Most brilliant moves series : Veselin Topalov vs Alexei Shirov 1998 - Bishop Endgame - Brilliancy
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Veselin Topalov vs Alexey Shirov
It (cat.21) 1998 · Gruenfeld Defense: Exchange Variation (D85)
Who is Alexei Shirov ?
Alexei Shirov (Russian: Алексей Дми́триевич Ши́ров, romanized: Alexey Dmitrievich Shirov, Latvian: Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994.[1]
He won a match against Vladimir Kramnik in 1998 to qualify to play as challenger for the classical world championship match with Garry Kasparov. However it never took place for lack of sponsorship.
Career
Shirov became the world under-16 champion in 1988 and was the runner-up at the World Junior Championship in 1990 (second on tiebreaks to Ilya Gurevich). In the same year, he achieved the title of Grandmaster. Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 (shared first place with Veselin Topalov), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, Paul Keres Memorial Rapid Tournament in Tallinn (2004, 2005, 2011,[2] 2012,[3] 2013),[4] Canadian Open Chess Championship 2005.
In 1998 Shirov's ranking rose to number four in the world. On the basis of his rating, he was invited to play a ten-game match against Vladimir Kramnik to select a challenger for World Champion Garry Kasparov. Shirov won the match with two wins, no losses and seven draws.[5] However, the plans for the Kasparov match fell through when sufficient financial backing could not be found. When Kasparov instead played Kramnik for the world title in 2000, Shirov maintained that the match was invalid and he was the rightful challenger.[6]
In 2000, Shirov reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship, losing 3½-½ to Viswanathan Anand.
In May-June 2007 he played in the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007. He won his first round match against Michael Adams (+1−1=4, won in rapid playoff), but was eliminated when he lost his second round match to Levon Aronian (+0−1=5).
In November-December 2007 Shirov played in the Chess World Cup 2007. He made the final, but lost the final 2½-1½ to Gata Kamsky.
In May 2009, Alexei Shirov won the category 21 M-Tel Masters 2009 tournament, held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In September 2010, Shirov participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai, where he faced world No. 4 Levon Aronian, world No. 5 Vladimir Kramnik, and Wang Hao; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and World Champion Viswanathan Anand.[7] After drawing his first two games, Shirov then won three consecutive games, including his first victory over Kramnik since 2003.[8] Finishing with 4½/6 points, Shirov won the tournament, qualifying along with Kramnik for the Grand Slam final.[9]
In May 2011, Shirov won a strong round-robin tournament in Lublin, Poland, the 3rd Lublin Union Memorial 2011 with a score of 5/7.[10] In December 2011, he switched back federations from Spain to Latvia.[11]
In February 2012, Shirov won the Aivars Gipslis Memorial in Riga with 8 points out of 9.[12] In June 2012 Shirov won the Buenos Aires Masters Tournament (category 13) with 5½/7.
In August 2013, he played in the Chess World Cup. He won his first round match against Hou Yifan,[13] and was eliminated when he lost his second round match to Wei Yi. In August 2015, Shirov won the 5th Riga Technical University Open edging out Robert ...
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Playing style
Shirov is one of the greatest tactical players and is noted for his attacking style and often excels in complications, a tendency which has led to comparisons with fellow Latvian and former world champion, Mikhail Tal, under whom he studied in his youth.[citation needed] Shirov is also a fantastic endgame player.
Illustrative game
Topalov vs. Shirov, 1998...
Position after 47...Bh3!! This move is placed number one in John Emms' book The Most Amazing Chess Moves of All Time.
During the 1998 Linares chess tournament Shirov played Black against future FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov and won by sacrificing his only piece in a bishop and pawn ending:
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bb5+ c6 8.Ba4 0-0 9.Ne2 Nd7 10.0-0 e5 11.f3 Qe7 12.Be3 Rd8 13.Qc2 Nb6 14.Bb3 Be6 15.Rad1 Nc4 16.Bc1 b5 17.f4 exd4 18.Nxd4 Bg4 19.Rde1 Qc5 20.Kh1 a5 21.h3 Bd7 22.a4 bxa4 23.Ba2 Be8 24.e5 Nb6 25.f5 Nd5 26.Bd2 Nb4 27.Qxa4 Nxa2 28.Qxa2 Bxe5 29.fxg6 hxg6 30.Bg5 Rd5 31.Re3 Qd6 32.Qe2 Bd7 33.c4 Bxd4 34.cxd5 Bxe3 35.Qxe3 Re8 36.Qc3 Qxd5 37.Bh6 Re5 38.Rf3 Qc5 39.Qa1 Bf5 40.Re3 f6 41.Rxe5 Qxe5 42.Qa2+ Qd5 43.Qxd5+ cxd5 44.Bd2 a4 45.Bc3 Kf7 46.h4 Ke6 47.Kg1 Bh3!! (diagram) 48.gxh3 Kf5 49.Kf2 Ke4 50.Bxf6 d4 51.Be7 Kd3 52.Bc5 Kc4 53.Be7 Kb3 0-1[18] - Zábava
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It seems Topalov often ends up on the wrong end of brilliant moves/games
Tal disguised himself as Shirov for this game.
Thank you for uploading.
Nice endgame! Even if it´s very logical in this position to give up the bishop or at least to consider it it takes huge balls and very accurate calculation to actually play it!! Very nice done, thank you for uploading!
Such a beautiful move!
Once you said radical/imaginative, I found Bh3 fast, and the followup by blocking the bishop. Nice series!
absolutely brilliant - it must take some amazing concentration to see such beautifully accurate moves.
In a book Shirov mentions that he had similar endgame before. That sheds more light.
Very nice!
its the only winning move, engines find it, but depend on the cuts, they take a long time, because they evaluate for example a3 with over 2 pawns and only with deep search see the thread, bh3 is first evaluate with 0.0, but it is the only move which evaluation goes to a clear win and i think all other is a draw.
So this move is the only theoretical winning move.
Shirov is one of the most brilliant players. I used to listen to his lectures in his native language -russian.
Do you understand spoken Russian?
brilliant!
Shirov playlist link for other Shirov videos is now in the Description of this game.
That really was brilliant play.
this is more beautiful than any queen sack ive seen.
@ChessReaper I didn't realise I set it as a problem or puzzle or that it was a speed contest. Nor do I think finding the move is as important as the reasons behind the move. I feel you lost the entire point of the video quite frankly. Sorry.
Shirov is my countryman, both of us were born in Riga and share much in common. Some of my acquaintances personally know him and played with him. I know a lad who won a game from him.There is lectures in Russian where he explaines many interesting things about chess.Guys will you please know that Shirov 's name Alexei is pronounced with the accent on the last syllable otherwise it sounds like marcus with the accent on the last syllable.
Would you like your name to be crippled like that?
KC and Jessica, you are both brilliant and gologram is your opposite, intellectually and ethically.
My life goal is to enter a tournament, ask my opponent to please write his name down on my notation sheet, and it'll say "Tryfron Gavriel". At that point, i would resign, run home crying and frame the sheet.
These kinds of games always frustrate me. The part that always affects my analysis is with so few pieces and the fact that you're required to make a move, it's sometimes hard to remember that you have to think of SOME move to make, you can't just sit on the position. It's often that having to make SOME kind of move breaks your perfect position so you have to be sure you have somewhere to go that doesn't affect you negatively.
it seems that after taking the queens of the board its a win no matter what, having that Bishop sac idea... this is really complicated stuff. More endgame stuff... I'm loving these endgame stuff
I guessed the move simply because I was expecting something radical, but I didn't see the entire continuation.
at 9.15, if the white king plants himself in front of the pawn and the bishop is sacrificed to prevent the a pawn from proceeding then we get a draw/stalemate
Biship h3 quadruple exclam
@kingscrusher I also saw the move after a few seconds, cause it was the only "unnormal" move (of the few possible ;) ) but like KC says: i didnt think any further, just seeing this ONE move and nothing else :D
Speelman stomped Topalov a couple years earlier so I am not surprised.
I wonder what Topalov's reaction was when he saw Shirov make Bh3 =)
that arrow won't come off! :)
i find these very interesting but i feel there are too many scenarios, i am not that great at chess so i get a bit would up when there are so many explanations. but for sure you know your chess.
I saw the move bishop h3 and I said to myself.. yes it doubles the pawns on the H file and gives the king access, but surely it's far too crazy.
Lo and behold it was the game move lol
White proper response is 2. Ke2
Then black wins but the continuation is difficult.
Stockfish gives Bh3 two question marks, can someone explain?
Stockfish NNUE, which is the last available version, agrees with Bh3. It is the only winning move.
Sir, can u tell, did Alexi calculated all these moves in the beginning only , when he sacrificed bishop?hw many moves can grandmasters see in one shot?
Hard to say exactly, but I think he probably must have seen all of this in order to make the move. If you don't see the continuation, a move like this is a bad idea.
@gologram Well I think I am more interested in chess actually - do you have anything relevant to say for the chess aspects, or do you want to just carry on in all my videos in this rather one dimensional pro russian vein?! Chess is country and age indpendent - we are all friends in chess. Perhaps just respect that and accept differences in pronounciation?!
it's a beautiful move, but wasn't he winning the game anyway?
For example Bc2 would win the game as well without sacrificing the bishop.
Bc2 draws.
haha I actually called it. mostly because I knew I was looking for something crazy.
Not Veslin Toplov it's VESELIN TOPALOV. Open your mouth when you say his name - Veselin Topalov