Vladimir Kramnik's Brilliant Positional Rook Sacrifice

Vladimir Kramnik played a certain move of the year nominee to win against Pentala Harikrishna in Round 4 of the Shamkir Chess Gashimov Memorial. Can you see what he came up with? Watch the full video for all of Danny Rensch's instructive commentary.

[jsufi]

one of the best commentary videos I've seen. thank you Danny.

[fibonachos]

Great analysis! I think getting into the meat of things from the start really allowed you to explore the key positions in-depth without losing time on opening nuances, this made the analysis much more instructive!

[nicopeters]

You need to do more of these excellent analysis videos. They are on par with Chess24 videos, and might even go into greater detail. I'm a 1200 chess.com player and I can understand the ideas presented. It humanises the super GM's a bit.

[lllllMlllll]

Kramnik .. my favorite living player .. I remember when Kasparov was unstoppable, Kramnik was his nightmare .. :)

[nLTwiGGy]

Wow this was an amazing analysis and an excellent game. thank you for the content!

[Grzegorz]

Great analysis and incredible sacrifice.

[turkiyett]

1:32 not so hard
Rxe5
2:33 I think engine miss another strong move I see
Positional sacrfices you need calculate a lot of thinks

[speedgenius]

thank you for your explanations. Master.

[inducedbycoffee]

This sac is hard to wrap my head around lol. I wonder for how long he thought about it

[Greenlion]

I feel like if you just switch the way you say the a's in Tal and Kramnik, everything is going to feel ok!

[furkankarakaya]

engines arent materilistic rench, you would be shocked if u use it sometimes 😂

[Proflaxis]

Even though the commentary content is good, somehow there is something about Danny's voice that I would prefer Jerry, Fins, or Tony Ro to do this sort of thing. I think the voice is high pitched and hurried (not calm at all) very similar to Maurice Ashley.