"Even Top GM's struggle with "Darksquare" Weaknesses

"Even Top GM's struggle with "Darksquare" Weaknesses - David Bronstein

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Zurich Candidates (1953), Zurich SUI, rd 1, Aug-30
Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E02)
1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 d5 4. d4 dc4 5. Qa4 Nbd7 6. Nf3 a6 7. Qc4 b5 8. Qc6 Rb8 9. Bf4 Nd5 10. Bg5 Be7 11. Be7 Qe7 12. O-O Bb7 13. Qc2 c5 14. dc5 Nc5 15. Rc1 Rc8 16. Nc3 Nf6 17. b4 Na4 18. Qb3 Nc3 19. Rc3 Rc3 20. Qc3 O-O 21. Rc1 Rd8 22. a3 Nd5 23. Qd4 f6 24. Ne1 e5 25. Qc5 Qc5 26. bc5 Bc6 27. Rd1 Rd7 28. Bh3 Re7 29. Nc2 a5 30. Bg2 Rd7 31. Bh3 Re7 32. Kf1 Kf7 33. Ke1 Rc7 34. Rd3 Bb7 35. Ne3 Rc5 36. Nf5 Bc6 37. Nd6 Kf8 38. Bg2 g6 39. Kd2 Ke7 40. Ne4 Rc4 41. f3 f5 42. Nf2 Ra4 43. Nd1 e4 44. fe4 fe4 45. Rb3 Rd4 46. Kc1 b4 47. Ne3 Nc3 48. ab4 Ne2 49. Kb1 Ba4 50. Rb2 Nc3 51. Kc1 ab4 52. Rd2 Rd2 53. Kd2 Kd6 54. Ng4 Kc5 55. h4 Kd4 56. h5 gh5 57. Ne3 Nb1 58. Ke2 Bb5 59. Kf2 b3
This event was played in Neuhausen am Rheinfall and Zürich. 1 These are the games in order according to David Bronstein's excellent book, Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953. He participated in the tournament with the strongest players in the world at that time in a candidates match to determine the next challenger to world champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
The Swiss Chess Federation spent 100,000 Swiss francs in order to stage the event, which was one of the reasons they insisted that host countries pay the travel expenses for their respective players. Prize money for first place was 5,000 Swiss francs. Alois Nagler was tournament director. 1 All contestants brought a second except for Bronstein and Reshevsky: Miroljub Trifunovic (Gligoric), Salomon Flohr (Taimanov), Julio Bolbochan (Najdorf), Andre Lilienthal (Petrosian), Mikhail Beilin (Averbakh), Carel Benjamin van den Berg (Euwe), Kristian Skold (Stahlberg), Tibor Florian (Szabó), Alexey Sokolsky (Boleslavsky), Viktor Moiseev (Kotov), Igor Bondarevsky (Geller), Vladimir Simagin (Smyslov), and Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (Keres).
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@smarthinus3286 6 жыл бұрын

Ah, yes, my daily dose of pawnography

@vastviksewani3572 6 жыл бұрын

Salacious Crumb Good one

@danno1800 6 жыл бұрын

Very instructive loss. Thanks for doing this series. You do an excellent job of explaining what’s going on in the minds of the players. Thanks again!

@whuwhaaa2 6 жыл бұрын

"Elfin Geller needs no introduction" instantly give him an intro

@tusharbasra9724 6 жыл бұрын

Like if u still didn't get the dark squared weakness thing

@russelllomando8460 6 жыл бұрын

I've had that book for decades. You provide great commentary to DB's fantastic analysis.

@Tulio_Fonseca 6 жыл бұрын

Well, I found out about your channel a few days ago and I REALLY appreciate the work you're doing. These videos are so instructive. Thanks a lot man! Greetings from Brasil!

@masterbeernuts9344 6 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite vids of yours. Love the history and background you give at the start. Massive tourny!!

@BarberSrellyk 6 жыл бұрын

Dude. You should make the board a different color scale when you are showing the hypothetical moves. And back to normal when the actual game commences again.

@user-eq6oy1um7e 5 жыл бұрын

Good suggestion.

@johngrey5806 6 жыл бұрын

You know, Mr. Agadmator, you explain chess much better than other chess channels. Especially for people not exceptional at chess, like me. I'm only about a 1700 rated player but I can still understand your explanations of the game. And when I'm bored, I just watch what Medo is doing.

@24adithya 6 жыл бұрын

Great learning! Thanks for uploading such videos.. Extremely informative!!

@ThYRaNdOmTr011 6 жыл бұрын

Very instructor video Agadmator, thank you for making it

@TheConcentrationmoon 6 жыл бұрын

great co-incidence. started reading the same book today :). Looking forward to more videos from this book!

@michelangeloadamantiel7685 6 жыл бұрын

This is a slower game, but I love how you go thru all the variations and show how things can be so explosive just by tweaking small things here and there. Shows what potential chess has. I don't think I understand "dark square weaknesses" completely now, but at least this is a good start! Love your analysis. And man that's so nice you do videos even though you're basically in a coma from a wretched cold. Snivel snivel, analyze analyze! =P (Before I mean when you were sick and looking like your nose was in the midst of being a world-record-breaking [germ] globe trotter.)

@RatiO23 6 жыл бұрын

Great video keep up the good work

@matthewwroblewski8752 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the literature recommendation, Antonio. Just received my copy in the mail!

@cod4jumper5555 6 жыл бұрын

Hungarian "sz" = english "s", it was perfect at 2:18.

@agadmator 6 жыл бұрын

+Imre Nádor Thanks :)

@MrSupernova111 6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting game! It has expanded my view of strong and weak squares. I will have to save the link and revisit this topic.

@ElColombre27360 6 жыл бұрын

+agadmator That was very instructive! Please other games from that great book!

@brucewallace2 6 жыл бұрын

Very instructive game. That's a great book but there are a lot of draws. BTW I enjoyed the longer format and in depth analysis. Very good.

@rogerscottcathey 6 жыл бұрын

one of the best instructives

@amyalindaily3781 6 жыл бұрын

Yes a very instructive chess game.

@zivanradosavljevic8191 6 жыл бұрын

6:45 ahhh you got me :D

@matheussalgado6727 6 жыл бұрын

Hehe

@matheussalgado6727 6 жыл бұрын

Got me too

@rafaelleite3954 6 жыл бұрын

What a lesson!!!!!!

@hartmutnebe4098 6 жыл бұрын

This video teaches an excellent chess lesson!

@michaelkelly9150 5 жыл бұрын

Please can someone tell me what playlist this is from? Brilliant video, would like to see more from the tournament/book. Thank you :)

@bezzlebedeviled4756 5 жыл бұрын

5:26 -- After Rxh8, then Qxb4 (defending the knight on e4 so that it will not be captured by the g2 bishop after White follows with Ne5+). While initially enamored of Nxb5, after all the exchanges to Qxb4, the engine rates the aftermath at only +0.35 at depth 25 (with the number slowly subsiding the longer it thinks, indicating a draw). As this offers no better prospects than the other drawish suggestions of Nd1, Ne5, Qd2, Qd1, b4, b3, or h3, it means that Bronstein's Nxb5, while exciting, is not in the end any better. 7:13 -- The problem with Nd5 is that it is not Nd7 (which defends the c6 approach square to the a6 pawn that White's knight would have to take). 8:30 -- Before any "queen-smoking", Black would play e4, blocking the White bishop (and f3 is followed by f5) as well as preventing Nd3 from e1. This is actually a drawn position with best play, e.g., Bh3, Ra8 ("smoke"), Qd4, etc. 11:15 -- After Qxa6, Black counters Nc3 -- and the game is a 0.00 dead-draw. 11:30 -- After Bh3, then Ra8 ("queen smoke"), Qd4, ...and the longer the engine crunches, the farther under 0.50 it goes. 16:18 -- Bronstein's advice is sound...but it shouldn't have mattered in this particular game because Qa7 was neither a winning ploy nor necessary to secure a draw.

@snowfromflame6711 6 жыл бұрын

Najdorf also has a very prominent book about the the same tournament

@amyalindaily3781 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Lens98052 6 жыл бұрын

If you only have one bishop, having your pawns fixed on the same color creates problems. Scanning BCE shows that two pawns fixed is usually a loss. I've always thought of this as a bad bishop, not a color square weakness, although that is also correct. So, given this perspective, bxc5 is horrible because it unfreezes black's pawns from the white squares.

@polynikes5631 6 жыл бұрын

Hello, Agadmator! Once I strengthen my end game, better watch out! ;)

@agadmator 6 жыл бұрын

+Poly Nikes Deal! :)

@SuedeStonn 6 жыл бұрын

lol, great picture of Geller... I don't know if he's a GM or an OG ;}

@carrytime1238 6 жыл бұрын

nice video

@George-bz7hz 6 жыл бұрын

It would be really interesting if the white side played bishop to g2 for check and after create a battling for d5,but whatever(look at 13:50)

@benderrodriguez9753 6 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine Szabo losing to anyone except to Dragon or Luffy..or maybe Shanks..

@PraveenKulkarni1996 5 жыл бұрын

Your like is 11 months late, but it's here.

@lawrencelingat325 6 жыл бұрын

Mr agadmator i wanna see a game between deep blue and kasparov. Pls notice me

@electricmaster23 6 жыл бұрын

Been done to death by dozens of the best already.

@DemetriosMPapadakes 4 жыл бұрын

If this game was on a live KZfaq channel of some GM or IM, they would have claimed the other person was cheating using a computer. What an amazing game.

@gonfreecs1595 2 жыл бұрын

The game was played in 1953 😂 cheating what cheating there was no chess engines at that time

@teymurg.r8860 6 жыл бұрын

Watching these games makes me want to start playing again after 9 years

@agadmator 6 жыл бұрын

+T.A.D. G.R Best to start playing after a good rest. 9 years seems like plenty of rest :)

@teymurg.r8860 6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I play on my phone or the computer. There doesn't seem to be a local chess club or anything.

@ytmndman 6 жыл бұрын

Geller is one of my favorites

@o.abdullayev Жыл бұрын

#suggestion Today is the birthday of Efim Geller. You had never shown his legendary game against Salo Flohr in 1949 with this brilliant endgame move. Please please please) Even Stockfish can't see his move.

@Grandcapi 6 жыл бұрын

They say that Bronstein did not write the book and he only analyzed some games. The real author was his patron Boris Wainstein who was a KGB Colonel and protected Brontein all his life. Najdorf wrote (he really did) a book about the same tournament and it was recently translated to english .

@Peekul1 5 жыл бұрын

Need more Bronstein! Cover that WCC!!

@arzunr8299 6 жыл бұрын

Hi.agadmator,what's ur fide rating?

@srikantann 6 жыл бұрын

Hey Agadmator... When you analyze the possibilities, are they spontaneous or pre-thought or engine helped?

@agadmator 6 жыл бұрын

+Srikantan N All of it :) sometimes I prepare, sometimes I do it myself and hope not to blunder :D

@weeooh1 6 жыл бұрын

Good question. I'd like to know too.

@srikantann 6 жыл бұрын

Good to know :D I don't feel completely stupid now, just a tad bit :D

@LJLMETAL 6 жыл бұрын

The tides have turned in this game

@herzwatithink9289 6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps easy to under-estimate the power of White's c-file domination throughout this game

@akhilmishra712 6 жыл бұрын

Sir are you on chess.com. ??? what's your username??I would be glad to play with you...

@vladeradulovic841 6 жыл бұрын

A ko je Gligoric?

@gonfreecs1595 2 жыл бұрын

At 7:38 what if black played bishop to C6 , will he not save the position?

@maxnullifidian 6 жыл бұрын

Do you know of any books that cover melanpenia and leucopenia?

@SylarTheBest 5 жыл бұрын

at 14:38, couldn't he have played knight to g5 instead to take the pawn on h7 and make it even?

@atmunn1 6 жыл бұрын

Just a heads-up: You missed a quotation mark in the title. :)

@atsourno 6 жыл бұрын

When you read a book, you play the games on the chessboard or on a virtual board?

@agadmator 6 жыл бұрын

+runforest If I have time, on board

@moineatier 6 жыл бұрын

At 15:28, can't black win immediately with Rd3 attacking the white knight threatening Rd1# after the knight moves? Does anyone see a defense by white that doesn't lose a piece?

@user-eq6oy1um7e 5 жыл бұрын

Black: Rd3. White: R×b4. Black: R×Ne3. White: Kd2. Black: Re2. White: K×Nc3. Black: R×Bg2. White: R×Ba4. After rocks take pawns, black will be up a pawn.

@lakinther7183 6 жыл бұрын

why not bishop c6 at 10:10 ?

@vvuck 6 жыл бұрын

Ne6+ with a discovery on the bishop and winning the bishop

@whyareurunning7406 6 жыл бұрын

show some Kasparov games please...

@thor9695 6 жыл бұрын

Did anyone else notice Ne3 by black after white queen captures a6 pawn? (That is if white played queen a7)

@ytmndman 6 жыл бұрын

What if black plays Qd8 instead of Ke7, giving up the queen for the rook but retaining his other rook? Then he'd only be down a pawn

@jaikumarn4357 4 жыл бұрын

Are u love somuch chess we also love

@chesstrollington1094 6 жыл бұрын

Why in the world would he capture on c5 with the pawn if his plan was to bring the night to c5 in the first place it’s like he completely blew away his idea he had in the first place

@jansupronowicz1300 2 жыл бұрын

"To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game." Just what exactly does it mean??

@tusharbasra9724 6 жыл бұрын

agadmator's Chess Channel what if bishop captures pawn on 14:54

@Shaolinguru1 6 жыл бұрын

TUSHAR BASRA rook takes bishop

@dalecooper3994 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not adagmator, but i guess the rook can just capture the bishop then

@kojiattwood 6 жыл бұрын

Apparently Szabo didn't learn from his dark-square weakness problem: www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1044003

@niclas8591 6 жыл бұрын

Here's some (chess related) brain candy for y'all. Friday is here, cheers! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdNgZZeW0cq9YXU.html

@dominicheywood2286 4 жыл бұрын

Even Grandmasters do make mistakes In chess

@randomstranger3576 6 жыл бұрын

I saw A7 right away. that's what id play

@DrFroyd123 3 жыл бұрын

Its weird that in chess, if you dont want to draw, if you just wish to play and have fun, you get a disadvantage and lose the game

@kristianhauservillegas3343 6 жыл бұрын

Where is your dog?

@prashantjaiswal9253 6 жыл бұрын

Boring

@michelangeloadamantiel7685 6 жыл бұрын

Boring comment. XD

@thailakhampo 6 жыл бұрын

shut it down

@oceanfloor258 6 жыл бұрын

Not