More Yasser!

Yasser is a wonderful lecturer. Such a gent.

One of the things I like in chess lectures is when someone, like what Yasser does here, goes against the prevailing attitude. Lasker was not as bad, nor was this game as one sided, as generally people say especially based upon the result. Details and subtlety matter and gives a nuance as to why this is a great game.

I give Yasser a 2900 rating for commentary.

Well presented by GM Seirawan!

Incredible lecture and very instructive analysis by GM Seirawan! Thanks!

Another great Yasser lecture.....thank you!

You are such a great teacher, Mr. Seirawan. Thanks for your explanations.

Dear GM Yasser, you are such an inspiration and a joy to watch. Thanks for your contributions!

Thanks GM Yasser, 10x US World Champ.

12 is quite late? as a 22-year old guy who started playing chess last year i shed some manly tears, lamenting my lost potential :c

That was fantastic. I've seen the game, but never in this depth.

Yasser's presentation is exceptionally instructive and really does a magnificent job exploring this classic game. Lasker's tactical play was quite resourceful in this game but not enough for Capablanca's precision.

I always thoroughly enjoy the instructive analysis GM Seirawan provides us with! :) Great job!

If he was my Math Teacher, i would definitely always enjoy listening to what he's going to lecture. His teaching skills are off the charts 😂😂😂😂Better than some teachers i guess...😂😂✌

Bravo! Yasser.

Thank you Yasser, excellent lecture. Might now consider playing the Lasker Defence! Though today there's all those Catalans to deal with... 😅

I missed Yasser's voice since the london chess classic ended. perfectly timed video! thabks for another amazing lecture!

Very good. Lasker actually tried to resign as World Champion (and give the title to Capablanca) before the match as he, from memory, wasn't too well. He certainly needed the win. But it is good as Seirawan did to be critical of these "great" games. No GM then or now is infallible. Capablanca was not only a "simplifier" though, that's a bit unfair. I think he realised himself things were easy after Qa4. So in a sense he also adopted the right strategy...as Carlsen does today if necessary. But I found similar things analysing games by Alekhine with an engine and his wins were not always that convincing esp. in I think it was the first game against Bogoljubov. And his win over Capablanca was not a push over as there were many complex games as there were in the drawn match Schlecter-Lasker. The draws were not dull at all. Schlecter equalised but the rules meant he lost the match. But the principle of fighting back is well illustrated here as well as the point of being reasonably skeptical of commentators. And knowing how to "read" computer evaluations.

Excellent commentary .i agree with everything he said.l believe lasker at this point had been champion for a long time and the world was ready for a new blood.

Yippee, you're panning the cam to follow him at last! Now these are just perfect, blows every other chess tutorial on yt out of the water. Keep 'em coming! Btw after the London Chess live coverage, seeing a video with Yasser < 10 hours seems strangely short :-)

everyone's fav GM - Y.Seirawan

What a fantastic lecture.

Yasser is great teacher, but his deep variations some time confuses me. I think his teaching style is best for advance players

i subscribed at Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis because of Yasser!!!

Wow, really great to see the old giants fight eachother. Very nice lecture by a very nice guy :-)

I really like Ben and Yasser, but I also miss Ronen.

Superb!!

Yasser je great teacher and very funny guy

In 24:22 why doesn't black capture the pawn on f2 with check and only then recapture the rock?

This guy is the best!

Great analysis as always. It's sometimes hard to see what Yasser is referring to, though, as the overlay board blocks what is being pointed to on the screen being used in real life. It might be better to show only Yasser and the screen he's using if there's a camera angle where we can see what his audience is seeing.

amazing!

Another great video by the best chess commenter.

I really expected the computer to play h5 after h6 to lock in the king just to get stuck. this position looks like an easy draw to me who would blunder at any point before any kind of computer endgame :^) nice lecture. I like the classics and Yasser a lot.

GM Seirawan is one of my favourites to listen to. Very instructional. Although, did anyone else notice that he may have a sore throat in this video? And does anyone else think it makes him sound kind of like Christopher Walken sometimes?

I love Yasser, and i love his style, i would like to meet him. Sorry for my English.

brilliant

It's interesting that in his own notes to the game Capa says that he missed better moves and it was Lasker's mistake with gxh4 that he threw away the draw

great lecture but it's hard enough keeping track of the variations without him making points without the use of the computer

I hope they'll post a video of key games from the London chess classic with their analysis. It's hard to watch a single game from the tournament. Or use the games in their lecture.

Engines have advanced somewhat. The winning plan in the immortal pin position is simply to trade off one of the pawns on the a and b file, lock the remaining pawns on the a file, and either walk the king over to collect (if black pawn ends up on a5), or if black pawn is on a6, force a queen trade with queen e5 (when rook is on f5) to transfer to a winning endgame (rook collects white pawn on a-file, and white promotes). Additional nuance is that the white queen can't avoid the queen trade because the black pawn controls b6. It's a fairly elegant winning idea.

spectacular class about queens gambit declined

(Around 16:30) Capablanca's ability at finding simplicity and winning positions with small advantages I find quite special. "Spectacular Play" can also "Spectacularly Fail" with slight miscalculations and oversights.

Overall, I think Lasker was a stronger player than Capablanca. He won every tournament he played in from 1906-1924 and Capablanca was at a couple of those tournaments. The first tournament where both Lasker and Capablanca played in and Capa finished ahead of him was in 1936 (Moscow). Lasker was 67 years old at the time.

The “Alekhine freeing maneuver” is conventionally called the Capablanca freeing maneuver defining the Orthodox Defense in the QGD. The ECO code is D67.

(Around 20:30) Seirawan probably did not resign easily (I have no followed his games, but predict such).

intresting game..Lasker Legend ..

I still think that these old masters were better than today's. Fully analyse their games. People say that "chess has moved on and the game is different now" - rubbish! Capablanca was a phenomenon who, if he could come back today, would easily understand the modern game and probably beat most of the present generation. Skill and guile on the chessboard never changes.

I want to attend a Yasser lecture. Does he only speak to members of the club or is the general public allowed in???

Did somebody see that he always said lasker instead of cabablanca ?

WWI effectively prevented Capablanca from becoming the world champion 3-6 years earlier.

It’s not Alekhine’s freeing maneuver but Capablanca’s freeing maneuver.

Let's not forget, Lasker was a great Chess player and mind.

what is the word the says at 17:12 meaning "forced moved or only move"???

Isn't BB5 better than Qa4?

Can someone explain why Laskers last move is a blunder? Why did he resign?

Why? Why Qc6?? 10:27

Great commentary! However, Lasker was not seeking challenger. He had practically forfeited his title and only played because WW had ruined his finances and prize fund was considerable.

it looks like game six Fischer Spassky game 6 with the queen moves

I love Yasser , but dissing Capa is too much !

what if the black night take the pawn in e3 at 30:37?

After Rook F5 at 28:39, why not knight x E3 ?

Fischer spassky game 6 resembles this game

i cant imagine this guy smoking weed. he sure gonna funny to listen

every chess game should begin with the orthodox defense

who would have thought Capablanca was so "capable"?

This echo Kramnik v Leko for anyone else?

Alekhine's maneuver !?!? d5*c4 and Nf6-d5 .. it's Capablanca's

yeah i love chess

Steinitz beat Zukertort, not Blackburne

Yasser sounds a bit like comedian Pete Holmes

Variant: if Black play Qxg5 Nxg5 cxd Rd1 better is Ne5 and Rxd4 Rbc8 f3 h6 Nh3 Rc1+White can't play Rd1 Black play Rxd1+ Kxd1 and Nxf3!

Capablanca was reborn morphy, carlsen is reborn capablanca.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aJeBo9Z8nLK2fWg.html - OH CAPABLANCA ! - ok Lasker is vindicated, but this is still a fun song

Zzzzzz did they say Capa and Lasker? Couldn´t we have Tal and Fischer instead? The other guys are simply too normal....

Raves on about Qa3 and never explains why it is good! Agadmator is a much worse player but a far superior explainer. And all those variation windows are distracting and annoying.