Top 5 Games That Changed My Life

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Games: Schlechter - John: 0:35 Pilnik - Geller: 8:04 Tolush - Botvinnik: 11:18 Lautier - Shirov: 17:33 Karpov - Lautier: 24:30

[@Socrates...]

I only discovered your channel a few days ago and I am binge watching a lot of videos. Really good content, thank you.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Glad to hear, thanks!

[@aleaparicio3284]

What a beautiful endgame from Karpov! Makes you want to play one of your own.

[@zubaar4455]

Lautier vs Shirov Game 4 really takes "pawns are the soul of chess" to a whole new level

[@nomoreblitz]

One of my favorite chess instruction videos ever!

[@scotthader705]

Funny you mention Gelfer's Positional Chess Handbook because I'm going through that right now. It was recently suggested to me by... Kostya! Also going through Hellsten's endgame strategy books per your suggestion. Very much appreciate your advice and hard work, particularly for those of us who are really serious about chess improvement~

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Cool! This channel is for you :)

[@bicyclethief]

really enjoy the different series you put out. most chess channels are more entertainment than educational these days. awesome content. appreciate ya!

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Glad you find it useful, always nice to be appreciated!

[@ryanmurphy1414]

Great video concept, Kostya! Thanks :)

[@romainbernard3823]

On thursday I watched this video, and on friday night I had a tournament game. My opponent played the bird and it was onl the second time in my "career" I was faced with it (and the first time my opponent was tring it, so I wasn't prepared). I asked myself how I was going to respond to it, then I went for some kind of Schlecteresque strategic decision, based on this video - except that he took the bishop I developped with his Nf3-h4 knight -, and it work like a charm ! So thank you for this video, it was very instructive and already usefull in the first game I played after seeing it !

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Sick, very cool!

[@sergeytitov8444]

Amazing games! Reminded me of Morphy’s games in terms of unexpected moves and wow effect. Thanks for sharing! I am going to watch this video again and analyze the games more.

[@peristiloperis7789]

Shirov's gamee is truelly fantastic and shows how good he was at calculation. But what Karpov did in the last game is absolutely amazing. Black must have felt like someone with cancer in his final days. A painful slow death and there's nothing to stop it..

[@f3dor0vsergey]

very nice, last two games were just amazing. thank you

[@jamesnemenyi]

Hi Kosta, thank you for sharing. This is your best video by far.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thanks James

[@buddythompson5284]

I'll wager a cold beverage of choice that Botvinnik's exchange sac was all home brewed.

[@thomasrowley6643]

Hi Kost, another great video. Thanks for the content - it is really educational. I loved the Shirov and Karpov games!

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thank you!

[@JishnuChatterjee]

very nice, thank you for the analysis

[@dkol2000]

amazing games, thanks!

[@aymanesghiar3164]

just came across ur channel, I'll be totally watching all of it once I'm one with exams! thanks for such an amazing video!

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Glad to hear! Make sure to check out my other channel, kzbin.info as well!

[@AdamBehnam]

Most instructive video

[@RedGaming23]

Great video, love the games and found them very instructive 👍🏻

[@ronfuse6993]

Fantastic content

[@jamesontang3218]

game 2 seems very familiar from your Positional Sacrifices Course :)

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

I think Games 2-5 were in one of the two volumes!

[@jamesontang3218]

to be fair , i just started the first part of the course, just cool that these games you think are so instructive

[@noxnc]

Excellent video, thank you for sharing.

[@getrightw1tcha]

thanks for sharing, really appreciate it c:

[@matheusferrari73]

Veeeery nice thank you so much.please do more

[@asdf14051]

how come every game ive ever seen of lautier involves him losing in spectacular fashion? ive never seen him win a game before

[@SBelaya]

Reviewing each game can boost your rating up to 20 points.

[@gk1841]

hi, what is the software you use, if you do not mind, thanks!

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

I use Chessbase for most of my videos

[@MrSupernova111]

Hey man, I don't know how I overlooked your channel over the years. I really enjoy the content. Subbed! Cheers!

[@yahya89able]

Great Video

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thanks!

[@yogictv2670]

Its very nice video bro

[@howtobecometoolkit]

What is your current rating?

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

About 2400 FIDE!

[@hosiahjones]

The Shirov game was not instructive. It was desperation. He did not see to the end from the first exchange sac. Therefore, the final 2 sacrifices were desperation because he already knew he was lost if he didn't make something happen. Poor play by his opponent, especially the knight trade, giving up a king side pawn.

[@hosiahjones]

Even the first exchange sac was bad. That's what started the desperation. Shirov got lucky.

[@hosiahjones]

Just to be clear, the other 4 games were great.

[@rageagainstthemachineragea2497]

👌🏾💯

[@emiliagmd]

its da ruk :)