I Found The GREATEST Game | Kasparov vs Topalov 1999

Hikaru analyzes Kasparov vs. Topalov 1999, also known as Kaspaov's Immortal, and reveals the secrets behind why it's such an incredible game.



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[mynameiskip]

i checked Rxd4 with stockfish and at 28 moves deep it says it's an inaccuracy but then at 30 moves deep it says it's the best move. garry kasparov is insane

[FirstLast-gmnu]

"this is checkmate... The reason this is checkmate is because the king can't go to any squares"
Thank you Hikaru

[DanielPetri]

More content like this! This was thoroughly enjoyable

[berzerk]

Me: resigns after blundering a pawn

Kasparov: feeds his rook to a pawn and wins the game

[danielguel]

Hikaru analyzing an all-time classic from the 1990s

Refers to the right triangle, sniper's nest, connect three, juicers...

[ramachandra]

Topalov seems to end at the receiving end of an immortal game against world champions . Prior to this, karpov's immortal was against topalov in Linares 1994 . Also, before anand's immortal against Aronian, there was one game against topalov which was considered his immortal .

But topalov was happy about his game with Kasparov . his reasoning was it takes two players to create an immortal .

[GLu-tbpb]

Stockfish: Your resign now.
Gary: Checkmate.
Stockfish: ???!!!!

[hedi]

I sacrifice my pieces exactly like Kasparov the only difference is that after 10 seconds i resign

[chokoon]

Garry: **sacrifices rook**
Topalov: why do i hear boss music?

[someonepassingby]

Levy: hey man you're stealing my career

[land]

Topalov said thet he saw that it isn't ok for him to take the rook, but he did it to see what kasparov prepares for hours of thinking all this moves, thanks for Topalov. After this game Kasparov said that before sacrificing the rook he already saw this position where black king on his side of the board(16 moves ahead). Kasparov turn the beast mode there)

[coosoorlog]

I thought you were saying "Giri" and that made me really confused until we got to the game and I realized it was "Garry"

[Stoyev]

I am so proud to be Bulgarian for people like Veselin Topalov. This man will be one of the greatest and most humble people I've had the chances to meet. And he played very well against legends like Kasparov even sometimes getting the best of them :) God bless him and Garry for this game.

[niklFIT]

also in these memorable games, you have to give credit to the loosing player defending so well that a magnificent game can be created, there are many games where a player was about to create attacking masterpiece, but because the opponent blundered, it was over too soon and from the outside it looks like an ordinary blundered game. so well played topalov, from what i have seen he played on a stockfish level, but garry even surpassed the engine...

[AncientExplorationCanada]

This game is so deep with so many possibilities. It's insane to think that the computer has trouble seeing a human idea. After seeing you show all the lines and creativity, it's definitely the most beautiful game I've seen so far!

[viciousimpaler]

Modern chess players: Chess before computers was completly wild
Also them: This man played such great moves that even computer's can't interpret them...

[tuddgrimley]

Garry might not have made all top moves but he created an incredibly poisonous position where Topalov had to grapple with ghosts and dodge laser beams just to stay in the game even while up a whole rook. Garry's such a boss.

[erikkarlsson]

Im a painfully mediocre chess player myself but still I can really appreciate the beauty of this game (with a little help from Hikaru ;) ). Thanks for this analysis!

[kenmendoza]

17:40 Qxa6+ is +0.99 but after it plays Qxa6+ into c3+ it immediately jumps to +5. Crazy how Garry can see winning lines that even stockfish needed someone to manually input the continuation for it to realize it was winning. I know its not set to a high depth but still, very impressive.

[Mattliang]

I don't even know what to say. I guess happy new year