. I'm saying that even though the axis of evil is evil, they're still more so the good guys compared to the allies of evil - whom I consider the bad guys. We may disagree on who the good Vs bad guys are, but I think we'll agree on axis Vs allies. Axis of Evil is like tax collector, the more conventional, obvious or well-known evil. Allies of Evil is like Pharisee, the unconventional or inconspicuous evil. More info: ARNSi0cPu60 --- Note re Vlad: I view Vlad's accusation of Hans similar to Bobby's accusation of Anatoly Karpov & Wesley's wanting Sergey to not be in the 2022 candidates - it's a good guy fighting another good guy. The real bad guy in each respective case is Magnus, Garry & Magnus again. Tsk tsk. It's sad Vlad/Bobby/Wesley didn't realise that Magnus/Garry/Magnus is far more evil than Hans/Anatoly/Hans. Wait, I think Bobby did. Not sure. I think Bobby hated Garry more than Anatoly, but maybe not by much more. More info: eXHvXpOnAOE

[@someonesch4361]

What is Hikaru doing in between two world champions??😂

[@shade8174]

​@@nicbentulanso you're just real crazy huh?

[@nicbentulan]

@@shade8174 Would you ask this to victims of Alejandro Ramirez? Or to people whose loved ones are gone because of George Bush's invasions?

[@nicbentulan]

@@someonesch4361 I assume you mean me. Hikaru is a fake WC (rapid WFRCC not classical WFRCC. Magnus Hikaru & FIDE conspired to cheat Wesley So. And even Nepo Fabi & Vidit.) just as Magnus & Garry are fake WCs too (they are cheaters specifically in WCCs. Magnus cheated Nepo 2021, Alireza 2019 & Alexandra Kosteniuk 2009. harry cheated Vishy 1995).

[@MrSupernova111]

Wow! Spectacular game! Thanks!!

[@dbabini1]

Merry Christmas! It's a double Christmas present for me as I just purchased Kasparov's masterclass for myself earlier today!

[@luckyarabr]

Sretan Božić ! Antonio i hvala vam na vašoj usluzi.

[@exbricadlo]

merry Christmas, kasparov unusual brilliance

[@neski311]

Hi Agadmator. Just wanted to wish you a happy new year. All love from Puerto Rico!

[@KazeKage_B]

Merry Christmas Agad from the other side of zaworldo 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@ianardeant]

Merry Christmas Agad!

[@georgeray649]

Merry Christmas Agad and your family

[@GeorgeEpting]

Thanks for this game today the agressive with the strenth is truly in 2800 level❤😊

[@RacerTTT]

Antonio, you are the best chess KZbinr

[@KennedyMister95]

Merry Christmas, Antonio! 😊

[@julescarlgilamon222]

Merry christmas agad!! 🎉

[@rantdmc]

Agadmator - the Christmas gift that keeps on giving 😂😂 thanks, Antonio!

[@durgababu879]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 dear agadmator

[@listey]

"Very interesting"

[@radjamss6390]

Merry Christmas Agad! Best of wishes to you and yours.

[@mthunzicomfort2239]

" Knight is Knight but a fischer is a fischer."-- Mital Kal

[@daviddurbin7682]

Merry Christmas Antonio

[@rajsharma2023]

My uncle love complicated positions😂😂

[@davidcopson5800]

What did his wife say?

[@rogerrylander8296]

Merry Christmas, Antonio, Medo and family from the US.

[@sinabaharlouei1219]

Merry Christmas Agadmator and all awesome subscribers

[@michael-grandpamoses2571]

Excellent photoshopping with the Santa hat on Tal! Merry Christmas

[@garfthetoast6367]

I beg you more kasparov games please

[@danielfilipovic8543]

Sretan I blagoslovjen bozic tebi i tvoj obitelj ,hvala ti za svaki Video!❤

[@edwardebel1847]

Nothing more to be done? He could have wished him “Merry Christmas” or more likely “Happy Hanukkah”. And Happy Holidays to YOU…and thanks for a Christmas Day game. Cheers!

[@dimitriosdoulgeris4659]

The Berlin defense was bullet-proof, so Kasparow brought a rocket launcher.

[@Msizi-qc8mi]

Merry Christmas agad

[@FloydMaxwell]

Thank you, Agadmator, for giving us gifts every day of the year.

[@terrellhopson253]

Amazing!

[@og7364]

#suggestion the game Gashimov - Grischuk 2010 world team championship, also known as "The Tightrope Game". Please do it Agad, one hell of a game :)

[@hcgreier6037]

A very nice pick! I wonder how Vlad did not go the ♜×c2 line for draw.... Maybe because he was champion at the time...

[@antoniobacic5674]

Thanks & Marry Christmas back

[@What2Watch305]

I just love the magician celebrating Xmas

[@emranahmed5711]

Looks like, this game is a suggestion from one of agadmator's subscriber Hikaru Nakamura 😂

[@46SAMB]

#suggestion. Vasily Ivanchuck vs Hu Jun in Luzern 1993. Because there was two brilliant and rare moves in one game which give a victory to one of them. Might be very interesting for deconstruction.

[@spirokaci]

Brilliant game

[@joseraz-guzmancastro6946]

Merry Christmas and thank you for a year of your high quality chsnnel

[@gregorymorales1]

"your uncle could finish this game"... Leonid Moiseevich Weinstein's son: that is true.

[@michal55935]

#suggestion Tylkowski vs Wojciechowski Pearl of Poznan game with one of a kind endgame

[@tamasszombati1395]

Please make a Kasparov saga!

[@milindhindocha4420]

#suggestion please cover their match 🙏

[@jacobpope9269]

What about the Steinitz Saga?

[@lukabilic9964]

cover the championship match between the two of them.. actually you should have done this long time ago

[@hadisusanto9146]

Merry Christmas. Can you show us the championship match? Thank you so much

[@adnan4688]

Lord of Chess himself.

[@kriti8906]

Interesting!!!!

[@macsonalaska]

Merry Christmas🎄

[@CarlMassop]

Playing like engines!

[@mjmassi11]

I have a dumb question. I must be missing something. In the second line, after black captures the c2 pawn first, then the f2 pawn, what happens if white plays Ng4 next?

[@nomnomnom612]

At 4:50 whats wrong with fxe6 and then Nd5 defending c7 pawn?

[@agustinrivero8777]

#suggestion Rudik Makarian vs Faustino Oro round 2 of the WRCC, there's a beatiful bishop sacrifice in b4

[@colinstewart1432]

Merry Chessmas! And yes, you've got my full permission to use this greeting. 🤔🤣😖

[@jarosawbielski2301]

Kasparov - say to wisdom: "You are my sister!"

[@mukmin01]

Agad always looking for a game where B4 is the winning move LOL

[@knightrider585]

What do top level chess games have in common with beginner chess games? In both cases the tactics on the board tend not to be played out.

[@olivierboissiere7086]

Kasparov-Kramnik... Good idea...

[@orlandoconde5341]

Merry Christmas

[@Draconisrex1]

They look so young!!!

[@exbricadlo]

kramnik: was this on the script?

[@alisterzarkar7163]

Where can I get the picture of Tal-Santa?

[@miguelkkkk2458]

It was a hard Game. It s really likely kramnik could save the gane against other player... But Kasparov is a precise killer.

[@somebody700]

Kramnik in his head: "how do I accuse him of cheating"

[@Antonio-jl1uz]

Merry Christmas dear Agadmator community

[@1raf748]

Do a kasparov vs karpov series

[@davidcopson5800]

Did they ever play each other?

[@1raf748]

@@davidcopson5800 they played more than 100 games

[@HikarusVibrator]

Interesting

[@lajos-berenyi]

“Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight” Fischer said about women chess, that he could give a knight odds for any woman player. For that answered someone this famous quote.

[@jasonsdodd]

while i loath fischer, he probably could have when he said that.

[@MikoDarkblade]

When ask who is the best player ever answered : "Kasparov". Hence, I would like to see more Kasparov games to see why Magnus says he's the best...

[@James-md8ph]

Tal with a santa hat 😄

[@Ceeewolf]

"... and now look at this." Happy whatever.

[@radesk]

Hey, when is the Alekhine saga comming ?

[@nagendranayak3101]

Happy Christmas 🙂

[@pseudosmok3088]

STEINITZ saga? It's been a year, friend.

[@rauls4972]

Merry Christmas!

[@Waiting_Heaven]

I see Kasparov I click

[@zebra3stripes]

Santa Tal brought me a gift. I accepted it. Then he checkmated me three moves later.

[@SuperSaniyat]

Why do I have to grab a pawn, give me a piece of chicken...! :P :D

[@ashoksafaya5397]

So h8 rook became active before move 65😊.

[@johnmallette3143]

GG

[@jambellen3090]

Merry Christmas everyone❤

[@imcmt217]

I just believe that every chess player has the capability to create a heist and get away with it 🤔😂

[@user-sk9hh9cx7d]

Not my Uncle.,🤣🤣🤣

[@BlckJack123]

I am one of those guys who always wants to enjoy the show unless I can figure out the answer in a few seconds.

[@nicbentulan]

1 - imagine WESLEY SO, THE NEPHEW OF BOBBY FISCHER, wins the candidates and then beats liren and then becomes the 1st ever player to become both classical WFRCC & classical WCC unlikely unless the candidates suddenly becomes - classical 9LX - classical armageddon w/ auction - both of the above - knockout (either single or double i guess) w/tiebreaker not rapid but classical armageddon w/ auction it's still unlikely even if liren drops out and there's a 2nd place thing again. but still a fun thought lol. 1.1 Actually another fun thought is Liren drops out and then Wesley So Vs Ian Nepomniachtchi in both 2024 WFRCC finals if it's classical and 2024 classical wcc. Then people will start to see this is a better rivalry than Hikaru Vs Magnus in rapid chess or rapid 9LX. (I don't necessarily agree with them but Hikaru Vs Magnus has a Wikipedia page. So please don't comment anything like 'Magnus owns Hikaru' or whatever. The point isn't to compare Magnus w/ Hikaru or Nepo w/ Wesley. The point is that Magnus & Hikaru are on the same side 'allies of evil' just as Nepo & Wesley are on the same side 'axis of evil'.) 2 besides as far h uncle bobby is concerned. 2a - wesley has nothing to prove in regular chess anymore 2b - wesley has nothing to prove in rapid 9LX 2c - wesley has something to prove in classical 9LX if it's next gen. imagine hans vs wesley in 2024 classical WFRCC finals. it's like bobby fischer vs anatoly karpov (bobby fischer vs garry kasparov was the 2019 WFRCC finals, proving ultimately that bobby would've EASILY defeated garry in classical 9LX) 3 ok i've been complaining for 2 years that wesley didn't get a wildcard in the candidates for 9LX reasons even though fabi & hikaru got wildcards in the 2019 WFRCC quarter-finals (equivalent of 9LX candidates) for chess reasons. (yes, hikaru too. 2018 unofficial is only 2 players & both were chess wildcards. but unfortunately no, magnus indeed deserved a wildcard into the 2019 WFRCC semi-finals) but i guess that's now moot. 4 but still wesley should get a wildcard in the 2024 WFRCC if it's going to be classical (at least 60min) again like 2019 not rapid in 2022 (32.5min). Or whatever don't give Wesley as wildcard but let all tiebreakers be classical 9LX AW/A and then Wesley So will win the whole tournament EASILY. 5 finally, magnus garry hikaru daniil, veselin, liren, piers morgan, george bush are bad guys (allies of evil). wesley, bobby, hans, sergey, vlad, nepo, andrew tate, donald trump are good guys (axis of evil). so they're both evil in different ways: allies of evil vs axis of evil as described in: ARNSi0cPu60 like tax collector vs pharisee, like (iran iraq north korea) vs (US UK Japan Australia) 6 wow i can't believe someone actually reached the end of this comment. well thanks for reading. merry christmas, happy new year, and happy holidays 7 PS 2023 USCC - Atousa almost beat Carissa Yip, the eventual winner! Carissa was losing most of the game. Atousa just blundered in the end. #suggestion #womeninchess #uschesschamps #uschess #uschesschamp #uscc

[@catac83]

2:35 I am stunned by how EASY a 2802 elo player blundered the castling so EARLY in the game…All Kramnik had to do is capture the bishop with his B7 pawn and not with D7 so that his queen won’t be exposed. I mean its only the next move that his pawn on E5 is captured (the most logical next move) and he will have to move the knight and expose his queen. The GMs usually calculate 5-10 moves in advance.. was it a blitz game or did Kramnik had a few vodka before the game?

[@austinwheeler3665]

Although the game ended badly for Kramnik, allowing the queen trade with loss of castling rights in this scenario is perfectly acceptable. It was intentionally allowed, not a blunder. The same sequence of moves is played in modern times. I won’t pretend to know the nuances of whether b takes instead of d takes is playable at this level, and I’d certainly choose b takes myself, but the whole point of the Berlin defense is an incredibly solid drawish defense for black which doesn’t allow white many chances to push for a win, barring mistakes like what we saw today. An early queen trade reduces white’s firepower as a step toward that objective.

[@simonsays6026]

It's all theory and I think you'd quite enjoy the Berlin endgame if you tried it. Not a lot of mistakes to be made in the opening so you'll learn them quickly.

[@syjwg]

13:01 Why not take the pawn on b3?

[@BuggatiWeryon]

Because then h6+ defended by the knight, king has to move to stay in contact with the pawn. But both moves are bad. If Kg6, then Rf6+ pushes the king down as king cant advance back to g7 due to the pawn. After Kg5, h7 and nor the king nor the rook can catch the pawn because the rook is now on B3 and the king is WAAAAY behind... Let's check the second king move, if after Rxb3, h6+, Kh7 staying in front of the pawn and blockading it, then Rxf7 comes with check, you lose an important pawn. Now you have to go way back to the 8th rank and then the rook can grab the c7 pawn, as the black rook is now on the B file and you have to watch out for some sort of knight/rook checks, pawn advances, White will be much faster since the pawn is on h6 and black's passer will only be on b5, after Black removes the rook since it is in front of the pawn now

[@syjwg]

It's not defended, and then you have three pawns moving forward.

[@BuggatiWeryon]

@@syjwg Knight being on g4 can defend h6.. i suppose you know how the knight moves

[@BuggatiWeryon]

@@syjwg now i realized you were talking about the B3 pawn lol. Ofc the rook can grab it but i just explained above that it will be losing if black had grabbed the B3 pawn then

[@syjwg]

​@@BuggatiWeryonGreat explanation and I've learned a lot. ❤

[@niagra898]

Kramnik is not without his faults-but he did beat Gary chess in his prime.