Botvinnik's Extraordinary English Opening

[@sarmah7287]

Amazingly, Botnnivik got white pieces every time.

[@BREAKocean]

HAHA, who would have thought that in a video of botvinnik's english, he had white

[@claytonbenignus4688]

@@BREAKocean He certainly wasn't playing the Sicilian, although the English has been called "Sicilian for White".

[@nishusaif6085]

Bro he just played Mikhail Tal with black.

[@sarmah7287]

@@nishusaif6085 😀

[@claytonbenignus4688]

Botvinnik probably invented every possible transposition out of the English Opening for Black. If he wanted to transpose to the Ruy Lopez or Kings Gambit against 1. P-QB4, he could do it. He was that good.

[@markbc1]

Wow! Clear, precise, and helpful for my understanding of the Botvinnik English -and chess! Thank you! 🙂

[@claytonbenignus4688]

Amazing how Yudovich looks like a mirror image of Botvinnik,

[@adnan4688]

And Portisch is a Porche 😂

[@ekie7473]

Because it is

[@jevaughnfoster7619]

lol it’s the same picture I think

[@ianattong6989]

Very instructive games with annotations !!

[@nicholassalazar9133]

Love your videos man

[@alanalbin1988]

I love your descriptive commentary SammyChess. Your explanations of what is going on in the games is also reasonably understandable for a patzer like me. I am mystified why you don't have many more subscribers.

[@bobmccarron58]

Since 2018 I have watched countless chess videos on KZbin. You are the first and only channel to ever use the term, "luft."

[@lukemarks3281]

Naroditsky, powerplay king, king crusher, matojelic, and even fuckin hikaru? Lol and this guy is just good AI text speak

[@VitoPlaysGames]

What? Eric Rosen says luft all the time.

[@MohammedAlRefae34]

It is amazing how botvinnik was great enough to beat himself.

[@MSaeedF]

As always, it was informative. Thank you so much 🙏💐💐💐💐💐💐🙏

[@scacchifilosofia]

This video is amazing! Thanks for the great work! Greetings from Italy 🙋‍♂

[@banzaiburger]

Really enjoyed this video. After a 17 year hiatus from chess and coming back and facing 8 year olds with vast book knowledge, the Botvinnik English was my savior.

[@b01tact10n]

Thanks! Everyone opens up with e4 pawn. This opening takes alot of players off guard and gave me more ideas since I open up with c4 alot and learned a few of the lines via trial and error.

[@VitoPlaysGames]

I'm 1700 and on 17:35 I could only come up with Nd6+ and d5, but Bh5+ is such a brilliant sac that I never even considered it, wow!

[@jefftaylor1186]

Not going to lie, when I was ~13 or so, I started studying Botvinnik and his games and playing stuff he played and playing lines with Botvinniks name in them, my USCF rating skyrocketed. The guy figured it out.

[@andrew_owens7680]

What fantastic commentary! Subscribed. Keres was no slouch.

[@MarkAro.]

Best commentary for me

[@SammyChess1]

Appreciate it! :)

[@ZDTF]

Rudolf spielmann looked a little different than the photos Ive seen of him Eh maybe its the lighting

[@MegaFMMA]

Great stuff! Thank you for your contribution!! Valuable!

[@PacmanRocks100]

Great choice of games!

[@andrew_owens7680]

Sherbakov almost overcame his handicap of being a shrimp.

[@BREAKocean]

As someone who plays the pano against caro, I didn't realize that botvinnik never played e4 and that it was odd the attack also shares his name as well. Pretty cool!

[@nishusaif6085]

Your the best!

[@MohammedAlRefae34]

First I thought you were an AI character

[@ixmchvhxb78yearsago22]

17:55 The king would be forced to h8, not g8 cause of the knight on f6

[@WHAT-gm1xm]

Hey brother 👋🏻 good stuff can you make a video on Emory Tate and capablanca

[@andrew_owens7680]

Little known fact: Yudovich was a dead ringer for Botvinnik.

[@Eobard_Thawne123]

dude i want you to make video of Mikhail Tal's crazy sacrifices or best 5 or 6 world chess championships games from steiniz to ding liren

[@supriyonosoekirman]

Wonderfull rook sacrifice

[@Österreich-f6m]

Just decided to learn English opening. Thanks for an awesome video❤

[@jaafars.mahdawi6911]

Did i see wrong or isn't that just Botvinnik's photo reversed in place of his 4th opponent's? Wait, the 5th is a car, maybe all of them are a trap well set? Oh yeah, i just rechecked them and only Keres seems to have an image. Good one, Sam!

[@FerdinandCatabay-v9p]

Botvinnik system is not nf3 supposed Ne2

[@iskandarsugi6344]

Thanks a lot

[@brentinjapan]

Awesome!! Thanks!!

[@crazygorillas]

Can make videos of Bobby Fischer against Taimanov , Larsen and Petrosian. Thanks ❤😊

[@tomas-wi8dy]

14:30 It is not even close to Queen Gambit, 2 move later we see the Grunfeld defense. 17:57 Kg8 is ilegal if the Knight is on f6, only Kh8 and Qh7 #.

[@BalbirSingh-br4ex]

Hello Keep up the good work 😊

[@ernestogarcillan1977]

8:20 why not Nb5

[@vinodsebastian6550]

Mikhail Yudovich and Mikhail Botvinnik looks surprisingly similar. Twins? :)

[@blacksnowman8106]

Everybody attacks the knight with bishop once that knight is gone from move 3 the english dont Work for me

[@naimishtiakahmed9221]

Sacha Baron Cohen teaching Chess

[@adriangutierrez2670]

Just.... WOW

[@bobmccarron58]

Who is Eric Rosen?

[@ZDTF]

Sicillian should be called Idk german? No Russian? No mandarin Yeah mandarin Opposite of english😮

[@ambition883]

I really enjoyed your video and would have enjoyed it more if you had a more relaxed and warm delivery. Otherwise it was very insightful thank you very much.