Magnus Carlsen's Immortal Zugzwang || Dubov vs Carlsen || Chessable Masters (2020)

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Daniil Dubov vs Magnus Carlsen
Chessable Masters (2020), 21.6.2020, Round 8
Queen's Gambit Declined semi-Slav (D43)
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. g3 Nbd7 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. b3 b6 9. Re1 Ba6 10. Nd2 Rc8 11. Bb2 c5 12. dxc5 Nxc5 13. b4 Nce4 14. Ncxe4 dxe4 15. b5 Bb7 16. e3 Bb4 17. Re2 Qd3 18. Rb1 Bc3 19. Ba3 Rfd8 20. Rb3 Qxc4 21. Qe1 Qd5 22. Bb4 Qxb3 23. axb3 Bxb4 24. Bf1 a5 25. Qd1 h6
World Champion Magnus Carlsen and 11 more of the world's best chess players are competing in the Chessable Masters by chess24, the 3rd event in the $1 million Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour, taking place from June 20 to July 5. The 12 players will first be reduced to 8 in a 4-day knockout stage split into two groups. The A Group features Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Daniil Dubov, Alexander Grischuk, Vladislav Artemiev and Harikrishna.
The players play each other twice in rapid chess over 10 rounds, with the top 4 then advancing to the knockout stage. The time control is 15 minutes for all moves, with a 10-second increment from move 1. No draw offers are allowed before move 40. The tournament is sponsored by Chessable, the world's leading online chess training platform. Official website: chess24.com/tour
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Lol “nicely develops his pawn”

[@barlin4972]

@Peter Mortensen No! At 02:46....

[@LeventK]

@Peter Mortensen *L I A R*

[@Just99jacob]

I wish I could develop my pawns as nicely 🤣

[@geoffreycolpitts8163]

You're all wrong. He was thinking about it at 0:49, when he moved the knight, and we all know it's the thought that counts.

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Geoffrey Colpitts lol

[@cagnusmarlsen4050]

5:27 and as of this position agadmator gained access of opponent's bishop.

[@hanshansen1990]

Nice spotted mate

[@malandyrocks4911]

Yeah. Hahaha. The opponent's bishop was hypnotized.

[@princessarvie6456]

Hahahaha I was thinking who else noticed lol

[@douggieharrison6913]

a real alpha makes moves for his opponent

[@EC-pf1tr]

lol yeah as soon as I saw this I went to go look in the comments to see who else had spotted it

[@saleembaba5144]

Forcing your opponent to resign by playing h6 without attacking anything is just beautiful.

[@SamuelPearlman]

I can picture Magnus employing BLUE STEEL, piercing Dubov's eye sockets as he dramatically plays ... Pawn to h6! Dubov hangs his head, and shakes Magnus' hand.

[@magnafire1]

He knew he had nothing. And knew his time was so low he could play any move and just watch his clock expire.

[@cs4155]

@@SamuelPearlman too much anime

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@@cs4155 I guess that's what I was going for, though in my mind it was live-action. I've never watched animé but happy to take recommendations if you have any!

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@@SamuelPearlman blue steel is zoolander ref

[@itwasinthispositionerinoag7414]

0:00 Hello everyone 0:28 Without further ado 0:40 Sorry about that 0:47 My bad 1:05 Castles castles 2:05 Completely new game 3:03 Nice stifling move 3:32 Captures captures 4:01 Triple attack 4:27 6:37 Give you a couple of seconds 4:38 6:47 Enjoy the show 5:08 8:42 Nothing to be done 5:42 Nice in-between move 5:52 8:03 Gobble up 7:09 Gobbling pigs 6:02 Of course completely winning 7:57 En passant 8:20 Very low on time 8:36 Position from the thumbnail 8:38 It was in this position 10:30 Poetic way to end the game 10:45 Zugzwang

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9:57 green square

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@@panda4247 agad bingo!

[@melsy9355]

Why 😂😂

[@PaulAllen8.30]

5:25 Agadmator is so strong that he can use his opponent's pieces to defend checkmate. Not even the rules of chess can stand up to the mighty Agad!

[@magnafire1]

That is too funny. How did Agad think his opponents bishop could stop check mate hahhaha. Sad I didn't catch this. We just tend to believe what he says all the time without examining if he is right since we assume he is using engines. Lol I mean he does use engines but it's when he adds his own 2 cents that are mistakes sometimes.

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@@magnafire1 I don't think mistakes of this nature are common, this is just a simple oversight.

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I stopped when this happened and came looking for this comment lol

[@Mikesco10]

wow didnt even notice hahahahaha

[@LeventK]

They aren't mistakes just happy little accidents

[@durbinho7089]

5:27 Imagine you're playing chess and your opponent uses your piece to stop a checkmate

[@clownpocket]

Completely winning.

[@gniewomircioek6845]

Nothing left to do :P

[@niklasvandetten610]

Carlsen casually reminding us how good he really is, this game is a real treat!

[@gniewomircioek6845]

casually. He's winning almost every tournament.

[@ChrisHyde537]

Gniewomir Ciołek But he lost in Banterblitz to Lawrence Trent. The beginning of an inevitable downward slide into obscurity. After four WCC’s (all flukes) his luck has run out.

[@SleepyFen]

@@ChrisHyde537 Carlsen is not likely to fade into obscurity considering his track record

[@bepohal]

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[@kg_1720]

KING MAGNUS 👑

[@akshatpandey8571]

5:25 you will get checkmated as that bishop is white's bishop lol..

[@crazyinsanechessplayer2208]

Exactly lol

[@avikumarirm]

If black captures bishop then black will get back rank checkmated after rook takes black rook with checkmate

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It was in this position that agadmator released 3 videos in one day.

[@eugenedenamarca9117]

When GM's play some crazy games it would be crazy if agad won't make a video out of it.

[@namne11]

even the Nakamura Dubov game was wild. I hope he analyzes this. Maybe tomorrow. Even Antonio needs a breather.

[@yemioffem4015]

@K M try to relax, it was a harmless comment... Avoid negative energy whenever you can...

[@shawnfreeman3932]

clearly winning

[@akiskanakakis4619]

Magnus is actually so good he can defend using the enemy pieces 5:25

[@cinegraphics]

He bribed the enemy piece

[@drHouse-gb2kt]

He hijacked the Bishop. Guy is on another level

[@elektrogamer-roblox8717]

Akis Kanakakis magnus didnt play that move

[@akiskanakakis4619]

@@elektrogamer-roblox8717 Yeah but agadmator said he could defend mate using the white bishop.That's the joke XD .

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They play these crazy games so that you can show them😂

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No doubt :)

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[@0wenfox]

Haha!

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1:05 Captures Captures evolved to Castles Castles.

[@ounobaga1829]

Still waiting for a Castles, castles, then castles, castles, castles, and castles, castles after that, then finally castles, castles

[@crimsonblade2519]

"You cannot castles because of castles"

[@nikolaadzic1684]

Did he just defend the black king with white bishop? 😁

[@jiriblahos4051]

Yup, it's your friendly neighbourhood bishop.

[@adityavv96]

😂

[@nilseisenhauer-fickler7486]

there were plenty of mistakes in this video - .maybe 3 videos a day was too much :D

[@hanshansen1990]

Jiří Blahoš Nice one mate

[@magnafire1]

When you try to avoid checkmate you have to use your opponents pieces. It's the oldest trick in the book lol

[@yasinyaqoobi]

Me: surely something can be done here. Agad: there is nothing more to be done here.

[@P.sherman45]

5:31 when your pieces dont let you chekmate your apponent

[@Karthik-vi9hk]

1:50 "those guys were onto something wild playing crazy engine lines back in 2007". I guess that's what agadmator would say about all my games as a 1200 player.

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[@realAdamClinch]

Everybody gangsta until Agadmator says "And it was in this position..."

[@Nagantios]

Always a pleasure to watch. Keep up the good work, Agad!

[@LeMasterYi]

5:25 Agadmator is so kind that he considers blocking his attack with his own piece.

[@vikramsrinivasan8176]

Morphy Head or Tal's head to Carlsen for the sacrifice would have added more value.

[@user-me4dl2ti4f]

we need Magnus head when the strongest defensive move by the engine is not enough to suppress Carlsen's attack

[@kamjohn4977]

Sees agad, clicks agad. Simple.

[@danielhaslam5179]

5:26 Even Agadmator is susceptible to the good old beginners “I thought it was my piece” mistake 😂

[@varadkousadikar9424]

At 5:31, white bishop can save black from getting mated by going to f8... Lol

[@adammcgee4228]

varad kousadikar f8

[@bogdanhobinca290]

Trust no one, not even your pieces.

[@varadkousadikar9424]

@@adammcgee4228 corrected !

[@kamitebyani5309]

Thanks for all the great videos. Watched all 3 videos

[@KyleMechler]

Really glad you covered this one. Tons of patterns to learn here for my newbie eyes!

[@dominicgalang7728]

i just came here to hear the signature words of agadmator, "SORRY ABOUT THAT" thank you!

[@CheesecakeCLE]

Your videos are awesome. Upload as many as you want per day and I'll continue to watch. Your videos got me back into chess a lot. Thank you!

[@karimkhalaf2011]

" there is nothing to be done" absolutlly true

[@jomz3721]

5:27 Yup, they updated the game after 2000 years, as you can now move your opponent's piece to defend checkmate

[@joekerr5418]

Zugzwang is really Carlsen's specialty

[@unpong01]

Overload the opponent with decisions. Eventually, they are going to get decision fatigue and collapse.

[@mohamedzashim.r6401]

what is zugzwang

[@bryantimothy8616]

@@mohamedzashim.r6401 it is basically when all of your moves are so bad you would rather not move at all..

[@bLiZcHaRgE]

I appreciate you Antonio! Thank you for uploading even though you told us that you should already be resting for the day. You dropped this K I N G 👑. 👏👏👏

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There is such merch

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I will buy those. Just make sure they're NOT "Made in China".

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"capture fest!"

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[@michaeld519]

I like that how you threw in the explanation at the end about the queen for newer players. I'm sure there will be people who give you shit about simplifying some explanations, but this new surge of players needs somebody to explain the game in ways they can understand and I'm glad you're stepping up to the challenge, sir.

[@raymendez3403]

From this moment I will like every video you upload just for the love of the content and I’m grateful for your hard work Agadmator THANK YOU

[@gouravsahni5001]

Beautiful Game.... enjoyed a lot...👌🏻👌🏻

[@johnlenk2774]

Always a good video! Thanks for mentioning those of us that don’t know a lot about chess, but enjoy watching it.

[@dhavalvyas4226]

Hey Agadmator, first, I would like to express my gratitude to you and your fascinating channel, learnt a lot of moves and tactics from your channel. I'd like to request you to please make a video on all the openings with their strengths and weaknesses that will be a great support for us. Thanks in anticipation...

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When agadmator uploads you should be as early as u can

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There's not even a rival chess channel worthy enough to have a subscriber battle with.

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This is one of the few channels that actually deserves a subscription

[@princedev48]

Cheers mate! Really enjoyed the game

[@christianereis7361]

Another Zugzwang game by Carlsen! Brilliant game! I think Magnus's brain works like this: "Let's lose this game and win the next one in style!"😆

[@reneeshparappurathu1874]

I see no one wants to talk about the two 1800s and their engine prep back in 2007

[@deathmetalalchemist5861]

honestly, I'm surprised this position hasn't been reached before with all the semi slav games around the Topalov-Kramnik era where it was the most popular opening at the highest level....c5 is a common idea in many lines, I guess this very specific one hadn't been reached before....

[@viktoryaakovez983]

Those queen sacrifice lines were amazing! Extremely beautiful

[@jessiiejames]

never have i gotten here so early, hello agadmator!

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I not agadmator but hi

[@jaycavalli6061]

Absolutely phenomenal KZbinr.

[@austino99]

Of course we dont mind ty agad! also btw love the maroon shirt, dope color on you.

[@nesredna72]

Thank you love watching these games

[@nedmerrill5705]

Dubov was doomed when Carlsen played Qd3. Incredible bind, Carlsen's game played itself.

[@1m2ogaming]

Playing with a lot of pins is cool but it's easy to screw it up. They're also not playing classical.

[@halneufmille]

Yes, it reminds me of the best games by alpha zero. Putting your opponent's pieces out of offensive options is almost as good as capturing them.

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

Don't know about doomed with rapid, but yeah, that was an engine level move by Carlsen. So nothing new under the sun really. ;)

[@TheMarksT]

I watched this live and wondered how Dubov missed the pinned Knight and subsequent forced moves. But I see now how he was getting strangled to the point of Zigzwang in the end. Thanks for showing the problems Daniil was struggling with here. He cames so close to qualifying too. Great job. Ps. Makes me feel better about a game I lost too with a pinned Knight recently. Could happen to anyone, especially when playing Magnus though here, lol. Thx again.

[@sebastianibarra691]

What a game! Absolutely beautiful

[@chrishughes6323]

Brilliant game. Bravo.

[@ahmadaz1886]

"'Chess is a addictive drug , it changed a lot of lifes"

[@adityaasnani8451]

I loooooove Zungzwangs. They r so cool. The position from the thumbnail = :)

[@gunshyloo]

Hello agadmator, please don't stop doing what you're doing. You're amazing. :)

[@Pipolag1]

Great video as always...thanks Agadmator! Tip: I know you have the PGN in the description. So I find myself copying it and pasting it on a chess site to look at the graphical analysis. Would be nice if there was a link in the description to the lichess or chess.com import game page with the game's PGN so we can quickly see the analysis of where one player went wrong and stuff and play around with alternate moves. Thanks again.

[@samueldesmondtuah1421]

What a time this war between Carlsen - Dubov and Nakamura is quiet amazing

[@BuggatiWeryon]

10:00 Two pieces are too much for the queen three pieces are basically always a go :D I love you Agadmator!

[@phenix2403]

queen is almost always better than 2, and almost always worse than 3

[@avinashnayak7398]

h6 was also the move that created the Immortal Zugzwang for Aron Nimzowitsch And that was also played on move 25.

[@KurdishYoutubeKSAS]

Too much pressure 🔥🔥

[@cygan144]

Amazing content as usual. But mu biggest question is that, What are you really pulling their underneath the table agadmator?

[@Eleuthero5]

Amazing. h6 was also the last move of the famous Saemisch-Nimzowitsch Immortal Zugzwang Game.

[@aravbaid3105]

Really a nice game for Agad to analyse

[@sethbushnell5051]

So proud of myself, I always pause and look, never with much hope that I will find "the move", but I got both of them this time! I love you agad

[@dwijshah2393]

Dude the "castles castles" is just soo satisfactory

[@bhaveshmanglani2173]

Would you consider the move b4 to push the knight away a mistake in hindsight? Compromised the pawn structure and setup the zugzwang.

[@lm10219]

Have you tried Shogi? Can u do a video on it, with your opinions, introducing it?

[@dcuoshankjones3587]

8:11 couldnt white have played KnightC4? Would have blocked the rook in the C file since its being defended with the pawn, unpins the rook and queen which would allow them to cause some threats on the A file right?

[@roamin_candle743]

Classy Carlsen. Magnus and Dubov are bro’s for life. 👊

[@scurtin99]

Any news on whether or not the Candidates Tournment will continue this year?

[@heshamabdelmaksoud]

5:27 the Bishop can retreat hahaha

[@Timepass-ok4et]

"nicely develops the pawn" XD XD

[@peterday3253]

I don't mind at all, Antonio. Thanks for the third video today.

[@Whitsoxrule1]

I love that in this game and the original "Immortal Zugzwang", the final nail in white's coffin for both games was h6 :) poetry

[@daherabdallah3]

Can someone help me please there is a game where magnus sacrifices the exchange he takes a bishop I think, the game was probably from chessable masters or the legends tournament but I can't find it

[@funduk89]

beautiful game

[@gomishsharma4311]

@agadmator y not play kingE2 to defend the night in a couple of moves and free the queen from knights defence?

[@Equal16]

@Agadmator just a suggestion that when one player resigns with plenty of pieces on the board, please spend more time explaining why a position is hopeless - for us amateur chess players we would find that valuable. In this particular video, it was nice to understand the comparison between Q vs. R/K/B, but it would have been great to see a couple variations demonstrating the power of the 3 pieces versus the Q. Thanks

[@magnuswieroed6649]

1:13 wooden shield!

[@davidanderson2357]

...and it was in this position that agadmator told us how much he really enjoys showing us a game with only one queen on the board and an early zugzwang.

[@vulcanus30]

2:46 Nicely develops his pawn :)

[@namayogerald3329]

Thanks Agad for the daily chess analysis. More love from the chess fans in Uganda, Africa.

[@manojb681]

Captures captures!

[@jeanconan1812]

Agadmator, you are such a beast : this game were played just a few hours ago !

[@PushyPawn]

That's pretty slack by Agad's standards. He usually has the game already uploaded before it ends.

[@jancesenek668]

7:51 Why didn´t Magnus play Rc2 straightaway instead of a5, am I missing something?

[@antonior4234]

So much for 1 video a day~! Really appreciate all your hard work Agad, #capturescapturescaptures

[@riefkymaulana8009]

actually im really curious, what did u do on 0:42 u did this in every single of your video

[@SrinivashM29]

I've played Re2 twice, once while playing the Giuoco Piano and once while playing the Ruy Lopez. Got hammered both the times.

[@namne11]

I enjoy your enjoyment Agadmator!

[@flamouri]

Nobody is born cool Except of course : youtubers who post 3 videos the same day

[@avramrotar6716]

@Agadmator, when you made that mistake on 5:25 you made me think of Tal's (ghost) knight, that was supposed to deliver checkmate, only to realize after minutes of calculation that it was his own knight. This time though, it's sort of reversed :)) Not to mention, this really looks like a Tal game :)

[@christianhennessey1191]

3 vids in one day! I might have to enter a 12 move detox from this position.

[@roamin_candle743]

And it was in this position that you subscribed to Agadmator as there was nothing more to be done. 🎵

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The problem is if you don’t then you’ll still watch his channel anyway and you’ll miss the games in real time. Support the channel! Support the culture.

[@frozenmoon998]

Me: *watches agadmator's new video* Agad: *sorry about that*

[@philosophyphilosophy903]

TCEC superfinal is currently going on and it is providing players good opening preperation.

[@ShadowNelt]

9:56 how'd he put that green highlight on the queen?

[@rodigor_]

Magnus on fire in this championship. Amazing stuff to come up with in 15 | 10 format

[@XBox360Quest]

0:40 the "sorry about that" I am always waiting for XD