Grandmaster Chess Tactics #1: Can you spot the line?




This video series is going to focus on Grandmaster level chess tactics. This particular video features a tactical line used by William Steinitz against Johannes Hermann Zukertort in the first World Chess Championship played in 1866.

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22 Responses to “Grandmaster Chess Tactics #1: Can you spot the line?”

  1. nerfman09 says:

    how does a gm not see that

  2. nerfman09 says:

    zukertort is a zukerTARD

  3. nerfman09 says:

    i couldnt spot the line but i saw the two 1st moves

  4. Rinsho06 says:

    A sequence of chess moves, usually ending with a person either in a better position, a piece ahead, or winning the game.

  5. nerfman09 says:

    what’s a line?

  6. djhutchison says:

    He means that the bishop couldn’t take knight because it would have exposed the black king to a check by the white queen.

  7. foxywizrad says:

    well it’s really just like that sometimes we make mistakes even if they are obvious
    nobodies perfect u know

  8. ihavemonkeysinmybutt says:

    they didn’t have computer chess programs 140years ago

  9. abramo10 says:

    what do you mean by pind?

  10. vijaysuri says:

    i couldnt spot the line.very simply….

  11. lordgledhill says:

    bishop was pinned by queen on e1

  12. traveler900 says:

    perhaps it shows how far chess has advanced from then like anything else: compare with athletics where the records of the passed have been brushed away time and again

  13. jerkhead777 says:

    lmao, i laughed when i saw this
    i saw that fork a mile away!
    but wasnt he paying attention? this goes to show even grandmasters make mistakes…

  14. damasterofhoops says:

    why didnt the bishop take the challenging knight?

  15. maurycy407 says:

    Ya that was stupid. Took me about 20 seconds to spot that. People make mistakes that’s life.

  16. BillyJackets says:

    Hard to believe a world class player would miss the queen king fork but he obviously did

  17. Geppy23 says:

    it was before Steinitz time,so good players didn’t know anything about center, pawn structure,and something like 1.Nf3 was something what only weak players played. Before Steinitz it was all like cafeteria chess

  18. casanova0102 says:

    it was speed chess…

  19. LittleChessElf says:

    I saw that the knight check and the bishop pin could have been used, but I didn’t see that line. Nice vid.

  20. k17dudeP says:

    king f7 white replies knight to h2 queen had two squares to move to (g6 or f5) either one leads to knight d3 check and the bishop will take the queen next move it’s slightly better but not by much

  21. MiikalxD says:

    Wow.. It was so obvious..

  22. honeybobkins says:

    Same here. Good vid.

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