Bye Bye Indian.

Justin Jian yes unless you are playing king’s indians.

You'd be at a disadvantage i think but not losing if you let your opponent take the center by pushing pawns.

@@johnell1745 the reti is literally one of the better openings

Réti is best

also there is alpha zero

*Sad black knights tango noises*

I always move the queen and rooks first yes i am very smart

I'm a n-3 player

@@Goumig Alekhine: am I a joke to you?

Correct- you can I believe find a bit about that in his book Reassess Your Chess 4th edition.

No, Harry Potter is just a character in the film.

Yes. Daniel Rensch probably has no clue that there is another goal in the chess scene : Harry and Hermione's pieces must not be captured.

Are you asking? Because it seems like you know this to be the case lol

Why would you put a question mark if you are making a positive assertion? Just put it this way: "They hired the IM Silman to create the chess puzzle in order to believably sacrifice the knight for mate in the Harry Potter Movie". No question mark needed whn you are making a positive assertion.

Minus a few pawns to make it clearer to the unfamiliar masses

Apart from the dubious idea that the villain only brought the game to an early checkmate to get to a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. meeting, the set has the table centred on a chessboard style carpeted floor that is actually 9 x 9!

Yes. The players in the film were Spectre agent Kronstein and Canadian Grand Master ' Mac Adams ' ( even down to a pre - 1965. Canadian Red Ensign flag behind him .)

Also, the board is built in to the table so they can't turn the board "wrong". Sure, they can film from the wrong angle but they didn't do that here because we saw the position and where the guy was sitting before the close up.

Also wrong at 4:30, lol. Not taking into account where the players are sitting.

Nice catch!

bishop > knight

Showing that Ron could more easily win by sacrificing Harry would have made his speech more relevant.

I remember that in the movie harry and hermione cannot be captured or else they will lose so thats why the checkmate its in that order

There is no other way - cuz this position requires that you don't loose either Harry or Hermione so the mate we saw was the only possible one

Alo Knight yep! And it’s actually a great combination. I didn’t quite do it justice here...

@@danielrensch9238 That's alright, I'm excited for the next episode. Will you touch on the movie "Pawn Sacrifice" at some point? I loved that movie but I know it definitely has a few errors and awkward moments.

@@aloknight3656 do the chess game from The Thing too lol.

I hate when that happens!

The board was 8x7 as well😂

Magnus blundered mate in 4 after sitting there for 5 minutes, so...

Well tbf in blindfold chess / not seeing the board it's at least a tad more likely to blunder something. But yeah, lazy directors use chess to show someone's supposed intellectual superiority by delivering a surprise mate in 1 and it's just bad.

Well most ppl who watch Hollywood films aren't avid chess players either, it is certainly more correct if the losing player resigns the game before getting mated, but it is more anti-climactic for the general audience.

Its a few move sequence involving a queen sacrifice during a rapid game, so its not totally unbeliavable

afbdreds :mindblown:

Hayashi Manabu don’t tell anyone else 😉

What about Amar, Dunst, and Durkin?

lol yea wanna take it one step further he had to sac 3 pieces to mate 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Wow. To think they thought that hard about the game...

Check agadmator's channel. He has it

Haha gold :)

would be funny if harry wasn't the bishop :)

@@ricksick81Cut me some slack man.. after all that effort I spend calculating millions of variations just so people would appreciate me a little bit 🙁 Also, he's the boy who lived.. Sponged up worse then some unfair incomplete cursed chess set that misses mate in 2..

pretty bad ass scene, but also worn out after I've seen it so many times. check out the chess scenes from person of interest where harold finch teaches "his" machine how to play chess, might be of interest for you. I liked the series very much

Absolutely. Spoiler: the position in the game is from a Spassky-Bronstein game - the one in which Spassky allowed exf1=Q+, but Bronstein declined the offer- except the position in the movie is missing White pawns on d4 and c5.

@@tkokesh of course it is that position! Knew it when I saw the movie the first time (been playing chess long enough). thanks for pointing out!

I too buy technology sparingly. For instance, rather than buy "airpods" I buy normal head phones ($1-10) and put the cord under my shirt. Airpods can be lost more easily. If people use airpods to make phone calls, I would never do that in public. It can look like a crazy person.

It seems so simple, don't even bother with a chess advisor or anything fancy, literally just Google a game between GMs and replicate it on the board. That simple!

Was that translated or i can find it in Russian only?

Has this been translated or i can find it in Russian only?

The Mission: Impossible episode could be a review show by itself. It featured: (1) Phelps was noted as being pretty good chess player in college and he has like 2-3 days to study up on the game to be able to beat the best chess player in the U.S. (2) The team uses some sort of univac style computer to feed Phelps moves to outplay the chess champions. (3) There is one game where the chess champion loses in like 7 or 8 moves. I’ve seen all the old series episodes. Sometimes when Phelps is in his bachelor pad at the start of the show and just before he picks his IMF team from the photo shoots, he is pondering a chess move over the board. Obviously, this means he is a genius.

There is a "mistake": HAL tell his combination wrong(Queen to bishop 3?) . Did Kubrick put that clue so chess players knew there was something wrong in HAL first?

@@numeroe77 Yes. Kubrick was a good chess player with astonishing attention to detail as a film-maker. The game is probably Roesch-Schlage from 1910, and the opening was the Worrall Attack.

@@numeroe77I've heard that speculation too. But Q-B3 instead of Q-B6 is so subtle that even Rensch missed it, so I think it's more likely that Kubrick goofed.

Yeah let me make it clear to you Placing your king next to your enemy's is illegal

Yeah, I just finished it, and the chess scenes and general theories are pretty bad

Code Geass is one of the best things I've ever watched, but that chess was stupid 🤣🤣 I just ignored it after

From what I understand, the chess in the first episode is actually correct. (Moving the King is required to help with the attack and lead to checkmate).

@@Dragonite43 yeah, the scenes where he plays chess against anyone but his brother are generally ok. But oh God, when he plays his brother they get some shit wrong

Yeah that was an amazing scene and an amazing tv show

Finally another man of culture

Jacob Brasher Who needs Silman’s endgame chapter on opposition when GM Schneizel showed you can ignore it.... and make checkmate somehow.... while being double attacked

Ruben Bremer That's actually why I was here... :(

in that episode homer get checkmated in 2 moves, moving f3 and g4 on the opening. when he was playing his father when he was a child. pretty good episode, btw