The History Of Chess: The World Chess Championship

[@n.davidlessani8243]

I am 86 y.o. And playing chess for the past 55 years. The last 7 years on line. For the past 25 years my mental capacity has not only changed but made me wiser. Chess is all about concentration, planning and strategy. It keeps your neurons in active mode . One cannot play chess in my age to be either senile ,demented or forgetful. I love the game because it keep me sharp. According to mathematics, the odd of repeating the game exactly twice is 252,000,000,000. N.D. Lessani, MD

[@jamesavery3559]

Bravo!

[@wilfredoalvarez9156]

Excellent comment

[@acombo]

❤

[@ESMIR1337]

I used to play with my grandfather, he was also 86 years old, he played really well considering his age. He passed away two years ago. I miss playing with him it was so much fun. Writing this made me cry 😕

[@oceanicmage]

1 in 252 billion seems too low with so many combinations on the line. 252 septillion would be decent enough

[@douggieharrison6913]

holy guacamole that was amazing. easily one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. PLEASE do more about chrss history. It's what the chess community needs to realize this game isn't just Magnus and supercomputers finding the best moves, but actual styles of play and players that for so long determined the game

[@milaanvigraham8664]

"Supercomputers and magnus" 😂 Man... the champ is something else lol

[@KahurangiSteez]

every generation had their model to work on... i wonder if people used to complain that nimzowitch ruined chess with My System haha

[@mislavivkovic-zm3em]

Xqc is best player ever

[@moonbalancedd]

I'm beginning to understand chess is really like an ocean in complexity. There's place of brashness, boldness, creativity, fear, light touch, nimbleness, anger, bluffs. It is a beautiful game, rich with stunningly creative ideas and tactics. It has stood the test of time because each generation realizes in greater depth than the previous one, how many more things are possible in a game, how far ahead can pieces support each other, how deep and far-seeing ideas can be, and how rich a battlefield it is to display the full range of human cleverness and emotions.

[@Rotation364]

Beautifully said

[@NotoriousKhamid]

What's your online chess username? I'd love to follow you

[@gabrielmachado2709]

That can be said about life too

[@kszwomcszkaszky3291]

@ Yash Change your wet, pants, lady.

[@torshavnnewell]

Chess tilt is real

[@henrykaspar3634]

Chess world champion must be the most exclusive club that there is. Just 17 members over 140 years, only 7 of them alive.

[@eliet8944]

This is so wonderfully made :) Hope this could become a series and will include the history of the FIDE, openings, schools of thought, international tournaments, ratings, title etc. Thanks again!

[@tracymiller1149]

Thanks for the chess history, Gus Fring. Between running a successful fast-food franchise and an even more successful meth empire, I'm surprised he found the time.

[@alexdotdash7731]

lmaooo

[@tracymiller1149]

@@noone3367 No! Anand is by all accounts a nice guy. Very unlike Gus Fring. Of course, Gus could be nice when he wanted, when it suited his purpose (like being nice to his Los Pollos Hermanos employees, because being a good manager helped maintain his cover).

[@thenixaless7493]

Gus Fring 💀

[@pandoorloki1232]

I think the narrator is the anti-Gus ... Gus is measured and unemotional., whereas this guy is hyper over the top emotive, varying his pitch wildly and in all the wrong places.

[@farstrider4592]

Anand a secret cartel drug lord confirmed

[@Johnny-kq9wb]

I taught my sons and grandsons. When the family gets together, we have a family tournament.lots of fun for everyone! Best game ever.

[@ramachandra776]

This was highly impressive video . Probably one of the best videos of this channel this year . Happy to see Kramnik and Spassky given a very fair treatment in their influence on the modern game . Anand and Short (current and former FIDE vice -presidents ) discussing the world champions was a nice touch . 🙂 . Please put timestamps for this video for there are lot of interesting quotes and anecdotes which would be missed (eg. Anand's discussion of Capablanca and Alekhine , Tal turning up to challenge Botvinnik at age 11 , Petrosian's unusual preparation for world championship match ).

[@kingscrusher]

This is brilliantly done - congrats :)

[@SonofNewo]

not as brilliant as a good kingscrusher video!

[@TheMaestromMephisto]

Oh blimey

[@azzzil9405]

as a Mikhail Tal Fan its so sad that he was not included on the final slideshow of chess world champions :( I mean he held it once too.

[@guyscounter]

Chess clock brief history would be good to have been included in this documentary. How would one classify classical chess against rapid chess without clock? Nevertheless, this is such a good film. Finally, a chess film that has filled the void!

[@heyhey8626]

see chess asmr's channel for a doc on that

[@micke7]

I loved this in the original context, the WC between Magnus and Jan 2021, and I am happy to finally see it all as a full documentary. (It stopped somewhere before getting to Spassky.) Many Thanks! It is very brief but very good.

[@renobgm]

Even if you don't play the game you gotta admit this documentary was extremely well done, between the music and interviews, let alone historical accuracy and attention to important details

[@geoffreygeorge999]

the fact that this doesn't have even 1 million is ludicrous. Best documentary ever

[@temhirtleague-chess]

If Morphy was here and Ben Finegold wasnt here to comment on Morphy, that would have been the pride and sorrow of Chess indeed.

[@TheChessNeck]

Such a fascinating game and really the only game I have ever gotten so interested in. The ELO system is inspiring because it gives you a goal

[@kirillzakharov7336]

yet it's also incredibly frustrating at times. I played several games where the rating difference was well over 200, a lot of games with the disparity nearing that. All those losses cost A LOT of points, and the points gained are only a minuscule portion. VERY annoying

[@nickhall7995]

​@@kirillzakharov7336 just make your settings where u play players with higher ratings than you. Thats the key to get better

[@TheSavagederek]

Spassky deserves tons of credit, for putting up with Fischers shit and refusing the KJB telling him to come home and give up and agreeing to Bobbys weird rules.

[@robertdominicceasarsalvill2221]

He's one of my favorite players

[@TheBenevolentDictatorship]

Best chess documentary yet. Very well done. Thank you!

[@Mono_Mach]

Well done, been looking for a documentary like this for a while.

[@djvelocity]

This is amazing! *I love documentaries and Chess. And they came together on my birthday.* Lucky me 😳🤯🙌🥳

[@markbraybrook8807]

Great video - really well made and speaks volumes about the game, and more importantly the great characters who make up the world chess champions with all their shades of grey in a black and white world!

[@humankind5627]

This video was nothing short of amazing. Would be great as well if you guys did a series where you analyzed all the world championship games for us more average players.

[@yashbhartia9438]

Very well made I loved watching the whole walk through the history of chess beautifully made❤❤❤

[@ReinaldosChessLessons]

Good documentary. The effort behind the scenes definitely shows in the production and quality. Good job! 🎉❤

[@BHARATIYA_TIGER]

It's crazy how impact of Ancient India is very Underrated

[@TheGeezzer]

If you feel like you're just a pawn in life, remember, every Pawn has the potential to become a Queen!

[@kevinmalone3210]

That's very clever and hilarious! 😅

[@TheGeezzer]

@@kevinmalone3210Well thanks very much, you may use it as your own quote if you want.

[@streetsdapokemane]

one of the best chess docs i could find not enough long form videos on chess history

[@Zalgo-u7n]

Such a captivating story, I feel goosebumps every time I see the history of chess world champions.

[@rainabasso6537]

Amazing documentary, very well-made!! Would love to see more in future!!!

[@ZachNovak]

Lasker's books were the first I remember reading in the mid 90's when I started learning the game, along with Karpovs

[@ThePawnslayerChessVideos]

Chess is, and forever will be, a timeless endearing game that will forever captivate the human mind. Long may it reign in thousands of years to come!

[@YChess]

Just hope it doesn’t get solved so we can play it

[@Guitstringed]

@@YChess even if it does get solved, our mind possibly wouldn't have the capability to retain all the positions. We can keep playing even after it is solved because it holds no relevance for us. It's well-known that chess is a draw, but not all players are GrandMaster and the GMs too make mistakes, so what are we to do with it being solved; it'll still be played.

[@shreyaskumar9175]

@@YChess it can't even be solved

[@susta1815]

@@YChess solving chess doesn’t make any sense. Every move is a new game. There are infinite possibilities.

[@gaopinghu7332]

@@susta1815 there aren't infinite pieces, or squares for them to go, or infinite types of moves, it's a lot of games and so many we'll probably never solve chess, but technically, with infinite time, we could solve it.

[@GH-oi2jf]

I don’t like the Rapid Chess tiebreaker, either. The original rule is better: The champion retains the title in event of a tie.

[@GrigoriyBabenko]

Great documentary, brilliantly narrated and full of respect and admiration for chess. Thank you.

[@mysticalmagic6172]

Brilliant! I waited a video about this for so long!

[@addisonjudah]

Why on earth do I keep finding jtoh players in chess videos?

[@dogandonmez5274]

A wonderful film about a great game. I would like to add that the book "De ludo scachorum" by Luca Pacioli, written in 1500, precedes the book by Ruy Lopez.

[@kingbradley3402]

I think this is the same Italian mathematician who wrote the nine forms of cubic equations, some of which could have complex number solutions. His work was later taken ahead by Omar Khayyam and Scipione del Ferro. Veitasium has a great video on this

[@db8458]

Great stuff. Thanks for putting this together. Glad to see documentaries like this

[@fallenbutreborn]

Very good documentary! Educational and enjoyable 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@dungbeetle.]

A great video for those of us who were unfamiliar with the history and legacy of the game.

[@cchairez1947]

Thank you so much on the extensive chess history! I just loved it!

[@antoniocarlosmansoldo129]

Congratulations to the producers, an excellent documentary.

[@CubeforFun]

This documentary was so welcome that I had to watch it on television!

[@mistyhuneycutt9275]

I taught my son to play chess when he was 10 and I've never beat him at a game since 💕

[@jozefserf2024]

Alekhine and Fischer brought increasing levels of professionalism to chess, whilst Morphy and Capablanca remain its greatest geniuses.

[@southstar9931]

Lmao. Fischer brought professionalism??? I loved his charisma but not sure what's so professional about him.

[@Tremaine26]

Great video, never knew most of these great background stories and all the contexts and difficulties.

[@timbrownrigg5217]

Nice little Bach-Paul McCartney nod with that Bach piece at the start.

[@sadsack8319]

Thanks for this. The greatest game of all.

[@suchibasavaraj1474]

very well presented. Vishy Anand deserves Bharath Ratna.

[@DAVIDMILLER-nc9vo]

Very good narration and excellent background music; soft and unobtrusive!

[@Mantschgo]

Thanks for putting this together!

[@FarmandSMC]

Nice doc, but the title should probably been “A history of world champions/championships”. I would like to have learned about when and why clocks, e.p. and 0-0, 0-0-0 was introduced to the rules.

[@leonardocontreras9690]

Clocks were added because in times of Morphy and Anderssen people could spend a whole day playing.... Spending 3 hours for 1 move

[@FarmandSMC]

@UCwV8NntgNoq3QgqNV-2Xdfw yeah, I can see that ;) I must only have looked at the thumbnail, which only says HoC.

[@Inibur]

Very very very nice documentary 👏👏👏 A pleasure to watch, thanks really a lot 🙏🙏🙏

[@samuelhumphrey5908]

Appreciated, great concise explanation of 'our' history. Thankyou

[@karezaalonso7110]

1:05:05 Anand wasn't the first champion from Asia; Russia is in Asia, too.

[@RicardoAGuitar]

I think all the Russian world champions were from the European side, but I may be wrong

[@Mathematica1729]

Nah Russia is not considered Asia

[@Mathematica1729]

Back then it was Soviet Union

[@johnreid5539]

Thank you for sharing. Very informative.

[@weddingwiththewhitedove]

I can't handle the stress of a normal game anymore. As a Rapid player, I feel much better.

[@dape.2746]

the more I learn about fischer the more I see him as a petty/sulky adult person

[@davidcopson5800]

Just focus on his chess, not his human faults.

[@robertdominicceasarsalvill2221]

@@davidcopson5800 teah because its all about Chess.

[@rawnclark]

Fischer knew absolutely nothing about life. Only chess. He dedicated his entire life to chess, so he's ignorant.

[@gabrielgarcia7554]

He had a lot of untreated mental illnesses, so I would not judge him so harshly. Considering his background it is honestly amazing at how well he did. To beat the USSR at chess, when the largest nation in human history dedicated so much money and manpower in developing their players is honestly an incredibly achievement. To be able to be this unbelievably exceptional at this game is going to come at the cost of other things like emotional maturity.

[@colinw2104]

Bobby fisher also probably lacked a good father.

[@kalui96]

Seeing images of people long past looking intensely at a chess board, sometimes contorting in contemplation, really tickles my spirit

[@bohrierpokemonvideos392]

Appalled to see this at less than 1M , let alone 200K views.

[@Shadowbreaker-ds]

Fascinating and informative..

[@jyotsnasrivastava6373]

One thing which you should have mentioned is the impact of Vishwaathan Anand on Indian Chess. Now, chess is becoming popular in India only because of him. He single handedly made chess popular in a country who didn't care about chess.

[@221b-l3t]

Dude they do exactly that at the end, they first describe his career and then go on to say that he inspired many Indians to play chess and that India now has a lot of strong players.

[@jozefserf2024]

The Kasparov v Short match was far closer than the final result suggests. Short really went for the throat.

[@davidcopson5800]

He did, and he was very brave in doing that. However, a match that ends 6-1 to the winner can't be considered that close.

[@fundhund62]

It was a complete mismatch.

[@williamtoler4196]

What a terrific documentary

[@williammorris584]

At 32:20 I think the players surrounding Botvinnik are Spassky to his left, Larsen to his right, and Donner to his right rear. At 33:43 is a row of super GMs of the time: Bronstein, Keres, Geller, Petrosian, Smyslov, and Tal. At 35:34, the height of the players is noticeable. Keres, third from left, was 6’2” (188 cm) Behind and to his right is the 6’5” (195cm) Smyslov. The player on the far left, whose name escapes me, was a Rumanian grandmaster who stood 6’7” (200.5 cm).

[@pac1261]

Perhaps the Romanian GM is Florin Gheorghiu?

[@williammorris584]

@@pac1261 Thanks for the memory prompt, the tallest man near Keres and Smyslov is Miroslav Filip, who made it to the Candidates Tournament in 1955 and 1962.

[@chessnoob3776]

Long video but informative. Like it a lot.

[@jaydubya2445]

Great upload, thanks for sharing!!

[@masterofnone8400]

Awesome documentary thank u!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@antoniorochafotografia]

The most enigmatic game i´ve ever played.

[@coosoorlog]

Thank you for this insightful video! Next, maybe the history of the Darksaber?

[@annmariesaidy3815]

Thanks for this valuable job.

[@jayrashamiya2810]

This is the history of chess for 3 minutes and the history of the world championship for the rest of the video.

[@dyatlov3466]

25:19 Vishy can read a person from his chess.

[@-ChrisD]

Great job on this video! Well done 👍🏻

[@adfil8818]

For me, chess is just a way to waste time without people telling you that you're wasting time. great documentary though.

[@raghavkalyan17]

That's basically every sport and board game tbf

[@ilycreations23]

FYI: also Anand started learning chess from age six from his mother, but he learned the intricacies of the game in Manila, where he lived with his parents from 1978 through the 1980s while his father was contracted as a consultant by the Philippine National Railways.

[@sonarbangla8711]

Sultan Khan was the best Indian chess player, while Abdussatariv is the world's best chess player, in my mind, better than Morphy and Tal.

[@goodsoup8410]

Eugene Torre was Vishy Anand's first chess coach

[@dan81920e]

i'm 16 years old to watching this nice history

[@ilycreations23]

FYI: and Fischer, who spent his last years as a fugitive from U.S. authorities because he defied international sanctions against the former Yugoslavia, spent time in the Philippines and Japan before moving to Iceland, where he was offered citizenship in the mid-2000s.

[@thomaslance3932]

Dang! I can't get past level 5 on my Chess app, but I truly appreciated and loved your video. Play on!

[@carlmarc3877]

Chess greats have the coolest names I.e. Alekhine, Capablanca, Bogoljubow, Kieseritzky, Magnus, lol These are cool ass names bih It’s like the guys with these names were destined to play lol Love the game

[@jeromebarry1741]

XX people have never been excluded by XXness from the opportunity to compete.

[@tavinash87]

Fantastic Video to understand the evolution, progress and storylines in chess in History.

[@ArranVid]

'The Mozart of Chess' was actually written first by a journalist in an article about Bobby Fischer, way back in somewhere between the 1950s and 1970s. Another journalist copied that, and used it for Magnus Carlsen.

[@donnaglenrossi7458]

Some people undeniably have a natural genius for Chess. They stand apart from everyone else and we wish them well. All people can practice Chess and develop more alert, focused and sharper brains. That benefits humanity. Feel different, be different and, regardless of struggling over your rating, never give up playing Chess.

[@angelosliotscos5861]

Whoever invented chess was one hell of a genius.

[@WesleyjAllDay]

It was evolved and expanded upon over time by many different people, branching off into different games with different rules being created and changed before becoming the game we know today

[@mks2942]

It was invented first in India. No other place as per this documentary is not correct.

[@franklinbradley3160]

Great documentary.

[@kolaas2006]

Very interesting. I would've liked some more attention for the early forms of chess. It's glossed over in ~2 minutes, while it's very interesting how this game evolved into modern chess. Anyone a recommendation for a documentary or website on this topic? I like to recommend the documentary Love For Wood. Unique and entertaining interviews with Dutch grandmasters, including Max Euwe.

[@74neverlast]

I imagine (!), that the there are not a lot of historically solid sources of earlier forms of chess - which makes it hard to make a documentary our of it. If there has been written a book on a game, that does not exist anymore, the likelihood that the books gets destroyed or forgotten is immense high, unless it ends up in a bibliography. As "games" was never a category that church or early science was interested in Europe during middle ages or even later the sources might have been lost over time. Dont know about Persia or India from year 1000-1700 though...

[@terrak7609]

A funny anecdote, after Bobby Fischer had refused to defend his world championship title against Anatoly Karpov in 1975, this duel has now been overtaken by Switzerland. Last week, in the 4th league game between the two Basel clubs, Roche and Ladia Fischer played against Karpov - on the first board, of course. It should have brought back historical chess memories for both of them. 😅 (André Fischer against Alexei Karpov, the result is not yet published)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I enjoyed the history of the world championships. Thank you.

[@worldchesschampionship5249]

Very interesting, the history of chess is explained, I enjoyed it

[@abdelrahmantamer1679]

Great video ❤

[@jace8575]

Excellent video

[@ajaysabarish9645]

Its just amazing!

[@kingdomyu5310]

I LUSTRE this game is an reflection of art.

[@spokoistvie]

well done great video

[@Cradien]

Great stuff!

[@salindal]

An awesome documentary but small yet very important information is missing here. That is Spassky applauding Fischer after he won the game 6 in 1972.

[@fundhund62]

How is that important? 😂

[@akshatvats520]

This makes me wanna play chess so badly

[@glockdookie5231]

Why not start?

[@fuckbankers]

Watching Kasparov thrash Short, got me interested in chess.

[@jjfaccio]

Although it is a good documentary, it is not a history of chess, but rather a history of the (men's) world chess championship. It would have been great to see the actual evolution from chaturanga into chess, the new figure of the bishop when arriving in Europe, the earned power of the queen, the first move of the pawns, en passant... and then of course all the other things where we actually can find a reflection of us, like the show business from mechanical Turk to streamers, the use of the game for educational or therapeutical purposes or even the history of its role in society, from aristocracry through bourgeoisie to the street... and then to computers! And not to mention the chess Olympiad or all the other great tournaments around! And what about Polgar sisters instead of Charlie's Angels?

[@xEvilRaptorx]

I'm 20 mins in and I had this same thought. They should change the title tbh. I would love to see a video about the evolution of chess itself. The history of chess championship is good and all....

[@d1ab]

I agree with the title change, but I feel like most of the ideas you mentioned could be compartmentalised into separate, more specific/niche videos, which would better explain each other. I feel like fully discussing everything aforementioned in one documentary would be too wide of a topic and would take too long to explain.

[@spy1545]

I would love to see the original piece models from chaturanga.

[@amosdraak3536]

Was the title changed from yesterday? Right now it says it’s a history of chess: Chess Championship. So it’s seems pretty accurate RN. Wondering if it changed since yesterday since everyone is complaining it’s “wrong” when it’s just how English grammar works.

[@xEvilRaptorx]

@@amosdraak3536 yes, it has been changed. It was just called the history of chess before. Much more accurate now. Still a good watch, just wasn't exactly what I was expecting going in (from original title) Edit added: I think ill Subscribe. :)

[@jobemarmaghari3448]

Wow...many things that I've learn from this video. History of chess. Those great players in old time. But for me,. bobby Fischer is the best..! 🤘

[@michaelneuwirth3414]

“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.” George Bernard Shaw