The Best Chess Player Ever: Garry Kasparov?

[@sebu1301]

Insane play by Kasparov. This guy is checkmating 2700+ rated players in the middle game, like they were 700. Makes it look relatively easy too. Many players would prefer to try to win a pawn, then trade everything to go into the endgame. Garry lets his pawns hang and actively avoids trades to checkmate some of the best players who ever touched a chess piece.

[@SammyChess1]

Well said!

[@LogioTek]

Kind of like Tal. They both worked a bit together earlier in Kasparov's career.

[@Arunjoshi1986]

Sammy chess ur content is best and ur narration is outstanding, I daily watch ur channel for some good entertainment and knowledge about chess. Keep up the good work bro.

[@ericaongola]

Not sure why u r not getting more views your calm way of explaining the game is really extrodinary.....keep it up the algorithm will catch on

[@SammyChess1]

Much appreciated!

[@OmaAlkebulan-grace]

He's wonderful ❤️ no Diddy

[@JCChavz]

Perfect example of when “less is more.” I appreciate that you don’t try to over commentate or over analyze which can cause people to lose the plot entirely. Great stuff.

[@SammyChess1]

Thank you! :)

[@JCChavz]

@@SammyChess1 you’re welcome! Even though I believe Magnus is the greatest, this was still a great video. And I’m a new fan of your channel. Keep it up. 👍🏼

[@Tesudzi]

Great content man. Calm and great analysis, love it

[@ExgarPond]

Brilliant content!

[@SkeletonKingy]

finnaly another upload of a legendery youtuber

[@TobyH.]

I met one of Kasparov's old chess trainers in Los Angeles. His name was Eduard Gufeld. What a character that guy was!

[@cucurulo1945]

Sammy congratulations ! you are GREAT at explaining! simple , direct and without too much trivial talking ( commercials) Probably that was the Mnd of Paul Morphy!

[@sweet_stranger114]

I expected from you to explain "kasparov vs topalov" the best game of the century.

[@Arunjoshi1986]

Bro add some games of Legend Mikhail Tal, I think he's most unpredictable n aggressive chess player ever.

[@LogioTek]

Amen.

[@MrKingofsa]

Garry is a legend hands down

[@georgehavrincea9258]

Apparently if you're from the Soviet Union region and your surname start with the letter K ( Kasparov, Karpov, Kremnik, Karjakin), you're bound to become a legendary chess player

[@someonesch4361]

Snuck in Cringekin like we won't notice😂

[@theachillesheel01]

Thank you so much for your simple straightforward explanations.. they're amazing for a lowly rated player like me ❤

[@kemomaynard5417]

Hello SammyChess, sometimes I come across a youtube channel that is just well thought out and nicely presented. That is your channel my friend. Thanks for the chess games. Would you be so kind to do a video about Rashid Nezhmetdinov? Thanks.

[@unexplained5277]

hey i really love your analysis can you make a series for analaysis of one particular openings so we can learn the idea behind moves of that opening , plz try to make videos for ruy lopez games

[@Ethiopianpiano]

He gives explanation for every move

[@celing0624]

Every popular chess player has a common characteristics, to excellently analyze and brilliantly execute tactics...

[@kevinyaya9980]

Keep up the great work and narration!! You and Agadmator are great narrators!!

[@jkrishna08]

brilliant compilations ... loved every video of yours ... each one is a classroom session ... any number of thanks wouldn't be enough

[@sampleoffers1978]

I watched a little of his classic games before where it looked like he solved certain positions but I didnt want to study what he did in case it ruined chess for me. Watching this, he and Carlson do contextually understand positions so thoroughly, surgically is great description. Fischer tactically is maniac too, so they'd probably all stalemate each other, understanding engagements offensively/defensively, so precisely.

[@dimifisher]

The Kasparov Kramnik game was pure insanity!

[@AngelsalvadorPepe]

Gary el mejor de la historia x lejos único incomparable

[@علىكمال-ب3غ]

Thank u for this amazing video.

[@jackm4457]

Kasparov was the best player in TWO different eras. 1. The last great champion of the era of the Soviet school of chess, and, 2. The first great player of the "silicon" era of chess engines. IMO, that unique ability to adapt to changing times makes Garri #1.

[@SammyChess1]

Good point! 🙂

[@billj4525]

That's an interesting reason and I like it. I always had Garry as the GOAT over Magnus slightly still, but I never considered that reason you mentioned, which is a good one. Magnus needs more longevity to catch Garry in my opinion. Fischer had an unbelievable peak, but had 0 longevity. Players from many many years ago just can't be compared accurately at all. We have no clue at all about Morphy, Capabalanca, Lasker, and others. We know they were super talented, but that's it. Garry is the GOAT, unbelievable player.

[@bojosoriano2691]

On 17m.33s ...Bg1+ and if Kh1, Bb6 discovered check , white loses his Queen and it's not a draw.

[@Arunjoshi1986]

What about Mikhail Tal n Bobby Fisher

[@Usernameistaken590]

Could you do a video covering the Blackmar Diemer? It’s one of my favorite gambits with white

[@marcoporta6319]

very very strong !!! thank you very much

[@pjakobson1]

Kind of a silly assertion "greatest chess player ever". Bobby Fisher wins the US Open without losing a game, pretty remarkable. Go back to Paul Morphy, he was head and shoulders better than his contempraries and his games are still analyzed and used as examples of brilliant play, pretty remarkable. Going through the annals of chess history one can find 4 brilliant chess games for any number of grand masters and world champions. Emanuel Lasker, for example, held the world championship for 27 consecutive years, the longest ever and he played seven world championship matches, pretty remarkable. The list of world champions is filled with the "greatest ever" games, streaks, 4 game clusters so don't even go there. Kasparov is definitely great and these games certainly are examples of his greatness.

[@wchambers3849]

It would've been remarkable if it were true. Fischer won the 1963/64 U. S. Championship 11-0, not the U. S. Open. They're different tournaments.

[@hellothere9763]

Honestly it is between magnus and kasparov. Bobby a d PM were great at time, but one lacked logetivity whereas other was ahead of his time in time when chess wasnt remotely as popular. They are all greats of the game, but talent wise Kasparov and Magnus are class above

[@LogioTek]

​@@hellothere9763 What talent wise Magnus is next level? Book memorization? Because he doesn't do too well in Fischer Random Chess 960 where true strategic talent is tested.

[@rebanta570]

please make a video about top London system plays

[@timothysesay4820]

great content

[@OwenBanks-zl8yt]

Bobby Fischer was always on a higher level & remains the all-time best. Kasparov's top games (vs USSR players) remain suspicious & seem like collaborations. A top champion, yet not the strongest. Magnus is still above Garry, but not Bobby...🏆

[@GianCHESS]

Your face when you get a haircut, just looks like me😎😆

[@Broke_Stacker]

Hey! I like your channel and think you’ll do great! Hopefully this does not sound rude, but your presentation seems a bit “over-rehearsed”, almost like you’re reading it from a script. it may be good if you slowed down just a bit and left some room for stutters and pauses that come with natural speech. Maybe you could framework your video but not memorize it word for word. IMPROVISE a bit…let your personality come through. 😊

[@KnowledgeNuggets-n6i]

Can you try next in your next video vienna game

[@photopro28]

Fisher is the GOAT! Two 6-0 blowouts at the Candidates and a 20 consecutive win streak against other top GM's . I think Carlsen had 6 wins in a row.

[@erahamzah6983]

bros heavily underrated

[@abbys6541]

sammychess i am now really curious whats ur rating?

[@JBfromFL]

05:16 Can't white just move the Queen to A4 Check and then snag the Bishop? Or am I missing something?

[@nomercy8066]

Play Nc6 to block the check and protect the bishop.

[@paulhowes5094]

for some reason I like Capablanca

[@MEME-qe4ze]

perhaps the greatest ever

[@strangelyrepulsive77]

potential and opportunity have almost identical definitions so are discovery and opening up which makes restating them repetitively over and over again each time needless excessive and redundant

[@brianssemondo6398]

Starting Chess at an older age is not good . While we get the logic along the way, we need more help to develop the game we play. Brian from Uganda

[@markhughes7927]

For my money Morphy and Capablanca rate higher for winning style and Morphy and Schlecter rate higher (by tower blocks) for gentle manners.❤❤

[@michaelholcombe3336]

kasparov by far the best ever!

[@billj4525]

Garry is definitely the best ever, but Magnus is catching up. He needs many more years of longevity and continued accomplishments to do so though. He's not slowing down, so we'll see if he can get there. Time will tell.

[@sampleoffers1978]

could be

[@ianstonemanironhand]

There is no one not even Magnus Carlsen who could match Garry’s combination and calculation skills the guy is a legend.Lasker would not have stood a chance against Garry if they could have ever played one another.Rock on Garry

[@billj4525]

Of course not, but Lasker played in a different era. It's not fair to compare them directly at all. Chess was a completely different game when Lasker played.

[@ianstonemanironhand]

I’m not decrying Lasker back in his day he was one of a handful of world class players and if they had had computers with chess engines he might have even surpassed Kasparov’s genius

[@jewgienij131]

Probably

[@ExtraditionLawFirm]

👍

[@pattabiramans]

Magnus is undoubtedly the greatest of all times. Even with so much advancement in technology everyone has access to, magnus is still so strong, simply out of this world

[@michaelholcombe3336]

fischer was brilliant, but for brief duration compared to kasparov

[@billj4525]

No longevity, which is why Kasparov and Carlsen are greater. Fischer was super talented, and had he kept playing the chess world potentially could have been a lot different. I still think no one would have stopped Garry.

[@magnussigurdsson9045]

Never heard of Magnus Carlsen?

[@CamIyappan-gz1nv]

just simply explain like it.

[@kd6tas]

You know a lot of this is all talk that can never be tested. However there is one test that could be done. Hell maybe it has and I just don't know. Have Magnus play Deep Blue exactly the way it was in 1997. If Magnus can beat Deep Blue then guess what...

[@alexlevy6421]

You don't know any chess history. The best chess player of all time was Emanuel Lasker, world champion for 27 years! No one has ever equalled that feat, or even come close.

[@MegaYASSINE95]

what a stupid comment !

[@J_Dub63]

Bobby fischer is the best

[@sasakulic1136]

Karpov is the best chess player ever!

[@billj4525]

Kasparov killed him multiple times. No way anyone can have Karpov over Kasparov as the GOAT. Garry stopped Karpov, and Karpov was SUPER TALENTED, but there happened to be someone even better in the same time period, unfortunately for him.

[@borisgorski7574]

Robert James Fischer is the best ever.

[@sweet_stranger114]

No. Kasparov and carlsen are better

[@RobertoGaspar69]

Exactly, Fischer is the GOAT then we have Magnus! Kasparov struggling to surpass Karpov then keeping his crown with a very weak competition in the mid 80s. Finally at end of the 90s when a much more stronger and more powerful competition arrived, he simply ran away lol

[@sweet_stranger114]

@@RobertoGaspar69 You're definitely uneducated 😂

[@BREAKocean]

​@RobertoGaspar69 fischer ran away immediately after winning wc. I'm a fischer fan but longevity Is also part of being #1

[@Frag2xx5]

the modern players would crush the past ones, theres no point comparing who was the "best", a better question would be who had the greatest talent, where names like fischer or capablanca would be more correct

[@renehenriksen1735]

The best players ever? Probably Tal, Fischer and Kasparov. But Carlssen, Karpov and Capablanca were also very good, allthough not quite as spectacular as the first trio. If Magnus wants people to accept him he would be wise if he removed and never let that mouth-pussy of his grow big. He probably thinks he looks like a tough viking-king. Others think he looks like a human from the stone-age who just climbed down from the trees and discovered that the flat ground isn´t dangerous. And now as a fully evolved chessmaster he uses his pieces as clubs against his opponents. Not bad for a caveman eh??

[@superhighway5856]

HOW COULD YOU!? WHITE LOSES ON THE LAST GAME!!!

[@Alarich_Vonbergen]

sugoi

[@TobyH.]

Kasparov has my vote as the best. Fisher was close, but Kasparov just thinks like an alien.

[@johnpender358]

Fischer would have schooled Kasparov. Karpov too.

[@johnpender358]

No. Kasparov is not the best ever. Ivanchuk might have something to say about that. Kasparov feared Ivanchuk.

[@billj4525]

That's all speculation. That's not a real reason. Kasparov is the GOAT, followed closely by Magnus. Fischer is behind them both.

[@sampleoffers1978]

Interesting.