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00:00It's my game against Vichy Anand, 1995, tournament in Riga, the last classical game before a World
00:22Championship match that we played in New York later that year. On the top of the World Trade
00:28Center, 107th floor, and what a coincidence, the first game, where Mero Giuliani made the
00:35first move, September 11, 1995. And for that game in Riga, I thought that I could surprise
00:46Vichy. I always had an appetite for looking for some old openings. I remember preparing
00:51for a match with Karpov in 1990. I thought, oh, there are many ideas in the Rui Lopez,
00:57but can we start thinking, you know, a bit earlier? Not at move 15 or 20. How about move
01:03three? How about playing Scotch? And I looked for some lines there and I realized that, you
01:08know, the opening Scotch that was in the Bolivian for more than 100 years could be revived because
01:14of many new ideas, strategic ideas. It's not necessarily everything should be very sharp,
01:20but just some strategic ideas that people couldn't appreciate in the 19th century.
01:26So it worked for me. It worked against Karpov. It worked many more times and Scotch served me well
01:32to the very end of my career. But for Vichy, I had something else. So I thought maybe I could play
01:37something more dramatic. I would even say more romantic. Evans Gambit. That also was wiped away from
01:48professional chess. But in the 19th century, after the knights of Evans Gambit, like Mikhail Chigorin,
01:58the great Russian player, they were totally destroyed by Amin Alaskar, for instance, and others.
02:03So Bc4, Bc5, and I played a4. So I had very little experience with Evans Gambit because after my world
02:17championship match with Nigel Short in 1993 in London, we had a few days. I won the match earlier,
02:25so we just had a few playing days left and the organizers wanted to fill it with some excitement.
02:29And we were a part of playing rapid chess for rapid games. We also were forced. I would say forced to
02:38play some openings because it was kind of a draw. So, oh, you play King's Gambit, it was white,
02:42you play it, it was black. And I remember the game one of this old-fashioned chess, I had to play
02:53Evans Gambit. And Nigel went for this bishop a7 line, as Vichy did. And after d4, knight a5. So I took on e5,
03:06knight takes e4, knight takes e4, d5. I took on d5, queen takes d5, and then my knight on e3,
03:14it's a good position for the knight. And I had an interesting game, had an initiative, but missed
03:20wind was a draw. And later on, I just studied it a little bit and thought, oh, maybe white had
03:28another idea, but I put it just on the shelf. So it was not my top priority. And I was pretty sure that Vichy
03:39would play bishop e7. Because that's what happens. If you face such a new line, sharp line,
03:48so you don't go for lines like bishop a5 or bishop c5, because they're...
03:52Too much theory.
03:53Yeah, too much theory, bishop e7, and then you just, you play after d4, knight a5, you change this bishop,
03:59and it's a position that is fairly solid. So you don't want to be surprised. But here I had my
04:07surprise. So that's why, you know, I was hoping for Vichy to follow this line. Because after knight a5,
04:15I played bishop e2. It's something that looks odd, because typically white sacrifices pawn to build
04:23the center. So that's why you don't want to remove your bishop or your bishop to d3. But I removed my
04:29bishop to e2 just having something else in mind. It's not about creating a center. It's more about
04:34playing for development. Black pieces are slightly discoordinated. And after Vichy
04:41took on d4, I took with a queen on d4. Creating a threat, quite an elementary threat. But it's not
04:50that easy to defend this pawn without giving quite some extra opportunities. By the way, later on,
04:57many switch to d6. Sacrificing the pawn back. Queen a4, c6. And then white could win the pawn. And
05:04position is probably roughly even. Which is also one of the ways to counter any gambit. You accept the
05:12pawn. Accept, you know, the sacrifice. But then you can look for a good moment to return it, to return the
05:19material and just to build solid position. But Vichy saw no reasons to give it back now. So I just
05:26took on d4. I took with a queen. Now, of course, you can play king of eight. But do you want to leave
05:35the king without a castle? It's not the center, but still, you know, white can develop the pieces and
05:43your king is there. And your rook on h8. Exactly, your rook is there. So definitely, it's a long-term
05:49problem. So the consequences are obvious. Could he bring this knight back to try to get it back in
05:57play? Yeah, but the pawn is hanging. So, in fact, some players, you know, move, opted for d6. I think
06:05Shirov did it, for instance. So it was ideal taking bishop f6, queen returns for g3, and then queen e7,
06:12and then preparing long castle, bishop d7 and long castle. It's a very sharp game. Very sharp,
06:18very interesting game. So I still think white probably better. But that's, you know, that changes
06:22everything. So they, but that was not Vichy's style. So, of course, he just made the most natural move,
06:27which is knight f6. Now, white is a pawn down, but we have time. So we get time to disturb
06:34black's pieces and to cause some, you know, some problems. So knight c6, as you recommended, knight goes
06:44back. So now we have to move the queen. Now, queen is an attack. We go queen h4. Again, this knight,
06:51knight is not having a comfortable, you know, comfortable square. So he will d5, which is, there's
07:00nothing wrong with knight on d5. But you can see, this is black position is slightly, uh, jammed. So,
07:07and after queen g3, you have to make another tough choice. Because if you castle, then it's, it will cost
07:14you an exchange after bishop h6. You don't want to give up an exchange. There's a good compensation for,
07:21for, for, for, uh, for the exchange. But, but it's an exchange. We should play g6. Um, here I could have
07:31played bishop h6 to prevent him from castling, but then he can probably go bishop f8. And, uh, then I
07:37don't see white has anything else but repeating the moves. Uh, but I just castle here. And here,
07:44I don't realize that if he castles, then there are many different ways for white to, to improve the
07:51position. So I could attack the knight, move it there. So, or I could start with bishop a6,
07:57and then pushing this pawn, and then developing my, my, uh, my knight. Uh, actually this one is,
08:06it's the, uh, it's this, this one is probably these interesting tactics. There's a knight f6 move.
08:11I just, you know, uh, and after e takes f6, bishop f6, and you see everything is hanging.
08:16That's cool. So you see? That's one and this one. This is, this is, it's important. And his knight
08:22can go back to, to, to a good square. So that's why, this is important. So that's why, that's why,
08:26we probably should start with rook d1, forcing the knight to go in the wrong direction. So that's the,
08:33uh, maybe even, even, even not, not, um, uh, uh, uh, playing bishop a6. Sometimes it's better to keep the
08:41threat just, uh, uh, uh, as a reserve. So play rook d1, knight b6, and maybe a4 now. So just,
08:48uh, keeping, you know, this knight under pressure. So now his knights are way over here.
08:53Yeah. But, you know, it's the, it's, uh, he just thought that maybe castle, maybe it's a little bit,
08:59you know, just, uh, uh, to, it's, it's, it's, it's a bit premature. So he thought that he could,
09:06uh, um, first solve his problems with his bishop, with his development. And
09:12why should he hire with the castle? There are no immediate threats.
09:16Now I put, push the pawn, he played d6, and I play rook d1.
09:24Um, and that's an interesting moment because, you know, I keep, you know, uh, uh,
09:30uh, uh, pressuring his position. Um, and, uh, it's interesting that probably the best move for
09:39black in this position was something that you wouldn't even consider. And, uh, by the way,
09:45we talked about knight on the rim. Uh, this rule doesn't work if you, in the attack, if you are
09:53trying to, to, to build an attack, as we saw in, in, in, in the game in Sicilian against Mofsessian. But,
10:01uh, in this case, you want to make sure that white doesn't develop its pieces comfortably.
10:07And, uh, and you, by the way, can just make sure that your knight that is just looking for,
10:13uh, um, for a decent square does something useful.
10:17So maybe... Should you take... You can't take the pawn? No, no, you cannot take because this is,
10:23it's... Uh, I'm looking at knight a4 and with an ion c5 later, yeah. But it's an excellent move.
10:29It's not just knight, but it's actually preventing me of developing comfortably my pieces.
10:35Sounds very odd, yeah? Knight b2, yeah. But, but, but, but, you know, it's...
10:41It's effective. Chess is a very, exactly. Chess is a very concrete game. So, in, normally you wouldn't
10:47even consider putting the knight here, but, but by the way, this knight, you know, it's...
10:52Kept walking around the boards, uh, and at least on a4, it could, it could, it could do something,
10:57something useful. Anant, the player, he, he, he picked up the knight, but Mofsess in the wrong square,
11:05on d7. Again, he wants to put the pressure on the pawn, he wants to solve this problem,
11:10and he thinks that, okay, it's just one more move, a castle. Irony is he will never castle in this game.
11:16So, because now it's time, we stop it with bishop h6. So, he took on e5, this pawn, I took on e5,
11:23and now he took with this knight. By the way, this, this is still knight on, on g8. This, this, this,
11:28this knight that traveled, you know, f6, d5, b6, d7, he took with the knight, because if you take with
11:34the pawn, then I can go bishop g7, and, and then I take the pawn, and it's, look at this position.
11:39It's, it's, it's terrible. So, he took only five, and now I could have played bishop g7 anyway.
11:44So, black has no other choice but to play bishop f6, because otherwise I win the knight.
11:49Bishop takes the knight, bishop takes the knight, knight c3, and I thought that, oh,
11:53why should I give up my bishop there, just, you know, and, and, and release the pressure?
11:58Um, actually, computer today thinks white is much better, and I think machine is right,
12:04uh, because it's very hard for black to prevent white opening the position. So, the c5, then just,
12:10you know, the rook, so black is still behind in development. Um, that would be
12:17more in a computer-like move, but I just thought to play knight c3, which is also pretty strong,
12:22because it's, keeps developing, and now, how, how he can escape. So, for instance, if, if he goes bishop of faith,
12:35trying to remove this bishop, then we take, and if he take, what happens?
12:4425. Exactly, we just take knight, and if he takes, he loses the piece, and, and if he takes with
12:50the rook, it doesn't make any, any sense, because then you see, we keep opening files, so this is,
12:54his, his king is still in the center. So, Vichy decided that his, probably the best defense would
13:00be to play f6. Now, he still hopes that his knight will do something useful in his life,
13:07will at least push my bishop, um, and also, you know, strengthen his position in the center, but now,
13:13white continues an attack. So, black goes on f7, and we take on d6. And, uh,
13:20instead of taking it right away. Oh, no, you can't do that. Oh, this pain, pain. This is rook,
13:24is rook, is just, it's, it's, it's, it's, keeping an eye on this queen. So, now, if he takes with,
13:29was bishop, so what would be your, uh, recommendation? Because now we keep, uh, putting more pressure,
13:37so opening files. Right. So, check. And after c6, now the bishop is weakened, and, uh,
13:46we can take it. No, we cannot take it, but we just have to, just have to bring our bishop back.
13:50Bring out another piece. Exactly. We bring bishop back, he takes this, and we take, and we still
13:54prevent him from castling. So, this is irony that it seems that he is close, but he cannot castle. So,
14:00this is, something happens all the time. He takes with the knight, we take with the rook, and...
14:03Where does the queen go? Eh, go anywhere. So, if it goes only seven, then, then what?
14:13All right.
14:1595. Exactly. This is, that's it. Total domination. So, this is, again, just, he's one 10p short. So,
14:23just, with the castle, you would have a decent game. Two extra pawns, but he couldn't, he could make it. So,
14:29I think, with an easy heart, after c6, he took with the pawn. Um, but still, you know, he has two
14:39pawns up. So, uh, we have to do something, because if our bishop goes, he castles, and two pawns are two
14:45pawns. So, how we make sure that he's not, he's, he's, his king is still cut in the center. So,
14:53I play queen is free. That's an exchange. So, the knight, okay, knight eventually did something
14:59useful. He took our bishop, but it didn't help, because now the king is still in the center. And,
15:06uh, by creating these weaknesses in this, in, in, in, in, in, in the central squares, and in this,
15:16in this diagonal, we made it virtually impossible for black king to find a safe heaven. So, um,
15:22knight can go on d5, bishop can go on c4. So, we see there's so many different lines.
15:27So, we went bishop f8. It's quite funny, yes? Look at his pieces.
15:33As if he hasn't developed them. He's getting ready for the next game.
15:37He's getting ready for the next game, yes. Yeah, so, queen is rechecked. And now,
15:42probably the best chance was to play queen e7. But, uh, uh, uh, now we have few options,
15:49but probably this one is most, uh, effective. So, he has to go queen e5. And then,
15:57But, why does he have to go? No, because we, we're threatening to take on d6. That's the,
16:01that's the, yeah, well, that's already terrible. So, that's the, the only chance. But then we take
16:05this pawn. It's a pin. King of seven, we go back and it's still pretty lousy. So, let's just look at
16:11this king. So, that's the, that's the, we have very strong attack. If he goes there, then we attack
16:16the queen, move the queen, and then we take this diagonal. There will be another, uh, terrible check.
16:23So, this is, attack continues, and it's, and, uh, it's almost physical material. Nobody, nobody cares
16:30about two pawns. It's all about, you know, just keeping up with pressure. So, he goes king f7,
16:35and now it's time for our knight to take dominant square in the center.
16:40And d5. Exactly. Okay. It's not always we go on a4.
16:45So, sometimes we go on d5. And, uh, uh, by doing so, we're preparing, uh, which, which piece is not playing?
16:53Exactly. So, and this is, we, we're ready. We're ready to play rook c1 and rook c7. So, he played bishop e6.
17:00Just, again, desperate attempt. So, he wants to take our knight. Do we want to change this knight? No,
17:07we don't want it. Because, you know, we just, his bishop is hanging. So, we attack. And, uh, now,
17:14he made a decisive mistake. But, you can hardly blame him for, you know, for just not playing move,
17:20like, for instance, bishop d7. But, it's, it's very strong attack. No matter what happens, white,
17:26white keeps almost decisive attack. So, um, he played queen e7. Uh, and, uh, by doing so,
17:35he just missed, you know, a very quiet move that is just, uh, puts, uh, rook in ambush.
17:42Yeah. Because, again, there's so many tactical, uh, uh, uh, motifs. And, uh, one of them just works
17:51nicely. The lockdown control on the e-file with rook c1. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
17:55it's just, just quiet move. You know, it doesn't happen often that you make such a quiet move
18:02at such an early stage of the game and your opponent resigns. And you resign because he couldn't see any
18:08defense. So, um, how to defend again? Against, for instance, bishop f3. This is the threat. So,
18:15if he, for instance, goes bishop a6, then he pins down knight, but this is something else happens
18:20because his queen is no longer protected. And if king is no longer, his queen is no longer protected
18:26by the bishop, so we can attack from c4. So, now he cannot take because the queen is unprotected.
18:32Uh, and if he goes rook e8, desperate attempt. So, we go bishop b5 here, then he can go
18:38bishop h6 and hopefully to, you know, uh, trying to survive, uh, without an exchange.
18:45But, but we don't have to do that because while he's here, we simply take. And, uh, what happens
18:53that no matter how he takes after queen takes c6, there will be a decisive, uh, discovery attack.
19:01So, if king takes? And bishop c4. B5. B5. And then we win the rook. And if rook takes?
19:10Bishop c4. B5. Exactly. Bingo. So, that's the, uh, so he resigned. He just looked at the position
19:16in some disbelief. He resigned. So, back when he played queen here, what should he have done instead?
19:22Uh, the, the, the best move, the best move was, I think, it's just, then queen b3 check, of course.
19:29Queen b3 check and we just, we just take the pawn and king g7, we just take the pawn and keep attacking.
19:35It's not the end of the game, but look, his king should go on h6. That's, that looks terrible.
19:41So, maybe instead of, uh, instead of bishop e6, maybe we have to play bishop d7.
19:45It, there's no forced win, but white keeps, you know, putting more and more pressure. And, uh, I think it's,
19:52I would have fully delivered the final blow. So, yes, it's, I feel very comfortable with this.
19:56But, that also happens often. If you're under pressure, you know, finding defensive moves,
20:03especially only defensive moves, that's not easy even for, for, for top players. So, and, um, that's, um,
20:09that was the game that revived temporarily, uh, Evans Gambit. So, you play Evans Gambit?
20:16I do play the Evans Gambit, yeah. Okay, good. Only in rapid tournaments, so, no, no, no.
20:21You play d4, so you don't play Evans Gambit. No, it's, it's one of the things I teach the kids.
20:28Absolutely. There's the, you have to, you have to start, uh, with Gambit. You have to start with
20:33an open chess, uh, open games, because that's how you can learn about tactics. It's,
20:38it's more dynamic games. Um, obviously, you have to learn about strategy, but, uh, you need,
20:44you need to do more, uh, more, um, of, um, dynamic, uh, aggressive chess, uh, while learning.
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