Watching This Kasparov Game Will Forever Change How You Look at Chess

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00:00 Introduction
02:05 Game Begins
04:48 Puzzle 1
10:55 Puzzle 2
13:05 Puzzle 3
14:22 Puzzle 4
16:11 Summary & Key Lessons

The “Instructive Chess Classics” series continues with a beautiful game between Kasparov and Shirov. Some games leave a lasting impact, compelling you to rethink your approach to chess. This is one such game. Kasparov sacrifices the exchange in the Sveshnikov and buries Shirov’s knight on b7. Meanwhile, his own knight on d5 becomes an untouchable powerhouse. This strategic dominance persists throughout the game, illustrating that chess cannot be reduced to mere material considerations. Piece values fluctuate based on context—a knight can outperform a rook, and a buried knight can be worth no more than a pawn.

Please share your thoughts about this game by leaving a comment! What was the main lesson for you?

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16 thoughts on “Watching This Kasparov Game Will Forever Change How You Look at Chess”

  4. yes. more classics please. It would be nice if you could sum up or characterize the style of each player — what do they favour, what element are they most famous for? If you work at it, you can find it in the books, but in the context of a great game you could label very generally (not rigidly of course) the player's place in the history of chess for us. A critical issue for students is who should they study, emulate, if there is a style they are drawn to.

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  5. Hooray, found it. As Agadmator says, b4 is always the best move. And that b pawn became a distraction when it was a passed pawn.
    They were playing a game of chicken to see who would castle first 🙂

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  6. Gary was the magnus of today,he was a machine.Not often he lost,i first remember seeing his games in the late 1970's around 78 fantastic player and shaped chess for many many years.Before chess engines,this was real chess with real grandmasters round a board and a good chess book on the shelf,thats chess for me.

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  12. Hi, your channel always gives us great content! – Just wanted to point out that the word "fianchetto" is Italian and the "ch" is pronounced with a "K" sound, unlike if it was Spanish. (I try to write this in every chess channel in which they mispronounce it 😀 )

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  13. This is a very good way to learn classic games. Too many "classic game" studies don't teach very much as they don't have a clear lesson that it creates too much noise.

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  15. Thank you for another great explanation of the importance of piece activity in positional play and positional evaluation. The thought process also applies in the opposite direction: if you have a chance to win the exchange, consider the relative positional value of the pieces exchanged and the effect on both players' other pieces. I drew a game in a winning position not long before starting to watch your videos because I failed to do that, missed a much stronger continuation, and thus gave up my advantage. Now that I've begun learning from you, that won't happen again.

    If you'll excuse a somewhat long comment, the games of Petrosian provide great examples of exchange sacs. His game against Reshevsky at Zurich 1953 is a classic. And in game 10 of his 1966 match with Spassky, Petrosian made 2 positional exchange sacs. He ended up winning that game with a beautiful tactical sequence.

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