Mad Max of Chess: Max Lange vs Schierstedt

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Max Lange vs Schierstedt
Breslau 1868
Vienna Game
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.Nf3 g5 5.Bc4 g4 6.0--0 gxf3 7.d4 fxg2 8.Bxf7+ Kxf7 9.Qh5+ Kg7 10.Rxf4 Nh6 11.Be3 d6 12.Ne2 Qe7 13.Kxg2 Be6 14.Raf1 Bf7 15.Qxh6+ Kxh6 16.Rg4+ Kh5 17.Ng3+ Kxg4 18.Rf5 h6 19.h3+ Kh4 20.Rh5+ Bxh5 21.Nf5# 1--0
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[@Dajewish666]

That looked like Lange intentionally challenged himself to kill the maximal number of pieces

[@maikio2729]

this MAX must be the grandfather of Tal lol

[@Matias-eh2pn]

Max was just crazy. Tal was crazy and brilliant.

[@MatoJelic]

Your comment made me laugh: White's pieces were more terrified of their own king than the opponent's.

[@cataliniulian9618]

6:22 pawn h3 isn't that check mate ?

[@ecxstasy347]

Catalin Iulian KingH4

[@centralprocessingunit2564]

@@ecxstasy347 no. the king is getting away to h5

[@ecxstasy347]

@@centralprocessingunit2564 No, h5 is already blocked by the knight.

[@wesleypickles945]

Lol, sometimes I can pull things like this off, but it's never on purpose. It's always like "Welp, I'm about to lose. Let's do something desperate."

[@quantummath]

Absolutely jaw dropping.

[@quantummath]

+A. M. Goudarzi Big Thumbs Up from me!

[@dobadobado1994]

The most beautiful chess game ever! Thanks Mato for showing us this immortal attack!

[@davidorozco1474]

this guy is craziest than Tal

[@andyfrisch5018]

Max Lange is a really brilliant player. love that extended muzio gambit sacrificing the g2 pawn and the bxf7.

[@mymomdroppedmeonmyhead5432]

Max went full yolo. You never should go full yolo. Unless you're Max, Max can handle it. :)

[@andrewgarratt5191]

My Mom Dropped Me On My Head who in your opinion was a more colorful player ?,max or Mikhail Tal ?!...this is the first max game I've seen. I took up chess simply because I saw a lot of Tal games who seemed for me to: "take the boring out of chess"...I'll look more into this max guy after work today 😀👍🏽. I love "full yolo players" who can back it up. 😂 this might be my new favorite game!!

[@mymomdroppedmeonmyhead5432]

Andrew Garratt To be honest, I never saw Max' games, only this one and he got lucky at 6:30. I love Tal's playstyle, but you only see Tal's games on KZbin when he won. And yes, he lost a lot too.

[@MrGyges]

How did I miss this sparkler ? Well done Mr J in springing this surprise. The daring Max Lange

[@andrewhall7930]

I can tell by a lot of the comments here that the viewers here don't realize how MUCH better a Grand Master is over an International Master.

[@georgiosdoumas2446]

+Magister Ludi Well usually someone that obtains his GM title , after scoring specific results at 3 tournaments on 2 consecutive years , he does have a ELO rating of 2500+ , but then as he gets older , after he is 45-50 years old , his ELO starts dropping , but the title is something that you do not loose , so you can see several 50+ years old players , that obtained the GM title when they were 25-30 (and their rating then was 2550) and now at their 55 they have fell as low as 2400. So generally an IM 30-35 years old is not going to become a GM , so his rating should be about 2450 , and he is not as strong as a GM 30-35 years old with a rating of 2550. But a rising IM of 18 years old (he may have got the IM title at 16) , getting better every month , at some point he may have a rating of 2500 , not having the GM title yet , he can be stronger from several 35 years old GMs that have reached their maximum potential when they were 30 and their ELO is still 2500 for the last 5-7 years. But that rising IM of 18 years , will be a GM at 19-20 , and 2650+ at 22-23 years. So generally what Andrew mentioned is the common thing , and what you said is the rare exception.

[@fothinator]

Wow at move 18 when black moved his kings rook pawn to h6 I did a facepalm! I was thinking "QUEEN...USE YOUR QUEEN!!!"

[@ahtartersauce101]

Right!? I'm like "your king is dying from running around and your best idea is an EDGE PAWN PUSH!?!?"

[@aithocinekarim4634]

Une partie légendaire raconté par un good narrateur. Merci MATO

[@darkowl0]

I've watched a lot of your videos and this one is definitely top 5 in my book. I even found the queen sacrifice! Thanks for posting all these, they've really helped me. Osu.

[@thomasdimattia3556]

This grandmaster commentator is so cool!! I simply love everything he does!

[@tejasbawa]

Rashid Nezhmentdinov vs. Max Lange!! ....-there will be destruction on chess board. (War of sacrifices)

[@theScytheofGod]

Brilliant.

[@jimmy.christian]

*Mad max checkmated black king and his wife!*

[@michaelkim4743]

Very much like the muzio gambit! Was proud I was able to guess most of the moves from having studied similar games in the past!

[@mrpossibilities]

This is perhaps the most aggressive game of chess I have ever seen. The guy never stopped throwing his whole army at his enemy, until he crushed him.

[@mauvekeith1749]

best chess game ive ever seen :) thanks mato!

[@BogusLarry]

I love all of your videos but this video definitely stands out! It is the best in a long time. Thank you for the upload

[@JohnSmith-yd2cu]

This is just insane. He could have ended it much earlier!

[@rajasampath4411]

Serious madness by Max! Awesome, Mato!

[@reshad8570]

the last explanation was much more valuable than the game to me. "sometimes you should give materials back." Means a lot when black lost with six materials while white had only a bishop and a knight!

[@bmukh]

If I was Max's opponent, I would be privileged to lose to such a creative genius!

[@cavanee91]

Wow, this is the wildest game ive seen. Only Fischer vs Byrne can compare to this in my eyes. How come Max Lange isnt more known? He was obviously a genius.

[@WarriorsCherub999]

Damn Max pulled them butt cheeks out of the flames in this game.

[@Khan_v_Yale]

@6:30 Black should give up the queen by taking the e4 pawn. That is: Qxe4 and then taking the white rook once white responds to the check.

[@19stalkern]

Wow..... so fun to see.... these videos are a constant reminder of why chess is the greatest game ever invented.... And Mato is a lot of fun to listen to... well done.

[@gigas81]

I'm just going "nah! nah!" in my head. Its like Max WANTED to checkmate this person by forking the Queen and King (which has been done but not easy to do). I mean its like he went out of his way to give up piece after piece and Black didn't even realize it. Schierstedt still probably doesn't realize it.....

[@colemank1407]

What a Game.. One of the best on the channel i came accross..

[@Slim055]

There is something very much like Morphy in the sacrifice and relentless attack. Thanks for the show. ;)

[@MatoJelic]

Watch all my games and you will see even better ones. I recommend:"Polish Immortal" and "Schlechter's Immortal" Bernhard Fleissig vs Carl Schlechter

[@Taubenschmied]

LOL. I think the only reason why Lange didn't play rook to f5, as Mato suggested, was because he found a way to sacrifice both rooks instead of only one.

[@dicklaurent1]

Lange,Morphy,Tal - the 3 tenors of chess!

[@Namotasso]

What about Rashid Nezhmetdinov, he was Tals teacher !

[@avanticorpo]

The better queen sac in the alternative ending would be Qh4, pre-empting h3+. and black takes another piece in exchange for the queen.

[@kittycalisonnypatch]

Max lange is almost as awesome as mato! Thnx for the great game mato! Keep up great work!

[@zenzorba7787]

Mad Max is not the correct title. Most sadistic Check mate or real knock out would have probably been appropriate. Thanks for the upload. Great game

[@Swordfishstick]

Just mad. Brilliantly mad. :D

[@cybernian]

Love your videos! Learn a lot about chess and a little about geography!

A real masterpiece on the chess board

[@temka088]

LOL Mato this is just seriously overkill from Max Lange, its like he was torturing his opponent for longer and longer just to see his humiliated face !

[@markquigley5709]

But if black had sacrificed his queen as Mato showed, it would have been a terrible game for Max - one he would rather forget 😡

[@rpmangin]

+Mark Quigley Greed hung black

[@CesarMartinez-nj9wm]

He can't sacrifice queen because it's still checkmate in 2 moves. Max doesn't take queen he just checks with the pawn and then the bishop checkmate on g5

[@hadikusuma18]

+Cesar Martinez it's a check on white king

[@escaperoomleander1948]

Can't check with pawn, he's in check, so has to move king or take queen.

[@simon_patterson]

I suspect this was part chess, part poker for Lang. He bet on his opponent placing far too much value on keeping his pieces. The gamble paid off.

[@georgyporgy2512]

MatoJelic I gained 200 rating points by just watching your videos for which I am very grateful, big fan of yours! May I ask you to show us more of Topalov's winning games? There must be some instructional ones, definitely maybe :)

[@sakibhasan1213]

rook f4 to g4 is chackmate in the move 15 or something like that

[@rawebishara6982]

Sakib Hasan I doubt black will allow a checkmate that obvious

[@burtonrivera5253]

Max Lange Akiba Rubinstein Alexander Alekhine Mikhail Tal Are fun to learn from, beautiful play!

[@jomic9060]

morphy and tal would tip their cap to max on this one.

[@samehyousseiff9211]

more max games please

[@thothbaboon]

Brilliant! This is fantastic

[@silverslivver]

Beautiful, I may have to try this Vienna game

[@Szabest1797]

That's exciting chess!!! Thanks, Mato!

[@TataMataAkrobata]

i love this player.

[@SalamiNugget]

Insane

[@Gr3gorius]

One of the best games ever!

[@aleksandaryordanov6753]

Beleave it or not, i saw the whole continuation. I am so proud!

[@MrAXiMe]

Even though both sides made a lot of mistakes, Max Lange could have played: 17.Rf5+ instead of 17.Ng3+, which would be losing at that point. Followed by either 17...Kxg4 18.h3+ Kh4 19.Bf2# or 17...Qg5 losing to a lot of mating variations, like 18.Rfxg5+ Kh6 and 19.R(a/b/c/d/e/f)5#. :)

[@annasvilks]

incredible!!! dont have words

[@shreyasshah8521]

At move 18 instead of giving check to white by queen and secrifice of black queen, black can move its rooK to G8 too.

[@shailesh17111988]

Hi Mato! make some more videos of Mad max of chess.

[@Mobulus]

Oh, I remember one of Tal's games that went like this one. Really fantastic! :D

[@mckill2007]

5:20 Rf4 is really the best move, since in 6:31 Rf5, black plays h6??, he should have played Qxe4+! and black is winning ah ok you explained it also at the end XD

[@jamescioffi3796]

WOW. That was incredible

[@MatoJelic]

LOL. Max got me worried too.

[@AdonisReddick]

Cat playing with their foods.

[@avitrugeman]

If you ask me, I will explain qxe4+ nxq kxr Black wins

[@ChromaticTempest]

I came here looking for the Lange sac opening... and I got it! Captain Smith would be proud!

[@giriiyer3968]

Till Max's dark bishop to E3 I thought every move was from a Morphy game which our dear mato sir has shown.

[@timlee7284]

I found Rf5+! instead of the move played in the game. As you say, it's a lot better because it is more forcing and there is no defence.

[@javiercolino9198]

9...Rg7; 10. Txf4, Ch6; 11. Tf2

[@tejjj3]

What do I think about Max? He's Mad.

[@ardopalanjian3998]

at 3:55 why play rook f1 if you can play a stronger move that is rook g1. placing rook with the same diagonal as black king.

[@Perspektive77]

what a maniac this lange is, great attack but also very risky

[@logicaldota2]

Three words... Best game ever!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JPRamirez7]

another great video mato!

[@theducksneezes4987]

This game hurts me eyes. Such a beautiful game.

[@isaacairoes]

What a INCREDIBLE game

[@rafid_hasan]

I was able to find the queen sacrifice. Brilliant game!

[@shnoogums1]

sacking two pieces without immediate attack is pretty mad

[@CAPTAINSSBN]

nice game

[@sabrinamiklavcic4104]

Do you play chess yourself? If so, i am challenging you for a game ;-)

[@MatoJelic]

Sabrina Miklavcic Who? Me? Sometimes when there is a blue noon. Thank you for the offer anyway

[@sabrinamiklavcic4104]

MatoJelic hmmm can be you too ;-), why not? originally i was challenging *****

[@sabrinamiklavcic4104]

MatoJelic I just checked your g+ wall, and i have my concerns now..you might be playing way too good for me ;-)

[@DanielEscovedo]

Sabrina Miklavcic LOL! Mato is a GM, fortunately you know that you have no chance against him. ;)

[@nessaaqila5188]

Love this game! thank's mato!

[@colemank1407]

cracking game.. what A finishing position.. wow.. just wow..

[@jandom9008]

One of my favourite game

[@pauldow1648]

beautiful perspective.

[@mescalito0815]

fantastik, great game and comments

[@danielzaka4603]

great game but like you said Mato Qxe4 would be game over for black. thank you Mato

[@dab1463]

So I play chess a lot...but never like this. Never. Just extraordinary chess game. Thank you.

[@lowlypeasant]

I swear Max did this just to show off and be a little sadistic.

[@janniedzwiecki3419]

I considered queen sucrifice and I found the first combination with the rook. The second one was too sophisticated.

[@javiercolino9198]

Después de 17. Cf3+, Rxg4; 18. Tf5, Dxe4+ deja al blanco para la funeraria.

[@paulrodberg]

WONDERFUL EXAMPLE WONDERFUL TEACHER THANK YOU

[@JinGwee]

If Max leads an army, i wouldn't want to be in it, because im gonna get sacrificed.

[@ChungEunChong]

7:40 - if queen tried to sacrifice, then pawn to h3 check, king has only one move to h4, then rook h5 check... mate. that's why the pro didn't do it and that's Mato is commentating.

[@theophrastusbombastusvonho5804]

Why didn't Max simply go for the variation Mato explained? If I could spot Rf5+ instead of Ng3+, Max should have been able to do so either, shouldn't he?

[@My8world]

How about, afyer King takes Queen, Rook takes bishopattacjing the qeen as well as checking the king with bishop?

[@fporretto]

That reminded me of the famous Bird-Mason game where Black sacrifices practically everything to send the White King on a long walk...but had to be satisfied with a perpetual check.

[@BlackKnight_217]

I think he just wanted to show off. He was going to lose very embarrassingly until he got lucky cuz his opponent celebrated too early.

[@subscriberswithnocontent-tv4zu]

that queen sacrifice I did not see

[@Telmach]

It is an amazing game, but I believe that max is psychotic. White has the advantage in every game, dangerous strategies like this make more sense when playing black.

[@KillberZomL4D42494]

What a game