I love games where the advantage is contained in subtle points such as trading light square bishops when you know your pawns will be on light squares and your opponent will be locked into dark squares. It wasn't long ago that I had no appreciation for this, but so many games hinge on gaining then holding a small advantage in position or grabbing a single pawn.
Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central Haha. This reminded me of Game of Thrones season 1 when Kal Drogo pours the molten gold on Daenerys Targaryen's brother,'s head killing him. Kal Drogo says "a crown for a king." It's a great line.
Wow your uploading rate is ver impressive. Uploading the video under 1 hour from the end of live coverage is very impressive. You are the most committed chess youtuber I have seen. Keep Naka and Levon games from Gibraltar coming
3:33 look at this beautiful spiral symmetry. Like a top down boxing match where black is throwing a punch . King is a head, and all the white is lacking is another rook on D2 for a beautiful rectangle.
I saw your comment on the livestream. Unfortunately Giri couldn't go for a win. He was always the underdog for the blitz deciders. Not only because Carlsen is reigning champion in that discipline as well, but also because he almost never plays blitz games.
One of the few players with a neutral record against Carlsen in the classic format. Not saying that he would be the favourite, but he's good enough to hold him off... Anyway, that was not the point of the comment. The playoff was never going to be classic format, but blitz. So if Giri wanted to win the tournament, then his best chance was winning his match against Wei, because he is the underdog in a blitz playoff against Carlsen.
Why would you take care to warn the viewer before spoiling the tournament result in this video, and then go right ahead and spoil the result in the title of your round 2 video, making it impossible to avoid? I certainly would have preferred to watch coverage of the final games without knowing who won beforehand.
sure but the black king is also stuck to the defense of the queens side pawns, white can push the connected pawns and its completly winning... if the black king leaves c7 the white king runs to the king side and its over
Captain Nautilus well I don't think black's king being on defensive is a concern if you are gonna play for draw. But yeah, black king can't move from c7. If it moves, white king will infiltrate. I missed the move a3 (for some reason I only considered a4, lol). Anyways thanks, Bxc5, Kxc5, kc7, a3, a5, a4. After this black king has to move which result in his loss.
Isn't Bc3 @6:46 a bad move?? Cause you don't end up saving any pawns and actually lose all pawns. Better is just Kg7 straightaway. Now Black has to chose between Kxc6 and Bxf6. If Bxf6, then Bxf6, Kxc6 and then Bc3 will save that pawn. Then Black can try to take the King side pawns with the king. If Kxc6, then white gets three paws for a bishop after Kxh8, Kb6 and Kxa6 after some black move. That might still be winning for white though.
#Suggestion Very amazing game between Edward lashkar and Thomas in London 1912. Lashkar sacrifice his queen in 11th Move and after 8 forced move he win the game. Forced opponent king from 8th rank to 1st rank
Loved the tournament but it's a shame it's gets decided by 2 blitz games after all that great chess. I was fine with co-winners. Interest side note: the live chat was for the entire tournament a cesspool of trolling and racial insults until they finally disabled chat on the last day. I hope you do the 2nd game. Loved your analysis.
I can't really understand one thing. In the second game, when Carlsen offered a draw, Giri accepted it. Why? What's the point? Draw gives him the same result as a lose, why wouldn't he try to push for a win, even if it resulted in him loosing? Can someone explain the logic behind it?
Mike Ehrmantraut it's better to draw than to lose. The chance of winning is not that high, and u certainly don't wanna be beaten by Magnus 2 times in a row.
Giri actually offered the draw and Carlsen accepted it. A loss would only serve to lower his rating further. A draw against Magnus is a plus in many people's eyes. Magnus forced the trade of queens and he was in a better position at the moment the offer was made. There was nothing left for Giri to play for. Might as well cut your losses and have a draw even if it meant handing the title to Magnus.
It's always irrationally bothered me that there is no fancy name for the diagonal or an individual square. You have to go from saying rank and file to saying "square" which just doesn't sound as official or menacing lol, it's just always slightly bothered me. If anyone knows some other name please let me know
Yeah, the English terminology is very underwhelming. In most languages we "kill" rather than 'capture'. For 'square' in Polish we use a word that means 'field' (which rings well with 'battle field'). Also, we don't have a 'queen', but a "hetman" which is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders. Makes much more sense than the queen, doesn't it? And the 'bishop' is called a runner/messenger (from military terminology). All of that gives more of a warfare vibe.
Reuben Osman nothing specific in this video. Just when he said "both players getting their rooks to optimal squares" it made me think of this long held annoyance at the term
RatorSF no, he did, ans magnus accepted it as he only needed draw on the second game to win the tournament. it's giri, anyway. you can't hope giri to win, he was born to be not-that-good chess player
Chetan K I agree not smart idea to trade the queens. Magnus does not like complicated positions, he’d rather go for the end game and squeak out a victory
#Suggestion Very amazing game between Edward lashkar and Thomas in London 1912. Lashkar sacrifice his queen in 11th Move and after 8 forced move he win the game. Forced opponent king from 8th rank to 1st rank
yes! I love that game. I always wonder if all these forced king moves where completely calculated. they are all forced but it´s quite a long sequence. castling long for the final move instead of discovered check would have been awesome as well.
I love games where the advantage is contained in subtle points such as trading light square bishops when you know your pawns will be on light squares and your opponent will be locked into dark squares. It wasn't long ago that I had no appreciation for this, but so many games hinge on gaining then holding a small advantage in position or grabbing a single pawn.
All hail the Endgame master Magnus Carlsen
Magnus what a start for him for the year 2018..really happy and also happy for anand for a great tournament...
The match we were waiting for all tournament.
carlsen's positional judgment is just incredible
federer and carlsen..two champions won on same day
carlsen would still beat federer, if they were playing chess.
The king gets his steel crown.
Beerdy - Bruce Lee Central Haha. This reminded me of Game of Thrones season 1 when Kal Drogo pours the molten gold on Daenerys Targaryen's brother,'s head killing him. Kal Drogo says "a crown for a king." It's a great line.
Wow your uploading rate is ver impressive. Uploading the video under 1 hour from the end of live coverage is very impressive. You are the most committed chess youtuber I have seen. Keep Naka and Levon games from Gibraltar coming
3:33 look at this beautiful spiral symmetry. Like a top down boxing match where black is throwing a punch . King is a head, and all the white is lacking is another rook on D2 for a beautiful rectangle.
Great game and Great channel as usual Mr Agadmator. Well done👏👏👏
It was over the moment tiebreaks were decided.
hahaha....Carlsen has never lost a tie break. What a monster.
This is the 2nd game review I see of this game. Its very instructive.
Another endgame tutorial from the king.
I was waiting for this video
carlsen the endgame machine
nice to see you again ..
Great coverage of the event, congratulations!
Good game for Carlsen when he sees good bishops & bad bishops. Nice!
People of Holland should be proud, they are still champs in making wooden shoes.
end game master class
Magnus on fire!
2:05 the dog😂😂
Chan John 😹😂😹😂😹😂🃏🎭🤡🃏🎭🤡🃏🎭😂😹😂
Amazing that such a small error can lose a game.
Please please please, make a video about your dog. We all want to see more of that creature.
Great to see Carlsen back in classical form!!! The Return of the King!
I saw your comment on the livestream. Unfortunately Giri couldn't go for a win. He was always the underdog for the blitz deciders. Not only because Carlsen is reigning champion in that discipline as well, but also because he almost never plays blitz games.
One of the few players with a neutral record against Carlsen in the classic format. Not saying that he would be the favourite, but he's good enough to hold him off... Anyway, that was not the point of the comment. The playoff was never going to be classic format, but blitz. So if Giri wanted to win the tournament, then his best chance was winning his match against Wei, because he is the underdog in a blitz playoff against Carlsen.
Why would you take care to warn the viewer before spoiling the tournament result in this video, and then go right ahead and spoil the result in the title of your round 2 video, making it impossible to avoid? I certainly would have preferred to watch coverage of the final games without knowing who won beforehand.
Chris Schweitzer I don't want to watch games where I don't know beforehand that Magnus will win
Alexey Shirov vs Aman Hambleton
Reykjavik Open (2017), Reykjavik ISL, rd 4, Apr-21
#suggestion
Mathew Jacob great #suggestion Shirov vs Hambleton. Reykjavik Open 2017.
@agadmator. I could totally see you doing the commentating for chess tournaments.
he must take the dog with him though because it will not be the same :D
His dog must go with him! It's the only way it works.
Have you heard the interviews of the GMs? Painful.
Sry mr.professor for mi bad englando.
Hope Aronian wins candidates so that we can see clash of Titans in for the championship
Why not trade Bishops @6:04 (i.e. after h5 was played)??
because the white king is more active, and threatens kb6
Captain Nautilus the kb6 threat can be handled by kc7. After Kc7 white king is completely denied any infiltration attempts.
sure but the black king is also stuck to the defense of the queens side pawns, white can push the connected pawns and its completly winning... if the black king leaves c7 the white king runs to the king side and its over
white has the opposition and an extra tempo with the queens side pawns
Captain Nautilus well I don't think black's king being on defensive is a concern if you are gonna play for draw. But yeah, black king can't move from c7. If it moves, white king will infiltrate. I missed the move a3 (for some reason I only considered a4, lol). Anyways thanks, Bxc5, Kxc5, kc7, a3, a5, a4. After this black king has to move which result in his loss.
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Wei Yi seems a very strong player. Maybe we will see him competing for the world chess champion
#Suggestion
I would like to suggest the game by Y Habu, winning against P K Wells.
Isn't Bc3 @6:46 a bad move?? Cause you don't end up saving any pawns and actually lose all pawns. Better is just Kg7 straightaway. Now Black has to chose between Kxc6 and Bxf6. If Bxf6, then Bxf6, Kxc6 and then Bc3 will save that pawn. Then Black can try to take the King side pawns with the king. If Kxc6, then white gets three paws for a bishop after Kxh8, Kb6 and Kxa6 after some black move. That might still be winning for white though.
What does an engine say about the endgame of this match? Is it a theoretical draw?
it says something about +5,19 white is winning
+5 is usually suffocating. Thanks for the analysis.
#Suggestion
Very amazing game between Edward lashkar and Thomas in London 1912.
Lashkar sacrifice his queen in 11th Move and after 8 forced move he win the game.
Forced opponent king from 8th rank to 1st rank
Already uploaded by agadmator.
TUSAR KANTA Nanda can you send the link
It's uploaded by mato as well. Search for lasker immortal. Don't really have time to send you the link.
what's the time for the tiebreak?
5:3
How do you put these together so quickly??
NoSystem Antonio is a 2,000+ rated "blitz-upload" TH-camr. 😄👍
Where can we watch the games live?
in your timemachine
Guilherme Costa chess24
On the tournaments official TH-cam channel. Entire event was broadcasted.
Loved the tournament but it's a shame it's gets decided by 2 blitz games after all that great chess. I was fine with co-winners. Interest side note: the live chat was for the entire tournament a cesspool of trolling and racial insults until they finally disabled chat on the last day. I hope you do the 2nd game. Loved your analysis.
What are you talking about ?
The chat was the best part of the entire tournament.
6 million thumbs down to them for disabling it today.
Magnificent Carlsen!
I can't really understand one thing. In the second game, when Carlsen offered a draw, Giri accepted it. Why? What's the point? Draw gives him the same result as a lose, why wouldn't he try to push for a win, even if it resulted in him loosing? Can someone explain the logic behind it?
Mike Ehrmantraut it's better to draw than to lose. The chance of winning is not that high, and u certainly don't wanna be beaten by Magnus 2 times in a row.
Because Giri had 6 seconds left with a near-impossible position.
Is it really? Draw means you're 2nd in a tournament. So does losing. Same thing.
So he gave his "near-impossible", for "impossible". Sounds like a bad deal
Giri actually offered the draw and Carlsen accepted it. A loss would only serve to lower his rating further. A draw against Magnus is a plus in many people's eyes. Magnus forced the trade of queens and he was in a better position at the moment the offer was made. There was nothing left for Giri to play for. Might as well cut your losses and have a draw even if it meant handing the title to Magnus.
End game mozart
Why magnus always win tiebreak
Simply too strong....especially at fast time controls. Sublime confidence.
Khuzaima Usman 🔬
mamedyarov had 8 points in round 12. what about him?
It's always irrationally bothered me that there is no fancy name for the diagonal or an individual square. You have to go from saying rank and file to saying "square" which just doesn't sound as official or menacing lol, it's just always slightly bothered me. If anyone knows some other name please let me know
Yeah, the English terminology is very underwhelming. In most languages we "kill" rather than 'capture'. For 'square' in Polish we use a word that means 'field' (which rings well with 'battle field'). Also, we don't have a 'queen', but a "hetman" which is a political title from Central and Eastern Europe, historically assigned to military commanders. Makes much more sense than the queen, doesn't it? And the 'bishop' is called a runner/messenger (from military terminology). All of that gives more of a warfare vibe.
In what part of the video are you referring to?
amjan yes yes I will be stealing the word 'field' to replace square. Thank you, perhaps I should take up Polish! Lol
Reuben Osman nothing specific in this video. Just when he said "both players getting their rooks to optimal squares" it made me think of this long held annoyance at the term
amjan i am from Poland too and i mostly say 'queen' instead of 'hetman' :D
So now Giri has to win the next game.. Imagine if he offers a draw in that game haha just kidding he can't do that.
He did it though, after he was losing on both time and position. Kinda saying "here, you have won the tournament" but Magnus declined.
RatorSF no, he did, ans magnus accepted it as he only needed draw on the second game to win the tournament.
it's giri, anyway. you can't hope giri to win, he was born to be not-that-good chess player
RatorSF Are you sure? I thought Magnus accepted the draw
Yes he did accept the draw.
Malik Giri not that good? What are you smoking. His tournament performance rating was 2900 something elo. That’s crazy and very impressive.
Magnus being great at end games, Giri shouldn't have made it easy by trading all those pieces.
Chetan K I agree not smart idea to trade the queens. Magnus does not like complicated positions, he’d rather go for the end game and squeak out a victory
Yes. It was like he was racing to a draw, only to be outplayed by Magnus.
Too fast to make a video
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Simple : Become a die hard fan of Magnus
that's just stupid
Great coverture
this was horribly boring by Giri
He was maybe out of fuel
If he got the rook at b8 it’s a + and the bishop moved in front it could take the bishop and it will be a checkmate
The game when carlsen lost his endgame calrsen vs ahmed adly
www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1400943
#suggestion
Tiebreaks with blitz??????????
Nah
See how easy it is Aga? Get rid off silly feminist nonsense and no problemo!
#Suggestion
Very amazing game between Edward lashkar and Thomas in London 1912.
Lashkar sacrifice his queen in 11th Move and after 8 forced move he win the game.
Forced opponent king from 8th rank to 1st rank
yes! I love that game. I always wonder if all these forced king moves where completely calculated. they are all forced but it´s quite a long sequence. castling long for the final move instead of discovered check would have been awesome as well.