Break Through in Closed Positions | Mastering the Middlegame

Break Through in Closed Positions | Mastering the Middlegame - GM Varuzhan Akobian

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7 жыл бұрын

Grandmaster Varuzhan Akobian shows several ideas to break through a closed position. Plus, see how Garry Kasparov resigned a drawn position against IBM's Deep Blue.
2016.08.23
Deep Blue (Computer) vs Garry Kasparov, IBM Man-Machine, New York USA (1997): C93 Ruy Lopez, closed, Smyslov defence
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Jose Raul Capablanca vs Karel Treybal, Karlsbad (1929)
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Artur Yusupov vs Hani Albitar, Thessaloniki ol (Men) (1988)
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@cleanfader 7 жыл бұрын

Varuzhan Akobian is my favourite lecturer

@TremendousSax 7 жыл бұрын

Me too. He's consistently excellent. To me he's the rare combination of a super strong player and a fantastic teacher; he's a great communicator of accessible, digestible ideas. Whenever I play an OTB tournament game and I have the urge to play hastily, I start hearing Var saying, "don't rush, don't rush" and all is well again.

@aryanmishra5591 7 жыл бұрын

+Tremendous Sax agreed

@EbrahimA-ir1pb 6 жыл бұрын

Seeke R ددلتخجذبعف

@efraimdeluxe 6 жыл бұрын

@Sarah-no7lv 4 жыл бұрын

He is best

@KOCAKGEMINGAMJIG 3 жыл бұрын

i still dont believe, this lecture is free. Thank you !

@sourandbitter3062 7 жыл бұрын

Akobian's lectures are the most instructive imo.

@shy4440 6 жыл бұрын

Bookmark 5:28 9:35 20:36 - Breakthrough in a closed positon 31:48 - Slowly improve your position 40:50 In a closed position, you have to hold an open file, and finally breakthrough in there

@mrtampham 6 жыл бұрын

such powerful concepts. thank you for this beautiful lecture!

@TheAleksander22 7 жыл бұрын

He's got a really quiet sneeze!

@MK-13337 7 жыл бұрын

When the mic is muted then even you can have a sneeze like that :D

@tharindanimnajith3525 7 жыл бұрын

Brilliant lecture!

@koenvanalst8380 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks once again for these lectures

@evgenys177 6 жыл бұрын

What an amazingly helpful and informative video.

@banzaiburger9589 5 жыл бұрын

GM Akobian is rapidly becoming my favorite reacher

@rainydafria7255 3 жыл бұрын

Akobian is is the best teacher of chess

@majornabeel598 7 жыл бұрын

Akobian is awesome!

@valerianotupaz2944 3 жыл бұрын

Very instructive! Thanks for sharing.

@akshaysvnit91 4 жыл бұрын

What a great lecture by a brilliant person.

@albertocoscarelli3642 7 жыл бұрын

excellent. I really enjoyed your lectures- Helps me a lot with my own games

@diosn6909 7 жыл бұрын

Very good explanations by akobian!!

@MrM1a2t3t4h5e6w7 7 жыл бұрын

Very very very good!

@andriano22 7 жыл бұрын

THE GREAT AKOBI !!!

@rajasekhar9801 3 жыл бұрын

Thankyou GM Varuzhan Akobian i am learning a lot from Your lectures

@lostblue5651 7 жыл бұрын

AKOBIAN IS THE BEST!!!!!

@damiancross8706 7 жыл бұрын

i like this guy

@calmarcalmar 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome - once more! :)

@efrenyap5984 6 жыл бұрын

Cacalari Bus

@efrenyap5984 6 жыл бұрын

Varu excellent teacher very precise when he elaborate the fundamental of chess opening.

@amolm7943 4 жыл бұрын

Sir excellent coach you are and nice teaching

@ricomolino9194 2 жыл бұрын

He is really good ! Chess seams simple with him

@vishalanil7467 6 жыл бұрын

this dude is the goat in my opinion

@FrancoisTremblay 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not a great player, but I got all 3 pawn breaks correct in the first two games. I feel a little better about my strategic skills now XD

@fhadenal-mutairi3294 5 жыл бұрын

a beginner player who need to improve his level.. I advice you to join with a GM akobian!

@reza6718 7 жыл бұрын

Var is the best

@syyhkyrotta 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@teo5146 6 жыл бұрын

Quality lecture. 19:23 makes me crack up for some reason.

@arminmoesslacher7725 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing no one could see (around 30:00) Ba6 for such a long time ....What is the rating of that people taking the lecture?

@hosky3073 7 жыл бұрын

So where do I send my cash? Directly to Ben Simon for his production work? To the instructors for their weekly preparation and great lectures or the CCSCSL for putting this whole thing together? Chess has never been more relevant in the U.S. than now... ;)

@samidhchoudhury5809 4 жыл бұрын

Send it to me. Very poor.

@ernestorasgado3435 3 жыл бұрын

hi friends any one know where also belongs rooks ? he says open files but also mention in minute 36

@Malvegil357 3 жыл бұрын

At 34:28 Stockfish gives a draw if Black foregoes g6 and plays Qa3 instead.

@whateverrandomnumber 7 жыл бұрын

why didn't Kasparov ever play bishop to c5?

@dukejaywalker5858 7 жыл бұрын

Deep Blue is a "he"? Not an "it"? Did Akobian look behind Deep Blue's panelling?

@30jannick 6 жыл бұрын

It's a computer, in grammar it's no-nonsense

@deadlysilent7120 5 жыл бұрын

Feminist would be offended

@whisper3856 4 жыл бұрын

Why didn’t Kasparov just beg the computer for mercy Lmao

@srikantann 6 жыл бұрын

Dubious!! He said "Dubious" TWICE!!!

@rahulthakur_1 2 жыл бұрын

26:40 isn't queen is trapped with rook to A8?

@powersurge6732 2 ай бұрын

No, Black gets 2 rooks for the queen

@defeatmoloch5883 6 жыл бұрын

"Poosh"

@alfredjoseph3300 7 жыл бұрын

hi please enlighten me! fast forward to "30:00". why shouldn't i do Ra8?? follow me : 1. Ra8 Qxa8 2. Nxc6!! Black has to sacrifice the queen right ?

@RS-959 7 жыл бұрын

1. Ra8?? Qxa8 2. Nxc6?? Nxc6 (2. Nxb7 Qxb7 3. Ba6 Qb8 4. Bxc8 Bxc8 (4... Qxc8?? 5. Ra8 Qb7 6. Qa7 should win for white) 5. Ra8 Qb7 6. Ra7 Qb8 7. Ra8 seems to draw) 3. Rxa8 Rxa8 leaves black winning with two rooks and a knight against a queen and a pawn.

@alfredjoseph3300 7 жыл бұрын

oh!

@mathewmgmg 7 жыл бұрын

Well what I think when I compare Akobian's lectures to Finegold's I think technically both are Fantastic though I would be more enthusiastic to listen to Fingold due to his more Humorous style.....Though it's just a personal opinion and some people may like more non-humorous lecturers like Akobian....

@BizuteriaMoxie 3 жыл бұрын

B5 21:05

@BizuteriaMoxie 3 жыл бұрын

Qe3 on 16:53

@stemplarv 6 жыл бұрын

Var you're an assassin. For the sake of instruction, I suggest that you smile more to lighten the tone of your instruction and strengthen the usefulness of your phenomenal insights.

@glum_hippo 7 жыл бұрын

What? No study at the end?!!? ;-)

@omegareduck 7 жыл бұрын

@12:53 seconds the computer moves queen to a7 the continuation rook to a7 leaves black up a queens worth of material hard to belive a grand master missed that and instead he chooses rook c8 @12 :56 i dont understand this i feel like a grand master up a queen should be winning even with whites spatial advantage if for no other reason than the amount of harrasement that could insue from the queen perhaps someones chess computer can tell me why im wrong

@dannygjk 7 жыл бұрын

Even in 1997 computers were too strong for a human to use tactics to go ahead a queen in material. Look again at your idea.

@alachabre 7 жыл бұрын

omegaredduck, I can't make sense out of what you're trying to say. Can you explain using chess notation?

@J0RDIMAN 7 жыл бұрын

He wasn't going forward with his moves. He was going backward. The actual moves were Qa7, Rc7, and then Qc6.

@BizuteriaMoxie 3 жыл бұрын

Ra7+kg8!

@BizuteriaMoxie 3 жыл бұрын

Ba6 29:09

@Scy 7 жыл бұрын

@Liam360 3 жыл бұрын

Who else is here due to lockdown?

@lochvids108 7 жыл бұрын

no hands up wooo

@BizuteriaMoxie 3 жыл бұрын

32:14 +0,13222

@karlsk26 6 жыл бұрын

for novice players is much easier to look at the position in the perspective of black side of the board!!!

@Littellittel1 7 жыл бұрын

we need more Finegold! :D

@sergi-13 7 жыл бұрын

+xxtrollerxx trollinator5000 I learned a lot with Finegold.

@lostblue5651 7 жыл бұрын

akobian is so much better than finegold

@sergioropo3019 7 жыл бұрын

Finegold is funny and entertaining, Akobian is much solid teacher.

@sergi-13 7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Moloney well I did learn with him and as far as I know I'm not the only one. Not all of his lectures are the same way, did you watch the videos he uploaded in his channel? He wasn't making jokes there, that was good stuff.

@evgenys177 6 жыл бұрын

I prefer Akobian. Solid. Very solid.