Best YouTube videos on Chess & Strategy
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Karpov vs. Kasparov: Epic Rivalry of Chess Titans Amid USSR Collapse | SLICE WHO | FULL DOCUMENTARY
The 25-year duel between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov, played out against the slow collapse of the Soviet Union, two opposed temperaments and an ideological proxy war fought across a chessboard. (Published 18 Jul 2024)
1972: BOBBY FISCHER - This Little Thing with Me and Spassky | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
James Burke reports from Reykjavik as a 29-year-old Bobby Fischer faces Boris Spassky in the Cold War's most famous match, a remarkable time capsule of chess's biggest moment. (Published 28 Apr 2025)
Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The Chess Battle For Humanity
The full story of the 1997 showdown between world champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, the match where a machine beat the best human player for the first time, told through the games that decided it. (Published 31 Mar 2021)
The Legend: Paul Morphy - GM Ben Finegold - 2014.12.18
Grandmaster Ben Finegold tells the story of Paul Morphy, the New Orleans prodigy who crushed Europe's best in the 1850s and then vanished from the game, walking through the brilliancies that made him chess's first superstar. (Published 19 Dec 2014)