Seirawan vs. Shirazi | 1984 U.S. Championship - GM Yasser Seirawan - 2014.02.20

[@StiTchEvidence]

Considerable shame this was cut short. If chess lessons were as celebrated as the game, I'd have called this Seirawan's Immortal - the whole lecture is the pinnacle of his legendary humour and insights, and he still manages to describe the concepts in a more meaningful manner than any number of the emotionless game analyses one can find on youtube. I think I have a mancrush.

[@Jackets994]

Love Yasser’ commentary and stories. Such a deep knowledge of the game

[@jasonrawls6959]

Unfortunately the video ends prematurely.

[@Rick-si1re]

That's exactly what I just said, I was super into that,......

[@recursiveloop]

hang on - where is part 2 of this?

[@lucassantana6993]

where's the rest of the video? 😢

[@StefekBurczymucha]

the best story teller in chess world ! :D I want rest !! and more!! :D

[@DrummerBoyJason]

Great chess player, even better story teller.

[@cmdrfun1]

I really hope they share the rest

[@bochum123123]

would have been nice if you posted the remaining moves in the video description.

[@BJor64]

42 minutes and no conclusion?

[@chrisMuc1966]

When will come part 2 of this video?

[@dandiaz19934]

I also really wish that this game was finished... I don't imagine it'd be possible for @Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis to reupload, huh? :D (Had to try)

[@good_opinion_haver]

Where is the rest of the video?

[@AtomicMegaNerd]

Why the cutoff? :-(

[@lucassantana6993]

yasser is always a pleasure to hear

[@pward17]

great speaker

[@brabhamfreaman166]

That's such a great story! Dzhinzhi should've resigned move 1 to double his return on the mini-blitz tourney.

[@BestSpinningMusic]

who is Julian?!!! :)))

[@Zakdayak]

good question....I'm guessing Julian Proleiko

[@ayushjena4257]

We dont know that, but he sure has to be a GM, because Julian never blunders a piece

[@rossgeller422]

JULIAN THE APOSTATE great roman empire 😃

[@benpork8533]

Does Shirazi appear on the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer? I think he plays a blitz game at the Central Park. He gets embarrassed by other players.

[@Ronbo710]

Yes. But they call him a GM and he is an IM at that time.

[@IngTomT]

Too bad the lecture ends too soon. After 15.f4 the evaluation is +0 but after 15...c4 it jumps to +2.85, so it seems this was the critical moment in the match.

[@russelladams6881]

That's Kamran Shirazi, man. Shirazi! The Grandmaster's here. You come to hustle the hustler. Don't look at my clock. My time is fine.

[@fabiohellyeah7667]

+russell adams Innocent Moves :)

[@hugorneto]

I love yasser, but someone have to teach him how to use the computer for pointing out the moves he's trying to explain. Pointing at the screen is just not helpful...

[@jaccoschutter2138]

how end this game?

[@JoelPinaMovies]

I've been wondering, what program is used in these lecture videos?

[@IScipioI]

best intro ever!!!

[@kkrol21]

According to Houdini after f4 black is better:) And Bxc3 was the best move in the position for black. Sometimes illogical moves are the best

[@marekkuzmicki1905]

But i suppose Bxc3 did not make black better. :)

[@jmkark]

1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6 3. c4 g6 4. e4 Bg7 5. Bd3 b5 6. cb5 a6 7. Nc3 ab5 8. Bb5 Bd7 9. Be2 Bc3 10. bc3 Nf6 11. Bd3 Qa5 12. Ne2 Ba4 13. Qd2 Nbd7 14. O-O Ne5 15. f4 c4 16. fe5 Qc5 17. Nd4 de5 18. Be2 Ne4 19. Qe3 f5 20. Ne6 Qe3 21. Be3 Nc3 22. Bc4 Rc8 23. Ba6 Nd5 24. Bc8 Ne3 25. Rf3 f4 26. Nc5 Bc6 27. a4 Kf7 28. Bb7

[@facepaint87]

This guy is so entertaining.

[@ElChicoDiablo]

Bob Ross of chess :)

[@AminRiahi]

You find the rest here: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1122931

[@davidelederman7337]

Bxc3 is the best move and in that position according to the engine

[@hakaaannnn]

can someone expain why dark bishop is more valuable then ligth?

[@bionicbuttmuffin7724]

It not the bishop, but the square. A dark squared bishop is more valuable due to the fact that it is on the same path as the opponent's king.

[@Kentasokapellos]

Also black played g6, you normally wouldn't push the pawns in front of your king unless you had to (or its in the move order of the opening). The black bishop on g7 controls a lot of centre squares, and defends h6 and f6 that you weakened with g6.

[@jimmyalderson1639]

hakaaannnn because black put all the pawns which were infront of his king on white squares. That means the pawns can only defend white squares, and if they wanted to defend dark squares then they would have to move forwards even more making the king even more unsafe. Usually doing this is fine if you fianchetto your dark bishop on g7, so that the dark squares around your king are also defended. But not only did Shirazi not fianchetto his bishop, but he gave his dark square bishop away. In other words, the dark squares are weak because black has no dark squared bishop, so if white were to attack a single dark square with all his pieces, black would be unable to defend it with all his pieces as his white bishop is unable to attack dark squares. Because the dark squares are weak, white's dark bishop is very powerful As well as this, white has many pawns on white squares, which limit the mobility of his own white squared bishop and so it is of less power. And so the value of the dark bishop goes up because of black's pawns being on white squares, and the attacking value of the white bishop goes down as all of white's pawns are on wte squares. So relative to each other, the dark squared bishop is worth much more than both black's and white's light squared bishops

[@GautomChutia-sc8qq]

according to chess strtegy light square bishop is strong asset for white than black one.because it can hit f7 square.soft spot.Same way dark square one is strong for black

[@Minerva6699]

Kamran shirazi was an IM though

[@MrGaia]

Your white bishop on D3, why would you even care about it? I figure trading that dead bishop for and active and mortal knight is worth it, right ...?

[@svfox]

I thought ra4 because I myself am crazy.. I love rook to a4 !!!!!!!

[@Cholo8943]

He saw Rook a4 and Yasser didn't like it 18:50

[@benkargosha4736]

Let me tell you all a secret.. Kamran actually served at Japanese Navy back to world war 2 as a kamikaze pilots !

[@ohnono775]

I'd love to see Seirawan vs Carlsen ^^

[@SteveRunciman]

+MC Hammer Seirawan would win. I know it.

[@ohnono775]

+SteveRunciman hehe ^^

[@ミゲルアヤラ]

Lol...''you wanna strait jacket him''.. 20:15

[@majidabdi9743]

Poor Shirazi!

[@prabathnair5802]

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