Sagar, please add these timestamps I made for this video in the description. It will be really helpful for people to scroll through different games being discussed in this video. 0:01 Intro 0:54 WCC 2023 being the most unpredictable and tense 3:04 overall level of play in WCC 2023 compared to previous WCCs 5:11 Game 1 7:00 Game 2 11:25 regarding leaked games on lichess 12:42 Game 3 13:37 Game 4 20:16 Game 5 24:26 Game 6 30:09 Game 7 39:00 Game 8 47:52 what exactly about WCC puts pressure 52:40 Game 9 54:34 anecdote from Vishy's life of how chess player can get into panic sometimes due to stress 57:30 Game 10 59:30 Game 11 1:00:47 Game 12 1:08:05 Game 13 1:13:24 Game 14 1:17:08 Tiebreaker Game 1 1:17:45 Tiebreaker Game 2 1:18:09 Tiebreaker Game 3 1:18:34 Tiebreaker Game 4 1:26:33 about Ding on becoming world champion 1:28:52 regarding Magnus - Ding situation 1:30:10 regarding Magnus withdrawing from WCC 1:31:40 regarding Rapport being Ding's 2nd 1:33:14 regarding format of WCC
Brilliant insights from a well spoken former champion. It always gets me what an elusive and exclusive club the chess world champions are. Just 17 members over a period of 140 years, only six of them alive. Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Carlsen, now Liren. And that’s it. Each of them a legend. How brilliant to be able to follow the thoughts of one of them over 100 minutes.
Thank you. Probably Vishi is the best commentator of this match. The speed of how he grabs the key features of the position is spectacular. He always tries to explain really difficult things with simple words. The level of variants that were being shown by him are really top class. Also he tries to be very objective. He doesn’t always criticise, he tries to explain and to understand the decisions that were made throughout the games. The way how he explained the occurrence of the mistakes and relatively low level of the games is great. It was so interesting to listen to him not only in this video but during his live commentary of the match. True legend!
Mate, that is insane. I remember back in the 90's growing up and learning chess, my fellow club players and me, we could only dream of hearing an analysis from a GM, let alone from Vishy f*** Anand himself !!! Thank you very much! A 1800-Elo player :-)
What a treasure Anand is and what a treasure this video is. Thankyou Sagar (and Chessbase India) for delivering the gold once again! Its morning here and time for work, but I had to watch at least the 1st game analysis. I will come back to this later and cherish the reminiscence of this great championship match with a great of the game.
We had the most exciting WC match since Kramnik-Topalov and now we get another great video with Vishy's insights and Sagar's great (not a.i. :-) preparation. Amazing video! Thanks to both!
I watch a lot of chess content on TH-cam, and a lot of it is really good. But this stands out; it's pure gold for chess lovers. Vishy is such an insightful player, great competitor and decent human being. It's a joy to hear what he has to say.
What marvellous insights from a legend - how many others have played in many world championships and taken the winner’s laurel five times! So many valuable thoughts from his perspective, particularly the three points he raises as to why the competitors played the particular type of chess we have seen. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to interview Vishy on this most recent, very entertaining championship match.
Carlsen and Kasparov were probably slightly stronger player than Anand, but when it comes to commentary, honest and profound insights, there is not even a comparison between the 3 of them, Vishy is by far the greater inspiration.
Only Bobby Fischer is better than anand. Kasparov fixes his matches and with magnus, don't forget neilsen switched sides to magnus before wc and reveal Anand's prep to him.
i think that Kasparov was indeed somewhat stronger, HOWEVER not by as much as their relative performance would indicate. i always had impression that Kasparov was Anand's "nemesis" somehow, that Anand tended to perform worse against him than against other players; as if he was intimidated by him, or something like that.
@@vishnusharma2958what kind of alternative universe were you looking at? Carlsen already has winning record against Anand - or everyone else really- a good few years before his first WCC. Of course Anand had winning record against Carlsen because Carlsen was up and coming and hadn’t reach his full potential early on. It happened on any sports, older player would have dominating record against new younger opponents until they adapt.
The reason this championship was exciting because both players refused to play for boring draws. It was like chess 960 with no standard positions. This is how chess should be played to keep it interesting, and not follow the 25 - 30 conputer prepared moves. No matter what people say about quality of chess being played, this is how chess should be played to keep it alive. There was a reason why Tal used misplace a piece and let both players sought it out over the board. There was reason why Bobby Fischer introduced Fischerrandom. An and there was reason why he quit the chess altogether Full points to both Ian and Ding for playing this fantastic chess
If you really think they were not following 25-30 engine moves in the opening then you really know nothing about how high level chess is played. Quality of chess and the pursuit of perfection is more important than your stupid opinions.
A lot of good points, and I agree we had a fantastic match. I would still say that player are free of their style, as long as they respect the rules, and the opposition of styles and ideas are, among other things, what make the beauty of the game. Maybe Fischerrandom chess is still the way to go for the future, but with fighting players like those 2, classical chess has still a right to exist. We also had a few perles in Wijk aan Zee, each year. I wish more top tournaments with classical time control, both for classical chess and Fisherrandom.
Sagar is always in awe of Anand Viswanathan, as if Sagar is meeting him for the first time . Sagar's Fan Boy moment. Sagar's enthusiasm during the interview was on high as always and the cherry on top the cake because he was interviewing Anand Viswanathan. Kudos Sagar for the Interview. Thanks to Anand also for the Insights , and no better person to give insights on a nut shell 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
'Ding looked like he was having a mid-life crisis during the match, but he became the World Champion so it was a good mid-life crisis' - Viswanathan Anand 1:32:58
Anand is such a Class Champion. It's really something different getting insights/analisis from a Word Champion, that speaks so clearly not rushed ( not like a lunatic) and the thoughts are so well organised end the delivery is so clear and bouth humble and worm.
What I liked about Vishy in this interview is his appreciation of how interesting this match was. He understands this may be one of the last true great classical WC matches where many fascinating positions occurred thanks to the use of 'harmless' opening tries by Ding and Rapport team and main opening theory wasn't used as much, and so, that produced many thrilling games and that's why it was one of the most exciting WC matches to watch in recent history. It was also a clash of styles between the soviet positionally taught Nepo (even though he's known for his tactical vision as well) and Ding's very concrete calculating style. I believe Anand judges correctly that mistakes were going to be part of the deal with this clash of styles because they were getting such wild unbalanced positions where both players were out of prep earlier than in previous matches like Magnus vs Karjakin, Caruana or Nepo himself. I strongly believe if you had put Magnus, Caruana or Giri in those positions they would have all misplayed it as well. It's just that in their matches they were getting much drier positions! So ofc there were much less mistakes! Listening to these top GMs saying quality was poor in this match was ridiculous when they themselves don't play nearly as sharp as Ding or even Nepo usually play. I feel like Anand was much more understanding of the difficulty of being there live figuring it out without engine eval bar like Caruana or Giri had. Even Dubov was many times criticizing the play when he was commentating w/o eval bar and he himself was making as many mistakes as the players when suggesting moves! It was just funny to watch, he even proposed the move Qf5 after Rg6 that lost Nepo the game and the match lol! So yeah, much easier to criticize the play even for top GMs than acknowledge the wonderful absorbing games we got from this WC match. Very refreshing to listen to Vishy and his appreciation for this amazing match 👍🏻
Actually this video has immense treasure inside it... We are seeing the matches and the thoughts of a 5 time champion at those critical moments.....thank you so much sagar bhai for this analysis... And I want Vishy again on those chairs playing some amazing classical chess.... May krishna make that situation in future❤❤❤❤
Why we should never stop trying? Why we should always keep fighting for the best result at every opportunity thrown at us? How the theories of chaos and effects of a butterfly fluttering its wings work their magics in real life? Just watch this video 1:27:20 onwards. You’ll find out the answers yourselves. Great insights and tips on the 2023 World Chess Championship by none other than The Madras Tiger, Vishwanathan Anand. And a great interview by Sagar Shah. A big round of applause for the entire ChessBase India team for all the hard work.
this is what Internet is made for. 20 years ago, it is impossible to hear a world champion analyse a game without some exposure to a club or buying those analysis books. Now we are just chilling at our house and watching this for free. great work Sagar for bringing this to us.
Listening to this interview for first 15 mins one gets a sense that Vishy was probably rooting for Nepo to win. He doesn't take Ding's name even once while only narrating the games from Nepo's perspective. Quite interesting.
Vishy is vice chairman of FIDE and the chairman is Russian Arkady Dvorkovich. Definitely have to be supportive of Russian players if Vishy wants to be chairman in the future.
@@da96103 Not sure if it's chess politics or just plain love for one player over another. Maybe in some way he sees himself in Nepo with regards to playing style etc. We are all allowed to have personal favourites, after all.
@@da96103 Vishy will never do anything like that and your comment shows you have not followed chess for too long. It's common for GMs to analyse games from the perspective of the style closest to their own. Nepo is an intuitive, tactical player like Vishy who also relied on speed and intuition. Obviously Vishy is one of the all-time greats but stylistically they are similar. You'll often notice during commentary that positional players while commentating tend to speak from the perspective of the positional player at the board. That's because the commentator approaches the game in a similar way the player does. Also, Vishy spent some time with Ian after the latter won the Candidates last year in Madrid. As for Dvorkovich, Russian administrators do not have the same clout as before in Fide because of sanctions and the exodus of Russian players (several top Russian GMs have now switched federations). And Russian Chess Federation have now also left Europe and joined Asia. European federations have more voting clout during administrative elections than Asia. So wouldn't even make any sense for Vishy to align with Russian administrators at this point even if he has ambitions to become prez.
I realize that I haven't said enough in my previous comment. I greatly appreciate Sagar's unwavering commitment to chess and get us the best material to learn from. When we were all complaining about Covid in 2020, Sagar saw an opportunity to put together a nice course on chess for all of us to benefit from. Sagar, you are amazing!!!
Great interview. Definitely the best chess channel. Given the 3 threads Anand outlined, this shows that Carlsen would have won comfortably because these are exactly his strongest points.
What a pleasure. Vishy was an outstanding champion who was a credit to chess. I have watched a ton of analysis but it was great to get his take on the match. Thank you.
Anand is really into it, his attitude is so much more positive on the current match than Kasparovs, who hadn't much more to say other than the usual "it's not a real world championship because Magnus is not playing" negative non sense..
@@altuprasaad8049 oh i didn't know about that. Thanks for the update. Recently i just thought Anand would be a good fide president, but that he actually is vice president i wasn't aware.
Anand is not "one of the greatest" - he just is the greatest, full stop. This man still has a mind so sharp he could beat anyone on the planet, win any tournament, or even become champion again. He has been amazing for decades. Best ever.
Vishy has such interesting comments and expresses them so vividly and clearly that he makes a chess novice like me feel like I can understand at least a taste of the inner workings of the chess that was played in this match. And of course Sagar's inserts are what make the analysis possible for many of us to follow. I watched the whole thing again, and enjoyed it even more the second time. I had been guilty of ignoring Anand as a commentator in the past. I knew of his reputation for being an amiable gentleman, but because I also knew his reputation as a lightening speed natural genius in chess, I naturally assumed a dullard like me would get nothing from his explanations. Was I ever wrong. I think chess fans of all levels can learn a great deal from his explanations, and in the future I will tune in to see Anand above everyone else for chess commentary.
Thank you for this video. There is a point in this conversation where Vishy jokes about calling Ian “Nepo” instead of by his first name 😅 felt like it would be a good time to say that Ding Liren’s first name is “Liren” too
Thankyou Sagar for this fantastic video! Anand's insights were exceptional, entertaining, educative...simply brilliant! Also, the way you do your homework- the diagrams etc- is simply worth admiring!! There is so much to take away from this video that I will have to see it again to appreciate every detail! I specially noted the part where Anand says about a player playing fast! Whenever my next opponent plays fast, I will remember Anand's words and feel good during the game!
For other interested viewers, watch from 17:57- for the next few seconds-"When people start to play fast, it is already a sign that they are a bit nervous!!" This sentence just made me remember so many of my regular opponents who play fast! Next time I will smile within when they do that!
amazing! I've seen 1001 commentaries but Anand is unique - so insightful, wise, as a great chess master and as a person. Eloquent, engaging. The best overall.
Hi Chessbase India, thank you so much for such an insightful & awesome interview with Vishy sir. Can I also ask, how to get an autographed chess board of Nepo from Chessbase India or FIDE? Is it available on their website?
Sagar Shah proving once again why he's THE GOAT of Gonzo Chess Journalism not only in India, but throughout the world. This video was a prize, honestly.
I really felt bad for Nepo, Imagine you scored too good in 2019 Candidates and preparing for WCC in 2020 which was held in 2021 and playing half of the matches very effectively and game 6 freezes him and coming back to reality and producing some best moves and winning 2022 candidates incredibly, and giving extraordinary fight in 2023 Championship and at last few seconds you came to know that you're losing at the end, the amount of preparation Nepo has put into this prestigious WCC would be priceless and no one can judge it. I hope he wins next Candidates and be the next World Champion and I think he is the deserving candidate.
Nepo was the better player in the classical phase. Clear winning chances in game 12 and 14 and that too with black. Also he was the one who won a classical game with black. But then he has this terrible habit of rushing his moves in winning positions and blunders. And he does that even when he is under no time pressure. Hikaru, Magnus and others have said the same about him. But that's Nepo. Against Magnus he had no chance to win the match but this was a massive choke from him I would say.
@@gruntgobshite What you said is absolutely right, I thought he is playing very interesting chess against Magnus, and he broke down at game 6 and after that flood gates are opened.
It is precisely that Nepo put an immense amount of prep in this tournament that makes Ding the more worthy champion. Because this is the Ding with less preparation, a smaller team, and his prep leaked, who managed to defeat that heavily prepped Nepo, with pure skill and nerves alone. This means Nepo has almost no shot at beating Ding again, now that Ding has the experience he lacked, and will probably be able to afford a larger team, and protect better his preparation from being leaked. As Magnus once said, Ding is stronger than Nepo, because he can calculate lines deeper.
@@williamshake7559 What I think is, there's no major preparations lines that were played in this WCC, most of the games are deviated from theory for either sides, which means that Ding chooses more offbeat openings to surprise Nepo. I think Nepo responded to Ding pretty well and Ding responded to Nepo's Spanish opening very excellently, I just feel bad for Nepo, and what I love about him is, he is intuition player rather than calculating lines deeply. Anyways Ding is the winner, and the better player wins.
@Arnab Majumdar I keep seeing people say Nepo was the better player or the better player in the classical portion and I can't understand it. Having more winning chances or having more winning positions doesn't make you a better player. If he was the better player in classical he would have won and it wouldn't have went to the tiebreaker. I think saying Nepo was the better player is disrespectful to Ding. The results show us that at that time, in classical they were evenly matched and is the faster time controls Ding was the better player. Nepo has a long history of getting winning positions and rushing his moves and blowing the win. Ding, the current World Champion, was the better player.
Sagar, please add these timestamps I made for this video in the description. It will be really helpful for people to scroll through different games being discussed in this video.
0:01 Intro
0:54 WCC 2023 being the most unpredictable and tense
3:04 overall level of play in WCC 2023 compared to previous WCCs
5:11 Game 1
7:00 Game 2
11:25 regarding leaked games on lichess
12:42 Game 3
13:37 Game 4
20:16 Game 5
24:26 Game 6
30:09 Game 7
39:00 Game 8
47:52 what exactly about WCC puts pressure
52:40 Game 9
54:34 anecdote from Vishy's life of how chess player can get into panic sometimes due to stress
57:30 Game 10
59:30 Game 11
1:00:47 Game 12
1:08:05 Game 13
1:13:24 Game 14
1:17:08 Tiebreaker Game 1
1:17:45 Tiebreaker Game 2
1:18:09 Tiebreaker Game 3
1:18:34 Tiebreaker Game 4
1:26:33 about Ding on becoming world champion
1:28:52 regarding Magnus - Ding situation
1:30:10 regarding Magnus withdrawing from WCC
1:31:40 regarding Rapport being Ding's 2nd
1:33:14 regarding format of WCC
Thank you so much for taking the time to put in the time stamps.
Thanks a lot for this.
Thanks❤
😍
Thank u bhai ,
Brilliant insights from a well spoken former champion.
It always gets me what an elusive and exclusive club the chess world champions are. Just 17 members over a period of 140 years, only six of them alive. Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Carlsen, now Liren. And that’s it. Each of them a legend.
How brilliant to be able to follow the thoughts of one of them over 100 minutes.
Actually there's 7 still alive (Spassky is still around). But I agree with your sentiments
@@veelvraat2291 Yes, and can you tell him we're waiting for his book.
Thanks veelvraat. I wasn’t aware.
There few more Rustam K and Ruslan P
Thank you. Probably Vishi is the best commentator of this match. The speed of how he grabs the key features of the position is spectacular. He always tries to explain really difficult things with simple words. The level of variants that were being shown by him are really top class. Also he tries to be very objective. He doesn’t always criticise, he tries to explain and to understand the decisions that were made throughout the games. The way how he explained the occurrence of the mistakes and relatively low level of the games is great. It was so interesting to listen to him not only in this video but during his live commentary of the match. True legend!
Anand is a true ''🙏Hero of India🙏 '' lonely explorer and all Indian chess walking on his footprint!!Amazing person 🙏
Mate, that is insane.
I remember back in the 90's growing up and learning chess, my fellow club players and me, we could only dream of hearing an analysis from a GM, let alone from Vishy f*** Anand himself !!!
Thank you very much!
A 1800-Elo player :-)
I remember the last time you did this was after Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana. Great work Sagar! ♥️♥️
The vídeo with Peter Heine Nielsen after the MagnusxNepo match was really good also
Give me the link. 🍓🙏🏻 @akshaymohan16
What a treasure Anand is and what a treasure this video is. Thankyou Sagar (and Chessbase India) for delivering the gold once again! Its morning here and time for work, but I had to watch at least the 1st game analysis. I will come back to this later and cherish the reminiscence of this great championship match with a great of the game.
He was expounding all those variations in such depth and with an added human flavour. His insights and memory are incredible. Was a delight to follow.
Everytime I see vishy... I think we have not celebrated him enough ❤
He was the first grandmaster
@@AlwaysW175x2 In India
We had the most exciting WC match since Kramnik-Topalov and now we get another great video with Vishy's insights and Sagar's great (not a.i. :-) preparation. Amazing video! Thanks to both!
I watch a lot of chess content on TH-cam, and a lot of it is really good. But this stands out; it's pure gold for chess lovers. Vishy is such an insightful player, great competitor and decent human being. It's a joy to hear what he has to say.
This is by far the most exciting analysis on Ding vs Nepo.
"Rg6" Self pinning for immortality, will always be a legendary move now!
I like vishy because his honest , kind and He always helping for others , I think because his face like that! ❤❤❤
What marvellous insights from a legend - how many others have played in many world championships and taken the winner’s laurel five times! So many valuable thoughts from his perspective, particularly the three points he raises as to why the competitors played the particular type of chess we have seen. Thank you so much for taking the trouble to interview Vishy on this most recent, very entertaining championship match.
A real expert explaining things he really knows about ... Thumbs up, Vishy Anand!
Carlsen and Kasparov were probably slightly stronger player than Anand, but when it comes to commentary, honest and profound insights, there is not even a comparison between the 3 of them, Vishy is by far the greater inspiration.
Only Bobby Fischer is better than anand. Kasparov fixes his matches and with magnus, don't forget neilsen switched sides to magnus before wc and reveal Anand's prep to him.
Also Vishy defeated carlsen many times, he lost because of age difference and not willing to play and winning so many championships
i think that Kasparov was indeed somewhat stronger, HOWEVER not by as much as their relative performance would indicate.
i always had impression that Kasparov was Anand's "nemesis" somehow, that Anand tended to perform worse against him than against other players; as if he was intimidated by him, or something like that.
@@universe6735 lol
@@vishnusharma2958what kind of alternative universe were you looking at? Carlsen already has winning record against Anand - or everyone else really- a good few years before his first WCC. Of course Anand had winning record against Carlsen because Carlsen was up and coming and hadn’t reach his full potential early on. It happened on any sports, older player would have dominating record against new younger opponents until they adapt.
The reason this championship was exciting because both players refused to play for boring draws. It was like chess 960 with no standard positions. This is how chess should be played to keep it interesting, and not follow the 25 - 30 conputer prepared moves. No matter what people say about quality of chess being played, this is how chess should be played to keep it alive. There was a reason why Tal used misplace a piece and let both players sought it out over the board. There was reason why Bobby Fischer introduced Fischerrandom. An and there was reason why he quit the chess altogether
Full points to both Ian and Ding for playing this fantastic chess
If you really think they were not following 25-30 engine moves in the opening then you really know nothing about how high level chess is played. Quality of chess and the pursuit of perfection is more important than your stupid opinions.
A lot of good points, and I agree we had a fantastic match. I would still say that player are free of their style, as long as they respect the rules, and the opposition of styles and ideas are, among other things, what make the beauty of the game.
Maybe Fischerrandom chess is still the way to go for the future, but with fighting players like those 2, classical chess has still a right to exist. We also had a few perles in Wijk aan Zee, each year.
I wish more top tournaments with classical time control, both for classical chess and Fisherrandom.
Sagar is always in awe of Anand Viswanathan, as if Sagar is meeting him for the first time . Sagar's Fan Boy moment. Sagar's enthusiasm during the interview was on high as always and the cherry on top the cake because he was interviewing Anand Viswanathan. Kudos Sagar for the Interview. Thanks to Anand also for the Insights , and no better person to give insights on a nut shell 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Gem of a video! 1.5 hours of pure gold to hear Vishy's thoughts & insights. Thanks a lot Sagar Shah !!
For Ding, it was a case of - 'And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.' (Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist)
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Shahrukh Khan 🙄😒😂😂
'Ding looked like he was having a mid-life crisis during the match, but he became the World Champion so it was a good mid-life crisis'
- Viswanathan Anand
1:32:58
just a comment of appreciation. Vishy is such an amazing person and chess player. Loved this interview-analysis. Thank you guys!
He deserves "Bharatratna" for his greatest contribution on chess in India🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 ❤
Ye kch Jada nhi ho gya
@@samratyadav6615 nhi bhot kam hi hai
@@samratyadav6615 sachin tendulkar ko mil sakta hai to vishy ko kyun nhi
@@ayushkp.official exactly. He single-handedly represented India internationally on the topmost level. He is literally one of the
GOATs in chess.
@@samratyadav6615 kiu?
He is so wise. He simplifies your question before answering.
Anand is brilliant, such a credit to chess. Enjoyed this Sagar, thanks.
Anand is such a Class Champion.
It's really something different getting insights/analisis from a Word Champion, that speaks so clearly not rushed ( not like a lunatic) and the thoughts are so well organised end the delivery is so clear and bouth humble and worm.
Vishy is Love, WORLD CHAMPION IN HEARTS FOREVER ❤
What I liked about Vishy in this interview is his appreciation of how interesting this match was. He understands this may be one of the last true great classical WC matches where many fascinating positions occurred thanks to the use of 'harmless' opening tries by Ding and Rapport team and main opening theory wasn't used as much, and so, that produced many thrilling games and that's why it was one of the most exciting WC matches to watch in recent history.
It was also a clash of styles between the soviet positionally taught Nepo (even though he's known for his tactical vision as well) and Ding's very concrete calculating style. I believe Anand judges correctly that mistakes were going to be part of the deal with this clash of styles because they were getting such wild unbalanced positions where both players were out of prep earlier than in previous matches like Magnus vs Karjakin, Caruana or Nepo himself. I strongly believe if you had put Magnus, Caruana or Giri in those positions they would have all misplayed it as well. It's just that in their matches they were getting much drier positions! So ofc there were much less mistakes! Listening to these top GMs saying quality was poor in this match was ridiculous when they themselves don't play nearly as sharp as Ding or even Nepo usually play.
I feel like Anand was much more understanding of the difficulty of being there live figuring it out without engine eval bar like Caruana or Giri had. Even Dubov was many times criticizing the play when he was commentating w/o eval bar and he himself was making as many mistakes as the players when suggesting moves! It was just funny to watch, he even proposed the move Qf5 after Rg6 that lost Nepo the game and the match lol! So yeah, much easier to criticize the play even for top GMs than acknowledge the wonderful absorbing games we got from this WC match. Very refreshing to listen to Vishy and his appreciation for this amazing match 👍🏻
Actually this video has immense treasure inside it... We are seeing the matches and the thoughts of a 5 time champion at those critical moments.....thank you so much sagar bhai for this analysis... And I want Vishy again on those chairs playing some amazing classical chess.... May krishna make that situation in future❤❤❤❤
A brilliant insight of Vishy Anand: Ding calculated all critical lines and didn't think of what he would eat at dinner.
Do u really need to remind us of a 10 yr old gaffe 😅
Why we should never stop trying?
Why we should always keep fighting for the best result at every opportunity thrown at us?
How the theories of chaos and effects of a butterfly fluttering its wings work their magics in real life?
Just watch this video 1:27:20 onwards. You’ll find out the answers yourselves.
Great insights and tips on the 2023 World Chess Championship by none other than The Madras Tiger, Vishwanathan Anand.
And a great interview by Sagar Shah.
A big round of applause for the entire ChessBase India team for all the hard work.
Thank You Sagar Bhai for bringing such nice content for everyone. Chessbase India is doing great work
pura dekha bhi hai?
Legendery interview by a legend in making Sahar shah to the almighty one of the greatest of all time Vishy Anand.
Love me some Vishy/I’m a So fan but Vishy gets much ❤
El grande campeon, Anand.
this is what Internet is made for. 20 years ago, it is impossible to hear a world champion analyse a game without some exposure to a club or buying those analysis books. Now we are just chilling at our house and watching this for free. great work Sagar for bringing this to us.
Listening to this interview for first 15 mins one gets a sense that Vishy was probably rooting for Nepo to win. He doesn't take Ding's name even once while only narrating the games from Nepo's perspective. Quite interesting.
Vishy is vice chairman of FIDE and the chairman is Russian Arkady Dvorkovich. Definitely have to be supportive of Russian players if Vishy wants to be chairman in the future.
@@da96103 Not sure if it's chess politics or just plain love for one player over another. Maybe in some way he sees himself in Nepo with regards to playing style etc. We are all allowed to have personal favourites, after all.
@@da96103 Vishy will never do anything like that and your comment shows you have not followed chess for too long. It's common for GMs to analyse games from the perspective of the style closest to their own. Nepo is an intuitive, tactical player like Vishy who also relied on speed and intuition. Obviously Vishy is one of the all-time greats but stylistically they are similar. You'll often notice during commentary that positional players while commentating tend to speak from the perspective of the positional player at the board. That's because the commentator approaches the game in a similar way the player does. Also, Vishy spent some time with Ian after the latter won the Candidates last year in Madrid. As for Dvorkovich, Russian administrators do not have the same clout as before in Fide because of sanctions and the exodus of Russian players (several top Russian GMs have now switched federations). And Russian Chess Federation have now also left Europe and joined Asia. European federations have more voting clout during administrative elections than Asia. So wouldn't even make any sense for Vishy to align with Russian administrators at this point even if he has ambitions to become prez.
Hello from Russia, you have an interesting channel. thanks for the scores
This is a fantastic interview, thank you both for it!
What a match this one was. and such a great video this one is . thanks a lot Sagar !
Very fascinating discussion, I'm a huge admirer of Vishy, thanks for sharing this, love from China :D
Such brilliant quality content, thank you so much Sagar Bhai and Vishy sir.
Thank you for bringing Vishy’s clear thinking into the discussion about these games.
Excellent stuff! Thanks to both!
It’s always a delight to see Vishy’s insights and understand them. Thanks Sagar for doing this
Dedication !! ❤
Great privilege to hear from the legend himself. Thanks for the wonderful interview.
Flew to Chennai just next day of the game, too good Sagar sir❤️🔥!!
I realize that I haven't said enough in my previous comment. I greatly appreciate Sagar's unwavering commitment to chess and get us the best material to learn from. When we were all complaining about Covid in 2020, Sagar saw an opportunity to put together a nice course on chess for all of us to benefit from. Sagar, you are amazing!!!
Thanks Sagar for making this wonderful video possible. Very insightful in many ways - Thanks again
Enjoying this better (because of the clarity input) then the actual World Championship clash, when it was pacing live.
Enjoyed the conversation. Thanks for creating and sharing it.
Sagar, your tenacity is very inspiring to me. CHAPEAU from Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
I don’t understand how such a brilliant person can be so humble.
Great interview. Definitely the best chess channel.
Given the 3 threads Anand outlined, this shows that Carlsen would have won comfortably because these are exactly his strongest points.
What a pleasure. Vishy was an outstanding champion who was a credit to chess. I have watched a ton of analysis but it was great to get his take on the match. Thank you.
Amazing insight from Anand. Thank you for this moment
Excellent video. Wish I could be there, but stuck here in the US. Love to hear Mr Anand’s insights.
I love Vishy!!!
This is amazing and great content. Thank you for sharing!
Wow, amazing ! thanks Sagar sir & of course to Legend Vishy sir for this wonderful treat to chess lovers!!🥰
Terrific interview. Thank you.
Anand is really into it, his attitude is so much more positive on the current match than Kasparovs, who hadn't much more to say other than the usual "it's not a real world championship because Magnus is not playing" negative non sense..
Anand is fide vice president he can not speak negative about fide world championship
@@altuprasaad8049 oh i didn't know about that. Thanks for the update. Recently i just thought Anand would be a good fide president, but that he actually is vice president i wasn't aware.
Anand is not "one of the greatest" - he just is the greatest, full stop. This man still has a mind so sharp he could beat anyone on the planet, win any tournament, or even become champion again. He has been amazing for decades. Best ever.
54:50 is where the lightning legend can be seen :D it's so amazing :)
Vishy has such interesting comments and expresses them so vividly and clearly that he makes a chess novice like me feel like I can understand at least a taste of the inner workings of the chess that was played in this match. And of course Sagar's inserts are what make the analysis possible for many of us to follow.
I watched the whole thing again, and enjoyed it even more the second time. I had been guilty of ignoring Anand as a commentator in the past. I knew of his reputation for being an amiable gentleman, but because I also knew his reputation as a lightening speed natural genius in chess, I naturally assumed a dullard like me would get nothing from his explanations. Was I ever wrong. I think chess fans of all levels can learn a great deal from his explanations, and in the future I will tune in to see Anand above everyone else for chess commentary.
Treasure of a Video, now need one with Ding ❤
You cannot justify everything by variations. ❤
this was fascinating and insightful, vishy is such a legend.
Vishy should play some tournaments we will love to see him play.
Sagar should convince him❤
This is beautiful, thanks for sharing
Great commentary and insightful analysis!!
Thanks so much for putting this together! What a chess genius and a true gentleman of the game.
Brilliant coverage Sagar bhai :)
i gave this video a like as soon as it started. Thank you Mr Shah
incredible. great conversation
Thank you for this video.
There is a point in this conversation where Vishy jokes about calling Ian “Nepo” instead of by his first name 😅 felt like it would be a good time to say that Ding Liren’s first name is “Liren” too
Anand noticed that Ding was playing risky moves, which remind me of Emanuel Lasker's play.
thank you very much Anand and Sagar! A great insight!! novadays its rare to see such large and deep analysis and i was missing them!
Thank you for sharing.
Thankyou Sagar for this fantastic video! Anand's insights were exceptional, entertaining, educative...simply brilliant! Also, the way you do your homework- the diagrams etc- is simply worth admiring!! There is so much to take away from this video that I will have to see it again to appreciate every detail! I specially noted the part where Anand says about a player playing fast! Whenever my next opponent plays fast, I will remember Anand's words and feel good during the game!
For other interested viewers, watch from 17:57- for the next few seconds-"When people start to play fast, it is already a sign that they are a bit nervous!!" This sentence just made me remember so many of my regular opponents who play fast! Next time I will smile within when they do that!
truly lovely , thank you sagar sir
This was the full match recap I was looking for
Omg totally loved sir's inputs and thoughts this was the best idea sagar bhaiya❤️
amazing! I've seen 1001 commentaries but Anand is unique - so insightful, wise, as a great chess master and as a person. Eloquent, engaging. The best overall.
A beautiful analysis of Nepodingism, commentated by Vishy, always a worthwhile watch.
Fantasitc insight! Thank you for this!
16:58 onwards about autopilot mode and moving quickly .... invaluable insights....
Hi Chessbase India, thank you so much for such an insightful & awesome interview with Vishy sir. Can I also ask, how to get an autographed chess board of Nepo from Chessbase India or FIDE? Is it available on their website?
Thank you! Viva Vishy!
This is amazing! Thanks 1000x
Sagar Shah proving once again why he's THE GOAT of Gonzo Chess Journalism not only in India, but throughout the world. This video was a prize, honestly.
Brilliant insights.
I really felt bad for Nepo, Imagine you scored too good in 2019 Candidates and preparing for WCC in 2020 which was held in 2021 and playing half of the matches very effectively and game 6 freezes him and coming back to reality and producing some best moves and winning 2022 candidates incredibly, and giving extraordinary fight in 2023 Championship and at last few seconds you came to know that you're losing at the end, the amount of preparation Nepo has put into this prestigious WCC would be priceless and no one can judge it. I hope he wins next Candidates and be the next World Champion and I think he is the deserving candidate.
Nepo was the better player in the classical phase. Clear winning chances in game 12 and 14 and that too with black. Also he was the one who won a classical game with black. But then he has this terrible habit of rushing his moves in winning positions and blunders. And he does that even when he is under no time pressure. Hikaru, Magnus and others have said the same about him. But that's Nepo. Against Magnus he had no chance to win the match but this was a massive choke from him I would say.
@@gruntgobshite What you said is absolutely right, I thought he is playing very interesting chess against Magnus, and he broke down at game 6 and after that flood gates are opened.
It is precisely that Nepo put an immense amount of prep in this tournament that makes Ding the more worthy champion. Because this is the Ding with less preparation, a smaller team, and his prep leaked, who managed to defeat that heavily prepped Nepo, with pure skill and nerves alone. This means Nepo has almost no shot at beating Ding again, now that Ding has the experience he lacked, and will probably be able to afford a larger team, and protect better his preparation from being leaked. As Magnus once said, Ding is stronger than Nepo, because he can calculate lines deeper.
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What I think is,
there's no major preparations lines that were played in this WCC, most of the games are deviated from theory for either sides,
which means that Ding chooses more offbeat openings to surprise Nepo. I think Nepo responded to Ding pretty well and Ding responded to Nepo's Spanish opening
very excellently, I just feel bad for Nepo, and what I love about him is, he is intuition player rather than calculating lines deeply.
Anyways Ding is the winner, and the better player wins.
@Arnab Majumdar I keep seeing people say Nepo was the better player or the better player in the classical portion and I can't understand it. Having more winning chances or having more winning positions doesn't make you a better player. If he was the better player in classical he would have won and it wouldn't have went to the tiebreaker. I think saying Nepo was the better player is disrespectful to Ding. The results show us that at that time, in classical they were evenly matched and is the faster time controls Ding was the better player. Nepo has a long history of getting winning positions and rushing his moves and blowing the win. Ding, the current World Champion, was the better player.
The finest interview by any chess player at any level on a world championship match...
Fantastic Sagar! You make chess fandom so happy with your projects and ideas. Love seeing Anand on screen.
Such a top quality content. Thank you ChessBase India and Vishy Sir!
आनंद सर सबसे बडे जीनीयस हैं।शतरंज के बादशाह को दिल से सलाम
1.5 hours with legend and WCh is a dream content