Famous Chess Game: Kasparov vs Topalov 1999 (Kasparov's Immortal)

Hello everyone, I'm Kevin from the

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website and today we are going to review a

game

between Kasparov and Topalov and many players have said that this is the best

chess

game

ever played. Now we will let you debate. Among you know if you think this is the best game ever played but Kasparov is a deadly game and almost all the

famous

players of the best GMs have their own

immortal

game and it's just that that makes them considered

immortal

in the world of chess. so Garrick gets a foul, many consider him the greatest chess player to ever play the game.

If this is the immortal game of it, then I will have to say that this is probably one of the best games ever played, so with that, Garrick is playing the white and Topal pieces. of playing the black pieces starts with pani for pond d6 pawn d4 Knight f6 Knight c3 pawn to g6 and then blob actually decided he wanted to play benefit defense and that's what black will play here if you haven't already. I watched the video on benefits defense and you want to get a background of how benefits defense actually plays out and the topics before you watch this video, definitely feel free to watch it, but if not, we'll go ahead and continue. he played Bishop to e3 Bishop to g7 fee and king's bishop Queen to d2 Knight you can already see from White that he has already developed his knights here to c3 and his bishop here to e3 and once he moved his queen to d2 it is very evident that I was looking to castle on the Queen's side many times if you are white and you develop your light square bishop and your knight here possibly to f3 many times that will indicate that you are going to castle on the King's side, but from Here it has already made way for castle on the Queen's side, so that's more than likely what Kasparov had had in the back of his mind as to where he wanted to castle.

Black decided to play the pawn on c6 and White played the pawn on f3. There is a very aggressive white line here and it is probably one of the newer lines we have seen in high level play in

1999

. It hasn't been analyzed much at the time it was played so right away we can see that Gary Kasparov I had spent a lot of time in this opening and you really knew what I was doing: I was trying to get another defender on this pawn here on e4 and at the same time I was really looking to castle on the queenside.

The game continued with the pawn on b5 and this is a very important move here from black. He does two things with this move. The first is that he advances to gain space on the Queen's side and begins to push his pawns down the Queen's board at the same time. prevents a very strong move by white why I would really like to take his bishop to c4 it is a very powerful square it is a great square for the light square bishop and because of this play by black on b5 it really prevents this bishop from the light square getting to c4 and attacking this square here on f7, so this move does multiple things and you're going to see this a lot in this game, there are a lot of great moves that have dual functions and this is one of those double roll moves here same. this pawn here on b5 not only advances a pawn to gain space on the Queen's side, but it also holds this light square bishop and you will see later in this game this light square bishop is practically immobilized on this f1 square and It is really going to be the last piece that White develops and this is mainly due to this pawn here on d5, the game continues from here with White taking his Knight to e2 and he realizes that he will not be able to take his Bishop from the light square right away, so he decides it's okay to block the light square bishop with his knight here on e2 since it's not actually a good square he wants to take his light square bishop to from here, Black will take his knight to d7 and why he is going to play Bishop to h6 and why he does this well any time you think you can make your bishop next to the king.

Black did it with his bishop on g7. This dark square bishop here is a very important piece not only for this long dark diagonal but at the same time. defend this king here if the king decides to castle on the king's side now, once white plays, black knows that he is not going to castle on the king's side and instead decides to go ahead and exchange bishops and instead he tries to get a little sinner to play dark squares in this center, so he immediately knows that with this queen here on h6 he is not going to castle on the queen side, so he decides to really concentrate on the dark squares in the center knowing that probably The game is going to castle on the queen side and the game continues with Black taking his bishop to b7, continuing with the development of his minor pieces and White is going to play the pawn on a3 and this is a move very important because it is a prophylactic move waiting to see what Black finally wants to castle on the queen side, but this is a very important move if White were to get to the first castling on the queen side.

Black could enter with his pawn on b4 and really upset White's plans. White would be forced to move. tonight before castling and that's not really what you want to do, as most high level GMs do, they always find the right moments to make a prophylactic move and this is exactly that moment when you're on a move of three types of waiting. to see what black doesn't do while preventing black from coming in and playing b4 right after canceling on the queenside, so from here black plays pawn to e5 again in advantage defense or any hyper modern defense once you really develop your minor.

The pieces you're really trying to attack the center can be the center with your minor pieces and then you want to counterattack or attack and gain central control with your pawn, so that's exactly what Blob does here, he has all his minor pieces. developed and now he's starting to attack and try to claim the center, as we talked from here, why is he going to castle on the queen side, that's what he wanted in the first place, but again he wanted to play his a3 first and the black. From now on you will play Queen until e7.

Now, after developing your minor pieces, you will want to involve your Queen. If you don't have a specific spot to engage your Queen you always want to build her up to the middle of the board so that wherever you need your queen she can jump you know very quickly if you know place your queen on one side of the board and she is needed on the other side of the board, many times a very good player will block the queen and you are practically left playing on one side of the board without your most powerful blob, Pete Soto, knowing and taking his Queen to e7, can jump over the board where the Queen needs to and at the same time prepare for the blob she wants. to castle on the queen side, connect your rooks and her development will be complete now from here white is going to play with the desire to win again, another prophylactic move.

White doesn't want to start attacking from one side and then have Black, you know, castle. to the other side or start moving to the other side, so it's kind of a waiting move to play the king on b11, allowing you to get a little more security for your king, but at the same time waiting to see What are black people going to do? and Black decided to push his pawn to a6 and this is done for several reasons and one of the reasons is that eventually Black would like to push his pawn from c6 to c5 at the moment his LightSquared bishop is not in the game which eventually would like to obtain. in the game you don't need it now, but later it will be on this long diagonal and you would like to use it as it is a powerful piece, but as soon as you move the pawn to c5, your b5 pawn will be hanging, so this six move it's a kind of move that you know, preparing yourself for the future in the future, not immediately, but again, you always want to be thinking about the future, so they are totally opposite and he knows that eventually he wants to play c5 and that's why he needs to play a six to support this pawn here on b5, play continues with white, now he brings his knight to see one and if you analyze it from this position, this is a very strong move if white really looks at this and sees what he wants do.

He really wants to involve his horses. His knight here on C three is well placed, but he would really like his knight here on e two to have the best score on the board. If you look at it, where is the best score? on the board we can already tell that black is probably not going to castle on the king side, we have our queen in front of white, the queen here on h6 really prevents black from castleing on the king side, so white They know this and since Black is going to castle if he is most likely castleing on the Queen's side, then White knows that he wants to start moving his minor pieces and his major pieces towards the Queen's side, that being said , the best place, the best square for tonight here on e2, it will actually be a five, so what is the best and easiest way to get this knight to a5 first to see one and then here to be three and then to a fob?

That's pretty much what Kasparov was thinking in the back of his head, so again, if you have a plan go ahead and start moving towards that, so his first move is the night to see one. . Now from here, black people are going to continue their development. He castles on the Queen's side, so now he has both of her works connected and he has the rest of his. The pieces developed, so Black in this case has finished developing and now it's White's turn and White now takes his knight to b3 again. He really wants this square here on a5 that we talked about.

It's a fantastic box to attack on his night. The whole side of the now black haired lady decided to capture on d4 for all those who don't know Topalov is a very aggressive player. I have studied many of his games because I have a very aggressive style like him and that is why. took a blob now that he has developed all his pieces exactly how he wants them he is going to start counterattacking he knows that you instinctively know that white has the advantage just because he has that extra rhythm in the game and that is why he wants to start trying to attack and try from playing to win as he always does now from here, white took with d4 now many players would say why not take with his knight on d4, especially since after knowing that we took with this rook, black decided to bring his pawn on c5 again, what we talked about before playing his pawn on c5 opening up this long diagonal for this bishop here on d7, but if we take with our night or if White takes with his knight on d4, Black doesn't have to play right away. his pawn to c5 can wait and again white really wants to get his Knight to a5 so if he wants to get his Knight to a5 then capturing with his night here on d4 is probably not the best strategy because far operations because his rook takes d4 and after the pawn attacks here on d4, he brings his rook back to d1, so that's very minor as to why he did that, but I want to let you know because you might have been looking at it, but man.

Why is he so high up and didn't take his night on b3? He really wants to take his knight to 85 and if top blob didn't play this pawn on c5 he didn't want to waste time taking his knight back to b3 and then to a5 from here black played Knight to e6 preparing if he ever wanted to take his pawn to d5 your pawn here on d6 is not doing much and is kind of falling behind, eventually you want to centralize this pawn here on d6 and bring d5 in this 99 b6 will be a strong defender of this pawn if you ever bring it to d5 now from here the White had to make a decision Amy decided to take her pawn to g3 now many players, including me, would like to do it. quickly finish the development and get his bishop to e2 and that seems like a logical move, but like Bob was looking ahead and said, you know, let's take my pawn to g3 because I want to develop my bishop to h3 and really that long.

The lights were diagonal and put a lot of pressure on this black King, so although it will take him two moves to finish developing it, his light square bishop will be on the exact square he wants and that is this square here on h3. Where can you know to take this long diagonal and attack Black's Queen side here so after g3 here Black will play King on b8 getting his King out of the way once the bishop reaches h3 and White first will bring his Knight to a5 now again, this is the plan that can defeat one of the entire game and now bring that plan to fruition and Black is going to bring his bishop back to a8, this long diagonal bishop for Black to stop you don't want to get rid of him right away and why it's okay that you have a knight here very well placed on e5.

He is going to put a lot of pressure on Black for the rest of the game. It's going to be very difficult for Black to get rid of that knight at any time. Soon, from here, White will continue his development with the bishop to h3. This is the exact square that the conspiracy wanted their bishop here on h3 to put a lot of pressure on this long clear square, on this long clear diagonal, at the same time that it has now. finished its development, so it took a little longertime to finish its development. He hit his rooks, but at the same time his game plan is going exactly the way he wants it.

From here, Black played the pawn on d5 and, instead of taking it immediately, Kasparov decided to take his queen to f4 and this is what really separates the normal players from the masters to the GMs. GMs are always looking for the middle move, so many players would already see this pawn on d5 and say, do you know how I can? recapture and start calculating and the best players are always looking for what is the intermediate move between the move here was Queen to f4. He may take a look at this catch later, but immediately wants to take his Queen into action and pass. the king now the king only has one loop, you can see that you can't get to c7 c8 because the queen and the bishop can't get to b7 because they are not here, their only move is King to a7, so you can see why really is starting to put the black King in a tight corner.

Now White chose to ignore this pawn here on d5 right away and instead centralized his strings as you can see White's pieces are actually in good position, they are too centralized rooks, he has his bishop in his LightSquared as his queen , like his bishop, pressing on this side of the queen and his knights are very well placed attacking the king's side, hurts the king. the Queen's side so from here Black decided to continue pushing his pawn here to d4 starting to put some pressure and White decided to take his Knight to d5 and this is an amazing move because White will eventually sacrifice a pawn so that can open a great attack against Black.

Black decided to take his night here on d5 and White recaptured with his pawn on d5 while attacking the queen here on e7. Black now brought his queen to d6 again, it was being attacked so he needed to move it and White decided to capture and sacrifice his rook here on d4 and this is probably the move of the game after Topalov retreated as you can already see because spa he really wanted to sacrifice this any time he wanted for his The queen could go on d4 and check the king and again all the moves the king has.

The black king has very limited, so he knows that even though he gave up a rook, he really has many strong attacks, but from here Kasparov found an incredible move. and he found a rook on e7. Now this is a fantastic move because the black Queen cannot take her 7 here, if she does then we have a chance at mating. We can bring it. White can move his queen to d4 after the King returns to b8. the Queen can reach b6, it doesn't matter if the black bishop becomes 7 or the Queen reaches b7, it doesn't really matter, the knight here can reach c6 after the king returns to a8, it will be checkmate if instead from the bishop, the Queen comes here, then it will be even a queen, a quicker checkmate with Knight on c6, so as you can see right away, our rook here on e7 there is nothing the King here on a 7 can do in addition to moving to b6 now, if we move back a few moves after the rook gets here to d4, sacrificing the rook, here it conspires.

In fact, I said that the best move for black would have been to take his king to 6 because parvum self said there is no good way. for White to continue here, but the top globe of the game took more than an hour to find, not very well, but calculating that taking d4 would be the best situation, he obviously saw that White had many fighting options, but more than one hour. From thinking about a balloon, one of the best players in the game decided that you know what I'm going to do with this sacrifice and I think I can fight my way back having so much material, so that's exactly what his father wanted to do. and took his rook to e7 and then after the king got to b6, as we talked about before the queen took d4 and that's exactly why this rook sacrifice on d4 was important because he got the pawn out of C 5 so that we can pass and from here black decided to take the night here with a five, it was a bit forced, there is no real estate agent square for black to go to and white decided to continue pushing with this pawn to b4 now again there is no many other moves that Black and White can do here, so he brings his king to four.

Fortunately, Kasparov thought of this game because if you look at this board right away, yes, the king is in a lot of trouble for Black, but as you can see, Black is pretty high. a little bit of material in this game, but he conspires being a great player, he saw all the lines in the game and realized that he had a lot of not only dunk opportunities, but at the same time he had a lot of attack lines that he could she could recover that material later in the game due to the black king's vulnerability, so from here why did she decide to take her queen to c3 and she can see that Kasparov is threatening?

Here he can take his queen to b3, so Black has to do it. Something easier for Black to do here is to take d5. It's a bit forced, there's no other way for Black to really get out of this and from here, why did he decide to get his rook to a7 at the same time as the rook here on a7 threatens mate? here then he takes a6, that would be checkmate, so black is forced to take his bishop to b7 to attack and defend this pawn here on a6 and from here white can take with his rook here on b7 now again, Why does he continue to threaten the box? here on C on b3 with checkmate, so Black decides to take his queen to c4 and from here White takes f6, so immediately we can see White retreating tonight and this bishop off the board, so although Just a few moves left. it looks like black raises a ton of material now we see it just a few points and material from here black decided to take this pawn here on e3 and now the queen will come into action with queen cakes on a6 now after the king takes b4, White makes a brilliant move here and plays the pawn on c3 sacrificing this pawn at the same time, basically saying: you know what I'm going to leave my king vulnerable because I'm going to have your king come to c3 and I'm just going to attack one attack an attack and I'm sure he thought about this move for a long time and thought of all the variations of what he came up with, as you will see it came true II note that the black queen cannot take c3 because from here Kasparov could just take with this queen and then when the king got to the a-file the route could turn and the only move to stop it would be to take the queen and it's checkmate from there so Chris Bob knew this and he knew that the breeze pawn to c3 would force the King to go to c3 and take now, he could obviously get to a different square like c5, but again he would be in open ground and lose even faster than he did, so Tow Blob decided to take c3 and conspire.

I've played the queen to a-1 at the same time, as you can see, he's setting this up so he can take this rook here on h8 if he wants to do it after this King moves, but the King goes down to d2 and the Queen comes to B to D 1 and then the bishop reaches f1. This is a fantastic move because the Queen cannot catch this fish on f1, if she does then the Queen comes to c2. and after the king moves, then the rook here on e7, that's a good game. The queen can obviously check, but she will be checkmated, so this is the fantastic move that because she found her bishop here on h3 that she was attacking the king, now the king is. down here on d1 and now he's going to engage his bishop here and attack this queen, so Topalov came down and played the rook to d2 and because 5 played the rook to d7 basically saying you're not going to take my queen because I'm Pinning your rook to your king, then Tope Bluff was forced to take the rook here on d7 and that leaves the Queen here on c4 to take and after that, Kasbah takes the rook on h8 like we talked about before and from here.

Topol can practically give up the game, he has considerably less material and White has a queen who can simply run up the board, the game moved forward a few moves, but once Topal I realized that he was playing with Kasparov. and since Park has a queen, he went ahead and quit in this situation, so I really enjoyed studying this game reading a lot of comments from different people about a lot of the different moves and I learned quite a bit, so I hope everyone learned quite a bit. Also, these are two of the greatest chess minds to ever play, so I feel like you can learn from a lot of their moves because there's a lot of meaning in every move they make, so I hope you enjoyed this video.

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