Sacrificing the Queen - GM Yasser Seirawan - 2013.07.31

Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan presents a lecture exploring the queen sacrifice and how to analyze your material advantage.

[Tremaine]

Yasser is the best teacher. I was on the edge of my seat in the last game.

[dennyortiz]

when mr. Yasser starts off a 50 minute lecture with the words "oNe Of ThE tHiNgS tHaT" with his so charming voice. You know it's going to be a great lecture <3

[Seawolf]

Haha that last game was absolutely amazing!

[merc]

Wow ! that windmill variation was amazing. Like it a lot !!!

[rb]

@Yasser, after watching this video, i fell to my knees in admiration. Admiration for your lecture and how good your game was. Astounded and dumbfolded by this particular video.
Your videos are a chess treasure. And you are the greatest chess teacher ever! Hope you can produce more and more videos.
On behalf of all the chess fans in the world, thank you so much for the lectures so far!

[chihlimbar]

this was just awesome to watch :) I laughed pretty hard at the "windmill" tactic . Yasser is the best chess teacher.

[birdbrainedu]

This is the best chess lecture and story.

[germanbravo]

Amazing video!, the last queen sacrifice was quite impressive.

[SteveRunciman]

Nobody but Yasser could have pulled off that kind of a victory.

[shawman]

Amazing lecture. Yasser is the GOAT when it comes to these videos. They are educational and so entertaining.

[TexasSizzle]

Funny as hec. Thanks Yasser for world class stories and instruction.What an ending!

[kevinbyrne]

42:06 -- How to salvage a victory from the jaws of defeat.

[suryanshudutta]

simply has to be the best chess video i hav seen on youtube. Awesome work sir. I've faced very similar positions u showed and dint hv the slightest idea of what to do a lott for this video.

[BixenteFabregas]

Furthermore, in the game beginning in 22:40 has too a few inacurracies. Nowadays, it's known that the move 9.d5 at 31:43 is in fact the best move, who has no refutation! The best move against 9.d5 is nevertheless 9...Nd4, and white has a little edge after 10. Nxe4. Seirawan's line 10.Nxd4 exd4 11.Bxd4 doesn't quite work for White because 11...exf3! (and not 11...Bxd4), a move that doesn't lose the Bishop because if  12.Bxg7, then 12...Qe7+ takes the Bishop back and White can't castle anymore! Even more funny, the sacrifice played by Seirawan in 42:06 11...Qxg5 12.Qxg5 Ng4 might even LOSE !! (11...Qd7 or 11...fxg2 were better and Black has a small edge). Why is it so? Because after the very nasty 13.Nb5! discovered in 29.08.2013 and perhaps even earlier, White has a double threat, 14.Nxc7+ forking king and rook and 14.Nxd4 removing a strong attacking piece. Even if Black can take the queen back, he can't withstand the material imbalance without great skills. On a "perfect" play of both sides, white has an edge (a knight versus three pawns)

[theonlyptrk]

the best chess stroy I've ever heard (probably because of Yasser talent in tales ;) )

[jeesjohnson]

He is the best lecturer...his memmory about Mikhail tal....its fantastic....and he also played with tal... he said that wonderful story

[ayushtated]

by yasser's last game he shows why he is a grandmaster

[elishaamadasu]

Such a beautiful game and finish at the end.

[GymChess]

I wonder when YouTube will start working properly again like it once did. Nowadays watching a clip is a challenge when it keeps stopping every second or so minute.

[newenglandsun]

i was playing a game with my uncle recently in which i saw a knight that my queen was eyeing defended by his own queen that seemed like it would cause a lot of trouble to my king-side and leave myself out-numbered positionally. so i took it. i got a knight for a queen and three pawns which actually activated my pieces and led to an eventual checkmate that he didn't see coming. materially, he had four pawns, two rooks, one knight, one bishop, and the queen and i had four pawns, two rooks, a knight, and a bishop. i'm not sure why they some still follow this point-value system as it is explicitly defined as being relative by rudolf spielman. i've been having correspondence games a lot recently with one person and we don't bother to say "hey, this queen is nine points, so i'm going to exhange it for two rooks!" we don't even give a crap about that point value system because a rook that's completely inactive might as well be off the board.