Great Players of the Past: GM Karl Robatsch

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Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.com/author/BenF... Karl Robatsch (October 14, 1929 in Klagenfurt - September 19, 2000) was a leading Austrian chess player and a noted botanist.
07:54 Karl Robatsch - Vlastimil Jansa, Chigorin Memorial 1974
18:17 Karl Robatsch - Francisco Jose Perez, Capablanca Memorial 1963
25:49 Karl Robatsch - Gerald Hertneck, Austria Team Championship 1995
31:44 Karl Robatsch - Rene Letelier, Capablanca Memorial 1964
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@ericrobinson7184 Жыл бұрын

These great player series are just excellent, smashing commentary, and filled with wit2dimwit lore. Ben is so under-rated!

@IfNedWereHere Жыл бұрын

The finest of golds

@richardmarcosek1786 9 ай бұрын

It should also be noted that he won this Gold Medal among Board 1-players with 84.4 % win ratio ! AHEAD ! of Tal and Fischer (73.3 % & 72.2 %), not an easy thing to do I reckon... His individual percentage was also higher than Botvinnik's and Keres', who both scored 80.8% on boards 2 and 3. Pretty darn impressive. - Thank you Mr. Finegold for this lecture, and thanks of course to the sponsor! PS: the pronunciation is fine, you just forgot about the 't' - think of 'Ch'attanooga 'Ch'oo-'Ch'oo, so its 'Ro-baTsch, same as in 'chase' or 'chat'

@beeble2003 11 күн бұрын

Right but it should also be noted that the 1960 Olympiad wasn't a full round robin, so the results of Robatsch, Tal and Fischer weren't against the same opposition and can't be directly compared. The format was that the 40 teams were arranged into four preliminary round-robin groups. The top three teams from each group went into the A-final, the next three into the B-final and the rest into the C-final. Austria came 5th in their group and went into the B-final, whereas the USSR and USA won their groups and then came first and second in the A-final, respectively. Robatsch held Tal and Najdorf to draws in the qualifying group, but the only other one of his 16 opponents across the whole Olympiad that I've heard of is Florencio Campomanes. I think it's fair to say that Campomanes is famous for being the FIDE president who terminated the first Karpov-Kasparov match, not for being a player. In contrast, Tal's opponents included Gligoric, Najdorf, Szabo and Unzicker; Fischer's included the same players plus Euwe and Uhlmann; and Fischer and Tal played each other, too. So Robatsch's achievement is very impressive, but it wasn't against anything like the strength of opposition that Tal and Fischer faced.

@beeble2003 11 күн бұрын

Thanks for that. I knew Robatsch's name from the opening (obviously, due to Grandmaster Defence) but never knew how great his games were.

@rumpi001 Жыл бұрын

Steinitz is technically Austrian (even though he was born in Prague) so not sure Robatsch was the strongest Austrian Player in history but he was an outstanding player! Great to see a lecture on a fellow Austrian!

@klodm.2064 Жыл бұрын

Also, wasn't Schlecter Austrian

@ondrejkasparek3654 Жыл бұрын

@@klodm.2064 he was, and don't forget Ernst Grünfeld was Austrian too... and btw Vlastimil Jansa (much later) won the World Senior Championship

@rakib17874 Жыл бұрын

CORRECTING Ben 😮😮😮😮 INCORRECT!!!

@zwergenkoenig6628 2 ай бұрын

@rumpi0001 when the austrian-hungarian empire still existed all the people of the mainlands especially czech, slovakia, hungary were and felt like austrians since they lived together for several hunderets of years. it was their nationality.

@zwergenkoenig6628 2 ай бұрын

eliskases was pretty good. same level as robatsch but not as tactical

@justchessminiatures1167 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Carlos Torre, Mecking and Panno next, please.

@danbrooks5060 Жыл бұрын

I believe all the lectures in this series are sponsored by individual fans who get to pick the player.

@perrymiller9533 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for your lectures! You are a smart guy, and I love your quirky sense of humour!

@mustaregis Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lecture! Would be nice if you made a lecture about Karpov :)

@trent797 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben and thanks Martin for sponsoring.

@PsychedelicRealities Жыл бұрын

Great games, and with Ben's presentation even more great as always, go Ben, thank you sponsor, great choice!

@wesleythomas9131 Жыл бұрын

Love this series. Go Ben!

@A51838 Жыл бұрын

these lectures are the best

@GraemeCree 5 ай бұрын

It used to be that 1. P-K4 P-Q3 was the Pirc Defense, and 1. P-K4 P-KN3 was the Robatsch Defense. But for a while books combined the two and called them both the "Pirc Robatsch Defense". Somewhere along the way that went away, and the Pirc is just the Pirc again. You never hear it called the Pirc Robatsch in modern books.

@anandbenegal 4 ай бұрын

30:40 was the ultimate "the truth hurts" moment lol^

@shanastroskyphazer8172 Жыл бұрын

Awesome Ben thanks ! I will sponsor a lecture on GM Boris Alterman next pay ASAP thanks

@Rspknlikeab0ssxd Жыл бұрын

Yo that first game was tactically outstanding

@faithmalajka9768 Ай бұрын

I miss you, Papa! 🙏✨

@slayinkittys2843 Жыл бұрын

Surprised never done a video on lajos portisch

@malachickisawesome Жыл бұрын

Let’s go Ben

@Evilanious Жыл бұрын

14:30 I'm not 2000 and from Ben's preamble I saw: Nxd5, cxd5, Bxc3, Qd2, resigns. (Assuming that's the variation, I'm not there in the video yet) Certainly a GM can see what I can see.

@celinelorenzo3642 Жыл бұрын

Hi Atlanta !!As usual our descendant number one we love of the great pirate (not micha Tal which was also one of the chessboard )but benjamin hornigold....??(i like the very speaking face of ben when he doubts)another treasure from ages,not from carabeeans that Robatsch tactics games :a sweet "douceur qui fond sur la langue "

@wesleythomas9131 Жыл бұрын

Wut

@qazzaqstan Жыл бұрын

Hertneck appears to have been about 2600 in 1995, it is always strange to see someone that strength get tactically crushed

@tomswiftyphilo2504 Жыл бұрын

I was hertneck after a fender-bender gave me whiplash

@chrismyers7433 Жыл бұрын

The game Connect 4 came out six years before the game Robatsch--Jansa, as shown in the video, was played.

@TheRealRussell Жыл бұрын

@22:31 after ...Bxf6, isn't Qxe4 just unstoppable mate in 2?

@andrewkarsten5268 Жыл бұрын

Well, sort of. I think that is better than what Ben gave as analysis, but after …Nf5 Qxf5 black can play …Qxd3. Obviously losing, but maybe the computer prefers Ben’s variation for some reason, but no doubt white is winning in either variation.

@tim2.7182 Жыл бұрын

Wang Chung! That tied me up in knots.

@tomswiftyphilo2504 Жыл бұрын

why is that unusual? Lots of chess grandmasters study botvinnik

@anonymousAJ Жыл бұрын

29:45 What about Rf5? Saving the rook, attacking the queen, and if Qg8 there's Rf8 protected by the bishop

@mgsxx Жыл бұрын

Qe8 will be mate

@anonymousAJ Жыл бұрын

@@mgsxx oh right

@michaelfavata2720 Жыл бұрын

05:25 that was magnus carlsen who said that

@Rubrickety Жыл бұрын

So apparently Ben wouldn’t be embarrassed if he missed pawn takes queen. Very suspicious. 🤔

@klodm.2064 Жыл бұрын

Weird you didn't mention Botvinnik, who was also like a doctor of computer science.

@suezuccati304 Жыл бұрын

Also an electrical engineer

@beeble2003 11 күн бұрын

Botvinnik didn't have a PhD. He graduated in electrical engineering in the 1930s, and worked on computer chess in the 1970s, after he retired from competitive play. He was awarded an honorary degree in mathematics by an Italian university in 1991 in recognition of his work on computer chess. It's unclear what degree was awarded -- every site I can find just says "honorary degree", except for one that says "honorary doctorate" but which also gets the date completely wrong, so doesn't seem reliable.