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ChessMess
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Registrace 4. 04. 2020
Welcome chess friends!
My channel provides puzzles, walk throughs, and analysis of chess games.
And on occasion, chess videos with a bit of a twist.
If you enjoy my content, don't forget to subscribe!
My channel provides puzzles, walk throughs, and analysis of chess games.
And on occasion, chess videos with a bit of a twist.
If you enjoy my content, don't forget to subscribe!
Speed run: Top Ten Fastest Checkmates!
You can find the previous top ten fastest checkmates here:
czcams.com/video/qlU3D_NcYd4/video.html
Each entry on this list is the oldest documented example of a game with the given move count that I have managed to find that I did not cover in the previous top ten fastest checkmates.
If you can find any games older than these, please let me know as I love mating really fast.
There are no known images of most of the players in this list, so I will be using historically accurate and respectful stand-ins for them.
10th place (14 moves):
Wiede vs Alphonse Goetz, 1880
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. b3 Qh4+ 4. g3 fxg3 5. h3 g2+ 6. Ke2 Qxe4+ 7. Kf2 gxh1=N#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1075778
9th place (13 moves):
Michael Meyer vs Douglas Newcomb, 1952
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Qh5 g6 4. Qxe5+ Ne7 5. Qxh8+ Ng8 6. Qxg8+ Bf8 7. Qxf7#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250791
8th place (12 moves):
Paul Keres vs Edward Arlamowski, 1950
1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Nbd7 6. Nd6#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1072334
7th place (11 moves):
Josef Emil Krejcik vs Anonymous (blindfold!), 1908
1. e3 d6 2. Nf3 Nd7 3. Bd3 b6 4. Ng5 h6 5. Ne6 fxe6 6. Bg6#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243009
6th place (10 moves):
M Warren vs Jan Selman, 1930
1. e4 c5 2. Ne2 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. c4 Nb4 5. Nbc3 Nd3#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243056
5th place (9 moves):
Jacques Mieses vs Anonymous (blindfold simultaneous!), 1933
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 Bd6 4. Qh5+ Ke7 5. Qf7#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1760577
4th place (8 moves):
J Spencer vs Takacs, 1981
1. c4 e5 2. b3 Bc5 3. Nc3 Qf6 4. Bb2 Qxf2#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1251092
3rd place (7 moves):
Philip Kahlert vs Christian Berendes, 2000
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 Bb4 4. Qxf7#
www.365chess.com/game.php?gid=587598
2nd place (6 moves):
Van Kessel vs Rensen, 1990
1. f4 d5 2. h3 e5 3. g4 Qh4#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243676
1st place (5 moves):
Walter Thomas Mayfield vs William Robert Trinks, 1959
1. e4 g5 2. Nc3 f5 3. Qh5#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243192
#top10
#topten
#checkmate
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00:00 Intro
00:23 10th place
01:48 9th place
02:43 8th place
03:37 7th place
04:31 6th place
05:09 5th place
06:03 4th place
06:38 3rd place
07:02 2nd place
07:29 1st place
07:50 Outro
czcams.com/video/qlU3D_NcYd4/video.html
Each entry on this list is the oldest documented example of a game with the given move count that I have managed to find that I did not cover in the previous top ten fastest checkmates.
If you can find any games older than these, please let me know as I love mating really fast.
There are no known images of most of the players in this list, so I will be using historically accurate and respectful stand-ins for them.
10th place (14 moves):
Wiede vs Alphonse Goetz, 1880
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. b3 Qh4+ 4. g3 fxg3 5. h3 g2+ 6. Ke2 Qxe4+ 7. Kf2 gxh1=N#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1075778
9th place (13 moves):
Michael Meyer vs Douglas Newcomb, 1952
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Qh5 g6 4. Qxe5+ Ne7 5. Qxh8+ Ng8 6. Qxg8+ Bf8 7. Qxf7#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1250791
8th place (12 moves):
Paul Keres vs Edward Arlamowski, 1950
1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Nbd7 6. Nd6#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1072334
7th place (11 moves):
Josef Emil Krejcik vs Anonymous (blindfold!), 1908
1. e3 d6 2. Nf3 Nd7 3. Bd3 b6 4. Ng5 h6 5. Ne6 fxe6 6. Bg6#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243009
6th place (10 moves):
M Warren vs Jan Selman, 1930
1. e4 c5 2. Ne2 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. c4 Nb4 5. Nbc3 Nd3#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243056
5th place (9 moves):
Jacques Mieses vs Anonymous (blindfold simultaneous!), 1933
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 Bd6 4. Qh5+ Ke7 5. Qf7#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1760577
4th place (8 moves):
J Spencer vs Takacs, 1981
1. c4 e5 2. b3 Bc5 3. Nc3 Qf6 4. Bb2 Qxf2#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1251092
3rd place (7 moves):
Philip Kahlert vs Christian Berendes, 2000
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Qf3 Bb4 4. Qxf7#
www.365chess.com/game.php?gid=587598
2nd place (6 moves):
Van Kessel vs Rensen, 1990
1. f4 d5 2. h3 e5 3. g4 Qh4#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243676
1st place (5 moves):
Walter Thomas Mayfield vs William Robert Trinks, 1959
1. e4 g5 2. Nc3 f5 3. Qh5#
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1243192
#top10
#topten
#checkmate
BTC address: bc1qzgpf8z42klfh62gj3lfyyga6dgx8pfarn2a2vq
00:00 Intro
00:23 10th place
01:48 9th place
02:43 8th place
03:37 7th place
04:31 6th place
05:09 5th place
06:03 4th place
06:38 3rd place
07:02 2nd place
07:29 1st place
07:50 Outro
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Concluding the 1834 World Chess Championship!
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This is the final video in this epic series on the 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. La Bourdonnais has left for France on urgent business, and the gentlemen of the Westminster Chess Club have been left to ponder on the cataclysmic chess event that has just happened. Mr William Greenwood Walker has recorded the g...
This is it! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 9]
zhlédnutí 202Před 5 měsíci
This is the ninth and last game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. McDonnell has come back from being a few games down, to even out the match at four games each. The first to win one more game wins the match, so this is the final battle! Baldrick has returned as today's guest commentator, and is very ...
Rule Britannia? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 8]
zhlédnutí 51Před 6 měsíci
This is the eighth game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. La Bourdonnais is winning 4 games to 3, and it's the first to win 5. So, he only needs to win one more to take the match, whereas McDonnell needs two. Today's guest commentator is a contemporary of the two chess greats, King Ghezo of Dahomey. ...
Beginning of the End? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 7]
zhlédnutí 130Před 6 měsíci
This is the seventh game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. Today's guest commentator is, very sadly, the Best of the West. La Bourdonnais is winning 4 games to 2, and it's the first to win 5. McDonnell is fighting an uphill struggle. Will he be able to turn the tides of history and rise like a phoeni...
Ultimate Showdown! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 6]
zhlédnutí 44Před 6 měsíci
This is the sixth game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. Today's guest commentator is the Beast from the East, with a bite louder than his bark. La Bourdonnais is winning 3 games to 2, and it's the first to win 5. Will McDonnell claw his way back in his spring offensive, or will LaBourdonnais break t...
Champion of the World! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 5]
zhlédnutí 55Před 6 měsíci
This is the fifth game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. Today's guest commentator is one of the greatest of all time, at everything, including chess! La Bourdonnais is winning 3 games to 1, and it's the first to win 5. McDonnell is going to have to come out fighting and dig down to the bottom of his...
1200 year old endgame!
zhlédnutí 1,8KPřed 6 měsíci
Shatranj is an ancient Persian chess variant, popular over a thousand years ago. In today's manuscript, it is red to move and to win. The position was first written down by Al-Adli, 1200 years ago, and engines are unable to solve this. In case you missed them, here are some of my previous shatranj videos... Two full games from the 920s: czcams.com/video/kUYlDdygdLc/video.html czcams.com/video/J...
A Sticky Situation! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 4]
zhlédnutí 110Před 7 měsíci
This is the fourth game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. Today's guest commentator is one of my favourite ever comic book characters. La Bourdonnais is winning 2 games to 1, and it's the first to win 5. Even although he played as white in the last three games, La Bourdonnais is playing as white agai...
Sac? Sac?! Sac!! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 3]
zhlédnutí 59Před 7 měsíci
This is the third game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. Today's guest commentator is one of my favourite ever comic book characters. The score is one game each, and for this match, it's the first to win 5. Even although he played as white in the last two games, La Bourdonnais is playing as white aga...
Anything could happen! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 2]
zhlédnutí 53Před 7 měsíci
After the New Year's break, we're back! This is the second game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. McDonnell is winning 1 game to 0, and for this match, it's the first to win 5. Even although he was playing as white in the last game, La Bourdonnais is playing as white again in this game. There may be ...
Speedy! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 6, Game 1]
zhlédnutí 77Před 9 měsíci
This is the first game of the sixth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. La Bourdonnais has won 4 of the 5 previous matches, but McDonnell is raring to g o and will fight as hard as ever. This one is another exciting and fast Evans Gambit, don't blink or you might miss all of the action! lichess.org/@/fortmap chess....
Long forced mate from more than 1000 years ago!
zhlédnutí 657Před 9 měsíci
In today's manuscript, we have an alleged mate in 43, between the two ancient players Hisham and An-Nasrani. In making this video, a found a modern twist, so stick around until the end of the video to find out what that is. In case you missed them, here are some of my previous shatranj videos... Two full games from the 920s: czcams.com/video/kUYlDdygdLc/video.html czcams.com/video/J0hiyG3NzhM/v...
We will remember! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 12]
zhlédnutí 183Před 9 měsíci
This is the twelfth game of the fifth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. La Bourdonnais has already won this best of 11 match 6 games to 4. But the way gentlemen rolled back in the day was to play out all of the remaining games regardless, so McDonnell is playing to make the scoreline look a bit better. McDonnell ...
Dry your eyes, mate! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 11]
zhlédnutí 78Před 9 měsíci
This is the eleventh game of the fifth 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell. La Bourdonnais has already won this best of 11 match 6 games to 3. But the way gentlemen rolled back in the day was to play out all of the remaining games regardless, so McDonnell is playing to make the scoreline look a bit better. We're goi...
You started it! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 10]
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You started it! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 10]
An easy 9th century chess puzzle! Can you solve it?
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An easy 9th century chess puzzle! Can you solve it?
Move 101? 1984 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 9]
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Move 101? 1984 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 9]
Bet you can't guess! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 8]
zhlédnutí 56Před 11 měsíci
Bet you can't guess! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 8]
Or is he UNSINKABLE? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 7]
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Or is he UNSINKABLE? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 7]
OUTRAGEOUS fortune! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 6]
zhlédnutí 57Před 11 měsíci
OUTRAGEOUS fortune! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 6]
NEVER play f5! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 5]
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NEVER play f5! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 5]
840 AD: An endgame from the 9th Century!
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840 AD: An endgame from the 9th Century!
DESPERATION! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 4]
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DESPERATION! 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 4]
History repeating? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 3]
zhlédnutí 45Před rokem
History repeating? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 3]
Prophetic Visionary? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 2]
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Prophetic Visionary? 1834 World Chess Championship [Match 5, Game 2]
This was very well done, kudos
Geeze what the hell man.
Your humor is crazy
Ooooooooh, I thought amazon was a male, it's actually a female!
I was thinking: MAybe someone actually did an analasys on this game, kinda like Lev Rozman or smth. And BAM, even with side commentary, beautifull madlad. even as a 1000elo rapid bongo, I cringed at multiple points, good calm entertainment.
Thanks, mate!
We still call bishops elephant( fil ) in Turkey
lol start off the channel insulting YTs largest audience and making an inappropriate joke. good sub growth strategy there - I think I'll pass on any chess strategy you might have.
Quite right, having watched the recent US presidential debate, I can categorically state that the USA is a very serious country. Good will and prayers to all my American friends, in all sincerety.
Honourable Sir/Madam, I visited your CZcams channel, and I find your content very good. Your video's Overview, Title, Description, Social, Checklist, and SEO options are not correct, so your videos are not ranking well. If these issues can be optimised, hopefully, the videos will rank better. If you want, I can help you. Thank You.
I read somewhere that you use KDEnlive, is this still true?
This is incredibly well done for such a niche topic. I appreciate the effort..
Thanks mate!
First one here lol
I wonder if this was the first piece capable of checkmating alone.
That lady would have a big ELO score nowadays.
Wait, what program lets you play Grande Acedrex? BTW, it's pronounced "A(rcher) + CE(ntral) + DREX".
Thank you for the pronounciation advice, I had a suspicion I was doing it wrong! The program I used for everything except the Amazon was "xboard", running on Linux.
Hah, Bishops to this day are called 'elephants' (or officers) in Russian
Very interesting fact, I had not heard of "officers" before.
@@ChessMess when i looked it up, it's more common in Bulgarian But it reached Russian too
Bro got a little quirky with this title 💀💀
The elephant can jump pass another peice?
Yes, they are a bit like horses, but diagonal.
joke goes wild 1:42 promoting 6 pawns to elephants left the chat (2:53 never mind) 5:17 it's worth about as much as a king, expect it's not royal. 5:34 thanks for the suggestion! Very Nice, but I think some aren't forgotten :)
Chess is something i've always been interested by but never bothered enough to get good at haha, these videos are good for me Btw did you know that you're apparently a 5/5 according to people on Favoree, good job that's not an easy feat
Hello, thanks for the positive comment! I think I know the two people who rated me on Favoree, haha.
I played a game that lasted 0.7 seconds. The record still stands.
Very impressing mating speed that the rest of us can only aspire to.
So you’re not gonna mention the zebra 🦓 and no one is going to say anything about it?
Didn't make the top ten, haha!
The archbishop can also force unassisted checkmate.
What program do you use to play Shatranj?
Hello, I use xboard on linux to play or make videos on my local computer, but you can probably find somewhere to play it online.
Hah, typical Spencer
At first I was like yeah das rite Monarchy is for LOSERS! But then I was like Yo man now I'm sad can't believe you would say that after you'll was crying about Princess Diana. That was a body count of what 2? 3000 they weren't former royal 304s you wouldn't be able to handle that if that happened it was like the troubles except you'll brought that on yaselves to be perfectly honest. I don't see how she was supposed to be some kinda beauty queen I mean I know that Britts ain't the most attractive people but if she was a knockout I would hate to see YOUR MUM! ahaaah
𝖎 would love more videos of obsolete chess pieces ❤ thanks!
Thanks for the kind words. I'm thinking about some sort of a sequel video, or a series on variants. Nothing set in stone yet. :)
@@ChessMess awsome! Have a good day!
I don't suppose you have played The Ouroboros King? It's rogue-lite chess. Over 40 chess pieces.
Hello, this one is new to me.
@@ChessMess Yeah, it's a fun one.
Cool, I will look into it when I get a chance! Thanks for the idea.
@@ChessMess Yeah, no problem. Been trying to get the developer to add more pieces and stuff to keep improving on it but I guess not too many people picked up the game and the developer moved on to a new project.
In arabic countries we still call the bishop (alfil) and the queen (alwazir) although it looks like a queen lol
The Jester is basically like how I was expecting pawns to be when I first started chess.
Nearly the same as me! My brother taught me that pawns moved like Ferzes.
Thank you for the video. I was so upset because they didn't show the board
Me too!
Where can I pay online
Heyy, what is the chess software that you are using? I want to use it for a vidro project. Please help me out with this👍
Hello, in this video I mostly used gnu xboard running on linux.
Very interesting historical details are discussed in this video. I am not sure if you have covered this previously, but I am wondering which opening was the most played by each player as white? My guess would be the Evans Gambit, but I could be wrong.
Hello, my counts are (using the 85 games without the adjustments mentioned in thia video)... Evan's Gambit: 22 (L as white 16, M as white 6) Queen's Gambit Accepted: 15 (all L as white, M as black) Sicilian McDonnell Attack: 14 (all M as white, L as black) King's Gambit Accepted: 10 (all M as white, L as black)
So much to unpack!
Nice video, thanks man!! I hope you will make others on Shatranj subjects... However I can't hold some criticism. I mean, I have been playing Shatranj for 3 years (almost every day) and I can tell you some of the lines suggested in this video are debatable (or even wrong). Most noticeable: if you lose a Horse the game is over, you can resign; while if you lose an Elephant you can still largely achieve a draw.
Great! impressive
Im not sure this example is checkmate 7:32 seems to me that the white rock can capture the black rock who is giving the check.
Good point, well spotted, I must have got too excited! McDonnell loses his queen but doesn't get checkmated.
I was expecting this to end in check mate by La Bourdonnais after all those crazy Sacrificing of McDonnell's pieces, but McDonnell resigns instead.
Yay, chess has its own version of Wonder Woman.
0:56 got me laughing real hard
I was rooting for McDonnell, glad he won the match
McDonell would clearly have benefited from Stockfish and 21st Century engine analysis.
But then maybe we wouldn't have had all the crazy games he played. :)
Well I can safely say I was not expecting the video to start with that
Referencing 9/11 in a "joke" is NOT funny. Can't write the name I called you because YT auto deletes comments that contain the word. But, you're English so you'll know what it is. Begins with a "C". Thumbs down and blocked.
I rate this comment 9 out of 11.
Your channel really is a secret gem of the chess world
Thanks professor, means a lot!
Mc Donell beast mode is so spectacular !
P-Dog 😂 Amazing video, I love your commentary style
It doesn't make sense that the strongest pieces are represented by female characters.
nice