"The Chinese Immortal Game" | Bai Jinshi vs Ding Liren | (2017)

[@ausafahmad5745]

Here after Ding finally became world champion. The guy truly deserves to be in the place he is right now, and it feels so satisfying to see him finally get recognition.

[@tinaunglatt297]

Agree, especially considering all the struggles and perseverance he has put for the World Champion title.

[@J_Klutch]

Ding Dong

[@alexthomas9629]

This aged well with Ding being out of top 10 in rating

[@dubbelHC1]

This is one of the most stunning attacks I have ever seen! The coordination between Mr. Liren's pieces is just fantastic.

[@Alex19781986]

Mr. Ding actually...

[@yatyayat]

Liren is his name. Ding is his surname. :) I personally prefer Liren to Mr. Ding.

[@Fangyuan2]

Mr ding dong

[@ryanflanagan9624]

great videos of encouragement and hope God bless kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6ncpqmapMSGoMk kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJWroJqMjLpsppI

[@怪人-b1x]

​@Alex19781986 In Chinese both are ok

[@luisvalencia9962]

*In slightly upbeat, yet mostly monotone voice* "Hello everyone!" *In normal monotone voice* "And I do say 'Hello everyone' with such enthusiasm because today is a great day for chess." Love you Agadmator :D

[@BuildLocalSTL]

The extra enthusiasm would have been lost upon me without the following clarification. ; ) Great work Agadmator!

[@McBenjiii]

True. xD

[@_lesnak]

His left eyebrow raised slightly

[@Blank-p2t]

What :D

[@ryanflanagan9624]

great videos of encouragement and hope God bless kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6ncpqmapMSGoMk kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJWroJqMjLpsppI

[@carnivalwrestler]

I think Ding Liren just re-invented chess. Relentless attack by the player with black pieces made possible by an early Queen sacrifice. Definitely an immortal. Wow, just wow! Thanks for finding and posting this.

[@joedorben3504]

Not really a sacrifice, but great game nonetheless

[@WilsonTexasRager]

@@joedorben3504 I mean, hanging a queen that early in the game definitely is a sacrifice.

[@joedorben3504]

@@WilsonTexasRager No, it's not. A sacrifice would be if he gave up a queen for less material, he gave up a queen for equal material. So idk why ppl are calling it a sacrifice

[@efeercelik5811]

@@joedorben3504 a pawn and a rook is worth less than a queen. ding did sacrifice the exchange.

[@joedorben3504]

@@efeercelik5811 go learn how to count, buddy. he gave up the queen for a rook, pawn, and a piece. that's 9 points of material, exactly how muhc a queen is worth

[@nishantpatil5859]

5:21 He grabs a pawn but he doesn’t grab a pawn coz he likes pawns 😆👏👏 -agadmator

[@ryanflanagan9624]

great videos of encouragement and hope God bless kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6ncpqmapMSGoMk kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJWroJqMjLpsppI

[@arightscepter]

Yasser

[@lynk_1240]

The number of attempted sacrifices was amazing. The fact that the only piece Ding successfully sacrificed is the Queen, and ending the game with both Knights, both Bishops, and both Rooks, all taking part in the Kinghunt, makes it a masterpiece.

[@ryanflanagan9624]

great videos of encouragement and hope God bless kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6ncpqmapMSGoMk kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJWroJqMjLpsppI

[@mridgaf3233]

32 moves, half of 64 which is our favorite move number to end a game on. I came back to this cause of the Jinshi-Shirov game you showed yesterday. I had forgotten how spectacular Ding's attack was. Truly an immortal

[@edgarramos1499]

This is probably the greatest chess game I have ever seen! This is the highest level of chess, I could play my whole life and never accomplish such a perfect set of moves.

[@ryanflanagan9624]

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[@locutusdborg126]

This is one of the most beautiful games I have ever seen.

[@herzwatithink9289]

Looks like it's king hunt week at Agadmator Towers!

[@MrSupernova111]

* Agadmator

[@herzwatithink9289]

Thanks, that's the second time I got our esteemed host's name wrong. *Learn to type, Herz*

[@MrSupernova111]

lol

[@mika274]

Wow! At 6:50. I just saw a knight pair and bishop pair. It is anybody's dream to coordinate pieces like this

[@reinebautistamercado4286]

Rook pair as well.

[@ryanflanagan9624]

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[@mstalcup]

This is surely an immortal. It's very impressive when there is this much material imbalance on an open board and sharp calculations are made for the side with less material in attacking the king.

[@ryanflanagan9624]

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[@johnwarner3968]

A beautiful game loaded with amazing combinations. Ding Liren is destined for greatness and a future shot at becoming World Champion. Thank you for posting this game!

[@ryanflanagan9624]

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[@alexandergoldthorpe4585]

well predicted

[@FranNDR]

Thank you for bringing me back here, Antonio. It's awesome to see the difference in the room and the quality of the video while featuring the same style of creating content through years and years. Keep it up Agad

[@ryanflanagan9624]

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[@arightscepter]

It good to have a chess friend like Antonio

[@Butcherscut]

5:21 "He doesn't grab a Pawn because Ding Liren likes Pawns." I love your subtle humor.

[@AKhoja]

What do you call a Nimzo-Indian with the wrong move order? The Nimzoswitch.

[@randomstranger3576]

A. Khoja I could go for a nimzosandwich right now.. hunger.

[@Gol_Bat_916]

Ding Liren is a Nimzo-Witch playing these moves

[@lkhalid]

nimzo-*itch

[@Chen-fp6xf]

Nimzoswitchian

[@jurjenvanderhoek316]

The NimzoBitch opening

[@joshwoelfe348]

"He doesn't grab a pawn because Ding Liren likes pawns" 🤣🤣🤣

[@lucasnovaes9234]

Excellent video Antonio, you really make my days better, thanks , greetings from Brazil !

[@mohammadaminsarabi6207]

Some people ask " whats the best channel in youtube?" -this :)"

[@ineedaname004]

Long time lurker and an avid watch of your channel. Thank you so much for providing such quality content ! and we can see your excitement about this game :D

[@emregeylani]

"He doesn't grab the pawn because Ding Liren likes the pawns..." :D you're great man

[@zahawolfe]

I'm here from the future, Ding Liren is playing in the world championship right now

[@CellarDoor-rt8tt]

It’s truly stunning to see that, even today, incredible lines are being discovered within some of the most well studied openings in chess

[@Hoobyj]

"And I do say hello everyone with such enthusiasm" lolll. Exact same as always.

[@inikous58]

i wasn t aware of Ding Liren until world cup, where i loved how he was playing chess. He is such a good guy too...Really nice to see him in your channel! :D

[@silentimmersion3023]

Every day is a great day when agadmator uploads!

[@MrF5379]

Today is a great day for chess, and therefore the world

[@russetvelvet]

back here after 2022 game vs Shirov. Interesting how in this game Ke2 lost Bai the game while in that one it helped him won!

[@hansonkang5787]

3:13 Wei Yi 😂

[@vicwang271]

Wei yi is an aggresive player so i see why he said that

[@agadmator]

I'm used to saying Wei Yi in games like this :D

[@TheClassicWorld]

It's a very Wei Yi thing to do, to be fair. Bye bye King.

[@michaelvanzyl9418]

In south africa it's racist. Anywhere else an honest mistake☺

[@happyjay]

All Chinese look same

[@Mrfchy]

All i want this man to comeback

[@leonardodjoumessi2543]

Same here. I really miss this Ding😢

[@ananyayaduvanshi8341]

It is just an amazing game... Seen such a game after a long time You never disappoint ur viewers agad . Keep up the good work

[@bernieyang1050]

This game will be immortal and become popular for a period, because Ding won the World Chess Champion today.

[@YotamPiano]

My god this is the best game I ever seen! At last the black pieces win ;) and with such style. I like immortal games because they abuse the ultimate "win condition" of chess - that is mating the king rather than winning in other ways such as snowballing due to being down an exchange

[@BrianBrinces]

Now, he is the world champion!!!

[@rockbore]

Great vid, great comments. A daily fixture for me since months ago and many more to come for sure. xx

[@samueljurawan4198]

And now he is World Champ!

[@sourabhkulkarni1995]

visiting this after 2024 WCC. Wish we could see the old Ding against unstoppable Gukesh...

[@GoobyGeezer]

Agadmator your pretty cool for helping me improve my chess. All the way from New Zealand.

[@Northeasy215]

Does he see this entire line? Or just a feel he's "better" after the sac? Crazy either way

[@RayVitoles]

he probably assumed that Ke2 was losing,4 minor pieces and 2 rooks chasing the king in the middle of the board while the oppenent has no pieces developped should be winning...He probably calculated the Rd2 move and the Kd1(which loses easily)

[@CellarDoor-rt8tt]

Tbh, knowing how good Ding Liren’s prep usually is, my guess is that he expected the Rd2 line and had some prep for us that we didn’t get to see. Rd2 is the best move and so that’s likely the move Ding Liren expected considering a queen sac this early is certainly prep. Ke2 is a blunder here and I think Ding Liren probably looked at that move as it is definitely the type of move that a great player would think is good but a god amongst men would know is a blunder. He probably knew prior that it was a blunder and looked at a few ideas in the line. That being said It seems like Ding Liren is one of the best mid game players in the world. He reminds me of a young Kasparov where people would play him with their prepped lines and he would tear their preparation apart right in front of them

[@preciousamaechi689]

I came here from the future, just to remind myself how much of a beast Ding was!

[@Hallands.]

*Jinshi Bai* Last FIDE rating: 2553 (2380 rapid, 2476 blitz) Highest rating achieved in database: 2586

[@agadmator]

+Hallands Menved Thank you Hallands :)

[@nishantkumar-mx5mv]

Awesome video. Through your videos chess is becoming more and more interesting.

[@parkinfurkmaz2877]

"He doesn't grab pawn because Ding Liren likes pawns." idk why but made me laugh; was probs funny because of the name

[@lrvz7187]

Nice to see CHESS still alive

[@randomstranger3576]

very good game. not sure it's the best ever. but this is how every game ought to be played. fearless. thanks aga

[@DaveGeelen88]

fischer immortal :D kasparov immortal :D look them up and enjoyyyyy

[@rayfangrui]

This is the one game where it would be totally interesting to see the computer evaluation of the positions at each step. Would the engine have seen all of this coming?

[@chronicmasterbaiter5467]

WOWOWOOWOW. I ACTUALLY ASKED WHAT'S IMMORTAL GAME, AND AGADMATOR SAW MY COMMENT!!!!

[@elfakyn]

Wow, what an incredible game. Especially surprising was how accepting the sacrifices were the best moves, and yet white was lost early on.

[@rafaeltavarez4025]

What a beautiful game. Great performance by Liren as well during the Candidates this month

[@StambeccoAllaFragola]

Every damn time one of his vids starts i say "hello everyone" with him.

[@Raghuveer2798]

A spectacular game to say the least. What an stunning attack from Ding!!! Coming here after chess.com published their list of Top-10 games of 2010s.

[@EA_pro]

Deserves to be an immortal game, what a beautiful well coordinated attack

[@jasper5016]

Ding reminded me of Tal. Total madness all over the board.

[@valar_dohaeris7387]

Ding is definitely a less crazy version of Tal. He is a very talented tactical player but Tal is just in an attacking class by himself.

[@luwangth999]

Truly immortal ...thanks for this one

[@jootpepet]

3:22 "He doesnt gtab the pawn just because Ding Liren likes pawns" Hahaha I thought he just liked that pawn tho. I like pawns

[@travis5125]

I like pawns too.

[@Rafaga777]

A very beautiful game indeed. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for the upload...

[@pacovela1969]

Ding Liren is the world's chess champion in 2023!!!

[@suranjanabhanja506]

Thank you for saying what is a immortal game :)

[@dimensionalblade2778]

So who's here today for the prequel?

[@krislapsporzmingis6952]

Who else came here straight from the 2021 rematch?

[@thedeadbaby]

So, we have the Scotch, the French, and the English. What's the chinese opening called?

[@coldmagnet]

all of his minor pieces are working together. incredible play

[@蛰扉]

surely this game should be in the dark magic series

[@jurjenvanderhoek316]

3:12 ... the move that Wei Ji probably had to see ?? It is not Wei Ji, but Ding Liren playing :-)

[@jsanon1634]

Quite an unbelievable game with all the sacrifices and the way the king is cornered and all the attacked pieces turned into attacking pieces. Immortal indeed

[@DanBurgaud]

"The Hunt for the King" should be the name of this game. I love this game! awesome!

[@Kgothatso_Masimene]

Your voice sounded different in 2017

[@saadarshad3723]

Love your videos so much thanks alot for sharing such amazing games 🖒

[@sebagsaenz]

I keep watching this game from time to time and it's always so good :)

[@futuropasado]

One of the most beautiful immortals ever.

[@MichaelHarrisIreland]

It's chaotic beauty, probably the only true kind of beauty.

[@abdellism]

Can you show the black perspective sometimes?

[@Pizzous]

Rotate your monitor.

[@clqliveson]

Ctrl+up arrow.

[@esosaueso]

min 5:15 . what about the following moves: instead of rook to f2, black moves Bg6 with check, Kxg6, pawn takes g6, check mate?

[@michaelroble4834]

That game was amazing. It was immortal before the rook sac!

[@L4rs_]

In Chess, sometimes positons are perfectly described especially Opening or in this case: "The Chinese Immortal" f.e. at 6:00 I can't describe exactly why but this looks perfectly like it

[@rldb]

Watching it in 2022 from ding's rampage video link.

[@leslassiter6378]

I don't understand why a GM would play Ke2 instead of Rd2. I thought the move was rather obvious.

[@ian9toes]

Les Lassiter I totally agree, you maintain the possibility of castling which is always preferred you bring another piece to the defence and you save losing your rook. I don't get it, surely the queen sac didn't rely on him missing this, or did it.

[@numcrun]

I know right. Ke2 and lose your rook seems like a patzer move. Oops no we are the patzers lol. After Rd2 there is Rd8 attacking the pinned the rook. It is still the best move but it is by no means obvious, even to the engine.

[@leslassiter6378]

Ian9toes, Either Ding Liren miscalculated, or he took a calculated risk. I would bet on the latter.

[@AalbertTorsius]

I wonder if Ding Liren was counting on Rd2 instead of Ke2 when he sacrificed his Queen. Also, I wonder what would've happened if 15. ... dxc3 had been answered by 16. bxc3, not accepting the sacrifice.

[@thenpguy5852]

It would be a very hard for you to find and play that move. Imagine you being a grandmaster (already very very very strong) playing the best player of your country who just sacrificed a queen. What do you do? Do you trust his calculations or your own? Is playing a move like rd2 playable psychologically? Maybe he was so scared he wouldn’t play just a surrendering move. To be honest I don’t know why he didn’t play rd2 but the pressure of playing fide rated games is very high, especially against your strongest Countryman in your national league and people have expectations for you to either get crushed or preform well as you are a talent

[@Dungeontai]

if jinshi captured lirens pawn at 2:19 with his b-pawn instead of immediately capturing the queen, wouldnt it be winning for him?

[@PsyQoBoy]

Agadmator: "*Hello everybody*" *HI DOCTOR NICK*

[@darionchisholm6152]

Beautiful attack... brilliant strategy. Great game

[@clinkz023]

At 4:04 isnt knight on c6 taking knight on e5 checkmate?

[@kune2327]

bishop g3 takes knight e5

[@rachidtouaoula1234]

Agadmator speaking about Immortal can you please make a video of Barcza-Tal 1971 ?

[@oneputtsteven]

Holy cow! Amazing game. Of course anytime your king has to step in front of your bishop's only developing diagonal left available, it's going to be a bad day.

[@amigosXcorrespondenc]

Nothing against but there's already a game known as The Chinese Inmortal, it was played by Liu Wenzhe (the father of the chinese school of chess) against J. H. Donner in the 1978 Chess Olympiad celebrated in Buenos Aires.

[@worldserpent9263]

3:05 why can't you for the king and queen with rook, since you have to capture with queen, and they both don't have queens

[@sealand000]

6:51 is just crazy amazing!!

[@arightscepter]

If you stumbled onto this diagram from anywhere you would immediately say, "look the those pieces!" So beautiful.

[@vinodp8577]

Please analyze Rd2 blocking check. I can't seem to understand why it wasn't played. Seems better than Ke2 to me and idk much about using chess engines and stuff. So if you explain this line in more detail would be helpful :)

[@IDDQDSound]

I wonder how much of this he had planned and how much of it he came up on the spot.

[@johnnyyb9979]

Jako dobro, svaka cast. Vec odavno imas subscribe od mene. Igre koje stavljas su odlicne i isto tako odlicno prolazis kroz njih. Samo bih postavio neka pitanja jer vidim da dobro razumijes sah. Zanima me koliko se unaprijedila tvoja igra gledajuci takve partije GM-a? Koliko je zapravo tesko postati GM ili jako dobar igrac saha, koliko vremena i rada je tu potrebno, sta je zapravo najbolje da se moja igra poboljsa? Eto, to su neka pitanja na koja trazim odgovor, i puno mi znace, jer doslovno OBOZAVAM sah i mislim da to nikad nece prestat. Divim se dom gledam tvoje videe i postajem sve vise inspiriran. Lp.

[@dsodragon8152]

When I see the board I see a Dragon! Damn that was a fierce match!

[@sandro2628]

Looking forward to seeing how Ding Liren fares in the Candidates. If he plays like this it should make for some entertaining games.

[@peterpetrov6522]

Brilliant! Where did white mess up? Was this a sound sacrifice?

[@quintenvanlaar28]

3:54 after Rd4, g4 would lead to mate because of g4+, Nxg4, Bxg4#. That's why h3 was played. To prevent the mate

[@steveolschewske1303]

Am I missing something here...there is a forced mate in 3 at 4:00.. NxN..BxN..g4..hxg4..Bxg4 mate

[@steveolschewske1303]

Nm I see bishop openens up square for king after BxN

[@dinh_khai_]

the way he find 2 clutch rook moves is just incredible

[@ohwhatfunitistowalk]

Beautiful King hunt. Thank you.

[@greyfox3954]

he played it rather like Shogi game, always aggressive, attacking the King, breaking the defesne by giving up value. Just amazing!

[@warrenhuffman3910]

Wonderful video, thank you.

[@acdy1107]

I wish a variation was shown at 2:14 where the queen sac was declined and instead played with bxc3

[@amolaegade5368]

waiting for agadmator's Immortal by his own analysis...#suggestion