Did Magnus, Hans or Gukesh make you sweat today??

0:02 Welcome back everyone.

0:03 For today's video, we are back with more great

0:06 exciting action from the world of over the board chess.

0:09 Now, we are of course going to be starting by covering

0:12 a game that's being played in this TEA segment tournament in Malmo, Sweden.

0:16 But after that, we're going to go around the world

0:18 to Poland where the Grand Chess Rapid and Blitz event has started.

0:22 So, let's jump right into the action.

0:24 The first game that we're going

0:25 to cover today is between Grandmaster Magnus Carlson,

0:28 the fivetime world champion, and Zu Janeire from China,

0:31 currently ranked number four amongst women in the world.

0:35 Now, Zujaneire has had a tough tournament, but yesterday she had a very,

0:38 very decisive victory against a young American Phenom, Andy Woodward.

0:42 So, she's kind of doing okay.

0:44 She's in the middle of the pack, but today she's up against Magnus.

0:47 Now, of course, Magnus suffered a horrific loss yesterday to Yorn Van Forest.

0:51 So you know that he's going to want to be out for blood.

0:54 Okay.

0:55 So Magnus has the white pieces.

0:56 He opens with the move knight to F3.

0:58 We get D5.

0:59 And now Magnus plays move G3.

1:01 Now in olden times this knight F3 G3 setup was considered to be very very solid.

1:06 It's something that you would play to avoid theory.

1:08 But in modern times everybody is prepared everywhere.

1:11 So it's not as big of a surprise.

1:13 On the other hand, this keeps all the pieces on the board.

1:16 It leads to a slow game full of maneuvering.

1:19 And that is definitely what Magnus would prefer.

1:22 So we get knight F6, bishop G2, C5, castles, and now we get the move G6.

1:27 Here Magnus plays move D3.

1:29 And I suspect the reason Magnus played this is that while

1:32 D4 is considered to be the best move theoretically after pawn takes,

1:36 knight takes and bishop G7, let's say white goes C4 and black castles.

1:40 This leads to a exch not exchange, sorry,

1:42 I should say fianetto Grunfeld where it's symmetrical here and white

1:46 really doesn't have a big advantage if black knows what to do.

1:49 So Magnus has no interest in going back into theory.

1:52 He plays this move D3.

1:53 And as you can tell from the valuation bar,

1:56 computer already says that in this position after rook to E1,

1:59 black would be better if you play the move pawn to E5.

2:02 Now this of course would build the classic big

2:04 black center with the three pawns on the fourth rank.

2:07 But instead, Zujaneire decides to play the move D4.

2:11 Now, nothing wrong with this move.

2:12 I actually kind of am curious whether it's

2:14 a good move or not because when you go D4,

2:17 you try to argue that with white having put this rook on E1 here,

2:20 nothing will happen on the file.

2:21 Whereas, after E5, pawn takes and knight C4,

2:24 now you have D's knights pressuring the pawn.

2:26 Combine that with the rook and the fiantoed bishop and you

2:29 could argue that white has achieved the goal of what you want.

2:33 So when Zujaneire plays D4 here,

2:35 now the rook on E1 looks kind of stupid because the E file is simply closed.

2:39 Now Magnus plays E5.

2:41 We get knight D5 A4.

2:43 And here Zujaneire plays move H6.

2:45 Now this is something that you'll see a lot in games where

2:48 you want to put a bishop on this E6 or E3 square,

2:50 which is very often times there's a knight that can harass a bishop.

2:53 So say you go bishop E6 here.

2:55 White can play knight G5 kicking the bishop away.

2:58 So Zujaneire plays H6 first.

3:00 There's no knight G5.

3:01 We get knight C4, bishop E6, and now Magnus plays move bishop D2.

3:06 Here, Zujaneire plays the move knight B6.

3:08 And this is the first moment where we get

3:10 a move that to me is somewhat strange to see.

3:12 The move queen D7, which is the top computer move,

3:15 but also the most natural human move, makes a lot more sense here.

3:18 I don't really know why Zujaneire did not play this move.

3:20 Maybe she was afraid of queen to C1,

3:22 creating some pressure on this diagonal perhaps.

3:25 But after king to H7 or even a move like G5, it feels like black should be okay.

3:31 So instead we get knight to B6.

3:33 And here Magnus plays the move B3.

3:35 Very solid move.

3:36 Computer very slightly prefers knight to A5.

3:39 But B3 of course makes a ton of sense

3:41 as well because black ever trades the knight.

3:43 Now you have this diagonal and you can also play

3:45 rook to B1 to put maximum pressure on this file.

3:48 So instead we get knight to D5 back.

3:50 Magnus plays knight H4 and this is simply a bad move.

3:53 Now what Magnus should have played is the move queen to C1 here hitting

3:57 the pawn on H6 because now if black were to play king H7 which looks logical,

4:02 white can play knight to H4 with the idea of F4 or bishop E4 even maybe the very

4:06 creative move rook to E4 trying to lift the rook

4:09 bra to H4 to put pressure on the H5.

4:13 So Magnus instead plays knight H4.

4:16 And this is also very provocative because now Zujaneer plays G5.

4:19 We get knight to F3 and we get the move queen D7.

4:22 Here, Magnus plays H4.

4:24 We get G4, knight H2, and now we get the move H5.

4:27 Now, as you can tell,

4:28 the computer gives black a substantial advantage in this position.

4:32 And primarily, I believe that this is

4:33 because black has more space in the center, pawns more advanced.

4:37 You got this knight that can jump everywhere.

4:38 Additionally, you can play rook to E8 and F6.

4:41 Whereas, white has this E file that's currently closed,

4:43 this bum knight that can't really jump back into the action,

4:46 this rook on the A file that's out of the game.

4:48 So with the bad rook on A1, the rook on the currently closed E file,

4:51 the knight on H2 that's out of the game due to the placement of the pieces,

4:55 black should be better.

4:56 Now on top of that, it also seems like a position

4:59 that should be a lot easier for black to play

5:01 because the most obvious thing to angle for here is

5:03 to play F6 or F5 and rook A to E8.

5:07 So Magnus goes queen C1.

5:09 And now we get the move F6.

5:10 A very nice move trying to open up the center of the board.

5:13 And here Magnus plays bishop H6.

5:15 Now, if Magnus were to trade the pawns on F6, for example,

5:18 you'll notice that with this terrible knight that can't jump into the game,

5:21 and black's simply playing a move like rook a E8,

5:23 let's say takes, takes, for example,

5:25 black is simply going to move a knight to B4 here,

5:28 pressuring these pawns, you can also play something like bishop to F7.

5:31 And even though these pawns look far advanced on the king's side,

5:34 the pawn on F6 covers the square.

5:36 White simply has bad pieces.

5:37 These knights are well placed.

5:38 Black controls the open file.

5:40 There's no jump to E3, no jump to G3.

5:42 And based on the pawns here, this is a very very comfortable position.

5:46 So Magnus plays bishop H6.

5:48 Now here here Zujaneire plays the move rook to F7.

5:51 This is maybe slightly inaccurate perhaps.

5:53 The computer I think here wants knight B4 already to again pressure these pawns.

5:57 But we get rook F7 I think with the idea

6:00 of playing rook a F8 to stack the rooks on the file.

6:03 So here Magnus plays move F3.

6:05 And this is another move played by Magnus

6:07 that is extremely provocative trying to force the position open.

6:11 Now, you'll notice the computer absolutely hates this move.

6:13 It does not like this move whatsoever.

6:15 But Magnus, I think at this point, is sensing that his moves are a lot more

6:19 difficult than Zu Janeiro's move with the black pieces.

6:22 So, when he goes F3, he's trying to completely complicate the position,

6:25 make it very hard for her to figure out what to do.

6:28 So, here we get the move bishop to H8.

6:30 This is a big mistake.

6:31 The computer here wants king to H7.

6:34 And after takes, takes,

6:35 probably what Zuaneer was afraid of is something like takes, takes, takes.

6:38 and she probably figured after HG4,

6:40 there's something happening in the middle of the board.

6:42 Maybe even bishop to E4 with the weak king and the queen jumping in.

6:45 As it turns out, there's no really clean idea here.

6:48 Takes is probably the best and queen to F4.

6:51 But after rook to F8, black should still be okay.

6:54 Now, what I did make a mistake on here is that after takes,

6:57 black should not take back with the pawn.

6:59 Black should take with the bishop here, keeping this G file open.

7:03 So you can simply move the bishop away followed by rook G8

7:05 with a double stack pressuring this pawn permanently and black would be better.

7:10 Now again all these moves with a computer

7:12 very easy to see without knowing quite difficult

7:14 and that is why Magnus played this because

7:16 he's trying to create complications where it's very hard.

7:19 You don't have one or two obvious moves and everything is in play.

7:23 So we get bishop to H8.

7:24 Now Magnus takes on F6 here.

7:26 Apparently in this position I think FG4 is

7:28 supposed to be slightly better but he takes.

7:30 We get bishop takes.

7:31 And this is a real mistake from Zujaneire.

7:34 Now what she should have played is taking with the E pawn.

7:36 And after takes here, I believe in this position you take with the H pawn.

7:40 And black actually still maintains an advantage here.

7:42 Again, my view about Zujaneire is she simply

7:45 misunderstood the pawn structure on the king side here.

7:48 Because once she didn't go king H7,

7:49 if you understand that this position is good for black with these pawns,

7:53 then you would probably reach the same conclusion

7:55 in a similar situation here with this bishop on H8,

7:58 which is if takes, takes, takes, takes, for example.

8:00 Actually, I got my words confused here that this also should be good.

8:05 So, it seems to me that Zujaneir,

8:06 whether it's like underestimating her own position,

8:09 over overestimating Magnus' position, she basically just doesn't reach the right

8:13 conclusions and she instead takes with the bishop.

8:16 Now, we get pawn takes pawn.

8:18 She takes back and here Magnus plays move bishop G5.

8:21 Now, the reason that white is so much better here

8:23 is that you have a lot of issues to deal with.

8:25 If you take with a pawn on F6,

8:26 there's never a threat like queen G5 because that would hang the queen.

8:29 So this pawn stops anything from going to this G5 square.

8:33 So you can't use a square,

8:34 which means it bishop also isn't really doing anything.

8:36 Black can move the king to attack the bishop later on.

8:39 And this pawn is really the glue of the position.

8:41 Combine that with the ability to play rook E8

8:43 and contest this E file and black is is all right.

8:46 But after we get bishop F6 takes takes and bishop G5.

8:49 Now you'll notice that black can't really use

8:51 this E file is completely closed with the pawn.

8:54 White can put the bishop on G5.

8:55 The pawn on G4 is weak.

8:57 White can move the queen, bring the rooks over,

8:59 and black is already in all kinds of trouble.

9:02 So, we get bishop H8, and now Magnus plays move knight to F1.

9:06 We get knight C3.

9:07 And Magnus plays move knight D2 trying to reroute the knight to E4.

9:10 Now, Magnus' moves here have not been precise.

9:13 But I think what Magnus understood at this point in the game

9:15 is that he just needs to keep the game going.

9:17 If he's able to exchange some pieces in the middle of the board,

9:20 he's probably going to convert this into a win.

9:22 So, we get bishop D5.

9:23 Knight E4 is played.

9:24 And now Zujaneire plays the move bishop B4.

9:27 This is a mistake.

9:28 But the best line here for black is frankly something that in a human game,

9:32 especially low on time like the players are here, is just too much to ask for.

9:37 Now the move in question is this move, rook to F3, sacking the rook.

9:41 And now if white trades the bishop for the rook with this idea

9:44 of queen to H3 and the classic lolly checkmate on G2, say you go,

9:48 say you play a move like queen B2 and queen H3,

9:51 all of a sudden you get this lolly on the board and it's GG.

9:54 Why not?

9:55 On top of having the threats of the lolli mate,

9:57 if you play knight f2 to stop stop queen to h3 in this bishop,

10:00 now black can play knight to e2 check, forking the king and the queen.

10:04 White has to sack the rook and after takes queen d2 and this move queen to e6,

10:08 rook to e1 and bishop f3 with this pawn.

10:11 So far up the board, one square from queening,

10:13 the ability to bring the rook over,

10:15 bring the knight or the bishop into the game, black has a serious advantage.

10:20 But instead, Zujaneire trades everything on E4.

10:22 And once you play bishop takes E4 here,

10:24 now Magnus is in great shape because this pawn

10:27 on G4 in the long run is a weakness.

10:29 White always has bishop H6 and queen G5

10:31 ideas and it's already very hard to survive.

10:34 And at this point I already knew Magnus would win the game.

10:37 So we got rook A F8.

10:38 Logical move.

10:39 But now Magnus plays bishop to H6 tickling the rook

10:42 on F8 while intending to play queen G5 check.

10:45 We get queen to C7.

10:46 And now we get the move queen G5.

10:48 Zujaneire plays rook G7, sacking the rook,

10:51 and Magnus very calmly takes his rook.

10:54 Now, this is actually slightly inaccurate.

10:56 Apparently, you're supposed to go queen D2 and after queen G3 and queen G2,

11:00 with this queen protecting the king, white is supposed to be winning.

11:04 Instead, we get bishop G7 takes bishop G2.

11:07 And now with the queen on G5 and the bishop on G2,

11:10 apparently here, black is very much in the game.

11:13 So, we get king to H1 here.

11:15 The idea is that if black plays rook f2,

11:17 we get rook to g1 guarding this bishop pawn g2.

11:20 Now in this position,

11:21 the computer says that if zujaneire had played the move king to f8 here,

11:25 this is a completely equal position.

11:27 White is not better here.

11:29 White actually has to be careful to not end up in trouble.

11:32 At this point, it's very much a 50/50.

11:34 Either you play king to f8 or you play e6.

11:37 And the reason is very simple.

11:38 If you play a move like knight to e2 attacking the rook,

11:41 there's bishop d5 checking the king attacking the queen and the fossil

11:45 here is simply deadly because when you move your king

11:47 I take the queen move the king with the queen

11:50 for I think just a low knight here white would be winning.

11:53 So it's a 50/50 spot here.

11:55 If zujaneire plays king to f8 in this position which

11:58 is one of the two moves here that you can play

12:00 she would I think not lose this game because white

12:02 has nothing better here to do than play rook to f1.

12:06 And now after knight to E2, there's no fossil with the check.

12:09 King has escaped.

12:10 King's on F8 here.

12:11 You would go checkmate.

12:12 So if you take, there's checkmate.

12:14 You can't move this bishop in this position.

12:15 And here, white would have to trade the rooks.

12:17 Play a move like rook to B1 for example.

12:20 And now after this move, king to E8 or knight to E.

12:23 Actually, king E8 is weird.

12:24 After a move like knight to E5, if white takes,

12:26 black takes, and after queen takes, you take block check.

12:31 And the game will simply end in a draw.

12:32 If white runs away, you lose the queen and the game.

12:36 So in this position, if Zujaneire plays king to F8 here,

12:39 she would draw this game.

12:40 I would say this with near certainty because white simply doesn't have options.

12:43 If you play knight D2, which is the one other option here,

12:46 I believe that in this position, black can still play the move knight to E2.

12:49 And if you play knight E4, trying to fork the queen and the rook,

12:52 black has the extremely cool move, bishop to E5 here, sacking the queen.

12:57 If white takes his queen here after takes king H2, it's simply a draw.

13:01 You go check, check, check forever, and white has no way to escape.

13:05 On top of that, when you play bishop to E5 here,

13:07 you threaten the classic checkmate with a double A battery.

13:10 So, white plays like rook E1.

13:11 It's queen H2.

13:12 GG as well.

13:13 So, white would have to take the queen and the game would end peacefully.

13:16 If white checks, for example, you would just run your king away to D8.

13:19 Eventually, white will have to take again and we get the same situation.

13:23 So, if Zaneer plays this move, king to F8, she draws the game here.

13:26 No doubt whatsoever.

13:28 But instead, she plays the move E6, stopping the check with bishop D5.

13:33 And now after rook f1 as we're about to see this sit

13:36 in this situation it doesn't quite work out the same way.

13:39 Now the reason it doesn't work out the same way is

13:41 that your king here is going to be pinned to the bishop

13:44 as we're about to see because we get knight to e2

13:47 takes takes we get rook to a1 being played here.

13:50 And now in this position if black plays knight to e5 similar to the previous

13:53 variation after knight takes knight you cannot

13:56 take this knight here due to the pin.

13:58 So if you can't take the knight you can't put

13:59 the knight here you also can't put the bishop here.

14:01 So without the ability to put another piece on e5,

14:04 this is simply a winning position for white,

14:06 especially because the pawn on g4 is now loose as well,

14:09 which means that you just don't have time to coordinate the pieces.

14:13 So Zujaneire plays the move knight g3.

14:15 This is a losing move here.

14:17 But already king to f8 is very hard move to play.

14:19 And after queen g4, bishop f6, and a move like queen takes e6,

14:23 queen takes uh I think after queen takes e6,

14:26 black's supposed to take and go for this line.

14:29 This is supposed to be better for white with the rook

14:31 and knight versus two knights and bishop and the outside pawn.

14:34 Um or if black were to play queen H4, white goes queen H3 check.

14:37 And now white goes king H2.

14:39 Either way, black just doesn't quite have enough.

14:42 But Zujaneire here, of course, low on time.

14:44 They have not reached move 40.

14:45 She plays knight G3.

14:46 This is desperation time.

14:48 King H2.

14:49 Knight F5.

14:50 Magnus grabs the juicer.

14:51 Now there are no checks anywhere here.

14:53 We get queen takes C2.

14:55 Magnus plays rook to E1, swinging the rook back into the game,

14:59 pressuring the pawn in the center.

15:00 Zujaneire plays knight D8.

15:02 We get rook to E2.

15:03 Queen takes D3.

15:04 And now Magnus Carlson plays move bishop

15:07 to E4 attacking the queen and the knight.

15:09 And here Zujaneire resigns because if she takes the rook, you lose the queen.

15:13 You take the pawn, white takes knight.

15:15 If you take this knight, for example,

15:16 white can go rook to G2 and white is simply checkmating the black king.

15:20 And if you play pawn takes bishop here,

15:22 white can go rook to E8, checking the king.

15:24 If you go to F7, I play knight D6, checking the king, guarding the rook.

15:28 After king F6, queen takes F5 would simply be checkmate.

15:32 And if black goes king H7, white can go check, bishop to H6.

15:35 And now you get rook to E7 check.

15:37 King G8, you there are many ways to mate, but I think queen G6 is simplest here.

15:41 You move the king, it's checkmate.

15:43 Same thing this way.

15:44 You block.

15:44 Same thing here.

15:45 So there's no way to stop the checkmate.

15:48 And if you give up the queen like queen G3,

15:50 of course, white simply has an extra rook and black will resign.

15:54 So Magnus gets a very very important win in a game that he's supposed to win.

15:58 This was a relatively shaky game.

16:00 As I said before, if Zujaneire finds king to F8,

16:03 I think she actually draws that game.

16:05 Um but she doesn't find king to F8

16:07 and Magnus duly converts it into a big victory.

16:10 So after this victory, Magnus moves back into the hunt to try

16:14 and win this tournament with a handful of rounds left.

16:17 He is a half point behind the two

16:18 co-leaders who are Arjun Eragayi who won a very

16:22 nice game against Yorn Van Forest and Yagiz

16:25 Khan Erdomus from Turkey who drew against Andy Woodward.

16:29 So it's a two-way tie for first place.

16:32 Magnus half point back.

16:33 Handful of rounds to go.

16:34 So it should be a very exciting finish.

16:37 All right.

16:37 So now we're going to go around the world

16:39 to another tournament that is going on currently.

16:42 And that tournament is of course this superb bet

16:45 rapid and blitz tournament which is being held in Poland.

16:48 Now this event is featuring many other

16:50 top players in the world like Fabiano Caruana,

16:53 the reigning world champion Gash Doaraju, the challenger Yavok Cinderov,

16:57 and of course the future first American world champion Hans Neman.

17:01 So let's jump into the action now.

17:03 We're going to pick it up in the second game of the day.

17:06 In the first game of the day,

17:08 Hans Nean would draw or or would draw his first game.

17:11 Gh would obtain a dominating position where

17:14 he was completely winning against Alres of Fujia.

17:17 Unfortunately, Gukesh would get very low on time in that game.

17:19 He would muck it up completely and turn what

17:22 should have been a very easy win into a draw.

17:25 So, with the players playing three rapid games,

17:27 we pick it up with the second game between Guh,

17:29 the reigning world champion, and of course, Hans Nean in the second round.

17:32 Now, Guesh, of course, coming off this this shocking mistake in the first

17:36 round where he's not able to win,

17:37 you're kind of thinking this game might be a little bit nervy as well.

17:41 So we get D4 from Gesh.

17:43 Hans plays knight F6.

17:44 C4 E6.

17:45 G3 D5.

17:47 And now we get to move bishop G2.

17:48 And this of course is the classic Catalan system where white pushes

17:52 the P in the center to build a little bit of a white center.

17:55 And then you feon Cheeto this bishop on the super long diagonal.

17:59 So we get bishop B4.

18:01 Gh plays bishop D2.

18:02 We get bishop to E7.

18:04 And now we get to move knight to F3.

18:05 Pawns castles.

18:06 We get castles C6.

18:08 And now we get to move queen C2 protecting this pawn on C4.

18:12 Hans plays knight BD7.

18:13 We get bishop to F4.

18:14 And now we get to move pawn to A5.

18:16 Now when black plays A5, this is a way

18:19 of expanding the pawns on the queen side here.

18:21 You also stop white from ever playing B4 as well.

18:24 It's a little bit of a strange move,

18:26 but the main main point is that you take some space on this queen

18:29 side before deciding to play B6 and developing your bishop to either A6 or B7.

18:34 So we get A5 here.

18:36 H4 is played by Gh.

18:38 And now we get the move pawn to B6.

18:40 Gh plays knight D2.

18:41 And here Hans plays the move bishop to A6 trying to target this long diagonal.

18:46 Now we get the move rook to E1.

18:48 And here we get the move C5.

18:50 Basically asking white, what are you going to do in the center of the board.

18:53 We have all four of these pawns.

18:54 We've got this nice little box here.

18:56 Anything can happen here.

18:57 It's hard to know who's better or who's not better.

19:00 I would say that playing this position in my opinion in rapid

19:03 is much easier from the black side than the white side.

19:06 So I kind of like this a little bit more for Hans here,

19:09 but let's see what happens.

19:11 So here we get to move pawn to E4.

19:13 And now Gash has put three pawns

19:15 on the fourth rank compared to black's two pawns.

19:17 And at this point Hans is the one who has to make a decision.

19:20 So Hans decides to take on D4.

19:22 computer actually wants black to maintain the tension

19:25 I believe with this move rook to C8

19:27 trying to create pressure on the Cfile whereas C takes D4 is a slight mistake.

19:32 So we get E D5 D3 is played and here Gash plays move queen D1.

19:37 Now in a slow game of chess a classical game where you

19:40 can probably think for 20 or 30 minutes I think that Gash

19:43 probably would have concluded that queen to B1 is the right

19:45 move here keeping the queen on this diagonal to spy the pawn.

19:49 You probably are wondering why not take the juicer.

19:51 Now, if you take, black can take this pawn and you

19:54 cannot take back because you would hang the queen on this diagonal.

19:58 So, if you go queen to B1 here and black

20:00 were to take what looks like a free pawn.

20:02 Now, white can play knight to d4,

20:03 which is going to be very similar to the game where the knight threatens

20:06 to go to f5 and c6 at the same time to target this bishop and queen.

20:11 Now, the big difference here is that after bishop to bishop to b7,

20:15 white can take this pawn on d3 and white is supposed to be a little bit better.

20:19 But instead we get queen D1.

20:20 Pawn stakes.

20:21 We get knight D4.

20:22 Bishop B7.

20:23 And now we get the move knight to F5 because you

20:25 cannot take this pawn on D3 with the queen on D1.

20:28 Knight F5.

20:29 We get rook to E8.

20:30 Black simply guards this bishop here on E7 with the rook.

20:33 We get pawn takes pawn.

20:35 And now Hans plays the move bishop F8.

20:37 Now I do believe here that bishop C5 is

20:39 supposed to be slight be slightly better for black.

20:41 But again it's a rapid game.

20:43 Not a big deal.

20:44 Let's keep going.

20:45 So we get takes bishop to F8.

20:47 Gach plays D6.

20:48 We get the trade of the bishops.

20:50 We get the trade of the rooks.

20:51 And now we get this move knight to d5.

20:53 Now at this point, the position is about balanced here.

20:56 Both sides have the same number of pawns.

20:57 You have a passed pawn for white on d6 and a pass pawn on d3 for black.

21:02 It's really anybody's guess whether white can maintain this pass

21:05 pawn and whether black can keep their pass pawn as well.

21:08 So most likely whoever wins one of their pass

21:10 pawns will win the game if that occurs.

21:13 So we get the move bishop g5.

21:14 Hans plays queen to e8.

21:16 And now Gash plays this move queen to D1.

21:19 Now this is a mistake.

21:20 The computer is clamoring for the move knight to C4 here

21:23 with the idea that you put pressure on the queen side pawns.

21:26 You can also play rook D1 or queen D2 down the road to pressure this pawn.

21:30 And the knight of course also guards his pawn on D6 as well.

21:33 But we get queen to D1.

21:35 Hans plays queen E6.

21:36 We get queen F3.

21:38 And now we get the move rook to E8 as Hans swings his rook

21:41 to the open file on the E E square or the E8 square I should say.

21:44 So we get queen takes pawn.

21:46 Hans plays F6.

21:47 We get bishop to E3.

21:48 And now we get the move pawn to G6.

21:51 Now here Gash plays knight E7.

21:52 We get the trade.

21:53 Takes takes takes takes takes.

21:55 King F2.

21:56 And now Hans plays move knight E5.

21:58 Now here black is maybe very very slightly better as you have three

22:02 three pawns connected whereas white has two pawns and this weak center pawn.

22:06 Combine that with the access to the C file

22:08 and the potential kebab and if anybody's better it's black.

22:11 But the game still is well within the range where it should be a draw.

22:15 So we get king E2.

22:17 Hans plays rook C7.

22:18 We get rook F1.

22:19 King G7 here.

22:20 I think rook C2 is supposed to be marginally better.

22:23 But Hans guards the pawn first as he realizes the rook is going to C2.

22:27 So we get B3, Rook C2, A4, King F7.

22:30 And now Gash plays the move rook F4.

22:32 Hans plays rook A2, rook B4, king E7.

22:35 And now we get the move rook D5.

22:37 Hans plays knight D7.

22:39 And here Gash plays the move king to D3.

22:41 I think trying to run his king to the queen side.

22:43 He wants king D4, king B5 to gobble these two pawns over here.

22:48 So we get rook to A1.

22:49 Now here Gash plays rook to D4.

22:51 And this is actually where I feel like king

22:53 D3 is starting to go in the wrong direction.

22:55 I think G4 makes more sense because after king E6,

22:58 you can always play rook to B5.

22:59 The rook always keeps an eye on this pawn while guarding this pawn on B3.

23:03 And then you can probably look to move

23:05 your king and move this knight all over the board.

23:08 So we get king d3, rook a1.

23:10 Now rook d4 is played.

23:11 Hans goes rook g1.

23:12 And here we get the move g4.

23:14 Now the computer wants a very strange move king to e2 because

23:17 if black takes on g3 after king to f2 and rook to h3.

23:22 Now I believe there's some trick with rook to e4,

23:24 king to d8 and you go king g2 here and the black rook is getting trapped.

23:28 So you have to play f5 and after takes takes takes.

23:31 Apparently this should be a draw.

23:33 Now again this is a rapid game.

23:34 The players are low on time.

23:36 very very strange line to find with no time on the clock.

23:39 So we get the more natural move G4.

23:41 Now here Hans strikes out with knight to E5 hitting the king of the pawn.

23:45 We get king C3 and now knight takes G4 is played.

23:48 Now at this point Hans is up a pawn on the king side.

23:51 He has the potential to create pass pawns and it looks

23:54 like Gash is about to suffer his first loss of the tournament.

23:58 So we get knight C4.

23:59 Hans plays H5.

24:01 We get knight takes B6.

24:02 And now we get the move G5.

24:04 And Hans's idea is to simply push his P up the board on the H file.

24:08 So here we get rook to D7, king to E6, and Gh plays the move rook H7.

24:13 Here Hans takes on H4.

24:15 Apparently rook to H1 is a much better move.

24:18 Very hard to play because there's also B4 here.

24:20 And now it's a big race with white having their own pass

24:23 pawn on the A file versus the H pawn going down the board.

24:26 Very easy to play the more natural move pawn takes pawn.

24:29 So Gh takes the pawn on H5.

24:31 We get rook to H1.

24:32 And now Gash plays this move knight to D5.

24:35 And this is an excellent move here as if black goes H3,

24:38 you have knight F4 checking the king.

24:40 And after the king moves, you take the pawn and the game will be a draw.

24:44 So after knight to D5, as you no doubt can tell,

24:47 the evaluation bar is saying that this will be a draw.

24:50 So Hans plays king D6.

24:52 Gesh goes knight to F4, stopping the pawn from going forward.

24:55 And now we get the move knight takes E3.

24:57 Gh plays king D4.

24:59 We get knight G4.

25:00 And here Gh plays the horrible move king to E4 which loses the game on the spot.

25:05 Now this to me is just inexplicable.

25:08 And this is als this also shows me why Gh is just not the same player

25:13 in rapid and blitz that he is in classical

25:14 chess because in a couple of seconds you

25:16 should immediately realize that there's the move H3

25:19 and after takes black can sack the rook

25:21 and after takes there's knight f2 forking the king

25:23 and the rook and black wins the game.

25:26 So you should immediately see that king e4

25:28 and h3 is losing but gash inexplicably plays it anyway.

25:32 Now the way to draw this game would be to play

25:34 check and if black goes over you can simply play check.

25:36 If king goes over you can check.

25:38 King goes over and now you swing the rook back to h5 and black simply

25:42 cannot push his h pawn up the board and the game will be a draw.

25:46 If black goes king e7 which is another idea you still go back to h5.

25:50 And now black if black were to play knight e5

25:52 here white can start to run the king this way.

25:55 This H pawn simply is not going to be able to go up the board.

25:57 The knight and the rook are perfectly placed

25:59 here and white will not lose the game.

26:02 So, rook D5 is a relatively straightforward draw.

26:05 Even a move like rook to H7 here is also good enough.

26:08 But Gukh plays king E4.

26:10 And after king to E4, of course, Hans plays H3.

26:13 And now Gash is just simply lost.

26:15 Gesh plays the move king to F5.

26:17 Instead of taking H3, we got to move pawn to H2.

26:20 Now the knight and the rook both guard the pawn.

26:22 And and here if white takes this knight on G4, you simply go rook to G1 check.

26:27 You promote the pawn and with two pawns on the board,

26:30 the rook swinging over to gobble up these two pawns on the queen side.

26:33 This is just an easy win for black.

26:35 So Gh plays the move rook to H3.

26:38 And now Hans simply moves the rook.

26:40 The knight guards the pawn.

26:41 Rook covers the queening square and Gash just resigns.

26:44 And Hans gets a big win in the second round of the tournament.

26:47 Now, to me, this this this illustrates one of the big problems that I

26:50 think Gesh is going to have to deal with in the world championship match,

26:53 which is that the match is going to be

26:55 played without increment for the first 40 moves, if my understanding is correct.

26:59 And Ghmsems suff seems to suffer and struggle a lot with his instincts.

27:04 When he gets low on time, he makes certain decisions that are just very,

27:07 very bad and can be very, very costly.

27:10 So I think as we look forward

27:11 to the world championship match more so than this tournament,

27:14 Gh is going to need really really good preparation because if he is getting

27:17 pushed around on the clock and gets low on time in the games against Cinderov,

27:21 I think it there's potential for it to be a very very

27:23 long match from where he could end up losing a lot of games.

27:28 So for Gash really really really disappointing loss in the second game

27:33 after after a terrible mishap in the first one where he didn't win.

27:36 He blunders in this one.

27:37 So, it's looking like it's going to be a very bad day for him,

27:39 but Gesh would solidifi would come back and actually solidify his standing

27:43 in the tournament in the third and final rapid game of the day.

27:47 He would beat his trainer or one of his trainers for the upcoming match,

27:50 Yan Kristoff Dudov from Poland,

27:52 which means that despite the mishaps in the first two games,

27:55 Gash after day one is only half a point out of first place.

27:59 However, he is he is behind five players who are tied for the lead.

28:04 And one of those players of course is Hans

28:06 Neman who would draw his third game as well.

28:09 So the five players who are leading the tournament

28:11 after the first day of Rapid are Hans Neman, Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Fettov,

28:16 Wesley So and of course the challenger

28:18 for the world championship Yavokir Cinderov.

28:22 So exciting day of chess action everywhere both in Malmo Sweden

28:25 but then all the way over in Warsaw Poland as well.

28:28 So a couple of exciting games.

28:29 I hope you guys enjoyed the games and this recap.

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