Queen Sacrifice Everyone Is Talking About

[@hihunter7]

Agadmator is so unintentionally funny, from his slow mo moves to how he casually shuns certain moves and just scoffs at how badly you'd get destroyed if you played them. Absolutely love this guy and watching his vids invigorate my love of chess.

[@h____hchump8941]

And apologising like he killed my dog because he moved the piece to the wrong square

[@GiDaOne]

@@h____hchump8941 "Oops I dropped the queen"

[@Dmckenzie6]

@@h____hchump8941 I've seen so many videos at this point my go to 'my bad" phrase is 'Sorry about dat'

[@trashpanda9433]

Don't forget casually roasting the players who can't find a grandmaster's ideal move to get mate in 8 moves.

[@DavidChong]

"of course we have to look at what happens if b4 is played here..."

[@AmmoBoks]

Been a while since the Morphy head was rewarded, but well deserved!

[@tejeshreddy6252]

Who else was awarded ?

[@reivaldoaurelio4895]

I can't even remembered the last time it was rewarded.

[@hihunter7]

@@reivaldoaurelio4895 It's savored for the very very best. That and Agadmator forgot

[@brianosullivan5137]

🚨 Spoiler alert 🚨 …oh wait 🤔

[@PaperGrape]

'Awarded'

[@Shockprowl]

"The kind of game that you show to beginners and they love chess for the rest of their lives..." What a very profound, and accurate, statement.

[@anshuuu9708]

Lasker vs Thomas omg🤣🤣

[@GeraldM_inNC]

I've noticed that the world's top ten or twenty players can push the pawns defending their king, leaving their king defenseless, and amazingly they can get away with it. They are the only ones who can.

[@Zenith9132]

A modern thing as well. The soviet school would admonish such moves.

[@21abhinavpatel]

I think they're very good at calculating whether their attack is fast enough to survive the weaknesses they've created, and that's the main reason the top 20 players are able to get away with it more often than their lower-rated compatriots.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

@@21abhinavpatel Well put! That's true too of many other elements of their strategy. As you say, they calculate precisely how many moves it will take for the attack to succeed, and whether their opponent can overcome their defense in fewer moves than that. The rest of us can't make such a sophisticated calculation. I've lost many games because I overestimated by a move or two the speed of my attack or the slowness of my opponent's attack.

[@hihunter7]

@@21abhinavpatel Exactly. Everytime I try to replicate their strats I get insta checkmated because my king is defended by one pawn against 2 knights, a bishop, a rook, 3 pawns and a queen.

[@Moldylocks]

Funny you said this on a video where someone got punished for pushing their pawns in front of the king? But yeah, he's not top-20 so maybe that's what you meant? You can see Gukesh pawns in front of his king is still unmoved.

[@sugavanambalasubramanian8536]

Top notch play by Gukesh!

[@OriginalThisAndThat]

8:03 Gukesh Morphs to his final form

[@TheChzoronzon]

I see what u did there

[@nedmerrill5705]

Congratulation to Gukesh for winning the rare and coveted Morphy's head!

[@vivekjoshi5207]

No doubts the queen sac is amazing... But the poor knight on g5 also deserves a bit of a mention.! What a game by Gukesh...all the Indian youngsters are playing spectacular chess and entertaining us..happy that someone suggested this game to Antonio.

[@aaravarya4406]

Knight on G5 chilling like who cares.

[@saadiftikhar3317]

As a Pakistani I find myself rooting for Indians in chess tournaments

[@keshavmundada4791]

How is chess culture in pakistan,I hope any top player comes from pakistan

[@visheshtyagi8041]

@@keshavmundada4791 ya there is a kid, maybe u-10... But i think he would have to leave his country if he wants to pursue his chess culture..

[@juangalton999]

It's good to see love between neighbors. I miss playing chess with my Cubano grandfather. Someday I hope all people are united and free.

[@brodaism]

I don't think Pakistan ever had a GM. But Bangladesh on the other hand have few GMs and they are good, fought well at chess olympiad recently. Good luck to them both!

[@xarmanhsh2981]

Do hou have indian ancestors?

[@rockerma1987]

Anand still in top 10 is impressive.

[@hsemarubab]

That end of the game was just CLASS! GG

[@roky7480]

I am completely new to Chess and I have been watching your videos for a while now, but I have learned a few things that I see in almost every chess game. Always keep your king behind pawns, never get a check from a knight as you can’t block it with anything, don’t let the opponent’s pawn cross midline, avoid the opponent’s two knights attacking together, and have some space for the king to move.

[@reinpost]

Absolutely, those are all things to bear in mind. Once enough material is off the board, the king can advance to attack.

[@ClarkPotter]

I'm from the future. Not only did Gukesh qualify for the candidates. He won!

[@fporretto]

What a beautiful exploitation of open diagonals!

[@amritawasthi7030]

Hi, I enjoy your comments in mato's videos cuz they're informative as well. Stay safe and thank you ✨

[@GeraldM_inNC]

The "bishops from Hell!"

[@brendanmk6693]

I really liked the way you recapped the moves again at the end starting at around 9:10. I'm a relative beginner so maybe lots of your other viewers don't benefit from that, but for me, watching the moves again now knowing how the game ended really helps me understand why they're so powerful. With the context it's even more enjoyable watching those moves a second time.

[@callistotv0]

Young Morphy: I am tactics Gukesh: *let me introduce myself*

[@ahmermehmood1177]

Morphy is Morphy with 84 percent win ratio

[@shawncarter7188]

Great game, wow. It really was Morphy-esque!

[@yotamabady7457]

the final move reminds me of rubinstein's immortal, moving the rook and leaving the queen pinned.

[@davidcopson5800]

This is true.

[@YotamPiano]

Antonio, you do an amazing job choosing nice games for us. First a queen side castle into a fork, and now this!! I can't believe how a hundred's of years old game still yields jaw dropping moments in 2022 on a regular basis.

[@ambyjkl]

I'm quite impressed that Gawain Jones was able to figure out the response to the move at 1:02 that even stumped the world champion Magnus Carlsen

[@michaelsdenney]

For some reason Kasparov came to mind more then Morphy. What a brilliancy sacing the d pawn.

[@imashu5634]

Finally!!! Thank you agad❤️

[@trucid2]

White plays so much stronger than black. Hard to believe it's only 100 elo difference.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@mridgaf3233]

100 elo is a massive difference at the top level

[@rohangeorge712]

@@mridgaf3233 yea but still that guy played horribly exposing his king to the bishops and queen like that. like sure u attack but u gotta defend ur most important piece as well

[@GoodLifeMedicine]

Gukesh: Take my Queen. Gawain: No thanks. Gukesh: No, I insist. Take my Queen. Gawain: Okay. Gukesh: Muuuhuuhahahhaaaaahh

[@AmbitiousAkbar]

Gukesh deserves to play a tournament against super GMs to see how he fares.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

Future world champion!

[@pablorocha4682]

Weeeeeeell...

[@kirolloseskandar4972]

Gukesh vs Liren

[@sugavanambalasubramanian8536]

Gukesh demolished the opponent here!

[@I_am_Anugrah]

".....And when I say SLOW MOTION, it means I'm gonna do it in circular motion too 😅". - Agad

[@francisf9413]

Thank you for the advice. I would have played the knight to c6 with black, called it the 4 knights variation confident it was the best move in the position

[@prakashreddy3460]

The only channel that almost never bored me and will never. I wish I had listened to my academics so well. 😁😂

[@riptideking]

Thank you for explaining ❤🎉

[@adilahmed3955]

The point where a mistake or blunder happens in these games should be pointed out in my opinion. Otherwise it's really difficult to make out where exactly the mistake occurred.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

Agadmator usually does precisely that. In this case, I don't believe there was a blunder. It's just that pushing the pawns defending your king only works for the very top players. You can't really call it a blunder, because they do it and win. For the rest of us, just don't do it!

[@smolytchannel5062]

@@GeraldM_inNC probably the clearest example of a massive blunder I've seen in high level games, i mean it loses a whole piece. It's just a basic principle not to push pawns defending the king when there are not one but 2 monster bishops and a queen scoping it

[@kunalsingh4418]

@@smolytchannel5062 yeah I can't even tell what he calculated wrong, the position looked so hopeless from the moment he weakened the king side cause of the white bishops as well as white controlling the centre.

[@fugglesme4186]

Agadmator mentioned that on move 21. ... Qd6 was required. He actually played 21. ... Bc8. That was the beginning of the end. Here is some of Stockfish's evaluation. 13. ... Na5 +0.5 14. ... Bh6 +0.94 17. ... Rce8 +0.96 18. ... f5 +1.83 21. ... Bc8 +3.54 You can see that f5 was pretty bad but then Bc8 was losing.

[@sreeharie821]

A lot of times a single blunder would not cause the game but little little inaccuracies will add up and finally leads to the ultimate demise

[@avijit3001]

Truly, Antonio's Morphy head is something any international level chess player aspires for, though it comes with no certificate or prize money.

[@dhiiraneomaar4700]

Agadmator is a chess investigator 👌 The way you analyze chess games are insane bro keep up the good work greetings from 🇸🇴Somalia

[@balajiramanathan822]

It is not explicitly mentioned at 8:10, but QxB2 by black would have resulted in R to H7 checkmate by white, that is why the queen is just completely immobilized and helpless

[@dannyosolo2752]

Truly Spectacular stuff from Gukesh!!Thanks Agadmator

[@justineddy5306]

An alternate title for this video could have been "Sir Gawain and the Three Knights".

[@PaperGrape]

7:20 Antonio, you are just golden, my friend. Your dry humor makes me rotfl every time.

[@vvkentertainment435]

Wow! May him be blessed with more and more abundance, prosperity, great health, immense wealth and happiness

[@morrisgarage8887]

That was a great game to watch! And well narrated too.

[@discosugar]

#suggestion: compilation of slow motion moves

[@FloydMaxwell]

Gukesh's Immortal

[@onbored9627]

7:24 I'm imagining Gukesh moving his queen like this in the actual game. Brilliant.

[@isamirahmad]

its been a while since I was this early on your videos, good content

[@sonarbangla8711]

Simply brilliant. Gukesh, Arjun and Paggu are the future Magnus the magnificent.

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

Not to take away from his brilliancy, but it seemed very intuitive that white would be activating the bishop pair from hell. Black opened up his kingside, white had 2 bishops, the diagonals threats were apparent. The queen sac was just a poisoned piece positioned to allow white to pile up alongside the hellish bishop duo.

[@sevesetupou3531]

I sac my queen too. Involuntarily.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

LOL. Me too!

[@onlyapawn4371]

lol yeh me too I sometimes sac my Queen then immediately resign because the forced checkmate I have seen 10 moves in advance will be too embarrassing for my opponent.

[@rohangeorge712]

im even better i sac my king.

[@shawman5676]

Amazing indeed from Gukesh. Gawain is also very attacking and so the game between them have to be a great ride for sure. Its just that he met someone who is a juggernaut at the moment. Look at him beating David today from a worse position once David made one mistake and it was resignation 5 moves later !!!

[@kamisama2616]

That was such a brutal finish. I know 100 elo difference is big but the opponent is still a 2600+ player and got outplayed to such a high degree.

[@rajviryadav1227]

He is former 2700

[@matrixmatrix6099]

Very good presentation... thanks agad.

[@jro3213]

I will have to go rewatch some of the Morphy saga now

[@rdatta]

Wow! A game for the ages. Congrats to Gukesh

[@Infamous_V.I.P]

On a seperate note, I really dislike that Giri fella. Anyone else feel the same?. I don’t have a legitimate reason there is just something about him.

[@SuperSaniyat]

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa sacrificed his Queen against Jan-Krzystof Duda in the Julius Baer Generation Cup (2022). It's a thrilling game, can you make a video on that game, pretty please?

[@padmakumarke2063]

This shows the matchless beauty of chess,when handled by a Master,a game for reference.

[@varadarajcuram2238]

Thank you for comparing Gukesh to Paul Morphy. Super game by Gukesh.

[@coxscorner]

Hate to seem my favored Gruenfeld brutlaized in such a fashion.

[@randyones9231]

agadmator sense of humor on another level 😂 ... love it.. never gets old..

[@dimitriosdoulgeris4659]

I believe the last time a player was awarded the Morphy head was Dubov when playing against Svane in 2019. Forced mate in 13. Great stuff.

[@VijayThakurMD]

Where is Dubov I want him active in major tournaments ASAP His games are so beautiful, last game I remember was him against vidit

[@lfy_trav]

Always a pleasure bro🏆

[@onbored9627]

Anyone else notice the board flickering a bit in this video? Thought my monitor was breaking or something but it stopped when I paused the video. Around 4:00-4:30 is where I really started to notice it.

[@BeatsndRaps]

I like the philosophical touch your quotes are getting :)

[@xethnyrrow]

I honestly think the pawn sacrifice setting it all up was the truly impressive move.

[@lokesh.4322]

Sir in that critical position on the pose the video moment I think Bf7 is also winning as it will lead to checkmate in a different way. Anyway great game very greatful for you sir to showing search games to us thanks.

[@EsDlite]

As of 20224 October 11, Arjun Erigaisi is World #4, India #1. Gukesh is #5, India #2

[@jamesbogdanets2473]

Yo love ur vids

[@Learnjapanesefromsomeguy]

I completely understand, 100%, why chess masters resign before being checkmated. But how many times throughout history has a master resigned early when the position could have actually been saved? And I would also be curious to know how many times two masters saw different lines, yet one still resigned, perhaps mistaking the other player's true intentions. Has a player ever resigned when their opponent simply made what they thought was a good move, but didn't know that mate was inevitable?

[@hobit7585]

For agadmator if any move gets slowed down , it becomes spiraling for some weird physics. No matter if it was linear or trajectory or whatever. You slow it down it starts the spirals.

[@bobthemadmonkey]

That's how chess pieces move

[@faaltoh]

A missed opportunity to color the morphy head indian brown ;) Excellent content as always Antonio! Many thanks!

[@keralacitizen]

And you think of skin color!huh

[@roycereynolds6737]

#suggestion: bring Dubov back Agad plz 😢

[@UrGoneConcept]

He refused to play under fide flag

[@roycereynolds6737]

@@UrGoneConceptI like this play style not where he play. So any game of Dubov is fine

[@ishaq24722]

How a GM could expose his king in such a glaring way is hard to fathom.

[@rohangeorge712]

fr bruh especially with that bishop pair and the queen idk what he was doing i would never make those moves.

[@gyaneswarpanigrahi4070]

A lot of young guns round the world are playing excellent chess - be it Arjun Erigaisi, Abusatarov, Pragg, Hans Niemann, Keymar and more. But Gukesh is by far the most creative of this lot, only Firouza among the juniors is more creative than this guy. Gukesh will make for interesting creative chess viewing in coming years.

[@Rareme530]

Gukesh is the youngest among all

[@mattt.4395]

i noticed you recently started saying "pawn to" before pawn moves, instead of just saying the move. (i.e. "Gukesh plays pawn to b5" instead of simply "Gukesh plays b5"). is that because beginners were having trouble understanding which piece was moving unless you specified "pawn to..." before saying the move? just wondering. love your videos.

[@giribabusaggurthi862]

What a game gukesh , Great

[@cloudtheavegner1000]

Agadmator: checkmate in 8 moves. Me, who can’t even spit mate in 2: interesting

[@amoldivo]

Just find checks that can't be captured / pinned...

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

yes, lots of tactics. Loved the game

[@rohangeorge712]

honestly i like the pawn sacrifice better than the queen sacrifice. but he definitely deserved the morphy head. what a nice game to see. thanks agad

[@takalanimufunwa8848]

Good game Gukesh. Agadmator please show my game with Queen sacrifice as well

[@d013ishanipandit3]

D gukesh we are proud to you and being 🇮🇳 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@lichunob099]

I love the slow motion man!

[@jsanon1634]

Awesome. Such a powerful attack that was unexpected and with a Queen sacrifice to boot.,

[@tinamp811]

I've been laughing at the slow move move for a billion videos and somehow it never gets old

[@danielhutchinson2133]

33rd ☺ saw this live on Chessbase India it was unbelievable 🇮🇳

[@fractalez]

Do a video about the last online game where Hans and Magnus played recently

[@hampannashampanna33]

Gukesh morphy....

[@XoPlanetI]

Gukesh plays immortal at 16.

[@glennlucey5882]

What about Re8 for the "pause the video" move, sacrificing the rook, followed by knight to F7 check, which allows The queen to take the bishop for mate because the knight blocks the Black queen?

[@glennlucey5882]

Shoot, Doesn't work because if queen takes knight, and Bishop takes queen, rook to E1 is mate

[@winrar42]

"Gawain" should be pronounced "Gah-Win" with the emphasis on the first syllable

[@arightscepter]

"...when they see it they will love chess for the rest of their lives..." The more complete lives have such experiences if you ask me. Everyone can use such a life change.

[@vangil7697]

that white queen is tough! Beautiful chess. congrats gukesh

[@pelimies1818]

Morphy! It’s a miracle!

[@phdcmd]

It is sacrifice when you can get your piece back on the next move.

[@Poulenc]

Is there a Morphy Head playlist?

[@carsonllorente481]

Goatkesh

[@SimBol1216]

Sir Gawain Jones and the Black Knight

[@brianmitchell1049]

It was the N-G5 that really got me. What if Jones had played the Q-D6? What then? Wow, what a great attack.

[@xevinoeinogueiras3748]

Slow motion was really really a wonderful idea.

[@Jehag2]

Amazing game. :) Thank you.

[@decorationdaycare1543]

Wow what a game,i like the slow motion queen capture bishop

[@lorenzophalaRSA]

I enjoyed the show!!

[@mr.orange8205]

Pretty fitting day for a Queen sacrifice.