THIS IS THE BOB ROSS OF CHESS

Yasser always has the biggest smile on his face when he talks about Tal and his play. They must have had a close relationship, or Yasser is just a huge fan of his.

Incredible--ther's someone to move the camera along with the speaker. This needs to be celebrated!!

Another amazing video from Yasser and Tal's games are so exciting. You watch these with a smile.

this is 40 mins but it feels like 10 min, great lecturer who keeps you on your toes from start to finish

A+ lecture. I just put Yasser Seirawan up a few notches as his lectures are insightful and have a surprise element to them.

Excellent excellent lecture! What a great presenter! Very interesting and well explained. Fantastic!

When I'm really interested Yasser is one of the best teachers and story tellers, but there is also sth so soothing about his voice that I sometimes return to his videos when I am trying to sleep. helps me sleep man

So soft spoken

He’s the bob Ross of chess “now we’re just gonna put a happy little pawn right there”

I love hearing about chess history and the players from the past. Do more of these Mr. Seirawan.

It's remarkable how the St. Louis Chess Club is made itself into such a hub for the American chess scene. I've always regarded StL as a major cultural center but the chess has added significant prestige in my estimation.

A very enjoyable lecture, thanks!

Really awesome video thank you for making these publicly available gm yasser is such an engaging and brilliant teacher

I love his voice, it's soothing my nerves so much >.

Please legend the videos. Many players around world see your lectures, is very important to be legended

Great little lecture. Works well at 1.25 speed or even 1.5 speed, BTW.

Learned a lot, thanks Yasser

Wow, what a great lecture. Very insightful and entertaining. I prefer Yasser Seirawan's more leisurely pace to some of the other GM's who run breeze through everything so quickly that a beginner like me cannot keep up.

I remember those 2 benoni Carlsen-Anad games, at the time I was playing a lot of Scotch games and doubling pawns brought me much joy, then I saw some GMs use this kind of C file double pawn idea, then it came up in the WC. Been in the back of my mind ever since

Engine analysis for the Tal - Larson game is very interesting starting with 13. O-O-O. In this position, it actually gives black the advantage (~ -2)! However, after ... g5, it flips back the other way in favor of white! And after Bg3, it views the position is equal (it prefers 14. Bxe5+ and has a precise series of forcing moves lined up that culminate in trading queens and winning black's knight and dark square bishop leading to an easy end game). Very interesting how in these very sharp lines it's easy to make a move that may (assuming the engine is correct) actually be a huge blunder, but your opponent , even at the highest level, doesn't see it!

awesome learned a lot from this guy

If i could choose "an evening with..." Obama, Beyoncey, or anyone, i would choose Yasser Seirawan!

Ah, I wanted it to continue. Thank you,

LOL Tal 's fails are spectacular too. Too close to checkmate and defeat at the same time.

17:26 This man is fabulous :D

Brilliant lecture

Yasser is a brilliant teacher

I like the music at the opening and ending :)))

I was expecting Yasser to show a winning game in the Alekhine 😢😢😢

I love this Guy!!

Oh my god he is the nicest top class chess GM ever! I have Yasser's 7 books and I recommend them.

great video!!!

i love Yasser and i love chess but I occasionally look for his lectures to help me sleep. He just has a rhyme with his words. I listen to him attentively sometimes too when Im doing some study

Yasser describing the meta of chess

I think it was Yasser the one who played a simultaneous exhibition at the Chess Club in Houston, TX in 1985, When I used to visit the Club.

Yasser is the best.. also I try to surprise my opponent in Alekhine with 3. c4 the Chase variation, I got balanced results with it

Is that Yasser on electric guitar at the end? What a rocker.

Big fan of Mr. Seirawan

he is one of the best lecturer

Damn I really wanted to see that pawn d4 line in the Alekhine.

Love this channel, love these videos, but this has got to be one of the most misleading video titles ever. at 40:41 Seirawan even says the lecture is about opening preparations

What happened to these type of "lecture" videos? Bring them back please

alekhine defense is a very aggressive opening. but black has to strike while the iron is hot, because he might not get many chances

Very nice lecture...but I seem to recall that after more than an hours thought, Tal declined the juicy prepared tidbit that Larsen had enticed him with, and won anyway....I seem to recall that this is the very beginning of this line in practice, and that Tal gave up his calculating when he became befuddled by trying to remove a hippopotamus from a quagmire..

Very professional person

When getting surprised in the opening, do what Geoff Chandler does: sacrifice a pawn on the principle of "I'll bet he wasn't expecting that."

Yassir is the man

Yasser Seirawan = the Boss Ross of chess. What a beast.

I've played the alekhine as one of my main openings for 6 years and just recently I decided to put it to rest a bit. E4, nf6, e5, nd5, nf3 killed it for me.

I love Yasser don't get me wrong but I had a good chuckle at "Michael Tall" (Mikhail Tal)

Personally been playing the exchang variation and most of the time we end up playing Voronezh variation of the exchange.

Yasser saying "perk" instead of "Pirc" is the least surprising thing ever

Yasser is always simles after the said something :)

Varuzhan Aikoban =Yasser Seirawan Both are GREAT

Exchange variation is easy for black. :) c6 g6 bg7. And after you just open the diagonal for the bishop.(e5, c5) after that you have won position :)

Please make on Caro kann main lines of all variations

The Charisma itself...

Maybe for the less popular openings, prepare a secondary defense to the secondary defense. Just so that they won't be able to use their preparation.

Great!

Tal is the Tupac of chess

a study of depth on chess openings

Am I wrong or, at ~36:27 would itbe strong for white to capture the knight with his bishop, then if the K capture the knight white moves the d4 pawn to d5? Subsequently I would think the rook on d1 would put the black K in check and trouble for black. Am I missing something?...

i love yasser

Hello chess friends! I met a chess beginner online and he is american and im french. I gave him some advices and i would like to advice him a good chess book so he will improve his chess play. At first i told him to get "A breviary of chess" written by Tartacover but im afraid it is no published anymore so if you could tell me wich book you would advice for an american chess beginner he (only knows how to move the pieces and never heard about openings). Thank you for your advices. I told him also to join a chess club!

Dear Yasser, Thank you for this very instructive lesson and your other videos who are very helpful. In the game you show Tal vs Larsen at move after white castles long, I wonder if g5 is not a mistake by Larsen. After ... 13 O-O-O g5 14 Bxe5+ Kxe5, you mention that if white keeps checking black can escape and is essentially a piece up. But it seems continuing with 15 Re1+ is a mistake by white in view of 15... Kd6. However how can black respond to 15 d6 ? Pushing the pawn thus preventing from the king the escape route and an immediate big threat of dxe7, and potentially Bd3 and Re1+ are on the cards. With the King in the centre of the board Black still seems to be in a lost position. E.g. against 15 ... Be6 attacking the Queen there's 16 Re1+ Kxd6 17 Rxe6+ Kc7 18 Rxf6 winning Bishop and Knight as the pawn is pinned. If 15... Bd7 16 dxe7. Obviously Black can't take 15... exd6 in view of 16 Re1+ which would be mate in 4. If instead 13... g6 is played we have 14 Bxe5+ Kxe5 15 d6 Bh6+ 16 Kc2 Qe8 so that idea doesn't work since now there's no pawn on g5 and Black can throw in a vital check on White's King, connecting Queen and Rook on the King's side (though I think at this point we can agree the King's side is rather at the centre of the board...). The position seems more favourable to Black in that case since he gets a serious chance to hold on to his pieces. Am I getting it right? What am I missing? All the best, Oren

Teacher of teachers

That smile, that damned smile...

The Bob Ross of chess.

In the game Tal Larsen was Nxf7 really played or is it just an analysis? I didn't find this game. After g5, instead of Bg3, isn't it better to play Bxe5 followed by d6?

What program is he using to demo the positions? On many of these videos, the GMs seem to be using the same program. Anyone know what it is?

It seems to me yasser missed move d5 d6 in the alkine defence after King takes on e5

the final position of the video in the Larsen-Tal game, couldn't black try a Bf7 desperado? So that black is down a bishop instead of a full queen after Rxc7 Bxd8 Rxd8. If white takes the bishop first that seems to be a huge blunder

Very nice lecture! Tal was on the right track but should have played 14. Bxe5+, winning back his knight with interest: The only half decent replies are B e6 and B d7, In both cases, white wins back material with interest and keeps the initiative.

Can someone find the Bent Larsen game he's talking about? Thanks

I don't understand why Fisher kept on saying that chess theory ruined chess when people like Tal existed. But maybe that's the problem: theory beat Tal even though games played by theory took away the fun and excitment.

Did not Korchnoi use Alekhine? I remember Karpov saying something like: If he uses Alekhine, i crush him. It was before Karpov vs Korhnoi match.

King e6 exclaim!

In the (assumed) game Larsen against Tal I do no really get the move by black "11. ... c5" (see 33:50 in the video). As Yasser pointed out black must prevent whites next move "12. c5" which would force blacks king back so that white can take the knight back which is also the one which attacks whites Queens. However, after "11. ... c5" by black white can simply take the pawn on C5 en passant "12. d x c6" so that white is able to play "c5" in the next move anyways. If black takes the pawn on C6 with his king "12. ... Kxc6" the knight on E5 drops. However, if black plays another move for example taking whites pawn on C6 with B7 "12. ... bxc6" whites next move will be the crushing "13. c5". In this position blacks king can not stay on D6 or any other square adjacent to blacks knight on E5. The D5 and the E6 square are both covered by whites Queen. Therefore, isn't the move "11. ... b5" a much better choice for black in this position?

As Italian🇮🇹 i discovered that in English they have in the opening, the "Italian game". 🤣No idea about it anyway .

39:29 why not Kd1?

Michael Tal

Old video, but just wanted to point out that the alternative to Bg3, which is Bxe5+, doesn't result in a series of trades. After ...Kxe5, there is a crushing d6! of which Black has no response and his king will never get back to safety again.

Yasser, it's time for a comeback. Seriously, I can't understand that if you know all these nuances (not just in this opening or lecture) that you can't compete at the top?

In the Alekhine, can't you play 1. e4 nf6 2. e5 nd5 3. c4? After the knight moves you have a massive center?

Why not after Larsen´s g5 Tal captured the e5 knight and after king takes bishop pawn to d6??

28:50 why not 2.Qe5+

The best opening against Alekhine is the "4 Pawns" opening. Trust me!

Alekhine defense

perfect @ 1.25x speed

At 36:12 why can't white take the knight and then push the pawn (Bxe5+ Kxe5, d6)?

He is so good but I hate that he teaches only for the audience, due to the fact that we who are looking to the video can't see what he is pointing most of the time, not only here but in most of his videos.

c4 wasn't played and it's the most common line

And Tal resigned.

i do like Yasser Seirawan's lessons, but what you said regarding the world champions is ridiculous... People didnt randomly decided to label Steinitz as the first world champion out of nothing, ignoring the ones before! It was only at Steinitz's time, that the best chess players of the world decided to have a match between the best players, and then the first world champion was decided! You cannot say that Paul Morphy or Philidor could also be considered world champions, because at their time no one thought of doing a tournament with the best players! So how could you know?

Michael Tal lol

U can increase the speed to 1.25x

Tal tried to play like Morphy, but it backfired, because Morphy used to attack with all of his pieces, not just his Queen. Booo Tal. Terrible.

I love how poorly this aged lol I bet Danya is never taking advice from Yasser again. Edit: After losing to Ray Robson in the US championship playing the Alekhine

15:34 im pretty sure he farted?