Stockfish Sacrificed 5 Pieces and Won

Join NM @JamesCantyIII as he breaks down this amazing chess game between two engines, Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero! What a game filled with amazing sacrifices!
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[@lazypunk794]

Stockfish played the best move in the position.. according to Stockfish

[@xoby]

@Froi Hugo lol

[@danielmunoz-cj7hj]

That's a Joke Mate

[@simonmultiverse6349]

@@danielmunoz-cj7hj Last move, alternative to Qa4 mate could have been Qb6 mate . P.S. It's better to sacrifice your _opponent's_ pieces.

[@Steve.Dennis]

But I was asking myself what he meant when he said “that was the top engine move”. Which engine? Something stronger than either of these monsters??

[@whatsinaname7289]

Lmaaao that's what I thought. He keeps saying "top move according to the engine" and I'm like isn't Stockfish the engine?

[@jasonkoch3182]

So when I sacrifice 5 pieces, Stockfish says I'm the worst player ever. But when Stockfish does it.....

[@jacobmurray7016]

There's a difference between blunders and sacrifices

[@NeverOutslayed]

@@jacobmurray7016 whoosh

[@zibananinkomo8220]

yeah same here stockfish is a double faced hypocrite

[@sivaprasath6765]

Lmao, same My best accuracy was 99.4% at 1600+ elo rating. And worst was 3% ( 12 blunders , 5 missed wins , 6 mistakes, but I usually get mated within 30 moves in bullet).. Looks like I need to learn a lot

[@Swumpiee]

@@jacobmurray7016 r/ woosh

[@HaXD1209]

Can't wait to submit this game to Guess the Elo

[@joshua2329]

hahahaha :)

[@sachagregoire5797]

Do it that would be hilarious

[@edmis90]

DO IT

[@cloudnine1179]

Please do it hahaha

[@powerplay1939]

Hikaru would say something like: very high level very good understanding of the position.

[@josiah9907]

The craziest thing to me is that it wasn't even sacrificing 5 pieces to gain checkmate, it was sacrificing 5 pieces to force your opponent into giving back every single piece before realising they're 5 pawns down.

[@jacobshirley3457]

@Ricky Smith "can you simplify?" Hey, you understand now!

[@Fiascopia]

@Ricky Smith He means that normally when you see this sort of play it's because they are going after the checkmate. However, in this case the checkmate never came and the super active queen mopped up all the minor pieces to equalise the position. However, along the way, with all the sacrafices and movement, Stockfish had eaten a lot of pawns. That means that the end game was totally winning for white. Rather than getting checkmate from the sacrafices, it was a traditional end-game win.

[@MiccaPhone]

It was a 5-pieces gambit then?

[@moosa1461]

At 11:36 instead of taking knight, why not do Rc3, isn’t it better to win queen instead

[@aninstrument2803]

​@@moosa1461there's a difference between winning a queen and losing a queen

[@jasonruff1270]

"most sacrifice their pawns to protect their pieces, i sacrifice my pieces to protect my pawns!" -stockfish

[@karthickmj6312]

Underrated comment!

[@vincentv.9729]

@@karthickmj6312 by whom?

[@john2821]

Very noble play from stockfish

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

Communism

[@PhilomathBret]

People hardly ever sac pawns to protect their pieces. Plus Stockfish didn't sacrifice pieces to protect pawns.

[@paracetamol500mg3]

A knight is a knight, Rook is rook, Bishop is bishop but every pawn is a potential Queen. ~ Stockfish

[@cewla3348]

this is why pawns should be 1.5 cause they can be literally fuckin anything

[@fahad_hassan_92]

@@cewla3348 The definition of a pawn is 1, instead we should decrease the value of other pieces if you want to give higher value to the pawn

[@moosa1461]

At 11:35 instead of taking knight, why not do Rc3, isn’t it better to win queen instead

[@laju]

12:55 "You know it's like the top engine move too". Yeah, because it's played by the exact same top engine.

[@duskgleam4634]

lmao

[@mildmixchintu1717]

may be wrong, but I think computers have a ton more time to analyse the Top engine moves after the game.. which is not the case during a live match with limited time and depth for each move.

[@alvarol.martinez5230]

I think on the contrary, stockfish would analyze deeper in the game than in the analysis, because he's probably referring to the top engine *his* computer is suggesting. In any case these are even different versions of stockfish

[@pandatobi5897]

@@suezuccati304 lmao true. there are videos of sf14 down like, 5 points of material and fucking chesscom engine over uber hard.

[@suezuccati304]

@@pandatobi5897 also, iirc they give both computers absurd depth and plenty of time, plus they run on a dedicated pc

[@puzzLEGO]

stockfish is just so superior that it intentionally sets up the sacrifices to troll the opponent

[@matthewcampbell3155]

But deep blue does that to poor stockfish daily..

[@lfsiuvagacwoi]

@@matthewcampbell3155 no???

[@matthewcampbell3155]

@@lfsiuvagacwoi yea???

[@lfsiuvagacwoi]

@@matthewcampbell3155 deep blue was about 2700. Stockfish is about 3600. What are you on about?

[@matthewcampbell3155]

@@lfsiuvagacwoi deep blue is higher now. Literally bullies stockfish

[@ekoostic]

when the computers have solved chess, king's gambit will be found to be the only winning opening

[@greenrabbit4075]

AlphaZero: "Am I nothing to you?"

[@oyebolaopeyemi8590]

@@dftsxy5 that's because alphazero was decommissioned or whatever. It wasn't built upon. It's like you talking about two children that fought. Then you are claiming the adult version of one of the kids would beat the second kid

[@AbCat4]

Except against the Bongcloud.

[@aiGeis]

@@dftsxy5 Heck even stockfish 10, 11, 12, and arguably even 9 would all beat alphazero. Even stockfish 8 had to be handicapped by google in order to get the easy victory.

[@aiGeis]

@@oyebolaopeyemi8590 It never won a fair and square match, they were so petty they didn't even give Stockfish 8 the endgame tables - like wtf? More chess professionals should have called it out for BS publicity stunt it was.

[@alexglase765]

800 in the endgame position would get 6 queens and stalemate

[@mind.journey]

Hey sir, are you spying on me?

[@1scoobyy]

come on bro 800s are not that bad...maybe 600s and below

[@HeSavesUs]

@@1scoobyy I'm at 1200 and this keeps happening to me lol

[@j.r.8176]

Im 2000 and still do that all the time

[@italixgaming915]

Or just flag.

[@preparedsurvivalist2245]

The whole point of sacs is to gain something in return. Every sacked piece, and all the pieces eventually given back, slowly brought the black king out into the open. Most good human players understand this concept but could never play accurately enough for it to result in a win.

[@mewtwo6662]

More like crazzy enough it takes a certain level of chaos energy to be brave enough to even begin diving into these gambit sacrafices with confidence.

[@Corteum]

What we humans need are some genetic enhancements or upgrades. Then we should be able to compete against the machines. ---- Just imagine if you had an eidetic memory, hyper-intuitive aptitude, precognition/pre-sentiment, savant-level concentrative powers, stacked with a four digit IQ. I reckon that would even the playing field.

[@nemlas85]

I also saw most of those sacs to get to the black king where he is vulnerable. but yeah, I won't ever be able to play so accurately to actually capitalize on the opportunity (unless the opponent panicks and blunders of course).

[@donkarnage6986]

imagin the chess engine in 20 years... 4000?

[@matteomarku7177]

yeah u are absolutely right, my sacrifices are 90% stockfish approved but then i miss a pawn move or some shit and i go from +7 to -3

[@Urza26]

That's pretty impressive. I usually lose less than five pieces every game. Unfortunately, one of those pieces is the king.

[@workandworkhere]

Ahaha you make my day!

[@austinlance7206]

I love the king's gambit. The og attacker's delight.

[@justinbieber8028]

The best opening

[@mewtwo6662]

@@DeuceGenius morphy would shit his pants in front of stockfish lololol

[@matteomarku7177]

@@DeuceGenius i understand you, but engines are better at understanding reality than us humans. and it's sad

[@Gush27]

@@DeuceGenius You’re not serious

[@matteomarku7177]

@@DeuceGenius let it go

[@rhettzkie]

With all those pawns I would've been tempted to go for a pawnmate and blunder a stalemate.

[@arno_grnfld455]

Cmon stockfish could have promoted all the pawns back to the knights, bishops and rooks rearrange them back in place and mate the black king on Qd1#

[@exoplanet11]

I was hoping for a "Connect 5" of pawns.

[@bsm1114]

or shouldve at least done connect 5

[@SCORP1ONF1RE]

gooood gooood

[@darylallen2485]

Yes, piss poor effort stockfish! Entertain us or face DELETION! 🤣

[@monstrousbytommywalker3700]

The bombdiggy game on ICC, by I forget who, unfortunately.

[@kennethkau2332]

James Canty always provides top shelf commentary

[@dhruvgarg597]

Le- sagar shah

[@abcd1234___]

@@dhruvgarg597 idhar ye likhne ka kya jarurat tha?

[@leerobbo92]

Really? Zero insight apart from saying that it's a top engine move (no shit, it's the same engine playing...), loads of pauses even though he's already skipped ahead half of the time and given the move away, alluding to key/funny moves then skipping over them and having to back... Each to their own, but I can't for the life of me understand why people enjoy his style of commentary. It's laid back to a detriment IMO.

[@kennethkau2332]

@@leerobbo92 This is youtube. We're here for entertainment and style. If we wanted a course, we wouldn't be here.

[@lespec7928]

Ma favourite moment is when Canty makes the kid impression for the move Rb3 XD

[@DionysisGalanis]

This game is too sweet. What a beautiful page in the history of the King's Gambit!

[@ranjanasoram2798]

This stockfish is possessed by Mikhail Tal😂😂😂

[@R-L-I]

Mikhail Tal is somewhere in heaven smiling at this game right now! 👏👏👏👏👏

[@AlexShatterstar89]

b3 was actually a preparation to force mate the king on b5 a couple of moves later, as the pawn is needed to defend the queen on Qa4# or to take away a4 and c4 with Qb6# lol

[@lazyshooter23]

Or to check a4 and c4 in Qb6#

[@AlexShatterstar89]

@@lazyshooter23 true :)

[@jaapbleekveld5068]

Stockfish understands the Time factor in chess, Where every move cost time.

[@arasvardanyan3708]

Youd expect a 3600 rated engine to know that lol

[@gbozdemir3660]

The commentary is so good.. Thanks James.

[@JamesCantyIII]

🔥🔥🔥

[@shaun215]

Many thanks James, great stuff! The 'Romantic Era' is back!

[@mdlouie]

James, you are a natural teacher and I'm never bored listening to your analysis. Much appreciated.

[@sirholycow]

Incredible game, I absolutely loved this.

[@afish12]

Absolutely glorious. Stockfish v leela is always a treat!!

[@GREENandYELLOW17]

Never heard of James Canty III but he’s the man

[@JamesCantyIII]

🔥🔥🔥

[@shmvon]

Or version III of a machine...

[@GREENandYELLOW17]

@@shmvon this better be a compliment

[@NathanHarrison7]

This guy is great. “Moment of silence. Look at that move.”

[@b.bsharma2404]

This gonna be a hood classic.

[@dripcolors8756]

you know the game is gonna be crazy when stockfish sacks a rook

[@klacsanzky77]

Stockfish is playing like Tal, taking opponents to a deep dark forest where he is king.

[@Arc_Soma2639]

Maaaan, James Canty is such an underrated commentator, he has such a calming voice an such clearance in his ideas that he's able to convey everything that happen in the game with ease.

[@cvm7549]

This is the funniest commentary on Stockfish, thanks, had some laughs - yet well analyzed. Till watch more from you!

[@ivicapavic3381]

If I'm not mistaken, each software is forced to run specific opening for a number of games with each color, then they change to a different one and go again until they play something like 300-400 games total.

[@mamudi91]

I find this the worst part. I want them to just freely move without restrictions. I recently read that Alpha Zero doesn't play e4 anymore. It prefers c4

[@Nathan-co4hk]

@@mamudi91 do you mean leela? alpha hasnt been used since 2018 and is significantly worse than stockfish and leela

[@PhantomAyz]

@@mamudi91 thing is they might the play the same over and over

[@League____]

@@mamudi91 But they keep playing the same opening when we let the engines decide from move 1. I find it much more interesting when you give them a set position to play from.

[@matteomarku7177]

@@mamudi91 yeah why the fk dont they let just play it, thats all i wanna see

[@JohnPaul-vv8bm]

James is just pure awesome! I love his walkthrough so dMN much!

[@michaelhaag3367]

That is simply the most amazing game I have ever seen, beautiful! Thanks for sharing my man CANTY

[@NIKENKO]

Awesome game, breakdown and commentary. You can just feel how much James loves chess

[@frisbeedan8905]

No big deal. I sacrifice 5 pieces all the time, and I don't even need to get them back to finish the game!

[@serginadareisvhili]

First time I enjoyed watching chess more than football. WOOOOW! What a show! Thanks James for this wonderful chess game.

[@notorio526]

And it was bots too!!

[@veryfunnyperson1151]

Love the commentary! Great video

[@trojanchess4125]

can we just talk about how stockfish kept 5 pawns connected, only a mastermind can do that

[@user-ls5vz7zd1u]

I like the videos with James Canty III. Please make more videos featuring him.

[@JamesCantyIII]

🔥😎

[@user-ee5eb7ku4j]

When I analyze a game in wich I sacrificed a night to open a file for attack Stockfish: feel the power of the dark side

[@nossenkanter]

"It's not a sacrifice if your king outlives theirs." - The Art Of War

[@MaximeTanti]

One of the most entertaining chess commentaries I've ever watched.

[@tonyw1212]

Great content, JC!!

[@crazypomp927]

12:00 Yesss, play the King's Gambit. Come to the dark side. Join us and feel the power of 2. f4!! I play the Bc4 King's Gambit. The prep is monstrous, but I love it.

[@DexterHaven]

Stockfish: "This is why Alpha Zero is a Stockfish subscriber."

[@fazakascsaba820]

just found this channel. i love your comments, and the enthusiasm. subscribed!

[@adibonts]

oh wow. this is my favorite engine game ever now. thanks!

[@1fast72nova]

Amazing game, excellent commentary

[@Overkill9991]

I have always been told that the most important things in chess are 1. King safety 2. Material 3. Piece activity. Blacks king was not very safe in the open and white was just a lot more active and not to mention that black was playing without 8 points of material meanwhile stockfish got all of their pieces into the game and I believe that is ultimately how that game was won

[@dromadrosis]

What a great game and what a wonderful commentary! Thank you so much!!!

[@arloet]

Crazy, thank you James ❤️

[@JamesCantyIII]

🔥🔥🔥

[@texasjoe557]

h5?! allowed all of that. I love the King's Gambit.

[@cythefox7510]

This is one of the most incredible games I have ever seen

[@sudhakarpalanisamy6518]

This is the first time I m seeing your video and I was literally smiling and laughing by the way you explained.. I love you... Video was at a different level... Kudos to you

[@adityachatterjee079]

That game was insane 😳🔥

[@paulcharlesmorphy6427]

James is such a G

[@JamesCantyIII]

🔥🔥🔥

[@nik4546]

brilliant analysis, thank your very much

[@creyes536]

My fav so far, nice content! Cheers from Australia

[@scheimong]

Now that's an amazing thumbnail

[@chillegaming1837]

9:38 I'm literally 1389 RATED and I found Rf5 here !!! I'm so happy OMFG

[@xoby]

i'm 2400 in puzzles and i didn't see crap lol

[@chillegaming1837]

@@xoby lol

[@pierrefraisse8610]

Normal for an human Rf5 is a mistake indeed. That's why....

[@chillegaming1837]

@@pierrefraisse8610 Shut up !!! Sacrificing pieces is an art I actually spent some time calculating some sort of sacrifice That was so disrespectful man

[@tonytechsupport]

This guy does a great commentary! Make more like this!!!

[@valentinobeniamino]

incredible!! thancks for sharing

[@donnierhodes3465]

Fantastic commentary James! Lovely game.

[@orainchy1008]

I’m starting to think that this stockfish guy is kinda good

[@jettaeschroff6924]

nah, no way, i heard this alpha guy crushed him

[@Kap3z1]

What a beautiful game. Makes me want to play kings gambit even more. Thanks for the highly entertaining commentary as well.

[@samratsur8074]

Wow. What a game! Crazy! Amazing explanation and commentary as well!

[@thomaswarren2699]

Bizarre! Very reminiscent of the romantic era of chess. A beautiful game played by machines - what a time to be alive!

[@AutPen38]

It looks more like a game played in a mental hospital. "Oh, I've given up my kingside knight, I think I'll castle behind a solitary pawn with two bearing down on me, because I like near-death experiences".

[@chesstactics5796]

This made my day! I think the 17 people who disliked the video were actually just alts of Leela chess zero :)

[@ifishcatfish]

Great job man. Love ur commentaries

[@odielarson]

Aww Canty with the NM title sounds so nostalgic. Much love, and keep doing what ure doing my man 🙏🏼💜

[@mohamedwalid6181]

11:39 why wasn't Rc3 played to win the queen or Qa8

[@VaibhavSingh-dq9kr]

yeah. I am confused too lol.

[@littlesunshine2378]

RC3 is a good option but QA8 is not possible as Black Queen was controlling that diagonal.

[@WobblyWhale]

Rc3 takes much longer to win because it is queen vs rook and knight. It's still completely winning because of all the pawns, of course.

[@squidsword0]

the only pawn he lost was the one he gambited xD

[@sebreba]

James is that 1 teacher you had in school who actually made you loved learning the material because they love it.

[@irradiatedbadger]

Nice idea with the second rook deflecting the bishop with the same threat as the first rook, can't stop both. Great presenter too!

[@DoctorBrute]

Nice job covering this game

[@andre11zz]

Awesome commentary as always by James Canty

[@simplicissimus9822]

amazing commentary. Thx so much!

[@MichaelSeneschal]

Great video. Hope to see more like this.

[@meathead919]

Fantastic presentation by James, great job!

[@lawdogwales5921]

My new favorite game! That was so nice, I had to watch it twice. Rook lift, end of shift.

[@raychernoff1135]

Wow keep em coming James

[@jimhill4725]

Loved the game loved the enthusiasm in your presentation. Love the King's Gambit - even though I lose too often when I play it myself.

[@NoFearDTA]

the commentary hilarious lol so calm but so affirmative

[@stevengrundy2078]

Brilliant & amusing analysis. Really enjoyed it.

[@sgrey9181]

James Canty is my favorite commentator, can we see more of him?

[@MrQmason]

James , thanks for that awesome game and your coverage of it.... hopefully we'll get to play OTB and you can get to face my Scandinavian Defense .... lol..... once again, thanks bro

[@jessicobra7]

my coach told me not to trade when im down material... so instead i'll just sacrifice it all

[@fightcancer]

Great commentary!

[@brettkruskie]

Definitely a great game. Had ones myself recently forgot about my endgame strategy after 3 day timing. Sadly lost but happened to be one of the most beautiful games I've played

[@user-ok2ur8hs7p]

One of the most beautiful games ever seen

[@paulschwarber3351]

Stockfish calculated all that before the 1st move of the game. What a beaut

[@pstephano]

Great presentation James!!! (yes, that is a triple exclam). That was entertaining and instructive.

[@htownmmm]

Emory Tate would be proud.

[@kaidoChess]

The clicking sounds are oddly soothing

[@cardbored5961]

bro what, i saw all these moves, they're almost obvious but brilliant in a way

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

A strong attack on the king is very often more powerful than just a material advantage. The goal of the game is to checkmate the king, not to have the most pieces.

[@hahaharchitect]

Beautiful game indeed. Thanks for sharing

[@stackered]

wow, seriously awesome game thanks for posting

[@cloudcastle6774]

i am mesmerized by the way his hat moves with his eyebrows

[@JamesCantyIII]

🤣🤣🤣