in the world of chess an immortal game is basically the best aggressive attacking game that
a person has ever played a lot of you have enjoyed uh some of my videos that i've been uploading like
the best game i ever played earlier today i played this blitz game against this guy chess lock uh
anonymous grandmaster maybe japan maybe not he's got the sherlock holmes profile picture uh from
the show and i had the white pieces so just go through it e4 c5 and i played a3 uh this is one
of the sideline variations that i like a lot in uh in the sicilian it's in my openings course
uh he goes d5 and so uh this move hits the center right away and i bring his queen out very quickly
now it's kind of like a scandinavian except both of us have played two extra moves so you know
something like this uh except for some reason i played a3 and then for some reason he played
c5 but i like this and so i played knight f3 knights knight f6 i keep developing obviously all
my pieces come out he has to go e6 uh because if he plays bishop g4 there is this very nice trick
bishop takes f7 check which is sometimes possible when your knight can now move out of this pin
check and hit the bishop and i should note that if his knight was on c6 this would not be possible
because he would just take my knight and defend everything but it's a unique position where this
kind of tactical possibility can exist anyway he plays e6 i castle i move my pawn out into
the center move my bishop h3 put my rook in the center and now really is where is where
the game begins and a lot of you asked me like how how do i play the middle game which is a
tough question to ask it's a very uh broad question and normally you know your middle
game flows out of the kind of opening that you play and well i uh i played this kind
of an opening and so we have a position where i can't really look for any breaks with my pawns
uh this is covered this is covered sorry that's covered so you start to basically look at is there
any way to put some pressure create some sort of attack and so i played the move knight g5
because let's say my opponent here had played something like h6 um i was going to sacrifice
i was just gonna go all in here take on f7 uh and if he took with the rook i would have
taken with the bishop and then i would have had this pin so i get two pawns maybe i'm gonna get
uh the rook and get the king a little bit open but i'm gonna wait you know for example if he defends
i'm not going to take right away maybe i continue to improve my position a little bit maybe i play
knight b5 try to go over here because this pin is not going anywhere but in the game after knight g5
he played the move knight d5 which blocks my bishop and now the other thing that you have
to ask yourself is what is he opening up right so the bishop and the queen now hit the knight
but this knight is now no longer protecting this uh and so here i play the move queen h5
all right queen h5 obviously threatens mate now here uh he could have instead of playing the move
h6 as he did in the game he could have just went back with his knight and then i would have had to
figure out what to do i mean do i repeat you know do do i come back here but he played the move h6
and now we see the position from the thumbnail this is where the immortal begins oftentimes
immortal games have a lot of sacrifices so here i noticed that i can play the move knight takes e6
and i can pick up uh two pawns for the knight now what else has changed so so when all these
trades happen this rook is now open to a free bishop but more importantly this knight is really
destabilized i have three things hitting that night he has no move in this position
where this knight can get sufficient defense now if this knight takes this bishop for a moment
he is up four points of material and he is forking me and it looks like a devastating
loss of material but we have this more than anything else visualizing that me winning those
two pawns in black's position actually weakened his king a lot and any rook move is discovered
checked to the king i can also play this for example and i can go for the queen but i have
to be careful my queen is also hanging so there are certain tactics in the position that serve
to my benefit my opponent thought for a while here and played the move knight d4 this move
uh hits my rook and adds a defender to this now at this point if i play something like bishop
takes knight i'm getting rid of my most important bishop so then if i take with a knight for example
he just comes back and takes my rook and i run out of you know any sort of attack so at this
point a move came to me pretty naturally you know my my rook is hanging my bishop is hanging what do
i do try to pause here uh and find the move that basically is the solution of the entire game it is
you know it is the uh the basically the most beautiful move of the entire game it's the
only move that wins i'll give you a few seconds to pause that move is the stunning move rook takes h6
so first things first what is the whole point of this move well if my opponent doesn't take me this
is checkmate okay that's just mate because the queen is covering the escape square and the rook
now if he does take me i don't just take this i give a check very important i force the king to
the corner and then i take the pawn with another check and now we have this position from which
i can give a few zigzags check check and win this knight i can also play something like this
if he takes with the bishop i have check king moves and queen h5 the king now has to come back
there and now my bishop and my queen link up and do damage on the king together i had seen this
if he had taken my rook in the game though he played the move 92 check which is actually a
fascinating move i can take with the queen and the knight but during the game i thought i should play
here and it turns out that i was right and i and i should have played this move because
my knight needs to stay looking at this so for example if he does this he's still getting mated
if he takes my rook i still have the exact same sequence of checks and i'm winning but i couldn't
resist i was like this just it's free let me take it and i actually wasn't the best move
but you know that's the beauty of an immortal game he takes my rook and now i just come back
give him a check take his pawn and play knight to g3 he still can't take this because this is
pinned and since it's pinned this is actually protected now to move knight g3 i want to do some
damage so he plays rook f6 got to keep my queen alive only move is to give him a check king f8
and now we bring in the knight now there are two threats number one is to take but number two
is to bring in the queen protected by the horsey if he moves this knight here i also have mate
because of my all-star bishop on c4 so he goes b5 and here i guess he wanted me to take removing
the bishop from this diagonal but it's kind of funny taking his plus 14 according to the eval
but i found uh you know basically for a forced win force checkmate
so you can pause here try to visualize how you would get this all the way down to the end
queen g7 check king to e8 and now bishop to b5 the difference is that when you take this is now
check he goes here the only thing protecting the bishop is the rook so we take with check
he takes i take his king has no legal moves he can block with the queen or he can block with the 90
blocks with the knight and now we have check made in two moves queen g6 check and bishop h6 a very
very convincing victory so convincing that at this point my 2700 rated opponent did not even accept
the rematch he had had enough of one game at the time and he didn't even want to play again another
cool checkmate i have here is the very quiet rook e1 i could have played a very aesthetic checkmate
giving my last piece a shot in the game and now my opponent cannot prevent queen g8 he
does not have a single move that stops him can't move this can't move this because of the pins
and queen jade is unstoppable yes you can move here but then i would have two extra checkmates
and i would be winning rookie one would have been a very aesthetic way to end the game but i saw
the way of brute force here here and here now if you if you're an e4 player and you don't yet have
the openings course link is in the description uh but if you do not want to get it you just
want something inspirational to play against the sicilian give the a3 b4 variation a shot
i cover it in my how to crush with e4 video little sneak peek of it and in general you
can do a little bit of openings research in the database but i figured i would share this game
with you guys hope you enjoyed uh and if you have any more ideas of certain short videos like this
that you'd like me to share let me know in the comments below i'll see you in the next video