Karjakin vs. Caruana: Who Faces Carlsen? | Candidates 2016 - GM Yasser Seirawan

Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan analyzes the "final" of the 2016 Candidates Tournament. The winner would clinch the challenger's seat against Magnus Carlsen for the 2016 world championship match. Could the USA's own Fabi Caruana win with black?
2016.04.07
Sergey Karjakin vs Fabiano Caruana, World Championship Candidates (2016): B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Rauzer attack, 7...a6 defence, 8...Bd7

[@mushon9495]

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+mushon Fun fact: He was almost cast as the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman.

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[@flpsnk4848]

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[@p1nesap]

Educational, fun analysis. Great to see Yas.

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To all haters 19:23

[@aregnav]

Lmao

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[@fundhund62]

This is really very instructive! I love Yassers calm presentation, and I really wish he would write more books like his "winning chess brilliancies". Maybe, a second volume about the old masters.. before switching to Carlsen and his peers.

[@Crazeyfor67]

Yasser always makes me feel like I'm listening to an old friend give me sound advice. Very nice man indeed.

[@nilsp9426]

I guess Yasser could sell book readings with that voice. You gotta hang on his lips, when he narrates the chess history of the past decades...

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Hang on his lips...at 2x speed.

[@maddiepilz5711]

exactly my thought. or he should make those ASMR videos. so soothing!

[@nilsp9426]

this is actually funny :D Also try 0.5 ;)

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Yes more Yasser videos please. More LuLu less Schrantz....And have the Schrantz vs Kummer blitz bounty.

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+travis miller LOL, Schrantz would kill him..

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Tomek Duresov Suspicious

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Very suspicious.

[@psilohead]

+travis miller Less Schrantz? That dude is awesome. Schrantz and Seirawan both I can never get tired of.

[@nilsp9426]

+travis miller Why less anyone? You do not have to watch any video. More of everyone would be great for me :)

[@singlespies]

Great lecture as always. Thanks Yasser!

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[@princessaiko]

A wonderful analysis by GM Yasser Seirawan, having the position for a potential endgame always in mind; and thus transcending engine calculations.

[@rosebuster]

Yasser, my good man, how do you always make me smile? Infecting me with that smile of your own. :3

[@Scy]

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[@syyhkyrotta]

Thanks Yasser :D

[@bart384]

For a second i heard "Fabiano Marihuana" ...

[@darthclide]

omg yayyyyyyy! When I saw Yasser in notification I could not believe it! Please tell me this is a series of like 4 or 5? 10 would be great too :D

[@japphan]

I loved the tiebreaker system. More dynamic and risktaking players get rewarded. A player winning 3 games and losing 1 is much more fun to watch than someone who won 2 and lost none. So, we get a more interesting (and less solid) challenger, which should make the world championship match a more entertaining one. This is something that FIDE must consider. A snooze fest of a world championship match would be horrible for the sport. We have other issues at hand than just the fairness perspective. However, it is easier not to lose than to win at the highest level, so winning 3 games and losing 1 is to me a stronger performance, that shows a stronger player than a player who wins 2 and never loses. ---- Some speculative suggestions: Football handled the many draws by giving 3 times as many points for winning compared to drawing. Something similar (perhaps less radical) could be done for chess to reward dynamic play. 2 for draw, 5 for win 3 for draw, 7 for win. etc. Or what about 0.5 for draw and 1.01 for win (which is in practice gives the same results as the system used in the candidates, but put in numbers instead of as a tiebreaker rule). Maybe give an extra +0,5 for winning with black?

[@theproxybay]

Yasser's smile cures cancer

[@JaredPlane]

Great lecture Yasser. However, I cringe every time he pronounces Mikhail as Michael! :P

[@TheClassicWorld]

+Jared Plane They are both Mikhail yet he pronounces one as Mikhail and the other as Michael, maybe he liked to be called Michael? I assume in Russia they are both pronounced as they are spelt: Mikhail. Strange.

[@putturshreyas6045]

Jared Plane omg yes it gets me every time HAHA

[@stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638]

@@TheClassicWorld Yasser and Tal have drank together. I assume if he says the two Mikhail's differently it's for a reason. On the other hand "Fabiano CarYouuuanaaa"

[@americalost5100]

Great voice, superb commentator, great analyses, the absolute top interviewer; wonderful story teller....... Couldnt pronounce Caruana's name correctly (after all this time) if you gave him a million bucks : ) Still the best. The chess world wouldn't be the same without him.

[@Cinkom]

I really like yassers smile.

[@aravindgundakaram1830]

22:09 doesn’t bxc3 Nxc3 Rb8 win a whole knight at the least for black? That is probably why Sergey Karjakin did not capture the f6 pawn on move 20.

[@VulpineShine]

You can look at the second tiebreak as equivalent to rewarding 0.49 points for a draw, instead of 0.5. Lots of similar scoring systems have been proposed in high-level tournaments.

[@rosebuster]

By the way, here's how I see the tie breaker rewarding the higher number wins. Indeed it can be seen as rewarding a higher number of wins, but also rewarding a higher number of losses. But what it also does is punishing a higher number of draws. Of the two players with the same score, the one who drew more games loses on this tie breaker. While I'm not a fan of a tie breaker like this, I can understand why organisers may find it compelling. It's been often discussed how viewers don't like draws. And this is a good moment to insert some Anish Giri joke, but I'm tired, so insert one yourself. :P

[@sormu16]

Greatest chess lesson on youtube so far.

[@americalost5100]

I'm curious. As an American I am nevertheless a Carlsen fan -- rooting for Magnus, even, when his challenger is an American - like during the recent World Championship.... It was Magnus who, after a 20 year absence, drew me back into playing and following the game again -- in large part because of his style of play which ai found and continue to find so interesting, inspiring, beautiful and exciting.... charged with both persistant stamina and endurance and a tendency toward creative/calculated risk taking..... Magnus is also, imo, one of Chess' all time great ambassadors: displaying a real love and respect for the history and integrity of the game, a deep and abiding natural interest in its endless complexities and ever evolving possibilities, and, last but not least, a genuine down-to-earth appreciation and sense of responsibility towards the chess fans of the world...... I do get how Americans, during the 60s and 70s, rooted for Fischer, in part due to the dynamics of the Cold War - but I think it was also the case that Fischer played really exciting chess and had an interesting, honest, original and kind of quirky kind of personality that, at least in the beginning, could be quite appealing and charming --- much, I think, like our current world champion. And Fischer's fan base I think was clearly not limited to the U.S., but spread across many borders. So anyway: What I'm wondering is if other chess fans tend to root for or follow certain players based on nationationality - of is it, like I tend to think, that chess crosses national borders and that people are drawn toward rooting for and being a fan of certain players for other kinds of reasons than nationality?

[@epowouid6715]

Great lesson Yasser

[@nublord365]

Love Yasser and Finegold. More of those two!

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Who dahell is Curry Yuanna??

[@saikat93ify]

I somehow find it hard to imagine a GM rated at 2600 was ever a very weak player ...

[@youricortat6176]

12:12 I think it's inaccurate, as after 16.Bxa6 Rxa6 17.Nb5 Ra7 18.Nxa7 Nxa7 19.Qd4 Nc6 20.Qxg7 Rf8, the pawn on h6 allows black to threaten Qg5, which doesn't let white play Rd2 and Rhd1 as fast as in the same line with the pawn on h7. With this pawn on h6, it seems actually better to play 16.Ne4 instead of 16.Bxa6.

[@reza6718]

great job

[@whiskolarefuerte]

Thank you for the insightful analysis, as always. At 28:32 of the video, I am staring at RxC4. Can you please comment? Ideas of Ba4 but maybe not enough tempo? Thank you.

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[@MojitoTube]

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[@SteveRunciman]

Yasser is back! Now all we need is Grandmasta Ben Finegold.

[@colethomson7267]

I wish Caruana won, he is a more suitable challenger in my opinion.

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the best chess commentator ever :)

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4:15 beginning

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Yasser Ross

[@ivicapavic3381]

that sick laughter after saying "youre gonna be world champion" though 😂

[@ancient_gear_yugioh2489]

Yes Sir Yasser

[@erezgoor]

Seirawan is an amazing analyst, but please learn to handle the computer so we at home can see what you mean clearly and not guess. you know some red and green arrows once in a while..

[@clayvision]

More yasser and ben finegold!!! they are my two favorites

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best richter rauzer lesson :)

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yo, whats that intro/outro song tho?

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[@Boss.Stephen]

40:12 That laugh... 😂

[@melodychest9020]

The Master at work! He is as suave and meitculous as he was decades ago when he made the Pro Chess Video. I treasure that DVD amongst my chess resources. I really envy his head full of hair and a charming brain, even at his mature age!. He is deceptively cool and retired. He has given simuls against 40 people decades ago in Philedelphia and a real quick thinker over the board. Recently, gave Kasparov a run for his money in a St. Louis blitz match up! Wow man! This lecture was fantastic. Yes I agree with him that the FIDE tie-break system sucks. I do not even agree with the first tie-break rule, which is the 'head to head' in the tourney. Who cares? The player might have lost the head to head, but may have beaten a higher rated player than his final opponent in the tourney .. doesn't that count? Fact is, points are equal so they should be equal in all senses of the word, and the slate should be clean. If there is a draw in the final long game, then just move on the rapids and blitz. What's the fuss? The current tie-break system is aimed at getting an instant result for what purpose?! Certainly not for the purpose of honouring the great game of chess. Shame! In this final game, yes, Fabio was under a lot of pressure to win with the black pieces and that is plain unfair .. one cannot be carrying the baggage of 13 rounds into the last round, cos of the tie-break system. Plain stupid and unfair.

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[@casahilchoudhary]

Funny both players challenged Carlsen some time or another 😂

[@udust1]

Yasser Seirawan looks like Benicio Del Toro

[@cyxFrag]

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[@harabas3499]

these tiebreakers sucks, no common sense at all, why these organizers makes it so is simply terrible!

[@richardvallance-spencer9879]

The innate christopher disturbingly correct because knot currently cry within a disillusioned tire. disillusioned, married pancake