Mecking a Mess | Fischer vs Mecking | Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970)

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The 1970 Interzonal was held in Palma de Mallorca from November 9-December 12, and was the last Interzonal held as a one-section round robin. With the tournament swelling to 24 players and further expansion on the way, future changes were inevitable. The following players vied for six slots in the candidates matches to be held in 1971: William G Addison, Miroslav Filip, Robert James Fischer, Efim Geller, Svetozar Gligoric, Vlastimil Hort, Robert Huebner, Borislav Ivkov, Eleazar Jimenez Zerquera, Bent Larsen, Milan Matulovic, Henrique Mecking, Dragoljub Minic, Renato Naranja, Oscar Panno, Lev Polugaevsky, Lajos Portisch, Samuel Reshevsky, Jorge Alberto Rubinetti, Vasily Smyslov, Duncan Suttles, Mark Taimanov, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Tudev Ujtumen..
Ujtumen from Mongolia, about as outside as an outsider could get, actually held the lead by himself after round 3. However, reality and Robert J. Fischer set in, as the American quickly soared to a dominating position. The other contenders didn't worry about it too much; after all, you only had to finish in the top six to qualify for the Candidates, and there was even a seventh spot open for a reserve. So they played it safe, while Fischer kept working hard.
At the quarter pole following round 6, Fischer had 5.5 points and a 1.5 point lead on Geller, Gligoric, Larson, Panno, and Ujtumen. But then came a bad stretch: he managed to draw lost positions in round 7 and 8, but Larsen didn't let him off the hook in round 9. By now the lead had vanished, as Geller joined Fischer at the top with 6.5.
That led to the critical round 12 encounter between the leaders, Geller holding a half-point lead and playing the White pieces. Any normal grandmaster, when Geller offered an early draw, would have accepted to get an easy half-point closer to qualification. Fischer, hungry for a win after five rounds without one, refused.
Geller played inaccurately and lost a pawn, reaching a difficult rook ending. Eventually, a hallucination and a final mistake sealed his fate, and Fischer took the lead. The rest was a matter of technique: Fischer won two more in a row, took a couple of draws for a breather, then started his famous streak with full points in his last seven games.
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Robert James Fischer vs Henrique Mecking
"Mecking a Mess" (game of the day Nov-16-2009)
Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970), Palma de Mallorca ESP, rd 21, Dec-08
Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Classical Variation (A01)
1. b3 d5 2. Bb2 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. O-O e6 7. d3 Be7 8. Bc6 Bc6 9. Ne5 Rc8 10. Nd2 O-O 11. f4 Nd7 12. Qg4 Ne5 13. Be5 Bf6 14. Rf3 Qe7 15. Raf1 a5 16. Rg3 Be5 17. fe5 f5 18. ef6 Rf6 19. Qg7 Qg7 20. Rf6 Qg3 21. hg3 Re8 22. g4 a4 23. Nf3 ab3 24. ab3 Kg7 25. g5 e5 26. Nh4 Bd7 27. Rd6 Be6 28. Kf2 Kf7 29. Rb6 Re7 30. e4 de4 31. de4 c4 32. b4 Bg4 33. Ke3 Rd7 34. g6 Kf8 35. gh7 Rh7 36. Ng6 Ke8 37. Ne5 Bc8 38. Nc4 Kd8 39. Nd6 Rg7 40. Kf2 Kc7 41. Nc8 Kc8 42. Rd6
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[@kriidy]

I wonder if Agadmator can start his own legendary streak of not forgetting the sounds? :D

[@mirnicht6183]

:) Its a great running gag. More over, i dont hear any diffrence!? But he keeps saying something about the sound. I woner if he does it on purpose just because he can. ;)

[@ZzX010]

Mir Nicht There is a difference in sound, but it's a very slight difference (high quality earbud user here)

[@saulsavelis575]

it is a bad habit used to replace drinking habit

[@KancerKowboy]

@@saulsavelis575 LOL

[@intellq]

Glad to see a Fischer versus "Mequinho", the best brazilian chess player of all time! Kudos from brazil, Antonio =]

[@marcosfelipesteinert4305]

Dude... I swear, yesterday I was thinking: "That would be really nice if agadmator's brings some Henrique Mecking's match" I can't believe it's happening! Please, bring more Mequinho's matches, I'm sure people are gonna like it :D Cheers from Brazil

[@SamuelPearlman]

2:50 lol Smyslov managed 16 draws in 17 matches in buenos aires! Puts Giri to shame...

[@Gangrellmthfkrs]

Fischer was a beast

[@SelfReflective]

Yeah. Very impressive, he played like a machine here.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Fischer vs Geller in 1967 17:exf7??? 17:Rook f6! wins easily! Fischer vs Stein famous Bishop f5! But earlier 26:Knight f7! Or 26:a3! Wins easily! Fischer vs Spassky in 1966 olympiad Queen a6??? Rook e3!! Wins! Fischer vs Larsen game one 1971 Fischer Bishop f3??? Bishop d6 wins easily! Fischer was not a machine! Stockfish 16 would beat Fischer 999-1!!

[@richardfeynman5560]

Again brilliant positional play by Bobby Fischer, I'm more and more impressed!

[@gabize]

mequinho! :)

[@ClashWithAniClashwithme]

Its Victor Korchnoi OMG i got a heart.. :D

[@ncfes]

best chess channel on youtube ! thank you for continously uploading one video a day!

[@vikrantmehta415]

Viktor Korchnoi in the photo!

[@marcorc5167]

Damn. What absolute beast of a player Fischer was. He simply erodes his opponents.

[@espeoninvincible]

i like the idea of announcing the previous challenge in the video itself. it adds continuity to your videos when somebody for example watches a playlist of a tournament like this one they can just have it on auto play without exiting full screen and scrolling down for every challenge. anyway really amazing commentary on this channel, keep it up

[@garrynjames7977]

"Whatever you move you'll always be able to fork something here"

[@sriharshakoribille9194]

The series is amazing!! There are end game lessons in every video

[@dr.parthasarathiroy1989]

What a dangerous knight it was.. Thanks for explaining..

[@jeancarlosgoncalves5479]

#agadmator #suggestion Once, Mequinho faced the pirate Mikahil Tal, could you make a video about that match? Thank you!

[@jasonmd1420]

Last place in the Buenos Aires tournament went to a certain Jose Luis Agdamus! Could this be the first clue in our quest to discover the origin of agadmator's channel's name?

[@niladribiswas7068]

Amazing game by fischer great work agadmator

[@rmendeljacobs2832]

I don't understand what agadmator is adjusting in all these videos. The piece moving sounds sound the same to me both before and after he fiddles with it.

[@nickshtenikov1261]

He is adjustinf the source of infrasound subluminal massage: PLAY THE KING'S GAMBIT PLAY IT DESPITE EVERYTHING

[@zitokeratin2643]

He is fianchetto-ing his sound

[@rmendeljacobs2832]

Zito Keratin what do you mean

[@zitokeratin2643]

It's just a joke. You know the fianchetto move?

[@rmendeljacobs2832]

Zito Keratin yeah I know the move. But what is he always adjusting in his videos. He always apologizes and then adjusts "the sound" I literally hear no difference every time

[@hescalante6081]

Thank you for your very fine commentary.

[@anoopsrana]

You are awesome agadmator !

[@JAYP20256]

Can you create a puzzle quiz with each video in starting and tell the solution in the end of the video???

[@md.shaban639]

He won't even after 2 years🙏

[@naimas8120]

@@md.shaban639 yeah, he's that stubborn

[@theotherside7504]

Wonderful game and great analysis 👍

[@FloydMaxwell]

Agadmator cranking out 2 quality videos per day...life is good.

[@aloknight3656]

What a great way to start my morning. c:

[@normanderna]

Great vid!

[@rijkaard1.048]

Agadmator, I must say, watching your channel has improved my chess... I would like to see a video where you cover gary kasparov as he is my personal favourite chess player. You can do a series on him it would be awesome

[@ocaldini]

Well played from Mequinho!

[@johngrey5806]

@agadmator thanks for explaining the method to get the answer to the photo challenge. The only inconvenience is that we have to go back to already viewed videos if we want to find out the answer, but that's ok. Thanks for the awesome videos and fun photo challenges.

[@richardbird4784]

Lucked out on last one! Think this one is Tigran P.

[@dovydasmelamed1567]

#suggestion Euwe vs Lasker 1934 Zurich. Queen sacrifice included.

[@iugoeswest]

Dovydas Melamed lasker lasker!

[@amosdraak3536]

Sounds good. 💯

[@dr.parthasarathiroy1989]

Korchnoi.. One of my favourite player..

[@richardfeynman5560]

On the photo it's of course Victor Korchnoi, not to forget!

[@tirthajyotiroy6254]

Fischer, the endgame master like magnus

[@teemusa5846]

The quote on the board suggests Fischer’s career was just a human experiment on how different people react to resigning. And he succeeded to observe those reactions many times from a lot of different people.

[@henryparsnip]

There's not a single video I can remember where you don't forget the sound

[@raveendrank.n.3449]

Victor korchnoi give me heart master

[@anirudhabrv1]

Woah.. it was like, all the pawns were alinged so that knight can pick 1 on every move. I don't understand how one can see to that depth. Simply a legend.

[@russell192]

Grande Meckinho

[@user-wn5gk5bv1m]

You couldn't hold yourself for this play of words :P

[@Leokosta]

Thanks from Brasil :)

[@krabbypal5828]

oh my god... that pun you dirty genius...

[@BickleBicep]

A Fischer game will always brighten up your day

[@bravosix8171]

❤❤❤❤❤Loved it❤❤❤❤❤

[@susmitamishra8436]

Awesome proverb😎😎👍

[@hamedbenghanem7179]

Excellent pawn grabber :))))

[@saashman1829]

could you please cover AVRO tournament

[@NielsenMendesCamposNMC]

I learned chess from a book of Henrick Mecking, also known as Mequinho, in English, little Mecking.

[@acsu96]

I know it's 4 years late but if i counted correctly Mecking resigned on move 41, so he probably did not resign earlier because he was in time trouble blitzing moves.

[@andrewptob]

Hair looks good, agad

[@thomasbenoit8955]

Suggestion, so I mainly watch KZbin on my PS4 and the comments aren’t easily visible(and never visible when left in proper PlayStation format) so I’m almost completely blind to KZbin comments, and while I kind of understand your point of view, from my end I feel it would be nicer hear the answer to the photo challenge. Idk though I could be one out a million that feels this way. Just my two cents I guess

[@heroricspiritfreinen38]

Thomas Benoit I agree with you i upvote this

[@manigopal92]

Thomas Benoit True and I see many people watching KZbin videos in the Gym as well while running etc. Sure they can stop and check out the comments to see who it was in the photo challenge, but it would be much easier to just hear it in the video wouldn't it ?

[@stuna210]

3:40 match starts

[@christose9247]

could you do an opening showcase series? find critical games of different openings and commentate the opening in greater detail rather than just breezing through it as you usually do. I am going to buy the Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess book on ebay. Awesome videos dude.

[@thomasaskew1985]

A strange opening for Fischer. He usually opens 1 e4.

[@miguelkkkk2458]

Ohter game of Fischer demonstrating that THE BISHOP IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER THAN THE KNIGHT, as chess manuals use to say.

[@anveshveerelli9257]

#suggestion please add title and ending credits in your videos!!! By the grace of Caisa, the channel is growing and the team behind the videos are increasing I suggest you to add titles and end credits with some animation or something. Because, I love your videos and you are the best story teller....

[@kunaalrao2010]

Efim geller only player who has + score against Fischer en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efim_Geller

[@joseenriquemunar8901]

That game was 1970's ? Wow. During that time, my grandma is probably tooking care of my little mom that time

[@Guzmicu]

In the days before chess engines, it was Bobby who was the chess engine.

[@fredrock7264]

good work narrator

[@mohammedbouchcoucha890]

Viktor Korchnoi easy one

[@kevindidit3281]

Could you show a game of Michael Adams? I heard he has a very sound and positional playstyle but couldn’t find a video where you cover him so I thought I’d ask :)

[@ncfes]

in many videos before you also mentioned recomended moves by the engine. would be nice to see the engine you use and also the rating the engine evaluates somewhere in the overlay. it would also underline your argumentation (agadmatation) in many cases.

[@matthewbailey5712]

Will you be covering the chess olympiad in september?

[@RobFlaxMusic]

"Whatever you move, you will always be able to fork something here." -Agadmator, on spring break hookup culture

[@Ryan-gz6ym]

Degenerate

[@RobFlaxMusic]

Ahhhh come on you know you like dumb puns!

[@gghh-iv2eo]

well done

[@sarthaksharma1783]

Hard for players like me, too Easy for Fischer

[@jalaladhiri6696]

Players like you are millions Fischer is one of a kind dude

[@austinmurdock5954]

what happened at E captures on F6? 7:22 of the video. Fischer's pawn moves between two others and still captures. I am confused. Please help :D

[@timmycooperson8824]

It’s called “En Passant” if you want to look it up

[@miguelkkkk2458]

Here Fischer played the Fischer's variant of the Nimzoindia... but with white pieces!

[@MrUnwichtig109]

what are you pulling from down your desk always?

[@kyokitagawa7977]

Mr. Korchnoi...Fisher has some nice games with him.

[@Yeah_Whocares]

I don't think we saw a single Bobby match where his Queen doesn't get captured.

[@khairallahkris]

I would pay 1000$ to watch a Bobby Fischer vs Akiba Rubinstein

[@paulmasgalajian8102]

What an easy question ! The man in the photo is clearly Dean Martin.

[@thedave5748]

Ive never noticed any diff after you say sorry and change something?

[@brucekehres9458]

Nice Pun

[@harshpatwardhan7624]

Great game by fischer.

[@makacoder]

Can you do Fischer vs Tal series. Thanks

[@jackfisher1704]

7:21 what happened on move 18? The pawn has nothing to capture on f6?

[@ludvicfreire1281]

He captured the pawn in f5 by going to f6.

[@ludvicfreire1281]

Notice that it's the first movement of the blacks pawn in f7. So if a pawn walks two squares forward and stops alongside an enemy pawn, the enemy can just capture pawn by going a square before. In this case the f7 pawn went to f5. And the e5 captures by going to the f6 square. It can be played and it's called "en passant" move. It's not always the best option. But it's there. For further explanation search en passant on Google. Haha

[@ajmaltk1784]

A doubt.... If my opponent does not follow book moves i cannot play as i studied. How can i move then???

[@MrJHDK]

I agree with not giving the answer in the video as I believe that (like me) many viewers are not necessarily watching these videos in order

[@ralf520]

what chess program do you use the analysis, that we're watching??

[@brbcrew9957]

ralf520 chess.com

[@sounakschannelforentertain7630]

It's Victor korchnoi sorry for late because I'm your new subscriber 😅

[@fierykaku]

my man viktor

[@dhruvchawla3313]

Nice quote bro!! On the top.

[@okko1297]

Rumor has it comments mecking a cheesy joke often get a heart from agad :)

[@gabrieldavis2795]

I delay resigning sometimes to allow my opponent to blunder but once I know they have found the right moves I’m out

[@AbhaySingh-ke7ej]

shreyas royal game from the ECF hull tournament PLEASE

[@longdongbongchong]

game starts at 03:40

[@doysgermian9287]

longdongbongchong I for example enjoy agad talking about anything related to chess (not just seeing the game) he just has charming voice

[@EmirKilicaslan]

3:49 for the game

[@harshpatwardhan7624]

At 6.20, why not d4???

[@redouanenadim4154]

FICHER has a SUPERKNIGHT.nice game

[@mrmarkstv6585]

Photo challenge Viktor Korchnoi

[@mikedavid5071]

Picture is Korchnoi

[@uwupaksa8451]

At Buenos Aires standing smyslov drew 16 times wtf

[@ArturVarejao]

Mecken lives in my town Taubaté - SP

[@tothepintodurrrow2425]

Mecking vs Tal would be nice tho... :)

[@miguelnevesdrumond8915]

🇧🇷Mequinho!🇧🇷

[@nowherenearby9461]

i can't decide if fischer or carlsen is the greatest chess player in history

[@Grandcapi]

Mecking is still playing.

[@JW-co6be]

Photo challenge: My best guess is Karpov