Polugaevsky vs. Nezhmetdinov 1958 | Mastering the Middlegame - GM Yasser Seirawan

[@obscurity3027]

I love how Yasser asks the children for move ideas, and he takes the time to consider every suggestion no matter how “unusual” the move may be. Yasser is one of the greatest teachers I’ve ever seen…and I’m not just talking about chess teachers, but all teachers.

[@samuelrosenbalm]

Yes! Another Yasser lecture! What an awesome surprise waiting for me today! I think I can speak for just about everyone who watches this channel when I say that we want more Yasser. He's so incredibly charismatic and his chess knowledge is extremely strong.

[@Nawras_Al_Sharq_forAll]

+Sam Rosenbalm totaly agree with you

[@leagueaddict8357]

Your message was 7 years ago are you still watching his lectures?

[@samuelrosenbalm]

@@leagueaddict8357 Rewatching them regularly. I wish he would go back to doing more of them.

[@leagueaddict8357]

@@samuelrosenbalm I also watch them, Agadmator is a good Chess channel as well do you watch him too? he has some nice videos about Morphy's games, and Nyezhmetdinov.

[@elasiduo108]

I love Yasser. He's such a funny guy, and I love his calm, and yet, enthusiastic way to explain things.

[@jc7868]

nice-mate-dinov

[@dusanninic9572]

NicemateDonev !!! Nice mate done. 😉👌🏻

[@aravindgundakaram1830]

@@dusanninic9572 you in confusion buddy?

[@jannieschluter9670]

@@aravindgundakaram1830 don't be a jerk, buddy

[@gratitude62]

thank you very much for this, Nezhmetdinov is absolutely my favorite chess player......it was indeed fun to explore the tactics and variations of the game.

[@TheTimmeister5454]

Neshmitdinov played awesome tactical chess!

[@christopherkennedy944]

yeah~

[@surelysmith]

Ty gm Yasser. this was the most entertaining and informative tactical matchups I have seen thus far thank you for showing us these great learning games.

[@rtwodtwo2078]

YES! Yasser the best !!! Superb video as always

[@MrCk1234567890]

Sometimes I put on a seirawan lecture to fall asleep. In this case it turned out to be such a fantastic lecture on an absolutely incredible game that I ended up wide awake...lol

[@12jswilson]

yASMR Serenadawan

[@MojitoTube]

Nezhmetdinov is my favorite player ever

[@Vahe345]

The documentary on him was amazing!

[@christopherkennedy944]

i'm my favorite player

[@mstalcup]

A masterpiece of a game and a first-rate, informative presentation!

[@bardhanjoy]

It is really astonishing that a person who has seen such horror at the very beginning of his life, without any security or hope or dream; could play such a game and be known to play likewise. In the era of chess engines and guidance from great masters if one creates such possibilities over the board, we worship them. That's why we all must take a moment and think in which circumstances Nezhmetdinov played this game. He regretted that he was late to start his chess career. I wonder how ecstatic he might have felt in the age of internet, where knowledge is easily attainable. Thank you very much for the demonstration Yasser and Saint Lois Chess Club.

[@shrayanmajumder7517]

Yasser has a unique style, just awesome!

[@sa19861986]

really nice of Mr. Yasser... Syrian grand master ... really I like that ... please make more such ...

[@jannickackermans2449]

yasser already did a lecture on this match in 2014 .but still a great lecture

[@chesslearn8103]

Love your videos yasser!! 🙂

[@NetroYT]

Thank you Yasser for promoting chess like this!

[@melodychest9020]

"King has to go to the side pocket!" .. Classic Yasser!!! The way the King was dancing around was like shooting Pool indeed! I love his respect for the game, as he patiently shows you why a variation does not work, although he knows it rightaway, cos he is a GM! Great personality!

[@gregtaylor6146]

Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan, what more is there to say but, Thank you.

[@kristianfagerstrom7011]

More Yasser videos, excellent!

[@davekearns4845]

Great game! Great commentary!

[@p1nesap]

Great commentary as always Yas. I can see why you like this game so much. Seems a lost queen is OK as trick sacrifice to check mate opponent, but much less so if queen is lost earlier and one has to play on.

[@12jswilson]

Nezhmetdinov has another famous game where he sacrifices his queen in the middle game for immense compensation

[@sujaybms]

yeah it was uploaded before!!! but that was for the advanced class where Yaseer made them find the most things!!! this is for juniors!

[@Brucelee-pv6uf]

Yassir have amaizg way of telling stories make them so exciting I love hearing him

[@robbied2113]

Love this game and Yasser.

[@yazanostora244]

thanks yasser from Palestine chess teem

[@penearth]

great stuff Yasser

[@BoBnfishy]

i feel like there are a bunch of people subbed to this channel that have a certain lecturer that they're super attached to. kinda neat to look at the comments.

[@Nawras_Al_Sharq_forAll]

best video i ever see in my life

[@BloodFalcon2k7]

Another great lecture

[@omedakreyi5152]

at last good videos again!

[@alperenmercan747]

Hello, I have just found the Lev Alburt book was Three Days with Bobby Fischer and Other Chess Essays, page 156. The guys name is not Tomashevsky, but Alexey Suetin. Also Petrosian name should be Furman. Hope it helps if someone is wondering.

[@sc7086]

That was not Tomashevsky, but Tseshkovsky 5:00

[@maximffm3577]

That's right, and Polugaevsky was a player of 60's and 70's, not of 80's and 90's. And Tseshkovsky was not from Tomsk, but from Omsk.

[@zbohemzvolen1346]

Amazing Mr, Serasian

[@Summanininruhu]

Best chess teacher on the planet !

[@davidcaughell6571]

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for ALL of your videos, they're very good and I was pleased to see that it was you making them because I got the chess tactics book you wrote way, way back. :)

[@christopherkennedy944]

thank you grandmaster!!

[@bautistakeithcharles3302]

Somehow Yasser reminds me of joker even without the makeup

[@takatotakasui8307]

It's the jovial charisma.

[@Igor_054]

Now that you say it, He reminds me specifically of Nicholson's Joker, 1989.

[@andrewdirrell7497]

he reminds me of White Rose from Mr.Robot

[@Jedi_Mind_]

He reminds me of boss Nass from phantom menace

[@bigjoey1114]

Yasser is so great!

[@coughhy]

19:38 .... "Back!" How appropriate :D

[@camaradabr9926]

lol

[@-Muhammad_Ali-]

Nezhmetdinov vs Chernikov is a cruel masterpiece. Make a video abiut that, please..

[@kaushalkanakamedala6886]

At 30:00 I was thinking of a variation where Queen takes the Rook QxH1 QD1xH1 NB4xC2(check) KE3 - D2 NC2xA1 White's Rooks for a Queen and Knight.

[@Eliges]

@14:50 why not Nc6 Nd4 with threads of Nf3 forking the queen? cannot figure out why it is not the move that is played.

[@jal2550]

I came here for Yasser....the best!

[@Kalliliciouz]

Thumbs up for Yasser!

[@allaboutthegyro]

Wow. What a game!

[@pradeepbhai007]

I love yasser........ Videos I mean

[@garthorama11]

Wow, what an astounding contrast between Yasser and Finegold, but I don't need such a big personality to be captivated in a very unique game of chess. Also, what an honor it must of been to analyze a widely celebrated chess game.

[@ivanla771]

Guys, why don't you shoot 1080p60 ? Every regular blogger does that nowadays. Let alone 4k.

[@japi57200]

My favourite lecturer👍👍

[@josuecastro5103]

I'm not in a position to comment Rashid Netzhmetdinov chess games. But he is the only one who knows the demons inside his head.

[@jeremybowman4847]

Rashid always had the knack of winning the brilliancy [prize!

[@altimate1]

Yes, but he lacked the wit to win a tournament 😆

[@fromthe3128]

@@altimate1won the Soviet championship 5 times but okay

[@V8SupersQirreL]

Listening to Yasser Seirawan is like listening to Bob Dylan or Bill Clinton or Bruce Willis! He knows everyone of the top level players and played them, he is a legend!

[@logisticsmatter5583]

Big Brain

[@etymonlegomenon931]

Bill Clinton LMFAO

[@aarenmitts3667]

Damn, this guy is relentless

[@0HonzaDvorak0]

Thank you

[@jeremybowman4847]

favourite game ever. Hands down.

[@singlespies]

At 30:26 instead of Qxg3+, Black can play Nxc2+ forcing White to give up his Queen. Or even better would be Bxf4+ first followed by Nxc2+.

[@Odeysyus]

At 25:30 mating move was kne5-knf3

[@Dan1elAndrade]

Holy fuck, how's that combination even possible.

[@jimmyalderson1639]

42:00 Yassar sounded like a 5 year old who just found out what christmas is

[@toyourdoors]

Sochi is in Russia not Ukraine

[@alexlisnyak]

Yasser says Sochi is Ukraine - then Sochi is Ukraine

[@rakib17874]

@@alexlisnyak LOL

[@nick2629]

Beautiful game

[@alancosta4760]

Once I read a book about Nez tactical moves I missed every single one I can't think as far as him yet.

[@MrSunilson]

too spoilt..get to watch the champions league semifinal in the morning then a yasser lecture in the afternoon then the garry kasparov blitz tonight..life's good :)

[@knightf8648]

Real madrid won

[@kurtozan251]

Yasser is the best

[@myopenmind527]

Never move your queen twice in the opening. Lol.

[@syyhkyrotta]

YASSSSSEERRR!!!

[@tyro7428]

Wow. What a game

[@kiranfhh9059]

Thank u sir

[@rhiehn]

If anyone wanted to look at the King's Indian game from the previous US Championship, I think he misremembered the opponent - Naka's game against So was a fairly boring draw from the looks of it, but he destroyed Conrad Holt in a King's Indian in 27 moves

[@RoosheshMotiwallaOfficialPage]

@ 28:32 After Bishop e6 to d5 why not rook f1 to f2? make the black queen move to h3 or h5.(a) If queen h3 then queen white queen to h1 to exchange and equalise by taking knight on e5 .(b) If queen h5 then equalise by taking knight on e5.

[@andredavies1354]

Perhaps in that position ...Bxf4+ is playable!?Super complicated tho.

[@leoawara]

At 38:21 why cant white just take down pawn with b4 pawn?

[@cortneykelley74]

He is the best!

[@TherealHassanAsaad]

note from a brother you can put the video on 1.25 speed and it will be much better

[@mncpatzer]

will there be more?

[@aravindgundakaram1830]

That king do be slippery as an eel tho😂

[@jimmyalderson1639]

11:05 i saw night g4. In fact it's really obvious that it's the move he'd play, if you just came from Akobian's lecture on this game - guess i'm as strong as Nezhmatdinov

[@sergiopiau]

Amazing

[@alansong4754]

I loved it, for the education purposes, and of course, the LOLs.

[@christopherkennedy944]

omg toad i'm such a huge fan

[@alansong4754]

I also like the way he talks

[@joe.c.]

Does anyone know what program/site Yasser's using for his chess demonstration? Thanks!

[@TremendousSax]

It's likely Chessbase

[@lllllllllllllllllIll]

+Joe C. Chessbase 12 to be exact

[@sujaybms]

he is not necessarily talking about Evgeny Tomashevsky... we know that there is a gm called tigran petrosian who is actually not the 9th world champion!!!!

[@webdesigndomexperts5330]

just shows how important initiative is. beats material. lev polugayevsky somehow never got hold of the initiative and got clobbered.

[@FrankBakulov]

Game was played in Sochi, Ukraine - what?!

[@Frostgaming335]

Sochi is the city in Russia, not Ukrain :p 1:00

[@marekbanaszkiewicz6338]

Well. Stop politics here. It was a part of Soviet Union that time actually.

[@Frostgaming335]

Marek Banaszkiewicz yes, soviet union include Russia, Ukrain and other countries. Sochi is a part of Russia

[@alansong4754]

25:31 Nxe6 Nf3# instead of Qh2+

[@TheMushybees]

Nf3 isn't mate, the queen can take it.

[@alansong4754]

i meant if Nxe6, not if Nxf4

[@Odeysyus]

No Alan is right the night on e2 is blocking the queen

[@doktorarslanagic]

he can pronounce Nezhmetdinov but he can't pronounce Car-u-ana?? jking, i bet the way he says Caruana's name is an inside joke between the two of them :)

[@beeble2003]

He can't pronounce Nezhmetdinov, though he does use the pronunciation I've most often heard from fellow English-speakers. :) According to Wikipedia, at least, the correct pronunciation is nadge-met-DEEN-eff ("nadge" like "badge").

[@mhjbara3712]

because its arabic name " نجمالدينوف = najmldenov so sure Gm Yasser can said it right ..

[@altimate1]

Good learner

[@SagiNahor]

What about bishop g7

[@allthebucks3891]

Hm, saw Nxd3+ but after Nxd3+ e5 Bxe5+ Ke4 I don’t see the mate.

[@imchessman6107]

perfectly timed "back"

[@beeble2003]

You really can't claim that Tomsk is "some city in Siberia nobody's ever heard of." It's the 28th largest city in Russia by population. Well, the 28th-largest city in the US turns out to be Las Vegas, so let's not use that for comparison; but the 27th and 29th largest in the US are Oklahoma City and Louisville and you wouldn't describe them in such terms. Tomsk has twice the population of... St Louis, to pick a "random" example. Also, Sochi is in Russia, not Ukraine. But the chess content is really, really good.

[@beeble2003]

No idea but I'm British and I've heard of it.

[@PrometheanRising]

St. Louis has a population of around 3 million people.

[@beeble2003]

@@PrometheanRising The city itself (as distinct from its metro area) is only about a tenth of that.

[@PrometheanRising]

@@beeble2003 I understand that, but the fact that there are 2.7 million people immediately outside of the city limits is not a triviality and is germane to making a 1:1 comparison of two cities. Basically this is all a result of St. Louis having an unusual structure of governance. St. Louis City and County are regarded as two distinct and separate political entities in a way that is unlike most(maybe any) other city in the US. Unless Tomsk has another 2.5 million people immediately outside the city limits it is not really an apt comparison.

[@michelcharbonnier7603]

Mastering the Middlegame just requires you to saq a queen and see 20 moves ahead in every single variation until checkmate.

[@edravago8202]

You are the Louis Litt of Chess. 😁✌️

[@dmaster20ify]

White is going to die with a full tummy!

[@GymChess]

Quite a game. :)

[@skirk248]

all I learned was never be up material against Rashid Nezhmetdinov

[@altimate1]

This is a star move

[@jc7868]

next game nezhmetdinov against Oleg chernikov..great too

[@scheimong]

"You know these guys are good at chess because you can't pronounce their names." - Ben Finegold, probably

[@AaaAaa-pw3ji]

Somehow he reminds me of Nick’s dad on Big Mouth

[@cruzin2554]

“Ooooooooh” 😂❤️