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Beerdsen, Thomas (2515) - Pechac, Jergus (2637)
Tata Steel Challengers (chess24.com) [3] 2023.01.16
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 d6 7.Qb3 Qd7 8.O-O Bb6 9.Nbd2 Na5 10.Qc2 f6 11.a4 Ne7 12.Ba2 Nec6 13.Ba3 exd4 14.cxd4 Nxd4 15.Nxd4 Bxd4 16.Rad1 Qe7 17.e5 fxe5 18.Nf3 Nc6 19.Bd5 Kd8 20.Rfe1 Qf6 21.Bxc6 bxc6 22.Qxc6 Rb8 23.Rc1 Bb6 24.Nxe5 Re8 25.Bxd6 cxd6 26.Nf7+ Qxf7 27.Qxd6+ Qd7 28.Rxe8+ Kxe8 29.Qxb8 Kd8 30.Qf4 Qf5 31.Qg3 g6 32.a5 Bxa5 33.Qd6+ Bd7 34.Qb8+ Ke7 35.Qxa7 Qd5 36.Qc5+
00:00 Hello Everyone!
01:10 Game Starts!
06:14 Completely New Game!
13:18 Pause the Video!
19:40 It was in this position!
21:00 Contributions!
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[@m4y4nk]

2:16 Best way to accept it is by accepting. - AgadMator, 2023

[@lqgash9077]

true

[@qualcunoacaso4865]

You can't refuse the evan's gambit 💅

[@proosee]

I mean... he's not lying

[@aarontriguero5974]

I scrolled so fast to the comments when he said that XD

[@orionspur]

An absolute miracle that Jerguš survived that assault.

[@andrew_owens7680]

Talk about a fighting draw!

[@ConcordMass]

ok that tactic legit rendered me speechless....

[@obican]

I had taken a break from watching chess videos and when I came back to your channel a few months later, I can already see a quality in your videos that I had not noticed on this level before, it feels to me that you've taken your skills at explaining the game and individual positions and alternate outcomes and raised them a few notches. Fantastic work overall, I've missed watching your content :)

[@anandatirek786]

Who cares abt how you feel?

[@slidenaway]

@@anandatirek786 I do. Just because you're an a**hole doesn't mean everyone else is

[@Bladieblah]

@@anandatirek786 chill

[@anandatirek786]

@@Bladieblah?? You chill.

[@Bladieblah]

@@anandatirek786 Dude, just don't go randomly harassing people

[@dhiaeddinefadhlawi]

I am 1400 player and I found a5, not because I saw the crazy tactics that follow, but because like the quote said " it feels right "

[@prsancho]

I’ve found only because I was looking for a mind-blowing move. The only one that I saw with such POTENTIAL was a5. Lucky guess, but I’ll take it.

[@faridessalhi7538]

I found it too only because in my prospective it was the worst move to play 🤣🤣🤣

[@tatsuyasigh1906]

It jumped out to me too but I dismissed it right away. Didn't 'feel right' to me at all. Usually a move like a5 would be played to distract the bishop, but Black didn't have time to capture on f2 in any case and Bxa5 would still protect the same diagonal, so it didn't make sense. Turn out it wasn't distraction, but attraction lol

[@mislavivkovic9996]

Me too I am 1750 but I didn't see the following

[@mislavivkovic9996]

I just mean fency move which doesn't do anything

[@kellycarpenter9350]

Never underestimate pushing a pawn .Kel

[@MarkWiseTechno]

17:39 seeing that the ultimate point of playing a5 is to set up a rook fork on the two black bishops something like 10 moves later made me spit out my food. Jesus christ that's insane.

[@georgeguitar9803]

There was no need to spit out your food. :) The rook fork is just one of a myriad number of ways to win once the pawn move has been made. I just played out a couple of other winning variations after the pawn move. For example at 17:05 King doesn't have to go to d8. Then there are many other ways to win.

[@EmperorThePro]

Poor Jergus always getting the pointy end 😀

[@rhinoclark]

I love that we have a nice classical tournament as it make Antonio's videos 20+ mins!

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

I like your channel. You explain everything so that we can understand.

[@peterw3160]

One of the best! Thank you for the great commentary and insights!

[@JonCraigHopkins]

Excellent analysis! Thank you. 🦾🥸

[@BayBerry1337]

Antonio: if you can find the move, you have potential to be rated 2500 or 2600 Me, rated 600: Queen captures on e8 forces the king to capture, then knight g5 with a discovery check with an attack on the queen I forgot that black just captures the knight and you are down a bishop. This is why I am rated 600 😂

[@manguito598]

After Ng4+ black can't take the knight yet, still has to get out of check and does so with Qe6. After Rxe6 Bxe6, Black is ahead a pawn, has the bishop pair and two connected passed pawns.

[@IHWKR]

Honestly 600 is an incredible feat in itself.

[@marcusbiller867]

@@manguito598 why QE6 and not E7 infront of the king?

[@michaelmassaro4375]

I think I was looking at that same move when he was asking to find the so called move etc I thought maybe Queen takes Rook forcing king to take Queen than discovery check moving knight in position to take Black Queen I could be wrong Great Game

[@srboyer]

Antonio, your analysis is spectacular, clearly one of your best. Thank you.

[@martynonions6268]

❤ incredible game Great thanks 🙏

[@albertonunez2045]

Thanks! For the excellent video. It made my day better.

[@jamesknapp64]

@13:20 what a winning move. That is an absolute psychic level foresight to see why it wins.

[@hutterha]

Thank you for showing us a5. I do enjoy your channel a lot. Very best regards Harald ♟️✨

[@pookie9461]

That might be the greatest PTV moment you've ever had, Antonio. I can usually get the idea right after you've revealed the moves, and about half of them I can find the move myself. But on this one I could not see the point of a5 until you were almost showing the fork. Just incredible.

[@rickharold7884]

Wow. That’s was dynamic. Love it

[@knightofchess6900]

What a game! I was stuned with all those nasty engine lines! I wanna play chess sundently.🔥

[@AngeloAvramakis]

My 10 yr old son found a5 in just 5 seconds! Oh myyyy... a Grandmaster in the making

[@sushamaranabhaumik3423]

Founding a5 is not a big thing. The reason behind a move is much more important. No one sees 10 move combination in 5sec.

[@loganfreeman1109]

@@sushamaranabhaumik3423 You’re just jealous that you can’t calculate 10 move lines in 5 seconds like this guys 10 year old son

[@sushamaranabhaumik3423]

@@loganfreeman1109 it's good that fools like you exist so there is balance in this world.

[@retinet2634]

This game absolutely made my day. a5 is just genius. I could not have found it in 5 hours or so

[@samueliwassaki9419]

Spectacular as it is

[@giovannicorno1247]

Beatiful game, very interesting that a5 move. I am happy for Pechac, he needs to recover from yesterday's defeat.

[@mohamedkoblawi4175]

Jergus can't catch a break

[@schwadevivre4158]

lovely!

[@Mindhumble]

17:35 NO WAY awesome!!! Reminds me of alekhines famos combination where at the end i think it was a bishop forking 2 knights accross the board or something like that. Amazing!!!

[@ianbergerurra8021]

The game against Reti?

[@Mindhumble]

@@ianbergerurra8021 YES lol wow thanks!

[@jeroenaarts85]

09:35 "The engine says it's perfectly fine". Haha, damn strong engines.

[@exs1803]

Mind blowing game indeed. So much thrills and twists, So enjoyable.

[@vivekjoshi5207]

Woah..what a game..! I wonder what new lines will Antonio bring out in the sequel to his tutorial on the Evan's Gambit after watching these variations that could have happened..! Chess is a spectacular game indeed.!

[@norberttargosz4528]

#suggestion. Game 7 from the 1966 World Chess Championship match between Spassky and Petrosjan Please ;))

[@norberttargosz4528]

very nice double sacrifice by Petrosjan!

[@williamgoss4691]

As Agadmator says, a truly amazing game. From a successfully aggressive start the game seems totally one-sided, but CM is always just out of reach… again, an amazing game.

[@Orion-zq8jf]

if anyone spotted that move, it was out of instinct.. no way they saw why (fork bishops at end of line) crazy stuff.. what a game, thanks for showing

[@laszloszikorszky9866]

This idea is absolutely discusting… I calculated the line without a5 and got to the conclusion that it doesn’t work because the bishop pair beats the rook, but than you show me this! Amazing

[@georgeray649]

Agad has that nac to explain. The best.

[@simonmultiverse6349]

knack

[@PrometheanConsulting]

My instinct after the bishop defended was a5 and I was surprised he didn't do it. Nxe5 is 2nd best as is the Re8 response. I certainly didn't see the bishop fork at the end... I just thought there would be some kind if tactic with the Queen forking the undefended bishop but that never manifests.

[@Sosapotence3001990]

New Evan's gambit part 2 video please!

[@ReiDavizin]

Nice!

[@tatsuyasigh1906]

A5 immediately jumped out to me as that smells like an engine idea. But I dismissed it right away bc I didn't even begin to see the idea. My concept of playing a move like a5 would be to distract the bishop, but Bxa5 would still defend the diagonal so I didn't see the point. Turn out it wasn't to distract the bishop, but to attract it to the fifth rank lol

[@berkeleycodingacademy7015]

wow. didn't even consider it. beautiful analysis.

[@brandonmiles8174]

I only play about three games of chess per year, but I got the a5 move. At first I was looking at Bxd6, which leads to some very similar positions with Nf7+ but none that seal the deal because the dark squared bishop is still in the game and doesn't offer the fork and a couple other positional issues. The last two games I played last year were 85-90% accuracy and I've had several people tell me if I actually dedicated some time and found someone to help coach me a little, I could be a 2000+ rating in a matter of a year and a half or two. I just haven't found anyone I enjoy playing with and that to me is a big motivation, along with the fact I hate studying openings and don't play enough to remember them. I am not a fan of blitz or online rapid, at least not yet. I'm only a couple hours from Charlotte though, so I have thought about going there and trying to meet a couple people.

[@zemm9003]

You can randomly guess a5 because the bishop is much better placed on b6 strategically. The problem is that the position is tactically very sharp so if it doesn't work in practice then white just loses a clean pawn (at best or the game at worst). You have to calculate that it does indeed work and this means that you have to calculate the "forced line" that Agadmator showed all the way to the end and if you didn't, then you didn't really find the correct move, you only guessed it but didn't understand why it works so well in this particular case.

[@fingerfeller]

excellent

[@dedoc7143]

I always like the Phrase " Strange game, the only winning move is not to play"

[@inyourgenes]

It's chess....NOT Global Thermonuclear War

[@burningelement1656]

Antonio, can you do an epic swirl of the piece for the next brilliant move? :D

[@agadmator]

Sure thing

[@tolkienfan1972]

I've never seen do many tactics. One around every corner!

[@CleavingRay]

I found a5 by virtue of removing the defender of the c7 pawn but was a bit confused how it would prevail if Bxa5... followed right before the queen exchange but didnt see the rook forking both bishops because of Bxa5 amazing move nonetheless!

[@TheMarksT]

What a game!

[@kurtboesch2592]

You make chess so much fun. This coffee house player thanks you!

[@ManishSingh-uj2rr]

Amazing game superb

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Great Analysis love your accent very clear and understandable though Thanks

[@megagigachad69]

Evans Gambit positions be tactically bussin

[@IHWKR]

Someday, Agadmator should trick us and do a "find the move" that's a resignation.

[@schwindsichtigaderechte5293]

I thought about that one amazing move, but I just couldn't see its full potential! It was my second favourite though, I'd have picked a more straight-forward approach. However, if you hadn't mentioned that there was a great move to be found, I'd probably never consider it. How do people come up with that stuff?

[@TheMNZOO]

Agad I've been watching your videos since the early days for some ten years it feels like. #suggestion Evans-McDonnell, London 1827. The gambit is named after the Welsh sea captain, William Davies Evans, the first player known to have played it. The first game with the opening noted here. Sorry if I missed a video you already did on it and someone can link it...

[@jaihind6472]

14:49 Rc8+ Ke7 Qe5+ Qe6 Re8+ Kxe8 Qxe6+ followed by Qe1

[@slobodanvuksanovic9577]

Very nice!

[@erdemozgurinan9648]

Im starting to think pechac doing this just to entertain us

[@adarshtiwari2532]

100 years later, agad's grandson ll make revisit of this video "hello everyone, in 2023 tata steel giri was beast"

[@voiceofreason9238]

Obviously I did not find Pa5 as that requires genuine chess acumen which I lack. I did however find several of the other losing lines Agad pointed out which would have ended the game quickly in my opponents' favor. I am barely able to understand the winning or tying moves even after it is explained to me.

[@MrDennis8169]

13:00 instead of pawn to a5. i played bishop x pawn on d6, witch is also winning spectacularly

[@daNorse]

Thank you for yet another great video! :) I have a question: How much is castling worth? Is castling worth a pawn or even a piece?

[@mainbuat704]

Waaaw, that’s crazy

[@mrjpd303]

Wooooow 😮 Will you show more games from not top ranked players? I’m loving these games played by peoples whos names I don’t know!

[@jacksonpope3955]

#suggestion game 7 of the 1966 world chess championship

[@norberttargosz4528]

very nice double sacrifice by Petrosjan!

[@anderpot]

What about the beering move?

[@decreasing_entropy3003]

What a game! All about Rxd4 and Bxd6, but a5 stole the show like a chad!

[@ziedyacoub8488]

please Agadmator .. make Lasker SAGA or Rubenstein SAGA .. we love old and briliant chess

[@selvincruz1241]

A5 was my second option

[@neckenwiler]

“The idea is to run your king to g6.” Lmao “The engine says you are fine here.” Lmao

[@GeraldM_inNC]

@6:33, what am I missing? It looks to me as if Black should go Q-E7, next B-D7, next castle queenside, after which the Black King is snug as a bug in a rug. If there's a flaw, Agadmator didn't explain it. Please explain.

[@latviangoatbit6419]

well the flaw is you dont get 3 moves in a row to stabilise your position and white is going to keep applying pressure no matter what. if you're so invested in this line go play it out on an analysis board and see what stockfish thinks of your idea

[@MarkoMaodus]

"b4 - the greatest move there ever was and ever will be"

[@danielquigley2695]

7:43 someone please explain why bishop to E6 is a bad move? That plus Queen side castle 🏰 when available.

[@kaiserauthoria]

Thomas is kicking himself

[@cobalius]

I thought 1. Bc5 would be a good idea.. with the same idea, removing a defender from c7 and interfere the weakness on f2. If 1. ... BxBc7, then 2. RxBc7. if 2. ... exRc7 3. Re1+ wins. if 2. ... Qe7 3. Nf7+ QxNf7 4. RxRe8+ QxRe8 5. Qc7# If 1. ... exBc5 or exNd5 3. Rce1+ wins. If 1. ... RxNc5, then 2. BxBb6, if 2. ... RxRe1+ 3. RxRe1 wins. if 2. Re7 3. Bxc7 RxBc7 4. QxRc7+ wins. Or am i missing stuff?

[@brainy89]

EVANS GAMBIT? THAT’S MY BOY!

[@ahmadalmoustafa265]

Guys what's your advice for someone who's new to the game, is it better to play 5 mins Blitz or Rapid? Any other advices will do.

[@greglahti9458]

generally slower speeds are better but whatever turns your crank.... the best way to improve is through experience, so whatever speed makes chess like a hard-to-put-down novel is likely best for you

[@tvens1]

Bullet

[@thatllputmarzipaninyourpie3117]

I missed it, and I"m angry about it because pushing pawns up the board is one of my favorite things in Chess.

[@MrWebbtang]

On the other hand, you can be pleased about having an awesome username and avatar

[@paulwilliams182]

I actually got a pause the moment right! I made it to the elites!

[@meldjaaiker5804]

13:41 the move is Nf7+ Qf7 ; Re8+ Q28 ; Qc7 #

[@gelatinousjoe7979]

That a5 move was mind blowing, a shame Thomas missed it

[@teambellavsteamalice]

A move I casually considered but didn't even calculate much, nor did I get far with Bxd6 but I'd guess that was the move...

[@pikpok2186]

Didn't found a5 but saw bishop captures d6 which made me happy

[@user-fs3fk3fi4k]

i killed it that a5 shot and also the knight to f7 one

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

8:35 Thanks for saying "asks" rather than "begs" the question, which does not mean what most people think it means.

[@palbal]

I had to roll over on my back and light a cigarette after aga analyzed this game.

[@christopherkopperman8108]

When am I going to get an "And as always b4!!" T-shirt? Have to add one to the store.

[@SemperMaximus]

I proudly put this position on Lichess analysis board thinking that I'm the first one to do so. Found out that all the moves where analyzed at depth 40. lol

[@dantedeloden]

NATURALLY i assumed the pawn push was just in general an obvious move. what wasnt obvious was that it forced the win. so i calculated all of the knight and bishop sacrifices, they all didnt work. then when i did the pawn push FIRST then calculated all the knight/bishop sacs i found out THEN it works. its crazy how chess is sometimes. it was confusing me hard because i was like dang these bishop/knight sacs are so close. and it was that NATURAL pawn push to bring the bishop up one square that fixed everything

[@sangameshshiranal588]

I found it 😍, it's all your inspiration sir 🙏 It can also be called Plachutta :)

[@user-fg6mo2iz2q]

The tactic reminds me of Kasparov's Immortal Game.

[@erikziak1249]

I would also play the pawn, but for another reason. I did not have such a deep thoughts.

[@taufiqusman6655]

The pawn move is good. However, Queen taking Rook on e8 is also very interesting.

[@Attack-fb5rj]

It just trades queens and rooks doesn't it?

[@emmanuelnwachukwu6071]

When I saw Jergus, i thought to myself that i have watched this video earlier..

[@jaswantnama6877]

Does rook to c5 work?

[@askpatrick]

I couldn't find it. but I'd go with bishop captures on D6

[@ilyosmarkaev3724]

What If Qxe8+, Kxe8 and Ng4+ ?

[@riccardoblue2781]

Where's Medo to witness such brilliancy?

[@boaconstrictor3754]

Pechac saga?🤣

[@oscarfernandez7386]

I truly found it. But it took me at least 5 minutes to do so. But after the lines you showed. I wouldn’t need to for the 2 bishops. There is a faster way