Mikhail Tal's Top 5 Queen Sacrifices

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[@arcanev4]

@Dillon Milo yeah no we really don't give a damn about your copypasta

[@ademaupsilon]

*Tal accidentally blunder his queen His opponent resigns

[@HebiSnake]

lol

[@lukahj]

If it was on purpose it wouldn't be a blunder tho

[@ademaupsilon]

@@lukahj right, but sometimes GM can miscalculate too

[@lukahj]

@@ademaupsilon true, but that's just a "blunder"

[@johncjelcamel7181]

@@lukahj He said "tal accidentally blunder" that's what he mean. lol

[@pavananms1443]

Imagine having so many good queen sacrifices to be able to have a top 5.

[@crazypomp927]

I know right? It's not as if he's playing obvious queen sacs, like giving up the queen for an immediate forced mate in 3 or a simple combo trading the queen for a rook and two pieces. We all have plenty of those. But complicated queen sacs like these ones from Tal are once, maybe twice, in a lifetime for the rest of us, including most GMs, and Tal has enough for a top 5. Incredible!

[@noparkingbp7355]

@@crazypomp927 well said!

[@pavananms1443]

@Mark Pompeo and he was a world champion...we can understand this from a flair player who plays good sometimes and bad other times..but Tal was a world champion and had a lot of success in his career.. To consistently get results of the highest order playing such a style..I mean..wow..

[@danidiaz9510]

Exactly

[@arpanmukherjee961]

Yaaa I was imagining that only

[@tinkobinko9787]

*Tal talking to his pieces* : bishops ready? - yeah, knights ready? - yeah, rooks? - yeah, *OK QUEEN YOU HAVE TO GO*

[@abutahirputhedath8841]

He has to go blud

[@mrwhyt142]

@@abutahirputhedath8841 😆😁👍

[@rishiraj4500]

There are two types of sacrifice: correct one and mine -MIKHAIL TAL❣️

[@hekisingson989]

mine usually ends with a resignment from me lol

[@ayushchaudhari5655]

It's sound one and mine.

[@tekanomathabatha811]

🤣

[@sunwookim5046]

Tal could never be a bodyguard. He'd sac the King, defying the rules.

[@bobrodneys6694]

This is my favorite comment😂😂

[@sunwookim5046]

@@bobrodneys6694 thx lol

[@KorZen10]

2:22 "Mate on the move, have a nice day" I love this guy

[@JamesCantyIII]

🤣 thanks a lot! 💯🔥😎

[@lookatme808]

🤣

[@rpavan18]

Tal: sacrifice queen Opponent: resign without hesitation..

[@suezuccati304]

The funny thing is: sometimes he would purposefully blunder a piece at timed games to throw off his opponnent and make him lose time

[@jeremythomas4744]

Lol i do that sometimes as well, opponents be so skeptical

[@Vahapetautus]

RESIGNATION NO HESITATION

[@hutchmusician]

I really like NM Canty’s presenting style. I’d like to see what he can do in live commentary.

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks bro it’s coming! 💯🔥💯

[@nonoytv8736]

I like it how you dramatized Tal before taking the sacrifice hehe

[@sassy2712]

Ohh damn bruh he is worst one i have ever seen

[@sassy2712]

I just came in comment section to ask chess. Com to replace him asap

[@hutchmusician]

@@sassy2712 Why? What do you want from a commentator that Canty doesn’t bring?

[@Ronin760]

"This is a family channel. Let's get this off the screen already." LOL! Love it! :)

[@JamesCantyIII]

🤣💯🔥😎

[@zuru2157]

Tal: Let's take this with my queen. Tal: WAIT! That was a blunder, I didn't see his rook on c8 Opponent: *resigns immediately* Tal: Wait what?

[@aryamanmajumder1045]

i am a simple man i see mikhail tal i click

[@stamos6532]

James Canty III:what do you do in this position? Me: frantically searches for a way to get my queen captured

[@RenuSingh-ur8re]

If tal give you his queen for minor piece it means opponent will resign soon 😂😂

[@slimnfade]

Put my king in check first

[@sudipbastola1503]

The movie made on biopic of Bobby Fischer is "Pawn Sacrifice" If the movie is made on biopic of Mikhail Tal, it will be named "Queen Sacrifice"😄 What a legend he was🔥

[@hideoakb]

Another one might be magician from Riga.

[@acamoravac]

There is one documentary called "Queen sacrifice" and its about Tal

[@pavananms1443]

No piece left to sac...😎

[@hermanpops]

@@acamoravac bro link please

[@sjegannath6295]

Well there is a series called the queen's gambit. I know I am just playing with the words a bit.

[@gonzachambi3937]

Studying Tal's games is always a pleasure. Wonderful 5 games! Definetely one of the greatest of all time.

[@HariHaran-sl1pg]

*This is a family channel* Lmao

[@JamesCantyIII]

🤣🤣🤣

[@LeventK]

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[@iakovosv]

@@LeventK 2:50

[@BorisGamingChannel]

7:07 It would be cooler if you promoted to a bishop

[@fordabois2055]

omg yes that is beautifffffulll

[@pranshuchoubey8916]

Boden's mate

[@shaheedlee5009]

@@bledathehun328 i'm sorry but i'm new at chess. So what if it's considered boden's mate?

[@Alex00]

@@shaheedlee5009 I think he meant bad manners

[@landerpatriarca1546]

@@shaheedlee50092 bishops checkmating the king

[@sauravkumar3278]

Every other chess grandmaster sacrifices queen to mate their opponents Mikhail tal sacrifices his queen to destroy his opponents

[@halfaheartbongobongo]

Truueee - most GM queen sacs have very concrete compensation, either mate or a ton of material (rook + minor pieces). The first three games here involved extremely dominant passed pawns, and okay that's somewhat concrete although you still have to calculate so much to see it. The latter two games here are especially amazing to me, because the only real compensation in them is an extremely harmonious attack.

[@vyrtilanyrwen3071]

Tal was the necessary revival of romantic, attacking style chess. He brought a much needed resurgence of energy to a game that was otherwise going a bit stale. Before Tal, the predominant thought was that there was a right way to play and a wrong way to play, and sacrificing material simply to create complications and counterplay was considered the wrong way to play. That was the way that Mikhail Botvinnik and the entire Soviet School of Chess thought. But then along comes this crazy kid from Riga, who is sacrificing for the initiative and creating complications, and he not only destroys everyone, he plants himself firmly as the dominant player, even winning the World Chess Championship match of 1960. He single-handedly proved that the days of the swashbuckling playing style weren’t quite over.

[@sagunshrestha1317]

When Tal sacrifices his queen, you resign

[@raerawaili1090]

@@doubledie6875 you still resign 😂

[@arnobahmed7659]

The Queen's Gambit Netfilx : When opponent takes your queen, you resign. Meanwhile in Tal's case : When opponent takes his queen, opponent resigns.

[@trashboat5270]

13:52 imagine if Tal actually said that to his apponent "Hey! Queens back appriciate it bro!"

[@alphachessnut5215]

Tal: I am going to Sacrifice my Queen. Opponent: I am going to resign.

[@fartgaming_53768]

You have to take your opponent into a deep forest where *2+2=5* and the path leading out is wide enough for one. -Mikhail Tal Alexander Koblentz: *Resigns 23 moves after queen sac*

[@knightawakens]

other players: top 5 chess moves tal: top 5 queen sacrifices :)

[@faridzeynalov8619]

What's amazing about his sacrifices is that there is no immediate tactic with 2-3 moves resulting in a checkmate but rather a sequence of a wild attack and overall complication of a position for his opponnent. That what seperates him from everybody else. His ideas were abstract and beautiful.

[@ryanpenman251]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Tal vs Kristinsson 1964, absolutely amazing game. But Tal really had too many queen sacrifices to narrow it down to just a top 5

[@_Fury]

“People are watching, I don’t want any more of this”!!!! I’m dead...

[@theletterwynn]

This guy was Leela Chess before it was invented.

[@drunkenlancer5895]

I was watching and didn’t realize it was mikhail tal’s queen sacrifices, I was like why is it the same guy?

[@ЛогосСалтович]

What about a video with top 5 incorrect sacrifices? I am sure that there must be games when Tal lost, sacrificing his Queen etc

[@Tburt-mx5kg]

This is a great idea

[@der_interrobang]

Tal has enough games with incorrect sacrifices... and still winning the game. Tal style.

[@gillrowley7264]

"How many arrows can I draw here?" That was classic.

[@daredevilofficial4100]

So happy to see James Canty 3 doing more of these Top 5 videos! He really deserved it ❤️

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks buddy! Appreciate you. 💯🔥😎

[@jabinmanandhar8810]

Where's the gingerbeard?

[@adamleckius2253]

Quite close though, James looks pretty red for some reason

[@DazHuang72]

1st queen sacrifice: Tal noticed that the opponent has a lot of undeveloped pieces, the opponent queen is barely recognized, and he does have a promoting pawn. So he decides to trade his queen for an important defender and moves on to crush the opponent with his active pieces.

[@ikytomo]

good game of The Magician of Riga, great commentary from James Canty, Thanks for upload this videos man.

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks buddy! 😎💯🔥

[@dequentinwebber323]

I enjoyed that so much. Only the second time I have searched for Mikhail Tal and WOW.. More PLZ

[@postreroleumell.5082]

Morphy and tal sacrificing queens like they were pawns damn

[@KnightOfSummer1995]

Holy shit Nihal Sarin looks so much like young Tal. Omg, is it just me?

[@joescott8877]

"This hurts...this is a family channel, let's get this off the screen." LMAO! Cool compilation! You make it so fun and followable and fascinating, the way you show us what Tal did!

[@Zemkezis]

''you can win many games if you think inside Tal's box''

[@52000rightwing]

James has persuaded me. Tal is now my favorite player too.

[@tohoc-ops8992]

7:09 Why did bro not mate with a bishop Promotion haha B1=B# would’ve been so clean😂

[@sauravkumar3278]

This just doesn't deserve like it deserves love

[@RandomIndianUsingYT]

The first sacrifice did give him compensation within 2-3 moves only. He got an immediate knight, followed by pawn and a guaranteed rook. So, he got equal compensation in terms of point value + open board for his bishops to operate on. Legendary.

[@juanbaclavab]

Tal was thinking several moves ahead of the opponent in a completely different way, he didn't care about what's the strongest piece and didn't care about losing too many pieces, he just sacrificed anything possible in order to set the final traps. I knew he was a genius since the first game I saw of him

[@J-theSloth]

I blundered my queen into a win once, probably the only time it will ever happen for me.

[@fabiopalma4429]

"Tal looked at him, grabbed his queen, and just took the knight.. and hit the clock... sat back really smooth...and the game was over." Too funny man!

[@hauntinghaze5161]

Nice guy who's presenting, more of him please

[@principate]

Simon Williams is awesome but loving your work even more, James. Keep up the great content.

[@etienneperez4748]

James Canty : What would you do in Tal's position? Me : 👁👄👁

[@aarushprasad9257]

1:27 I'd sacrifice my queen cause that's what this video is based on.

[@StreetSdaGreaT]

" What day is it... What time is it.... Yeah it's that time"

[@bansodedilip4291]

where is the explosion ?

[@Lord-Yhwach]

Mikhail Tal ks my idol in chess and even though chess has advanced far more and with prodigies like carlesn coming up, i still love his way of old school sacrifice and destroying

[@jurjenvanderhoek316]

I like James Canty as a commentator because he does not speak in the overhyped manner that is so popular nowadays on YT channels (like Gotham Chess for instance).

[@douggieharrison6913]

love this video. love the length and depth explored. Simon Williams is the man, but I much prefer an extra ten minutes of analysis on Ultra GM games always

[@aithree6346]

I really like the one who brought the reaction it was you..

[@mmubiinbenprayoga8652]

*Tal sacrifices queen by accident : brilliant *Me sacrifices queen on purpose : blunder

[@_xxpegasusxx_7204]

i like this commentator, and i like Tal, and this video.

[@gabrielknight553]

Inside Tal Box.I like it

[@brettpoole7888]

A picture of Tal should appear when you google who created Chess.

[@abrahamespinoza7489]

Tal vs birbager actually ends in resignation after Bf4

[@MuhammadAtthur_]

Damn what a storyteller

[@somtovitus]

He didn't even think about it, of course he thought about it.

[@allencallahan1478]

Superb analysis. Kudos, and many thanks!

[@luis.aacjara]

The only man to have truly mastered the Botez Gambit

[@TserenTsedo]

James Canty III is our favorite!

[@JamesCantyIII]

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[@lukatuta5349]

This guy is amazing at explaining! Keep it up

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thank you!

[@noproblem3500]

The most beautiful move is the king sacrifice

[@XeonexisGaming]

In 2100: *Watch Hikaru's top 5 premoves against some random noob*

[@owen261]

I love the way this guy commentates!

[@akashpanday3583]

Could have made a top 20.

[@MrSaivasu]

I love the commentary

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks a lot! 💯🔥😎

[@tmusic7161]

#1 and #3 are practically the same moves. Very similar ideas with the pawn threatening the knight in the corner and White's knight looking for the royal fork!

[@GlauberLCR]

Another amazing queen sacrifice from Tal was in his match against his trainer, Alexander Koblents. A series of moves only for it to end in an advantageous endgame for Tal!

[@amosdraak3536]

Chigorin, Botvinnik, or Lasker next, please. Very excellent tacticians with some excellent games, especially Botvinnik, was actually a sharper player than people expect.

[@acronyms5422]

Me: There are two types of blunders: correct ones, and also mine.

[@Cobalt-Jester]

In one of Tal's books he was talking about one of his sacrifices and I can't remember the moves exactly but he says something like 2after I played Q to D4 I couldn't see past B to E7... To most people that made no sense but in the book it shows the what happened. Bishop to E7 was 6 moves away... He calculated to 6 moves ahead. And it was in a 'Candidates' tournament... He is my favourite player of all time. He once had to fly 1000 miles for a tournament but because it was a no smoking flight he took a 6000 mile round trip so he could be on airplanes that did allow smoking. Hahhahaha.

[@ZachBelcher94]

i’ve never clicked on a video so fast

[@lookatme808]

Your commentary is priceless. "Game over have a nice day"

[@sparshsharma5270]

Many GMs tried their hands at famous Plaskett's puzzle but failed. Even upto few years back, Stockfish failed to solve the puzzle. And the only player to ever solve it correctly was none other than Mikhail Tal. There is error in original puzzle made by composer though but still nobody could reach that point which only he could do.

[@swolejszo]

Tal games are always so much fun to watch

[@alexanderdurig4474]

"People are watching!" hilarious!!

[@nishantajitsaria2884]

The move bishop f5 for #3 was terribly explained, I can bet most players are still confused as to why his opponent wouldn't just move the queen

[@blackt0wer]

@James Canty - Thanks, great video. You bring a really nice personality to otherwise dull analysis videos.

[@davidfuster]

“People are watching” :D. Great commentator

[@blaquesmyth2068]

Finally most awaited.

[@zntei2374]

awesome video James

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks a lot! 💯🔥😎

[@kelvinnueveanimeguitar1983]

I've tried this I sacrificed the queen on move 3 and lost in 12 moves

[@prudviraj5125]

DOn't try this at home..!!🤣

[@cyruahawkins5289]

I swear he’d sacrifice the queen to double up the pawns for who he’s playing and just figure out how to take their queen later. 💀 Wild

[@mightybatillo]

"This is a family channel" LMAO

[@luyolomagwebu389]

The other half of Key and Peel would be a perfect fit for playing Tal in a movie, the look alike.

[@Xdam985]

what a story teller this guy lol!!! awesome stuff making it sound so epic!

[@michaelinminn]

Nice post. Nicely explained. Thanks.

[@AJ_Stark007]

At 12:28 the best move for black was probably Knight to f3? I guess!!

[@thiagomilanezi1026]

This guy presenting the video is awesome 👏👏👍👍

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks buddy! 💯🔥😎

[@sumitkumarsingh3396]

And people says magnus is the g.o.a.t of chess ...he isn't even comes close to this moves and sacrifices what a legend tal was

[@elltoon1000]

If we had Mikhail Tal, we had like! 🇧🇷

[@phamanhtuan-10a39]

This dude is the best

[@JamesCantyIII]

Thanks a lot buddy 💯🔥😎