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Tata Steel Wijk Aan Zee 2026: Will Nodirbek & Sindarov Remain Unbeaten As Hans & Vincent Trail? Rd 7
01-24-2026 · 6h 09m
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That was the always nice, the Wimbledon of chess.
Welcome to the 88th edition of the Tata Steel Chest tournament.
The players are ready.
The stage is set.
Let the games begin.
Hello and welcome to round seven of Tata Steel Chess and we officially passed the halfway
mark today.
Well, that means the pressure is going to rise and every move is going to start to matter
that little bit more.
At the top it is clear, it is one sole leader in the Masters is also one sole leaders in
the challenges, but will that be the case as we finish today? We'll find out. I'm your host
International Mastery Bank of Alaska. I'm not flying solo because I am with the absolutely
incredible ginger GM, grandmother, Simon Williams and we are also not alone because we are here
in the cafe design with the crowd that brings us the energy, the atmosphere, give us a cheer
Yeah guys.
Yay!
Great to have you with us.
And Simon yesterday was a dramatic day with some real shocker of a move.
But some brilliancees in the midst.
Yeah, I mean, every day's been fantastic so far.
I mean, we've had some real shockers, as you said,
I mean, the world champion,
belundering in one move yesterday,
must have been the shock of the day.
But we're getting some brilliant games to sort of balance that.
sort of balanced that out.
And again, you mentioned the crowd here.
I've never commentated with such a nice crowd.
So big thank you to the crowd.
So, and they are really part of this show.
And it makes it very homely here as well.
So it's loving to be here.
It is absolutely lovely to be here.
But yesterday, as you mentioned,
it was four thrills and spills.
And these were the results.
There were three decisive games,
but boy were they flashy.
Gukesh losing in one move, making a shocker of a move
to absolutely throw the game away,
but Nordie Beck, that meant that he is at the top,
Hans Neiman.
He was also going into round six
with what's shared tie for first,
but with his loss to Vincent Gimer,
that means that Vincent is now catching him up.
And 14 year old Yas Khan, Adermish,
He won against the local hero Yorden Van Ferreste.
And there was a lot of movement there at the top.
Norie Beck, Abuse of Tour of Being,
almost gifted that point.
We're also he meant that he was right there
at the top four and a half points.
Yeah, that's right.
And you can see that they're starting to get a little bit
of a gap at the top, but still time.
We're not quite halfway.
There's loads around the go.
So anyone can make a surge now
and get back into the competition.
for those players like Enish, who's playing the candidates,
Prague, you know, they're very ambitious players.
If they get a roll of wins going, they can get back in
and even challenge for the top places.
Yeah, but points to me in prizes here,
especially in the finish.
And that's exactly the same situation in round six
of the challenges.
Again, we have come to expect this from this crew.
It's wins all round.
It was a win for Andy Woodwood, in the Queen and Porn
in game. It took him 131 moves but he did get that win and that meant that he now is at the top.
Also big wins for Mark Andrea Morizzi who also finds himself there in a shared second.
Yeah, I think most rounds out of seven games has always been six decisive games. It's incredible.
And it was also good to see Max win his game there. And we see Andy as one five games in a row
He lost his first one, the next five, incredible run of wins. He's running away, like a steam tray at the moment.
Yeah, he is the man to beat. We'll see whether he can continue his form.
But, you know, we're going to soon be crossing the halfway mark. That means there's a lot of pressure on our players.
But we also like to place the players under a lot of pressure in other ways.
We like to put them on the spot. And we thought we'd subject them to a quick fire question.
where we'd ask them, hey, how many openings can you name that have been named after places
and regions? Have a listen to how many they got? How many just openings mean after the country's
regions? Can you list?
Italian, French, English in the Indian, the Italian, London, Berlin, Berlin, Stos,
Italy, the Italian, French, Indian, Indian, and different, Dutch, or nice, the
First, Toulon, Spanish, French, Italian,
What's that?
It's been a long time, I don't know, I got an Norwegian guy.
London, Catalan.
We were snorkeling here, I hope we could do it.
We were snorkeling here.
We were snorkeling here.
Guys, there's a song.
Time's up.
Time's up.
Same is left, laugh.
Time's up, time's up, laugh.
OK, it's like my mind is just...
That's all right, the reverse Norwegian rat.
That was crafty.
I don't think Arjen really understood the question of the start there.
It's just naming opening screens in the end.
What was going on there?
I was thinking about it, but I guess he was referring to the Indian.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It does kind of work, so good little question there.
And it's amazing how hard it is when you're under pressure.
We were saying this earlier, but it's the one to play with your friends and see how
we can get. I'm very tempted to test Yovie now, but I've done this before actually. I was put
under the quick fire spotlights at the ground Swiss in 2023 and I can tell you it was difficult
because your mind kind of you go through Berlin and then I think I forgot the London. I think
I said the Scotch completely forgot the Italian. It's at the Colesbad and you know, then it's
panic time. It's not going to be panic time for our players. Let's take a look at the pairings
of the day for round 7. And well we have Vincent in the studio yesterday and he told us
that he's going to be paying white pieces against a Nordibac abducitor officer that is going
to be a big encounter. Vincent having won two games in a row can he continue that winning form
and for Nordibac can he maintain his lead at the top? Yep, massive game, many of them all massive
games as always. I mean another game, Cindora versus Neiman, we go to that one first and
I mean, we've got good cash versus a niche.
I mean, that's the middle of big.
The big, big games and there's so important.
And it's really just, you know, you want to be playing well.
That's the main thing at this stage.
You've warmed up.
You've got to be in your sort of vibe and now trying to push with white pieces.
And especially important for those people leading as well, you know, what kind of approach
they take.
We're going to keep our eyes on and he would would.
who now faces Aiden Suna Manley.
Also, we're going to keep our aisles peeled on games,
like this Irwin Lamy, Carissa,
Yep, when losing yesterday, Max Vama Dam, yesterday he won,
will he continue his winning ways?
Those are the big questions that a lot of narratives.
It was really nice early.
When I was walking here, you know,
to the pair, come with you to prepare the show.
I saw a vanchuk and he'd just come back from the beach.
There's a beautiful beach here.
the sun was shining, bit cold, but it's nice and yeah,
there's big smile on his face, you know?
He looked so happy and it was so lovely to see that,
you know, he's obviously enjoying his time immensely here
as I'm sure most of the players are,
well, most of the players who are winning at least.
So, yeah, so we've got Fiona and I think it's probably time
to go over and see who Fiona's got and so next victim.
Hello and welcome to round seven of Tatatis still chas. I'm here in Dermaryan and I'm
delighted to join by Michael and Hiddler in the general director of Hotel Ho Khadang,
your insides of marketing and hotel Ho Khadang. It got to make over in the last few years
and it looks unlucky not to be staying there. It looks incredible. Tell us a little bit about
the relevance and what did you do?
Yeah, when we bought the hotel, it was only 66 rooms.
And now we made a, say 160 rooms, you make a skybar, we make a restaurant.
We make one big conference room which few on the sea.
And I can say it's beautiful, but it's a bit of a direct, but I'm happy to hear that.
I'm saying there, it's actually one of the first, I stayed there, I think the last time in 2010.
ten. So a very long time ago, and I love it. I mean, also the gym and the views and the breakfast.
It's just wonderful. And I can tell us a little bit about the partnership with the tournament.
It's been ongoing for a long time, right?
Oh, definitely. It's almost, I'm working there for 13 years, I guess. And it's lovely.
It's continuing to be more and more partnership. And this year it's for the first time that we are
a larger partner and mainly all of the masters staying with us so you do and maybe
you can ask them.
They feel so good.
I made it today, really, I'm trying to find some people and well, another need to
the players as staying there, some of the players, some of the team, but also some players
play there, right?
Some of the team come when happens in Hohedar, tell us a little bit about that.
So now we have a lot of side events at the hotel and this makes it really complete.
So everyone is in charge and taking care usually it's a low season and now it seems like everyone is waking up.
So today there's Netherlands commentary.
Commentary?
Yes.
And we're in about that.
That's very exciting.
So today, into more of them.
And the amateurs are anxious.
So a lot to do.
A lot of events happening.
And maybe just a final question.
And this renovation effect that you're able to accommodate so many more people.
You know, just what does it mean to do to have them provide and see as a community?
And I've also, I'd want to say, I've seen the ad, the video ad.
And it's a wonderful, as well.
some people, I think people see that actually on the board cast, and that's really nice.
We see that a lot of people from Germany coming and also from the rest of the Netherlands.
Yeah, we see that enjoy the nature of Vyka's A, because it's beautiful here, you have to
doons, you have to see.
And yeah, you see that people spend their money also on the beach, on the rest of us,
there are other restaurants in the village.
And that's a good thing we think.
And that's why we are happy with the new hotel.
But we're also happy for Mike as he to give all the guests a beautiful stay in Mike as he.
So if you're watching this and if you're planning to visit maybe next year whenever even a holiday
I do think Mike and we are very very nice in the summer so I hope that is the place to say thank you so much
To go for beer and enjoy your day here and there will be hitting the guns soon so that's gonna are you looking forward to hitting the gun?
Yeah, they told me don't do it too fast.
And I was scared to do it too soft, so I hope I'm going to do it well.
I love it.
Will be watching you. The camera will be watching you.
Thank you so much for being here today.
And we're going to continue.
I spy with my little eye.
A very special artist, her name is Pierre Sprung.
And she does sketches of players.
I'm sure some of our viewers will have seen her work.
She's busy right now.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to ask her a couple of questions, Pia, not now you're in the middle, but maybe later we just come and see some of your work.
Would that be fine?
So, Pia, you can find her work on Twitter, we're also on your website.
Instagram, Pia Shkong, and she, yesterday, I saw some of her work really, really nice.
Today there's so many fans. I'm gonna see oh
No, we're gonna go over here look at what's happening here. Maybe some people have seen Karissa
Some people might have seen Karissa hand-learners camera, but Karissa today
You've taken it up a notch. What's going on?
I just want to get a sit
some of that extra Vincent
But I'm not I'm not good with video like I am a photo
with photo, do you actually enjoy doing photography or is it just something you do
when Leonard is around? No, I only do it with Leonard. It's a bit of an
inside joke. But he's not here right now. So I had to take this one.
I have like, you're a good Leonard. That's what I'm saying. You know, there's a
lot of time to kill before the round. Now I just have to hang out with Vincent. Vincent,
how do you feel about this extra attention you're getting today? Yeah, sure.
I'm not, must, you're around, she's been at my board.
I can't complain about the results, it's fine.
I like it's time over here.
Today, you're playing, where you're playing.
I know you have a big game, I saw that we play,
and the tournament leader, I won't bother you for long,
but it's nice to see you, so much relax
before the game, but that's a big one, right?
Yeah, not really relaxed, but, you know,
after taking a small walk before, it's like,
anyway, preparation is done, so all that stuff
to do a comment down and play properly good game.
We are all looking forward to thank you Vincent
and have a great game.
And where we, I think we're gonna go to the fans.
Like, so maybe you know what,
I'm gonna briefly talk to Ana Maya.
Ana Maya, hey, what are you carrying?
I am, oh sorry, I'm carrying a Tata Steel Chest
Tournament board with all the signatures of the masters
and what's happening with that board?
We are giving away this board today in a blitz arena on Chazad Gham.
So make sure to join a club on Chazad Gham and participate in Arena.
I was gonna say a lot of people watching this.
Should play when does it start?
How do they, where should they go?
Can we give them exact instructions for how to join?
And try and win this on the full board.
Of course, so the Arena starts one hour after the start of the tournament.
So at 3 p.m. local time.
And you just need to play at least 10 games in the tournament.
and then any participant can win this award.
Has again, Anamiya, well, we work alongside each other here
and you've been doing daily recaps.
Tell us a little bit how you can enjoy it
and just let people know you can find them.
On our YouTube channel alongside all of them
to use all the content, how do you enjoy doing these recaps?
It's so much fun.
I mean, you never know what to expect over around,
but so for every single run has been so exciting,
so many fun games to watch.
And so many plunders have been played as tournaments,
so there's a lot of things to cover.
But also a lot of instructive value
that I think the viewers can take away from the games.
We saw you say this queen and game from Kareissa
against Andy and I was like, wow,
this is so fun to analyze and to explain to the audience.
So I hope it's been very instructive for the audience.
And then my, it's always a pleasure
working alongside you and I'm so great to have here.
And one of the lucky people playing in the tournament today
will walk away with this board really catch up with you later and I'm thinking we have
such a full house today, Yehoun.
Yes.
We've talked to you before but it's always a pleasure chatting to you.
I was just saying today is the weekend.
We can all the busiest here.
We have a full house and the music is starting already.
Are you excited for it?
Yeah, I'm starting around that corner.
Well, it's so happy with just as you call.
He'll be children in the future.
Very nice weather is nice.
I'm going to let you talk.
I'm going to put the mic right here and we're going to go into the right.
Dallas and here the ladies and gentlemen from that is the Tsabadak, the student
think of the Gilaniwani, today it's Saturday, 24 January, meaning that we have the
justice default in the village and the annexes, the justice default, and then there will
for your super skill and extra activity, the Tsabadak and Mortar
for the district's County Bank on stage.
All components that are taken over from a deep top of the back end and they are saved in the mobile rear in the master's of Chinese.
For the master's of Chinese, it's on an halfway deterrence,
somewhere halfway influenced by them, we are at six and a half trucks.
And then the current group over in five steps, this is the same procedure every year.
Then, for all of us, the Super Junior's, and the Zal,
also the New York Festival,
we have believed that the telephone is not visible
or that it is not visible.
You are not surprised that you have to admit
that, yes, that is the goal for the physical sports
and the football stadiums and the football stadiums.
So the telephone is the sixth and the goal is not visible,
but the photo is not visible.
You are also aware of that, and you are also aware of that.
Please note self-hosts in the plating hall.
There you may note the youth that we see.
This is very important information.
Contanity in the Zondung is a 12-year-old,
a renewal, where you walk out of town and sign on buildings.
And it's going to be a similar way to the St.
or Pond-Botla, which is called Nebulans,
is called the Aragotus, which is called the Aragotus,
which is called Pond-Botla, which is called the Dumanon.
The Pond-Botla works for a day and a year from the Pope.
It is the alchemy director from Hotel, Okadai, and the today the hit on the gonggo you
don't buy, hit from the pole, you is the General Director of Hotel Okadai, where many
of our players must stay. Also, in our next welcome Mr. Stainloppers, you
think I'm coming from the, the rank that just must be followed in Colesburg, which will take
place together is here. So welcome to you as well, sir. Okay, after the hit
of the Golden Bight, here from the Paul, the games can start, I would say good luck and
enjoy it.
And with that hefty whack of the gong, the games are beginning, and on our camera feed,
we can see a bit of a turn. And a cinder of the playing with the white pieces against hands
in the game he's beginning, and Sondara for this one of our players, we have four candidates
by candidates that have four players who have been competing in the Candidates tournament
later on this year, and the winner of the candidates gets a challenge for the World Championship
Crown, and it's really tough for Sondara, for you know, because suddenly the attention of
the world is on him. Last year he finished by winning the World Cup, now he's playing in
in Tata Steel and then later on it's going to be candidates.
And we actually asked him, how difficult is it to focus
when the candidates are just around the corner?
I think it's a very good training before we came this.
Also time control, organizers change.
It's time control.
And it will be also, well, I mean, it's also
it's helped for us very good because I never played this time
with this time control.
But let's see, because there is no plus 42nd sent,
I'm very scared to be in the time trouble,
but I think if I go to time trouble,
I cannot write after less than five minutes.
And it's a care problem.
So I think the stone will be very hard,
because a lot of stone players was playing here.
And a lot of strong young generation,
I think when I'm here shows from all generation but all of those guys are strong and I
will be very excited to play all of them and let's see what will happen.
Wow, Sondara, I'm saying this is going to be excellent training for the candidates because of the
time control. Yeah, yeah so they've changed the time control this year so it's a bit quicker and we can
to see it here. So the first big thing that you should note is that for the first 40
moves, you don't get any increment, you don't get any extra time. So if someone gets down
to like situation when I have a minute left to make 10 moves, that is serious, serious
time pressure because yet you don't get that bonus. But when you do make move 40, you
then get an increment of extra 30 minutes. So it is good practice for the candidates.
So you've got to try out the time limits, it gets the strongest players and that's kind
the big event, the candidate should chance to become World Champion, but Sindaroff is playing
very well here at the moment.
Yeah, he's playing very well, he's in second place, and Sindaroff's saying that the time
patrol is taking some getting used to, that was actually what Vincent Kheimer said yesterday
was the cause of all these like shocking blunders that we've seen, you know, I'm thinking
Gukesh yesterday, you know, just making a howler remove really uncorrecteristic of him,
And yeah, it's maybe some adrenaline from the time control, you know, because you don't
get this added time.
But I've got to say one thing for Gukesh yesterday, I'm sure it would have been really
good to have the support of the friends and family around him.
And I think that's actually super important any event that you've got to have your network
around you.
And that's actually a question that we asked Indarov.
So let's hear what he had to say.
Yeah, I think it's very important because in such a long-term
that you shouldn't have a good company and I have my coach also here.
I see it comes to support me and Li Bizarra and thanks for him, thanks for my friends.
I think I have to be very exciting next to two weekends or maybe 16 days.
Well, okay, it's super important to have that support of a coach and a singer of letting us in,
that he has a coach here to support him and both not only just him, but also BBSara as well.
And also perhaps the same could be said, Hans Neiman. This is Hans Neiman's first game of the losing of his first loss yesterday.
It's got the black pieces and it's now developing into kind of fairly standard and low
pairs of positions.
Yeah, so hands had the low pairs yesterday on the white side and he, well, I think it's
fair to say that they're outplayed by Finns and came around that game.
He played to try and win, he could have taken a draw and the Finns and played a great
game showing great understanding.
Yes, it's really important, a chess event, I think it's really under talks about topic
of having support, like mental support, not just an opening supporter, somebody who's going
to tell you what to play and tell you to lose, but it's much more important to have someone
who's going to be like, when you lose, don't drink that third point, just have a walk
instead and just give you a bit of confidence really and get you back on track and that
I mean, it's even more important.
Yeah, I mean, I actually asked Benson,
because he had that blip earlier on in the tournament
where he lost games two and three.
And I asked him, how did he recover from that?
And he said, he took to his coach
and his coach said, to stop the...
Stop the crap.
Yeah, just stop that.
And there was enough for Vincent to kind of go,
okay, next game, I'm gonna study the ship.
And then I will just get back to normal and find my rhythm.
Yeah, you've got to have a lot of confidence in your play as well, especially when you get a couple of knocks.
You know, you've got to be very self confident to be a chess player at this level.
So let's have a look at the moves and Sambara has the white pieces.
So, as Yowie mentioned, it does go into rule OPEZ, so Bishop B5, and now A6.
This classical variation, the Bishop drops back, black, brings a night out.
And it's quite nice to see hands play this way because there are kind of less ambitious
ways you can play, like the Petroff, I'd say is less ambitious, we've seen loads of that
with Berlin.
So this is keeping the pieces on and more ambitious way to play for black than some of
the variations.
So you've got to decide now where this guy goes, does it go here, the solid option, or does
go here, then slightly more ventrosoction. So this should be 7 plate, just keep it near the
king, rookie 1 and now B5. So black gets its space, chases that bishop away and now we have
castles, there are a number of moves here, but H3 now played and this is to stop a bishop
coming over to G4 so the bishop now goes the other way to B7 and black often tries
for this D5 move like the Marshall and that's very famous line. But Hans is extremely
well paired about both of these players are but I've been very impressed with Hans in the early
rounds and now C3 would have kind of invite that D5 move with because this is a bit slow but
you know it's obviously in very main line variation where you can take this now and you get
some stuff here with potentially white taking there this is a normal stuff but D3 is slower approach
and this means that D5 move is still obviously very playable but white is just trying to
give his bishops and scope here already and we have one more move black's going to decide how to play
do you push the pawns of D6 or D5 and hands goes for the slower option so pawns of D6.
Now a move that's become a little bit trendy I think. Carawanna's played this first.
There's obviously lots of different ways you can set up here but the main thing now is that now that black is defending E5.
You must watch out for this bishop.
So, knight A5 is now a positional threat.
We saw this yesterday, hands lost his light square bishop,
and it no dark square bishop, but it was the active piece.
And that got him into trouble.
So, now that you're defending E5,
you're kind of threatening positionally
to move your knight here and grab that very active bishop.
So, why must do something about that?
So, C3 has been a big move,
move, but Bishop D2 played and that's just aim at night to 85.
Yeah, literally.
It's stopping and like a trigger information with night A5 and black going C5.
And yeah, as you mentioned, been played many times.
Been played by Hikaru.
Also, Javakir has played this one before.
And in his earlier game,
They're kind of played, developed with, like some kind of,
there should be some H6, H6, Rookie, Y8, Blam, and that one went quite well for white.
But I don't expect the hands will do that.
The hands has got many moves he can play.
He can play at night to be eight.
Still kind of going insisting on getting the C5 formation.
You can go Queen to D7, or you can even go night to D7.
and so, basically, and I think under the sun
because the position is still very tense
neither side have really made any challenges to the centre,
so that really does mean that absolutely everything is possible.
Let's take a break from this game
because I wanna ask you something, Simon.
Oh, whoops.
Excuse me.
When I say Vincent Chi-Metu,
I'm maybe also the audience as well,
Can you think of one like, how do you tip to describe him?
Like this chest style.
I'm talented.
I'm talented.
Yes, I mean he's very talented.
He knows when he put pieces like certain players.
Like chest style.
His chest style.
I mean he's pretty solid.
Solid.
He's pretty good.
Yeah.
He's pretty audience if you want to describe Vincent Kramer.
How would you describe him in one word?
And again, we've got a great audience here.
We don't have as many key rings today.
We only have one to give away, so it's...
Charter Peter Leco, yeah, that's not quite one word, but I'll take it.
We can put it in.
Powerful? A thought for, yeah?
Technique, yeah?
Yep, there's all relevant, all good words.
Do you think of the... anything aggressive?
Not at all the opening.
He can play aggressive.
But I guess you're hinting that he's,
this is leading somewhere, isn't it?
I'm getting quite positive, you know?
Quite positive in his, I'm leading you down, or so.
Because, I'm on a second.
Have I got it all wrong?
No, I, I guess so.
I have on a second.
OK, so you've got us really excited about a very aggressive
game now, it's going to be a petrol from the net or something.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
I'm just going to be a little bit.
It's going to be like.
I keep putting it up.
It's not been going my computer,
it keeps repeating another position.
Okay.
So let's go there.
Let's go there.
It's excited now to see what the solid fencing
came up is played against.
Yes, no I think it was right.
There was my computer as malfunctioning.
Okay now, what do you think of that?
Wow, that's what I think.
That is crazy.
What is the coin doing over there?
Right.
It's gone on the little adventure.
into the corner of the board.
The case, let's backtrack and find out how we got here exactly.
Yeah, okay.
So let's have a look.
So Vincent, this is a massive game.
I mean, Vincent, the top seed and Nordie Beck has been playing fantastically.
And he plays fantastically.
I mean, the last three years he's played here is,
I think, come second, but he's performed over 2800
with the accumulated games.
And he's played very well yesterday.
got that blunder, but he still was fighting in the position. So it's a big, big game between two
big hitters and it starts off with the Slav. So this is how you go with C6. And now Vincent
played E3. So this is like what you call the modern ready, Magnus Carlson and prepared this
and limp yet. This E3 system and it's growing in popularity. But okay, after night of six,
I think it transposes back into something else and now
Night see free as the correct move order because if the bishop comes out you won't clean be free
But now E6 and here you've got to decide how you play
Be free is like the messy way of going when your bishop is very funky on that diagonal
It's got a nice diagonal, but and B3 actually
is more aggressive than it looks. I paid it myself, you know, the whole point is that sooner
or later you are going to be expanding on the king's side. But let's kind of continue with
the game because of all of the ways this opening could have developed, I was not expecting
the seventh move for white. No. Not for Vince, it was sheer off, yes, was Cinderella? Yes.
That's right, so you've got this quite common position here and now it's a Queen's Gambit
versus the Slav and now the next move is called the sheer of variation and I became
popular in the 90s, obviously when the madman sheer of started to play and sheer of how
did you describe sheer off in one word?
That's again free words but we'll let you off for a few years you can put them together.
Okay, yeah, fire is just in general very good term. Any other words for sheer off
he's he's just aggressive for me. Yeah, he's aggressive. He's a beast and a great
player to watch from my favourite players and he played this G form move and it makes
a lot of sense. Yeah, it makes a lot of sense but then what I was watching this game
I saw that motivate didn't bat an eyelet, you know you would expect to some
pause maybe you know there would be some thinking of H6 or maybe the Bishop
can come with it to be for there's our alternative you don't have to go into
what Nordive Beck went into but he did not pause it was like he expected it
Simon I reckon it's your influence because Vincent sat on your chair yesterday
I hope that hasn't influenced him, because he's in trouble if it has.
So I think he needs to keep away from his chair in future.
And it has become a main line now this G4.
And it's quite logical because now you're controlling with WAE4.
You do have a little fret and it's just a keep going.
G5, but of course it's super aggressive.
The testing line here is what happens with black captures, and this is exactly what's
Norded-deck place. Very well paired, is a principle player, so it plays the most
principle reply. What is white side there? White side there is to now come and try to
get into G7, and we have now the main lines, the main line, Queen F6, so a
counterattack against the knight here and now we have rook to take in the knight the black
queen flying in and this is certainly a line you need to check with a computer first and
you wouldn't want to play this blindly because you could get in trouble the rook comes
in and you got these two active pieces black now keeps up with the computer engines top
choice, and I think the established theory, with Rook to, sorry, night to wear six, that night
may be hinting, coming around, and also you probably want to castle this way. I mean,
I can't see Black really ever going that way now. So a couple of options, and the next
move, I don't notice is where I'm out of theory, Rook G5. So why did the Rook go there,
It seems quite peculiar because it wasn't a tax.
Yeah, I mean, also check in the database.
I can see H3 is a move.
Yeah.
Rook G5 is a second choice.
Bishop G2 is another candidate move.
But Rook G5, I think, is primarily designed to make life awkward for the Queen.
So next move will be Queen Bishop G2.
And I say that in a very British way, make life awkward for the Queen.
It's likely uncomfortable.
exactly uncomfortable feeling some heat
got no square to go to.
A little tickle on the queen.
Yeah.
And yes, I mean, that is clearly the point.
Because if you go Bishop G2 here,
the queen has the H5 square.
And obviously these lines are immensely complex.
But they have been analysed now quite deeply.
So with this move, you are just trying to tickle that queen.
And the queen will be trapped.
So the queen now goes further into no man's land.
into the corner, look at that, what a crazy queen, and now, Vincent has played F4, and that
move, well, one of the ideas is to just get control over that square, also the queen, now
the fence H2, this must be preparation, so this is clearly preparation, and is that queen,
This is the, this is the, going to be the question, right?
Is that Queen strong or strong or not all week?
I mean, is it going to be trapped?
Or is it going to be really annoying for white?
Because white wants to at some point, a guest castle, maybe Queen F2.
Yeah.
Fretting Rook G1.
That was quite one idea.
And the funny thing Simon is that
there aren't too many games in my database.
But oh, I've got to say three of those games of five games.
Three of them have finished in black victories.
There you go. So it just means that when things get out of control is going to be tricky and
Blacks responses have been Bishop D7
Cool ignoring things
94. That's like the get out jail card and
H5
Trying to get the night in the HG4. So it's a really really sharp position and there
Vincent has prepared this, I guess with Peter the second, and Nordie back now have a good
think because you've gone into this preparation. I mean look at the engine, the engine
does at the moment slightly prefer black. So often this is the modern way to play
chess, you don't always play the top engine move, but you play lines that you're
comfortable playing, that you've analyzed more than your opponent, and this is just
really sharp, really, really sharp. Let's say you played Bishop D7, just to
say I'll show how dangerous it could be. I could now consider Queen F2 and if
you just castled here without thinking, then all of a sudden, root 2, 1 and you
lose your Queen. That Queen would be lost. So you'd have to now start playing
moves like 94 and again, it doesn't mean the Queen's going to be safe because the
Queen comes here, still doesn't have any squares.
So there's a lot to think about.
And Nordie Beck must have had, must have analysed this before.
He's probably trying to remember his analysis
and double check things, because if you're going to play
this line as black, you have to have had
and look at lines like this, because it's so sharp.
Yeah, I mean, maybe we can just explore that line
a little bit longer, like Bishop D7 makes sense.
Yeah, Bishop D7.
And then Queen F2,
night E4 looks like it rescues the Queen.
So let's have a look at that.
So Queen F2, and then the night comes into E4.
This is probably the only move.
I mean you can play and move like the Ruch8,
then Blacks pieces go backwards.
So night comes in here.
And then night takes night and Queen takes.
Yeah, because Ruch1 again could be very annoying
but let's say go with the Queen,
trying to get it out.
And now Bishop to G2.
And is this going to be it?
Is this going to be a repetition now?
I know.
I should be four.
You got what you do?
You have Bishop before.
You also got Queen D3.
That little mouse hole for the Queen.
So you have to go Queen D through Bishop B4 as an idea.
I was thinking, Bishop F1, maybe you can play, but then after Queen E4 it's a weird draw.
Bishop B4 is lingering.
And look at that Queen.
It's that question.
Is the Queen good or back?
Is it?
I mean, it's a real nuisance, but it hasn't got many squares.
Right.
And if the Queen's?
You can go C5, but now the bishop will give itself the option to come in this way over here.
I mean, maybe C5 though, because that's, you know, stops possibilities, the queen capturing there.
Right. And even if it's funny, like we're in a really sharp position, but if the queen's come off,
you feel like white has the better endgame, has the better pawn structure, has control of the centre,
control of the G-line. I'm just thinking about that just in case the bishop gives a check.
You can get bishop D2. Bishop D2 and you block it and you're like, well, you know, let's have some fun in the
end game. Yeah, I mean now that you played C5 as well, you could try a move like this.
The idea that you sort them off immediately because this gives you that idea of pushing where you've
got the most space. And this position would seem a little bit better for why I don't think
black has too many problems, but you definitely will take white because white will be
extra space. And actually, that could be the get again for white if white feels a
heat, so if we go back to the position. So after Queen H1F4, I'm just thinking
some Bishop before occurs, which looks a bit scary because night E4 is coming
where tremendous power suddenly there's a dragon threatening to burn down the city.
So I think you Queen G2? Yeah, you've got this back out now, in a more
So white doesn't have to go too crazy.
This is nice to have like a safe option.
In case you change your mind,
like no, I don't like this.
I want to get the queens off.
And after Queen takes, well, I mean,
I mean, Bishop takes you might take on C4,
but I mean, this should be fine for black,
though, this kind of position,
because it's not like night here.
It's a bit different to the last variation.
Black's got a bit more active.
But I just want to add some psychology Simon.
this is things that Vincent has looked at at home?
Yeah.
Whereas Nordbeck is going into this cold.
Yeah, very, yeah, I mean, this is very dangerous in Nordbeck,
having this position and it's one of those ones
when you play like one or two slightly dodgy moves,
you're going to get in trouble, but of course,
Nordbeck is an amazing calculator.
I think we need to get a crowd a little bit involved,
so we need to hear who you think is going to win this one,
because this is very important for the tournament.
Like, say, we've only got one prize to give away.
We've been a bit generous with our prizes,
but we did that later on.
When we've got a good question.
We did mess up, didn't we?
All right, Simon, when it came to the queue.
You're on the stall outside, selling key rings.
No, it wasn't you.
No, no.
No, I know nothing.
No, nothing about that.
And okay, who thinks, let's hear a cheer
if you think Vincent's gonna win this game with whites?
A, okay, good, good.
Draw?
Yeah, okay, draw, yeah, that's quite sensible.
And what about a black wind here?
Silence.
Silence.
It's no one thinks black's gonna win.
Okay, a couple of people have been brave
and spoken out there.
And you might notice on our camera there,
that the king's chair in the middle,
and we are expected that the king of fur,
The King's gonna come along.
No, it's actually, it was for our players.
It was one idea, they want to join us.
And one of the team has bad back,
so he likes that chair.
So it's a special chair.
It is fantastic.
Yeah.
Very interesting, OVD, that one.
So let's go to another game, shall we?
Yes, let's go over to the game between Arjun Erigai and Adomish.
Okay, so Arjun drew yesterday, but he did lose the day before and it was in some danger
Yes, they're losing. I mean, it was it was really quite crazy game that while he's placed he placed some crazy chess
Arjun
He doesn't mind rolling the dice and taking risks and yeah, it's can just seem to be such a strong player for
40 years old. I mean, what are you doing when you're 14 when you you're playing a lot of chess, yeah,
I was not in the masters of Tadis Dero. I think you might have found me in Hastings on the pair on the pair.
Yeah, that was, I mean, this is, I think it's the 80th edition of, or this is the 88th edition.
This tournament, and Hastings was the 99th this year. So I think it's one of the only other big international tournaments that has run longer this.
We did used to plan the pair there and you could actually see the sea from when you're playing sometimes through food of works
So it was quite an interesting and often there were storms and it was quite a scary experience
Yeah, it was a weird one. Yeah, so let's go for the moves here
So Argin starts being bush and we have E5 and you should also remember this is kind of like a reverse Sicilian
So, this is the Sicilian and the English is basically Sicilian but you're a tempo up and what does that mean?
It means you avoid all the scary variations that can occur in the Sicilian.
And also a little bit of inflow for our players, not for our audience.
It's also named after a place.
It's a struggle a little bit with that.
It's the English is certainly neighbor for a place in there.
That's a Sicilian.
Yeah, and the Sicilian as well.
Yeah, there's a lot of them.
Yeah.
And okay, so G3, and this is the standard English idea.
Yeah.
You get your fish on this diagram.
Black develops the night.
Bishop comes out.
And now a very ambitious idea.
C6.
And black is trying to go D5.
And this is a bit like the C3 Sicilian in some ways.
in some ways, but okay, now this is the main loop
because if black gets two poles in the center,
it can be better for black already.
So you've got to do something about that.
So night F3 is the main way to test that.
You ask the poor of the question, the porn comes on.
And now the night comes into the center.
And now black does take over the center with D5.
So it kind of looks on the surface.
The blacks doing pretty well here
because they've got a lovely porn shade.
but white can attack this pawn chain very quickly, which he does with D3.
And now, Black's got to make a decision, because white's kind of
trying to prove that that pawn's more of a weakness than a strength
if you want to take it and bring your knight out to attack it.
So the queen hits the knight.
The knight has the side where to go.
And knight B3 is again.
Yeah, and the next move, that a Dhromish played.
Do you think it was his youth?
It's a friend of mine.
It's not the main move.
It's not the main move.
Bishop B4, D-T-C4, I'm just joking.
I mean, I like the idea because it's the most aggressive move on the board.
Yeah.
It goes night G4.
So clearly he has a little idea, but it's not the main move.
I mean, I've done a course on this from the white side.
And this is a very rare idea.
I think that there's something interesting
is concepts from the night coming here,
which we're going to see on the next move.
And you've got to deal with this threat.
So the obvious move is the car sauce,
and it can give, it's already very interesting
because this center, again, is what white saving
for, white, ready to attack in the center.
And now, black continues with this kind of idea,
playing E3. And this is very unbalanced. So I'm looking at some great games
of chess today. In the English there was some other famous examples of black
playing as E3, mainly in like 88 when we saw Caspar or first his carp off
well championship match and in 1988 this E3 poor night there was 88 87
one year off. That was close. Carbar, not too bad.
Gain too, apparently. And it was the same, same idea in the English that Black
played his E3, giving up a pawn there to try to discombobulate white.
Yeah, it was an interesting idea, right? Because white has a choice. You either take on E3,
which is not ideal, but you can also go F3 and just start the beat back.
So there's a great line. I mean taking on E3 looks very risky for white because you open up the
queen, you open up dark squares. Yeah I don't like it. And if the night comes here, I really have to take.
You have to take right and now look at those dark squares. I mean this is already quite pleasant.
And I might even consider this guy coming down the board.
Let's say you go here, this is surely a temptation.
I would better resist that even if it's bad.
And I'd have to have the point.
$0.65, you're awesome.
Here we come.
Here we go.
A G4.
I have to close the position down.
Are you going G4?
That's not very nice of you.
Yeah.
If the root comes in, it's like, hello.
It's my king has got no defenders.
It's quite dangerous though, isn't it?
I mean, it's not.
I mean, this kind of idea is certainly something
consider that you don't have to play H5 because but this is yeah you don't want to
take that point. It's clear after E3 don't but I'm now thinking as crazy
line here the most obvious move to me is to try to keep it closed and play F3
because that night is very annoying. But then like if you go F3 now the question is do
you go into no man's land with a night and then try and lock it all down to go night F2.
So this is really interesting. I mean like if you go back, okay, it's kind of more normal and I
I this you was looking to make critical move first, but this is this is I think this you have to go into this
Why old because if you go could we just show if you go back?
Yeah, I think you're already going to get in trouble after porn. I was thinking CD
CD and then if you capture you're going to find again here. I'm always going age five
for the good D4. D4, okay. I mean I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna take now.
The nice D3. There's a, there's a, there's a, there's a porno-ne-free. That has my name on it.
You're a porno-graber. Yes. It might be grabbing it. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's true that
porno is very weak. So let's go back. I mean, the key line is, if Black plays night
F2, which kind of looks really odd, but you have got this night H3 check. Yeah. So what
is going on here. The queen moves. I will let you choose where. Well, I've got two squares here.
And I don't want to go here because Bishop B4 is a nice developing. So if I go to any one,
I'm actually B4 first and then Bishop B4. Yeah, actually. I have to give the exchange here because
that actually Bishop B4 is pretty good. I'm going to piece already and you can't go away
free because the night on B free. So actually this is, so I think you have to go
Queen C2, this is forced and now if I let's say I go D4 again, because that's quite
tempting. The Queen is much better here.
I guess you see five, this is something that I saw.
See five.
I have different context. Yeah, now the House of Cards start toppling.
Because you've got Queen C4 coming.
Yeah, but can you work with that idea just a little bit?
Yeah, I mean, I think D4 doesn't work, right?
Yes.
No reason to play this if you're going to see five, so I've got, I mean, I, I've got, it's
not H3 if I, I don't know if I want that or not one that's, and because you have to
take the night, because white obviously is trying to win this line, this is a main variation
and the point, if I go in the H3, I don't have to play this, but you have to take it,
because if you go king here, well, I'm going to get it draw immediately and there,
You don't really want to, you don't really want to draw with the white piece of straight
in a fear-reticle line, which you've looked at before and you know, shouldn't be good.
So if you did have night H3, this is forcing, you have to give up your bishop around your
king, which feels very risky because now, certainly these H5, H4 ideas are quite scary at
some point and the white king looks really exposed here.
I can't really worry, like if you weren't root D1.
Yeah, let's keep the root D1.
Can you do the lockdown now?
D4 is C5.
So let's go see it.
The Q&D8, you want to hold on.
So I'm always going to Q&C4, right?
Yeah.
I mean, this is a bit unclear with some night move, but I don't know.
This is just a really interesting position.
It's messy, it also, you feel like it could go wrong for what?
Why is my hand that was going to my mouth handle, it's going to this point.
I don't know, it's like a medical condition.
I think so.
Harry, I just, yeah.
It's good.
It's good.
It's good.
It's good.
It's good.
It's scary.
It is.
It's good.
It's good.
It's good.
At tempo.
And this is Yadskan's preparation as well.
And you know who's coach is Simon?
I don't know.
Ragebuff.
No.
I thought, yes, yes, I don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, the word.
Yeah, I don't know.
Silliman Lee is working with a Ragebuff.
That's right, yeah.
And, uh, suck, my major of.
Ah, well, shack, my major of what love this stuff.
Yes.
Shack is one of the most aggressive players in the world.
He got to, well, number two or three, can be in there.
He's gone in.
So this is getting fascinating.
And now, and now, quesie two, I think, is forced.
I mean, you don't have it, I mean, you could go here but I don't like it.
Well, hang on a second, if you get Queenie one, and if you were to hunt down the Queen, I will
look at D4. D4 just locks everything.
So, if you go, I'm going to go C5 next and that is quite a, let's say, I did Mrs. Moon
regime, let's say you go there and then just to show how, I mean, this is all, look at the
bar, the bar basically says you completely lost.
And how many moves is it?
It's 11 moves. 11 moves, you lost this white.
I just want to show this, because it is very amusing.
You don't see a pawn structure like this, very often, man.
How can white ever get in the game?
You can't get in the game here, it's ridiculous.
But the funny thing is that there was something much better.
There was, even in this looks like...
Yeah.
See, per...
Well, yeah, there is...
Is it just...
I think it's just a main screen.
So, the screen says it's a great night, takes.
Oh, I know.
Maybe this is any...
I just want to share this. I would I would have to play this. No, please. No, you can't do it though. I don't care. I'll have to play. Even if I lose a work. I'm going to play it. I don't care. I really don't care about the work. I just like look at it. I like my pretty patterns.
It's only a work. It's only a work. Come on. Please let me get a poem there. Okay. Go for it. I let you do it. That's my aim.
And like, okay, yeah, it does lose unfortunately to that, but it's very pretty.
So, but not best light.
So, what's the, okay, this is going a little bit infancy, well, but the best line here,
there is a winning line. And the only option I think White Scott and these dishes
is to go, it takes F2, that has to be played, because these pawns are too strong.
So, I expect it's just night H3 here, and then you can do this kind of at some point
see five, because the white pieces there, you can't bring this one out, the Paul structure
too strong. So let's have a look, Arjun has to, we've got the decision time, so we reckon
he has to go queen C2. And now, there's another option here as well. Yeah, there is another
option, bizarre option. Could you go Bishop takes E3? Yeah, you can. Yeah, go, okay, let's
see the bail out there. So if you, yeah if you're not prepared for this
line and you want to try to do a bail out job then this move is quite
tempting and this gets quite complex because if you take the queen I'm going
to take your queen and now I've won a pawn which you can win back of course
so let's maybe have a look at that. If you take my bishop I'll take your
night and I should be safely better if you take this pawn and I'm
bit worried about that night being trapped. Yes Bishop here attacking the
night the night has to go somewhere like here. Yeah we we know that pattern
we've seen it so many times I don't like it. I might even have this position
and the course I made. You can go DC 4 if you have time after
you can go DC for that's right, good suggestions and a crown of the set. I'm just going to be very sensible and we get this kind of position equal material.
But probably a tad better for white, right? Because it's quite hard to develop your bishop.
I've got more central pawns, quite light, these central pawns later on.
I'd say a bit better from white this, but I think so too.
But let's go back to that night take see if Bishop takes you free, but you're right, that was a good idea you could take and I'll see you for.
So...
With this position.
Hang on a second, you can go in my age three.
You can, you can get the night out of dodge like that.
So, night age free, and now you have to take the night, because I think you have to go king F2.
Is that right?
Or something.
So I take care of it.
I think Queen takes Bishop and then can do too.
Can you do too?
So yeah, so this is for us, right?
So your Queen is now on pre.
So you can't take on H3.
So you have to take care and now you have to take your Bishop.
You have to go here.
So that King come into H3 again.
Oh no.
Not again.
We didn't go well last time for Iron yesterday in his game.
I'm going to send her.
But he got away with it.
But yeah.
Okay, feels a little bit better for why in that respect because the King is then
you can come out there for one moment. Although then I would be tempted to do your
Harry and Gary.
I'm sorry about scaring people at home. I've been a cold here and I'm
making sure the mic is pulled away next time. I'm so sorry.
But it's a monster. Yeah, I mean this is maybe playable, but you don't normally
want to play the King here. And again, why am I going towards Harry Potter? You mentioned
Harry Potter. This is certainly an option here, but it's probably a right looking
comeback. Okay, well, very exciting game today. Yeah.
And it seems like everyone is a fighting move right off the bat as well, because I'm also
looking at Jordan Fun Forest. Again, our event is such an exciting player. He plays really
combative stuff, and he could have gone for D45, and this is interesting, because
Jordan normally opens with E4, you know, he opened E4, he was in earlier rounds in this event,
and here is like, no, night after E. Recony was designed to fight against
our events ambitions. Yeah, so our event is, I don't know, one of the most exciting
plays in the competition. He hasn't worked out particularly well from so far
his risks, but he's a very good, you know, he plays lots of aggressive and strange
things, but here we actually see the Kings Union defense and we see this many times
before, so we don't need to explain too much except for the fact that white has the
center, and black has the counter attacking chances against the center.
So now we have the main line, with Bishop E2, and OutraVin plays the main reply here.
Earlier on, we saw Sundar off when a very nice game with 9a6, and that's trying to come
to C5 later on, but E5 is the main line, and White now has the side, am I going to play
the E5 straightaway or am I going to keep the tension and why keep the tension? So just
carcels, my A6 so again similar I did to what I've seen before and the night off the
one's this square. I would have you know the other things you can do is obviously
put the night on one of these two squares. So that's night C6 is there sort of old main
line and night these seven has been made popular by going in English grandma's
the grain Jones because he was playing that. And night A6 again I think this is an old
John John Mum way of playing John Mum like putting the night here given it
potential to jump in. He's won this tournament before.
This should be free to run hold the center and now I think a bit of a rare move
BixxG4 just developing the last piece and indirectly put in pressure on these guys.
So white now closes it down as Bixx could be a little bit misplaced.
A3, oops sorry, B5 C5 and this is something Bobbi Fisher used to do a lot in this structure.
And look at this really interesting evaluation bar because it hates it.
I'm no one has played it before, I hate her.
No, I mean, the computer in general hates the kings in the defense.
It's quite funny.
I think it, I wonder if it hates the kings in defense more than the Dutch defense.
It probably does.
Yeah, it can really hate it.
It's because it gives up the space, you know, we're E4, D4, C4.
Yeah.
And as soon as you get a D5 and it's like, oh my God, what you're doing,
why you're doing this type of stuff, this is not how you play chess,
this is what the computer says.
but of course the humans, it's completely different you know, because
definitely you should think of this next move by our event.
This one was the one that had been never...
Yeah I mean it's like saying Bobby Fisher right there Bobby Fisher used to play this with the night on D7
and pretty much, well I say the same position that Bobby Fisher has had it with a Bishop on CA
and it's quite logical because what of both sides trying to do?
Well, with the pawn here, white's trying to play C5 later on.
This is the main break, the sort of tyres played us in a previous round.
This is how white breaks, this is how white makes progress.
Without this move, it's quite hard to do anything,
some white compares that, gets ready to do it.
What's black's main break, black's main break is F5.
Obviously, these moves need preparation.
So, with C5, black is saying,
okay, I'm closing it down, I'm stopping you from playing C5.
and I'm going to try to arrange this F5 move later on and start a king-side attack.
So I don't see why it's as bad as the computer thinks.
Let's see A3, so white now has to think of another break and B4 is the break that white needs to go for now.
And Arivine doesn't really care about computer evaluations and I really like this because so many people
So attached to what the computer says and you have to have an idea that you're also
you've got to have your own thoughts and you've got to show understanding and you know
this is what Arvin's doing. The bishop comes back so now night G4 F5 is one idea
I imagine so your didn't tens that night down if that night caught move the pawn
can't move and now the Paul comes up really strangely maneuvering the bishop comes back
to D2 and now we see this plan in action night to E8 so F5 is what's black is trying to do
and now we see another idea which I know has been played by another great player and these
are all combined in ideas this is kind of a fisher right there the next move G3 is an idea that
the gale fan used to play quite regularly.
He's the first person I know played this,
but I might be wrong.
I think he talks about this.
And this is a way to try and counteract this move
F5 because you now have ideas that go NIH4.
So this move looks a little bit weird.
So let's put that on board.
Let's go G3 and S7 like goes on and P.
There's F5.
So and now the gale fan idea is to go NITE to H4
in this position, which you can only do because you're supporting that and you're trying
to attack these bits here.
And once the night gets there, so let's say, like, go, I don't care, Queen F6.
Yeah, so it's still, I mean, the evaluation, again, thinks why it's just winning here, which
is quite crazy, because it's not like it, you have to defend G6, I don't know, the best
way to doing this, but let's say, King H7, I put on the board, yeah.
Now, whiteside can often involve an F4 at some point, so that's one way you can play, and
you even have this debate not now, but after a capture, so you can also capture, and now
black wants to really take that with a pawns to keep these mobile very well positioned.
I think you can even try ideas like this, but this is more common when there's a Queen on
E8.
Yeah, you're going to be careful, sons and sons, back, calling on E8 gets trapped.
It gets trapped, yeah. And that happens just going to get Steve and Gordon, British
championships once, the playoff. But this is, I mean, even the computer basis, why
is winning in these positions, but practically it's not as easy. I mean, we can, we can
test our audience here. We can ask them, what do you think? Do you think that why is
winning like our good friend the engine is saying?
No.
No.
Yes.
I've been very clear.
Yes.
I like that.
Yeah.
I mean it's nothing's clear in this position, right?
So the engine says white's winning.
I think it says plus.
What's it?
It's plus, nearly free.
But nothing is no reason the ball-wise plus free ready.
like white is in control and it's saying that black can't do anything and there's problems with this
diagonal I guess but it's not obvious to the human eye at all white g3 f5 and night h4 is so amazing for white
but it generally this this plan that gel fan came up with I think again I think it's gel fan
going to be some rouse is known to be quite problematic for black because we can't play a
five or in trouble. I mean let's just put the queen here and try that again. So take
takes how else you do. You can also play F3, that's another way and you just want to stop
black doing anything active and then you're going to go B4 and white is nearly always
winning on the queen's side in these positions because it's some you know it whites much
better on the queen's side. So black, how does black play? If black plays like ever F4,
and you give away the four square and this diagonal,
it doesn't really help the attack.
If you can continue as normal, right?
Because nothing is happening.
That's right.
Oh, the king side.
If Black can't break here, Black's in trouble.
So this G3 is very clever.
Very clever move.
And it's, if Black's not playing F5,
as anyone else here, a plan for Black is very hard.
White's plan would be one B4.
But if you're not going F5, what are you playing here?
Well, it's great news for Jordan for our fans.
because Rick B1 before incoming and he's going to get a nice advantage on the queen side.
Yeah. Okay, so we're coming back to this one. The opening has most likely, I say, most likely,
well, it, you know, according to the engine, it's gone Jordan's way. Jordan's showing good knowledge
with that last move we saw, the Gelfan plan. But it's a King's Indian defense and one thing I know about the King's Indian
And also, Arivind, he's very imaginative and he can often get activity out nowhere, and that's what happens in the kids in defense.
But how does he do that? What's he going for? Okay, will we see the bishop coming on the light squares? A logical move there.
Yeah, that's been a lot of movement with that bishop.
That bishop has gone back there.
He's breaking the opening rules, you know, when we teach our students, we're like, no, no, no, don't make three opening, use with the bishop.
But we'll see whether Arabin can break them rules of that to be broken and of course Rook to E1 was the response from Yorden.
Let's move on to the game between Winn against Vladimir Fedecif.
Winn won the challenges last year and let's see how he is firing in the masters.
Now, it's interesting, because one of the great things about the challenges is you have
all these exciting players, their young, talented, their hungry, and it's really interesting
to see, actually, the opposite, they win the challenges, how do they perform at the master's.
So let's take a look at the most recent winners of the challenges.
Let's see how they did in the masters, and here we can see the scores.
Oh, well, visit did very well in 2019 with a seven points, AdiBan got seven and a half points,
but it feels like it's mixed fortunes. Yeah, very, very mixed there. I mean, it is a step up
and this is why you've got to admire the players in top sections so much. They are so good
And it's quite subtle differences that put them into that top section and help them do so well.
But yeah, you can see no one's one the masters from qualifying for the challenges there.
And the best challenges to master performances, wow, we're going quite a way back.
Definitely.
On a check in 97, one the masters in 1956.
Got eight out of 13.
Good to see English groundmaster Julian Hodson at the bottom there.
Very talented player.
Okay, yeah, interesting to see.
Yeah.
Let's see how win is getting on.
It doesn't seem like as much action in this game, so we go for it quite quickly.
And win is playing very suddenly so far in this competition.
He's not taking any risks.
Which is wise, because he's stepping up in the class here.
in the class here, and his planning gets flatter me, who has been a little bit up and down,
but played some fantastic moves. It's probably played the move at the tournament. There's a
rook C3 that flatter me a play. It's a two-keering move. That's a new definition there.
Not two-eximation, two-keering. And we see Bishop B4. We're still waiting to find a good
question to give a key ring away, but you have to wait for that one. We'll have to wait
I'm afraid because we only have one keyring left to give away more of it coming.
But today, here's a bit sparse.
This is very solid, line of the rego's in, that white place.
This is kind of a risk-free, so it suits wind style.
You force the night to this square and what white is basically saying by that is that your night is misplaced there.
there because generally as black you prefer a pawn on C6 so you have this nice solid
structure this night not greatly positioned and now again the main line black aims to
go for E5 and try and prove that night is not so bad and white simply develops the
bishop gets out of harm's way going all the way back and we have more development
The night now comes here and this doesn't particular idea of mine and the idea is to play C5.
So Vladimir playing very actively here, D takes C5 and we get to come position.
I will look at it, castles. The night comes back, Rook D1, Queen E7.
And this is kind of a standard Queen's gambit structure.
It's been some exchanges.
White always has the option now of creating isolated porn,
but that would allow Black's pieces to become very active.
So you could take care, for example,
and after porn takes, your playing gets what is a weak porn,
but Black has great activity in a position like this
with a piece that's about to fly out.
Yeah, and one of the things that one of the problems for black, and it's a small problem,
but it can be a pesky one, that this Bishop on C8, there's no natural home for it, as we speak,
and black has to give some concessions to get it out, either you're going to
have to accept this isolated Queen's born, or you're going to have to do a lot of maneuverings,
you know, go your Bishop D7, look D8, blah blah blah, to kind of get it out.
And it's basically a game of small margins.
There's nothing of the fireworks about it.
Not much though.
I mean, like, so if you played, if you didn't take there,
which I don't think you wouldn't, because you don't want to allow that
bishop out, you might try something like a free to try and advance.
If black ever took on C4, so you should always look at the exchanges first,
and you try to work out who they favor, because then you can sort of calm down
you'd be like, okay, that doesn't fade for me. I won't do it. What if my opponent takes it? Well, here,
this is absolutely okay for black, but the one reason white tries to claim an edge again is that bishop.
Okay, this bishop's not great, but it is better than that one. You could try E5 and these positions
to get it out, but there's a 9G5 and this. Yeah, I had a position like this once. Should we set up a
question here. This is quite standard. So is anyone
wait, sorry, yeah, I know I had a position exactly like this once and I was
walking around the tournament hall when a grandmaster who shall remain
nameless came up to me and he goes, there's a lot of pressure on F7.
Oh, oh, oh. And I was like, why? Why? The first of all you talk to me about the game
and then you're stating like the most obvious thing in the position
But you're trying to do and yeah, but there was a lot of pressure on F7
He got something who the ground was
No, no, there's cheating ground master just pointing out to you that you were a trouble on F7
No, I was white. I was literally white
So I was going to be winning
Yes, but I was like the most obvious comment
To make
And you have someone that ever heard us
Yeah, I can be very interested in a trouble
Yeah, I was very afraid that someone could come up with a call
if someone can come up to you and say something,
it's not really your fault.
No!
I mean, okay, what we do this,
quite a simple question for the crowd.
There's a threat here, this is a quite simple idea.
If black defense lap, white, white, white, white,
what does white play here?
What is the winning move?
Night D5, hands in the air,
it's too easy to give a key ring away.
You're not winning a key ring yet.
Where, who's that back?
Just so we can see whether, night D5.
because this night is defending that one and look at this little hidden piece.
So you want to divert the night away and that kills black off there.
I remember once when I found his things I saw this, this won't happen.
I doubt it was, it was Lloyd's bank competition.
And there were two grandmasers playing on the last round for quite a lot of prize money.
And someone had assumed that they'd stop playing and they were just thinking.
Yeah, and this other grandma asked to came along and he started saying, well, he just blew here here here
And then we're actually still playing there again. He thought they were analyzing and he's done just jumped in
Yeah, it's starting to show and you know, and then like the stupid play. Yeah, so you just sort of
Well, this this one happened to a good friend of mine. He was analyzing with an international master
When this random guy comes up to them, makes some ridiculous move on the board, and
giggles and walks away.
And these two friends.
It was a barren shirt.
You kind of close.
Okay.
So these two, like my two friends kind of look at each other and go, that was like the most
ridiculous move on the board.
They take it back and then they just kind of carry on analyzing.
This person, this weirdo, comes still comes up to them, insists on making this ridiculous
move.
This is an analysis, right?
This is an analysis, yeah.
It's ridiculous move, giggles once more, and walks away, and once again, my two friends
are like, come, there's a weirdo stop doing this, and then they reset the board, and they
come in.
And then, for the final time, the weirdo comes in.
I was going in the weirdo because that was there for interpretation at the time.
It comes in and makes the move and then proceeds to back it up with an analysis and they're like,
it was good, you know, who this person was, Aronian.
There I say it, yeah, yeah, I mean, they didn't know who he was.
They did. How could they not know?
But it was a long time ago before Aronian got famous, but yeah, it was.
They've been living under a rock, you know, like it's like, like Carlson comes over, like, who's that guy?
You know, like it's like, yeah, how do you know the road you can go?
Well, it was a long time ago, but everyone had been quite made it to the world's top 10, but he was gaining there.
So yeah, I agree with you.
I mean, there's some great stories like that. I remember one Stuart Conquest, grandma's to the center.
When you had, you had, he was playing in Russia, and he was playing the German.
They had the adjournment out and it's a rock-important ending in his room at the hotel and
I mean it sounds so ridiculous, but the cleaner came in. Yeah, some old Soviet
You know women and she just looked at the position just
Made a move
That's cleaning again. Yeah, and then it was like
I was a pretty good move
It was the best move
So this cleaner had told Stuart conquest out to how to play this rock-important
Yeah, it's lots of weeds to recite that, but let's have a quick look at one more game. Not so much report here.
Let's have a look at, I'm looking at Irwin. Irwin's game against Carissa.
So Irwin had a tough time yesterday, so did Carissa, you know, losing in 131 moves.
Let's have a look at how Irwin is doing. Oh, okay.
Looking at the camera, I can tell you, body language 101,
Carissa's in trouble.
So let's, I'm going for it very quickly
so we just get to the current position.
And it is a pour on up for a carousera at the moment,
but white has this lovely pour on position.
And you're just trying to displace this night.
So Carissa's like, no, I don't want you displace that one.
OK, now that one is present to be one.
So black size to give it away.
So black goes bishop d7 and says, OK, I will take it.
And rook a8 plays.
And it's equal material.
But what is happening?
And this was Chris's idea.
I assumed to win this pawn back.
But the move that strikes me first is, OK,
what if I go now and keep the queens on?
but I'd love to get my knights in the square
and open up the bishop.
So what if I do play this move?
How is this going?
Now you should take this pawn?
Yep.
Let's save with the knight.
But there's a pawn of six, seven.
There's a pawn of six, seven.
It's enough.
And there's, then I've got this one.
Yeah, 96.
So I have to take on A4 with the bishop.
So that one's guarded.
Doesn't look that bad for Christy to be on.
I feel like there's some kind of tactics in the air, right?
Yeah.
I guess they're thinking 96 for that.
Oh, 96.
Yeah, but that might be just more flash than anything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It takes Queen Jake.
No.
The D5.
Oh, no.
I'll do it.
I'd black some crude structure.
Yeah.
So you could maybe, I don't know, I really want to say,
can go night here.
I mean, this would be my first thought.
Can I do this?
night on this lovely square but it's not, I mean I'm not really threatening.
Well you're threatening to be seven porn as a form grab a thank you to me some joy.
Yeah I could even try this one and just swap some of.
Ooh! If you take triple porn so I can take on B7.
You can yeah and then if I take care lots of exchanges happening and I was thinking
I, how good is my knight he wants to go some way into the game, but we've
would be eight coming. Oh yeah, I mean it probably is a bit better for Erwin. I mean
he's got him out to side where he goes for the Queen Exchange or does say
yes, because you're knight D6. If he went knight D6 now you could pull maybe
now is that playable? Is that a great story?
Could this be the same same idea right you take?
but now B7's on pre, so this is a P.
Yeah, okay, let's try.
So if I go here, so if you go queen takes,
oh, queen takes brick.
Yeah, and I win material, so you can't do that.
So you have to take the pawn,
and now I get the same thing,
we looked at the haven't grabbed on A4,
I'm threatening two pawns,
so this is a forcing line that Irwin's clearly looking at,
so I think we go D5 again,
and my first thought is,
oh, my queen is getting in some trouble here though,
I don't know if I want to grab this glass or a queen C5 as well, so I would love to grab this port and then get my queen out of dodge city
But you can't go anywhere
So because I think you check and that just stops the queen going anywhere
And King E7 you don't call super because the bishop's hanging and then whoops
There's no way to stop the horse
What they need for
Yeah
Erwin don't get greedy, Erwin
I mean, so you wouldn't grab this one but you still have moves like E4
F5, kind of ideas, or even a F5.
So, okay, over in some of the good thing there.
And he's deciding about what to play in this critical position.
And this is one thing you've got to do in chess.
It's very important.
I found this that there's only really probably two or three critical points
in the game of chess.
Most of the time, you're losing relatively like not straightforward,
but you should know what you're doing the opening.
you don't have to take a lot of time, like 20 minutes on every move that'd be silly.
In the middle game, you're kind of a fall of a plan, you want to follow that plan, stop your
pose plan. There's only really, especially at this level, I think, like two or three moments
when they need to have a big thing. So they need to calculate deeply where it really can change
how the game goes. Right. So this is a moment where if I make the right decision,
And it might give me that half point next to it.
And that's when they do go into the sink to think.
Yeah, well that's the thing though.
There is that cliché in chess that goes,
long sink, long sink.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean they're saying, I think it was the grandmaster
that I said, you know, 20 minutes.
Is the optimal thing possible?
Thank you, Carson.
Yeah.
Marcus Carson said that, yeah.
Yeah, he said that.
We think several over 20 minutes
and he makes some state generally.
But that's because he's such a natural player, you know, I think I need longer to calculate
line sometimes in 20 minutes, you know, so depends on the position I think, but yeah, quite
quite quickly.
Well, wait, wait a second, did I actually happen?
Can we say that for later?
We're okay, we're going to say that was for later, okay.
This stage is, and the players are preparing for the middle-cone battles, and obviously
I will give you the crowd.
We are going to go on a short pause, but don't go anywhere because during the break, we
have young Adermish explaining his win over Jordan Bound Forest yesterday.
You don't want to miss that one and in the meantime we're going to step aside and see
you a bit.
Yes, congratulations and nice win against Jordan Bound Forest and I imagine it's especially
sweet to win this game after a couple of days we saw you a little bit disappointed.
So a nice way to find Spike.
Yeah, I feel very good.
It's my first win in the tournament and I was actually very sad after my game against
the row.
It was a draw with them, but I couldn't defend well.
Now I'm very happy.
I can win more games.
Yeah, is it a special moment in the career to win the first game at
Master's? Yeah, it definitely feels very good. It's a very special for me. Let's take a look at your game
Again, see you're in a jump and here into the opening. Okay, HG I prepared this
In the rest day. Yeah, I worked look this line
Bishop B4 Bishop B3. Yeah, but he played a 5-3. I think the best movie was D6. I don't know maybe a 5 is
is just unnecessary move.
I didn't push A4, because I thought it was an unnecessary move.
I put Bishop E3, and I did two.
I had some idea that it may be C4, and I'd be one,
but that was too slow.
And then I started to attack here with F4,
because I thought the C4 idea is very slow.
Yeah, he played 97.
He was also playing very good here.
And this idea, it was actually a bit strange for me.
He played a foreign on Rukh-5.
I actually didn't understand the point.
And I wanted to play C4 with the Tempy and go Queen C3.
I don't know, maybe this was wrong.
But I wanted to play as strategically also.
Yeah, I pushed B3.
He pushed A6.
I mean, this A6 was the lighting a bit unnecessary.
maybe it was better to take on B3 first.
Yeah, but he played H3, and of the night B4.
So overall, you felt like your opening had worked out quite well, I imagine.
Yeah, I mean, okay, I just wanted to play chess.
This opening is, I mean, I didn't get anything out of stopping,
but it was very playable position.
So yeah, I'm actually happy, I'm from my opening group.
Yeah, he took a queen of three.
And here, yeah, there's this boom of bishop d7.
I think this is losing because of bishop tx86, gx86, queen f7, king ax86, rook e6, rook f1.
Because now if you go like queen g8, I can take this, and text text, this is completely winning.
And okay, my idea is to go on ID4 here and I didn't say any way to prevent this, let's say,
I mean, okay, if he takes I take, I think he doesn't have any more, okay, if he takes this one,
I will take and yeah, if he goes with the bishop somewhere, check check and rook has seven, it was just winning.
Can I just say I've never seen someone handle the iPad as fast as you are?
Do you use iPads a lot or?
No, no, I don't see the bishop.
Bishop, okay, this was losing and he played f6 which I think is a best move
I played night c3 because he's idea was to go bishop this one and bishop c6
and I was thinking bishop this one year
But probably afraid of some bishop a6 stuff
Yeah, he played queen 7, I think
This queen 7 queen has someone was very very bad because this e4 pawn is very rich and after queen gt
I can push this pawn and untreat with his f1
iPhone.
Yeah, he played Q&A5, played EFI probably, he missed this move.
And after this, I think that some little advantage, yeah, I couldn't G5 to X6, is that
the name is better, because of this G5 phone, it's a big week, I played Rookie 3, night
B4, night B5, yeah, I think the night B5 was a very good move, because he wants to take
on A2 and he wants to go on A2, but I'm a pure hunting bird of time, and night B4,
bishop d7, tx, tx, yeah, rook e2.
I think I played very good here, h3, and it's a bishop f2 is important
because the always wants this bishop c6, the bishop f2,
knight 3, rook d1, bishop c6, rook d6, rook d6, rook with an here.
I calculate this number, knight e6, rook b1, king h2,
but is rook b2, and if I take this, you can take and then
let's look at it, that's problem.
And yeah, any file play here, RookD8, you can go KingF7, 9G5, KingG7, and here, I didn't say anything on, yeah, probably this is not winning.
So I decided to go RookD6. And what I was, what I was talking about, is that KingF7, my idea was to take on G7.
Yeah, because if he takes, I'll be shot before.
Then I said, OK, he has to play Rukb-1, King H2.
And then he has to go King H7.
That's right, very quickly.
OK, Rukb-1, King H2, King H7, Rukb-G5, Rukb-G.
This is his best moves, was I think.
OK, I mean, I'm he played King H7.
And I forget that I can take on G7.
I thought he played first Rukb-G2.
Yeah, I forget that I can take on G7 after this.
I thought, okay, maybe I lost my advantage here because of the Rukai 5.
How do you deal with it? Because in that moment surely you understand, right?
That you just forgot to play Rukai 7? What comes to your mind and that moment?
Yeah, okay, but after Rukai 5, I'm still a ponad.
I thought, okay, I mean, it's, I missed the series tuning chances,
but I still have a ponad I can try to win.
Yeah, okay, here I can keep played very bad, but now he has to play King G6, Rukai 4,
for and game is still going on but he played Kingi 7 which I really didn't understand.
I bishop c5 here, Kingi d8 played knight e6 probably rookf7 was much better because I missed
this idea Kingi c8 bishop a7 but later in the game I realized this yeah I can show knight
it's just king d794 or b1 king gg2, knight c4, rook f7, king d8, okay now I realize that's
normally I was thinking I have to connect on g7 and then try to push h4 h586, but
okay still game is going on, he can maybe defend, but then I realize that I can actually
give check on gobishabysan, he cannot prevent us, if he plays bishop d7, I rook f8,
should be a text and I just haven't the game.
Mr. Ray, Sam must be a very nice move to make over the world, right?
But I forgot this, I was thinking to take on G7, but then I realized that I was very happy.
Well, a great game.
Yeah, as congrats once again.
We almost set a high-frame mark.
You're on 50% and you're saying, overall, you are very happy so far, right?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm happy with my performance overall.
OK, I will try to give my best after the, I mean for the other rounds.
You mentioned you spend quite a bit of time yesterday on the rest day preparing this H3 line
that you also get to see anything and why can't zero what did you get up to?
Yeah, after my game against Nderwai was so sad, I didn't go anywhere.
I was just working this H3 move because I need a lot of time because he can play a lot of moves.
I want to ask you, I believe you're last interview with Arvan as the most viewed interview
we have done so far there are so many Turkish fans cheering you on. Do you feel and appreciate
that support?
Yeah, it feels good. That's a lot of Turkish fans supporting me. Sometimes I watch the Turkish
streams and I saw that they're supporting me a lot. Yeah, it feels very good.
Yeah, and yes, thank you so much, congratulations once again and best of luck for tomorrow.
Thank you.
If there is one thing that chess players can agree on,
it's that Queen and Games are extremely difficult,
and that proved to be the case as well in this game,
between Chris and Andy Woodward. This game actually lasted more than six hours,
And I want to highlight this position until this point.
I mean, the players thought very hard.
And he was pressing for the wind, the entire game.
And Chris had defended super well.
And after 127 moves, they got to this position.
Let's dive into this position.
So here, if we take a look at the position,
we see that, why it has three ponds?
So Chris has up a pawn, and he has two ponds.
So you might be thinking, hey, Chris is up a pawn.
that looks good, right? Well the problem is is that Andy has this past apart and that
pawn is very dangerous because it's cleaning very quickly and this h pawn
on the other hand is not moving that fast. Also why doesn't check right now and
there are moments where the black wing can simply capture this pawn with
check maybe even. So why does it be very careful here and make the right decision?
Unfortunately for Karissa, she did not make the right decision because she
played the move King 2G2, which turns out to be a losing move. Because after A3,
Queen A check, Queen Csella, she was simply giving checks here and there, but the
problem is that the King is now in the perfect position setting up this Queen
25 check and she tried to defend with Queen A2 but not Queen G5 check and and he forced
the trade of Queens and this is when Chris resigned.
So that went south real fast and it makes sense because after six hours of playing chess
and being in town tuba as well the players were pretty well in the clock especially Chris
I was long time.
It makes sense that at some point the position just falls apart.
But now you might be wondering how was Kursa supposed to defend?
Because the defense was actually not very straightforward.
Especially during the game, it's really hard to imagine this defense.
It was quite counterintuitive.
First of all, the king was forced to move because obviously Queen E2 check here would
allow black to queen after the queen trade, the pawn promotes first.
And the king is too far away to catch up to the pawn.
So that is why queen trade is out of the question here,
and that's why the king has to move.
Now there are two moves that make sense here,
or rather are good here.
The first one being king of two,
the logical move, tools will defend the polynomial three.
The odd I move is king two, he won.
And this will be very counterintuitive
because you're giving up the pawn with check
because if black takes that pawn without the check,
then the white can factor this pawn,
and there's a fight happening.
But this comes with a check.
The idea is that why does okay to allow this
because after Kindi won,
white splan is to get as close as possible
to that eight-pound of black.
So if black keeps checking here,
the king gets closer to the black pond.
And this is in white favor
because the closer the king gets,
the more difficult it is for black to make any progress.
Because as soon as black captures the pond,
three the pawn on a fine false and it's really difficult to defend the pawn if I
have any way without the queen. So there's only so much that black can do at the same
time, right? So that is how white could have defended. The other defense is let's say
with king F2. The idea is that this pawn is not getting so far. As after A3, let's say
Kunia check, let's say the king moves up here. Here it is important to play King I
one. This feels more natural in the sense that the queen is
defending the pawn so now the king is free to go. But once again the idea is
is that you're simply passing the move as H2 is no longer possible.
Now that the king is on the 7th ring,
Queen of 7 check is possible and
white is capturing that pawn.
So that pawn is unable to move forward.
And because of this, it's actually difficult for a black to make progress,
because let's take it be 6.
White can not play any move, white still has to be very careful,
but basically the next move is not possible to play a 2,
because then there's Queen of 6 check.
But here what should play Queen E5 with the idea that you're simply stopping any sort of Queen C3 checks and you're holding on.
It's always very important in Queen of Games to centralize the Queen, but yeah, there's so many little things to
you analyze here, the queen of games are so rich
and there's so many things that can happen still.
But the main idea is centralizing the queen
and keeping threats in the position.
Because by playing the move can be one
where once the queen moves from D3,
you're trying to get as close to the pawn as possible.
And at the same time,
you'll keep the threat off the check
where you're trying to capture that apon,
so the apon cannot move forward.
And at the same time, you try to centralize the queen
and so it's possible.
And once you do that, then this apon can start running.
And then it can get very interesting, perhaps.
So yes, there's a lot of things
that are very important to think about here.
Also, one thing to take care of here for black
is that they cannot just move the queen.
That is, they play queen C2.
They might even lose because after check Queen B5, the next move is going to be a check that
picks up the pawn.
So that's what you can see.
Queen A6 picks up the pawn and why am I actually win here.
So that goes to show how tricky this endgame is.
This kidney one move is so crucial.
Whether that happens all the way here or if you move later, this move is very important.
The king is very important to stop the pawn in this specific endgame.
There's a lot of queen and games where the king has to go the opposite side of the board,
but in this specific situation, this is where the king was supposed to be.
And with such little time on the board, in this game, it's only understandable that this
was difficult for a cursor to find and after the sequence of moves that we saw earlier,
this is how the game ended.
So, a very tough loss for Kirsta, but a very instructive end game, and is always
want to try to understand what happened in this end game, what was the way to try to survive
here, what went wrong, and what are the ideas of black to try to win here?
And remember, you can catch up with animators, recaps of the day on the Tata Steel Chess channel on YouTube as well.
So, checking out some of those highlights, very instructive, just like that Queen and Paul and Ngame.
And going to our bird's eye view, we can see that there are all sorts of coming and goings happening on the board and Simon.
Simon, Simon, Simon, do my eyes to see me?
Like, what is that?
What is happening in some of these games?
What is the king doing?
What is the king doing out F3?
Like,
I mean, yes, that we had a King on F3 in me.
He got into trouble
and you're doing a saying, actually,
front in up against Arver and as you kind of go,
and I think you can do, I can do better.
That's right.
I mean first up how did that King get from G1 out there?
Well let's go and have a look. So back to Jordan's game and against Arvin then we last looked
at this idea from Jordan of playing the night to h4 and this is aimed against f5 so there's
the clever idea and I think if you didn't know about this idea you wouldn't play it right
because it's very hard to play the mood G3 in this move
because we can we can you like squares,
but you're going to of course knows about it.
Black for his bishop in hitting the rook the rook moves.
And now realizing that this might be a little bit premature
because the knight H4, he first defends the G6 port.
So it goes King H7 first and again makes a lot of sense.
Now F5, let's say go rook B1, for example.
For example, I go F5, if you go night here, it loses some of its effect, definitely, because you're not attacking this pawn.
So, if I's black, I'd certainly be thinking about going F4, and forget about the evaluation.
This is some action for black, black's getting a little bit of action over here, and you know, this is more dangerous than the other lines we looked at.
Your dinner for puts his bishop on D free and everything is aimed against the move.
They're five. This is his whole idea. You're saying if you can't go where five I'm going to get
B for it at some point and I'm going to be a lot better. So now it gets weird. It goes
Bishop G for pinning pinning. But not winning. Not winning as we get. The king comes
up. Yeah, getting ready to go age three makes another sense. Trying to kick the
bish away. So black says no, no, no, no, you're not going age three because I've
got double power. So now Queen C 2 and that is that that's saying I'm out of the
pin. I'm getting ready to go night G 1. So this is what white wants to play. White wants
to play night G 1. Be confident now. Show Queen some pretty, but you can now. Next
That's moved will be night-chew, one of them, H-free or F-free, the night there comes the
square.
So, but what's the problem with it?
It's the problem.
Look at the white kick.
Out comes Benji.
I call my King's Benjamin after Benjamin button.
Okay.
Well, you're looking at me like I'm really strange, which is...
I'm sure you should be used to burn by now.
Oh, it's climate.
Just a little bit.
Okay, by Benji.
Okay, because the film, Benji,
start off with an old man and he gets younger in younger.
Yeah, like it.
And so that's exactly what the King does.
He starts off old man, nervous.
You have to always reassure him, look after him.
As soon as you start training with more pieces.
Yeah.
He gets younger.
And he tries to steal the show.
And he gets more powerful, right?
Exactly.
So in the ending, the king is a great piece.
And you want to throw Benji around the board.
Yeah.
But in the opening, he's a little bit,
he should become out to play.
He's coming out, he's coming out to play now.
Oh, there's a sign that's here.
There's no sign it's used to believe in the power of the king.
He would like to go actively.
Oh, yeah, I do.
I mean, yeah, it's a sign that says,
I mean, we won't show it very much.
But the sign that says King's Gambit was this line.
I think it was before.
maybe I think this is the start of it's
would you idea after check yeah let's get Benji going straight away
out your contemplate no point mess around ready for the ending
which means get rid of a hundred pieces first yes
and there we go back this is quite bizarre
it doesn't make sense so because after what black plain
because night night she won is coming
The king steps out and we remember our event put his king on h3, but you can't check me a king just from the queen, right?
You need to have your pieces joining in and at the moment
Blacks pieces are not joining in
I was looking at so I was thinking well come on f5 get them rookie and then the queen come in
What is the king doing the king kind of like poaches neck out?
I guess he's gonna go back in again
What is the idea to go takes takes king g for putting the poor
I'm going to put it down, come on King, come on King, give me that for a moment.
You're like, what's really, that's a good move, that's what I'm like in.
No way to defend their five.
Well, I mean, yeah, you could, I'd probably take your first unless you force coming.
Yeah, I would take it first.
So do anything after Calacle.
I mean, I want to open up the light squares, that's why I'm taking.
And then we come back.
Exactly.
Be a bit boring.
And the only thing I have to watch out for is this one.
Because actually, I think I want to play G4.
And I really want to open up my bishop.
So the only move I'm a little bit concerned about is why it's this.
But now I'm thinking carbon one.
Just come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Live up to your reputation.
Take it.
And here, we're off and going for the check.
Now go for the rook.
Yeah.
The rook.
And this one's coming.
This one's coming.
These are coming.
This one's coming.
This one's coming.
This one might be coming around here.
This one could be coming up.
Possibly this one.
It feels very lucky.
You could even get this one and let's go.
It looks great for white.
So I can't argue with that.
No.
And even though white is a piece down.
I don't think there's any way to stop a work coming to the Sembrunk.
Yeah.
Well, well, well, the extra pieces are nice.
involved in anything. So F5 doesn't achieve anything because you can't get to the white
king. So if you can't go F5, what you do? Wow. Wow. Wow. You're thinking like
arrowvents, the supergram master. So if we had a key ring, we would give it to you but we
only got one. And it is Queen H3 was played. So a good idea trying to keep the king
start there and now maybe F5 is on the horizon so Queen H3 was played but well it's a
good question here you can probably see it on the board so it gives it way a little bit
but white would love to get the king back and your dude this is very clever play
from your dude because it's clearly risky not many people have put the king there
just out principal and your dude now plays well yes she can see it on the board
or Bishipf-Wab, which is inviting black to actually take the form on H2.
It is. So this is what you ought to have to calculate it.
And now I think, I think he was going to go Bishipf back to D3.
With the idea of rupee, which one?
If you check, then I'll go here.
And then the queen is embarrassed, right?
I think so. I think the queen is just right.
Just to get a queen G4 to get her out.
And I'm hoping this is just going to be a massive attack, very good band, that as well.
They're very good band.
The bishop coming here if you go H5 and just grabbing.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, or you could go Bishop G2.
I was thinking, knowing Jordan's kind of, he's got this kind of sense of humour in his place.
He comes up with really sort of quite peculiar but brilliant ideas.
That's why he's, you know, wellness torn before.
I would have thought here's kind of a...
But still really gutsy, you know, because if you go to G2...
Very gutsy, so B2, like F5...
Because now RkH1 is a major threat.
If you go check now, you don't have Queen H3.
So B2 makes lots sense. RkH1 should be winning soon.
I mean, you can get the Queen back this way, but as you said,
you're not going to the key move is if B2 goes F1, the Queen grabs this one.
You go B2, too. What about F5 now?
Yeah, and that one.
Well, this is the only one move here.
This is gonna be a key ring time.
Okay.
We only got one key ring.
This is your one opportunity of the day
to win a key ring.
Wait until we finish the question.
So we already, people have signed desperate
to win the key ring here.
They're already coming up with good suggestions.
And there's only one way why it can be better here.
Every other move apart from this move.
And it's a lovely night on offer.
A beautiful key ring.
You can swing it around when you're walking.
The streets.
Do you like it?
Do you like it?
Do you like it?
Yeah.
OK.
We did have the first session here.
Yes, sir.
You take sir five.
E takes F5 is logical.
Let's let the record.
Let's put it like the engine.
Okay, so how we're going to tell is your valuation bar.
Now, if it's a good move, it will stay the same.
If it's a bad move, it will start to have a panic attack.
What's your reckon it will do?
Are you confident?
I love this move.
Thank you, confidence.
I love putting the pressure on it.
Exactly.
I love it.
A little bit of pressure.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, my God!
Gosh, that's the stock market crash.
And the problem with this.
A nice idea because you're trying to get Queen in Bart, the rook comes in, unfortunately.
And Bishop F4 was still going.
Okay.
And that's not going any respects for your pieces.
Okay.
Okay. We're coming back to that and saying, this one, yeah.
Yeah, this is losing, because I think I take the bishop now, okay, so right, we have another
suggestion and I can't see around the corner, Bishop F4, what is this?
This is Mathis.
Let's try.
What is this Mathis?
I'm trying to explain it, but...
What's Blacks move?
So we had a quitte, sort of, what was it?
So we had one of the words of this choice.
I had a...
F5.
Yes, F5, sorry.
I'm just trying to find the line.
Don't give it yeah, okay. Yeah, five right and Bishop F4
Wow, yeah, okay
Okay, we're we're coming to make that one next. I think this one you can give a check on H
Right, you give a check first and then you take the result so you give a check to get your queen out of dodge and then you take the bishop
So it's not bitch bed for sorry any other sessions
Okay, we have fish bait six, remember we're trying to find the way to white keeps an advantage here in this position after F5
So we're not doing so well so far this one it's a nice idea
I've because now black has free choices and to them looms
Well maybe there's a forf but like you know, we won't go there
So actually there's maybe this issue it takes pawn takes it and Queen takes H5 probably all win for black
Because this one distracts the king away from you
Yeah, and then you can take the bishop on H6
So it's not bishop H6 or any other suggestion behind the yes, so we can have the air look who's
Yeah, okay
King E2, okay, so he has the truth
Okay, listen, what was given away the bishop?
Oh, yeah, sorry, give the evaluation bar thing, idea.
Well, okay, and what if Queen takes bishop?
What is that?
So,
rook G1.
Queen A3?
The Queen is coming out.
rook H1.
Are you sure?
No, I was only playing against him.
Okay, rook H1, Queen G4, keep going.
Okay, the Queen's only got what's square.
Oh brilliant and suddenly the black queen becomes trapped so well done so you've
want a key ring can catch legends you want to come up again it be careful the stairs
are steep yeah well done there that was the only move well done sir that was well
well calculated so the only move in that crazy line and I know I know we were just
it's been a bit time, but it was so bizarre, was King E2, giving the bishop up, and that
was, I thought, a very hard mood to find for Jordan, but these are the kind of things
that your in-cow plate sees, he's got a special way of thinking about the game. Very quickly,
we just see the current position, black didn't get involved with taking there, and this is
very good news for Jordan, because if you can consolidate and stop F5, you've got to be better,
and now he goes King G2, everyone can bring the sire relief there, and we have
H5 because F5 is just not going to work because if you play a 5 the light squares are going
to be 2 feet now like we saw this line before where we just go to Bishop D3 and these
pawns are going to get under mine I could go F3 and G4 they're not doing anything so
black played H5 but I'm really like white position now because this Bishop stops a lot
of those breaks so it's looking good for your and out of the opening. It's looking great for
you're done there, especially with his creative King F3. It seems to have worked a treat,
but let's go and check in on our other Dutchman in the Masters. And he's scary. He's got
like against Gukesh. Gukesh, yesterday having that heart breaking loss, and he hasn't had the
best of start, so it was to get motoring. Let's check in on these two players.
So, Gukesh with the white pieces, and he had that very strange blunder yesterday, but
it's happened to so many players blundering like that. I mean it just is hard and you
have moments where the brain just malfunction occasionally, or more than occasionally for some
of us. And we have another English Gukesh with the white pieces. He has put the night here
There are going on G3, that's really good some of this, and as is game, G3 now, and D5 is the
reverse Sicilian variation, because you can get this position, the other colours the
other way around, but the point of the English is that black can't really maintain the
night here, so black has to play a bit passively, why say can't maintain the night, this
line that black plays here is a bit of a modern interpretation, the old main line used
to be night B6, and normally a long maneuvering game.
Bishop C5 first played, I think by Grishchuk as an idea,
I'm probably just throwing these names out
and totally guessing, but I think it was Grishchuk.
Sounds convincing, but it sounds convincing.
And Grishchuk is the kind of player he would go.
Yes, Bishop C5.
And the thing you have to calculate now is night takes E5
as a combination, but it doesn't work particularly great here.
a D-free and Blacks trying just to keep his pieces aggressive in place in the can.
Queen B-free, okay, you've got to move your night away now. If you go B-6, I guess I'm
taking on B-7. So the night comes back to B-7, so we force that piece back, which
is nice castles.
And just, you go nightly seven as well, because that way the bishop gets to stay looking
at the F-2 point.
yeah that's the main idea isn't it and this night also wants to end up with this square
that's the route is going to take. H6, another idea black would love to play as an
juice the F port but it's got to get its king out the way and white generally plays on the
queen side so there's quite a lot of moves so I'm going quite quickly to get to the current
position. Night takes D4, pawn takes, knight E4, bishop comes back, queen C2,
Like a Sicilian, it's this square in the Sicilian, it's this square, but it's just a bit of way around
that you want to get your knight to a very key idea, because then that pressure rises over there
and white would like to go like B4, Bishop B2, knight 2, c5, so A5 stops B4.
Oh, yeah. Bishop D2 played and now a rook is able to come here to allow knight here, A4,
And there's this little hole here now so black has ideas of coming in. Bishop B4.
So the C5 square available. The rook gets out of the way so the knight can move.
The knight comes in. Now ideally what you really want to do, I feel a swap these bishop
soft before you put the knight there because you want to keep this knight in that square forever.
And the way that Goukesh plays it because he wasn't able to swap the bishop soft means that
black is able to exchange that strong night.
Okay, white gets the two bishops,
but that night was a better piece in general.
Here we are, current position.
You can see this stock-fisher,
valuation chart here.
It slightly prefers an issue as position slightly,
very, very slightly, right?
Yeah, that's a bit unusual though,
because usually, it likes the bishop pair,
but here it's kind of saying,
okay, there's something in the air.
I guess it's because there's Bishop, I've done a lot of moving and it's not really
look at, sorry, but it's Bishop, I mean the Bishop on C5.
Yeah.
So there's also a backward pawn on E2.
There's a niche, I'm a little kid there or there's E meditating or it's a sleep.
It's always interesting seeing how chess players think and how they try to access
the information all they try to calculate because some people do it by looking at the ceiling,
famously in the Queen's Gambit, right? That sounds best at it, looking at the ceiling,
initially closing his eyes and sometimes you want to blank out the distractions of trying
accession variations. But I mean it seems fairly even to me, this is a bit annoying for white,
especially combined with the root there, but there are two bishops, maybe count the same,
but you're right, the fish is not great, right?
No, it doesn't have anything to chew on, right?
No.
And you can kind of, in an hour started looking at this pon on E2,
I'm just thinking, well, you know, there might be some fish.
You have to wait with going, fish of G4,
but at the right time, this is going to be pressure, right?
Yeah.
You can see Ricky's six.
Yeah, the rook has a nice way around.
You see, I think very humans to move the night to F5,
And just immediately open up the route because the night quite nice the fins are a strong point
Yeah, I can sense it. So this this would be quite a natural move
Just defending the strong point in the middle and opening the work up
What is the cash gonna be playing?
He can't go B3. He can't go Rixie one Rixie one Rixie one Rixie one
Yeah, and the game goes on and then brook six, I guess, come round with this.
And then there's like unpleasant.
So good news.
And you stay with some pressure.
He's come out the everything well.
Just interest, do we have, can we hear a cheer for a niche, do we have many a niche supporters?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good to hear.
Got a cheer, your fellow.
Notchman on.
Jordan supporters.
Thanks.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Good.
Last week there was more. There was more you'll just watch last week. Yeah, we just wanted to test that one
I think it's a whole of your-
Large family came on. It's a cheer. Okay, so this is a I don't know as much to report now
But the opening has gone pretty well for an ish and
We're now getting into the middle game stage. So let's go on to another game
We have a we have to check in on Prague against Mattias blue bomb
because this one isn't that exciting but it looks good for white. I mean, just
let's whisper the opening just to show everyone how we actually got there. And
also because I play like this is white and I'm kind of curious.
Very reserved.
Did you say, didn't you play this? It's quite funny because sometimes I see
you play like the most innocuous openings.
Yeah, that's something that's happened to some point.
Yeah, no doubt.
I just don't like theory anymore.
That's a problem.
Would you say your opening style reflection personality?
No.
Okay.
Do you want to think about that a bit longer?
Yeah.
I think it was well.
It does my opening style reflect my personality.
Yeah, that's basically what I was asking, wasn't it?
How would you describe your opening style?
We see, it's like a chicken.
It's a bit solid.
It runs away when there's a sign of trouble.
But if safe?
Yeah.
Would you describe your life as a safe person?
Do you like playing at safe?
Do I play at safe?
No.
Do I want to wear a sign of trouble?
No.
So you'll be opposite, your opening style.
But it's an indication more of the fact that I don't want to be putting in all the hard work in the opening.
Like I've got my like my caro which I don't know I work and say in a month on.
But the rest of the opening is I'm kind of like.
So it's laziness.
Yeah.
I know that feeling well.
So yeah, it's a little bit hard now, so hard nowadays because you have to learn so much stuff
So there's a lot to be said about just playing a simple
Right, I mean because it just you don't have to play exciting openings of the positions to get exciting normally
You're gonna have exciting moments in every game normally. Let's see if there is one here
So it started off very symmetrical and
They're both playing well a solid system and
And now the night comes in to E4, okay, I was hoping that F5 was the idea but it doesn't seem like it is.
Rook C1, why not F5, come on, I want to see F5, I want to see the rook swinging around.
The Queen has a song there.
Yeah, yeah, I want to see the sunshine after the rain.
I want to see the rook.
The rook swinging into the game.
Yeah.
Yes, okay, anyway.
I didn't play a five so that's some seed person preference, much more solid choice and
how B4 is quite an interesting moment because suddenly you have this idea or C5 and if you
take that one you leave C7 on pre to the rook so that's a good idea and the rooks coming in
so that's quite clever at B4.
It is C5 is incoming.
C5 is nasty.
Yeah, don't want to allow that.
So you kind of have to go into it.
So you have to take on D2, well not a D2.
You have to at some point take this one.
So it's interesting,
drag, drag, all very sharp layer.
And I'll take on C4, the night comes.
So this is the way that you can win it.
It looks like, but what's pranks idea, A3,
the bishop comes back.
And I said, black is a port out now.
The pranks has clever ideas.
And after this one, the question is, why did the test not take
with a queen defending C7 here?
Because he took with a pawn, okay, this also saves the pawn,
but you allow the rook in.
So if queen takes, queen C2 is a problem now.
Yeah, exactly two bits, right?
Oh, crowned.
Yeah, the very good.
Yeah, very good.
So we've been told that this has all been seen before,
or they played very quickly here.
So obviously preparation.
And so Black has poured up, but now White's conversation
should be pretty clear with a rook being very annoying
on that rank.
And we'd been told that only after Queen H5,
sorry, rook B8 pattern there, defend the rook Queen H5,
only after this move did the player start slaying down a bit.
Which is a bit weird.
Yeah, because you would have thought that Queen H5 threatening checkmate is the most aggressive move to kind of look at.
Especially, there's been a follow through as well after H6.
We have another prag aggressive move here, D5, so opening up the other bishop and this is scary.
Quite interesting. And it's all about whether black can stabilize the extra pawn.
like get rid of this work, if black can swap off the rock, stabilize somehow, the
blacks can be a pawn up, great chances the wind but crack, is coming full steam ahead.
Were those, are this double bishops, this must be the paired idea, because I'm sure, I mean
wow, what if I take, what if I take, let's see, okay this pawn, I don't really want
to take it this way, since it looks ugly and also it might lose to Queen of Five with
for that. If you go night of six, we see these bishops come to life. I take the night and
I come in here, check me.
Is there a circuit or a text screen?
Yeah.
There's a tent mate too.
Options.
Options.
So, bishops take this better.
Yeah.
Okay. We're not a bishops.
And what is this? Two pawns now. Two pawns.
Why is this possible for white?
What is white side being here?
Bishop.
Bishop B5.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
How does this help me?
How does this help me?
two pawns down now and I like sacrificing, but yeah. Wow, there's a move here which does
seem quite sensible and good. Okay so the only move here for white is to
fret and check mate and that's not a bad idea. I mean you could start
punting with this one as well. Well get Queen G4 Queen G4 because there's no easy
way for black to defend us. You have to go F6. That's kind of ugly. I don't have
bishop G5 and I'm still pinning it down. It's quite interesting conversation.
So if you go G6, I'm really. Yes, so tempted to go rook takes knight.
It takes like, just get room and back.
Yeah, and then Bishop come out to F6 and then say,
I think you could.
I think you could.
I think you could try like Queen F4, right?
Yeah.
Because now this looks like.
I mean, the most natural moves King King here.
But if you do defend against this, because the Queen's coming in,
then we play, I imagine.
Bishop, see, why is the suggestion?
Bishop, see, why?
Wow. Oh, look at that coming from all the angles. This is winning for white.
It's a great decision. Yeah, great move there. Yeah, I wanted to take on B7, but after
Queeness thinks you have a E5. Yeah, it doesn't work. So yeah, this is a lot of pressure
actually after B5. And if this is this seems like it must be what's Prags time. I would
before prepared and what happened here?
You wrote Queen D.A.
But you had a long thinking.
You fought for an hour, clearly, because this is a dangerous move to me, dangerous.
Yeah, he fought for a long, long time and played Queen D.A.
It's just a boot that you look away.
And then the question is, and here we're going to have to kind of go into the hive
mind, I want to go pawn takes you six.
I haven't done any calculation whatsoever to back it up.
You don't need to calculate these issues, you have to really play with feeling, that's it.
Yeah, but for on T86, so this is why Mattay has sunk into a long think.
This is why Prague is thinking, we don't want to retreat the rook because we've lost something.
I mean, you could be only way I can think about retreating as semi-aggressively like this,
but the key line, or is annotate the key line first, is Paul Taysport.
and there's some crazy lines here. Now, if black recaptures, the Queen G6 looks crushing,
so this is forced. So if you capture this way, I just come in here and I've threatened
me and I've threatened this and look at white's bishops. White's bishops are destroying
black and this should be too strong. You've got everything. So you have to take the work.
You have to take the root and now I'm a whole root down. This is getting quite beautiful
but I've got a lot of attacking units here. Lots of ideas, Queen G4, Porn takes Porn.
Porn takes Knight as well. Porn takes Knight, Queen F5. Queen F5? Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, F5 looks scary. Okay, so which one of those should we go for now?
I might keep Queen F5 here actually for it.
The queen of five, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, because we can meet G6 with E-takes F7.
And, wow, there's a few checks involved.
Okay, so this could happen on the board.
This is the fourth slide, and now, why it has to think now to continue.
And, let's see what we've got.
We've got Queen of Five fretting checkmate.
We have Queen G4 fretting checkmate on G7.
We have quiet moves, but let's try one of the checkmate ones.
And this one looks very forcing to me,
because I think black has to play this.
G, I note, yeah, G6.
I don't see any other move because this is checkmate.
Are you going to night F6?
You can throw some material.
So if you go night F6, I will just grab that one
and keep the same for that.
G6 was the kind of plan, but I can see that G6, I mean it just feels really
smelly. It does and I'm on the exchange down here, so I've got Queen G4, I've
probably keep my pieces hanging around your king. So one of these two squares
probably, let's go Queen G4, because I'm threatening Bishop G6 now and you
can't take my pawn because I come in like this. And you've got E7 at the end of the day,
You know that, if we want to be clinical, no, this is a no go, so you can't give back material just to clarify things.
So you have to do the G6.
So you have to play G6 and now I'd love to get my queen in here, but you're night defense that.
So I've got to try to open up your king.
How do I do that?
It takes 47 and this is still very forcing.
So it's quite easy to calculate for these guys.
What's it done?
It's done.
It's done.
It's done.
It's done.
It's done.
this is towel-like chess. So Yogi, sorry, and Rook takes here, you mentioned yeah, and
they're playing these moves quickly. Who's calculated better? So this is forced, and now
obviously we take on G6, and now the next move is forced, King to F-A, and nothing else to do,
and we get this position where it's a whole rook art, but white is attacking.
Wow. What a variation this is. What a variation. Okay, so we've got to be
concrete about this. Let's have a look at Quintag Z6. So Quintag Z6 check and
again the king has to move to one of these two squares because the Queen H8
if it goes this way. Yeah. So where do you step? Let's go to King E7.
E7. Maybe it's just...
Just a troll.
Just a troll. Maybe you have to get a queen cage for a jacket.
I don't know whether you even can go queen-ish for a jacket because the night blocks.
So I have a rule when attacking. So I think we're seeing all this queen-of-five play. The other move was interesting as well.
I have a rule when you're attacking. You know, look at your pieces that are doing the attacking to start with.
start with and ask yourself the question, can you do any more damage with them? And I can
move the queen with check, but I don't know if that really helps me too much. And then if
I can't do anything with the pieces that are doing anything, try to bring in reinforcements
and the only pieces not doing anything is the work. So I'd love to get them ruck in somehow.
Okay. So I'm thinking, Ruxi, one, you know. Okay. Let's see that. So, first up, maybe I can
bring it around later on. Yeah, because let's have a look at what happens if I go
queen to d8. So queen to d8 and it's look at the evaluation bar. It basically
says it's a draw which is unfair. No, it says it's slightly better for why it's
changing in there. Yeah. So how do we keep going? I mean, do I could I play this
slowly at some point? So let's say, I mean, I mean, this is really carb going
for an hour, it's a bit too calm. I think I should like be a little bit more respectful to the
why do I know the bishops control a little squares? It's so hard to calculate the position. I've got
bishop G6 as well, trying to win back a little bit of material. Got these checks, but now your
Queen's quite good to deal with them right? I don't know if this is helped me because now if I check
I have six.
Yeah, or King here, the queens are...
Do you want to tie yourself up?
I don't know either.
Because here you're a bit tired.
I was just trying to avoid the drawers.
Yeah.
I think if I were playing black here, I'd probably go key and fair and go draw.
I would imagine, in this position, if white, let's say, before we'll see one.
This is forced. This position here, I think, is pretty much forced.
you can see when they're very interested in this game. If you want to get a draw, could
I just go here and just because when you go into any crazy combination, if you've got a
draw in hand, it's so nice, right? Because you know, okay, I can rethink in that position.
Would this just be a draw? No, F6. Yeah, maybe not, yeah. So if you go here, it's a draw, but
nice and nice, with. Yeah, that's the big issue. Yeah, and this is, this is,
It's quite funny, Matthias is quite a solid player.
That is found himself on the sharpest battles we've seen.
Yesterday's game against Erigaisy was so crazy, it was completely wild with his keen being attacked.
All the way on the team side.
And now, yeah, he's a racer, but Prague is coming for him. He's like, I want revenge.
And as I've got off in the case, you know, that when you're solid player, the people who have
a grasp of styles feel entitled to come back to you, they're like, no, you're not going
to play your solid brand of chess.
It's face this one.
Yeah, I mean, this is really wild, right?
This is just really wild.
Yeah, it's completely crazy.
I wanted to do, you know, if you just show, after this one, I wanted to play for Wimmer White and I wanted to play for Wimmer with this car move.
Yeah.
I just wanted to, yeah, okay, don't go too far.
Yeah, but it is, oh, it's just, I mean, just...
You're considering that one.
It's not straight.
It's not straight.
It's not straight.
It's not straight.
It's not straight.
It's not straight.
It's not straight.
Yeah.
But here I would be going like E5 and just shutting that bomb issue.
And also that moves scares me.
Yeah.
She supports my bishop, so Harry, that was a case of Harry, I took the good.
The wixie one look quite interesting.
Okay, so let's have a look.
Wixie one, let's first look at Queen Tixie one.
Let's take C1.
Yeah, well, black is a ric-off.
Yeah, you don't want to give you Queen up, I do.
What does happened?
Okay.
Let's just check on the live board.
That's just it's gone G6. It's got it. So this is all happening literally this is all gonna be happening. Yeah, this is all
So Queen takes you one is a bit of a no-go. Just very quick. Okay, back to G6
I just wanted to check. I can't move this queen. Okay, I'm taking on F6 F7
The brookers take her and you have to now take
on G6 and the king has to go here and very likely we're going to take care and the king comes here
and we get this. And the Rick should come to see one. Everyone to the party and now.
Also I'm nice if I have that night might be need on the side to work this out. It just requires
this is what you're really, I mean you're kind of gambling because if you're playing this
both sides, because you don't know the evaluation is just equal, you know, this can tell us that the
computer fixes is all okay, but the players have no idea, so they're really going on instinct
to work this out. It's just instinctive, you know, what they think. And they've got to say that
progress is going to be super comfortable in this type of position, because it's literally the
Indian school of chess. They've been doing this since there were three years old, you know,
Calculating, calculating.
Three years, I'm sorry, yeah, I'm from 3D.
Lou, did you not see that kid?
You've got a rating of three years old, like...
Did you meet...
What was there some question about that?
There were some questions.
Okay.
Let's not delve too deeply in.
It's not a little fact scale away of a good story.
Three year old,
Riverida rated, honey.
When did you start playing just Simon?
One years old, one year old.
This word.
He goes.
My first word was H point.
Pitch point.
Harry.
Push, push.
Yeah, I like it.
OK, so Prague is having a good thinking.
Let's get into these lines.
So we're looking for one.
So two choices.
Night C5 or Queen DA.
I've been Queen DA.
Queen DA keeping the night for this side.
So you're going to go to the CD8.
Now I want to go back to this Bishop GC.
OK.
I'm not, I think age for it's just...
Just leave it and let's try to win a bit of material back.
Let's try to take that one and also that kind of is a barrier so I can sort of work behind it and you know I forget my poor there I've created a nice little thing.
And can you be flash about this?
So Queen to F8.
Queen to F8.
No, it's the answer.
It's not obvious though, I mean like I guess it's because of a check, right?
Yeah. So if I check here, you have to probably go wrong here.
You'll be stepping to a pin and now I've got ideas with this one as well,
which I don't need to take this straight away. I most likely, again,
without spending a lot of time, we're just playing logical moves.
and here I'm threatening to win most of my, well, all my things,
you know, or back with these two. Yes. So, okay, yeah, and black is completely tied up, so you can't go.
So, we're going back to this Bishop G6 attacking the rook and Queen there doesn't work.
I thought you might try Queen here. Yeah, let's go that one. But it is.
Problem is, this is almost rook C7 isn't there. So, if I go Queen G8, another way to try
the fed by doing account for attack, I expect again, but you said that it's a good move,
that's not. We can throw in a check first. Not as a move, yeah, so yeah, and okay, so we
thrown a check first on G5, like before, yeah, okay this check is often good isn't it?
And then the king goes to 8. Yeah, because if you're night moves, then the rook comes in,
And I mean, I always prefer playing white here.
Let's see what the audience has got to say about this.
So I think I know what the audience will say.
Because those dots, the hackers, they like attacking.
Dutch players, love attacking, but you're a whole work up here.
And if you can defend it, then you're going to be doing all right.
So in the position that we have on the board, which we're very
like to have. We want to hear a cheer if you'd like to be white attacking. Yeah. Okay.
And who wants to play black? Your extra rook up. No. No. No. I had it here first. No one
here likes to defend it. This is quite miserable. I mean, are they in it? I think you
You don't have to be a particular type of person
if you prefer being black in this position to white.
It's much more fun attacking, right?
I mean, the McHowtow, whose favorite player
is McHowtow here?
Anyone?
The one?
I've probably pronounced it badly.
McHowtow.
It's a cowtow.
Yeah, a cowtow.
A cowtow.
A cowtow.
Yes, anyone?
Yes.
Yeah.
That's the best thing though.
Ah, OK.
Anyone?
Anyone?
Anyone?
Oh, that's a big state.
Well, that carp off.
Carp off, ice, a lot of carp off.
No?
Is this sign?
Is anything here?
Okay.
Any other positional players?
Cap or blanca?
You must like cap or blanca?
Yeah.
The end game master.
Okay.
Now, what about some attacking play?
Okay, Timman.
We must have a Timman fan.
I think we're getting a feel that the audience and probably chess players in general prefer attacking players because the games are always very entertaining.
But I think Simon, there's a lot of talk behind these words, not not an art audience obviously, because we're all like playing.
playing. We were like watching these sparkling attacks.
But as soon as we were playing, then we were like,
I miss a rook. I'm just giving a rook.
I miss thousand work. We're losing.
I love being a rook down already. Really?
Yeah. Seriously? You don't feel any stress whatsoever.
Like, well, I mean, just a normal amount.
Because tell his famous for his attacks.
But you had to be like a magnificent defenders,
Defender 2 because so many of his attacks went wrong and then he
has a book where
you see all the times like tower health point like two three pawns down
Yeah, I mean if you look at most of well not of thing is most of Fairfee and lot of town's games
nowadays
A lot of his attacks were just unsound.
According to the engine, the engine would say that Tao was just not a very good player in some positions,
even though that's completely untrue.
Because he played very practical chess, he went for the attack, and he creates a chaos on the chessboard,
and that's why people loved him.
This position is very Tao like a whole work, but it's clear that white has compensation,
you know, the players don't know how much.
I think you can instinctively, you know, would be checks, you could be like, yeah, I'd rather be white.
I mean, I'd rather be white. Would you rather be white, I mean, most people rather be white?
I would also rather watch white play.
You'd rather watch white play. Yeah, yeah.
That's good to watch. Yes.
And talking about Tau, we also have another Tau like move that was played a different game.
game and that's between Vincent Kimer and Nodabek and DuCitorov. Let's head over there
because that one started off in rather creative fashion and when we left it we saw that
F4 have been played move 12. Yeah so this was another crazy game so we get some really good
games the day and let's catch up when we were last time and it was after F4 and here
Vince and the clearly prepared this I think I saw in the break that actually this Queen
H1 move if they go back there had been originally prepared by the team a Peter
to Hiner Nilsen and when he was a second for Annand,
that's what I saw on the break.
So it's an interesting idea.
So let's get going a little bit forwards, F4.
And now Bishop B7.
So there were other options,
but this made sense, give the possibility of carcelling,
but it was a little bit slow.
Queen F2, the big fret now, Rookie 1.
we had to look at all of this,
night to e4, the only way to get the queen out.
So now, Vincent took this one.
And the question was, do we play Bishop G2 here?
Do we play C5?
The audience suggested C5, which looked very good.
But another move that she can't for really,
it's Bishop D2.
You stop these checks and you develop a piece.
That queen is it, okay, is it feeling all right?
or is it going to be tracked?
Bishop E7, the rook now has to move,
and this is one way to try and get the queen out.
So the rook goes to H5, and now the queen gets out of trouble.
Queen G6, then someplace Queen F3,
keeping that rook protected, the QDE position.
Queen comes into C2 now, that queen is like a big ginners game.
Where's it going?
It's gone, H1, it's gone like, let's try and track the rules.
on F6, F3 here, back again, back this way, back around here, sitting around everywhere, but
it gets really crazy, you know, Queen D1. So Vince is like, okay, I had enough of this.
That Queen is a pest. Let's get rid of it. Queen G6, is this now black saying, okay,
do you want to draw? If you go Queen F3, we'll take a draw. Yeah, can I just point out?
But instead of queen to D1, it's just a little Scandinavian trick.
Yeah.
So, if white headgone bishop C3, there's a little Scandinavian trick, bishop B4, bishop.
I just wanted to.
Yeah, and you see this in that opening, which is quite a very nice bishop takes bishop.
It's going to be met with queen T's B2.
Yeah, both of them were good position, yes, maybe this is my Vincent went Queen D1
But the next couple of moves here, well Vincent doesn't go for a draw his next move
I'm like how did he come up with this move?
I don't understand it at all. I suppose
Vincent once I dare as a king of turn Bishop D3
I don't know he goes Bishop A5 and I'm like this is a bit weird
I didn't understand it, but then I came
It's stopping
Queen's like castling
Yeah, stop it, but I mean what is that?
What is that crazy move?
It's very peculiar way to turn the draw down
And here, black's next move is, oh it's a beautiful move
It's a pity we can see on the box, it's a great challenge
It's, I mean it looks beautiful
It has quite a lot of sense to it
There were even potentially stronger ideas,
but black now breaks and black plays E5.
Now, I actually think this could be one of the games
that decides the tournament,
just because these two,
two of my favorites to win the tournament,
because they've been playing such strong chess
over the last year or two.
So this is, I think a key game to decide.
And this move is just trying to liberate the bishop
on D7. So you're trying to bring this bishop to life, G4. But you've got to work out what
happens if we're taking C5. I'm taking that pawn. I don't want to be taking with a
pawn as Simon's explained because you're weak in the dark squares, but I'll take you
with a rook. Thank you very much. I guess you have to start harassing the rook and
a high, get his point. He wants to harass the rook and he wants to go Bishop 2 G4 at the end of it.
That's a sneaky move. So if the pawn comes to F6.
So F6? Yeah. And the rook is now trapped. Right. So after Rook H5, as Simon's pointed out,
that's going to be met with Bishop 2 G4 and it's a sad days all around.
Yeah, fish feet too.
Oh, fish feet too?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Continue.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
But you do have, okay.
So you got Bishop takes Bishop.
You also got Queen takes Rook in the air.
And what is happening here?
Queen takes Rook.
Bishop takes Bishop.
Queen takes H2.
So this goes full.
Let me get it.
We mode.
And what's that scenario? So point-wise, we have, I'm trying to read that sign there.
What do you say? I don't know, I can't read it.
You want us to say Harry or Gary?
Okay, okay, Harry, Gary, are you going to, can we hear you shout it?
Good stuff. We have some Harry and Gary fans there. Harry, the Hborn and Gary the
G. Maybe we can actually show that on camera because that is a quite cool sign.
That is quite a cool sign. Yeah, let's not often we have little sign in our audience. Harry,
Gary. Yeah, I don't have another one as well. What's your name? What are your names?
you want to shout your names out? Hello. I don't know. Who's getting very
confusing out? What's your name? Escher. Okay, what's your friend's name?
Zoe? No, okay. What's your sign to you have? Do you have
sign as well? Do you have a sign as well?
Alright, so are you a fan of Harry or Gary? Who's your
favorite. Harry or Gary porn?
Okay.
Harry, okay.
So the H porn is called Harry and the G porn is called
Gary and we clearly got some young fans of the
bands in this in the audience.
And the A porn is called Annie.
Just saying you know.
Just about that.
I call him.
I call him, Harry.
Harry?
Harry?
It's not Harry.
It's not even a name.
Annie.
So okay so it's getting crazy so E5 blade and black try now to break out and it's
all we have a move. We have a move. So not really takes E5. We have Bishop D3. So Bishop
D3 blade and well that was look at the evaluation bar. Look at the bar it's really starting
to dislike Vincent's position.
Okay, do you think Peter Leco
would be proud of you know,
because he didn't use that.
He was like, just play sensible chess.
Just play sensible chess.
Yeah, cut the cut the,
and this is all a bit weird.
It's a bit fanciful, but okay, okay.
So the first move after Bishop D3
is you gotta calculate your Queen G1s, your E4s.
Certainly good.
Queen G2 is another idea to think about, but let's have a look at E5, but yeah, probably
Rookie takes E5 was the best and then SAC something and then both sides are going to
be living dangerous there with their kings in the open.
Yeah, if we showed that, I mean probably what White Hat's do was not come back here because
Bissue G4 was working out to be very good for black, but actually white should have
probably sacrificed because you do have the dark screen Bissue. It does have some potential
and this position was most likely Vincent's best variation, but of course, you know,
forget what the engine says. It's so hard to work out and it's not obvious to see white
compensation because white's king in, you know, nearly as weak as the black king. But
maybe there's ideas of Bissue here and the ambition coming over here at some point. So
This is what Vincent most likely should have played,
but he played Bishop B3.
And this is, I mean, the first thing,
let's look at this is inviting E4.
It's basically a play E4.
And if I was black here, I'd be like,
okay, I realized this is moving,
I wanna look at first because I attack in Bishop.
I've still got Bishop G4 in the air.
I've got Queen G1 as an idea.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
So you have to play Bishop E2.
That's a bit like E4.
And now, black has decisions that need to be made.
And it is a wild position.
It's equal to material.
Maybe white's king is coming to D2 next.
This doesn't seem so silly at all.
I gotta say, I think the evaluation bars a little bit harsh.
It is, I agree.
The evaluation bar.
Sometimes we just have to ignore it.
And it's a human in this position with king D2 coming.
I don't really see why white is doing so badly at all.
And as a porn grab I'm going to say, there's also a C takes D5 in the air and look
that Rick on H5 suddenly springs to life.
So why does the engine think the black is doing so well here?
Maybe you can just go F5.
Yeah, I don't know how the idea is tracking this bishop, but let's try and also is that
Okay, so F5 and now maybe I can even go root Mr. Crafty.
Yeah.
It's also wonderful.
Actually these like bishops are now something looking quite good.
Quite good.
Okay.
And I've got King B2 and I've got Rook G3.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A bit careful here.
Okay, so no F5.
So it's not elementary.
The engine saying that black is basically winning is just I think misleading.
because it's so complex and of course the engine is always right but it's human versus
human and you've got to be so careful you've got to find some amazing moves probably
to prove that.
You could go Richie five as well, that's a nice idea.
That's a nice idea.
this one. The engine says equal but I agree. It looks really dangerous.
Yeah another nice idea and you probably have to move your queen here and then the
rook can come back with these ideas so also a very strong idea yeah so you can't
cement anything so what about if you give B6 just focus on getting your king
into safety, play a lot of stress to do that.
Yeah, we should see three.
The Bishop has to move, I think, and now I'd love to castle, but my king is
thought very, oh, the other assaults, but I'll see the challenge.
There's a bunch of challenges, and there's between Bibi Sara and William Ewitch.
It was a draw in that game.
Yeah.
Now, the problem with black casting, I don't think the king is much safer over here
when white takes on B5, because you're quite weak on the light squares, and as Yovie mentioned
this could just be a pawn, so it doesn't seem to help, castling, and the idea.
Maybe you just take the pawn on C4, let's think as greedy, that's possible, because if
you go Bishop takes C4, then hello.
This is Bishop C4.
What do you call this?
in the skewer?
Fork, maybe, fork, forking too bits.
I guess.
Yeah, probably.
I don't know.
I don't know.
So, when you shoot us, those kids are from there.
Can't you put them in the notch?
Yeah, yeah, so fork, I mean there.
So, this does keep the evaluations bar up and black's favour.
because white can't take you back and maybe you're just going to play B.
Oh dear, let's see.
Excuse me.
B5 and B4 later.
Okay, yeah, and this one looks pretty dangerous for white, but I've got to say it's not obvious,
because in the thick of it, you have to...
Okay, please close it.
It's been quite a long time.
It's been quite a long time.
So this was interesting and the up right there
Which is clearly critical is queen g1 now the reason I think go for some medley is that I assumed it would involve an exchange of queens
But maybe exchanging queens is just good. Yeah, because after king goes to d2 you've got queen takes queen month elementary
I do it what's so I'm Bishop to g4 so you have to go king d2. Yeah, you've got no
I've rock sugar the king goes to E2 is Bishop G4. So this is a curse. So king D2 and now, oh, you just got Bishop G2. Yeah, yeah, just that simple. Just winning the cereal.
Because whatever you take back, okay, so let's take back with the work. Yeah, so I'm sure that simple because I got Bishop before. So I'm what I'm thinking is Bishop here.
Okay, let's do it.
It takes here, Bishop takes here, Bishop B4.
Okay.
And I take this one, so that's all it takes.
So you go Bishop G4, Rick takes.
And I'm gonna be funky here and I'm gonna go F6.
Cause you kindly shared me your plan.
Yeah, so if you take on D1,
I'm not maybe taking this one back.
I'm gonna try to counter attack with this move
and both your Bishop's on pre and white
actually might be doing quite well here, fun, enough.
So you're very good and let's see,
do we have this been played?
This is actually occurring on the board.
White has to flee, rook takes E5 and Yuranker is suggesting F6.
There is a room that you like grabbing material going around.
Is that true Yuranker?
Grabbing the material and looks like truth.
Is that true?
Well, of course it's true.
Definitely.
I'm not.
Offer me a pawn and I'm going to take it.
And the black king seems to sit nice and get on F7 here.
Yeah.
because where does this work go? You can't go anywhere, so you have to exactly on the E7.
You could think about Ruk G1, we'll come to that in a minute if we get time, but this is the obvious line.
And now, what has white got for the exchange? White has got? Did White play that?
These paperwork takes E5, and now Nordie Beck has to find F6.
Yeah, F6 is the key key movie. You look at the spot of the team.
He's reaching for that there you go.
So this is going to happen.
So White's got one pawn and the bishop pair for the exchange.
Is that enough Yov in this position, which would likely to get after F6?
No.
And the reason I'm being so assertive is that I know.
It's because of the open G line.
Yes.
And that's enough for the two rooks to start infiltrating.
Yes.
So a rook will start coming in on that far.
So Vincent's a bit of danger here and Norie Beck is keeping his good play up and his mini
well they're both a bit of a mini run so this could occur.
Yeah, it's definitely good.
The rook blessed that let's look a little bit first and rook see why I'm trying to come in.
Okay, see you this way.
So you obviously got to stop C takes D5 and this rook infiltration don't like it.
don't want it. So, I have two options. I can move a RIC to C8. That's option one.
Or I can take on C4. Of the two, I kind of like RIC better because if I go DC4, then I
allow you some kind of funny business with E4 and the two dishes could torture me for a long time.
Another plan that Blake simply has, when you mature up, you want to make exchanges.
And another very simple plan is kinky six and bishabha five.
If I can get those two moves in, then I'm thinking
that it's going to be a winning advantage for black.
I mean let's just say again, you played some bad moves.
Getting this exchange in just seems completely crushing.
You know, your rook has now ready to come in,
and this is dominating on the light squares,
and I'm the exchange up.
So there's some little problems here for Vincent.
Well, I don't know how little they are.
There might be major problem.
So saying that this was one option.
What if we go, can we try this one?
Is this the only other move that he's considering
at the moment?
Yeah, I think the little problems are quite big issues
that we're seeing.
There's something Vincent's in trouble.
He is in trouble.
So which?
What's 24?
Earlier.
So we have what after takes, sorry, after F6 takes, takes.
After this one, rook C8.
And then E4.
E4.
Here?
Yeah, it's definitely, I think.
You need to at least activate the dark square bishop.
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
I guess what black would do to meet this is take on e4,
because I'm why I'm trying to get a very strong pause.
And now, if I go here, you have the advantage of playing d5 check.
So that's make sense.
Can my king now come here in my root care?
That's one idea.
Or my king comes to, okay, I'm going to put my king on F7.
I'm going to try to use this other open line now.
So I want to put a rook on E8, it's still better for black.
So it's another good idea, but I think the rook coming to E8
black is still doing well here.
Yeah, so this is always the problem, right?
The rook is coming to E8, it's also coming to G8.
Yeah.
There's too many open lines for the rooks to work their magic on.
And this means that Vincent is in big trouble, and he feels it's
shaking his head. It was a risky opening. He went all in and once lit for this
bishop to a five and that's it. E five brilliant move that from Nordiebeck.
Shall we quickly just go to the bird'sive you because I can see fireworks happening
almost everywhere. This is a super sharp game. Oh and let me, okay, definitely.
We got a request to go to Owen Lummi as he plays white against Karrissi Yip and
Well, it's not a sharp sharp game, but it's very interesting
Okay, so let's go to see how Owen's getting on and
Not much well, I say we had we had night these six from Owen last time we took a look and the queen came in D five
You want to try and break these pawns up so E four
pawn takes, bishop takes, and let's just have a look at current position with rook c 1 on the
board and equal on material, but when is getting ready to take the pawn on c 4 and go
a pawn up, and visually it looks like waste, you know, very well here. It might be ideas
taking a go in A6, but black has some resources and the first thing I'd like to try
is black because I mean the white king is maybe Irwin's issue here and it looks kind of
safe but now your pores are quite a way forwards. There's a bit of air behind it so can I
try to get into that even if I have to sacrifice a corner to by playing Bishop C6 I want to open
up my B far. No, let's stick with a game instead. The rook has swung over just a
defense C4. Another normal move.
C6 and there as well. Come, come out next. This is what Chris would like to play and
take with a B port and come down here with a rook. So this is, yeah.
Yeah, this is double edged. I mean white, if they lose control, it can seriously
So if you go wrong, what do you need to do, Rook D1, I just think that you should get active?
Okay, so if you go Rook D1 and that looks like a nice square from my Rook or even my Queen,
I could try to play it very safe. So let's now try Bishop C6. I really want to get rid of this Bishop if I can.
And the downside of this particular one, okay,
RookD1 has been played, is maybe just RookD takes C4.
And I don't know if I'm proving enough compensation for the porn.
I wanted to try a Bishop takes Bishop and RookD to C2.
And I thought this is a bit dangerous and white,
but after white's next move, it's dangerous and black,
just RookD4.
And there's no threats to white's kin,
because the queen is just not active enough.
I need to get the queen a much better square.
Do you know this is actually a really crucial game for
Karissa, because according to our calculations,
she needs five points out of nine if she wants to get a nine
round GM norm.
She wants a 13 round GM norm.
She needs to get seven and a half points.
And for Karissa, especially this whole much on the line
because obviously becoming the USA's second female
where a master would be sensational.
But thanks to the generosity of Jeanne Sinkfield,
there's also a big money price
to the next female American Grandmaster.
And she would get $100,000.
I mean, that's a career changing, life changing amount of money.
$100,000.
Yeah, it's a lot of money.
And a lot's playful.
I mean, what's she on now?
How many points have just dropped?
She's on three and a half.
So she needs one and a half.
One and a half out of two.
Out of two.
OK, so for Chris, she needs to get a result here.
Out of three, sorry.
Out of three, because this is the game.
I've put my mask.
Yeah, yep.
So that's a good chance.
A good chance.
Indeed, and she's now thinking about how
the deal we're working here.
And it's not as easy as it looks,
because I wanted to free up everything
but if I can't play that, because I'm rook takes C4, I'm thinking, okay, well, these pieces still, you know, that's how you get them out.
There are G, but maybe she can just focus on G6, H6, you know, some look for the King.
I really don't like her position after rook B6, so she's the piece gets there.
I should have C6 and just kind of go all in on this active.
Take that pawn together, go.
I don't know, there's still hope because the white king is still a bit shaky, so I'm just thinking
could go to Bishop C6.
Okay, so we don't know if this is the second ago, but it will come D1.
But then now there's no background issue, so Bishop T's Bishop.
Yeah, so I'll take this.
And now, Rick C2, or should I do something else?
Well, if you're going to Rick C2, as we went for, I guess this is still aiming to just come
in and sort of things off.
for.
I think it's very difficult for Chris, I think it's a bit misleading and I would just say
with the pieces so blocked up with putting the work straight into the middle, when it's
got a very, very nice position, so he's definitely favorite here at home.
Well he is the favorite in this position and also he's an audience favorite with our crowd
being one of the local Dutchmen. In the challenges, we are deep in the battle now and this
is where it starts getting complicated. We are going to go on a short break but don't go anywhere
because Mark Andrea Mauriti explains his win against Baby Sara Saberia from yesterday.
My friend, congratulations. You're just one of your game against Baby Sara to move to four and
have out of six, we haven't had the chance to talk to you yet, but you have a great
start to determine how you're feeling so far.
Yeah, for the moment it's fine, but this game was very strange, I think I was much
worse, but after some more, I think I was much better in practicing, and after it was
too hard to play for a block and I win.
That is the short version of it.
We're going to take a slightly more detailed look
with jumping in here after nights.
E6 around that point, what were you thinking?
I think instead of night E6 before it's very strong,
night E5 couldn't even hear.
I think this is much better for block.
But after night E6, I was seeking a good idea
and a good idea.
It's not wonderful, but I think
I can equalize and Kunei 5 was strange also because after Kunei 1, it's before
I have nightz1 and now I can play with B-chopg4 and H5 to attack the pawn and Kunei 4
I think it was very strange because after I 5, during the game I was taking my tuning
but much better for white because you take one basics.
Here, if bishop jitou, I think I have raw jitri,
take, eat, eat, eat.
If quinsifo, I take a technique of bishop.
But maybe bishop jitou, raw jitri, now bishop c6, I don't know.
When you play queen b6, where you're already a sathing a trap a little bit?
Yeah, yeah, I was thinking if bishop c6,
I think we have to move first line.
I think so.
So you had seen that in advance?
Yeah, I think six minutes because I was considering H5.
If Teg with the Pond H3, the Queen of Strav,
and Queen F4, Rubdiay, the same line, this, this.
If Teg, I think, I'm a Queen of Rook.
So King G6, Bishop H5, King F5.
Great to learn.
I don't know.
I think he's meaning, with, what have?
I was in Shoe, I don't know, Rukzi won, I was gonna go to the team, but Bishop G2, I don't know, it was...
And after six minutes, I was lo and time, also, so I played this line, I think it's...
I don't know if it's winning, but I win the two points.
And I think this is really easy for me, because I just have three pass points and three double points.
Only two, one, one, one, so should be winning.
And after that, it's easy win
because just a consolidated position and trade queens,
and after the point to queen, I need a lot easier than this time.
Very nice turnaround of a difficult position.
Macon Ray, you had a fantastic year last year.
You became the youngest ever French champion.
Tell us a little bit about your evolution as a player.
What do you think has made you grow so much
in the last year?
I don't know.
I think I am more focused on chess
and I want to, in every tournament,
I am here to play good chess.
So yeah, let's see, but for the moment,
it's fine in this tournament.
And you played here twice before two years ago, four years ago,
how does it feel to be back in Wichensley
and how have you enjoyed here two years so far?
Yeah, it's very good tournament always because very strong players.
Four years ago, it was very hard.
It was my first tournament here.
And two years ago, it was better.
I was leading during the 12th of tournament.
And yeah, this year I hope it will be better.
Do you feel having played here twice?
Do you feel that experience helps you in a sense?
Yeah, yeah, for sure, because it's very long
to an amant, very, very hard to atink.
If you first time, it's hard.
Now, I am here for a time, so it's fine.
Yes, such a young player.
So I'm sure you don't have too much experience
with a time control we are using without increment
before we move forward.
How have you been enjoying it?
Do you have very fast and tricky players?
Do you think it may be, do you like it?
Yeah, I like it.
But I think it's tricky because today,
I was sticking, okay, I have two hours.
So I spend one hour in one move.
So I...
So we'd see that.
What went through your mind when you suddenly started running?
I was out of my preparation.
I was seeking maybe some ging, but I can't find any ging, so yeah, this time control is good,
I think when you're under like 10 minutes it's very out to play and I think it's good.
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Welcome back everyone. We are here live at the Cafe Dizon with Simon with our amazing
audience. And I can tell you the games are complicated. Nothing is very easy here and
the price of mistake is going to be super high. Take a look at the bird's eye view. And you
see the evaluation bar is dancing quite furiously. Some games I'm seeing, Yoden Van Ferreste,
he has a very good advantage against Arvin, also the same for Pragnanander against Bluebaum,
and also I want to say that Van Win might be looking to getting his first win as he plays
white against better save than the first board on the left. So it's going to be a decisive
day assignment. I can feel it in my bones. Yeah, I mean loads of exciting positions. I mean
prag as well with that sacrifice of the rook. Seems to be playing for a win and that has gone
wild. I love to actually go back there. I love a rook sacrifice. Kisha, we had there and then
checking on the others because that was by far the most spectacular game,
sacrifice of a rook. Yes, let's go there and we had a little vote with the audience and we're
wondering who would they rather be white or black in this position and all the audience
pretty much took the attacker because we got loads of crazy attacking Dutch people here.
Is that right? Lose of attacking Dutch players? Yeah, any defending Dutch players
in the crowd? No, they all laughed at each other.
I like how not too many people when you say crazy attacking. They were like, yeah, yeah.
It's calm, crazy attacking. And we had this fascinating position where white is basically
stacked a whole rook, but you've got these two bishops and queen around an exposed king.
White did move the rook to C1 without taking on H6, that can kind of wait. Probably comes
to a similar thing, night C5 was now played,
instead of bringing the queen back.
Now this had negatives and positives
and the negatives of this move from black
is that night can't come this way to help defend.
So it's kind of going the wrong way, but of course,
it blocks the rook and puts a stop to that one.
So the bishop, now rather than trying to go for any draw,
this could well have led to a draw now
because I think there'd be multiple checks
no night coming here to ever block. I think Prax played for the win and Prax plays Bishop
to C4, another fantastic diagonal. It's so hard to play these positions, it's so easy
to make a mistake. And according to your valuation bar, the next move from a test, very logical
move, D-E-I, blocking the bishop, was a slight mistake, very hard to see window. Prax
captured upon with check, the king comes out and our queen G5 check. And this is the
problem when the night was there, you had options of blocking, you can't do that anymore.
The king comes back, draw please, please, I'd like a draw. No, the bishop flies in.
With now even concepts of getting the bishops of that square, so queen D8 offering an
exchange of queens, which has never going to happen. It goes back with a check, King E7. This
is new 28, and here we are, and it's still very much in the balance here. How many paws does
white have? White has two paws for the rook. That's all, but the black king is in the middle,
and it's just, whatever, pride can coordinate that piece. It's enough because you can't really
get these ones in now. No, you can't and the question is like do you move that bishop?
Where would you move the light square bishop on C4? Or do you kind of set up some
nifty little moves like Bishop T3? I'm all about the cheapest Simon and I wanted Bishop T3
Bishop H for Lallallallallallall. I like it, yeah I mean that that is a very tempting move
re-rooting the bishop. It came all the way from G2. Maybe this is
practical side there to get it on this diagonal.
Can you wish though that someone invents like a machine that can hear what people are
thinking? Because I would love to know what blue bowel mistinking right now.
Long as only chess falls. I think it's a bit scary if we had dinner plans or
they would be quite funny if you could hear them thinking and then you hear like some
music come on and then you know don't go over there.
Simpsons, why is all they are?
When you get a song stuck in your head that's the worst one when you are playing chest
and you can't get out of your head. It's horrible.
I heard a little tips for that one. You got to hear out to its conclusion.
Right.
And then when the song ends your brain will finally go.
Thank you.
that musical interlude.
And I wonder what songs they have in their head at the moment.
They're probably one minute trying to survive.
Mateus at the moment, but it is pracked to move and what is pracked play?
What is going with your bishop G free?
Bishop G free looks very tempting.
And don't look to the right.
Look to the left.
Just got, oh no, my bishop.
I know.
Well, what happens?
How much material do you get if you grab this one?
I didn't do the master.
Let's see if we can grab it because we're getting a lot of tear.
Yeah, it's a bit for.
But it's also the king.
It's not just you're winning the queen.
Maybe the king has nowhere to go and we're going to win more than the queen.
I mean, if we won the queen, we would get to a situation where whites do well anyway, really.
So this clearly can't be played for a number of reasons.
So if you went Bishop G3, it feels like you've got to somehow deal with the threat.
And now, black has an issue because the king comes to a light square.
Yeah, then you have a check.
And if the queen moves, okay?
About, we have a suggestion.
So give a check, insert. Yeah, you can do that.
We could try grabbing this one.
Okay, let's go.
Yeah, the problem with checking that the, yeah, we can definitely think about taking this one to distract the queen away.
If we, if we do check though, the king, I don't know which square has to be one of these two squares.
Yeah, the only problem is when the, when the black king moves, you've got to deal with the queen exchanges, but let's say it goes,
Then I've got Bishop B5 this way. There's the king mootie. I mean, I've got to find let's go to F8. I mean, okay, just to demonstrate
But the queen is hanging
So which move which you like first in this position tell me which move you're going for
I mean, this is so many moves here. This is why it's really hard to work out. I mean,
the check somewhere is obviously a move that pranks has got to calculate, but I don't know if
it's helping if the king, for example, goes here. Well, I don't think you can, because in
in this position and you definitely,
and the rook gets away from its attack to recapture.
If the rook had to stay on B8, it would work,
but in these positions, unfortunately,
you lost your biggest attacking unit.
So it's again, so complex to get the right one.
And we even had an idea of rook D1,
but I do, I like your fact, because Bishop G3,
I like this move because we still keep the idea of a check,
but we're threatening to win the Queen.
I can't see a safe square for the king. You can't avoid the bishop check.
Can't tell you the queen.
You can move the queen. Where do you want to move the queen today?
H8.
Okay, so now I will of course give you a check.
And what I've got queen D6 check.
I've got this check.
Okay, let's just show this on the board.
So I don't just have bishop H4, which is annoying.
Because you've lost control of that one, I can go D6.
You have to go here and now we come into this one, B5.
And the rooks hang in, actually I could have taken the rook last move as well.
But this one is also very picturesque.
Yeah, just the demonstrate.
Yeah, I mean simply Queen takes rook and we start.
So actually this bishop G3, I mean, how does Black defend?
There's only one, sorry, who said that?
Yes. Good move. It's the only move not to lose is night to be four. It's a proud play's
Bishop G3 and I think this night's got to again come around and start it on D7. I think
it's got to get back over this way because I can't see any other way because with the
combination of the bishops coming like this and the queen. Well the black king is really
lacking the square. So night E4 would be the only defense and let's say you now go check.
You go night of six and you get that night back to defend and even here it says it's equal
with now white only having one move and that's often how these positions go as soon as
one side makes a slight mistake they lose because they're so sharp and there's only one
move in I have to say the move here for white is not obvious at all it really is not
not an obvious move.
The only move here, you're bish it some pre.
Do you have any way to attack?
What if I took this one?
I get rid of a very important attacker
and you just recapture.
And now I've only got my queen.
And I think I can only hope for a perpetual here.
So I don't want to get rid of that pin night.
So I have to really move my bishop.
The only square, again,
I'm just put it on the engine here
to give me a helping hand, is E2,
which is really quite peculiar, and this has some drawing idea.
If you go to D3, this is not good enough.
I assume the idea is to come over to this way,
but this doesn't work now,
because there is a difference with these bishops
being on these squares, apparently now Rxy8 is winning,
but this is so, so hard to calculate.
So, practically C is bishop G3,
but he can't find a solution after 94,
That line we just looked at, the only move,
he's obviously seen that Black has to play this,
and he can't find a solution to this position.
There's not really an easy solution.
Can we just quickly look at what happens
after Bishop takes work?
I know this is perhaps caching in the chips too early,
but yeah, so we have to look at it.
So if we try to take some material,
Black has to take.
Has to take, and then we've lost that bishop,
which is a great attack up.
We have one a little bit of material now.
We've got Queen G5 Jack.
We have to keep being annoying.
But I would imagine that these positions again,
only Prague is trying to get a perpetual.
Well, you're going to pick up the D5 pawn as well.
So...
I, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Now, are you a reaching for a different piece
until I said that?
Only because you said that.
I know, only because you said I'm losing D5 pawn.
I've put the king head, but it's also silly.
Could you only attack him with your queen, really?
Yeah, but the two.
you can't get in the game. The bishop and the rook are blocked. I mean if you get the
rook over here, game over. You can't get the rook, the bishop, you can't really get
the bishop. I mean maybe here you could go bishop E2 and come this way. That still
looks dangerous. Bishop E2, try to check over here and that check is a big check.
But you can see the evaluation part finding great defenses. Maybe there's a Queen E5
of centralized in the clean now.
Something like that.
Maybe you have to turn some checks
instead of Bishop E2, but yeah.
It's not easy, I just wanted to make sure
that there was no like fail safe or break here,
then that's why he is spending the time
in this position.
Got so many options.
Bishop takes Rook.
Bishop retreats to G3.
Bishop to B5.
Those are all moves that he could be considering.
I mean, what is very complicated?
Definitely.
that we can look at just before we move on quickly is the obvious move because we're always
have to move this bishop and all these lines no matter what we do at some point after
move this bishop. Let's move the bishop now and take away from squares for the
care. So let's go bishop B5 and this keeps the idea of bishop G3 and a lot of these
positions you want to keep the threats until they gain you something really tangible.
We still have ideas of bishop takes for it. We still have ideas of this and we still
have these checks. So this move could be the way to play. Just ask
black the question, what are you doing now? What is your next move?
Because I might play Bishop G for you now with a much improved version. I think
this is where we should hand it over to our audience to see what's the
moves that they suggest as black and those is a bit. They want to be white.
They don't need black and those want to be, I know they want to be white by
I kind of feel like the sea like how easy is it to play black not easy not everyone that's mass my feeling as well
Okay, who wants to defend this position anyone?
Yes, we had it. Yes, we have a volunteer. We have a brave person there. Okay, shout a move out there and pick a hand in the air
We're all you defend the roof
Okay, but I'm going here too. Like you can't be white you black
So, sorry.
A6.
A6.
So, let's just have a look.
A6 and logical move.
Now, watch the bar.
This might change.
Choo!
I mean, it's a logical move.
You attack the bishop, but it shows you how dangerous and now I'm going to go back to your
vancours idea of bishop G3.
Because this idea, let's say you do the same thing.
I just want to show a difference.
If you go night here now, well look.
I've also got a rook because in a previous example my bishop was in the way of the rook.
So by playing bishop b5, I now have even this move and this is curtains, this is game over.
You have to give your queen up. So bishop b5 has this idea of going bishop g3 when both of these
pieces take part in the game. So this is really hard to defend. Anyone else want to try to
defending. If you put your hand in the air, we will be able to see you, but maybe no one wants to defend
this. Anyone else want to try defending? No other brave souls suggesting a move. Any brave defenders out there?
No, you're telling me no one in all of this is happening. Someone over here. Yeah. Yeah,
got Rook C8. Okay, so Rook C8 is a good move because you stop that Rook coming to see
seven. So I assume good defensive move there if we play Bishop G free now I can counter
attack by moving my knights. That's a very good move because you've got to look for the counter
attacks on sample here. Now black is winning because when I go knight E4 I don't have rook C7
and you create this threat so very good defensive move and I'm cheating. I'm putting this on the
computer and there's only one move here I'm ready for why. And if we have a key ring move
We would definitely give a key ring here, but we've run out if anyone wants to win a biscuit,
they're welcome to be there.
You probably don't want to win one of my biscuits at the moment.
And the only move here, and I've got to show you this, because it's time to turn on that engine,
is, and this is not a normal move.
This is not normal at all.
This is so abnormal, is RookTake C5.
That is the only move to keep the pressure on.
And you think, like, why how enough does this work?
Can you look at Rick takes you five?
Yeah. So the main point is the rook is defending the queen.
So you've got to remember, we've always got these checks.
And when we do check, your queen is going to be loose if you take the rook.
The bishop has taken away some of the key squares.
Yeah. That's right. So the king can not come to these two.
So now any check doesn't matter where we're going to pick up your queen and we've got Bishop F1 to block any background checkmate
So you can't even play this move because a queen here then after this check our bishop comes back and we want that queen
Here's some water move water. I mean, okay, let's let's hit before we move on
Well, the game go, Bishop B5, Rook C8, Rook C6, C5. Anyone think that will happen? That will be crazy.
If you think that's going to happen, let's hear a cheer. No. A cheer and no. Yes, we have a confident person over there saying yes, it will happen.
I think it might happen. I think it might. I don't know. No one else think it will happen. Who thinks that the game will end with the checks?
The draw maybe yeah, we're pre-enaged
So proud in a critical situation the time
Practice 30 minutes, but maybe more urgent the task has 20 minutes
They've got to play like 10 moves and I think we haven't even looked at Bishop B2 someone else said that might be a better move
It might well be bring the Bishop over to wage five. It's really complicated
It's really complicated.
Absolutely.
And okay, so this one is just crazy.
A practice really going into the tank here
because you have to find the best move.
We've got to pay attention to the other games
because they're just a shop.
I mean, it's looking great for a niche.
If we go over to Goukesh against a niche,
an niche, okay.
Let's go to that game right now
because let's have a look at whether the fireworks can happen.
I just made them a stake of having a bit of a biscuit.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
We need our energy here.
So, current position only?
Yeah, current position.
Okay, current position only.
And the niche with the black pieces and the evaluation bar
is looking good for black.
it sounds good, it looks good, but is it good?
Well, we had this anianian niche now, this competition.
He had a quite a slow first half.
It's obviously one of the strongest players in this competition,
and you need to now get into winning mode
to have a chance of scoring well.
And it looks like he's doing a very good job
of that in this game.
I mean, look at the pieces here for a start.
They are gathering around white skin and white skin is a little bit weak because he's lost the F-form.
Right. So you can already start thinking of ideas like night takes G3.
Right.
That'd be the first move I'd look at.
And everyone is saying, yep, we're all pounding the table for night takes G3 Simon, let's put it on at the table.
Okay, now we'll be a valuation bar change. I haven't calculated this at all.
Okay.
That's what you said to me. You said, you don't need to calculate.
That's right. You don't need to calculate.
chest. You just feel the moves. You look at the opponent's king and your open up lines. Look
at the evaluation bar. Here it comes. Boom! It works. And this is, therefore, the best move.
We're just forcing our way through. Okay, so let's work it out. Then, H takes G3. And now you
have, now you have a big choice. Yeah, you can go. This bishop defending the king, right? Yes.
So we could consider sacrificing even more to get rid of that bishop.
Well, we should put it to the audience.
Queen takes pawn or Rick takes bishop.
Okay, let's have a vote.
Is the right move here?
Queen takes pawn check or are we going to throw more wood
on the fire with this?
So if you vote for Queen takes pawn, say yeah.
If you vote for it, come on, more wood on the fire.
I'm a crazy attacker.
Rick takes you for, say, okay, okay, okay, well what it is,
Rick takes Bishop, come on, Simon.
Well, let's have a look, so Richard, which one do you want to do first?
Rick takes Bishop, they got the biggest round of rules.
Look at that, look at the evaluation bar, yes, who needs pieces, you don't need pieces,
give them away, Christmas again.
Okay, let's take the Dutch attack, you know, yes, that's it. We've got all the Dutch crowd here wanting to give up their pieces a list of shoulders, haven't you?
Yeah, absolutely. So Ponte's work. Thank you very much guys.
And now you're a whole rip down. So you know, you're doing a Prague here. So now we come in with the check. Okay. And now because I don't want your bishop coming to H3, I feel that.
This is been one of your King Edge 1.
And I'm going to tempt you with the draw offer.
Okay, so the draw would obviously be this.
Yeah.
And that would be a draw, but I don't want to draw.
No, you don't want that. I can know that.
You guys want a draw here?
No!
Beffing off.
Oh, not that. That was a mouse slip.
What about Rookie 5?
Rookie 5, I love it.
Doing a Cinderella of going Rookie.
Coming around the Angus.
It's a nice idea though.
It's a nice idea but what is the defence?
There's only one defence here.
Because that route we should have mentioned was on pre.
The only defence is to cover that square.
Yeah, but the Queen here only defence to stop the route.
Swinging in.
Then the Bishop can't come in because you've got Queen takes.
Everything's covered and next move.
I'm going to bring my Queen over to the defence.
So it's not that move.
I would love, for example, here as black-to-play bishop G4, and maybe forget that, just to demonstrate that is a whole work.
And if I go bishop to H3 at any point, I take the rook first, but there's all this rook G1, and that would cover everything.
Everything is covered with these two rooks. So you've got to be very careful how you play this.
what niches think of how much times the niches have.
There's 20 minutes, there's only one idea here
that keeps the initiative for black.
And so Queen H free ambition, these terms are nice idea.
Let's have a look at that.
So Queen H here, check, the king goes here.
And now we can go, what's he going to do?
Who's he going to do for it?
Come on, he's going to eat the night.
He's eating for the night.
Oh, he's thinking about it.
He's rookie six as well, it's very tempting.
like rookie six coming across nice nice idea this is very very
good you have to go on the run right king F2 what is this something to save it
looks so scary I mean I think the king is kind of running so well
anyhow yeah so maybe you can just
an issue's an issue's in Zen mode he changed his mind there he was going for the
night because it's so irresistible right he's seen the move he's seen the
This rookie six are the great idea by the way, nice suggestion because you are now forcing this check and this looks scary
But of course, it's all about calculation and after this one if white tries to run
Which looks logical the next move is very hard to see so you could now
Start checking the king, but this is probably going to help the king run this way
You could try to bring them rookie, but that will give
if white sometimes in the fend,
it's the calf one.
And Rook F1 with the feed coming in here.
And then Rook coming back is the fending.
So it's actually very hard to see the winning move here.
And the winning move is actually changing the direction
of the Rook here.
And that doesn't make much sense to a human.
Because you're looking at coming the other way.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
Yeah, I mean, I literally go and fish up to C3.
Hello.
Yeah, it's happening.
So what's the idea after Bishop C3? Well, now, now you play Rukji 6, which is, and you're now got the extra idea of taking on E3.
So they have this, but this is so hard to see. So that was one line, but it niches got a fine.
And that is not a normal sequence of moves. But there is even a better idea here.
Now I think the better idea here. Well, let's first look at this Bishop D7. I think this is going to help white,
because white's queen wants to get back to defend.
And with this move, you're basically forcing the queen to come back and cover the king.
So that doesn't, that's not quite quick enough.
So you can't do that one.
But what you can do, maybe we do it in this position,
because the king's in the corner, we could actually go look here now.
And this is just trying to come to D2.
But we saw the idea of taking on E3.
what's he going for? Oh no he did it. He did not play it. Yeah but actually
he changed his mind. Into the variations I can see that you have to spot some
really difficult moves so yeah he moved the night back. Okay. Oops. That was our
analysis of him. Okay so this was a little bit this point of
let's see what's happening in the game. It didn't happen so we could have
tried this attack, but he's gone for another approach, night B6 with eyes on the queen and
the bishop also makes a lot of sense. Now Goukè should be an ambulance and he played very
quickly, he grabs this pawn and now has the niche move he has he's taken on E4 and whites
will be captured with the pawn and this also looks very scary with the light squares being exposed.
this is a less risky way to play the attack and maybe just as good yeah so as you
mentioned the light squares are really vulnerable and it's looking good for a niche
it takes you for yeah it works takes you for kind of feels like a very natural move
definitely it takes Rick it takes Rick to come here take everything off and now
it like Gugesh has to play so precisely to hold the balance and then even a how
Yeah, and this position is actually equal to material, so a niche is not risking much.
Or you can see this vision at some point coming in, it could be a killing idea.
You know, you've also got Harry Isis going on over there as well, but that pawn.
Yeah.
And the bishop just has to anchor itself on E6.
Yeah.
And as you mentioned, lift up Harry.
The white king, very, very shaky.
with these two prawns only protecting it.
So great for anish.
Looking good still.
He did go for the other sacrifice,
but this is a good plan he's played.
Yeah, and also just to update you for go to our board board view.
I just wanted to show you Vincent Kheimer.
He is going down, I guess, at Nordivac.
And okay, and we also have a result
in the game between pregnant under MTS and I hate to say this.
The position was so complicated that
Prag just simply repeated moves with Queen H6, Queen to G5.
It was understandable.
We saw how fine the margin was, you know.
Bishop to be five a really difficult move to spot.
Because you have to see that this rooks take C5 is the continuation.
So I felt resolved that in the end.
Also, let's go and check in on your done.
Okay, so your done's game.
It was looking very nice for me that there's really peculiar
but strong maneuvers with his king early
and we had it last for an H5 and we're going for it quickly
because we're getting near the time control
in a lot of games now.
And we like your done's position
because black can't easily play his main break F5 now.
So your done also looks and bring the bishop to a very nice
square and they have to maneuver around from while here, but the fact is that at some point
you expect Jordan is going to have the pawn break because this move will only help white
bishop come to life. So they do bounce around a little bit and there you go, that's break number
one, the B4 break and black bringing everything over here, right? Look at that, that is quite
a strange formation. Well maybe an uncoil itself like a spring or a duck in box.
Certainly going to try it and now he gets rid of the bishop trap behind those pawns.
That's a good exchange and then already I hear on or move 41. So we won't spend too
long because we want to get rid of those time control games but it looks all your done.
thing is Jordan. Black is so cramped here. This is not going well for black and the
black king is opening up a little bit. You're hitting on both sides of the board and
now let's see where we are. This is it. Still all Jordan here. Yeah and they've
passed to move 40 time control. So as you mentioned, great for Jordan. He's got
complete control over the G-line. Here's my on B5 is such a powerful piece so it's a
fantastic result for your if you win this one because it will be a great comeback after
yesterday's loss. Okay so let's take a pause from this one we have a very
imbalance in game in Arjun against Adomush.
There are moved 28 and maybe we can just quickly do an action replay because when we left
it it was really exciting.
Yeah it was a very interesting opening and it's not actually going to look out and there
in the end it went similar to what we thought the night h3 and we got this crazy position
here.
I mean on the surface it looks like blacks being very successful on the opening but this
could backfire and the first reason to come backfire is if these pawns drop, white
sense is going to be great. So black counter attacks by getting ready to do that one
in and we have the queens coming off and black now taking on C5. So pawn sacrifice
here, black continuing to apply the pressure to the position and using these open lines
as compensation and the pieces of flooding in trying to get rid of the
defender of E3. Very impressive play. And now Rook takes E3. This
bishop so strong. This is great play by Yaskan as you say. He keeps on
throwing things forwards. And here another great move because Rookie 8
something but would look natural, 95, but D4 happens a lot. This bishop
is in some danger of being trapped if this pawn comes up and the king comes there.
So he just plays it very calmly and he's stopping night c4 supporting the night because
he will take it, just keeping that pressure.
D4, trying to break out, giving a pawn, but getting out and pin there and it takes
91 night takes. It's exchanged down, but blacks now got a number of pause. Only one
pause, but two bishops are great. Now we have this, like you may have said, ferry, the
ban and sending that we go into now with that A-poor coming up the board.
By the way, just as we saw, I danced to Lamanli and Andy Woodward walking away, that
against finished in a draw.
So, and the wood moon moves to five and a half points out of seven.
And, Soleimani is there on five points.
So, Maritzi, if he beats Elena Rubbers, then he will join,
and he would end the lead.
On the cameras, it's not good news for Vincent Kheimer
as he struggles and exchanged down in his game against Nordebeck and Ducitorov.
Okay, we could go there. I suppose I mean talking about Arjun's game, that looked just very
unclear. I'd take black in the position we had there, but let's go to these two to the top
players and he hasn't said that Vincent's play after the opening, a bit like when he lost
to Matthias, when it got sharp, when it got complicated it didn't find the right moves.
And the issue was that last time we looked, this great F6 move is winning the exchange.
And it seems to have gone even more downhill for Vincent since then.
Yeah, I mean, there really wasn't that much to do because Black gets control of the G-line.
And as we mentioned, the rigs just need one line to infiltrate.
And the specific one A5 is just not good.
They're on move 37 and perhaps if we just play out the position.
So we had this suggestion from our crowd.
So it was played, but we'd like to offer an exchange or pieces.
And let's get to where we're and it gets worse for white because things get
exchanged off, and you can't take on B7, because there's a work here, and that was skewered
the pieces. And the problem is, after B6, well, if a pair of bishops come off, it's really
as completely over, and it looks like a pair of bishops are coming off, and this is just completely
over now, completely lost. And this is the irony of it all, right? So again, like I refer
back to this excellent book called Amateur to I am, although it was by Jonathan Hawkins,
who later became a grandma, and he talks about this engine quite a bit about how it looks
like the dark square bishop is doing a fine job defending the pawns on D4 and F4 and G3,
but the factors that they have zero control over the light squares, they're not working
and the bishop, if it wants to fight the rook, needs to work in conjunction with its pawns,
and to do that it needs to be a light square bishop.
Yeah, it's a cover of all those holes.
To cover, yeah.
And the way black normally tries to win these positions is just as you only said, use those
light squares and what we've, what we talked about in the King, improving the Benjamin
button King getting better as it gets older and that King coming in on those light squares
and I think this is just going to happen.
And if you play on to the live position you can see it actually has happened.
Yeah, and all you need to do is now get them rocking.
And this is like really quite easy.
The rook will at some point even come round the back
and start making the king even.
What does he do?
The king has to give ground, right?
As some point, as you mentioned.
So A5 played by white.
And that is a move 40.
So Nordivec just has to make a move.
You can just go a rook A6.
doing the Simon Plan of mobilizing the route.
And this one.
Well, it could be a resignation here.
Look, you can see it on the face there.
And you can tell it's naughty back.
It naughty back.
No, it's completely winning a Vincent.
Is there any point you place on?
There's not really.
You have these moves at the rook.
Now, finding its way around.
It's going to, as soon as that enters,
it's going to game over.
You can combine it with the H port,
even coming up the board and Vincent has just been
preparing himself for the resignation.
Yeah, and it's upset because he got obviously his prep in,
but as soon as he got it in, he just went downhill from
and he went play brilliantly, like a perfect game from black.
He took up Vincent's challenge and that was brave because you're
like, OK, I know my opponent's probably prepared something,
but I'm going to go into it anyway.
I'm going to have faith in what I play.
And he went through the complications incredibly well.
I mean, he seems to be such a great calculator.
Well, he is a great calculator.
He's known about it.
And he can step resonations any second I feel.
There's really no point playing this on.
I mean, I could show you the only thing
that white could do is wait.
There's nothing else you can do here.
You have to just sit and wait.
And let's say you try to stop this move from happening.
So we could go Bishbeth too.
Now my rook is going to start coming in.
You can't go and push it here anymore.
So I have to move it somewhere.
I might use the H pawn, but I don't need to.
Yeah, I'm going to start annoying you on this side.
There's one pawn, I'm ready to pick up.
And now you just can't defend anything.
If you try to defend that pawn, suddenly G3,
can't be defended.
So I switch back over here.
There's no ways to defend that one.
And then I just push the H pawn.
If you try to defend it like this, well, the rook can now
check your king backwards and obviously the king comes forward. Okay he hasn't
resigned yet but this is the kind of way that Black's gonna make progress slowly
but surely white goes backwards and all the pawns will just drop. It's very easy
really easy actually. There's not anything that can be done. Yeah no really it's not
possible to defend this one in flies the rook and yeah I don't think Vincent is
going to prolong this game for too much longer and not a back is seated. Ready for that moment.
Vincent decides to end this game.
Let me see. Oh, never go. Resinations has happened.
Vincent shaking his head to sharing thoughts, you know, the dramatic moment happening earlier on
when Nordiebeck found that breakout move E5 that completely changed the momentum of the game.
And great result for Nordiebeck, who deserves his lead moving to five and a half points out of seven.
Okay, so we have a decisive result there. Let's check in the games which are hovering around the move 40.
Let's go to Van Winn, against Feta Save because they're moved 38 and the clock is ticking down
for a NWinn is down to 27 seconds. It was looking good, especially because Black has this
crippled pawns on the king's side. 39 and Winn must not forget that he only has 12 seconds.
Now, taking down to 10, he's not reached move 40, just yet.
Okay, please, can you three?
Hmm?
And it's Gary is winning, we've been told.
Yeah, let's head over there, they've completed move 40 in Van Win.
Let's have a look at what's happening there.
Okay, let's go there.
So it's looking really good for a niche against the World Champion.
and he did in this position grab that pawn on E4 and it's a big exchange there, Queen
C6, hitting the rook, Queen G4 and the Queen can also try to get in on the light squares.
I mean once simple way to win this is just Queen if you get it in, Queen there and Bishop
2H3 and there will be no stopping at some nasty nasty things happening.
white force of bad positioning, I'm going to grab a pawn, but now a niche, played rook C4,
and this frees up the queen to move, because you defend your bishop, and the queen comes
into D6 and we're waiting for a niche move, and they've still got enough time to play this,
where's that queen? The queen to wear free bishops B7 looks incredibly strong.
You can go queen E4, E4, E4, E4, E4, E4, E4, E4, E4, stopping, stopping that move.
Yeah, and everything is protected, that's so important in one day, chess.
Yeah, the bishops defended the king can come to H7.
Bishop B7, next move, game over. Is that right? I think that's right.
No, the white king has to go walk about.
Yeah, and you can't escape this, this is just too strong.
And you're only one pawn down, Reneesh.
This move. I mean, maybe Bishop H3, you've got to work out which one's best, but it looks
This logic will get everything on this diagram, there's nothing that white can do, that's
the problem.
I mean there's no way to get a Councillor.
Let's just show if I try to exchange some pieces off, which is maybe not the best way,
which way you go, you can probably go either way to win.
Let's say I'll go here, each free.
And let's go on the run.
You have to try running, and now I just come in and it's actually quite easy, with a Bishop
here I cover F1.
we got checkmate on F1 here. This just demonstrates one one of the problems that white has
in this position. If you maybe tried this one this would be a decent attempt because white
would love to exchange queens but we're never doing that so I've got to keep the queens on and I
still want this side there. So this seems like a better move but what about I go here because now I
I gained a tempo on here and here and this is probably just the end.
The only way you can defend both pieces is by playing something like Queen 2 F2.
Now you go the other direction.
And now you go the other direction and Queen 2 H1 is happening.
If you go E4 I can just take it.
And Rixie 2 is coming.
Queen H1 is also in the air.
And if you go King F1 to try and run away like before.
I'm going to talk to you, this is what I was talking about.
Rooksick too, and that's horrible.
Yeah, I mean, Rook team one weekend.
We've also got six right moments.
In Queen H1, going to be a killer.
Yeah, Queen H1, you can't come here because Bishop H6 is checkmate.
So you have to go here and then obviously we don't exchange.
Queen F3.
You have to go here because I'm threatening B1.
and then almost Bishop A6.
The Bishop A6, yeah.
And I'm threatening this one.
It's a nice finish because you go here and we come back
and check, make next move.
So, Nisha's very, very nice went there for Nisha, Yogi.
Fantastic, it's his first win of the events.
If he wins.
If he wins, but he wins.
I think he will do this.
Very light into it, Nisha.
If one took his left there in the background,
watching this game and for Goukesh, it's 9 minutes and 38 seconds that's ticking down but
it really is mission impossible.
Yeah, there's nothing Goukesh could do.
I mean, he's trying to find some hope here.
You've got to keep finds here.
He's one of the most resourceful players I've seen.
He gets himself out of many tricky situations.
When he beat Magnus last time, Magnus was completely winning, but Goukesh managed to turn it.
cash managed to turn it around. The problem here is that you can't get any
counts of play. There's no way doing it.
And okay, so whilst the cash has spent a lot of time here, let's go back to
that Eroguisi, a dermish, okay.
Just because the cash can spend some time just desperately trying to find
some defensive resource. And these two, they're on move 34.
Adamus is making big progress. He's got the bishop pair. He has the potential of advancing
and creating a queen-side passport. He also has got destabilising moves to G5 in the air.
Would you find that off-putting if you're a opponent with swaying? Like that. I mean, I don't,
I know it's just natural energy, but it's just there. He's a kid, you can't say anything.
Okay, I can just keep it.
Yes.
So are you allowed to do anything you want if you're a kid?
More or less.
I would be annoyed if you were an adult.
I would be annoyed if you were an adult.
I would be like, come on guys.
I just find in sometimes when you're trying to concentrate on your field of vision
and something's off putting, it can affect you a little bit.
I'm not saying obviously you're not trying to do a purpose or anything, sister.
But you know, I once paid one of these parties.
again we'll remain nameless but I was struggling big time and I was thinking for ages
and ages at some point you know he showed that he was like 14 years old of 13
years old or whatever it was and he had too much energy and he started running up and
down and he was wearing a red jumper so he was like mmm june in my eye line and I was
like this is not fair he's not only crushing me but he's also distracting me too
Okay, and these F5.
Okay.
When they can take, is that good?
Yeah, I mean, I'd love to get to past forms of B4 as well.
So, yeah.
And also Bishop G5 is also a way now.
Bishop getting this is actually very dangerous origin.
Even though he's got the rook, you can never really, unlike we saw,
the body back to it, activate this work, because the apones do strong, so it's a work
cast to remain passive, and this is a very logical move when you're short-time, just
activate your bishop, get it on the other side of the poor, and if this night ever moves,
the kid can also come in, you don't want to allow that. The bishop's kind of cover-offing,
if E6 I can take it. And the rythm A1 is so passive. So passive, so it's tough for
Arjun. Yeah, tough for Arjun and the whole hair.
A dermis. Yeah. Maybe about to get his second win in a row, king steps up.
Got to get out the pin there. So at least now the night has the option of moving.
And it's a dermis-ish idea to come in to F4.
This, you know, could be an idea, the more pawns I grabbed, the happier I was.
Me for?
I'm not normally a pawn, grab, okay, let's grab it.
Let's grab it.
Let's try this, I don't know if I tried it in my life, so we could have...
Never grabbed a pawn, not once in my life.
At last it's the tell the tale.
That's more important.
Well, here you get away with it, because if I go and look at each one.
Yep.
You can't take on, you can't take this one.
This is the thing about the power of this pawn.
If I go and bishop G free, you can never play it.
play this move because you can't out as porn to get further up the board. You have to come back
but look how much progress that porn is made now and that's just going to be a winner. It's
going to be a winner. So I mean I would have thought it's just losing for maybe losing for
origin, that bad disposition.
So E6, we have a suggestion.
After this one, yeah, good idea.
So after this one, we had a very good suggestion from the audience.
After this, white could try to get a passport and I like that idea with E6.
And if I take it, then F6.
So this is the idea, and this would be a very nice idea.
Now, following enough, the engine still thinks this is winning for black.
Even though you've got this very dangerous passport,
I guess we're covering it at Bishop D6.
But I guess that's just the move, right?
We don't even worry about this.
And then we can go H5, is that right?
So let's try it.
Let's say I put the Bishop here, so I covered that square,
because you can still not activate this one.
You can't get your night, this is very important.
The night has no squares it can move into,
because it's being controlled by all of the black garbage.
So this night is a really bad piece.
And actually, yeah, with each fire coming,
you won't be to deal with both the pods.
So it's nice right there, but it doesn't quite work.
I mean, just going to show the power of the bishop,
even the bishop on B3 could do all the heavy lifting
as well, uncover the F7 square.
But I think this is happened.
So is, is he going to take the pod?
Well, he's rocking backwards and forwards and that suggests that he is very good.
Dr. Yovie tells you what he takes it.
He takes it. He goes backwards and forwards and he's going to grab the port.
He's excited. He's clearly excited.
He's very excited, you know.
Yeah, very excited.
And why don't we ship to F4 if he's not going to grab the port?
Yeah.
Yeah, he goes G5.
Okay, positional approach.
Yes.
Which is also probably gay because he's kind of saying, well, well, okay, H4, natural, get rid of that weak pawn.
And now I expect H6 just to keep things tight.
Tides at the back.
Yeah.
I mean, is this a winning idea just to start coming here?
Like, I mean, that looks natural and not now, but at some point, B4, A3.
Yeah, you can do it.
H6, I would, I would go.
H6 first, yep, but do that.
And next move on to go B4.
I was also wondering if you could do some funny that Bishop takes
night as well. Okay. So in the wondering this one a lot of time and then take that way and then
go for it. It does feel like one is playing a fire with these two ports. Yeah because this
was I was talking about like this Bishop on B3 can really do a lot of heavy lifting so if
If you do any F6 as you can literally, sorry, it not F6 is E6's, you can take it, if I go
F6.
And if you go F6.
And you've got E5.
Yeah.
Done.
We defended it nicely.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's that, that's like a very good option.
And they got one more move to make.
If I look at it until the time to chop, the 39 was H4.
But this is a big decision.
Do you play the line that you only just pointed out, which wins a pawn, but you're a little
still a little bit nervous about these ones.
Maybe I can try and create a passport with this and then this, but your bishop does do a
lot of heavy lifting.
Yeah, it does enough work, but I would say this is perhaps impractical.
When you've got no time, you should just go to H6, maintain the balance, you can leave
the committal decisions to a once you've passed to move forward, you've got that 30 minute
time bonus and then you start getting that increment.
Yeah, H6.
We're still waiting for a result in the Google Cash World Champions game, but it looks like
a niche.
It's during the business.
So we should probably make sure we see the end of that one.
Yeah.
It'd be nice to see the last move here.
We're going to replace H6.
He hasn't paid a move yet, or if he wants to go for the exchange here.
So he's having a good think here.
very wise using up all your time because it could be a critical moment of deciding if you
win or draw this game, which way you go, do you take and take or do you keep it solid with
age six?
Still thinking if your opponent was running around, then rent, rent, rent, turn by jumper.
What's actually running?
Yeah, it was zooming up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
Imagine if all the players do that, you can make it into a chess sprinting event.
There is a there is a game there is a competition rather called running chess and that's where the clock is
I don't know some meters behind you running chess. Yeah, well, they had the diving chess championship
Let's tennis chess as well. You could do anything with chess, can you?
Just boxing. Indeed chess drinking. They have ironing chess.
It looks like a lot of guys there be very good at chess drinking.
Is that true? You think got him well chest drinking champions in the room here?
Okay.
Is that a lie?
Not sure if I can do it.
Yeah, there's any kind of question.
Of course he could buy.
Seven seconds.
He got a move. Okay, he hasn't got it.
He's gone for this big decision.
King takes. Okay, so now.
The big idea behind it is just to be as greedy as possible, grab the pawn on age 4.
He's made the 40th move.
He gets 30 minutes extra on the clock.
Let's just make a B line over for Goukesh against a Neary, sorry, a Neary, a niche.
It's quite cool, isn't it?
It's quite nice, but...
So we had Queenie for a couple more moves.
King F2, the king decided it needs to start running.
Bishop B7, train, so you finish the game off, Rook F1, I'm gonna hide, the Rook comes to C6, and now
Queen B8, King E7, Bishop C3. Stop in the Rook getting to F6. Covering that one. Okay, where is the
kill? Where is our initial thinking there? Is there Queen C2 check? It feels like it might be something
But this again, right?
Oh, no.
It was a joke.
It's Jordan Win.
Did Jordan Win?
It looked like had a great position.
Any other result?
Yes.
He's fast.
Jordan.
No, I'm on a second.
No, no, it was a...
Did he?
It was a win.
OK, good.
Well, yeah.
Did he happy Jordan fans in the room?
Yes.
He's got a big, fine group here.
It was Jordan.
He's a big, a delicate, rather and fun of way.
Yeah.
They've got three national champions in the family.
Three national champions in the Jordan.
They've got five national champions in the Jordan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they...
I think there's also some ancestors as well.
Great grandfather's Dutch champion, right?
So I think Jordan's great-grandfather, Jordan Lucas and...
Like, tell.
Not many.
No, that is probably the only family
as free national champions. It's got to be right. So a real family chess players and he
a very local person, Jordan as well. Okay, we have a result in the Panasonic Faustino or a game
and that is a draw. So four and a half out of seven for Faustino. And it seems like five might
might be the magic number to get a ground master norm.
Yep, we're hearing that for Steno tricks as opposed there.
So we're coming back to that later on, but we do want to just
see if a niche can find a way free.
Go from move, what's it going for?
I was thinking Quincey too, and I have an idea.
If you drop the Queen back to D2, we'll take C3.
And you clinch it.
Boom, very nice move.
Getting rid of the tender of the Queen.
And obviously all led things are completely winning.
that would be that. Oh, that's very nice. Is that just a killer? What do I, what do I, I can't,
or what do I do here? This is horrible. So if I go Bishop head now, you're going to check.
I'm going to go CF6 and then you go on the diagonal. And then if I go here, I just, I just thought
that Queen, you fall, isn't that going to clench it? Queen, you fall. I can't be bothered to calculate
anything. We've worked takes for work. I'm sure that wins too. That looks very smooth, very smooth.
Yeah. Yeah, okay. So, and Queen D2 looks like a killer move and a niche is, sorry, Queen C2 looks like a killer move.
A niche is just thinking about it, making sure it works. Because you can't go King G1 because I just moved the rook to take C3 and Queen G2 will be game over.
And if you go King E1, that's the only hope I can see.
They might just be this fish and pay six again, remember this fish it can come here and for a kev two
Yeah, you go queen C1 and then you pick up E3
Yeah, okay, what's he gone for? Okay, he's gone for another way of doing it. He's gone for a flashy line here. Oh, he's gone for a text
Root takes. This ship and this is similar look at these pieces they far out way white's pieces
is pawn takes and the similar idea.
The queen might come to G2, a bishop A6,
bishop A6, I think it's the key move, right?
And you pick up the rook, there's no checks.
So I think initially I did check here,
bishop here.
That's just brilliant.
Threatening these two.
And you can't check on D3 with a queen.
And if you go rook F2, I'll go just go queen here,
and I'll pick and rook up.
Yeah, brilliant.
Next move, because that bishop has gone from one
strong diagonal to another.
So, very, very nice play.
Let's see, is he going to play it?
He's just double checking.
This looks like the killer move.
Maybe this is also a good Queen C2, but the same idea.
They're both crushing, I feel.
He's got into G2 and I expect after Bishop A6,
good cash will resign and Bishop A6 has been played.
It's moved 30s and he has resigned.
and the move and a finish that gets around the applause here.
And each Gary wins in a fantastic style there at the end with Rook takes Bishop, lovely
blow.
Okay, so we have three games remaining in the Masters.
Two decisive results.
Maybe we're checking on Javakir Sindarov against Hans Neiman.
I mean, this one has been a lot slower.
Yeah, I mean, it's always very special
to beat the world champion.
And, you know, I just want to see how many of these fans
do we have here?
We go out of loads, right?
Inish?
Good.
And yeah, I mean, a great result for Inish.
He really needed that win.
Yeah, he absolutely did.
So, Sid and Dar are our first his hands.
We're going to go over there now.
I think I've made the time control.
I guess it was made the time control now, right?
We haven't looked up for Steenow trick, maybe.
OK, let's see if we can have a look at how fast Steenow drew.
Maybe we can have a quick look at any a lean as well, possibly.
Yep.
We've got the Dutch crowd here.
So we're just going to look at a trick.
I don't know whereabouts it was, but let's know trick.
OK, let's have a look for Steenow.
just see, okay, so he was in some trouble, but he fought back.
Oh, there's a deficit collar Bishop and game, so.
Well, let's go to the end of the game.
So this position is,
move the draw, agreed.
I guess it's quite, it's a deficit collar Bishop.
There's no way, why it's going to make any progress.
So a fair result there.
Yeah, yeah, okay, we'll go back.
Let's just have a look at,
well, by the way, it's a draw between Owen Lamy
against Karis' Yip.
Maybe we can,
see
on the two players sharing a laugh.
Maybe
it was nice to see the players.
It's nice to see the players.
It is, yeah, very nice.
It looked like Chris was on the sun pressure.
So she actually found a very good defense here.
in this position and she did go for the idea of anchor mentioned and get to the white
king just in time and it's the white king, the white king's weakness which
proves to be give a Chris or enough councillor play and you can still see even
though it's an extra poor this king is very exposed on the back ranks there so they
They don't surround them a little bit, but that's just an ongoing issue and that can
go to H3.
We've seen that happen before, but it's not much safe for there and Chris just keeps
things solid for now, even the queen ending she now finds a great idea and the great
idea was just to come check and here Frescent Checkmate on G4, a bit early and it has
a little bit careful here. Now you can't go H3 which kind of looks like a bit of a day.
And you go the other way and it's checkmate basically. Next move. So you have to just repeat
the position and the game is in the draw. So yes, I think that means in Chris it gets one out
to two in the next two games. She gets a grandmaster title and as Yovie mentioned, $100,000 from
sick filled chest. Yeah. It's not too shabby. There's not too shabby, but she has to do it first. Well,
all of the games have made move 40. So let's just quickly, okay, okay, we're safe to go on a break.
Everything has made move 40. We can all take like a breath, just go there out there and just top
up on your refreshments, get ready for the next part, which is of course when we break
down exactly what went down in time travel, and what the situation is on the boards.
See you in a few minutes.
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Welcome back.
So time control has been made, we are all very excited to break down exactly what went down
and there were a lot of decisive results already so let's take a look at the results we
see in so far and well three games still ongoing but as you can see Simon three out of the
four games that finished all finished in a decisive result and one of those that sticks out
immediately is Nordie Beck a booster of beats in Vincent Climer with the Black pieces, which now means
that he moves to five and a half points out of seven. Yeah, massive, massive score and he's actually
been, we're at the halfway mark pretty much now and it's worth points out in Nordie Beck has been on
the same score five and a half out of seven before here, I think even last year and he's always
perform fantastically well but we can see the best starts here ever over the
years in the group and yeah it happens twice but he hasn't won it yet he has not
won the Masters winning this year. Well he has consistently performed
rather excellently I think that was one stack that our team found out but yeah
Portish Kasparov six and a half out of seven Donna in 1950
starting with six out of seven, Max O'er also beginning with six of
gosh. These are big scores and some big names as well. Yeah, massive names there.
So we can now just have an overlook of the boards very quickly and see what's
going on. So we have a fair few results already in and we just went over
results, but it looks fairly even in a sinbar of demon. It looks, again, a little bit better
for black in that gave it air guysy, we were looking at earlier, and the wind versus
feta-saf, seems to be rather balanced, you know, with both for being active, and feta-saf,
his rook is looking at the pawn on B2, which cannot be defended, and maybe we can have, I
I don't know if this is even possible.
Maybe you can have an overview of the challenges.
Yes.
Oh, it is a positive way.
Wasn't sure whether it was because it was looking really
promising for Elena Rubbers as she played white against
Mark Andrea Muritzi.
Now, remember, if Mark Andrea won, his game, he would tie
Andy Woodward for first place.
So we're going to dive into that one.
Also, it's bad news for Lumaui.
She is looking set to lose her fifth game in a row
as Iván Chuk is winning with the Black pieces
against her very ballads in Max Vomera
against Daniel Ofer.
Excuse me.
Let's see Simon.
Sorry.
But let's take a look.
Can we just take a look at Elina Rubbers
against Mark and Dre and Maritzi?
Because that game looks like it is super sharp.
Okay, so let's have a look at how I think it's getting on.
And we just got a current position.
So here we are, a lean width of white pieces.
And if a lean combina is a bit of fantastic result,
but it has seems to have changed a bit over the last couple
of moves.
I mean, a lean was doing well, but in time trouble,
it's drifted a little bit.
Black is material down, but black has a port
on the bishop for the rook and whose king is in more trouble? That's always the question
to ask. Well, the white king is quite an expose that he's going to have to interrupt you
Simon because we do have an interview right now with an East Gary. So let's go straight
over to Fiona.
An East, congratulations. Your first win after tournament but surely it doesn't get much sweet
it and be the real champion, where to black police?
Yeah, I'm really happy, of course, about that.
I was very close last year, right, in the first round.
So it was really excited there.
Because he was also fresh for champion, and I was round one.
And so this time, I was really hoping, once I realized I'm
winning, I realized that OK, I have to really focus now.
Unfortunately, for me, the position was also much easier
to win than last time.
Today was I would do a dive into it in a second,
but it looked like you were in control.
the entire time was that also here in pressure?
Yes, but at the same time, I don't think
like I was supposed to win that position.
I mean, I think it's a final position,
but it's kind of an inco position.
He chose to play it and I'm sure,
I mean, he just doesn't play for a drill,
it's him, but if he wants to play for a drill at some point,
he could probably manage it.
But he just plays always ambitious.
So that's what he did the entire game.
And yeah, it's,
At some point already, I would guess he would probably try to look for an exit, but it wasn't an easy one.
I might have missed something out.
When I played Dum Bruchet 7, I didn't initially realize how strong it was.
And I think there is some idea that sometimes after I can be five, there is some of 90s.
Let's hear.
Yeah, I was just, this is, yeah, here.
Yeah, there may be Quim B5.
I don't know if this is relevant, but this is maybe what he missed, because this is also what I initially missed.
Because somehow, I was here thinking about this weird, I don't know why.
I was thinking for a short amount of thought about it, but it's,
I'm getting weird thoughts during games, so I'm just out.
Do you answer the whole thing I can make it crazy?
Yeah, I was thinking about this position for a while,
I think it's a full composition, but that's what it says.
Yes, full composition, but no more.
I still have the OK-7, but I didn't realize how strong it was,
but then I suddenly saw that it all works out for me.
Yeah, I think it's maybe in this line.
maybe in this line, here, there's 90.
So there's always this 96 move, maybe probably
he missed it, and once I saw that, and I was like, wait,
then I think I'm just much, much better.
And I think there was some, I kept thinking about
the Nruki file industry here, and especially here,
but I got also a nice position.
So you take a quick look here, what might have happened?
Yeah, I think I could go night, night, just three,
looking for. And I have a word of checks and I sacrifice the rook, but I wasn't
so sure. I thought if King H1 I was going to go rook E5, but maybe not immediately
because of Queen E2. So I think I was going to give a check on Rk5. I think this might
be winning, but I thought most about King F1. I think if he trades the rooks, it's probably
Yeah, if you take the route it's probably even worse.
So here, yeah, I didn't see clearly, I think I was thinking about
check and then I did.
And to be honest, I didn't even see a win, even, like, this is almost
maybe I didn't see a win here to be honest.
Maybe there's just like made in two, but I didn't see it.
Maybe it could be two and some.
Yeah, I didn't see it.
You want that up at check?
Yeah, it's not really made here.
Yeah, oh, just be sure before.
And if King of 1, Queen H3, Queen H3, I guess, I look at 2.
Let's show the line.
Yeah, I know.
I mean, it's all easy to see when it's like minus 5.
It's like how did you miss it?
But of course, I have also many poems.
And I felt it's good for me, not just me.
I don't know what the best defense is.
Maybe it's King H1 after all.
And here, maybe here's some defense.
I King F2.
Yeah, he's running King F2 here.
Yeah, here also look data, but here I didn't see Rudeet move.
Here Rudeet is very content-to-it-if.
No, sorry, it's on, it's with 300, really, of course.
It's a little bit difficult, but at the same time, unlike usual sacrifice like that, I have
kind of, you know, personal many points, but also my king is extra safe, so, can you
imagine, very difficult?
I think I must have thought Queenie too, but for me, it's unfindable, it's kind of stuff,
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
I still don't know why this is necessarily winning, I guess, 26.
I also don't know why you couldn't play it with six and a minute,
then it was a big deal.
And now I look at it too, I'm doing it with you too.
Yeah, I did very hard.
I felt, of course, I mean, I went down on the time here.
I felt, of course, now G3 is maybe the money move.
But, yeah, the problem is that it was really not, to me,
it was like, it was not like an easy win.
Like, check, check, make notes.
Then I thought, OK, you know, I can go home for a win.
But I also think, like, how can I refuse, like, to refuse this.
It's really hard.
Yeah, also, I saw the screen shape of, it's so nice and so hard for him to play.
And I thought, OK, could refuse this form for a win that I don't even see.
Like, maybe not worth it.
And yeah, I was like in just Bunderry, in the six.
Did you immediately see it?
Has a Bunder?
Not immediately.
But as soon as I was able to realize, it's probably Bunderly.
There were multiple situations where I'm
stopping to get something like this.
25 is actually interesting because actually,
so I actually saw this idea of that in some positions,
I can give checkmate like this.
But I'm not quite sure whether I saw it exactly here or not.
And if I go, should be six.
Maybe I saw it here, yeah, I don't know what that's about to be honest.
But I just like my position very much.
I don't know if I was going to go a little bit too big or a little bit too big.
Because this also looks very nice.
Yeah, this looks very nice, but maybe it's not quite, not quite winning.
But in such a position, even if you just don't win immediately, it's still very nice.
very nice, but one idea could be that eventually I get like
Q1, Q1, maybe F6, and maybe then the should be F6, sometimes.
So I'm so happy that the computer thinks that's a bad idea.
No, I was not, I mean, the thing is that computer will say either
say that it's about even the rest of the lost, because now there's
there defending so well, they are not really
scaling the evaluation in the middle anymore.
But for a human, it's in between, like we were discussing briefly
after the game, I asked him if he thought this was OK, and he said
he was not quite sure.
I thought, like, intuitively, that maybe engine was too hot.
That's why I was not happy with 96,
because I thought that maybe I'm missing a win,
because 96, I thought that it's very nice,
maybe it's holding, and he's a great defender,
so I was not sure to go for it.
But, yeah, luckily for me, you're blundered.
After 25, it would have been very challenge,
and it's an interesting line that the computer says,
I don't recall seeing anything like this,
so I don't think I saw it.
For some reason, Queen A, five.
Yeah, this is a very strong.
I don't know, exactly why.
that he's setting up some, yeah, so it looks already kind of like a holdable number
yeah, it's probably here the draw here obviously obviously very difficult to
win the game yesterday I like him and Blender certainly helps.
Yeah and for him I mean it's been a they have double blunders what do you think this
year I've asked a lot of players I'm trying to get one more opinion what do you think
causes the many unusual blunders we've seen and you are deserving all the
the pleasure before the game.
I'm joking.
I'm joking.
I'm joking.
I'm not so mean anymore.
I promise I'll never be mean anymore, but I could resist.
Today I talked to Vincent before.
Yes, this is why I made the joke.
I'm just joking, obviously.
I thought it was, I didn't know.
It was obviously a joke.
I thought it was.
You're literally asking for it, so with a microphone.
But, obviously there's not a factor at all.
Not a factor at all.
No, but on C, there's not a lot of facts here.
I think the big of facts here is fighting chest tension,
tank control is also no increment as well.
The atmosphere in the playing hole is a little more,
yeah, I do not know.
I'm not as a piece as I used to be the previous years.
I think the fact that audience is closer than before,
it creates.
I feel that there's like, in a weird sense,
It's like, I feel that there's someone near me all the time, you know, like, and because
I'm used to having a very wide plane, or because the rest of it, now the big group was
shielded between the for us, giving us extra space, and now the big group is on the other
challenges on the other side.
So we have a lot of space to the audience, don't get me wrong, it's actually a lot, I saw
it again today, like it's a lot of space, but I'm so used to more, that to me it feels like
I'm cramped compared to how I used to feel, because I played here 20 years, so I'm like,
know how it feels to play here.
But now I feel like everyone's sort of closer.
And I think all the combination of everything,
but also you have to wear so fighting,
you know, wear like hands and for the safe,
and also the top there's something nowadays,
Caucasian, numbers of turn off and all those.
You know, they're just, they're turning the heat on.
And when the heat is on, the blunder's are coming soon.
And of course, you're, you're, you're,
you're in three years there.
And when I was, when I found out,
I was going to do pre-gave interviews, I was like, okay, let's see, let's see how this one goes, but yeah.
Just now, yeah, I was just not by Liches and it's, I told them that it's like also one of the sign of the times.
Because he asked me how is it playing so long here, and there are many things that are the same, like the same playing menu.
But something's a different, and this is also part of that, and it is also like going with basically with the times in a way, yeah.
I mean, we don't throw in things into the crowd, but we do have a little more interaction than before, which is just the way it just is slightly,
It's likely shifted and then because there's an over-ten window sort of shifts and even the most traditional events like what can they still do it slightly less traditional.
And yeah, I think this industry is probably very nice for people that's home and some people there's also probably like it. You have to get used to it, but I think you know getting the reason some tension before the game is probably nice.
Also, just to be clear for the views, I mean, if someone doesn't want to talk there, of course, not first to talk to her.
Obviously, I'm sure you're being very experienced in Trio, you know, how it's done.
I just really couldn't choose the joke.
It's just the joke that I absolutely am.
And I accepted, I know you're talking.
And as she said, you've played here 20 times?
18, yeah.
How does it feel to be the oldest player in the field?
Yeah, it's a special experience for me.
for me, I mean, it's a bit of a coincidence now, because obviously a lot of older players
could have played as well.
I mean, there's still many great players at the top, starting with Mauna Sikaro Karwana,
Top 3, she has still the oldest older than me, so he didn't have to beat it up in the
oldest, but it's still happened.
And yeah, it's quite fun, first time for me, probably not lost.
There's a little tournament known as the candidates coming up quite soon.
I'm sure you know that, for example, Fabi, when he won the candidates, it's terribly
and why I can say that here, is that something that was on your mind at all coming into this?
Yeah, I knew that and when I started doing terribly, I remember it once again.
I think for a experience player like myself and Fabiano, this doesn't carry so much weight.
Neither, not the positive unfortunately.
So even if we play so much, we know that sometimes you're doing really well, few games,
and then you start doing better way or way around.
Maybe for someone who is less experienced,
momentum could make a big difference.
But I think can be completely different.
Of course, in particular, the level of preparation
would be different.
And it basically would be a different game.
But of course, I mentioned the interest before.
I really wanted to do well here.
So I'm trying my best.
But yeah, whatever, the outcome here,
have to be a singer, a number, you're looking forward to prepare for the candidates. Sometimes
unfortunately even during the event here, I'm starting to think about that and it's really
hard to not and yeah something I'm really excited about. That's well the preparation from
the candidates look like, what can you reveal? Well we'll spend a lot, I think I've spent a lot
of time after this tournament. I tried to sort of pace myself a little bit so that after this event
I'll have the energy left and I'm really looking forward.
And I'm sure all my competitors are going to do the same.
And it's especially now that tools are so good,
like the computer's as strong.
That when you have so much great tools and so much time,
the kind of preparation you can do is quite extraordinary.
And that can sometimes lead to something very outrageous,
like the previous candidates, when you saw some players playing some of the same stuff.
So, yeah, look forward to it.
It's kind of really fun.
And finally, you mentioned the new time controller as one of the possible factors,
one of the factors that might lead to more mistakes.
As a tournament ambassador, where you consulted at all, did you have any say?
And regardless of whether the answer is yes or no, what do you think of the new time controller?
Yeah, I thought it was a good idea, because for me as a participant in candidates,
it's a great experience.
So I thought it was a great idea for the candidates.
Not for my result here, I didn't expect.
I mean, I think probably having so much experience
playing here with the other time control, it probably
would be easier for me to play with the control.
I'm experienced in, and not the one I never play.
So I think my chances of the sort of excitement
slightly dips when I found out this will be the time control.
But I think my chance of the candidates
will come slightly up, so I'll take the chair off.
And thank you very much for sharing your thoughts,
congratulations, and best of luck tomorrow.
Thank you so much.
So, and he's talking about the fighting spirit
that everyone has in this event,
two players who are not lacking in any fighting spirit whatsoever.
Alina Rubbers and Mark Andrea Moritzi.
Now, when we left it, things are slightly better.
I would say better for Alina,
but the position was still very, very complicated
because of the exposed position of Alina's king.
There've been a few moves and there's been a few developers
because if we see a live board,
unfortunately, Alina is the one that is somewhat under pressure.
So let's quickly break this down
and then I'd like to go to Margin's king.
That was a nice understanding.
It's like the under pressure, I just saw the evaluation bar on the bottom right and it looks like a lot under pressure, but I wanted to pick it up, actually a little bit earlier, around with 37, because Alina had been playing a great game.
And it's just the time situation and a couple of things went wrong, so she was right here, she's doing well, she's exchange up.
It's not totally clear, but she plays a very nice move F5 to force subline's open.
Black now took her to port and already you can see her chances improving after this move.
King H2 was a good move, there's nothing wrong with this move, and now Black has to try
and create some counter play.
So the only chance only way of creating counter play is against this port on D4.
here another great move and this was move 40 so this was Rook coming to G5 so just
targeting these boards. Black has to try it, Bishop takes D5 but now I'm big mistake and
this is move 41. It could be that typical move 41 mistake. You make the time
control what do the more experienced players generally do? Well this is
where you should go and you know get it, take a walk, just relax and come back
the board and take a bit more time. It doesn't always happen like that. You're not always
sure how many moves you've made, but had now white played the simpler option and simple as
always good. If you've got a simple way to be better rather than a complicated way, take the
simple way. Had white now just played Queen takes their five. This would have looked,
I'm sure, I mean, with a one here because you know, you're exchange up, why not get the
Why not get the queens off the board?
I mean, there's not really any danger.
You're rooks very good and you can get some position like this
where, well, it just looks incredibly good for white.
Unfortunately, move 41, rook takes the more aggressive option.
You know, that's suiting her style.
But she must have missed the next move Queen G6.
And this starts to fight back now.
There's a big threat.
Bishop takes E5 is a surprising fret with this work suddenly come over and check mate.
So, in route G2 forced and our Bishop takes E5 anyway and this has to be dealt with
at a very careful manner and the only move here because you've got to stop the
work coming here would have been King H3 and this would have at least held off that fret
with an unclear position of the Queenie 6. This is just the best thou. Instead F4 was another
error and after Bishop takes F4, well you cannot take that one because of the pin. The King now
came up to H3, but you've dropped another pawn here and if black now finds the right move,
the lead is in trouble. So we just have to see there's only one move here where black gets an
of voltage. It's a quite a natural one. It is.
The Queen has attacked you move the Queen here and you pin the rook and if
black finds this move then it's looking quite bad for a leaner. That would be a
real shame because she played a great game and she was pushing one of the
top seats and one of the top seats at the top and he's having a great tour
and so far so it will be a real shame if it would work and just the
look at the position a little bit more. It might seem that this is all right for white
because the queen takes D5, but if queen takes D5, now this king is going to
really, and queen 6, I think was played, is this king is too weak, for example, the
queen or the rook's going to come in and there's forces that king to go up and
Well, there's going to be some bishop check with horrible consequences in this position.
For example, bishop G3 and rook H4 next move, where the king goes check mate.
Three is the magic number when it comes to attacking.
I also think we're going to be seeing a repetition in the game between and when, against
for the save.
But yeah, it's such an unfortunate turn of events.
Yeah.
If I'd say I've taken some time, he has a well over half an hour on the clock, but when
has simply been just checking the king and every time the king moves away, the rook
simply goes to the B line to attack the weak B6 pawn.
So if I'd say I've now, I can decide whether he wants to try and step the king back unlikely.
There's no need to push super hard in a position that is pretty level.
Okay, so whilst we're expecting this one to finish in a draw, let's go to the Argent
Erraghai Sea and Edom Mush game, because that one is super exciting with, we left it
with Edom Mush making a very commitel decision on move 40.
He didn't have any time left and he used that remaining time to grab that night on E3,
And then take it up on H4?
Yeah, with the two outside past pawns, but white has the rook and you'll be very nicely
stayed in how strong this bishop actually is, because these pawns, they look scary, but
the bishop does a fantastic job of covering their advance in a lot of positions, so white
played King D2 and now the bishop points at both squares, but mainly H1 and you can see
is a very simple plan now for black queen that, well, the Gary port. It was the Harry
port. Well, that's the Harry port over there. So it's kind of Gary, it's turned
into Harry, it's a Gary Harry, Harry, Gary port, which you call it, you'll let it
look at that. Yeah, it does not become, Gary, as soon as the port.
Well, it started off as Gary, so I think you should have played Gary. I don't
know Gary or Harry, okay, we have a result there and yeah, I think we can lead. As expected,
when it's happening down that route that you mentioned.
Well, either way, this is tough.
So white plays a rookie one.
And I don't think this rook's going to be able to deal
with both ports.
This is trying to get counterplay with the e-ponds.
So another good move from black here.
Keep this up.
Just stopping that counterplay.
Rook e-free.
OK, you block one port.
But what about the other one?
You can't look after both ports.
and now a free play.
Yeah, and I suspect that white's only chance is simply to get the king to start defending the Queen's side forms.
So the king is going to run over.
Can he go to King C1?
Yep.
So just to try and play catch.
Yeah, so you have to try stopping this one with a king and stopping this one with a rook.
Like king probably on a dark square just in case it's a check.
But I don't know, I don't know, A2 is...
Hang on a second, there's a little bit of G2.
Or is that just a killer Bishop G2?
Actually, you could have done this.
Could have done this here?
Bishop G2 and just H3 at any point seems to game over.
I mean, A3 is good.
You can flick these moves in, but you don't even need to do that.
You can just go Bishop G2 and this port is game over.
This is it.
If you find this idea...
Okay, what about this idea of going E6 and F6?
Okay, so E6, I'm just going to take it.
I know, and F6.
F6, worst case, you're even fretting this to be honest, because I go King E7.
That's correct.
So I'm going to go H3.
That one is quick.
The Gary Harry is going to become...
Combo, yeah.
It's the Harry.
It's just a double Harry assignment.
I don't know. I like if it starts Gary that remains Gary.
The dirty Gary, that's the one. You turn into the dirty Harry porn.
You could have a situation where like the F-form become or even the E-form becomes like the H-form and you can't be calling it.
Eric or whatever it is, Eddie, Eddie, Gary, everyone be confused.
Edward the Bishop does land on G2, and this is the killer blow, I mean amazing stuff
here from the 14 year old.
Yeah, so it has happened, did he go away for you first? I don't know if he didn't
need to just the idea of going here with you.
He flicked in A3, just for fun.
OK, probably the most accurate way of playing.
And it looked like the king came here.
And this bishop G2 is literally the end,
because there's nothing that can be done now to stop the H-born.
So he's really played a great game here,
yes, he has a card.
And he's outplayed his higher rates of the opponent.
And Archen looking a little bit unstable
the last couple of games unfortunately.
It was just some fantastic opening preparation, you know coming in with the night's G4,
then going E3 and then sacrificing, I mean if we can kind of go back to that kind of rook takes E3 moment.
Sure, I just wondering the last chance you could do is to get the rook behind,
I mean I don't know if you want to look at that now or later on.
Yeah, we can do that now.
So the only way I can see it defending this pawn is to try to get the rook behind the pawn.
I just can't see any other way you can even fight on here because you know I mean there's
okay let's say go King B1 just to show this you can't stop this you can't stop this now you're
going rookie too I go H2 anyway I'm quitting okay you can't give your rook up because you just
don't have enough material so the only possible try is E6 let's say you take it and now I try
And stop you playing H2. So let's have a look at that. So here you go rook H6 and I try and now
Oh, we have a suggestion from our producer is even saying H5. That's just too clever
2nd H5 if it works it might work because you've got
Oh, that's a way to actually lose it's very tempting
It's very cheap.
It's very cheap.
It's a poor, okay, poor, it's a poor here.
Yeah.
So now run, it's...
I guess you're just going to go and rookie one now.
Yeah.
So now you can give up your work for the poor.
Because you got it.
Yeah.
Let's not get involved with that one.
It's a nice idea.
Let's just push the poor and after we're going to get six.
See, my eyes doesn't look as clear as this bar is saying.
because I'm getting counted play by taking in here before, so B4,
they continue to take it, and now these are looking at say a little bit scary,
and you might have to combine it with a bishop chip, that's the problem.
I've definitely become a game, but I got my own pawns now.
K King goes to D6, let's say D6, I think.
Okay, well here they come.
Okay, as they know, B3.
only one ten-po in time, isn't it?
Because, oh, I suppose you've got...
Yeah, I've got King.
You've got King E7, isn't it?
King E7 was my black eye.
Yeah. And if I...
If I try to stop these boards, if I go in King E2, instead of F6, it doesn't really stop them.
Because this bishop can always come back to cover those squares.
If you even...
You can even bring the King Cartier, that's another way.
I mean, I would have fought...
Check.
E4 now. And then King steps up to B3. And now I'd afford this one. We should D5 check.
Yeah, and that's the problem with the rook. It needs to be on the second.
It can't look after both pawns. If your kid goes too far, you just can't deal with both the pawns.
And then the rook swings over to A7, but the H2 and the Gary pawn. The dirty Harry pawn keeps going.
It's just a hurry now.
So this just seems to be completely winning for Black.
And this is a great result.
I mean, a really good game.
And you're very good wanted to go back to the opening.
And I agree it was a fascinating opening.
Which gave Rick's taxi three moment.
That was, like, for me, like the highlight, the way that...
I mean, it all started around here.
And we'll go for it quickly.
But it was a very imaginative play, E-free, night F-2.
You're jumping right into no man's land,
night age free, look at that night.
And here you go for this idea where some points are.
Do you know something that I've noticed the trend
that if you reject a draw or a repetition early in the opening,
yeah.
At Tata, the gods don't like it.
What they want?
They literally.
The gods want the players all over.
because earlier on like Arjun could have just accepted like my H3 night F2 that shenanigan
and then he found himself in a position which he later is losing. Same thing, yesterday
I was asking her for her, but it's not even his name.
Fastena Orr, he rejected a three-fold repetition.
He used hands, did the same.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, it's strange.
It's not really, it goes the other way.
The gods don't like it, but it's ornament.
Should favor the brave.
Exactly.
I like the second half, it's bouncy.
It's going to favor the brave and the second half.
Yeah.
Yes, so the next amazing move here was in this position.
And why it's important,
I happen to look like, you know,
why it's got everything under control.
And this was a brilliant, brilliant move.
Black gives up the exchange
because it's dark square vision is so strong.
And now you just gotta stop this night
coming in as porting,
because the night card comes to see too.
So this was another brilliant move,
just keeping the night out of that square.
and white felt the need that you had to sacrifice back
very excited here, isn't he?
Yeah, it's super excited.
Let's go to the live board.
Yeah, he comes in, E6, by the way, was tried.
Can he yet?
This may be more accurate.
So we saw the last line after E6,
we fought black as winning a black token, this board.
But that gives white some vague hope,
again, in the rook and the right place.
Instead, with this move, you don't even allow
roots come around. So extremely accurate played, stopping that possibility. There's no way
the root can get to H6 in time. For example, if you take here, well, you can get there in time.
But, you know, if it doesn't make a difference, because I don't know what they're doing.
No, no, no, you go. Make a check. Okay, and I'm making this very difficult for myself now.
I shouldn't be doing this. Oh no. Oh, look at this, you're so stupid. I've done something naughty
there and after H3 and finding ways to lose G5 okay so okay there still still some
trail some tricks but after that last line we just go back to what we looked
out before that needs to be flash we go here and after this one but I can now go
King G7 probably actually the best move yeah just be 25 and now we go for this B4
line again and horns are going to be too strong and if F6 I don't go here
I don't allow you to check me, but maybe just King G8 and if you go F7, I get really dangerous
porn and remember when the King goes there I can check the kids.
This is, yeah, these guys will work this out quite quickly, it has a good much time, but
he's got enough time, I'm sure he's already calculated all this, sort of trying to find
ways some blacks are going wrong, but there's not many ways, and I just don't see how white
can continue here.
I mean, the only other right there, I can see his E7, F6, and try this one, I can have
quick look at that. So I want to get my rook to D8 but I need to go F6 to support that.
And that takes too long because I just go H3. If you go rook here straight away I get
really your dangerous port and F6 you're too slow, H2 and I'm going to queen.
Yeah and you're going to block the D line with a bishop.
out so you can't enter, this would be the simplest way to win, just put the bush
in the way. So taking on F7's good, I think the best chance white has is to still go
for this personally. So I'm rookie six and he has played rookie six, this seems like
the only try but H3 or B4, B4 now is just as good. Yeah because the white king
is obliged to cover B3? Yes, it can be pain really well. I mean the only game I think he lost.
There's a Gensinder off. And a really tough rapport in game and you know he defended like
a lion earlier on where it looked like he was busted. And since then he's come back.
Yesterday he won his game against Jordan. Today winning with the black pieces against
Argent. And let's stick with this one, Brother. Let's change things going on in the game
between Van Wynn and Feta Save. And I also kind of want to take a look at the endgame
between us in Dorf and Hans Neiman. Because it's two nights against two Bishop in that
end game and I'm not sure. Yeah I think we can go back. I don't think this is going to end
immediately. So I'm sure we can go over to that game. You can tell you can sense that you
know is it's for wind like that energy there just like going for his body. And you're
right and it's a little bit annoying. If you're applying and you really want to concentrate
I mean, it's not, he doesn't mean to do it, I'm sure, but it is just a little bit of trade.
He's a kid.
That was the stop me from complaining.
Damien was a kid as well, wasn't he?
Look what happened to him.
What happened?
He became the antichrist.
You're not seeing the omen?
Great film.
Damien was a kid.
Company of your calling.
I'm not, no, I'm not doing that at all.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm not daring.
I'm just...
I don't get me in trouble. I'll just say no, it's fine.
Okay, sorry. My bad.
D4, this is the other way, do it.
You do this at one point and these two are just too strong. Right.
Yeah. And then you have to step up.
You have to take the ball and then step up, King C2.
Oh, hang on, maybe this is even more precise.
Yeah, but let's say this.
You take that from me. You take that.
You take that first and now step up with the King C2.
Now you get in B3.
Oh, B3 straight away.
Oh, oh, this one's coming and there's too many past pawns, I mean it's just over
it is over. Okay, we're trying not to miss the end of this, but I think you know
Argin will play on a little bit, but it makes sense too.
Should we go to hands? We haven't looked at her yet.
Yeah, let's have a look at Hans.
As he tries to grind out a win with a bishop pair.
Okay, we're just going to calm position. Equal on material and is the two bishops
versus the two knights, but I always like the knights, not always. But actually I don't mind
them here so much, right? They don't seem to be not great though.
I mean, the bishops aren't great either.
No, I got to say though, if that e6 pawn went there, then the g4 pawn would be a
I'm a class.
Yeah.
Actually, what about?
Yeah, I mean, the set saying isn't it, even the worst bishop is better than a...
The best knight?
Yeah.
So, I don't know, okay.
You're taking black here because of the two bishops, right?
Which is very understandable.
The boy isn't no way in.
There's no way in.
I mean, if the king could get in somewhere,
maybe the black king has to try to get in this way.
try to get in this way because I don't think it's going to get in the other way. Okay,
we see a king here, play. And now the king goes to her six. I mean, this is the one, but
I can't get fired past this square here because of the night. So I could maybe try to
think about coming this way in because it's all about trying to find entrance points.
But if you go all the way in that way, then the white king is also going to start coming in.
And let's not forget, there's a past G-port.
Well, I'm just going to go Bishop G-5.
So let's say, let's say we repeat.
I go Bishop G-5 first, just to stop your night
and king coming in.
And now I want to try and bring my king.
OK, so let's wait.
OK, so you go here.
And now let's start this adventure.
See, we're end up.
So if you take, I will take your arm.
Where's your breakthrough point?
B5 and B4.
So I'm going to have to go B5 with my pawn
then come this way with my key. This is the only way I can feel of putting any damage, but
the right moment maybe you play a four, right? Yes, the list is wait, my H4. My H4. Okay, well I
keep going my plan for example here. Right at 92. Okay, I keep going. So you might be trying this.
Now, can you, so you got to take, so we're trying to push, pushes what I mean?
Yeah, we're trying to time this move very carefully, let's get count to play.
You've also got the port on D4. I do think whites absolutely fine by the way, but I'm just trying to think of any way that hands can try to push.
And I think this is the reason that white one have any problems.
And well, I don't know, because you have to calculate these kind of things now, don't you?
Yeah, I think, but I think it's okay.
So let's say...
Yeah, yeah.
And then like, hang on.
Like, it takes us all right.
Yeah.
But there's also a night takes pawn check.
Oh, yeah, no, hang on.
I was in check.
And now I want to get this outside passport and our king goes to F3.
Have to go to F3.
And now it's changed a bit, now maybe I'll just play F5 for example.
So let me just think about how to get F4.
I don't want it to be a check.
Okay, well let's go back because this way at least blackness sort of push it out a bit, right?
So let's go, let's go night G2.
Yeah, so I go King C6.
Can I organise it so that when F4 comes the King is on H3 and the night is on G2?
So I don't want to wait with my night, is what I'm trying to say.
I've made some inaccuracies early on.
So you could go.
I would like to get it when the King goes to see if it doesn't matter.
But yeah, King H3.
Okay, King H3, so I'll just continue.
Yeah, now F.
Now F4.
Yep.
So this way you've got this one, right?
Yes.
Right, that looks like a good way of dealing with things, but you know, because this
is going to change a bit, isn't it? I mean, this, I'm not sure about, let's say take
here.
Night takes.
Night takes here, but it's just suddenly getting quite messy, I guess the night
is very good over here.
I don't know, because the Bishop is also going to come into A for now.
Yeah, yeah, we've can't play over here, so this is like very complicated, so you can get
I don't know, let's say King D6, so I defend there,
and my first fault was Knight here,
but then you have to start calculating this idea.
So this is one way, let's go back to the current position,
but let me just try and get used.
Try and get them straight away.
And you know what, this is actually happening right now
as you speak, King goes to E7.
Yeah.
So you only want to see the black and try to win this,
so I'm just trying to find out
entrance point for your king. This night doesn't great job. I mean maybe black
could even be a bit clever and more clever and play, does it help if I go B4
and B4 I don't think so. It's important as always too much.
There's a need, the king to be. I need to go for this plan. So let's just say
white does nothing to demonstrate if white doesn't break with F4. If white
has to probably do this. If white just waits, this is black's plan. We have
result there, we do and I think it is a win for Yass Khan. Great, great result. It must
be the win for him. He's the win. He outplayed his higher rates of the opponent in a brilliant
game. Really nice game there. Yeah, really beautiful game, creative opening choice and then
finding this exchange sacrifice and then just slowly improving his position so that he
that was passports on both sides and handling the time travel stage as well with the
utmost of position. Some excellent, excellent chastas from the teenager and its tense between
Cinder of and Hans Neiman, with the black pieces wanting to bounce back from yesterday's loss,
he's doing your plan Simon of coming in with a king to the Queen's side.
Yeah, so I just wanted to show what one idea might be and clearly this is like a winning
idea if you get all of these moves and white doesn't react. As soon as the king gets
here, I've got my king into the position and the only way to see that black king going
in is via B5. So in the game, Siddharov decides that he's going to take another route to
to create counts of play and he captures on H5, I think this occurred and I was a little bit
worried about this because I thought the bishop might improve but it's still not doing
too much and it comes to H5 and yeah the time situation is also something that is going
to be hovering over Sid Dara I mean especially he's going to toy that I mean how far
the toilet. But he hasn't got a lot of time. I mean Hans has got loads of time to
think about the plans but he's very good in what they're all very good in the
quick and speed but still. Do we have any more moves? What the king is? The king is
come here and now wait to sign it to go past passive and the king has come this way so
maybe he's figuring it out.
So yeah, why don't we go?
It just feels like it's a little bit creaky.
Yeah.
Because now the king is going to make the B9 for the A4 square.
Yeah, I mean, it's white just waiting.
And he played a move.
OK, so he's got a knight here.
He's got a really passive here, really passive.
Not sure I like it at all.
Because you're not able to play a 4 in this position anymore.
No.
I also got to say that it's a very difficult decision
for Sender if you know, to go active, to hold firm and especially difficult because
nights are not great at losing time. Like a bishop can just shuffle on the same diagonal
whereas the nights they have to give ground.
So, yeah, it's really, really difficult position for Cinder of the thing that Hans
just has to be a little bit careful about is he has to time his king to A4, well because
if the king comes to A4 and allows a 9 to C5 jump then we're going to be seeing some problems
or some counter player at least.
Yep, so white is just waiting here.
And there's no longer this idea playing F4
because the bishop is cutting that out.
I mean, it should still most likely be a draw
because white has not many issues here,
it's just the two nights,
but you can run out of squares for the night.
So what would happen if I try B4?
Let's go for it.
Let's just try to do this now.
By the way, this is the last remaining game in the Masters
because it is a draw between Van Winn and Feta Save.
So this is the last one remaining and Hans Neiman
is fighting hard in order to crack down white fortress.
The plan is to come in with a king at the right time
to A4 start making the inroads,
get us far into the Queenside as possible.
And for Cindorov, it's just about holding firm.
His night on G2, unfortunately, it's on the passive,
not too much that he can do.
It's just a case of thou shalt not pass,
thou shalt not make any further progress.
And Cindorov down on time to just under three minutes,
it's going to be a difficult task ahead of him.
We'll see whether he can manage to withstand the pressure.
Fans, lots of time, doesn't need to rush this whatsoever.
Can just drop the bishop back, can slowly come in with the King.
Whenever he chooses, whereas for Yavoke,
Yavoke, he needs to be on red alerts at every single moment.
Well, it's a difficult situation for Javikesh and Darov, but I do have a guest with me in
the studio. I'm very pleased to welcome Yaskar, Edamush, who just, oh okay, he just won
his game against Arjun Erragaii. So it was quite the fantastic game, it felt to us.
Yeah, it was very tough game, he defended very well at the end, but I somehow beat him and
I feel awesome right now.
You feel awesome, yeah, yeah, I mean it was absolutely full of fantastic incredible moments.
If we can just bring the game up, you have to get it to events and we'll try and we're
out of here.
Yes, and then you can find your game and talk us through because it kind of felt like
story and I had a beginning, middle and an end. The opening was very unusual. We liked
the way that you played it.
Okay, this Najee 4 is obviously surprised from our opponents. We prepared this line with
Michael Chae, here I'm a model in another tournament and I like this prep a lot. Yeah,
E3, F3, and I have to go in C2, and I think she can play King gauge fan here, but it's just
draw, and he cannot take this obviously, I mean, obviously he wanted to win with what, so
he took on H3, I also did a coneshry, and here I actually forgot to look the one move,
I was expecting C5, and after look the one, I decided to go D4, I was also thinking
I think it's C5, 195 on Bb3 and I don't like this.
Yeah, so I decided to go D4.
C5, 28, Queen C4 and this position is very solid actually.
Queen C4, 196, because we trade the Queen's and yeah.
And now we have this very interesting position.
Yeah, 192 is on the move, look, H8.
And now if you take some C5, there's this move.
And I want to take on C2 and C5.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If he goes 9-D-4, I have group G2.
And I can take on C5.
So this is not working.
Yeah.
He played King after, which is the best move.
I got 9-D-D-D-D-D-D.
Rookie 3.
I think this was very important.
On 9-D-D-D.
Yeah, bishop V6.
And with bishop V6, my idea was to escape this G4 idea.
Yeah.
Because if he plays the 4-lanke in GTF, my bishop is trapped.
Yeah, I played bishop E6, they'd be 4 here, which is very good move.
Yeah, rook, rook D4.
Maybe taking with the bishop was a bit better.
Yeah, he was going to play rook D2, Rc.
And you're hiding from the team.
Maybe bishop C5 here, takes takes on an unkeeing cost to E7.
Did you feel like the game is balanced?
or that you had a slight advantage.
No, I was seeing that the game was balanced.
I mean, I was seeing that both we were playing very good.
Yeah.
Actually, good and understances mistake,
one of them made a mistake.
Yeah, I wrote the one, the one I did, the two king G2.
I was thinking knight C3, knight C2 immediately,
because if I push a fire through the north, knight C3,
it takes, I can not push B5, I have to go B6 then, okay it looks okay for what, yeah,
he played King D2, B5 now I can push my pawns, my C2, A5, okay 93, then yeah, I don't see you,
It was looking like E. Cool.
Okay, E4.
Kimchi 7.
I should come with the king.
F4, G6, 9, G4.
Okay, the bar says it's wrong, but why should I take this on King B6?
Oh, I was thinking this in the game, but I was not so sure.
So, yeah, I thought I should keep my b-shaps in the game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was also in big time trouble.
Yeah, we saw, yeah.
Yeah.
And I just played very fast.
Maybe I made a lot of mistakes.
But it makes a lot of noise.
But it makes a lot of sense to keep the bishop higher.
You know, you control a lot of squares.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, bishop is 7.
My idea was always when he pushed F5s and bishop G5s.
Because then he cannot push the other points.
Yeah, G4, C5, Knight, C2, King C6, K9, K2, B3, here I was in the C4 mode, which is very interesting,
because if I push B4, now he goes King D3 and then Knight D5, and then, okay, it looks like
my attack is stopped or maybe G5 first, because if King D3, there's B2, okay G5, and King D3 and then Knight D5,
And then my bishop can't enter, so I thought maybe this C4 would be good, but he didn't play.
But bishop, you find this F5 was very bad, I think.
He is loving me to go bishop G5 and bishop F4.
Yeah, okay, here it was actually critical moment, maybe this bishop E3 was wrong.
No, no, no, it was the right, it was the right decision.
you could also have kept it on you could on age six.
Yeah, I was also thinking that it's six but I thought maybe the Shabby tree will be easier.
Yeah, so it's the best one.
Yeah, it is the best one you made it.
We saw you using up your time and then you left yourself a no time.
But okay, it was the right decision because the bishop does a lot of heavy lifting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, GH4.
Okay, King D2.
Shabby 5.
Yeah, I was calculating Rookay Farm but
I don't know why I forget this rookie one more, okay after King D7, Roki Tla, I thought maybe he can defend this
But then I remembered this bishop GTI, they probably that's the only idea because if I go B4, he has this Roki T, King C6, E6,
TX, F6, yeah and if I play E5 he can take this and if I go King D7 there's C4 and I'm losing here
Yeah, so, okay, I saw this bishop G2 idea. He played E6, King, E8, play X, X, K, Rk6, he can go Rk6,
but it doesn't matter because I pushed other pawns before G5, B3. Now I want to go B2,
and H2, H2, bishop, E4, yes, so he cannot prevent both of them, so it's basically
It's basically the resim here.
Yeah, yeah.
That was a fantastic game.
And yeah, well, we really enjoyed it from that
Rick takes E3 from the opening as well.
And also this very well played in-game.
So congratulations.
And he said, you were feeling awesome.
Are you going to celebrate a little bit tonight?
OK, tomorrow I've gained a game again.
So I can celebrate maybe in the rest day.
Tomorrow I'll be able to prepare a game.
And also the break right now.
No, no celebration right now.
on the rest day and who's your opponent tomorrow?
I guess it was bouquet show, I don't remember.
And you mentioned in a video that you're not afraid about playing these top players?
Yeah, because I mean, it also grants us a lot of 2700 players,
so I'm a little bit experienced, so I'm not afraid anymore.
You're not afraid of them anymore, that's what we like to hear.
But congratulations once again on your victory,
wish you best of luck for tomorrow's game,
and if anyone can give,
I don't wish around over applause.
Fantastic performance there from the 14 year old,
defeating Arjun Eragici with the Black Pieces.
And in the meantime, the game between Sondorov and Hans Neiman
is still ongoing.
There has been some changes.
A bishop and a knight have been switched off.
of a pin swapped off and Hansen even coming forward, Hans coming forward with the king,
but Sondarov is defending, resolutely here. All he can do is just move the night, but that's exactly
what he needs to do. And Will Hans break through. He has a 30 plus minutes on the clock.
He has a 30 plus minutes on the clock.
He has all the time, but unfortunately,
the position has clarified itself.
And the night is able to just wait on G2 and E1.
It doesn't need to go on adventures anywhere.
So, hands dropping the king back,
saying that yes, white can grab the B4 pawn, but the C2 pawn will fall the night drops
back and now white is threatening to grab the pawn on B4. So it looks like hands not
making any progress. Now that's a set of minor pieces have been exchanged. And a draw
What has been agreed between Jevokir and Hans the two players with a smile there, but what
a tough fight it was, what a battle and for Sondarov.
We're standing that pressure is absolutely really commendable the way he did it with no
time, not too much time on the clock and a position where his mics were very, very
grant. Okay, so maybe we can quickly break down exactly how this end game transpired, yeah.
Just about, okay, for Sindara, for the course hands, was pressurizing a little bit.
And it was weather, what it's played at, break F4 or try to remain passive and in the end
and then it's in Dora made it look pretty easy.
So B4 was tried and this idea is the main idea, so white can't just stay completely passive
and allow that came to make progress.
So the night came to D2, and this was probably the move that white has been waiting for
for that pawns come there, so the night re-roots and finds another target.
Hands did not like the idea that night coming into C4, so he plays Bishop takes night.
And it kind of feels as soon as you do that, yes you're going to win a pawn, but there's
nothing you can do to make progress.
let's let's see. Let's go through the moves. And this is well fought out by
Sedara, definitely, to realize that you can give a pawn and still be alright.
And the king is very nice over here. And when it comes to the square,
well I can't see any winning plan at all. I was wondering about putting the bishop on
H1, that would have been quite peculiar. He can't get there, that's the problem.
So in this position, I was just wondering if you could play this, but you could end up getting your
bishop trap like this then as well.
That's true.
I think you don't need to go for that one.
Well if you want to win, you probably have to try something because the night can't move
now.
That's the idea.
I'm trying to stop the night from moving, but it's going to be okay for a for white.
And the game ended with the kind of just dancing around a bit and repeating and you can't do anything here.
I mean, if you try coming this way, that's your only other try, let's just have a look what would happen if I tried that plan with the idea of bringing the king in this way now.
Well, worst case scenario, I can probably put my king on D2, but that seems a bit passive.
Maybe the best defense.
How would you defend this?
Still, we're trying.
If you take this point, you can do this, but then this position you get.
I'm not writing any of the work a little bit out.
Well, he always have 91, but Cinderella didn't even go for this.
He just kept going 91.
Yeah, no.
Didn't have this for this, yeah.
So if Hans goes for it.
If Hans tried to do this, yeah.
You've been 19, you won, and then you're just trying to take.
And then you can go back.
Well, that kills everything.
It did kill everything.
It was just great defense, funcened off.
Yeah.
You know, to give up the pawn like that to understand that this isn't going to be enough to press home an advantage.
That means there's one game remaining.
That's in the challenges.
it's between Max Varmadam and Daniel Yufra.
Let's take a look at what's happening there.
And it's quite funny because whilst you can expect
after quite a few hours of play,
the game would be in an end game.
This is anything but an end game.
It's a middle game.
And with a clock ticking down for Max,
I...
it's still anything can happen here,
all three results possible.
Yeah, it's a complicated position because obviously Max has the action porn and it does seem quite scary
porn, but you can never already move that porn because you release the beast on a eight
and black has these two
bishops which control quite a lot of squares indirectly and
the white king is a little bit weak because of that, you know that that idea so if you want to win
with white. It seems a little bit tricky to do. I mean it's black smooth as well.
Can black get them ruck in, do something along those lines. I mean also what happens
we just grab a port and let's say a queen takes B-force. A lot going on here still.
There's not a simple position. So if I grab that one, get me.
I guess you start setting up a battery, Queen D3.
With the idea, just cut it.
Yes.
Well, that's good.
Why don't I know whether you get anywhere because I still wrote to D8 yeah
So wrote the eight
All right, if I go here you might even grab a poor
I say he hasn't gone for this. Let's keep with the game. Maybe just think that porn is not that relevant
Do you play it? I don't think so
So what did he play play King H8 so
The idea that is clearly to push the F-form and play for the win
by not allowing this pawns come with check, but the evaluation bar has suddenly gone very
largely, and it's gone down again. So Max actually missed an opportunity, and it was the
thing that you only said, now the king's gone here, you can go for Queen D3, a Bishop
C2, because the king is going to find a hard to escape, and there's another idea coming
to E3, but really hard moves to find this Queen E3, especially.
We're stick with the plan, because the game, now I said you can never play this, because
you aren't least the bishop.
Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, I wouldn't play that one because of that point as
well, because such a wild kind of position.
Now you're constantly have to be worrying about the light squares, but I guess his plan
is to go, D7 and Bishop to D5.
Let's see, it seems like...
He went F5.
Wow, blacks really both sides are gambling in this position.
I think he played F5, is that right?
So, you know, this bishop is released.
I mean, you could even take the night and take the pawn, if you want to.
I think it's F5 on the board, we're just waiting to get caught from the issue.
And he went F5, so another move, which is a bit of a gamble, because you're opening
your king a lot, but you're playing for the win.
So it's very brave play from both players here.
Okay.
This is getting critical now, yo.
Yes.
It's called takes porn as a big.
And you can't kind of block the diagonal with Bishop to D5 because then you've got Queen takes D6.
Maybe you're going to be forced to go.
Sorry, you can't really got up.
You had two minutes left.
I was like, where's he going?
He's like only got to, you can't get up in two minutes left.
But Max is under 30 seconds shortly.
And a position where he could easily lose control.
Yeah, I think he has to amaxes the fantastic player with a keen sense of the initiative
So I reckon that he might go to Rick takes Bishop. Yeah, I like it.
Bishop is really scary if you don't he hasn't done that he's gone for Bishop E6 instead because it was a big
freighter port takes poor and Queen takes port and also if you take here G4 is crushing
because it's another way that Max could lose some Max has worked out he needs to control this diagonal
see places as Bishop on that diagonal. And his opponent now opens up the rook. They're playing
very quickly here. Max responds quickly with bishop takes because the bishop defends that
weak point there and we have this crazy situation now with a lot of different things going on.
Yeah, you can see. I know a position is still really, really quite wild. So what candidates
I mean, kids know.
If the King weren't on H.A.,
you'd have like flashy moves such as Bishop to D4.
But the King is...
Oh, yes.
Oh, maybe you can still go Bishop to D4.
No, because of Ruktay's Bishop.
Right.
Yeah.
Gosh, this position is still...
This is clever, though, isn't it?
Yeah.
I can't.
looks like F-R-E should be weak, but it's not. It's actually really much more.
And if it's not weak, then white has D-7.
Yeah, coming?
And D-8.
Yeah.
Yeah.
From vote, vote, vote.
The form.
Root takes A-8 is always in the air as well.
On the two minutes now.
Okay, maybe he can go Bishop to E-5.
Yeah, I think you know it, but I don't think.
Okay, Bishop E-5, would you like to go Queen H-2?
and that loses, maybe there's even Queen D3.
Queen D3 looks.
The Rick takes.
Trying to come in here is one idea,
and then again, the other Bishop comes in is so hot, like God.
I guess you've always got to watch out for...
Rick takes this.
And then Queen D3, right?
So this is a very nice idea.
Try to come into H2.
But doesn't work.
And using the night, and then very short time,
this could go on a blubber.
This game is so, so sharp and it's a big situation for Yufo, because he's got a, he's under a minute now.
It's under a minute and it's got to find a move.
And it's not easy to find a move, you know, Rick takes A8 seems to be a key defensive and aggressive idea that White has.
So for example, Bish B5, White could play, Rick takes here, you can't check anymore, because the night can now move, because it's not an opinion.
And if you recapture that this is big centralizing move, hitting everything, and the only way to defend both of those is that that one just breaks all the coordinates.
And Daniel now under 30 seconds, and it's not easy to find a move again. He improves his bishop.
Rook to E7 came instantly.
And Max keeping the time pressure on with this move.
Not allowing any break.
And now you can't go Bishop B5.
Stopping that one because the root takes very good move from back there.
Very nice move.
Look at time.
Yeah, D7, D8 is what's simple plan.
And for you further now, has to find a way to maintain the balance and it's not easy.
Not easy.
18 seconds.
It is ticking down.
Maybe he'll go business six.
He says this should be five.
It's got business five anyway.
Yes.
Okay, I don't think that was possible for some reason,
but you can't obviously take it because the night's been.
And he's hinting at ideas here.
This is so complicated for this stage.
When you could try this anyway and go D7.
Yep.
And just be right.
I've got a massive port that's going to tie you
and work down.
I'm still solid here.
That's complicated, but maybe it's something better now.
Bishop E5 played a good move, that's a great move from the effort and the
tightness, so short from both players.
And for Max, he's asked to think about, like, was the impact of Queen
Age 2?
Like, can he get away with going D7?
Is that going to lose the game?
Well, let's have a look.
If you play D7, the Queen will come in, the King has to come here, you will
keep checking and now you can just take him with check and that is the problem.
So I can't play D7, black would be winning this so max, has got his king out of the way
of that check and he's gone king F1. So he leaves F3, I'm defended, but he's counter attacking
E5. It's so sharp, 30 seconds to work this out. Let's quickly show if you take on F3,
I just take back.
If you take again, well, white will be doing well in this ending
because you're pouring up 18 seconds.
What can he play?
It's getting shorter and shorter in time.
He takes on a free, but I guess he's not
going to take a second time.
So Queen takes his also.
It's possible, Bishop takes her three also, the porn on D6.
It is hanging.
Bishop takes her.
You can take it.
This is the more challenge you move, this is basically saying I want to win, because Queen
takes him pretty get a queen exchange and a draw, but this is the more, this is the more, this
people can, Bishop takes D6.
Can he get away with taking that?
He has to work out what's going to happen after Queen A1 check, but he can simply block
that check.
with the queen and there's also Rookie 6 queen here. It looks like a good answer to that.
Maybe Rookie 6 is the best. Trying to hit both of these ones.
Get ready for an in-game.
It looks like the queen's might come off quite soon in this one.
but some got to say hats off to Daniel, who keeps on finding the best moves to stay alive in this position.
Rookie six, to rest of Rick takes H6, attacking the bishop, Queen C4 will probably force this into an end game, force the white Queen to step up to block.
So if you go Queen C4, you attack the rook and you attack this and it's very likely here,
you could play Rookie 2, you're going the wrong way that Max goes Queen E2 and then if the
Queen does do come off, you get opposite kind of bishop ending and if this kind of position
it should start coming towards the draw but he hasn't done that.
He's gone instead Rookie F6.
So he's keeping the tension.
players keep in the touch in both players playing for a win.
Hmm.
Well, because anything can happen with the Queen's on the board.
Absolutely.
Group takes Rook.
Is what I'm expecting.
Max the play.
Just to simplify the position.
I mean, it was so complicated before.
Some shaking of the head.
Yeah.
But I think one thing is for sure.
It's for sure you can't get tempted to give some petty checks with Recky 8.
Suddenly you find yourself with your pieces uncordinated, the porn and before is hanging.
Yeah, it's still in the bad and say it, but it should end with a draw, but pieces are on the board and the time's going low.
Now Max is getting down to on the 22nds.
The more I think he's reaching for the cane, the more he takes, the more he takes.
And of course, it should be a draw.
with so little material.
Once the queens come off, this is going to be an elementry
or with opposite color bishops.
The queen D5 is one nice move.
It's centralizing move.
Or say something like King G2 doesn't look silly to me.
Now the king protects everything.
Bishop E2 aiming at just swapping off both of these pawns.
They can now also a green drawer if it gets that,
because they made it past new 14.
Maybe Black's got the slightly better of it.
I say very slightly, because at some point,
your bishop might be able to target this board
and these pawns are a little bit weaker than these pawns.
So very, very fractionally better for Black,
but there's not much in it.
No, I don't know.
I suspect the Queen will just centralise itself on D5.
Stop it, Bishop C5, I like that move.
And, I mean, okay, he's gone for another way.
He's taking that form.
Bishop C5 is going to be met with a Queen C2 or Queen E2.
Just keeping everything locked.
But opposite color, Bishop's, all the pawns on the same side.
Yeah.
This game is headed to Adro.
Queen comes here. It's just going to watch this one for out.
I would then probably get my King on G2 and put my Queen on F3.
this would be my ideal way just to draw. It's just offered exchange, go
and find nice and comfy around there. But you've got to obviously defend against
that this one first. Did he offer a draw there?
Don't know if you're offering a draw. He may have offered a draw.
It looked like he said something.
And this is a very nice way to just take the pressure off F2.
That's the only slight issue is this here, so he's playing on, I don't know if it was a draw offer, but let's see, and
oh he did it, okay, one of the more fun draw, I've got the wrong way around, so and they're both sort of relieved and a little bit, all emotions there, but a draw, it's okay.
was a good game. What were for a second? The adrenaline was pumping and around of applause here
for our opponent for our players. Max Ramadan and Daniel Yufra who was very entertaining,
very complicated little game there with all kinds of pins, attacks happening.
definitely. But the place to held their nerve and in the end a draw a fair result.
And the results they keep on occurring and we had another decisive day with
four games finishing in a victory. Wins for Nordiebeck, Abduzzetorov, Anish
Gary, Yodon van Furist and Yascon Adamush. Means that we're going to be seeing a
A clear leader once again, a no-de-beck, extending his lead to one point over Javokir Sindarov.
But there is a crowd. There is a pack on four points, four players, Hans Neiman, Adamus,
for the safe and fun for us all there.
Yep, it was a good day for the Dutch today.
I mean both for the Dutch players, you're in an enemy squad,
good to see an enemy, getting back into competition and in the challenges.
Well, this is a bit more recovery day.
We don't really have absolute blood everywhere,
but there's only two decisive results today.
Yes, victories for Vasile Ivanovich and Mark Andrea Moritzi.
Yes, and as Simon says, usually it's carnage in the challenges.
It was a quieter day today.
Let's see how that quiet day impacted on the standings.
And that means there is a two way tie
the first place between Mark Andrea and Muratzi and Andy Woodwood,
but half a point behind them, it is,
I didn't assume, and manly.
Still anything can happen with so many rounds remaining?
Yeah, definitely.
I'm still cheering for Chucky.
You've got to check the Chucky out here really,
so we're loving seeing the top group again,
but it's going to be a great day, Chess.
And it continues.
And we're sort of at the halfway point now.
So they're all warmed up the players.
They're already to do some more damage on the following days and make sure you stay tuned.
Yes. And one leader at the top in the Masters, two co-leaders in the challenges, but with six rounds remaining, the story is still wide open.
Thank you to our audience here at Cafe Lazon. You guys have been perfect.
And a big thank you to our viewers at home for watching every move.
We are going to say goodbye, but we are going to leave you with your
dan breaking down his win against Aravind earlier on today.
So goodbye for us and we'll see you tomorrow.
Jordan, congratulations, a big win against Aravind to move to
plus one before we jump into the game.
How are you feeling tonight?
I was not.
Yeah, very tonight.
Anyway, I'm feeling really good together with a
especially after yesterday's tough loss.
Also, I don't have such a good score against.
I haven't played many times, but I lost them once when I was 15 years old.
And it was a really traumatic game for many reasons.
So, among these childhood things, they can stay in your, like,
I don't know, they'd always miss me.
And for me, it was a difficult opponent, so it's pretty,
and I'm very happy to win for sure today.
Is that good enough for in the future, you know,
maybe erase a little bit of that shine to the memory,
I don't know, I think these childhood traumas, I would stay with you in a way, but I actually felt very confident today, I don't know why, but I thought with why I should definitely push it also, I haven't yet a really good year, last year, but since Danny has come down back to Earth a little bit at least, so he was not in the best shape here, so I thought this is really my game too, at least perhaps.
both very entertaining players,
the very always playing an exciting ambitious chess,
was it an extra reason to look forward to this one?
Yeah, I mean, at least I know I've got a fight for sure,
and I'll throw it yesterday's tough game.
I mean, why not go for a big fight with the white pieces,
so that's good.
And yeah, I was looking forward for a big fight,
but I have to say the opening called me by surprise.
I mean, I know he is really unpredictable,
but still the King Zinien is what I've been playing
this tournament already a couple of games,
And he somehow hit me with it, like, so maybe sometimes
it's good to use your op-like opponents' weapons
against them.
But I don't think it really worked out for him today,
because I think even after Bishop E3, Bishop G4,
it's not a healthy combination, like with 96 and after D5,
especially C5.
It's like some old cool kind of play,
but really modern, like the modern days.
It's considered quite dubious to say the least.
So I was really happy with the opening of Outcome here already.
And I have to give a shout out to my good friend, Luke Van Valey,
who taught me this plan of provoking age six edition of G5.
Dropping back and then playing G3, the point is that black ever goes F5.
Now, night H4 comes and the point on G6 is really vulnerable.
For example, of King H7, I can even sometimes open it up
and you can see why the position is quite dangerous for black.
I mean, he didn't do any of that.
And maybe I was playing a little bit too fast
because I really didn't spend any time on my moves.
But I knew this plan also.
I once had some training camp with Dorfmann
and he showed me this plan.
And like the Bishop comes to D3,
but somewhere here I got a little bit confused
because I'm in a pin.
But I kind of realized that I can just move out
because after what he did,
that the Bishop just drops back.
And if he ever takes this pawn,
The bishop comes back and now Rukage 1 is a big threat.
And if he ever goes back like this, there's going to be some stuff on H6, maybe I can
just take immediately.
And if he tries something like F5, I think I can just take a look a bit weird with the
KINGONF3, but if there's nothing Rukage 1 is coming and life is good.
So yeah, he did this, I went here and he went back, but that's of course a really good
sign.
It was a long game but I think I was pretty much in control like the whole way and I kind of
slowly squeezed him and the problem for black is always there's 9-8-6 and it just doesn't
have a future and what can play on the king side on the queen side and life is really good.
So I don't think it was any majorly critical moment later or maybe I didn't play perfectly.
I wasn't sure about stuff like a 5-5 but it looked so good like the black nights are really
in bad shape.
your best game in the tournament so far or no no for sure against
an issue actually yesterday I didn't even feel so bad but the
game is just like in saying this to him like I know it can be
this good at chess at 14 and yeah I didn't even I made like like one
stupid move and then in time trial I completely collapsed because
I wasn't used to the like time trouble let's say yet and
I did some really dumb things but actually in general he played to really
find game and at least I thought like I said, I went to the Turkish restaurant for
a year.
Look at us, so we didn't have enough like all of the e-sum Turkish as well, you know?
So that kind of really, and it was really nice.
We started for a little bit and that at least brought in my mood and yeah, I came in with
new energy today at least, you know.
And we saw that at the board.
Do you agree with Magnus' assessment that he is probably
the brightest prospect among the youngsters today?
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I mean, I don't know where I was when I was 40,
but I don't think there was anyone at this level.
Everyone knew where 14 and he also beat me actually last year
when he was 13 in the European individual.
And I was two men that were drafted so already
as a pretty good score against me.
I also played him when he was 12,
but he was pretty good.
I won that game, but ever since, so it's not the best.
Yeah, so let's see. I mean, it's still very early to say exactly what will happen,
but it's like he's looking extremely, extremely good.
So there was a good day for the Dutch players in the Masters.
I need you to answer one of his games against Lukash.
Do you keep an eye a little bit in the playing hall on what your compatriots are doing both in the Masters and the challengers?
Yeah, yeah. Just take a look at every game, out of interest.
Maybe a little bit more at my friends or my countrymen, but generally all the games are
interesting to me.
So, yeah, so I think it looked like a good game today, but I don't know anything much about
it.
Well, I think he's waiting, so we are going to find out from the man himself.
You're done.
Congratulations, once again, best of luck tomorrow.
Thank you, Fiona.
Thank you.