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FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025: Fast Paced Chess & Some Drama! ft. Magnus, Ian, Arjun, Anish
12-29-2025 · 3h 45m
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seeing what we do in this first day.
That's right, James.
They're trying to keep us down, but we'll be back.
Every single time we go down, just hit the refresh.
Well, we'll be back.
Magnus Carlson, up on the top board, where you can always find him,
is playing Salem Salet and Jordan, leading the event.
The only player with six points of full point clear is up against
Notre-Bac, looking down the list.
The Arjun is actually matched up against Dennis Magnet.
That will be an interesting pairing to take a look at.
to take a look at because Venice has had a phenomenal start to this event and really
reminding everyone of his name to start things off.
I'm actually looking forward to, of course, the tournament leader of your event for East
versus Northern Back Edwards, the Turup, that's going to be nice to see Andrea Spankoff.
This is a new there, and a do-bop, which is in English, what's this so many-dove,
Roni and Roni, and that's why the United's making his way through the ranks, probably
out of the Wondlow Fabi right next to each other, the United's to see that one David
who is underrated in the way.
Francisco, just talk and do that.
And let me check if we have a perfect score.
Oh, my no book hurts is the rapid champion.
Korean is gonna.
That one is going to be one to be paying attention to a lot
of kind of a leader.
It's the greatest kind of who is just one.
She's ready to go.
She is in great form here.
And all the way down, Chris, you have two as well.
I guess most of you said, but she's tired.
She's just like, let's get this over with.
You're already on it, I'm on.
Hey, that's what all that hard work in the World Racket, remember there was a playoff in that one as well.
So, really, the maximum amount of games,
Goryechkin was actually playing the world blitz before the world blitz started.
So, definitely a lot of games in that one, understandable fatigue, which is a real factor.
And some of the players do make, you know, maybe a few quicker draws, because they want to conserve some energy.
This is a really, really long event when you think about how many rounds of chats they're playing with constant breaks in between that just changes up the flow and momentum.
So a few names in the women's section that also draw some attention to Polina Shuvaloba.
I expect a pretty good LITS performance has been performing very well online and other name who's up on the top four.
or it's actually is alien robbers as well from Netherlands.
So a couple of names to keep an eye on that you maybe
wouldn't have thought might be right at the very top
in the world rapid, for example.
I mean, robbers are actually really strong
and also underrated to good,
and that's all about her and a lot.
If they've seen her chest, very aggressive player,
to like to think that she plays aggressive friendships
and like white plays whatever.
So seeing her on the other half of the board,
over there or the standing, please show the low.
Shout to our playing bench, please show me the event.
Shout to our playing bench.
And what about you, Lenja?
Right?
I'm needing to have a better performance.
James, then the world rapid, sitting at four points currently.
But that's what the couple draws with the loss.
It just has not really been as they like to say in sports
James, it's been an event so far to forget.
Yeah, of course.
And tough to when you have one back performance, you just try not to let it trickle into another
Back performance there and it's just what you do that is to just get over that happen
Even in the past it wasn't a great tournament
Cookie moving if you're doing the Lana is going to be this the same story
You know what that
We're getting set to begin this next round here. I think James on the
on the side of the open section, we're also looking for Jordan's game to see whether
the momentum is going to continue. Blitz, for me, is a big momentum game. It's less
about individual matchups. Of course, you could say there are a lot of players in this field
stronger than Jordan. That's obvious. But it's all about the flow, how you're playing
On that day in that match, we have Jordan just actually
I'm looking at Prague, it confused actually how he has five and a half points.
So I think Jordan was a full point.
Yeah, I think this is maybe counting different results.
He's definitely a full point clear of the competition there.
Yes, definitely different, of course, when you have the flow and the momentum as you mentioned before.
Something that I think is too specifically, or I will be the last thing I was going to tell you here.
I had one tournament, I forgot, I was turning it one as fast as I was.
It was just, you know, your term was not at the guy that went it, but he thinks that's how it still is.
I don't think he didn't have a husband.
It's very determined.
The trainers behind him, who's well, could stack hands, could people work with.
So, I see you at the core front of them.
Chris heard?
I think he's wondering where the two players are, you know, he's
used to missing the one player on that board, but not two.
I'm wondering why the players are gathering, because it almost doesn't look like
anyone's in a rush to get to their board.
It almost looks like there's maybe a pairing, like the pairings are changing or something.
I'm a bit curious why nobody seems to be in a rush to sit down.
they've clearly been told something that's keeping things delayed for the moment.
They are into, um, they've been on time actually today.
So, let's see if everyone will be sitting down,
or did it go, we'll see some players, we have.
That type of crowd, I actually expect for when there's only like one game remaining in the playing hall.
And everyone's crowded around just one game.
but actually there's no games on going right now. So, uh, genuinely curious what, what the crowd is, uh,
is for something. So we will try to figure out if we can get the gossip for everybody here.
Well, only say they're fighting. Oh, they're fighting them on. I just got the word on the back
And we selected it because there are so many players that have seen the pairings and are sat down at their boards, but it looks like, it looks like players are now dispersing and kind of moving to tables with some purpose here, so.
Well guys, in a meantime as we wait, let's take a look at last year's insane world
blitz ending in the first shared title, you guys remember that, let's think of it.
He bent at the rules as they will allow him to play in jeans again.
Oh man, and while Magnus is winning this, this is no opponent game.
Oh hey, I'm gonna get it for it, you can't take because of the state of mind.
This is it. I said Magnus with a win. You got D4 your Brig G8. I mean, it's not that easy.
It's a good 93. I think Magnus missed 93. You can see it's a good mess.
Oh, Janus to calculate that he's fired in the corner. Okay, which he is.
We have three girls saying up. We got them. Wow, the first and share of the title only in chess over there in chess.
And there he is. And that's the sitting that we're ready to go. There's a slim.
Very strong things in the player. We really didn't deserve anything out.
But I love that a lot of elements of player.
I am a type of player for this one.
You like to play.
It is also good for this one.
But Magnus is very, very good.
It's a crushing a lot of things.
The kidney has been one.
It loves that space.
It's able to create chances from it as well.
So.
But you're pretty good, though, man.
It's just a matter of time.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We're about to see things.
Get underway as everyone is back in their seats.
And we should be beginning momentarily.
you see Arjun there against Venice Machnet. That is a player that's certainly been
it's a overperforming thus far. So farly against Bortnick and James we're
we're about to see whether that unbeaten no draws completely perfect score is
going to be maintained by the man on your screen right there you're to
bad for guys.
more, actually the hardest time.
So usually, so then we'll be going with a normal night
work, but we have a business with poor variation,
which is sort of normal, I think it's now variation,
or whatever they call it, but.
Very easy, but.
Yeah, Magnus is not hunting for any specific,
you know, opening advantage or anything.
Clearly not being too ambitious in the opening
based on overseeing their bottom left of our screen,
mainline cover-clone for the most part, between a
disator and Jordan on that second board and just kind of making our way
across the bottom of the screen there, we can say a little bit of an
interesting position between Argin and Machnev with A6 and H6
played it. I feel like that's like the ultra safe way to play chess,
right? All the slow moves that make the position a little bit better.
probably even do it like move one and two, respectively, eight, six, eight, six, then play the rest of your pieces out.
Chad, don't try that at home, but it will actually, I guess, restrict anything from coming to the B5 or G5 squares.
Make sense of the player.
Well, I'm wondering how much of what we're seeing is theory in a disorder of in Jordan, because there's been a lot of pieces that have been
is that have disappeared from back in,
selen against magna, and well,
selen is a player that's really known for his blitz,
as well, he's a bit of a specialist when it comes to that.
There's a reason we maybe didn't see him right at the top of the table
when it came to the world rapid,
but absolutely up there in the world blitz.
Yeah, where were we at?
Here was planned.
This was like, was this the GCO?
GCLC's in one global chest league.
I was out there actually and I was nice to hang out with him
and a few other players but I think and they were like
four in the morning playing Blitz him and Duna
and it was nice.
It was very good to see them play back and forth.
It's just hours of chats there and I was like,
guys, you gotta go to sleep and he's like,
no, what is that?
So they kept playing Blitz all night when I went to sleep there.
So at the same time, everything was safe.
He's very good.
For lunch is Blitz player.
Well, let's have a look at maybe Ali
Reza, against Rejabov, Ali Reza is one of those players that I've been mentioning.
There's a bit of a storyline, he needs a big performance in the Blitz.
He should be one of those players that even Magnus himself would be the first to say,
expect to see him top of the table, a rapid ant, a world blitz.
The rapid did not really go the way he would have wanted.
And now looking at this Blitz game that he finds himself in,
it's a bit of a time advantage, but I'm drawn to this Queen on A2 right behind that
that Bishop, if you're a unique battery,
I can't submit up on E6, what do you make of that James?
Yeah, it's June, it's June, it's June,
because definitely the work here is very interesting.
It's recently an Italian gang,
which is definitely the scam from.
And it's time of Italian.
Queen A2 is definitely, I think I've ever seen that.
It's might be the first time ever in history of Italian games
with a Queen on A2, generally somewhere else,
but I do like the idea of, as you're pointing out here,
we've worked with the C1, maybe pushing C4,
some pressure on B5, his pressure on E3,
We also could go to night F5 so I love the options and gives you a gives your opponent chances to go wrong
But I do like Rejov's principles, you know his whole game. I mean all the pieces are developed
The works are in a center. Bishops are off the back rank. The knights are doing anything
What may be the vision on a paper. This you know useful and active. It's just you know top phone. I think
But it's not a point out that if B6 doesn't get played by black
which does not seem like a logical move to me on the previous turn, that Alir rather
will get an advantage. It's well known that if white plays C5 in those positions,
that training these bishops gaining access to the d6 square, the F5 square is really good
for white black, black space. So that's why C5 was played by Rajabab, and that you can see the
bishop and queen look a bit silly here, but the reality is probably we're going to see b6.
the Bishop can activate on A5, and there's this a little bit of a race
that's right now to control D5 or D4, and the black pieces, specifically the
Knights, do not have an easy path to the D4 square, so I think what we're
going to see is B6, Bishop A4, and a night repositioning, probably to the D5
square. We have very nice position of sense here as we have sort of a
more oxybion type structure on the E4 and C4. Black and returned to the same E5 and C5
sort of about the Naked type of structure with the PON-O-T6 because none there. So in night
F-F and night F1, night E3, the D5 is nice. I also saw this strange maneuver of night to F5 instead
of going back to F3 because the vision was tracked on the E6 here, which was kind of a cool way
to get the night into the game and also re-ground back to E3 to go to the D5 while also attacking
86, if he had the pretty cool way of doing it, but he went the other way back with an
head 3.
I think we're getting close to the Mb6 being necessary for white and actually the blue
arrow appears.
So we got there ahead of time.
Now, I actually think A takes B5 is important for black to play.
It doesn't look like a good move, but and it is played on the board.
I think B6 was unpleasant to just really constrict the black pieces.
Why is still much better here?
We're going to see Bishop to C3, probably.
This night might rewrite to E3 that way the E4 pawn is defended, but I think it's important
to bring the pieces to the D5 square and I was about to say, night F3 after that move,
very tempting, giving up the G5 square by the job off is definitely a big mistake.
Any person that I don't G5, we can even snap some Bishop pair.
When we want to, as you see, didn't take it immediately, it is about having control and
as they say, the threat is stronger than the execution.
But, you know, 95, very nice.
And I can take this vision on E6.
Wait, one, two,
yeah, this is really nice.
Really, really nice name.
Now, the night has reached D4, but the CPON will be weak.
White has the bishop pair.
I wouldn't say this is incredible for Ali Reset,
because this night does not have a nice square to retreat, too,
which is a bit annoying.
and black can reposition 98.96.
So advantage to Ali Resek here,
but I wouldn't say anything absolutely crushing.
There's no forced way through here.
Looking around at some of the other positions,
I can say it looks like at least temporarily,
Eric Geissie is up some material against Machnev
and I believe a draw peaceful result
between Bortnik and Safari agreed.
Let's jump over to the top board Magnus against Selen.
We're seeing all the action unfold with B4 and C3
was just played, intending rook takes on B2,
but King D1 may be missed by Selen.
He went for a very tactical solution James,
but ultimately the white King, the bishop,
the knight, the rook, they're all in the game
and look at the two spectators in Black's position.
The king and the bishop, it feels like you're down a king
and down a bishop when it comes to the
fight on the queen side.
Wow, that is incredible.
Down a whole king is just crazy.
Like down a king.
So, have you ever been down a king?
That one right there, see, thinks the limit is filling that right now, is being down a king
is incredible.
So, this is the rest of the nation down a king.
And that's why he's going to resign.
I mean, why do you think he's resigning, right?
The material, let's just say it, it's technically equal in the final position.
Why is he doing it?
You know, I want to be down a king?
You don't listen guys. I mean you heard it here first. Come on now. I'm again.
Bagus with a little bit. This end game between Notre-Bac and Jordan. It's
actually we're very far into the game here. The night against the bishop with
the extra pawn here for Notre-Bac. He's got great chances. E3 cannot be
taken of course due to night to F5. So it's not so clear cut here. Good drawing
chances for Jordan, but man, that night against the Bishop can do a lot of damage here.
I'm like, oh, I, I give this a, uh, uh, he takes. I was just going to say when I was going to say
what is he going to get back here? Oh, I'm not surprised because he could just move to Kinga and then
gee, oh, wow. Yeah, he just messed this up. He probably realized in the minutes. He's trying to say that
he has that King. I don't know what he thought he calculated here. A big mistake. Yes, it's going to be
It's probably a triangulation needed, but if the night moves, hang on a second.
If the night moves, you know, you're taking on G4, what is the precise way that you can do this?
I think that we're going to need to sacrifice this night.
And I believe we're seeing that on the board, by a tempo, we see the resignation and
Jordan simply miscalculated.
intentionally lost his bishop. He thought he had a tactic that was working where he would reach
a position where white could not make progress without losing the knight. The problem was,
he sacrificed the knight. He gave it up in order to win. And that was not anticipated by your
order. Yeah, I was not stuck here. And I mean, so I want to bring him down. Yeah, it'd be Norbec.
As a guy in the entrance to causing the Norbec, the mythical dragon,
in the final times, Norabek, when he got put a challenge, he definitely delivers.
And it says in InGames, he loves his InGames. He was the only one to take down.
You would have been at Faris, I know he's feeling illated, he's static about that.
I'm feeling great, now he's on six here. You're going to still have the top
million, be able to six, but yeah, that was a big win for Norabek there.
On fire now, Holley Reservoir is with the win, Arjun with the duck,
and then he has some draws done at about a few with six now.
It's going to be a shake up in the standing. Really nice to see six in
here at the top. So, here we go. Wow, there's six people with six.
That makes sense. And I think there's five and a half people with five and a, oh no, it doesn't work anymore.
Dang it. So yeah, the top of the table is getting very congested there, Ali Reza,
Magnus. We see a view support of Lucian Le after that result earlier. Again,
Boo, the very quick flaw.
It looks like he's bounced back with a great result.
Levant, Wesley, moving up the standings.
And a lot of names there that are starting to look very familiar.
Bullet Armourism, the previous or bracket champion is now on five points.
I just want to point off.
And, of course, on the other side, two is well, guys.
Listen, there's so many games that literally even can happen to you on the other side of the page
and make it to the first and even higher up there.
On the know that losing took Gorgia's tuna she is on fire, wherever true her is like
yeah, I'm the star of the day to hold her all as she just went and rapid.
She had been a shape and she says she's not finished yet.
She went into this round yawning before playing her game and just did it easily.
Okay, maybe not easily, but at the same time she's at the top of the leaderboard there.
Gorgia's going to be six and a half.
She is the one to be here with no losses as you see all the way down to all the other
side of the bracket there with four and a half remember there are games left.
I'm going to be 10 rounds today in the women section.
So incredible chefs from everyone here,
but it's still games to be played, Chad.
There's thought a lot to be done.
This is nothing yet.
I'm on.
We still got more to do.
It's not over there.
No, there's many rounds still ahead.
You can see just how fast pace the action is
when we do get to covering it.
So many of those top boards have resulted in now really
a pile up at six points at five and a half.
So no one is really running away with the competition.
They saw Jordan out in the lead and they said,
hey, get back here and now it's anyone's turn.
It's a new one to turn to my guys and we're going to see after we get them.
I don't think it's losing the elements because AI is going to help players to play
better chess against each other so I don't think chess ever going to die because
Players can never memorize everything.
My name is Aliya Zapurajya and we're going to check some questions.
What is the recipe for a version designer?
I think it will be totally different.
My favorite version designer is French brand.
Very good.
There is a future from, it was born in Iran, but now giving a long time in France.
What is the future?
I don't know this.
I never checked.
I was thinking a few days ago to check it actually.
There is a future that's very deep-craping.
2800 something, three probably.
Please, I just feel just a girlfriend.
She's a valuable player.
What is the future of the favorite chess opening?
I would say a King Zinger or a Sicilian.
When did Aliens reach?
2800 when I was 18.
When the Prince went around 2019?
Let's see.
All the questions answered.
Well, not yet. We have a few more questions from chatGBT.
How did the moving from ear to face was? I mean, I was already like 16, so like, because I felt like it's a good decision for my chest to be in Europe and the freedom of going around and playing chess, it's very good.
Your style is often described as aggressive and dynamic.
How would you describe your approach to the game and how do you develop this style?
I think my approach is very practical.
It's like sharp attacking and you have to solve a lot of puzzles at the beginning when your child will
the pattern stays in your head.
What are your thoughts on balance between preparation with engines and maintaining creativity in your game?
the game is losing some of its human elements with the rise of AI.
I don't think it's losing the elements because AI is going to help players to play better chess
against each other, so.
I don't think it's ever chess ever going to die, because players can't handle it.
Memorize everything.
What do you consider the biggest difference between playing online chess versus what
you versus over the board chess in high level completion? For me there's no difference.
I think for a lot of players it's different from online and over the world for me
I feel like it's same game. Chess has seen rapid evolution in recent years. How do
you see the role of young players like yourself shaping the future of the race.
Yeah, I think it's very important to have good new generation coming.
So, I'm proud that a lot of players are very competitive, good-ish,
arjun, and I think we have a good generation that is coming to slowly take over.
What advice do you give to young players who want to reach high slur in chess?
What do you think is the most important quality?
I think the most important is to play a lot of tournaments and not be afraid of losing, especially for young people.
And to know that they should just think about improving and losing is not enough thought.
But sit.
Okay, we good?
And then you just react as you tap this.
These are basically mean tweets, yeah?
So we're going to do a little thing today inspired by mean tweets.
Let's take a look at some random online comments that have been made about me, or chest and chest muscles.
This is from Dump.
Her name is from Dump.
Plain ID5.
This is from Twitter.
Actress.com at Argent Air guys.
or a guy you see some things that will never change for fans of this generation.
Magus will always be considered the best.
Fabiano will always be regarded as world number two.
He covers the magus equals clean up seven versus messy.
Yeah, the magus will always be considered the best.
He's obviously the goat.
Fabiano will always be regarded as world number two.
That's an interesting one.
Not not to sure whether that's actually true anymore.
Oh, sorry.
It's covered with the mag, I can't read.
He covers...
Here's mags equals...
Here are seven versus messy.
Not clean up seven.
blind I can't read. I was wondering what a point out seven was, is it running the
stalemate name that I saw on Twitter? I mean that that would be nice. I think it's definitely
showing recent years probably since the pandemic, but definitely would not be true before
them. So it's partially true, but it's a little bit too flattering to me.
Well, it was a share thanks to my parents, teachers and friends.
Don't let me sign the same papers as priest-high people as I will lose trust my team.
and self-respect. I really have no idea why this tweet was made. Also, like someone's
account hacked, just bizarre. There's no other way of saying it. That's quite hard for me.
Very, very, very, whole stuff. Thank you. Oh, this is a big one. It's a little paper.
So, oh, everybody's best friends. Uh, you know, okay. One more thing,
that I can see karma points of free self-shest compute. I forgot to mention.
All top layers are in the blank country because they're an organization.
the World Championships, not everybody.
It's called as much as four years of non-conspirational,
for a World Championships,
wasn't all conscious of being in the United States
in the United States.
And after the 1990s,
the World Championships were completely planned.
And it was a very hard time to get out of the country.
One, the biggest kind of the United States
was really a great opportunity for the World Championships.
So obviously, this was another tweet from the FEDA Brask.
Frankly, there was no law that needs to be said,
other than, you know, people have a way on social media
of trying to shape the narrative.
Basically, I'm going to admit that it's said it's wrong.
I could also just further clarify,
and I think it's an important point for the general public,
but also the popplers and the aid.
See this?
We're here.
This closet that our reference in here would not hold up
and pour.
I've spoke to the floors about this.
The lawyer?
I think the notion of biting contracts
and everything else is simply,
it's actually a mills of all of the false narrative.
Huh?
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
Ha!
The day Ph.U.A.A. shows his real face.
Not only, he pose a private conversation.
but also that not, there's not mentioned that it took place in 2018.
There must be really angry enough to get their hands on the World Championship thing.
Well, I left this tweet to speak for itself.
Oh, more a meal chess.
It has a meal chess this one.
Free side of chess from the World Championship from the Regulation of the Tour,
hands players can compete in the series without any restriction.
Nothing needs to be said, I think I've decided nothing very serious.
Here I call it heavy-top, it's topic.
If Morphe was alive today and had all the knowledge and analysis, we did.
She would make my mislook like a boy scouts. Not impossible.
I shaved today, so I had a little bit of a boy's feature.
The professional game with so much cooler 70 years ago and farther back than it is now.
This is something that is just very, very weird to see.
I mean, I think, you know, it's kind of one of the things where it just depends on the perspective that a player has.
But I definitely don't agree with it. I think chess now isn't a much better place
There are many more professionals to make a living from it and don't have to work other jobs
Okay, up more yourselves and my message is a genius in marketing. So I'm gonna go up drama
So he can advertise his up. Yes
Go down loads chesalcom, take a take all the late on their devices
Chesas born when you are a great player at this point
you play a memory game, not a strategy one.
This is actually an interesting, interesting quote.
It's something that, in some ways,
the person who said this is not a stand that's at all.
They're not a top player.
Something that only probably the top,
100 players in a world can truly understand.
It's definitely true that when you're great player,
Chuss can be very boring in a memory game,
but certainly some terms like the candidates
was a winner to take all situation
or different order of the world's top as well.
So it's mostly true, but not completely true.
Mine is going to shoot the ocean of the jeeds for charity, chest history, well, we're going to do that.
So, very good idea.
That was a mean at all.
My wife's theory, Carlsenburg's heart to maintain the best body among the chest players.
The bar is low and post-sweet photos to prove it.
But dress slacks don't do justice to superb but jeans are required.
I'm in tanned at well tailored slacks, can be just a sexy but cheap and cis, there's nothing quite like.
Perfectly form backside in jeans. You know Randy my wife says exactly the same thing
So it's glad to know that I have one life-minded person out there. So I appreciate that
I think that's also a good place to
Okay, okay.
I'm a chaser of you.
I'm a chaser of you.
I'm a chaser of you.
Okay.
Let go.
I don't know this thing like power to be all for all
But I better know better myself
I should've put it up and now need your help
We split the tip all, we blend this thing and step forward
Oh, I'm not in, know your place on top of it
And all my haters rockin' it so you know I keep on rockin' it
Let's go, time, my horse, I'll let go
I did my place, I'll hold mine
Burn up, get it, go, time it, chill, chill
Get in, no, I'm the goodness, set the trends
Don't know, tell them, tear, fall
I'm gonna chase it, tear, pull, pay
Tell them, I keep playing, say it
I'm a race on the break
Got a storm, how to do it, man
I think that you play it's all
Okay, you're team better play your life
We can't know me way more
Who is he? That's a lay-on
Okay, tell me who you love can do it better
I know, they know
We know I'm a king instead of
Hey, okay, I know I'm a king instead
You know my whistler, I can't play
And tell you, please try to talk
Just to get you out and play
Go, go, it's the only way to play
Can you tell I'm a trance now?
I'm a co-cat-o
I'm a trance now
I'm a co-cat-o
I'm a trance now
I'm a co-cat-o
I'm a co-cat-o
I'm a trance now
Hey, good morning
All the night we get the baby
I want me to go on
It's pretty thick and I can feel that you watch me blow up
Do I add it in the bag?
I need to say it's so old
I don't know if that got no evidence
So I walk okay
You almost let I make you dinner
No that's ain't never enough
I said they needed double-student losses, they hit my lap
It's my time on the dock, got a sign, I don't watch
That we gave it for the top, there's a bar, won't
Hey, a can, no one needs to say it
You know my way is the world, I can't play the show
Please try to go, please, let's get you out of the world
For the only way to play the game, take on the train's terror
I'm gonna go, get up on the train's terror
I'm gonna go, get up on the train's terror
I can't pay as much time as I can, I can't pay as much time as I can, I can't pay
There we go, we're back with Round 8 of the world bliss championship skies, we still have
to have the chance to be played today, and it can be mixed up in the standing, some previous
master James Hated III, joined by Paramatch for my Hamilton.
Let's take a look at who is playing who and this round.
So, carrying your eyes, I'm excited to see at the top,
Magnus and your inventory for a few minutes.
Just to inhale up to the note about everything,
because you're drawing up something back sometimes,
is, you know, it hasn't been quick
because you can now you're playing Magnus a model.
I mean, you go from being at the top,
you lose again, and then you get Magnus, congratulations.
Yeah, exactly, it doesn't get any easier,
but the good thing about this tournament is you only
have to play them once.
and we saw Fort Nick escape with a draw,
but really in that one, it was actually Magnus escaping.
It could have been a lot worse.
So he's beatable, just like everybody in this competition,
even playing at their highest level.
It's blitz, right?
Anything can happen.
That's what we're here for to see potential upsets.
We see Dubov against Musard, another blitz specialist, Duda,
also making his way up these standings.
He had a very forgettable world rapid performance,
but it's great to see him bouncing back
and doing well in the blitz thus far.
And VL-U-N-E is also going to be a really exciting one
as we move into the women's section.
And for around eight, Goryachkin, right back where she left off,
winning the World Rapid and now, a board number one,
half a point clear of the field in the World Blitz Championship.
And up on board three, it's a lean rober,
as I was mentioning that name, definitely,
a player to watch out for.
And the Chinese participants,
juin june, latin june, are making their way up the standings as well with currently five points sat a point and a half back from the leader however in blitz James.
The the standings can shake up much quicker than in rapid and right now you may see there could be a player in each of the sections who is not even in the top 10 top 20 that may be in the actual event.
Yeah, it's absolutely possible, as we've seen even in a lot of series, we've talked about
Merzen, who no one, you know, if you had a bracket, your bracket was busted out of
your set.
No one had Merzen up there in nearest and Merzen went on to win the whole event when
it comes to the rapid portion of, you know, the more rapid championships, he won the
rapid, didn't do so well this year.
But again, it's just something you're not used to seeing, and it's someone different.
So anything can happen here, especially with three plus two, it's not a lot of time, two
second increment goes fine. So quickly, especially we have to think faster than two seconds.
And make the move and process everything. And obviously, you've got to hit your own clock.
I think some people forget that amount. You've got to hit your own clock. This is not all
nine, whether the clock is for you. You've got to hit your own clock and have the right mechanics.
And we have the games that have begun. Jordan has actually worked for Magnus before
in some capacity and preparation.
So a bit of an interesting matchup here.
I have the women's games on the top of your screen
and on the bottom, of course, the open section.
Magnus and Jordan, Ali Resa against Arjun.
I'm expecting some fireworks and actually the opening as well.
If we see D takes C4 and that one and we do,
this opening is also known to be quite exciting.
Highly theoretical, but is a full-pawn sacrifice on that board.
So James, I'm confident that I can say I think that one is going to be intriguing.
Well, we got to go see that one.
Absolutely.
Well, look at the origin of Farujer game, bro.
Paul is on B5 and G5, like, what the problem is on B and G?
What do you do all about this?
He's just both sides.
Yeah, and this plan cannot really be dealt with.
First of all, you can play night takes G4.
It's not even the food.
taking on D7 is preferred and against Queen D7,
you can play Bishop E5 as a method of actually capturing this pawn
and notice how immediately white look for compensation and counter play
Argent against the move G5 went H4 that brought the pawn to G4 and I still think
James is possible we could be in some sort of theory or at least a known position
for these players black wants to play Rukchiate as soon as possible to get out of the pin
support the G-Pod, and to finally move this night.
No one B3 actually, this is a bad for me.
It's stuff when you catch some queen size,
stuff gets all crazy and difficult.
This is a very sharp theory.
B3, allowing B4 to happen, which could kick the night,
but he didn't, he wanted to capture here.
A-fowse open, and it is game is wide open,
especially in the police game too,
as well as everything, some type of theory.
This origin is moving quite quickly.
Yeah, the black and supple richiate because it really frees the position, the other
removed you can, of course, play is Bishop G7. It actually still remains in a pin. For
example, the G upon can be captured, but notice how the priority for Argin is not just
rushing into capturing the pawn on G4. Instead, it's actually on playing B3, getting rid
of the pawn on C4, making it very undesirable to castle queen-side here, not to mention
the bishop. So this king, it needs to go somewhere. It's probably going to go on the
It's a chain side, but there's an exposed pawn on G4 here.
So I would expect maybe short castle play white or perhaps queen D2.
But as soon as you play queen D2, you have to give some consideration of B4.
The knight would be forced to move, and that exposes the E4 pawn with tempo.
Yeah, I feel like Biden is in the position. It does feel like I can play for a lot.
I said my options and my fun F3F4,
sooner can break open with D5.
Definitely look at the mooncastle from Brazil.
Yeah, okay, it looks like my bonds are overextended.
But my king is actually safety takes the pawns G4, takes takes and F6.
Ooh.
There's not much visually that I like about Ali Reses position.
I have to say.
But I think that things might change tactically once we see
move like C5. This move is a bit surprising. Obviously with checkmate threatened after the recapture,
but F6 is clearly the plan. I just am looking at that bishop, James. I don't like it. It's
not really part of the game. The bishop can just retreat. Let's say to F4 in order to make a threat,
a bishop takes an H6. And I'm concerned long-term about this bishop on B7, despite the fact that
But if we count up the pawns,
the pawns we got here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, a piece.
But it hardly feels like it's symmetrical.
There are tons of imbalances here.
Absolutely, it's too safe to spawn.
I think a little blocking the bishop.
White has a big center.
A lot of pawn islands, 1, 2, 3, pawn islands for black.
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, pawn islands for white and white.
We have 7, 8 of our job immediately,
but is there something we're missing?
We've been missing at, I don't say BISODE 6.
Maybe you can play D5, or even just take over the C5 square,
like a BISODE 8 after that.
You still could play BISODE 5, I guess,
and then BISODE 8, meaning three or something,
but the idea here is, is obviously the BISODE 7 is so bad.
The BISODE is so bad that C5 here is an actual move
you would consider playing, despite the fact
that it completely, and 100% loses upon.
So that should let you know what type of position we're dealing with.
Maybe F5 with the idea that if you push or capture all of a sudden you see C5,
then you see maybe the Bishop could sack and G2 will open up.
Ali Reset is a tactical player. He's going to look for these moves.
C5 is on the board and I'm not surprised one bit.
Might be a difficult move to play, but for Ali Reset, he knows what the piece is
need here and immediately C5 and F5. The bishops have transformed and all of a sudden this is dangerous for
way. Now I have to go clean up for actually, even though I think clean up for us probably,
while it does open to the visions. So a regardless of if the clean moves up F7 or not,
there will be some omissions clean up for on the board here, but this is why I was a fan of the
visitor C5, we were going to clean up for it. So just immediately stop that C5 move from ever happening.
Now Ali Reson is getting some counter play, which he's looking at helping. Now after he stops
was rich in for and it supports E4.
But the eating move is clean to G7.
It threatens mate and it threatens the pawn on D4.
It might look like just a huge blunder,
but at least after Bishop takes D4,
the trades will help white sort of alleviate the pressure.
And for now, this bishop on this long bag
is not terribly effective.
So all of a sudden, though, this is the game
that out of the reservoir wants to be playing.
And Argin is also completely capable
of these tactical positions.
But right now it's more fun for black, honestly.
It's not a position where white has a lot of tactics,
white surviving, playing defense, and hoping
to get a good position later.
Yeah, now we have the tactics.
Well, chemistry is exploding.
D5, rook, C8, probably before anchoring the bishop.
It contacts, we think, and I think it takes.
Look at those bishops, right?
The bishops are not in the game.
A5 the blue arrow is the only move for black to try to open things up.
After this you can play D6 and every piece is getting shut down here.
If you basically set down, but the move in the business won't be seven, I guess it looks
great.
With Stumb Bishop of three type of options later, if the Queen was off of that four,
then due to the G file pin.
I'm getting very low to as well.
I saw the red clock there, I mean, it was very long time, you really get that two
second angle.
and look at the restraint, not playing the move D6.
My self included, I just couldn't believe,
not playing that move.
I know that it opens up this bishop,
but the F3 pawn is still providing pretty good shelter.
Not to mention the king can always move out of the way.
So I'd be very interested in that.
However, Arjun is just realizing that if the pawn captures,
you'll see this pawn maybe start to push to E7
and that completely shuts down the lightsward bishop.
So huge advantage to Arjun right now,
who is in control of this position
in 10 seconds taking down,
Alli Rezak and barely find a move.
He's getting a move off fast.
Queen G7's should be traceable, not hesitation.
Trader Queen's probably work at five next.
The measure before two is possible.
I really like a repositioning of the night.
We see Rift D2 played first.
A great looking move.
You don't care about this H pawn at all.
The only thing about Rift D2
is that we're seeing a change of plan.
Argin's not repositioning the night.
He's looking to capture on D5
and push this E-pon completely winning
for Argin Ergai's scene.
That's the same in the background.
That's the same in the background.
That's the same.
Got to move.
Bishop takes D5 here is a move you don't really want to play.
It simplifies things.
F4 there could be some tactics here.
That's a pond that's I mean,
Blunder to some degree.
E6 is not available to be captured.
But if you go back to E5,
you could see something like rook to G6.
six, instead King G6, I wonder why not look G6 there?
Living on the increment, this is not an easy position.
Everything's just on the A5 good hand.
Hang on a second.
Count her blade.
It looks like all the events of the worst is behind it.
Nice move.
Get some pieces off the board.
Yeah, you can take the bishop here clean everything up and this will very likely be a draw at the end of all of that
I
Dassing that this will just be shuffling
Let's see if the player is want to continue
Check and check there it is and it comes in excellent
He's gonna do it again
There it is beat. They look at each other and shake hands
And there we go, and I'm actually looking at the top boards here, Pranav and Artemia,
but I still in a game here, it's been draws on the first seven boards.
And some of them admittedly were relatively quick, but most of them were played on.
This game looks relatively drawn here, and I don't think there's going to be any concern
here you put that king on C1 and I think yeah there we go the handshaker you can never
do anything in those opposite-bishop positions so the first eight boards are all draws in the open.
When does that ever happen guys where draws on all boards? It's like that I mean it's very
blitz too. No one wins on the top eight boards there I was actually incredible to see six and
and it happens kind of like the same thing just happened.
But on the back end, or even on the other sides of the board,
on the sides of the standing,
people with wings, usually draws,
the other sticks is down as a credible.
A lot of the sticks is in a five and a half, which I'm looking for.
We have to go to see,
where I was going to gain right now.
Something is going on.
Let's go see.
Well, just the top board in the women section
is still ongoing.
So this is where all the action is.
And it also appears as though despite the fact that we have an H pawn, which does
present drawing up just in fact, if that king was just one file closer, this might not be
a long time.
But look at this, there's going to bring this pawn all the way up and then you bring
that rook to the G file here, rook F7, and rook F8, that's the idea and now the king can
escape.
And then use the audio out.
So resignation.
Check King A3, check King B3, check check, King Rendsway.
And there it is beautifully played and displayed.
And we get to see.
Christopher technique in action in Garyachkin and moves to seven and a half points.
A point and a half clear of Maria Moosechuk, but we'll wait to see those
those standing to really give a clear picture of Goryechkin's lead over the competition.
It was a half of going into that round and we can see the results there, James.
On that top board Goryechkin continues to show her dominance.
He's ripping through the field here and he's like, oh, I got seven.
I'll be up next.
No way.
He already won against I'm a noble there.
So Goryechkin is on a tear.
she is looking to win both, bracket and the blitz and the women section here.
Who is went to stop her is actually the question of today who will guys punch her best
because it's getting tough as game goes on.
She just keeps winning and it stops today and around 10 and she is on absolutely fire here.
But we still have James left in both section so guys think short break.
Yeah, thanks into you.
It's a good one.
Looking back at 20-25, you had a great year, both on and off the board.
You got married, you became a father and you've won a bunch of tournaments.
How would you kind of summarize the year so far?
No, what can I say?
It's been a fun ride, definitely a lot of changes, yeah it's been very positive change and
just why I feel like I'm generally done pretty well, but I think obviously I like being
9-9 in England and there's still a lot to come with here on America time.
OK, Magnus, the candidates list this nearly set now.
What are your predictions of coming candidates?
Just like last time, probably the old Americans
are the favorites.
And then we got a third favorite.
And then, probably a pretty big top off after that.
where he is really good but I don't think he's capable of winning enough games to win the
countless. So we'll be interesting to see what I'd love to see some more big names in the field
but then again if you if you didn't qualify didn't qualify but even maybe the system should
should kind of account for somebody like Vincent who was really close to qualifying
a lot of times and pass the highest rating of anybody who's not, it's not there,
it's certainly to serve to be there. But I guess he and an Argent and a few others will
have to wait through turns. So it's always interesting to follow.
But what is your relationship with CDAP now today?
I am really spoken to a few people much for the last year at all.
My contact with the World European Blitz has been with Mohammed, the organizer, and Qatar.
And my family and I have a great relationship with, which is, you know, also part of the
reason, my one and two.
In a few weeks ago, it was official that we will have a new World Championship title, the
feedback, combine World Champion Tour or Cycle, what are your thoughts on that and will
that tour help patch the relationships on what's with the things?
I generally applaud the effort to try and make this happen.
Doesn't really affect my relationship with the feet and much at all.
I certainly had no effect on me playing in guitar like that decision was made independent of that.
So we'll see what happens I think in terms of that cycle where we're still very early on,
but the format sounds intriguing so I really don't get up.
Is there a person that you would mention which made your year better in any way?
I mean, there are two very clear candidates, which is my wife and my son, and I think they will take
during first place, not less, very good.
And how would you kind of sum up the first full season of the freestyle tour, so far?
It's been a bit chaotic, with for much changes and everything, but I hope we can settle on something for
for an exseason and playing the tournaments itself has been a lot fun.
It's just a different experience sitting down and creating something from from Begeko and
and I'm very grateful to be some part of those first season.
And what are your expectations for the upcoming World Repetendlets?
I guess I am playing in the World Repetendlets in order to
to kind of push myself a little bit.
It's turned out I really, really want to do well in.
There was a lot of doubt before they were,
I was going to be there, I was more than out at some point,
but now that I'm playing, I'm motivated to give it my all
and do well.
As long as I'm in good shape, I'll be dangerous man.
Why did you decide to play at the end?
First of all, I found some motivation to play and compete against the best in a won't-shambut
just setting.
Part from that, it's become a tradition in nowhere and.
And I mean, last year, some controversy, G-Institut, and you shared the goal with the
young Nephilim Yatshi, do you think there will be any incident this year, with the there
or anyone else for that matter?
I'm sure that there will be incidents because there always are at the World Replan Blitz.
I hope I'm not going to be part of it this time.
What do you think about the format change in this year's World Replan Blitz?
I think it's good that it's more games in the Premieres.
Last year with only 13 rounds, it became very, very hectic.
a lot of people were trying to sort of draw their way into the tournament and then yeah
I wasn't playing fantastic and it became just a little bit of a mess for a lot of a lot of people
I really like the old Swiss format but then again not having the best players play at the end
was not great and like having a final is good. So I would say generally I like it, but
yeah it's it's different of course. Do you think it will change your decision making towards
the end of the preliminary rounds only having four spots qualified for a clear spot?
Well I think the fact that it's 19 rounds now, right? I think 13 rounds is a short enough distance
that I can easily not be top 4. It is very possible that I'm not top 4 after 19 rounds,
but that's a long enough distance where I've probably played all the good players.
And if I don't, if I'm not top 4 in 19 rounds, then I'm just not good enough.
Yeah.
Then he would have one with the old farm up either.
Yeah.
He would have like 20-1 rounds.
Yeah.
So if it's 13 rounds, like I've had several tournaments where I've had like a couple of accidents
around then, and I still rebound to win the tournament, but now, for instance, last year,
I was like plugging along playing like okay, but not really great.
And then all of a sudden it came down to a must-win game, again, 7-on, and the final
time at game where basically, you know, hustle them with very little time to make it
to the knockouts, with 19 rounds, it's a bit different than you really got to play everybody.
So, yeah, now definitely no excuses.
Many people will bring up your name when we ask them who's your main competitor in both
the blitz and the rapid rolled the championship.
But who are your, let's say, three main rivals in each of the,
each other's families?
Well, it carries not there.
All of the rhythm's not there.
As far as I know.
And I mean, that there is a gap.
And so I'm mainly focused on my own play.
If I do well, I will have the great chance,
and I think after me it's been very, very much,
if you're from all.
You think there's a young player who could be a dark horse
in either of the events?
Well, the rapid as few rounds
and it's generally significant thing more random than the blitz.
So in the rapid, there's probably 30 people
who can win and off them, probably like,
7 or 8 of them are young, so you tell me, I mean, mootsin' did great last year.
It doesn't mean that he's the top, then you're happy to have less player in the world, you know,
we'll see, I think, in order to make top four and let's, that's how you're,
then you're going to find some free British topics.
And looking back once more, what would you say was the chess moment in 2025?
For me personally, I would say dating Vincent and the last round of the Grand Cold
Furned and making none of the 9th.
That was the last big deep breath that Vincent needs to take, and there's the congratulation
and the historical performance by Magnus Garcent, 9 out of 9.
The heart from that, I'm hoping that the best moments overall and just are going to come
here and in coulda.
And obviously this takes place during the holiday season between Christmas and New Year's.
Do you have any other Christmas traditions besides playing chess?
I usually travel a lot.
I'm probably more on the Grinch side than loving Christmas, so I'm quite happy to be playing chess
in general.
ahead for 20, 26, do you have any new year resolutions or goals for next year?
I don't have any nearest resolutions, but in terms of goals it's to be there and
watch my family for us.
Can you say Merry Christmas and have been here in your native language to
our followers out there?
We're going to talk about Nettoid, we're going to say,
Qatar, we're going to say that's the start of the car,
or overall stage issues.
Very good.
And now the final and most important question.
What do you think of Norway's group stage chances
after the World Cup football drawing last night?
Well, we're in the strange position of not knowing
every team that we're, that we're saying,
but we have the so-called ideas group,
group, left, Iraq, Serenal, and Cambodia, that would be a few mentioned the letters,
but I think we have very good chances, especially with the game against the presumably
weakest team coming up first.
If they have a song from 1994, when the raid lasts play in the World Cup in the United
say it says, you're not going to give it all, you're not going to give it all, you're
the best, just when no one reaches the final, there will be a party and that's going
to happen this time. But amazing. All right, thank you so much.
As you are here, with Brown Nile World Lakes Trust Championships, and if we take a look
at the standings here guys. There is a big traffic jam right here with 20, all we
done 24. So it's like six, six, six, six is there. I'm on what's going on with this traffic jam
here.
Yeah, it's a lot of players. It probably even extends off of this page right here, but it
just shows that the competition is that close right now and no one is running away with
it. That's what Blitz is. No one's indestructible. You win five games in a row. You can
lose five games in a row. It's a bit. I would say there's more variance, right? That's what
Blitz is. Lower time control. Blunders can happen by the best players in the world. And
Magnes Carlson and Argent Eric Geissie headline this round nine on the top board. Noter
back against Ali Reza for me, James, is absolutely the match up to watch from this one.
Meanwhile, we're shook against Wesley, sort of a battle that we've seen. I mean, those two
players many times over the years and we're seeing it again here on 4th 5 in the blitz.
And it's great we also have a new ball for sprang we got a Roanier in just there.
Probably I know versus Merz and the previous rabbit just hanging up last year.
So in B.O. first for now obviously a lot of six is here.
It's part of our traffic can we talk about before anyone winning we've been drawing and we've
had a puppy so it's further into her group and then it's here in the women section with the
the parents you see, I mean, Roevers is going to try her shop at which, you know, who's
going in absolute care. She's going to wrap it and now she's looking to be the same in
the place. It's just a head of the field right now. But of course, there's two rounds left
around 90, 10 today for them. And the game started, Magnus and Argent was like, oh, we're
going to have a fight. This is silly. So, yeah. And I'm actually particularly interested in this
match up the top board in the women's section. I think that Aileen Rovers is going to be an
interesting competition for Gorgiachkin could be a real test and we actually see what looks like
it is a King's Gambit top left of your screen. So actually want to start with that one James
as we get into this round because Gorgiachkin has been dominant in the rapid and of course lots
that's the cover in this event on both sections,
but Elaine has certainly made a name for herself
as a Blitz player, speech-est specialist,
and Gryachina has honestly looked untouchable
from both events thus far.
Absolutely, it's a nice choice, King Gamma,
very traditional, but it is going to be a fight
against Goryuchkin that here,
who is not going to settle down.
Very, very strong.
We got a Kings Game, a very rare seat.
I would like to eat these six.
It is, that's exciting.
Is it the same for you, James,
where Kings Gambit for you was always one of those openings,
where it is just the coolest thing when you were learning
chess, because I always felt like Kings Gambit was,
like who could play this well with Black, you know?
Like you sack things as white just feels like such a fun
opening to play full of tactics, and immediately
Goryechkin has the opportunity here.
The blue arrow, screaming for Bishop to G4,
not played, and I think that Elaine might actually get a very decent position in
your bishop B2 and castles, but in this position, I'm actually just going to back up and
show some of the insane tactics that are possible and why people love this opening,
bishop up to G4, and although you can bring the bishop back and save your piece,
it would cost you your queen James. Yeah, that's tough. It's especially in this time
control too, as well. You can see so many misses that happen because you're moving fast here.
Now, it seems very fun for white.
Play eight four, stop the attack.
I mean, I really don't have to play four records,
just cast it anyway.
And the United States, eight, eight, eight,
but I totally understand the eight four, totally upset.
Think cast it.
A four main sentence.
Just go for your own bit.
I think that's a good call of James playing eight four
because honestly, this is what Blitz does.
In a classical game, you know, it really gives some thought
to eight four, how dangerous is it?
In Blitz, no, I don't want any part of that.
I think you castle here as white.
You bring a rook to the middle.
the e-pon is is hanging so black has to really respect that and whites playing moves
at Queen C4 every single pawn is loose in this position. I really like white's position,
but Bishop A3 has been played looking straight off that annoying dark square bishop,
but I do think James that white is in control of this game so far. Absolutely,
following E6's loose and of course, as regards to police, I Bishop A3 was played quite quickly,
because that vision was going to be very strong on B2 on the bag and I don't know we have
trade and vice is for choice. I mean, look at the weaknesses in blacks camp here. D3 maybe
just to stay. Yeah, it's a slow move. It looks like a position. You want to go crazy,
and I think slow moves is the answer. D4 allows 9G4 for 93. And this might be the undoing of
white position. I really like that pawn on D2. So perhaps rook to E2, rook to E1, and just
is applying that pressure to the pond,
which was pinned by the way,
so the movie five was not possible.
She went to the end game,
where I was just totally normal,
that was interesting.
She loves her in-game, so,
but she won't have the five row,
but that allows night takes night,
which is like, okay, cool,
because yeah, nighty three is annoying,
but she went nighty, yeah, warm.
Allowing nighty three still.
Yeah, I think at this point,
we could say that the magic of the King's Gambit
has kind of worn off and while the knight is going to reach the C5 square, the position
is definitely approaching that sort of equality that sometimes you get from a crazy position
that suddenly simmers down a little bit. But white for me still has the better chances
with the depon restricting the e-pon and the c-pon from advancing. The knight jumping into C5,
the rookling over to E2 and that E1 should be in trouble. But James, we can jump back to our
bird's eye view, keep an eye on both sections here. I just thought, how do you not spend time
on the most exciting opening in chess? He kings gambit.
Down in the face, isn't that a key scan? Always the way it looks like a step of Noah's
winning it on War II see that one over there. I'm in Noah's going down after,
I'm going to be on peace, I see.
She got a peace bag on E5 is the idea to have
a peace of thanks, thank you.
So moving around, we're almost going to be on peace too.
Magnus versus Eric I see I'm looking straight at that game.
Why does this play the move King D to it's getting a question mark,
which is probably not surprising.
We just assume that a move like King D cannot be correct.
But Queen to be one will force a trade of Queens in this one.
And there's really nothing that Black can do about it.
So Magnus is hoping to justify that the King is ready for the end game, but James, you
don't want to be ready too early.
You don't start the game with E4, Tini2, because you're ready for the end game.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
Okay, that's all.
That was the old way around.
You ready for the end game, so you put your King on D2.
No, in fact, there are a lot of pieces on the board, still guys, you gotta be careful, by the way.
Okay, you know, I was like, where is his queen at?
I was like, oh, it's in D1.
It's just awkward, placing.
Like where's this good? Oh, it's there on D1. A lot's of moods exactly.
Right, but there, lots of moods going on.
So, Arjun is first of all up a pawn here. It's a really, really good game that he's played thus far.
Magnus is certifiably in trouble. Okay, there's no other way to say it.
At this point, a big decision on how he wants to recapture. He takes with the pawn and D4, the best move in the position I believe played by Eric Geysi,
the earning to be 4 square, the night had to be 5 square, at the class of returning material
James, this looks like the right way to play for Argent.
Absolutely, it looks good, Magnus is defending, I imagine the Caribbean game that you played
I think it was, and yeah, I was in the record.
But, the Caribbean game where it was, it's coming off from Blackside, Magnus had a crazy
game.
You can see that seeing things.
The Kings back on E.1, it's like a puzzle.
How did that rook on C3 lead the H1 script?
That's going to confuse everybody.
Oh my goodness, that is actually incredible.
I think about that.
This is a rook from the H1's where you guys.
The king is going to slowly manually castle to F1 to G1.
The pawn on D4 is defended.
Black has moves like 95.
Like rook C8.
We're certainly going to see those.
And in the end game, the A pawn could be the difference, but beating Magnus Carlson doesn't
Just take one move, one tactic.
You have to keep it up the entire game.
Now, Skating moves work out.
Well, Magnus is living off the anchor man.
I mean, kind of ours and it's too.
So, Archon is up 20 seconds or so.
Two second anchor making gets over to G1.
Yep, watch out for night before that would
blunder, checkmate on the previous turn.
Magnus needs to move here.
The night is the only piece not doing anything.
Surely he's going to look the reposition.
He goes D5.
not the move, but it looks like these six is a possibility of things, thanks thanks.
Winchicks B5 forces the queens off. This looks like a huge mistake for Magnus. There's
no Queen C8 check. Queen takes B5 here is trouble for Magnus, is head of shaking already.
It doesn't think of Queen C7. Queen B8 check trying to get the P-Sback after the
ambition is captured for using the background. He knows trading the queens would just lose immediately.
Queen D8 gets the piece back on D5, but Arjun is saying, look, I'm keeping both on my
Queen side bonds, all the end gains are winning now.
I want seconds check, Magnus down two passers.
Yeah, really the deficit is only one pawn, but it feels a lot worse than that because
those connected pawns, but neither pawn can move at the moment, and I will say it looks
tough to actually make progress. So Argin is going to have to dig deep here. I see like what
Magnus has done here with the night to G5. Another chance is there's all kinds of things
that can happen. Especially with time we're just going to say E6 is a move. It's definitely something
the throw away. Throw the kicks and sink out of him. Now this is the, hey, this is Blitz. I would get
nervous here about where I put the pieces. Queen on so many possible squares and goes to B6. But now
That was a translate that. That means Magnus lost on time. He could not get that move off.
Queen to be six played, but could not hit the clock in time and clear frustration on the face of Magnus Carlson.
And as Arginere guys, he moves to seven and a half points with a win over Magnus.
Arginere guys, see that as a big win, big win in that game now, out of stuff, out
of stuff.
And lots of emotion, lots of things happen.
Think the piece kind of, you know, tumbleed over at the same time to stop the clock.
It looks like a brilliant image.
Are still playing here?
And it looks like a very strange gal, though, actually, a knight has just been dropped.
So as I say that, I believe we'll see resignation of Ronin just hung a knight in the final position,
although it was a loss position.
So, in-ditch, beating a Ronin and moving up to seven points, the top boards, a lot of draws
up there.
But a lot of wins with the black pieces, in fact, noterbeck also be Ali Reza with the black
pieces on board two.
We had Fabiano, beating Merzen.
or any of them are still playing.
More of a big beating for Rusion 2.
I think kind of, whoa, what?
Oh, shoot.
Well, this looks like the end of the game in this one.
That would be a check in the game.
Whoa, wow.
Wow, it made it like that.
I'm kind of hurt, so that's things a little bit.
Good job, G2, very strong.
Well, it looks like those are all of the top results for job
of also moving to seven points.
And I think in the women section, I just wanted to see
Eline Robber's did win with the white pieces over Goryeach,
which is a really, really impactful result for the standings.
I was mentioning this name for people for a while.
I said, when I watch out, the lean robbers is here to play Kings Gambit, getting a win over
Greyhatch, on the top board in the women's section, that shakes things up a lot and that's
action James.
Absolutely.
I mean, Robber's one thing I noticed about our games is she just plays all the stuff that
you aren't looking at because like, you know, French aggressively with Catherine Queen's side,
she plays Dutch all the time, you know, it doesn't matter which kind of does, does, does,
It's just aggressive openings and it's you brought it to Gorgia, and now we'll bring up the
camp here.
We don't need to be on the board for this one.
That's just pure time scramble in it looks like board two of the of the women's section.
That extra pond, the extra pond versus recognition.
Revision versus King Replan, next Replan does something.
Yeah, the pawns on the board is the reason that this game is going to be a win.
However, Black is doing a great job at just hanging on to that pawn.
Being difficult, remember that this is Olmanova who has seven points right now
and has only gone down to the leader or the previous leader, Reactionet.
I think you win, is this weird, new ver going, this is not easy, it is definitely a win
in a pretty stable base, but it's all about taking that A-pon and to be honest with you,
I don't see a forced way that this can happen, okay, you're back to the work now.
We don't need to worry about the Eval bar going up and down that usually has to do with
the engine realizing, oh, with best play, we can get to 50 moves, but obviously mistakes
are going to happen. So you can usually ignore this stuff. And actually, on this move,
we're going to need to see King B2. This wind, the rook has trapped itself, the King has to move,
but in fact, we see Brook A5 and this will be in, oh, no Brook A6. That I do not understand.
Brook A6 would have won the game immediately. Obviously winning the pawn James wins the game
as well, but you could force the ropes to trade there for 1% victory.
But obviously, it will be over none the less.
Absolutely. I should promise now we have it.
We can have what we did as the goal.
Headshake there. I'm in the will.
And this one is simply routine for Stephanie Lutz.
And that's the resignation on board to almond of it goes down.
You know, doing your best to hold that one, but ultimately it was a winning position, and
it's stuff in over wins to move to seven and a half points here in the women's section.
Incredible. Upset. Wow. I mean, Rovers, seven and a half there, meaning with stuff in
over, and Gorgiaskana, she was the only one to beat Gorgiaskana there. Incredible going into their final
round today. Well, as they only have 10 rounds today. Incredible stuff there. Look at it.
The top of the leader were there only three was seven and a half.
So vanilla robbers and Courierish,
connection with her first loss here.
I mean, robbers with none, we see that zero there under in Loss's column.
She has none.
She's on fire three draws and still looking to push for,
you know, this last round today.
And he's still got games left, son.
Ladies still have time to play in another day tomorrow in the
over section here of money.
And that was tough game.
It was crazy magnet,
basically, just sprung to peace loses on time.
And Argin, with a huge win here, and Nordobank is well, both in the 3.7.5.
That looks like that's going to be the match that will come in next.
It's just the unanimous Argin versus Nordobank at least for you.
Obviously, you order it in the rest of the month.
Lots of 7 down there.
2, 4, 6.
This is in the half.
You see a lot of 7 sprinkled around there.
It's the more we drive off the Nortemia.
Some 7 who will be craving and pretended 7.
So, of course, as we see in the standings here,
the 7s are going to face off against each other.
And we see who's going to face off each other against each other.
each other at the top there, which is not a bag in the origin 7 and a half. They're both only having one loss here with a few rounds left to go guys.
We still have games and it's getting heated. Of course, people getting mad emotions everywhere, lots of chests.
Me and Amon are still here, and we're going to be back after this one.
Where are the stupid people?
There you go!
Wow!
Now, come on!
Alright, let's go.
Nice, so far, so good.
Alright, Bishop D3?
Alright, I thought we were getting a josspom.
Alright, it was good for about three moves.
So that's, yeah, pontex, okay, pontex, yep, yep, yep, castles.
Bring the night out, night out.
On point, I mean, no mistakes I've been made.
Bon, free pun.
Must make something made.
Keep going, keep going.
All good.
Obviously we jump.
Okay, we trade the queens.
But the night in the middle.
Bon, wow.
That's, can we just back up a second?
Why did, why did you just do that?
That's, all right, bring it right back.
Now you're just two bonds down.
That's good.
Okay, push through, trade.
It's a good game.
It's a good game.
Good game.
Bring the rook.
Very controlled, not perfect, but I mean, a lot of control.
All right, now we're gonna put the rooks on the seventh rank.
Wow, okay.
Yeah, it's just over.
So, rook takes, I mean, why was, yeah,
it was totally crushing.
All right, where's the meme?
Why it has played way too well?
Where is the nonsense?
Check, trap the bishop?
Damn what?
Okay, I have nothing to comment, check.
Okay, we've had to protect that pawn.
check, yes, wow, wow,
methodical and now white
just very easily wins the game.
Yep, yep.
I'm always scared in these moments.
I'm like finding a way white can mess this up,
but I don't think white can mess this up.
Snailmate, that's the only,
that's the only thing in the game.
Wow, well done.
Can we get a round of applause?
That was,
So you know, with games like this, the first thing I think is that white overperformed,
right?
So people who are rated like a thousand play a game like that and then they're like,
I gotta send this in because it's the greatest game I ever played.
And then I guess like 1800 and they're like, no, I learned just like two weeks ago.
Yeah, what I look for, I mean the last like 40 moves, there was a lot of control.
You go to the first like the opening I try to look where the opening kind of got weird it got weird fast
But then people still played pretty reasonably there was like a pawn blunder. I mean white played with
Incredible control so it's really tough. This is one where I either have to just round up white's rating to like how I think they played
Or you know kind of go off black who played kind of strange and
and made some mistakes, all right?
We're about to start with a really epic guess.
I'm gonna say that the person who played white
is rated like, 1400.
Let's say, 1400, and it could be higher,
but black-blade really bad.
So, let's see, rating is 1423.
There you go, there you go!
Okay, this is a five minute game.
So E4, okay, London, oh, Dutch, okay, all right, the ship G5, oh, London, little Joe
Bovva, nice, take the center, this is terrible for black, it's no longer terrible for
black, that's not where the queen should go, like E5, probably just like almost wins,
haha, okay, this is a game between two staff members, oh boy, the per staff members submitted
This did the other staff member dirty by submitting it and they're close together. No, actually
They're great. Oh, I can't help all the rules. But let's do it anyway. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yes, and now you win the rook
Take the knight probably or that
Nye, okay good
Lot of information here like not taking the knight with the bishop like these people are in the four digits. I would say
Maybe I'm on takes queen takes pawn takes now. We're gonna use the rook
Don't hang the bishop
I was, I think black is higher rated than white.
Hot take. I'm just gonna, you know, drop that.
And?
Ah, ho, ho, ho.
Wow.
Okay, we need to see this masterpiece again.
This is just great.
I still think black is higher rated than white.
I did not change.
Yeah, Bishop, I very well spotted.
But very creative.
Pontaix night and then like lining up, yeah,
I mean, so tonal visioned on the idea,
Like this is how you know you have like an early intermediate because they were so genius
They were like, I'm gonna take on a three with the pawn and I'm gonna move my rook
Huh, and then I'm just gonna hang the bishop like that doesn't matter and then you know
I'm so set on this idea and black allowed it, which is crazy
Why not only one idea and they pulled it off?
What's the rating gap of the players?
You don't have to tell me like the rating gap is 500 points
5 min again
5 min again
Yeah, and the opening like white obviously plays an opening and understands the idea up until around like move
6 because I'm not an insult actually because like bringing the queen out
It feels like you're attacking, but you kind of have to do it the right way. Black played a bit passively in the opening
I think deliberately even especially if I think black is I rated that's my thesis
I'm gonna say that to conjure up this idea for white
you probably have to be like, you have to be at least four digits. If you're
under four digits, then that's really impressive and also that means that black
is like 1400 and you're 900, which I don't think. I think it's probably like,
11, 50 and 16, 50. I think white is 11, 50. I think black is 16, 50.
It's so crazy how good you are at the Sanger Instincts. It was 1400 and 900 exactly.
But then you thought about it. You thought yourself out of it, but even brood. Wow. Wow. Take a take a plot. Yeah, that was that was good. That was good
So I was doing I praise from Levy because the idea is stronger than 900. Where are the stupid people?
I mean games not people like where the oh just not come on your good players. Huh?
I want to I want to stupid game is this this no like say they may be able to go more for this. Okay
Okay, very
Normal?
Shocking a five. Wow. It's nothing B-fort.
Huh? Yeah, this is like too smart. I mean, I miss my subscribers.
Okay, there's the, but you take the night and take the bond.
Can you see that? Wow. Wow.
Very mithought.
Night D4, my goodness.
Not trading the Queens and all those in position. B5 is the money move. Yep.
Oh my god.
hard. This is like I would have played this game with Black Queen B7.
Queen D5. And you just win or not? Yeah B2, there's nothing. Oh,
lot and that's such a, that's a scumbi trick. Queen D8, but that was the best game so far.
That was good. Wow. So far, for sure. Wow. I played it players. So wow.
I don't have anything to add, I mean we can check on the opening, like the opening, obviously, was suspect, but then I mean C5 is a nice trick and then yeah, you play people pre-move like C4 and then you take, you have two nights out
Yeah, just great development, you stop before, then you play D6, you develop all your pieces, I could imagine myself maybe losing to one of these people
Like I have to, unless I really, really, really focus and avoid all the stupid stuff.
I don't know, I would probably say like, high 2300, maybe 24.
Chelsea Monica content creator as well.
But she's 2600, 2600.
Yeah, like that's strange.
I mean, you can't jump in a Western Berks 2800 bullet with this game.
Yeah, as a perennial, 2800 bullet player, that was not a 2800.
I mean, I mean, more was, I don't know, what was going on there.
But I mean, and again, if you're 2600, I guess 2400, it's not, I mean, it's statistically
improbable that there's uh... yeah i mean black plate fantastic
okay
staff members use your name is the king i don't know how you got that i thought we didn't
let people get just pieces anymore yeah
so that's actually
pretty good with these are not good moves
yeah sorry i keep i'm like instinctively backing up because i'm unhappy with the
move to the middle show
go ahead no so far okay
okay yeah keep going
move to
that's good that will a five to stop before no
We didn't spot before. Yes, now white is that's a good move for counterplay
Now, do you take with the should have taken with the knight to attack the queen?
That was probably the trickiest option now. C6. Oh my gosh. This is brutal. This is brutal.
Queen is it's daily, but in rapid or blitz anything in the night a four
Well played
It's gonna be a root sacrifice is that is that way this is here?
I think it's not even a sacrifice anymore, I just see if this is.
Some of these games, and I'm like, oh, that was a rook sacrifice, yes, yes, yes, yes, we run,
we're gonna run, yes, why does totally winning, but there's gonna be memes.
Oh boy, here we go, here are the aforementioned memes, there, yes, it's complete, no, why are we attacking?
What is the going on?
Mate? No, there's no mate. Oh my goodness tragic queen trade that would be devastating
Yes, we're trying to bring the bishop back. Oh
I'm gonna have a hard attack. Hi, yep
You have a deed of make these moves y'all come on
Just take like a 10 minutes
Yes, you can even like sack the queen. It's probably winning take the rook
Why does totally save? There's no way to mess this up famous last words. Okay. Why is just gonna win right?
Why it is?
Why it's gonna lose?
Yep!
There it is!
Oh my, this is the most unbelievable way to lose.
The Queen and the Rook can, wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
Oh, that's the good stuff.
That's a great way to end.
Yeah, this is so cool.
I mean, I have a, I have like a video where I said,
if you're under 8900 and you're losing,
just run the King to the other side of the board.
Because oftentimes people will just check twice
and then be like, oh, free bond.
And then the King walks in and like, you lose.
So the opening knowledge ended on move two,
which is not good.
We gotta get that to like at least five or six.
It's just gonna make your life a lot easier.
Unless white was playing the new modern Vienna,
the modern Vienna where you bring out your queen and so on.
everything actually like here was okay you kind of locked your bishop away and
then you didn't spot the idea also don't castle like into the pawn storm
you should go the other way where you would be significantly safer yeah if I had
to guess rapid I would probably go with like I mean there was there was enough
of a fight left and white also didn't have the killer instinct of just like
rook takes pawn there you know white was moving around a little bit longer than
necessary I would probably go with like 600 ish maybe 500 like high 500 low 600 that
would be my guess 1100 now come on there is no way there is no way what's your
rapid rating okay so it's all right seven yeah I've been rating is closer to it
I'm not trying to insult anybody, but yeah, 700 makes sense.
Also, you can't really blame Black.
Right? Black was lost the whole game, right?
Black was the one that was trying to defend.
Let's hear it for Levy, everybody.
Thank you, guys. Thank you.
Thank you.
Round 10 of the world blitz championships guys we are still here but this is the last
round today for the women. Let's take a look at the standings where they are. Alright
I agree, you can add the top stuff in Ovent as well, and I lean rovers at the top there.
My lean is out of nowhere and no loss.
Exactly, I mean, there's a reason why we have to take a look at her game up against
where you actually can be feeding the leader of the event.
No loss is always a great place to be for your confidence, giving up draws, you know,
just makes you a more stable, stable player and you feel like you're just, you are what
you are unbeaten and that's great for blitz.
They lean up there with the leaders seven and a half points, and you're starting to see
Omanova, a Gweckon-Buru, Mirkaleeva, a lot of these names, not present in the rapid,
but stars when it comes to the blitz.
Absolutely.
As we see that a lot with the, you know, hidden from yesterday, this won't hang as well, but
today, you know, they have the top here, but the pairings right now, Stepanola is ready to take
on where you can go there.
I mean, I mean, Robert's versus a can-deliver there.
I'm not even there with Candle.
You familiar with who I lead his plane?
There, my.
No, I'm not.
I saw that Candle was up on one of the top boards
on one of the cans, and I'm not familiar with this player,
but certainly getting familiar along with all of our viewers
watching now a Kazakhstan has a number of competitors
up in these top boards as well.
Nerman, Asa, Baiba, and Nergaleva,
all on these top six boards.
Yeah, I don't know if they were going crazy and I don't know if it looks really nice for the players there
So I just see I'm back in she's up 44 Elo already on this event. So yeah, you know or what you know to that
Now you're gonna know right and that's it
You've lead got to the day big fella
So here we go then the open section here
Nord of Becca, this is we're off leading the pack here, especially after a big win over ours in there guys
See there are actually no space here
What's it, Arjun?
What did he be?
It was a big win.
Yeah, it was a big, he beat Arjun, right?
He'd Ali Reser.
Oh, he was.
Okay.
He'd Ali Reser.
He's just on the tier.
He's on tier 7 and half.
This is a big boy match up here between these two 7 and half 7 and half.
And you're in the right behind him, so you're still in this thing.
There we go.
Yeah, he's playing Arjun right now.
Yeah, so I remember.
And then a Christian Christian crossing there.
He's going to be a time-fest for Christian.
A Christian, a Christian, a Christian, a Christian, a Christian, a vegan, a vegan.
and do magnets, things here, but one point behind the big logs are in an order back here.
What do you think's going to happen in this mess with these two people?
Oh, this is surely going to be exciting here. Magnus, of course, maintaining that
board-one position regardless, but no, there's a handshake, but he's up against Sasha Grisha,
who is, you know, someone plagued by time-truble. I think everyone knows that about him,
and this is blitz where time-truble is going to be even more pronounced, but despite his time-truble,
and struggles with that clock management.
Like many of us have, he still performs at an elite level
with a high levels in the world with two seconds,
three seconds on his clock.
So it's just a feature of his style
and how he plays and approaches the game.
But this is a matchup that we have seen over the years
quite a bit.
And so Versauchet, to be up on board one,
he's clearly having himself be a good event.
As Magnus is looking to bounce back after that loss.
Absolutely.
Try to give that law from that from the loss here.
Games have started, no to back.
And Argin, E 459 through nice and six.
We got a Roy up there on, oh, that's the,
Grie's going to stuff another game.
I'm looking at, oh, there's another Roy, OK, Roy,
who I'm going to start off in Argin as well.
Look at Carl's stuff.
I've been having a look at looking at,
looking at these boards as well.
It looks like Magnus is going for one of those.
Are you used this word before KG?
Right, it's just, you know, 86, G6, D6, not committing anything, waiting to see the setup before
he decides maybe on the B5 and Bishop B7 and the waiting to decide your setup can have
downsides, James of maybe being behind in development and not, you know, maybe being at risk
to your opponent opening the position, but it has a benefit of placing your pieces and pawns
optimally against where your opponent's pieces are.
You know, there's a plane, it's sort of what they call the pork, but the people like,
oh, it's kind of pronounced very, it's a rumbly rarer, you know, it's a hard bear forever.
You want to call it, it's the same thing. And Carlson's going for that. Usually used
this when you do want to go for some type of win or you want to end balance, but this
can backfire very hard if you aren't playing correctly. So, you know, we see a magnet. So,
we'll strike this maybe C5, E5, it's generally how they do. And those have positions, looking
Yeah, I'm just struck an Argent and sort of normal stuff so far.
We're a little pasted with nine of these six,
they're a little bit different.
So it cozy-o style of playing I believe,
something like that in the Royal Paz variations,
but a lot of chefs to be played left in that game.
Yeah, and certainly the most imbalance game in the women's
section is the lean robbers against Greck and Beru
there, top middle of your screen.
But I think that the position that is maybe
the one with the most action at the moment,
I'm looking at, of course, Arjun and Abusatora,
but also Fabiano against Indich up on board number three.
And I want to bring us there just because we've seen
the move G4.
And this move is a feature of these positions
where the idea is actually to allow the capture,
and then play Rook to G1 behind it.
And well, it hasn't been taken,
but Rook to G1 is the move nonetheless.
And this is completely in balance here.
As Fabiano is looking to have a much better performance in the blitz compared to the rapid.
Physician is off the rockers already. We have a draw already, though. I just saw that come up by the nowhere.
Who would win for East? Like, you know what, bro? This is the way this got here. Right.
Quick draw. Still put some high up in the standing there. So, what happens in the rest of the games.
version, and for ease, 9-on-g6. Normally you play things like age 4, it's 5, but in
castles a little bit different.
Yep, you can see the action unfolding on your screen here, between the two leaders of
the event. And in this exact moment, you see the blue arrow indicating that Queen B3 is
an important move to find.
The bishop is not trapped due to bishop to G5,
but if black would play Queen D5,
it's a little bit better than having to move the Queen somewhere else.
And Plank Queen B3 first, James means Queen D5 is not possible.
You could exchange and win that pawn on D4.
Which he finds, Queen D3 check.
Bishop G5, not figuring out where he's going to put his Queen.
He said E8, defending C6, threatening Bishop E6,
sort of, for any night, takes E5.
Maybe you could take it in some cases.
It is maybe a little risky.
A rookie one, only everything now,
and we're expecting probably Bishop E6.
Yeah, and watch out for this bishop,
you know, the move H6.
Forces of 2 to H4 where it can be captured.
Potentially this queen could move out to H5
with a tempo there.
And I am really liking the position for Argin.
It looks like an aggressive position.
This pawn is not blockated, so you can see how the bishop
and Rook could target the F-2 pawn in the future as well.
Knight to F-4, this position is starting to look
with Knight F-4 and Queen G-6 on the board,
very, very good for Argin with the Black Pieces.
This looks really nice for Argin.
We could just feel the power of the Open F-4,
and Knight on F-4.
You play D for here at some point,
I open up that Bishop that's on A7,
we can come around the G-6 or even H5.
He takes those, I'll take the Bishop.
Thanks for the vision.
I can't blame them.
Look at those bishops aim directly at the King.
The Queen is going to be joining on probably H5.
The rook can jump over to EA.
This is a very strong position.
The bishops are much better than the Knights.
However, if the attack does not break through, it is possible to see how the Knights
can blockade some of these pawns.
And if the defense blockade it, the bishop on A7 truly will not be a strong piece.
Place E6, very tricky move. Of course, the pawn is very annoying on the E file, but we
have to do anything to E3 as the engine is highlighting, activating that most of
Bishop on A7, like he's looking at it, or the place that will do something different.
I'll work out for him tonight. That's like the new G3, I'm sacking.
I know, I was about to say sacking there. You start to even think about sack
sacrificing here, although without the,
without a minor piece to help the attack probably not.
Rotate C6, talk about a sacrifice here.
Rotate C6, I love this move.
This is Blitzchath's James, and this is a type of move
that we expect here that we would not see
in rapid or classical.
I'm not even touching that, Brooke.
I don't even care you can have a little low pesky bond
if you want to.
I'm losing some double the rooks, but you say,
you know what, no, I'll take the material.
He wants the material, but we could double the rooks now,
and maybe sat back at the right moment
if possible, the Little Rooks paper takes out three
rookie eight as the engine has pointed out is better.
And with eight, right around that pond,
which is passed on in six school.
And hey, it's in the 98, 96 incoming.
I mean, Rook F6, the guard's in a G6
and threatens the pond on E6.
So it certainly will be played, and it has been.
Motor back now is, I mean, he's got to take.
I mean, I think at this point,
you pretty much have to assume you're losing
This pawn on E6, you have to try to take and claim some other material in order to lose the E5 night because I don't see how you keep everything together. The move F4 does not look like a move you want to play.
brings the other night around, Rick takes E6, it's just an eating of to play the
argin is probably going to play. Did not, okay, D-free.
Well, in between, there was a night, she's six moved their genes, incredible
tactic. I think after Rick takes E6. Oh, my goodness, and takes and takes and takes.
I guess it wouldn't be an equal there because I get the queen to.
And some weird, weird way, let's strange. I'll clean E8 too. Wow, it's so
tactics and everything. Everywhere's here. Everywhere. Look at this deep on causing so much trouble.
You can even take on F2. It looks crazy. The rook cannot take. If the king takes, you're out in the open
and queen C5 potentially queen sticks on E5. There's so many ways to make tactics.
We're going to miss you. It's really interesting. It takes with the king queen C5,
King goes over to E2, King is out in the middle of the street voice. King G3 running for the
the heels with the game for three seconds for
Nordobak not appreciating just how low that time
is getting but I don't think with that deep on on
D2 that he's going to be able to survive here.
This is a simple one right.
We need three.
I mean, maybe not.
It's still so simple.
Cree-ne-three.
There is Brooke F3.
He actually can't believe there's not a forced win.
He's giving a few checks.
Can F3 work? F8? Can he's realizing yes now?
Rook E1.
Ressi!
And that's a resignation, what a move.
And what a result, as Eric Geise is on a tear as we go straight to the line, action,
a time scramble between Grishook and Magnes Carlson.
Yeah, it's another thing.
trouble and Grisha come on now for another day.
Opposite Bishop's, look at that, upon on A7, you have to feel that Grisha has phenomenal
winning chances.
This is the past to move, he doesn't know where to put it.
Yeah, yeah, a little dance of the Bishop there.
Is this position winning?
Right. That is the question of the day. Yeah, probably just shuffle it out. It is a down time.
So I'm trying to think maybe we're going to see
F 3 and G 4. I don't see the wind there though.
There's on the board F 3 G 4.
I don't have the time. I guess we'll just sit and do nothing.
Right.
If I go back, you know, the touching thing wins with the black pieces on most of the top
boards, but does not look likely in this one.
Even though the pawns are actually equal here, I think that Magnus in the last couple
moves has a pretty good job getting closer to a draw.
Loss in a draw there, Magnus is not the happiest.
is tough to come by wins in this event.
And the bishops are shuffling, the king is shuffling.
Grishik wants to play on here, but there's no clear path
forward.
The rooks are just staring at one another.
Look at his clock.
Self goes around, take it up on.
He's playing this thing out.
Yep.
He is playing this.
I'll look at Grishik go.
I wouldn't say you have to be like pieces, but you know, Magnus, I don't think has completely
given up, you know, if someone over presses, I think he'll be happy to continue playing.
But the King on G3 does not want to give ground, as soon as you play King F2, you will
have King G4.
Yeah, I need to look at any other, actually it was annoyed by that, I knew I had something.
it ends peacefully as a draw moving up to seven points. That is not the result that Magnus
was looking for as he does not advance further up into standings.
Yeah, that's incredible. It's Grisha holding Magnus from Magnus, holding Grisha to the draw.
Maybe Grisha goes on to see on that one now. In order back, goes down to Argin,
That is a big story there.
I mean, what is urgent?
Who's going to take down the Argentine mark?
Because this is, this is what's going on right now.
Obviously, we have to bring more rounds to go.
But the Argent is up there at the top holding it down right now.
He's playing out with his mind.
Yeah, and his style, James, is so exciting to watch
and it's perfect for Blitzchess, where maybe his more speculative, creative style.
It really shines through in the Blitzchess format.
So it's working, well, he's at eight and a half points.
You're also seeing Maxine Vaishya LaGrav, Fabiana Karwana, you know, some of the, you know,
dare we call them veterans here in the field are slowly moving up quietly to eight points.
And notably, the Chinese competitors, Yuyang Yibujansi and Lushan Le, all at seven and a
half points are about to join the potential leaders in this next round and check out those results.
No losses for Dubov and three Chinese players that I just mentioned, they're playing that
very solid brand of blitz where they're not over pressing and look what it's gotten up.
And also I mean you know we're talking about origin, you know the magnuses and magnuses and magnuses that
look who snuck up there from MVL and Kerawana you know just wasn't really talking about them too much.
You see him playing oh hey yeah that's Bobby oh hey yeah that's MVL but no hey we are here as well
in the top three with eight points there that is actually something that's been true as well
as they did just sneak up there with a few rounds that's the dog before it's okay and we have to
Some of them are really nice stuff.
Let's go to the women's now see what happened there.
Is Brezhnev with a tross, definitely a little bit nice.
I have pro robbers.
Again?
Maman for robbers.
I'm saying he's going on.
I made a fool.
I brought this name up for a reason, James.
Definitely a player to watch out for in deep,
that's improving it here.
Olmanova is another one, making a name for herself.
We saw unfortunately one of her losses and it's a shame because she's got so many wins,
A of them to be exact. We haven't seen any of those but believe me, we see them on the
standing as she's moving up back in that top spot, a step in over and for you actually
can draw an eight points becomes the the score where the most players are.
But none higher than a leading rovers at eight and a half head and shoulders above the
competition so far without a loss in the event thus far.
She played out of her app, who am I right now?
And as she tried to continue that type of pace,
that there's no ball attacking the way.
I mean, she is scary when you face someone like that.
Even her opponents can feel that pressure.
Like, oh, she's in that type of form.
You know, you gotta be careful with a player like that.
We also have a traffic jam for the rest of the four spots.
Two of those are up to six and a half,
some sevens there.
So I'm so happy to pay attention to what's up to do.
Well, at any time, for us there is some tactics.
We don't want to grab and go check to as well. So he takes us through some tactics time with the
man. Well, I want to I want to just jump to that that game that we were spectating with intrigue,
right, uh, a Greek shook and magnets and because it was such a time screen, but we didn't have a
moment to appreciate. So I thought I'd highlight this moment when magnets was actually wondering
what to do, where he's putting that bishop right here in this position. And by the way, it's not just
here. It could have been any time in the last time moves because Greek shook's king was sitting on
B6, and he looked at this position and said,
you know what, I can't make progress games.
Rook takes the rook, the bishop's going to take.
It's clear the king has no progress.
The bishop has nothing to do,
but there is a move here that was mis-bike ratio,
and that is rook to B7.
Say, how about a sacrifice,
allowing my king to get closer.
Now, you might say, well, this doesn't actually have to be reacted to.
We could play King to E6.
But number one, rook takes E7.
you're just dropping this pawn. So there's no way you'd really want to do that. But I've got
another move for you James, even better, according to the computer, is King C7. And from here,
one of his lives. Rook, E8, we can capture now, and then be white king makes it to be 8. So you could
probably combine those two ideas, grab the free pawn, come back, but this was a completely winning
end game for a great shot. But he missed this idea, and I'll just show what ended up happening.
He didn't see a path forward and then the king ended up going back and now there was no way to make progress
Because this position is just completely fixed. So big opportunity miss
Magnus in some sense has to be a little bit relieved that he didn't even lose this game
But it was possible after rook takes everook to be seven there
That's probably what he mentioned too is Grishik when he was talking and he's like, yeah
You miss would be seven and Grishik was like
It could be, as a craziness,
decided to talk about the after the games here.
But ladies are done for the day,
the only X-ing rounds today, the open section still has
a few more rounds left for the team today.
So lots of suggestive you play, mixes up at the top.
Who knows what's going to happen,
and his next few rounds, but we'll find out.
That's it.
Oh my god, then I feel like checking what?
Calm down, everyone.
Playing bullets just at 2 a.m., bedfighter green blood.
You don't play boochers at 2 a.m. unless you're really going through something.
Well, because at 2 a.m. you should be sleeping, right?
You should be taking rest. There are two red flags in this.
First of all, playing bullet second at 2 a.m. better to sleep and not play so much in it.
Great for. I like playing bullet a lot and nowadays I don't play much, but it will give me a lot of
If not, then yeah.
Too many, I was way too late.
And it's literally brilliant, many other things you can do.
Too many, I'm wild.
It's a red flag, but I do it.
So I'm going to say green flag.
Green for sure, it's like, all I do.
Solving daily chest muscles.
Oh, green flag.
I feel like that's a good hobby to pick up.
You know, keep to your sharp.
Green flag, keep to your sharp.
Green flag, I think it keeps your sharp.
Green, although, get a life, they're green-flak, green-flak.
Tweeting 10 times a day.
It depends on how many followers you have.
Yeah.
It can be a red flag if you have very few followers.
I think this one's directed at a new year's period.
Yep. Red flag.
Green flag.
Because if you're funny, even the world shouldn't hear your thoughts.
You know that flag, I don't even use to it there.
I'm going to go red flag.
That's right.
Having a laggy internet connection,
but still wanting to play bullet.
Green flag 100%.
Again, red flag, what's almost bullet feeding?
Like, calm down, everyone.
I think green flag, because, you know, no matter
what situation you are in, it's not stopping you
from expressing your love for a test.
Excuse me, green flag.
I, like, two red flags.
Oh my god.
worst. checking your horoscope predictions before a big chess game. checking what?
checking my?
oh my!
this junk. green black, you can do me a piece here.
that's right. I don't know what.
I mean for me it's like a huge red flag but some people believe in it so I won't impose on people who have left.
green flag obviously. how much is it? super red flag yeah.
Don't do all these things, instant, maybe saw some tactics on that.
Steering at your opponent's mid game while they're thinking.
Um, red five.
If you're really trying to intimidate your opponent, and get them really noise, and that's like green five.
Yeah, I'm going to have to create a flag when I do it, but like if someone else is doing it to me, that's what it gets me.
I have seen so many kids do that when I was playing actively I used to be so annoyed
with this.
I believe now if they will do it I won't be as annoyed if I started playing but still it's so difficult to deal with it.
Like what should you do there?
Should you stare back?
Should you ask them not to stare?
Should you just ignore?
Not what easy.
Good plan.
You have fun.
call the cops. They don't even get a flag. Yeah, a lot of kids do that actually, so you kind
of have to deal with it. But yeah, if you do that, you're super annoying. Calling in Uber for your
opponent after defeating them. Oh my god, that's diabolical. Yeah, that's a green flag. Like,
like I do why if this is bad for the know but if you're just looking out for them, yes.
That's so cool.
Just send them home, right?
I think green flag if you really want them.
Okay, hang your phones, nerves.
That's a bad flag.
It depends, right?
I mean, it's an Uber.
It means it's a green flag.
It doesn't mean it and you're just trying to, you know, be nice to him.
to him or her, maybe it's not such a good idea.
Leave them alone, you know, just leave them.
Can you say that blackbird them?
Green, unless you're a creep,
which ensures anything is possible,
so, you know, to be determined, use, be safe.
Watching a niche during videos before your chess game.
Green flag.
Just don't you should be just anything
related to any of the green flag.
It was my video's green flag, anybody else was red.
Out of fact, I mean, I'll get a green flag.
Before the game, I said, because before the game, you had to prepare.
The editing is the best sense.
Ah, probably the same time.
Going through his tweets before the game probably is.
Bringing out your queen early in the chess game.
Red flag.
If it's game, maybe I'm in shirt green flag.
You can't smell your experience, but usually red flag. Yellow flag.
Like do it if you want, it will work. But you're like the worst type of player.
Red flag? You know, maybe you should chill with that. She doesn't need to get out there so
soon. Maybe hello patients. Yeah.
A green flag now. Earlier it was a red flag, but now all the rules are just being turned
around on its head and if you bring your queen out early and you do it well that means
you just don't care about the rooms you just are playing the best clothes in the
position. Trash talking to your opponent across from you at the chessboard.
You know this is controversial I'm gonna say green flag especially if it's like a
little kid. I did flag it. That should probably not film.
But you're not allowed to talk.
Okay, saying I would have won if I had more time after every game.
Green flag?
I got a green flag if I do it.
Come on, that's so funny.
That's such a funny move to Paul because it's like the most annoying thing.
So what could I ever say?
Not just in Chester's ever.
That's a red flag.
Red flag.
I think just giving any reason for your loss is a red flag.
It's a red flag.
Red flag.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I'm going to start up again.
Red flag?
Yes.
Unless you say it's your friend, in which case it's true.
Yeah, green flag for sure.
Same check out loud every time you check your opponents came.
And they're just like, you know, they're just like, if you don't know that this rule exists,
that you don't have to say a check and it's still doing it,
then it's a green flag.
You're being just very sensitive of the open.
But if you know that you don't have to say it and yet you say it,
just to disturb you or put in red flag.
We think green flag, that's really funny.
But honestly, if someone did that to me and pissed me off,
I'd be like, isha, please.
Red flag.
You probably should just hope that they make an illegal move, right?
And get the time on the clock.
So, I'd say red flag.
Who does that?
Should I tag?
If you're in adults, extreme red flag,
if you're a child, green flag, live your life.
That's pretty normal.
being paired up against an attractive opponent.
I would put a green flag there because if you can just focus on chest at that point,
then you really love chest so much.
Oh, this is a green flag.
It's a yellow flag, it doesn't really matter, but green flag kind of because if I lose,
like at least I lost to a baddie, you know?
I mean, just like, I don't know, regular flag.
We're back around 11, actually you see here at the World Bliss Championship, I'm feeding
after James K. 3rd here, joined by Graham Master of Ammon,
Hamilton, and we have a curious case of a flying queen.
I'm sure you guys have heard about it.
Yeah, James, we decided, we've analyzed some clips, some games,
but nothing more important than analyzing this right here.
We want to look at the A5 square because we
realized Magnus lost on time, but this is what happened.
He tried to capture the poem.
His own queen goes flying.
I didn't realize this in real time.
He now does not have a queen to place on the A5 square.
So he's trying to pick it up.
He even tries to stop the clock, but is not successful.
What he should have done in 2020 hindsight
is maybe grab that extra queen on the side of the board
and put it on the square.
But James, I mean, it's so hard to do that at all correctly
and maybe my favorite part of the clip
is Grisha walking by in the background
as if he's like arrived at crime scene.
Oh, I don't want that. Queen hit me. I don't want to be involved in this. And he's trying to make sure it's not his fault.
You know, if the chest wasn't a thing for him, like the queen was so fast, I didn't even see it. I could
felt like he was a magician because how the queen went from it was like 0.2 seconds that I couldn't even see it.
The slowmo is still fast on how quickly the queen was gone. Look at this. Like the slowmo is still fast. Look at this.
You see the queen, and you're like, oh, let's go ahead.
Oh, okay, cool.
And then he reaches his hand out there.
And then you see the queen.
And then you go, hey, how you do it?
And it queens go on.
You're like, oh, yeah, queen.
And the pawn is gone.
This is incredible.
How incredible speed.
And this is so much.
Honestly, if Magnus had the wear with all to grab the queen.
You can see it on the screen in the background.
It's for promotion.
But if you grab that extra queen and slap it down on the A5 square,
that would have been as far as I know.
I know James a valid. I actually would love to know an arbiter's opinion. It's not the same queen, but it's a queen.
Do you think that would be a valid move?
You know what's funny? I have done a lot of, I'm pretty fast over the board, so I'll get it.
I'm going to give a time that it's for a long time, so I have done it in like times where you're trying not to lose.
And like literally, you know, I drop a rook because I'm moving something.
I got five seconds on a clock. You grab the rook closest by. Oh, the one over there to get grabbed and you put it back on the board and you keep going.
as if nothing happened literally.
Why not make sense?
Yeah.
But I'm curious to what official setting how an
arbiter would rule that.
But obviously, that was the action in the craziness
from last round.
We have another round coming up and so far,
every round has been delivering James,
but let's refocus here and have a look at our
pairing for the upcoming round.
Magnus Carlson against Volodar Merson on board number one.
But a board number one is definitely not where our highest
The score is that belongs to Arginary Guysey on board two, taking on Fabiano Carijuana and
VL versus Notre-Bec and the three Chinese players for its four, five and six.
Here we go.
It's going to be important to see definitely that Fabiano and Argin game is the question
is who's going to take down Arginary Guysey who that seems to be on an absolute tear here.
As the white faces, of course, you have Fabulous Fabio here, which is kind of snuck up there
in the top of the standings with an eight piece, him and MBO, sharing second and third
right now with the same score of eight. So, big game for them, definitely looking to see how
they're going to perform in this game here because it's very important. This game is so
important for the standing for Fabiano MBO. Obviously, everyone's who is low, they are trailing
them. So, lots of emotions, lots of things going on as the first day is coming close in the next few rounds.
Yeah, we have a few more on the day and remember there are so many more blitz games happening
tomorrow, which will be the conclusion of the event where we ultimately find out our winner.
But I think it's definitely the case that getting into these last couple games, James, the players
want to end the day on a good note. It's so key for the mental as well. We can see Magnus rushing
to his board and there's the handshake as he sits down to play. Volodarmers in Magnus truthfully
needs a pretty serious result in his last couple of games because he's now a point and
a half off the lead and if he continues to draw while others win, that's not going to
be good enough out of day one for him.
Trying to keep his composure here, he had a draw and a loss which is obviously not like
crossing you to see draw or win or mostly wins in the draw, he'll be a occasional loss
here and there but a loss and a draw or draw on the loss, everyone put it is not
You know, his Magnus S is not feeling the greatest here.
So he's going to try to take that out on purpose in a way.
And Merzen's like, I'm not going to be chapped.
We're here.
I'm no one playing Magnus, but at the same time,
this is incredible and important game.
And games have started.
We have, is that D4?
Here we go.
Okay.
Bring everyone to the bird's eye view.
And because the women's section is done for the day,
it is all games from the open section that you can see on your screen
for a total of the top eight boards and with the early developments here, James,
any of these boards, based on who's playing or maybe the position and catcher eye?
You know, that do walk game because that's even though they're on the other half of the
the standings and bracket, but it is nice that you have this dragon type game, it is going to be
spicy. I am looking around for more, but that is going to be some spice for sure.
What I'm looking at in the top left of the screen, that Magnus game, just interesting
to note that the position I think is the same.
This is a repeat.
So Magnus clearly has this opening as one that he said, you know, I'm comfortable with
this for the Blitz portion rather than the rapid.
So just interesting to see that he's got something, it's a little bit off the, and he
slowly builds up the move D4.
So just interesting to see that the players do have those weapons
that they use exclusively, maybe when we get the blitz
to the rapid.
And I'm also into this game, obviously, with Argin and Kirwana.
That is a big game here where D4D might have happened in this game.
But it definitely could seem like it came from some E4 opening,
as well, because it's quite open.
Again, with the work coming to D1, quick castles happening,
castles from both sides.
Okay, maybe it could tinker out because there's no weaknesses, which is crazy, but it's open. Open game, but no weaknesses makes it a little bit more solid than we think.
Everything's defended, you know, so even though it looks cool, if I something happened, it might just honestly see it around the next few moves, make trades happen and stuff is super equal.
All right, well, you know what you mentioned the game.
Let's jump to Lushon Lake and it's Daniel Dubob.
This one here is, I think, a position that some viewers might find
a little strange.
We actually saw C-tax B3, very rare that you ever make this capture
instead of going towards the center.
And, these castle bloodness side.
So these bishops, if they reach from the F5 square
and the G7 square would be super strong,
but the night on D4 is opposing everything.
And we just saw castles sacrifice of the e-pon.
So do you take the bishops here, James,
with the, you know, the potential of some play on the king's side?
Or do you take white position with the necessary move
night C6 at the moment?
Ooh, and that's seven, nice C6, this is if he finds it,
we take it white all day if he doesn't,
gotta be careful because we need a scary move,
we need five, there it is, it's on a board.
We take it white all day, it have a nice day.
Yeah, it'd be great if you could do that.
just make your pick based on certain moves.
And we could see that the attack is in full force here.
And it's actually white on the attack.
You feel that white king is the one exposed,
but do Bob is in a tough spot.
However, he has as much time on his clock
as going to be getting of the game.
But he's just got under three minutes.
Well, the play is fast.
Very quick here, but just because it's fast,
I mean, it is right or accurate, you can make mistakes.
But it's better to be fast and accurate.
You said that not we have four go hits F7 with the G4 possibility coming next and these six is hanging
This is where you're gonna have to use this time
I say what do you mean use what time F6 on the board we take these six with a sacrifice that is vicious. Oh my goodness. This is like so. Yep
Yeah, if you take that bishop Queen takes G6 is going to be a lights out checkmate. However, that is not a force move and
It's actually given a
a miss that last move because as good as that was there might have been even better.
What about like Queen E4?
Exactly what I'm thinking. I'm wondering, you know, what what brilliancey is apparently missed here
because this move looked good enough to me.
This is great. I mean, Queen G. C. C. C. Beautiful here. He has been thinking
probably because I had to say people are blessing that the clock realizing this is garbage.
is this not a nice position for him, not the dragging and looking for when you play
dragons.
So in here, this takes up six is coming up next.
Obviously, it would get a to be played, but yeah, not comfortable, not comfortable at all.
And Luke, it's looking good.
You know, it's laying back a little bit comfortable.
He seems calm and relaxed.
And you see the move, a five here, crazy as that move is actually supports the idea of
rook A6.
So he has a lot of time on his clock.
He started at about three minutes.
He's come up with the move.
Rook to F-8, it looks like, yeah, Rook F-8
and King A1 quickly played.
You still have the same threat of Queen Tase G6.
So Black has really solved any problems.
And King A1 gets out of a lot of potential.
Bishop F-5 check moves.
Now, the position is really starting to improve for White.
Yeah, there's your Vecity too.
If you're going to still want to keep playing A5,
he has a little bit of hope.
I don't know why, A5 is sort of annoying.
And the only thing in the fact that if I move around too much for you too much,
A4 is going to be a very strong move.
A4 will allow me to play Quintake's before.
Quintake 3 hits the pawn, plays D6, play D3, and looks like a nice advantage right here.
We can rejoin our bird's eye view to take a gander at some of the other games in the section,
but note a very strong position for Lucian lay there.
The other games are not terribly exciting as we take a look.
You see end games for Argin and Fabiano
very likely draw there, slightly slightly better
position for Magnus against Merzen, nothing too crazy
and MVL against Abuse of Toroff is also getting
potentially very spicy with that Open G file.
So I think we can stick with Notrebeck and MVL
for the moment because this came right here.
Absolutely the craziest position, the Open G file for both
Oh, then he's like, open where bro, let's close it down real quick a month, you got the route G8.
He does stop a lot of things here.
What if I just take and take though, is it really a bit take on G8?
I think I'll see seven.
I mean, okay man, it looks fun.
We came in here.
We was fun.
No, it's like not so fun.
Yeah, Peter.
I mean, it's three ponds for white.
So you're obviously going to play on here as MDL.
But it's very dry.
At this point still, it's blitz.
still it's blitz so I think the night over the bishop, especially with seven seconds on the clock, is still a huge chance for NBA.
That's true. It is night versus Bishop and, you know, you see black things a little bit weaker.
You can see two and check. Back and forth. If I want to push on a little bit, maybe F4.
Light, slight check first.
Did the F2 pawn is loose here? You can bring the queen back to G4. You can do all this.
But black thing is it's going to shuffle queen to g7, queen back to f8, and you can't
bring your king out because of h6, you actually lose.
You're getting a little bit of space.
That DGCR is like, sickening.
Yeah, I know it really sends the evaluation way up or way down.
Of guess right. He's trying to find a way to double. Magnus one at quick.
Dang. Hey.
It looks like he's taking a look at the final position. Big
Lunder in the final position, but an otherwise, you know,
slight edge that Magnus is the, you know, pretty much the best in the world I can burden.
And he is as glued to this game as we are. He can barely lead the playing hall.
What's going on? Who's going to win? And of course, there's a very important game.
In four, no time for Nortebeck, it's who's any second acre-minute saving him.
Yeah, he's like, oh, wait, what about this fool? Be his, oh, queen five.
I mean, he's under a pawn. Oh, he missed this move. Yeah.
Magnus is is a sipping water for Maxine.
Oh, that's it.
Night versus Bishop. I got the extra. Yeah.
Okay. It's double.
But you can use the Paul.
That's five.
This should be I don't know if I want to say this is 100% winning.
Those are a very good chance.
Probably with the move F six and bringing the king around.
King D six, King D seven and King E eight.
In the end, it went with like catapultum in the standings.
Mm-hmm.
He would join the argument.
This would be very significant.
I think he's going to do exactly that.
Look how he's just manifested this win with those doubled F-ponds.
They're actually the reason that this position is winning that.
Because you need two of them James.
You only had one F-ponds. That's a draw.
Wow.
I actually feel great when you got to that front, you know, one is the school, but I got
two of them. So when each sacrifice I did, I got another one.
Knights coming to E7, and that is going to win either by Zookslong or to block the Bishop
from getting there.
They're going to make a win for Maxime moving up to nine points. And as you said, joining
Argin Ergai see what a win from a tense position in BAL or MVP is the same thing right now in BAL and he's there at the top with Argin
Whoa, what happened? Oh, hey, he has a reason. He has a reason to hang his head there
He's not happy because I actually think despite being down a piece in that final position
And it might be a draw.
It's just a potential fortress that cannot be broken through.
He flagged, bro, I mean, yeah, we all feel that right now.
He's like, bro, can you, I flagged an winning game.
I was winning this game.
And he flags?
Yeah, of course he wasn't winning in the final position,
but earlier he had a great game.
And then at the end it looks like he had a chance
for a fortress and potentially trading off that pawn.
So disappointment there, Magnus Carlson
does beat Volodar Merzen and Eric Geissie with the draw moving up to nine points joined
by Max Seem at nine points as well with that victory that we saw over no return. Meanwhile
Dubov getting the win over Lucian Le and Yu Yang Yi also beating Jordan to move up to
eight and a half points.
He's actually joining the chase the back here. I mean he's doing great. Look at the
standings. Nine set the top there. One loss for Argentina lost for M. V. A. Guys, this is
It's a incredible stuff.
You can't get coming out of nowhere there, they've done it earlier, they've done it
earlier, they've done it to be 20.
The Chase scene pack as well, and I am finally getting stopped at leaving him with a win
open mercy.
It couldn't be start of a comeback, who knows, though, Argentine things leave and care
one of the main things to status.
Paul with their truck in the air, stop sneaking and start his brand 80s.
He's a good job at BL, he's working through him off.
So, do walk getting a little bit of a healthy hand there, he puts him up to 8 and a half.
It gets you switched every round.
Every round you see something else at the top there.
What do you think about standing so far
on which just happened?
I'm on.
Because we keep seeing the top three switch.
Maybe not the first.
But second, third, fourth is like a bull nose.
Yeah, my eyes are immediately drawn to a couple things.
First of all, boo-jang-jee, Yuyang-y, and Daniel Dubav
are just playing that brand of blitz
where they're not over pressing.
And they're just resourceful.
They have never lost yet.
And that's why you'll find near the top
with the table, meanwhile, of course, Maxim Vashayla Grav has to be said he was fighting
really hard for that way and it looked like a drawn position, but he made it happen
in a blitz format, where it's difficult to always play the best defensive move, and
Arjun has been nothing short of immaculate so far in the blitz, and if you can close this
day, much the same way it started, he is in a great position to fight for the gold medal
tomorrow.
There's a lot of fighting chess here too, Maman.
Can you take us through our favorite portion of the day, which is tactics time with Maman?
Well, there's just, there's so much action.
So, you know, obviously we can't be on every board at once.
We wouldn't have seen that great conversion in the game that we just watched with Maxine.
If we were on this game, but since we weren't here,
I thought I'd just show what happened against, uh, between,
bullet armers in and Magnus Carlson. It actually was a position where yes, Magnus is doing well,
but I found it interesting that after Rooksy 3, it feels like black is the one actually
invading the position first, but what ends up happening is capturing this pawn on before,
actually led to a four-stics change of the rooks, and then would you believe at the highest level
here after King before we did not see King F-A and just bring the King in? I think you're slightly
worse there, but I don't think that it's lost. I think King F8 is absolutely the move.
Instead, Bishop D7 is, to me, a real shocking move because why would you defend this
font when white is just going to capture it into moves? But it was based on actually a bigger
blunder of James, and so after night takes D5, the only reason that Merzen would even try this
is because he thought he had Bishop C6, so we potentially win the G2 pawn. However,
the entire idea of Bishop D7 was misguided, and let me tell you, Bishop C6, of course,
Magnus Pounds with 97 Shack, and a fork ended this game in time pressure, so James, a really tough
way for Merzen to go down here. He looked just a couple moves ago, and he was completely fine,
but that's how quickly things turn. Night against Bishop in that endgame, and after rook
Rook takes B4 Rook A4, Magnus just walks the king in and unfortunately for Merzen, it was his own undoing as Bishop D7 and Bishop C6 were two back to back big time blunders and Magnus wins easily with 97.
Yikes, that is a tough way to go out there, where I'm supposed to see his Magnus too as well, but you gotta try to bounce back as much as you can, guys. But in the meantime, we're gonna bounce back too with round 12 after.
We are here with World Champion Rock climber Sam Watson.
Did I say that right?
World Champion.
World Series Champion, World Cup Series Champion, I'll be World Champion in like
50 days.
So that's like, that's like just actually, apparently we just learned our first
thing today.
There are multiple versions of a World Champion.
How much climbing experience do you guys have?
If you guys can give yourself a email in chat or an email in climbing, I would hope to be like a 1,000.
Okay, all right, I know, that's a great answer to this guy.
I'm actually, we're gonna play guest that you love.
I'm not sure if you don't like it, I'm gonna climb.
You're gonna tell me what you think my email is.
Hmm.
Okay.
This is like doing a background for me.
Yeah, so he's got quite good instinctual kind of pulling with the arms.
Where's my little two straw?
I wanna get higher.
Definitely got the height, so that's a finish.
That's finished?
Okay.
All right, so we're here.
Okay, he doesn't know matching.
All right.
You can drop down, all right?
I'll get you to drop down.
Okay, you definitely do this to me.
Love for that.
You know how the pieces mean?
Another piece is missing.
So start is in here.
Yeah.
Okay, we know how to do that.
Okay, you hear that chest?
I know how the pieces move on the wall.
So beginning.
I'll look at that.
That was a show up.
It was just showing off there.
It's literally still made him with queen.
Technically at the top you have to what's called mastery, but both of them are on the finish holds.
But that's also my fault.
Oh you have to put both hands on the finish.
That's a joke man.
Okay, that's a joke man.
Okay, he's doing it.
You're getting the rules of the match.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Okay, he has the task also.
Okay, it was a task.
I failed apparently.
Oh, wait dude.
Okay.
Wait, no, he's kind of insane.
He's got some footwork in it.
I'm pretty impressed.
He's scamps.
That's like a discovered check.
That's good. It's good. It's good.
Maybe it's like a pin.
It's hard.
Okay. One more. One more.
Okay, he doesn't see the whole board.
He doesn't see well in the spices.
Right, right. Put it around to the right.
There's a pin.
He's computing.
I'm computing around. I'm sorry.
I didn't even properly look at the map before I tried.
I didn't know that was there.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, he didn't Bishop in the corner.
Oh, good.
And honestly, I just, like,
I got tunnel vision. That's true. He's doing check.
Yeah. Nice.
Oh, check me. Check me.
He's definitely a little higher race.
He was a little higher.
That was mighty pretty accurate.
We learned that you don't want to get tunnel vision
when you're on the wall full board of awareness.
Just like Jess, you got to think more than just one move ahead
and you get yourself stuck.
Especially if you're obsessed with checkmate.
Not realizing that it's not quite there yet.
You're gonna do this when it shows how we should have done it how fast would you go?
Whoa yeah, okay, that was a show off you guys see that on camera
Danny, I want you to try that you were here, right?
Yeah
You didn't get close that's crazy that is insane
I've got to keep you tight. That is wild.
Is this hard?
It's hard to make. It's all for me.
Not the punishments.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
See the board.
See the board.
Ah!
Yeah, you got it.
Nope.
This scary.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Jim is going to see you see it.
Oh, my goodness.
Yeah!
Wait.
This is actually...
Jim is wearing scene.
Who do you think would be the best,
like if you send people my way, like,
he's pretty.
You're going to do that.
Do you know to bump he can one on the wall?
Yeah, yeah, you can one on the wall. He's called out. Yeah, he's a piece of big parkour guy in
California. No-to-beck is pretty athletic. Oh, sure Carlson. He's Magnus's. He's the great golfer.
Maybe Magnus will watch this and be like, those f*** I'm coming for a little bit.
Now it's Carlson, you are welcome to come there. You are invited. I will come in our way.
Guess the yellow verdict for you, too. You give yours and I'll give mine up the same time
All right, okay, let me first. I'm lower rated for sure. Sorry. Okay, I'll lay it 50 oh
970
1
2
3 10 20 average is out to like
Okay, it wasn't a far off. Yeah, maybe I'm just like two
He's a coach, he's a coach, I'll have to deal with you.
I have to tell somebody there's 20, 100 or bad.
All right, let's go.
Fresh and speed.
This route was invented in 2007, so it's modern form.
It's like one of the youngest sports in the Olympics.
There's been so many different breakdowns and how to do it.
So you can almost say that's like theory, like very early, like 1800s level,
like you can just make a new opening, where if you do a move slightly different,
then you could get a little bit of an advantage or you can jump to high.
I don't want people watching me do this, so they don't see my technique.
I personally am actually very against that philosophy in terms of what I do, and I mean there's a big debate about that question and sports in general.
But, so there's such a young sport, I do truly care about growing the community.
I'm pretty open about what I do.
Like, in terms of talking about, even just now, like, you know, I have a very complex training plan and schedules, and I post videos myself all the time running subboard record in practice.
And there we could use that to get better.
But honestly, I don't really mind.
It's hard to do objectively.
So it's like, I'm not really worried of that.
And I think it's better.
And I wouldn't want to compete against the higher level
because that's better for everybody.
But it's almost like, just like, nowadays we have
12 Tuesdays and a lot of top chess players play
each other very regularly.
Compared to 50 years ago, when that would not
a thing at all.
No, it's true.
And a lot of top players have said the same thing
in terms of their hiding prep and secret accounts
this is actually less of a thing now
because of everyone having the same tools
it's how you execute in the end that is gonna matter.
So that's fascinating.
Oh, it's so high up there.
Oh, there he goes.
Oh, he is in it to win it, okay.
Correctly puts the left foot and extends the arm.
You thought it was flexible.
You were right, boys and girls.
Here he goes.
He's got the right hand pulling up.
Never don't get too far out over extended
your hands. You got to make sure the lower body is coming with you. Find your feet.
Find your feet. I always do the same. That's what I meant to say. Find your feet.
Yeah, there you go. Your feet are your palm moves. Find the pencil. Yeah.
On structure for the wind. Come on.
Now guys, I'm done. Okay.
Will you double check me that I went tight enough?
Oh, that's how it comes out. You want to find it? Yeah. Always through.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, find it, yeah. All the way through.
Well, you've seen what Amateurs look like on the wall now. We got to pro-Same
something interesting for his opening theory.
Yeah.
It's a system we sort of developed or improved
from an Indonesian climber.
Okay.
And it's called the swing start.
What's going to say I'm come on?
Hey, that was really fast.
Oh my god.
Just over five seconds.
He made a small blunder at the top.
His foot missed a little bit, but okay.
Like, it's like an accuracy, not even a blunder.
an accuracy. Yeah, I want coach to show the patterns that they have. They have like a whole
game review on you for everything you do. Yeah, pretty much it's just like a review, but it's not
AI-based, it's very manual. Sam made an accuracy here, normally you want to step perfectly
over the ball part of this whole. He stepped slightly left, which it seems like all is only about
two centimeters, but it actually impacts the rest of the run quite a lot. I have all of Sam's
runs and then the world's best runs and we compare our data versus theirs and how fast they're
They're doing kind of like in chess.
You study your opponent's games.
We do the same.
And we try to improve by learning from their best parts
or their worst parts.
If you ask anybody, even other speed climbers
or even other speed coaches, maybe they don't pick it up immediately.
But the moment I saw this,
I've seen this move a thousand times.
This morning, I watched 300 runs already.
And so I saw him eat a small and accuracy.
I mean, normally doesn't do it,
which is why it's so pronounced.
So we all became rows, you know, on the track,
and you're like,
You don't let him do it.
You're doing good.
You're doing good.
All right, well, there's only one person left who hasn't had his chance on the wall.
Only problem is, pawns don't go backward.
So can you do this thing without, I'm going to reach promotion.
You're going to reach promotion?
He's going to do it.
Let's do it.
pawns don't go back.
Come on, look at that.
pawns don't go backward.
pawns don't go back.
He's barely holding on.
I'm got it!
If you had that,
let's go!
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
It's very difficult.
I also can't see,
it's blindfolded and mobility restricted.
We've made some refinements to Sam Watson's approach here.
He wants to get to the top and under 10 seconds.
Sam, you gonna do it?
Absolutely, yeah.
Last time I was definitely under some time pressure
and made some mistakes,
but I think I've really improved myself
and I've been studying a lot.
Yeah, so promoting?
Promoting, yep.
Promotion in under 10 seconds, climbing the wall,
Ponce don't go backwards.
Oh, he's off.
Oh, he's going fast.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's way under 10 seconds.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh my gosh.
You made a couple mistakes at the top of the wall.
That was pretty fun as insane.
Wow.
Was that?
Even with a couple inaccuracies,
you still got under 10.
What's an amount of shame you really be hard of
in setting the actual one?
Yeah, I think it's better than World Record right now.
All right, there you go.
Sam Watson, New World Record,
in a pond suit, under 10 seconds.
Round 12 on the cheating world bliss championship, it's time.
to get back into some games these last two rounds are very, very important.
Computing Master James games in third year joined by Grimmester and my Hamilton.
Monchikus through these matchups my guy this is very important.
There's a lot on the line.
Of course obviously you just want to end on a good note before you go tomorrow.
You want to lose the last two games here right and start terribly tomorrow or leave with a very bad taste.
No, absolutely not.
Magnus against Fabi headlines this round for sure.
both representing team liquid has brought up them perhaps a little bit closer
in recent times, Arjun and NBL on board number two are actually your leaders.
So that matchup really is going to determine perhaps with a draw, maybe a
co-lead with others joining or we could see a sole leader after this round
going down the list, free shook against Ali Reza also looks like a very
exciting matchup between two blitz specialists and Batterjopava making an
appearance on these top boards is great to see.
It's absolutely incredible to see actually, especially when you have it in B.L. versus
Argin.
It's absolutely crazy matchup because they know what they need to play for, it's going
to be sharp.
I don't believe they're going to speak a big draw there on the other side of the page there.
Actually, on the 7th through 12th year, I mean, this is the important game to me, it's
went to your eight and half, it's a big one.
You're going to even eight and a half there.
Sort of right behind the list of leaders, but at the same time, very, very close and you'll
going into the next day, you know, feeling great there. So, see what happens every
month sitting down, ready to go here, chat, what do you think's going to happen?
Actually, when it comes to the opening play, do we all have to go away with one in that last game?
Let's start on the right now.
Second, on board 10, there isn't all Uzbek matchup. I've just a tour of again,
Cinderov, which will be interesting to see. I don't know how close those two are off the board,
But I get the impression that they know each other fairly well on these top boards here
I think all the eyes are going to be on those top two boards. Of course,
Sabiano against Magnus and Argin versus NVL.
There's really no bigger matchups than those.
And Grisheuk, Faruja, you know, for the time travel addicts, for the blitz enjoyers.
I do feel like this is just a classic, classic matchup.
I'm really excited to see because both of these guys play in a way that is genuine
very exciting to assure to see some
balances.
Yeah, Grishtag, are you thinking about
what should I play? Let me think, probably
I know, how I'm playing Magnus? Here's the
matchup. Boys and girls in 2018,
World Championship. They're back at the
board against always a treat to what's
both of them playing, probably on a with
white, Magnus with black. Might see and he
four here. We'll probably like to stick to
his guns.
Here we go.
We're moments away from getting things underway.
We'll see what the openings bring us because remember having the white pieces,
you can dictate things a little bit more.
Argin, I feel, has not helped anything back.
Maxine and Argin are matching up.
And, you know, not that this is necessarily a strong prediction,
but I feel sometimes when the anticipation builds around two players
with very aggressive styles, risk taking,
the way we've seen Argin play, it's almost like
They end up making a draw because that's just how that clash works.
It's not like your guaranteed to get the craziest game.
So sometimes the most exciting games come from the places
that you least expect it.
But let's see what Argent and Maxine bring us here in this one.
Now, this is a Grinfield.
Oh, no, you're not the usual stuff.
Oh, there's a G5.
It's a G5.
Is known for that?
Yes.
And there we go.
Thank you, Mike.
So Grinteld is an opening that is absolutely riddled with theory.
The whole opening is pretty much based at theory.
The move C5 here might shock people, top middle of your screen, but very much a highly
theoretical move.
And it looks like Magnus and Fabi are in actually, Magnus is using a field or a set up
in that one, which is, you know, not thought of as the best way to play with the black
pieces.
really looking to create imbalances and you know just take it into unexplored territory.
And the fililiters can be very very vicious actually from the Blacks Eye wants to
pause start to spring like B5s and B5s at the right moment sometimes taking on B4 you get the
E5 and C5 squares and the pieces are just nice and good in solid, especially if white tries to
press or overextend. Well, you know, probably has a good position, but so does Magnet.
It's about figuring out where you want to put these pieces that usually you will see.
Eventually, B6 would be five. B6 would take back on that fate. Long game. I had.
I'm looking at these Jova against Boo game and it honestly, like,
doesn't look very exciting at all. It's not just a symmetrical looking position, but almost
There's no tension, no pawns or even attacking each other.
In fact, it's pretty rare that not a single piece in either position is attacking anything in either position.
So, you know, it finally changed what that last move is like you always couldn't have a position where the player is want less to do with one another than that.
Let's see that jump on my game.
I'm actually going to check the rest of this game as soon as we'll see what's going on.
place in Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, the
Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, the Chobobos, or
it did he not?
It's always a great thing you would.
Let's have a look at Arjun versus Maxime, I feel that we've, you know, we've
reached the other side of, of, Fury, let's say, we've kind of gotten past that
opening phase in the Grinfell, and we can start to actually make some
conclusions here about this one as Bishop F5 has just been played.
It is a full-life performance, so don't kid yourself that really is in the
position after Bishop F5, I'm sure that we're going to see this night move with
94 intended in the position to really open up some attacks on D5 and B2.
I'm guessing that we're going to see something like 94 or 91 in order to have this
bishop control the center.
I think that's one of the hardest things in the ball of the Greenfield is sometimes you
are playing, you know, you're almost 20 or even 15 and you're just down the ball.
just out of on, and the accuracy of Guider is a lot, but he
decends upon back. So it looks like he's okay for now, but
maybe an E form would be one, but well, there's a lot of
factors down that C file. Let's look kind of miles. So E
form, maybe I have this before at three, and then Bishop D7
would be one. Woo, that's a lot of calculate there.
Lot of calculate there is. Yeah, not to mention in this
position, you had to give up your best piece as Black.
Certainly your best minor piece in the dark square bishop. So yes, you even have material,
but Arjuna is happy to say, well, yeah, material is even now, but white structure is just
better. We've got this great pawn in the center on D5. You can see a future with F4 and E5,
but of course for now it's all about placing this bishop somewhere. And if you play and move
like bishop to D7, you're probably going to see Rookie 1. Now, the move F3, it can also come with a
little bit of risk as well. So I just want to make sure after I've three that, you know,
does the bishop actually have to go back, you know, you start checking moves like 9 E6,
just to be sure because in fact, even in his position, James, 9 E6, taking advantage of that pin,
maybe with Quintix C3 at the end. Could be interesting.
That is crazy. Actually, people have 90 sigma first and I think it's always not 10 dead, but then
and you got to calculate, so, you know.
And I actually see some results already.
Oh, I was shooting.
I was mentioning Boojansi, Yuyangyi, and Daniel Dubov.
Those three players, I was saying,
they have not lost the game yet.
Well, you know, part of the reason they haven't done that
is they're finishing games this quickly in the event.
So it's a little bit part of their strategy
as we can see here.
All three of them actually maintain their undefeated status.
And nine is very respectable score.
They're with Bull and Jababa,
and then nine and a half,
or the mother police do well,
or sorry nine as well, for do well.
And you and you as well, eight and a half,
which are well, so, back to Bobby and Magna.
Let's do it.
Let's focus in on Magnus and Fabi here,
and absolutely huge matchup.
And the queens have been traded in this one.
The position is actually very invalid for a Blitz game.
The two bishops for Magnus,
They always hold some value, but this is a situation where
it's actually, you know, the black pieces are all kind of tucked away
in the position. It's not that easy to play and white is threatening
to win the A7 pawn. So Magnus has some big decisions to make.
Are we saying that we got to stop playing the film door?
That will explain here, Mom.
Yeah, I'm going to tell you a little bit of a tell, but I will say
Fabys probably more than happy to play against. It's not an opening
that scares you from the white side.
Well, scares me as Carlson's time as well.
You know, I wasn't sure, yeah, getting to 20 seconds and
taking down Magnus needs to produce a move here.
And Bishop F5 counterattack.
And the night wants to jump into C6, but it's at the cost of the
B-plan and petition to seep on as well is this too much from
Fabiano.
takes, making quick moves, we take on a 7c2 or 42 as well with the night, depending on the
default point, maybe in the late night to be 5, probably coming. It's the roof. Whoa, wait, okay, oh my goodness,
I thought it was a transmission error on my turn of his job. What the heck do you have in the shop?
You're kidding. I could have swore he. I thought it was a transmission error.
Wow. I mean, we saw it earlier. Another piece hung in this world bliss championship. Obviously,
we're going to keep you guys right on the action. But that was that was a real jump scare for
Magus Carlson. He couldn't believe he missed an entire rough. And Fabiano gets the win in
and it moves to nine and a half points.
That was crazy to lose like that.
I mean, it hurts, right?
Because I literally, I was like, oh, yeah, he has to move his rope.
And you see, if you should take D3, he's like, I didn't play that.
That's not, you know, that's a mouse that.
That's like a chest back coming over.
Like, chest to something's going on.
But no, he actually played this in the real gang guy,
he's dropped the rope there.
He's just out of form today.
In the last few games, in that today,
but we had a draw, he had a loss, he had another loss here.
not happy, and we have one more round to go today. But Bobby, he doesn't want to win like that,
especially against me, but when it's the win, we will take it.
All right, the rook has gone to A1 in this game, focusing back in on the action, all the rooks are
still on this board, at least for the moment. And Ali Reset is desperately trying to get that king
move and the rook over a lot of the enemy games will work out here for Ali Reset just because
the bishops favor black we see a lot of pawns stuck on dark squares and so the queen can
capture on h5 the rooks having a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a little bit worse here and of course
we're in a pure time scramble to shine scramble this is where grissing gets stronger
peruzza definitely strong still i mean he is the um bullet chest champion so put you by the
multiple chest here but i think i was grissing before he was peruzza let's see what happens
And Arjun and MVL have drawn their game on board 2 just to update everyone.
This game does not look like it's headed towards a draw, just because there's still so much to play for in this position,
so much unresolved.
And the King side probably rather than that looks really scary with G4.
And he decides on Queen H5, he barely got that move off. One second.
Rotex. Okay, you got the B pawn. Passpones must be push. He's pushing the B pawn.
That's three half-figure.
It was a panic.
A pain-trade should win for white.
Clean out of the way he got that.
That was very quick.
One second, he made that with one second on the clock.
G3.
The B-plan needs to go.
There we go.
And Rook C7.
He's finally figured out what he needs to do.
He's one A.
We need B2.
So why don't you knock on behind?
push queen gets back queen takes g4 is an immediate queen b2 instead it's going to
bishop a 500% bg7 coming next gg he grabs the x3 queen b5 queen b anything
yep he's trying to swing the queen over queen d7 the queen can go to see it just
so many ways to win this position we could have went bishop f8 there he could go back
I'm sorry, no, but I should teach you as ex-enable.
It probably had a meat there.
D-force hanging, D-force a child.
My goodness.
But I think you can get a one, King H1.
No, King H1.
Oh, okay, there's no more child.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Looks like he could have been bad, but well played.
Sheaves.
Wow, Christian.
And that's a win.
We're moving to nine points.
Sasha Grisha beats Ali Reza in him.
Fatak fashion as a Rooney inverses.
the job up is still going.
This is a position that should definitely be a draw.
However, there is a possibility just with that H pawn.
You can play rook b7, rook h7 and try to attack the H pawn from behind.
And if you're able to achieve that, all of a sudden, black's position comes apart.
If they're a nice plan, get the King back to G3 and try to go for the plan, but it's really
difficult because of course, you can stop us by putting it over on a 7th rank when
he moves King if the King is on G3, it's hard to get that 4 off.
Yeah, I think this position, he's definitely done a good enough job here.
He's not allowing the rook to enter the game.
the king is being sent to the back rank,
but it's very difficult to make progress here.
Sounds about even here for Jawa playing well, holding.
Check, bring the king back around,
bring the king right around to the center,
maybe king to E.E. for five, bring the king back there.
It is probably going to be.
in positions like as you're never really discussing ways
that it's actually just going to be a win out, right?
Because it's not winning, it is a draw.
So, he's trying his best here.
I actually thought we would have seen King E6
and try to trade the ropes,
but instead, it looks like Aronion
doesn't really have a clear plan to make progress here,
and a lot of shuffling.
My stuff will not make a lot of moves,
and I'll push that for,
get another set of ID. The king is just so far cut off that he really
basically can't do anything unless you bring your Rook across to help it move
over to the F-flop. There it is. Try when you just cut it off the other one.
I think that King D6 makes some sense. King D6, King D6, King D5, tried to bring the
rook down to offer a trade. That would be my winning plan. I want to bring my King, bring
my rook down to the seventh rank and even at the cost of maybe trading my F-pon for the
H-pon, at least it feels like the game continues.
Here in, of course there's no way to block the checks here. We're going to have to move the
King around when she does. Maybe try to go around to G3.
Would you six check?
The last pawn move I can see is on move 506.
I believe.
So 56, but there could have been a capture after that.
I'm not sure.
We are dangerously close. We're actually probably very close to 50
I think it's possible we played 50 moves because I'm looking and I think it's 56 and they're well-passed with 106
But obviously there's no automatic claim, so a draw finally agreed as no progress can be made
Wow, another draw they're in and all friends at the end. Yeah, of course. It's a draw a good game good game
and
All well wishes
All well wishes. Fabiano
Big door talk to me nice a mod
Wow, he beat Magnus, of course, not in the way he wanted to, but a win is a win, even if
I flag Magnus with a king in the pot and he got all his pieces, guess what that is, Mon.
But it's in the W column as he moves up to 9 and a half points along with Arjun,
along with Maxine Vashay LaGrab, and with the win over Alie Reza, how about Grishook moving
up to 9 points, and still undefeated are those three players, the only players, at least
in this tournament, I believe,
Daniel Dubov, Yuyangi, and Bujangzi still
have not lost the game, but as we saw,
Glimps is at their strategy this round.
There is a reason for that as well,
but it's putting them close to the top of the table,
which is where you want to be.
In via an Argent sharing or drawing,
how do you think they're filling up there?
You think they gonna play next, what you think?
I think that's probably right, in VL and Bobby next.
Bobby is a matchup.
I think that needs to happen, Arjun has, you know,
play just about everyone.
Dubob moving up is a likely candidate for a pairing up.
And of course, you're tracking the name Magnus Carlson.
It's a risk of moving off your screen on the right side there.
He's got eight points, and joined by a number of players
in this tournament who are like booth and Christian at eight
points as well.
Bullet our mursin who recently lost the Magnus suddenly
has the same score.
Oh, hey, how you doing, remember me?
So two losses for Magnus Carlson is really hurting his chances here.
Absolutely, as people are behind him trying to catch,
but really, as some people are already out,
and what we say already out, because there's only four spots
that matter here, and what spots are those,
and why is it so important?
Yeah, the four spots that matter, I mean,
the players need to make it to the tie braids, right?
So if you're actually going to be at the top of the table,
we want to remind people of the format as well.
The playoffs only feature the top four.
So we saw this a little bit in the women's rapid
and how that affected things.
They had only the top two advancing the playoffs.
So if there's five players,
sorry to the fifth, right, on the Tigrex,
you're not gonna be part of it.
It's a four player knockout
and they're gonna be playing a four game little nitty match there.
So we'll get into that more tomorrow
when the Tigrex actually matter,
but top four in the event of a tie is what matters.
We'll worry about tomorrow tomorrow, Mon.
We got one more day today.
Let's see what happens after the break.
Suddenly, I cannot beat any money like this.
I don't use it anymore, nobody's there to fall in good.
Maybe the crap that I learned was not that big of a crap.
I was saying we're like a pretty long time.
I was like, guys, we should start picking up on what's happening here, you know?
I know this one, I remember this because it is so vivid, I was playing my first inter-school
tournament and a friend of mine who was a very good player told me that if your opponent
repeats the petro, I mean that will hand in no expector off, but if it takes this you can
You put your queen here, night goes back and you do a check and you win the queen.
This was the first track that I learnt and for years I was of the Opinion that
night after three, night after six, night takes form, you have to play D6, 94 is a mistake.
But turns out the modern engines now have say that this is playable after who you need
to Queenie 7, Queenie 4, D6, D4, D6, D6, this position is actually not so bad for black
and fat. If I'm not mistaken, Harika played it in one of our games in classical chess.
Maybe the trap that I learned was not that big of a trap.
I'm Kursa and this is the first chess trap that I ever learned. I'm going to explain to you
guys today scholars made. So start with E4, you know black, play it E5, put
E4 to get this fish up out. So if I should go to C4, let's say black
play it like, like, night C6, C6. Now what can go, clean, H5. And now maybe
blacks like, oh look, clean so far out there like, let me, let me get a bite of
It plays like 9-0-6, like back in clean, then you could take on F7 and that's check me.
Yeah, I wouldn't like a bunch of games like this when I was in first grade at my elementary school
chess club.
Um...
I wanted to try for a career.
I was saying we're like a pretty long time.
I was like, God, we should start picking up on what's happening here, you know?
But it gave me huge boost of confidence in my chess club.
And then I won the prize for like best first grader.
So I know.
Was the best prize that you ever won during the scholarship?
Have you ever, like, had you ever
scholarship in someone to, like, win the tournament?
Oh, no.
I feel like, you know, once you're passed, like,
200, you stopped falling for scholars, mate.
Yeah, when I was a kid in the year 2000,
Like basically, if you're born before 2000,
you're like a normal person.
And if you're born after 2000,
like I don't even understand how that's possible.
I'm born in 95.
So when I was a kid, I learned this trap.
I would start with Pong 2-E4,
and they would respond to symmetrical E5,
most normal way.
I would develop my night, attacking the Pong.
They would develop their Queen's night
to see snakes defending the Pong.
Most common chess position, like forever, literally,
since the inception of chess.
And then here I would develop my bishop.
And I'm just ready for some development of one of these two pieces.
This is also known as the Italian game when I was seven.
I don't think I do that.
And then my opponents would develop their second night,
which is what you're supposed to do, also conveniently
attacking the point.
Then I would be like, they're so stupid.
They fell from my trap, night to G5.
What I didn't know, ignorance is bliss when you're seven years old,
All of this has been studied up the ass.
Like, there's just dozens and dozens of moves
you can memorize here.
But not when you're seven-year-olds who's
rated 700, you attack the spawn, and they block it.
And so you take, and they're supposed
to move their night here, they can also play.
Ponsored B5, and there's all sorts of moves
of the most people, just take the pawn back.
And they think that's the end of the story,
if you actually sacrifice your night.
This is called the fried liver trap.
They take with the king.
Now you attack the king in the night at the same time
with your queen.
And the best move for them is to bravely
walk the king into the center of the board.
Why do I still do in well here?
You keep pressuring this night, and you keep attacking.
But a lot of people would fall for this trap
on my very first tournament.
I won my very first game like this.
My opponent, walked the king to safety.
Only to discover that the king does not
safe at all and I probably beat that child and they never wanted to play chess again.
Good, chess is cool.
Sadly, I cannot beat anybody like this anymore, but that's the friend of a track.
Hi, my name is Tony, and this is the first track I've learned.
I'm going to teach you.
So, it's black when I was younger, I used to play the only difference.
This is B6, B7, early if you can try to.
Why would I take the center and fish of the girls to B7?
goes to D3, sometimes I can go to the C3, and many people here would actually go F5,
I'd get to attack the pawn in the center, and then if the pawn takes, then there's
Bishop takes G2, and watch out because the queen H5, and then because of the king, it's
a check, and block is trying to trap the rook. Now we have to defend the pawn keeps saving,
You can't take time off because this will be checking.
It's like double checkmate.
And so basically, now, block it with lesion
because the night will come out.
And then this is really, really nice here.
Pontics H7.
And it might seem that you go G7.
Now, the night takes the queen.
And then promote to another queen here.
But this wouldn't be as efficient.
as if I'll go back to the original position
if you take on each seven and then after nine takes,
you go 56 and really, really cool travel.
It's a six travel item.
Yeah, like, you're the first one you're planning to do in my life.
I mean, I don't know.
My name is Giel's Gambit and I'm going to teach you
the first chess trap I ever learned the hard way.
This was during my first tournament back as an adult.
I was playing a classical game.
I thought it was very, very clever.
So it was, I believe, those black move here, here, and then I got hit by the, you know, the very fun.
And what was going through my head? I was like, wait, but this is the real salema. Like, this is scary, you know?
And it was not, I ended up having to lose my shot.
So, right goes to default, it is actually a bad step because it just gets worse if
right there is important.
So, you give it a pawn, you select the shift here, you select the right, let's see
there look in there.
You give it another pawn and you give it an eye-to-art one, so right, like there is hope
if that right thing here, that's here and takes here and now the point is you select
and reduce the food.
The fun it and you've even after the grab, okay,
Black is of course we need, but it's not I will be leaving it.
Really? Why is it not I see food?
Because for the food, white still has two pieces
and at an amateur level,
that can still save a lot of game.
Hi, I'm the brother Smoog and I'm going to teach you the second chopper I've alone.
the first one is going to put me some attention back so it goes with e4 c5
D4, D4, D3, you take, I think, yeah, and I took D, I see 6, out of 3, D6, B6, D4, D5, I see 5, I've won the
I don't use it anymore, nor is it a good song in good.
It's the final round of the war uncuttings on me today, guys, it's not the final round.
It's the final round.
It's the final round.
We have another day.
Okay, so today is round 13 on PewDieMath of James, James 30.
We're going to go back to our mastermind Hamilton.
We got round 13. Let's walk through these parents.
Yeah, exactly James. This is the final round of the day.
That's an important round for many reasons.
Magnus Carlson, of course, on that top board,
against Tamil Rejabba, but actually a point and a half off the lead in the event.
Certainly, it come back as possible, but he's got a top job out of him.
And most certainly needs to win, especially with the white pieces here.
Fabian Maxine, you called out that parent before we went to the break.
Very likely, and it is guaranteed right here.
Right here, Argin, also in the lead along with M.V.L. and Fabi,
is facing off against Daniel Dubov, U.J. and Lushangley,
or up against Richard and Naryanan,
and Edgar Mamadov against Wesley So both on eight and a half points here,
as those top six boards, James, everyone is in contention.
Absolutely.
And it there will be some spoilers in here too,
as Dubov is not going to be like a spoiler.
like the screw or monkey bridge or whatever you want to call it. It's just like he just messes up stuff.
And I think that's what I think we're going to get a draw though. Like, you know,
oh, I think you know, I think I think there's going to be no draw in first eight boards. No draw
is a draw. You know, maybe okay, maybe four eight or something. But that is a bold prediction,
especially because I think board eight is Blue Janzi, who is undefeated. So we've got Blue Janzi,
You Yang Yi and Dubah who are all maintaining undefeated records in the world-blets championship thus far.
Yeah, I think everyone's going to fight in this round. It's a big round for the last round of the day.
Maybe the other boards, obviously, at least they're always okay cool. I'll come back tomorrow or I know I'm not
and I'm not going to make the top four or you know, I do want to project myself in the standings,
but I don't really want to play too much or too hard. You'd see a lot of early draws I think in other games.
But these games, let's see, these top boards here,
and each, even half, nine, nine and a half,
you know, that's going to be where it's really,
and I think nine's a, a, nine half, yeah, it's a high.
So there, you know, if you, you take a draw,
if you have to, not more like you want to,
it's more of, okay, I have to do it.
I have nothing else.
If I push that I lose,
Magnus on the other hand, it's just trying to bounce back.
I mean, he, he doesn't even look happy.
I mean, he just looks distraught, actually.
That's a different type of magnet.
you really see him like this. Yeah, he's for sure in his own thoughts just he's kind of got that blank stare where
he could be thinking about absolutely nothing at the moment or he could be thinking about everything
we think that he's thinking about the handshake is in the games are underway. Magnus is a point
to have off the lead and needs to make this comeback, but all the games are in progress and Magnus has
This is what he does when you down and out you bring the job out that's what it is okay
I see it from now.
You better wait a minute.
I'll try a lot of it.
Lots riding on this guys.
You've seen how passionate it can't be is about the Joe Bobba London and that's exactly what
we see on the board played at the highest level here.
Absolutely.
If he wins, of course you guys listen, you know, the course is also right now it is
So I'm just like, I'm more chances of where we want to get it.
You're getting easy.
She's already a draw.
I knew you were going to see you.
You're getting a team that trip James, you're up against it.
It was a poor bet by you because not only have he's guys already drawn,
but it's the last round of the day.
Everyone's trying to go home.
No one's looking at where it's too hard here.
Boojansy against Pragdenanda and do buff.
Those are the next ones to keep an eye on as potential draws.
Be on the lookout guys.
Man I bet the whole house on those draws man. Dang. Well, I hope it's a very small just a shed maybe a small house.
Yeah, guys. I will be sleeping outside today. So well, at the same time there's one draw there got a very quickly there. Yeah,
understand understand.
When game we know that a draw is not a desirable result at all is Magnus's game. You see the King on F2
Joe Bobmelondon with G4 and H4 just expanding on the king side. You can also play E4 in the
center. So definitely a game there that he's looking to play for a win. I am also looking at
the rest of these boards here and immediately, I'm drawing a little bit to that doobov and
Arjun game. Arjun is one of the leaders. And we have an imbalance here, which is the double ponds
on the E file, as well as I was going to say the bishop pair, but it's actually just been
cached in. And the exchange on D5, the pawn is probably going to be supported by a potential
F4 and Bishop C3 rook D1. And let's see if white plays the move E4 at some point because
very likely you want to support this pawn, but actually play the move E4. I think this is relatively
equal because this knight can reach the C5 square and then back to E6, which looks very, very stable.
Yeah, oh, Queen D4, okay, that's someone who is the way of doing it.
I just, what you pointed out there was something that I was looking at to which is nice.
He five coming in, but then 94 with the pawn on F4, it's just a beautiful outpost for the 94.
It's not going anywhere.
You're going to have to sacrifice the work to get rid of that night.
So he didn't commit to it yet.
Dang.
Oh, is this the draw here?
Yeah.
Queen takes D5, knight takes E5, and is this the,
the Dubob draw masterclass here.
It's actually the tactic from origin securing relative equality here.
And it's going to be queen to D8 instead.
And at the draw offer, I'm telling you, it was a guarantee.
It was a guarantee.
Let's jump over to MVL versus faculty.
And it looked the other Bujangzi also a draw.
You see that James?
Bujangzi.
I mean time also a draw.
I called these three results.
You couldn't have been more wrong, actually, if you wanted to.
This is gross. This is gross. This is terrible. I did not expect this guys. I've been everything I have.
I need it on the draw. I've really been everything.
Well, I'm going to need some help here. I'm going to need some help everyone.
A full day of blitz undefeated is obviously an achievement. A little bit tongue-in-cheek when it comes to talking about those results.
but at the end of the day, consistency will be rewarded.
They go the entire tournament without a defeat.
Even if they have mostly draws, you sprinkle in a winning
here and there, trust me, you're going to find those players near the top of the stand.
And yeah, they are fighting this one out.
What was this opening choice?
I did not see this kind of a very quick, I was just a game to very fast.
I wanted to know what did they lay or how to pick it up.
Well, this is Maxine versus Fabi.
Looks like Queen takes A7, which is just played.
So an extra pawn very momentarily for Maxine.
But Fabi's coming straight in, not only with an amazing knight
on D5, but also a great rook on C2.
So I would say almost full compensation here.
The pawn is going to E6.
There is a threat to the B pawn.
It's just been moved.
So it's safe.
But can Maxine trade pieces off effectively?
Rook C1 looks important.
And notice that that queen is actually performing a defensive duty, guarding the pawn,
and if black tries to involve the queen here, you can play bishop d2, but you also have
queen c5 to stop the control of the c5.
You know, I'm betting all back and draw.
You know, how about that?
Double enough thing.
I don't have anything left anymore.
But, you know, nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Nothing or double, guys.
This seems to be a draw.
You guys like wise drawing.
Well, I sort of looked like, you know,
you might want to keep those cards close to your chest,
their James, because I would probably not be looking
at a draw here with an extra pawn for Maxine,
which looks like a stable extra pawn,
especially after something like Queen to C2.
I don't really see the confrontation for Fabiano anymore.
It really relied on that rook on C2.
So let's see what happens here as Queen takes A2
invited for Queen takes F8.
Even a question mark here, James,
but this could actually be a very strong practical move.
I actually was looking at that move too.
Well, I did like 28, just attack the point.
Are you really going to bring the King out in the middle of the street
to G6?
That's a crazy looking move.
It probably is possible, but I mean, do you really want to do that?
I find we can ski six.
So you're not trying to take my A2 anymore.
I mean, maybe I could go H4 at some point
that is going to lose my night if it was G4
where the defense division on D2 is so.
Yeah, I got to be careful.
the V8 hitting the pawn where it would happen. There's a few moves catching up. There it is. Take take take.
Fabi takes everything. All the pawns disappear from the queen side. Queen takes E6 can be played as can
95, but of course you end up losing the bishop there and it's not clear that there is a check me. So we have to see how Maxi
is going to press the advantage that he has a slight one, but he has lost both of those queen side pawns.
And then just in G5 remove, it didn't update and go for a complete response that check in on that background, should be for maybe.
And that outside pass upon provides great compensation.
If these pawns disappear, the B pawn and the D pawn, then I think we will get to a position which I would say is very likely drawn.
Okay, updating that Wesley so has beat Edgar Mamadov on board six.
We saw more draws, you know, all the three draws, of course, NVL and Fabi are going
strong in that endgame meanwhile Magnus pushing and trying to find a slight edge against
Rejabba.
And I think Maxime and Fabi is, it's just not the advantage that Maxime once had in that
There we go, and yeah, I got the action pawn behind, take them for a trustee of being
in center pieces, are surrounding it, and I have a pass deep enough as well.
A win for MVL here is everything, because we've seen the result from Arjun.
Bishop C3 forcing an exchange, and now the D pawn can be caught by the King, the D pawn needs
attention, this is looking like a night-end game, maybe three against two, although it's
not even clear what progress can be made.
Very strong move here, obviously.
You can take night runs and push in the fall with a king.
Can I catch it?
But he also is using the night to get back around two cuts upon the passpond that Bobby has
and the beef out.
OK, the pawn can, or the night can still not be captured.
We see night going for the age pawn.
And if the king takes, there is night of seven, but can that night get back to take this
pawn?
I actually don't know James.
This is a little bit scary.
Look at these kids there in time, but what is this?
Wait.
Oh, yes, it's a draw.
I got it all back, boys.
I got it all back.
We got connection.
There you go.
Draw.
And it looks like there's going to be a big tie at the top of the table Lucian
lay is playing right now against Narayanan and it looks to be a position that White
has maybe decent winning chances. Now the king will need to drop back to G7 and then the
you know the beep on pushing up might be a draw but the White King has mobility and the
rook cannot capture the H pawn of course the rook is tethered here and the question is can
is King walk into the position effectively and look to capture this
pawn. I think what could happen here is a situation where you give up this
pawn? Yes, exactly like this and rookie seven and he knew it from the beginning
executing that technique beautifully done, and this is a winning King in
pawn and game. Beautiful. Yes, stands up there. Well, he was high, but after that,
well, like, let's go. I need to go. Very nice. Very good. I'm
beautiful technique moving to nine and a half points which I'm I'm thinking is just half a point off the lead meanwhile alley residences
Cinderella here
What is going to happen
My
Revision of two versus three
That's possible
It's possible
Let's see what happened to extra palm neighbors addition of like seem slightly mean to pass them but tricks the tricks with the night
Magnus did win his game on board number one, we just saw Lucian lay with the victory
Joe Baba beat Duda and we're tuning into one of the final games in progress on the
top board.
It's Ali Reza with the extra pawn but a very difficult position with the king locked
on the side of the board like that.
It might be okay now there's a lot of weird made threats with Rift Takesys 3 if you
more careful, but now the change in this case is you come.
There's one, and I'll two bonds.
So wait a minute, can you see four?
Can you sack the rook and make a draw?
Oh, he can.
He can.
He didn't do it though.
He doesn't see it.
Oh, and look at Fabi's face, top right in the background.
And Wesley is well, I feel like they may have noticed
that that was a possibility.
And it's still here.
Same idea, he's got a different way.
Yeah, still there.
And yep, it's still there.
Now, you can attack that night and look to capture the beepon, meanwhile the bishop is going
to cover the h-pon, Ali reses realizing.
It's one of the draw, he looked up at it and he said, draw, he has sat in it, the reason
I have to be both out.
No, he knows that's a missed opportunity and a draw in this game, both players at 8 and
half points and that means we can see the results of that final round of the day.
Magnus Carlson and much needed victory, we can see that the top score is NDL, Fabi and
Arjun all moving to 10 points.
Magnus only a point off the lead draws on those top boards for most of them and of course
down here down the palm of the ash.
She bought her job, but moving up to 9.5 points,
netball moving to 9 points and notar back,
storming back, moving up to 9 points with a victory,
as well as these are the standing in the open section,
10 points between three players, Arjun and Viel and Fabi,
and looking at list of 9.5, meanwhile James,
three players still undefeated.
Every point counts.
Double digits up there at the top,
and a lot of players right behind them,
even down with two Alexis or Rama,
At 20th right now, I mean,
imagine these guys going on three game
which Greeks were following with Streets tomorrow,
something could really shake up the standing
and I would see all that matters is that top four,
all that matters is the top four,
a mind reminded me again,
why is the top four the most important?
Well, the top four is relevant in this event change
because that's how the format works.
So they're gonna play a total of those 19 rounds.
But then after the 19 round Swiss,
that would be 15 rounds in the women's section.
Of course, that's all with 3 plus 2,
but only the top 4 think of it like a cutoff.
Only those player advance to what will be a playoff bracket.
They don't all have to be tied.
It's after 19 rounds, they eliminate the rest
of the field, and those four go into a match knockout system
where we're talking head to head for game mini matches,
which will generate a lot of excitement
around those individual head to heads,
which is a format that we saw in place last year.
However, we saw it with a larger cutoff,
so more players were part of that playoff.
And just as a disclaimer, James,
the format for the open and the women's,
we have confirmation is identical.
Cause I thought that was not the case in the rapid.
Let's go, yeah, I was stuck yesterday in the rapid,
but identical seems to be way to go.
That's great, it's good to hear.
So as well guys, top four is really all the matters now.
We're going to have tactics time with the mod.
My favorite part of the day, let's see what we got
in the mod, what you got for us.
Well, we want to review Magnus Carlson and how he
was able to win his game against Hammer Rajabba.
We did not see this one.
But I'd like to take us back to this moment early on,
because this is a position I think we can understand
how we got here.
We did check this in the opening, but we couldn't see the red
to the game with all of the other action.
So let's catch up here and see how Magnus was able to dispatch Rejabba who was deciding
not to castle.
And you know what James, I completely understand why she was not trying to king-side
castle here.
I mean, have a look at those pawns, Magnus declining to trade queens, and effectively
you're kind of playing down a broken disposition.
You refuse to castle because you can see how dangerous G5 is, and Magnus exploits that
first comes night to be one and then G5 lashing out without that broken the game that we see that
Rejovlov is trying to open the H file in order to have that rook participate and after
this sequence of moves we basically start to get that feeling here that the night is going to
be lost due to the pin the rook is not part of the game and we can see after dropping a piece
Magnus only needed to activate that night from B1 and once this night actually joins the game
is all over and we can see just the last couple of moves, Queenie 5, looking to trade those
queens and well it's actually a great job of you know to his demise they he doesn't trade them
but a full piece up for Magnus and for being honest James this was a routine game for Magnus Carlson
trading the rooks and going for an easy checkmate pattern on F7 so he dominant game there
in what for job up put himself in a top spot he wasn't really in a castle but at the same time
He was playing down a rook because of his inability to do so and then he lost that as a result.
And of course, man, there's back on the board. A much needed win after having some horrible hurting
losses. We all felt bad. Of course, but he was able to bounce back still in it. As we do have a full
another date tomorrow. So for me, I think today was incredible. I'd love to see how the the
standing, the top four switches every day. What about you, Mon? Wrap it up today.
Yeah, I mean, we're going to have much a much shorter day tomorrow when you think about the grounds remaining, right?
19 in total in the open and 15 in total in the women's.
However, we are still in for an action pack and long day because of those payoff brackets.
The mini matches the head to head.
There is going to be a lot of excitement around that.
So don't miss tomorrow.
The finale we're going to find out who our world lifts champions are in the open and women's sections.
And of course, that playoff format just makes it a little bit more exciting.
It's going to be exciting to see, especially as you have the clear, the playoff format
tools. Well, I mean, it's just incredible guys. We got a full another day from around
so make sure you're here at same time. So now we'll see you.
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