Having these games happen late for you as well as having to deal with the birth of your child and still being so consistent with your content upload schedule and quality is amazing dude. You deserve a billion subs.
Hi Antonio, Minor feedback - the board is a bit large and is not fitting the space properly. (The h file is like 80% visible) Nothing big but its a little bugging. Pleasure as always.
Naaah you're oveinterpreting one photo. Vidit is always chill and soft like a lamb, he's the nicest one out of all of them there. He just has a good focus, he meditates a lot.
#suggestion Vidit Caruana from Round 5 A very interesting game where Vidit gets out prepared in the opening and then outplays Caruana in the middle game only to not convert in time pressure. A very worthy game of being shown with sone good pause the video moments
Ya he has chosen to PLAY most of the games, infact all the games. While players like Hikaru and Ian have just come to draw certain games. I m not saying its good or bad but just explains why all his games have really been worth watching
It's not exactly the dominant strategy. If you're just trying to draw games , it'll hurt you at the end as most losses stem from a mindset of drawing . Caruana hasn't been winning the last 2 candidates for the very reason that he won't win , but he won't even lose and play so much theory that half of his games become drawish by move 30 while Nepo , Nakamura , Ding try to make most of every game they play . When you play candidates , you're not facing just one opponent at a time , the job is to compete with all the other 7 players in each and every round . I'm not saying Caruana is weak but his 2018 form was so good where he trusted himself and started getting wins and outruling any opponent who came close to his score @@3DHDcat
Some Cafe? Do you even follow the news? He earned his ELO by playing a LEGAL tournament accepted a huge risk. Not too many players have the balls to do something remotely similar.
Must be the pressure to win has gotten Alireza in a tail spin I feel bad for him to be struggling so much this game was a catastrophe I think there is a Great deal of pressure on all these players to perform well the ones handling that the best are the ones having good success 8 more games to go people will say a lot of negativity about Alireza now of course once a player struggles people are quick to make sharp criticism whether or not he can make any gains in this tournament eventually he will bounce back Thanks for the Game Enjoy your day
It's obvious that Alireza was fully tilted before taking the pawn on f2. He basically resigned the game there and then and pushed wood from there to the 40th move.
To me it is crazy that there is a queen trap and he instead does something positional and eventually ends up ahead two pawns and still wins. I couldn't have left the queen on the board unless I miraculously calculated an m2 or m3.
I’m sorry but I can’t relate to people saying they feel sorry for Alireza. He’s getting his just desserts after the embarrassing way in which he qualified for the tournament in the first place. I just hope his performance serves as a warning to others who try using the same tactics in the future.
Those people should educate themselves. There's a difference between winning an exceptionally strong grandmaster tournament that has already been announced months in advance and farming lower rates opponents just for the sake of rating points.@@varun8762
@@npgatech7 He qualified because he has the higher elo of any player who didn't otherwise qualify. He entered two low elo tournaments, including one he personally organized, to increase his elo (over Wesley So) right before the tournament
@@npgatech7he was farming opponents essentially. The French chess federation organised a tournament that they literally named "Alirezas Race to the Candidates" or something along those lines. The other players did not play against each other. They only played against him. Despite this he embarrassingly failed to win one of the matches and so had to find a subsequent lower rated GM tournament to farm.
I went with my father to the event and got to meet Vidit after this game! Nepo and Hikaru left the fan zone a bit earlier but Vidit was hanging around in a great mood after this win
I wish you would progress with the times and see that adding an evaluation bar is an important learning tool that’s adds to your chess teaching not takes away from it.
Why would you play Qf4 instead of pawn to e5 to protect the d6 bishop ?? I mean the queen is in good position near the king so that it can both attack or defend. Why would you move the queen and weaken your defense ? I don't get it.
@@JohnS-il1dr The "correct answer" is that people trash talk anyone on the internet being safe behind their screen. If it weren't for Firouzja they'd trash talk Ding, Niemann or Kramnik.
It's a Chocobo. One of my earliest donors was on a team that created Final Fantasy 15. It was a special thanks for her but I thought it looked good so I left it!
There was a time when Alireza used to leave poisoned pawn😢....why is he not taking candidates seriously?...who is his second? wesley so or abdussatarov would have performed much better than him...
you seem to have overlooked that while trapping the black queen, she can acrtually take the h2 pawn with an escape tunnel after this capture. Am I wrong?
what's the point of taking a rook when there is a pawn which is going to queen, white simply stacks the rooks , if you take one the other will take its place, still protecting the pawn. then knight as to move and pawn is pushed.
Vidit is an incredible player. It was impressive when he outplayed Caruana in that middlegame battle before seemingly getting into his own head and blundering it to a draw. Credit to caruanas tough defense as well but it should not have been enough to save that game.
The Richter-Rauzer has been much more popular than the Sozin for a long time, and stockfish prefers the Richter-Rauzer as well. However, surprise value and preparation are always a factor, and Firouzja was apparently not thoroughly prepared.
@@muntasirnafiz6190Gukesh played in a tournament to help him qualify for the Candidates and many other players were invited as well. Nothing backdoor about it; it was a tournament planned months in the making
He just must decide which path to follow. He's an incredibly talented chess player but if he wants to play at the absolute top level he has to focus on just chess.
has anyone considered 14. Na5 after 13. ... Qxf2? This threatens to pick up the bishop on b7, which is undefended, and if the knight takes then Bxb5+ picks up the black queen. The black bishop on b7 cannot avoid the white knight without leaving their own knight on c6 undefended.
Alireza is the salad of the candidates that everyone feasted on so far. Wishing him the best in rest of the candidates games. Would you please recap that crazy game between Pragg and Nepo# suggestion
@@siratti66 in that case queen is not trapped but black is highly underdeveloped . White can simply play e5 and ne4 attacking Black queen and preparing to attack king as black king is in the centre.
@@siratti66 it's playable. Directly h×g5 is better as it gives h file to the rook. There is no point of taking e4 pawn at the moment because it would open the diagonal for white bishop pressing the queen side of black. Somehow that e4 pawn is helpful for the black defence.
"You don't have to sacrifice the exchange here, but eh it just makes sense," Agadmator. Me thinking: "I wouldn't know but I understand you don't want to go into every little detail, that we as mere mortals are just not capable of to comprehend." 😀
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Guccireza is bleeding.
It's so tough to come back to this level of chess after such a long hiatus.
Zestyreza, even
He can only farm low elo old 2500s
@@SelfEvidentkarma is real 😅
Farmreza the choosen one😂
aliRIZZa
Having these games happen late for you as well as having to deal with the birth of your child and still being so consistent with your content upload schedule and quality is amazing dude. You deserve a billion subs.
it's his job and it's easy since they are the same videos he made 4 years ago lol
Just better hope he doesn't get complacent with keeping his wife satisfied. Or he could well enter a completely new game with no queen or pawn.
For the first half I thought you were making excuses for alirezas play.
Hi Antonio, Minor feedback - the board is a bit large and is not fitting the space properly. (The h file is like 80% visible) Nothing big but its a little bugging. Pleasure as always.
Yeah, it's actually 90%. Accidentally mouse scrolled to zoom before recording. Will not be in the next one!
@@agadmator 90% LoL 😂
@@agadmator
92.54% actually 😂😂😂
@@unknown-unknown69 Obviously:)
Free content and you are complaining about a very minor detail.
Sagar Shah taking picture😁
Its crazy how many times we see Sagar in these random photos at chess tournaments😂
Nice to see the candidates farming alireza so effectively
Farmer fizzy is good a beating players below 2500. He shouldn't be playing with the big boys, they are way beyond his level.
Just desserts I would say given what he did to qualify
@@Dude-etiquette what did he do? 😂
Played lower rated players and repeatedly beat them to boost his rating @@mishakmanuel1115
One good farming deserves another?
Nice to see GucciReza and Chanel Shah in one frame.
Swagger Shah
😂😂@@Aditya-dw4kz
8:59 Vidit looks super menacing here… a huntsman going after his prey with cold, calculated precision.
Naaah you're oveinterpreting one photo. Vidit is always chill and soft like a lamb, he's the nicest one out of all of them there. He just has a good focus, he meditates a lot.
Yep, like he's circling the street after a big meal, looking for a spot to squat.
I miss the old Alireza, I hope he regains his form
Sir, the board is getting cut on the h file side of the chess board... Kindly get it fixed 🙂 Thank you for a wonderful walkthrough of the game ☺️🎯
It's amazing to see players at the highest level blunder like that, so early in a classical game.
#suggestion Vidit Caruana from Round 5
A very interesting game where Vidit gets out prepared in the opening and then outplays Caruana in the middle game only to not convert in time pressure.
A very worthy game of being shown with sone good pause the video moments
Vidit has been the main character in this tournament. Every game is drama
Ya he has chosen to PLAY most of the games, infact all the games. While players like Hikaru and Ian have just come to draw certain games. I m not saying its good or bad but just explains why all his games have really been worth watching
@@indianfan1029HiKKKaru is #2 seed and ian won previous two like this so sweaty this is the dominant strategy ,conserve energy
It's not exactly the dominant strategy. If you're just trying to draw games , it'll hurt you at the end as most losses stem from a mindset of drawing . Caruana hasn't been winning the last 2 candidates for the very reason that he won't win , but he won't even lose and play so much theory that half of his games become drawish by move 30 while Nepo , Nakamura , Ding try to make most of every game they play . When you play candidates , you're not facing just one opponent at a time , the job is to compete with all the other 7 players in each and every round . I'm not saying Caruana is weak but his 2018 form was so good where he trusted himself and started getting wins and outruling any opponent who came close to his score @@3DHDcat
This is what you get when you want to qualify for candidates by playing some cafe tournaments.
He qualified by playing an open tournament. His own tournament was not recognised by FIDE
@@speculator9572 a tournament concurrent with FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championships that most GMs were playing there.
Some Cafe? Do you even follow the news? He earned his ELO by playing a LEGAL tournament accepted a huge risk.
Not too many players have the balls to do something remotely similar.
That Triforce is going to give hell to the candidates tournament. The Vidid, Guky, Praggna Triforce.
*cries in Arjun*
Must be the pressure to win has gotten Alireza in a tail spin I feel bad for him to be struggling so much this game was a catastrophe I think there is a Great deal of pressure on all these players to perform well the ones handling that the best are the ones having good success 8 more games to go people will say a lot of negativity about Alireza now of course once a player struggles people are quick to make sharp criticism whether or not he can make any gains in this tournament eventually he will bounce back Thanks for the Game Enjoy your day
Hi Agad, can you please include the time as well for each player? At least in the classical format games.
Winning a winning position is the hardest thing in chess, but Vidit accomplished that today and did so in style
Yes, if he would have won the winning position against fabi would have been amazing
Second hardest, right after winning a losing position.
Alireza is clearly showing that he STOLE the spot from Wesly So, who deserved much more.
It's obvious that Alireza was fully tilted before taking the pawn on f2. He basically resigned the game there and then and pushed wood from there to the 40th move.
Vidit was in time trouble. Alireza was expecting Vidit to make mistakes during this time scramble.
Vidit 🔥🔥🎉🇮🇳❤
To me it is crazy that there is a queen trap and he instead does something positional and eventually ends up ahead two pawns and still wins. I couldn't have left the queen on the board unless I miraculously calculated an m2 or m3.
What a great 13 min video
Haven’t seen it but I know it’s a banger thank you
Watch it, it is actually great!
I’m sorry but I can’t relate to people saying they feel sorry for Alireza. He’s getting his just desserts after the embarrassing way in which he qualified for the tournament in the first place. I just hope his performance serves as a warning to others who try using the same tactics in the future.
People will argue by saying gukesh did the same
What exactly happened in his qualifying rounds?
Those people should educate themselves. There's a difference between winning an exceptionally strong grandmaster tournament that has already been announced months in advance and farming lower rates opponents just for the sake of rating points.@@varun8762
@@npgatech7 He qualified because he has the higher elo of any player who didn't otherwise qualify. He entered two low elo tournaments, including one he personally organized, to increase his elo (over Wesley So) right before the tournament
@@npgatech7he was farming opponents essentially. The French chess federation organised a tournament that they literally named "Alirezas Race to the Candidates" or something along those lines. The other players did not play against each other. They only played against him. Despite this he embarrassingly failed to win one of the matches and so had to find a subsequent lower rated GM tournament to farm.
Vidit is killer of strongest players
Alireza may have been defeated, but he went down in style.
By vidit he indeed won in style
That was a pun ,I guess that Alireza went down in style ( style relating to fashion )@@SATWIKRAJ-x3b
No style when you go down like that
Good one!😂
Bro's moved his queen 6 times in the opening phase itself...talks a lot about his prep and state of mind
13:13 Very impressive how Vidit did not go for a queen trap, but for a positional advantage instead.
"It's a fairly standard collapse."
Those are the best kinds.
What time is it in Croatia? Here (American Continent) it's almost 2am. Thank you for your dedication Agad
0:20 that's Sagar Shah
6:15 How are there no more squares for the black queen, queen can capture on g4, right?
is that batik?
Great video. the H file is being clipped a little bit by the graphics overlay.
*Proud of Indian players*
Vishy anand
pragg
vidit
gukesh
arjun erigaisi
nihal sarin
I went with my father to the event and got to meet Vidit after this game! Nepo and Hikaru left the fan zone a bit earlier but Vidit was hanging around in a great mood after this win
I wish you would progress with the times and see that adding an evaluation bar is an important learning tool that’s adds to your chess teaching not takes away from it.
I love the Madiba shirt from Firouzja .
It feels like Alireza will be the deciding factor of who will win the tournament🥇
I mean by giving points of course
Alireza and Abasov both will help decide the standings.
The are both stepping stone and fiighting for the weakest player of the tournamenr!
Waiting for your video and here we go
U forgot to show praggs game against Nepo am sure there are some engine moves we need to see in that game
Why would you play Qf4 instead of pawn to e5 to protect the d6 bishop ?? I mean the queen is in good position near the king so that it can both attack or defend. Why would you move the queen and weaken your defense ? I don't get it.
Poisoned Pawn speaks for itself.
- Hans Niemann Moke
As you can see Vidit with white pieces and Alireza Firouza with.....daammm golden jazzed gown
Vidit has some nasty opening tricks this tournament. A very exciting player.
Everyone criticising Alireza for the loss but this this is beautiful win by Vidit.
in the line you showed at 6:14 wont the queen be able to escape just capturing g4 if Bg2?
Haven't kept up with Chess in a while. What's all the controversy surrounding Firouzja?
He qualified for the Candidates in a shady way by farming elo rating points from a bunch of weaker players.
@@JohnS-il1dr The "correct answer" is that people trash talk anyone on the internet being safe behind their screen. If it weren't for Firouzja they'd trash talk Ding, Niemann or Kramnik.
@@JohnS-il1drthat tournament wasn't counted. He later played an open tournament and qualified.
What’s up with the yellow bird above Antonio? 5 years subbed and only noticed it now.
It's a Chocobo. One of my earliest donors was on a team that created Final Fantasy 15. It was a special thanks for her but I thought it looked good so I left it!
All I'm seeing in my games these days is the Classical Variation. Did some internet goof make a video on it?
In round 7 , Nepo vs hikaru , nepo played kg8 , instead he could have played NG4 threating fork , could you pls provide analysis
There was a time when Alireza used to leave poisoned pawn😢....why is he not taking candidates seriously?...who is his second? wesley so or abdussatarov would have performed much better than him...
He should not have been in the candidates anyway. He just farmed elo only to get trashed 😊
you seem to have overlooked that while trapping the black queen, she can acrtually take the h2 pawn with an escape tunnel after this capture. Am I wrong?
10:49, can someone tell, why Qe1 check is a bad idea?
Qe1 check -> Ka2 -> Bh6, pinning both the rooks?
what's the point of taking a rook when there is a pawn which is going to queen, white simply stacks the rooks , if you take one the other will take its place, still protecting the pawn. then knight as to move and pawn is pushed.
Rook is not important anyway, pawn is about to queen
# Suggestion the Pragg game was fantastic Round 6
Add remaining time as well, along with moves, that would be great.
was that photo at 9:02 legit? Where's Alireza's flamboyant shirt
You can see his jacket hanging on the back of his chair in the first photo. He simply wore his jacket in the second photo
Vidit is an incredible player. It was impressive when he outplayed Caruana in that middlegame battle before seemingly getting into his own head and blundering it to a draw. Credit to caruanas tough defense as well but it should not have been enough to save that game.
@8:54 Alireza wearing jacket , was the position that dead cold :D
It's always devastating when you need to make a special notation for your pieces as you can have some pieces twice.
About 12:32 Qcf8#
The Richter-Rauzer has been much more popular than the Sozin for a long time, and stockfish prefers the Richter-Rauzer as well. However, surprise value and preparation are always a factor, and Firouzja was apparently not thoroughly prepared.
e5 doesn't make sense. he could have directly played B-e3? Am I missing something here? and then rdf1, following the Queen?
6:15 what about Qxg4 ?
What’s going on with Alireza and Ding these days
Hello Alireza - Wesley 😂
how did Alireza qualify for this tournament?
Problem of using the back door to reach candidates. Instead Wesley So should have been in candidates instead of Alireza
Karma is real!
Gukesh also took backdoor but he's leading
@@muntasirnafiz6190Gukesh played in a tournament to help him qualify for the Candidates and many other players were invited as well. Nothing backdoor about it; it was a tournament planned months in the making
@@muntasirnafiz6190 Well the backdoor Gukesh took had strong guards but for Alireza there were just children with candies.
@@muntasirnafiz6190lol gukesh isn't weak like Ali he played strong player and it was fair tournament
Wow, Vidit! Flawless.
Agad please show the rankings after every match/round
# suggestion In the thumbnail please use ur own board for showcasing the critical moment.
Sagar shah be photo bombing hard.
"Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.”
At 8:40 wasn't ... Bb7 supposed to be a better defense for black than ... Ra8?
Chess board is not trimmed properly in this video.
Nice going Vidt!!!
Wow there is an entire sea in the background of the photo
Well done 😂
Alireza must go back to fashion
No sympathy for him. What an embarrassing way he tried to get to the candidates by farming old washed 2500s
is better to go back further;
He just must decide which path to follow. He's an incredibly talented chess player but if he wants to play at the absolute top level he has to focus on just chess.
No sympathy for the guy who reached the candidates by farming washed old aged low elo 2500s
Firouzja is just like ding sometimes He's alright, but most of the time he's not great.
Q g3 am I missing something ?
Alireza is on the top of this wolf pack…. Thank you for boosting him.
Where've you been?
Quite the game, even I knew White is winning when the Queen Side is open to all 4 passed pawns.
So sad for Alireza. He has the potential to be the world Champion
The board is a little cut off on the H file
0:31 Sagar shah in his colourful shirt taking picture with his Samsung Ultra phone :) This is what is happening in the photo :)
why Are pieces cut off that is so sad
I wonder if the pro chess players read a comic called AGE OF CAISSA?
has anyone considered 14. Na5 after 13. ... Qxf2? This threatens to pick up the bishop on b7, which is undefended, and if the knight takes then Bxb5+ picks up the black queen. The black bishop on b7 cannot avoid the white knight without leaving their own knight on c6 undefended.
Alireza is an excellent farmer.
Good morning from Syria ❤
Again alireza is floundering in the candidates. Seems very sad. He's much stronger than this
someone is always better than you in chess,,,, ^_^ doesn't matter who you are (excluding magnus carlsen) 😊
Alireza is the salad of the candidates that everyone feasted on so far. Wishing him the best in rest of the candidates games. Would you please recap that crazy game between Pragg and Nepo# suggestion
Well, Alireza did what he did to get a spot in the candidates, and you wonder if it's worth it at all?!!
I don't see, what will happen if Qh4,Bg5, and back to Qh2 not Qh3 at 6:02 or 6:44
h2 is guarded by the rook
@@blackksheepp Sry, back to f2
@@siratti66 in that case queen is not trapped but black is highly underdeveloped . White can simply play e5 and ne4 attacking Black queen and preparing to attack king as black king is in the centre.
@@blackksheeppI see, thx, and do you think, is it playable or not, at 6:09. Qxc3,Qxc3, and hxg5, or first Hxe4 after Hxg5?
@@siratti66 it's playable. Directly h×g5 is better as it gives h file to the rook. There is no point of taking e4 pawn at the moment because it would open the diagonal for white bishop pressing the queen side of black. Somehow that e4 pawn is helpful for the black defence.
"You don't have to sacrifice the exchange here, but eh it just makes sense," Agadmator. Me thinking: "I wouldn't know but I understand you don't want to go into every little detail, that we as mere mortals are just not capable of to comprehend." 😀
Superb analysis as always 🥂
Vidit looking good on this one!! He exceeded my expectation by deafeating Hikaru with black and now defeated Alireza with style!! Cold blooded!!
Can we get the clock shown in these games? Would be great to understand the time pressure and time taken for each move to truly understand the stakes
Agad.. Please if not the engine bar atleast place the time on the board..
I THINK THATS HARD TO DO AS HE PLAYS THE MOVES HIMSELF
Sagar Shah is everywhere :p
Eagerly waiting