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FIDE World Blitz Championship 2025 FINALE: Arjun, Eline, MVL, Fabiano All In Contention For Title!!
12-30-2025 · 7h 08m
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Final day. How you feel?
James, you said it perfectly. We are here to find out who is going to be the world
of the rich champion in both the open and the women's section. It's great to have
the final call with you the last big event of the year, you know, as much as it is,
you know, looking forward to the new year and writing that in it, we're not done with
20, 25 just yet, James.
We're not done just yet, and yes, we still have a day of bliss today of course five
and six rounds collectively. So we will see, let's check the format. Here we are,
19 rounds switched. The last few rounds are today. And for the only sections to 15 rounds.
So, few rounds are there for them today. It's always well. Time to turn us three questions.
In the mind, let's talk about this playoff quickly because it is possible for obviously
and it's going to happen, but with the playoff and knockout for Vasset, etc.
That's welcome through. What can happen?
Yeah, exactly right, it's not will this happen, it's definitely will happen, and here's
what it is.
The top four players do not have to have the same score, so for example, somebody could end
on 15 points, 14, 13, 12 points, and all four of them, if they're the top four, advanced
to this knockout format, then we play head to head matches.
First seed plays fourth seed, second place third, in a mini match consisting of four games.
If those four games are tied to two at the end of it, then we do an army getting to
the side of the winner of each match.
The two winners then play in the final, which will ultimately be where we determine who's
going to be the world-fledged champion in the exact same format, James, for both the open
and the women's exact same format.
And of course, for that army get in, in the case that it is needed, there is going to
be bidding.
The base time is four minutes, which means why it gets four minutes no matter what.
the bid is for who gets the play with the black pieces because why the black pieces so
important that's how we finally decide a result if the game ends in a draw then black
actually wins. This is an extra benefit to play with the black pieces which is why the players
would take less time than the starting time in order to have that extra benefit but change
there is two seconds increment from the very first move and throughout the entire game which is
I would say, highly unique for Armageddon.
Usually it is a second death format,
so it's a sudden that time control does not go up,
but with that two-second increment,
I believe that the players could actually take
significantly less time than players might be used to
in this format.
What do you think?
I do not like two-second increment,
and I don't actually factor in our work.
No, it's no, there's no increment at all.
We just see them all you fight to the death.
But of course, the increment changes things
every all the way, even with Armageddon now.
I'm not the biggest fan I would say,
because Armageddon we're used to seeing you.
You want the black draw eyes, of course, you win.
You win, you draw, you win.
But that two-second increment really just changes everything.
It's just a different type of game.
But not to say that, OK, we're going to play our best chefs.
I see what we can do.
But not the biggest fan myself.
I'm sure some of the players do the same as well.
I have some of the Armageddon to themselves.
So here we go in the stand beans.
Now, what are some storylines that we're going to be looking
over to today, Aman, and there's a lot on the lines,
especially if I'm in like, 20th place.
I still do have a shot having six rounds today.
What's the best storylines?
Yeah, you said it fast.
There's a lot of players still in contention.
And I want to first draw everyone's name
to a real underdog story, Gooth and Krishna,
number 14 on the right side of your screen.
He's at nine points.
And guess what?
That's the same amount of points as Magnus Carlson.
So they've a similar task ahead of them,
some real underrated players who are overperforming.
And then you have nine and a half points.
The group there, Bujangzi at nine points also,
hasn't lost, same with Yuyangyi and Dubak.
Their strategy, let's see how it plays out for them.
In this event, we'll be enough for a gold medal.
We'll be enough for that top four.
We'll wait to see.
And then finally, Fabi Maxime and Arjun,
these are the contenders, the guys leading the event,
and the guys with the best chance of that gold medal.
And here we are, of course.
So in the winter section, too, as well, we have, I leaned rovers at the top with 8 and
a half.
I mean, absolutely just tearing through the pack, can't tear through the field.
It's like, see, the only one except on the second page there without a loss.
I mean, she is going absolutely crazy here.
Then we had the pairings for today as players are sitting there ready to go, looking
forward to seeing all the games as we see a goof on there playing against pride at Austin
and the big match is match up here as handshakes are on the board, I guess, the handshakes happening and we have a free, there we go.
Okay, I'm going to say I don't know, he just froze in midair and we have moves, here we go.
We just, we couldn't possibly fathom that things would begin on time here, James and lo and behold, they have.
So we are excited to get right underway with today's action. You can see the birds I view
It is a top of your screen the women's section. Omenova and rovers on that first board
We should mention that rovers is leading the competition cleared by by half point right now
Omenova has been very tough competition and again rovers on Omenova are not names that
that we're really up there when it came to the world rapid.
So, interesting to see the dominance
when it comes to the blitz section.
Yeah, let's see it and love to see the focus too as well.
I mean, just still I can know,
of course there's nerves,
but I really showing them as much is an important stage
and important field here, every game matters,
every draw half a point that you give up,
full matter here is we're trying to get to that top,
full order to play off.
Exactly. On the bottom of your screen, that is the open section. Magneness, of course, on that top board, but not leading event. A point behind the competition, as you mentioned, James, there's six rounds today.
So there's lots of time to make that come back. We see U.N.G. and Arjun, very equal position thus far, very symmetrical as well as you can expect.
Bobby and Rishook are playing a game that is very
imbalance, a classic Sicilian here, and also
Magnus going for that set up James kind of a
King's Indian, which does that speak to
maybe the mental state, you know, of the
tax ahead of Magnus here. I don't feel that
that's something we usually see Magnus going for.
Absolutely. I mean, he's, I don't remember.
It was an old quote that he said,
you know, King's Indian players can be mad at him
him while this one. But I remember he was like, yeah, you know, if I wanted to let space or
if I wanted to work position, I would play kings in need. I'm like, bro, what's your game?
It's fighting words. Like, what you said, what, bro? You know, so at the same time here,
he will play it and he has won me games you've seen with kings in the defense. But with I've
said he's using it, obviously, to get those points every, I think he's like, I don't care about
none of this. I need wins on the board. Every win is very important and counteractual to
into the standing, so no matter where you are,
at least, you know, on the first two pages of the standing,
it's first to the 24th.
You give those wins, those are very important.
And we do have a sharp position in that King's Indian,
with some types of Mario Plata, where you get F5, F4,
he's going straight for that G5, G4.
That's going to be a very funny game between them.
Exactly, the King's Indian idea, it's rooted in the philosophy
of a massive King's side attack.
I mean, who doesn't want to play chess that way?
The computer is even liking the position for magnets.
I feel like that's always a big sign
because James, it's notoriously the case,
but the computer does not love the position for black
because of the space disadvantage.
But this is a very clear path here.
H5 and G4, the night, perhaps jumping into F6.
It's all about achieving that.
And at that point, you can play F3.
You could play G4, G3.
You just want to sacrifice open the king side.
And we're going to see if Martin Rosian
is able to defend. One idea is often the move knight to h2 and what that does is in case
move h5 is play knight h2 with then prevent the move g4 and that's why you're seeing the blue
arrow for the move g4 immediately james before perhaps knight h2 can be played in order to
guarantee some open lines. Yeah that's actually interesting here. Usually it was
see stuff like work of seven, Bishop F eight, and then work G seven and then go for the G
four push, the G four push is generally not not play until you get an H five off. So,
playing G four right now isn't the easiest to play because obviously the very base tool,
but C five was already played with 95 rook C one type of stuff. It could get scary.
It is about, you know, this King's in the variation is always who's going to get,
Oh, that's, is that a timer? Why does this timer say 50 seconds? I think it's how much time you spent on it?
I think it's how much time you spent on that. Oh, this is like interesting. That's different for me.
It mutes to see in that talk. Wait, wait, wait. That is the clock. 40 seconds.
I think it's how much time you spent on that move, but it happens to be eerily similar to how much time you actually has remaining as well.
guys that is incredible. What do you say to him?
That was a big thing. But he played the right movie. Went for G4. This is the correct attacking move in the position.
Often you do go for that slower approach.
Rook F7, Bishop F8, maybe H5 as you were pointing out canty.
But no, straight for G4. And it is the right decision here.
If you're not careful in here, the move H5 is going to happen and how are we going to continue to attack?
attack, usually in the King's Indian, you want to move this King to H8 or H7. And as you
mentioned, somehow use the G file with that rook, with knight H4 coming, that looks very,
very scary. That's what we like to King's Indian, especially in this variation. It is about
either you mating or, you know, you lose the game. And that's that's easy. Very simple. Either I check
make or I don't, right? And he's going for a nightage for a play very smoothly.
So he played in the nightage for bring pieces over to that side of the board.
Mayus playing here are some results as well.
Oh, no surprise.
Daniel Dubov with a draw against Wesley sticking to that strategy and Lushan
Lee and Yanda Pongnage have also agreed to a draw in their game.
I want to take us over to Fabiano and Grishuk.
This is one of the leaders, Faviano, against Greek choke here, and I'm looking at the position, it looks very in balance.
This bishop on G7 is actually not in the action, meanwhile D4 has just been played.
Very double-edged here.
However, which position do you prefer here, James?
It's really whether you believe in these bishops for black here, because bishop on G7 is not really participating.
Yeah, it's not a bishop at all right now, but it can't break up with F6,
kind of really weekend, maybe the E6 Bishop and I don't see five as a little
little so as well.
Richard Gleson in the clock was not so let's me know.
He's down on time for you.
Yeah.
20 seconds.
I don't figure out where you want to go.
I mean, it's no surprise.
Oh, it's true.
It's down on time.
No, they're in all of this.
Bishop F.A.
Perhaps with an idea to leader play F6, but you see the popping as
Fabius kind of just constricting the position here, you can almost get
really ambitious as white here, like King H2, you know,
Rick F1, G4F5, you go for Bishop takes C5,
but now the A5 pawn needs protection,
so Queen D2 is played.
You have a quick trick, and there we go.
I'm trying to open up.
I'm going to go.
If you play F6 here, it's deceptive.
It looks like you're launching a checkmate attack,
but it is very difficult to checkmate with that bishop
on F8, so that's why you capture instead,
looking for ideas like maybe Queen G5
and Bishop captures on G6.
This could get real bad, real quick.
My double the rooks here for F2, rook F1.
The knight can also reposition,
knight C4, knight D6 is going to hit F7.
There's going to be sacrifices everywhere here.
I think Fabi is wrangling some good control
of this game so far.
Okay, can we get rook?
Okay, you guessed E1.
I want to give Rick that for the H4.
I can't get this yet off on that side of the board.
The H4 is fine.
I love it.
Love it.
H4 is fine.
H5 is type of ideas.
He's trying to get rid of this night to be able to take on E5.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Very smart.
QC7 is going to target the E upon.
All of light forces have now gone into defensive mode.
But H5 is there.
H5 is really strong as it tries to open up the game.
So a little bit more.
Now, the move rook DA after Queen XH5, there's no checkmate.
You can play Queen XH7 check, but it's just a check.
The king is going to slide to F8.
Look at this.
He goes rook D5.
It's all in on the E5, fine.
Wow, and I guess he's saying there's way of business.
Is it G6 anyway?
Oh, no more.
Okay, I'm going to say the move G4 on the board.
We do.
On the board, on the board, rook E3, there it is.
I don't think there's anything to it.
Take on the five, it could be a check.
Black or I broke G2.
It's all happening.
G2's actually great.
One piece is there.
That one did not go off the board, though.
That's extremely winning.
It's on the board.
Psych remiss.
There's a slight extra.
It's more or less.
Wow.
Resignation of time expiring as well.
The magnus game is still in progress.
He really needs this result here.
The king is being chased down being hunted here, but there's just no checkmate.
Super annoying that is one of the annoying things about them.
Ardofata is if White does get his king running.
So make usually especially with any. Remember to
clean the eight was a threat. So you had to play king back to G7 in order to play on.
Magnus will be in a slightly worse position if the queens and rooks trade off the board.
It's all about delivering the right check, Queen to A4 is the idea, Queen C4 covers.
We might see Brooke to F2 here, and not why it is doing a really good job, Martyrosian,
holding the balance here.
Magnus' Bishop is not part of the action right now, it's a very bad piece.
It's terrible actually, but also the time is for both of those of the time-triggerment
which he'd be trying to take on F3,
following the background, West Hill, on the other side.
He's holding the balance really nicely.
The bishop, again, is not in the game.
If that bishop was participating, making some threats.
Oh, that, yeah.
That gets again.
Let's flip.
Oh, what?
Yeah, what happened?
Can't set up any pieces here.
What on earth is happening?
Nagas has no control of the pieces.
Every single piece just tumble.
Even trying to set them back up,
He knocked more pieces down.
And I marked a rose in talking to the R. We are watching.
He's right to be a bit incredulous here, because not just one piece, even setting the pieces up.
We knocked more pieces down. Now, this is at least a better situation for Magnus
because they didn't fall off the table and he didn't run out of time setting them up.
But I think it was actually March Rosy and who perhaps paused the clock there and now the
Arbiter does discussing what they're going to rule obviously some penalty for Magnus
is unclear to me because it looks like Magnus hit the clock if I see it correctly with like six pieces of stuff down
I have not shown what it was actually two as well. I mean maybe something was worked as you know
something a little bit richy too, maybe I was obviously a transmission error, but just a
lot going on.
Why going on that and that?
So for sure, it's an obvious infraction.
You cannot hit the clock with pieces not on their proper squares, but you can't complete
your move in a, let's say illegal position.
So there's, there's something that needs to occur here, but March Rose is understandably,
you know, but confused because he's like,
well, what am I supposed to do?
Like, but he's hit the clock.
So my time is ticking.
And there's no pieces on their proper squares,
but Magnus is probably saying,
well, I had a traumatic experience yesterday,
not hitting the clock.
So he's definitely gonna hit the clock
and take whatever punishment they see fit.
Yeah.
And we actually have to see right now.
He's like, yeah, you can't do that, bro.
You know, you can't do that.
So we gotta make sure, you know,
You can't do that again, bro, come on.
So I don't know what the penalty would be though,
because he had no time.
The base on the faces, I'm wondering if they're saying
that this is a loss, if I'm reading facial expressions,
that seems like the discussion,
Magnus doesn't seem particularly pleased with the decision here.
But I actually don't know James truthfully, I am not an arbiter, I don't know how the rule book.
And this looks like perhaps a handshake and a win from Artorosian.
I'm not familiar with how the rules shake down there, but I will say five, six pieces on the,
like, not set up properly while hitting the clock is probably on the higher scale of the,
the infractions as far as the rulebook. So, interesting to see, but it looks like that was
ruled a win and Martyrus has beat Magnus to start the day. I mean, the people were wondering
drama, you know, day one had it, what about day two? Clearly, if this is the start,
we're in for a treat. Hey, Carl, the chat. What was over here?
and
it was crazy
with that happening
that's tough to lose like that especially in a very critical situation where you need to
need to win obviously so I don't know if Magnus is out of the top four but
stop every once he's out right now
Yeah, you just gonna have to keep the hopes high and try to blend the rest of your games.
I think that's pretty tough. Pretty tough and I'm feeling like that.
But what I do see it when the leaderboard up there is in B.L.
And Bobby, and I think he's playing Argentina already too.
So, you know, in B.L. that is.
So, you got some 11's up there at the top and the half is 10 B's.
Yeah, look at him. Look at him. Look at him.
Nice here. What do you think of all standing so far after would you say?
Well, interestingly enough, our undefeated trio, which is Yu Yang-Yi, Bu-Jang-Z and Danil
Dubov, at 10 points, they're still up in the fight for those top four spots, but ultimately
Arjun, Fabi, and Maxine continue to lead, and you're seeing Magnus's name barely hanging
on.
So that first page here is now two points behind the lead, which is very significant, and
And his chances of being in that top four,
remember, tie breaks and everything
are going to be a factor to determine those top four.
They're now dwindling here without pretty much a perfect run out.
It's really difficult, of course,
as the pressure from the stakes are higher.
Each game is drawn that happens, right?
You can just feel a their, like,
I don't know if I can win, you could go back and think about
what could have been better in each game.
And it's a different case like that.
It's not very easy.
So I was sitting from back when that behind my corrosion,
I was like, whoa, you know what got the win?
I'm not the way to go. I want to have it, but I don't care how we get it. It matters if I got it done. That's very pretty done in this day.
It's now, you know, they say, hey, a few more games away to make a bunch of it to play off here.
Do ball steel, no losses for do ball. It was going off. I mean, and on and over there, I can draw.
Okay? She was able to steal, instead they're tough.
I got to draw there, we'd start with a win, but they're taking a half.
Pretty nice. I guess we'll draw a stunner too, as well as he's a pretty crazy year, right behind him with seven in the hat.
Drawing and a system.
All right, here we go.
I mean, nine, eight, seven, eight and a half, right behind them,
even the second half of the page there with the engineer on 24th.
Still has a chance to say to make it to that top four.
Yeah, I'm a little doubtful, especially with less rounds
remaining in the women's section.
If any of the players with less than seven and a half points
really have a realistic shot at it all,
I don't think that's the case.
It's only top four, and again, you have to assume that many of the players that are in the top 10 right now are going to collect at least three points from the remaining game that immediately puts everyone who has seven points out of contention.
So even some of the seven point vives are going to be hard press to join the lead, you're seeing a lean, oh manova,
Asa by advent with the win over Goryachkinat, this is a very tight field, but Elin Robber's
undefeated and still up there leading the event by half a point is incredibly impressive.
Yes, incredibly impressive as well. And Baby Sard here actually drawing Goryachkinat is
actually hurting her chance. It's Goryachkinat, it's on fire, still doing well.
That's the ground's left to play as well. Okay, so I think it is time for our
We're going to check it today, oh no we don't. Okay cool, so we just got the word of that.
There were no tagging, only drama in that round James.
Exactly, figuring out how we should move faster without actually knocking over pieces.
No, at the same time we are going to figure out some of the back of the round 14.
The last thing we were up with, Jim.
That's it!
So we're gonna play...
What is the name of this?
Just like guess the voice?
I don't know if we just put it in this.
Guess the...
Guess the something.
Oh!
Guess it...
Guess it's a real person.
Oh!
So without any further ado, let's play the fun game.
As we get ready to roll out coach and pick.
Go for it round one.
We are changing the name of the Bishop to diagonal thingy.
And all the way.
Yeah, I was going to say I, but should one of us go first for the guests, like, or do we just both yell at
I was going to say I though.
I think you can both.
You both guess I.
Usually, you would never say you would never say this to me.
That's not you would never say this.
Okay, and both got it right.
Yeah, I would never say that.
I would never say we're changing the diagonal thingy, although now and now I'm saying it.
I'm saying it, but okay, and actually this time, I think that was a good call, buddy. So we'll rotate. All right, let me, you go first, but let's play around to you. You go and then he car goes.
I literally don't care. I literally don't care. Wow. I'm going to go AI. Yeah, I'm going to agree that the pitch sounded a little bit higher.
I might have set up the pitch sounded too high compared to what I normally say. So I'm going to go with AI as well. Okay, big reveal.
That was real.
It's a one.
Okay.
Oh, literally don't get all of us.
I agree.
I thought it sounded too high pitch, but apparently that was from a stream.
All right.
No round three.
This time, if you call our goes first.
Some people think that if they're opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose.
I don't.
You have to be merciless.
That's, that's, I mean, if that's not magnets, I'd be really surprised.
That'd be it.
That's got to be real magnets.
I'm going to guess for real.
That's it, I.
That is AI.
I want to hear more it by the way, I think.
I listened to a couple of days ago,
I had a bit of a refresher of all of your voices.
And I do think that this last round of Magnus,
they really nailed it.
Like it sounds, it's kind of crazy.
It sounds better than any of the other versions.
So there we go.
Yeah, I'm just going to say everybody who knows Magnus
needs to have a stay for it because if he calls them,
person calls them using that voice, like they need them with them.
They do it just just to ease those concerns.
This is also on a bit of a chest.com kind of proprietary Chess LLM.
We've been building out a lot of the phrases.
Nothing that hits the community is not approved in that way.
So if Magnus calls you and says to wire him a bunch of Amazon gift cards, that is not good.
Do not send him a bunch of Amazon gift cards.
Okay.
Um, all right, big give us another one.
It's not your one to go for trash bro.
That's it.
That's all that's a real.
You know, I'm mad trash bro.
I mean, that that's like that's like the he car one.
I mean, it, it sounds like it's robotic, but I definitely have said.
Uh, I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with real.
I'm going to say if AI, I'm supposed to buy it.
We need, we can't always have the same answer.
Yeah.
I guess.
cars right. It's AI. Ah, there you go. I love that he car got it right on a
levy voiceover. That's just, that's just the best. One more. Okay, one more. Here we go.
Just don't know where we're going. We're going to tie breaker next one.
How does the night to me? How does the night to me? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to
go ahead. How does the night to me? The, the, the way the, the chaos hang on night that
didn't sound right to me so I'm gonna say it's AI. I'm gonna I was gonna I was gonna guess real
Is it real?
Oh, oh my god, now it is a tie breaker. Well now we have to do one more because they're tied
We can't can't have people with the dot so is Anna crumbling the tie breaker?
Okay, he's fooling about going to the back came to me. I boy, this is actually more fun than I thought that was actually surprising
I thought that was a six months ago at the MIT thing at the conference and there I was like 90% correct
So they they really they really fixed it a lot
I agree
Yeah, I think I think some of them sounded like I color said the initiation was just too awkward like word to word
It's it's flows better now and a couple of the particular voices like Magnus and Andre
I think I'm actually just gotten better like they just they just sound more accurate
Okay, he's ready. We got all right, tiebreaker. Oh my god my queen
Oh my god my queen
Yeah, I guess I'll go first. I don't know
Real I was gonna say a I
But the problems all these ones of love in my soul. I feel like they just sound too energetic or too high-pitched or something
Vox. I'll just say a I can say a bit
I drumroll because no matter what we have a winner after this and we say goodbye to our guest
star.
So drumroll, here we go, who's right, Levier Ricardo.
Oh wow.
Do I, let's do it again.
There's real array.
I guess real, but it's like a total crap shoot.
I mean, I just, like, I'm guessing on vibes, although the, the Andrea Clive, I think it's
from that it's from the interview of the World Championship.
And it sounded like, I think I watched that clip
like a hundred times because it's just so funny and riveting.
So I think I just remembered it in my head.
But yeah, that's good.
I gotta talk to my grandparents now.
Make sure they don't wire anybody any money
that sounds like me.
Actually, some of the praises are a little clunky in awkward.
So when this is live, you guys will definitely give us feedback
if we need to change some.
But I think some of them are even funnier
because they're a little weird, but all right.
This is going to be amazing for a lot of our members.
In fact, they can choose Hikara and Levy.
Thank you guys for playing this with us.
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Thank you for having me here, Danny. Thank you.
My name is Jill Shulman, and I am joined by Grandmaster Fabio Nicaruana to figure out
how well you and Hicaru know each other.
Oh, okay.
So I have questions for you.
So how many subscribers on YouTube and followers on Twitch does a car who have combined?
I saw something recently that he got 2 million on Twitch.
So I saw the announcement somewhere.
So, about 2 million twitch and 2.5 YouTube, I'll say 4.5 million total.
Well, I think that's exactly correct.
Actually, I don't check his channel, but I just remember seeing that now it's been like two days ago or something.
So, some work there.
How many times has Bobbiano won the US championship?
Okay, so Bobbiano, he didn't win in 2020.
Lisa's no asterisk. He's one at four times four times he's one of the ocean
Correct when is a car is birthday?
Oh, what is this? I actually don't think at any clue. I kind of say end of the year. I don't know why but I know nine
This isn't December and there was a car window member, but I wouldn't even be able to get today
I'm probably able to move this wrong and I don't like it.
December 9th. Oh, shit on December. What state was Fatihan O'Born?
I'm also very easy. He was born, he was born in Florida with more specifically my
young. In what popular HBO series did Hikaru have a cameo in a few years back?
This one I know because I was also invited, but then they went with Hikaru. It was
billions. At what age did Fatihan O'Born become a grandmaster?
Okay, became a grandmaster at 15. He definitely he definitely broke it
I'm trying to remember was he 15 or was he 14?
It's like 15 years eight seven days for whatever reason. I mean, I don't know for for sure
But my for some reason 14 is not ringing bells. I think he was also 15, but like just a couple of days
So I think it was 15 if it's fortunate to be surprised, but I'll go to 16. I think it's a 14 years 11 months
Oh, what was the other 15?
Okay
What is the car's all-time blitz rating on chest.com?
Some point people were getting up to like 3400 like Ali Reza.
I'm gonna go like 3409.
As I think back in the day everyone was like a bit higher rated,
and Ali Reza and he car were around the 3400 range.
I'm gonna go to the 3409, just a cylinder.
It's 3400, but really close.
When was the first time Fauliano beat you in a classical game?
Okay, let's see, so there's 20-11 like on Zay, I did not lose that game, first one I lost
the far beyond a classical game, I think so, it's not nine, it's a regular movie, it's an
interesting question. I'm gonna, this is probably wrong, but I'm gonna go with the, um,
the 2014 SyncFold Cup. I actually think you're exactly correct on that one,
which basketball team does a car support.
I don't have no idea.
That works. Probably not.
It's a Chicago Blues.
How many candidates tournaments has Fabiana played?
Okay, so for Fabiana, it should be pretty easy.
It should be 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, so it should be five candidates.
I encourage published a book in 2009, what was the title?
There's so many of that bullet. It was like, how to win bullet. I wonder when are the exact
title? How to win bullet chess?
Actually, pretty close. It's bullet chess one minute to meet.
Has Fabiano ever represented a country besides the US, and if so, which one?
Yeah, so Fabiano represented Italy from about, like, I'm going to guess, like,
Like, some are like, 2000, one-ish to, uh, till I think 2014 could be wrong.
But about 12 or 13 years, he represented the country vitally.
What was the car's peak fee day rating?
Hmm.
Okay, was it over 28, 20?
Uh, I'm like, for some reason the numbers that you'll be now is 2019, it could also be true.
Somewhere in the low 28, 20s, for some reason, 20 and, uh, it's like,
speaking to me, I'll go with my gut, it's in 28, 19.
2016. Plus what was Bobby on his peak feed a rating?
Yes, so Bobby on his peak feed a rating. Okay, so I believe that it was higher than
the sparrow than I'm not mistaken. As far as 2851, so I think it was 2850,
it's the other 2053 or 2049. I think he was a higher than Gary or not.
Some of my my 53 doesn't sound right. 49 does. 2849, but I wouldn't be shocked
just the other way around. We have 28.44. That was 44.
Well guys, we haven't been more thinking we need to do nothing now of course it's time for
slow-mo game with me.
I might sell feeding messages in case of third and very master.
I'm not him.
Let's break this slow-mo game down guys.
What just happened?
So of course we have the game,
height much erosion,
magnets, they plan.
Everything's all cool.
You got people in the background.
And it boom!
What happened here?
Am I?
What is going on?
I'm going to get that out of it.
Well you can see Wesley having a chuckle in the background here.
Unfortunately his magnet goes to play Rook to G3.
he knocks all four center ponds over and as he's trying to set them up here
he even places the white pun back on the wrong square there on F4. You can see and then in
trying to place the other ponds on the board he even knocks more pieces over and to cap it all off
he's hit the clock during all this. As you can see in a closer view here he knocks every piece over
and what he's realizing is because it was like yesterday he's now going to hit his clock because
because he knows he's times going to expire
if he tries to set them all up.
But by hitting the clock, of course,
now you're doing it on your opponents' time.
And there's no way that Martin Rosen's clock
shouldn't be taking, notice the pieces are not even
on the correct squares, pun on F4.
And by the time he gets things set up back correctly,
I mean, so much time has ticked off Martin Rosen's clock
that you just have to sit there and say,
you know what, you wouldn't have had time
to set them up properly.
There's way too many pieces all over the place.
And ultimately, we can say James that the decision was rendered by the
arbiter there, Chris Bird, and it was actually just accepted by
Magnus in the end frustrating, but you need to have to accept that as a competitor
and Mark Terosian, even slightly apologetic at the end, you know, of course,
the result makes sense, but you never want to win a game like that at the end of the day.
Yeah, absolutely. This is a, it's not part of the game. It is annoying.
For instance, even the peace hang that happened with Fabiano and Magnus and the previous rounds
with Knight T-C7, so he was just hanging in the room and an Argent at a game, he hung the
room on the back rank with the bishops that go backwards, they do go backwards,
chat if you didn't know. So with that, we said those games have started and we are back
live. There we go. Yeah, let's get into the action. I see that Fabian Wesley are perhaps
even going to a draw their game before we get a chance to take a look. Of course, that's not
100% guaranteed, but for anyone that's been following the top level of chess for even one
tournament, you'll recognize this symmetrical nature of the position there, not likely to lead anywhere,
but of course, let's have a look here. We see magnets against Macarion, an interesting note
for people tracking is that 13 or 13 and a half points are usually the scores required
and there's five games remaining. And because of that, you can kind of
already see that Magnus pretty much needs to score four or four and a half out of his remaining
games to even be in the conversation or that top four that would be my estimate here.
If you're tracking, you know, Magnus's chances after that loss.
to the team 13 to have guys that is really really tough, but it is possible here, especially if you stay locked in and keep your mind on the game, keep your mind just on the game and the board and the front of you.
That means that anything crazy going on, definitely crossing game with that punk, mistakes or this is like a French, some type of French maybe it was at a French, maybe a London actually.
But no, there's no app on what on earth was that?
Yeah, at this point, also the, I was going to say the results are probably going to come
in very quickly.
The player's drawing is going to give people like Magnus a better chance to catch up.
But we see Boojansi, I was noting that that position was almost dead equal in terms of symmetry
as well.
Fabian Leslie are repeating moves.
I'm assuming we're about to the hand shake where we just did so draw and that being as
well.
And do you believe in a DuCitore off?
I don't think there's anything that would normally make me say we're about to see a draw.
but it's do-bough and he has it lost the game in the entire event
and he feels like the kind of player that if you overpress against him,
he might beat you and he's a very, very strong player.
So it's almost like, hey, the guy wants to draw, you know,
I'm not going to fight him too hard on this.
You know, yeah, he got a big dog.
So you, you'll wear it, say.
And so that's why we're looking up to games in progress
and perhaps we can take a look at Arjan versus Mark Terosian
just briefly because this is one of the
few games along with Magnus that is actually in progress and will likely see really
continue on as a fight Argent, you know, has been playing that style the entire, first
wise entire career, let alone in the Rapid Andy Blitz event.
Knight have four assists been played and he has these, you're talking about sniper
missions, they move backwards but James, they also move forwards, the bishop on B2 and
C2 with the queen behind it, there's a lot of pressure in this position and the pawn
on F3 is stopping the night and the bishop on the long diagonal. So I would say actually
it's surprisingly good position for urgent and what you thought might just be symmetrical.
Yeah, now let's figure out how to press or make something work here. I see what he's doing.
We're up to F2, okay? Double one way or the other, he's saying. Yeah, I'm going to the F for the D.
Maybe you're going to rookie one, something like that is very classical. We're around a little bit,
a six on the board. Maybe six,
to get the pawn off the H7 square so that the knight is not tied down.
But the game that we're on right now definitely looks like we could be seeing potential tactics here.
You probably need to trade because James,
I'm very concerned about knight takes E6 and almost knight takes E5,
needs to be played as a safety measure.
There it is.
It's some of the more takes takes root is now hanging, so he moves it out of the way.
It moves that way.
He challenges an open file, but the blue arrow highlighting rook C1.
It's an unusual move, but played by Argin, very confidently giving up the defile,
but you're looking at the squares on the defile. You can't make use of any of them.
Meanwhile, the C file belongs to white.
Let's see, can Bishop A, come back to this.
Is this just material?
The group has no squares.
I was just highlighting that there were no squares to use, but now the queen has just taken the D8 square.
Maybe we're hoping to eat, to take some of their bit rick C7.
That's the right.
We'll make it.
Wait a second.
Takes, takes, works C7, we take C3.
I think that this position is a bit more important.
I think that this position is just winning for, for Arjun.
Hi, again, in the think tank here,
two is one under a minute on the clock of the museum.
And based on the result so far, we saw early Fabi draw,
Maxine, so if Arjun wins here, he'll jump right back
into that position at the top of the standings.
We draw some more 50, 60, say, okay, you know what?
You can take, and after taking, we'll have the bishop here.
But I am down in exchange.
Dubolf actually slightly better not.
Yeah, Dubolf, like we said, he don't go for a draw.
All of a sudden, he makes he something different.
Let's take a look at that game right there because Dubolf,
we talk about his undefeated.
Doesn't mean he's sitting there drawing every game.
That's actually not the case at all.
He's drawing a few games.
He's drawing a lot of games, but he's winning a lot as well.
And he's never losing.
And that is a perfect strategy.
Yeah, exactly. If I don't win, I draw up. I don't draw. I win, you know, one of the other here.
And I look at the robbers, by the way, seal the screen is another game up for her.
I mean, what is what is she doing to be playing jazz like this?
She is cooking everything in every moment that stands in her path.
I mean, very dominant performance for her in the blue section.
She's absolutely on a tear.
Yeah, and let's jump into this duplaf game here because it looks like I don't know if this is going to be a definite conversion,
but after a rook beat, after winning a pawn,
going for more trades, the D pawn also lose.
Dubav looks like he has a great chance to secure win.
And just that one result is very, very meaningful.
They're big for him in the standing stand.
No one had really a two-ball from there on their card there.
Not to say, you know, it wouldn't be on someone's bracket.
And not a lot of people's bracket.
We didn't take D4 here.
I mean, the A7 front is hanging.
You've got Queen D8 as an idea.
two seconds for a Nordobac.
You barely made a move there just by.
But how many pawns are you ahead of here?
You've got, first of all, currently a couple of extra pawns.
It could be three momentarily.
I think I'm going to accept that is another freebie.
I will take those.
Thank you.
I appreciate the low-gum drop there.
And then I have two passers on DNA.
Jack, Bishop F1, it's great.
Whoa.
Oh, I'm surprised by that trade.
But this should be a very easy win for Dubov, not much to think about the bishop.
It's going to be well defended.
And of course, the outside a pawn is just running.
So Dubov, picking up what looks like it will be a very, very important victory.
But let's wait and see the conversion.
Absolutely.
As you really don't want to give up too many pawns, of course,
yes, the central pawn will drop out these two pass pawns by themselves.
But I'm going to give up the bishop by itself, which he's going exactly for.
He's like, I don't care about the mission.
You even have it.
Let me grab this.
We clean real quick big fellow dislocation.
We got a good.
And the calculation here very well done.
He actually sacrificed two of his pawns to get a winning position there.
And I think Dubob is absolutely in cruise control.
You can tell by the body language.
He's definitely got this one.
He's your Magnus is also winning against McCarrion.
So should be when they're air guysy,
we need cleanly over Mount Erosion.
Those are the updates in the other boards.
We'll always play it out.
That is,
you want to bet?
Be careful.
Yeah, you know what, that's not allow any more tricks.
HG3, something resignation.
He's gonna resign after G3, yeah.
It's all just trying to put something together.
Let's take a look at Navee Prague and Yu Yang Yi.
I think they're still playing.
And Magnus won his game.
We actually saw a blunder just as we tune in here.
And Yu Yang Yi is, we need position, actually,
a resignation on the board.
What a blunder just as we tune in.
Frag through the game.
I guess, what was going on for what was the blunder?
Tough.
That's it by A, the even maybe one thing here, okay, yeah, that looks good for a position.
Maybe another pawn there to pawns extra.
Let me set extra pawn.
We're not quickly, we're taking a look at it.
Oh, but and.
Baby, sorry, here.
This endgame should be completely winning run board two of the women's section.
And Robbers has been dominant on board months with getting the feeling that in order to compete here, you have to be winning almost all your games to keep up with the lean.
And this one is unfortunately just not a position you can save bit of sorrow with an easy conversion.
As the rook comes down and you want it, that will be the win bit of sorrow moving to nine and a half points.
He's using the Dunny, and that's very strong there.
That's my Eva.
Maybe start with another one.
Moving on to another board here in the women's section.
This is board three.
Grieksh, you know, against Tsongyushin.
It looks like the, yeah, the DGT is definitely not working.
So we can just watch the live camera here.
Because they probably played so many moves so quickly.
We have an ending here with two pawns in a night against a bishop definitely a draw but still many chances to make the night successful.
You want a night around?
Two set.
Oh, is that the roast is okay? She has seven seconds.
Yeah, what?
I'm not going to make it.
Lots of time, but yeah.
Unfortunately, it's very difficult to make progress because in order to do so, you probably
have to, I guess, find a way to bring your king to attack the F3 pawn, but unfortunately,
there's nothing you can really do.
You have to put the knight perhaps on the C4 square or the D3 square where it guards E5,
And you can make some forward progress, but I'm not sure what that actually looks like.
There's not the push at the right moment too, because it's always a sacrifice on the
other pump.
It's just trying to work.
It's going to be another night together here.
I don't know that that was, yeah, the ship is going to capture on the five, and this will
effectively be a draw now.
GG and agreed as the game ends before this DGT finally resets properly and that will
be a draw there on board three. So wins actually for the black pieces on the top. Well,
the top five boards except for this one are all wins with the black pieces but robbers
leading the way and continues to dominate the field.
Looks great here. I mean, it's 10 points. The only one absolutely incredible score here.
but seeing this very strong field, we have, that's my Ava behind her with nine and a half
cases, nothing up here. We each can have a draw, still in it, but she was up at the top.
So all the way down with Corris, he had to, well, kind of in the lag now. Yeah, we see
us in some games left here, but what do you think is the score going to be for the
root for the root of the root of the root of the root of the root of the root of the section?
So that's how far I'm on.
Well, whatever you think it is, the Lean Robbers is convincing you that it could be higher,
still undefeated with 10 points right now and still I was
quite some rounds remaining in terms of making it come back for
these players with 8 and a half all fighting from that top four
I do think you absolutely need to be at that 8 and a half point margin
first of all I mentioned a Lua Nerman also undefeated
obviously many draws not putting her right up at the top with a lean
but still having a fantastic event clearly and
Grover's looks like she could win even the remaining games
Definitely will be in that top four by the looks of it and nearly guaranteed that first place spot but I suppose I've a right behind her half a point behind James
And here we go with the open section now. I know this is
different oh, okay, I see probably go to halves on Wesley and be able to have Spaghetti's for when they're put
But who's up there at the top?
Let them have, let them have it, let them have it.
Well, Craig, who's at that game of UAE,
he was a shop where there's right there,
first one in 11.
Look at that, when the top, maybe at the top floor,
a right under, which is almost every single time it seems,
which is very important, because I mean,
you slip if you get a rebron in the top for you in there.
You can literally be in this place.
It's a very, very close, like that amount of how do you feel about that?
Yeah, so the draws on the top,
And in the open section we're seeing a lot more draws, especially because we have three players that still haven't lost the game.
Dubah, Yu-Yanyi, Boo-Jang-Zi, we saw Fabi, and was a questly, yes, that just agreed to a very quick draw.
And the thing is that really helps come back.
For example, Yanda Palmonishi at 10 points, our time of madness, look at this incredible group that has 10 points with amazing results in these final rounds that they can catch the lead.
If we continue to see those draws at the very top,
Origin, Maximum, Fabi, absolutely the ones to be,
but you're starting to see because of all these draws,
the strategy of playing where you take your wins when they're there,
but otherwise you're happy to draw the game.
It's actually paying off and all of those players are slowly floating
to the top of the standing's games.
It's very important to keep your footing,
especially if you're at the top as well too,
I do walk through the steel of Barrett for not letting anyone's repass him.
He's trying his best to keep in his steel games to be played few more rounds left.
Now, let me say it, of course, just tactics.
Time we do have a tactic today from a model that's going to show us something from
Robert's versus Steph and Noble.
Robert's is actually an example in his tournament.
We have to give some attention here to the clear leader in the women's section.
We didn't catch this game live and also there's no drama this round.
So, of course, we're back to analyzing some chests.
In this position, step on over with the white pieces,
play the move F3.
Now, admittedly, the position is not great.
Black has these two amazing looking bishops
and perhaps white pieces are a little bit push back,
but the move F3, a double question mark,
actually throws the entire game
and the night jumps into D4.
The correct move by Elene,
and after Bishop takes on D4,
eliminating this strong night threatening,
C2 and 9F3. Well now the dark squares become really weak. The King goes up to G2. Don't forget about this night
and look at this tactic. The move 94. It actually set up Bishop takes D4 and Bishop back to E5 and easy move to miss avertreat that
Uncovered two attacks at the same time and from here James,
9C4, you're just losing a free piece and against it lean in the form that she's in. You can be hanging pieces out here and expect to survive.
And so the end of this game was very expected as the bishops lined up against the cane down an entire piece
Obviously did not last very long and after King to E3 in this final position
Bishop to B6 would actually be quite a beautiful trackness in the center of the board
And so it leaned towards over the victory off a really clever tactic with a retreating bishop move those bishops
They go forwards games. They also go backwards nice tactic there to continue to bolster her score
and leave the event in the women's section by half a point.
That is incredible. The story is, can anybody stop her?
She's definitely making the playoffs.
Maybe you could probably say, I'm not gonna say,
just walk away and play any more games,
but she's definitely looking like a serious candidate
of the candidate for playoff,
but we still have games to be played in both sections.
Guys, so we're going to do a quick short break.
We'll be back with Robert's team.
Sadly, I cannot beat anybody like this.
I don't use it anymore, nobody's going to fall in good.
Maybe the crack that I learned was not that big of a crack.
I'll see, we're like a pretty long time.
I was like, guys, we really should start picking up on what's happening here, you know?
Yeah, I know this one, I remember this because it's so vivid, I was playing my first
interschool tournament and a friend of mine who was a very good player told me that if
you are opponent repeats the petroff, I mean I'm not going to go with petroff, but if
If it takes this, you can put your queen here, night goes back, and you do a check, and
you win the queen.
This was the first flat that I learned.
And for years, I was of the opinion that night of three, night of six, night takes
pawn, you have to play D6, 94 is a mistake, but turns out the modern engines now have
say that this is playable after we need to Queenie 7, Queenie 4, B6, B4 takes takes this
position is actually not so bad for black impact. If I'm not mistaken, Harika played
it in one of her games in classical chess. Yeah. Maybe the trap that I learned was not that
big of a trap. I'm Kiraissa and this is the first chess trap I ever learned. I'm going to explain
today's scholars made. So start with E4, you know black, play E5,
but E4 so get this bishop out. So bishop goes to C4. Let's say black
plays like 96. Now white can go queen H5. Now maybe black's like oh
who are clean so far out there, like, let me, let me get a bite of it, please like 9-F6
to tap clean. Then you could take on F7 and that's a checkmate. Yeah, I wouldn't like a bunch of
games like this when I was in 1st grade at my elementary school chess club. I'll see we're
like a pretty long time. I was like, guys, maybe we should start picking up on what's happening
here, you know, but it gave me huge boost of confidence in my chest club. And then I went
the prize for like best first grader. So I know. Was the best prize that you ever went
at David's College? Have you ever, like, had your scholars made it someone
to, like, wait in the tournament? Oh, no. I feel like, you know, once you're past 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 trip.
I would start with quantum E4.
And they would respond to symmetrical E5, most normal way.
normal way, I would develop my night attacking the pawn, they would develop their
Queen's night to see things defending the pawn the most common chess position
like forever, literally, since the inception of chess.
And then here I would develop my bishop, and I'm just like 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 knew that.
And then my opponents would develop their second night, which is what you're supposed to do
also conveniently attacking the pun.
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 years old who's rated seven hundred,
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 ponta b5, there's all sorts of moves with the most people, just take the
pawn back.
And they think that's the end of the story, but you actually sacrifice your knight.
This is called the fried liver trap.
They'd 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 does he still do well here?
You keep pressuring this knight and you keep attacking.
Lots, a lot of people would fall for this trap
and 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 is 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 fried liver trap.
I'm a tiny, and this is the first shot I ever learned.
I'm going to teach you.
So it's black when I was younger.
you split it only six times. This would be six or three seven, early if you
can trade up. Why would take a center? And Bishop would go to B7, Bishop
goes to D3, sometimes I can go to B, C3. And many people here would actually go F5,
idea to attack upon in the center. And then if the font takes, then there's
Bishop takes G2, a watch out, because it's Queen H5. And then because of the
the king is attracted and black is attracted to the rope. Now we have to defend the
pawn keeps taking. You can't take the power because this will be checking on this.
Double checkmate. And so basically now, black will be losing because the knight will
come out and then this is really, really nice to be here, pawn takes age 7 and it
You might see that you go G7, now the 9TX screen and then promote another screen here.
But this wouldn't be as efficient as if I'll go back to the original position if you take
on E7 and then after the 9TX, you go V5G6 and it's really cool to try.
This is a picture of it.
You're the first one to explain to me that I've got.
I don't know.
My name is Bill's Gambit, and I'm going to teach you the first test trap I ever learned
the hard way.
This was during my first tournament back at the adults.
I was playing a classical game.
I thought it was very, very clever.
So it was, I believe it was black.
I gave it here.
Here.
And then I got hit by the very fun.
And that was going through my head. I was like wait, but this is the Rosalina, but like this is theory, you know, and it was not
I ended up having to lose my shut.
So if I go to the floor, if you actually are bad, bad stuff, because it just gets very, very, very important for you to be with a phone.
If you like the bishers here, it's a nice to be looking more.
You will be able to find a phone and you will be open a phone.
So I like the focus that I think here.
Just a transfer and take here.
And now the point is here.
I like that.
And it takes place at the moment.
The family team is even after the product.
Okay, black and of course we remember.
It's not as easy to read.
Really? Why is it not as easy to read?
Because for the green,
what still has two pieces and at an amateur level at him.
That can still save a lot of yarn.
Hi, I'm the Bearder Smoog, and I'm going to teach you the second chopper I've
ever loved. The first one is when I've made some of these yarns.
So it goes with E4, C5, C4, C4, C3.
You date, I think, you are 92, 96, 93, 96, 54, 96, 85, 85, I've won the living games with this.
And now you take visual seven.
Listen to the track.
I can ask myself and I can do it.
I don't use it anymore, nobody's gonna fall and do it.
It's kind of up as very, very close.
Everyone's only four players left. They're both in that play. All can both sections. We are back
Let's check championships. I am feeding Master James. I did third here joined by Graham master
I'm on Hamilton and oh, let's look at his parents. Who is playing who?
Yeah, let's take a look James
Now boom on the top board
We have magnets against Bujang's in you know very notably Magnus as I indicated James. He has to win and
and win and win repeatedly and Bujanese has not lost the game.
So that matchup will be very intriguing for that reason alone.
Yuyangyi against Fabiano, the top score is 11 and 1, and you see Fabi, Arjuna, and Viel.
I've all played each other, so they're all starting to spread out and boards 2, 3, and 4.
Arjuna is playing Lucian Le, Maxime against Dubah, remembering board 2 and 4.
Yuyangyi and Dubah also have not lost the game yet, so there are a lot of hype
of a matchup, which one of those are gonna be draws,
which ones are going to be potential wins
as the field is tightening up James
in terms of the pairings,
because so many players can now catch up
with all the draws on those top boards.
I mean, in China, I'm looking like a powerhouse right now.
I'm board's one and two,
we just hold them down for us,
and three days, two,
and a whole team there, who squad there in the month.
On the top three boards represent real hard there.
So of course, I think there's about playing each other,
they may play for more.
But I mean, listen, half a point.
Yeah, you know, I don't have to fight too hard.
I might take one of those.
This is one where I might be, you know,
I have to withdraw.
We will see that.
Who's not cool with a draw, though,
is Eileen Ropers.
She's like, draw what?
What is that?
I don't only any type of drawing utensils.
That is Eileen Ropers here.
She's absolutely on an act of an actor.
No losses here, Mark.
Yeah, and Lou and Norman on board two also has not lost
the game.
Seven draws, five wins, a very solid performance.
And again, that type of performance we've seen in both sections
is bringing the player to the top of the standings
and certainly into that top poor position here.
Look at how many players though have eight and a half points
in that women's section, it is an absolute pile-up.
So it's getting very, very tight as the stakes are higher
than ever with only just those few games remaining
before the cut off where you need to be in the top
for in order to continue.
As very important guys says these are the nerves need to be
in check the psychology just to playing of the board.
Saying calm I think do up is showing you know just calm cheer and
play chance guys.
The go and see I go on and relax and I'm playing good.
I'm not losing no game.
It's like you know what is do walk doing?
We need to get that type of flow as well.
But yeah definitely want to take a look at this game here with
Bobby and you can't get there.
That's going to be incredible credible mess of this is where it
means it comes down to the wire right here guys.
It's important chat.
Now, what do you think is going to make the car out?
Anything can happen, especially when we see
blunders, uncarrot the risk to blend with from
magnets, pieces falling, things happening.
And people are saving draws and then,
et cetera, it's a lot, lots of be done here.
Games have all started in a few.
Thank you, Kesh, note or back.
This matchup on your screen right here,
while it is not on the very top or it's on board number eight.
And definitely both of these players are still in
contention, you know, Kesh has that, you know,
kind of the reputation and undeservedly so of perhaps not being the strongest speech
as player compared to his obvious classical chess dominance talking about the world champion,
but I think he's disproving that right here.
Yeah, he's got a and one thing he does, you see, he just gives his mind right. You see this with a
bit as well, prefer on meditation, whatever, just close your eyes, sit there and get focus and
and get locked in, see the board before you see the board, right?
That's a bar, see the board before you see the board there, Mom.
It's not pretty nice.
Exactly.
Magnet's one-jangs-y waiting on board one for his opponent, Grandmaster Magnus Carlson,
and there is a lot of intrigue in this game because Boojangs-y has not lost the game yet,
but if that game ends in a draw, that would be a very unsatisfactory result for Magnus Carlson
and who is sitting at 10 points while the leaders are at 11 and a half, a point and a half
back, I don't think you're in a position where you can be making draws and you're up against
someone who has only made draws if he's not beating you. Yeah, this guy exactly happens when
you're in great form like that, it just tends to happen. Now of course, you know, they
They won was a Jordan show,
who we have the entity right up from there.
Now this is pretty significant.
I know that Magnus has that reputation for showing up late,
but showing up late to a blitz game
is always more meaningful.
I know there's increment,
and it looks like he's probably showing up right now
as Chris Bird looks like he's, yeah,
he looked like he was making way for the arrival of somebody.
And of course, there is Magnus,
and he'll go for the customary pieces adjust here
before hitting that clock, you know, you got in his routine. And now the games are up.
And that we have the games. That was crazy, just don't believe, but he's okay. He's
there. That's like an accelerated dragon there. Um, I was talking to Fabi.
Do Bob and MVL already with a draw. Wow. He's out of there. 12. Peace.
Telling you, it's it's already done. You know, I had to jump in there real quick.
Magnus barely sat down at the chessboard to play a move before Dubov got up from the chessboard to leave. He was done
He was done. Hi, that's it for the day. I'm out of here guys. Okay, what do you know? I'm just about the grab a quick bite
Wastarift to the games. I'm good for about 10 15 minutes
There you go and we're looking at the games on the screen. You're obviously mag this meeting that result
You're not gonna see a quick draw from him. It might end up in the draw, but certainly will be a quick one
Wesley and Duda is a very double-edged position bottom right of your screen and
U.E. Angi against Fabi also I would say quite double-edged in terms of the pawn on E5 dropping
So I think we are spoiled in terms of the games right now, but U.E. Angi against Fabiano has my attention here
as it looks like we have some sort of pawn sacrifice here in the middle of the board
just a couple of moves that got the night captured on E5.
Now, U-N-E is castled quickly and it's just played the move H4.
And would you believe it?
If I told you that U-N-E playing with this style right here
is undefeated in the event, James.
Dang, U-N-E undefeated.
Playing like this, we gotta definitely gotta watch H4 and H5
and we get slide.
Here we go.
Definitely like, I don't know.
I like the, I'm going to accelerate driving player
I played it for a long time.
I don't play this much anymore, but definitely with why definitely was a fan of these positions.
Probably got some great games. And so to Dragon City is prepping. And I was like, what if
Maroxy buying, you know, I've never would have played there. And if I knew she would have played that,
there was something, something to play. He was like, oh, I can't tell you the prep. It's like, all okay.
All right. Well, I can't tell you. He couldn't tell me the prep. But what he had prepared
and for Maroxy buying there, but it didn't happen. So, capsums here, there is going to be
a absolute class here because his cap was where obviously side so I just see what happens.
Give me that bishop already. So what I'm wondering is, are we going to see
a green G4? Right. Very fast. Like very, honestly, no, as the answer, right?
I wrote Rook to E1 as a different idea of laying in the center. I thought,
Hugh Yankee was going all out here. I was saying F3 is before it was like, you know,
he just, that's what you play in these type of positions, but he has something else in mind.
I know it's not sacrificing one in six, just centralizing the root, I guess.
Because basically six probably is possible, maybe you could stack one in six, I don't
think you can get away with that though.
Yeah, I don't think so.
U.N.E. is not really making the progress you'd expect from the position in terms of an
attack.
We can jump back to our bird's eye view and take a look at all of the boards.
Magnus actually has traded a lot of pieces in that one.
I'm wondering whether he'll be able to actually win this position.
He's offering an end game in this one.
Does not look obvious how to win that game.
And meanwhile, opposite bishops between Lucian, Le and Argyce,
so it started to become very difficult on those top boards
to see the winning path, the advantage.
Honestly, Wesley versus Duda looks like the game
that is most in balance and has the best chance
of a result.
What do you think James?
Definitely looking like a fun game. I believe I think
Make it back to you Yankee care one of that one is probably number two is there's definitely draw it not likely in that
Definitely like going on quiz. I was obsessed with those like blackest now, maybe getting some type of initiative on the B file
Which is probably but also that was let's have a look at Wesley's game. I can say that Magnus just traded
all the pieces pretty much, very likely result of a draw in that game, based on the position
I'm seeing, Wesley is up, you know, a minute and a half, and counting, and he's just played
the move rope to B6. It really, really good position here for Wesley. However, that these
positions, you're just being solid with black, don't underestimate them. The move G5 and
Rukchi7 can still happen with a king side initiative.
as I see quite annoying and really strong.
You haven't played a game.
It's been King H.T. but he is preparing it.
G5 is going to be a very strong move.
Yeah, it's quite a long time.
Since I've heard this thing,
I hear the rookie in Badeleaf Rookie 7,
but B5 pawn is loose.
You have to watch it for a lot of things.
That bishop changed so bad on the light squares.
Oh, that's a bishop.
Oh, shoot.
I don't know.
What that thing was sitting there on G8.
I don't like a bishop to me.
but it is a...
And Lee's mission.
It looks like Yu Yang Yee and Fabi,
the result we could all predict, a draw in that one.
It seemed like it was double-edged,
but at the end of the day, Yu Yang Yee,
if you want to draw, he's gonna get it.
And that's how it feels in this event.
Meanwhile, Duda, holding onto this position,
but ultimately, extremely, extremely passive.
I'm wondering if we're going to see something like G4
from Wesley, you could preface that with H3B.
You need to find another avenue because the B file is just not enough here in this game.
Yeah, the B file is exactly because everything is nicely defended.
He has all his pieces right there.
Of course, the Knights are superfluous.
Is there a risk he says that they're fighting over squares?
But Knight on BA is pretty ugly, but G4 is on the board.
Making him think as he doesn't have a lot of time under 20 seconds here for due to
with a 2 second anchor rate.
And here we go.
Got to move.
Don't move if he wants to place G6.
nice move. I like that. Back to base the rook, maybe the G7.
Good. King H1. Let's get the G-file-open so we can swap over. King
H1, rook to G1, and perhaps this queen can even slide over to D1. So remember the
white pieces seem to be able to swap over to the other side. Very quickly and
there is King H1, Wesley. It's trying to push this position for a minute.
Queen H4 bringing a queen over there, but not really threatening him out. Okay,
and maybe Queen of 2 is annoying, so it plays very good for him.
Yeah, Brookhaff went to cover, we have a two, but I didn't
Bishop F7, the pieces unfortunately are just not doing anything for black.
They're all protecting something, but you have to watch out for the Queen of
Bayesian here, Queen takes E7, it might be a good move, despite you want to attack
here, we're going to see Wesley's mindset, he takes the Queen, it looks like, and that
is going to lead to a very pleasant endgame, light squared bishops, and dark square
upon's compliments white.
I'm going to notice about Wesley, the OXVX,
he loves the in-game.
He will treat those queens.
He loves the in-game, less to count men,
no less to calculate,
but less to worry about,
especially in,
and this is where you may have been attacking.
He went back, maybe could have traded
and played Brook B7 with the other way down there.
Argin has won against Lucian,
they onboard three, a crucial victory,
while NVL and Fabi are drawing their games.
origins style prevails when it comes to the blitz and Wesley is
imbalancing the position here, but he might have just blundered his
ruckling to be one is hanging and so is the bishop on f3. He did
not anticipate that. Long range missing that bishop move again.
Might be a some type of sacrifice, but he's at five takes takes it
is getting wild here. Three seconds for do to whoa, he made that with
two seconds on three seconds.
Yeah, still an advantage here for Westside.
It's significantly less than 10 what we saw previously.
Let's see him push this one through the nights on the queen side for black are no good.
Yeah, that's nice having no good.
Most really can you too.
I'm going to take you take.
Take the same same thing during the work that you want.
The rook on 86 is a bit out of the action, but you know,
black at some point needs to play and move like night to be three.
I'm wondering if the Brooklyn A6 can finally join because really you have to
the rook B6 and come backwards in, rook to H1 can be played in order to
take on H6, but rook B6 instead black can barely move.
As you can see, rook B5 actually attacks the knight to make him move a little bit,
trying to get these knights to move around just a little bit.
Not looking to trade.
He's like, I got to trade because I can't let him go down to the second.
Now, black is up a pawn, but I'm speaking about this position as if white
is the one, even pressing because of how strong that night on F6 is.
Really strong night on F6.
I had a three, do you want to draw on he says?
No repeating, King the G3.
Got to be cheerful here.
Knight.
A Knight to G5.
We're going to jump over to Magnus's game. He's actually, oh, he's actually just finished, you never mind.
Okay? He's just won that.
And again, we can check that one after we're going to go back to Wesley's game and actually just ended as we looked at it, he broke through a position, which should have been a dead draw fortress.
Magnificent chances of that top four just went up significantly. And Bujangzi has lost his first game in the entire event.
Of course, losing a man, we feel like I'm not Magnus guy, so annoying.
Crush my Cinderella story.
five seconds of peace here they're repeating but Leslie should not repeat here
King A 2 is the decision and that's a pretty good move. Black's King is almost
in a mating net.
Mike check probably just a great game a little bit of time bring it back around
now night. K. C. six.
96, you'd expect it. Let's the Black King walk up the board.
Oh, 95 of King G3.
Goodness. Right. I was made. Oh, we had to go think you won.
Will he take one of these pawns? You're H5 is hanging. He decides to go for that pawn.
There is a rook A8 move.
Now, wondering if I saw that right, I thought there was Brooke A. A. The board is still not updating.
It's not updating.
Oh man.
Peace for you.
That is a big miss.
I do not think Wesley can be happy with that result.
I'm very confused at the draw there with so many pawns hanging.
I'm wondering about that position.
I think he just missed Rook A8 after Knight takes H5.
It was effectively checking it
who'd be winning a piece in that game.
So the board is not updating,
but I believe that the move was Knight takes H5,
and I think it was Rook takes C3 here.
And at this point, he has Rook A8.
The king has nowhere to go.
You have to give up the knight.
So very confusing, Wesley plays Knight takes H5.
I thought he was setting this up, but despite, like, how can he set it up in the position?
It's lost, you're down a piece.
So James, chaos to end that round as Wesley misses a huge chance to gain a full point
and move up in the standings.
Sometimes it's that hand and I coordination, it's just a little off, especially when
in time, there's so many emotions in the time running low here.
But as we see, the pairings in the standings are kind of what happened here, and it's
round, Magnus Carlson wins and beating wood, wood is the only loss for the Magnus, for
respectable but man, it's like worst timing, bro. Well, I didn't. Gotta lose now right at the end.
There's only a few games left. I'll be out of there's a troll there. Argin with the dub.
True is well, we look at these scores here. 12 and a half. Looking like the high there. Argin up at the top there.
Exactly right. That is marginary guy seed. That style of play. So impressive. 12 and a half points. He won that round. Well,
around well, draws were being made and Du Boven, Yuyang Yee, the only players remaining
with that undefeated record and they're at 11.5 points, both fighting for that four-place
spot, meanwhile Fabiano and Maxine protecting their grip on that top four with some draws
on the top boards.
And I think at this point, you're really starting to have the conversation that, you know,
northern back and that group with 11 points that just might not be enough, as you see, the
women's section results.
A lean losing on board one to divasara,
that shakes up the tournament as Asapaya
then moves into first place at 10 and a half points,
soul lead and Gunaena hands Nerman,
her first loss of the event and also moves up to 10 points.
So now we have rubbers and Gunaena type in what will be second place
while soul lead goes to Asapayava with not many rounds remaining.
Yeah, Asapayava won't be bizarre seems to be
They crypt tonight, or are laying robers right now,
for it's Tuesday, only loss, we'll be sorry for his now.
In first place, there are only four spots, guys.
Only four spots is important to understand.
Now, with that being said, it's actually check out something
that we have for you guys, which is a nice game, tactics.
Well, we just want to check out some of the games that we missed,
right, James?
I mean, it can't be everywhere, but the game's moved so fast.
So we want to check out this Magnus Carlson versus Boojang Z game.
Because the reason we were not there is honestly, it was dead drum.
Players were shuffling it looked like in a locked position in this spot.
One of those shuffling moves was Bishop C6 by Boojang Z and 92 was played.
And well, the concern is if the Bishop went back to D5, E3 and H2 are hanging with this incredible night off one chat.
So just that one idea missed, that means King F2 was played.
But hang on a sec, now you've lost the CPON.
So a bit of an error as Bluejaxi did not realize perhaps
that you can't just shuffle mindlessly,
you have to watch out for that one trick and Magnus spotted it.
And from there with the extra pawn, you can see the conversion.
He was able to do night C2, by the way, stopping King D4.
So the white king could not come back.
And once you win that E3 pawn,
You know that the F-3 F-4 pawn is going to fall immediately after and resignation.
So, Magnus wins, where we thought was an unwinnable position, and comes back to actually
win this game against Blue John Z and hand them his first loss of the event James.
That is incredible.
It's Magnus does Magnus things, especially when you restart any game there.
Still in at least trying to say, you know, but again, for top four spots, guys is the windows
closing round after round every draw. It's like, you know, a little bit tough. Right. So still got stuff to do, but let's take a look at I lead real quick. And we'll get out of there for sure. I love to James, but actually don't see any moves on.
I don't see any moves here. So I think they're getting set for the next round. So it's positive boards are being reset, you know, and next the next boards are getting set up. So we don't have any moves in this one now that the
rounds completed, but obviously the loss on that top or the first
loss greatly is very significant for the standings, and Asalbaiava is the new leader.
Well guys, I'll check that game yourself. You got to see it on the event page.
We'll be back. Oh, we got to work. We get some magic. We've got to do
some magic. Are we? Are we in the right hand? We. Okay. Okay.
Well, we got. You know, we would have been shame to miss this one because you
You know what James, it actually was not too many moves, either from the opening and
we're on more of a move 14 here.
This did not even last 30 moves for the top board here, night to be six B3.
We're just in the opening phase, it looks like, you know, business has usual, in fact,
it lean had a huge advantage out of the opening phase of the game.
Kingside Castling was not the one to play, and actually after H takes G5, James had
becomes apparent that the white king is not in a good spot.
And the move Bishop E7 F5 was probably the move that really cost Eleaned this game
because you're just giving the H2 square to black the rope and the queen are coordinating
there.
So naturally after F5 you start to get concerned not just for the H2 square but all the
dark square diagonals this bishop cannot play to E3 because of the hanging night and
the pieces converging on the king side.
So we see Queen to F2 and a blunder filled game.
Unfortunately, in these crazy games with low accuracy,
it is actually just who makes the last blunder
that costs the game.
Queen E5, Queen takes on B6, should have been played,
but understanding that Queen H2 was coming,
it leaned Mrs. the opportunity to correctly grab this night.
Now, after Queen H2, it's understandable with RkH3 coming,
you get a little bit nervous here,
But I do think that that was just a stone
called miss in this game.
Bishop to F3 played to stop Queen H2.
And now I think unfortunately the tactics started
to rain down with Bishop C5.
And unfortunately just before the only move,
the blue arrow was not played by Elaine.
And Queen Dix B7, pretty much blunders the game
because this is a check-mating attack.
And a win by force, if rookie 2,
that Queen is going to come up to G5 and deliver a checkmate
and the same thing on King G3 and G4.
Again, filled with blunders.
Ultimately, I don't think that attack was working,
but in Blitz James, you can launch the speculative attacks
and they are very difficult to defend.
Absolutely as time is, of course, sort of like a piece
as well, you down time to be down in the game.
So it's very important to say,
guys, fast chest things happen, but in the day
still have grounds left to see who's going to make it to play off.
Or since he'll be back after the third.
That's it.
So we're gonna play. Where's the name of this?
It's just like guess the voice. I don't know if we just better just bet in this guess the guess the something
So without any further ado, let's play the fun game as we get ready to roll out coach and fix
Go for one. We are changing the name of the bishop to diagonal thingy
Yeah, I was gonna say I but should one of us go first for the guesses like or do we just both yell at it?
I was gonna say I though I
I think you can both, you both guess that.
Yeah.
Easily, you would never say, you would never say this to me.
That's not, you would never say this.
Oh, okay.
I don't got it right.
Yeah, I would never say that.
I would never say we're changing the diagonal thing,
you know, now I'm saying it, but okay.
And actually this time, I think that was a good call,
that he said, we'll rotate.
All right, let me, you go first,
but let's play around to you, you go and then he car goes.
I literally don't care.
I literally don't care.
Wow, I'm going to go AI.
Yeah, I'm going to agree that the pitch sounded a little bit higher.
I might have set up the pitch sounded too high compared to the way I normally say.
So I'm going to go with AI as well.
OK.
Big reveal.
That was great.
Did say it once.
OK.
Look at that literally.
Don't get it.
Oh, but I agree.
I thought it sounded too high pitch, but apparently that was from a stream.
All right, no round three.
This time, your car goes first.
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game,
it's okay to lose. I don't you have to be merciless. That's that's I mean if that's not
magnets I'd be really surprised that'd be if that's got to be a real magnets. Yeah I'm
going to guess real. That's a I that is a I I I want to hear more by the way I think I've
listened to a couple of days ago I had a bit of a refresher of all of your voices and I do
think that this last round of Magnus, they really nailed it.
I don't think it's losing the elements because it's a
AI is going to help players to play better chess against each other, so I don't think
chess is going to die because players can never memorize everything.
My name is Adir, I'm the future, and we're going to check some questions.
What is the easiest way to play the game?
I think legotons, my favorite fresh in design, it's a French brand, so I pretty good.
There is a future from the bus going around for now, giving a lot of time in France.
What is this future? I don't know this, I never checked.
I was thinking a few days ago to check the action.
There is a speech that is very deep creating was 2800 something 3 probably 4.
Please I just feel just a girlfriend, she is a valuable player.
What is an air-fog just a favorite chess opening?
I would say a king's in jail or a Sicilian.
When I was 18, when I was 18, when the France closed around 2019, all the questions
answered.
Well, not yet.
We have a few more questions from chatGPT.
How did the moving from ear into France 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 we have to solve a lot of puzzles at the beginning when your child is in the pattern stays in your head.
What are your thoughts on balance between preparation with engines and maintaining creativity in your games?
Do you ever feel like the game is losing itself?
It's human element with the rise of air.
I don't think it's losing the elements because AI is going to help players to play better
chess to against each other so I don't think it's ever chess ever going to die because
players can never memorize everything.
What do you consider the biggest difference between playing online chess versus over the
board chasing 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 in game.
Chase has seen rapid evolution in recent years. How do you see the role of young players like
you're safe shaping the future? 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,
Googleish, 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 the highest level 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, you know, they should just think about improving and losing is not enough for you.
Good, see it.
Round 17 is here guys. I know you're excited. You're ready to see who makes it to the play
all year. We want to see that too. I'm getting master James, can't see the third, joined by
Grandmaster Mont-Hambleton. Let's actually take a look at the pairings as we do have them ready
so we got to see what matchups, who's playing who and what's most important right now.
So basically what we got match ups are, and Carlson versus I don't want to say it's not
saying what you are here there, and then of course, we have the rest of the field there.
I think that big origin game versus Cinderella who actually is very underrated, I believe
sometimes if you underestimate him, we don't see a thing as one on here, especially with
DuBoc on the board through there.
Well, just noting some of the tendencies of the players, U-Yang-E, Arteniav, and
to the board 5, you have to think of a reasonable chance of a draw and the L-Duda as well.
Maxine and Fabi have been sort of drawing their games, they're at 12 points.
They just know that draws in these last rounds is likely to keep them in that top 4
Dubah as well on board 3 has really been doing similar, but Arjun has a lot of that.
At 12 and a half points he is the sole leader of the event and because he keeps pushing
up that top score, you know, Magnus remains a point and a half back.
So, fours one and two are where my focus is,
because Magnus, again, some an end cup,
needs a victory, and has a very favorable pairing
in terms of getting a 2,500 there.
And of course, Cinderella, Arigai-C,
you know that Arigai-C does not want to go for any draws
and we'll likely continue pushing as we take a look.
I'd be living section James and Assobaeva,
the new leader at 10 and a half points,
but Gunaena, Rubers, and now as you generate
moving up to board two to compete against a lean that will be a big matchup as
remember the win-in section where you can ultimate round we're getting close to
the finale there's only 15 rounds only 15 rounds is it's correct here that you
don't see players sitting down get ready to go to be service is a good unit
there we need this definitely going to be running at her or at least maybe
come for a little draw she is up there at the top so we'll see maybe some
short draw or stay up there and let's go on this only one round after that for
But yes, engineer to as well. I mean rovers that's going to be a heated battle. I think rovers is not going to get the draw there
And of course our genus in the ruppers we see on the screen here good friend smiles before shaking hands there and
Sitting down, but it's not going to be smiles on that board. Okay, maybe what do you think?
They do you want to draw there, Mon? Do you think that that game is going to be a draw? I'm going to say no
I'm going to agree with you James. There's a lot of other boards that are draws likely and you know
You know, this, this young man right here is going to get the attention that he deserves
being on board one against Magnus Carlson, but we have to talk about Igor Seminek, Igor
Seminekov, who is up there with the very best of them clearly having a phenomenal event.
And I'm even wondering how much rating he would be up at 2500 to be on one of the top
more, it's at this stage in the tournament,
has to be gaining, you know, upwards of 70, 80 points.
Yeah, he's gaining some elo and also playing Magnus,
but I mean, he's earned it, right?
It's always a thing when you're like, oh, yeah,
you've earned a play Magnus, you're like,
you're not really earned that thing, you know,
like it's bittersweet, because you know,
you play Magnus with the same time you are playing Magnus.
So yeah, good on Sam, Magnus looks comfortable, it's okay.
We actually have moves too on the board.
Let's see what we have.
And here we go.
We're being told yes and chat has the numbers two plus 45 and that's incredible.
If you see the games taking shape here, Asalbeva against Gunina, top left of your screen
to top boards in the women's section to penultimate round, absolutely critical, magnets
with the white pieces, needing a victory against Simon Enkov and going for a variation that
It might surprise some of the viewers, but actually the King, which has recaptured
between on D1, this is very much an intentional decision to trade queens, and it does
not necessarily mean the position is more draws.
In fact, a lot of the times it's actually white who's playing for a win, very counterintuitive,
but James, I wouldn't say that that early queen trade in that game is something magous
is concerned about in terms of his winning chances.
Oh, he definitely loves this. I mean, you know, I understand the field day here. Queen's off the board early. You get in game. You know, he gets to do his thing.
This is also a reverse field of the or type position that you have here. So if you are a field of the player from the black side and you have the early black plane E5 with P6 and E5 very early.
The Queen's can come off the board and you play in a similar fashion. You play F6, you go C6, King C7, etc. So white seems to probably be doing the same thing here in this field of the group type of fashion in reverse.
But I will say I'm on I almost by the sleep after seeing the variation
So you know, I'm just gonna you know wake myself up and go to another game
Actually I'll come back later when Magnus is better in the end game
There you go looking across the board there
Argin and Cinder Obs position
I don't think anyone surprised to realize that that does seem to have the most action because
to Fabi and Dubah, we look like we're, you know,
in the makings of a draw already and Duda and VL,
although there is a little bit of interest in that,
it looks like it was a London system
and a symmetrical position in that one.
So my attention is on Cinderov versus Erigai-C.
On board two, definitely with opposite sides,
Castling James, this is the place to be.
Yeah, I even like the opening choice,
the Sicilian with the early Queen takes D4,
We're going to go into E3 and Cas and Queen's side.
These are very fun variations because, yeah, as we get opposite side
capsules, whoever gets to the King first, will win.
That's exactly how it goes.
In all of the positions when you cast on opposite sides.
So we're going to see people aiming at each other.
You see the work on the C file and directly hit in King.
That's on C1.
You're going to see King B1.
What do you see H4?
Or even G4?
Just don't even care about nothing here, mom.
Just G4.
I'm done in care.
And when you take over G1 and hopefully the best.
But probably not the way to go.
against the E instead.
Yeah, this is a mature move.
Rook H to E 1, because I'm with you James.
Mo G4 is suddenly very tempting.
You actually want to lose upon there
in order to open up that G file.
The rook is in directly at the king,
which is why usually the move king B1
is very natural.
And in this position, you actually can allow
a bishop to take C3
because of how strong the darks where bishop would be.
Now that being said, I still believe
that the move bishop D2 is a bit more standard here
and perhaps more expected, this pin is annoying
and it has to be said that doubling the pawns
in front of your king, exposing the queen side
is not the way you probably want to go about this position.
So I think that Bishop D2 is on Cinderella's mind,
but then you have to consider what happens after D4,
the bishop hitting the A pawn and your king
is still on the C file.
Yeah, this is actually, I mean, it really is about initiative
and it's still equals time and activity.
how fast can you do what you need to do.
In fact, if you know the plan,
which is opposite side cast,
we'll get to the king first, we'll win.
So you need to make sure that you get to the king first.
So that's the time and activity.
So he says, you can have it.
I don't care about any of that.
I need to be fast.
I got to be quicker than that.
Queen A or H4, the allowing Bishop,
take C3, going all in on this attack.
Well, you mentioned Queen A5.
I think James, you might have been interested
to move ahead of yourself thinking about,
well, Black would do next.
I think we should take some C3.
Yeah, James had had it himself here with a brilliant suggestion,
Queen A5 for Bob's next and both queens are looking to do
some damage in this position.
We will see ideas like Bishop G5 coming to light,
but that night, you know what it wants to do, James,
jump into E4.
That's the move that's gonna be very strong defensively
in order to deal with the threat on H7.
You are thinking about moves like 9G5 as well,
but after 9G6, are we gonna see Bishop takes H6
we do it's on the board. I love it. Let's see. They should take
the H6 here. We don't care about nothing here. I think one thing I know is
about the Cinderella off to as well is his view. It's where I'll have to
board like the twirling pond. He also like, you know, does the rock
with the knee or whatever that is to make his body move like that. This is
like a signature Cinderella signature when he's locked in. We's locked in
here. He's right there. He's twirling with the with the pond and you
You know, right under his left or right elbow, and then he's like, you know, got the needle.
You sound like you're locked in, you know, better than he knows himself.
Bishop takes H6, Queen takes H6.
Now, black to play here, the move Queen A3 is a given in blue arrow as a very important move.
It can be brought back in defense.
However, with rook E3 coming, I don't believe that that is what we're going to see.
Instead, it's the king actually needing to run away in this position. King F7, but that doesn't sound like
urgent. Instead, Rootsie 7, and now an only move for white to avoid being worse, is Rootsie 6,
but that looks like an easy one, and it's already on the board.
Fire works. This is an incredible game. What I'm going on, it's actually funny, because I've been in
this title position in July of London, because you don't care about the C39 as much. You know,
you know, they just let them sacrament and they just,
somebody's getting made it, it may be me, it may be them.
And that's the fact that we like it.
So, you know, someone's getting made, you just don't know who you.
That's right.
And you can play the move,
broke to G7 if you want to try to keep the fight going.
But if I'm being honest here,
not only does it draw seem likely,
but even if you play Ritchie 7, at some point,
it feels like this repetition is going to happen.
So let's just see how it continues.
Brookgees have a group G3, perhaps maybe doubling the rooks might have been better there
or even bishop to F5 to E6 could have been an idea James instead of Brookgees 3 is played
and Arjun continues to fight and continues to say, I'm not going for any draws.
Did draw one, what is that? I don't even know, Queen A3 check first to get just a little bit of extra
time. King B1, I don't even think about it. I couldn't repeat again, will he repeat chat?
What do you think? Is it a draw? Will he repeat? I always said,
and repeat what?
Queenie said repeat what and I agree at this stage,
you can also take on G3 and oh, he's played Rook F7.
Perhaps he wants to take on G3 and bring the other rook over.
It's given you double question mark,
but not because it loses simply
that we're better moves available.
So he moves back.
Here's how to wait.
Let's light check.
Rook comes over to be three.
We can get back to T6.
No mate.
There is no mate.
Look, Rook, Rook, Rook, he wants to play Rook, he wants to cut the King off, but Queen
H8 check first and look at the King, is it building a fortress of pieces around it, it's
safety, because there's no pawns left, James.
Oh, and 95 has a strong move, 94 is incoming, could be some mate for it's scary stuff.
Yeah, Rook, C8, we're talking about threats for white as well.
Rook takes there is Queen B6, attack that holding the position together, Queen H4, eyeballing a potential checkmate, if that Queen disappears from that square.
Rook E7 sliding over, Argin is trying to find some coordination, the King can now go to G7 as it does right there, and I think he's starting to take over this position with four seconds each.
I was coming in really quickly. Rick, Rick, Rick Czech was coming, A5, hitting A4 as the idea.
Yeah, Rick B6 is also available, but at the moment it does drop the night.
Rick D6 and Rick takes C4 and has been played. The Queen is lost.
Arjun is winning.
Arjun is completely winning here.
He continues to win if he didn't have that night.
Oh, quick. Oh, hey, look at him.
Jake, make stick and move.
That's a good.
We need to do it with low time.
We're going to the game in action.
But definitely Magnus is securing the result.
The he needs here.
And actually that is a checkmate on the board.
Magnus Carlson grinds down an end game in that one.
Noterback is still in progress on board seven.
There's a lot of draws on those top boards,
but we'll get to the results in just a second.
Noterback against Martyrosian here, opposite bishops,
but still quite some in balances in the game.
And Norbert playing with black in a position like this
with extra pawns, he's going to play this forever.
He will play, you know, king pawn versus king pawn,
same side forever.
You think these, this is a draw absolutely no, not for,
you know, not for Norbert,
He also does have bad balance chances to play on here with the extra points.
Absolutely.
If King takes on H5, we're going to see Rope H3 and Rope H6, very tricky.
You cannot touch that pawn and that is a mistake here for Norteback.
He's now lost all of his pawns.
Yeah, that's a no joy. You can see the slight grimmence on his face there.
realize, okay, let's step up. There should be almost made there, but it's almost not made.
Yeah, if anything, maybe you can say why it has a slight chance now, that was a really
significant blunder by note-of-back dropping. Both of the ponds due to that tactic. As a result,
we're very likely to now just see a draw. As the King goes stage seven, the Bishop will go to
G6 and you know, Black can even just shuffle the pieces forever, but what was the position
in order back then you could press in is now a position that I think will be a draw
but you do need to be a little careful about a potential checking it on H8 that's about it.
Yeah, yeah, this week five would have been sort of scary here but he had king face H6.
Opposite bishop's means we're likely to see a lot of shuffling here.
There goes that eight on now.
I can't look that thing gets you far ahead, but I think we are headed for a peaceful result.
Yeah.
What do you say to your G7?
I'm going to unplay it as well.
I'll play that out.
It's powerful.
Okay, seven.
And the king is very safe on H7.
This is the last significant game near the top of the standings going on in the open section.
these players both on 11 points only moving to 11 and a half though with a draw
honestly just not help either of their cases should be a draw here boys
just shut the hell look at a see if there be any weird moves obviously sometimes
anything happens sometimes well we've seen that in an equal position I
wouldn't just count this out for no reason here in order back seems to be
the one actually making ever so slight progress but repetition was very likely now.
Rook the four Rook the five available.
Just throw a thinking. Yeah, of course easy. And then look up. You draw a yes. Okay, get
about it out. And there it is. Note it by shaking his head because he dropped a pair of pawns
back to back. When it looked like he might have a slight chance to push for a win.
And like I said, at 11 points, moving up to 12 is really significant with only those
few rounds remaining James, we needed, you know, from his perspective, he needed those
points, but both players on 11 and a half after that draw.
As we see, what happened in this round here, madness with a win,
Arjun keeps on winning among that as a story, it is he keeps winning, he keeps doing
Well, he's at the top. He's in good form and he wants to stop him and do well.
So he's like a nice drop. But he's sitting right up there at the top two as well.
Yeah, Magnus can be favorable pairing and moving back up in the standings. He's now fifth overall
because of all the draws on those top boards and do to all those draws, a true leader is emerging.
Eric Guy sees been meeting the event for a little while now. However, at 13 at points,
He's now a point-thier. He's only lost one game, but 11 wins. It really sets in a part.
Daniel Dubab, his strategy with no losses, along with Yuyangyi, has kept them both in
contention for the top four. But ultimately, whoever is able to generate those wins in
these final games is going to be the recipient, and probably that top four position had an
into the playoff. So it's really critical now that you know, Magnus is mounting that comeback,
but still, Magnes is not in that top four placement.
It was funny. I don't know how is it? Can we get a record account? How long
Duball has been at number four? I think it's been like five rounds in the
row where Duball did move. He's just like, this is my spot. No one's gonna get it.
And you know, he's just been holding it down. Not a loss, but he's been in fourth
place for a forever. He's been a leapfrog up between one two and three, but Duball
to be holding it down like that's it's spot. I got a guarantee is what he's saying. It's no guarantee,
but it feels like dude love saying he has one. Valentina Gunaena wins against us,
and that's why yeah, that's why you have a position B-B-star. So she actually is at the top now,
which looks great. Wow, Gunaena out of nowhere, I'm not gonna lie. It's just really kind of
crept up there to the top of the leaderboard looking great. Ten and a half, there's some 10s there
with ladyly or brown, so to go. Gikes, really tough up there to stand and standing to rise. This is where
where it all goes down here, Monter.
Yeah, notably, all in over,
who's been near the top of the tournament
the entire time is now dropped to nine and a half,
and is falling quickly out of contention,
because remember that the women's section
only has one more round.
Not to mention, Elaine Robbers, who's been leading
right at the top of the table,
is at 10 points, a point behind first
and out of the top for currently.
So there are a lot of players,
You can see with that group of 10, probably 9 and a half, it's not going to be enough anymore
as my estimation, especially with a lot of draws coming in.
But it is probably, tie breaks are going to be needed to see who's even going to be in
the top four.
And then we have the playoffs with that top four as well, James.
It's great because this is a long term and like you know, day one and in fact in the
open section.
So day one, it was all you were doing and then we were like, where is he now?
It's hard to keep that pace up sometimes.
Now we see Arjun who is there all the time, but he's still keeping that pace.
It's really a difficult tournament.
It's a lot of verifying, endurance, and stamina needed for around like this and for games like this.
But you know, it's our time to see more games and see who base it to the time before.
But that being said, we do have a tactic for you guys, or at least something that
pay attention to.
In the magnus game, take us through what happened.
Well, as always, you know, we don't get a chance to see the action.
single time in every single game. So I thought I'd bring the moment that it all went downhill
for Simon Enkov to us, which was after King F-4. And you can see just the nature of the position,
the pieces on the board, it has been a game full of simplifications, but that is the game
that Magnus Carlson truthfully is very, very good at, probably the best at Bishop takes D3.
I mean, can you blame him for playing Bishop takes D3? The bishop was hanging, however, the computer
identifies this move as a mistake. I think perhaps it should be getting a double question mark
a blunder because the evaluation shoots out and after Rook H7 check King CA, we see exchanges
on the D3 square and then this move E5 was played by Magnus. There were choices to be made
pontics on F5 could have been winning as well but ultimately E5, I believe is the more human
decision keeping the pawns connected and a dangerous Rook end game. The King is cut off,
Blacks pass on is not as competitive as whites in terms of reaching the end and we'll be see is rook B3
E6 and
Unfortunately, despite winning the F pawn here, this is not part of Magnus Carlson's winning plan. It's the E pawn and then it's Black's F pawn
Sort of working as a trader and providing shelter for the white king and now
You can see that Magnus has a clear path to queen this E pawn. That's exactly what ends up happening in a couple moves with some nice
stack that's rook B3, you cannot take. So of course, still a lot of conversion required,
but the king cannot go to D7 because of rook to D3. Meanwhile, the pawn is cut off by the
rook on the third rank. So this pawn will become a queen. Magnus does rook will catch the rest
of the pawns, and we did see the very conclusion of this game. Not to mention the A pawn requires the king
to go into Fand, and that's why the king cannot help push these pawns. So a really nice conversion
by Magnus, and actually ends James with a checkmate on the board.
You don't get to do that very often.
Magnus, with a much needed win, he's not in the top for yet, but that puts him up to
fifth overall, a new spalling out of the top of the standings, not too long ago.
This is the Magnus Carlson patented comeback that I feel like we see.
If he's not near the top, he'll be there soon.
Well, he needs to do a shot and make it to that playoff with him.
And others are going to try to take that spot from him as well.
We'll find out who and what happens in the next round after.
You know the rules, right? Yep.
Okay.
And I'll take this guy out.
Our horse, which I think horse?
Yeah, that's good then.
Oh, it's too big.
So, I'm going to explain the best opening for beginners, it is called the scholars name.
So you start with this move.
You know, if that's your pawn to squares, taking a little bit of control, preparing to
develop your queen, what could be better.
And your opponent will probably answer the same move.
And then we'll use your strongest piece, it is the queen.
So you bring out your queen, and you bring it out as far as you can, and you attack this
pawn.
If you get really lucky, your opponent will play this one threatening your queen.
What could be more natural, you want to expel the enemy.
But then you can give a check, taking this pawn, and when your opponent blocks, you get
a rook.
And isn't that if a fantastic start to the game, you're
working upon up. Even better. Let's say your opponent wants to play a
bone cloud, which is when you bring out the king early. Your opponent moves
your king moves the king here. You got to checkmate in three moves. If you're
not as lucky as that, let's say your opponent banks a sensible move like
developing the night and finding this fun. Then you can go for what we actually
call the scholars may. Bringing out the bishop. You might think that black would
want to develop a knight. Attack your queen. But there we go. That is a checkmate.
The bishop defends the queen and the king has no word to go. If her
opponent is really, really smart and is able to spot the threat. That's fine.
You can move the green back and you're threatening checkmate again.
Let's say your opponent defense the pawn with a knight.
Then you can start developing your other pieces.
Bring out the knight, bring out the pawn.
Maybe this pawn to cover this square, so a bishop doesn't line here attacking the green.
And you have a perfectly fine development for your pieces.
So there you go kids the best opening for beginners. The scholars may go out and try it.
Yeah, like I have in five year olds.
For a five year old, okay, it's ready to hop her to notice.
We have eight poems.
So like for chairs like a first move if you move your poems and you can step two.
two, so we go forward like E4 and this four squares cause center, so we put our
bones to center, it's good thing, you push your bone forward and also try to
control the center and now we have this special piece called night and the
youth jump and we can say night jump like L shape, like you can go like this, you
can go like this so we jump my pieces to the center and now you also jump jump
your nice to the center oh that's too big and we go forward and here we
made the exchange in the chest and we just like a little plump holes can take
like this way, I don't know how to say it, like, diagonally, and as we know we already know
the night can go like L shape, like so we can call this also like L shape, and here we push
this way, and every, every opening, like, like this home structure and the, the, this
Well, no opening is like a dragon, it looks like because it's a special pose that I
backmilly and if you put a bishop here and then you can say that this diagonal and the
you can't attack the white pieces so that's why that looks like a dragon you fly to this and
to this and so that's why we call this opening dragon and the maybe we jump like this night
and you go this and this I think is what we call it as a dragon.
So is this very far white because of the dragon Vichoke?
I think when I was a kid, I play this with black.
I think I beat a lot of players, also like some stronger players,
because this kind of opening is very tactical,
because you can see this business looks massive
and just like a dragon. So I think it's a very useful for children too.
Okay, so I'll show an opening called the Rui Lopez.
It starts when we take this guy in front of our king. This is our king.
And we're taking these are like the foot soldiers.
There are the weakest guys on the board. The most, the ones that we can most easily
sacrifice so we kind of throw them forward immediately though we don't always want to give them away and then black just does the same
same idea
copying us and I'll we take this guy out our horse try to say a horse yeah
and then he is attacking
this guy riding front so basically if our opponent doesn't do anything then we're just going to
next move just take it off the board and then we're going to be we're going to have more
more material. So our opponent is probably going to not coffee us but they're probably
going to try to stop us from doing that. So they're going to kind of mirror us and we're
going to take our horse out which it doesn't threaten us but it makes sure that we can't
If we take this guy, then we lose our power horse and we don't want to do that because
this is much better than we do guys.
This is really important.
So we want to keep those and we want to make sure that this horse is really not comfortable.
So we take this guy out and then we slide him along.
These guys can go really far so he goes almost the whole board and now he's looking
right at them and there's no way for that first tail really. So it's we can
take it next move every once. There's no pretty much no escape and that's
still your purpose. You know the rules right? Yep. Okay. So the apply was
wide pieces and we started the game with E4. Yeah, why do we make this move? We
We are occupying the center, but we are also taking an eye on the D5 square.
Usually when you put this towards the center, it's going to be bad.
Many people will play the same.
It's 7, if I now, you're developing the night, because in the beginning it's very important
to develop the places to castle to fight for the center.
So with this move.
Let's find out our top four in the women's section of the world feeding.
Let's have a show.
Feeding Master James can third year with grandma.
and let's say hey we got to take these bearings for us see who is going where this is very critical right now.
Yep, we're in the final round for the women's section. We have one leader,
Valentina Gunaena, 11 points on board one against Anna Musi Chuk. Now the interesting thing
about this matchup is a draw as a phenomenal result for Gunaena. It's probably not a great result
for Musi Chuk, so I think that the game is actually going to be very exciting. Step and over against
Beta-Sara there, 10 and a half points,
a draw as well, probably sufficient for Beta-Sara.
However, if you're stepping over,
that's not good enough.
A draw between the Chinese players
might not be enough for either of them,
so we might have to see all out fights in this final round.
For more 10 point matchups,
it's Garth Alina against Alina Rovers.
So what we're seeing here,
James, is we're seeing matchups where almost everyone
has a chance to qualify in that top four,
but Alina is a very likely result that will guarantee it.
a draw leads everything up to potential
tie breaks, and simply might not be enough.
Absolutely, of course, because all the way down,
even you draw, but then you lose on tie breaks,
because you got 10 and a half, they can
you're safe, and if somebody
to bottom, beating someone that maybe you lost to,
or a set of a tie break wise,
will catapult you out of the standing on the top four,
that's important to understand.
Now, in the open section here,
big, will be matched up, of course, all of them are,
but in the open segment,
there's no, we're going to have to fireworks here.
going to be fun and go on a point as well, Argym.
And the top there, a teamwork which I've
off 13 and a half, I mean, yeah, he probably
talked about what would the drop just kind of chill in there.
Bobby, I don't look into when his game
versus height marked the rogen.
I mean, all the way down there, even
it was Cinderella versus Wesley.
So I think everyone's going to really go for it.
Maybe no one's safe when it's draw here,
if I'm maybe maybe like the guy at number one or two
is comfortable with the draw.
I don't know about anybody else.
Yeah, well, a draw is probably a result that
you could make a healthy prediction
out in some of those matchups.
One of them that is not guaranteed,
is of course Maxine Vashalegrav against Magnus.
Maxine would be probably very interested in a draw.
He's at 12 and a half points,
but Magnus had only 12 points,
does not have that luxury,
but he has the black pieces.
And crucially, there is one more game
to be played after this in the open sections.
So this is not the final round.
So a draw, and then a win in the final round,
might still be enough,
But at some point, you have to take matters into your own hands,
James, you don't want to be at the mercy of computer
tibrates or the success of your competitors.
If you're truly trying to do it yourself, big wins in the
final two rounds will guarantee most of those players as
spot in the top for the question is who can get it done?
That is correct.
Who can get it done?
The question will be answered about 10 minutes here, actually.
Just 10, 15 minutes.
There we go.
We've got a clock started, 45, 93, very nice, he seeks some standard, normal stuff,
looking out of the ordinary, but it probably will be, later on the middle game, we're
going to have some sharp stuff.
That's right, James.
We've got our bird side view here where we can see all of the matchups, indeed, there
may be some draws that take place, of course, two Bob is someone we're always looking
out for that, you yang ye as well. But, you know, it's unclear whether draws actually going
to take them to that top-four position and magna's Carlson going for a much different opening
here, not just the Sicilian, but what looks to be the makings of a potential con, Sicilian,
wondering if we would see Queen C7 there, but an interesting battle developing,
but this round, being the final round for the women's section, James, that's where our attention
is going to be that like we just went over, there's about 10, it feels like eight to 10
players in a women's section that can all potentially make it to that top four great situation
to be in for Gunina, obviously with 11 points and only Asubahia of 10 and a half. So even with a
loss, I think Gunina is relatively safe especially on Tiberates, but looking at the games that we've
got right here, I'm immediately drawn to Asubahia and Steffanova on that board because of the
the pawn captured on C5 and the question remains,
not will black win this pawnback James,
but rather after the potential Queen C7,
I'm looking at Knight to A3 or Knight to C3 in that game
and it's unclear to me what's gonna happen
after a potential Knight B5
because that Queen needs to maintain connection
with the Knight on C5, this could get pretty tactical.
That is very good, actually, it's very annoying
that Knight B5 move Knight E.
or it just seems like something is off right there
down the pond.
If I bar grease as well as you need to get that pond back
at some point, but 95 is such that annoying move.
94.95, as I could go, I don't see six,
I was risky there.
She takes, she goes forward,
maybe she says I'll maybe go queen B6 to hit the nine.
Well, this is the concern.
If the queen goes to B6, you're walking into a pin,
always something you have to watch out for.
And if we see, for example, something like Queen A5,
I'll just put this move on the board to show.
It's not that simple to get out of it.
Bishop takes E7 at the end,
especially in a blitz game.
This is something that you can definitely look
forward to playing.
Stuff in Ova, immediately, a big advantage.
And remember, Bivisar has 10 and a half points.
If she loses this game, there's no guarantee
that she actually makes it into that top four.
There's so many other women who can reach 10 and a half
or even 11 points with a win here, James.
I don't think 10 and a half is going to be enough.
This is not fun.
She is putting herself in a situation that you have to move fast.
You have to be accurate.
And you think it happened.
You like the A4 move onto your highlighting.
I actually like night A3.
But I guess you're going to play around with, like,
attacking the night over and over and over.
So A4 nights would be four possibilities, too.
Ninety-five or a night before playing very quickly response
as well, because of D4 quick.
Yeah, and after Bishop D4, I mean, obviously you're trying to trade these bishops, but also the
night on G4 can be loose after some potential Queen D4. It that will be the recapture, by the way.
It really should be Queen Takes on D4 here. It's a safe place to be. And if Asik happens,
yes, you're thinking about retreating that night, but more importantly, you're thinking about the
move B4. This is the move that I think needs to be played. And there's a blue arrow just to
howlinate that thought as it's a must play move to maintain the significant advantage that stuff
over has here with the white pieces.
Before so nasty because like you have to go on night a six there, if you're moving a night maybe
could you get away with no you can't I was going to say a six. Maybe you could weirdly enough
because like I can attack the Queen in some cases but okay before night a six and yeah not the
the greatest for black that night is off sides. And it's hard to get rid of this night.
I guess you could go Bishop B7 to try to attack B5. Queen of force, is there available
tools? Please H3 kicks the night away first. But now before being answered, we just move
you back to the set. Exactly. H3 is a bit of a miss from stuff in over now. The night can go
back to D7. It can go to E6. There are many more squares available than previous. And the
The Knight on A6 would have been quite poorly placed,
so they would start as position,
definitely improved in that one.
I wanna go to our top board here,
Valentina Gunina against Ana Musi-Chuk, James.
And this one, I'm looking at it,
I'm seeing the bishops from long range,
especially that bishop on A2, right?
Hitting the F7 pawn with the x-ray here,
from the Queen on F3, G5 is a huge threat.
And the bishop on E7 is also stuck on that square.
Defending the Knight on F6,
We're seeing I move Queen B6, but how does that stop G5?
I'm immediately wondering, this looks like a win for Balantine and Goodina.
There's moves coming in quick, too.
This is just snap, so please offer.
That's exactly.
Oh, my, I'm not going to do this, bro.
On a Moosey-Trix chance is our dwindling here and a full extra piece in this one
will absolutely guarantee Goodina's spot.
Stefanova continues to have a good position against Pitasar. So Stefanova,
goonie nut looking like they're, they have great chances in the women's section.
Here, rook to see one plate allowing. Oh my god, it's so funny. Oh my god, it's in her.
Whoa, the pain there. You can see the head nod there. She's not too mad, but that one hurts.
Man, never give up my goodness. Giving it right back. Oh my goodness.
He's hanging on H-sticks.
Oh, this is terrible James.
It went from complete winning up a piece to now completely losing.
James, this is takes, takes.
And then there's a back, oh, that's good.
That's worth the tools coming in.
That's just check that one.
That one hurts.
Thanks.
Look at how many pawns, black has now, three pawns.
From down a piece to up three pawns,
I mean, this is incredible.
The queens can be traded.
all these end games should be winning for Black
and this just flip things entirely as now.
On a music trip, good move up to 11 points
with a victory here, incredible.
Huge, wonderful.
They are hard to keep your composer sometimes
when that type of blunder happens.
So going, I mean, so many nerves and pressure here
being up and crushing and winning
to completely losing his really tough.
But now, maybe there's some chances here,
Especially with the King being five though. I was about to say yes, trade the Queen's this is absolutely winning for
on a music check. In fact, I want to say just about guaranteed trading those Queen's should be winning
in game. You're up two pawns. One of them is a pass-bond. James, I think it's fair to say,
let's jump to the birds. I've viewed just for a moment, but this is a winning position in on a music
show because very likely to move to 11 points and secure a spot in that top four. Wow, and
And when you know luckily she was doing very well here she's still it's likely to be
making this out for too as well.
Not guaranteed, but it is likely having so many points as well.
Wow, what a turnaround.
That's incredible. Of course, with the first I view, you can see all the other
games do buff is not have a good position against Nihal that you know undefeated
streak might be coming to an end.
Meanwhile, Argin continues to fight for those results, even with his 13.5 score in the open
section, and Magnes Carlson, with the bishops, is doing Magnes Carlson things and finding the
comeback when it matters here, slightly better in that game and pushing for a win with two
connected passpons.
You're saying, you know what, if I can make it to the, a lot of you have to do a survive,
making it to the top floor and then everything else that happened in the past is in the past.
So we got a brand new thing, a playoff.
I saw everyone's trying to do here at this point.
Arjun, by the way, just doing Arjun thing.
I mean, this is ridiculous.
Anyone's stopped this guy.
Arjun is just playing out of the way.
And a lead over this has one.
Games, a lead over this has won her game on board four.
We know that on a music trick should be winning
with the black pieces.
And there is one game, song, you should in against
Judegener, which we can take a look at.
This game is probably going to decide things.
It looks to be winning for a huge inner.
This is the potential fourth spot that top four
still available.
Black is completely winning here,
but let's see if it gets executed correctly.
Yeah, we have a green edition all the way back around
and be able to play H5 at some point.
Yeah, too.
Something has gone wrong here.
Something has gone wrong.
The king has made it back to G2,
and there's no need to trade bishops.
The king can go to F2.
I would have probably brought the king to F2,
but I realized the pawn was hanging there.
So this is the defensive method that Y should use,
and it is very tough to break through.
I'm not sure I see a way to get past this bishop.
You kind of have to play King D4,
and you only trick to watch out for,
is don't have your bishop in the corner
and allow bishop D5.
Yeah, let's be seeing something similar
in the World Championship,
who catch a ding.
It's 5G4 and sometimes I'm probably pushed for later on, but you got to be careful.
Oh, and it's a lot of weight, but how?
It's a, I don't know, really.
The DDT doesn't always reflect the board here.
I'm focused on the camera at this point because it is all about that F3 pawn.
I don't understand why the white bishop decided to give up that diagonal.
But crucially, there's an engine move G4.
What is that move?
What is he spots at G4?
And there's no wish of H5 because of the new G4 just incredible.
And this will punch a ticket, I believe, we'll wait and see the standings, but moving to
11 points is exactly what Eugene Arneid is so impressive to take this victory, wow.
Solution here with a very strong victory there.
And we can check out Dubob against Nehal Saran back in the open as games are still continuing.
It looks like a completely winning position and Daniel Dubob's first loss in coming.
Connected pass bonds Nehal has this one absolutely guaranteed here.
So let's wait to see the technique.
It's hard, especially if you believe it or not,
is sometimes harder with these two bonds there.
But he's making it look easy as a queen to walk first.
Yes, it's a neocerine.
And Fabi against Martyrosen on board three,
still in progress here.
Let's jump straight to that game as that game ends.
Nihal victorious and extra pawning here from off to rosy.
But not necessarily a position that you'd expect Black is able to win.
All those same size, reactive, yeah, likely you're on, but anything can happen, especially
with the timing low right now.
You Yankee lost, Dino Dubov lost, a lot of those undefeated streets come to an end,
Megan's crossing beat, Maxine Vashiva grab, we will review that game, of course, there's
a lots of action going on as the top four is being decided in a women's section and Fabiano
with 12 and a half points is trying to hang on here.
Back and forth.
Okay, quiet.
Okay, three, the queen has picked up off here.
The B7 pawn is targeted.
The pieces cannot seem to move here,
which is why Fabi is content to just shuffle the king.
He's a 12 and a half points.
He doesn't need this win, but a draw is absolutely crucial.
Just kind of annoying check to deal with, but you just step out of the way, pawns still hanging on B7, King's very active suit, move the night around, try to get the King to be.
Some small progress, maybe.
And of course that B pawn is just going to be hanging in a move here, maybe King A3 or something.
So you start to get concerned about B6, however,
makes sense that you feel that there's some slight progress here for black as now that the rookie knight are actually active.
Yeah, so be careful of being in the night forks, right, getting King A4 with the Rift on D1,
is very crucial.
Slide hesitation, King goes to A3, keeping the Rift and King off the same magnet, and there's
a check, nice, or takes, and he's very confident in holding a draw.
Yep, I think so.
There's Rift B3, Rift B4, but whenever you take the C-pon, you also lose the B-pon,
meanwhile the Rift cuts the King off.
So at some point, you'll have to try Ruk takes C4.
It is the only move along with Ruk C1 and running the pawn, but with the king cut off,
the white king just has the stake close to the C pawn, and it's sinking into this is
absolutely a draw, and Fabiano will hold this one and probably just shuffle the rook here.
This is a sample back and forth, when you push, you follow the ball with the king.
Shuffle the rook.
There you go, check it out.
There's only so many things to try here, time, dwindling as well, don't lose on time.
That's, that he has a draw with Rook E8 check as well, which he can rely on after Rook D1.
He's gone for Rook C8, perfectly fine, and that will be a draw.
And take them from height, like we're trying to be better.
Thank you, so draw might not be enough.
Definitely understand the pain there.
And still one more round in the open,
but with all of these results in,
we're starting to get a really good look
at what the standings are gonna look like.
Magnus Carlson with a victory over NVL,
we'll get to that game and briefly show you what happened
because we didn't see all of that.
We were focused on the final round in the women's
The Argent with another win over the job of 14.5 points just incredible performance from
Argent in this blitz, 14.5 is really up there.
That's a very, very high score and well above the competition.
Argent, crunching his ticket, look at Du Bois, he was holding for so long and it might
be so long to see it, buddy.
But, no, of course there's another round here, but it's up, holding for four, going down
8th year is really really good for people to come back from, but it is very
possible here.
Where's Bobby?
There's another draw we made his way through looking good as well.
So what does he say, man, let's actually take a look at a game.
We got a game here, a few games actually.
Looks like we have what you want to take a first look.
Well, I'm just looking at the Maxine vs. Magnus game.
You know, wanted to tell people exactly what happened there.
We did miss some of the action early on and we can, you know, jump back and forth here,
but early on we did see a couple of mistakes here in a row by Maxine, but I just wanted
to show this one, Bishop takes F6 because after Queen takes and Rick V7, a pawn was
gambeted, let's say, by magnets here, but the bishops just became so strong and noticed
the move Bishop C5 and we can jump ahead in this game because this tells the story.
those bishops being maintained, bishops he's six bishops he five shows you how magnets
is playing. We've got opposite sides castling, who cares about the pawn? It's all about
the bishop pair, the open lines, the attack, and jumping ahead a little bit. We see that
there is a queen exchange here on E4 and despite the queen exchange, Magnus Carlson takes control
this position. The bishops are dominant, the knights are a little bit clumsy and it's actually
Blacks, Ponds over here, which tell the tail moving ahead we can see that the F-TX G6
move was played in order to get the outside pass H-Pawn, which is really well done, and
the Knights James, that just not able to keep up with the Bishops.
Notice how this pass-Pawn is not mobile.
It's not dangerous.
It's not getting up the board, but that H-Pawn, that one is supported by the Bishops and
very dangerous as it starts to move up.
That's exactly what we see.
having to play F-T-X-E3 is also a very bad move.
The pawn start to connect,
meanwhile the knight is tied down to B2.
So you can just see the quality of the minor pieces here.
Knight and day, and Magnus Carlson,
just effortlessly advancing those bishops, those pawns.
And there was just nothing that the C pawn could do
as I've been mentioning.
It's not a dangerous pass-pawn
and blasphemy of key to, of course,
trying to get desperately out of that pin.
Thank you very much.
Bishop takes F4 and that won the game from Magnus Carlson, the pawns, the bishops were unstoppable,
untouchable, great technique in a blood game to showcase the bishops over the nights. That was
enough to beat MBL and put Magnus up into that top four spot. He was once 23rd James. He was
barely on the first stage of our standings on screen. And now he's in that top four.
Well, it's not over until it's over as they say, as he still has another round and he's
made itself to the first part of the bracket or at least the first page of top 10 or whatever,
but then he's not even a punch is ticket or at least he's very close to securing that spot
basically one of those four spots here. So it's being a four spots here. We got to take a look at
the women's section too as well. So what just happened? And Mr. Chuck was able to take down
the guinean a very nail-biting game that was crazy. Now of course, they go inside with a webinar.
I mean, I still should be maybe okay actually in there, but I think we do have our our
four for the playoff. So yeah, that's tough. We're gonna talk about that in a minute.
And here they are.
Yeah, they did make it wrong.
That was like that was really clever foreshadowing there. And we here we're in hit with the punchline that
Yunina loses that and loses her spot in the top four. So that is an incredibly costly
blunder dropping a full piece of that tactic. Queen G3, Queen H3, we were there live for the
action with that win. Music should move into that top four spot. As a by ever with the draw
and eline with a critical win. And we also saw juge in there, the win over her country woman,
Songu Shin, to move in the top four, and those will be your top four,
Pivisar, Anamuzicic, Eileen Rubers, as Judenir, and the matchups will be of course,
Vivisar versus Judenir, one versus four, and Muzeicic versus Rubers,
two versus three in those four game mini matches.
If there is a tie at the end of those four games,
then we will use Armageddon, but those are how the playoffs are going to
shake down in the women's section James.
We have four game mini matches coming up and we still have a round in the open section.
It's getting exciting. The match is really kind of just starting because we need to
forge from the open section too as well, but all the action is going to unfold in the next round.
We'll see you after the break.
Yeah, I didn't remember this game.
Usually, there would be a lot of disagreements.
I just can't hide my emotion. I just want to laugh.
I'm so happy that I tried this experience in my life.
It was a fun moment. I'll just go with the flow.
But I didn't trip on anything. I just trip.
That's it again, I'm not going to stick through the whole thing.
Yeah, so the fun part about the fun part about this is that oral B and Pimplotion,
they got word of the fact that I'd been to one of their shows and I was, I was a fan.
So they invited me to sing a verse on their new song.
I thought it was quite funny, it was quite well-made.
Others were generally sent in their own verses for the song,
but I would not be able to do that at least in times before you had AI tools with that.
But then they wanted to make a music video.
I didn't have time for that.
So this was filmed by my brother-in-law Matthias from St. Petersburg when I was there for the world-reference in Blitz.
So, yeah, that's a bit funny and I was just like trying to, I don't know, look cool, I suppose,
which I don't really, I'm just standing there in a winter jacket, like looking like an idiot.
If there's many draws in classical, we always got the love Armageddon.
There were also many days with lots of decisive games in classical, super exciting to see.
And today, I think this is the peak.
It was last year in the Norwich as the final round against Lating Jair.
We know it's the four, four, many years, so I tried to, you know, just chatting, you know,
just to have fun, like, yeah, everything's good.
I think we did many, like this, it was late, like, in the game after game.
So I feel it's just naturally like, you know, before the game.
Super exciting to see. And today, I think this is the peak.
Yeah, actually now I remember what happened because she told me some jokes.
And when we sit there and we know and what she talked to me and we just can't, you know,
had our emotion because she talked some really, really funny jokes, like on the rest
day.
And when I saw her face and I just think about that jokes and I just can't, like, you
know, it's become like a little more person.
It's a really old photo.
The reason that this happened, this photo shoot, I think it was a New Yorker piece,
was because I was the youngest player to be a grandmaster at the time in the United States.
I beat him as a grandmaster by the name of Alexander Voidkevich, I think this was in the year
2000. And so we had this with this shoot with the with my coach with Bruce Punglefini,
who was my coach for several years. This was a photo shoot I was done in the rain,
which was obviously I was an accident, but it was very uncomfortable for me and I was not happy
I was a kid. The whole time I was miserable.
That's actually a member just being really miserable.
And during his father's shoot,
buddy, Bruce was a great coach.
He was also portrayed in a movie,
very famous chess movie,
search for Bobby Fisher.
So yeah, a lot of memories from his home.
The recreation was in 2015.
So in 2015, I moved back to U.S.
I would visit New York quite a few times every year.
And in 2015, we decided to recreate it.
I just don't remember where the idea came from.
And it was done again in Washington Square Park.
like if you're a chess player from New York or even if you've just visited New York,
then you probably know about Washington Square Park as we're all the chess hustlers
have traditionally played me to that reunion Square Park.
I don't like, I don't really know where I am.
Yeah, that was a fantastic honor, of course, and I remember like being just so nervous
with all these people looking and I had all these thoughts in my head of what I was going
to do, what once I got up to the ball and then I just made a simple pass because yeah, I didn't
risk doing anything fancy, so that was fun.
I've been to a few realm of dirt dams, like I did,
the honorary kickoff in the game in 2014,
when I won the World Championship as well,
and they were always taking fantastic armies,
so I'm really appreciative of that.
It was the best of the times.
It was the worst of times.
I think this famous quote of Charles Dickens
is a very precise one to describe my story.
It was the time of the decision.
Okay, I'm the others who also attacked that dog.
I had in 2018 in Spain and I was invited to tell people about my story.
One in the end of 2017, I refused to go to the World Championships,
which were held in Saudi Arabia, just because I thought that it's not the appropriate place to hold the World Championships for women,
because, now the situation improved a bit, but back then, the situation was even worse,
and the women's rights were totally violated and you know that the rules were a little bit
besides being dressed in a specific way, women also had to be a component where they wanted
to go somewhere out, and I thought that this is wrong. And I refused to go, but at that time,
I was the rain in champion in both of these disciplines in rapid and in bliss.
So for me it was a difficult moment because, well, not going immediately meant that I'm losing
my titles and also from financial point of view it was difficult because the price
zone was very high, the highest actual in history with the head in Saudi Arabia.
So yeah, in this touch talk, I spoke about my story, why I took this decision, how it was, and everything about it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What?
It was from B5.
Where was that?
B5.
Oh.
Where's that?
It's fine.
Now it's going to be a draw.
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember this game.
That's why when you showed the video, I was able to say it's a mouse click.
I think this match was like, you know, I started a very well.
I was leading in the first few games and Laughno is quite a strong beach player.
I was pretty happy to have a very control games, but then I think this game actually disappointed me.
Like, it was completely winning out of the opening.
there are several opportunities where I missed.
And then I was about sleep and I lost the game.
But I think even after that,
I had a very good chance.
Like I was leading in most of the games,
but especially in the bullet,
she kind of played too good, like,
she clearly outplayed me.
Going to claim the three of them,
because if she has the intention of playing Ruket 7 again,
then she's just going to write that move down
on her scholarship and pull the arbiter
and when the arbiter checks everything,
yes, it will be the claim will be approved.
Oh, she's claiming it now.
Because we have handshake, it is a draw.
History repeats and legend regains
in Chongqing as do and gen becomes women's well champion
for an astonishing fifth time.
Yeah, I was a check if it's a three times repetition.
I think it was, but I'm not so good at it.
So I was a check maybe three or four times.
Make sure it's true then I was like post-floor
and I tried to over the door to the abitor.
Yes, yes, I mean this tournament means a lot for me.
Also I learned some from my opponent. I feel she really has some fighting experience and the place nice
She says something maybe I just think about something funny during the game. I just can't hide my emotion
I just I want to laugh and yeah something difficult to hold in yeah I think she's better than me kind of this
because maybe after interviews in the show, haha haha.
I can go to the hotel now, so we're not interested.
I'm going to show you what weather is weathering.
It's a bit cold, but it's cold.
It's cold, but it's cold.
It's a sensation that man has managed to beat the former World Champion Cockle.
Yeah, I remember this, Corey Scrape memories from Iceland and those hot swimming pools
they had there.
This is from the Reykjavik.
I remember when it was called, but I was losing a lot of games in that day and I felt like I was just not on the same level as those guys, so I was a bit frustrated.
You know, after every game there was a recap.
You already kept.
It's like 113 more this game.
You can do a six hour recap, I have no problem.
Yeah, it was a great period.
I'm so happy that I've had this experience in my life,
commentating the world championship match between Magnus Corson and the
Unni-Promisje together was in the legendary vision. We had a lot of fun moments and
fun time in Dubai and this was the song this game of the whole match. There was
the time that we were counting okay it's coming closer to 50 moves and if the
These out enemies move during the 50 moves and their no captures then the draw is fixed.
And I was like, Magnus played 4 play 4 play 4 play 4 and wish he was like,
but he don't don't don't don't don't don't don't play something.
And then he played and he was like, oh my god,
he gave a lot of continued.
But yeah, it was the highlight of the match, the game 6 and Magnus won and I think it decided the fate of
Oh, the match-off.
It is time for the final round of the open section in the PDA world, let's championship.
I'm feeding Master James, he's third year with Grand Master Ahmad, and let's improvise
the final round.
we get to see who does what and where.
So what do we have to do here?
Especially if I'm on the first page,
maybe after the second, but if I'm at like number 12 here.
No, what do I have to do here?
Well, if you're at number 12,
you have to enjoy this spectacle as everyone else fights
for the top spots because if you have 12 points here,
there's really no chance for you.
So you have to be seven or above.
Arjun has a guaranteed spot at 14.5 points.
He can lose and still be guaranteed,
not just a spot, but first place.
Fabiano and Magnus, Fabi has the best chance
to secure his spot at 13 points.
His tie breaks are good, a draw is likely enough.
Magnus does not have that luxury.
His tie breaks are not very good.
And so with a draw, he would be caught
by potentially Maxine, Nehal, Hacobian.
Those players can't catch it and might have better tie breaks.
The draw could be enough for Magnus,
but we don't have that guarantee.
And of course, everyone with 12 and a half points
realistically has to win.
And that's how we're going to get our top four
decided James, but there are six players fighting
for three spots because Arjun has already secured
that top spot and these are the final round pairings
in the open section, James.
Here we go, and I'll just find a round,
so in fact, we know it's going to be some fireworks
on the board.
Mang's Carlson's never back at this tour
They're definitely gonna battle without Neha and Archener guys.
You know, the Archener did just do kind of whatever they're for Neha.
Once they're really scared of spot, so I think he's going to come at him.
And I think he's really going to actually take it to him, really try to best as he can.
You got Fabiano 13 versus a wrong 12 and a half, a wrong is like, no, I can't sit here at the bottom
and just let anyone pass me.
So I think these are going to be critical boards where they are going to be fighting for a little bit more to push themselves up
the most comfortable.
The reason that it's so impactful, James, is everyone at 12.5 points is playing somebody
who's not at 12.5 points, right?
So we're getting a situation where all those players need to win, and they're not playing
each other.
They're playing other players that might be satisfied with potentially a draw, or they
maybe don't need to win.
Fabiano at 13 points, you see, Arjuna at 14.5, Magnus at 13.
So the pairings are done up in a way in this final round where players that need
to win are playing players that actually don't necessarily need a win and might be happier
with a draw.
So on one side, you have a player that's maybe comfortable with the quality, trading pieces,
and another player that is not satisfied with that in a slightest.
It's always going to be fun to watch those type of games because we know we're going to
get some real violence on the board all the way down, maybe draws them fifth and sixth,
maybe not fifth, and we'll walk inside the chance to harness and rest is so, you know,
And then it pops up with, what do you think, is it, is it out for an action
Westway?
Just no.
No.
There's no chance.
Well, because the reason, the reason is because, like I said, the 12-and-a-half
are not playing each other.
If they're playing each other, they could potentially all draw and end up at 13.
So no, because they're playing other players, scores are going to go up.
There's absolutely no chance for anyone on board five or below.
You have six players that are fighting for three spots because Argent has first.
Yeah, we go, that's all in the pharmacy.
He is facing in the L, in the hand seat.
It's like, where is it?
It's like, are you good?
Yeah, you know, we got to do it.
Yeah.
Well, at this point, this is one of the matchups,
one of the few where Nepo is actually not in contention,
and he's playing someone who is.
So Nepo, she only has 12 points.
That's one of the few pairings where 12.5 is actually playing 12 points.
So this is pure spoiler for an upon issue.
Of course, there's prize money, there's prestige,
there's a lot of reason to still play for a win here.
But it's interesting to note that, you know,
the upon issue is not going to be part of that top four
whereas MVL still can.
You know, like you probably walking around
getting himself composed of four feet of a game.
There it is, around.
Looking around, what's the bottom?
Just a note, just a note, James about the, I guess the proceedings, the schedule.
This is the final round of the open.
There are no games taking place in the women's section.
No playoffs taking place concurrently.
So we are not missing the action.
After this, we are then going to go into the playoffs and the women's section.
There will be no games being missed there either.
Then we're going to do the playoffs in the open section.
Then we're going to play the winners match up in the women's and the winners in the open.
So we should not be missing any of the action from here on out
and our full focus is on this final round in the open section.
Because there we're not gonna miss anything
or any of the accent just how we would like it here.
And we're ready and shakes.
They got you, James, they got you.
That was a hand shake as they sat down,
not a hand shake that the kids had to be gone.
Yeah, of course, the Magnus setting up all the pieces as our usual stuff, so we'd like to do even piece of
parenthood straight. We got straight in our sales. The Magnus is all for ready. He's off.
Well, no, we started out with a thing. We think that conversation is.
I think what he just did his hands in an X, which is the symbol for a draw. My thought is
he's wondering if there are any rules about maybe when you can offer a draw. So I don't know
Pure speculation on my end. I thought I saw that, you know, the hands together and the axe kind of indicates a drawoffer
Maybe he's wondering but
Could be completely underrated
And there we go, he forms you funny. Hey, go with the see the reason seal for the kill, but also it could be very draws depending on how you like to play it
Krauss and with the signature, see three secs. There we go games are underway. Every game you see on your screen is from the open
section, but I will say there's only a handful of them that are relevant to the final
standings.
I'm heart's in a new hall, there's a little G3 action, something different.
Well, you promised he versus in VL at eight early H4 there.
But in the Pondition you playing H4, he's not the one that needs a specific result here,
here, but, you know, Nipponashi, that's just the way he plays chess. Very exciting and
start things up. Origin and Neha, this is a game where really Neha wants to go all out here.
However, Origin, at 14 and a half points, he has been playing the best of anyone in this
competition. And by a clear margin, I might add, as we have our four board split here,
which we can make use of to track all the games in action at the moment.
Very nice. You get to see all the games at the same time here.
Yeah, definitely convince a lot of donations to that knee-all game narrative.
He is going to try to beat him. The arc in at the same time though is playing whatever I don't.
Even if I lose I win, that's crazy. He has an incredible performance in the blitz portion.
Well, attention. Yeah, he doesn't compromise his style, right? He doesn't compromise his style at all.
He doesn't play for a draw. I mean, he's there with one of the most imbalance positions of the entire top four boards.
Some type of reverse green field in the way black has a nice center.
The two bonds in it, but when it can attack it, night on C3 changes things, just a little bit
change of dynamics.
I wonder what he's preparing after E6, but he said, never mind, E5, then D4, and now bring
a night to the center, and we ask him some trades with black having some good space.
And the move F5 from Notarbeck against Magnus Carlson has really opened the position up.
Notarbeck absolutely needs that win, and it's important to remember, in most of these
matchups, you will not see both players going through, if that makes sense. This is, you know,
only one can really go through the exception being of course, Nehal, if you wins, can move
up to 13 to half while Argin is of course in. But, note it back in Magnus, you don't really
have a situation where they both make it, so a really critical game here, in my opinion,
Magnus cannot be overly thrilled with the position that he has. It looks like a knight is really
well placed on D5 there. I think Notabek has done well. Some chances here, although
Magnus is maybe playing a bit of a mental game, he knows that Notabek might have to go all
out for a victory. So if he makes it an equal position, Notabek might take risks that he
doesn't if you shouldn't take. Yeah, actually, and we have a C file now. We've just grabbed
the C file. I think it was quite so defined, but it also shows a C-trace incident here,
which could be very combative and then it will kind of see if you see when we get,
I think white is very comfortable.
Magnus can try to use the C file and know again, as you mentioned.
The neurobrick has to go all out, so it's a look for some serious chances here,
where I don't see where that's going to be.
If Gopis are on the back ring, more trees will help white, or at least Magnus.
Yeah, this is not a position that Magnus is very happy with.
I want to say it's not a great position,
position, but the, the night on defact is really strong. I don't think this is ideal. There is that wrinkle that,
notice that cannot be that satisfied with a draw. And so he needs to create something from this game.
We might see him play and move like Bishop takes on E5 just to guarantee that it's night against Bishop.
And actually the move Bishop to before has just been played as far as I can see this must be captured.
And does this bring things even closer to potentially quality?
Bishop, before isn't annoying move, I think, for Nordivac to face.
He did not want to give up that strong night on the D5 square.
So Rick, C7, and coming to as well, and there it is, takes takes and hard to lose this one.
Very hard to lose this one.
I mean, there is, you're knocking over pieces or hanging something, but I don't think you're thinking, I think, you know, Matt, this is a week now.
See the lead so it's really difficult to imagine
Notarbeck winning this game right there are no minor pieces on the board
There's a clear target on D7 that Magnus can focus on we might be getting a rook and the McQueen game
I don't see a way that notarbeck wins this game realistically. He's also down a minute on the clock
I looks very likely and actually we have a result already
Arjuna or Guy see a knee house are and have drawn their game and I don't believe
I don't believe that that result is what Neha was looking for, but looking at the position,
it probably didn't look like a spot that he felt he could win from also with 30 seconds on the clock.
So a draw there means obviously is in first place as we knew, but Neha probably not enough with that 13 points.
Yeah, and I can see the position there too, double B pawns, A6 is hanging, you know, it's hard to create something I totally understand.
to be drawn there and all he can do now is hope for the best and hope that people with 12
are going to have to do it as well. So we will seek the need out with the draw here.
We're going to get down to the targets. It's all going to come down to the targets. We can't say
for sure if a player is eliminating themselves with these results, it all depends on other
results. So all we know is we can say that Neha's fate is not in his own hands anymore.
We wait and see the results at the end in order to see the computer targets determining those
top four, but MVL against Yandapomnishi, I can say the position looks to be one that there
are winning chances. The double pawns for Yandapomnishi with the white pieces on F3 and F2,
A4 and A3. I think MVL has the best winning chances on those top boards and a win to put him at
13 and a half would definitely put him into the top four.
And it's very, I mean, it's positioned looks great with the kings, like if you look at both
kings, why is he is very weak?
Like a move?
It's just on the edge of the board.
That's the difference.
If you trade pieces, games, the H pawn should win the game for Maxine.
And he has that available to him at all times.
So we're watching out for those H and A pawns.
Those are going to tell the story here.
And before I like to move F4 there.
That was a really strong move there.
Really strong.
It takes a lot of time to fix very careful.
And I believe, yeah, we are going to see some trades here now with an end game with Queens on the
where we have the A pawn and the H pawn dangerously approaching, but E6 to open up checking diagonals.
We'll say maybe sometimes a draw maybe can you eight queen of six there's a lot of checks both sides here with an H
upon the password. What happened to this in order back through?
Board one draw we expected this after we saw the game and how it was developing.
Draws perhaps all around it's often trying to come down to those computer
computer type rates, let's wait and see here.
The H and A problems are running in MVL versus Nipom Nishit.
You're going to check into oblivion.
Maxine with a draw still has a chance at 13 points, but not guaranteed.
Of course, H3 continues to fight for that full result, but with the queen coming
down, a draw looks very likely here and there for the taking if Nipom Nishit wants
Let's try this one, let's try that one. Yeah, the queen luckily, the white queen just defends literally everything, C6, C6, E6, everything defended.
Love this A6 move though, trying to have A checks as well.
And now it's up to Maxine to make this draw. And if you mess up the chats, the king could escape.
Absolutely critical to do things properly here.
Let's jump to Fabiano's game against Hacobion.
It looks like there's a lot more action there.
And Fabio with 13 points actually looks to be securing
the win here with a great game in the pon on tree tree.
The ropes coming to D1.
The one on the running group coming.
Yeah, repeat two and feet one.
You really can't stop it.
I'm going to be too much.
You'll just grab that bishop there as well, completely winning.
Fabiano looks to be punching his ticket through.
In that top four, we can see this one's completely winning.
So let's jump back to Maxime and Yannipom Nishie.
Absolutely guaranteed winning for Fabiano there.
I think they were trying to get it.
It looked like it might have been a draw offer.
You know what it even reminds me of.
And by the way, did we just see a trade?
This is winning.
Oh, Nepal.
Yeah.
What?
I think on it's that.
Really.
She's got an extra pawn here.
But as I say, it's winning.
Is it not winning?
What's going on here?
How is it not king?
I don't know.
Oh, maybe it's king to the corner where you take both pawns.
get the pawn F7 and King in the corner?
Well, no, it's the opposite. It's the fact that the A pawn cannot even be won,
and he's actually going to secure a draw upon down in a King and pawn endgame.
Absolute madness to conclude there as it ends in a draw, but
complete shock as you're seeing the best grandmasters in the world
talking with could be about the standings, but perhaps even wondering about that endgame
as a trying to figure out who is going to be in that top four much like you and I James.
Yeah, they're figuring out who do you who, but what do you think are you in? Are you in? Are you in?
I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, in the comments, you think is out after that is rather.
Well, we can see a couple of things. Fabiano Carolina with a win is most definitely in.
And Arginera Geisie is in first place no matter what. That is guaranteed as we take a look at the final round results.
We had a lot of draws on those top boards and VL and Yandapomix.
We saw just end with a draw.
Rejov and Dubov, that those results and below, unfortunately, do not impact those top
standings and it does feel like 13 points is likely not going to be enough, but let's
see Dubov and Rejov have do move to 13 points.
And VL also moves to 13 points.
Fabius in with 14.
How's that 13 points? Magnus at 13.5 should be enough. Well, as we see here we go,
Argin is already here. We already knew that one. Fabiano. Magnus,
northern back. Oh my goodness. Who would a new? Wow. What are you expecting that I'm on?
I think so. Yeah. When you think about when you think about 13 points, I know it feels like
Everyone had a chance there, even Wesley moving up to 13, Donald Dubob was at 12 and a half.
You know, obviously you think everyone has a chance moving up to 13, but that's not quite the case
because the Tigrex are a little bit predictable.
The players who are generally at the top of the standings are going to have the better
Tigrex.
It's no surprise that Notrebeck is especially playing Magnus in the final round.
Magnus is going to help those Tigrex, one of the successful players in the event.
So, in order back, claiming that final spot does make a bit of sense in terms of the
standings and where we saw the players paired, but critical to see that he's taking
that spot ahead of so many other players.
And via Nehal, Wesley, Dennis Lazovic, even Matt Lackop, although those names, not near the
top-drink the event, likely we're never going to claim that final spot on Tibrates.
It was so close to us, and we're doing this, obviously we've got to know where to
as well.
In the 13, literally the number you need, but not the on the tie breaks.
This is incredible guys, but we have our four, and we have our matchups for the women's
section as well.
The playoff that is playoffs are coming up, we're going to seek ourselves to show
So break guys and we'll be back with some playlists.
The match after this $20,000 prize money, what are you going to do with us if
I have any idea.
Oh, no idea, because I don't care about it.
When you get it, you'll think about it.
Yeah, because generally, for me, like, just price,
I don't care about too much, because it's enjoyed playing chess.
It's much importance. And also, as of twelve players,
if you think about the money too much, you can't perform well.
So I think, when I say, I don't care about it, it's not like,
I want to show something. I think at that moment,
moment, I just want to think about it. I qualify from the candidates from the
grants list, so it's not like a motion about the prize or money, something like that.
Yeah, this is a very recent video. So it's from a few months ago, from Paris,
it shows a number of us analyzing a new starting position. And like we would get a new
starting position every round, and then the players who have the white pieces, or the
black pieces would kind of team up because we're trying to figure out what's the best
from our point of view, either on the black side, and we would all sit around and
board and discuss for only 10 minutes. Usually there would be a lot of disagreements.
And almost never there was a consensus. I can't even think of maybe most people
would at some point decide on something, but then there would be always be someone
who does something differently?
Or you would like, look at the board
and think, what were we thinking?
Or what was this guy telling me?
Like, why did I trust him?
I think that was amazing.
He's reading, right?
Yeah, so I guess that's one through five in the world.
There's just kind of a new show.
The first all tournaments this year
have been fantastic and it is really interesting.
Even though I'm not going to
entirely understand a position of a few minutes
and they're not either.
You can sort of get it like a glins into the mind of some very, very strong and creative players.
So it's one of them, definitely one of the front parts of these tournaments.
I think we finally see it all up out of the...
smile of the end.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who's going to offer it?
Are they both waiting for the other person to offer the drama?
It's happening here.
Yeah, I've very, very, very loved it.
Yeah.
So first I was off the draw, but declined with the rook against rook so I was kind of you know I think it's funny that you know just declined in such position.
Yeah, this was the very recent world rapid title in 2024 in New York.
Yeah, this is one of the most memorable world title for me because, you know, the whole year I have been suffering a lot in a classical tournaments.
And I dropped a lot of rating points as well. I think I started dropping down from the Norway, last year, and always just even.
this tournament again really helped me to come back. So this world title gave me the, you know,
that motivation to work towards chess and this year I already managed to do well in both the
Grand Prix. I won the Pune Grand Prix and also I was second in Monaco Grand Prix as well.
Winning the second world title is definitely a special moment for me.
Yeah, I actually, I remember that very well, of course. It was a fun moment and I thought,
I'll just go with the flow. I ended up in the pool, then worse things could happen and it
was fun for sure. It was a great experience for me. The world first world championship
match and I didn't really know what to expect. I think everything else was certainly
was like that sort of experience coming through the candidates for everything that happened
there and then winning the World Championship match was a special that was an amazing experience
and it was hard to sort of replicate that in future matches.
in the playing hall.
If he gets a plea.
What happened?
Oh, the platform almost took out one of our cameras.
I did trip. I mean, I don't know if there was any other angle where people could see.
But I didn't trip on anything. I just tripped.
And it was like the stage, it's like a platform.
And then there was the camera.
So I basically stumbled off the platform
and then kind of bumped into camera, luckily not enough that I'd like to
damage it or knocked it over because I know they're expensive. I didn't get
her great. So this is a five five five times like the woman's war
champion closing ceremony and I enjoy the with this trophy and also this moment
So when I become the champion, I think it's a very,
when you win some tournament,
the closing ceremony in this moment is very important,
and very memorable.
Like, all you work so hard for, like, off the board
and also in the tournament.
And that final moment in this close ceremony,
all the feelings in that moment.
I draw. It's a sensation.
Yeah, that was a great moment, of course, special game for me for sure, very difficult
to prepare, as it's part of, because he felt like he sort of played everything and kind
of invented all the best modern openings or at least, partitioned them.
Yeah, I was just trying to play a solid normal game and that at some point I managed to
I'll calculate him like he missed a little trick and yeah after that I just
feel a little bit too cautiously I won't point but I was obviously I was
happy with it though.
I'm a little closer, I'm a little closer
I'm a little closer, I'm a little closer
I'm sorry Mr. Cainty.
Hello.
Okay.
Just check in, you know, long braids?
Oh yeah, I'm back, sorry.
Yeah, no, let's go back with the link.
The feed egg world will send you to this, the woman section here and in this section.
We have actually the neighbors, the VVSAR.
Okay.
The run to the format here, if we would have don't know, is a playoff?
What are we expecting?
How do we get a champion here, Mom?
Well, we are starting to concurrent matches.
It was a top four, so as you dinner against Pibrasar, Asa Bayava, and Elaine Rubers, against
Anamuzicuk, those are the two matches.
There are four games that will be played by these women, and the target score, knowing
those four games, is obviously two and a half points.
would win the matchup if it ends in a two to two tie, then we will decide it with Armageddon
and a bidding format. But for now, we have concurrent matches and let's focus with our split
screen view here on the two games at hand. James, this is the semi finals and the winners.
These two matches will go on to play each other in the grand final. Amazing. First of two and a half
will win. So we want to bring your best here. And as we see on both sides,
I find everything's very even in both games. It's like a Sicilian with a zoo and babies are.
They should be five type of check with sort of mix of the C3 Sicilian in it.
So a little bit different out of the area of the norm, more positional rather than tactical.
Yeah, I'm looking at the game between Eileen and Anna on the right side of the screen.
Looks like there are at least more pieces on the board in that one.
So a little bit more action.
I do really like the position for white and it's based really on these two bishops for
music shook.
I don't really like the bishop on G7 hitting the pawn on E5 and it feels as though
So after the move A5, we have a couple of options for white.
We can play Queen 2, B3, and look to maybe capture back on B4 with the pawn, or we can play
for B5 and look to gain space on the Queen side.
And it is, and it definitely happened B5, but now the night rerouting to B8 and then the
D7 over to C5, nice development with B4, Queen B3, and a Bishop A3 could be very annoying
to Anna's position.
Yeah, night two, H5 into F4 in that game
on the right side of the screen makes perfect sense.
The move E5 in the center of the board for a huge in there
looks like the tempting move to make
but not the decision as instead E takes D5
and that was not the correct move.
And now, CV, so do we have a C4?
I'm always a fan of making moves like that.
before what's defense to be like,
Han could be a B5 there.
Stuff you're very spicy.
See for it, B5, B3 take take D3.
Like what on earth is happening?
Locked and lock had happened.
They're very quickly.
I think this game is about to heat up,
depending on what happens.
Yeah, early on, it seems like,
As a very good game with the black pieces here,
it's huge and air with that E-takes D5 move,
not the most ambitious.
Meanwhile, Eileen has a great position.
I would say, getting towards a potential advantage,
meaningful advantage in that one,
Brooke A to D1, bringing the rook into the middle of the board
is an obvious next move.
And now, the question is just whether
on a musica can defend and control
that C5 square successfully, meanwhile,
Eileen is moving the pieces over.
We'll probably see the 9 on F3 retreat to D2,
and then on F1, make its way to D5.
I'd like to recommend to you one, and now we can get C4 and 9 C3, maybe off to one of the other side.
Bishops look great on the diagonals, dark square and light square diagonals for white.
I mean, C6, breaking open a position in the Anna, wanting to do something with that
Constructure and activate her vision a little bit more on B7. B7, B7 is still not one of the greatest pieces.
getting E5, got some good squares to nice maneuver, make to E3, maybe going
90, 5 next after getting rid of the C6 ball.
Yeah, it looks a lot more equal.
Maybe just a good position, good opening for Bivisara on the left side of the screen,
but definitely much less action you can see, much different story on the right side.
It lean robbers against Anna Muzicuk is going to be very exciting because we're going
get in balances. I'm wondering if we're going to see Bishop captures the night on D5 in the
middle. If not, the queen probably needs to retreat to the D8 square. The only square that seems
to make sense, but no, we do see the capture. The lights, whereas our well-controlled, I thought
that perhaps that Bishop belonged on the D5 square, but instead Bishop takes D5, hard to resist,
but the Bishop on A3 is not that strong. Although there's a pin James, it's really just hitting
that nine on C5 with no, I mean you never want to take it, right? So there's really no future there.
Yeah, and one of the exercises back to the vision up and go 9G5 because it seems to be harder
to defend that 7, but okay, I guess you have Rook F-8. It really is a little bit of maneuvering
game here now, even though we have a bishop, so it's not the most maneuvering E made that
worry of pieces with a move of the bishop at 8, 2, 9G5 and then Rook F-8 and then what?
you're going to get kicked away with age six, it's on point. So something to pay attention to.
Meanwhile, in the other game, it's a, yeah, or no, up a pawn for movies are there.
Well, you're, you're right to be a little perplexed by that. I was as well. I don't know where the
pawn disappeared in the grand scheme of things that looked like a position that should have been a
little bit routine. Maybe as far we knew was kind of dominating the game as in completely equal,
but there was a massive mistake made and a little bit of a tactic there in that position.
So perhaps we'd bring up that board. I'll just go back and show that because this was a
moment where after Rook to D8, 95 was a blunder and Queen to E6 was played. Now,
Knight takes C3, a pretty incredible brilliancey. Queen takes C5 with the back rank,
Nate Thret, and now that's led to this remarkable position that is just bishop on B2,
looking like a pawn connected to the C3 pawn, but it's not. That is a bishop, James, and
absolutely winning for B2sara. That is a very, very nice tactic here, especially with Bishop's
on G7, which B2sara thrives in, she's a Kings Indian player, too, as well, she's been a lot
Kings Indian, lots of great wins I've seen her with on her road to GM, so very nice, Bishop's
in Blitz as well. Looks like first game is going to be hers likely and it's still a
14 match stuff. Change stuff is turning around in an escape.
Yeah, I think the position with Moosechuk and it's developing in the way that you would kind of
want with Black. You've traded dark squid bishops. The Knights, I'm expecting to perform very well here
in a Blitz game, especially look for those knights that come alive for Anom Moosechuk,
Even though the engine is preferring white, I really feel that this is a type of position that will flip in black's favor.
Very quickly, just due to the ponon F3, those weak dark squares, you're going to need to see a lean, play some high quality moves to not let those nights just jump around everywhere.
They are jumping pieces. F4 seems really strong. I do like the F4 movement.
idea is to go F5 too, but there's some QC5s in there, I'm not a fan of it, I don't
really want to trade QC too much, and to trade with it.
Take the pawn, got a passer, pass the D5.
Push!
This is the C4 really.
Yeah, the pawn going to the D file is pretty significant, very helpful for white.
the Knight on C6 is extremely strong.
Push, you could take...
Good, the 97. I took the other way,
it was you won 97, then pushed like it.
That is five. There it is on the board.
Ooh, that was still dominance for Bivisara.
I'm not sure about all the tactics in this game after Bishop D5.
and night D6 is absolutely the move undermining the E7 night. And are we seeing, I think,
whoa, I should be able to win. She did just thank her. I saw, I saw my
look her, her hair and a ponytail. Is that the equivalent of Magnus taking the
jacket off because this looks like a position up two ponds in a Rook and game, which
should be completely over. I, I just can't believe that the
broken, like I'm still over that. This is like, the nerves are real.
I mean, you know, we're versus just absolutely crushing the field
and then hangs a book here in that position shows, I think, some
nerves, but still more chance to be playing tennis.
Physician was getting out of hand though. Let's not forget it was
turning, so it wasn't, you know,
working from a completely winning position or anything like that.
I think the music shift was wrangling,
control of that game with the nice movement
that takes on D6, but in this game right here,
where the action is currently, unfortunately,
it hasn't been the best game for you,
you know, those two passpons here are gonna decide it,
and this is a routine win for Bivisara,
and that will end the game,
the first game of this four game match.
First game, that is great.
Obviously sometimes when you stop the bleeding or at least, you know, I got to bounce back immediately.
First, two and a half ones, the match was very important to understand.
And when you look at black, it's always a good feat, because you're able to not have the white pieces.
And try to even push for more or be okay with a draw going into, could be what could be a final third game.
Now, the second game my understanding is that they're not going to be long breaks
much like we've seen in between rounds, but I'm not familiar with what time the players
are potentially afforded in between each game here.
It's clear looking at things, James, that the players are permitted some sort of break.
They were probably told, maybe be back in a certain amount of time.
I'm not really sure if that's five minutes, if that's a shorter, longer, the hope.
And I think the expectation is that he's not just pretty much should start relatively soon after.
That would be my guess, but really don't have any insight into how FEDA is running the event from a break
perspective in between games as part of this four game match.
Yeah, it is important to say you don't want to be too long, right?
All right, it is the second game.
Usually you probably do every two games or so.
Or no break at all, but it is important
to have maybe a break right five or six minutes or so.
So what we're going to do is take a break ourselves
and figure out what they want to do.
We'll narrow in a few days side, but take a round guys.
Of course, break probably won't be that long,
but we'll be back in a few.
You
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And we're back. Here we go. Games already started.
Yeah, welcome back, everybody.
We are dealing with the unpredictability, I suppose,
of not really any exactly how long these breaks are,
but it's actually reassuring James to find out
that they are going to be relatively quick.
The interesting thing for me is that,
well, the game's not start at the exact same time.
And I guess that's a little bit unusual,
perhaps the break is based on when the game completed
rather than a set time.
So given that Ana and Eline Heather game finish first,
they are first to resume.
So this is what we're doing here
and I'm assuming that the other one will get started.
Or actually, sorry, I'm confused now.
It has been started, but we just don't have the right camera.
I'm confused, James.
Yeah, they're like playing like a playing from the laptops,
or on their phones, actually.
This is DC relayed at this point or they actually aren't there.
Okay, so they are playing.
We can see the game happening.
I suppose that makes more sense that the camera is just on a different board.
And the game is actually on.
So more likely that that's the case than that the game started at different times.
So I think that's what we'll go with for now.
Let's go with it on.
I'm leading sport.
There's a Sicilian.
I get Ross Aliemo taking the beef on some standard stuff.
Queens are ready on G6 looking for some kind of chances
to get that King out of the center with Castle coming next.
Very even game.
Yeah.
Exactly.
You see the Queen aimed directly at the King here.
And I mean, for Black, you can actually decide James Freylene,
which side you want to castle.
I don't think we're at the point where you'd want to make,
you know, maybe rash decisions about,
Oh, you know, I lost the first game.
I need to go all out here, a four game match.
There is some time you will get the white pieces again.
So no need to go crazy here.
However, it does start to creep into your mental.
Do you want to take more risks after a loss in the first game?
Yes, absolutely.
Other than we not change up strategy,
we just going to be, we have to be sharper.
And we have to, you know, look for more shots
and just be a little bit, yeah, of course sharper understanding.
Okay, then do the greatest there.
Let's just be more in-lirch and more aware of what I'm doing.
But this is just an, I really like to wait.
I mean, it's hard to cast the right now.
Obviously Rick takes E7 and some cases drawn to King out,
I can see potential bishop at 4 coming right now.
But H6 is the annoying move.
Yeah, the King on E8 for Leane cannot get out of danger.
Bivisara with another nice position for the white pieces here.
Looking great as the 9 on B5 can happen to D6
and the Queen on B8 is out of the action.
So Bivisara is looking like the stronger
of the two players in that matchup.
Absolutely, especially when the night comes in the D6
and we push the B5 on.
E5 could fall in many cases too.
I haven't seen maybe, okay, maybe extreme,
but the possible B5 and work takes E5
after the night moves with the exchange sacrifice.
Just understanding that I'm activating my bishop,
on G2, I am grabbing a pawn,
and I have the initiative on the Queen size of the board,
getting rid of that night on B7.
So, you know, it's very nice options for me to be sorry.
Get B6, I'm wondering about this move.
It undermines the danger, of course.
It's also undermining your own night on C6.
Instead B5 was played a very surprising move,
considering B6 would maybe play against the night
and V6 as well as perhaps undermining your own night.
The B5, while it keeps things closed,
I'm not sure that this is the way to go.
And night to G5 might be the exact reason why.
Night takes E6 as a threat
and bishop taking on C6 now.
Effectively, a double attack here, James.
Night to G5 looks like a very strong move.
So exactly where we wanted to go after we saw B5.
Oh, 95, and we lot, very easy move to Blake.
Now we could take on C6.
It's extremely great for us if you're looking for some type of cattle in that position where we just back the business up, you know, cattle is are you just better like why I don't know, it's a cattle. Okay. All right. Well, you have a lot of the legs for a bishop that's really open here past C on E five is hanging. I mean, this looks really bad for black. If they're able to get something maybe with as you kind of highlighted with a night coming in the G for something to be possible to ask some chances.
It's just not anything, right?
And that night G5 rookie too, there's just nothing you can threaten there.
The position is so solid for why before defense C5 defense D6, the clean out of the game.
And if you try to get fancy James with maybe rook takes F2, watch out for rook takes E6,
that is not going to work the way you think.
Seems fun.
A lot of sacrifices for GF2 and regates to with the Queen on B8 is not helping anything.
There's even no open lives for the Queen if you do get to sacrifice all of them.
So we're okay, six.
I think the vision.
Well, the action in on-overs is a lean a little bit more tempered here as we see the
bishops, a bishop pair for a lean, very strong, the pawns recapturing.
Now obviously on-a-has the initiative you could say on the Queen side, the rooks invading,
however those bishops can do a lot of damage on both sides of the board, exchanging pieces,
will probably help in lean here.
I think that Bishop pair in an endgame will be good,
but just look at how solid the position is for white.
You can play moves like Queen G3,
right, trade the rooks, Queen G3 potentially.
Trade pieces and get closer to that endgame.
It really feels like a draw is a likely result,
but maybe in lean we'll get optimistic
with that Bishop pair.
Definitely, especially if we have a honk like B5 before,
maybe trying to get C4 and just to attack that Queen side
the board missions could be something later on. I had to pick one. I do kind of like this
nightmare number, I see four and I don't even want to eat five, get rid of one of the
missions. It makes you four hits B6, perhaps on the board. Oh, how do you defend this?
Maybe five. And then that's not a movie you really want to play. And there's no like eight.
It's about time James, time is ticking down. I mean it could be getting too old. It is possible
And the reason why we say this is in the more of the time issue, okay, positions pretty nice for why too, we'll see five hanging out
But the time this is what happened in the previous game where she hung oh
Obviously not on the previous but it wasn't time travel
It's opposite bishops here James, but still a great position. I would say for on a muslicic
I like that bishop maybe repositioning to the C3 square
But bishop e6 and bishop d5 pretty much the best square for that bishop on the board everything would be defended there
I do think we're getting close to a draw, but with opposite
bishops and major pieces on the board, Queens and Rooks, there's still
chances G7 and G2 are the tender squares.
I think she, the worse, the worse, the worse, the worse,
but that's the hard to break through on the Queen side.
And the King side is quite defended well by black.
Yeah, everything is defended. Even, even, it looks like we're
Are we getting closer to a draw? It looks like, I mean,
Rooks traded let's jump over to that huge in-air game against Oslo Bayev. I mean, we're really are in the conversion phase here, but we have the camera back up, which is nice
Shout out to the production for getting that back for us. And this pawn on D2 is pretty much the last chance of anything going on night, e4 trying to play night c3
Rooks e4 says that is not going to be the case and actually there is check. May Queen F7
You have 7 was there.
That was missed, but they're in a time scramble.
Queenie 3, just going for trades, you can even sacrifice the rook on E4.
There's a discover check here, watch out.
Oh, this.
Crazy stuff.
I mean, this should be me.
There's gotta be me.
Yeah.
Yep. This will be made, rook to E7, F4 will do it as well. Very nice. And that is the end of the game,
not the end of the match, but with 2O, this is a decisive advantage. I think we are headed
for a draw over here between Eline and Ana opposite bishops and really everything defended.
so nothing between them.
Yeah, just shuffle, I'm not a king get through.
I think the only person that needs to be a little bit careful here is perhaps Elaine
just because the Bishop on D5 doesn't have a lot of squares, but other than that, I think
it will be a dead draw and that's confirmed by the hand shake there.
So a draw in this one, one and a half to half lead for Anna Musi-chuk, and as we've seen
from the sort of pacing so far. It feels like they're just a couple minutes between each of these
games. But crucially, James, we can say, in the other matchup between Jews' owner and
they've as our Assobaiava, a draw would clinch that match, right? Is a four-game match, and with
two wins early on, obviously, a win, but certainly even a draw would be enough to win that matchup
and move on to the finals. There's only takes here is a draw here. It is a must-win situation
and for Susan here, it can be difficult of course because, you know,
baby star is on fire, but we do have, of course, two games
that is a 4 game match.
It is possible for things to happen, but, you know,
we'll see what happens after the break.
We'll be back in a few.
.
And here we go!
We are back with the open semi-finals as well.
Here we go.
We are on it.
And I'm on who was facing who?
We got Magnus and Fabi.
Yeah, you brought that in pretty routine, James.
I'm very surprised that the open games are starting.
This is, I don't think what was advertised.
But all of a sudden, now the open is beginning.
And so I don't know if we're pausing the women's section
games, or if they're just going to begin, and they'll all be starting at once.
So I don't really don't know, but we can see the action in front of us.
So we know that the games have begun, and Magnus is facing off against Fabiano.
Meanwhile, Notre-Bec is up against Origin, and we're just trying to keep up with everything
as we learn it.
Yeah, and we're all in this together guys as we're figuring out how things are working and how they want to do a low feed outside.
Looks like a, I don't know, this is a ceiling or what we're being played in their game there.
Maybe some D4, D5 action, that's sure how we got here.
But most are very, very fast.
Simple sides are as well as like keys in the stack over there.
Yep, the position I'm actually wondering now if that move is,
that move is accurate,
Argin versus Noterbeck.
Is that really B5 on the board?
I wonder, can we get the big camera there just for a second?
Because actually, I want to confirm.
Is that on the board?
Okay, I think the, okay, even more confusing.
I think the games are backwards, right?
because this is the sort of exchange slot position.
So yeah, right?
This is the games are actually not the positions we were looking at.
So that was actually Magnus's game.
Okay, okay, I see it.
And then this is with Queen to C2 with the opponent five.
Yes.
Yeah, so this will swap the game.
We'll swap the games back.
I mean, everyone watching is gonna have to give us a bit of grace here because I mean,
it is a bit weird. We all decided to start at the open games. Now there's gonna be not just
these games, but I think the women could resume, I'm really not sure, but kind of at the mercy
of learning the schedule and what games are gonna be played pretty much at the same rate that
the chat and the viewers watching are learning them. So try to make sure we don't miss any of the
action. All I think is the other
chat. All this together chat. All this
together. This is very nice for why
don't do like the the position of
Fombie hand or wait again. That's that
five is the other game. Yeah, exactly
there is a verse. The are still. They
are still swapped, but Magnus is
actually playing the game on the right
side of the screen, I know that's a little bit weird to visual lines here, but it seems
like I guess it would be origin is on the bottom left and seems to have a pretty good
position and Fabius on the bottom right and appears to have a pretty good position against
Magnus, but a pawn sacrifice by Magnus, I mean, this is really
testing me games. You know, saying the right name here is going to be a real
challenge. Yeah. Yeah. I see who is playing what here. Um, okay. So this is
origin scheme, where Fabiana is. So double the room. That's correct.
Uh, to be should be next. I think I've disappointed. Uh, I think we should just
bring up one of the cameras here and just pick the game and watch the
camera because at least, at least we'll have the game, you know, that's going to be my
call, James. At least we get to focus on one game rather than try to make sense of the
backwards cams and games just for a moment there, as I think the players got started on
boards that we did not expect. So, this is what we're going to focus on for now, Magnus versus
This is Fabian and that A-pon.
It is an extra Pong.
Meanwhile, Fabian also has the initiative on the king side.
Can move the Pong up to F4.
And it's really a bishop pair that is locked behind a wall of Pong's right now.
But the A-pong can't be is not surviving.
Like that, there's no way with all the pressure on the queen side and those bishops
that that A-pong is going to make it.
Oh, yeah, especially the pressure.
Roxy one is defending now, almost time is left on a target.
Can I see behind that queen?
Maybe it's one there.
I think it's a one.
Yeah, have to assume time advantage and look at those ropes,
can't he doubling on the queen side?
Magnus is saying, hey, that next for Pawn, but who cares?
That Pawn's not going anywhere.
Matter of fact, it's already been abandoned by Fabiano.
It's all about the penetration with Bishop A3 and Rook B2.
Well, the king side, I mean, night takes age six.
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that that's a real threat.
Yeah, and especially with the bishop on G2,
it is harder to get anything going. You can't put it in the center of the board. There's a
lot of slight trade. We run the king to wake, too.
Let's see, a trade has happened that apon fully abandoned. Magnus is definitely starting to take
control of this game. You can never play rook B2 and take the rook because suddenly the
CPON would recapture. Magnus has been out playing Fabi little by little and now the
bishops are starting to probably go to A3 and maybe go around the position to attack that C3
pawn which is going to need some defense, Vario no, on the defensive here but still should be
completely fine. Should be, of course, the Magnus is going to play it out, the Fending C3 is annoying,
you have to play stuff like Rick to see too in a center at some point, but that is
pen, a new ain't, work a two depending, sorry, I don't know, what is it? Penning, the bishop,
maybe you know Queen P, you know what I'm not going to work. Wow, look at the bishops,
Ryan, that's on the 85. He pinned himself twice. Double pit, he's going to do sports,
I don't care what I'm not going to do that, and I might be looking for a perpetual.
Okay, here we go.
Now the idea was that white would bring the queen to G5 check, which is now prevented by
this would queen D8 and then play H5, H6.
Fabi was maybe expecting the black bishop to retreat, but instead the queen went back and
this is just a full piece down now.
Yes, the full piece and because that perpetual was not there as the queen is taking care
of that.
A great job.
The bishop now retreats.
Okay, is a full piece.
Fabi has abandoned any of those ideas.
He's not going to trade Brooks.
The bishop is repositioning to C to the finally getting on the correct diagonal.
And from there, there will be a few ideas from Agnes to watch out for it.
There's a reason this is better for black, but not completely winning.
It's important to understand that the time does take part here 30 seconds or so got the
Queen Bishop Brooke can I do anything can you do that's who's like an increment is going
to count this should be four it feels business off bro.
Rick A 2 probably you could go queen A 8.
Yeah, it's the one it's to trade everything.
All right.
27 same idea, looking to trade all the pieces off the board and no keeping the bishop on is
Fabiano.
Keep his many pieces on as I can and look for a perpetual if.
And he has it now. Magnus let that one slip away a little bit. Uncharacteristic. And Fabi, I think
can be very satisfied with that repetition there.
That is a big save for Fabiano Carijuana.
It's raw in, I believe, is it both games?
Let's see the result.
Here, no, they're still playing over here.
OK, let's have a look.
That is a work.
What's the peace count?
Like ponds?
OK, I can't see everything.
What's the three ponds for?
Yeah, it definitely looks like not a bad word.
It's completely winning.
Yeah, I think he has that extra.
Try there's another pawn and there's nothing you can do to stop this.
Noter back with the victory over Arjun and it just goes to show in a match format.
You know, when you get to that 4 game match, everything changes.
It's not the format that Arjun has been dominant in and finish, you know, a point clear of the competition.
Suddenly you only got to beat the guy in front of you over and over again.
Noter back trust first blood. One nothing there it is. One oh you got to be able to bounce back here.
It is a four game match first to two and a half wins it and then we go to a semi but or a final.
So yeah, with that being said guys, we're trying to fix everything on the back end.
It's be a try to figure the boards and stuff so we can boys back up to you.
But that's more games coming up after the break.
I was about to say, okay, at this point, because I think at this point, we're not going
to break because we don't even know when they're going to start the game, who, what, where
when the game is going to be on any second, any player. So we're going to stay here like
a hop, watching the actions. So we should make sure that we don't miss anything because
they have to go as before they snuck some games in. Okay, we just hear, guys, that's it.
This is us, me and you, and all of us, how you feel in chat.
I was invited by doing Magnus sitting down, ready to go,
game to come right up.
Here we go, Magnus has sat back down at the board.
Fabian here.
Well, I probably did been told James, I imagine,
that they just kind of have a couple minutes,
like they're not trying to start the games,
the way a lot of the viewers might start an online game.
You know, you hit the rematch button
and two seconds later, you're in the next game.
They're not trying to create that atmosphere,
But they're also not trying to give the players 20 minute breaks between basic
litz games that are part of the same match.
Exactly. Usually you just said there are take even two minutes if that here, but yeah.
Waiting, everyone's waiting around for that Magnus ready to go though.
How do I do it? How do I get it first game draw? I've liked this game.
Trying to make it happen. It's going to try to push.
So, James, just a prediction, I definitely have no information on this, but I'm guessing
that the format we might be seeing is two games for the women's section, perhaps two games
in the open and then I assume back to the women's section, it would be weird at this point
to play all of the games in the open and then come back to the women.
So, I'm assuming that that is kind of the schedule that we can anticipate having seen the
open games start. Yeah, yeah, it definitely seems as that, you know, see if you
get them from men's or they open things up to the limit and they're not
going to be sitting down seated. Guys, this is a four-game match. Predictions
and chat. What do you think is going to be in the final? Yeah, remember two and a
half is the target score. So you cannot win a match in two games, but you can
win a match in three games with three wins or two wins and a draw. Obviously, both players get
a chance in a four game match. And if it ends in a tie, two to two, we have Armageddon to settle things.
That goes for both the open end of the women's section. So of course, we'll be tuning in and following
the action to see if that is required. And if so, of course, we'll explain in detail what that means.
There we go.
Come on, Bobby.
A lot of tension here.
It's a lot on the line.
I can still calculate.
I'd love to see you.
James, how do you pose for a photo when you know it's about to be taken?
You know, the camera's right there.
It's like, do you strike your best?
You know, you don't want to be caught looking on a wearer, but at the same time you're like,
how's he taking it yet?
Yeah, I'm probably doing a flex, you know, look at the camera point at the camera
a few times, you know, do a few polls this time, give me the side to, you know, I'm
going to do that.
Here we go, hand shakes and this 4-game mini match in the semi-finals of the world
Blitz Championship continues, we have a Sicilian on the screen and yes, the boards are
back to correct, you know, in all of the commotion, you have to say, shout out to the
production James for doing their best to keep up is we do our best to bring you guys all the
action. Make sure we don't miss any of these games. Noterback is up against Arjun with that win in
the first game. Meanwhile, Magnus Carlson seemed to be outplaying Fabi, but a draw for Fabiano
snatched out of the jaws of potential defeat has even did up at 0.5 a piece.
This is a 75, a piece and I like the opening choice which was in Amazon, Larvesensei
by D.A. with the early night to see three. That's kind of a sexy, funny. I have a
a chastole book, or it's coming out with this, actually the same idea of, but we catch
a queen's eye with the nice E3 and just launched everything out of. So he kind of just wanted
to, you know, double-fink at a strange with the night, I don't see three of it, see
because it's like why it's a there, it's blocking, but it actually can help in the center,
before and swing around the heat too, so if I pass up,
pretty nice choice for me,
if you're mixing it up a little bit.
On the other board, we've got a Sicily,
you know it's going to be a fight there.
Is that a time and all?
Is that your alley there?
A monitor?
What's the Sicily?
Is that a semi-vitual time on?
Yeah, more of a classical setup here.
Without the pawn on A6, a fear that we can never really
fully call this a time-on-objust yet.
It's possible.
But remember, I mean, the time-on-objust
really characterized by that pawn on d7 and usually b5.
So a much more classical approach here with the pawn on d6,
and perhaps we'll see something like b7 or in this case,
95, b5, b7 and rook C8.
That would be much more like a possible time-on-off structure.
And remember, this 905 also is intending to jump into the C4 square
to claim one of the two white bishops.
Sorry, that was my phone.
Thanks for the rest of us, I just felt it.
I thought you just jumped into pool or something there.
Oh, shoot films is just nuts.
Like everything else.
But we are back.
So, A6, I was just going to say,
I don't even care about nothing.
Just doing the OK first choice is always sacrifice.
But the question is, what is the,
I guess you have F4 like rugby three is this coming up.
I think.
Bishop takes, but perhaps not the right capture.
Certainly not the one that KND was looking for,
and I'm with you. Bishop takes H6, the blue arrow,
indicated that that was possible,
but perhaps not about that even consider it.
You have to understand that,
not about after winning that first game,
he's probably not looking to take these excessive risks,
and that was not a pattern that I was familiar with working there.
He didn't even consider it, takes on F6, and F4 played to kick the night out,
but we'll even regret giving up those dark squares, James.
And there's a great question that we're going to be giving up those dark squares with the
cane on well not a king's on H1 or G1 now okay.
This is just switches like what but it's having four switches.
It's still on G1, but you want to move it to H1.
A bishop on F6 is incredibly strong, that's annoying because I don't have an exact
really.
I would love to go G4 F5 or G5 but that's really hard to do.
and have a lot of pieces point inside, and I don't do three things outside.
Exactly. Yeah, it's almost like we're playing F4 in that game going for an attack,
which is F5, but we have a lot of the minor pieces on the other side of the board,
taking a look at Magnus's game against Fabi on the left side of your screen.
In this one, I'm actually looking at a very aggressive Magnus Carlson. Right G4,
we see the King on H1, there are ideas like G5 in the position. Most likely,
we're going to want to keep the missions on the board here, but let's see if we see
C-bition takes you for no. Of course, pawn takes an E for the bishop on H7 a little bit out of the game, but
the queen is going to need to move Queen E to and my question is James, are we going to see something like B5?
A very direct move to evict this knight from the powerful square on C4. I think if you leave that knight there, the position gets uncomfortable.
And that's why we see an important move by Fabiano Carwan.
B5, kicking the night away, which is annoying that we do eight takes B5 first.
It's not necessary.
I probably just moving the night C2 is going to be hanging.
In some cases, so in the night into E5, maybe go to E3,
how you can compete with some of the board.
There it is.
Yep.
Yep, I like this idea.
Remember, Magnus is pawns here.
If you can generate an attack, of course,
they're going to look well placed, but if a lot of pieces trade off,
those pawns could just be weaknesses and Magnus and Fabi,
Even on the clock, even in the match so far in terms of the score, are you ready for the all-out attack, James?
I mean, are you playing H4 and G5 here? How are you handling this position for what?
Everything's here. Everything's here. It's ready to go. H4.
We do need to get probably our work that she won, too. I'd love to get H4, H5.
We're G1, Bishop H3 and G5. Get these moves in. It could be at the day in the office.
But you gotta be quick as a Magnus is almost under a minute here. It's two second increment, but he chooses the F5 move is that
He's not trying to take on E6. I believe I think he's going to try to go F6 or maybe
Yeah, I was not saying maybe it's a second to seven. That's a little bit too much because anyone
It's an all out game plan for Magnus Bishop to D4 can be played that trades the bishop
Which is very powerful for me one so I'm expecting this but afterwards first of all
There is F86 with a pin on the rug, but maybe more dangerous than that is even the potential F6 move
Yeah, F6 is really strong really strong. Maybe there's something annoying like G5
I'm more how I get one there after that. So he trades now we could take on these six as you mentioned
But as this should eat four. Oh, got to be careful. He doesn't go for it though
One of the reasons that this move is so nice. Of course you are winning the pawn back
You did drop upon on a four-year for Magnus, but it also gives you the F5 square for the night and you can jump in there next and if
The bishop recaptures you take with the e-plan potentially open up your bishop your rook that changes the nature of the position a lot
Fabiano needs to find a very good move here as we see super quick moves over on Argin's board
But very equal position developing over there. Yeah
Yeah, it's urgent.
Having the thumb up pawns and WG pawns there, G7G6, you have this password, but easily, easily
attainable, work with.
I'm going to make some work to attack it, there we are.
Easily winning this pawn in many cases.
Get a pawn back and then even gain.
I'll break D3 and look at the sacrifice here by Fabiano, over on Megas' board, intentionally
giving up the exchange with night of five being so
menacing. I think a good decision by Fabiano, especially in a
blitz game, time scramble ahead of us, the Bishop on G2 is not
great. Look for magnets to try to play moves like E5C3. I think
that magnets probably has the the good position here, but
there's so many pieces and pawns disappearing from the board. This
is going to be very tough to win despite the exchange that he has
extra. Yeah, and of course, usually you have like an
enough compensation when you get like, you know, the extra
pawnboard or something as well. So, so we go, just you have
one maybe? Yeah, and how do you defend all these pawns, right?
Rk 2, Rk 1 is tough to defend A, A5, you also have Rk 4, and
then maybe C6 is tough to defend. So it feels like magnets is
going to be able to get his hands on, uh, if not, uh, two at least one of
these queen side ponds before Fabiano can fully coordinate, but low on time is
Magnus Carlson here as we're in a pure time scramble. Perhaps we can even pull up
the camera on that one and feels like, oh yeah, position there is slightly more
intense. I remember he's been knocking on a piece of it, so he's got to be good
with his hands here. He has to be clean. Got to be clean. He cannot afford to knock
over any pieces. That's right. A good move from Fabio to activate that
Bishop there, the position looks solid, every piece is well defended in
Fabius position, so despite the extra material for Magnus, how do you really
make progress here as Fabius looking to dodge the exchange of those rooks?
Yeah bro, G3. Six seconds for Magnus, not a lot of time, and what's happening
after King F2 is going to take on C2 and this is now looking a little bit
closer to a potential draw. And let's bring up our two boards again. So we can see
the action on the other board, but I think this one is a lot closer to a draw now, James.
It feels good for Fabia, I think, here, as I said, but a draw magnus twice. I have white
way into a third game, which is very crucial. Now you can really push, especially having white.
Yep. I'm looking at Argent and Notarback and an extra pawn here for Notarback but
tough to make progress as that A pawn is now targeted. It does seem very equal here just a
couple of seconds for Argent and there's a potential repetition on the board for Notarback but
he does not want it, trying to figure out a lot of reading, crossing car one.
Oh, draw a green probably on a having white in the third game.
And we try to finish this game out here next time.
Scramble here.
I think Nortabet is playing for the win.
King E4.
He's not satisfied with repeating.
Watch out.
He is a fighter.
And that's in his chest problem.
Two or something.
may want to put that night on E3 to guard the Jeep on and perhaps Ricky 7 or King D4 to
try to stabilize. He's done King D4 for the moment. It seems that note of that has the winning
chances here James and he has more time on the clock significantly. There's a very nice move
here now. We're going to take on Chief Five bringing the work back around to get that other
point of A6. Notice how there's no rookie one check that square is covered by the night.
So you cannot ever bother that king and now the night's coming into the F6 square.
This is looking even better for note or back as the king invades the queen side.
Really strong as a douce de Thomas looking to two all-argin that would be actually crazy.
And rook F5 you cannot take that pawn because of, oh, knight H7, excuse me, the bishop is there.
It might still be a decent move, but I actually thought there was knight H7.
And he does go for a 90-7.
Yeah, I think it's still correct.
I thought it won't have a rook, but it is still the winning idea.
And I think Rixie 7, Rixie 6 is going to be decisive.
We can remove the, it looks like the DGT is not keeping up.
So don't pay attention to the board on the right of the screen there.
Focus on the camera, which cannot be trick.
That's it.
Our team connected pawns.
And that's a second win, her note about it.
No matter back in Boussin, Taro, two-oh Argent.
Wow, this incredible is Argent has such an incredible
run to make it here, but wow, he's a half-and-a-half-and-a-way
from being eliminated.
Exactly, right?
Just to draw on the next scene, and you saw,
just how exciting that was after finishing their game,
Magnus and Fabi, where were they?
They weren't in their own heads trying to figure out,
oh, what happened out in the last game?
What am I going to do in the next game?
No, they were eyes glued to that other semi-final match,
noter back in Ergazzi, much like the rest of us.
And of course, noter back kind of snuck his way
into the fourth there in the fourth and the fourth play
on spot was able to get it and stay.
And now he's like, I'm here half a point of life
in eliminating urgent who was actually really, really doing
well, in fact, in fact, he won the blitz, you know, in a way.
It's not one, but he got first place by a point
and half he was so good there.
And now, he's very close to eliminating here.
He's in a must-win situation among them.
Exactly right.
A must-win situation is not where you would expect the player
who had done so well in the tournament to be.
However, I do believe that Arjun has that style
that performs really well against the field.
It's like, he's taking on all timers.
He's able to showcase that creative style,
but perhaps it's not as effective against an individual
where you're kind of playing the same positions,
and you have to adjust in a match format.
Now that being said, you can't speak
about Arginera Gecy at this stage of the world,
let's championship with some type of defeatist attitude,
like he's already out, not at all James.
We're talking about someone who needs to win two games
on demand, but he's also capable of winning two games
on demand.
So as we swap back to the remaining games
in this four-game match for the women's,
do not count Arginera Gecy out.
not count them out boys and girls, but he is in a very tough situation, a very tough spot that is going to require everything
Rick Nick come out of in the region.
Yeah, the reason that we were talking about that to O is we have a 2O here as well, James, so a very similar situation.
And that is Jude Jenner, against Baby Sara, and we know that the woman on the screen right there,
There's huge inertia, she has to win, not just this game, but the next game as well in order to send this to Armageddon.
A draw is all it's required from Asa Bayova.
That's a draw at all. That is required.
Two and a half wins the match.
So Janir is going to have to play her absolute best, but also play something that can give you winning chances of the opening.
Is there seven done?
See, we'll have the same games.
Here we go.
We do have our split view here in order to catch all of the action.
A lean, immediately treating us to a very unique opening.
I was actually noticing that a lean played that King's Gambit.
Remember earlier in the event, I said, well, this is a very exciting game.
How about this?
This looks like a little bit of something familiar James.
people watching, it's always nice when maybe an opening to your familiar with, or that you
played your games, get some airtime because it's not the most popular at the highest level.
Yeah, so this is Vienna. Exactly. I saw Vienna. It's in a jambbit, right?
9c3 and f4. And then also we have a BbSar with her vintage King's Indian.
And it's going to be a fighting position in both games, and that's what you would expect.
Take note that both of these matches could end immediately, right?
Because music shook technically at one and a half can win and move to two and a half
the target score, meanwhile Bivisar with a win or a draw would be sufficient.
We have a Kings Indian on the board on our left, as well as potential for opposites
castling and at least an unorthodox and aggressive opening in the Vienna Gambit on the board
on the right. So James, definite chances for a win from any player that you see on your screen
right now. Big fan of the lovely facing again. I love playing the things in the
ambit also playing against it too as well when you have a fun opening, it's like the H4 type
idea to do that we see on this Vienna. It's very sharp. It's C4. It's a really, really strong loop.
So obviously, is it just, oh, it is, you know, bar agree, but I guess it's just better.
Okay, is she just good there?
See for, this is a very strong one for obviously.
It is, if we can bring up that board just for a second here, actually, the moves are showing
up on the board here, look at this, Queen A1 Kd2.
This is where the action is Queen A5, but at this point, James, the, the position for black.
Have you ever seen something work out like this where the center has been taken on black side of the board by two white pawns, right?
What you're always gonna have a good position in that case?
Yes, this is ridiculous. I mean those two white pawns are so strong. You know, it's funny here. Kingy three, bro
Really are we gonna see it that big crazy queen see for slightly my
I like your move Kingy three James. I like Kingy three
Kingy three
stare into the camera.
When T4 though, really strong move. I mean, she's just, you know, it's hard to lose this.
Well, unless you drop it with a piece or a broken, actually, there's another game.
But hey, she's back in and everything's okay.
Looking like a muscle in situation, which is in great, get a great chance to do that.
Oh, yeah, this is an absolutely huge game right here for Elaine. This is her chance with the
the white pieces, she got her opening, played it to perfection, and it has worked out beautifully.
This is a massive advantage here, and a very disappointing game if she's not able to win it.
So you have to convert here and take your chances, and then that would even up that match.
She's six has just been played, we can jump back to the split view here to get a look at
junior against Bivisar, Asobaeva.
An interesting game here where we see King F1 that is not a mouse
lip for castling, that is well intentioned to get to the G2
square in order to leave the rook on the H file in fact.
But this is not necessarily positioned where Black's King is the
one being attacked.
White's King, I think is just feeling just as much of the pressure.
I'm scared because my King coming to G2 maybe Queen G1 to get it to H
H2 is impossible to see.
or unaged to, that is very scary for both sides, I believe.
But I don't like King G2 anyway.
King G2, King G1, he hates to try to get something I'm going to
walk the King back around with, wow, if you think it happened,
there's also an oak case that takes,
puts the Bishop on C4, very nice.
Now, I know this is a bit of a strange move here,
but I may give some consideration to B5.
I'm a little bit worried about this D6 move for obvious reasons.
the black thing would have nowhere to go from GA. So I'm looking at this position from
as you dinner, there's definite counterplay. Night H5 comes to mind here because it blocks
the H file. And I'm liking the position for for white here. I like both positions.
It's actually cleaning too. Very solid. Bringing the queen takes C4. Night C4 after
the vision B6 looks very nice for whites and on the other position, H4 is on the board with
XG5 as the end-in-game.
I'm expecting that H5 from Bivisara.
It threatens a lot, like it does, it's not just a regular move, it's threatening night
G3 utilizing that pin and it's intending night to F4.
We may indeed see a potential sacrifice on the D6 pawn, but for now I think we can
and leave that queen to C4 to trade the queens.
Unfortunately, Blunders, the E-pond,
otherwise that would be very desirable.
And so I'm looking at this king on the F file.
I'm feeling that I need to move it out of the way,
but this position is not easy to play.
Everything is loose, and the time is getting lower.
So we have, oh, Bar all the way up for White over there.
Is it Pond takes?
Yes, Pond takes, it was really good
keep the bishop on an I on F7 on the F7. Nice things you five bishop takes takes.
I mean it's not. Technically, I guess not all the way over yet.
No, I think the move E6 if we see that from the alien here, punching through, forcing that
knight to move, then comes D7, opening up the bishop. That looks like a very solid idea,
but F4 played, which is definitely a mistake. It's given a question mark and why is that?
because the rook will be able, after a capture,
a slide over to E8 and just keep the game alive,
preventing E6 and intending to capture on E5.
What happens now after night takes?
Oh, there's, hmm, you can't go to D7.
So night takes, take some B7.
If you take James this game has been completely prone, I think.
at the advantage is no longer there, you almost start to worry about the pon on D6,
being targeted, but a must-find move is 96 and played on the board. If you play rookie
seven, watch out for rook to G8, rook and it's a horrible luck thing. And it's still there.
Yeah, and it happened. It's on the board. Rookiee happens. I mean, Queens,
This is completely winning and left some type of night for it.
I can see that happening is possible, but okay, that's not, not blended that.
Yeah.
I can't be three played so that nothing could ever happen all that is.
That is a big tactic, may have simply broke G8 in order to clean the pond and all of
sudden, Eline is back in the commanding lead, Queen against Rook. This 100% should be a win.
Thanks, I go to King, yeah, an E.C. or care, bringing King back around. We're going to push the
pawns next. Check back and forth. Yeah, I think we should go back to the other game. This is a
Queen versus Rook. I mean, it's just basic stuff here. So definitely, Eline will win this game.
is this exceptionally true
region.
But it was very cool that
the original one of the
war against Bivicara is
a must win situation for
my goodness, baby.
Did I show we showed up
in a night was hung in
one move.
Why had a huge advantage
there. James, but a
say inning night, oh, my
goodness, tough.
Very tough.
It looks like the Bivicara
wins that one too, and she
position, it was a resounding advantage for a huge
in there, getting a winning position back against the wall,
pressure on and then playing the move night to e6 here,
double question mark for the obvious,
night recapture, you know, a backwards night move, but,
you know, obviously something that needs to be spotted,
and after that, the immediate resignation,
and with the win, Bittasara does win that match, that for game match,
and moves onto the final, but a shocking end there,
and a really unfortunate one as the hard work it felt like had been done by as you
generic and just unfortunately could not convert that winning advantage and ultimately ends up losing
and now Bivisar is waiting in the final to find out who between Elaine and Anna Musi-chuk
is going to be joining of course Elaine won that Queen versus Rook position no doubt
and as such the match continues right it's all tied up and that one.
All tied up, so Janir definitely had some chances there. She was winning, but unfortunately
with the time pressure and so much going on trying to come back. She has been eliminated,
but congratulations to Vivi Saran. She awaits who is going to play. She's going to be Anna.
We're going to be a solid tie-up. I don't know what game is that one to. The game three is the last game.
They only have one more, maybe if we have a, maybe if we have a graphic about the Armageddon we could just mention the
The format when it comes to Armageddon because it might be relevant, right? We're in game three. Well, just completed game three rather going into game four and so if this game ends in a draw
It will be tied two two, which means we'll go to the Armageddon bidding format white is going to start with four minutes no matter what and the players will both bid
What time they would be willing to start with in order to have the black pieces now why would you take last time then four minutes because if black draws the game
It counts as a win in our maged it. So you can win again or draw the game with black but with white you have to win and so
The players are gonna bid. Oh, you know what white starts with four minutes. I'll take three minutes
But I get the draw odds and so you can see it's a bidding war
or who's willing to take last time in order to get it
so they submit line bids, and that's the process,
but most importantly, James, in this format,
probably not what the audience is used to.
There is a two-second increment from move one,
which in my opinion is a little bit crazy for our make-up,
in which I think should be sudden death,
but that aside, that is the format,
and I think that allows the players potentially
to take last time, then you might expect
when it comes to the bids, but that two-second increment
is a big wrinkle when it comes to the armor get in format.
Absolutely.
It's just like an increment changes.
It's not even armor get it anymore.
It doesn't feel like it.
If you're used to playing a lot of armor get it,
or you're used to playing without increments,
or increments, if it was too,
I guess they trying to keep it the same,
where you think it's the plus two in that sense.
That's a try to keep it around in same lines,
but who knows?
Who knows, games are coming up?
Who we have next up is open, bouncing back and forth.
What we have the final game of this match,
which is what we're talking about the army getting for me.
I think we do two in each section.
I mean, again, speculation,
but that's what it's looking like.
I don't think anything can look formally announced.
However, it appears as they will see the conclusion
of the lean versus Anna,
and then we'll get back to the two matches
that we have ongoing in the open section.
Awesome.
Good to see you, chat.
What do you think's going to win?
Anna, or Irene, who is your pick here?
We would have colors swapped in the moment.
So sometimes you can have the first move
advantage with white, but then also,
you have the surprises with white.
And I do know if I mean has black,
but I think she does in this game,
she'll have, she has a very aggressive repertoire.
So we won't see it.
She'll play stutters, especially in Blitz.
Dutch, aggressive French, if that's even a thing,
which it is, so it'll suit happens.
might see it does on the board, because I think Anna is more the default player.
And the women are taking their seats, getting set for this final game.
Remember it is not a must win game for either player, the white pieces, obvious preference
here to Moosee Choke, you'd rather have the white pieces, but it lean was able to score
with the white pieces in the last game.
Anna can win and take this match here with the white pieces, but remember either player wins,
they move on to the final against Bidassara.
If it's a draw, we go into this Armageddon format
that we just discussed.
Here we go.
All right, let me see, two guys thinking.
Come on, I leave, everybody.
Okay, I leave.
Some of my leaves, got it, got it.
I saw the chat, asked a question, what happens?
If they both bid the exact same,
I actually have an answer to that,
and the answer is that they truly just draw lots
for colors, like literally, you know,
pick a hand with which upon in it.
So that is the format I believe that FEDA is using for this one,
but we only have one game in progress here.
So we'll stick right with the action on a mozichook,
the white pieces, a lean with the black pieces winning
when she needed to in that last game to even have the match
and James, it's all come down to a single game
to determine our next finalists.
And I love the opening choice with an alicone here
or alicone.
Very fun opening looking for some real chances
an imbalance of the gain, which is a totally normal here.
A normal with a Bishamul G7 to the several variations are sharp, you know, a lot of
trouble here if you don't know what you don't.
Precisely, there's a lot of tricks to watch out for, Bisham to F5 played the early H3
by Y in order to prevent Bisham G4.
That's usually the move that's very annoying, top to deal with because the Bisham takes
and if you take a the bishop you lose the c-phone.
So it happens.
I am got cooked by the other kind.
Also I have cooked, but got cooked with the other kind.
So let's see what happens.
The move D5 being shouted for by the computer as an important move to play.
With the idea that perhaps if C5 that night could jump into the C4 square behind it
And if white has to give up the likes where bishop immediately,
the bishop on F5 becomes very powerful.
And remember, any opening, like for example, the outtime
where you are giving up space in the center,
you usually have to strike back at some point.
You can't just let the position be and defy plate in the middle.
I don't like the move H6.
It feels way too slow for an opening where you're supposed
to be counter attacking.
I suspect we'll see B3 played very quickly here.
And B3 looks like a big advantage for white.
This is sort of the line that is one of the most annoying
to face as an outtime player.
Is one this pawn gets to be through like this,
and the bishop of G7 is kind of hitting A or as they say.
So you play G5 to get some room.
This position is absolutely terrible, James.
The Knights could not go to D7 because of G4,
trapping the bishop.
That explains why the move G5 was played by Elaine.
But now, you can continue with bishop D3
to trade the bishop.
You're taking control of the F5 square.
You can also blast the position over with F4.
I know that the material is equal,
but this position is really close to being dead lost.
It's tough, because you're trying to get something
in balance here.
Maybe you can trust some F5 and 4 even with this exchange sacrifice,
just launching everything on that side of board.
Very risky, but of course that was the opening choice.
Oh, this is really close to just dead lost.
Look at the night, right, coming into E6.
The rook is being hit.
You have Queen D3 to gain tempo attacking the pawn on G6.
These are basic moves for white to play in stride with tempo and from here.
I think it might be the simplest to just play the move, probably F4, just open everything
up.
You could also reposition the night.
See you three.
Oh, man.
This spot again, nasty.
95, take take, take, clean, she's six.
Like, bro.
It's about to get scary here.
There.
There's nothing.
There's two nights.
MIA from the game.
I don't be six.
I don't be doing absolutely nothing.
attack is all on the king side. This looks like Anna has a phenomenal chance. Probably the move
G4 can be considered as well just to boot that Rook out. James, I'm struggling to come up with
a defensive idea here for Elaine. After a great game with the white pieces, unfortunately this
Outkahn has fallen a little short. Yeah, definitely difficult one. It's all about peace activity
and being very sharp and imbalanced here that you get from Aliyah, I can do a lot of times here,
but it was not able to get it as a nice one, B6 and A, look at this night on A8.
Now, of course, it is some rerouting, and I get around the C7, but I deal at all.
Bishop before it seems as though Anna will be moving on.
And you think it happened though?
It still seems sharpness, but really hard to mess this position up with the YPs.
Yeah, Bishop D4, looking for trades.
Bishop E5, I believe, is the response, which is interesting
one. My first thought is to move G4 because then perhaps taking the bishop is a bit more
desirable. Also taking one E5 directly, it's even unclear if the rook should be recapturing
because what I want to do and what I wanted to do for a long time is play the move F4.
And I think that Alene is realizing how strong F4 is and it's trying to prevent it.
I'm going to go with what would you do here?
Would you just resign a mono?
You just go play it up.
Absolutely not.
With everything that's on the line, these women have had phenomenal tournaments.
They are both a game away from the final.
Despite what this game looks like with this position looks like they are both a result
away from the finals.
There is absolutely zero chance I'm resigning this position.
absolutely not that's what I'm talking about there we're going to fight on even if it's terrible and it is but
okay you know I have some whole kind a little bit of anything I can still have but here like to see seven man
and that was battle a but not anymore trying to give it a great night on E6 there's a sacrifice
takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes takes take takes take take
takes G5 can GA maybe take on E5 first from whatever reason this feels better she goes for
I think what's going to happen here is playing against these two nights that are really not
part of the game.
Now, in my opinion, this is an absolutely not good enough for how good the position was,
because there are a number of positions in chess where those two nights will be able to
outplay the rooks despite all these extra pawns.
White has a huge advantage, if played correctly, but it just feels like nights are tricky
enough pieces a lot can still go wrong.
I think that in lean has a lot to be happy about getting this position compared to where we were.
Absolutely. I think there's more in the restriction type of game where you just restrict the pieces a little bit more.
Restrict the counter play rather than look for sacrifices. I know it's hard obviously.
I mean, a sacrifice piece is why still better. But the nights can maneuver around and try to create something.
You gotta trade clearly.
Take them off the board.
if you don't trade 90, I feel the mate coming James, you feel the mate coming,
the mate in 17, I do. I, you know, I just feel that if we make a move that does not
trade the queens here, I'm getting concerned, time is taking down, under 20 seconds now,
rooks coming to F3, the knights are still not in the game. Ultimately, I think the correct decision
made to take on E5.
8.
Come here.
I've worked check.
Might as well.
It's the one in there.
Now before first, where you go on with the night, 97.
Good work check.
Double up.
C5 all kind of moves.
Maybe that's C5.
See if I've done something upon.
We got to bring the E5.
We got to bring the E5.
We got to bring the E5.
to F-T, work F-T, E3, hitting E7, we got F4, the King is moving up the board, White has
every single pawn except one, and the move.
Oh, E5 was played, because there's just no defense to all of the pressure in the position,
and the Knights meanwhile have nowhere to go.
This is all Anna Moosechuk, as she's looking at Punch for tickets to the finals.
And, you know, it kind of is a fun opening here, and this today did not look fun at all.
This is not the alley down.
We want to play from the black side.
F5, Poms look really good.
It takes, say, maybe a teenage six there,
try to get 15 and 25.
Can easily kick away, I think.
Let's see what she goes for.
Yeah, I think we kind of want to hang F6,
night V7, and then you can target this Pon.
I wouldn't say this is completely over yet,
but a couple more good moves by white
and Rookie 2 is certainly one of them.
Rookie 7, I think you can play,
But then I'm expecting King to F6,
and then perhaps Rook D3 and go to D7 again.
And there it is.
And I certainly promise not that the Knights are doing what they can.
Nine of four, maybe we'll take C7 first.
C7, do it again, there it is.
Yeah, D is gonna be a breakthrough, C5 and B5 here
that white is most likely gonna utilize.
not required, but that is a good way to get past the night and actually B5, normally
not what you want to do.
I think this is going to be just marginally more difficult, but 100% winning after
9G-3 F6, F7 and Rook, maybe Rook D8.
Rook D8 was nice too, but I guess it was on 96.
There's no pawns on the board, so we can already say the winning chances do not really exist for a mean.
There are also always some fun checkmate, you know, King, he can't meet with two nights and they, yeah, yeah, whatever.
Magnus, Fabi, Argin, all spotted in the background, coming back for their games, and that looks like a resignation.
And a finals ticket for Anam Musi Chuk with a really
infatient defeat here of Elaine Robbers in the final game
of this matchup.
Incredible.
Incredible.
And it was able to make it through to nature's
just defending, making it.
Take care of chances where she could.
I mean, her star show has been cut short.
She's like so well.
and the blitz same as Arjun as well, but just because you played well and blitz there
doesn't mean that you're going to do the same and play off. And that was tough as well. So
there we go. And if we are following the format that we seem to be on pace with right now
we're likely going to see these two matches conclude then probably the first two games of the
women's final, then the first two games of the open final, and finally the remaining two
for the women and the remaining two in the open to conclude our day.
All right guys, Chad, predictions, who do you have? Is Arjun going to be able to make a come back?
He's going to let me say in favor, and Magnus. What do we have?
by the Magnus Voltaida, Argin, and in Muscle in the situation.
Yeah, Argin is back to back in the same spot.
He needs to not only win a survive, but win twice to force Armageddon, and meanwhile Fabian
Magnus, although they have not been, you know, quick draws by any means.
They have drawn both of their first two games, and any win here by either Magnus or Fabi
would be extremely significant in that matchup.
You're probably with a strange opening.
If you're 45, D3, it's just D3 that's like this,
it's funny to see.
Like, is this a transmission error?
Did you mean D4 to the slip?
Is the problem D3 and D4?
Oh, no, it's actually only on D3.
Yeah, it's interesting because it looks like he's making use of that
by the way with 984 in order to take that bishop
on C5, so move D3, providing a little bit of support to the e-pond.
In this case, though, Magnus happy to play A5, it seems.
Give up the bishop pair, but have not only great pressure on D3,
but good control of the D4 square. So there's going to be a little bit of a fight
here between Fabian Magnus for the D4 square. Will wife be able to play D4?
Or will Black be able to prevent it?
Great question here. Will the Gail of the F5, I'd like that for Magnus?
That's ambitious, very ambitious.
We'll go F5, F4 type ideas, you said no, not allowing that.
So now we can play night, say, so do you think it'll be a great question.
A bishop helps me develop in one move.
Night attacks E3, it's really a matter of choice.
It takes a good night.
Yeah, I think there's a possibility of first of all wanting that night to be
position, maybe to the D6 square, to help control E4 C4, but also this
special, may still have a future on B7,
maybe you didn't want to commit it with Bishop to G5
or Bishop to F5, excuse me, just yet.
So this does make sense by Magnus,
a common way that the piece is developed
as usually Queen D7, Rook D8.
This Queen can also shift over,
but especially with this Bishop attacking the night,
I suspect, will either C Bishop D5 or Queen D7 in?
C, D7, and right on Q.
Okay, we need to work the eight, mission reform.
In 1996, yeah.
I'll keep happening quite a bit.
Yeah, it makes sense to hit that pawn on D3.
The bishop D5 in order to trade a way the bishop pair makes a lot of sense.
And bishop E4, your move James played here instead.
If you capture all of a sudden, potentially the pawn could recapture,
and then you start to worry for madness because it turns into,
actually four pawns against three. So capturing that bishop, not that desirable for black. I think you'll see the tension remain here.
Absolutely, as I'm going to look at the other board over there is urgent is playing for must one type of a situation.
It's King's on G2. I mean, I like it. If you're going to play, you need to make sure it's in balance.
bit of three rookie two and H four, H five.
One and not type of try to try to rip their.
E five gives us a chance to maybe do some things.
F. I am very skeptical of Argin's chances here.
I think it's a chance to hire in general,
but the position is not lending itself.
We don't just have pieces traded.
We have opposite bishops on the board,
which do not lend themselves to a very healthy position
with imbalances and chances for a win, Rook to F1 is I think rather harshly been given a double
question mark. I'm not too sure about that, but I think that it has to do with Bishop E3 games and
that move is just a simple fork of the Rook and the pawn. This is looking desperate here for
Arjun with a last move. Knight takes B5, Queen C5, could come close to locking this game up due to the
tactics. Let's see if Notre-Bek finds that move and he does instantly.
That boy is on there. He is really locked in. He's like, you know what? Everything that
happened before in the next year.
He might be wrapping this game up. Very short, they said. Yeah, he's rocking in his
chair, James. That's confidence right there. He might win this game in a couple of
moves and he only needs a draw. Unfortunately for Arjun, it really looks like
his championship, his gold medal contention,
is probably coming to an end here.
I mean, 90s five is coming.
You can't even do anything with the group.
Maybe King E3.
I mean, yeah.
King E3, material is supposedly equal here,
but an absolutely dominant game
from note about a bisitora,
as he looks to punch his ticket.
He scraped his way in,
have the best tie breaks and made it into this format.
And now he's looking like a regular here.
And you know, it might be a gentleman's repetition here,
which is when Nordbeck knows he's completely winning.
But as a sign of respect, you repeat moves
from a winning position.
Argin knows he can't play this dead loss position on.
He made just accept the repetition and take the match loss.
Yeah, there's nothing to do with sales, like the drill.
and looks at it, or I can't afford it, and there it is.
And he's going to claim.
Yeah.
And that is a fair result, complete domination
in the match by Noaderback and a draw, a fair way
for champion like Arjun to go out in this one.
It's a, I guess a definitive match victory though,
for Noaderback who moves on to the finals,
as we get back to the action on the other board.
Incredible.
I mean, Noaderback just took it up a whole Miller level here,
where he was able to really just not even give
Arjuna chance in any game three games he was done three
and out.
Two and a half.
Exactly right match.
Well, here we go.
Magnus Fabia, another very equal position.
Will we see any outplays here?
It's bishop against night, some double pawns,
a fair amount of imbalances here.
But this matchup has been completely level so far
James and it's continuing in this position.
The time though for Magnus has been notably low in most games that we've seen from
it thus far.
His clock management has not been what we're used to.
And A3 on the board here, he is down time as we have been seeing that.
He didn't find one of the pieces.
This is good.
A3 trying to make some weaknesses on the on the a queen side to be able to really break up those
points. So, assuming B3's happening, but there's a night B5.
Very strong.
Ooh, this is a nice in game technique, of course, it's Magnus, but A3 was nice to break things up
and move the night around a little bit.
Rook check it. Did it, did it? You play? If you play Rook D1 to hit the night, all of a sudden,
there's 9c3, the night will probably escape from that strange square that it found itself on,
and Magnus is just looking for imbalances, looking to play Blitz with a tricky night.
The repetition is there if you want to, but of course, Magnus is likely going to look for more here.
Well, absolutely, of course, the one thing that I love to see, the man who says,
as he understands what's all of the endgame, but more of a king activity and peace activity.
And as we know this, on black pieces, it's just seem a little bit more active.
I could work on hitting a D3 pawn, knight, or strike these employers, King's coming into the center,
you know, even an equal position, same amount of pawns on the same side that a king activity is.
Crucial and key, right here, is hard to even find moves.
Yeah, can you one play it, but I'm not sure what the next move is going to be
Rope to a, a bishop f4 trying to hit some of these pawns, but bishop c7 you have to watch out the a2 pawn is is loose. It cannot be defended. So you have to counter attack
Yeah, it's a b2 b5 can be played and maybe oh, yeah, take six bishop d2
Beacuse is concerning here. Whoa, it is concerning
before he goes for it takes takes for fear, king and rick takes takes a black steel
better, he's got to go for it. Yeah, black is slightly better here. If that king gets
the D4, it's big trouble here on the board and Magnus knows he is fighting for an advantage
here. Materials even, but look at the king, look at the rook. The quality of the pieces
This is unmatched.
Peace activity, peace activity, how active are your pieces?
These are very active.
Active group can already in the center ready to play.
Magnus should be winning this game.
Boys and girls.
There's a must, must have some solution for a private.
Can E3 played?
The blue arrow and played by Magnus Carlson?
He wants to get his hands on both of the ponds on this side of the board.
But RkH4 is the only move in the position and the rope starts to feel like it's almost
a little trapped in there and he finds his way out with RkH1.
Alright, guys.
All right, guys.
Ink to G3, 3, 3, 3.
Yeah, I think Magnus is just going to win this one, boys and girls.
It's probably the most win.
After Rook C3, you have to go and try to take the pawns.
It's the only way to play it.
But the white king is nowhere where it needs to be.
Fabio knows this is completely losing.
And there is no chance now as the C pawn will become a queen.
Push that pawn.
from the I know the psychromus and the bridge is already built here you can even go after that
pawn on G4 in order to force the king to go over there.
Whoa, look at the little.
We're about a lot of thinking out.
And is it Magnus with the win in games?
A.K.A. Magnus is the same word. Magnus with the wind there, putting Faviano in the
most wind situation.
That's exactly right, doing it in the end game, which is known for simply one of the best
end game players that the chess world has seen, and he grinds out another, it was
a minute advantage, but he expanded it into what was a completely winning edge as Favio
could not maintain control of the position, a lot of his chain to get cut off, and
Magnus's King just ran into the center of the board and took control of the game.
Incredible feat. As Magnus says, one of Magnus does, right? Of course, even in the
before the playoff, he were actually writing Magnus all saying it. He wasn't going to
do it. He just wasn't going to work in a center where he was playing bad. You know,
he had some some rough times, but really what Magnus is making it to the playoff,
I didn't care how he got there, as long as he made it to the playoff.
And he actually finished something second after having some rucks and downs in the blitz portion of it.
So, Fabi, pacing, knowing what he has to do here, he's probably thinking about what am I even going to play to try to force this into, I'm never getting it.
Nice to see the, I think perhaps both players are showing up with genes to this, this final playoff game, great to see.
and Fabi absolutely needs a win in this final game four in order to force the
same Armageddon format that we've talked about that will be necessary only
Fabi wins and Magnus is already sat back at the board indicating he's
ready for the fight he only needs a draw and you know the only thing more difficult
than playing Magnus Carlson is playing and knowing that you need to win james you
A lot of players that play Magnus don't have to deal with this possibility, you know,
draws always there, but not for Fabiano and not in this moment.
Yeah, and this is Fabiano's.
What he has to do, he had a chance to compose himself sometimes you just got to walk away
after a loss.
Just, you know, get away from the board, breathe, think about what I can do better, not about
the last game.
But as we know, Fabi sees Fabiano's, he knows exactly what he needs to do.
That is easier said than done. You have to create chances. You've got to win the game on demand against Fagans cross.
And we await the beginning of this match, but with both players there, you know, I feel like there's no reason to delay.
If both of the players are ready to go, and they're set there clearly
Ready for the action, but the most difficult part of what we're seeing here is that Magnus Carlson has the white pieces as well.
as well. So everything is working against Fabiano, Magnus, only needs a draw. He has the white
pieces. This is a really difficult spot. How is Fabio going to play the opening? Is he going
to shake things up from the standard? Let's see. There we go. Sicilian. It has to be, yep.
You know that Magnus is going for his same opening that's been playing usually plays with
A4 and with C3, he's been playing this throughout the competition and clearly it's
something that he has, you know, let's just say prepared loosely for this event, he's
comfortable with it.
He knows the plans and he's been using it to great effect.
And we have a Sicilian where there will be some fireworks have to play from battle.
Got to look for your chances.
Got to play quickly here, right, opening choice of Taviano, but he can't be making just
trades. You have to create something somewhere, knowing he has to fight 95, look before
an imbalance, so taking a picture. Yep, that's obviously not going to be handed over by
Magnus who's going to save the bishop with bishop to A2. Meanwhile, the plans, I think
that he's been demonstrating are rookie one and C3 rather than the more traditional
knight to C3, and that's evidence by the move 92. So you can see where the pieces are trying
go for magnets. If you want aus on the board now, very easy play. Make for
one. Very positional, something that magnets like. So do it. Even the
fish you want a two could read out via B1-87 to agonize some point. Night
of fun though. Very Italian game like or even Roy Lopez sometimes.
Exactly. Waiting for the move C3 we're seeing this night reposition. Finally we
do C3 and D5 in the center. Magnus has been playing these positions with
with E5, the blue arrow indicating that is absolutely the correct decision.
Fabi can at least be satisfied if he's getting a fight, but what he won't be satisfied with
is probably the fight that he's getting because I do think that Nagas holds a very nice
edge.
You know, I guess the Knight piece is a great.
The Dorf Schwerb is something to do probably later, and there's D4, nice, making
that visual A2 highlighting the fact that it is quite bad.
Yeah, so first of all, this is a sacrifice, right?
Yeah, it's a bonus act, you know, this is Fabian, I don't mix it up, full
pawn sacrifice, night seat five for black afterwards with D3 as a target, so
you can see the idea if the pawn gets captured. Also, if C4 to try to shut
things down, well, you hand over the B4 square and you also make your bishop
on A2, a very poor piece.
Yeah, D4, more and more.
And the question is, okay, well, if we don't take them, what do we do?
And take B2, goes with H4, it was not expecting that one at all, on the other side of the
board.
Okay, nice, you see.
Yeah, H4 is intriguing, inviting, B2 takes H4, he sort of says, you want to sacrifice
upon for active pieces and initiative, I'll do the same thing with pawn to H4 and we
can see the idea, probably what would have been against the capture, rookie for the
rook, posturing to reposition to the G4 square, along with 9h5 and Bishop H6, I think
the rook is headed to G4 James and with that H pawn there and the piece is joining
Magnus is actually on the attack when he only needs a draw.
And of course, do you even a real cliff is the question here?
And yeah, Ricky Ford was a really nice real cliff follow with H4 first in Rp4.
Following up, that was a great follow-up there.
It comes over to G4, in many cases, that's why he played cleanly too though to defend the E-pon.
We have sort of, you know, an outsides, a castle, but obviously, it's hard work.
95 on the board, he is going for it all out, all out.
If H6, is it just clean H5?
You almost don't even need to react to a move like H6, but yes, Queen TH5 looks good.
This is a position that at least Fabi is getting that fight, but this is why you don't
play these kind of offbeat ways.
When you need a win, you always take more risk, but Magnus is punishing that risk taking
right now.
Saying, okay, thanks for D4, open my bishop.
I'm just going to leave the tension there, 9G5 with Queen TH5, all the pieces going to
the king side, Fabiano is spending time because he's now played the move H6 and will
Magnus go for a sacrifice here or bring more pieces in. White is much better.
Yeah, Queen Trivooks looks really nice. It hits F7 as well. It has a sacrifice possibility.
He's saxophone of 7. Boom! Give me that one. Give me that one too.
They should take E6, paralyzing the position, if you play a move like Rook back to F8.
I think that Magnus could even be queueing up something like Bishop takes H6, Queen H5,
Rook G4, Knight F5, I mean, just look at the arrows as all of these pieces have direct paths
into the position, and Fabi has about one, two, three, four, five, six pieces that are
barely helping in defense.
I'm not even trying to show off here is tactical prowess in this game when all he needs is a draw.
It's hard to recommend the right move for Fabi here.
What do you do? This bishop can also simply take material.
So you can't abandon the position and hand back material.
A lot is hanging here and he's going to take on E5.
Well, this does not work out at the end.
Night takes F7, Queen E7 and Magnus.
I mean, the position in terms of material might be equal,
only down upon, but obviously, meeting a win here as black.
It's just, you can't do that.
Bishop to E6, Magnus and sacrifice works out perfectly,
and he's up upon now and still on the attack.
Yeah, you can even take one P4 to his mama, Bishop F5.
get out of the way, looking great, this is strike in the board.
The start to finish.
This has been a smooth, done.
Now we know, I we see it and it's shake.
There's even stuff like Queen H5 and F4 trying to highlight the E8s
where being very loose, depending on what he does when he's running.
Here we go, Bishop C8 play, but it's pure desperation here for Fabiano.
He knows the position's not good.
He knows he cannot change this evaluation against a player like Magnus Carlson without a mistake without a blunder.
Magnus is going to have to make a critical error and after bishop makes F5, what about pawn takes on E5?
I guess we see bishop D3 to hold the position together, although there's Queen F3 there and everything's hanging.
Everything hanging. Seconds left. He takes.
Yeah, three. The body language confirms that both players are on the same page that this looks
completely over and it's now only desperation, Magnus, up a piece, completely winning here.
Mmm, how do we finish? Yeah, not each fine. So I'll just take the pawn. I think you just
resigned here. Yeah, this is over. Yeah, I'm looking around. There's a few moves, Rick, I've said it.
I mean, what again? Given that the finals is on the line, I guess you continue to play, but of course,
through a Fabiano knows this is beyond hopeless and Magnus.
Has this one locked up Fabianter 10 seconds and down a piece?
Will be losing this game and Magnus in in fact,
a fashion will move on to the finals.
And there it is. There you have it.
Correct. And Master Magnus Carlson. He's on to face a few
support of in the finals games. Magnus in northern
bad guys. Chat was calling it. It was like,
Like more bag magnets, magnet is lower back in the finals and it is correct, magnet makes
it from having sort of a shaky start in the actual, in the regular bliss portion.
To now going to the final here and trying to double back when the rapid and the blitz
against more bag guys, this is incredible stuff guys.
We have some upcoming action with BBC R&M and Music Chuck as well.
How do you put it on everything in this happened here, this is exciting, we got magnets
We got nowhere.
Well, I think James looking at the games, the way it went down, I didn't feel that
there was a undeserving victor anywhere truly the stronger player was shown on the board
in those matches.
That's why we have four game matches.
It's enough time to really decide.
There's not as much lock-in ball.
It really felt like no-to-back was the significantly stronger player just in those games
against Argent and meanwhile between Magnus and Fabi and that last game it was decisive
but in the games before Magnus also showed a different style.
He went from pretty much playing for Nate and sacking against the king
in a game where he put a drawn from the game before he won in an end game.
So he's showcasing the full array of his expertise and we have to
very exciting finals coming up in the glimpses and the open section.
But James, we have the women that's going to be next to games of that.
Then we'll go to the open, much of the same format that we've done so far.
And everyone's bringing out their best for last.
It was, he saved the best for last.
And of course, we are doing that guys.
In first, a women's world final, that's the best.
Once, newsflash, there is no break.
I've been telling you, James, we're not here to miss any action and based on the unpredictability
of how long things have taken.
I'm just going to go out and say, no breaks, you know, we're staying locked in on camera.
Till the end, we have two hands up coming.
Exactly right. You can see the, the plain hall. I can actually see on a music there just sort of on the left
side of the screen, making her way to the board as the women section will get underway. First,
as all of the press and media is gathering around to catch their shots and probably that
all important handshake to begin the finals.
I think you might be a slide-favor, but anything
that happened, I mean, Argin was a favorite, right?
So Argin was looking good, he'd be great in blitz
and then, you know, the playbook, playoff was completely
different here.
So in his final chat, who do you have here?
Is it another 4 game final we are going to go over to the open
with that final, after the first two games here?
Exactly, there's only one match remaining in each of the open
and women's sections to determine this year's 2025 World Blitz champion and on your screen
right there, Bivisara, Acebayava. This is the finals, James, another four game match, so the
exact same format that we have done. And of course, Armageddon, if necessary, game on.
James, I just made the candidates too as well. If you guys didn't know, she has our most recent
We can't do it.
So here we go.
Ooh, night or.
Okay.
Little night or actually myself.
I know you like time and off.
I'm more of a night or a player myself.
Love a little nads, dork.
Okay.
Well, thank you.
Here we go.
Getting into the opening here.
I might immediately be shocking that that bishop is on D3 kind of in front of the
D pawn.
That will probably change momentarily.
But you also want to play this way.
play this way as part of opening theory. So that's why players are, we made this look
confidently. What was this opening? For some reason, it was like a night or us,
all eight six and be five. Oh, maybe. But usually be five didn't happen that fast. So,
you know, well, it's just not an open Sicilian. So, D4 was not played. Okay. Yes, you
have. Okay. And here, and we are getting the word up for you guys in just a moment. If
they did not yet have the DDT available, but we haven't free now.
Oh, I know this line is weird.
We are caught up with live position.
This is in this chart theory, bro.
This supposed to be a draw.
Yes, it's supposed to be.
So the blue arrow is actually probably going to make many appearances here.
or we're looking at a position in the first of all
for everyone watching that is totally insane.
Why is the king on E7, why is there a pawn on C7,
why everything?
I have lots of questions here.
Where is white's rook?
Can we talk about that?
But what we're looking at is theory.
White is down.
I mean, Tyrebrook, it's missing from the board.
And that is not an error with the relay.
Upon is one square away from cleaning.
G6 has just been played.
There is a lot going on in this position
that is difficult to present in a way that's truly digestible for everybody.
But what I will say is that we are in known territory, and one single mistake can lose the game for either side.
And I think here is a repetition for the theory of like, nice C6. And one of them is wrong.
And I can't remember is D7 or E8. So I've got to be careful here. Very careful.
And I see snakes and like, is a kidney,
is that it or a kidney aid?
Well, just immediately, and I'm trying to figure out
which one that was, can't remember.
I see snakes, kidney, and there's like some,
there's a way you get made it as black
if you don't know this.
So, yeah, scary.
I see snakes, right?
And look at the clock.
If you had to guess here, who is more prepared?
At the moment, you'd have to feel like they've asara
is the one that is a bit more confident. Look at the clock. It's 13 seconds above the
starting time. That's right, three minutes, 13 seconds. I know it's stopped and see from this
angle, but that is over the starting time and meanwhile going under a minute is on a music
trick. And if you're under a minute, you don't have the theory perfectly in your memory and
you're sitting here saying, well, I'm also down a rug, hold on a sec. Yeah, at one point,
you start to get nervous. You don't remember the next move all the sudden you can lose the
Again, but I will say Bishop to E3 is the correct move.
It is the best move and the theory continues.
Should we three?
My C6 check was going to be very vicious.
Here we go.
Okay, yes.
There we are.
Still the theory boys.
I think it's night V8 and they repeat or something.
I mean, 94.
If you think C7, yeah, he's wasn't repeat.
I know that.
And it's raw again, there is more time on the plot than when she started or
us if I have it there, talk about theory, this is what chess looks like played at the
highest level.
This is peak performance.
That is the all theory to make it as raw.
She's like, you know, was this what happens on a slide?
Yes, it's theory.
It's theory.
I'll see you in a few minutes.
Exactly.
Exactly, we'll be coming back for a game number two that game went quick as a flash and you know
Like I said, it's difficult to present something as complex and intricate as that in a digestible way for those watching
But what we can say about that James you were looting to that is the expected result for that line
It's very complicated. Yes, you're done a full rope
But that's steep on and the fact that there are check meeting ideas if the black king starts to venture out in the position
you have to calm down, don't go for that, and instead take that repetition while you can.
Exactly, you have to say to me, as they say the professional way is when with white
a draw with black, but you can also win with black to a beaker.
Or even do it with a do-off way, it's like, you know, it can spread.
I know he's going to be ambitious with white, so I'm going to draw with white
and win with black.
It's how he likes to do it sometimes.
So it's important to stand.
Still more chest to be playing guys.
or its now colors will be swapped here.
Crazy theory there in the night or so.
Night or first one, man, it's definitely difficult.
We'd have to theory, you've got a study of mine,
like maybe you see that actually.
It's something else.
Like a time and a...
Yep, that was a, what was it?
22 move game.
And I think that all 22 of those moves
are on a file saved on a computer,
somewhere in possession of Bavisara, like guaranteed,
has that entire thing saved somewhere
and was like just yawning as she's reciting
all the correct moves.
So a great memory, but also well played game.
By both, as Anna Musichoke took more time
that ultimately a draw was the correct result.
Sometimes you have these games that are more like tests.
Do you know your theory?
Do you know we were trying to go to this line?
If you do, great.
We have a draw that looks like that.
both players showing that they have a very, very well-prepared
repertoire, but if not one mistake, that could cost you big time.
I'm just curious, I want to say it could cost you the game there,
and in that line, there's a lot of checkmate to be able,
if you're not ready to go.
One person that is ready is big, sorry.
Back at the board, sitting now, ready to go lock in, playing
in critical chats, so they're going to get first place
in the blitz portion, and make it to the playoff,
making it to the final, trying the first.
Is he sleeping?
Oh my, wake up.
If you, okay, I think, I think James just visualizing the next 22 move game.
Let's see if it happens here in game number two.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just remembering those files.
Yeah, it's one of the files.
I'm going to see that.
Yeah.
I want to play out.
Staring into the soul of the chat there.
Yeah, she was guys.
She played a lot of English.
I don't know either.
Some of her repertoire on the way to GM was English, Kings, and the N, and Sicilians.
This is something you buy sometimes too, but let's say when we get an English here, where
you actually can go a bunch of different ways with move 1, C4, and transpose and a lot
of D4 stuff, or even like Catalan type positions, really flexible in English and C4.
And sat across.
Now it's for opponent on a music check.
a game like that. Do you feel that there's just a slight shift in the momentum towards
Bivisara? Because Bivisara had the black pieces there. You always are more happy with a result
like that with black. Now with the white pieces can push for a different result. And just
how quickly she recited that variation. Almost was saying, I know this and I also know it
better and faster than you. Yeah, I think that a lot of times that's also a site below.
So you, your opponent, is blitzing out everything.
They barely use any time and you got to draw.
I do it with all theory and you were thinking about like,
I know this is theory. I can't remember.
Well, you're in great form here type of thing.
So I think that's exactly what happened there.
But Anna is one that bounced back.
She's been in a very, you know, understress or under a sense
situations of minigames before and even came back.
I mean, even that could mean a game.
And to help her get to the playoff here,
where she was actually losing.
She was down in peace.
and a glina, actually blunders it all back into a losing position.
So you're anything can happen, I think,
and it's very strong, it's a nation's but bad.
And we do have our English type set up,
sort of reverse the sulleness.
That's right, night take C3, B takes, we see E5,
usually white goes for some set up with D3 castles,
and you can play 92, Rook B1, A4.
That's usually how white plays this bishop often makes an appearance
on E3 and the night reroutes to C4,
perhaps Queen B3.
So that's, I think what we might expect
from Bivisari here and for Anamuzi chip,
you have to watch out for that beep on.
You're going to need to see that beep on supported here
because there is gonna be some pressure
from the Bishop on G2 and the Roklan B1.
You wanna play B6, but this Bishop
and perhaps this Rok might need to move first,
so Rokby A very standard.
And when you see Rokby A, it becomes a little more tempting
to go for something like 94, and F4, if Black makes it a regular developing move like
for example, Bishop E6.
Obviously, like that, an F4 move, also like 93, trying to put the 90 high, but a harder
to do when we're coming to DA, and also Bishop takes A2, and then their future is moving
the night away to the wrong square.
I think B5 is a critical move to consider here, and on a Mositrieg is delicately looking
at it and it's been played, the night goes to E3, the D5 square can be occupied immediately
and we may get a situation now where white ones to play tend to be C4 in order to secure
that square but black is also going to gain access to D4 and B4 momentarily.
Thank comes into the center. We need to be six trying to attack it. I did see the C4 move
as the night on C6 can be taken away from D4 with 23 in a lot of cases.
We also open a provision of maybe we do Fincado and maybe B2, B3, B3, B3, B3.
A3, a lot of different moves to choose from right now, it takes on C4, we have to
trade first on B8.
That's what's on board.
There it is.
It's all happening.
Take back on C4, C2, that was some power.
You see how hard C2 does that work?
Yeah.
Does that have any T2 in mind?
It's just like moving hard, you know, like hard moving.
You can try it into it at the point that I have seen that, but hard moving.
I mean, I didn't intimidate you.
I don't think it would work on me.
I would probably view it as overcompensating.
And I would use that to fuel my own confidence
that it's not actually that scary, the exact opposite.
Because I have seen Islam to peace now,
and they could be a terrible move,
but because it's been slammed,
it's a little bit more stinging to it.
Well, I tell you what does not react
to how hard you move the piece.
It's actually the engine that says,
I don't care how hard you take on the position
vehicle and you're not changing my mind.
And that's exactly what we've got right here.
Bishop to F8 to get out of the way at night takes E7.
I would look at this position and instinctively say,
well, what's got a great 9 on D5
and black cannot match it because 94 can always be removed
with E3.
However, in terms of development, I was going to say,
Bivisar is behind.
Bishop A3, finally catching up.
the black is controlling the only open file here because I mean, while the defiles open,
there's a lot of pieces on it that are not not quite out of the way just yet.
And night coming over to be for.
Yeah, I don't want to treat that yet.
And that's what I'm going to make this final a little bit better.
Connect the pawn.
So it should a for a queen a for.
287.
I think in that position, there's a pretty insane perhaps Bishop B3 move, just speculating in that line.
Bishop takes C5 here.
Rookie wants maybe she should be free is what my eyes are trained on here and she's taken on deep five now
Pressure on Bidassara who is no doubt going to see it now that it's been played because you don't play Bishop takes D5
We can all see Rookie one. You don't play it unless you've got a great mood bread
Rookie one Bishop E3
Wow
to take Queen, take Queen, move workware,
there's also a RIPB one,
and that's trying to do RIPB one at all,
and it seems that it was out of the way.
And look at that move.
The Queen retreats to C2,
which basically means James that what we just saw
was in fact a blunder.
It was a mistake.
Giving way that Pong,
David Sard thought she had things covered
with the tactic RIPB one,
but it was also a reverse tactic,
and all of a sudden the position is just very good
for Anon Huzi-Chic,
What the blackies is with an extra pawn, this is a significant edge for black.
Yeah, she really doesn't think it did not get a lot of the opening, which is a
baby star. She just didn't get a lot out of the opening here, and black was able to
now grab a pawn, looking to convert, is your set of that as hard to, but looking to
get it down, puts the pawns up, maybe trade the queens, keep the rooks on from a
but you're gonna kick up to the center.
So I'm gonna be a long game.
Exactly.
It feels like these positions,
even though white is down upon,
sometimes it feels like they're difficult to win,
because you can very easily just keep things blockated
and suddenly what do you do from Blacks perspective.
But when you play these positions,
you realize it's white who's actually running out
of ideas most of the time.
It's very difficult to play.
Let's see the technique.
If you play and move like Rootsie 7,
I do not expect it to be captured,
but rather move like rook d8 keeping the pieces on the board
would make more sense.
There she is.
I don't want to repeat check.
OK, Rixie six on the board.
Rixie eight and Queen F3 is always a try.
So Queen F3, Brook F6.
Oh, I was thinking we might see that.
And then I was wondering about Queen A8,
which could have been a fun way to try to even go
for mate against the black king.
You know, some stuff.
Still a little bit of shit.
to keep a cautious as if it's going back here.
A6G will against the king,
might have to take back with the rook leaves.
F7, we...
Yep, this is, I would not say that only
lack in win this game, James.
The king is now a bit exposed.
Oh, it's an issue of your game.
Working there, oh, no, wait, I don't want to.
Can be something first.
Just kids, right?
Okay.
I got a question, no, it's clear to you.
Jackson, what do you know?
Good at that.
Yeah.
You're good at that.
And that's like E3 was played.
What's the penalty for that?
I think it moved.
Is it just, is it time?
I believe so, yes.
She did a draw.
Yep, this looks like a draw.
And honestly, a draw that might surprise some people,
makes a little bit of sense.
Black's position has got much worse
since being significantly better before.
Unfortunately, the technique there was really lacking
from MoziChuk, who was up at Cleopon with no weaknesses
and turned it into a position where, honestly,
after we have five in that final position,
you start to wonder, are things getting out of hand?
Maybe is white even playing for a result there.
So I understand why MoziChuk did that,
honestly, a bit of a professional decision in James,
not letting it get worse than what it was,
but unfortunately, that is a pretty big error
to waste that extra pawn that MoziChuk had
after finding that nice tactical sequence before.
Yeah, it'd be, so from these are like,
oh, I got away with that one, you know,
let's let's tighten up and play with Black again.
I think her openings with Black are a little bit sharper there,
but it is up to her now to see if she can strike
or see what happens in this next game here.
Next up though, I have Carlson versus Norbeck game one,
starting soon, so we are waiting for that one.
Can we find the sea?
doing on lower back is being Magnus before and you know, some bracket. So by
dabble in the blitzes always a little bit different, it's a little bit faster
too for gay mess. Let's see what happens. Check who do you have? Yeah, Magnus
are in order back. If we think about how they got here, Magnus, he ended up with a
great result, but remember he had a really tough go in that event. But to make
it in the top four, he was comfortably in and in order back, not so comfortable.
Right, we had, what was it?
One, two, three, six players with 13 points in Nodabex said,
yep, I got the best hybrids out of all of you.
So I will be joining the top four and look at what it,
where it's taken in, punched his ticket to the finals now
against Magnus Carlson.
So the top two finishers, Argentinian Fabiano,
in those first 19 rounds,
have been eliminated when it comes to the knockout format.
That's crazy to see, like, oh,
you're probably going to open the top. There are no longer in tournament. They have been
knocked out. Bye. Thanks, Duke Magnus, and Nora back there. So yeah, it's going to be fun
to see if both fighters, especially in in games. They both love in games. Obviously Magnus
is being one of the greatest. If that's the greatest in game player of our time. And Nora
Magnus is just a fighter. He will fight. He loves Caucasians and loves in games. And even the
drive positions, but try to fight too as well there. So I guess we just heard on the back end that
I guess we're gonna try to think right here, maybe. All right, okay, my unreal, my unreal.
Okay, guys, it actually for real this time. It is a break this time. I'm going to put it back in
the future.
We blow-ah, do I head it in the bag, I just head it so-ah
I don't know if I got no purpose, blow-ah
Okay, I'ma start making them another scene
Never lie, say they need a double studio, I'll cause they
Get my life out, it's my time, all the time
Got a sign, let them watch, tell me give me food and talk
There's a bar, whoa, hey, okay, I'm not one in the set
Yeah, I'm trying, oh my waist, oh no, I can't play
I can't make a sign of cork, this does get you out of record
I guess the only way to play I'm a train cell
I'm a co-girl, I'm a train cell
I'm a co-girl, I'm a train cell
So if you do it better, I'm a co-girl
I'm a train cell, I can't make a sign of cork
I can't make a sign, I can't make a sign
It is this is what we're all waiting for.
for Magnus stormed back in the competition after being 23rd at one point.
Nearly being mathematically candid out, but he came back with a lot of draws on the top
boards.
He won game after game after game, put himself in a position to enter the top 4, and with
a win over Fabiano, in the semi finals is now facing the man on your screen right now
in the notor-beck abducitora, who has had a phenomenal tournament in his own right.
He snuck in with the best hybrids on that 13-point score after the first 19 rounds of
the Swiss and he beat Argeneric Geisey, who dominated the Swiss portion of the world-blitz
championship, he beat him what could have been 302.5 to half an dominant performance and
now faces off against Magnus Carlson.
That was right, and what you do is you never count out the Magnus Carlson, you know,
never over until it's really over.
It's going to say you sit 23rd place at some point to now in the final.
Here, okay, here we go.
Before you find, it's like,
oh, Queen's gave it accepted.
I know he likes playing that.
It's going to be back to us.
He takes it right away in Magnus going for the slightly more tame E3.
Note that the move E4 is definitely an option by white in order to be captured on C4.
for it, but carries a lot more risk.
And certainly with game number one here of this four game match,
I don't think we're looking for anything too crazy
from game number one, a very smart decision
from note-to-back to play the Queen's game that accepted,
which does carry some pretty equal tendencies
with the move C5 and C64 leading to a symmetrical pawn structure.
Yeah, I think it's C5.
You can also get B5 and C5 as some cases
to say expand it a little bit.
And how about EEC gain?
Still lots of play.
What, what do you play?
B6, ooh, you can piece is on a bit different.
A little bit different.
You want to space C5 later.
I'd be being castles, great, good C5.
Again, yeah, nothing too crazy here for Magnus,
night B2, this bishop often ends up
in some cases dropping back.
Remember, black can kick it out with the move B5, C5 is played, and Magnus needs to react
to C5 either.
You leave the pawn there on D4, and you recapture with a piece.
One thing that you will not see normally is the pawn take on D4 and be recaptured with
a pawn.
That would give an isolated pawn for no apparent reason, and usually you're going
to see either white capture or recapture on D4 with the night in order to maintain that symmetry.
Here in politics, let's see five. So normal stuff, taking it with the night, or vision.
You take it with a vision.
Yeah, so they both like to get like positions like this, where it's just, you know, gradual growth, gradual improving my position,
and three pieces on better squares
and what they currently are.
9C4 exactly.
The exact same thing exactly that.
And one of the reasons that this night on C4 is so strong,
it's tempting to kick it out with B5,
especially when the move before is an idea here,
trapping the bishop on C5, however,
B5 would allow 9A5 in that bishop
so that's around out of squares.
So that's why you see a pause from Nortebech
And A5 played in order to take control of that B4 square.
Good, nice moving night to D4 here.
I think he's looking at things like Bishop F3, and that's B5.
B5 square was precise in 94.
You give squares, you get squares, James.
Once we see A5, Magnus says, OK, we can B5 square.
I can start to target that with 94.
Normally, it would not be an idea to give away the darks for a bishop
for no reason.
And Magnus is executing a very standard plan of bishop back to e2 and then to F3,
trade that light square bishop and why do we want to do that?
We see the pawn structure, dark squares, dark square bishop, which means the light squares
are going to be very weak in the position if you can make that exchange happen.
Now again, nothing crazy happening here, but these are the plans and the ideas behind the moves
that Magnus is making.
94 from Nordobak is a standard reply to not permit that exchange,
but instead he plays bishop takes on F3 and I'm assuming that we're going to see Queen
takes F3 targeting C6.
We take F3 on the board at night to D5, we're going to the center.
I think it'll night be fine.
Again, he went to 9F5, cool mode to damage the function.
Yeah, and it had to be taken by the way that 9F5 move was actually hitting the G7
pawn and the queen. So a fancy move that is really just an exchange of
knights and Queen E6. Magnus is in his element here, James, an end game
approaches us and the pawn structure slightly damaged. I would argue that the
minor pieces for black are a bit subpar compared to whites. So classic
Magnus, I believe a slightly better position. But let's see how he's going to
treat this. Is he going to trade the queens? Is he going to keep the queens with
Queen E5 so he does not fix the pawn structure for Nordoback. He goes for the endgame
James Diracland.
Fix is the pawn structure but E6 is sort of weak. My rook is a nice on D1 and C1. B3 is sort of
weak, but I guess Black has the same in B6 on B6 pawn sum up to oh, he trade more trades.
Bishop versus Knight in balance.
Yeah, this is something you can do. You can just take, you can play A4.
He's probably evaluating, you know, is there any need or reason to maybe bring the rookie and or bring the King in?
But sometimes you can play this position.
Just playing moves like King F1, A4 and Magnus knows long term.
It might be a draw.
It's equal.
But when you have the night and you have pawns fixed on dark squares,
Magnus knows that he can outplay here.
And he's going for this endgame, James.
It's going exactly for that.
I mean, going to a strong suit, which I mean, he can do anything in this game.
attack the door not, but definitely also in games, why not go for it?
Any game masterclass, night versus vicious, nice imbalance.
We're a pawn structure.
It's not the greatest for what?
So we pull up.
So I'm looking at the move 9 takes 85 just to consider.
There is Bishop A3 in response, which is why that move is not occurring.
Magnus does not really want to go into these complications unless it's a force win
or something.
I'm expecting that we'll see A4.
It does concede B4 square,
but the bishop is kind of stuck on C5
defending B6 at the moment.
So I won't say the disposition is better for Magnus,
but it's certainly preferable.
According to the engine, zeroes,
but we'll see if Magnus can squeeze anything
as he is known to do that engine e-val is,
it's not enough to count Magnus out.
Well, after this night to be too low with, I like this maneuver he's going for with
night to D3 and maybe over to see if I, maybe you have a work trade too and try to use,
here it is.
I only went work see for idea, oh he's going to the other side, oh, might have forgotten
about that.
Yeah, but trade is not a requirement tool, exactly, it's not detrimental, but you'd probably
want to keep the rooks on the board as long as you can and maybe trade them on better
terms. So you'll probably see again this idea of 93, but the rook can slide to H4,
you know, just getting these creepy crawly moves, maybe get H6 played in the position.
It's possible that this rook could actually station itself on H5, a light square,
you're putting pressure on the rook here and you could continue with something like
maybe H3G4 or then you can bring the knight into the game. So I think that Magnus is applying a
a little bit of pressure here as the time gets low, things are going to get critical.
When I do like the fact that he kicks the rook away, you know, makes me do something.
It plays H6, which is actually a play Bishop F8 to defend against this track, which was very vital.
Now the bishop's is a little loose or a little occupied.
United Ford nice move with night.
Wait, can you go now? Rook C5. I guess pretty much forced here.
Yeah, nice you six, this is seven, it's going for it.
So Bishop to G7 here, we might see Rook back to D4, and you're almost trying to get that piece
to go to the wrong side. Bishop D6 instead, now the apon is probably going to be blacks,
as well as Rook C2 counterplay, but a clear path to victory for Magnus, not that it's
winning, but he has an H-Pone. He can try to push here.
Yeah, absolutely.
He should pass.
Pans must be pushed.
Now I have two of them, or maybe the B-Pans not that
the easiest to push, but H-Pone is down the board.
He is trying to run that thing down the board.
Boys, check.
Moving quickly.
Oh, Magnus.
Oh, it's there.
He's almost at hand along the position.
Oh, my goodness.
It's not makes the answer to a move.
This would be very unfair to Ristick for Magnus to lose.
Wow, he lost the game.
He lost the game. I don't know what happened.
He lost the game.
It's so unfair.
For him in a masterclass game night against Bishop, all controlling the light squares,
note her back understood perfectly what he had to do with the bishop to generate counterplay.
And he actually wins that position against Magnus in a shocker of a game one.
Oh my goodness, I would be molding so mad. I'm playing well. I get the pawn. I've grinded the position. I do everything I can do and then you flang and you running out of time
He lost control of the position here as we see Magnus on the screen walking away under settings. That's who mad about it
But he's like come on
While first one the wind there a booster up with the black pieces and now getting white
Man, I could just kind of take it easy.
I understand that black is going to have to be the one
or magnets in the way.
Might be looking for a chance as he could overpress.
That is remarkably uncharacteristic for Magnus Carlson
to heat, he does.
He is a player that recognizes usually very well
what overpressing is when you try to win the position
too much and actually introduce too much risk.
but I don't think that that was a position that he flagged.
I'm still wondering, and I'm trying to catch up
the final position, but I think there was a potential
checkmate or losing a rook in the final position.
He may actually just resign there.
So I didn't see the actual end of that position,
how it worked out, but the final move was bishop before,
and it was such a quick end to the game.
I don't know if you flagged or resigned,
but rook D2 is an unstoppable,
First of all, check me the only way to avoid it is e4, but you guarantee loser rook there.
I think Magnus played rook d8, saw the response immediately registered all of that and made just
Resonant.
Yeah, saw this two on the grove.
Oh, wait, that's what I thought happened.
But then I saw the flag and some of you as both.
Is there a little bit about what exactly?
Pick one, pick the other, regardless, it's completely lost position at the end, no matter
how you want to look at it and note her back deserving Victor there because he was never
actually significantly worse at all in this game. You might say, oh, Magnus was doing
Magnus things, applying pressure, squeezing the position, but ultimately the evaluation
never reflected that and note her back probably confidently playing with that Bishop against
the night, I'm really impressed by that game. I'm impressed to I am impressed. That was incredible
and not a back and now having the white pieces is putting some pressure on to
Magnus. Your Magnus might have to overpress. You might have to
we see them bounce back. You know obviously Magnus. So the thing you have three
games up but here's not a back coming back after he has a contain himself. I'm
really just you know all right cool. Oh man I was put a game and we relax real
quick. In fact you got to give him a walk around. Yeah something like that.
Something I noticed that I don't think has been the case in first of all all the games,
but certainly in the women's section, I didn't notice it as much, but handshakes between
the players during the match.
I like that.
That feels natural to me, even though the guy just beat you, you handshakes before, like
just as the player sits down, and to start the game.
So it's interesting just to see that because you don't always necessarily do that when
in the middle of a match, but lots of handshakes here and mutual respect as e4D6 is on the board
and Magnus switching things up, James.
Ooh, a little filler door, okay.
A little filler door action, a little bit different, different approach.
And it wasn't still a lot of play, obviously, here in the 90s, I mean, I can go and see six
of the cross-stripe, I do like with fill the doors and you have C6 and E5.
But because you can throw obviously D5, D4 with a bono E5, it's really cool stuff there.
I think I don't know, didn't catch up, there we go, Piss off C5.
I remember that in case you're just joining us, we have two vitals in progress here.
So we have the open and the women's and we'll be covering two games at a time.
And the games will never be concurrent, so we'll always be able to focus.
This is game two, Nurebac in amazing fashion beat Magnus Carlson in that last game and has taken an early lead in this matchup
But game two is underway and Magnus is looking to bounce back with an unusual peer defense play to start things off here
So there came to be came to like some type of filidore, pure, small and same stuff. I haven't
seen, okay, six being an idea later on.
That the A pawn is targeted here with Bishop D2. It really encourages the move A4. I would
probably assume that that's going to be played, but perhaps the reaction there, you're
are going to just leave it completely like we need to, rookie one, or you're going to fight back
and try to claim some of that space with the move B4 perhaps taking back after A4 on pass on
and then playing B4 later. So a lot of decisions here for Magnus as you want to play A4,
I think that's the move he's going to decide. The move B6 seems to be met nicely by B4.
It's on the lagness and there you go, let's move the place C-sigs waiting for the
okay.
It did play P-6.
They should have F-A, probably not me.
James, this position is in white's favor very clearly.
There's a lot of pressure on E-5 and the pressure on E-4 can be dealt with, it is not
to the same degree, 1, 2, 3, 4 pieces, attacking E5, and there's two defenders. So, Magnets
has got to make some big-time decisions here. I guess we could sort of give up E5 because before
it is hanging, with this it takes B4, with too many pieces traded. Magnets not happy though, clearly.
This should be six. Not at all. E5 is upon that you could consider capturing here, but remember
This is going to be a lot of pressure on E4 afterwards.
Knight takes D6 also gives a comfortable advantage with the bishop pair, but he's going
to go straight in and capture on E5.
I think this is also a move that you play knowing that a draw is a perfectly fine result.
So the worst that can happen is Magnus equals the material back, and, best case, perhaps
some tactics even more here.
And of course, we get to pon back very quickly moving the night and then Bishop takes B4.
We're the palm right back, but yeah, equal. So we got a kind of hard.
And now it's black turned in balance.
Count up the, count up the attackers on E4.
So 1, 2, 3, 4 when that night moves inevitably here.
Suddenly, it's the E4 upon that's going to be targeted.
And most importantly, Queen E7 also eyeballs before and the pressure on both the night,
the B4 upon and the E4 upon is going to mean that Magnus should equal up the material and
note her back is deep and thought here. I'm wondering if he's getting consideration to something
crazy or something. Okay, night after three I was wondering if he was going to go crazy with night takes F7,
which was a possibility that this makes more sense and it's much more control.
Very nice. Yeah, of course. I give him too many chances. There was also a great gift available
book night to see for us, trying to go back.
We should take CH 2, 94 and Queen H 4 was a crazy idea.
We didn't allow it.
So we go to night at three.
So the will be no great gifts today.
But Queen H 7 is a nice counter play on the seventh rank.
We're in order to bet.
The night covers the Rook on E 1.
So no danger there at the moment.
Bishop takes E 4 looks likely.
But if everything captures their both sides have to be worried about
background made and we may be liquidating to a draw here James. It looks like that is the most likely result,
but in this position, are we going to see Ruptecy for? Are we going to see night take or perhaps even
something else if you take advantage of this pin? It's a very close game, but I think we're getting
to equality as long as no one plunder is something big with background made involved.
And it's funny because Rick takes E4.
I think there's Queen A8 and almost.
There's actually a Queen F8, lovely.
Yeah, he's Queen F8, Queen F8, Queen F8, Queen F8.
Yeah, it's not enough.
Look at around.
So I think Queen A8 could be played.
Force the Queen back and then take C7.
That's exactly what's happened actually.
And even if we trade only one, I think at this point it is just equal.
There's probably a number of moves you can play pawn to B5,
at 95, perhaps even Queen C5, although that's the one I like the least,
and B5 indeed. On the board by Magnus, we are in an equal position here, James,
and I suspect we're not going to see anything too crazy happening.
Correct, some looks for the game, and it's just shuffling.
H2 or G3, probably H3, 25, 3d them.
Yeah, this looks like a trade, black can station, remember,
you have to be a little nervous about this pawn,
but the pawn can always reach before with the knight coming into D5.
For sure, we are in a position that is going to be a draw,
but we have to still get there and we'll see how many more moves
players are interested in playing. Yeah, it's just how you place.
You know, the king is a bit of head for Magnus, but there's also moves like 95. You have
to worry about if either King goes too far to the queen side,
you're going to see the ponds on the other side of the work
get targeted and look at this.
This is very interesting by Magnus.
He is giving up that F7 pawn and I do not think that he had to.
In that position, but I could have been wrong there
with 94 and 95 both threatened.
But like this, he made him think here.
It's a thinking situation.
Do you really want to go to C2 pawn
or have to be ponds push like this?
You're like, yeah, you're right, 22, but then after 86,
will you play something else?
94 say my de-up.
I mean, it's just symmetrical.
Hey, if you've got a threat, believe me,
I've got the same one.
You got one, I got one.
Same same, maybe F3 could be annoying F3,
and F3, and F3, and F3, and F3, and F3,
but then I can come around to F1.
So no real way around it, I'll take one, you take one,
same same.
Yeah, I don't see.
I really don't see how this can work out
to really any result,
except a draw, so far so good.
But with time pressure,
we have seen an error in a previous game by Magnus.
You will not want to repeat that.
Make sure we get all the pawns off, especially listen.
That C2 pawn is a week.
Gotta make sure we stay around it.
That's why can't you two happens
being a night around staying in range of the pawns
and the king, nine or five coming next.
Yeah, but you have to keep moving the king back,
otherwise King C3 and King TAC2.
So I was going to say we might see a repetition there,
but perhaps even looking for something
a little bit more, hang on to us like King D1,
there's 93, not a lot of shaking his head,
this is a significant wonder.
Incredible.
I mean, if any of you gives the host matters here,
we just said you gotta stay around the C2 upon
and he found these magnets, finds a way to create
problems, it's a nice, unbelievable, unbelievable
is the word.
Now, the knight is going to hang out on the F3 square.
Magnus is giving a face.
He knows what just happened.
That was a swindle and a half.
The king is going to promote this pawn
and win the knight.
The king takes on H6 and after knight F3,
it's going to be winning for Magnus Carlson.
I guess the king around, and maybe King C1,
there it is, and pushing right through.
Even if he's back in the night,
it's not enough.
Magnus knows he got away with one James incredible.
Yes, as he queens, King does not get around and time
to be able to give anything.
There is night to G5, which would be sufficient,
and Magnus unbelievable,
that he won that end game.
But dead draw is not in Magnus Carlson's vocabulary.
And did not work for him last game playing on.
He does the same thing again, and it works out.
It's crazy.
Second time, it's hard.
Really, it's not the same as actually third time.
But in Magnus's case, it's the second time, Mr. Sharer.
And he got it done here.
He bet C2 points week.
He got his king active.
Someone we talked about before is that king activity,
which really helped him win this game.
How fast can you get your king active guys when you're in those in games and he was able to do it very quickly.
Had a weakness, had a target, the C2 bomb, got it done.
And James, when is that markable?
Yeah, it's remarkable to see that happen because, you know, Magnus had the confidence to go right back to it.
He over pressed a little bit in that previous game.
It did not work out.
He lost.
And to show back up at the board,
maybe have not a great middle game,
ultimately equalized, it looks totally drawn.
And then to still go back and look for more in that position,
you know, that's really trusting yourself,
trusting the style and the method of playing chess
that has brought magas so much success over his career.
You went right back to it, and ultimately,
note her back, under time pressure,
crack, you made a mistake, he blundered the pawn,
And that blundered the game and believed me.
You make that one mistake in that endgame change.
Magnus is not looking back.
And he took the win to even this match.
And he is absolutely back.
Product of intuition and experience.
And confidence, all of those combined together
make a very strong player,
but also a very strong man's cross and knowing what to use it.
I also get out of his own head
for his yesterday first game.
He hurt a little bit,
but he was able to bounce back now.
Everything's cool, calm and collected.
even playing field with three games to go, sorry, basically, two games to go in their
match, whoever wants to have wins the match. Back to the limits, as we have gained three
above the start. Yeah, and this is not just game three, this is going to be game four
as well. And game four is happening regardless because the match is tied to draws to start
off is one to one right now. That means you're guaranteed the next two games regardless,
If it ends, too, too, we will have our mededon.
And we are ready for game three to start.
It's been very peaceful so far.
In that last game, although we're jumping
between matchups here and open and women's,
but in the last matchup we saw between Vitasar and Anamuzica,
it was actually a mistake from Vitasar,
but ended up in a draw anyway.
So it has been very even between the two.
Very even indeed here, and now we're able to
Take a quick break, they were, and they were taking a break.
And now get back to play their game.
To be a quick refresher, maybe check in some lines,
knowing what colors they have, see what they might play.
And what it could actually happen.
Here we go.
Gather yourself.
You can just about to start.
And a reminder of we in is so meaningful in this one.
The contrary, even though the score is the same,
contrary to the other final, in the open, with draws here.
There's been no first blood, but there has been winds on both sides between
magnets and notarbat.
So here, whoever wins that first game, it could end up being the winner of the
overall match because there have been two draws so far and clearly,
he's been in a very evenly matched.
First wins, sometimes changes everything, so it depends on who gets that.
and it'd be the stars have been well with the Black pieces.
She does have a dynamic repertoire with Black,
and it's going to put Anna in a must-watch situation.
But Anna is able to overcome some of the tactical shots
in some of the theory that maybe star-elected play,
maybe by playing something on Orthodox,
or something different, would be a different story here.
But BBC are on the back foot, let's see about it.
Well, we have the same colors again.
Remember, from that game, game number one,
where we saw Anna, the music trick, and BBC are just
reciting theory for us. It's probably up to Anna now to do a bit better than that, right?
So I assume that we're going to see something different and what's interesting in no
James as we get underway is that this is the game that the most preparation time has been
available for the players because we got to swap to the open. So let's see if they've prepared
something specific for this one and we can already see the difference in the position,
Bishop takes the 9 on D7 for on a music joke has changed the opening.
Change it up a little bit. I like this 93. Takes 9 takes and B3,
gives him pressure on D6 to develop the addition to the lower to D1.
Can hit the Queen with Temple here, Bishop E3, seems to be lost for that.
Slide thing already. I was going to say, yeah, Bishop to E3, you have to be a bit concerned
about pontex on c4, and maybe some of the pins that can result, white decides to capture
on b5. I suspect we'll see a takes b5 here because you generally want to maintain your bishop pair
in bishop d2 is the move aiming to go to the b4 square with the bishop i would assume while this
knight can reposition into the center and you want to block a that b pawn and put pressure on the
a deep on. So no, because the deep on is backward here, very normal, and then you
have a Sicilian. Do you have any deep five? That is frisky stuff there, but probably not
because the e5 is hanging. But we do have to deal with the work the one, and it's going.
You can definitely feel the pressure of the D6 pawn.
Yeah, e4 has also been targeted. I imagine we will see a rookie one. It's possible to defend
this pawn, then a bit of a strange way, perhaps with an idea like rook C1, but rook E1
feels very natural. The other move to consider is knight D2, although I would assume that
rook F1 is the better move to begin with. Note that the pressure on E4 means that if you play
rook E1, you can't really bring that knight to E3 because then you would disconnect the rook from
defending the E pawn. So maybe in that case, you could try knight D2, but it feels James like
Black is going to castle, play group D8, and eventually get that move D5 in, and that will be a game changer if it happens.
Yeah, and that's real a normal type of night or a force to play in these type of positions.
You're even stretching it off when you get to spawn on D6 backward, it is good to actually try to get something on D4 and piece,
or breaking with D5 getting rid of the weakness in the background, also activating my DOS provision on F8.
And on the other hand, it's really kind of stopping that.
I whole idea getting ready to trade the dark square vision for you,
push on D5.
And also attacking the weakness of D6 pawn.
But we do see Rkf-1 very nice move defending you for.
Maybe bring the other Rk over next.
Okay, to see.
Or Rk-2-D.
Yeah, it's important to play this move, Rk-A to C1.
And if we see Tassling, for example, there is this idea of night take C5.
So I just want to highlight that that if you castle the Bishop on E7 does fall victim to this pinned D6 pawn and that is the reason why black position is not just completely obvious and well we actually see 9 takes you five here
It is the move that needs to be played very important to see that
Let's see if it gets played here. I assume that with the theory that both players have displayed thus far that
that this will absolutely be played with it as I say that no, not at all.
I don't think I'm missing anything.
And I only say that because I saw the blue arrow supporting me,
we all need to be in our lives sometimes.
Night takes eat five was definitely a missed opportunity there
for on a music show.
I think she was a bishop E4.
We were not tactically kind of works.
Kind of because like night takes E5,
bishop E4 and now you like we're a pacy4,
we're a c1.
So okay, I guess she probably blasted and then was like,
you know what, and knowing a player too, like,
now, you know, I don't want to go down
this tactical scrumptious stuff.
But in ITC5, it was a little bit of a curious
what happened on BishB4 after that,
maybe like, Queen G3 or something.
And then that could get.
No, that's the classic right.
No.
83, 9c3, getting those pieces out, you know,
as white, you do at some point,
want to make an escape square for the king,
same for black, but without that 9cc5,
we've played, you see, the knights are kind of retreating,
The good thing about light's position is the bishop block getting on before, but again,
the moment that black achieves some sort of break like the D5 move, the open position
will favor the bishop pair and will also favor black's pieces that are all clearly
waiting for D5 to happen.
Yeah, I'm stopping it.
Bishop F8 is so ready to play D5, but you can't put anything on D5 yet.
really strong, maybe 93, 85, and 95. That is some scary stuff. We need to
have a getting out of the deep off the deep out. The deep out is going to be a
very crucial break, and she knows coming.
H6, we see F3. Now, why is it probably looking to play 9F1, 93,
trying to control that D5 square, but ultimately it belongs to black. The move
D5 can happen at any moment. F3 makes the move knight H5 more tempting to me.
First of all, it makes it possible the Queen is no longer attacking but also the dark squares are a bit weaker
And if white starts playing G3 to stop night F4, I think mission accomplished with night H5
But those are going to make the white King a lot weaker in this position and night H5 is played
I agree with this move. I think G3 is a move that that you don't really want to play with white
But of course, you have to stop night F4
All happening to as well the whole night maneuver. DeFi we was waiting for that. Here it goes. Everything is opening up.
Brooke takes e5. Sorry, Brooke takes F8. Excuse me. The move chosen takes on DeFi with the night and the bishop is going to dominate this board here.
White can play 92, but James this position is so much better for black. Yes,
E5 is hanging, but so is F3 and the A2 pawn as well.
Bivisara has the edge on the clock and on the board, but we saw the opposite in the previous
game and it did end in a draw. I mean, and look at the bench, look at the bishop I had,
like it's such a strong piece on the center board. I have to open C file. I definitely like
Blacks position engine does too as well.
Rooks, see, two is your pointing outlooks really strong.
Be too, hitting, I mean, automatic move almost.
You play the F6 though.
Yeah, just not liking,
be hanging e-pong.
I do think that at this point, you have to start
caching in some advantages.
And one of them, I think this Bishop takes A2 needs to be played.
We are concerned about 9 D6, but, you know, that's a call in ambulance,
but not for me after Queen B6 check, which would be a fork.
So I don't know that Michigan's eForce the best move, but still the idea remains the same to win the pawn and advantage to black.
Okay, we found a solid before already. It was like, oh, it was the other way around, actually.
All the way around, and it was up to pawn.
Yep.
Similar position.
They were very evenly matched, I was just saying.
It's getting very similar positions before and they're other two games.
Offering an exchange of rooks here, queen end games are always so tricky.
Usually they offer very decent drawing chances, also a rook end game.
So the queen and rook offers better winning chances, but just queens or just rooks becomes much closer to a draw.
So let's see what happens here after queen D4 notice how Anna down the pawn is not going to be looking to trade queens.
Pretty much under any circumstances.
Yeah, and now we have to try to magnet them, they see just set the gun, we're gonna
get you a row.
Hang on, this is a huge blunder, a terrible move, just blundering the pawn, and there
is probably not, wait a minute, is this a draw?
Yeah, it's a draw now, no way you're not at each point.
I'm wondering how forcing this was, I'm wondering how forcing this was, and I credit
Anna for coming up with a great way. I actually want to take a look at this so we can bring it up on the board for everyone. This was very clever by Anna. Let's take a look.
Be the Sara and Anna reviewing the game and actually credit to Anna for coming up with this idea of the
wonder that turns into a forced draw. Getting excited about the position for good reason but not for the
move played. So let's have a look. Why is the blue arrow pointing out
Queen D2? It is the best move here. However, we need to play something different here
and in this position, the the King on H3 James is actually safely placed and Queen B2
this is a four-straw and we saw it displayed perfectly by Anna on the board. So Queen C5,
while it allowed this, this is not the way that Vivisar was supposed to continue playing.
So, to continue from here in a proper way,
Black would have to play and move like Queen to D3,
controlling this diagonal.
A false alarm here has the move Queen C5 is actually a lot more clever
than it is a mistake, so I completely take it back
and actually a great move from an on a music truck from a practical perspective.
Now, I think after Queen D3, Black has a presizable advantage
because the F3 pawn is very difficult to defend
and there are no checks on the diagonal.
That being said, practical game,
who is not taking the pawn there,
and it works out to be a perfect,
almost repeat of their previous game with the extra pawn,
turned in to a misplay and age roll.
That's very difficult, fine, and I cleaned the three-move.
Especially with no time to,
we just had to allow the professional what it is,
take it, so as scholars,
maybe Saras is, and try to win.
This is the final game where it could be,
or we get it, what you guys hoping for,
or a chance.
Who are you really good?
Anna, baby star, or Armageddon?
Where now it's gonna be fun too as well.
There's also increment there.
It's kind of annoying.
Our Armageddon with A-Kermit is gross,
but it is bottom of the format.
And it is likely it's possible,
but we're having a really anything in happen here.
It's all tied up.
It is, it is now after three consecutive draws
in this four game match.
There's one more game remaining.
If it's a draw, we have a 2-2 tie.
It's currently 1 and a half to 1 and a half.
So we're moving on to our next game.
In a few minutes here,
Bivisara has been a traditionally at the board.
Just waiting for that next game to start.
Three draws in this one, will we finally see a win?
Because that would immediately crown
our world blitz champion here,
or will we be going to Armageddon
to decide the entire competition?
There we go. Everything is on the line right now. Maybe switch it up. She might go with her
saying, maybe she's feeling like, you know what, Armageddon, I'm a bit a little bit less.
And it actually changes the bid now too. I think we spoke a little bit about that before.
But with the two second increment, your bid change a little bit. So, you know, you make
bid a little bit lower understanding you have to make for me. Whereas if you didn't have an
increment, you'd bid a little bit higher.
Yep, and a reminder, of course, that the open finals are taking place, but don't worry.
They're not taking place right now. You're not missing the action.
You know, for the first time, James, I think I will extend credit to the organizers at times chaotic,
but being able to watch all these matches individually and splitting and staggering things is appreciated so that we don't miss any of the action.
That is correct. We all want to catch the action on both boards like you want to watch them
both at the same time, but that's great that they stack a click as it's for. They knew
we were watching in the fan's at home that it was enjoy watching a game of chess and
learning and seeing these players play it. Yes. So now that you guys appreciate it. Thank you.
And we can see just waiting for Anna, but I'm sure she's been told that she has a certain amount
of time, so she's absolutely right to take it.
And this almost reminds me of like a situation,
you know, boxing can't you just, you go back,
and you don't even sit down in your corner
during the break between rounds.
You stand right in the center of the ring and say,
I'm ready to go whenever you wanna sit down.
Let's do it.
That has been her mentality to the entire time.
It's an even match thus far,
but we are gonna see this next and final game
of this four game match between Divisara
and on a music show to determine the winner.
And I believe James that if we get an army get in,
we are likely going to play the open games first
and then play the army get in,
but wait for that to be 100% confirmed, of course.
Okay, oh, handshake and glitch.
Okay, and there we go.
Fast forward and we're here.
Yeah, oh, yeah, they already moved to all right, okay.
Here we go.
We've seen this opening before.
This is one of those matches where we've actually
seen the exact same gameplay in both of the games
with white and black.
You know what I mean, James, like we're seeing a repeat,
maybe slight differences improvements,
but so far, nothing but a pawn has separated
these two women at any time during the match,
there's been some big advantages,
but really only a pawn as an advantage,
but ultimately those games being drawn.
Yeah, I mean, what's a pawn between friends and mine?
What's a pawn, buddy?
You know, it's just a size.
Now sometimes, you know, if you're looking to win in chess,
that can be enough at this level, one pawn can be enough.
In this match, it has not been enough.
Just yet, a Bishop E6 instead of B5 played
and now Queen A4, let's see what Ana does against this.
B5 is being prevented and this is a slightly different
move order that we've seen from last time.
I actually kind of liked this too, as there's a,
there's like, you can damage the structure.
Okay, maybe that's a strange idea,
but I mean, Bishop takes C6 is really real.
I was a real idea,
It's a nice, and it's kind of really wrecked the structure there, which he said, you know, I'm not going for it. I also like to pace that she's playing here. Are they both kind of playing pretty quickly?
It keeps me pieces on. I mean, this could be the final game with one blunder in any side.
So the move rook to E1. A little bit mysterious, but I believe that the idea is C4 will see how big a star wants to play, but it looks like 94.
before, it comes with less of an impact
because E2 is now protected.
While C4, 6 years, the D5 square for the night,
and then you can follow up with E3.
So I think perhaps a slight edge in the position
to Bivisara just cementing that night
on the D5 square, a likewise position.
I do too as well with the difference in the outpost,
where I could put the night on D5.
You can put the night on D4,
But I can kick yours away, you can't kick mine away.
It's big difference in the outpost.
So I will bishop to seven though.
There is just saying it before she moved it.
The queen was on a diagonal, so she moves it all,
queen to eight.
Yeah, and a move that is very dramatic in this position is
actually F4.
I mentioned this move the last time that we saw this variation,
the last game, the reason is of course, well, if you take the queen
and rook are not situated in a great spot there.
It's a move you can save though.
You can play it later.
Just a do believe F2 to F4 is an idea
that why you can rely on to generate some play.
For now, it looks like we're just improving
the position slowly.
Bishop C3, Queen B2, E3, perhaps even sliding
the Queen over to the other side of the board
while this night dominates the center advantage
in this final game to be the star.
If necessary, the process will be played still, it will be pretty even, let's see what
she does.
That is night to eat three, and that is going to be back and forth to eat three, and
be five of a few times here, and we'll see her be, that could be a draw off her.
But this is what I want to go for that, there's a question, there we go, it's not yet
at H5, push that pawn down the bow, down the road a little bit more,
off a zero-style 86.
Speaking of alpha zero,
Bishop E4, G4 and F3 is a very committle,
but perhaps very interesting way to completely dominate
these likesquires here,
if Black, for example, plays an H6,
that would be, I think a pretty bad move
because the lightsquires that get left behind
are so weak.
So that's another way that you can play as white,
just all in on the light square domination.
And we go G6.
So now, look at the bar mode too, but 93 is a little bit different now.
The Bishop on D2 defense 86.
Probably make any real progress.
Maybe F4 is kind of risky though.
Bishop C3 is going to hit H6.
So you go.
You go.
It takes H6 though.
Isn't this a blender?
Okay.
Think it was at least possible to just capture that pawn.
I think it was at least possible to just capture that pawn on H6.
So I don't know if we're going to see a repetition there,
but 93 is definitely not a good move.
I think from light's perspective, you go all in.
It's time for Bishop C3.
It's time for F4, Queen B2, and just open this diagonal.
I think that is the way to play.
I'm going to be three saying a miss there.
This is three just, you know, I'm shuffling.
Just make it moves.
I have double question mark.
Many James a double question mark move missed by Bittasara the idea F3 G4 the bishop has to go to E6 and you lose the F6 on there by force
F3 can be played now with the same idea
She may not be seeing it. She just glance out the clock
But the partner has an idea
As you can see F3 now because the pawn is hanging even if it didn't occur you before
She takes the nine instead.
Sometimes you should take the four.
Yeah, a little bit.
A little bit this pawn by the way is going to be lost into the wind, right?
That H pawn, which was one so strong without the dark square bishop to support it.
Now suddenly, you start to wonder about that bishop pair, whether it can come alive.
looking for the tactics rookie for definitely it was a fan looking for doubling
other rooks to as well, rook takes D for is that that's too much she said no I'm
taking those yeah I'm going to rip over to H for head to this you want to play
rookie one but it's not possible just yet Bishop G7 I assume and Bishop E
for now there's real ideas of taking over the E file of bringing the night to
and guess what, the D7 Rook was loose in that position.
This is turning in white's favor.
Really strong, trading at the business now,
and now we don't have to worry about B3,
bringing it back to the center
and doubling the rook's whites in the great position.
Yeah, this is really, really powerful now.
The rooks are doubled, all in white's favor,
the 9 on D5 is an absolute beast,
controlling the entire board,
and after Queen F3, there's no Queen D1.
You have to just go back to F5, waste at time here for black, and rookie trees at great response.
There you just King G2, put the brick on a three, Queen C6 good too.
Bring more pieces in front of you.
Right here, there's RCAF 4.
RCAF 4, we have to do.
We have to do it.
Oh, RCAF 4, yes, there it is.
You know, RCAF 4's nice.
Also, you're moved, King G2 and RCAF 3, I do like that as well.
but simply RickFour was the direct way to do the same thing.
And this is,
they to Sara is better here,
but is not yet caching in on potential material here
with RickF-3, RickE6, you can reroute the queen.
Right, everybody.
Why isn't it great position?
I feel like something is off with that queen right there now.
Now, we're going to get three might be just clear.
Here we go.
Right.
We need you.
Winning.
That's a wrap.
Oh my goodness.
Good.
You see.
A light smile there, of course, as she should, she is the 2025 World Blitz.
Champion, Grandmaster Fiddesar, Asa Bajiva, very deserved and put the pressure on in the final game,
claiming the only victory of that matchup in the final.
He was a draw, a draw, and another draw, and then a win there, in the end, and we could have went either way.
And even the match all the way down to the wire, it took to the last game where we were going to have,
Thanks to Mitch, and Baby Saran was able to make congratulations to the 25th of
the world's best friend, and that's a big celebration.
That's an amazing job.
The reason job is basically taking us in a moment, and I'm willing to shut these
extremely sharp.
So, very good.
You know, we've got these in the child.
That interview there.
What a moment for Baby Saran and what a battle in the
He then as well, you know, putting yourself in a position to be in the top four and then ultimately I think was in so much control in the matches that we saw before gain many matches
It just felt like a situation where you're looking at a very deserving champion at the end
Yeah, she absolutely
deserves it. I mean she follow her way through just a bliss portion to get to the final four or base of the playoffs that is and then
and the play-offs here, she was going to make it to the final and then take on Anna here,
not easy to do, but she's also a Blitz B, she would just under underestimate her,
she's also underrated, newly minted grandma's as well, and the last few months, I think,
or something. So really strong, strong showing, and well deserved here from BVSR. She also
blitz champ too, as well. I think this is not her first time. She wants something else,
blitz-wise. I don't know how to close this, but extremely strong, and well deserved, congratulations.
Exactly, right? Exactly, right? And don't forget everyone. That is that is your women's world
Blitz Champion. We still have a world Blitz Champion to crown in the open section that is
Magnes Carlson, Nortarbeck, Abducitorov. We didn't get there with two draws, but a win of peace means we have a
tied match after two games in that one. One to one. So we're actually kind of entering with the exact same
storyline James where it's one to one if we see two draws or perhaps a win each to end up these four games
We will see Armageddon to decide things. However, there's two games before that and a lot can happen both games have been decisive in this one so far
Now of course both games is decisive and we still got two more games at least to go on this match. I'll see you in a few
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We are back, we are back with more action at the final of the TV Miracle Championship, and
We'll just crown a three time now three time.
We'll go into the champion in Ruby Sara.
So Ruby Sara has to play it up for this one.
I'd third one.
I've got a few master games.
I'd third here joined by a career master of mine.
Hamilton, we're in game three, bro.
Time to work.
That's right.
I see the the chat is ready for this final match up in the open.
They're using that new emo that I see there.
Magnus is face.
So all in good fun, but we have to get serious about game number three.
it is tied one to one and can't see. I imagine you're probably interested in this opening.
Oh 100% this is for all the jobobies at home. If you are a fellow jobobie and
brethren unite, this is at 100% a jar jar banks London as I like to label it. What he did
is play the 92 which is a little bit different generally in my course,
we're all like to do is I go G4. It throws a lot of people off, they don't know what to do.
There's also a G3 line which is a little bit more positional but instead of 92, I always go G4
Just let out their very strong. So fun and see what happens here. And if he wins, oh, yeah, absolutely, you know, so about an old crazy.
Well, night G3 played in this position. I have to say night G3 for me is an unusual spot to have a night,
Usually, but something that magus is indicating he's comfortable with. I mean, even Nordobak is a bit perplexed by the placement of this night.
It takes a square away from the bishop, which you may need in the case of, for example,
night to G4, I guess the bishop is going to retreat to F4 and what is going to continue with
bishop D3, but instead, Nordervic says night to G3, I'm going to go immediately with H5H4,
this is how you play against night on G3 and G6, so he goes straight for a James.
Absolutely, it's a normal way of playing it. I mean you see night on G3, G6, B6, more B3,
you just put that wing pawn just to annoy it. I do like the moving bishop D3, H4 will be responded
with Knight to E2 I assume. I mean you could go Knight if one. It's an interesting way to
read about the Knight. But Knight to is the likely move. H4 and yeah exactly right
exactly right James Knight slides back to E2. I think that Black is probably going to play H3
but you could also leave the pawn there. What's interesting to me is now I'm wondering
James Wichway is not about going to castle if at all because it could have been queen side that really doesn't look correct and king side with the h pawn basically vanished from h7 that also does not feel safe anymore, so is that king going to stay in the center?
That's a good question.
As a bishop of these six, I might actually cast a clean side first.
He plays H3, look like, okay, cool.
Yeah, I think he has going to end up casting King time.
But that's going to be fun for us, but if he does it, you know,
King's in the center of the board.
Exactly.
This moves, stops night to G4.
So taking on E5 would allow night D4, no night G4 in response.
So that's why Magnus did it in that way.
However, this hanging beep-on. We have to point out it is there, but rookba and rook takes on B2
is not something that you want to allow. So A4 and I think this is even preparing a potential move like
Queen A3 if you want to get the Queen's off the board or you could say well where's Black's King going to go?
I'm going to castle and eventually play Queen to C2, but a dark square concept
initiated by Magnus Carlson. He loves the end games. He's had success in the end games in this match,
And he's going for something similar I believe here.
I actually like it.
I do like that you can go for the same game here
and make this AC spawn very weak after AB,
bringing a queen back to C2.
A lot of the time in this variation is for particular,
you actually have a ghost species with me really,
but it's more of a caracont type of play.
It exchange variation of the caracont
where it's very reminiscent of that.
Only difference is here is of course,
this AC spawn which is sort of misplaced actually.
And the main minority attack that black generally goes for
isn't quite there. So it's a little bit different. You get some type of exchange
Kirokan where there are some big differences here but still equal.
I can see Magnus maybe playing the move night to see one here. It's well known in these
structures that if the night reaches D3 that it is a very, very good piece and hopefully
that is visible with the night on D3. D2 is protected. C5 and E5 as target squares for the night.
I mean, the 9-0-D-3 will be the best piece on the board and the rook and slide over to A1.
So, neurovect is not interested in allowing that meanwhile, night H5 making use of this H4 pawn
in order to reach the F4 square, which also coincidentally controls D3.
So, happens, rook takes is still possible.
Wait, rook takes takes we need 2, we need a second.
is it really bad if Queen 2 I hit both right?
94 I take the pawn I guess you go over B8 okay I got the issue and Magnus
plays the move 93 but we'll see night to four I think that if this trade happens
that I mean better is a strong word but I think that black is doing well here let's
see how Magnus handles the position but this pawn on H4 is annoying why can't
never really expand with G3 King G2. Not to mention if we achieved B4 and take the pawn,
then black is most certainly better, but naturally we are teetering very close to a simple
equality here. I think black is slightly better though. Yeah, maybe more active, hitting B5,
of course, for B8 is very easy to move to play to defend. They might go for something more active,
but I don't know what that actually is. Yeah, brook to B8. It's the most sensitive in the
the week-long that I am attacking being be full, G6, mm-hmm. It's hard to even, like, yeah,
I see, okay, one, but I can't, like, I guess I could go, but that's like almost an immediate
draw off or moving the road. Exactly. That's right. Yeah, it's hard to imagine a different result
in order to back has that draw in his pocket really at any moment. And, you know, I would say
there's an outside chance that Black can just kind of play G5 G4 and obviously
I'm just last moved a great one. I think we know what that means.
A brilliant sea of all. Yeah, a draw offer in kind.
He's flexing. You know, Brook A8. Just take a look at him.
Oh, take the re-harmage. Where is going? He's going. He's going. He's in the back.
He hung his bread, yeah, he's getting to draw.
And he's going to take it with a draw, a breed,
and a smart move, okay, just getting the result
that we knew what was going to be.
But you know what, he's going to look out for us.
He said, hey, no point in watching that longer than you need to.
That's a draw and let's make it a draw.
All right, now do nothing crazy.
Another draw.
And into the last game, this is it.
It's, well, obviously there could be Armageddon,
and it is possible.
It is possible.
But, you said I'm not the game.
One and a half, one and a half.
Now, we need to see what happens in the bullet
to buy pieces, what we'll never back throw at him.
Magnus pacing around, still around the board.
And that's far away.
That's right, one and a half a piece.
This is also the same result we had in the women's match.
And then in the last game, it was decisive.
Well, we see something similar here.
I think the momentum is just a little bit in favor
of Nortarback.
That was a very good game with the black pieces.
There was no danger in his position.
He secured the draw confidently when he had it in front of him.
And that was Magnus with the white pieces.
In the last time he'll have white pieces in this match,
of course, other than the potential Armageddon.
If it's a draw, we have Armageddon.
But both Magnus and Nortarback can become
the world blitz champion with a win.
I thought you meant shared. I was like, huh? Oh, is it again? You know,
but that you can finish the sentence.
Yeah, it finished the sentence. It's like, oh, okay.
No, they cannot both become the champion at the same time.
Oh, okay. Okay. Not this year.
Not this time.
And I guess with a thought, I'm like,
I'm going to play this, play that, let's see.
They have Armageddon in place to ensure that we will not see any sharing,
not this time around.
But hey, you know, remains to be seen, right?
Don't count anything out in this competition, but that's the way it looks right now
as Armageddon, perhaps for the first time.
And we haven't seen it.
We've been talking about it the entire event.
Isn't it remarkable James that we didn't see it to decide
anything earlier in the event?
We didn't see it as a method yet of deciding any of these
head-to-head matches.
We've been sitting here waiting patiently for Armageddon,
when we finally get it in this last game.
Sometimes you do see Magnus',
we've known him to be very good in all time control,
But definitely, but Armageddon, he's been doing,
he's one of a lot of Armageddon's from when I remember.
So it could be something he says,
hey, I'm comfortable with it.
I'll bid you or try to.
And then, and go into the Armageddon,
with that result being guaranteed by either black winning
or drawing, which still went for black.
But also again, that bid is going to be different.
Four minutes, two second increment.
How low are you going to bid?
If that even is Armageddon, but we'll cross that path,
We'll cross that board and we get there.
Let's see what happens.
Exactly, right at the players, both seated and ready to play,
we'll probably see the game start any moment now.
The Chief Arbiter makes his way over.
And there we go, handshake and we're off,
no matter back with the white pieces and E4, E5,
the opening chosen for this game,
Are we going to see risks taken or perhaps is
not about going to steer the game towards equal waters
and maybe test his luck and his chance and his skill
in Armageddon?
Let's see, Magnus choosing one of his favorite openings.
I see one of his best scoring in fact
he can use in the World Championship many times.
The World Championship is one E5.
And it gets the right here playing a really different thing.
It's just going with the easy play.
It should be seven or eight very easy games here.
We can, I don't play your opponent as well. He's looking cool.
All right. We see castling all solid so far. Very much in well known territory for everyone.
And it seems though, Magnus is comfortable with this. He's played D six. There will be no bishop to G for but often in these spots.
You see Bishop E six. Magnus decides on H six first. And if you play D for you, always have to be just mindful that
But the pawns can be exchanged and a quick C5C4 is available, so sometimes you see a slower approach for white.
I don't know, of course, this review.
Sometimes, hinting at D4, open A file.
Two, but it can do a multitude of moves.
This should be 7, as you pointed out.
This should be a 6, B7, XC, H, B5, this point.
So maybe it'll go, oh, and we have a more rookie A.
Sometimes going and intending for B7, A.
Yeah, the move D4, again, not always the move you want to go for, common is 9D5,
that rook E1, but instead we see 92, a very familiar repositioning of the knight to G3 with C3
and potentially D4 after that, that all seems very likely now, and here's the exchange of
bishops for Magnus as he plays bishop to E6 and recaptures with the rook.
Very equal, nothing going on could be deformed, I remember seeing something like that
here before, not even taking two, rookie 1, 22, lots to think about, a lot of moves you
play here.
I like Quincy 2, solid, remember if we get a position like this after it takes on
E4, we're going to be looking at dark square bishops with the pawns fixed in a way that I
I believe slightly benefits white, but we are deadlocked equal here,
magnets, end-or-back both satisfied with their position,
and no excessive risks being taken.
Yeah, if this being the last game, which is potential to be Armageddon,
or anything can happen, we did see that game that Magnus won,
kind of on demand there, King and Bond in-game,
spawns on the same side, you're virtually lost to C2 pawn,
was able to swindle that. So really, I think it's possible even from the the equal positions
that we see here. This piece has come off the board looking to see what we can do. It does
have this beep on. It could be a problem later if we trade. B3 would probably make it weak.
Yeah, the Brooklyn E6 is quite useful here. It's guarding the E-pon guarding the night.
And even watches the night on F6 in some cases. Black can play a future G6 to really prevent
something like night at five from happening, but the rook is very useful, meaning after
Q&A-4, you can react however you like. You can play Ponte XC3 and we do see that on the board
and will we see the night reposition potentially to the G6 square to free up to seep on and
Magnus decides that he likes that maneuver. 97 over to G6, just like White has already done.
Sometimes it's not a reason to go to Scrum but obviously G5 and like the G6,
You know, over to F4 was always attacking ideas for moving at G6,
in 1872, trying to swing the rip over the G6.
We use the bag and the that way.
No life square vision for black.
So there's no sacrifices on H3.
Very level.
Armageddon could happen, but again, it could be a longer question.
Yeah, Blunder would be so costly.
It would cost the entire championship right now.
So, you cannot afford that. This is looking like trending towards Armageddon.
That would be an epic way, not only to end the year, but to end the competition.
But there's still a game in front of us. Time pressure has caused northern back
to blunder, has caused magnets to blunder in the early first two games of this match, so we cannot count
anything out. Okay, and move was, would be one trade-in-off.
Very equal and we're by playing incredibly well, take and take.
We need symmetry.
Are we getting him on?
Complete symmetry.
Rook B8 is definitely an idea, but similarly,
you know, we could see something from Magnus
like Queen to A6.
Pure activation with the Queen in that case.
If Queen takes C7, maybe broke to C6,
getting rid of all those pawns.
Matter of fact, yes, he starts with Rook C6.
That does make sense.
If you go repeat, you can move the queen to A6 after and the trades should get as closer and closer to that Armageddon and that is Rook to B8, yes, not be fooled, no hard attacks, everyone.
So I want crazy.
What does he do there?
Yeah, I'm crazy.
What the hell are they looking at the chat?
What?
Oh, question mark.
There is a there is a camera live, you know, believe what you're looking out on the camera first.
Oh, man.
Yeah, Rook B-A definitely is the only one, or if he was going to move the Rook, it was definitely not going to be six.
Now this Knight on G6 is very important here. Magnus might need to play Rook A6.
And I point that move out as Magnus postures up here.
If he doesn't play it, this position, I think Magnus is taking some risks here.
Definitely taking risks, night at five,
97 pointed out as one of the few moves that he can play.
Careful now, 40 seconds of taking down James,
this is not easy, 97 is required
or white starts to really press.
Yeah, it sucks cause like, I mean, 97 on the move,
really I can't take nothing.
I go this way, and that could be silver,
but I've understood.
Not again.
He did it all his time, he said it right good.
Right. Queen C6, he found the correct continuation here.
Very precise from Magnus. The Queen's obviously should not be exchanged.
Notice that 97 is not available and the Queen's exchange here.
And this, I think is what Magnus was looking for well-defended, but it's still tense
with the pin against the bishop on the king.
Definitely. It's hard to break it, too. Maybe I could get F-16 F-7 in at some point.
like you don't make it, these are going to start with the board. I do have this nasty palm
though.
9F6 going for the e-pon here. You do not want to take on C7 and potentially drop the
pono-ne4. So I suspect, Nike 2 will be played by another back. And yes, we see that on
on the board.
Here they go, move the night back, E7.
Dreads.
Time is low, Magnus looking for trades.
Take take.
Pieces are liquidating.
It is equal, but just so slightly better for white here.
And then upon that time is pretty gross.
let's say, but hard to get to it. Oh, wait a second, 97 in coming. Oh, it's
nice. He's great. Good point, patient has a patient has a
patient has a patient has a patient. That's exactly right.
Ship thinking needs to play rook to e6, but madness is actually the only
one here who can now win. rook e6 needs to be played, but it's not so easy.
He's not going to do it. An extra pawn for magna's Carlson.
And we're going to play this one out into oblivion, and to, right, today turn the lights off.
We're going to be here all night playing this in game out.
Magnus Carlson is in a position that Magnus Carlson can win from.
Will he be able to do it?
It's very likely he's going to give him the time of situation.
Sometimes even the nerves, I just lost a pawn here.
I could be losing it.
This is the all the action is magnets is the only one who can win.
We know that for sure it's definitely not a winning position, but the pressure of the position and the moment it can get to you.
The king is coming in.
The pieces are trading perhaps in a favorable way if the bishop takes the pawn might recapture.
He doesn't want to trade.
Are you going to king you?
It's really interesting.
He can keep getting.
Exactly, right?
The thing is going all the way up the board.
He's offered a trade of rooks.
Well, Nordobach trust that he can capture this or rook a6 on the board.
Let's see.
The legacy doesn't fly.
He's in a good position.
And the clock is so low here for Nordobach.
The pawns are all getting on light squares.
It's a very good position for Magnus.
I suspect the king will want to reposition to potentially the F5 square.
Oh, my goodness, E3. Oh, my goodness E3, what a move. That was a man shot.
Bishop G3 wins.
And Magnus takes the bishop takes the pawn, walks the king over.
He's the champion.
Unbelievable.
Let's go.
And a dry smile.
Grandmaster Magnus Carlson wins.
And he is the 20 25 World Blitz champion.
And rapid champion.
My goodness, the man has done it again.
again. Congratulations to the nine-time Glitch World Champion for a master of nine
strokes. It's done at nine times, boys and girls. Nine times. Incredible. He's got
the Raptor. He's got the plates. He's got it done. Smiles all around.
It was questionable whether he would make it in the top four and once he did, it seemed
like it was never a question that he would make it all the way to the finals where
where he gets it done against a fierce competitor
in Nodorbeck, the pawn, E3 push to seal the deal.
He's your rapid champion and he's your Blitz champion,
or 2025.
He's done it again, boys and girls,
this incredible seed, an incredible feat from
Magnus Carlson, great child there.
Man, that is amazing.
I mean, he was at one point down to 20 third place.
And didn't think he was gonna make it the top four.
Made it to the top four.
didn't want the entire playout.
Congratulations once again, right in the month.
Unbelievable.
Look at that, even the top of your screen there,
you can see the thorium bands.
All the kids looking to get their shot at your winner
for this year and the crowd gathering.
We know that they vis our one in the women's section
and Magnus Carlson wins in the open section.
What a thrilling final.
It's Magnus just refused to accept that that was going to go to Armageddon and Nodervat
after starting off with a victory unfortunately does not even make it to Armageddon against
Magnus and those equal positions that Magnus was able to win those were the difference.
It's always the difference especially at this level here where you know all everyone can find
the tactics and do the easy and gang cheers.
the hard ones, the equal positions,
that they generally always would drive in
and they always just love to push and he knows that.
You get exactly that.
So congratulations to Megan's Carlson,
and also the other world champion
and the limit section, which was correct,
Master, he would start our asked by Ava,
who was a three-time champion
now, for Megan's eight to nine time champion.
I'm on incredible fees from both.
It really is, the word incredible,
has to be attached for Magnus.
you are literally running out of fingers to count.
How many times he is one being world-blitz championship,
nine times, it's nothing short of amazing.
He's referred to as the goat for a reason
and not just the blitz James,
but he just took all the crowns, right?
The rapid and the blitz back to back just incredible.
No, absolutely incredible, incredible.
Great job, congratulations again, nine times champ
and then also three times champ,
to be Sara Asmaeva, also congratulations to the other rapid champion who is
Briuskina, as well, who she was able to win, so it's like we just got to know
this says he's a 20-time overall world champion.
How many do I mean, what is he going for, man?
He won a 100, like when does he only set a 500, maybe 5,000 who knows?
I feel like 20 is a pretty good number.
Anything, you know, even one would be satisfactory for some players, but 20, I mean, it's
just getting ridiculous at this point, and it must have the largest trophy case that
anyone has a true goat of the game and what a performance by Magnus Carlson there.
But you have to, you know, just take a moment and appreciate what Notre-Bec did in this tournament.
He seemed to elevate his level when it got to the head to head matchups.
You know, he took down Arjun in what could have been three.
Oh, two and a half half, a gentleman's draw in that final game, but Arjun was really
be leader after the Swiss portion of the world blitz phenomenal for Nordobacter, then taken
on and it had to head match and just dominate that, right?
It was just flawless from him.
Even starting the match against Magnus, he looked locked in, he wins that first game,
unexpected, it seems Magnus was pushing.
So it really just comes down to those small moments,
those equal positions where Magnus is just a sliver ahead
every single time against his competition.
He always is able to extract a result better
than what you might expect.
So his very inspiring guy is just studying more in games,
right, of course, just to give you some high-light gaming.
And make sure you're good about yourself, right?
Magnus doing it 20 times here, congratulations to him,
congratulations to B.B. Sara, and also for you,
as well as a ravaged champion here. So, well, that's it from us, man. That is it. Happy new year.
Also, check it is a month's birthday today. So, make sure you send them 500 dollars in the
birthday party. Of course. It is the birthday. It's good. Well, this is over to him. It's been
great of all. Happy birthday to you. Thank you, James. And of course, the number one place that I
would choose to spend my birthday right here with you, Big fella, and waking up 4 a.m. to bring
the entire world, the broadcast and the coverage of what is truly, you know,
and genuinely for me, the most exciting term of the year, every single time,
it did not disappoint this time, happy new year to everyone and shut out to our
production for it. Keeping up with all the curve balls that the broadcast
threw at us and chat. Thanks for sticking with us the entire time.
This is a 2025 world rapid and blitz, happy new year to you all. We'll see you on the next.
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with long-term global impact.
If you're looking for a global platform with real momentum, this is it.
Let's talk about how you can be part of it.