Magnus Carlsen Takes the 100 Endgames Test!
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- On Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, I had the incredible opportunity to film with World Champion Magnus Carlsen in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands! I recently completed a nearly 20 hour video course for GM Jesus de la Villa's 100 Endgames You Must Know, and Magnus agreed to take the 26-question Basic Test in the course. It was a pleasure to sit and chat with the World Champion as he explained his thought process on these endgames problems, described his approach to endgame study, and shared his tremendous insight into the game in general. Enjoy!
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I want to meet magnus
very nice ^^
John I have always been impressed by your ability to keep your emotions cool but wow, how did you not totally fanboy out getting to collab with magnus?
Pron: "Wike ahn zay"
John, thank you so much for all your videos. You've helped me understand and enjoy the game so much more. Good luck with all your endeavors. You're one of my favorite people in Chess. :-)
carlsen: "rook b6 e6 loses obviously"
me, sipping on my bottled water: "obviously."
lmao
you would must write a book
Saiki Kusuo and you should not
@@almscurium English is not my native language :(
@@aureliofelix3335 No need to feel bad about it. Just some situational humor. :D
Magnus: *closes his eyes to see the board better*
I love this comment
😂😂😂
Mhm
Hmmmm
Actually it does help quite a lot, you would be surprised. I’m not saying I’m anywhere near as talented as Magnus, but I had a world record in a game called Clash of Clans, and sometimes looking away and thinking about your strategy on a particular base is more useful than looking at your screen
This was the "100 Endgame Test" taking the Magnus test.
Summed up the whole video perfectly.
magnus didnt pass, the test failed
Hikaru: haaaa good one
true
Hahhahaha top notch comment xDDD
Magnus: “This was an unnecessary complicated solution”
John: “I agree”
Lol we should have the two bearded chad faces facing each other sayingthis to one another.
"100 end games you MUST know"
The world champion: I don't know them.
Also world champion: solves all of them with 98% accuracy
@@user-ld4qt6ci7b and with more than one ways
He KNOWS them, he cannot just RECALL them.
@@changotucumano he even recalls his past games years ago, VIVIDLY, hes not just fond of theoretical endgames
@@imdanielmartinez Thats the difference between talent and learning
It makes me feel better about myself that even the best player ever needs to think about which direction pawns are moving before starting a puzzle.
Computers also have to do this, though they just happen to have the advantage of being able to consider moves in far shorter a time. A puzzle is a puzzle. Never feel insecure for having to evaluate it. What matters is that you're exercising the mind.
lol I was wondering why couldn't the pawns just taken the knight or the queen
@@DrachenYT Wut? Computers don't have to "think" about which side of the board they are looking at. First of all, engine's don't use a visual board for calculation (the board is there just for the user). And they know what the position is with absolute certainty (including side to move), because without it they can't function.
I've done this a bunch of times; I'll set up a board in Stockfish to analyze, and then realize I had the whole board backwards and have to place all the pieces again. In terms of pawn direction, I just always keep white side down when solving puzzles
Yeah, but made me think about it -- watching that confusion for a second time with Magnus and him mentioning it here -- that his pawn was on c3 and then moved it up to c5.
Just notice the way the numbers (if displayed and they should be, never thought of this before and noticed -- being transfixed on the puzzle) are going and it's easy. Hope this helps. OTB might be a problem, the captured pieces may help with that. Thx.
Carlsen: Makes correct move that looks confusing.Also Carlsen: "That wins because, well honestly I don't know."
“Short diagonal, long solutions.” LOL
Well, that's also me, but I'm not the world champion XD
He is blessed by jesus.. He drank some Jesus milk
That's what happens when you get really good at chess. You know intuitively that it's right. Just like you don't have to think about how to ride a bike or how to talk.
@@greatmnn3868 what kind of milk that's supposed to be there mate
Well that's the difference between a master and a champion. The master knows 100 endgames, the champion figures them out on the spot. He basically just winged it.
Essentially lol
@@iamronaldo7764 Actually he saw at least something similar to every one of those positions before.... He "figures on the spot" because of it. What he does is recognize the patterns better than most...
Winged it my ass. Dude knows every game of chess. His pattern recognition is on point.
@@TheDendra7 I think you're confusing endgames and openings. After a certain point past the opening there are no "knowns." Chess has infinite variations. Computers will solve it eventually and it will become like tic-tac-toe but even with the technology we have now we're years away from achieving that so I seriously doubt Carlsen has figured out all possible endgames.
As he was working through these, I thought of something Richard Feynman said once about the difference between learning things by rote and actually understanding how things work. He said something to the effect that he could never understand why anyone would bother with the former considering how superficial and unuseful it is.
Me studying "100 Endgames..." is like someone learning a language and all these tiny different rules that language has.
Magnus is like a native speaker who can't recite any of the rules from memory, but speaks the language perfectly.
This, on the language learning forums and online communities we discuss this all the time with native speakers, it's quite paradoxical
Well said.
@@alguienmas2751 there's nothing paradoxical about it. one does not use 'rules' when forming a sentence... or you know, they may, but it would take them 5 minutes to answer a simple question. i also have no idea why we are teaching our kids the grammar rules of our own language (english is not my first language). it's not like they are ever going to actually depend on them, they are native speakers, they speak the language - they don't need to reconstruct it from all the rules.
@@erikmarkus7467 But they need the rules to write it properly.
@@erikmarkus7467 I totally agree. I feel like we learn the grammar rules to be able to help our children learning the grammar rules so they will be able to help their children in future and so on. Without learning those rules we would speak with just the same correctness because we have been living with the language from the very beginning of our lives.
Maybe the whole chain of helping the children is to encourage people having children as early as possible so as to not completely forget the grammar rules
"it's very easy to calculate these things"
-The best chess player ever.
also if the 24:02 position comes up in the 2021 blitz world championship and Magnus wins then you get partial credit.
he isnt best ever
@@Anonim-tt6zo he isnt the greatest ever, but in terms of just how accurate and good his moves are he is no doubt the best chess player to ever live.
@@jakebishop7822masters of the past did not concede to him ..but of course he is one of the best
I love magnus but hard to call him the best ever
Magnus is the guy in math class who will find this really easy way to do a math problem and still get yelled at by the teacher after getting it right.
Simply a bad teacher if the student understands WHY it works
Math 10x to 100x harder and wider
I've been there in physics and other maths classes.
I sympathize. But sometimes math geniuses aren't good teachers...like that key square point he made.
the teacher was probably yelling at him because he's solving the problem in his own way (not how it was intended to be lol)
As someone who's only a 1300... this blows my mind. The amount of obsession it would take to get to that level is hard to comprehend.
Not obsession but talent
Just look at Magnus head, his brain is bigger than most of the people
@@mauriciotaylor5065 I'd say you need both to get where he is
@@mauriciotaylor5065 The size of the head tells really nothing at all.
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i am 1300 too but i literally answered all these questions correct,only knight-bishop mate because i dont know it
Guys, pause the video for a second and think about this: some 30 years ago people would only *hear* about the best chess players and whatnot, and nowadays we are a couple of clicks away from watching a quality video with a world champion casually talking about chess and answering questions you would only dream about hearing answers to some 30 years ago. Isn't that incredible! We gotta really appreciate the times we live in!
Indeed! It's incredible to step back for a moment and appreciate just how lucky we are that chess and the internet work so well together.
If you found this thought, congratulations, youre an excelent thinker
@@kastapostgard5306 lol.
30 years ago people would't procrastinate watching 30 minutes of chess video like me.
Nowadays you can get a university level amount of information online.
takes him longer to find out which way the pawns are moving than finding the solution
"brb I'll flip the board in my head".
Its hard to get used you are the black sometimes
Bad design to not having the solver be white every problem.
@@AnaIvanovic4ever or if you are black, to move upward?
That's why I hate the god damn book. De La Villa must be the worst chess author on the planet. Reading the book could not be more confusing. I've gone through about 80%-85% of the material.
Magnus running into a million alternatives rather than the moves that are "intended" by the test, because he actually knows and understands these positions rather than memorizing them from a book or course.
I could be wrong but I think the program only allows one "correct" line. It's mainly for memorization of openings. So in those examples they have to just pick one winning line. The only other option would be to not include that endgame which would be silly.
@@tom4115 They could have a recommended line but also allow every alternative winning line so as not to frustrate the person learning. If I can figure out the end game but cannot figure out the end game they want me to play it would be incredibly annoying.
Chess is pattern recognition. He had studied (then mastered) all of Fundamental Chess Endings while still a child. He's memorized 10,000+games. It's internalized so hard in his subconscious it's become hardcoded ROM.
you just accidentally explained everything that’s wrong with the american education system
Difference in understanding something vs memorizing something
When you are so good at chess, you are correcting the puzzles mistakes.
Magnus is like that guy who lost his memory
"Bill, how much is two times two?"
"Four"
"Oh, you remembered!"
"Nah, I counted"
Except more like
"Bill, how much is 194737828593927421933 times 75738184737289274838?"
The guy that gets killed in that Tarantino movie.
No, Magnus was like "nah, it's obvious"
@@AmirIskandar 14749089637385448792550679759384426221854
@@AmirIskandar ^ he counted
Your new student really knows his stuff! He could even be World Champion one day!
Brett Sorestad Highly doubt it...
Are you serious??? He is a world champion already.
Professor Stexy we got a Sherlock
@@avgplayer3000 We got a gullible idiot.
ha. I tired old cliche. You could never be a comedian with that attempt at humor.
“Let’s hope I don’t get that one in a game.” I’m 1000% sure now he’ll never miss that one again, ever.
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Magnus: "so I remember this game when I had my pawn queening on g1 and I went with my king to f3"
me: "did I won my last game?"
I mean it does make sense, the games they play are so much more ingrained. They are very long games in which they thoroughly calculate each move, so it's all very ingrained. Well much more than any of us can achieve
@Rank 9 Wisdom Gu wow great analogy, exactly what I was thinking
@Luo Ji thats an excellent analogy
@@gray_gogy Magnus said it was a blitz game
🤣🤣. Me the same!
“Short diagonal, long solutions.” LOL
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I just read this comment, went back to the video and pressed play. Immediately he said this line. Just wanted to tell you that your comment was a part of a funny experience to me.
Wow. It’s hard to imagine how cool that must’ve felt. What an honor that must have been for Magnus to meet the one and only John Bartholomew.
Connor Monday 🤣
John the lord
He’s the legendary Prester John
Connor Monday underrated comment
What an honour. He's even getting tested already..
9:56 Carlsen: "Ahh, pawns move that way". Me: relieved that I'm not the only one.
I am just baffled about the memory of old games these guys have. "That rook ending in 2006 against Aronian", and he immediately has the position in his head. It's so amazing.
I don't think Magnus would ever forget that game. He blundered a classical game in an elementary rook+pawn against a rook endgame. I recommend looking it up.
John: this one tripped up your father
Magnus, knowingly smiles at camera: Sorry, Dad, but this is an easy one.
Time
@@PrashantKumar-tt3rg around 14:20
I always find Magnus’ matter of fact approach to chess intimidating but fascinating at the same time. He downplays his own intuition and ability so often, for example looking at a position and saying things like “this is an easy draw of course” is like saying “I know it, you know it, we all know it”. For a second I’m lulled into thinking we’re completely on the same page and I’m equal to his chess prowess, but that seems to be Magnus’ refusal to elevate his chess above others. Except his father’s chess of course.
Alexius Czar P. Vergara calm down lol
@@lx4302 Go back to your broom closet till I say you can come out again.
no
i don't remember that dumb comment that i posted but im deeply sorry, lmao.
"yeahhhhhh we need to fix our solutions in the book"
"What? Why?"
"Uhhhhhh the world chess champion found quicker and better ones in a video I just posted on TH-cam."
"You did what...?"
Magnus: "if you know this you will never forget"
Me 5 minutes later: "how did that go again?"
Exercise 6: As Magnus says, it's Taimanov-Fischer (Buenos Aires 1960) - Amazed at Fischer's perfect defence in the ending, after the game Taimanov asked Fischer how he managed to find this so quickly.
"I didn't need to find anything," said Fischer. "A few years ago your magazine Shakhmaty v SSSR (Chess in the USSR) published a detailed analysis of this ending by Averbakh, and I remembered all the variations perfectly well."
Informative!
Fischer learned russian to read russian chess magazines. That's some mad dedication
@@leadnitrate2194 I am not as good as Fischer but I did the same just to read magazines about tal and Fischer vs Spassky
That's why I love Fischer the player. The GOAT!
I LOVE the mini board while Magnus talks about an alternative. So helpful!
I like how he immediately finds simpler solutions and variations instead of assuming the book move is the only way. Cool course and video.
This guy doesn’t know any of the end game rules, I should play him.
To be frank, I feel like this showed one of the biggest flaws with the Chessable training platform; you should be able to proceed with alternative solutions if they're equally good!
Tbh i think youre right. It never seemed to consider that there would be any other ideas for approaching the certain position
It is practically difficult and sometimes impossible to cover all possible variations.
yes i guess you would need to implement stockfish into chessable as you can barely do every variation manually. With stockfish you could evaluate if a move is equally good and let the other side play on some moves that stockfish suggests.
VGA alternative solutions should be easy to add then up and down voted and coloured in a certain colour then final moderation in another colour. Easy
We are aware and one of the points of the upcoming MT2 is to make potential features like this possible :-)
Dude props for showing what Magnus was talking about on the second board. I would have had to have gone to lichess myself if not so thanks for that.
Totally agree. Great editing touch.
I would have gone to visualise mode rather than going to lichess.. Kidding i cant even visualise 5 moves deep
The fact he can instantly recall similar or identical positions from not only his own games but others as well is incredible!
This was honestly great. So interesting to see Carlsen's "intuitive" approach in very vivid detail.
Magnus is just mercilessly trashing the supposed "correct" lines.
Edit: 750 likes Wow! Thanks a lot guys.
Good! Goes to show how pointless many of these puzzles are.
@@MrSupernova111 the puzzles aren't pointless at all, it's just the nature of the game that sometimes there are multiple correct answers.
Supernova Every chess puzzle is based around finding the correct solution, that’s the point of the puzzle. These puzzles are not pointless. The issue here is that these “puzzles” are supposed to be teaching positions which occur in games, and in that case, as long as what you play works in theory it should be a correct answer, that’s why it’s so stupid and why Magnus gets pissed off at it. His solutions are perfectly valid and playable but because it’s not what the engine gave it’s not correct. It’s like a nerd correcting someone’s grammar even though everyone fully understood what was meant anyways.
@@confucheese shitty analogy but I agree with the rest of what you said
@@confucheese grammar is important or i would not be able to understand you
16:44 When I prepare for exam and see the first question
Lmao
nice lol
Lol hahaha
This guy's ratio of unbelievable talent / humility is absurdly high.
You mean low
I don’t think it’d be a “low” ratio either haha. I think we can all agree his talent / arrogance ratio is absurdly high
im confused by this comment section. if the unbelievable talent/humility ratio is high, that means he has really low humility (cause he is obviously unbelievably talented), but if the ratio is low, that means his humility is low as well.
@@rohangeorge712 The solution is imagining the ratio results in a whole number. Because we can all agree, his humility will not catch up to his level of talent. Does that make sense?😅
it obviously can be interpreted in both ways, but judging by the style, i think the guy meant low, the latter is a bit too complicated for such a simple concept and serves no purpose
What I learned is that Carlson doesn’t remember lessons but looks at every situation and analysis it freshly
25:30 that's so amazing
15:49 "For me, I don't think of key moves. I just think of... resigns'" -Magnus
Lol
So thankful for this upload and welcome back on board John! Please conduct more of these! I wish Magnus would do a puzzle rush or tactics 3000+
It's just kind of soothing to hear the great Magnus be so honest about what he knows...It's so crazy to live in a time when we can get such intimacy with the world's greatest player! 🙃
"He may be better at endgames but I'm better at chess" love it haha
Which timestamp? I haven't seen anyone better than Magnus at end games lol
@@Mj-kl3rb 1:36. He was talking about his father's theoretical endgame knowledge versus his own
@@aidenoneil6292 Haha ok thanks man
My gosh. Seeing you sitting down at the virtual chessboard with the one and only Magnus Carlsen literally puts an honest smile on my face. I believe years of watching your videos created some kind of a viewer-creator bond which is weird because it’s one sided. Nonetheless I can assure you that there are many more people feeling exactly like me because of your personality and the way you treat viewers. I’m extremely happy for you. You don’t even know:)
Ur bond is called a parasocial relationship lol
I completely echo this
@@ninja8flash742 Its called homosexual
Lol
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What a coup to get Magnus on your channel. That is so generous of him to be accessable with his time for this. Good video as well. Much appreciated.
Wow, that's actually pretty impressive. He finds the alternative moves some of which were better than the solution moves and actually found improvements on a few of these exercises.
Carlsen: I don't know the "100 endgames you must know" because I can solve all of them over the board, most of them even better than the given solution!
It's like 100 problems a physics student must know, then comes the professor Noblist and says: "It's easy to see, we just calculate the contour integral, and that one we can derive from the formula of Gauss. It's obvious."
Absolutely incredible that you got to meet Magnus! Imagine sending this video back in time to yourself 3 years ago!
Magnus owns chessable.
@@gmnotyet I know, but not 3 years ago!
@@gmnotyet
That's sarcasm, right? I thought John and some other guy owned chessable.
@@angrybirdz9287 Magnus bought chessable 4 months ago.
@@gratefulvideo
Oh, wow! Where have I been?
The guy literally took the "theoretical" endgames test depending on his instinct
15:50 " I don't think of key moves, I just think of resigns "
Same.. all the time.
Lol
i feel like magnus was pissed in a lot of these positions because he found much better solutions lol
He didnt found much better solutions,he just found an alternative.
@@tunahanculcu4111 basically easier solutions
@@tunahanculcu4111 one move vs.
I like how changed Magnus is nowadays, more matured not a geek he used to be, now he's just a cool guy who in addition is the greatest player on Earth
the entire vibe in this video and the way John is enjoying it is really nice to see. Great video :)
"I don't think of key moves, I just think of resigns."
What a legend...
Funny to see Magnus almost getting mad at the lacking interface (all these alternative moves that do the same thing but are "wrong") of chessable now that he owns it.
Should just indicate that it's an alternative but let you carry on playing the puzzle instead of resetting
He was like that with the Play Magnus app too when he was promoting it. Got frustrated at the interface and how easy it was to finger-slip and didn't even try to hide it. He doesn't pull punches, just says what he thinks.
Same with chess24, in his first banter blitz sessions, he had no idea how to work the (extremely clunky) interface to accept challenges and stream his board and made no secret of it, even though he had just bought a share in chess24 lol
Magnus is really amazing. His memory to remember games, names, positions. His intuition is fabulous. We are lucky to live at the same time as this magnificent player, besides being able to see him playing and commenting on his own games in Chess24 it is a unique opportunity. Thanks, John for this opportunity.
Marcus: "If you know this, you'll never forget it"
Me: forgets immediately.
@@ChocolateMilk.. Marcus Carlos
Why did I click on this?
Mancus is so strong.
Magnus literally closing his eyes to see the position better is the most hilarious thing I've seen this year.
So surreal seeing where you ended up John, I remember when you used to upload 3 videos daily and then the lichess bullet tournaments lol, I miss the lichess tournaments though.
16:45 This is one of my favorite Magnus facial expressions. My other favorite is similar but with a look of odorous disgust when his opponent makes an unbelievably bad move.
😂🤣🤣
That should be a GIF meme.
I guess you're happy with game 9 of the World Chess Championship huh? 😂
@@gnashr4366 lol
Nepo blunders the bishop for example :D but yea he does this face sometimes :D
he's like an avatar relying on all his previous experiences to play. Its impressive
Wow, you somehow connected my two favorite things atm. Avatar and chess lmao.
What i always notice in Magnus interviews is how he always refer to GM past games with details. I think he memorize thousands of GM games and that's how he use to train. That explains also why he does everything instinctively and cannot explain
It was all going so well and then:
John: Do you remember that rook endgame you lost to Aronian?
Magnus:
John:
Magnus: Oh yeah.
Which minute?
@@hernan22rosario your welcome 29:45
@@mesopotamian2084 thank you 😀
Lol
Magnus: Now I have the position in my head.
Me: I think there were some pawns.
Playing multiple games blindfolded.
Magnus: what board is this
Opponent: 27
Magnus: ....... Now I have the position in my head
Opponent: my only win cause, I resign.
I love how he just solve the puzzles mathematically and logically instead of memorizing things. This guy has an amazing strategical mind. No wonder he is the WC and i really appreciate his personality as well.
What a time to be alive, i would say.
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I feel so grateful for the world we live in today... watching the world champion quickly noodle through puzzles, sharing his thoughts. Gracious of him to do this and amazing we have a resource to watch it!
When you feel the need to postpone studying for a math test the next day to watch the world champion take a chess test
Dang everyone, 400 likes, thanks guys! :)
As a teacher, I approve!
A teacher of what, PE?
Ahaha. Im taking 4 exams the next couple days and here I am.
Lol, tomorrow is my math test😂😂
im taking a physics exam tomorrow, but much like mgnus its all intuitive to me, no need to study theory 😁
Awesome John. So impressive.
Crazy to see you here, love the vids big boy
Your Minecraft vids are lit
Lol love your builds
Make a chess castle in minecraft man your building is lit
Magnus taking this test is the embodiment of "I know the result to the math problem even though I don't know the correct formula." What's worse is that teachers would probably make Magnus fail the test.
😅
I feel partly relieved that even Magnus sometimes needs a couple seconds to figure out which way the paws are going...
I’m 57 and have been a fan of chess since I first played when I was 6 or so. It’s nice to see Magnus so willing to share his knowledge with us as most chess prodigies are aloof at best.
Wow John, really happy that you had finally the chance to meet the Norway's ultimate goat! Love your chessable adaptation and keep up the awesome work! 💪🏻
This may very well be one of the most informative and solid crash courses in Chess understanding and I've ever seen. Thank You gentlemen.
Best way to describe this is like a native English speaker v a nonnative speaker. The native speaker just intuitively knows how to properly form coherent and syntactically proper sentences where as the non native speaker has to use memorized patterns and grammar rules to achieve the same end. Magnus is the native speaker in this scenario. He doesnt need a template from which to operate he merely knows exactly how to operate his language without thinking about it. He doesnt require the memorization of specific "openings", "strategies" or "endgames". He may use them indirectly but he doesn't necessarily set out to do so.
love that analogy! :)
This comment deserves so many more likes 🤯 analogy criminally underrated
When Magnus says he doesn't really know these endgames but intuitively knows the solution anyway
Like that one kid in class who said he never did any work but got 100% on all the tests.
@@SuperYtc1 You've had just one? I've had at least one girl and two boys in upper classes that constantly came "unprepared" for tests and exams by their words and still had one of the best scores. Granted, others sweared they've studied for hours and days and had low scores. Rarety were those that would say: "I've studied or I didn't" and the appropriate result would follow. I suppose superstitions and trying to look cool are the main factors.
@Neal DoubleAA Maybe it differs between the countries, but most of our books were full of dates, facts, ect. No way you get a good grade at a test without in advance reading well the material. But of course if let's say mathematics comes natural, it's easier to prepare, but even there you have theorems, formules, etc. you need to know by heart to be able to resolve the problems. Some people memorized better in class, that's also a factor for sure.
@@v.9802 For me I had good memory, so if like in your example, there would be a history test with dates, I'd remember them. I dont think I did a single homework until high school and had top grades. The downside is that you learn how to be lazy.. I always make my son do his homeworks thoroughly even if he already knows everything. Hard work is better than talent. You can be talented and get nowhere, but hard work always takes you somewhere.
@@sntm87 You'd remember them just from the class, but if the teacher failed to mention all the dates written in the book, the only way to know them is by reading the book at home. Some kids need 3-4 times to remember well, others 2 times, those with exceptional memory only 1 time. My father says he needed only one time to hear something or read it to remember it, just like you say. But I vouch that he indeed have an exceptional memory for history events, familly events and familly's stories and names of relatives and names of our ancestors. I've never had a very good memory, but my logic was strong, so I would most of the time recall the things I've read by some logical connection between them, even if I can't recall them instantly by memory. So
John, Amazing content, so curious to how you felt on this interview, must have been extatic!👌🏻 Also I must say, good job in stepping back and giving room to Magnus in the sense of talking/listening balance. Great job man!
Much appreciated, Alex! I was mostly just taking in the moment, let Magnus do his thing, and add commentary where appropriate. 30 minutes flew by; amazing experience to sit next to the World Champion as he explains his thoughts.
gotta love magnus correcting the premade exercises in a matter of seconds
25:25 Instructive moment of why the champ calculates so well. Takes the time to really get the position in his head instead of looking at pieces and squares on the board. You normally don't notice because he does it so quickly.
Love the editing, showing the variations/ideas spoken about! Makes a good video great!
2:11 "And the knight is in time, it always going to be a fork, and it's in the rat circuit" - Magnus.
An endgame genius in action.
and how the finales become so interesting to watch and study them..and what a strong motivation you have seeing the approach of the world champion with the relaxation and seriousness that is needed ... great video..I enjoyed it
0:43 Magnus snapping back into reality when addressed is hilarious it's like he forgot the other guy was even there
Loved watching this. Very educational for the amateur chess player. And a treat to hear Magnus thought process. Mind boggling really. Thanks, mr. Bartholomev.
25:20 wow that's amazing how Magnus finds it easier to look away and analyze the given position in his head
Magnus: Once you know this, you’ll never forget it.
Me: I’ve already forgotten
Thanks for showing the lines under discussion on the smaller board it is difficult to visualize without that
Its very interesting to watch Magnus solve these problems. It seems that he sees the solutions in a different way than its usually presented in books (even to the point that he sees alternative moves that are better). It would have been interesting to find out a bit more about his thought process.
This two are my favorite chess players of all time 😁😁 And now they are together in one video!!
I find this fascinating that Magnus knew the solutions but had never "studied" them and didn't know their names. Many times he said he just knew, like with the knight 4 boxes one. He just thinks about the game differently. I would love to understand that more.
This is absolutely mind blowing, so many of them just look the same to me and instantly he can say easy draw. If i ever play him i think i will have to checkmate him early because it seems he will have the edge in the end game,
Do you really think you can checkmate him “early”? If anything it’d be the other way around
Most underrated comment 😂😂😂
You might be in the endgame by move 1 with him, since he’s the world champion…
The way you are saying checkmate as you will be able to win a game easily against him
This comment is a perfect example of retarded idiot syndrome.
Hi John, this is truly excellent content. Thanks for posting, and I'm glad I'm subscribed!
EXCELLENT video. Generations of chess players could have only dreamt of an opportunity at watching the world champion solving and commenting on several endgame positions in real time. Thanks to IM Bartholomew for facilitating this gem
Fantastic video. Great host! You feel comfortable and your extra explanations helps me to understand everything clearly. Love learning Chess and am thankful for videos like this.
4:13 "I think qb3 will do it".. well of course, you designed the damn thing
*Incredible!* He doesn't know the rules, but he lived all the positions and can tell us several experiences about them.
Carlsen: Once you know this you will never forget it.
Me: Have watched, learned, and forgotten most of this video 3 times since it was published
I didn't understand any of this but still found Magnus' thought process very interesting