howdy over the past few weeks a lot of you have been requesting that i collab with some irena
from india the comedian that's basically made a massive wave of popularizing chess
online collabing with all sorts of amazing personalities and
super grand masters and well somebody finally agreed to doing a collab with me and a bunch of
other people we're going to play among us very soon and i saw it i thought you know why not
i'm going to make a video dedicating just some analysis instructive game analysis to mr bm
himself this is the only person on the entire website that just has one letter as a title
it's incredible it's honestly incredible so shout out to him he's he's on a big grind he's played
4 000 games of chess uh very inspirational and i want to do a little bit of analysis on his games
to just because i don't know because everybody wants me to do a collab with him so this is my
way of giving back and maybe making things fun for you guys so uh the criteria for selecting
these games was the fact that they had to be at least five minute games um and they had to be at
least 20 moves and his cap score had to be over 90 so he scored 90 uh so i just wanted to show
you know how he played from start to finish his openings his middle game his end games um and uh
the time control just had to be long enough that it wasn't you know silly stuff like three minutes
anyway let's get into it let's i did also a game with white in a game with black so sami plays um
e4 and in particular he plays the king's gambit he's a very brave guy plays king's gambit and
knight c6 is not the most accurate move but here uh taking and playing d4 is also not
the most accurate because if you take they're going to play queen h4 so he plays like this
and now d5 this is actually not the right order you're supposed to play d5 on the second move
of the gambit like this uh and this is considered kind of the main line there's a lot of different
you know positions here and those of you that are confused the engine doesn't really dictate
correctly how the opening goes especially in gambits so d5 take take and now we see the problem
is that now it's basically a scandinavian and this capture hasn't occurred yet so queen back to d8
and bishop b5 so bishop b5 is an error um you need to just take this pawn especially if
you're going to be playing kings again but and i do like gambits i like the vienna i like off
beat setups especially against e4 e5 um if you haven't seen my gambits video check it out and
if the gambits video is not out yet because you're watching this in the past rather than the future
sorry but i like how he plays i think this is very good but you have to also punish people
who make mistakes but he goes for a quick lead in development
and that makes a lot of sense now again the best thing to do is to grab this pawn or to take and
then grab he takes takes and he takes very good um bishop c5 is a good move by his opponent and
now semi falls for a trap d4 looks perfect but it's not and the reason d4 is wrong his opponent
actually didn't notice is because his opponent was looking at this he was looking at this threat
and what his opponent should have used here is something called danger levels rather than
moving his bishop he should have realized how do i create a threat even stronger than the threat
on my bishop and that threat would have been bishop takes knight attacking the queen and the
serious problem is that now i have two things attacking this see it says it's the best move
and after queen f3 black would play something like queen h4 queen d4 or just taking this in general
and have a slightly better position but black played bishop to b4 um and it's just worse now
so castles best move knight e7 bishop g5 is a great move castles and now d5 fantastic move
playing on this pin queen d7 and d take c6 now if bishop takes c3 was played in this position
um you would take the bishop and here's the issue now this is the pressure uh there's
pressure on this guy the queens see each other so black would be losing material here no matter
what d5 is a fantastic move it's the only way to make progress you know if if semi had played
something like queen d2 here he would have had a slightly better position but black would have
gotten out of the pin consolidated with the rooks and pressured on the center instead
semi played an aggressive move realizing that he's got the pin superior here on the night so
um and his opponent just played queen d7 and well suffered the loss of material
now you can play this position a few ways you can take to simplify and he does do that and knight to
d5 is again excellent going for this solidifying with the queen queen gives a check king moves
and now you are pinned but don't freak out because you can take with check get your queen out of the
way basically a perfect game from start to finish rook d1 fantastic move simplifying right rookie 8
queen b5 i like queen b5 i mean i don't know if it's the best move there's options um
it's it's honestly it's it might be at this level it might be probably the best move that he could
have played i would maybe just make a left for the king so that there's no background problems
uh and then i would try to get my rook down here you can't and that's why i move like this comes
in handy also good as queen d3 going for a queen trade his opponent plays well so now he goes back
to d3 and he plays basically a perfect game here his opponent just resigns um and not just resigns
did resign so very nice game i mean this shows how in the opening you can surprise a guy you
have to still punish their mistakes but it shows that even a 1430 doesn't know what to do against
the king's gambit um i personally like f4 after i throw in knight c3 i feel like there's a lot
of kings gambits that are a bit too dangerous but i like this game quite a bit the next game
wasn't a beat down from the opening he actually had the black pieces um go back a few moves
so he had the black pieces we'll look at it from his perspective um it was e4 and looks like he
plays c5 so the sicilian knight c6 and knight c3 uh well we're actually going to see how here you
know white can play a lot of different things white can play the um uh rossalimo uh white can
play you know the open sicilian white can play c3 and d4 and i guess semi plays like this because
the world champ plays like this now knight f6 isn't a isn't a great move i don't think
like it's a little bit better immediately to go e5 so that you can go d4 but it's fine
and actually now we have a main line position so this is basically the main lines feshnikov so d4
take take knight c3 sorry knight f6 knight c3 and it's it's the same exact position
that happened in the game but with a different move order so e5 knight c6 ah this used to be
i think this is some sort of theory but white is supposed to go for the main line somebody
plays a great move but here's somebody plays a a slight inaccuracy he rushes and this looks like a
very natural move because you support it right so why wouldn't you just expand in the center
so white gets a pretty sizable advantage because white can punish this setup very quickly
white can just take and if you take you you have this weird diagonal which is wide open
and if white goes bishop b5 it's really hard for you to actually defend your entire position
so you can play bishop d7 and then after something like take take the second bishop will arrive and
white is just too quick at dismantling your position like white is pressuring you way too much
right so so wine has to kind of like fly in here with these pieces
and rook d1 is possible and castling queen side is possible and you just you're a little bit slow
but white didn't play that and that's why actually in
the sicilian it's a little bit better rather than playing d5
to like play bishop e7 or bishop c5 or bishop b4 and castling and only then going for d5
um that's that's generally the best but h3 is i mean what is h3 right so h3 is not a good move
d4 92 and now bishop to e7 i wonder what is the engine not like here so th this is actually a
very practical teaching moment you see how the engine is saying that you made an inaccuracy
with bishop to e7 do you realize what the top engine move here is this is a very instructive
moment that's why you shouldn't always trust computers the engine is trying to play h5
do you understand why this is the best move it's ridiculous why it's the best move if white
continues with development like knight to g3 you will play h4 this will then clamp the knight down
and the knight cannot come forward if the knight comes forward then you will play g6 and you will
trap the knight the knight goes back to e2 you just have an overwhelming space advantage so you
play bishop to a6 and then another idea is if white goes like g3 for example um
you have queen to b6 bishop to g2 and bishop to a6 and all this is doing is clamping down on this
side of the board that's what that does that's what the engine's trying to tell you that th that
that that h5 just you know disallows your opponent from rotating the knight this way and so with that
the knight is stuck on e2 and is very very passive right so and it's saying minus two and so when
you go back and analyze a game right you can't fault yourself for not playing the move h5 okay
right so bishop to now you can fault yourself for playing to move bishop to b7 that's not a great
move that's not a great move bishop to b7 um i you know you you need to castle i mean bishop
i get why he's doing it but castle first okay this is why it's a bad move because now white
plops the knight into f5 and when you have to deal with a knight like this close to your king
it's a serious problem um and white immediately you know kind of justifies this knight's
positioning doesn't castle and plays queen g3 and now we have some serious problems for semi
who plays knight h5 which is a move that stops mate but
it doesn't actually cover the e5 pawn
and white in that case should have just taken on e5
which would have attacked the bishop on e7 with two pieces this would have been
pressure this would have been pressure and by the way i can also throw in the move g4 right
so that would have been the issue there and actually this is already
a very dangerous position knight takes e7 threatens to win this very serious problem
and so queen g4 happened which obviously
doesn't take the pawn on e5
and just hits the knight on h5 now you have to play the only move to not lose g6 bishop h6
because this isn't actually threatening because of the pin the rook is under attack rook should have
went to e8 but semi throws in the move knight to f6 not a bad move again danger levels right
hits the hits the queen queen back to g3 isn't inaccuracy supposedly the best move here was to oh
this is very nice this is a very nice combination from white so danger levels one guy hits the rook
another guy hits the queen another guy hits the king and then hits the queen also so semi would
have lost material with this very nice combination that would have been a problem but he missed it
i think he missed it
and so instead he moved his queen and here same
did his best anish giri impression by trying to offer repetition of moves
and white said no thank you but missed the move white saw that the queen was hanging
but forgot that he could take the rook right so he goes here now of course somebody gets out of
the way but this is still very dangerous and again black should uh white should put pressure here and
he does that and c4 semi the big gangster says i don't want to play king g7 i want to counter
attack you i want to counter attack you and bishop f6 i have queen b4 check look at that move
opening the door for the counter attack and realizing that he is actually not in danger
queen h6 is not a mate threat because the queen always has backwards access to f8
very very nice move creating counter play opens the door finds the queen before check
and brings it right back and now the end game that happens white just runs out of steam white
is worse here and white is worse here because he has a very very very easily targeted weakness and
what is the best move here for black the best plan for black besides bishop 2a6 it has to be this
kicking out the bishop and taking control of the file and by kicking out the bishop
he will have control of the file with both of his rooks now that's not
he didn't have to play f5 but he did it as a result of g3 notice semi doesn't get
he doesn't get i mean same i hope i'm pronouncing it correctly by the way tell me if i'm not but he
he could have gotten tunnel vision and i see the engine's trying to say it's the best move but he
he he punishes the opening of this diagonal with the move g3 by playing f5 and white just blunders
white's center completely collapses and now a beautiful move danger levels gets the rook in
there with a check the king is forced to the back rank and now the game is over because you take
and uh well white tries to offer a trade but after takes white resigned because bishop c1 bishop h1
and if white had played something like rook g1 or something you're probably winning in a variety of
ways the easiest is just to push with your pawns don't get in you see don't get wrapped up in
all these checks there's no need to give a check unless it's made um because the king is just going
to create a little barrier you know like this see look how quickly you can throw away advantage just
e4 e3 d3 walk it down the board so you know i did a little research and i felt like these were
two of semi's best games c4 was a brilliant move creating counter play the first game was clean and
crisp all three phases of the game it never got to the end game he just wanted in the middle game
this one very nice absorb the pressure um slightly inaccurate in the opening that's okay you learn
from that but this one was just really nice anyway i figured i would show two of his games
to respect his chess grind he's played over 4 000 games and uh just to let you guys all know
that uh the collab is coming whether it's chess at some point later in the future uh we have yet
to see if that will happen but definitely an among us lobby uh hikaru anish vidit
srinath wants to play so gonna be fun hope you guys enjoyed see you in the next video