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Tata Steel Wijk Aan Zee 2026: Sindarov, Yagiz, Fedoseev & Van Foreest Clash To Catch Nodirbek! Rd 8
01-25-2026 · 6h 11m
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Take out the baby now
Feel the love that we're gonna
Take out the baby now
I don't understand what you need to do
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I don't care.
I'm calling you from all that bad as I was for you.
That was T.O.L.A.S.
No, it's the limbo down of chess.
Welcome to the 88th edition of the Autosteal Chastornment.
The players are ready, and the stage is set.
Let the games begin.
Hello. Welcome. We're into a round eight of Tatan steel chest. The last push before
the second free day tomorrow. Not a bare cab dozer tour of has opened up daylight in the
masters with a one point lead, but in the challenges, well, is everything to play for as two
share the lead at the top and six rounds remaining. Well, that is going to be decided today.
More or more actions going to be in store for us. I'm your host, International Master Yvanka
Housecare, and I'm here with the absolutely wonderful Grandmaster Simon Williams, and bring in the
energy as always, we have our audience at the cafe
dison. Big cheer from you guys. We appreciate
every move, every suggestion you make.
Yeah, listen to that audience. They are fantastic. They made this event
so much fun by having that interaction. And
also, we're going to interrupt you guys at home. So don't worry about that.
But we're even colour coded today. Look, you know, on the camera looks like.
So, all planned, of course, and it's going to be another fun day of chess.
Absolutely, lots of fun and yesterday, you know, it was all drama in the Masters.
We had four decisive results, Nordie Beck winning his game against Vincent Kheimer.
We also had wins from a niche Gary, Yuden Phampharaste, and 14 year old, Yas Khan Adermish,
defeating Arjun Erigazi in a spectacular game.
And he's just 14 years old.
And that meant there was a lot of movement up the standings.
But Nordie Beck, a visitor of he is there with a 1.0 lead with 5.5 points.
Yeah, he's been in this position before Nordie Beck.
I believe last year and he always plays fantastically well in this event.
It's his kind of event, but he's never won it.
Could it be his year this year?
Well, we're found out soon and as you mentioned, Yascan, what a talent he is. I mean, 14 years old
and just played an amazing game to win against Arjun Eragasi. That was a fantastic game.
Absolutely fantastic. And in the challenges, it was, we used to see, you know, decisive
was there, you know, usually with six victories, but here it was just two victories. For
Professor Ivancic, it was great news, maybe he's keeping his hopes alive of qualifying
into the Masters, and it was bad news for Elena Rubber's as she fell foul of a swindle
from Mark Andrea Maurizio. Yeah, that was bad news. She played a great game and just went wrong
at the end there, but good news for Chuck E. Fans, and I'm sure we've got Chuck E. Fans everywhere.
Any Chuckie fans?
Yeah, look, listen to that.
I mean, we do have this sort of shout out for your favorite player.
And actually Chuckie gets more noise than some of the Dutch players.
So it's, he's well loved over here.
And rightly so.
And after yesterday's day, we have now a two-way tie at the top,
as we mentioned, between Mark Andrea Morizzi and Andy Woodwood, Andy.
He won five games in a row, but I didn't see the money did stop him, but there is still
everything to play for with six games remaining. And a lot of the pressure on our players,
a lot of heat, especially as the tournament continues. But we like to have fun with our players
in different ways. And this time, we put them under the spot when we asked them, how many openings
can unite the have been named after regions, places, locations, have a listen to this.
How many chess openings named after cities countries regions can you list?
Spanish, Italian, French, Sicilian, Italian, Spanish.
Okay, London, Scandinavian, Dutch, French, Berlin, London.
Nina coach Sicilian
Russian defense
English
English
Dutch
Well, I don't know not many fast openings to the gamelips, so this is extra tricky for me
No, I'm so good
I'm thinking of anything
I can't even explain it
I'm like French
That was so weird
That was a good one
I was really thinking within the realm of people.
An East winning that one with 10 openings.
Yeah, he's very quick in the East, isn't he?
I mean, he's, you know, always has an answer at the right time.
And that was a lot of fun.
I mean, just they see how even grandmasters,
as mine's can go completely black even though they know loads of these names of course.
Right exactly I mean if they were to analyse them then they're like okay well this is
the Spanish this is the Catalan but yeah when you're put under pressure when you put
that in a spotlight I can tell you from experience it is not easy and talking about the spotlight
the pressure while that is what is going to be going down today let's take a look at the
pairings. And we see that Nordibake Abducitora plays a niche
Gary, a niche Gary yesterday, winning his game. And sometimes, you know,
after a bad start to tournament, all you need is for that one win, and then
the confidence rises, and on you go. Yes, certainly had a great win against the
World Champion, Guyukesh, and he's got a double black, a little bit rough
against someone like Nordibake, who's extremely strong in all areas game, but
obviously the opening, but a niche also is play playing quite risky openings there. I'd say
that the nigh are off and he rolled dice a little bit yesterday with his opening choice. So that's
a massive game, but they're really all massive games. Number one, well I'm looking forward to
them all. For me, I'm looking forward to Hans Neiman versus Jordan, just for the fact that they're
too, well the rule interesting players here, but I'm being quite impressed with the Jordan's
openings, so that would be interesting. And after yesterday, Yass can versus
Prague, I mean, as Yass now would have white pieces. Gonna continue his fantastic
role. And if he played like he did yesterday, it's gonna be very hard to deal with
them.
Well, I like what Jordan said about Yass can. The boy is insanely good. He's so strong.
Yeah. We will see how he does.
And it wasn't just you order and was it I mean Magnus Carlson said this similar thing over
Norway chair something you said that this kid, yes, can, is the strongest ever player at his age
that's ever been alive. Now that is quite some quite quite some, you know, I mean to have
Magnus kind of highlight your talent. I mean that's certainly something. Right. Yeah.
to me about 10 seconds. Well, I've got that.
I feel you Simon, I feel you.
I feel you.
All the time.
And in the round eight challenges,
I'm also being match-ups, especially because it's the round
before the second free day.
And I'm also looking at one talent in particular.
12 year old Faustino Oro plays against Andy Woodwood,
currently sharing the lead.
Andy's only 15 years old Faustino 12.
and we will see how that encountered develops
also for still even took against Max Barma Dam.
Again, so many juicy matchups.
Yeah, definitely.
Another one to mention there is Chris A.
Yep, you were telling us yesterday
that if she actually gets one out of the next two games,
so she wins the day with white pieces,
she will get the grandma's to title,
but not just that, she will be awarded $100,000
from the Singfield Institute. So that is a big game.
She's playing for $100,000. That's not bad.
You know? Yes, you get the Gini Singfield Award,
which actually they've set aside $100,000 for five years.
That guy.
Yeah.
Who is that?
I mean, what's he dressed as?
It's like typical Dutch.
Is this Dutch outfit?
Maybe we can check some others.
Just check in.
Is anyone else dressed like that in here today?
It's a Dutch national costume, like, with clocks.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah, I haven't seen many Dutch people dressed like that.
I don't think it's a typical Dutch thing, though.
No, just, yeah, we've got to be sure.
Well, if you haven't, it seems to be having fun.
Yeah, we're fined out. Maybe it's one of the players coming into disguise.
You know, so could be trying to trick me opponent into thinking they're a clown or a jester
But yeah, I'm going to be very interested, but we're going to have Fiona soon to find out
I don't even know to have to describe that uniform really
chess piece king. I don't know. I'd you know be interesting to find out soon
So yeah, well
Okay, I think Fiona has all the answers there. Yeah, he's even got the whole ruffles going on
on the hat. I am quite loving the hat.
Yeah, I think I could rock something like that.
Do you reckon you can rock a hat like that?
I mean, no, I think that's only for some people.
Are you inferring something by that call?
No, no, no, I'm not saying.
But I reckon you kids.
Oh, you reckon I can rock it.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
Not sure if that's a compliment or not to take that.
I'll take it anyway, so the crowd is quite large today is the weekend over here, so we
had loads of juniors, we're playing us today which is great so the younger generation
coming through and today the crowd is big and I expect to all pick up here as well.
Is that an admire? Yeah. Wearing a chessboard. I think we can now go over to Fiona.
Hello and welcome to round eight. We are here in the Marianne. I'm joined today by Anamaya.
As you can see behind me, it's an absolutely full house. No more receipts, it's packed with fans.
And one person Anamaya is about to win this board. Tell us a little bit about why and what happened yesterday.
Yes, today we hosted in Arena on Chesapeka,
and we had a sort of 116 participants for the state.
And one of the players can now in this board,
we're gonna ask, we have a guest here.
I think you want to do it?
A very special guest who is going to hit the gong today,
we're gonna go over to him.
It is kind of florist.
It's probably the most magnificent outfit
we have ever seen in this venue.
And I have to say the size and the duration and the entire scale of the thing is just mind blowing. You're really doing a great job.
Well, thank you so much, and it is a pleasure having you here.
Today you will have the responsibility.
We are going to find one lucky winner for this chess board,
signed by all the masters.
And your job is to pick a number between one and 116.
Well, there is one number.
Actually, there are two numbers that are really important to me.
One is 750.
But unfortunately, that's not within the range.
You just next year we need to have more players.
We should get to 700.
Another number that is most important to be is my number
because I am count, floors of Holland, the fifth.
So I'm choosing number five.
We're going to talk more in a second by 750,
such an important number.
But now, and it might come over here.
Do you have the winner already?
Yes, number fifth is this guy, not Johnny
2003 I believe from Columbia.
Columbia, so this chessboard is going to go on a trip around the world.
Thank you so much and I thank you, congratulations to our winner.
And now I return my attention to you and I'm going to ask you, you mentioned your number
is 750, why is it such an important number?
Because 750 years ago, it was me,
Count Flores, the fifth of Holland,
that granted the municipality of Baby Wright,
its market rights.
And with those market rights,
they could grow into the commercial center,
then it is today.
So, very historic,
an important historic event for the future of Baby Wright,
and what it has to enter today.
Count Flores, thank you so much.
Enjoy your day here, and we would see you hit the gun in a second.
Thank you very much. Thank you. And today I am going to go to talk to a very special
chasphan. It's a crowded. We're in a very crowded area today, but we're going to make our way
over here where we have some chasphans from India. Hello. Would you like to both introduce yourself
and tell us where you came from.
Yes, I'm Vijay, I'm from India.
I'm Suraj, I'm from India, and Belgium.
And you live in Belgium, or yes, yes.
And you live?
I live in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands.
I have seen you around at the bond of tournaments
and you're very recognized as well
because you always wear a t-shirt supporting the Indian players.
I think yesterday it was Arab and today it's prank.
Tell us a little bit about your support
for the players, the outfit and why you like to travel to tournaments?
It's a respect for them, you know, a respect for players.
I'm more important, respect for their parents as well.
Because I've had a seven year old son, he plays chess,
you know, just for fun.
But I know what it takes them to reach this level.
So for me, a respect for them.
And you've been to, like, and say before, right?
Yes, last year was here, and in Grand Canyon, he made you last year as well.
I remember it well.
With your son, you see here today?
No, not here.
Here we come to Zubakar.
Dranker, this year.
Very nice.
And what about you? Is it your first visit?
It's my first visit actually.
Yes, I've always wanted to come here, but I never got an opportunity.
And this is my chance that I got it as a birthday gift from my friend.
So it's really nice to see the whole place coming up and life,
having them getting the inspiration we need from them.
And it is very nice event that we want to be a part of.
That's so wonderful to hear and I see that you have taken your spot here close to where
Park Nanan and I will be playing against maybe the biggest prodigy these days as Edomers.
What are you expect from this matchup?
Of course I expect to win, but at the end of the day you know the best play you know
First of all, it's obviously we want our players to always win.
Prague has been really good, really well.
But it's always that as an Indian fan, we all want Indian players to keep winning.
But I want to play him to play his best and hopefully get a positive outcome.
One of the fellow, it's great to have you both here have a beautiful day.
And while the music is always, it is our signal, the round is about to start.
So we're going to head over and try and catch the hit on the gong.
The gong is in here. Ladies and gentlemen,
today it's so big when people have generated
some new formal day also to face the gong.
But also of course to face the gong just on it.
It means we're in the eight gongs for the mountains and
And it's very proud for the MPs who play all events in the big ten-league group.
Cova, so it's all right, in the beginning of the World Cup, and Simon Williams,
that we can do all, we could start to look at it, and it's very hard to understand it,
and it's so hard for us to discuss what we have to do,
may not start coming to an act of part of a trade in hotel hold and down, and that's
somewhat of a cave in the Robert race.
Please do not use your cell phones, also not for making pictures, cell phones in the
audience are strictly forbidden.
Our armors are quite strict in this, and you have to be aware that it's not allowed,
and you're long while.
There are no telephones, there is not even a phone call,
but a phone call can be found in an hour or so,
as you can see the phone call.
That may be the first to say for a minute.
Also special about the telephones that are black, that's why
the postal general of a enhanced network is close to the general of the city.
Welcome Mr.
And I hope that you are able to hear the call and don't lose out loud words.
They have come to the government as a very special guest, and I want to say we are quite
honored that he is here.
It's count fours to fifth, a welcome count.
I give you the microphone, and we can say a few words.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I get a little bit of a pause for you?
And without you, we will be here.
So yeah, you might be asking yourself,
who is that royal looking fellow who has joined us today?
Well, my name, you are in the hurry.
It's count floors of Holland, the thing.
And it was me who 750 years ago
grew up in the municipality of Babybank,
its market rise.
And those rights allowed the region
to cross for into the commercial center that it is today.
And because that celebration is this summer,
David Agas asked me to come to all the great events
of David Agas and the surroundings too yet,
observed the festivities.
That's why I'm here, and I'm very honored
to bring the God for you today.
Thank you, God for your kind words.
So, after the hit of the pounds, four to three, the next hit starts, good luck, and enjoy it.
And there we go, I think the most stylish hit of the gong, as well from the Count Flores.
But does mean one thing, the games are now beginning.
Good cash, looking in, meditating, and just visualizing what will happen in his game
with the black pieces against Vladimir Fedasayev, and moving along, we see Yudin Thamporis.
He's opened up, looks like a Sicilian, against Hans Neiman, Yudin showing us that he's
in a fighting mood and a sndar of plays.
Like again, it's Vincent Kramer.
Vincent Kramer.
Well, he'll want to be bouncing back after yesterday's loss.
His king's Indian defense, as well.
So that's very promising.
That is.
And, and he's scary playing against the Nordie back.
It looks like it could develop into a nimzo, a quinsundian,
and young Edermus just 14 years old place, defending champion,
Pragnananda, Pragnananda, yet to make move.
Still very unclear whether Edermus can open with D4,
can E4, he's chosen E4 and Pragn, he means business.
C5 is the response.
And that means one thing that Pragn doesn't want any E4, E5s,
any slow games, he wants the fight immediately.
And Praktmananda is one of our four players who have qualified to the candidates.
He's also defending Tata Steel champion and we did ask him which is more important.
Defending your title at Tata Steel or playing in the candidates.
Yeah, the priority is where I am right now.
So that's for now, I just am thinking about this tournament.
Because I can't really, I don't think there is any point to think about candidates right now.
I'll give my best year and then think about candidates once it is done because there is
also two months gap in between so there is time to put that.
A man after my own heart did you hear that?
No point in thinking about the candidates just now.
Back he has two months for that. That's plenty of time.
I think staying in the moment is good philosophy and that's what he's doing at the moment.
And yeah, I mean, he's a great player, and that candidates,
he said he's not thinking about it,
it's really hard not to think about becoming well champion,
isn't it?
It's not easy.
Yeah, well, he said experience, you know,
he paid in the 20, 24, five candidates.
Yeah, yeah, 24, 24 candidates.
So yeah, you know, so he's experienced one thing, though,
is that they are playing in Tata,
at the same time control that they are going to be playing in the candidates and let's
have a listen to what Prague thinks about playing.
Yeah, I'm not sure if it will be in my advantage, but I mean at the end of the day you have
to play play your best in the boat or the boat and certainly it's interesting for me because
I'm also going to play the candidates and it's similar to time control.
So, yeah, I think it's good, I think as a top play you just have to have just to time
because since there are just so many time controls over the year you just have to get
to them. So I don't mind playing this time control. I think this will also provide some
excitement towards kind of like more 40 there could be some time scrambles.
Well he has the point, you know, chess players just simply have to adapt to the time control
that is in front of them, I mean they've played several, you mean you have the rap
idea of the blitz, but you also have with increment no increment, you also have you know
three time controls, a very slow form of classical chess, you also have two time controls
and sometimes there's just one time control and you just have to get with program.
Yeah, I think most of the chess players that they do that quickly and they're pretty much
similar strength in all time controls really, I mean you're not going to see someone who's
well, best in classical, but, you know, well, number 5,000 in blitz just doesn't happen.
And the way things are going, everything is getting quicker nowadays and that's the same with the world.
I guess, you know, quicker information, quicker this, quicker that, and the same with chess to keep people.
The viewers are, I expect, interested and you've got sort of that, I mean, the old days, you know,
a game of chess could go on for days with the Germans, and then it was when I was playing seven, eight hours,
You can play a game of chess, but that's changing.
Yeah. I've got to say that players are playing more and more tournaments, you know, Vincent was saying that he had a packed schedule.
And he did two weeks to rest before Tata still, and that's exactly what he did.
And there on our screens we have a full camera overview of all the games in action.
As we sit and are walking up and down, that seems to be his thing, he's a pacer for sure.
Yeah, he loves the walk, and he's probably walked the most steps out of anyone who's playing here.
It seems he could wait and release nervous tension, everyone feels a bit different ways.
But I look at the openings which he was showing, it's going to be a great day of chess,
and obviously we're diving to it shortly, but we've got a couple of Sicilians.
We've got a King's Indian Defense, which is also one of the sharpest ways you can play as black.
So the players of the black side are really pushing the boat out today.
Yeah, and let's actually do a deep dive into the game we have right in front of us between
Adomus and Pragnananda.
This two I think they've only played once and that was in the world rapid and blitz team
championship that took place last year in London. That game was a win for
Pragnanander but it was a different time control. So here we're seeing E4 and
Sicilian. Yeah so again you mentioned that you really like. Nowadays it seems like
there's basically two main things that Black and Do at top level against E4.
If you want to save the game you play E5 and this you can still play for
wind, but of course, as we've seen, but this is a safer option. So all the top
players are able to play in this move, because they might need to go solid,
you've got the burlin, you've got the petroff, and you've got the rollo pez, but
if the players in the black side are in more ambitious mode, then they need
something which has a bit more bite to it, and they pretty much all have the
Sicilian as their other option. And the Sicilian leads to sharper games. It
leads to tactical encounters. I mean, obviously, they're very well analyzed. But if
you really need to win, then it is considered that the Sicilian is one of the best
choices with the Black pieces to do that because you get a change of Paul's
structure and you get very exciting games. Now, night's where free was played and
and Prague played night to C6, so this is hinting at the fresh and the cough, and now
there are two main moves, the move that was played and the opens are silly and the D4.
Now I don't know if it's a problem, but it seems to be a trend like 10, 20 years ago
that it gets night C6, players in the white side stop playing this as regularly, and I think the reason was
the stretch of the cough and the stretch of the cough with E five, I might be wrong but
that was my guess.
Yeah, the madness was employing air.
Magnus was employing air and even the last.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And when I was talking to some of the top players, they're basically saying that they just
thought the stretch of the cough was a good way to equalise.
And it wasn't really any way that white could cause many problems.
Now I don't know what the modern state of theory is, but that's why a lot of
play a starter turning to Bishop B5 just to avoid the heavy theory and the
stretch of the cough. Now there's a number of moves here and E6 is one of those
main moves and white side bear is two double the pawns and now B takes is one
of the main well main response and again there are a number of options here and
B3 makes logical sense to get the bishop on a nice diagonal and the next
move is something I haven't seen. It must be a very rare idea and I love
seen rare ideas. E5, you know, is that a movie note off or?
Yeah, I've kind of vaguely seen it vaguely. I mean I've seen 97 as more
standard F6. I've seen D6 preparing E5 not E5 directly. So I can see
that has been played. You five, but okay, it's been played by Boris Gelfand, also, who else has
played there, I think Nikita Meshkov, I think that's his name and yeah, I mean it hasn't been
tried so much at the top level, but it's definitely a move and night takes E5 was the response,
So that kind of force is black's hand and that's simply to go clean to E7.
Yeah, if you don't take this pod, I think it is a good strategy because you want to block
the spitship out so you put a pawn in the way of that bishop to restrict its range.
So night takes E5 is key and now Queen E7, because black has to try when the poleback and
interesting position. So what's now should white do? I guess white can even move the
night or defend the night. So you can defend the night by the most logical
moves to my eyes would be Bishop B2, because that preventives are piece and the
fence. You can see our stats there from the opening database. More popular in this
position is D4, opening things up and that would be a more critical move I
I guess, trying to use some space.
And it probably doesn't make sense to move the night back
because after Queen takes E4, well,
we're going to get probably a lot of exchanges.
So let's have a look at D4.
It hasn't been played.
This has probably taken Yascan by a bit of surprise
because it's a bit of a side line.
And after D4, now what does Black do here?
So Yovie, there's a couple of moves.
B6, F6, even something like B6 might not be completely mad, but I guess you're just
going to see four against that. So B6 looks the most seriously.
B6, again, looks like the most principle move because C takes D4 helps the queen develop
and defund E4, which is the way that black is going to get back the extra material.
So I'm saying no CD, is that D6?
This looks like the critical move because you're pouring down here black. You've got to try and win this pawn back
But then the question remains
Can white grab another pawn so this is all forcing that's why we're just spending a little bit of time on it as it is
Yes, can I'm sure he's considering this now?
I mean if you want to play it safe you can't back
But you probably don't have a big advantage or any advantage here after Queen takes pawn
Let's remember that black has the two bishops
even though he has the double pawns, these bishops can be very useful without the
queens on the board. So this is critical taking here, fretting the queen,
blacks next move looks forced because I'm going to go D5 and B2 pawns up. So
this could well occur, blacks take a look check, I'm fretting your knight, so the
next move is now forced, queen E2, and now I don't see anything else you do
with that queen except for capture, you could try Bishop F5 but let's have a look
at this place of the king. And we could get this position.
And then this is the big question, how is black going to recover the material? Because
I would be anxious to do that. Something in Bishop B7 makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, so let's have a look. Bishop B7 trying to win the poor back, because that moment
blacks still a poor down. And this is quite forcing. And the D5 here looks very tempting
to me, but my A5 is also tempting, so I mean lessable, so if you go D5, then you're trying
at the moment again, you know, you report up and you're just trying to block the bishop out,
so this is your idea that one.
Well, okay, okay, the very worst you have like Bishop takes night and then you can just
round up the pawn and C6.
That's like a full back option.
Something we have like a minimum rook C8.
I guess the problem with this position is, I really think black structure is very bad.
This will be a very pleasant for white.
I mean white can put a rook on the default.
You have this backwards pawn here, which can't be defended by non-important.
And the square in front of the backwards pawn is a real target for a white piece
piece of the land into, so just positionally this looks very nice and white, I would say.
Why not be that bad, but not a great fan of that.
So we've got to try and find something else here, what is pranks like there.
Anyway, there's a lot of audience here, let's get them involved.
Yep.
You want a castle log? Okay, crazy Dutch man in the front row.
throw.
He's trying to castle and check, mate me with a rook.
I like the style.
Do you remember the queens are off though?
It's hard to check mate about the queens, but this...
Yeah, yep.
Let's have a look.
So the idea is to castle and put the rooks like this.
this, but I still, I'm a little bit concerned about this central square. So let's say I
just develop a knight and I try to come in here. At some point you probably have to take
this one, I think it's fair to say. And now, well, you do have a check. So let's just develop
and I'm going to plunk, clunk, my knight into that square. And if you castle, like try
to get the rook here, I'm going to cuckplunk. And that doesn't move which you have to say cuckplock.
It's such a nice square. Cuckplock. You know, just subtly say cuckplock. You know, when you
wait, you know, so you're playing. Actually played, I remember I was playing a game for the British
under 14 championships, also in Gets Carl Mark. And this is, he was, he won it in the end.
this is the key game.
And I was playing Carl and it was a very complicated position.
I was trying to work out a fight of perpetual check.
And you know what he said?
He actually leaned over.
He said, I've already calculated.
It doesn't work.
LAUGHTER
And did you believe him?
I played it.
It didn't work.
And I lost.
That's what fair.
I believe you're warning.
I know, it gave me warning.
She took you little 14 year old.
Yeah.
warned me, so D4 probably a key move here.
And OK, if we go for it again, that last idea
recommended very interested, interesting.
This one is not, not, sorry.
Got that wrong.
Oh, yeah, so D6 first, nice C6.
By the way, I just checked the database.
Yeah.
And we've seen this position before,
between Vishianand and Boris Gelfand.
OK.
And, instead of going D5, white chose Knight to A5.
Right. That was a move that you kind of also highlighted.
And, how about that then go? Because it was a win for white.
Well, championship match 2012, we're being updated. Is that correct?
Yes, that's what that's. Okay.
That's what I am also.
Right, okay.
Gain to of the rapid playoff.
Of the rapid, okay.
Okay, yeah, because I...
Yeah, because they had all drawn...
They had one win each in the classical and then restores.
Yeah, because I don't think Gelfan lost with white there, did he?
No.
But this, okay, well, that's because that was a big, big game.
So let's just have a little look how those two heavy hitters played.
So I guess it went, Bishop takes G2.
Yep, and they're at G1.
Rook G1, yep.
Yeah, where are you going to go with the bishop?
He went to H3.
Bishop H3, okay.
And then DC, DC, and exactly what you were saying,
you want to put a night into the middle of the board,
and night's heat free.
And just like, I can't put it in the audience,
Castle Queenside was the response.
Love it.
So we have some audience members.
Obviously, you knew about that game in the audience.
He was just playing with us and he was obviously an expert
in that lightness line.
And he knows all the right plans.
And if you get some work as was mentioned, it's getting quite dangerous.
So a good plan, a good plan.
And this is a very interesting position.
I mean, the evaluation bar says white is slightly better,
but it's an open position.
Two bishops, both kings are quite exposed.
So this could be fascinating if this occurs.
I'm looking forward to that one.
So yeah.
But the decision is all yes, Khan, because he hasn't made a move.
He hasn't paid D4, remember he can also go Bishop to B2 and take the game into completely
different direction.
So let's take a pause from this whilst he has his thinking and maybe move on to something.
Else maybe we'd pull up our full board view and have a look at who is playing in a spicy
manner and already I'm looking at Hans Neeman against your...
I thought that game would be very interesting and I think we have to keep the Dutch happy here.
But there's so many interesting games today. This is going to be a great day for spectators.
I mean, look at Sindar off. He's pushed the H porn.
Wow. So I love seeing that always.
We have a stretch in the cough. We mentioned the stretch cough for Go there in Niemann's game against the Jordan.
And other games which I might I is going to well look at Gary Gary's push is F-port has
played a dutch.
As Gary played the dutch I think it's unlikely it's actually a line which is quite a dangerous
line for both sides.
Let's go over to Niemann versus Van Forest and this is a big game for both players.
and he did lose the game to the top seat, he lost to Vincent, but apart from that, he's played very, very well, and you're also in there, in the hunt, and you're done is playing good chess with good ideas.
He's feeling confident, you wouldn't say it yesterday, you know, you wouldn't have suffered two loss, no one loss, he lost the edamish, and that was it.
Yeah, I mean, he's still in the hunt if he gets a good run of games.
Well, we do have the crowd here, so let's see.
Okay, well, I'm who's shouts.
It was just a year if you're a big yordin fan.
We must have loads of yordin fans.
Any yordin fans?
Good.
Okay, any hands, name and fans?
Yeah, yeah.
Not as money.
Okay, but it's holding a bit of a good, you know.
We've got a couple of hands fans there which is good and just out of interest Chuckie fans
Yeah, they make a lot of noise to Chuckie fans. So as they should do well I did we did get a little like tip bit of information
That's the person who got the most popular cheer. You got the most cheers when they walked in around one was even chick
And then the second one was Elina Elina Roberts, of course.
Yeah, Elina's a fantastic player and going up the ranks.
And what about the result here? Okay, so before we go into it,
who thinks Hans is going to win?
Shit.
Was that, uh, that was a very just in case you get lynched.
Yeah.
That was a, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, too too early.
Well, before the game started,
I want to have a little vote.
I want to vote.
We'll get that soon.
You're all done?
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
We're getting that.
We'll get that.
So, we'll make sure the stretch of the cough.
And it is.
The stretch of the cough, by looks of it.
So, oh no, it wasn't.
The structure on the board, the bottom live board looks like a stretch of cough.
But this is not the typical way to get there.
Yeah, but it did get there.
I transposes.
Yeah, it got through my different move order.
Okay, so d4 play and now black has
Well a couple of ways to play this night c6 is
One idea and a six is like the can variation very flexible, but night c6 is a main move
white develops the other night
Black brings the night there and now night b5 trying to come into b6 and this is how we get the stretch of cloth now
We go d6, white attacks this pawn again, with bishop f4, and now we get e5 because there's
no other way to defend this one. And the bishop now comes to g5 because it's a big
fight for the b5 square, and this is very important to try and get rid of the defender
of that square. And if we very quickly go for the shershnikov, you might need to help me
Yeah, because...
OK.
Yeah.
Let's go for it.
The stretch of the cough, which we mentioned, is a very good opening for black.
I think we'll come up down.
So yes.
Fire E5.
Right here.
You don't really want to allow that coming in.
D6.
And now you go Bishop G5.
And I believe that the same positions.
Yes.
And then normally black does a kickback of the night.
The A6, Knight A3.
And we have a whole like strategic or battle happening.
with white trying to take control of the D5 square and black going for like aggressions.
Yeah, so let's look at your sole theory. So we go a little bit further. So the
night has to go to a bad square, black takes advantage of that. This is main line,
but white's trump not Donald is this square on D5. So the night comes into that square.
But this is like a modern way of playing it and I would say it's also high risk
high reward because once the pawn structure change you can go Bishop takes F6
and that would be like a more classical way with the Queen coming out and then you go
95 and then you go about maneuvering, say that in an A3-9.
Yeah it's a different kind of position you can take with the Queen you can take with the
pawn it's a black black choice and then here you're going to play it slowly with 95
C3, nice C2, nice E3, you know, and in the mean time, black is getting ready with F5.
Yeah. So there's a different type of game. But once you go night to D5 immediately, then there's going to be a porn imbalance from the get go.
Right. So Bishop F7 pretty much forced. I mean you have to break this pen at some point.
Now, Bishop takes F6 and now taking is not quite as good because you don't necessarily want
your Bishop here. If you capture, you might want your Bishop defending your King when
you castles. So Bishop takes is the main line and now C4, which is another move. You
kind of want to accelerate the play force like to compromise the green side with B4. You
I don't want to be game BcFull.
That just invites the night into the party.
Yeah, so close, knit down.
But a downside of this move is you help this white knight,
which is badly placed, come back into the game.
And it's all about this D5 square for white.
I mean, black does have the D4 square.
This is in this variation, very important as well.
So now we have car sauce, Queen F3.
This is still well known stuff.
And the next move is sort of aimed against this kind of idea.
And this is already quite an interesting structure
because yeah, white has a lovely night
but black has some trumps as well.
Black has these dark squares particularly.
I mean, if this night ever moves away, the night default
is also an outpost.
And you can try to get rid of this night at some point
by just eliminating it.
It often comes also.
There's F5 breaks, white has breaks on the king's side.
So there's a lot, a lot of little things going on.
Now Bishop G5 is a main move.
And one of the ideas is if a night comes,
you have an option of taking it, which can be useful.
Because remember, it's all about the fight for this square
as well.
And if Bishop G6, white might try to support that one.
But if you can get rid of both the nights,
I mean, an ideal situation is this night versus this night
for yourden.
So let's just say you've played here,
and just put it in an ideal situation on the board.
Let's say you took, took.
Okay, I'm gonna go here because I want to eliminate this one.
And now you've got this situation.
This is a dream come true.
It's all about what pieces you want to exchange.
Why is this a dream come true?
That night is a monster.
It can never be, well, the only way it can be taken
is with a rook.
So white has to lose material.
This bishop is very bad
because the pawns are on light squares.
So this is just kind of things you have to think about.
hence that move also F5.
So now hands plays the main idea, H4,
and the bishop now comes to H6,
and this is still main line stuff.
G4 threatens to trap that bishop,
so you have to move it again,
and you have to offer it,
well, offer it to this knight on F4,
that if white takes this one, black gets great compensation,
So we can just show that quickly with most likely this night coming, something like this,
tacking the porn, and this is considered, it's been worked out quite deeply this, and
it's just considered a lot of analysis on this to be fine for black.
But it's interesting because you don't have to use that much time and you pay the
to F4 very quickly. It's been a lot more popular to go F6 just to stop right from trapping
the spaceship and then you know the kind of play will be Queen to G3 and then Bishop E6
you don't really care so much about the fact that the spaceship is there on H6G5 is still
impossible. And here, you know, it's just a game where white is really trying to get through
G5, you know, is no holds bar chess, and then you're going to be seeing Bishop takes D5 after
Richie won. So for instance, you know, white is insisting, you can give Bishop D5 and then
you can come in with your Bishop to F4. So we know that your isn't exceptionally well prepared.
So his hands, yeah.
So Bishop F4 is interesting.
I mean, Bishop B2, a simple move, developing a piece.
And now, Jordan is having a bit of a think here about what to do.
So I wonder what it's idea is.
I mean, this position.
I guess Bishop B6 and go for your suggesting earlier on, you know,
trade off that amazing horse there on D5 and then just ask the question, how is
white going to get the king to safety? I mean you can also slow play this with
like for instance King F1 is one move that I was thinking if I were white I would
do just to get my king to safety because I cannot relax until the king has a
home, but you can already see that the evaluation bar says, you know, black is absolutely fine.
Bishop D5 is in the air, Rick C8 is coming, Rick B8 is also possibility just to support the porn on B4.
Yeah, it's a very interesting position this and I suppose that always the critical line is night takes F4, but this must have been
And I'm so much in the past, so, you know, we know that your doesn't care about material.
He comes very much from the Dutch School of Chess, which is initiative is everything.
Is that true?
Do you guys not care about material?
It's just all about the attack.
It's good.
Yeah.
Activity.
Yeah, is that more important than pause?
Do we have any porn, grappas?
We're meant for the time and I'd like to be able to pull you out in the wrapper.
Yeah? Come on. Where are you from, Germany?
You're Dutch, okay. Just checking. Yeah, so it's all about the initiative.
I like that. You're all about the initiative, I feel.
So this could be really interesting.
I mean, we should maybe just before we move on, have a look at what happens again if at some point white grabs this floor.
And this is where you were going night to E5, so...
Yeah.
Come on Simon, with sound effect.
What?
I don't know.
Couplunk.
Couplunk.
It's Couplunk.
Couplunk is as an F4.
No, no, no.
I only make the Couplunk when it's never going to be too much.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
This one is tangible.
It would be F4.
So it's more of a Couplunk.
That's so annoying.
You could name as well.
Okay.
Okay.
And we are attacking this form with that move.
So night E3, right?
Right E3, very logical defending.
Centralised the night.
No idea where the white king is going to go.
I like the right there, putting it over here.
What's your going to play?
Is he going to play Bishby 6?
Has he got something else up his sleeve?
I mean, this black have enough compensation here.
I mean, if I'm doubting, he has played Bishby 6.
If I'm doubting the compensation, it's normally quite...
But why are you doubting?
You know, you point down, and their form might come.
I mean, they're...
Nice trick.
And can you go, oh, very nice trick.
Call your shop today. You had your P-suit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, very good. So what?
Yeah, you gotta say that one.
Okay, well it's...
Unfortunately, we ran out.
I don't know, there's been a lot of years of death for a few decades today and we don't have any
But obviously they will hopefully be back actually I can't promise anything
Or hopefully be back by Tuesday
Just one of you got anything we can offer. I've got a bit of ginger
You're going to start throwing ginger to the crowd Simon
I'll get desperate
So very nice tactic pointed out
And the tactic is, if white plays a logical B-free, defending the pawn, the bishop takes G-4,
and that was well-spotted. And now if you play bishop takes this, that's a clock.
That is a clock.
Oh, you know, kind of.
Call the ambulance.
Exactly.
But not for me.
Not for me.
And that is definitely a big...
So you have to probably go here and this could very much occur but where is blacks compensation?
Because you're a pawned down and I'm getting ready to move my king here, move the queen and
kick that night away.
This move worries me in the long term because if I kick that night away, well I'm also coming
at you.
So where is the compensation, at the case?
Can you do word things like B3?
Yes, okay let's have a look.
So B3.
Now, we also didn't have to go nighty-five, but it looks normal.
This, when it might turn into a poor grab.
I don't know, I don't know, it's what it is.
Why are you forcing me to play like the Simon moves?
I know.
Well, I'm just going to grab it.
Okay.
Grab it.
Like, then be six.
That was the plan.
Okay, pressureing.
Yeah.
Now I'm going to hold on.
Okay, are you going to go over a K-free Simon?
I'm going to use him, wise, well.
Well, I might as well.
Welcome to the dark side.
Yeah, I know.
I don't like it, I don't like it, I don't like it before.
I'm going to clean D4 here I come.
D4, stop doing these things.
We have ideas and I'm two whole ports up which is good.
I'm going to hold hold the fort.
Now you do have D4.
You just have to taste D4, thank you very much.
Yes, they go Simon.
Yes.
Do you believe?
I'm getting near belief.
And now, what if I try to get the queens?
I'm just going to pour it up.
There is a little sliding move.
Yeah.
Well, we have fun.
I just want to put it on the pewter.
In the computer.
In sec.
Because it's one of those positions.
Sometimes we do have to use it to see what the...
Let me take out my B3 move, because that was...
I quite like B3, but what about...
What about?
This looks quite dangerous.
They're here.
The computer is recommending a wild move.
Is it going to get F45?
D5.
Oh...
Not F5.
F5, yes.
F5, I love.
What important takes for work to take?
X, yes.
What's got a Queen E3?
That's not my name, isn't it?
This move.
The computer likes D5. Wow.
And this is wild.
The other pawn.
Well, luckily I think we can take it back as the pin.
So if you take here, I suppose we just capture.
And you know, this is a, I mean, your hopefully is looked to this,
because it is, well, the engine does like whites.
But there might be some clever idea.
I mean the engines normally pretty, pretty correct.
Strong engine.
Do both players know these moves?
Well, I doubt it because Hans is having a long think now.
After Bishop B6, Hans, if you'd have looked at this line,
he would have taken a straight away.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, this is the thing if you're going to prepare an opening
like this, you need to know exactly
how you're going to get your compensation.
So I don't worry about your position.
think you'll be feeling fine. But I feel you, you know, you don't stumble into this one.
Can we go back to our birds' review? Because I would love everyone's take and that everyone
feel free to get involved. Because I'm looking at the game with the King in the middle of
the board. The King is on D8. It's the game between Arvin and Arguicy. First game on the left.
can we put it up? Of course. And also, I mean, I mean, both of these players
has low every game is brilliant. But these two especially, they kind of play with that
touch of magic. It just hasn't worked for them in this particular event, especially for
Arvin, but you've got to applaud the creativity. Yeah, I mean, I've said this for
out. I mean, one of the players I like looking at the most of his games is Arvin,
because he's always coming out with some crazy stuff that, you know, ideas that have been
played, openings that shouldn't work sometimes they don't. But they are fascinating. And
of course, Arjun, it plays in the same style. So this is, yes, it's just ready to be fireworks.
And we have a Sicilian, like we just saw, so we've got to this a minute ago. And I think
we have the same line, wow. So we have the same line that happened in hands versus
the order. And now instead of playing D6 which would basically transpose, it was very similar.
It's not quite the same. We have Bishop C5.
It's set up Bishop takes F2, so it'd be careful.
Are we nailing when we're not quite doing that?
Oh, it's actually, but yeah, so this is already quite, well, quite unique in some respect.
So the bishop would love to go here in the Sicilian in these lines, but you do find that D6
can be a real issue and this pen as well.
You can't break the pen now.
So you plug the whole D6.
Now Bishop takes F6 as played to get more control of the square.
But look at this, this is getting mad.
Black takes for the queen.
Watch out, scholars are made about.
Better watch out, scholars are about.
And the night comes in.
Whoa, another crazy game.
So the king has to move.
And now you have to get your priorities right here
and deal with this one.
So why does deal with that?
Stop in the checkmate.
Now you can't take that night
because of 95, and that would fork the king into Queen.
So the rook has to move, rook b8.
The Queen comes out, I guess with an idea,
just castling at some point, and now h5, okay, why h5?
When in doubt, push Harry.
It's always good move.
Right, why am I saying that?
Why am I saying that?
It's not a doubt, isn't it?
What's happening?
You're like within the last two days, you go for an asexential crisis.
You're now your doubting Harry.
I know, and I'm taking pawns.
Hang on, hand holding on.
Yes, ridiculous.
So this night now hops back into the centre.
The queen tries to exchange off, which is very, very normal, because the king is in the middle of a board,
and you would have fought Blacks King as in more danger.
the Harry move, because you can now take the rook. So white says no, no, I'm going to play the most
interesting move. And again, this is one of the reasons I already enjoy watching a Vendor's play.
He plays F4, no queen exchange, Paul takes F4, and now he's like, yep, I'm just going to get on with
it, castles. And he doesn't care, he does not give a damn, and he's just going for it. And
and there's a really exciting play from both sides,
very risky opening, from both sides.
Yes.
And because I am at heart, a chicken,
my whole reasoning here is get the queen of the board.
As black, if I would be like F3, give it all back,
just to get the queen's off.
And it's just relax a little bit about the king.
Yeah, I'd be feeling the same.
do you think Argin will be here in the same? Do you think Argin is going to go night?
It should be six or something else? I don't care.
Well, how dangerous is this? I'm not sure. Maybe if White gets one more move, you'll
never be an exchange queen. I don't know. I might just take that one with a night. I'm just
wondering how dangerous is it for black living a king on this line? I mean, instinctively,
it seems quite dangerous.
And instinctively I'd be the same as you.
I'd be like, I want to get the coins off and play a free.
The bishop's quite handy.
I mean, this is Black's real Trump.
The bishop on C5.
I feel that is like, you know, the one main thing,
but I don't really like Black's position here.
Because I can see as well,
the knight takes a force coming and then like A4
and then suddenly like Lukust talking.
The D-Line is problematic.
So if you don't play a fruit, let's say you played this move.
And now I take here.
I really like your suggestion, I A4.
That looks quite scary.
Because if we get rid of this bishop,
we're coming straight through the center.
Maybe Black's going to put the bishop on E5.
Yeah, could be.
And then you've got night D-free as well.
I know because the queen, so.
Maybe he's not as, because that looks like terrifying.
Yeah.
If you go bishop to D for, I'll be like, okay, well,
night B5, thank you very much.
And we're flying in here.
Now I want to play here and I'm G3,
and I'm just like, I ain't friend no ghosts.
And this is a big move straight through the middle.
Straight through, this looks terrifying.
Okay, so let's have a look at instead F3,
the chicken, the fruit.
Well, probably the wise approach. So F3 here.
No, yeah. Well, I say chicken. I don't mean it in a bad way.
It's just very sensible.
Yes.
And now I will take this one and at least now black can get rid of the queens, which means
as kings a bit safer. Something like, probably would take.
Yeah.
How comfortable is this for black? I don't know. There's nice.
It's nice, very nice.
I mean, you got the two bishops, but I definitely like the look of white's position here, personally.
Just this square is always going to be white, so I feel there's no way you can do anything about that.
I mean, it's probably maybe not as bad as I'm thinking, but I mean, this night a force lurking try to get rid of the bishop.
And it just looks nice and white. It looks quite nice.
We've pressured against these six white doesn't really have any weaknesses here, but black's got weaknesses
Yeah, so this is one of the more I think successful openings for our event so far
Right and both these players especially our end is struggling in this event are Arjun yesterday losing with the white pieces against Adam
So, all of these players who have lost their games, it's so important for them to bounce back.
And talking about bounce back, we also got our eyes on Vincent, Vincent Kaimer, and Yavokeer
Sondarov, maybe we can head there, and see how Vincent handles a yesterday, he lost
with the white pieces.
And I mean, you hear it time and time again, you know, Magnus himself said, when he was
been upon me, actually, it's so important not to have a glass jaw when you get struck
in the face and you've got a bounce back and just to recover and that's something that
we see time and time again. So we were kind of curious about the stats of all the people
who played in Tata Steel, who's had the best bounce back from a loss and take a look
at this. So we have, we have some, okay, so Jordan has lost 23 times in the over the years,
in a tata still competition. And after every loss. So these are current players. Yeah.
So this is more interesting to me to see actually how many times they've kind of played
and obviously Jordan and the niche have played much more than anyone else that they're going
I don't have more loss, right?
But a bit, for Jordan, he's lost 23 times,
but he's won nine times after that loss,
and he's lost 10 times, and he's only done four times
two losses in a row.
Right.
So, that's quite good stats in my opinion.
Yeah, well, I like the 0.6, that means he gets
on average more than a draw after he loses.
So, the way I'm looking at that, so, yeah, interesting.
But not great for Vincent.
If you look at the heat, he's lost eight times.
Then three of those times, he's lost twice in a row.
That's only from this tournament though.
So I guess the stats are quite low for him.
But yeah, interesting.
And now, I mean, Tao was famous for doing really badly
in the first round.
But look at his score after he lost.
I mean, he would be a killer the next day.
I mean, absolute destroyer.
You wouldn't want to face him.
He'd win nine out of ten times after he lost.
So that's terrifying.
But he was quite terrifying play.
I also live on a run-in.
I have some good stats when it comes to bouncing back.
Lost 11 times.
One, six, three, five.
Never lost two in a row.
It's really important to get back into it when you've had a bad day, but certainly clear.
And Magnus, you know, we always call him the king of comebacks, can he barely loses?
No.
Toon a row, and there you can see, when after a loss, six times, it's lost 14 times,
which ain't that bad considering how many times he's played here in Tata.
And one six of those games drawn six lost twice to an arrow.
You're interesting. Interesting stats.
Any stats for anyone wants our team is on it.
They can figure out almost anything out.
Keep it to chess though.
We can't do it with a fake name.
Well...
And is it a very interesting game as well here
And also, like, you know, Cindara has been playing great chess, he's in second place, and he's taken risks with the black pieces.
I'm really enjoying the way Cindara is, you know, he's playing with such confidence.
He's not with the black pieces saying, okay, I'm just going to try to stay in the boat and play safe.
He's like, okay, I'm going to play with a win with black and white.
And he does that here by playing the Kings Engine defense again.
And this is what he played to win that very nice game
against the players for that night D3.
If anyone can remember that.
Now, Vince plays a safe line G3.
Isn't this what you play, Yovie?
G3?
Is that right?
Safe D first?
Is that a fair to say?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have been known to play G3 many a time.
And it's completely safe. You just go push up G2, you cast or you may or may not go see
forward depends on how ambitious you are. If you're feeling ambitious, go for it. If you
know it's going to be free and just do. Exactly. Make no moves. Oh, aggressive. Yeah.
Black though, on the other hand, wants to try and open things up. Yeah, this is annoying, right?
because once you've gone G3, you know, you kind of, if you want to go G5, you have to know your G3
Bannoni and that's quite double-edged. So I advocate not to go there and instead just do
what Vincent does, just go Bishop G2 and try to get it into some kind of grump file type position.
So now we have, well, you know, pretty standard stuff at the moment, Bishop G7, white
go see for, and we talked about this rocks he bind, often put the poor there, but you
don't need to do that yet. The white wants to control the central squares with the pieces.
Black develops, and of course, well, you can all know what black plays here. It's a fantastic
new double exclamation, brilliant move, amazing.
Re-shaping the world of chess.
I've got to now prove I still like Harry and I'm giving it away a little bit but it is
H5. Yes. Yes. Can we hear he's there? Yeah. Good stuff. The porn is coming and always a good move.
even on move one. Maybe. And this is, yeah, it's kind of an idea. It's not really
even that modern book. It works especially well when you're playing against a
finished yeto position, but of course it's risky because you're spending a lot of
time. And here, well, okay, before we go to what is played, there's always free
ways that white in this case can deal with this idea.
I did number one is you just stop it when you play H4 and you're like, okay, you're not having any fun
And then both sides have access to these two squares because there's no kick move
So that's one idea the second idea is you try to meet H4 with G4
So you play H3 and if H4 you go G4 this is the other way that you can play
But here maybe this could be a little bit weak and the third way is what things have goes because I'm not I'm not
I'm not impressed by your rubbish. What are you doing? You're your mad. I'm just going to
castle. I don't believe it. So he's not believing Harry and I feel that's going to bat
fire. So here it comes. H4 and Vincent's like, yeah, you're just still not impressing me.
I'm just going to defend it. Bishop F4. Sidorov on the other hand said,
Well, I hope he'll open each file.
By the way, Sondara, if really believes in this idea,
he's like, yeah, I'm going to do it for lots.
He plays, he often plays age five, so.
Yeah, so maybe I'm just trying to set the scene
for Vincent, maybe this is not a surprise.
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
Maybe he's ready, but we'll find out.
If you again want to play the most principle move here,
you want to take the H port and the reason is if you take this port you split all your
pawns and positionally this is all right. I should also point out that E5 doesn't work
because of knight take C6 and then we take that pawn so you can't fork a piece of E5.
So white plays H takes and now Sidorov asked the question knight H5 attacking this and attacking this
which is interesting because it's laughing, you've actually got off in the low mood.
What's he thinking of? You know, you know, you weren't like saying about it'd be great to know what they're thinking of.
Exactly.
Maybe it's figure of some TV show and he walks out there.
Some funny moment, that happens to me quite often thinking of something amusing.
But I was just going to say that by the way, this position has been reached before, but black didn't play a night age, five.
instead they picked Queen A5 and it was paid by Ali Reza with the black pieces and yeah
I've seen that idea before.
Exactly, just swinging the Queen over, E3 was played after I just wanted to highlight this.
This is a lovely idea. You actually get this quite often in the English opening.
We did the same idea that the brutal idea is just to come like this.
So white says, well I'm going to take your Queen to do that, but now
After E3, exactly as you mentioned G5.
G5 looks pretty scary.
It was pretty scary.
Black one.
The Queen in some case.
This can even come this way, right?
You know, like those to be free.
Wow, okay.
So this is actually a nice idea by Alirisa.
But, in the H5 play, the bishop comes back to me free.
And now he asked the question, draw a bit.
And this is maybe where the smile and the laugh happens, not on my watch.
Not today, thank you very much.
Okay, but now we're kind of...
Exactly, but now we have a decision, right?
Because the first move that I'll be thinking of is
the night is going to come out to G4.
Yeah.
And suddenly there's pressure on D4.
Yep.
It's such a pity that the black queen can't get over here.
If I could just craftily move it there,
I'd have a winning attack, but there's no way
to get the queen to the side of the board.
You'd have to change the rules of chess.
We were there too.
And I think you know, maybe Vincent heard you yesterday,
because you made a point that so far in this tournament,
the players that have turned down the draws.
And push for more.
And push for more.
I've nearly always gone on to lost loops.
Yeah.
So maybe Vincent heard that.
And then he's projected.
And he's like, I don't believe in what you don't be saying.
I'm going to go for it anyway.
He should listen to the only, that's very important,
life less than I feel.
What?
So, Nike 4 is very interesting.
Yeah, and what are you going to do?
Well, let's say I go night B5, and I try to come in here.
OK.
And you're going to look at F8.
It's like for some reason trying to find the worst move on the board as well.
Well you successfully found it.
Thank you.
I got to get out the habit of doing that.
It's like, what is the worst move?
It's not a very healthy habit.
No.
So this is a big idea.
Or is it?
Okay, what about night takes bishop?
Night takes bishop.
Look at that, I repaid the favor.
Apparently this is also bad.
The wires is bad, so no.
Let's ask the audience.
Yes.
Would you move this night in?
Keeping your nights in the center.
Or would you move this night in, keeping your night on the side?
So if you want to move the one on B5 in, can we hear you say,
or yay, not very infused with this. If you want to be this one, yay, okay. Now one of them
is actually good and one of them is not good apparently. So if you move this one in, look at
that bar of one out. I don't know why. I guess I'll just just give this a
I guess you move the key, you have to get out of check and now you have to take with a pawn
You have to take with a pawn
That E6 because my queen's on parry
Yeah E6, so this is forcing
I don't know how on the rook is on parrys
Yeah, he has to move the rook, right?
Yeah, okay, just move the rook then
Okay, so just rook B8
I don't know, this does still feel quite loose, but I guess you get in return because of
this double bonds.
If the queen ever comes up to D3 or C2, to threaten G6, you can always like plunk and my
end to E5.
And these two nights, they look a little bit awkward, right?
E6 is incoming.
Black has the ability to go in that E5.
the night the night fantastic there but if yeah I mean if you go for the other night
let's let's just go there this is a very complicated probably what's
said are of is calculating now but if you go after night taxi free don't know
that one go away here if you go for this one then this is actually very good for
white and they've got 96. No you don't know you don't.
This it takes you to do.
I'm sorry I gave it to them away sorry.
No no no it's a good plan but it is a lovely tactic right?
It's a really nice tactic. The difference here is that you have a kinotactic
and the only spot it immediately and the kinotactic compared to the last line is
number the night was there, but in this line you have it's quite surprising you can actually
go and bishop take C6 because that night was guarding the queen. Now you can't take
with this pawn because that one. But after this one this is like a big, big move. It's
attending fork move. 9 E6 and that's very pretty right because that night it can't
be taken by anything and you're going to lose the queen. It's a crazy tactical idea
very very surprising so so what I said I'm going to do if you can't go
night here so well after this one you could just go key and pay and if you
come in I go root be eight and I I don't mind going king FA anyway because I
want to I want to keep my work on the open H file and this is just a complete
mess I attack your bishop but I'm bit worried that you can't get the queen
I do, that's why I didn't raise this move was quite crafty, right?
Because without it, I didn't raise this move,
he was trying to get it in straight away.
But it's still not easy for white, though,
you're going to go with a bishop.
Yeah.
Because I feel like, as white, you don't want to be allowing
night taxi three.
No.
So you have to, maybe you get bishop before.
You're not trying to come.
Wow, that's just, yeah, it makes sense.
Just going for something at night and and it does I mean it looks dangerous than white king
But without the queen joining in it's maybe not that dangerous so
Black has to try to find some very clever idea to continue because whites
Why's got very consent from control? Yeah, I don't really trust this kind of move
But maybe you can do it. I mean let's say I just grab it
Oh
Oh, no, the guy says no
Well, let's see why happens if you grab the poor first. I mean E5 is very
committal. I see that idea trying to get a queen over but why is this so
terrible? What have I missed there? I guess you go with the one. This is
nearly a great move. Yeah, this isn't a verse. But you can go also
So tonight's C7, which one do you want to go for?
What about this?
What about this move?
Night takes.
Night takes and now.
Now that's C7.
Boom!
Woo!
And now you go here and I go here.
Oh dear.
That's embarrassing for the queen.
OK, well he has him.
So that's actually quite crazy.
So we go here.
Where are you?
We go here.
And if you take with a king, we go somewhere and then here,
and we're winning like here, here, here, here.
Beautiful.
Maybe that is the one.
It's a key ring type move.
I will reward myself one when they arrive.
They're arriving.
There will be more key rings for the next round.
OK.
We hope, yeah.
No, no, no.
There's a force in the wall.
That is certainly a poison pour.
You are, you are on the mark there.
don't take that porn because I will grab a good porn there. And you did also we had
a suggestion of E5 now maybe that is playable. I would love if I could get my queen anywhere
over here, it'd be fantastic but all those squares are covered by white pieces so very
committal this move. And let's just say I'd be the bishop somewhere to do it. Yeah.
What is the follow up? Unless we have a follow up I mean I'd love it if you went
E-free and I could come in here. How do I get my Queen over? I can't see a way. You know, it's just not.
There's not easy and now you can't kick out the night on D5.
No, that night's staying there forever. The position is good for white. Very interesting.
Thanks for going on and let's just see if we have another move before we go on.
We haven't had another move but he's not written.
I mean that was us analysing night to G4, that hasn't been played, so it is possible for
Cinder to find another move, you know, he could be doing A6, he could do D6, I guess, let's have a
look at.
What A6?
I'm a bit, yeah, already.
I already even have something like, well, some worried about Bishop B6 coming, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, let's just show Knight a five because it's quite flash if you take then that one there's another way the queen could be lost
So 86 we think to let's come back to this one. I think it's really going to get heat up
But it's really about Vincent's solid position will play in the center
versus Cindara's
rather exuberant clay on the kinside, open this up, which is going to work.
Definitely what strategy I mean first up, like there's so much danger for Zendira, if you
know, would like to be five, there's also ideas, you know, maybe trapping the queen.
So Zendira has to be super precisely, he has to be tactically aware here.
So let's go back to the birds I view, because I just want to give everyone an overview
of what is exactly happening and I can see that it's still super sharp in so many games and
I just want to direct this towards a duetor of against anish giri because in that particular game
anish has gone for an aggressive it's there towards the right and we see that anish has a
the pawn F4. Very aggressive. Very, very aggressive and I just kind of curious and
it first up how did this pawn arrive on the F4 square? I mean there's also a black pawn
on G4 as well. Maybe we can head there and I don't or do you want to go somewhere else?
No, no, I'm 100% agree but I think we commented on this opening, this position in Gibraltar,
in a fan-truck versus Nigel Short. Or maybe Nigel Short versus a
fan-truck. I'd love up producer to see or just check. Because I recognize that
kind of position. It might not be in that game. I think it might be, no. And it's
very interesting position, so I got it up here, sorry, just get in there.
So, Anish has really gone for it today. I mean, he's playing the leader, Norley Beck,
who's having a fantastic tournament, and Norley Beck has the white pieces. If Norley Beck
gets some win today, he's in a really strong position to win the tournament, because he'll
be like a point, a point and a half clear. He's got white, he's very good with white,
But initially saying, I won't yesterday against the World Champion.
I'm now rolling.
So he picks a sharp variation and it starts with the NIMZO.
After night to F-3, we now go into what is called the Ragoza
in variation of the Queen's Gambit.
And there's many ways you can play here.
against us, and capturing is what?
And...
What has a whole load of responses that you can do, you can capture on D5, you can
come through in Queen A4 check, you can even do what Arjuna Raghai said
earlier on although it didn't work out, but it wasn't because of the opening, Queen B3
Bishop to G5 is another move that you can play.
So, Queen A4, I think we saw it in another own conation, don't think it brought
but white too much joy, but this one, you got to back it up with Bishop coming out to either
F4 or G5 and either way Black's ambitious plan is more or less the same, you want to
be jumping in with a knight to E4 or you want to be going H6 at the right time if the
the bishop comes out to G5, H6, G5, and then jumping over the knight to E4 and you have
to be prepared to go full throttle on the king side.
Yeah, I mean bishop G5 used to be the main line here and I used to play this quite a
lot.
Now, as the OB says, you can go H6 and G5, but that is really quite risky.
line that occurs here is with knight E4 and then knight D2 is a good move and this is considered
to be a bit too risky for black but then someone found a common behoo maybe looking
at like eight years ago at some point black can just put the bishop on F5 and this is
a really simple way to like equalize. It might even be around here and they just thought
this is the great square for the bishop and this basically kind of put players off
playing bishop G5 so then some players started trying bishop F4 but now this idea
we just saw with a knight coming in is a better idea for black because you don't
have to weaken your king well you can still do it but you don't you can do it in
a better way, generally it's considered with knight E4. So we're attack here and now we'll
see one, the fence, and knight C6, because this gets, yeah this is a very sharp line that
niches playing. I mean he's going for peace play rather than going for a solid pawn structure
Because if white can consolidate, you know, this night is not very well placed here, so it's
all about the piece place.
So night D2, we saw this before, you don't want that night to settle, and again, a niche
has to keep playing aggressively, and it goes G5.
So very sharp, bishop E3, and that is not the most comfortable square for the night for
the bishop, because you normally want to go E3 and bring this out.
So now you're probably going to go G3 and go this way.
So you have to defend this port.
Night takes you free.
Porn takes, bishop a free, gaining a tempo.
Rook b1 and now f5.
And I'm sure this is, we compensated them this before.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it is.
I don't know, somewhere in Gibraltar,
but I could be wrong.
This is definitely a line which has been played before,
right?
You make it quite really great.
It has been played.
They're all really recent games though Simon, but this could be a very limited database.
So it has been paid before G, you know, a five really does force white to take measures
against a force of G3, has to be played.
I have to play that.
I have to stop this one.
Now, black tries to create that fret again.
So, he really positions his bishop into the center.
White can no longer stop this idea.
So he goes night F-3 and look at this.
F-4 anyway, really good to see a niche playing for the wind here
and trying to still win this competition.
The bishop goes all the way back, but is black overextended.
This is the question.
is black going too aggressive and it is the king going to pay the price because if
white can get around the back then that king is also an issue. Well it
castles. Rook B5. Trying to use the Rook in quite a unique way. G4.
Just go ahead and go ahead. Yeah I mean but the thing is though when you start
advancing the pawns you leave behind a week's squares and you can go now to h4, f5
is looking tender. So let's let's see how this one continues. I mean this is the mark
march of Freddy and Gary is the running up the board, the FNG pause and I don't know if
there's still a fear we would get to the composition because night E7 now played and that
night defense the board and also that night is quite annoying so you might want to come
an exchange of, it's all about who's King is going to end up weakest. Now E3 was played,
so forcing the pawn to make a decision and an E3 is like, well, obviously I'm going to keep going
forwards, I attack your rook first, the rook comes back and of course he goes F3 and they have
March as far as a compostably March now. This is where we are. Move 18. This couldn't be played before.
Can it? Well almost almost almost almost. Yes. There was one game and white went
B3 as opposed to Rukb2. It doesn't really make too much impact. I can tell you the plan that white went for.
It went for Bishop to D3. There was said hello like squares and then they went Queen C2 to
setting up a battery against age 7 because there's a lot of weaknesses there.
Maybe you can go see four, right?
Yes.
So it has actually now blocked up a little bit.
I mean, this looks super aggressive.
And if the white king was over on this side already,
you'd be thinking about ways to go for it.
But it's not, it's not going to open up in the middle any more because we have this sort of
fixed structure here.
There's no brakes.
It's maybe maybe about like, Yowie said this diagram, this diagram can black get it or
we'll white get it, because if black can swap nights, we get the bishop to this diagram
or black's very comfortable. Big space advantage.
Big space advantage.
Big space advantage. So let's just put that plan into operation. So let's just go
Bishop D3.
Bishop D3.
And what is black going to do? In the game, black actually went night G6.
Okay, well, let's follow the game. I'm sure I mean the niche is very well pet
I'd be pretty sure that a niche is familiar. But that does lose a pawn.
But he is burning the time on the clock. Yeah, does lose a pawn and black goes
That's fine. The pawn does not matter. So literally. Yeah. Wow. So after night takes night. Yeah.
pawn takes. Yeah. White went Queen C2 and black just went
I'm Anna, Queenie 7.
OK, now what is the idea if I just go greedy?
Because today I am Mr. Paul Grabber.
So I'm going to grab all the pawns that you give me.
H3 by the way, play it.
And that also looks like that looks like a good mood to me
because it might improve on this variation.
But I'm also, I'm trying to work out what Blackside there is.
I think it's just space.
Just space.
Yeah, you can step up with the king.
And you can just take control.
OK.
Instead, the very interesting, I mean, I don't completely understand the poor sacrifice that
they're just worrying.
But H3 was played, and I think the first thing to consider here is if Black tries to
keep these pawns, which look beautiful as they are with this and take this way, this
could be a disaster for Black, because suddenly he voted not the rook, and that's
same idea with the bishop coming here is going to be very, very strong now. So you can't
do that. So after H3 you might have to allow this rook, this file. This is really exciting.
I mean this has been seen before, this kind of thing, and this picking a risky line, but
Nordie Beck loves sharp positions as well.
I mean, who's going to win this time for a vote or in the end?
Yeah, time for a vote because this one is super crazy.
Now, if an East Losers control, he is busted.
Because of the problems along the H line.
If he manages control, then he is doing super well.
And I would say Nordie Beck has a horrible position.
So the vote is yours.
What do you guys think?
Do you think anish is going to keep control?
Yeah, I think I'm going to hold you.
Oh, no.
So rather convincing those.
Very convincing, though, is there?
Should you have a little bit more faith in your fellow country
man there?
Or are you from Uzbekistan?
Or like, OK, OK, let's say, who thinks white's going to win this game?
This area.
Yeah.
Who thinks it's going to be a draw?
Okay, I think there's some people who want to admit to the draw, like it.
Who thinks Black's going to win?
Okay, it's pretty balanced here, but we do have more niche supporters.
We do have more people thinking of Black's going to win this, but it's very balanced.
This is a big game for the tournament.
If Nori Pet wins this, he's going to be really hard to catch, and it's a very exciting position.
What do I think?
Yeah, come on.
Do you really want to know?
Yeah, go for it.
I think it's a naughty back position.
I would have to say this.
I'm gonna get trouble.
I like attacking.
So I think you'll be a draw.
Yeah.
That's my diplomatic answer.
Well, the thing is, in order because I'm done anything wrong, and that always increases the
risk, the stakes and everything.
Okay, and the fact that a niche is just taking a time out to go B5, I think an niche is
in his prep.
I think he's seen this position before.
Yeah, it's a very nice idea.
I mean, maybe I'm being a bit harsh.
I don't know.
I mean, it's really unclear.
It free results possible, totally, and I have no way, no idea which way this will go.
No, this one is a super shop.
Yeah.
Okay, well the stage is set and the players, they are right in the preparing for their middle game battles.
We are going to go on a short break, but don't go anywhere because we have Anamaya recapping.
Yes, Khan, Adomersh's win, yesterday against Araghi Si.
See you in a few minutes.
This game is a masterpiece.
Already from the beginning,
the board was on fire with a sudden exchange sacrifice,
the game beautifully illustrates the power of the bishop hair.
This is Argyn Ergaizi against Yas Erdoğan-Muç.
Let's have a look.
The game started with C4 and this was the English opening.
And it already here got quite messy with Queen B6 93 and 94.
Now, typically you don't want to move the same piece twice in opening unless you're forced to,
such as the night being attacked on before and then you have to retreat.
But here, black develops the night or moves it once again after developing it.
And it is creating a threat and attack on F2,
wide defensive by cussling, so this looks like a very strange move the night on G4.
But it happens to work out as black is immediately going for the aggressive E3,
white plays F3, and out of ninth parks itself on F2. Optically, this looks wrong in
every way for black, but in all of this works out. Because I have to quay C2, there's
9H3 check, and white captures the 9th off the board after the 9th has moved so many times.
And now we're in this position where
that has a strong pause in the center
and there is certainly quite quite a bit.
But in just a few moves,
what we'll be able to regain some space
as the pause turns out to be quite loose.
But this is all according to plan
at least until Rook D1
to just go back a little bit
because this was still preparation
from, yes, until this point.
And the until here, from here onwards,
here onwards, he started thinking and he was still doing completely fine because even though
the pawns are dropping in the center, Black has a lot of counterplay. Black captures a
pawn of return, but now the pawn of E3 is still hanging, White captures it and now White
is up one pawn. But the amount of counterplay that Black has should not be underestimated.
Again, continues like is up out in the pieces,
like this have to be a little bit careful
about the Bishop on H3,
because once G4 is placed, the Bishop is trapped.
But for now, why does not have to be worried
about the King going to G3,
because the King has to protect the Bishop on E3 first?
And it before his plate,
trying to eliminate one of the few defenders
of the Bishop on E3.
And after this move, an exchange sacrifice
was played by us completely out of the blue by the way because it doesn't seem like that's
the first of you would consider here in this position. But he plays this very convincingly
and the point is that white position is simply very unstable ironically enough. It doesn't
feel like they did much from. But this bishop is just that strong on his diagonal. The pin is very annoying
for white. First, before attacking at night, black is dropping the bishop back to E6.
And why does trying to get out of that pin to save material? But this cost a little bit of material
for white in a sense that they have to give up some punks. We move on into decay because remember,
why does still update change? And there are no roots left on black side of this game. So
So you might be thinking, well, the Rook and Knights should be much better than the two
bishops, right?
Yes, it's going to show you how strong the bishop pair is here.
And just a couple of moves slowly but surely Black's pawns are moving forward.
C5.
And now Bishop is moving around.
Here comes G5.
Not only is he has playing on the Queen's side, but also on the King's side.
making use of both sides of the board. Now H4 trying to dislodge this very strong
setup of the Bishop and Pond. Now it's time for us to capture the night off the board
and only the bishop and the rook are left over here. But now there's another pass
Pond on the board on the H trial and suddenly comes extremely difficult for a
why to defend this. They were cannot do everything on its own and the king also is not that
strong of a defender. So the king tries to go to the queen's side, giving space to the
rook to hopefully get some action with their own pawns but it's not enough because this pawn
is just going places. It's moving very fast, bishop G to a beautiful move because now this pawn
is moving forward as well and it becomes unstoppable. How do you stop this
pawn? Why does trying to create counterplay with E6 but it's not enough because
now more pawns are heading forward and this is way too much for E6. B2 check
King C2 and H3 and this was when Arjun had enough and he resigned here. What a
beautiful game by Yas. He played incredible. I mean showing the power of the
the show pair was already stunning, but even afterwards, the way that he was just pushing
the pawns and he made it look so easy while he was done material, in fact.
So a beautiful game played by Yas once again, and a tough game for Arjan, but the
chess was truly amazing in this game.
And that's with the level of this game with Yas being 14 years old only is truly incredible.
One slight mistake can cost a game, and that was also the case in the game between Vincent
Kimer and Norderek at the start of the game, because already from the beginning, it got
quite interesting.
Vincent started with C4, the English opening, but the game quickly transfers into
the semi-stuff. The players have developed their pieces and already here Vincent is going for
the aggressive approach with the move G4. Already initiating a attack on the king's site,
Black is capturing that pawn on G4 and here we already have chaos on the board. This position
was actually already in the game of Nutterback. He played this two years ago in Norechans and
he was with the white pieces against Gookesh.
So, he already had this position, but he played with H3 here,
but the incident played with Rp7, which is also a good move.
The players continued developing their pieces
while, at least, none of the records trying to develop,
the Rp6 is still on G5 moving around the legit file.
But the point is that this position is very messy
and you'd have to play sort of concrete moves
as with the queen out, this is not really what you're supposed to be doing with black, right?
I mean, typically the queen should not be developed as early, but it just works out in this
variation and it is not recommended to try this at home, but it happens to be the case that
in this variation it works out. The players seem to be quite familiar with the variation,
especially Vincent, with still a lot of time on the clock. The queen lands on E4,
And now, after a rook H1, Queen G6, all of a sudden, the player starts repeating moves.
And now it's unvinsant to decide.
Is he okay to go for the draw? Does he want to repeat again?
Or is he choosing a different move?
He chose a ladder. He went for the move Bishop to A5.
And this is already a mistake.
It's not a very big mistake. It doesn't change the positions, you know, she dot much.
but this is the beginning of all the trouble that wine had to grow through.
Because now, black has a strong move E5.
It's a very strong move and this is probably the move that Vincent missed
because it feels like that move is impossible with three pieces controlling that square
and the black still moves that pawn up to that square that seems to be covered so well.
But the problem is, if y takes with the rook, rook takes E5, this rook is simply
chopped after F6.
The rook has now to go to, and the rook will have to sacrifice itself for the bishop and
black is in the better position here.
Obviously, black has still needs to prove that they're in a better position, white has
a lot of counterplay, but it's simply an unpleasant position to be for white.
So that is why vertex E5 is not really desired to play here.
There's obviously also F65, but that allows V6G for a right away,
which loses the work on the spot.
So that's why that pawn is simply,
it's not possible to capture it.
And instead, Vincent and FordiMoveVish of D3,
the game continues and eventually,
why still had to give up material
as the work is simply misplacedly shrimp.
and there was not much that what could do about that anymore.
That Bishop A5 will simply the killer of the position.
So Rp. 65 F6 eventually white still had to sacrifice the exchange.
And it was very difficult position for white.
It's hard to find contemplate even.
And after a while, not a bit managed to convert this position,
It's still went on for some time,
and not have been mentioned in the interview afterwards,
perhaps Vincent could have put up more resistance even
than this because with the quiz and abortion said
that maybe it would have been more interesting,
but now after a couple of moves,
the work managed to infiltrate into why it's positioned,
and this was the moment that Vincent resigned.
So a very convincing win for not air back,
and unfortunately most of her Vincent,
but with this win, not air back,
is actually moving on to five now out of seven.
The same amount of points that he had in 2023
in Tana-Silchus tournament.
It's been an exciting start already to round eight here
in both the Tadas still masters and the challenges
we've had a lot of enterprising play
from our grandmasters and with our cameras moody back,
a visitor of here is their facing.
Potentially cramped position as he tries to break out.
It's very unerving when your opponent seems
to have a measure on how to handle the position.
We left it with an ish just to excarmly expanding
on the queen side with B5 keeping a full on clamp on that.
Now, an orderback nose he has to break through.
So whilst this game, again,
it's developing super nicely from a perspective
spectator. Shall we take a full bird's eye view? Because there are some games we haven't looked
at and also like to take a look at some of the games in the challenges.
Yeah, so there is the view of all the games and lots of exciting stuff happening. And
you know, I can see already that Niemann has grabbed that pod. That's going to be a
really exciting encounter. We haven't looked at Vladimir versus good cash.
So we go there because the evaluation bar is in Blacks favour. So let's head there and
let's also check you know Matthias Bluebaum against Van Winn. So further safe and good cash,
you know, good cash. Well I mean what to say about him because you know this stage of the
So the tournament hasn't really gone his way,
you know, he made a horrible blunder against an orderback,
just gifted an orderback at the points.
And then things went wrong yesterday
when he pushed hard against an issue theory.
Yeah, that did go wrong.
And the good news is we have some prizes.
Whoa, so we have some books.
Two prizes.
So the chess novels written by Frederick Meister,
I hope I've pronounced your surname okay, but it's super exciting that we have two
dots, chess and models to give away. It's a two prizes.
Good. Now a lot of moves have been played, so we go super fast through the moves,
because it's getting to a key point in the game now. They start with the NIMZO,
and now we have a solid variation of the NIMZO with white, not taking any risks,
any risks just developing sensibly, both sides playing normal moves. This capture is
trying to make the bishop bad from the white side, and now I'll ask an bishop what to do
expanding and both sides developing in a normal way. This is aimed against C5 so you can take
with an x-ray against the bishop. So Gouquesh keeps its solid at the back with C6 and not much
report at the moment. Now the white knight heads for this lovely square and
Cucache meets that by placing his bishop on a very firm defense of square whilst
improving the rook. Now white tries an ambitious plan with E4. G6 played so the
knight is forced to go backwards and Cucache again just placing his pieces on
on the best square. That is maybe trying at some point to play the C5. Bishop D2, the last
piece comes out. You can catch the envelopes, it's Bishop. Looking at D4 and now white makes
a very comittal decision. He decides it's time to do something. He could have played a slow
move, maybe even this Bishop's okay on F2, just why he can't do that yet because E3.
So you can play the King H1s, get your King off this slightly weakened diagonal, that will
make sense and just build up.
But he doesn't do any of that.
He goes E4.
And this is a big, big move to play.
If you can go E5, you're laughing.
So if white can get one more move in, then white does do really well with the F-Porn coming
as well.
So this is something that Gukesh has to avoid.
He has to avoid black, way out of avoid white blanky fights.
He's got to do something now, and this is why he's got into a bit of a think.
How does he stop this?
Well, I guess there's only two ways.
You even open things up now by a capturing or you try some counterstrike.
And the only counterstrike that is possible is C5.
literally the only way, because normally when you're fighting in the Queen's Gambit
applying, you know, black is going night to age five or doing some funny business like
that, you know, to try to get control over the F4 square. That's not really possible here.
So, you know, what, you catch, we'll be calculating, and he's such a direct player. He's
absolutely going to be looking at this. It's the strike immediately with C5. Now, it's
funny because when you look at the move you're thinking it's not possible because
B takes you five and look at that you can't recapture because the bishop is
hanging on B7 but he may be able to recapture because he placed his rook on
this square so he may delve to open up things by taking here and the point is if
If you go and work takes Bishop, which is obviously the first solution to look at,
Black counts of strikes by taking on D4.
The pin on the night, Black gets a great deal of activity there.
This could be a very good counts of strike.
Goukesh has to play something like this before that E5 moves played.
evaluation bar proving this is a good idea and with the look of everything pointing towards
C3, it looks very good for black, this particular line. So after this break E4, let's go back
to C5 and have a look at this a little bit deeper. What can be tried here?
Also, E5 is going to fail with the same objective.
E5, C-takes D4, look at that, the whole house collapses.
Yeah, I mean, you have to at some point grab this one,
and black just calmly maybe takes with the bishop.
And again, white's position is a bit creaky here.
Even though white temporarily a piece of up,
Porn takes night can't be stopped and black is going to be two pawns up in that position.
So you can't do that here. So what if you go play this move first? Let's just try another
line because it seems very useful to have the option of grabbing a piece, right? And after this,
now we try E5 and again black can't go passive. If you move this night at any point,
Well, you can't even do that now. I just grab the night. You can't. You don't have
any way to move the night. So you must play. Paul takes D4 always. And this is complex,
because I have two pieces. I can now think about capturing. And let's look at them.
If you capture first of all the bishop.
Well, you take the, actually, you don't even need to, like, take the night. You don't need to rush
because there's a pin and you're going to get out of it.
So you could first of all carve, take this one and keep the fret alive.
And even if you take here and white say able to take back,
you're going to have an extra port.
You're going to have one extra port in the center.
So white can't take the bishop.
What if white takes a night?
So if white takes this night here, then you take the night.
OK.
With tempo.
So you take the night and now we can continue taking things with the bishop force.
Let's look at this first of all.
You have to take this one.
The queen is on par eight, so the queen has to take this one.
And you get this kind of position, which is equal on material,
but that pawn is not.
It's not long for the world, is it?
It's normal.
Well, you know, I was thinking,
between Bishops, he's sick, you need to move or defend the Bishop.
So, it's Bishops, he's sick, so I don't know,
nice, he's five or something like that.
Okay, we'll just have a look at Queen H6, because that.
You know, when it's trial, let's try it.
It's like a fun move, because I might have ideas
of night somewhere, Bishop D3, going for H7, probably not,
but this is the most aggressive try, certainly.
But there's probably not any real threat here,
because even if I manage to get this night in which I might not be able to, what's the follow-up?
Queen F6 is one very nice follow-up through, just go for the pawn.
And it seems like black is going to be a pawn up in these lines as well.
This pawn is a big pawn, it's an extra pawn.
So, Gue Cash is having a think about what to do after E4.
Well, here's to also make the decision, should he be taken on E4, which instinctively I'm saying no,
because it opens up the Rook on F1.
Yeah. So if you did the same thing first, you took here and now tried to C5. It doesn't seem
to work as well to me because I've also got another option of D5. So let's say I go here.
Well, you can't take on D4. So actually this is just most likely very good for black.
for white, sorry, because now, well, I actually can take their little look by going D5.
I just played this move. This is the extra option that white has when he didn't have before,
and with now the fret here and two pawns in the center, white would be doing well.
It kind of feels to me that Goukèche's forced to play C5 here. He's got to play C5,
because everything else is just going to be really bad for him.
You don't want to be allowing white to go E5, so it's a pretty cool moment for Goukesh.
What do we think? Is he going to find C5?
Yeah.
Yeah, we think Goukesh, the well champion, he's the well champion for a reason.
And I think you'll play C5 here as well.
I mean, he has to find that move because otherwise he's worse.
And he's done the right thing.
He sunk into a long think, because he now realizes
the position has got critical.
And it goes back to saying we said the other day,
the end of game with chess.
You have a lot of moves up to this point fairly non-critical,
but at some point you have to have a long think
when the position is key, because this is the turning point.
If he doesn't play C5, he could get in trouble.
Look at Vladimir.
Maybe Vladimir's now just seen that this is an option.
So I don't think I don't think Vladimir would have played this move.
How do you see those variations?
Why would he have gone here and allowed Goukesh to break?
Let's have a look at the time that he spent.
Yeah.
When he made...
I think he was playing very quickly.
Yeah.
But yeah, I guess he just...
Sometimes you have a blind spot that you think C5 is not possible
with this BC-5 and okay the rook is going to take the bishop.
I think he's sort of realising you can tell by the body language that maybe flat of
him is now seen that C5 which is assumed was not an idea because the B takes but now
he's probably realising though it isn't idea because this move by the way I was actually
right that game was a fan ship short to brought to 2011 yes so you've probably won't
It wasn't doing commentary that year's Simon, so that's why.
But it's a very similar pattern.
Not exactly moves, but definitely we're black going our five and four G4.
I still have some memory cells occasionally.
They're getting worse every year, but they're still there.
They are still there, Simon.
They are still there.
OK, well, big moment, who Cashin's still taking his time to consider his move.
Let's go to the bird'sive view.
Good cash doesn't look like he's going to be making a move anytime soon.
And let's just track the evaluation bar.
So what is this?
So I'm seeing that the evaluation bar is quite heavily in blue bombs favour against the wind.
I see things are pretty level in a dermush, again, is a prime and under.
I've just a tour of it.
Look at also niches and niches and valuations are short-up, so niche is well, I mean, the computer
fixes is doing well, so we have to come back to that scene, but I think we must cover the
one game we haven't looked at at all, so let's, well, first of all it seems like we're
going to go straight to Fiona, because there's a lot of people working behind the scenes
and it's so important.
In the media room, and I am with Yolanda,
Yolanda, you are usually at the front of the house,
because you are part of a wonderful team
of volunteers, thank you so much for joining me here.
And first of all, maybe tell us how many volunteers
work here at the tournament, and what is what I adopt?
All right, at the moment we have eight volunteers
who are working together, the team has grown over the years
because we have more jobs every year.
We started out as the ones who welcomed the visitors
into the building.
But a couple of years ago, we started to work
with special admissions.
So we have to scan people.
Sometimes we have to help the people to get their admission
because they didn't know that they had to register online.
We show people around.
We tell them where they can find the plane.
and then you have everything works in the building,
which Ellen, they can visit the live commentary
in Café de Zom, and this weekend, of course,
also people are watching us right now in Café de Zom,
so sorry to everyone.
Hi there, we're doing this.
This weekend is of course special
with the Tatastil Chess Festival.
So lots of children come here to visit,
so we tell them they can do all sorts of fun things
in the Freight, the local elementary school.
Yeah.
And all the other questions that we get,
there are very, very different,
sometimes we have to tell people where they can find the local bus
or if they want to buy something where they can go.
For me, I have to say you guys really have got the heart
and soul of this tournament without you.
It would absolutely not be the same.
I'm always so happy to see you every year.
You actually work here alongside your husband, Simon.
It must be a very nice as well.
Yeah, it's quite funny after all these years.
We've been together for ages and ages.
And since I'm a volunteer now for six years, I think,
and here we work together.
That's, of course, different than living together.
But we get along fine and it works out very well.
The whole team is quite well acquainted with each other because Sam's brother is also
fallen to here and my sister-in-law as well so it's quite enjoyable to work with people
you already know so well and it's nice to see I often see you in the evening when the
job is done the energist and the tournament at Bar having a meal having a chat that
it's really a very familiar and cozy atmosphere.
Yeah that's right I think that's exactly how we work together and it's
So, of course, very nice to enjoy the other fun things here,
indeed like going and have some dinner here at the Molyan,
but also every now and again go to the bookbills
for some afterparty, not every day.
That doesn't combine with my regular job
because I combine my voluntary work here with a regular job.
But it's fun to do that.
And meet all the people that we only meet once a year
during the two weeks of the TAT Steel Chest Tournament,
which is extremely nice because, well,
I only meet nice people here like yourself.
And tell us, you've been here, you said six years.
Do you have any special memories about it?
They've had that stand out.
Yes, I have some very good memories of all the TAT
chest-on-tour events.
I think especially the one in the Peter's Cake in Light,
It was a very beautiful venue with the players sitting in the main area of the church and the visitors around them.
Yeah, I think that was for me that was the most beautiful venue where I've been.
I know that in the past there have been some others that I didn't get to see, but yeah, that's always a really nice, nice event within the tournament.
and whether it be the event.
And one final question you live in Beaver Viak and
the, well, if I can say, is part of the commune?
Yeah, of Beaver Viak for the municipality.
The municipality, that's the right idea.
Can you tell us a little bit about what it means for this region
to have Tata Seel just to implement here in Viak and say?
Well, especially for Viak and say, it's enormous impulse
when it comes to all the visitors that have to sleep here
eat here, dine here and go out. And I think for me personally as well, it's like a sort
of vacation in January, January is normally a rather dull month. And for us, and I think
for everybody who has involved with the tournament, January is a really nice month with
lots of fun things happening. So it gives an enormous economical impulse to vacancy.
And that's exactly what you learned that, thank you so much for sharing your experience and I really just want to give a big shout out to you and the entire team and really it's you make the tournament go round and if you ever come to visit here to
Vikanzi you will be greeted by your lander and the team for now back to you here at the end Simon.
Thank you Fiona and also big thank you to all the volunteers who just make all the moves
all the right moves behind the scenes, just keeping this tournament going.
And as we mentioned, things are off to a fiery start round day to see and like everyone
is motivated by the fact that there's a rest date more and they don't want to be losing
their games today so they're playing hard.
And we mentioned there that if you track the evaluation bars, Matthias Blubam looks
he's doing really well against Van Wynn. Should we go there and see exactly what is happening?
Yes, there's loads of action going on. I mean, there's so much to keep an eye on today.
So many exciting days. It seems to be one of the best days. They always do this for the rest day.
They're like, right, let's get bloody, let's go to battle. We can lick our wounds tomorrow.
and we go through the opening again quite speedily with an opening. I thought it was a
grunfield but it's not actually a grunfield. In this position here, white took on
D5, this is 5, this is the exchange Queen's Gambit and nearly always black
recaptures were the pawn but here fan-win played Knight takes D5 and I, well I
I mean, for a long time, this is kind of considered a bit of an inferior move, maybe there's
some theory of late, but it does, of course, give white the option of playing E4, which
white plays. And after a capture here, white gets this very, very nice center. And the reason
I thought it was a grunt field is that I would have thought a better version of this plan for
black, and we get a similar kind of idea, because you go D5 here, and you get this structure,
And the difference in these positions and the green field is that black has this C5 break and immediately because the Bishpa and G7 pressure against white center.
This bishop is a key piece.
But in this variation that was played very risky for black to play this,
black doesn't have that pressure or the same amount of pressure against the pawns.
So C5 follow up anyway, you can't let those pawns settle.
And now we're going to be one.
So this move is designed to fight against the bishop coming
and giving a check on B4.
So no traits of the task that bishops.
So black now plays Bishop B7.
And to my eyes, this just seems an inferior Grunfeld.
Another problem I have in the porn here
is that your bishop on C8 can't come out.
So after night F3, logical move in the Grunfeld,
you play Bishop G4 here.
But if you played that here, there'd be some
arbiter's having a word with you.
Because it's not.
I mean, you could try it and see what happens, but I
remember I played British Championship once and I
put my opponent in check and he castled and I sat there
and I couldn't work out why his position was so good.
I was like, what if I'd done wrong?
I'd done preparation and he's got this great position.
realized he can't castles. I checked him. So I was like, okay, I don't think you can castles.
And then he's like, oh yeah, quickly, he blocks the check with a pawn and the game went on.
But I could have actually made him move his king. So it was all very strange. So we had castles.
White just played for a logical move. Bishop D3. This is a beautiful bishop.
We have a capture here and black now aiming for D4 and white goes, okay, we'll look.
I have maybe made you make an exchange, I have to defend D4, I have to go back.
So maybe a waste of 10 point but maybe white is trying to 10 at the night here so we can get a 10 point against it.
Queen A5 check and now Bishop D2 and this is where if you're going to,
If you're going to play like this, the key line is taken on A2.
And that's, yeah, you're going to be porn grab by.
You've got to be a porn grab.
I just think this is a miscalculation for when I think you can kind of compare with the other lines where you're doing everything you can to trade off the dark square bishops.
I mean, this is a very solid line.
Usually for black, I mean, the whole idea is that you develop and it's not that easy for white to organise a king.
to organize a king's side attack and maintain the pawns on E4 and D4.
And here, Queen takes E2 as you mentioned, is the move,
but he plays something else.
And that one unfortunately does not work whatsoever.
He blocks the attack with the bishop.
Shall we see if...
Oh, sorry.
Shall we see...
No, no, we can see if the crowd can find the idea here.
What I'd actually just said it though.
Did you give it away?
Not sure.
Okay, what did we do?
What did white play here?
We're not going to give him prize away,
but we're keeping the books.
They are in Dutch,
and we're not going to take him home with me.
Well, they were gifted to us by the author,
the himself, so they're very special.
Yeah, I don't think I'm going to learn Dutch
to read the books.
Not today.
So what should white play here?
What should...
Carcels is okay?
Yeah, put your hand in the air, who said that first?
And then after night takes, very good.
What's your name?
Lars. How old are you Lars?
Fourteen.
Fourteen.
They're all good at 14 now.
Yeah.
Of course, the 14 year old found the tactic of me
Lee World On Lars, and Lars, as pointed out that you just
take a picture. Night takes Queen B3 and you're going to capture the night there.
Well presumably when saw this and he's just like, okay it's okay because I've got two
passports. So we took on A2. Yeah. White captured here, A5, Queen B6. And they go roll in, roll in,
like a river. I think more like a very stagnant river, so let's try to show it to the
trolleys, mudgings, maybe some shit racks. They're not going anywhere, those
pawns. This looks horrible for black. I mean, well hang on, hang on, I feel a bit
obliged to defend blacks on I hear. Is it that easy? So let's say black co-specient
Do you say we're not something like that?
And I'm going to invite you to take the porn on B7
because you're in a porn grab area.
Yeah, yeah.
Now that is one porn too many.
I've castling.
I'm not getting involved with that.
No, it is equal to material, but it's kind of well-known
that a night in Bishop is better than a Rook and porn generally.
The set for the ending in some cases,
but even the ending may be better.
So in theory, this trade should be very beneficial to white.
and I basically think it is and that black is on the version losing here.
Because you've also got your own pawn.
I mean, okay, the A-pawn and my back scared about it.
I don't know. The black queens out of play.
I've got chances to attack the king.
You know, at some point I can play D5 and E5.
That goes back to the very range.
I've got some ideas because I want to clear the path for the A-pawn to move.
So I'm going to go Queen C2.
Queen C2.
Heating, yeah.
And again, I invite you.
Please do take on B7.
No, no, no, no, no, I'm not falling for that one.
Even though I'm not sure why I'm not taking it now.
Well, my plan is to get B6 and take on it.
Oh, that's right.
And then I go rolling down the river.
Okay, so it's not so simple because you're fretting that forward.
Yeah.
Okay, don't.
Okay, I agreed not so simple.
And then the next move, I'm just going to give you a full warning.
for warning, A4.
Yeah.
Okay, maybe it's not so simple, but, but, but, but, but, I'm even thinking of getting my
queen over this way.
Oh, you're giving me a pawn.
Yeah, I don't really want to give you my central pawn.
So, I don't know how I defend it, because if I go E5, I give you this lovely
I go Bishop T6 and then I don't have to worry about night to E5 anymore.
Yes. So I don't want to play that. Maybe I want to play night E5, but I can't do it here because
you take my bishop. So I have to be very clever here somehow and I'm not sure how.
Let's say I go rook E1 because the idea this is defend my bishop and if you take this
this one. Then you got Bishop P.
I got Bishop. B5 and there's a Bishop on D7.
Oh, does that not work?
Queen D5 hangs on. What's he played? What has he played?
Okay, let's see. Has he gone for this Bishop D7?
Looks like a good idea.
Oh, you went E5.
He went E5.
Okay. Really rolling the dice today.
All the players rolling the dice.
This is something in the air.
So, we had the players, well, some of the players
for it was a time control, what do you guys think?
Why are we seeing such crazy chess?
Crazy chess, some wonders.
I mean, this is very, very sharp stuff,
and we've had some big wonders here, I mean,
after this move, what happens when you just take it?
Right, I mean, I want to grab the pawn.
Now I've even got Bishop C4, I guess.
I don't know, Bishop B6, I have no explanation for 95.
If I can cast, or I'm basically winning,
but I can't do that because of the Bishop.
So this is the only problem in a position like this,
but I might even go really adventurous and go F4,
but the king on F7, no, I still can't do that.
If I go D5, you've got check and you take the night.
So I can't do that.
But what happens if you just go night F3?
Night F3.
What is the deep point?
Aha, look, I messed it up.
Now, I'll clean it.
Yeah, then you go Bishop D1.
And then we stop your castling still.
Bit unclear.
Wasn't Bishop Knight.
My five.
No, you found it.
Then you go Bishop E.
Maybe Bishop A6.
It's a little bit tricky.
I just don't believe it.
I mean, I just for some reason, especially as E5 made.
This is really okay.
I'm still going to take it.
If I can just find a way to consolidate, I'm just going to win.
If I can just find a way to castle, it's game over.
So Bishop E6 looks like a good try.
And now I need to find a way.
This was a nice idea, a set for Queen here.
I mean, it's more complicated than I thought.
Still don't believe it though.
I'll let's go F4.
Let's just play F4.
Let's try to kill you quickly.
No messing around anymore, I've had my messing around.
Let's kill.
Okay.
Checkmate, coming up.
Okay, four.
So, and also, I wanted to displace that bishop.
And if you check me now, you have to check here.
But then I just go, Bishop D1 and I try to cast them, right?
Well, I have F6 in the air, right?
If I do F6 first.
Okay, okay.
But now I have King of Two sometimes.
No, I'm going there five, I don't care.
I'm going to check, mate, you.
Now I go, okay, so if you go, never go Q&A one you're going to go.
Bishop D1 don't like that.
I might even go, if you go here I might even think about getting my
rook up now because it looks like fun for someone.
Okay, okay, I'll see how the game's going to end.
bear with me, it's not maybe going to end like this, and in this move, I know you're
such a porn grabber, you don't grab the night, you prefer grabbing porn and it goes like
this. There we go, done, done and dusted, that forced variation, not sure it really deserves
right at the floor, but this is pretty. Thank you anyway, I like the thinking.
Yeah
So let's look F4 F6. I'm gonna keep going forwards F5
And the thing is if you go bishop B3 I'm going queen takes B3 and if I take your knight
If you take my time I'm just gonna go queen takes E6
You have to take and I take here and I'm gonna queen something
Yeah, E7 is come bishop 5. Yeah everything is I mean you could show that you take here
Yeah, I just...
Bishop C4, E7.
For acting on the door.
Yeah, right.
You have to move your king.
And now I can even just...
Yeah.
The pawn is not that scary here.
My bishop's cut.
Yeah, it's game over.
So you can't do that.
So...
Look, good Simon.
It looked really good because here I'm like struggling.
Yeah.
So you get F4.
I was thinking Bishop B3 is a move.
Sorry, so let's go for that again.
So in the position, the wind has gone crazy.
it for will it favor him he's gone e5 or let's just take that's cool the bluff now
if you're not going bishop here I'm very likely to I don't know I'm still gonna still
go deal with it she might might be a play here I don't know but then I'm really thinking
about sacrifice my work so that looks so scary rickie a bishop c4 looks like there's no way
I'm not really idea if I'm rickie anyway no I might go f4 anyway so if you play here
I go F4 and I just want to go F5. I want to keep that fish free.
This is a fish free.
Yep. And now, I'm thinking that your piece looks weird, but maybe maybe they're okay.
And, you know, okay.
When it's going, if I go King here, any way, then you can.
Quick change Bishop.
Even that position looks really good for white.
So this is a bailout. So if I want to bail out, I can go King here.
And quicksets here and then you're going to take the bishop and then just block the check.
I'm going to block and we get something like this, for example, and this position I would
afford is still very good for white. Right. I mean, I've got everything covering these guys.
And the e-porn is going to be a monster. Yeah, this should be good for white, right?
Yeah, because you're just going to go bishopsie for the one, Rookie 7 and the aporn can get stopped.
Okay, so after we had King here, takes, takes,
Rook, this Rook has to go there.
How's it going there?
Oh, you checked first.
Can you take care here?
Yeah, I'm still probably going to do the same here.
I mean, I can take it and go, for example, just King E3.
And then back up with Rook B1 is coming.
Rook somewhere along this line.
Yeah, Rick, see one is also in here.
OK, the other work, yeah.
But then you've got a problem on S7.
Maybe.
Let's have a look.
So if you move this one here, then I could do the same.
I just move the king here.
I'm going to go Bishop F4 next move.
And you've got this problem on F7.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't really believe this play by it
in a win.
It's very adventurous.
And he's taking extreme risks.
White just has to get castled or do something with a problem to his bishop if he does he should win
That's a bluff isn't it? I think it's a bluff. Yeah, I think it's a bluff
Doesn't it really work, but maybe it might scare Matthias
Well Matthias is locked in thought he's got over one hour and twenty one minutes to work out
Whether he can take on a E5 or whether he can do something else so let's go back to
you are full board view because everything is so sharp, I don't even know where to cast
my attention to. So I'm also open to taking requests because everyone, let me, maybe let's
check in on the, how many urban fans do we have? He's very popular. Erwin fans? He's
He's got himself a sharp position.
That's the good news.
OK.
It sounds great.
Oh, hello.
This is interesting.
Well, this is the thing.
Has he sacrificed the piece?
He's OK.
Very, OK.
Let's have a look.
So we had this.
And he played very dangerous play.
give you sorrow. And when it is a crowd favourite here, we always get a request for Erwin.
And he's a great player. He beat Chucky on Iran, which was fantastic. And he's known
to me to be quite a positional player, but this is not positional chess. This is an open
Sicilian. And look at what happens here. So Erwin lines up. I thought he was like, you
go for the ending, grind out my opponent, no, no, no, no.
Cooplock, that's a cooplock.
And then it doesn't probably have rules though.
It literally can be taken.
Yeah, that's true.
It's more of a horror, I don't know, I don't have a sound effect for that one.
It's kind of a standard sacrifice.
Let's not worry about the renovation bar.
Black said I don't believe you.
and it bleep it and it took it.
White is idea what urban is giving up a whole piece.
It's going to be an F5, like C6.
Yeah, it's the Ricky 7.
Kill that one.
So now, Black played a move to stop, like C6.
Because there's a problem in the main box,
because you hit the rook as well.
You're also making a frame in a rakey 7, right?
Right.
because of night C6 there's only one move to get out of trouble and you just
already find it. Oh yeah that was a good good time to put the question on. And
BabySaw has played night B8 what a fantastic move that is to stop night B6
night C6 and to stop night F5 because now the bishop comes out and the night
comes out that's a really clever defense move and if black and castle
all, black will simply be a piece up. So, when needs to find some way to discombobulate
this one, I'm always impressed when you use that word.
What is my favourite word for this?
Literally no one uses it except you.
Well, actually, you see what happened recently. I don't know if it's true, but like
It came out that the United States have this new weapon called the Discombobulator.
Is that true? Well, that was I reading some strange forum. I don't know. That's why I read.
Someone sent me a link.
I don't want to see.
Discombobulator.
Yeah, I don't want to be associated with that.
I love the words.
When my favourite word was Discombobulator, it means to confuse the situation to stop it going easy for your opponent.
easy for your opponent, but cog in the wheel and I don't know how you stop because
if black can cast a black should be quite safer so what can urban do now? Can you
throw more wood in? You can go see three. Okay, see three I'm with the work all the way
back so I give it as much protection as I can. Yes, so I think I'm going to accept that nothing
is happening on the E7 point. Okay, so let's go. It's like Bishop G4 maybe. Yes, so I was
I'm going to go H3D.
That is so calm.
You just sat a piece again.
I just blunder the piece.
H3D4.
See, you've blunder the piece now.
That is worrying.
Wow, I think my B8 was missed.
If we were to grill Owen right now, I don't think you saw it.
You're giving one.
Can you not give another?
No.
Don't laugh.
No.
Don't laugh.
OK, go for it.
Whip.
I want Bishop Chiefs, you know, I'm hoping in on town.
Okay, I'm taking it.
Don't look at the evaluation bar.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to go through it.
I'm going to go through the evaluation bar.
He's gone eight.
Oh, look at that.
You have an anchor, the karma taker.
So what I gave you at the whole point was that if you cast or you go G4,
and you try to create some problems there.
This is so calm.
So the right, yes, the right there is, we just calmly, we don't care about the whole piece that we sacrifice.
Let's say black classes. We just go, yeah, nicely calm.
Actors, if nothing has happened.
I mean, a Tata has history of that.
I remember once that someone blundered the piece and they weren't well, that didn't work out well.
And then they just carried on playing and they won.
And then this, okay, happened to Magnus.
happened to Magnus again, it's going in Jones and then it happened again.
In the dragon, most of it, yeah, Magnus just loved the piece again.
Literally, but then he carried on as if nothing had happened anyways.
And it also happened, remember, it was an Iranian player, I think it was Tabata Bay, but don't quote me on that.
And he also did the same, got terrible opening.
Yeah.
Blended a piece.
Just stay calm.
Stay calm and see what happens.
I had the similar thing against Mickey Adams once like England number one and we're playing a blitz tool and the first prize
And this blitz toolman shows how long ago it was was around the world trip in a Concord
Oh, yeah, that was yeah my friend was that prize
Really? Yeah, and it was not a Concord
Oh, it was it like what was it like business class? Oh, business class. That's I'll take it anyway
But I was playing Mickey and it's quite important round. He'd blunder the whole piece for nothing.
Yeah, or move six. And I was an eye-emitting time.
And I couldn't, I was like, what the hell's going on? It's the first time playing Mickey. He's British number one.
And I didn't really laugh, but I was looking at him like, thinking of him like B.
Like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, no emotion at all. Just a whole piece.
And then he just ground me down a whole piece down one. It was so embarrassing.
He just acted like nothing had happened at all.
Yeah.
Well, that's the thing with these, and especially with the No Draw Office,
it happened again to one of my friends.
He was three pawns up against Vichy, three pawns became two pawns,
and he wasn't allowed to offer a draw.
And he was like, I can see the trend here.
Two pawns became one pawn.
And he still had the better position.
He was like, look, I really want to offer a draw.
I can't think about offering a draw big two pawns up.
That's not right.
Doesn't matter who you play.
Yeah, but then it became one pawn and then it became no pawn.
I think it's not going to take a draw if you can't draw it.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So here, let's, okay, so what does Black do against this attack?
Well, there's two things.
You counter attack or you try to put the stoppers on.
Now, if I just go G6, let's see how dangerous this attack is.
Because that stops your pawn.
Don't do far.
I don't know, C3.
We just didn't plug in mode here, just get going, I don't know why I won't see free
it, I don't even know if I have 5 is like one way I was thinking of it.
Well if you go if I'm Gen G, yeah that's what I've got.
You've had an Asian paris, it's starting.
I don't believe it.
I mean, it's all the pieces on the board,
and it's still complex,
but I don't think, when probably,
I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to,
I don't want to, I don't want to guess,
because it's a great play, but maybe
you underestimate this move.
I mean, there's still obviously chances
and it is very interesting.
I think we have to come back to that
and see if this idea is genius.
We'll see whether he's able to manufacture any counterplay.
Let's quickly check in on Faustina, or against Andy Woodwood.
I think maybe we can have a look at Chuck's game quickly.
Yeah, it's just quickly.
Okay, so a quick look here.
Andy playing very well, told me that.
And this is his style.
Hello.
Hello.
When he came and showed his game, he literally cares.
I just love to push pawns.
And he backs it up with active pieceplay.
I think he was part of the customer of chess foundation when he was even young and he
co-rew at one point became a mentor.
So, the kid is good, he's had training.
It looks very comfortable for Blacks because Blacks got more space and Blacks pieces of
well positioned.
So, White on the other hand is very solid, so early days there and let's have a very quick
look at Max's game.
So Chuck Evers is Max and we'll just go to current position there because there's a lot of action
We have to ask our audience
Who they're cheering for?
Well, we have a lot of Chuck Evers
We do have a lot of tech we might have even more Max Ramadan fans
Okay, who wants?
Don't look at the position of our nation ball. Who wants if Anchip to win?
Oh
They're loyal, they're loyal, he wants Max to win.
Yeah, yeah, okay. Good to see you're still loyal to your fellow countryman.
That's good. All you're doing, embarrassed to shout out, because you might get yourself
in a bit of trouble if you do. And it is now Max with a black pieces, equal material.
Max has just played rugby eight defending here.
Chucky has the two bishops in quite an open position. Also the work is very actively placed here on this square
Max would love to start swapping things with root to the eight next
So, you know, you could go and root D1 and play but maybe you use this hole and plucked put your bishop
Into into that hole
Because that stops for the eight.
That stops for your opponent's plans.
It's very important to stop your opponent's plans.
And my idea here would be to go like Rook D1,
Condition C4, and it looks like Max is very tied up here.
You can't move much here for me.
No, it's fantastic.
Move Bishop to B6.
You know, if you control the bottom square on a line,
you control the whole line basically.
Yeah, and again.
I need to clean that particular thing up to the sounds a little bit over there.
It's clunky.
It worked.
Because I wanted to sound like a commandment.
He who controls the further most square controls the line or something like that, you know.
Think of it.
He could be a good book, the 12 commandment suggests.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Maybe.
One day.
The writer with Rousen.
He's got books similar as he said.
Seven deadly sins.
great book. Yeah I mean I just don't see what Max can do here because he can't move the
night because he dropped the bishop. You can't really do anything with a bishop.
Well you can go bishop to D8. Yeah but now I play bishop to C5 and then I'm in trouble because
there's problems on F7. So you can't really do that. You can't move the rook anywhere good
because you can't move the B8 rook because this one drops. Where can you move this?
That's where you live your best life on the back rank.
We have to...
Rixie-8.
Yeah, it's not very inspiring, is it?
Let's just go root D1 and I'll go Christianity.
King F8, again.
King F8.
I'm enjoying home territory here.
Are you enjoying this, are you?
No.
Very statistic if it's.
But then the next move, King E8.
I don't even know what I'm doing next, but you're running out of moves, I don't know, I don't like it, I don't like it, I mean, it's definitely better for white because blacks really struggling to move and you got the work on the set rank, you got the bishop attacking F7, it's, yeah, he has to do a little whole lot of grovelling, a lot of grovelling, it's not looking great for Max, now let's go back to it on the run with a Dutch players, right?
definitely. Let's check in on a niche because you do so well. But Oelena, let's go
check in on Eena. Thank you.
My mistake for the reminder, she has black against a villimer
if it's. What do we think Simon?
It looks fairly, well, structurally, look at the pause, look at the pieces.
The pause structure equal. Who's got the better pieces then?
slightly white because this night is a bad piece. You would say if you compare
pieces, who's got the better bishop? Well, white's got the better bishop because
it has this nice sort of range. It's working behind a dark square pawn.
Elina's bishop is purely defensive. I'm not sure where this night's going to go.
I mean, you want to eventually maybe get it around here. White's knights, a bit more
potential, but it doesn't seem too bad for a leaner at all. I say too bad, white is probably
a fraction better, right? Yeah, white has the better bishop. This bishop on E6 is just forced
to defend D5, but I mean, she's solid. She's solid, but it's a bit of a passive position,
and the leaner doesn't necessarily enjoy the passive positions as much as the active ones.
She have that brilliant victory with white pieces and the Sicilian earlier on.
And she's still close to winning yesterday.
She's still close to Marisi.
Yeah.
And yeah, it didn't quite work out for her.
But, okay, she has to lock in and be solid here.
And let's head back to Nordbeck against Anish,
because Anish might be playing the role of spoiler.
Nordbeck in the lead with five and a half points out of seven.
seven, a niche coming off a win yesterday and can anyone guess how many games a niche has
played in Tata? This is a prize, surely. Yeah, this is a prize. Okay, so the nearest
guess will win a marvelous book here. So how many games has a niche played in total in Tata?
Put your hand in the air when you when you say. So, yep, 190.
170.
71.
Okay.
You have to be careful.
Put your hand in the air.
Absolutely.
Okay, yep, keep going.
110.
Yeah.
110.
43.
Okay.
Yep.
115.
12.
And you just come out of her, some hibernation this year.
This is you were 16, right?
Yeah, 12.
One game a year.
Any others?
One, 17, OK?
Yeah, OK.
Over there?
Yeah.
It's like in a school teacher.
Yeah.
Keep shouting.
98, OK.
117, 177, okay. I know who the closest is so far. Do we have any other? Yeah, that's
back. 153, okay. Yep. 228, I love you, bankers like that, all the numbers there. Very
It's very good, okay, keep going, two, two, okay, yep, one, 95, one, 65, this is like the price is right.
So I haven't been go hauled.
Too fast, ladies. Come on, yeah, stay, is.
Okay, shall we call it a day?
We should call it a day here, and Simon, we had a very close guest.
two digits out and the well-to-person who said 200 and two congratulations you have won a
book written by Frederick Meister, the apologies of I have mispronounced the name but he's
been gifted by the author himself it's a chess novel so please come up and please come
up and grab your book yes round of applause so you have a choice between you get a choice
Okay, yeah champion champion at guessing which one would you like yeah
I can't read even them to learn us making. Yeah, that was digger
Congratulations yeah, it was Gary's 200th Vike game
So that's a big that's a lot of game
That's a lot of get-apoeu, and he's not the one who's got the most games here in Vike.
Luke Van Waley, 297.
John R. 268, Timmon, 268.
I don't want to see Vishy, he loves it here, it's up, 247.
Man, this has got more.
I didn't realise Magnus has played more than an issue here.
Who is Theo? Is that sort of, I don't know, Theo, do they? And I must be in a while back, I guess.
Hmm.
It's a winner of 1946.
Right. He won in 1946.
I've been told. I did just magically remember that one.
And also small pickets as well, old names there.
Okay, I mean, so a niche has played 200 games here, that is a lot of games, and he's in the
situation now in a big big game, he's really determined today. We had this crazy position
all credits both players, a niche is going for the win with the black pieces, he's picked
a very complex opening, and now white plays the queen to D3. Now this move seems a bit peculiar,
because you would have thought the bishop wants to come to that square and we talked
earlier about the fight for an on this diagonal and I think me and Jovi both agreed that
if black and somehow get a bishop cemented on this diagonal will be very good for black.
You can't do that at the moment, but it just seems like a peculiar move.
I mean, the only idea I can see is going for some attack against that. So maybe Porn takes
port and night takes it. So let's say you go away five. I think white side there is
port takes port, bishop takes and now like night takes their free. And this is the
idea. But that's just a one-fret job because black can stop this and the niche
obviously saw that the only danger is this one. And he just went, Rook himself. He said,
okay, what's your idea now? And now the white king has to decide where to go. It's clearly
not go in this way and it starts doing a little walk. Is it going to a one?
This is doing a walk of shame Simon. It could be a walk.
There's a bit of water shroom there, I mean yeah, so I don't like it here. I'm going away.
Yeah. Let me go off the board.
Run, run. Oh, that's not been a pristunity buzz.
So a niche goes root be eight saying, okay, you can run into my work if you say
wish, port takes pawn, bishop takes, and now bishop h3, this seems logical. I don't mind
what you're running h bar because you are trying to get the light squares.
There's no coordination between the pieces whatsoever.
Well, this is the problem pieces, isn't it? This bishop is a real issue compared to a
niches one.
Well, I'm going to say both the bishop and the knight, they're guilty.
is Josh and Bishop takes work takes and an issue goes Queen D7. I think do we have
any more moves we do? Rook has to move because it's intact. The Queen gets a very nice
square controlling a lot of things over there and now the Walker's shame is walking
Nothing, laughter, laughter,
Carbly.
So the evaluation bot really likes an issue's position,
but is it actually that good here?
That is the question.
And there is, I can see a very nice maneuver here.
Anyone see a nice maneuver?
I'm going to give you a clue.
This is a technique I use anyway.
If you're in a middle game and you're trying to work out
you know where to put your pieces, what plan you should do. You can have a look, your
black hair, look at your pieces, can you, you know, if you move them off the board and
you can put them anywhere on the board, where would you put them? So if you can move
the queen off, put it somewhere where would it go? And you do the same with everything.
Well, I'm going to ask you the question now the night. If you can move it off the board
and put it on any square, yeah, e4 is a lovely square and maybe another square as well.
very good. So if you can move the knight to e-rede squares, okay,
didn't go for a plan I was looking at, what you can do, you can re-root
sort of from these squares to where the knight is and find like a root. So
c4 is quite easy because we go this way, this way, this way. And then you
just see if you have time to do that maneuver. So by doing that, you would
see that knight c8 could be a very nice idea, because c4 is a beautiful
square for the night. And also maybe now if you move the bishop you come to E4. So that
seemed... I reckon he's going to go for that. So yeah it doesn't need to be straight away.
No. What did he do first? He won't be should be three.
Bishop A3. I wouldn't really want to swap off this bishop though. Why would I, why would I
want to swap this one off? No, it's not the proudest piece on the board but maybe it's going
to have a future, no. Maybe there's a worse idea of breaking out with E4.
Coming over here.
Yeah, well, just one day, one day, an niche always has to keep an eye on this e4 break.
Maybe he's kind of thinking ahead and just going, you know, the root comes to be three.
You can take and root takes or can take, or whatever.
Doesn't really matter.
Now you can do your night's C8 plan.
Everything is beautifully controlled.
You can live with your night one D6 and white's woes just continue.
Imagine.
Yeah, that's what I was saying, you know, the night on H4, guilty as charged, doesn't have
a square.
I mean, also in this face at the RICOM B3 ain't that pretty either.
Yeah.
I mean, that night on H4, you're right, can't move.
No.
And there is no E, and you try to get E4.
Nothing happens.
You're RICY-1, 96.
All the doors get closed in one's face.
I mean, this could be really bad for the white.
And this is actually maybe just a very simple and clever way
for niche to play because he has also freed up that square
where the bishop was for the knight to maneuver around.
And the key point, which you're being the audience
of pointed out is that the knight on h4 can't move.
If you don't have any tactics, which you don't,
this knight can never, ever get into the game.
You can't go to G2, you can't go to F3, and you can't go to F5 is covered, and you can't go to G6.
So, positionally, positionally, this could just be actually winning for a niche.
The rook moves. If you don't move the rook, I win the exchange.
I take this one, and then this very nice maneuver, night C8.
Just try and improve your piece. So if you're in a middle game situation, using this technique works quite well.
but it's also about timing. If you're doing like night maneuvers, they take time to get in.
So you've got to make sure your opponent has no active plan. And I think here,
there's no pawn breaks. That's the first thing you look for. A5 doesn't really do anything
you're open your own king. C4 not happening E4. Well, we can take it. It's not a worry at the moment.
We don't want to allow E4. I guess if we need to we can block that with 96.
So there's no poor braces. There are any active pieceplay. We'll know.
Queen D1. Okay, let's try. So I'm just trying to work out what you're trying to do.
Okay, let's go 96.
Are you tricked me?
Crafty.
Oh no.
Oh, that was really crafty.
I fell straight into it.
Queen D1, would you like to do it?
Don't do that.
they're going night G2, that's a very nice idea.
So if I play night D6, you go night G2,
and look at your renovation box.
Look immediately.
Immediately, realize that the night gets back out.
And it's like what has broken out of its cage.
So love this idea.
That's nice idea.
But if you spot it, you can even be really kind of
blosier about it.
You can go H5, you can go King F8.
And I'm just saying King F8.
because if you do go night duty,
you can just go pawn text mode.
Yeah, let's go King of Fate and to stop.
Nice idea, but I now know your plan,
which I should have kind of seen already.
You know, you need a groundmaster at all that.
You can't have spot these things occasionally.
But you know.
But it was, it did look like a funny move.
It did look like maybe you're going to Queen G1.
I think that's too much.
You know, it was like whatever.
I just had a great in the plan.
It was too much.
I was falling into it on purpose because it's better to demonstrate.
Okay, okay.
There you go.
I've got to let the crowd out some fun now and again.
And now this does stop the one idea because yeah,
I can actually take it and now it's not check.
So I take your work with check.
So as long as I stop that night getting back in,
and I think this is, you think,
I, there is just nice idea.
And again, my night is coming, right?
It's coming.
Imagine how bad it will be for white.
it'll be for white when it's night gets in.
I mean let's just show,
because let's say white has to do something,
but if white doesn't,
which way to be go?
I don't know, E4 looks lovely, right?
Yeah.
And now you have to defend that now.
And now it's almost like a five is coming.
Yeah, now we switch to the queen side.
Yeah, and look how the RICON F7 can work both angles.
You know, it can get king side, can get queen side.
It's like so difficult not to lose, like the hope, as wide as you do.
Yeah, I like the idea, but the problem is if the Queen's come off, whoops.
So here, let's go to Queen's.
I'm trying to get the Queen in.
But even then, that night is still not getting in the game.
and Queen A3 and I've got to watch out because our crew are really crafty.
They want to take.
I saw this one at last. I've been a problem with you.
The idea is if I go H5 which I'm not going to play in a game,
then suddenly your night has a way in.
I've just got to watch out for the crafty Dutch tricks.
And that is one of them. I've already been tricked once.
That's enough.
And 9G for G6 is still an issue, right?
So if you were to go Queen Tate's Queen, Rick Takes.
Oh, you still trying to get in there.
Yeah.
So I've just got to play St. Sense for here.
Well, actually here is a little bit, I think probably you have to go.
I just got G for you.
I think you have to be a bit more accurate.
Like, King T-Sat.
OK, so maybe this is a bit more.
But I'm thinking King T-Sat, I'll have the reason for that.
Because if you go Queen H here, Queen Takes.
Can I go H for this?
Yeah, this is what I wanted to do.
I wanted to look it down.
Get it right.
I don't want to let the G-port move.
Exactly.
You've got to be accurate.
Yeah.
You've got to be accurate.
Much more accurate than I am.
But if you are accurate, which a niche will be.
White's not making it.
I think white's got to do same drastic.
I'm the more I look at this.
What did he play?
Well, okay, this is going to happen.
Rook moves somewhere.
Maybe I think white's got to do something drastic actually.
drastic actually. So let's see, we're just trying to wait for the mood to come in,
Rook B3, Bishop T. I think he's got to try somehow to sacrifice or something.
Right, and it's kind of your die time for Nordibac, you know, either he's going to just
grove or he will try to roll the dice and break out some way, but I mean the other games are
super exciting, so I mean, okay. Are there guys the niches found it? Obviously,
I mean, let's go to the office and this doesn't very well.
It's a bit, I mean, we should really go to the office.
Oh, you play Queen F1.
So trying this trick.
Yeah, again, we saw that you have to be a little bit precise,
you know, don't allow white to eventually break out with G4.
But let's go to the full bird's eye view because,
because I mean, I just want to point out this,
oh, many funny things happening.
We see that blue bomb is doing very, very well
against the win, as we expected.
But I also things are crazy in the game
between Hans Neiman against Jordan Fanfarrace.
Also, let's go down.
We had a little bit.
Yeah, let's head there.
And I'm also just wanted to point out
that our event is doing well against the Arjun.
But let's head over to Neiman against Fanfarrace
because this one is mad.
Okay, now, again, we're going for a quick.
The last time was here and we were trying to work out if hands could just take this
pawn on F4, which he did is very principle-player and if you hadn't had enough compensation,
you wouldn't went for 95 and we looked at this before, B3, B4, B4 ideas.
So the night came to E3 as we expected and now just night G6.
So the idea of this move is after Queen to G free to take the dark squares, maybe this
is something he prepared with Queen F6, and he's trying to cause problems with a night
coming to F4 and the Queen coming to here, and it's very messy this position.
Definitely, and more or less, a blight is why if they want to keep control to go Queen's
side casting with the King, as we know, that's always going to be super risky when the
the kids on opposite side of the board.
Yeah, and the been upon down
doesn't matter really when you're
got opposite side casting,
because it's a who-checkmate too.
So night came in,
white defended the bishop.
The queen now gets his blockade on the dart squares.
The bishop gets out of harm's way,
and rook F8, so just trying to prove things here.
And again, the variation bar still thinks
it's just a clear pawn, but practically,
This is a hard position to play for both sides.
King here, and now A5, that port is aiming to get here,
and the Queen's aim to come into B2.
So I don't know why the evaluation
borrows so much in white side.
F3 played, and here it comes, A4.
A3 incoming.
It is.
Queen H2, and your dance playing is really well,
he now just says, I'm gonna stop,
I'm going to try to play on the other side.
Just so I give my king a little bit space,
maybe stop your pawn coming up.
So he's combining play on both sides.
Portx port, A3, B3, but now this is always very weak.
And does he sharpen up the game with the five?
Yeah, because otherwise, I guess night to D5
is always going to be in the air, but now it's like anything goes.
It's very sharp, Queen D2.
I think Mike would love to get the Queen's off here.
Paul takes pawn, Paul takes pawn,
and he gets his pawn back now with Queen E4 check,
Knight C2, fretting the Queen, and Queen F5,
where is where we are?
And it's well, material, roughly even.
And this is quite a wild position.
you have quite a wild position that's like understatement of year, you know, we can come and
give checkmate on B2. That's something that hands is always going to have to watch out for
I-D-A, it's the special one F1 doesn't make a great impression.
No. So hands have a good think here and now what happens if you
grabs the poor. Let's just see. Can white just grab the poor on D6. And I think by the way
Jordan would be very happy with a position he's got because he played the Sicilian to get a
double-edged position. He's playing from win. Hands is playing the sharp theoretical moves,
but this is just a very messy, free result game.
Okay. Yeah. So actually, it looks like we gave a book away in precisely there. We've been
corrected. We've been corrected. Apparently Gary, players has played a 200 games in the
masters. And actually it was 226 games in total that he's paid here in Tata's still, so for
the person who said 228 congratulations. We can't give one last per coin. We are on a
bound to give the last book Lappalma, a chess novel to the person who said
288. Are they still here? No, wait there, sorry.
The person who's 288 hasn't. No, that's to be above it, I'm sorry.
We can't be below, we don't set that. We want our book.
Two, two, four. Yeah, come and get your book.
Congratulations, you win a book by Frederick Meister.
The class novels written in Dutch.
OK. Yeah, thank you.
Thank you. Well done.
There we go. Right. Well, I think what we do,
we're probably getting near Termin' of Break, but obviously,
very exciting game. So we're trying to make the break now,
so we can get up with a time pressure
and come back to that shortly after the break, right?
Yeah. Makes sense.
We are rolling in the deep and is the perfect time to take a break.
10 to few minutes.
Oftentimes, the bishop pair is very strong,
but sometimes they turn out not to be bad good.
The winner of this game showed this
in very precise manner.
This is Lukas Thomoraju against Anish Giri.
Why I started with C4 to English opening,
and as you can see, this is how the English opening
usually goes with the C4E5 variation,
And the typically the play happens on the clean side,
who extends on the clean side, is it white or is it black?
And in this game, quickly enough,
it was black who managed to push the pause there,
because A5 is restricting white from playing before.
The pause D4 is also restricting white quite a bit.
And soon the black had a more pleasant position there
and white.
and it's not quite clear how that happened
because why didn't really do much wrong.
It just appears to be the case that black has
better peace mobility.
Finally, now the Bish won't see it has not moved yet.
We already on move 16, the Bish of has not moved,
and it's not going to move for a very long time.
Just keep an eye on that Bish of.
So here, it wasn't this moment that after 1995,
I need to set it to give up the bishop hair, take the knight with the bishop rather, and
here, what has the bishop hair?
Now typically, the bishop hair is very strong to have, and in this position it's also quite an open position,
so you would probably assume that the bishop hair should be better here than the bishop and the knight.
But this is not quite the case here, because the bishop, the bishop's are quite struggling to coordinate
to get it. Bishops are strong to get it, but this bishop is not really doing much on C5.
It's tacking D4, but it doesn't have another piece to attack the pawn D4 with. It's
very easy for black to defend that. And the same goes for the bishop on C2. It's typically
very strong on his diagonal, but once you move the rook, let's say to A6, you're out of
that pin, the pawn will be free. And this bishop on C2 is good for the time being. It's
wants to stay on C8 and once the time is right it will develop at some point but there's
no rush and it's really difficult for a white-to-crate play mostly because of the fact that
black has these Paul to the fourth rank restricting white options quite a lot. So the game continues
indeed it re goes to A6 and here why decided to finally break through with E3 to open up the
position a bit more and try to create more space, but soon enough, this pond will turn out to
become a weakness. And this is also happening right now, Kunji 5 attacking that pond me 3,
this is blocking the way to the pond. And slowly but surely black is delivering punches,
left and right, grating threads, attacking white pieces, and it gets really tricky for white,
Quincy 4 already having to create sort of these kind of tricky threats because it looks like
why they're giving up the bishop, right? But the idea is that after B-Tix C5 there's
Bishop takes F5. So by playing Quincy 4, why is attacking and RECON A6? If Bishop takes F5 to
recaptured then the RECAS loss. So the bishop is overloaded and that's why this works out.
But if you already have to take such measures to play Quincy 4 to try to defend that
that additional C5, you already know that either it works
perfectly and everything is fine or something is wrong
in the position and unfortunately it's the latter.
Clean C4 is barely holding on.
Rook A7 and Y is forced to go back.
C5 simply pushing the pieces back even further
and slowly becomes clear how loose Y's pieces are.
position is already falling apart here. Why is defending that pawn on E3? And now
96 and Queen is under attack and 90 is attacking the bishop on E4 and now the bishop
pairs gone and look how much activity there is from Black's perspective. And also the
bishop hasn't moved yet, but it will soon because look how weak the lights
squares are, especially around the king. It feels so there around the king over there.
doesn't even feel like there's ponds protecting the king. So the rooks were created off
while there's still a pair of rooks on the board and losing that pawn doesn't matter for
black because once again the life course is what matters here. This bishop is a terrible piece
on the tube. It does nothing except defending E3 I guess. But at the rook C4, when E6
not a queer centralized of black and black is ready to play bishop E7, threatening check rate.
So the King runs, Bishop E. Son is still played after the 32 moves.
The bishop was developed, and it turned out to be the star of the game,
because after a couple of moves, it became clear that even the rook was no longer necessary
for adding, he sacrificed the rook for the bishop, and in this position of the bishop A6,
the threats are simply overwhelming. Quintix F1 is threatened, as well as Quintix E2.
If the work moves, then Quingy-1 is a problem, you lose the work anyway, and that is why this position
Cuckuch resigned. A very clean and precise game by Anish. He played very carefully, and
he maneuvered his pieces around very accurately, making it very difficult for Cuckuch to
create any sort of play. A very precise game played by Anish.
Welcome.
back everyone and boy are things complicated both on and off the board. No, just on the
board. As the players have come to the board in a fighting move, we have battles, we have
looks like it's going to be decisive results all round. If we look at our full ball
view, I'm going to be honest here and I'm going to perhaps throw the question to our
a lovely crowd because I don't know where to turn.
That is action brewing everywhere.
Yeah, so where should we go?
And it, an issue.
We're going to let the niche.
But it has up data in the niche a little bit.
So, okay.
We can quickly go to, let's quickly do a niche again.
Okay.
We're coming to over in a little bit later
because we're just stick with a master's get up data there.
But let's just see what's happened in a niche's game
because it has changed a bit.
So last time we had a look was after night to see eight.
And it looked like black was doing really well here
because white can't get this night in the game.
And black is just ready to take control
with his pieces slowly crawling forwards.
So Queen F1 tried, and each goes King G7
to give this square a bit better protection.
that way he can be Queen H3 with ideas of H5.
And we had a similar thing occur.
Queen D1, a brilliant idea from the audience,
trying to go night G2, but H5,
and that is just locking down mainly the night,
because the night now can't move,
the Queen is protected, can't go anywhere.
So the next move, I totally understand,
white has to do something,
and Nordie Beck understands that the position is critical.
And if white just sits and does nothing,
black will improve and win.
So white plays E4.
And I think this is a good practical choice.
Because you've got to try something desperate.
A niche calmly takes on E4 saying,
OK, I don't believe it's any danger.
And he calls the bluff in some way.
And now, we have D5.
And this is bordering on a bit desperate for Nordie Beck.
but you can see chucking in the background,
having to think,
and niche meets this with Queen G5 check.
Also covering that one,
the king goes to B1,
and can niche calmly just capture this poem.
But I think what Nordie Beck is doing is kind of forced.
You have to try something,
you have to try and get some squares your pieces.
This way, he's trying to get counterplay.
We know how dangerous he can be when he gets counterplay.
So he's looking to get his queen
to the centre with a check. He's looking at desperately achieving
counts of play in some way, but he's given all his Paul's up.
Yeah, and let's actually just do quick look at how much risk does a niche have to play.
I mean, because he has options here. He can take on D5 with the pawn, with the queen.
an English C5 and try to control the D4 square that way. So let's have a look at the most
simple, quickly, Queen takes D5. Is that giving away the advantage?
Trying to just exchange Queen's because now a niche is two pulls up what's he doing? He's going
with this. He's got Queen takes a very logical move. Trying to take drugs, the Queen's come off,
white can resign. Two pulls is too much. Remember you've also got these brakes now E3,
F2F1, in some positions. So, Nordipak has to surely keep the queens on the board. The only way
I can see are doing that and trying to do something is to move like Queen C1 because you're
looking at this diagonal. And you got ideas again G4, right? G4, yeah and you got ideas and
work D1, trying to get in with the rooks. So this is getting Nordipak's done a very good
practical try. He's trying to confuse a niche and we've seen a niche has
blundered at the start of the tournament. He's got to keep his cool here. I really
like YoV's G4 takes because then there might be some way that the white
queen can get to this square. Like let's for example just show that if you go
here G4 you take here and now maybe this night can come like G6 and if you
take that, all of a sudden it changes. The queen comes in and it's game over. So you've
got to be on your guard here, what has he played? He's got a really key in the Queen's on
surely. Surely he's got to do that. Yeah, I think he... He's got to try it. I think he has to play
Queen C1. I don't think there is anything else. Can you go Queen C1? No, let's see for.
So he's allowing the Queen's to come off now if a niche wants. And I think a niche will be
be very tempting to just swap those queens off.
I can go cleanly five. I mean, sure, that's probably great, but I mean, if you can make
it simple with Queen Tasty 1, why not?
Yeah, I mean, I would be very, your two pawns up, you want to exchange, and if it does take,
this must be great for black still. I mean, you have a little bit of work to do, because
the rooks active and I still don't like this night though,
this night is still stuck on the edge and white has some ideas
are coming this way, so it's still a little bit tricky here,
but it must be good for a niche, winning for a niche even.
Yes, that's true.
Looking super good for a niche.
Yep.
The question is whether he wants to take off the queens,
or does he want to go queen to E5 and just keep for control,
But either way, he has a fantastic position.
I run it clean enough.
There is another game where a night is completely off-site.
But it might just be OK if we go to Fedecere for Genskukesh.
There's been massive changes there.
OK, what do you see if he's going to go to Fedecere?
He's going to go to Fedecere.
And I think that's the human move to make Queen Tate's Queen.
We're combats.
As you say, we've got lots of other exciting games.
We've got to keep up there.
And we'll run for it very quickly.
So C5 of course was played by Gouquet.
She found the right move.
And it's getting critical now.
We want to go for it quickly, because it's getting near that
nearer to the time control.
And we had all these captures that we discussed earlier on.
And actually here, yeah, taking on C3 is fine.
White has to go passive.
The queen now takes it.
The work comes in so at the moment, it's an extra piece actually for white, but black attacking
that rook.
Could you play this differently maybe, white's found a good way to confuse matters?
85, rook, b5, h5.
Nice move.
H4.
It's a bit of piece though, white's material up, so this is a bit messier than we had it anticipated.
The night goes to a horrible square, black now re-rooting his night, and it's only appalled
for the piece, but so aggressively there's a night before Root takes Queen B6.
It doesn't even...
You just set up the scenes, yeah, the beautiful game.
King F1, and now you can win most of your material back.
And the night on H1 is such a sick piece.
And not on a good way.
No.
Sick. Sick.
Yeah.
And A4 was played.
And our rook E to D8.
It looks very good for good cash bar.
You have to break through here.
You've got this great pawn.
You've got white pieces on very bad squares.
It's about equal to material now.
Roughly.
And this is the thing, you know,
as black you're looking for ways to
making in-road like I'm looking at putting the Queen on C7 just so you can get into H2.
Is this the right direction or perhaps this isn't quite right?
Still some work to do because we have to be this bishop back.
You allow the white knight to get in a very nice square.
So, you know, it's not completely over, but go catch with the advantage of this game.
Yeah, he has an advantage and someone else who has an advantage is Arvent as he's got
white against Argin Erie Geissie. I mean we kind of discussed this position and we concluded
earlier on that both of us thought it was super practical to get rid of the queens and
going F3 just get back to the material, but Argin is not a man who plays it safe.
No, he moves his bishop and white gets his pawn back and it's just the problem in the long run with the black king we fought.
So let's go a bit further. The bishop is six, but it's still just a mess here because this bishop is very very good.
If white can get rid of that bishop, black's position could fall apart, but how'd you get rid of it?
So G3 stabilise in the night, trying to play on the H4, and now hitting the rook, yes, it's just the best.
Rook comes, they both love messy positions, these players. Bishop G4.
But look at this crazy idea, white saying, I'm even going to offer my rook for that bishop.
It's a brilliant idea that works sneaking around because we set how strong that bishop is and
Now
Probably bishop takes rook will be met by for example night space and we said as soon as that bishop goes
Even if it costs the rook
White's king is
Really entravel so
You start taking over on the light squares my such dumping in yeah
So you're going to fall in there.
So another aggressive move from Arjun, but the night just goes away.
You have to really grab this route though, because otherwise it's coming here, you're going to
force your way through anyway.
So it's taken.
The night comes back.
The bishop is attacked.
It moves.
And black is the exchange up.
And this is the current situation.
It, oh no, a bit more moves.
I'm trying to get that one, rookie eight, and Rook F1.
Now, it is a whole exchange for Origin, Origin taking risks.
Now, where's White's conversation, Jovey?
Well, the fact that the Black kings there on D8, the Rook on B8 is not working.
And so, you've got some ideas of just kind of cementing everything with Rook F4.
You can do that. You can go also threatening Rook takes F7.
And the big problem for Argentina is that the RECOMBA is going to be sleeping for a long, long time.
So RECF1, putting the pressure on F7, asks the question, how are you going to defend it?
And Argentina answers in the most active way possible F5.
Yeah, he's would be like a quiz, what is the craziest movie you can find?
What's the craziest way to defend F5?
Okay, of course his agent is giving material up because in 1905 there's definitely
on the cards.
Yeah, I guess what Blacks really trying to get the queens off because it Black can get
the queens off then he's thinking, okay my king is going to be so much safer.
So, Night takes their five still logical, but Black can have a little sigh of relief because the Queen's come off.
Say that.
Now, the poor situation, you have the terrible situation, you have these two guys who are
a work, but as the danger that you're going to lose both of these.
And the RECOMBA is such a useless piece, though.
As soon as you go King C7 to try to liberate it like night to defive comes and say, oh no.
Back you go King.
This is a massive move at some point and it's very hard to coordinate.
So let's just say I take the night because that's annoying.
Yeah, E takes a five and you've got a defengey four.
So, 95 and I like 95.
I don't want to let the king activate.
I'm not sure how good this is there because all the sudden it seems like black has got a good night as well.
Black is an exchange app.
And now I can try to get my rookie in, right?
Yeah, somewhere, bring this rookie in.
So...
It's still fight, yeah, rook.
Yeah, I'll be taking a good one.
Yeah, I was wanted to go Rooka 4.
Some meant things that way, but I didn't know how stable this is,
because you still go Rooka 5.
And so here I was seeing, you can go C4, but...
B5.
Maybe there's a night taker C4, I don't know.
Yeah.
I think c4 trying to look at that. It's not this line. This is quite a long line, but it's not it's not clear
Yeah, I mean this is like blacks
Got the extra exchange so if white ever runs out steam black can end up winning this game
So f5 I think's a really good choice because you don't really want to exchange queens
You know, and if you go night takes f5 you you're sort of relieving someone at pressure
I mean I really want to keep your queens on just because of this one
but maybe it's not so easy to do.
So this is messy, this is very messy,
and let's go to another game, that's all happening.
OK, this is all happening, like everything is going down.
So talking about messy is got even more messy
in the game between Hans Neiman and Jordan,
because the queens have been mobilized.
Yeah, we left it here, and it was pretty crazy.
It's queen of sex is coming.
is going to be check mating ideas on B2.
So hands, I think he went H6 at some point.
So he covers the dark squares, B5-7, and what
you're going to try to do is get the bishop eventually
to this square, because that is also a very
private pile for diagonal.
So he wants to take the board and then come back and then come
here.
H6-4 is the way to try and get to the black king.
some race against both kings, the black kings are also weak.
Rook to be five, blocking the queen, and potentially get in the last piece of the game.
Rook takes he five, pawn takes, the queen offers an exchange.
Your answer is no, I want to keep the queens on, because I want to get to be two.
Some pushes up the sleeve, but white says I'm going to open your king up more.
It takes on G7 and now night to E6, trying to stabilize.
Also, you've got ideas of going night to C5, night takes B3.
Wow.
How do you like that?
A lot.
Yeah.
Rook the eight, another big fret in the position by it.
I like this idea.
Let's just say you go night rook here.
I just want to show it.
We'll rook the eight.
It's still strong.
Also E4.
demonstrate the idea, this one at some point, and A2 is a good idea.
But also the kind of the really direct E4 is also so powerful.
Yeah, this is looking really, really shaky of hands because now that the night's come
here, it's a great piece, you have the attacking idea, you have defending D8 idea, you also
So with your beast move here, you can't play Queen D for stopping the trouble and this is the killer idea in the long run.
But if that bishop also suddenly gets here, you've got two diagonals.
I really like black.
I really like Jordan's position.
This would be fantastic win for him if you can convert this position.
But it's messy.
Pretty loose to make till time trial.
Very nice.
Very nice.
No, they're not in time trouble, but it is situation critical.
I mean, like we already saw that the evaluation bar started to fluctuate wildly.
Like if you weren't rookie one, E4, that was it game over.
So how is hands gonna actually face this threat of going of E4?
Rd8, E4?
He's a two big threat.
It's two horrible threats, so you have to move the queen, I guess.
Yes, between C6 or something, does that even, if you're threatening them to work?
Good move, good way to try and defend.
I've got to try counter attacking.
You've got to now calculate this one, but it doesn't probably work.
I don't see why I should give my work when check, but you've got to keep an eye on this one anyway.
And let's say take a look, King takes G7 because it's barely bait, but it's not very defences here, but
I see you have to throw in you have to play something like this, no you can also run away with the King
Can you see one can you run away?
No, it's the answer it's gonna be a repetition. Okay, but it was just the full back option
What actually you can play in like a free. Come back this way.
I thought it easy to see. Yeah. But you don't need to give the rock
of course. Why would you give the rock? If E4 doesn't win, you don't play it. You
keep the rock. But you've got to put it somewhere. Let's put it on an E8 for example. Just
to keep it's the fended and I keep the ideas of E4. Now again, the valuation sense
that Hans is okay here, but he's got to be so, so carefree.
Yeah, I mean, because you can't even stop the E-form with Queen to E-4,
because then the bishop will come to G6.
Look at that.
Yeah.
Go wrong already.
One slight mistake from Hans, and it just falls apart in position.
And that he's at a much more dangerous situation than you're doing here,
whether you're doing play very aggressive chess.
Can he just quickly just look, can he take on,
No, he can't take on B4, at any time, because this lives in vulnerable to Bishop G6 checks
and E4 as well.
So hands has to walk a tight rope to survive against that in Jordan, for us, but the valuation
bar tells us it is probably only slightly better for Jordan, but that's where perfect
fans. I mean, we're in Engames, in Vincent Kaima, against Javokeir Cendorov. I would say that Vincent
is a touch better, but it's not so dramatic. And by the way, Gukesh is crashing through
against Feta Saffre. So maybe we can bring out the full board view and again take our pick
of what exactly is happening.
Yeah, so many endings.
And you can always remember, look at your valuation bar at the bottom to get a feel
for who's doing well and Gary and Bluebomb have the biggest swing in their
famous. And they're both looking like they could well win their games.
came up against Sendarov, just looking at the evaluation bar, seems fairly even, a good
cache also looking in a good situation there. I reckon we can go to Erwin very quickly now,
just to update Erwin's game, but then after that I think we're going back to Blueberg.
We haven't seen that one for a while, so let's have a look at Erwin, because we've got lots of
Irwin fans in the room and he did play this 95 sacrifice but did he saw it defended really well with his night be eight
H3 played and now H5
Rookie to just slowly build it like nothing's happened Rookie for got to watch out for the check
King B1, Queen A5, and there is a checkmate frettence, so night B3 occurred, attacking the
queen defending at the now, another pawn goes, Queen takes D5. It's a whole piece now,
and Irwin hasn't managed to get many frets, Queen G3, the king just gets out of the line
and Irwin says, well, have some more wood.
Rook takes E7 and King takes has happened,
but it's a whole rook down now.
And I don't believe it can surely be enough.
This bishop has ways to get in.
And white species are just not active enough
to get to the King here.
The King seems pretty safe.
So I think Irwin is in trouble there.
Let's go back now to the other game, but tell us.
Maybe we can just quickly peek in on our first dinner.
Sure.
And Andy Woodwood, because battle between the two teenagers,
there's a lot of them aligned.
Andy Woodwood currently sharing the lead
with Mark Andrea Muritz here.
And here Andy Woodwood, this is the kind of position we've seen
him win time and time again.
He grabs the space with his pawns, his pieces follow through,
he's always forcing his opponent on the defensive.
And here I think fast for Faustino is just that little bit cramped.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, there are some squares that white would love to get his pieces too,
For example, C4, if you'd love to get a night there, F5, there's another one you'd be aiming at,
but Black has that big space of architecture and there's even stuff like B3 and RCA2 coming down.
So Andy is in a slightly better position, this battle to prodigies and it's a big game.
If Andy wins this, for Black, well, he's situated well, very well.
Do you think that I think you're right?
I think we're going to have to see like white group Bishop A4 B3 and try to get a piece
into C4. Yeah, try to sort of some point move the Queen and go knight D2 and knight C4.
Yeah, has to worry about his king side as well. It's not an easy job for Faustino. Okay, let's head
to the blue bound game. We keep jumping because everything is so exciting and look at this
This is the evaluation boat is all the way in white's favour.
So we left it here and we were like, not sure about E5.
Yeah, I mean, white called the bluff and went night takes E5.
We were looking at Bishop E6 but the other thing that Black's got to try doing is obviously
Queen in this pawn.
So he pushed the pawn.
White brought his queen back and the idea with that move is that he can now castle because
is defending the bishop there.
He couldn't castle before, because the queen takes D2.
Check was played, bishop D1.
And again, white was ready to castle.
That pawn is getting very, very close, though.
A3.
White goes bishop C3.
Attack the queen and try to cover that square.
Worst case scenario, you should be
going to give your bishop up for that pawn,
and still be doing OK.
Queen to C1.
And now, Carsley looks tempted me.
I have to think of a way to deal with that A2 move then.
So, night D3, the night games another 10-po,
Queen G5 and White Carsals.
And after A2, it's a very easy way to stop that now.
Now, the Queen's on the other side of the board,
you just put your Bishop in its way.
And Blacks tricks are drying up here.
Right.
and black kind of was really relying on Bishop H3,
but that can be easily met with Bishop F3.
That's what happened.
Rook FCA, somewhere on the horizon,
and white now starts using his paw,
but at the same time, the Bishop comes into play.
B5, Rook C4 is one square.
It can be going for E5.
The pawns start coming through a middle and a board and another idea, okay, it's Rk4, Rk4 play.
White just grabs the pawn, he has to be bluffed at all in this game, but he's taking everything that he's offered.
The rook comes back, that's not a good sign.
Bishop E4,
Rkb8,
and
here at the time it's thinking about where to go and he's got a big time of
architecture as well. 12 moves to make. It's not looking good for the fan
win at all. Everything is covered here. He's got to watch out. I suppose
would be one as a last chance. Yeah so if you go Queen A4. Try to pick this one up.
Yep. Rook B1. And can we just take on A2? Yeah. Rook takes Rook.
pick, paint takes, and rooks see one, it's not going to get anywhere because you can
just simply capture that. And then it's just a queen trying to fire.
No chance. Yeah, that's the get, that's the end. So I would have thought this game will
end quite quickly because white can also start using these guys very soon. It should
You can just pick up the A-born, I like that plan.
So what's he played?
He's moved it to A-born.
Yeah, of course.
Because you could also take the fatt things.
Maybe you can go to Queen G4 with ideas of going rugby one and just trying to pin something.
I don't really believe it.
E-6 is going to be making an appearance.
D-6 is also in the air.
Yeah, when's position there's just a little by little falling apart so I was
Queen G4. So nice I think you also got Bishop G2, everything is quite funny move. Maybe it's a
fret. Didn't see that, let's actually put the ask on a scare a little bit. Quite scary move. So if you go D6 then
Bishop G2 does Bishop G2. Oh I forgot about that one. The count is strike. Yeah, I was trying to
use the pin on the dish it that backfires because the dish of 87 what's so I need to
they would be one yeah so if I go D6 would be one is the other right there yeah it works well
here okay so Queen takes no you can't go Queen takes a 2 that was I had the whole point because
the bishop is falling um what is it going to go for it is it going to try this tricky move
He's got to try keeping the tricks going.
He's only got, he's got under four minutes now, now it's the time looking at the other games.
Is there any big time troubles going on?
No, no, okay, so no big time, but there's critical positions, the left right and center.
I think you won't quee you four by looks, there'd be play to smooth, yeah, he did.
So he's found the trickiest move here.
I think we've made idea of Rookie One as Joly has mentioned and the point is we take on A2
well now this changes things totally so you can't get rid of the last problem
the porn on A2. That's the last problem that the task is trying to find a solution to
his bout to move. What's he playing? Is he playing F4? He is F4. Okay well that's oh
bag of it, that's a bloodler. If he's played F4, is he played F4? Wow, he's
blooded. He's blooded with 35 minutes on his clock. It's not obvious why, and
there's only one move here with three minutes 30, have a think in the crowd if
you can see it. I think F4's play, we just get confirmation that it looks
very logical to block the queen, but it's actually now a chance for black to
fight. What is the move crowd? Does anyone see the move?
Queen 2. Queen 2 is right. Well, Bob, we don't have any prizes.
Rook coming in. Doesn't quite work, but Queen 2. If you find Queen 2.
He's reaching for him. Is he going for it? He's helping him. He's going in.
He's going in. The Queen comes in. And look, all of a sudden.
Well, hang on a second. There's the bishop on freeze. Let's take it.
take the bishop and now black side there is rook b1 and the pressure on f1 is mounted.
Okay, but still it's not the end of the world because you have to defend, say good bishop g2.
Bishop g2 defending and it's a remarkable move here. So any queen takes d3 looks like the move but
actually then queen a2 is apparently good for white. So it's very very tough. White is apparently
do well here again, we're waiting the engine on now in his last couple of minutes. There's
no way through, so there's only one idea here, the idea is what is white next move. White does
not have a move here. He can't move the bishop, can't move the rook, the queen can't go anywhere,
the knight has no way of good scope, this bishop doesn't help the move, so the move is to try and
get ready for rook C2, so how do you get ready for rook C2? You make your king at a skate square,
So you moved this port anywhere and you're basically asking why how are you going to deal with that thing
Then actually white could lose this game white can actually go down here the rook come and see two really this is turned
Yeah, because if you can't you can't go like Queenie for to kind of trade of Queens because Rick takes rook
Brook takes Rick and that's it the bishop has to come and you drop the queen
So I think this is a major major blunder and
And he had 35 minutes there to think about this move and he's now probably going to
go to a deep think.
Yeah.
I think it's going to dawn on him as well.
At the minute I think in Matthias it's just thinking this is just a punt because he's
quite an emotive player.
You can see what he thinks.
And now, as soon as he realizes that Ponte's bishop is going to be met with Rook to B1.
And that black is going to get very active.
I mean, it's also ideas of Rook C2 now.
So if you take here, he has to work out what the replies are to this one.
We've threatened to check.
But this one, my F2 was my thinking.
I have two covers, everything, yeah.
But it's still, you know, Rook B1 now?
Are you going to take me to the back rank?
Ah, that's why H-fight, no, Cognito now.
So it doesn't work.
So of course we're going Rook B1,
but you have to calculate this.
This is really complicated now.
Rook B1, and the position has totally changed.
And he's got to take this bishop, I think.
I think it's dawning on me now, look.
He's definitely daughter good at now.
Yeah, he is really in the concentration mode.
And yeah, he's going to realise at one point
it's not that simple.
Rook B1 and then this calm idea of making some lift
for the king and then a rook is going to come to C2.
And it's the kind of, oh, is he suddenly going up?
Could he start it with a pawn?
Yeah, get in the queen soon.
And then quickly, one of the worst feelings in chess is when you have a winning position,
you've played a nice game and you suddenly allow your opponent back in the game and you
realise it's a suddenly, rather than thinking how do I win this, sometimes you have to
think, okay, how do I draw this position?
And the win is actually very confident in this chair, and I realise it's back in the game.
Rook has been placed back.
What to do?
Take the bishop.
I think he has to take the bishop.
If he doesn't take the bishop,
well Rook will come and everyone is coming.
So he has to take the bishop.
He's played this quickly.
He's trying to keep him tight pressure up.
And now Rook do one is definitely in the mood to play.
And after the bishop G2, the big question
is really 5 this H6 or H5 mode to give the King Lufth.
The time's ticking, he's got to play quick,
because he's got down, he has his play, Rook B1, Bishop G2.
This is for me.
Almost.
First.
This is, this is craft, you can't take the night.
If you take the night, you lose your major drum.
This is not an easy move to find, this is a whole piece of bread.
You can't take the night, you're down to under two and a half minutes.
if you take the night Queen A2 and white should win again then.
And it's not that obvious about it because you're thinking Queen takes
night Queen takes a two some trades.
Yeah, it's all about the background.
You've got to give your background space.
You've got to move the H point.
If you do that, all free results back on the cars.
We find it.
When you find it, I think it'll find it.
He's placed very well in this competition.
What do we reckon?
What do we think?
It's fine.
It's fine.
He's only two minutes, will he fight it?
Yes.
Anyone think he'll go Queen 6 D3?
We haven't.
It's so tempting though.
You see, there's a night on the boards.
H5 or H6, just Eva Dismuths, don't go G6 because
the bishop's on that one.
Give your king this square.
He's down to one minute, 30.
He's looking at that side of the board.
You fact, his eyes, he was he.
He hasn't seen it yet, I don't think.
He's looking at Quintix D3.
No, he does.
Oh, oh.
He proud of the ball.
And now, that is setting the cat amongst the pigeons because Roxy2 is incoming.
That's a big move.
The Root coming down here.
I don't think Mattia saw it.
I think he was just calculating Quintix might Quintix A2 all as well for me.
It's not now.
So this is just a complete mess, a complete mess now, because you've got this work covered
in.
Right.
I said like if you go night F2.
Yep.
I mean what what thanks Rick takes off one Rick C1 is incoming.
You got the work now coming to C1.
Gosh.
And this is, this looks really good for black, I mean like as black not winning
because I still got my little A-port as well.
Yeah.
I don't see you.
And there's no way to bail out, right?
There's no Queen E8 with some perpetuals or anything like that.
No.
There's no draw.
There's no draw here.
So if you try to go solid, it looks very tough.
What do you play here?
Can you pick, I can.
No, no, no.
No, before.
OK.
Our audience are helping out with the judges.
Oh no.
Well I think we did the same again.
Brook takes.
As soon as your night moves, I have the C1 square.
So I could even play Brook C1 straight away,
if I were to, why not?
I could take the Brook first, I'll do this.
And there's no way to stop.
It disaster happening.
So what do you play?
What do you play?
Now, Brook C2, I guess that is the main threat.
threatening check mate.
Can you do it?
No, you don't have one.
Can you do Queen D7?
No, no, it doesn't work.
Okay, I guess it's not.
It's a very ruxy-tickie.
Why was thinking Queen to D, A check?
And Queen B, Queen G5.
Queen G5, Fairy Carb.
It's not good enough.
Yeah.
one, I'll take each two with me.
Yeah, there you go.
It's so difficult.
It's so difficult.
It's so difficult.
So, each five of the board, but we'll tell you, it has a lot of time now.
You can't try to find a way out.
The evaluation bars tell us that he is in a no case situation.
Well, how does he defend it?
Because let's actually consult the engine.
Because we are not...
It's not easy.
It's not easy.
We are not doing a good job here.
I mean, do we have some other defensive moves?
Okay, one, one, one. Okay, so you have that, so you see where you're. Sorry.
Bishop D4. Yeah, you've got watch out for this one, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's the A-port. Okay, but let's see, I'm going to go.
Yeah, well, look at you six in a minute. That looks like a good idea.
this one is trying to bring the bishop around. It's a good idea. I've got choices. I can take on B3 now.
I can play still rook here. Bishop here. You might be holding if rook C2. I can even think about going here and then go and rook C2.
So, you can also take the knife.
Come in.
There you go.
I like getting free rooks.
Did that one.
Kiss you.
You want to quit.
Yeah, you don't want to.
You don't want to take the knife.
Free to.
And then rooks you too.
Yeah, very nice.
And this is, well, you can try to bail out.
But I think you're losing, right?
Yeah, the pieces are so uncoordinated.
But let's try E6.
Yeah, E6 is a nice idea.
E6 is trying to counter attack.
because now if you move your work I can take it at least I have perpetual but if
you have to go for a perpetual he's going to be kicking himself because the last thing
he wants in this position is a draw now but maybe he has to yes really change his
thinking the point that this might be a perpetual why don't know can I go
or see to let's look at this first look to see to so no white it's witty I
I thought that why it's coming with a draw.
Because, oh no, it's G7.
I've got about G7.
That little bishop there.
I've got about bishop.
So white is now winning.
Yeah.
And the queen comes in and white gets their first.
So simple as that.
Let's show that.
King takes Queen D7.
And, well, you're taking here with power.
So E6 looks like a very good try.
So if E6, black cannot move the root care and you're afraid to take care, but I can move my
kidney if you do so. So what if I now take the night? Because last time you're taking on A2,
which you might still have to play, but I will take your night now. It's different now because
obviously I've got a disease of root covered. It takes F7, are you just going to ignore
So maybe my king somewhere, I don't have a way.
King FA, yeah.
There's no checks there.
No checks.
And if you get so like Queen A2, what's happening here?
In this position.
This is the way to play, isn't it?
So now you can take on F1, right?
And then come down, Rick.
Yeah, let's have a look at that.
So now if we take on F1 and we play Rook C1, we are threatening this one.
I was just thinking if you give checks, your king can actually sit on E8.
And if it's the draw it's a draw.
Yeah. Well, I mean this is maybe the taste is best move E6 but it's got to find it.
Yeah, he's gonna use up all of his time just under 25 minutes on the clock and now he really
Has to find E6. I think we think that's like the best
Crattical chance. Yeah, definitely and that's just to bail out
That's to bail out. I mean, it's still very complicated there again
If E6 let's remember the
Black cart move this route now because if he moves the work it turns the tables because of G7
So I think you'll find it. We think he's going to find it. Let's hear a cheer. Is he going to find E6?
Yeah, okay, big cheer. Who fix he won't find E6?
Oh, yeah
You won't be going to find E6. Who thinks he's going to
He's going to slam the pieces on the table. What do you think? Why if he loses?
No, no, because he does this like when he understands the things that slipped away that they're not happy
He really shows the world.
So you expect the table slam?
Yeah.
We haven't had the table slam.
Yeah, have we?
Well, we've had from him.
Right.
But, okay.
I suspect that Matthias is now going to burn a lot of time.
Yeah.
He does the working out everything.
And he's going to get more and more frustrated.
Yeah.
But maybe we check in on our full board of view
because stuff is happening elsewhere.
And good cash.
Maybe we go to good cash right now
because the evaluation bar just went all the way in black's favor.
It was after this move.
Why it's just paid night, do you want ACC3?
Maybe we can quickly backtrack.
Okay, so we had it around about here.
Black had just played this move.
Bishop came into D5, who cares a bit shorter time.
Bishop to E3, just trying to get rid of these ones
so the C4 can run.
Nice idea.
Bishop then retreated, and there goes the bishop.
White now, though, has the opportunities
to get his knight in the game, Rook D4, the knight
did come to help.
Rook B4, that is a major square.
The Knight defends against that Queen D6.
The OV mentioned the idea of coming this way.
And this is a move that Goukesh loves playing, King G7.
And this actually enduced what looks like a blunder,
Knight takes C3, and why was this a blunder?
It's a beautiful move here.
You can probably see it's on the board.
Rook B3, what a move, what is that?
Wow, that is a beautiful move.
Because if you take the rook, Queen takes Bishop and wherever the king goes, the rook
on C1 is going to be falling.
So this is a great, great tactic. If you go here, we go Queen E3, we take the rook.
And if you go here, Queen E3.
King D1 and now it's surely you start checking. Queen are you can throw in to get another check again
You throw in another check and put rook to E8. So if you go back here, yeah, rook 8's the way to do it. Yeah, and now King F2 Queen 2
E3 Queen 2. Nice
So this looks completely you're willing for good cash. What a great move rook B free show
Great tactical alertness and the problem is rook takes C free is
is coming and that is completely winning for black.
You're going to have Queen versus Bishop of Rook,
but there's too many holes over here
that she's probably coming in.
I mean, can't you even get that?
I don't even know if you can get that here.
You can probably try Bishop B5 just to anchor.
A Queen D2 has been a suggestive, OK?
Yes, so Queen D2.
Well, the problem is that there's pins galore.
Rook B2, I might better take it this time, but I think we bring our Queen to B4, because
now I threaten to win your knight, Rook takes C for easier than a move, and if you move the knight,
I take the Queen and I take the rook, and it's actually all because the King is here. So if
you imagine the King was back on G8, White might be able to defend with something like knight E4,
If Queen takes D2, he might have the move rooks C8 check, but you can't play that because the king's here
So you have to do this and of course now everything drops
So that is the problem of the Queen D2 Queen D2 we keep the pins go and
It just looks winning for a niche. I'm sorry for good catch. Why keep saying an each
Should we go to a niche quickly?
Let's head over there because Goekesh, winning, let's go and see whether Nordie Beck has managed
to generate any counterplay and we saw he was in desperate mode, just giving up a few
pawns in order to get active. He had to break out of the bind, but he's traded off Queen's.
He found a very nice way of playing this down. He had these two pawns up and he
The x-faces work, but the real idea is that after port takes point, he's spotted a very
nice tactical idea, night to wave four, and this is really, really nice.
He's played a great game today in East.
The point is, well, we just want to take there and be two ports up, but if you go here,
I've got night sea free check, and next move, I'm going to go and rook takes this one,
and then night takes for it.
You can't take there because of the pin and this work covers the seaport.
So the gate to your rook d4 and I imagine at some point this is going to be a good move.
Okay, white wants to get this port.
So the niche says no, you're not having that port.
I'm attacking the rook and here you can take the port with check which he does.
So he's now that solid two pawns up and after here the other rook starts to load up.
root B2, I bears two pawns up and you're attacking.
And then I pawn on F2 is going to be falling.
I mean how are you going to defend that you have to literally go King D2?
King D2 now I go R2.
King E.
If you go King E3 then I have R2 and 96.
That's good buy.
And it's game over.
I think it's game over.
This is an issue, an issue is going to win this one, not about about five minutes as well.
And to go Rixi-2, can we just put up Rixi-2 to King D2, Rixi-2?
What is the way to crash through?
I think we can also ask audience here.
Blacks play, what's the best way for Blacks to win here?
So we just see if it's black to play, so kick F6 is probably a good move, but there's
a crashing move here. There's a move that actually, night D3, maybe, so yeah, I heard D3
here well done. D3 and that is actually the crushing mix. You can't take your kick,
take here. If you take me upon, your defense is dragged too far apart with F2. The only last
chance you've got is RCAF4. And after RCAF4, there's many ways that they're actually just
90-4's pretty one nice way to win. You can't take that one and it should be an easy win here.
Well, the king has to let go of his protection of the rook at some point. It's beautiful.
So look at the official finish.
So look like Bluebug did play E6.
Is that right?
E6.
He did.
Maybe we switched there because Vanwin had to make a quick decision and he did take on D3.
So he found the right line.
So Bluebug fights in hard.
And now Queen takes D3, they're both now playing very accurately.
It's just this F4 move.
He's, where's he got with a queen?
I thought, what do we think he has to play here?
How many options?
Where did he go?
This looked like an idea where did he move?
He looked like Queen went the other way.
He backed that clock really hard,
like an enemy there.
Smack that clock, he's not happy.
He went Queen A7.
Oh, oh, look at the evaluation.
He's blundered again.
In these blundered was 60 minutes.
He's got to slow down.
What is the move?
There's only one good move because this is a major threat, check mate.
It looks like a good idea, Queen.
They said, what did black play?
Black also made a mistake.
There's only one move.
It's actually really hard to find.
And it is Queen G6.
I don't think that's a normal move.
Instead with no time in the clock,
Brut takes a one blade.
And this is trying to go just Queen.
And it's allowing Queen takes F7, Queen takes H5, and that is going to be a repetition.
Yeah, and I think you'll have to be a draw now. And also you get rid of his dangerous
bishop, right? That bishop was threatening checkmate. So you just eliminate that one.
This is a good move to make the note time of the clock.
Rook takes here. So there's two options.
You can't really block your queen because you need to have queen B1, so you can't block.
So this is one way the game can end.
The other way is what tries to take on A1, but now this is the reason you could just
what queen's black needs to have queen here.
I'm still King F2.
King F2, wow, that is, yeah.
That is common way.
I like the way you just, yeah, just King F2.
Well, I didn't do any calculation.
I was like, Rick C2s, this is quite scary.
I'm just going to take the rook, because I'd draw something.
But he takes F7, but let's just have a look at where the King can go.
What? We've rook C2, or?
Yeah, let's say Rick C2.
Okay, that's a draw.
But this is a really risky way to play for off.
But Ricksey, Ricksey, to King G3, spotted the hiding place is on H4.
And the King can't really be checked.
Can't go Queenie 1 because the rooks covering it.
Yeah. And at the same time we always have the...
Yeah.
Queen takes that stuff.
I think the simplest way.
They've had enough fun of this game.
Just take the rook and shake hands.
Because there's nothing there's no way white can play for a win here.
because we're going to clean this one.
Now white has to take the drawer.
So it looks like Blu-Bum at some point
is going to have to go for this drawer.
I don't think there's enough option here
after Rook takes a one.
I can't see any way he plays for a win at all.
Anyone?
Do shout out with trying to hear you for camp?
Let's try that.
So, quete takes here, and e7, okay.
No, it's not, well I guess,
worst case I can take everything here, and then quene.
That's pretty well, okay.
We've checked.
So, they come back to,
come back to somewhere like F6.
So, if I do this, a quene with check or A8,
or F6 looks good, no?
If somehow if you could get your quene to E8,
then you could have, oh, yeah.
Okay, so I've got to find the right square,
or I go for checkmate now.
Yeah, go for checkmate.
OK, because now you don't have much defense.
Now we go in.
Yeah.
Yeah, and we're getting to you first.
Because now we do have this Queen A1, Queen A1 check.
And this won't survive much longer.
For example, here, here, here, here.
I don't know that.
Mouse-lit there.
Of course it is a mouse-lit.
grab arse does always see check making one move.
Yeah, all right.
So I think he's going to have to tell the draw.
I don't see anything else.
So we could come.
We could maybe see his loads of action going on.
Is there anywhere else we could go?
I mean, he's still thinking.
So we could go to an onboard for still.
You want to go to the wall?
You want to go to the wall?
Yeah, you want to go to the wall.
They've actually have passed me 40.
So there's no time pressure whatsoever.
but still very complicated position.
Okay, so we had Queen B7, Rook V8,
and you want to look to be doing well here.
Rook takes night takes,
this is big issue with B2.
Queen comes back to G2,
night C6, C5, E4, hello, got an idea.
Hello, I've got an idea and a night has to move covering B2.
Queen sneaks in to D4, so good active square, Queen F2, and it's move 43 here.
And again, this is one of those positions. You just roll out the evaluation box. It's so sharp.
it is so sharp. I mean, hands is two pours up, but his kick is very very exposed there.
And you have Queen C5 simply, can't be bad. I wanted to make this work, but as though
at some point I can't make that work. I wanted to even go here and make this work, but
maybe a bit too much.
What's words plan?
Oh, is words plan for ship ship C4?
Actually, a truly dangerous ride.
Bishop C4, we've Queen of 8.
So Hans has got his own idea.
No, you're nicely spotted.
Bishop C4.
Although you do have Queen T.C. 7.
Again, as the bailout, but then everything comes off.
And I don't know.
It's going to be Hans, the only one that's pressing.
So maybe you need to stop Bishop C4.
Yeah, how to stop it.
Well, Queen takes C5, covers C8, F8.
So I take this one.
Just so I stop ideas of, here,
it doesn't stop Bishop C4.
OK, what's he playing?
What is he going for?
Is he grabbing the port?
I don't know.
It looks like he's adjusting his hair there.
He's picking the night.
OK, he's centralised that.
So I think this is a nice choice.
I'm proving for worse place peace.
Nice.
Yeah, like you say, night, day three in the air.
And also, yeah, as you say, covering, covering,
Bishop C4.
So Bishop C4 now, at least you go night takes.
So hands very quickly, plays C6.
Clever move.
Because that form was a god or anyway.
So he wants to strike the night away.
You don't have to take it, but he has now gone back and taken it.
And now Bishop C4 clearly has his idea,
trying to break through this way.
So if you go Bishop C4.
95, what about Quintase G7?
Although I'm not sure about this.
I feel like white is the one.
That is better once all the pieces come off
and we're in that pure night end game.
Yeah, this at D, I think your don't have to be a little bit careful
because your plate gets this outside ported.
And the king is very quick to come into the centre.
So, yeah, I guess black is okay, but it's going to be most
like your draw, but okay, I don't know.
I didn't think I would even want to touch that one because the
white king is going to be very quick to move to the middle
and start attacking the queen's side forms and the night.
So, I mean, again, this is a position where all three results
possible. So probably you don't want to the quintess G7 you need to go back
in 85. So let's say you go back here so your night can take and our
sufficient takes we take the night and I don't think you ought to
really be in any danger because the white king is always under a lot of
pressure. I know the black king is but black king is kind of like using your
your opponent's ports block it and the checks is a good strategy.
H5, H6.
Yep, sure, yeah, let's go for it, H5, and the reason I don't think you're
in this every day, because it just seems like it's going to have enough checks, but
that's plain for a draw, I don't know if you can play for a wind here, easily, yeah,
H6 is not, now if I take this one, let's get greedy, because that is a blank board, let's
take it. He could have a cereal now, so we don't have to wait long because
hands, he moves his fish out.
Bishop to C4.
Yeah. Okay. So, these two have made the time control. Maybe we're going to be expecting
in the order to put his mic back into E5.
He does have a little bit of pressure,
but Prague is in big trouble against young Adermish.
He has the worst of this endgame.
He's a pawned-down, and what has an outside A-porn?
Four moves to make until time control,
and Yavkab started to play brilliant chess.
He played probably the best game that day yesterday.
He's only 14 years old.
He's going to be some player.
What he is, some player already, but he's going to be,
he's going to only get better.
And we see his normal pose there, the death sway.
Only when he's winning, doesn't he do the death sway?
The practice is victims.
They look, practice biggest support as there as well
the pracked up behind him. Yes. The work comes in and it's just a bit tricky because
it's a pawn up for white and it's outside past pawn. So how they'd resist this? I
I'm not sure but it's a two result game. It's either Yass can win or a draw. So good.
We've got decision now, does he take that bishop going to a pure Republican born in game?
I like this very much.
This one's very nice, targeting a weak part born.
We've got ideas of bringing them work.
If you can sort the rooks off, it probably makes the task a bit easier.
So drag gets his rook to block a, the pass pawn.
There are move 37.
And now I've worked C3, I expect.
Because you don't want to swap too many points off.
Again, the decision is always there, do you take the bishop and then take on C6 and go into that particular endgame?
And, Frank, it's not given his opponent another chance, the bishop goes all the way back.
I think maybe he could have done that, Simon.
Take him, take him the bishop, take in C4.
Maybe, yeah.
Although, you know, the drawing margin is pretty high in reconpawning games.
Yeah.
I think he's keeping pieces, okay, we have a result there,
good cash with a win and a Vladimir.
Well, very good bounce back there for good cash.
We're talking about the earlier today
when you lose a game bouncing back,
that's what World Champions do,
and good cash there, played,
played just very, very well,
spotting some nice tactics.
Finding a fantastic move, Rook to B3,
and setting such a beautiful trap,
And it's very nice to see the World Champion make a bounce back
off the two losses, especially after that shocking blunder
against not a big abducitor of yesterday
didn't go his way either.
But he goes into the rest day, a happy man.
And ready for more chess.
Yes, always nice to win for the rest day.
It was nice to win at any point.
but that's a great result for good cash.
And let's say good game there.
Now, we're trying to just see before the time trouble.
I'm going to have to take a break soon, just there.
Yeah, well, we can actually, there is a big time scramble
in the game between Khorusie-Yip and I didn't sullimantly.
In the masters, all the games, I'm just checking.
They're about to make move 40, but, uh,
she'll get to Chris her.
Yeah, Carissa.
If she wins, this puts her in great shape
for getting a GM norm, and for Carissa, especially,
she will not only become a grandmaster,
this will be her third and final norm,
but she will also be a recipient of the Jean Sinkfield Prize,
which is $100,000.
Now, unfortunately, she does have a bad position here.
Terrible position, unfortunately.
Well, she's material down, but night takes E4.
Yeah.
Great move there.
Yeah, very nice move.
Just to kind of move that, yeah, totally mainly, we'll see.
And I don't think it's really any.
Well, I say not much hope.
The reason this works, you're now two pawns up with black.
And if you go rook takes C8, then I can just go queen takes D2.
And I've fretting your queen, it's not much better than queen takes queen.
Can we go into this?
I say ending, but it's two extra pawns with a third one dropping.
So that is one problem.
And what else can be played here?
Well, okay, she's tried.
What does she play?
She played H5?
Yeah.
He's tried H5, so he's just trying to gamble,
giving the rook up, but somehow trying to create some
threats around Blacks' King.
This is a bit of a gamble move.
Silamani's just taken on C1 and H6 now played,
because you can't, we have to move your King,
but I don't know, it's a whole rook.
Yeah, and at some point, you're going to have to take the night.
And there's just no inroads.
And was a draw between Matthias Bluebaum and Van Winn.
Some excellent defense there from Van Winn,
especially after Matthias made that blunder.
And actually, okay, it's a great move here,
and that is the killer move, Rook F5.
What a move that is stopping all chances.
And you can see body language, you know, it's over, it's gonna, yeah, that's, you can't take that one with a pod and that's there you go because the queen drops.
So, yep.
Well, Karis is still has a chance of getting a nine round norm, but she now is in a must-win situation.
And of course, if she wants to get a 13 round norm, she needs to get to seven and a half points out of 13.
So let's go to, maybe we take a look at Vincent Kheimer against Javokee.
Oh, oh, okay, oh, okay.
Ah, you did easy.
Does anyone want to go and give them a cuddle or something?
Come on.
What are you all going?
Every single one of you.
And just go around and give them a group cuddle.
That would terrify them the poor guy.
Oh no.
He's got the fork around now.
Yes, sir.
Ah, no one wants to see that.
And he played so well. He's only one move.
And it's just as cruel, right?
It's just the whole problem with chess.
Is that you can play 40 good moves.
Aha.
And what is happening here?
Do we have drugs?
If I haven't shit lost on time?
What is the drama here?
What is the drama here?
What is not on time?
But he only has 13 seconds left on the clock.
And there are moved 36.
We've got to go ahead.
We do have to go over here.
Oh wow.
What is happening?
The scrambles happen.
Max is...
Well, it was a race against the clock.
But in the end, Iván Chuck wins.
Two slow with a demo board and
There we go
Yeah max losing it was a bad position and
Chuck he just had to make move 40 there
So any did you made move 40 he did and well those pits even took in the chase impact
for first place
and listen
Well, things are, everyone has, again, I've just checked, everyone has made the time-control things are looking great for Andy Woodward, as he plays Black against Faustino, but maybe we check in on Vincent Kaimer against Javakir, because it's a double-rug end game, and this one, this one looks like it is, better for white.
White's pawns are a little bit more mobile.
Maybe we just do a little bit of a status update here.
And now that everyone has passed move 40,
we can take a little bit of breather.
Okay, I think we should, and now that everyone has made move 40,
it's a perfect time for everyone to refill, refill,
feel, get yourselves a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, get your
grab yourself some popcorn because there's more fun to come as we go on a
break. See you in a few minutes.
Nice.
Fans back when, after two difficult days in a row, but today's game against Vanessa Ferder
said, I'm sure it was a very enjoyable one to play.
Yeah, for sure.
It's a very interesting game.
interesting games. Very interesting game. We're going to jump straight into it.
Sure, I mean he probably the whole planet
night for F3 was wrong, but here's where the chaos started.
So basically, I mean I have to stop the synthed
egg buns. Because of his night on G3 and like bad coordination, I thought C5 has to work somehow.
and managed to psychopiece. I think Bishop E1 was better so that he could have Bishop F2 and
in a console of date. I still should be better but I don't exactly know how.
But after Bishop C1 I luckily had this nice resource like Push the Rook to Define and then H5 to dislodge the night.
And if we go to a fund before the night is like basically dead there and so, he wanted
it on after those I play nightage fund but I found this.
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are back with, let's say, the final portion of round eight of Tata still chess. We saw
another result in the Masters during the break. It was a draw between Hans Neiman and Jordan
Fanfereists, but four games still remaining. In the challenges, Mark Andrea Muritsi, Vassil
Evenchick and I didn't sue the money all have won the games. It's also was a win for BBC
or a sale behaviour against winlami.
Yeah, okay, it was pretty bad for a win there. The sacrifice never really works. I think
probably you just missed that night retreating move. Yeah. Yeah, we do have some games in
progress though. So let's break down exactly what is going on. And maybe we begin with
Nordibake and Nish, because Nordibake, in a minute, he has a one point need over
Javakir Sindarov, but the evaluation bar tells us that that lead might not be
existing for too long. Yeah, let's go into that game. So it was very exciting, but
initially playing very well so far in this game. And he got this position which
should be winning. He's got two extra pawns and he's got these rooks ready to
come in. So can Nordy Beck keep fighting and Nordy Beck is very determined
doesn't need. So we had a couple more moves played. First of all, the rook came up.
And now just the carb, King F6, I think someone who already has mentioned this move, and
this is a nice way to again keep that night trap. It's a really nice move actually, because
that night was trying to maybe get back in via F5 and E3, but we stopped that, the night
is still out the game. It's all been about this night so far. The King steps up, so
We don't have to worry about a check anymore, but now, rook B1, and there are other
checks we have to worry about from behind.
Rook comes to D2, and Nish is now thinking about how to put the ball in the back of the
net.
And in actual fact, we can see by the red bot, this is a new feature, by the red sort
of square around the board, that means there's only one move.
So that means that this position is only one move for a niche
that keeps a bigger vantage, which is quite surprising,
because these two pours up.
So Nordie based on a great job just to get to this situation.
I mean, he's played some very clever moves
in what was a difficult game.
Interesting, right? Because there's obviously a threat against the night.
Yep. So you have to defend that.
I think it's very natural to kind of go to Ruxie Wand.
Definitely. Yeah, Ruxie Wand looks completely natural.
And there only be one move here as well because if you go
Yeah, and everyone there just giving a sharp intake. Because Ruxie Wand literally looks like a very nice move.
That's right. You can't go kick here because Rook D7 and then he start winning all the
works. But funnily enough and this is quite strange because this is a couple of
extra pause. Why can play Rook C2 when you're practically forced to take? Weirdly enough
this position and this is not obvious at all is nearly equal. Even though this night is
out of play, it's bizarre. And the problem is if you move this night, the white starts
taking pawns. So that's not good. So you've got to either defend the night to maintain
these pawns or try something like E-frame. E-frame just doesn't really work because you
take it at FF2. We've got Rookcheck and this is losing all your advantage.
And if you go rook B5, which would be the most natural move,
and the whole concept is if you go A4,
well, isn't like holding firm,
with it's not the most exciting move on the board,
but rook A4, you five, rather?
Yeah, and it's still not clear here
why to my eyes, that is actually barely even,
because this point probably dropping at some point,
But apparently, if White Nail plays King D2 to stop in his E3 ideas,
Black struggles to make progress, because you can't take what's he played?
Yeah, he does make a play.
He played Rooksi 1.
Oh, he's played this.
So he's blubbed it.
Has he blubbed it?
He's played Rooksi 1.
Rooksi 2 was the very quick response from Nordie back.
What does it look?
So in this position, has he played it?
So what he had to play, and we have to turn the edge in front of this,
just so we're not super initiatives. He had to play this move first. This was the way to keep
the advantage and keep this check as an option. And I guess the point is if you now play A4,
which was the problem before, this is this idea of be free at some point. So which he didn't have before
more easily. But the way he's done it is quite a big blunder. Rooks C1 check. So obviously
Rooks C2 is good. Rook takes Rook King takes and a niche now. I don't know. Let's go back
to this position. I think Rook B5 looks normal. A4, you have to keep on your night
that your Rooks vary off sight. And now if King D2, try to just come here, how does
black make progress. It doesn't make any sense that like white is holding the balance because even
I'm thinking if you let the night out so so what can go to E5? Yeah, King E5. King E goes to here
and I don't know why they will. Because after King D5 you're going to go Rook D4. Yeah.
And if the King goes back we come here. Come back again. It's how on earth do you witness?
She might have to play a move like night takes a four because if you go and rook takes she loses the night
But a problem of playing night takes at any moment is well, I got this portal this pod and then it gets really unclear because I take this pod
I suddenly get nicely coordinated and you lose you've lost most of your advantage
I mean this would be this would be really
Really big if
If they can hold this it almost seems
You'll feel like a miracle, say, right?
Because he was busted.
So hang on, let's talk again, not King.
So A4.
A4 makes sense.
So just put this work on the side of the board,
especially when you see that taking this board
shouldn't be too much of a worry.
And you've got to be very careful here.
Because for example, again, turn the computer on for this.
If I go kick anywhere else, to set for this route,
actually, I've been troubled.
So let's say, for example, I try to come here, this is kind of tempting. Try to win.
Looks very good.
I put the king on B4. Can I win this game?
Well, after this one, now, king, let's say E5 works better.
And if you go, king B4, king B5.
Okay, this deep.
And that is quite, yeah, is deep.
Yeah, rook takes A4 incoming.
You take here, I take here. This is the plan.
but it's not easy, any of this.
Not easy at all.
So you have to play King D2.
If the audience plays King D2,
I'm, well, it's still a big advantage.
But how do you actually do anything here?
You can go King, let's go King E5.
King E5, okay, so I have to play probably King E3
so I have this check.
This is the key idea.
And can you do some dancing?
Can you go King D4?
How to dance?
Yeah, the question is, how does black make progress in this position?
And if you go King D6?
So King D6.
Well now my night can start to have to pop.
Maybe I put my night of D4 so your night can't move again.
So let's try now night.
I'll get this night back in.
I can even start grabbing a pawn.
So what I was taking for is to go King C7.
Okay, so let's keep going. Kigsy severed.
And I see that every single time.
Black King is getting close to the night. There's going to be a check.
That's really going to be a good one.
It's really going to be a good one.
It's not easy.
Like 94.
I like 94 because they're the night news and take care.
Yeah.
If the rook moves, I take care.
And if you go King B6.
Then I give you a little cheek kick.
The good kick and it's like, oh.
And then the guys try and try and lose.
Well, he hasn't played A4.
He hasn't played A4.
That was natural just to kind of force the Rick on the passive.
Because if you go away for, you force this rook off the open file.
Instead, you play King C, watch your evaluation bar.
Watch it go.
It's warming up.
And an ish is wedding again, so.
Okay, but show us why an ish is wedding and why you can't just go.
Don't ask me difficult questions.
Sorry.
My apologies.
Okay, can you five A4?
What's R?
Okay, so we can do the same thing.
But then you don't do the same thing.
Can you do you?
So get A4.
Well, if you go away for, I'm just going to break a five. We go back to that line.
Kick B4, kick B5.
Yes.
And if you try to use your knight, this is the only other thing you can do.
I don't go to a square where you check me.
You get King D6.
King D6. And now I'm defending my knight.
I can start thinking about this one.
And once you start...
And once you start...
Yes, why are you giving the cheeky check?
Yeah.
cheeky check, sorry.
Now my king just hides.
Yeah, and you've got night takes if night takes everything.
Everything.
Every second of the world.
Wow.
So this is actually, there was a little missed opportunity there,
but it now seems like after King C3, the current position,
a mutual blindness, it does happen.
After King C3, it's, if a niche East,
it has to play like King E5, because otherwise,
this King is coming to D4.
This must be why you know it is.
Go in, where's he going with a king?
Is he going up?
Yeah, it's going up.
Is this like this?
Oh, a little, little.
Has a tension, but no, over here.
He's going up.
Oh, it goes up.
You want to get active with the king.
Yeah.
And now it looks easy again.
And by the way, so if not a Beck loses,
there's only one other person who can catch Nordibek in the lead.
And that's that, Jevokir, his compatriots.
So let's go and to this double work end game
and see what is happening here, because Vincent looks like he has an advantage.
The white, queen-sided poor majority could get very mobile, like Rick takes a five in
calming and then there's going to be B4 C5, blah, blah, blah, blah, so on.
Yeah, so, I mean, in these endings, it's often who has a better rooks and who has the
So, this position, white clay, so white clay, so white has this very mobile sea port.
Yes, yes.
Kassori, I got a bit excited there, because as a pawn grabber, I'm like, why not just go
Riktakes A5, why the hesitation Vincent, there's a pawn.
Well, let's have a look, so if we grab the pawn, fits this dress very smartly today.
He's got his waistcoat on.
Yes.
It's still him earlier.
I wish him luck, but he was dressed all in white, I thought that there was a theme going on.
Stately.
Oh angelic theme.
Yeah.
Well, I thought he was playing with the white pieces dressed all in white.
Just players are very superstitious.
I know someone who wears white socks when they play with the white pieces and black socks with the black.
Yeah.
Do you do anything superstitious Simon? I kind of use the same pen. I have like four pens on rotation
Most chess players I know they have that pen thing
Yeah, so if you if you write the moves down the pen you lose the game you have to change pens
If you win the game you have to keep the pen. Yeah, yeah
Obviously all about the pen
It's all about the pen. It's not about your opening prep. No the ten thousand hours of work you put in no it's about the pen
It is so that's what counts
It is I once had one outfit which I kept losing in and so like you said it was nothing about the
preparation nothing about it was the outfit and so after five losses with this one outfit
I thought no, no, you're going in the bin
I hope it wasn't expensive outfit
Doesn't matter it's good thing
Wait
I also like stuff like if I walk one route to the game.
Do.
Then I have to keep walking out and route following.
Yeah, but then you're going to kind of get yourself into a vicious circle
of becomes like, well, you eat the same food.
You have to do the same thing here.
Yeah, I think it's very strange behavior.
By the way, we didn't have this, because I think Rook B1 being a move.
Yeah.
And then you can, I just show very quickly, Rook B1.
You have to defend that Rook B5.
And now at some point like G4 and suddenly black gets loads of counts,
Maybe I could have even checked it first.
We're very nervous.
This is not so clear because King G-free though.
But your G-4 meter, they look very, very dangerous, okay?
Let's see what happens.
It was a reason why Vincent didn't snap off the porn on A5 instead.
He just advances his king and Sindar gives a check.
Sorry?
Rook, H4.
You could do what's the idea behind that looks.
You're very active here.
To stop the king advancing, I think.
To stop the king advancing.
But then I'm going to take on A5.
You don't have rook B1 anymore.
I think you need to keep the rook active on the back rank.
And then you can try this one.
The idea is going G4.
Still, still worth the pump.
But as soon as you go G4, I've got Rook takes E5, so for example here G4 and now Rook takes
Oh, no I don't I don't have that. Do you not have that?
Because the Rook takes porn.
Ah, but it's a lot of it. Yeah, maybe this one works, so.
Yes, just. Yes and the three porn. I'm going to march.
Nothing to stop them. So I think I think keep the Rook as active as possible here.
Nothing else to stay there.
OK, we have.
Are we having a result?
OK, so did Prark hold that one?
Maybe we can check in on that one
and just kind of show everyone exactly what went down.
So yes, it was a draw.
Didn't carve off.
I heard a story about Carpov.
I don't know if it's true.
But didn't Carpov.
He didn't wash his hair until he lost the game.
And he was so good that he kept.
That's why his hair was a bit like greasy.
Like the fish.
That's what Coach and I said.
Coach and I said, like a fish.
He looks like...
His name means fish.
Yeah.
He looks like he's hated him.
Absolutely.
He looks like fish.
He looks like a fish.
Yeah.
Because he never has hair was like quite greasy.
And he never watched his hair.
So...
Yeah.
Bad reputation.
I know some chess players, they didn't have a wash.
We're not selling it to the newcomers, right?
Someone's really eager to play chess.
Like, yeah, it's going to be my first over the board event.
And then we'll be getting more people to this.
No, no, no, we can't say that.
Yeah.
There is cool as our audience.
Yep.
And you guys are serious to cool.
Oh, yeah.
To the cool audience.
Yes.
And, right, where we go, we go prag, prag, where we go.
Yeah, let's just quickly recap, like how that game ended in a draw.
Right.
OK.
So prag was definitely pushing for the win, because he's a pawn up.
But where were we?
We were around about here.
And, well, we had prag get his rook blockade in that pawn.
We saw this already.
I thought a white could try to get the king to B3.
That was one idea you could try to do here.
And then if you can move this pawn at all,
you're going to make loads of progress.
And also if you get your king to B2, then the rook
can move as well.
But instead white tried to do the same idea with a knight.
So bishop B6 and you kick the rook away.
I quite like the knight when E3.
That was a nice central square.
Rookie five and now the night came back.
So maybe this was the way to play,
but it does seem like it's quite hard to make progress.
The bishop finds a great square on D5, nice central square.
King Defense pawn and now practice his king.
Yeah, it's just very hard to mobilize the pawn.
very very hard and after this exchange well they go to a
rick ending but well I mean white offered a draw here which is a
little bit surprising because you've got the export you put on a
little bit I see the problem though right yeah the problem is that
the white king can never approach without losing contact or the
G porn?
Yeah.
And yeah.
Yeah.
Even if you get your porn to C7?
Yeah.
It's still black as simply going to be hiding the king away and everything is very
rock solid.
So maybe we can just quickly show that, although.
Okay.
So black's going to wait.
It's very hard for white to make progress.
I mean, these guys, they know their endings really well.
I mean, I would play this on because I don't really understand it.
I think we'd have to stand in a play on, I'll see the extra pool.
Yeah, but I think this one was a drop because I do think that maybe we might be seeing a result in Nordie back against pregnant and...
Yeah, this one was so interesting.
Let's go to Prat. Let's go to Lesnotty and see the...
I was always good in Prat as well.
He's got five for this time today.
So let's go to this game.
could be ending soon. And we saw a niche had played the King to E5, which was the right move.
You might as well try to check, but King now gets out of the way of the checks on this
square, great move, and King D4 occurred, and maybe Nordie Beck misses last move, but it's
already very, very bad. Also, if you play A4 now, it'll be free check. This is a problem.
You kind of missed the chance to put blacks
to work on the side of the board.
So you kind of want to play this move,
but Rook B3 is the simplest I feel here.
Keep the rook active, and there's this nice checkmate
if the white king comes.
So King D4, trying to keep everything central,
but Rook comes into B2.
And you can't take this one, because I have two checks.
So right, yeah, one check.
I just want to go here, you go King C3 and it's not easy.
If I check here, you go here.
Or here, even.
Yeah, King C4.
But if you go.
So this is actually some rook B2.
The idea I think if you take, yeah, you go here.
Yeah.
And then once the rook blocks.
Yeah, it's very nice.
You can just simply throw, I think you can for fun.
go see five just the fun but the main point you have to go
okay so see you okay now I was just thinking it's the fun and then I was
thinking Rick takes Rick so you have to go here yeah Rick takes Rick so
Rick takes for it yeah oh no okay I would have made a mess of that no I like
the idea because you want to go E3 yeah it looks like that's a killer but there's
of weird the night gets to a five maybe.
Ah, so what is the wind then?
So this is really bizarre, so there's only one drawing move here.
What's the only, a little question for the audience.
We've run out of prizes, got this stage.
It looks like one of these pawns is going to do the job and queen.
So if...
Okay, then I'm going to go F2.
No, no check.
No, no check.
Any other gestures?
Only one way white can draw this one.
You've got to try to stop these two pawns in one night.
It looks impossible, there is a way.
There is a way.
So you've got to try to get the knight to this square here.
That's the key.
Because that square, well, in some positions,
if the pawn takes here, you've got a knight h4 well done.
And this is just about holding.
Because if you go E2, I take here.
I slot the port.
And if you take here, it looks like black is winning,
but actually the night gets to E3.
Because we have the check,
and then we have night here, and we come this way.
Yeah, there's no free for that.
Wow.
Yeah, it's complicated.
Okay, so let's go back to an East-Sys.
Yeah, and the case of no he's literally just given up the night so let us go back Ruby to
Rick takes night so if you can't take the night think we agreed that it's basically a moment
Because it's just gonna start taking things you
Right, so you're my as well. Yeah, you're losing anyway. You might as well. I as well. Okay, so now we saw we saw with Rick D2
That's just a draw because you go clean see free. Yes, and we're on the work. Yeah, and if you go work D3
then King C4. And you say, yeah. And okay, I mean, yeah, that's that's right, yeah. So we saw that, so we went, so Rick takes,
Rick takes like, Rick B4. So now we're trying this one and Rick C4, the only block, because of the King moves. So now we go C5 and you have to play King here to look after Rick. And now E3.
And now are you free because the difference is, if you go, and this is really hard to see.
If you go, Rook takes Rook, I take with check. If you go here, I just go F2, you can't get back.
So you have to try night H4 again, right? Yes, the only try light before.
Imagine the Rook's on the board, but now, now, now, now.
I guess you step up with it too.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can't step up.
What am I talking about?
You can't, you can't step up.
No, a bit like, oh, you're going to go into D.
Maybe King D.
D5.
Not easy.
Oh, you get the extra temper. Oh, my God, this is like a study.
It is a study.
Let's put it up on the board.
Now you're just going to do five.
Because again, if we take on F2, the night gets to E3.
And then, so we go to night F5, where the King goes.
I know, are you still going King of D?
Then like, this is, this is weird.
Wow.
Are you can't take care?
So night night.
Night night.
Yeah, King.
Yeah.
Night here.
And I wrote B1 changing identity.
I have really complicated.
And you've got a lot of pawns there.
Yeah.
So what is going on?
What about our funny King D5?
So King V5 looked like a nice man.
because you force the work to make a decision.
And then your threatening point is porn.
This is nice.
This is nice.
It's simple, we want that.
Because your king has got out the way of that very important check
and this will recall see for what does it do.
Hang on a second.
Oh dear.
Is there more fun to come or he takes for?
No, he takes for it.
Yeah.
And now you go king takes, okay, I don't know where to put the king,
It could be keyc to one take and then I go night.
Oh no, no, okay, now there's only one move.
There's more than one move, there's more than one move.
But there's one move, we're all gonna play here.
What is the move?
Yeah, how many times can you get a night?
Put that on your pipe and smoke it, so.
With a king coming in, that won't go in.
That's what a niche has seen it always a genius. He's an absolute genius. He's seen directly got lucky there. We saw it all
I think he saw it all I think he saw it all. Yeah, because he doesn't play root b2 without seeing absolutely everything
So can we go for it out one more time? Yeah, that was actually complicated. Yes, okay
She have to take the night if you don't take the night. This does this good as resignation
So you might as well grab the nice now now can the audience remember the line
Can they help me out
Rook B4. This is forcing so every move has to be pretty forcing the King moves we grab the rook
So you have to go to work C4 now here. There's only one win
Because if you try to see freema lucky, there's that night H4 so you have to play C5
So you've got the B5 square. That's the point. I understand. Maybe. So now the kick has to go to C
free. Otherwise we take the rook. And now we can do whatever we want.
Except. Anything. Except take the rook you have. We have to go E free.
You have to go E free. So we can't take the rook again because this is my H4 right here.
Is King to D5?
It's a problem because of my F5, so NA4, sorry check.
Complicate enough.
Yes.
We don't want to be doing that.
So you have to wait until the night goes here to go King D5.
So what you're trying to do, you're trying to avoid checks from the night.
So you go the only winning move is E3, only winning move, right?
And you're trying to get a queen, which is a nice side there.
And the only defense we sort of thought was tricky was night here, right, because we're going to get a queen of ice
Any other shout out if you think there's any other defense any anyone want trying anything else
No, I'm see some people chin king bear there to make me feel very jealous
Cheers
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roast it like proceed keep on drinking proceed
proceed yeah or not
and we have a if you don't know how we're actually broadcasting from an amazing place
and we've got a live audience here. There's a bar just on the other side of the door,
where there's loads of people playing chess. Say hello. You're on the live camera.
Yeah. Look at that.
Are amazing crowds. Look how amazing they are. They're somehow still awake.
It's unbelievable. How are you awake, alcohol?
They're all awake and on the other side of the door at the back there's the playing when people are playing blitz.
There's lovely food here. Pea soup. It's a chess player's galore. It really is.
It really is. It's such a nice VIP. And by the way, Nordibak has taken the night.
Okay. So now the proof is in the pudding and an ish has to find the right way.
Well, it's too late now for backing down an ish.
He's got to find this.
He went into it.
He's got to find this.
He's a good player.
He's going to play.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
He has to take.
Oh, yeah.
He's just playing with our emotions.
But which way was he moving the rook?
Because you remember, he said,
If he goes Rick D2, that's just a draw.
He's a goes Rick D4.
Yeah.
That's a win.
Yeah.
So which way?
Well, I mean, how does he work this all out? Is he double checking or is he like?
Uh-oh.
Miss that.
Uh-oh. No, he hasn't missed it. He's seen it. He's just double checking. He's making sure it's all okay.
Have you ever done that? Have you ever planned a piece and kind of like just suddenly realise?
And then gone, oh, it's okay.
No, I've never planned a piece of my life.
Never planned a piece. Never ever. Ever.
Never, not once.
And Pinec you're over here.
Unfortunately, I tend to, it's too regularly now, you know, it's too
like, yeah, I'm just a blunder in our days.
Age.
So, Minesh, it's got a playbook before.
So, last time we're going for one more time.
Okay, let's have a little vote.
Is it, is it, Nesh, going to find that whole sequence and play a beautiful, beautiful game?
Who's that's called?
Yeah, okay
Very very confident crowd here who thinks he needs is gonna absolutely bottle it and throw it away
Oh
That relates there
Are you Dutch as well? Well, okay, yeah, wow
Well, I think you'll find it so the wedding idea. I just got it is paid before okay one step
Look at that.
Yeah.
But remember, he still has to find the continuation.
There's some danger along the way.
So it has to go rook C4.
Yeah, it has to go rook C4.
Only moves.
Not about finding anything about this.
So what do you like there is C5 and E3 and King D5?
Yeah.
By the way, big result in the challenges.
So we saw a win for Andy.
woodwood, as you play black against Faustino or Aurora, and that means that we still have
a two-way tie between Andy Woodwood and Mark Andrea Moritzi.
Yes, okay so in each now it's got to play wake up and ish. You can go to bed later, not
now. I know it's an often thing like this. He closes his eyes just to double check things.
I think he's just, you know, making sure he hasn't missed anything. He's going to go this.
This is how it's going to end.
He's going to go E3, confidently.
Then his opponent's going to set up this devious trap
and I over here.
Then he's going to calmly just move that one into that square.
And then, Noree Bet's going to resign.
That is what's going to happen.
He's done it.
He's played C5.
He's done C5, stage one done.
Step two, down as well.
Step two, now E3's coming.
E3.
Don't let me down. Don't let me down.
Let me down.
Only way to win.
And you can see that by the red outline on the board.
E3.
E2.
And let's just point out why you can't do it like this.
Because you haven't got King D5.
So this is amazing draw.
The night comes here.
And that is an unbelievable draw.
Because your night gets around to E3.
And even this is like,
You have to think about can I do this? Can I go here?
That's very complicated.
Why can't I go, I'll kick there then you take here, stop everything.
It's really complicated, so he's, yeah, that's me giving up.
So, okay, so we had, takes check, check, here.
And Nish has got to now play E3. He's going to do it. Easy, easy for Nish.
Where's he looking? Where's he looking? He's looking at...
at E3. At the boards. I just don't believe your eye thing works. Does it work?
I can't believe it. It has this, like I don't know what the success for it is, maybe.
Yeah. We can, but he's looking at E3. We're just waiting to see if he's going to find E3.
Really? All nervous. He's going to go E3 and if night H4 here, the difference is you get out of the
the way to check and you create a fret. Is he going to go e3? He's going to go on. He's going
for the pawn. Cover me. He's e3! I look proud. He's crazy! And these fans are... look at that.
Even that one, they're just drunk. It's not. One of them too. Even way we're happy.
We are very happy.
And he's found it.
He has found it.
He's got his fan club in the room.
And that should be the end.
And look at that, little look at his opponent.
And I said to play the move.
Let's see.
Yeah, let's take Rook H for.
Oh, we didn't even look at that one.
We didn't even go that direction.
That was a work.
I don't believe that.
We didn't look at it.
Oh, so the idea is Rook takes Rook.
Night takes R.
Oh, genius.
Yeah.
You think this all over?
but it's not.
Oh, wow, good thing we covered that one in our analysis.
Oh, look at this, Rukji4.
That is, that is class.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's pretty cool.
But you know, how easy is it because Rukji4?
This is starting light.
Ruk takes age five.
OK, now I queen something.
And I take, I take the night.
I'm not even playing.
Yeah, because we have to do this.
I'll take the night.
and then go rook h.
Yeah, and I'm two pawns up.
Oh yeah, and you've got a sland.
Beautiful.
Oh, that's a great defense.
So, I mean, we totally, well, I totally miss this one.
Rook h4.
I mean, you might also be able to go rook b1,
but rook g4 is.
So, what you're trying to do here, you're trying to move the night away
from this idea coming to h4.
Because if I take it, this night suddenly
Managers to do that amazing defense again, and if I go here you take here you stop the poor
Yep, and if I take here, it's the same idea that night gets to be free
Brilliant play and I stop everything and this is a mess and what you do after rook h4
You attack the night with this little move and you don't let the night get here
You're just friends going to an ending when you win the night. Will he play where's he going with the road?
He's going to do it
Oh, it's some hesitation. It just doubled triple checking because yes, it's still good
It's still good because he's coming this way or he's coming this way. Oh, he's coming this way. Yeah
Okay, so
This is what about ftc three is that any sound salvation and rickap four?
No, this is it. Let's get a work for fun.
No, this is game because the night is also,
Well, you're going to drop the pawn.
Yeah, the night is still locked out of the game.
Night of four, Rook of three.
This is an easy win at this level.
Exchange up.
So you can't take, so you can try.
What else can you try? So I'm going E21.
It's the same thing.
This is, is this gonna be resignation?
Well, you think it just keeps fighting?
Such a fight.
Yeah, I was gonna say you can go night or four,
but that only really works against E2.
Doesn't work if you have to E2.
Doesn't work against E2.
No.
But E2, I was thinking Rick, sorry, night to D3.
Aha.
And it doesn't really work there, either.
Ha ha ha.
You go, Rick, D1.
And do you remove the band?
Do you want Ricky four?
Oh, okay.
Wait, you're gonna go his on, yeah.
You know what, the only winning move is here.
I can maybe with the audience.
Right, we don't.
We can offer you a spoon, that's all we've got left today.
So what is the, it's actually only one winning move
as the red bar says, what is the winning move here?
Actually, it's not so easy.
And you can win a spoon, but you better give it back
to the bar after the otherwise.
Otherwise I'll be, we're a check.
Oh, what a, what is your name, sir?
Great move.
As long as you give it to the bar, you can take my saucepan as well if you want, and it's a couple of glasses here,
you can take the bar as well, and can you get me a beer while you're there, please.
Rook check, only move. What a move, what a move.
Because if you now go night takes Queen and this is brilliant because if you go here now I get the tempo
and I take the night with check and let's just show that my pawn queens
that's a great move and if you go this way now I attack your night so you don't have to
kind of go rookie for and I take the night in a queen so that's winning as well it's all winning
is all winning for a niche this is a very simple and good way of doing it and I don't think
noribeck can fight much more great game from a niche yeah great game yeah absolutely cinema
Well, we haven't got a fun with that one. It feels like I just want to stay in this game
It's too much fun, but maybe we should look at some other players. What do you reckon? Well there. There isn't too many games. Okay, I'm
I mean we have our our event fighting hard against Arjun Eric Guy see that's probably headed to a draw
But it's not gonna be finishing any time now and it's also looking very drowsh in the only game remaining in the challenges between Daniel or Yufra against
with an intense panacea and we have a resume.
What a game by the least.
A fantastic performance there from start to finish.
The crowd goes crazy.
It's great, great having a live crowd to love it.
You guys are brilliant.
Yeah.
But I feel like such a game deserves such a response.
Definitely.
You know, if we had gold coins, we would be throwing them.
Yep.
Okay.
So we're playing as analyzing, but for our niche, what are performance?
Yep.
So very good result for our niche.
And that really opens up the tournament.
Well, because naughty back.
He's still in the lead, but he's no longer nurturing that one point lead, because we have
Javier Cindara right behind him, and a niche is making those inro's, as he wins two games
in a row.
This could be the start of a big bounce back for a niche, but we still have one game on
going in the Challenger, sorry not in the Challenger's, in the Masters, in between Arab
of Ind and Arden Eragici. Let's maybe backtrack a little bit, just to kind of get the flow
of the game. Wow, a lot of things have happened. I guess we can go to where we last looks.
We have good time now. And the tournament so wide open. And a niche two wins against two fantastic
players with black. He won the black in two games. He's got a white coming up and niche is rolling.
No. Maybe he should just say out. Forget it. I don't want to play with white pieces anymore.
Yeah, maybe she should give me all the blacks. Maybe she's just going one, the A, three and
pretend he's black. You know, and that'd be a good night off. I wouldn't know. You get a zootop
night off. So we're going for it very, very quickly. And I probably won't come at much on the most
because there's a lot to look at.
And around about here,
Aravind had thrown away the advantage
because the black king has got out.
The black rook is ready to come in.
And it was looking bad.
So there's a couple of unfortunate moves there.
And these rooks coordinating the king doing well.
So it looks really bad news for Aravind.
And you said such a bad couple of games.
I'd love to see him get a result.
So let's see if he does, I mean, no disrespect to Arjun,
who I'd also love to see him get him as up,
but I just love the way Arif in plays, if things like that.
I think both of them play like that.
Five, five, six, six, six.
Around of chess, you know, it really does feel.
I agree, they play.
Like, do something special.
They just need momentum,
and they just need to somehow get lucky in a few games.
But I get lucky, I just mean, you know,
put the pressure on and just have things work.
their way.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, yeah, you need the time to go away sometimes, and they both have the potential
to play some spectacular moves and chess.
And in this position, Black is clearly still doing well here, with this last move, Arjun
is trying to get his king at some point into the game.
He's got the extra exchange, but most worrying is this pawn here.
And if that pawn ever drops to have to be this rook, or sometimes you could take on
G3 and push the pawn home, then it will be game over.
So the extra exchange is really counting and now let's see if Black can make any progress.
Well, he moves his king to the best square.
The knight stops the king coming in and this is actually a big mistake this one.
In this position, Black should have tried to swap works and try to win like this without,
we'll try to stop the exchange. So after this, now the D6 pawn goes. So that's a big
pawn. Yeah, I'm sure our gentleman's banking on this particular mechanism, you know, sacrifice
in the rook just to push through the H pawn. So I consider players displaying very quickly now.
Yeah, I'll get to the position. So lots of things come off. We get to the same thing. And the
The current position is here, when black is clearly trying to win, is that anyway black
could win with this one.
I mean, you have to try to get your king working, so if you get your king in, then you
have chances, right?
Well, the king, yeah, like you say, has to go around the houses, so let's go, let's go, let's
wait, I don't know, can we just do it right now, can be eight?
So let's try it. Let's try getting the king to attack the poor on somehow
Still some work to do here
Now
Okay, what's he played he's given a check first?
So it's like right did he check look like he checked and
After Rukji for
Why I want to go I want to go king here?
Yeah, well, I know why I can't I go there and I'm gonna grab the porn on a five and maybe why is the
That's going to be pressing it a little bit.
I mean, more points are exchanged.
Probably the area to the draw.
And, you know, I guess he's banking on going route G3.
So his idea is that after King takes A5,
route takes B3.
Yeah.
And it's quite easy. I'm going night before and see.
Will?
Can I?
Can you?
Well, King B5.
Yeah.
Surely I'm going to swap same off at some point.
Also you have like a cool move, night see six as white.
Oh.
Oh.
Okay, so I love this one.
Oh, this is a beautiful, oh, you've had a lot of it.
I love it.
Jail the night.
Jail the night.
Jail the night.
Oh.
Yeah.
And it's one of those things in chess.
That's pretty.
It still makes it much like logical sense.
Because it's literally the person without the move has to make a move, you know, and so you think this is just as good as checkmate.
Why don't I make sure it was trying to catch him?
But stalemate just doesn't make a sense, but it does combine.
It does make some of the most artistic moves at work.
Okay, I think this is similar, but the night doesn't get to be for, right?
So in that last line the night was quite good on B floor. So this is why Argyns played the rock here
And you go 97
He just want to get you still make that you so this is really I love this idea say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and now you take yes, and then you get yes
Yes, yeah
I love it
I
Then you get this night before and the reason we think night before is a draw is because your king comes to B5
And at some point you're able to swap off the last pawn.
Yeah.
And night versus rook is a draw.
It's quite an easy draw at this level.
As long as you keep your night close to your king.
So let's say we've got to this.
So just play a little bit more.
Something.
We can still throw in the check.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Check.
So what?
Yeah.
There you go, man.
So, try this way.
And then at some point.
Yeah, like now for instance,
is you're going to King C4, and if you go Rick B1, then you got A6, A6, and that is the last
corner.
Yeah, we get that off and then we don't have to worry anymore.
And if you go this way, then you go back to King B5, and we're threatening to go.
And go, yeah.
So, yeah, this is a really nice way to draw, I mean, night C6 is such a nice idea.
I really liked this night, you said.
But it's also dangerous to move your night away from your King.
because after Ruth D7, for instance,
get B6 though, they can't lie.
So luckily I've got this way to come out, luckily,
but I get my night back.
Yeah, in general, like you say this,
Simon, you want the king and the knight working together,
like really close to each other,
because once the king and the knight get separated
where then you're in a holler to travel.
Yeah, I mean, the most natural move here
would be knight B6, because you keep the knight close to your king.
Now, how bad is this?
Well, Arjen now wants to go here
and take on B3.
Well, do you say it and it happened like B6?
Well, like B6 is very natural, but this, you can still go
at night D5, no?
I mean, it still should be a draw or you can probably
do other stuff.
But let's have a look.
Let's see, it's a pity we didn't see the stalemate
stuff, but we got some more moves.
So I think, like B6, Rook came with a check.
And now King takes A5 and Rook takes B3.
And I would have thought this is the ideal square.
So we go night B5.
We get it there this way.
Yeah.
Where's he gone?
Where has he gone?
What did he do there?
He's gone for a check.
OK.
So he's trying a different way.
The king has come back to be eight.
The night has come to D6.
Are you not allowing the king?
Is this happened?
Yeah, this has happened.
This is a bit risky.
because the king gets to C6, black's made progress,
because look at the white king, the white king's over here.
But you can't go, the point is, you can't go to C6,
because if you go to C6, knight D4 and white wins.
So this is the idea.
But you can go later on.
Okay, so he's got work here,
but now I've got knight D5, and I'll go king B6 next.
Looks easy.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
C6 is incoming.
So all I need to do is swap off your last pawn and again I've got this kind of
right there or this kind of right there so maybe we're okay, why then King B4 and yeah
it's heading towards the draw because the black king is so passive here the black
king can't come out.
If it was on C6 now.
Exactly that one is super dangerous.
Yeah, I don't mean you get the king here. Let's try it. Let's try okay. It's got RCA1 which makes sense because you want to stop this move
But now you're gonna get but you don't stop it because you can be six anyhow keep this I got RCA6
Oh
Yeah, I
I'll for that one yeah, it looks it looks like the right thing to do except no but suddenly RCA6 because yeah
All you're trying to is get rid of black's last port even in costume two pods you've got to avoid that trick
but maybe we just go the other way. Which is a bit disappointed but yeah. And now if you go
can't hear we can maybe just check you got me. We'll keep checking you. Well, early on it
was a sensational result for an easy-to-giri. One with a black piece is again to the tournament
leader, not a black abducitor. We have Fiona ready with him for an interview.
And each congratulations, you really are a crowd-peaser here on a packed weekend.
You beat first of all champion with the Black pieces and the next say the tournament leader with the Black pieces.
How do you feel tonight?
Yeah, good. I like the introduction. The way you said it is like, you know, when they say, like, I have a two children, a son and a son.
Yeah, I had both two Blacks. It's funny. Even my coach, you were said before the tournament.
tournament, so this is going to be a difficult patch show, a little different, but yeah,
it was very fortunate today, so I'm happy of course we're doing.
What do you think change, right? Because you went six games without a win and suddenly
back to back, thank you.
Well, I was unlucky, then I know I'm lucky, so I think pretty much that's everything else
I'm doing the same here for 18 years, so there's not much, I mean there's not no secrets
here.
One last question before we jump into the game, do you know that today was a special game for you?
It was an anniversary
Yeah, I was going to switch that like
multiply 18 by 13
I'm very about my second is very good at this, so it's like 180 plus
3 times 18, that's what 54
There's one floor in your calculation. You have to remove the C group and B group.
Okay, so that's 16. So that's 16, 16 times 13 and do I jack to go here?
Okay, so 16 times 12. Okay, so that's 160 plus 32.
Why? 200, my 200 game.
You figured it out.
And what a game it was. Let's take a look at it now.
I'm bad at calculation, but they have no idea.
I'm bad far better than many of my competitors.
That's calculation.
But no, OK, I also don't know.
I saw one comment at some point.
I was showing some game and somebody said,
like, there's a game.
One first thing I was showing his game,
you saw this one, yeah?
I saw.
So he's calculating a lot of nights.
And this guy is not clear, yeah?
And I really find quite amusing.
The way people perceive this,
the way the people show the games.
I like when Hans did this famous thing when he was after the game and said like, yeah, okay, but it's just fixed for itself
Yeah, it's just
so funny like
So you check the comments on it or when you're okay not all of the rest of my mental health deteriorate very fast
But I
I'll I'll usually usually don't like to acknowledge the comments in general
I think like I don't think people, you know, just
You should engage in comments like with them at all. I don't think you have to feel that they're speaking to you
you, it's just like somebody writes on the wall,
you're not going to shout back, yeah.
But when you can use a comment to make a poem,
you're on, like this one, I think it's OK.
You already had.
It's the first name.
He also, when he carers shows his game,
it's also like he's, or he likes to,
because people like the zeros and all this,
many moves, and it's really a matter of perspective.
I mean, if you want, I can't show you, like,
middle and lines, but it's so, but it's going to say,
you know, what was happening, so I just made some moves.
So today it's like it's where the big theoretical debate.
Yeah, it's an interesting position.
I think I'll give you the big question here
is who's King is weaker, I've had a lot of games here.
And it's very hard to say, because black King is
obviously open already.
But white King doesn't have safe spot fully either.
And it's in a position like that.
On one hand, it's sort of on that say on G1,
it could be safe, but then again,
if I get the coin to H3, it's not.
So it's in a C position I was very happy to get B5.
I mean, probably it's not so simple, the position,
but, and probably, like in general, in this sort of structure,
if you pretend that there is nothing happening weird, B5
is a very positionally desirable move,
because you fix the C1 and C4 is positionally desirable one.
But that would be the case if there was no weirdness on the king's head.
Now with the key readers on the king's side,
maybe things are very different.
But still I was happy to get be five.
I don't know.
I didn't see what can you reveal where your prep ended?
My prep.
It's basically never started and never ended.
It was all, I am my prep.
It's just me.
That's very deep.
Yeah, I mean, you have to understand the prep.
And it's not like some device somewhere far away from you.
It's like when you're going to the battle,
you have to wear your armor.
And then, of course, if I come out naked,
this guy's a little small thing, right?
So I'm coming with my armor, but then it just me.
So yeah, I am my prep.
I am my prep, not because other people
they're preparing, and then they out of the book
and they can't make a move.
And then there's prep is there, they are there.
And I'm my prep.
So it just never started, it never ended.
But it's a position, I think.
I'd be in like H3 to be honest.
But I saw Quintetri was a very desperate.
I, of course, normally put a bishop here.
But again, I think he did the one a castle short.
And I think he might have underestimated the group of seven.
Also, it's important that he can't, like,
win the pawn this way, if there's not even a threat here,
which is kind of important to see, because he doesn't really
and I mean them 100 ways here to defend us because it basically like whenever he takes
with the bishop I take always with the rook and he's pinned so he can't get rid of this
pawn so that's nice as well as I do it before and here I do know yet since many
options and when you're thinking the one feels very artificial of course I just saw
this guy's actually this moment with nerdy back outside and he was saying I
23 was bad did you realize over the board that might have underestimated
Look of seven, he said, go for me.
It was very natural, it protects everything.
I guess what he might have intended somewhere
is to go somewhere for E4.
And in a line like this, I'm coming in ID5,
and he wants to keep everything on the one.
So you're trying to be cunning, but this line anyway
is good for me.
So I just hear that I'm overwhelmed with choice.
I have so many options.
Not sure about it would be, maybe, if I were to say,
for a bit, I later realized, maybe E4 is smart.
And it's a very weird position, his king is very weak, but he can still, like if let's say,
if I take, then he can take, and maybe you can sit too, and he should get three comes out.
And the night is out of play, but until it's out of play, but it might join game, it's not an end game just yet.
I don't have full control, and I'm really, really well, but it's still a bit tense.
And when he forced the matters like this, I was very happy because I think, I have many options,
But I just have a very good position.
And now that we've traded a lot of squared bishops,
the less pieces are there, the more relevant the nitrogen
that should be become.
And yeah, there's no breaks anymore.
And I just have to prevent ephobric and it's not happening.
And I was actually lucky that I had bishops.
Everything is good, but bishops are very nice.
Because you think that this is a good bishop thing.
So you don't want to trade yourself.
But actually, the bishop is now standing where
my night should be standing on this six.
So even though like positionally you might think
you don't want to trade bishops, it's first full.
That's not really the case because this bishop
is not his main issue.
It's main issue is the night.
And I am feeling this six square and then my night comes in
by a D6 to E4 and after Queen of Honor was also
nice that I go, I don't let him to like let's say in line
like this is not good come out.
This would still be a fight, but after Queen G7,
Queen G3 H5, his night stays locked in.
And I've said you did well to desperately open things up.
I thought he was like dead, dead, dead, lost.
Yeah, I was gonna ask you because I was there
when you came out and it was pointed out to you
that you did let him back into the game for a second.
Did you feel during the game that you're just
in controlling the entire time?
Feel for sure, but I have to say he was defending
freely with all of enthusiasm.
These youngsters tend to do that.
I think that this point, this is a mess out.
Quincy one was expected.
What is the engine way?
Yeah, many, many good moves of course I'm winning.
But I thought that this is kind of tricky.
So I thought actually it was good shot.
Quincy one, he threatened me to also clever.
It's five and now E4, not just one, three, five, but also actually sacrificing it.
And then Quincy one, practically speaking like it was dead loss before,
I'm not a bad guy, a shout, I mean it's completely lost, of course, but I had to find 9-6, and maybe also 9-5, 9-5 also, maybe it was a cleaner, it was a move here, I didn't like it, I think it was,
Thanks, two, three, yeah, a few.
OK, yeah, then actually for also a very good.
Yes, he was resisting very well here.
And obviously, I'm completely winning.
And 93 is nice.
It's always was considering these ideas,
but I think here I have some kind of fork here,
Because basically, he moves the rook, he threatens my pawn.
I can't really protect it, but I have a fork.
So I was looking at this.
I think I thought the rook is one or two.
Yeah, rook is my problem.
Ah, now the engine just goes here.
Yeah, the computer sometimes gives up.
Basically, I have this strategy advantage of E4, F3,
and computer sometimes you have to give it up and to get something else.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
It depends on matter of style.
I thought it was a very, very clean, and here, I thought Ruby 1 is game over.
I was waiting for this whole Ruby 1 thing.
Actually, I thought my threat is Ruby 2, but I completely missed Ruby 2.
I mean, not that I even missed it.
I just, I mean, I thought the case completely lost anyway.
And the training route makes it all simpler because it is only play based on
the route.
But there are realized that it is a little bit not so easy, but I thought I must
be totally winning anyway.
And actually, he has some, I saw a forward without yacking,
three, not with the idea King Gitu, which is very, very cunning because now I don't get the
route to the second rank, and if I just go here let's say, hmm, this is kind of fine
than the night, yeah the night comes back and everything, this is actually his dream
like, of course I was afraid that this is the position I wanted to avoid at all cost,
but I didn't see this order A for end King Gitu, it's actually not that hard. So quite
It's quite a lucky that when you're here, we're going to be very difficult at this time.
It's still a bit playing, but I have probably.
Yeah, but you know, last heart.
It's definitely very well.
Yeah, with the logo and there's some of this important.
And he almost escapes.
I was very happy to... that didn't happen.
Because in the game was nice though.
He may be also missed.
It is quite nice, because there is some trick here.
If I do this, there's some insane trigonage for.
And EF-9593, and there's some sort of, like it's actually finding there's some kind of a barrier.
My own points are forming a barrier.
It's like, I don't have the F on that.
That's great thing here.
Yeah, that's well.
So, I have to have E3, now not H4, I have King D5.
No, take this, this one's.
And then actually I saw that he has Rook H4.
I think Rook G for also.
But now I have some wins.
Because this Rook H4 also brilliant tribe.
because if you have one in a traditional language,
you're much interested.
Yes, yes, yes.
Very enthusiastic defense.
It was really, really good.
But, yeah, there are, I mean, there are durians.
So I thought actually I did quite a lot.
I felt that maybe I'm not winning in the most precise way,
let's say, but I felt I must have a big winning margin
until I've blunder something obvious.
But that's true, it seems that, yeah, he has this,
I has this construction where I'm kind of paralyzed.
I'm kind of paralyzed with my 9 times,
if I have an iPhone, of course, I realize that it's
paralyzed, but to be fair, I have one, two extra points,
plus like, it looks like a better, like,
if 4F3 is a big asset, plus I can get my Qm to the 6 always.
So I thought, like, the worst worst case I thought,
I will take the A-pon, he will win my E-pon,
so you have to win my F-pon, and then I'm still a pawn up,
and I'm half-winning.
That is, like, the worst case.
But actually, the engine probably says that this worst case is a draw
and this maybe not the worst thing, but it's the best case.
And then maybe it's not unique, but still holdable.
So I thought I'm winning with a margin.
But yeah, sometimes the computer defense really
really well, and humans also too.
Today, you've indicated yourselves in terms of showing us
a lot of lines.
I didn't really do that.
I mean, also I don't really bother with people.
But it's quite interesting, because the people
are unable to judge the difficult lines from an easy line.
One really remarkable video was not underback when he was video acting great,
but he was, yes, when he showed a really difficult line quickly.
And that line, I had to think a bit, I thought he's probably as usual talking nonsense,
then I checked with engine, and actually it was all first, yeah, and it was a very difficult line,
which was also all first line. It was maybe unique case in history of YouTube,
where this threatening out or rambling out whatever the of a variation
is actually impressive, like this was maybe the only time that I was impressed.
The other times, either the lines are too easy or the full of mistakes, in my case, today they were both.
And if I have another question, you had this very interesting explanation about, you know,
your armor when you come to the game, you're here with your segment, I think it's not a secret,
he's around every day, yeah, it's made, it's not the first time he's been here, second,
your wife Sopico just arrived today. Are they also part of the armor in a way?
No, I was joking of course. I mean, I just didn't want to tell you when my preparation ended, so I just made up some nonsense.
Yeah, very happy that my wife's here and my friend Jan is here for a while already, for a guy.
So yeah, we should probably head out and get some dinner.
And then tomorrow, what's the plan?
I think there is, they know.
Yeah, we'll have to prepare for the day after that.
It's been tiring game today for sure.
So I have to rest a bit.
And he's Shenzhou, you're dinner, congratulations on a great weekend.
And we're going to head back to the studio.
It's going to look weird on YouTube, but there you go.
Thank you, I need to congratulate him.
Thank you, Fiona.
Congratulations once again to Anish for pleasing the crowd
with his fantastic game.
Well, we see the empty boards in the master's and that is because
because the game between Arab and and Arjun Erigati has finished.
Simon, if you could take us through how that game concluded,
because it went as expected.
Yeah, pretty much.
I mean, the only thing that White has to do is
exchange off this pawn for one pawn, or even for if it takes two pawns,
because night versus rook is a draw as long as the king is near the night.
So that's White's sort of A.
And they danced around quite a lot.
So what Black's gonna try to do, ideally,
is getting a king here and then get a check at the right time,
but that's very hard to do.
The night creates a force field,
and you see all of these squares are now covered,
meaning that the Black King can't approach.
And if the Black King goes something crazy,
like over there, the B-Porn B-Left for a week,
and the other idea in this is at some point,
play C6 and swap that one off. So now white just moves the kick and waits to see if
black can do anything. That doesn't lose anything. If the king came back, we give a check.
And now the king just waits. And here this move is trying to force the issue. So now
we're trying to force a pawn off. This is the pairing C6. Obviously a little bit
risky to play unless you're 100% sure it's a draw, but the idea is C6. So King A6, C6, draw.
So don't worry about the valuation but it doesn't affect the technical aspects of it.
The King came up, again, keep an eye on this one. And here we go, C6 played and now black
I can't avoid exchanging the pawn and here it's quite a simple draw so
Arjun decides to make it simpler and that was added to a very exciting game
I mean they both had chances in that game and you know the draw I think fair enough
Yes it definitely fair enough game fair enough result there for that game
He was very topsy-turvy with Arabian having an advantage and then it going backwards and
forwards in that crazy middle game, but for results there is still one game on going in the
challenges. We're just going to give you a status update and a prediction is between Daniel
Yufra and Panasonic the dance and that is a bishop in game which could go on for a very long time
As a UFA tries to make some inroads with that extra pawn, it doesn't look very likely
because there's just no entry points in for the white king.
Yeah, you would imagine this is a draw as you only said the white king can't get in anywhere.
You need to activate the king.
If it tries to come this way, it's going to take a long long time.
And look, whether white pawns on the queen side are the both on light squares,
meaning that black can try to...
What is this? Excuse me.
Black can try to keep the pressure on them.
So it looks like it should be a throwy over.
Yeah, but there's a decision to be made as to whether to trade
of fishers and what will happen now.
Or whether the bishop will continue to be on the board,
So black will go for an alternative plan of putting pressure on D3.
So decision for Panassar to make the clock is ticking down, but we do expect in this time
control really anything can happen.
Yeah, I'm white's got to try because it is an extra pawn, but the black king is also
quite active.
So it can kind of sit around here and the only way to see white trying anything is with
the king coming to wave free, but I imagine that the black bishop
will just arrange an attack on D3 when our curves.
You can even just leave the king here.
You just play with your bishop.
Right.
And this is the thing, right?
If you move the bishop over to GA,
to order F7, doesn't really matter.
The point is if the white king steps up,
the bishop will switch and start attacking G3.
I imagine you wait until the king comes to C2
to move the bishop.
But just to stop king F3.
So, oh no, but here you've got to move the bishop right here.
Right, you have to move the bishop, yeah.
I'll also do the first thing is, is the king important, I mean,
we don't go into that one, I think.
No, okay, so we just go bishop somewhere.
Bishop, where did he play?
Bishop, B3, okay.
Bishop, B3.
Okay, well, maybe this one isn't the most accurate,
because it does allow the king to E4.
So I think we were thinking that if the bishop goes this way,
now the king approaches, you keep the bishop on this port.
This is a way to stop the king coming in.
In efficient E4, for example, you have this check
and you win that for.
Yes.
And it's not really much else white can do.
So the way it's actually played,
would be should be free after King F3.
You can't stop the king coming in.
So this is a little bit risky way to go.
I think white might get there in the end of with us now.
Well now that we've seen the NACRICIVE
with King coming to E4, there are big chances for white,
especially in this time control where the Dante doesn't have too much time on the clock
to actually make some in-roads and perhaps turn what is a drawing position into a win.
But it's been a dramatic day. The players came fighting to the games and we saw that straight
out of the openings. It was direct chess and let's have a look at how the results all unfolded.
So, in the Masters, there were two decisive games, wins with the Black Pieces for Goukesh and an E-Segiri.
Yeah, one of the most exciting days, I think, chess-wise, in the Masters, the games, the quality of the games was all fighting.
And the results, they're both really reflect that.
Goukesh, winning a very nice game, smooth game, playing very well with the Black Pieces again, keeping control, bouncing back from his...
from his horrible loss yesterday, and that was important.
That's what World Champions do.
And a niche, showing great quality there.
He started the tournament badly, but he's one, two games.
It gets good cash and naughty bet with the black pieces.
So he is flying.
He is flying, and let's see how those two wins
did impact the standing.
Oh, we saw, naughty bet.
Did have a one point lead going into round eight.
He hasn't been caught up because Javoccais
in there of did draw his game against Vincent Kramer, but it's not much in it now, where
we have a Cinderella of five points and a three-way tie for third with four and a half
points between Hans Neiman, 14 year-old, Yasukar and Jordan Valfreist.
Yes, so very exciting last portion of the event that I'll coming up.
It's also equally exciting as always in the challenges.
I mean, look at that.
There have been no draws.
Crazy.
Every game decisive.
And I wonder how many times that has occurred.
Especially if the last game ends in a win for white,
which is possible, very, very bloody day on the board there.
It is.
And it's what we've come to expect.
And it's still a two-way tie at the top
between Mark Andrea Moritzi and Andy would
would nothing can separate them.
They're on six and a half points out of eight,
but half point behind them, chasing down.
It is, I didn't suit a manly,
and let's not discount names, such as Vasile Ivanshuk,
they're on five and a half points.
He's still in where the chance of winning,
and a win in the challenges would mean
that you'd get an invite next year into the Masters.
So, well, we talked about tomorrow
be in the second rest day. So please don't forget, don't you know tomorrow because there
will be nothing happening. Everyone is getting a well deserved rest of the some exciting battles
on the board. And that does bring our coverage of round eight to a close. As mentioned, Nordie
Bank still leaves the masters outright, the challenges are still a two way tie. And now I'm sure
Maybe we don't have too much of an audience, but I'd still hope that we can put our hands together and give Simon a massive round of applause.
Because it is fine today with us and Simon.
Thank you so much for entertaining us with your jokes, your moves.
All of your insights has made six hours just passed by.
And thank you.
Feeling is mutual. It's been a pleasure.
Thank you, Yogi, thank you to our producer and great producing and great, and thank you everyone, basically, so thank you.
It has been a lot of fun and a big thank you to all our viewers and of course our wonderful audience from the cafe
design you guys have made commenting so much fun, but we're going to go on a rest day and we'll be back with the coverage on a
I'll be doing the commentary alongside Grandmaster Yan Guestafson.
Thank you very much for watching, and we're going to leave you with a video of a win discussing
his miracle to save against Matthias Blubam. So enjoy. Goodbye.
When you just played probably the most exciting game of the round,
it ended in a draw against Matthias Blubam, but not without any, not without excitement.
Tell me a little bit before we jump into the game about your feelings in that moment with few seconds on the clock in such a crazy position.
And that makes a micro-fritz.
Yeah, it was a really crazy game and not for the right reasons.
I was really struggling today and I had a big time trouble.
be it must make with 40 seconds and I was really, really nervous, tense at that moment.
But suddenly I also felt like I got some chances, you know, like, I already felt like
I will resign any moment without time in a completely lost position.
But somehow, suddenly I saw some technical ideas and I got excited.
So it was a mix of excitement, stress, and nervousness.
This was until your first time travel situation in this tournament.
Have you been finding it maybe a little chat that didn't change to adapt to this time
concert?
Definitely.
I mean, I do sometimes struggle with time trouble, especially when I play stronger
opponents and maybe I have a bit less confidence.
But would you have time trouble?
This time control is terrible for you.
So even against Prague, I have maybe two minutes for eight moves and it's been stressful
events so far, but I'll try to work on time management.
How do you do that?
How do you think you can do that?
I think you just have to force yourself to play faster because
and be a new today, in the opening, the cost of mistake is much smaller than
around 40, so it's something that I will just have to force myself to do.
And just one funny question before we finally get to the game.
year-end of masses after winning the challengers last year, how does it feel, you know, to be playing in the top group this year.
And there's been some changes as well, right with the layout of fans, also close, so tell me a little bit about that.
Yeah, it's definitely very special for me.
The term and tier and back in Zay is the most prestigious that I've ever taken part in.
I've played twice in Challengers and now the Masters is a big step up for me.
and it's something that I will definitely cherish for a long time.
And I do love the new setup.
It's really nice without the barrier, the fence are really close.
It's nice and many people watching.
So for me it's just absolutely special.
I'll try to enjoy it as much as possible.
I can imagine while we're delighted to have you here.
And today you really treated the sense.
So I would say, D-game.
After the day, let's take it away.
We started a little bit before all the drama happened.
Yes.
So here, it was the first critical moment for me in the opening.
I completely forgot what I checked in this position.
I repeated it briefly in the morning,
but then remember anything.
So I think here maybe I should play B6 or maybe Queen A5
is correct.
We should be 2, maybe Queen TXA2.
But I played B4, which allows this route
fixed before exchange sacrifice.
And I had something very, very similar, but not here.
Like here, it's just bad.
But I spent like half an hour trying to figure out
what other version is there.
And I configured out so I assumed it must be here.
But should have gone with my own.
And yeah, you understood, probably, that this was
an great tile.
How hard is it not to beat yourself up too much?
Yes, I was quite anoint, I mean.
But at this point, I was still trying to convince myself
that this is the preparation.
But somehow, technically, I didn't see how it works out.
I guess I could also play Queen C2 and take the pawn here.
But I have rook and two points for two bishops.
It's OK.
But white really has amazing development.
So I think it's a quite a bad position.
I try to play it most ambitious with A5.
You play Queen B6.
And here I sacrifice upon it.
This is a very complicated position.
I blundered something here, but I think initially
I was thinking you'll go for something like this.
And this is where I spent all my time
at this point of their 15 moves.
I was already done to half an hour,
and there were some really crazy lines here.
But anyway, I think he played extremely strong at this point
with Queen before.
He found some nice, regrouping where he stops my passport.
And then I'm just completely lost.
And I have 40 minutes less.
It's just an awful position.
Yeah, assessment is, of course, correct.
Where was the moment that you talked about
when you started seeing some ideas?
Well, so the whole time I have this one hope, this one on A2,
but here there's no technical ideas here,
and I'm just very upset.
But here I played the Rookay for giving up the B5 part,
and I understand that it's completely lost,
but at least I will get my Rookay because I open the B file.
And I think most practicals may be some E6, FE6,
and maybe 27, making it very, very weak,
and I think it's just lost.
But he won't be sure B4, which surprised me a lot.
still, of course, completely lost.
And here, this is where I started getting excited
with QG4, because I have some technical ideas now.
I don't threaten BishopsG3 it, because this Bishops
takes H7.
So this would be, but he has some problems,
because I do want Ruby 1.
Let's say if he goes T6, I want Ruby 1.
And suddenly, it's a mess.
Like his king is weak.
I was briefly considering my default here.
I think it's a very strong, with the same idea
that there's this bishop takes H7 trick.
My response was going to be Ruby 1.
And if you take my rook, then I have bishop takes H2 in the end.
And I think it works out for me, probably as a draw.
I do think that maybe here, after the night of Ruby 1,
maybe if three words, but I'm not so sure.
I didn't have any time to make it.
If you want to, I'd like to say you can turn on the M7
might be interesting to me to see?
Yeah, this is winning.
Yeah.
And here, I will Indian lose some material.
But he played F4, which is also very natural, because he blocks the...
Break the pin.
And it looks like, well, A2 is falling.
But here, OK, I have one last hope to go Queenie 2.
Now that we have turned on the engine, actually, you get to see that Queenie 2 was a brilliant C.
I didn't realize it yet, but at this point, I didn't realize it yet.
And now, I just, so it's the only move that I can even try to hope for a fight.
I didn't realize that it's so strong yet.
So obviously, I calculate the most natural move of the change.
But the entire sequence suddenly becomes crazy, because both of you have to,
suddenly, he's also on the pressure. He's on the pressure,
because suddenly his king is very weak, and I'm attacking.
But now the problem is, I have back-rank issues.
And if I just take the piece, then he will take my pawn.
Queen E3 and Queen F2 and he blocks everything.
So here I have to find another very strong move, H5.
But I still thought it's completely lost.
Because I saw, I did realize it for example after D6.
I can just take on D3, take on F1 and Ruxi1.
That it's probably him who's trying to fight.
or the game continuation, I thought was critical of E6.
Yeah, also gets a brilliant C in turn.
Yes, also.
I mean, it does look like a nice move, right?
Like you open the bishop, the king is weak.
However, at this point, I thought...
I think it was the early move, if I'm not mistaken, he said.
To not be lost here.
No, seriously.
Yeah, this, it became crazy here.
Yeah.
And 263, I mean, he did spend a lot of time E6,
so it helped me lots to calculate lines.
And here I was wondering about such a position,
Queen Fix A2.
But here I think I have just Rook CC1, very strong.
And he has nothing else but just to give perpetual.
And it's actually very important that I go King F8
because King Fix F7 there's Queen D7 and it's lost.
So he did try to trick me one last with Queen A7.
And now you're, I think you're in for,
you've already seen it, right?
Yeah, I've seen it.
I've seen it.
But what happened during the game was,
he spent a lot of time and he was unhappy.
But about one minute before he made his move,
I saw this move Queen A7 exists.
And I was starting to panic a bit.
Like, oh my god, I missed this.
What to do now.
And I saw that there are some ideas
with group text F1, Queen G6.
But like, with, I had one minute for six moves.
And I found this technical idea that I can take on A1,
which is very nice, but I know that of course,
I have a question mark, it's very harsh.
We're gonna say 12 years, the engine,
sometimes it's not very fair.
The engine is not very human with,
and it's a screen G6 is very strong,
but I also, even now, looking at it,
I don't know why it's so strong,
and I think I would so flagged.
I was looking at the engine and I was thinking,
green G6 is never gonna happen.
Not just by you, but by anyone in the world in the world,
it's like, there's some green G6 here, for example.
if I look at it, take, take, and these puns are still strong.
I don't know what happens, but for sure I would flag.
Because the game continuation, what it's nice,
is that either he makes a perpetual, or he's completely lost.
And so he had to go for the perpetual.
And this was the only way for me not to lose him time.
So yeah, I was very happy when I saw this, it takes a one.
And when he started thinking for 10 minutes,
I finally realized why I actually am celebrating this.
What a game, thank you so much for taking us through it.
Would you say that this was a lot of the most nerve-wracking games
you've ever played?
For sure.
Because it's also played here in Beckenzae.
And this is probably for sure the most special term
that I've played so far.
And also with this time control, it's the first time
ever not having increment, and I would say 100%
it's the most crazy game of it.
And I think the fans enjoyed it tremendously.
With that show, you moved to three out of eight.
You've had a solid tournament.
How do you reflect so far on the first say, trans?
I'd say it's been the first half I've missed some chances.
It's a pity that I couldn't maybe convert to very good positions.
And against the good decision to do such a thing,
it was rather equalish positions that I lost.
So I think there was more in it,
but definitely there's a lot to play for.
And it's not bad for any means.
And finally, the age-old question that I ask everyone today
tomorrow is the rest day.
What will you be doing?
Usually, I like to hang out with my friends.
And here, there's quite a lot of people that I already
have been hanging out with the whole tournament.
So I'll ask them what they would like to do
and we'll figure it out.
Very nice.
Well, then I wish you a wonderful rest day.
And thank you again for showing us this really
tremendously entertaining game and yeah and so it's well. Thank you.