Nezhmetdinov VS Tal - This Game is Magical

[@doesntMetter1]

"Better to be a legend who never became a Grand Master than a Grand Master who never became a legend" Well said buddy, well said.

[@p666rax2]

How Nezhmetdinov never became a GM baffles me. Nezhmetdinov is to Tal, what Tal is to others.

[@thebrave4974]

Due to wars and poor living situation in his country

[@hlebozavod6916]

@@thebrave4974 tf you're talking about

[@gencass111]

It is his decision not to play tourna outside of Russia. He only acquire few GM norms he got from joining rated tourna in Russia but not enough to fully get the GM title.

[@Templercz]

@@thebrave4974 lol u stupid :D

[@Cyrpto_Engineer]

What do you think about a man fought 2 world war and survived !!yhe legend Rashid Nexmeldinov

[@jobsmine]

Rashid Nizshmidinov is the type of guy that fails easy questions but is the boss of difficult work out problems. #BossMove

[@topspin242]

I think you should get honorary GM for spreading chess all over the world.

[@jjs8426]

Gabriel Jimenez He'll probably earn the full title one day

[@100neshama]

I second the motion

[@PRubin-rh4sr]

agadmator pulled me into chess I can now proudly say I can beat my level 4 Chess AI no sweat

[@xObserver]

I agree i joined chess from his videos

[@amirkahinpour547]

I couldn't agree more.

[@grahamyodude]

Then you play captures captures

[@sujankundaikar626]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamesnezhmetkovvassilyvik8112]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 gets me everytime

[@shinjiikari1103]

Lol

[@syedhumza9572]

Tal fought till the end. Beast for a reason. Both of them are magicians. Whenever I see a tal game, I know that tal's gonna win except for Tal vs Rashid.

[@maxlisk80]

Or Botvinnik

[@yorkazmoon6530]

Or Fischer

[@abhigyanraj7363]

leonid stein too

[@rubin.b2783]

No he resigned one move before checkmate like a little bitch

[@Atataititrebuisateuiti]

Or Paul Keres

[@jandom9008]

Tal gets the dose of his own medicine

[@brianj959]

I’m not very good at chess, but I’ve watched a lot of your videos recently (because they’re very engaging) - and I’ve noticed that often when you say something like “Here comes the magic”, it’s a pawn move. The power of the pawn!

[@joshishrirang]

Nezhmetdinov will remain always a legend. It doest matter whether he is GM or not.

[@andrewhall6342]

WWII interrupted the prime years of his chess career. Imagine Fischer or Tal not playing from age 24-32. if WWII and Stalinism hadn't happened, Neshy would have been regarded as one of the top 10 players ever. Keep in Mind that Fischer and Kasparov were both was 27-29 at the height of their chess careers as was Karpov, Petrosian, Botvinnik, etc. etc. etc.

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Excellent point...yeah, Rashid was something special...

[@ebntje]

Never thought of that.

[@SerpMolot]

"Stalinism"... You people are so afraid of him. If it wasn't for him, chess would not have been nearly as big as it was in the USSR. Botvinnik, the founder of the Soviet chess school, was a communist and a supporter of Stalin. Keep your liberal propaganda out of chess, especially since it was the communists who really brought it to prominence.

[@Rafa-uz6fg]

@@SerpMolot bro chill

[@CommonSenseWarrior37]

@@SerpMolot Tell me you are an idiot without telling me you are an idiot

[@louiswalker5080]

Nezhmetdinov wins the Russian Championship 5 times...but never gets to be a GM?! That's just crazy.

[@deridivisstar884]

If you can beat a grandmaster. Then you are a grandmaster.

[@shampooshampoo8378]

one of the qualifications is to reach 2500. according to wiki, his peak rating is only 2455

[@ght3k7]

Maybe he's not GM, but he's definitely GA rtist

[@ebntje]

How did he do in the Soviet Championships? Still a wonderful player and great tactician

[@St_1786]

BR e1-e7

[@gillrowley7264]

The way Rashid played against Tal, he should definitely be awarded an honorary grandmaster title. Even the baseball Hall of Fame has a veterans committee made up of past players who vote in good players who weren't selected during their eligibility.

[@GaneshKumar-bv2td]

Jan van Erven if that is the only reason its just sad

[@deridivisstar884]

He is a grandmaster in my opinion. He beat many GM's.

[@jasper5016]

First time I have seen Tal got trapped like Tal traps his opponents. Wow.

[@nicolotoscano8311]

"Better to be a legend who never became a grandmaster than a grandmaster who never became a legend". #agadmatorOUT

[@burns9281]

i would be happy with either

[@cvetkojovcevski645]

Nicolò Toscano lol

[@sushantmj1984]

Say the one who ain't worth a dime

[@rupamsharma7457]

Nicolò Toscano yeah

[@rajatstudio]

sushant jadhav actually the quote was said by one of the soviet GM or one of their entourage, don't remember who.

[@ernestoguevara7624]

Rashid was better chess player than Botvinnik and other champions.Sometimes destiny is hard with the genius.Good video;Thanks.

[@jacekgatkowski8869]

Hah Tal gets Tal's treamtment

[@pthiago_s5075]

Jacek Gątkowski Rashid is like tal's master, actually

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Jacek Gątkowski ...ha ha you bet!

[@syedthefunnyguy7570]

I have never seen moves like this, they are so, _mystical_ . 1) These moves are in depth, a normal chess player could not see through these moves. 2) The attacks are quite different, because they are offering pieces to brutally check the King. Even in fact some of the pieces seems very tempting, there lies a deadly trap waiting to trigger at every corner. *Now I know why this game is remembered*

[@fyodorurnov6028]

Wow, the precision with which Nezhmedtinov capitalized on Tal’s hard to explain bishop move... so elegant. Thank you for sharing this game!

[@manasjaiswal1473]

Ikrr...dk why everyone's hyping nzehy...(assuming ur being sarcastic)

[@hkphysics]

​@@manasjaiswal1473you are on drugs FR! Tal's bishop blunder was a result of all the masterstrokes Rashid threw at him throughout the game. Tal once said that the day on which he lost this game to Rashid was the best day of his entire life. Random people are literally nobodies if a legend like Tal himself hyped Rashid up.

[@raghugulati3314]

Hats off to you agadmator. You described and payed respect to a legend in a legendary way by saying "Better to be a legend who never became a grandmaster than a grandmaster who never became a legend".

[@jormundaggrfarlier5010]

Its always magical if its from you.Keep it up man.

[@alexj5376]

Mert Özdal that's what she said..

[@amazighennorthafrica6501]

Gaaaaayyyy

[@jormundaggrfarlier5010]

amazighen North Africa just check your nick man

[@freshgames1172]

Helal reis dogru dedin

[@Dewtart]

kinda gay

[@littlehorhey5285]

Watching this game helped me realise some truths about my own game. 1. It doesn't matter how good you are, the opponent is always a major threat. 2. Being concered with rating, and with winning for the sake of it, impedes improvement. So many chess players are obsessed with their victory statistic. Chess is an independent organism, it is an infinitely beautiful artwork, dynamic and ever changing. You have a hand in composition, your goal is to improve your ability to compose. Sometimes this means your side is defeated beautifully by the other, and that's part of why we love chess. We are always involved with the artwork, our job is to simply compose. But the artwork always concludes, our decisions determine in what form it concludes. It's a bit like an infinite narrative. To digress, I was playing a much lower rated player. In the last 2 days I've beaten him 30 times, and havent lost a single game. Yet, yesterday, he found an incredible rook sacrifice that forced a draw, and force the draw he did. It just astonishes me. Chess sometimes resembles a higher power. It plays you more than you play it.

[@gerrylast3553]

I learned a lot from Tal's losing moves, which pretty much sums up how brilliant this game is.

[@angusmclellan918]

I love how prepared you are for each video. There are no cuts and you explain every variation of every important move flawlessly. Its awesome)

[@nibirtalukdar6246]

He defeated tal just like how tal use to defeat other players..tal had the taste of his own medicine

[@daidzamilija007]

In the end, very nicely said, better to be a legend without a GM title than a GM without a legend 👏👏👏

[@gauravmg]

what a beautiful game...you cant help but to stand in awe of the Big N.

[@joeyp3452]

You can call an apple an orange but it will always be an apple. You can call Rashid what you like he will always be frickin awesome. Great video. To me Rashid is not a chess grandmaster he is a chess artist which is more difficult to obtain

[@johnnypastrana6727]

Joey P ...Damn right...

[@mickdertadason]

Tal puts the bishop on f6 for preventing Knight d8 threating rook takes e8 and also preventing the entering of the rook in the seventh rank. Thanks for your videos agadmator.

[@segismundochecquemangarcia9880]

I think Tal wanted to play the white bishop to c8 but he didn't want the rook to come to d8 afterwards the intention was to safely remove one of the attackers the rook or knight with the bishop

[@aquapony]

Re8 would be checkmate, so the pishob move loses.

[@ElyaneTalk]

Fischer, Tal, and Nezhmetdinov the best players in the history. Thanks for sharing Antonio ❤

[@snowfromflame6711]

I'd put Morphy and Kasparov up there as well

[@ifeanyiilogbaka7099]

I'll place Alekhine ahead of them.

[@dareyfairy]

Where did u learn he was a nazi?

[@andrewhall6342]

Best attackers, yes, best players, that is debatable.

[@jacrispy9782]

garymcmascelyn I thought he just became a Nazi sympathiser for his own safety

[@nyvoodoochild]

it is better to be a legend who never became a gm than to be a gm who never became a legend bruuuuh u blew my mind

[@mr.zandman7898]

6:55 Agadmator himself gave the best reasoning for Bf6. "He played a Tal move... or so he thought"

[@hoodghayas7735]

Wow! The game gave me goosebumps...

[@soumen08]

You're right. This is indeed magic!

[@XXBASSOON1STXX]

Always love to watch Nezhmetdinov do what he does best.

[@user-ov2kx8ql5i]

This guy love to sacrifice pieces and it's beautiful

[@binayjha1678]

I am an excellent subscriber coming from 400k subscribers and thanks for two hearts

[@themind1401]

Rashid style is just from another world

[@rupamsharma7457]

"Can simply go" isn't the style of the Pirate of Latvia rather the style of the Cuban legend. You made me learn that.

[@GauravMishra-nb1rh]

HE IS A MAGICIAN NO MATTERS ONE OR TWO DEFEATS

[@MarcoLLucas]

As soon as I read Tal, I clicked like!

[@Xenon777channel]

I loved this video, all those moves starting with f4-f5 were just so funny, then Bf6 was sooooooo funny, especially considering that this is Tal of all people and he's getting confused playing strange moves right into white's imagined variations haha.

[@zahirruh]

Good videos. Thank you!

[@bordiguy]

It's always fun to see a Tal game even on the losing side.

[@dhruvilpurani4806]

Tal always plays beautiful games. His games in present ages looks Immortal.

[@mohammadalsubaie5364]

congratulations you are about to get 70 thousand subscribers You must have good ideas for this

[@Einwill]

Nezhmetdinov's playlist on the channel missed this video. Alas!

[@gfweis]

The great Tal sliced and diced. Wow. I wonder if Nezhmetdinov, with those Dracula eyes in the photo you show here, really looked that way in real life. Scary.

[@lieofklutz7537]

Gregory Weis he does lol with glasses

[@antonisk7837]

Looks a bit like Ronald Reagan

[@vedanshvedansh844]

You suck

[@ahsanabbas1397]

Dude, no one destroyed other. They share a teacher-student relationship. Don't spread hate, man.

[@abdulnasseromunganjr1308]

Rashed such amazing player. He schooled the great tal

[@furiousone942]

Beautiful.

[@MrSoulkeeper90]

You are great pleas continue i like watching you videos i like your way of laf and speak

[@zijingcao2855]

I love how even when he is forced into a corner, the Magician from Riga can still somehow activate his rook.

[@rohangeorge712]

agadmator did say that h8 rook wasnt getting into the game but tal did the best moves to get it into the game even though he probably already knew he lost, he just wanted to lose strong, as it was indeed a beautiful game. that bishop f6 blunder isnt really easy to see anyways.

[@cbmcbm2845]

@ 10:00 could black rook to f7 add few more steps to the game?

[@scottmontgomery4537]

Your really good at this, I've really enjoyed these games. Have a Merry Christmas.

[@davidcopson5800]

You're.

[@andressito640]

Maravilloso ataque..gracias

[@rumned]

At 7:00 maybe Tal played the bishop to avoid Rashid playing Nd8? That opens up the line for the rook on e1, and blocking Black's own rook at a8?

[@radoslavdumancic6243]

Love your videos! Keep it up man!

[@alanwrobel]

Beautiful game!

[@immanuellasker4273]

since theese days the audio quality of your videos has achieved an amazing improvement

[@TheHigherSpace]

This was so beautiful ... weird now all the games are similar ...

[@roccomajdoub1585]

This is art !!

[@americanbuilttolast]

Mr.Rashid was Mr.Tal coach and Trainer according to Mr.Mato Jelic KZbin channel.

[@aghajanomarzai3757]

Hi, when two white rocks came on the positions of d7e6 then the black bishop can play on c8 to capture one of the white's rocks and finally the white will loss the game with replacing the bishop with while rock. thanks for your videos and they are nicely explained by you. good luck and see u on the tournaments. note: always avoid to put two rocks back to back in one line when the opposition bishop is still alive. Regards.

[@santprasad6946]

Tal was setting a trap for capturing the dangerous Knight on e6. Bf6 to be followed by Bc8 and the rook on d7 has to move at the same time it can't occupy any square defending the Knight on e6. Rashid, though, found a sequence where he needn't defend rook on d7 and could checkmate the Black's King with other rook.

[@antoncarlsson7682]

When you realise there are two Tal's looking at you

[@sathyapriya5052]

Since tal was under terrible pressure of the kingside attack, he might've blundered bishop f6 since it adds further protection to the g7 square, and psychologically it looks like he's freeing up some space

[@michaeljanapin9528]

Coming from the 400k subs video👍

[@Sweyn_Nero]

I love how he casually explains that taking a pawn isn't worth it because 7 turns in the white knight would go blitz on the black king.

[@shuridshurid]

Im early for 2 of my favorite attackers

[@TheTlcarvalho]

Two wizards... Great!!

[@Knif3Point]

"Legends never die." -The Sandlot

[@captainaizen4866]

You know Antonio has become a God Tier youtuber when you notice he accepts donation in Bit Coins.

[@LostPageWasTaken]

6:50 Because Tal didn't want Rashid to play rook D8 to trade rooks.. Because Rashid's other rook is attacking the knight while Tal's other rook is stuck in the corner. Probably a bad position for Tal

[@manasjaiswal1473]

i am a huge tal fan and havent watched the game neither any game by nezhy yet by judging the comments surely a tornado meets a volcano

[@coolliechtenstein9090]

7:00 Probably he wants to play Knight g7.. I don't know. But Rook f1 is coming anyway

[@smrtfasizmu6161]

His voice is so calming

[@bennie7836]

This match is really MagiTal! Excuse the pun. Nice video xD

[@andreeaalexandru7811]

It was hard to get GM title in Communist Russia even after Stalin died (Impossible when he lived) because FIDE was giving the titles for international games and it was hard to leave Russia. From wikipedia: "I played my first tournament after my marriage in Sochi. This was the Russian SFSR championship, and it was won by Nezhmetdinov, one of the strongest Soviet masters. For some reason, he was very rarely allowed to go abroad, and obviously, he never became a grandmaster because of that." - Korchnoi "I came to chess too late, as a 17-year-old man with no theoretical knowledge, whereas all the champions - Botvinnik, Smyslov, Spassky, Petrosian and Tal received training from the age of seven or eight….Yes, I could play some games with brilliance, and win prizes for beauty, but I was never able to achieve the holistic skills necessary for Grandmaster level” - Nezhmetdinov Let us also consider the other Soviet Players who became GMs around the time Rashid should have become one. 1954 - No player. 1955 - One player, Boris Spassky. He won the youth world chess championship and qualified for the Interzonal, where he got his grandmaster's norm. Boris was very lucky. The world championship in Antwerp ended on 8th August, and the Interzonal, which, luckily, was held in Gothenburg, began in a week - on 15th August. And Spassky got there in time, which, considering the Soviet bureaucracy of the time, was quite a feat. 1956 - One player, Viktor Korchnoi, by accumulated results. 1957 - One player, Mikhail Tal. He won the Soviet championship that year. In 1958 and 1959, no Soviet players became grandmasters. Therefore, in six years, from 1954 to 1959, only three Soviet players became grandmasters: Spassky, Tal and Korchnoi. How was Nezhmetdinov supposed to become a grandmaster if he never played in a tournament with grandmaster norms?

[@tayyab1]

Beautiful

[@md.ahsanulhoque1955]

thank you

[@sounakschannelforentertain7630]

This is magical ❤️

[@inspiredtiny]

Nezh is a master of the endgame..

[@SiwakSerg]

Hello, Sir. I noticed when here at 4:28 the second option was to play N:f5, I guess, because there was also an opportunity of double check with Nf6. Was it really possible? Thanks.

[@SuperJg007]

I watch your channel a lot and this was by far the best game. Better than Ivanchuk v Kasparov.

[@mr.barnes2630]

Man, this game was amazing!

[@valeriocostantini1959]

At 6:46, I think Tal played bishop to f6 because he wanted to play bishop to c8 to attack the rook and the knight and was afraid of rook to d8 pinning the bishop. By playing bishop to f6 he avoids rook to d8 in this variation

[@juanricardogarciagarcia8106]

Iniciativa y juego dinámico con estrategia y táctica Instructiva gracias de Cd Juárez Chihuahua México

[@GrowthruGod]

Chess is greatest game one can play people all over the world and your game can still be the only one ever played

[@Sigmaslice_100]

I have never seen anyone one like rashid gameplay ❤❤ great player never forgotten

[@andrewmacintosh4106]

I would love to see some of there other games. You know they played more than 4

[@saeedyarahmadi9913]

This guy was a genius.

[@sivaramambikasaran2103]

The reason Tal played 25...Bf6 was that he was "Nezhmetdinoved" just like Tal's opponents used to get "Taled" in front of Tal.

[@yessir6427]

this makes no sense and perfect sense both at once

[@king20james]

Great channel. I have never played the game, but I like watching. Can you make a video with slower explanations?

[@mohatarek3518]

Tal and Nezhmetdinov are the best chess players ever !

[@bobfree1226]

lol fischer ate tal up after 15 years old bobby was a kid an then swept him

[@kentpiano2600]

Brilliant! The GM who crushed Tal WC

[@Burton_aka]

6:50 My guess is "if" he got the grace of an additional move, it would be to clear the N off the back rank and bring the Q-side rook into the F-file

[@nielsjensen9771]

Rashid is very interresting and great

[@LJLMETAL]

Great game! Tal resigning is something you don't see every day!

[@someguyIvan]

Tal resigns ...woa how often do u hear that

[@hkphysics]

1:43 the pawn to H3. I always forget to play moves like this where you prevent a players attack. It's like prefire.

[@sergeypavlov9488]

Nezhmetdinov's book "Chess" was my first chess book, it was good.