The main reason I like Alex is because she is genuinely interested in people and pays attention to them when they speak, tell stories, etc. Very rare nowadays IMO.
Qg8 + Followed by R x C8...and her Queen on e5 still hanging! OVER-RATED BOTEZ ESCAPED FROM DEAD LOST!🙄😒🙈...and many people from here or her followers are still considering her one of the best "chess players"...I mean What The hell!
What a turnaround! Plus: this was a particularly good video because she sort of interviewed him about his life's experience with chess! So it's a trash talk game....with an interview! Alex is juggling three things during this video! Liked the written commentary tips as well.
Not really she's kind of a tool during the game because she keeps saying how bad she's playing. Nobody likes it when you make stupid excuses especially if you win
His disappointment at the end was really heartbreaking. I didn't want Alex to lose, but at the same time, I didn't mind him winning. His nervous tic of pushing the clock button multiple times was sort of hilarious. Nice come back win, Alex!
@@MarvelousMaterial When I was watching live, my initial impression was just Qf8 (literally the only check), Kd7 is forced, and then Rxc8. Looks completely and easily winning for white
@Mr. Mr. Yes, exactly, she loses her queen, he loses his rooks, which isn't where she wanted to be, and which she admitted (of course). So, no, he messed that up because in the end he threw away his advantage. The build up wherein her bishop was hanging and would be lost as well as her queen... that was his. He could have taken the bishop, lost rook, queen takes rook, rook take queen, king takes rook. Queen vs no queen, pretty much a lost game. I haven't looked back to the specifics, but that's what I remember seeing in the video. Her own admission around that time as well says a lot.
@@semasiologistics yea Qf8+ Kd7 Rxc8 is the winning line. If Rxe5 instead, then Alex has 2 rooks and a pawn to his queen, which is technically winning for Alex. At least, it is much worse for him than Rxc8
Love how you tell him he is not hitting the clock right, could waste your time while he is making a move, and he won’t change, so you start hitting the clock twice two. Too funny.
@@Welcome2Niches not really. That is a tick. Where one is compelled to repeat an action multiple times. It takes specific concentration not to do the tick. If you noticed how he fidgeted his leg while playing, it's the same, he would have had to specifically concentrate on NOT fisgeting to hold that leg still, and even then it would be only last for a couple of seconds before that leg started bouncing again.
She was in such a dam good spot after she traded knights. But she failed to see how to convert it. Attack right side or castle that way. Yes castling opposite normally means attack their king but the bishops make that task impossible. She was too worried about where his queen would go when she just had to put her rooks and behide the pawns push and try not to blunder mate
Is he going to reply regarding his multiple times of repeated button pushing which stops his time but keeps the opponent's running? If that were allowed, it takes away the merit reward for being able to think fast. For those that like his personality, he is a purposeful cheater if he doesn't admit wrongdoing and hides behind a claim of it being an involuntary nervous tick!!
@@septidelaucer1267 Sure, watching on TH-cam is different from playing live. The guy seemed pretty sweet, maybe he was working hard not to take $100 off the poor lady LOL.
@@jimuren2388 guy keeps rambling and says to call him big o talking about his hard life, it's a friendly chess match not an introduction to your life lol
I recognize that multi-tap on the clock. Back in the day, clocks were less reliable and everything was manual and one developed a multi-tap habit to make sure it went down.
That tapping lol, it’s a muscle memory of a hustler, it’s part of their game. Specialy when u mention the 100 bucks, u just summon the hustler demon back from hell.
Yup, that's what I was thinking. It's not a 'tick' as some people have stated. He knows what he's doing - it's a distraction technique to get your opponent to focus on the fake 'tick', thereby taking their concentration away from the game. I often trash talk when playing against good players. I start spouting things like "I remember that time I ended up with just 2 rooks, no other pieces, and I got whitewashed. Made me realise how valuable it was to have at least 1 knight". And then I see the player squirming as I try to capture their knights 😂
7:05 For sure Qf8 + and it was the guaranteed win, Alexandra had no chance of winning this game unless her opponent concentrated a little more instead of blah the whole game !
I think that's a part of his strategy. Did you notice how much he talked when Alex had under a minute of time left? By talking, he's distracting his opponent and throwing off their game.
He wasn't watching the board at around 6:45, thus he didn't really track her move and ends up giving up his queen. It was that brief but simple mistake, which cost him the whole game. Damn, she really cleaned house with that end game.
Great game. Absolutely love Alexandra. She’s an absolutely phenomenal chess player with a wonderful mind for the game. Kind, beautiful, goofy and you can tell she really enjoys talking with her opponents. She’s a real gem
If your father dies during pregnancy, and your mother dies while giving birth or in late pregnancy dies in an accident and they can still get the baby out alive (both cases are rare but do happen), you are an orphan at birth. If your parents die shortly after you were born, you weren't born as an orphan, but in practice this doesn't differ much. I don't see what's funny about that...
When she asked early on about his "late game" it felt like a foreshadowing of what would happen. If i were him, since I had her on the timer i'd just keep stalling instead of trading pieces, until her time would run out. But he went for gold! :)
To be fair, he did totally call you out on your hustle lmao but yeah he was humbled for sure; can't judge a book by its cover when it comes to chess. Getting beat by a 10 year old taught me that.
Don't feel bad, they are hardcore about it these days, I blame Fischer. My good friend and co-worker in (inner suburban Maryland) had an uncle that was a GM (maybe top 200 or so?) who would coach him. He had been playing for years and was pretty serious. He went to the local mall and an 8 year old prodigy wiped the board with him.
He played really well...until he botched that exchange combination. The sad part is that it was an easy take-order: Qf8+ Kd7. Rxc8 (and the rest is elementary)
Wow. Such a good game. I thought you were going to lose when you missed the B-d4 @ 3:22. Came back to win when he made the slightest mistake. It shows how good a player you are.
Wtf are we talking about?She was dead lost...He gave(exchange the queen for no reason) He could check ....Qg8 + Followed by R x C8...and her Queen on e5 still hanging! OVER-RATED BOTEZ ESCAPED FROM DEAD LOST!🙄😒🙈...and many people from here or her followers are still considering her one if the best "chess players"...I mean What The hell! Wtf WFM my A**...that's why she declined my challanges 4 times to crush her....Over-rated "WFM" Botez 😒🙄🙄...
Honestly I don’t think he was just trying to be slick. If you look the multi-tapping happens nearly every time he uses the clock, even after she talks to him about it. Most likely he had experience in the past where he lost a large portion of time due to the clock not registering his touch. The simplest solution? Hit it multiple times. At this point he does it automatically. After she asks him to stop he is trying hard to focus on the game, so he still accidentally multi-taps without really realizing.
If you watch his hand in his lap, it’s shaking, so I don’t think he was trying to be slick, maybe nerves? Actually that doesn’t give an impression of slickness if done deliberately anyway.
Alex you're a rock star! I've learned so much from you and Anna and I've been playing since I was 5 - ever heard of fractured chess? That was my dad's way of teaching.
If a pawn reaches the opposite end of the board you are allowed to swap back in one of your pieces which was taken earlier. Totally legal, as you can see he noticed and didn't care.
she spend her own clock time to get to know him for 90 seconds out of 300 seconds, that's why she's behind.... great video! great connection with people and awesome comeback things i got out of this: 1. professional chess trained players knows the game isn't over until it's over. their rigorous training allows them to have better stamina than casual amateurs - especially end games 2. in his effort to try to win by time, he did not time manage well - there are moves he had enough time to come up with quality play to not allow alex to catch up and end up forcing too many moves too fast and lost. 3. when people ask me how long i play chess, i generally try to play it down to as little time as possible. if i win, i'll look better. so he's doing the opposite, 40+ years of playing and then lost, that a big risk - X-rated man :)
Hey Alexandra, you finding Be8 on 6:45 was awesome. There's not so many moves for white to find here, with the pace of the game I was also trapped on calculating the options and the only one found is Qf8+ checking the king and getting this very important tempo to take the rook and keep the queen threatened. So I'm not surprised he messed it up, that was a great finding by you.
Yup. He beat her. He gave away the advantage because he didnt want to embarras her. Men need to stop this. Beat them properly. Shes good, but dude could have wiped the floor with her. If it was a guy, he would NOT have let him off. But a cute gurl? You let her come back. For what? You still not getting none. He should have wiped her ass out. Too many guys feel sorry for gurls, when they DONT feel sorry for you. Stop letting these chicks win. It was clear when he even said he would help her out. He should not have. This is a game, not real life. You just lost $100 for nothing.
@@stuccojohn2667 thats not what happened he yelled at the camera didnt see her move then screwed up.. Simple as that... he was hustling the whole way with the double tap too either could win clearly skills relatively even but it was him taking his eyes off the board that cost him the game he wanted to win
@@joabjohnstone5217 it shows you dont understand chess. He wasnt "hustling" with the double tap. Some guys develop that habit when they play on clock. They just want to make sure they stop their time after they make a play. If he started doing it at the end, then that would je suspicious. But he was doing it LONG before it came down to the end. It just became an issue when SHE was running out of time, which is NOT his problem. He let her win. He said so when she was backed into a corner. He said "ok, i will help you out. I wont punish you or you wont LIKE me." Men dont realize that this girl dresses this way as part of her game. Then distract you with nonsense talk. He could have easily wiped her out and even SHE knew it. Stop letting these pretty girls win.
Had the pleasure of playing against O when I visited a farmers market in NYC, and he was bragging about having played Hikaru, Magnus, and he showed me the thumbnail of this video. I paid 10 dollars knowing I was gonna lose, but I had fun. Love this guy's energy.
@@marklennox2151 no....im saying that he's not doing it on purpose to take away her time, but it was just his habit haha tapping multiple time doesn't restart her clock, but it was a problem during the end game. When two buttons are pressed at the same time, they don't work. That's why she asked him to stop because it was during crunch time. he seems pretty nice to me haha
@Ronald Nygma king has an escape route. Simple check would have given him her queen. Definitely he had advantage. Look closely after that step he played the worst chess
Alex is playing 25/50 BB with world famous degens, and then shows up with nothing but amazing displays of humanity a few weeks later. Truly an awesome lady! (And, I'm gonna have to remember that double tap angle. I've never seen it, and there's a couple of OtB players here that it'll be funny to annoy.)
3:15 This guy has problems. Glad he has an outlet like chess. He played a very good game. I thought he had it. I'm only around 700 myself and play mostly 3 min games and my end game blows. I cannot believe she pulled this out.
You should send this video to Stanford Alumni. "Today, she's making a living as a chess celebrity. Not by winning games, but by playing with champs online & travelling the world while more than a million followers watch"
In the critical position, I think we need Qf8+ Kd7 then Rxc8. Black cannot recapture as the queen is still hanging, along with the e8 bishop. Lots of ways to go wrong there though, nice job complicating a lost position to make the comeback.
@@somemore9784 It's a good try, but we have Qxe8+ intermezzo. Even if not, we'd still be winning a piece at the end of your line as the bishop is hanging at the end not to mention that you're still losing the queen.
@@somemore9784 he could have gave the king a check then takes the rook with his rook, can take the bishop after the king takes back or take the hanging queen
Missed a great tactic at 3:23 which ended up turning the advantage to white. Bb4, Bd2, Bxd2, Qxd2, Rxe5. You would have been steamrolled at 4:52 had he found Rxc6, or at 6:48 Qf8+.
I love how all these hustlers have meta game cheats like pressing the timer a bunch of times. He knows damn well what disadvantage that gives his opponent.
@@fractalez would you call a song that's number 5000 on the charts a "best seller"? Not to mention botez was always a master at best and never reached gm,there are a lot more than 5000 gm's worldwide
The main reason I like Alex is because she is genuinely interested in people and pays attention to them when they speak, tell stories, etc. Very rare nowadays IMO.
Unlike her sis?
You mean she knows it will make more viral content if she gets a sob story from the opponent
Qg8 + Followed by R x C8...and her Queen on e5 still hanging! OVER-RATED BOTEZ ESCAPED FROM DEAD LOST!🙄😒🙈...and many people from here or her followers are still considering her one of the best "chess players"...I mean What The hell!
@@chiryalways3546 shut up
it's for content
What a turnaround! Plus: this was a particularly good video because she sort of interviewed him about his life's experience with chess! So it's a trash talk game....with an interview! Alex is juggling three things during this video! Liked the written commentary tips as well.
And learning how to play dirty on the clock on the fly
@@seheyt ??
He chatting to the camera and didnt see her move the bishop to threaten the queen thats all it was
@@JimBalter no he didn't see it the move happened when he was looking at the camera its why he lost his own fault
Not really she's kind of a tool during the game because she keeps saying how bad she's playing. Nobody likes it when you make stupid excuses especially if you win
His disappointment at the end was really heartbreaking. I didn't want Alex to lose, but at the same time, I didn't mind him winning. His nervous tic of pushing the clock button multiple times was sort of hilarious. Nice come back win, Alex!
Reckon he's a long-time speed chess hustler, great angling though.
He lost because he was yelling at the camera when she moved the bishop to threaten the queen thats all there is to it
@@joabjohnstone5217 Um, no. He took a lot of time to respond to that move but somehow missed the obvious Qf8+
@@JimBalter because he looked away from the move made der
It was not hilarious at all. $100 was at stake.
That blunder was so brutal. He should have used some more of his time to calculate there
He should have been calculating a mate.
Should have gone Qb7 instead of moving his rook
@@HiFiAwardTour he had Qf8 check then he could take the queen ... :D
@@HiFiAwardTour Qb7 gives black mate in 4
@@HiFiAwardTour and loosing both rooks, nope
That was a VERY impressive comeback especially with so little time left!
It was.
Blunder on queen's trade?
@@bkboy119 He had the time too.
Even more impressive when her opponent tried to cheat and it didn’t work lol
She gave up a full minute just talking and chatting which gave him much better chance.
Trash Talker snatched defeat from the jaws of victory...
Frfr what the heck was Rxc8? 🤣
Too busy trying to seem cool to play good chess :)
He wasnt really a trash talker...
@@michaelangelo2192 So 6:47 ...whats the best move for white...its not a simple decision
@@MarvelousMaterial When I was watching live, my initial impression was just Qf8 (literally the only check), Kd7 is forced, and then Rxc8. Looks completely and easily winning for white
Man he messed that one up so, so bad. Had a free rook and totally threw his advantage right in the eternal bowels of fire hell.
@Mr. Mr. Yes, exactly, she loses her queen, he loses his rooks, which isn't where she wanted to be, and which she admitted (of course). So, no, he messed that up because in the end he threw away his advantage. The build up wherein her bishop was hanging and would be lost as well as her queen... that was his. He could have taken the bishop, lost rook, queen takes rook, rook take queen, king takes rook. Queen vs no queen, pretty much a lost game. I haven't looked back to the specifics, but that's what I remember seeing in the video. Her own admission around that time as well says a lot.
That happens when one talks too much.
He was also gaming by the multi-press. I get it online when you are down to 10 seconds and they offer a draw.
@@semasiologistics yea Qf8+ Kd7 Rxc8 is the winning line. If Rxe5 instead, then Alex has 2 rooks and a pawn to his queen, which is technically winning for Alex. At least, it is much worse for him than Rxc8
What about Q-f8 check
Love how you tell him he is not hitting the clock right, could waste your time while he is making a move, and he won’t change, so you start hitting the clock twice two. Too funny.
lmao yes! I loved that. Turnabout's fair play!
he may have a palsy is the only thing - maybe he couldn't help it
@@flowrbrain5 but he was able to not do it a few times so he could help it.
Don’t get mad, get even!
@@Welcome2Niches not really. That is a tick. Where one is compelled to repeat an action multiple times. It takes specific concentration not to do the tick. If you noticed how he fidgeted his leg while playing, it's the same, he would have had to specifically concentrate on NOT fisgeting to hold that leg still, and even then it would be only last for a couple of seconds before that leg started bouncing again.
He got pissed when he realized you got him. Sweet recovery from the mid-game mistake to take down the trash talker. Nice.
This man had victory in his hand and threw it away!
Queen to c8
It appears he's actually thrown most of his life away, so we shouldn't be too surprised...
@@ems3832 Effettivamente....
Good god. I have never, ever, been so 100% sure that a side was totally screwed... and then she somehow wins it.
She was in such a dam good spot after she traded knights. But she failed to see how to convert it.
Attack right side or castle that way.
Yes castling opposite normally means attack their king but the bishops make that task impossible.
She was too worried about where his queen would go when she just had to put her rooks and behide the pawns push and try not to blunder mate
she only posts wins..
@@bas182341 Then you clearly haven't watched much of this channel where she posts losses all the time.
@@bas182341 lol, she posts way more losses than wins
He just screwed it.
That guy could be a star if he started his own channel. He was oozing personality.
A lot of great people prefer to just live their lives, instead of living on the metaverse for people they'll never know
You mean methadone?
@@day245 even if he is an ex drug user that doesn't mean shit he'd probably still smoke you
@@day245 You obviously don't know how methadone work, if you think it makes you personable..
Is he going to reply regarding his multiple times of repeated button pushing which stops his time but keeps the opponent's running? If that were allowed, it takes away the merit reward for being able to think fast. For those that like his personality, he is a purposeful cheater if he doesn't admit wrongdoing and hides behind a claim of it being an involuntary nervous tick!!
Why are people acting as if he is an idiot because he missed one move. It's called a blunder it happens.
At one point RxB was strong. At another point Qf8+ was winning. Anyway, he missed a few moves ...
@@jimuren2388 Ok lets see you play botez next
@@septidelaucer1267 Sure, watching on TH-cam is different from playing live. The guy seemed pretty sweet, maybe he was working hard not to take $100 off the poor lady LOL.
@@jimuren2388 guy keeps rambling and says to call him big o talking about his hard life, it's a friendly chess match not an introduction to your life lol
FR FR
I recognize that multi-tap on the clock. Back in the day, clocks were less reliable and everything was manual and one developed a multi-tap habit to make sure it went down.
Nfn but she didn’t “bet” him, she offered him $100 if he beats her. He never asked to bet. Dude seems like an interesting hustler.
So nice that you gave him a chance with the clock, and then turned the clock hustle on him. Great job coming back!
That tapping lol, it’s a muscle memory of a hustler, it’s part of their game. Specialy when u mention the 100 bucks, u just summon the hustler demon back from hell.
Yup, that's what I was thinking. It's not a 'tick' as some people have stated. He knows what he's doing - it's a distraction technique to get your opponent to focus on the fake 'tick', thereby taking their concentration away from the game.
I often trash talk when playing against good players. I start spouting things like "I remember that time I ended up with just 2 rooks, no other pieces, and I got whitewashed. Made me realise how valuable it was to have at least 1 knight". And then I see the player squirming as I try to capture their knights 😂
7:05 For sure Qf8 + and it was the guaranteed win, Alexandra had no chance of winning this game unless her opponent concentrated a little more instead of blah the whole game !
Он пожалел Александру!
@@ЮрийМитянин-у2у ??
100% agree.
I did not find the Qf8 myself. thanks looks like a good move indeed
I think that's a part of his strategy. Did you notice how much he talked when Alex had under a minute of time left? By talking, he's distracting his opponent and throwing off their game.
These Hustlers are so arrogant at first but they mentally shatter after they realize they are going to lose and instantly run away and cry.
She’s genuinely humble. So rare
New York videos always fun to watch, keep the coming.
What park is this
He wasn't watching the board at around 6:45, thus he didn't really track her move and ends up giving up his queen.
It was that brief but simple mistake, which cost him the whole game.
Damn, she really cleaned house with that end game.
Shrewd observation, Muhammad Ali.
Still Qxe6+ was possible. Qxe6 Qxe6 Rxe6+ comes with check. Then Kxe6 Rxc8 not only wins a pawn but also a winning game. g6 is about to fall next
Exactly what I saw
He clearly didn’t realize that had moved there and she knew it.
Great game. Absolutely love Alexandra. She’s an absolutely phenomenal chess player with a wonderful mind for the game. Kind, beautiful, goofy and you can tell she really enjoys talking with her opponents. She’s a real gem
Lots of real patzer moves doesn't make a great game....
This guy was really smooth. Definitely has more stories just waiting to be told. Great game Alex!
I love how him correcting his double tap meant “do it slower and more precise “ 😂
Went from cutting his victory promo to "aww man" hangs head and walks away lol nice comeback win!
"I was born as an orphan", lost me right at the start 😆
How does that work? Your father is dead and your mother dies when giving birth to you?
🤣🤣
If your father dies during pregnancy, and your mother dies while giving birth or in late pregnancy dies in an accident and they can still get the baby out alive (both cases are rare but do happen), you are an orphan at birth. If your parents die shortly after you were born, you weren't born as an orphan, but in practice this doesn't differ much.
I don't see what's funny about that...
@@l.d.t.6327 If this is your opening tag-line/rap I'm sure it's fine to just appreciate the paradox as the funny thing it's intended to be
@Chris Canavan II I was born as a party pooper!
When she asked early on about his "late game" it felt like a foreshadowing of what would happen.
If i were him, since I had her on the timer i'd just keep stalling instead of trading pieces, until her time would run out.
But he went for gold! :)
Brave man.
I’m glad you offered him $100 rather than bet him. I think he has had a tough life being an orphan
Everybody runs their mouth until they can't no more😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
I love how his mood changes from 6:06 - 9:38 😂🤣
This dude started believing his own hype. Gave away a solid position
Alex, you are a class act. Everyone should take the same approach. Thanks for sharing!
Props for a comeback win while dealing with the clock pressing and crazy talk
Oh boy he got quiet real quick towards the end there... 😂😂😂 👏👏👏
To be fair, he did totally call you out on your hustle lmao but yeah he was humbled for sure; can't judge a book by its cover when it comes to chess. Getting beat by a 10 year old taught me that.
7 year old for me. 3 nights in a row. Proud of my son.
Don't feel bad, they are hardcore about it these days, I blame Fischer. My good friend and co-worker in (inner suburban Maryland) had an uncle that was a GM (maybe top 200 or so?) who would coach him. He had been playing for years and was pretty serious. He went to the local mall and an 8 year old prodigy wiped the board with him.
The NBA really likes hot babes
What was the hustle? I missed it.
Kids can have mad skillz
He played really well...until he botched that exchange combination. The sad part is that it was an easy take-order: Qf8+ Kd7. Rxc8 (and the rest is elementary)
Authneticty is the new currency of the internet. Alex is amazing and likable because she’s real. She’s authentic. A great role model for all.
Stop simping
New?
Well, I have an inkling that her looks may not be completely uninvolved when it comes to her popularity ...
I mean she basically made an ad for the Marine Corps
9:14 she tap twice to
Nice job shutting this clod up, Alex!
Mate This man was something else 😅👍
I love how she let's her own timer run why he talks and listens respectfully
it buys her time to think without pressure
@@onemillionpercent i dont think ypu get it
@@dansrod5952 ?
@@onemillionpercent you just don't get it
@@bernimoulang5408 k
love their conversation throughout big O is funny. great game!
He just gets up and quietly walks away. 😂😂
The second he got overconfident, he lost and you inflated his head with all those compliments to make that happen.
Wow. Such a good game. I thought you were going to lose when you missed the B-d4 @ 3:22. Came back to win when he made the slightest mistake. It shows how good a player you are.
she played terribly
she’s lucky he didn’t just play RxBc6
It was a very bad came if we are honest ;) Alex was totally lost most of the middle game. The game had several huge blunders.
Wtf are we talking about?She was dead lost...He gave(exchange the queen for no reason) He could check ....Qg8 + Followed by R x C8...and her Queen on e5 still hanging! OVER-RATED BOTEZ ESCAPED FROM DEAD LOST!🙄😒🙈...and many people from here or her followers are still considering her one if the best "chess players"...I mean What The hell! Wtf WFM my A**...that's why she declined my challanges 4 times to crush her....Over-rated "WFM" Botez 😒🙄🙄...
@@chiryalways3546 women’s titles like WFM are a mockery of real chess titles
@@rooksman64 cope harder misogynist
He was trying to be slick with the multi taps on the clock. I’m glad you called him out on it.
Honestly I don’t think he was just trying to be slick. If you look the multi-tapping happens nearly every time he uses the clock, even after she talks to him about it. Most likely he had experience in the past where he lost a large portion of time due to the clock not registering his touch. The simplest solution? Hit it multiple times. At this point he does it automatically. After she asks him to stop he is trying hard to focus on the game, so he still accidentally multi-taps without really realizing.
he wasn't
If you watch his hand in his lap, it’s shaking, so I don’t think he was trying to be slick, maybe nerves? Actually that doesn’t give an impression of slickness if done deliberately anyway.
His queen could have stepped down one, putting her in check. Instead, He trades his queen. Like what?
Look at him run away with his tail between his legs. 😂
Less talk more chess!
After that moment when he started talking shit into the camera he fell apart lol. Classic overconfidence right there.
Definitely need some post game analysis for us rookies :D
Hustlers gonna hustle. That double tap clock thing isn't an accident. It's angle to catch someone unaware and run down their clock.
That was EPIC!!! You fed his hustler ego and it caused him to underestimate the danger you put him in!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
She trashtalked him out of it. Nicely done!
I think he Is confusing the timer with a Cat.
Great game Alexandra! Love the IRL chess streams and tournaments. Keep up the good work!
Qf8 check 6:51
Look at her face she knew it 😂
Alex you're a rock star! I've learned so much from you and Anna and I've been playing since I was 5 - ever heard of fractured chess? That was my dad's way of teaching.
Oh and I'm 50 something
9:25 .... what was that? Would someone kindly explain? Was a piece illegally placed?
Finally someone caught it. She grabbed that piece by the clock at 9:10 then put it back on the board at 9:26.
If a pawn reaches the opposite end of the board you are allowed to swap back in one of your pieces which was taken earlier. Totally legal, as you can see he noticed and didn't care.
she spend her own clock time to get to know him for 90 seconds out of 300 seconds, that's why she's behind.... great video! great connection with people and awesome comeback
things i got out of this:
1. professional chess trained players knows the game isn't over until it's over. their rigorous training allows them to have better stamina than casual amateurs - especially end games
2. in his effort to try to win by time, he did not time manage well - there are moves he had enough time to come up with quality play to not allow alex to catch up and end up forcing too many moves too fast and lost.
3. when people ask me how long i play chess, i generally try to play it down to as little time as possible. if i win, i'll look better. so he's doing the opposite, 40+ years of playing and then lost, that a big risk - X-rated man :)
Incredible comeback…no way I saw that coming.
wow great come back! Alex's end game is 💪
He looks like the chess hustling version of Andy Serkis! Keep going man!!
Hey Alexandra, you finding Be8 on 6:45 was awesome.
There's not so many moves for white to find here, with the pace of the game I was also trapped on calculating the options and the only one found is Qf8+ checking the king and getting this very important tempo to take the rook and keep the queen threatened.
So I'm not surprised he messed it up, that was a great finding by you.
Qf8+ was the game-winning move there
He didn't miss the move, just wanted to keep the game going.
Yes, I totally agree on that. Plus he had bunch of time in his clock.
He totally missed the move he was talking to the camera when she moved the bishop to threaten his queen 🤣🤣
Yup. He beat her. He gave away the advantage because he didnt want to embarras her. Men need to stop this. Beat them properly. Shes good, but dude could have wiped the floor with her. If it was a guy, he would NOT have let him off. But a cute gurl? You let her come back. For what? You still not getting none. He should have wiped her ass out. Too many guys feel sorry for gurls, when they DONT feel sorry for you. Stop letting these chicks win. It was clear when he even said he would help her out. He should not have. This is a game, not real life. You just lost $100 for nothing.
@@stuccojohn2667 thats not what happened he yelled at the camera didnt see her move then screwed up.. Simple as that... he was hustling the whole way with the double tap too either could win clearly skills relatively even but it was him taking his eyes off the board that cost him the game he wanted to win
@@joabjohnstone5217 it shows you dont understand chess. He wasnt "hustling" with the double tap. Some guys develop that habit when they play on clock. They just want to make sure they stop their time after they make a play. If he started doing it at the end, then that would je suspicious. But he was doing it LONG before it came down to the end. It just became an issue when SHE was running out of time, which is NOT his problem. He let her win. He said so when she was backed into a corner. He said "ok, i will help you out. I wont punish you or you wont LIKE me." Men dont realize that this girl dresses this way as part of her game. Then distract you with nonsense talk. He could have easily wiped her out and even SHE knew it. Stop letting these pretty girls win.
That was so satisfying but sad at the same time. He was a trash talker that talked too much trash. Needed to concentrate more.
What a come back. Poor guy. He is a great player to be fair
Absolutely Amazing. What a come back! Awesome well done 👍🏻👍🏻
Had the pleasure of playing against O when I visited a farmers market in NYC, and he was bragging about having played Hikaru, Magnus, and he showed me the thumbnail of this video.
I paid 10 dollars knowing I was gonna lose, but I had fun. Love this guy's energy.
more of this, please. I was on the edge of my seat until he rooked it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this guy, he is my age and sounds like he would have respect for the old-school hip hop
and teletubbies
@@God0fCows 😂
I’ve played many a game vs chess hustlers in the park. Everything they do is intentional.
That guy sitting next to him talking that ish after he lost 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It would have been fair and cool for her to keep pushing her button until he agreed to stop. The fact that she didn't do that is even more cool!
...smooth talker but once he realized he blew a won position he went to the double tap scumbag thing and lost all respect...
I think that's just a force of habit. Could be a "scumbag" but we shouldn't judge people like that.
@@tvthecat ...very good...I fall way shorter than that a lot...sometimes these replies make you do a self check...this is one case..✌
@@marklennox2151 he's been double triple tapping since the start
@@earthwombat ...I was wondering how she was so short on time...so maybe he's a scumbag after all...
@@marklennox2151 no....im saying that he's not doing it on purpose to take away her time, but it was just his habit haha tapping multiple time doesn't restart her clock, but it was a problem during the end game. When two buttons are pressed at the same time, they don't work. That's why she asked him to stop because it was during crunch time. he seems pretty nice to me haha
I can't believe he lost.
Alexandra started playing his game when she ended up having to tap the clock multiple times lol
Talk don't mean crap! U go sister!
She's awesome. Brilliant mind, and so polite
Canadian...so yeah...politeness expected
@@bobbyo111 I'm Canadian and I'm a prick.
you mean romanian .@@bobbyo111
At 4:50 he should have taken the bishop on c6, would’ve been a winning move: Rc2 X Bc6
He let her win
Yeah I didn't understand why he didn't, I assumed there was smth I didn't see
@Ronald Nygma king has an escape route. Simple check would have given him her queen. Definitely he had advantage. Look closely after that step he played the worst chess
@Ronald Nygma I would have agreed with you. If it's an international match. That's y she thanked him at the end
@Ronald Nygma at the end of the video she thanked him saying u are a nice man.
Alex is playing 25/50 BB with world famous degens, and then shows up with nothing but amazing displays of humanity a few weeks later. Truly an awesome lady!
(And, I'm gonna have to remember that double tap angle. I've never seen it, and there's a couple of OtB players here that it'll be funny to annoy.)
"Talk that ish now, you was running ya f*ckin mouth" That guy at the end. 🤣🤣🤣
3:15 This guy has problems. Glad he has an outlet like chess. He played a very good game. I thought he had it. I'm only around 700 myself and play mostly 3 min games and my end game blows. I cannot believe she pulled this out.
You should send this video to Stanford Alumni.
"Today, she's making a living as a chess celebrity. Not by winning games, but by playing with champs online & travelling the world while more than a million followers watch"
That was a very satisfying win. I felt like I won that one.
You didn't, Alex did. Do you normally feel like you're the person in the video and getting their achievements?
You can tell he was mad lol. Great game 👏🏼👏🏼
Great game! Always love the "underdog" coming out on top (and the trash talkers taken down!)!
Dude is a damn good player. He actually should’ve won, but for a couple mistakes.
And of course she took advantage of them.
Why do you say she took advantage of him? I must have missed something.
@@askapk “Took advantage of [his mistakes]”
over confidence is his downfall. if he only focused on the game and stopped blabbering nonsense, he could have won.
but Alexandra was close to winning (with Rxg2+ protected by the bishop on the diagonal) just before she blundered...
Of course she took advantage of them bro. That’s what a good player does.
This guy learned talk and play chess in the prison system, I recognize it
Beautifully done, as always! His double tapping was intentional, and you destroyed his ego. Bravo!
Seriously ? It is a disability, how can you think it is intentional ?
@@conanguy5555 A disability? rotfl
@@conanguy5555 True, and I tell the IRS when I don't report revenue on my taxes "ITS A DISABILITY!"
The way he uses the timer is infuriating.
In the critical position, I think we need Qf8+ Kd7 then Rxc8. Black cannot recapture as the queen is still hanging, along with the e8 bishop. Lots of ways to go wrong there though, nice job complicating a lost position to make the comeback.
She's not hanging after kd7 as can still take his rook. Then white will lose his other rook after he takes black queen.
@@somemore9784 It's a good try, but we have Qxe8+ intermezzo. Even if not, we'd still be winning a piece at the end of your line as the bishop is hanging at the end not to mention that you're still losing the queen.
@@somemore9784 he could have gave the king a check then takes the rook with his rook, can take the bishop after the king takes back or take the hanging queen
I agree with you
@@somemore9784 what do you mean. Rxc8....then what will white do?
Missed a great tactic at 3:23 which ended up turning the advantage to white. Bb4, Bd2, Bxd2, Qxd2, Rxe5. You would have been steamrolled at 4:52 had he found Rxc6, or at 6:48 Qf8+.
I love how all these hustlers have meta game cheats like pressing the timer a bunch of times. He knows damn well what disadvantage that gives his opponent.
It's a little shame. He had no idea he was playing one of the best endgamers there is.
not even top 5000 "endgamer" lol
@@igorz4582 What is it, bitter that a rich, female, TH-cam content creator is better than you at chess? Keep hatin', babe.
@@igorz4582 In a world with 7 billion people I would call the top 5000 "the best"
@@fractalez would you call a song that's number 5000 on the charts a "best seller"? Not to mention botez was always a master at best and never reached gm,there are a lot more than 5000 gm's worldwide
@@igorz4582 There's 100% more than 5000 songs with over 500 million views but you're right on that
He had it!!
Just check the king and free Queen !
This guy had the match but he messed up when he started over bragging haha
Awesome come back win at the end came when it counted! Never give up!
“You almost had it” 💀💀💀 high level insult
Can believe he that blunder he made. I was starring at the Board like what was he doing
Easy when your spectator for any sport