Why does Hikaru sing so much during TT??

0:00 So, I take rook, I'm playing with H1.

0:09 Okay, there's no way that he can draw this.

0:18 Okay, let's go.

0:21 Let's play the French.

0:28 Going to play this bishop A6 line.

0:38 Let's go here, trade.

0:43 Go here, guard the knight.

0:45 Got to be careful not to lose the knights or be a shock and I lose.

0:49 So, this take, why not?

0:51 Maybe I should take it right away, I don't know, maybe.

0:54 Let's see if I maybe.

0:57 Um, let's go C5 here.

0:59 97 allowed bishop G5, so I don't want to do that.

1:07 Okay, let's go here, maybe hit the queen.

1:10 Maybe 96 back.

1:26 Mhm.

1:29 It's a good move.

1:36 Mhm.

1:44 Let's take maybe.

1:47 Take is a probably trade, but I don't so my 95 maybe or 97.

1:53 Let's just go here.

1:55 Bishop G5, I'll take I guess, and play knight E5 maybe.

2:00 I castle, of course.

2:02 Now, the pawn on E5 is hanging, so so I should be doing well here.

2:11 See what he does.

2:14 Now, his pawn on E5 big target.

2:17 Um I guess I go here.

2:19 Targeting the pawn, knight G6 is an idea as well.

2:24 Okay, I form That's actually a good move, probably.

2:29 Okay, how do I do this?

2:30 Uh okay, let's go knight E5.

2:32 Try to activate these knights somehow.

2:35 Maybe knight C8 is somewhat, maybe knight F5.

2:37 This knight's really annoying, but I'll I'll try to kick it out.

2:41 Actually, F6 is Maybe I should have played Maybe

2:43 I should have just gone F6 right away, maybe.

2:46 But, whatever, that's life.

2:47 Okay, let's go here.

2:51 So.

2:53 F6 is actually a move here.

2:55 Let's go F6.

2:56 Try to tickle this knight a little bit here.

3:06 Logical.

3:07 I can take and play knight G6.

3:10 I'll play rook D8 first,

3:11 looking to trade knight G6 maybe multiple multiple ways to target this pony.

3:19 Maybe knight G6 first was better.

3:21 Maybe.

3:23 Take and play knight E5.

3:25 I think I'm just going to go H6 here.

3:31 At some point, I do want to trade.

3:33 In fact, I'm going to just trade right now.

3:37 Take, queen E6.

3:39 Try to argue my knight's better than his bishop in the long run.

3:51 Move.

3:53 Come on.

3:57 Oh oh my god.

4:02 Oh my god oh my god.

4:07 Oh my god, what was that?

4:11 Oh my god, what was that?

4:19 Oh my gosh.

4:22 Oh my gosh, I don't believe this.

4:44 Oh my gosh.

4:45 What a ridiculous way to start the tournament.

5:06 I don't believe this.

5:16 I don't believe this.

5:43 I tricked him, I think.

5:49 I think I'm going to win the game now, but just ridiculous for me.

5:55 What is that pre-move by me?

5:57 What is What if he takes a five?

6:27 Okay, now we'd calm down and take a deep breath.

6:31 Um, queen of seven is a move.

6:36 Bishop D2, Queen E6.

6:40 Actually, I also I don't Was that a safe pre-move?

6:44 Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.

6:46 Let's just go here.

6:48 Target the pawn.

6:55 No Queen of five, let's go here.

7:07 [sighs] Okay, B4 logical move.

7:09 Maybe Queen D5, Queen E2.

7:12 Yeah, let's go here, try to trade some queens.

7:17 No.

7:18 Here, try to hit the bishop,

7:20 threaten the checkmate, classic 90-degree right triangle.

7:23 Okay, there should There should be a way to win now.

7:25 Maybe not.

7:26 It's a good move, too.

7:34 Here maybe?

7:35 Rookie four is a threat.

7:38 Rookie four also move.

7:40 Um, Now, it should be good enough to win.

8:00 There we go.

8:07 What a way to start.

8:13 What a way to start.

8:18 Yeah, what a way to start.

8:20 I'm so happy you won't be able to pre-move in in Cyprus.

8:23 Yeah, no kidding.

8:24 Yeah, no kidding.

8:28 Uh Apparently, King Magnus isn't actually winning here,

8:32 but he'll win cuz of the time situation.

8:37 Yeah, crazy.

8:38 Let's watch Nepo, man.

8:40 Nepo Nepo losing, by the way.

8:43 Nepo losing in round one, too.

8:47 Jeez, okay.

8:49 Wow.

8:51 Wow, okay.

8:59 Wow.

9:01 I mean, I was I I was dead lost.

9:03 I got the win.

9:03 Nepo completely lost.

9:05 Magnus not winning, but he'll win.

9:07 Yeah, he'll win.

9:09 Nepo cooked?

9:09 Yeah.

9:15 Yeah.

9:17 Yeah, let's watch Nico.

9:24 I guess just me, yeah.

9:28 Yeah.

9:30 Just promise you'll quadruple check every move in Cyprus.

9:33 That's exactly the point.

9:33 You quadruple Magnus.

9:35 Yeah, Magnus is just going to flag his opponent, right?

9:38 I mean Magnus will flag him at the very least.

9:40 Oh, but 97 is actually Was this This was still a draw, right?

9:43 Yeah, it was still close to draw, but Bishop D6 loses cuz you bring

9:46 the king closer and you stack the stackers lose.

9:49 Yeah, the stackers are they're like clankers.

9:51 They don't do anything here.

9:52 You just wait.

9:53 You go H4 and the pawns get glued because it's it's on top of each other.

10:00 What is this music today?

10:02 It's music.

10:03 G4 can be I mean all roads lead to Rome here.

10:06 For Magnus takes so win the game.

10:08 Okay, let's move on.

10:09 Shirov is also losing.

10:19 He's going to win on time, I assume.

10:24 Takes.

10:25 You just bring the knight close.

10:26 Knight B4 knight D Yeah,

10:30 Shirov is going to win on time cuz his opponent is too slow.

10:34 Yeah.

10:37 Yeah, too slow.

10:38 Too slow.

10:40 I assume Fab won, yeah.

10:41 Yeah, Nepo was the only big guy who lost in round one.

10:44 All right, round two coming up.

10:47 I always play B3 Bishop B2 something simple and slow and boring.

11:03 G3 all the usual stuff E4 knight H3 Go here.

11:13 Castles knight F4.

11:20 Um I believe knight F4 is correct here to hit the pawn.

11:37 A lot of pressure on the center here for me.

11:42 Okay, that that looks like a bad move.

11:43 I can go e5 here.

11:47 Okay, I take play off four.

11:50 Nice pawn chain.

11:53 It's also queen of three g4.

11:56 Little bit bold.

11:56 G4 is also moved here.

11:58 Um I'm going to play h3.

12:03 I'm going to play h3 primarily because

12:04 I think I want to start expanding quickly.

12:10 It's also queen g No, queen g4 bishop f5.

12:14 It's a matter of whether black can play off six or not.

12:24 Okay, she does play off six.

12:25 This does give me e6 here.

12:30 It's a queen of three.

12:35 I'm wondering about e6 here.

12:38 I'm going to go for it.

12:39 It might be wrong, but I'm going to go for it anyway.

12:40 I play a3 to stop knight b4.

12:43 Okay, now I can go queen of three.

12:48 Hit the pawn.

12:49 Stack the rooks.

12:50 I mean, this might not be great for me, but it looks decent enough.

12:57 Go here.

13:02 I also have b4 somewhere to loosen the structure a little bit.

13:05 We'll see.

13:05 Or c3, too.

13:10 Yeah, there is king h8 though, which I kind of missed.

13:12 Um b4 b6.

13:16 There's also c3 c3 also interesting.

13:19 I think b4 is a little bit bold.

13:22 It might It might work.

13:23 It might not work.

13:24 Just a question whether I want to do it.

13:26 is also um or C maybe C4 actually.

13:32 I think I'm going to go C4 here.

13:34 If she takes, I take.

13:35 D4, I drop back.

13:36 Knight D4, I take take B4 knight B3 and I should be better.

13:51 do do do do No pre-moves though.

14:00 I mean actually it's very important that I don't do any pre-moves.

14:03 I have rookie five also to hit the pawn.

14:05 Rookie five rookie D5.

14:08 Okay.

14:09 Go here to hit the pawn on D4.

14:14 Let's take knight D4.

14:18 Actually it takes takes takes I have queen E2 to win the game.

14:24 Actually I might just be winning here then.

14:26 If black can't take this pawn right away and you lose this one.

14:29 This pawn is going to be a huge thorn in black's side for the rest of the game.

14:36 Okay, A5 that's a reasonable try actually.

14:38 The move I'm I'm kind of a fan

14:40 of that move or no actually that's just a bad move.

14:42 I just take.

14:47 Okay, I can take Okay,

14:48 now she's kind of collapsing here cuz I can also just take this one now.

14:52 Yeah, I mean that she's just collapsing completely.

14:56 I wonder if queen A6 was a move instead of A5.

15:02 do do do do do do do do do do do

15:07 do do do do Bishop B7 the free pawn bishop Okay, G5.

15:26 Let's drop the bishop back.

15:29 Knight G6 is probably also just winning, but whatever.

15:37 Let's go here.

15:40 This bishop by the way completely dead on on G8.

15:47 Free P just push the P up the board here.

15:56 Yeah.

15:56 Okay, we got the win.

15:57 Two out of two.

15:59 Curious, was was this actually I was better here.

16:03 Uh B4 here was good.

16:06 B4 knight B B4 takes takes uh B4 is even better here.

16:11 Wow.

16:12 And this time I B4.

16:14 And now it's like B4 was correct.

16:19 Rook E5 apparently better, but this Queen A6 knight B3 and it goes on.

16:23 Hm.

16:24 Yeah, it goes on.

16:27 But whatever, win's a win.

16:28 Two out of two.

16:30 So wait, why is this Queen B Knight C5 uh knight C5 knight D7 here, that's why.

16:35 Okay.

16:36 Yeah.

16:37 Okay.

16:39 Okay, two out of two.

16:40 Let's take a look at the other games.

16:41 Take a look at Magnus.

16:42 Or wait, wrong Magnus game.

16:46 Wait for the games to refresh.

16:49 Magnus is black and white pieces not very good.

16:54 Also an end game.

16:56 Also just a good position.

16:57 Magnus is going to win.

16:58 Take a look at Fabiano.

17:01 Fabiano is black as well and he is also going to win.

17:13 445 people playing title Tuesday, crazy.

17:16 Um I don't think that No, I mean that's a decent number.

17:19 I think the main reason so many people play now

17:21 is because chess.com is tied into the eSports World Cup.

17:25 That's That's the reason so many people play.

17:29 Unfortunately for a tournament that's top in the world right now,

17:31 the winner reward is only 100 only $1,000.

17:33 Yeah, I've spoken about this broadly before.

17:36 Um, I think what I would say is I I I don't

17:39 think it's a good thing in general for chess if that's the case.

17:42 Um, but I think it speaks to the current state of chess economics.

17:46 My microphone is completely fine.

17:47 You have to adjust on your end.

17:48 The mic is completely fine.

17:49 We made We made a couple of changes about two or three weeks ago,

17:52 but it's completely fine.

17:53 It's probably a little bit louder than it was.

17:55 Um, but it but it should be fine.

17:57 Uh, so to so to answer that question about the tournament,

18:00 I mean the thing is the the state of the chess economy is is pretty simple.

18:03 Um, the only money in chess right now outside of the Grand Chess Tour uh,

18:08 is basically in this eSports World Cup.

18:10 Um, and so because of that the eSports World Cup they've they've given

18:13 chess.com money to hold these tournaments and they've tied it as a qualifier.

18:18 Um, which for chess.com is great as a company because

18:21 it means they don't have to spend money organizing this tournament.

18:23 They don't have to organize a bunch of tournaments the way they did before.

18:27 Um, but I think for players it's very unfortunate because what happens

18:30 is then players become beholden to this tournament which has no prize money.

18:34 It also means that it degrades the general

18:36 ecosystem and the the amount of money players

18:38 can ask for because when you have a tournament

18:40 like Title Tuesday with only $1,000 first prize,

18:43 the problem is that uh, chess.com runs the tournament.

18:46 Everybody plays and so well, why should anybody give anybody money?

18:48 It makes it so that like the the ecosystem is such

18:51 that the actual financial possibilities for players

18:54 become become lesser because of it.

18:56 Um, so it's not it's not a good thing objectively.

18:59 It's It's not It's It's not a good thing

19:01 objectively if you if you were to ask me.

19:04 But you know, it's It's what it is.

19:06 It's not you know, it's not my thing.

19:07 So, that's fine.

19:08 That's life.

19:11 Cuz it's like you go you say So it's you know,

19:12 Fabiano wants to play some tournament um or something and someone's like,

19:15 "Well, but you play this tournament for a thousand dollars,

19:17 you know, with a thousand dollar first prize.

19:18 Why should anybody give you any money?" Um how am I with the market?

19:22 Great, actually.

19:22 Broadcom's been good.

19:24 Cure was amazing the other day when I when I actually bought calls,

19:27 had a miracle run up on Friday and then on Monday, um what else is there?

19:31 EWY is doing well, Intel's doing well.

19:35 Yeah, look looking pretty good.

19:36 Market's looking pretty pretty solid.

19:43 Yeah.

19:44 It's not a good thing objectively.

19:45 No, it's not a good thing because it means that you have everybody tied

19:47 to tournament with much less prize money

19:49 and it's the only tournament that they run really.

19:52 So, it's it's not a it's not a good thing objectively.

19:54 It's not.

19:57 So, but you know, again, it is what it is.

19:59 It's not, you know, it's not my it's not anything I can do anything about.

20:13 All right, we're waiting for round number three.

20:15 I lost a bunch of rating points yesterday.

20:16 I tried to play some blitz yesterday

20:17 yesterday or the day before, whenever it was.

20:19 Um so, yeah.

20:26 So, anyway, waiting for round number three.

20:28 We'll be starting pretty soon.

20:39 Where's Magnus?

20:39 Did Magnus win his round number one, right?

20:40 Someone would have told me Magnus didn't win his game.

20:44 Yeah, yeah, he won he won his game,

20:45 but I guess I don't know, tiebreakers are messed up this early.

20:56 But yeah, I think in general the the fact that title two's is

20:58 now the like the the end-all be-all and everybody has to play cuz

21:02 it's the only it's one of the few ways to qualify for the eSports

21:05 World Cup is for the for the professional players not a good thing.

21:09 It's not a good thing in the long term.

21:11 Also because if the eSports World Cup isn't you know, isn't successful.

21:15 I mean, I think there's a decent chance that title Tuesday

21:17 could just completely collapse and chess.com won't run it in the future.

21:27 So, anyway.

21:29 Happier topics.

21:30 Happier topics.

21:41 Stumbling in.

21:43 Okay, round three should be starting in a second.

21:45 It's good for the fans.

21:46 Oh, for the fans it's great.

21:47 Objectively, it's great.

21:51 For the for the fans that are hardcore, it's great.

21:54 But it also it's a huge reduction cuz remember

21:55 in the past there were many more chess tournaments that were held.

21:58 Like there were there were all these chess tour

22:00 events with rapid time controls that don't happen anymore.

22:03 Um and and they're gone.

22:04 So, for the players it's it's basically you're

22:06 you're playing less tournaments with less prize money.

22:08 I there there's definitely a a business or financial term for that.

22:13 Um I'm not sure what what the right term is,

22:15 but there's definitely a term for that where

22:16 it's like the the prize are the it's like

22:17 the amount of revenue is decreasing for the players

22:20 and the amount of events are decreasing as well.

22:21 It's just uh which is obviously not a good thing.

22:30 Let's go e5.

22:36 Like I I I want to say cannibalization, but I think that's the wrong word.

22:40 I don't know what the right word is.

22:42 Let's just castle.

22:47 Okay, I mean I can play this reversed um this reversed

22:52 uh what what you might call it King's Indian Attack.

22:54 I'm going to go for it anyway, even though I know it's not quite right.

23:03 Play c6 here.

23:11 No H5 maybe H4.

23:15 logical I don't want to play A5.

23:23 How do I do this exactly?

23:24 Let's think about this.

23:26 I'll go here.

23:32 I'm going to go here.

23:35 A6 is a little bit weird to me.

23:37 He's playing this very fast though,

23:38 so he might know something that I don't know.

23:41 If I take it's interesting.

23:43 But it's a king's Indian attack.

23:44 I mean C5 has to be the right move.

23:48 Right.

23:49 I'll move my queen.

23:54 Go to hmm D8 or D7.

23:58 I'll go to D7.

24:04 That's actually a move that I completely missed.

24:07 Lovely.

24:11 Completely missed Bishop C3.

24:13 This is great.

24:18 Hmm.

24:19 So let's go here, trade, put the knight back on F6, just keep going.

24:22 I'm also way down on time.

24:23 I just realized way down on time.

24:25 Like way down, way way down.

24:28 Back.

24:29 Going to play knight H7 to guard the knight.

24:34 Maybe I should have moved my king.

24:45 Yeah, he sees it.

24:51 It's great.

24:52 Let's take.

24:57 I'm actually probably just lost here.

25:00 Unbelievable.

25:05 I'm actually just losing, I think.

25:09 94 96 Still have queen E7, I guess.

25:26 Is there any way to keep this going?

25:35 Hmm.

25:36 Here.

25:39 He might have made a slight mistake.

25:40 He made a mistake, but I still think I'm worse here anyway.

26:05 I'm trying to think how I can play this.

26:07 Rook E7 and knight E7 somewhere maybe.

26:25 See what he does.

26:35 I think I'm I mean I'm okay-ish.

26:37 I'm not okay, but I'm okay-ish.

26:41 Going to put the rook on E7 to guard all the pawns and move my rook to center.

26:48 Actually, he moved the king.

26:49 Maybe I could have played 94 first.

26:52 Okay, um Now I can go 98 and like rook D8 maybe.

26:59 I feel like he's misplaying this a little bit.

27:01 Um Here maybe.

27:10 925 maybe is but 925 F6 is maybe better.

27:13 I don't know.

27:17 Okay, but this allows me 97 and 95.

27:19 And now I'm I'm actually almost I think completely okay here.

27:22 Almost.

27:27 It's also maybe 98 986 maybe is an idea.

27:31 Check.

27:37 I think this might be a big mistake by my opponent maybe.

27:40 Either a big mistake or I'm in trouble.

27:42 I don't know.

27:42 One of the one of the one of the two things.

27:45 Should king E4 I just take the pawn.

27:46 Okay, so I go Rookie 6 D7.

27:50 I go here.

27:55 It's very close.

27:56 I might actually be better here.

27:58 94 I have a five.

28:02 Rookie 4 even 96 looks fine.

28:06 93 that might be a very good move.

28:08 Yeah, I'm not I'm definitely not better.

28:09 That's a little bit too optimistic, but I should not be losing here.

28:15 So I take and play like F6.

28:19 Do you want to rook D8?

28:26 I take the pawn.

28:27 Okay.

28:31 I've got 94.

28:32 Now he blundered this.

28:33 Now I'm now I'm in now I'm fine.

28:35 His G5 I guess rook F8.

28:37 Ah, should I play G5 No, G5 you get rookie 4 so here.

28:48 The good news is I shouldn't be losing anymore.

28:56 The good news is I can't lose, I don't think anymore.

28:58 So, if I go check and rook D6 Oh, wait.

29:03 Now there's a five, actually.

29:04 Wait.

29:05 Oh, no.

29:05 There's just a five and I win the game.

29:09 My king of two still not over, actually.

29:10 Rook D4 Mhm.

29:38 Still not easy to win.

29:40 Let's go here.

29:41 Maybe rook D2 was Um, wait.

29:44 Check takes takes here here here here here here B5

29:48 takes takes here C4 takes D3 B5 F6 takes takes.

29:51 This should be winning.

29:56 D6 I have time.

29:57 Rook D3 takes takes E6 E4 D6 F4 C6 E5 B5 F6 takes takes C3 too fast.

30:02 Takes takes F6 C4 takes too fast.

30:05 Yeah, this is winning.

30:20 There we go.

30:21 All right.

30:22 We got the win.

30:23 Three out of three.

30:24 Not a good game.

30:25 Bit of a miracle there to win that cuz I

30:27 was actually I think just lost out of the opening.

30:29 My opponent showed some really good prep.

30:32 Yeah, it's play Yeah, knight F6 was it was already bad.

30:35 Already very bad here.

30:38 Should have taken with the B pawn.

30:39 Okay.

30:40 Learn something new every day.

30:41 Yeah.

30:43 Yeah, I know they're very bad team.

30:44 I've had two terrible games in the first three.

30:47 But, it's still a win.

30:49 Still a win.

30:50 Let's watch Magnus against Rasmus Svane.

30:58 Oh, wait.

30:58 Did he blunder?

30:59 Wait, this is a draw.

30:59 Wait.

31:03 Rook C3 is a draw.

31:04 Why?

31:05 Oh, cuz you're in time here.

31:07 Ah, he misplayed it.

31:11 Yeah, Rasmus was was actually Fabiano lost.

31:14 Okay.

31:17 Yeah, Mag Mag is just going to win.

31:19 So, yeah, I mean Title Tuesday is a tough event.

31:22 Tough event.

31:24 Fabiano loses half his Title Tuesday games, so that's normal.

31:30 [laughter] Yes.

31:32 Okay.

31:33 Uh Arjun is going to win as well.

31:34 He'll be three out of three.

31:36 That's a good one.

31:40 Yeah, Nodirbek is Nodirbek is white.

31:41 He's going to lose, right?

31:43 Yeah, he's going to lose.

31:47 Nepo lost in round one.

31:49 Nepo just lost in round one.

32:01 Rook C5.

32:01 Okay.

32:14 Ah.

32:16 Nodirbek loses as well.

32:20 Yeah, tough.

32:22 I think that Nodirbek was white that game, right?

32:25 Yeah, Nodirbek was white, so he lost.

32:28 2 knight Did I see Faustino lose

32:37 his chance to become youngest grandmaster in history?

32:39 I did.

32:39 Yes.

32:40 Yeah.

32:44 So, yeah.

32:49 Bright like a diamond.

32:52 Diamond.

32:53 Okay, round four.

32:54 Here we go.

32:55 That was a tough loss for Nordica.

32:56 Yeah, very tough.

32:57 Tough loss.

33:00 Oh, let's play in English.

33:04 This guy I think I beat this guy right or is it a different one?

33:06 I think that beat this guy in the last round of title Tuesday.

33:09 I think, but I could be wrong.

33:11 Okay, E6.

33:13 What do we want to play?

33:15 Just go here.

33:18 This guy.

33:21 What do I want to play?

33:26 He goes take.

33:26 I'm going to go for this G3 stuff.

33:28 Bishop G2 just castle.

33:29 Maybe a double fianchetto here.

33:34 Yeah, I think I'm going to go for like double fianchettos here.

33:39 Bright tonight.

33:48 Okay, I think I can go queen C2 here.

33:57 Want to stop this knight from getting D3.

34:00 Okay, A5 interesting move.

34:02 Um Play rook D1 there's bishop G4.

34:07 What do I want to play here?

34:10 492 maybe.

34:13 I think I'm going to go knight D4 idea knight F5 here.

34:15 And bishop E5 I'll play knight CE2.

34:17 I think that's my idea-ish.

34:23 Diamond.

34:24 He goes H5 this does give me knight F5 here if I want it.

34:28 Or knight CE2.

34:29 I guess he's trying to play H4.

34:30 I don't know.

34:31 Somehow I'm not buying what he's selling.

34:40 Like diamond in the sky.

34:47 I like my position objectively here.

34:48 I think I have a good position.

35:05 Like a diamond.

35:07 Shine like a diamond.

35:10 Diamond.

35:11 Shine like a diamond.

35:15 He's thinking for a long time here, actually.

35:21 Okay, he does go knight d4.

35:22 Um Thought I could go f3 here.

35:26 f3 knight c5 something like knight a4 stuff.

35:31 Could No, h4 is no good.

35:32 So, if I go f3, hm.

35:48 I think I'm going to go d3 and I'm going to go h4.

35:52 Knight h3 king h uh I don't know.

35:54 Maybe not right.

35:57 It's knight h3 king h1.

36:04 Okay, he goes knight a knight knight c5, which I'm actually very surprised by.

36:07 I did not expect that at all.

36:11 Okay, so he still wants h4.

36:15 Bishop a3 is a move.

36:17 I think Yeah, I'm going to play it anyway.

36:21 He can't go b6 I take the pawn.

36:22 He goes here rook c1 should be fine.

36:28 Logical.

36:29 Let's Trade.

36:31 At some point I want to go E4.

36:33 Um but not easy to play.

36:38 I had a five queen E5.

36:40 I don't like that.

36:40 Don't like F4.

36:42 I think I misplayed this slightly.

36:44 I'll just go back and just play passive.

36:48 Yeah, I misplayed this.

36:51 Should have just probably just gone knight F3 here.

36:53 I'm just about five.

36:54 Hmm.

36:58 And now E4 is a move at some point.

37:00 I don't want to take.

37:02 D4 is no good.

37:03 Or B1 doesn't make sense.

37:06 E4 takes takes takes queen C5.

37:10 Don't like that either.

37:15 I'm going to go queen B2.

37:16 Idea knight F4 at some point.

37:18 Let's take.

37:20 Bishop D7 logical move.

37:21 Let's go knight E5 to hit the bishop.

37:24 Could play B4 too, maybe.

37:33 Knight E4 I have F3 now, I think.

37:36 Or H4 Oh, wait.

37:40 Also B4.

37:41 Um H4.

37:48 I'll go H4 here.

38:01 Hmm, that's probably a good move that I didn't see.

38:05 It's actually very good move, I think.

38:07 Or wait, no, I can take maybe.

38:13 It's tricky.

38:17 If I play rook D1 with knight F4 queen D2 I'm going to go knight of four here.

38:41 Probably not a good movie either.

38:43 Uh uh uh Let's go here, I guess.

38:46 Yeah, I've I've slightly misplayed this, but still a game.

39:01 Okay, knight E6, very logical move.

39:05 Um Go knight E3 here, maybe.

39:10 Take.

39:13 Go here.

39:16 Very dry position, very very equal.

39:26 Of course, I just missed queen B4 again.

39:29 Just great.

39:40 He goes rook A3, okay.

39:44 Yeah, I've definitely misplayed this.

39:47 I got to think about how I can try to make how I can balance this.

39:52 Take.

39:53 I don't want to trade the knight.

39:57 F3.

39:58 F3, knight G3, king and knight E6.

40:04 I'm going to go for it.

40:04 I don't know, maybe it's wrong, but I'll do it anyway.

40:06 Takes, I'll just go here.

40:10 Wait, what?

40:12 I've just got knight of five.

40:13 Oh my god, I missed that completely.

40:16 Oh, just great.

40:17 Completely Completely missed that.

40:27 Oh, that was so stupid by me.

40:29 Um Yeah, totally misplayed this.

41:00 And I'm down on time, too, of course.

41:15 All right.

41:47 Um Oh, I can take with the king, which I missed, too.

41:55 Oh my god, I just missed that, too.

41:58 Oh my god, I just played the wrong order.

42:00 Ah.

42:22 No, I blundered it.

42:24 I trade first it's a draw.

42:26 If I trade first it's a draw.

42:27 I cannot believe myself.

42:29 I had I had rook G6 as a draw, right?

42:33 No?

42:35 Oh, I have rook H6.

42:37 Rook H5 rook G ah.

42:40 Yeah, I played a bad game though.

42:41 I mean I played three bad games.

42:43 I can't I can't really be mad.

42:49 Ah.

42:51 No, no, I mean that's my fault.

42:52 I mean if I trade maybe it's losing,

42:54 but I I think I would have drawn this end game.

42:58 Ah, it's still losing, but I'm not I'm not even mad about losing.

43:02 I'm mad that I like miscalculated this.

43:04 So, I just forgot he could take with the king.

43:07 Like how do I forget he could take with the king?

43:09 But as I also saying,

43:11 I mean three three three bad game I played three three bad games out of four.

43:15 No, I played three bad games out of four.

43:16 Like I mean if you keep getting bad positions like

43:19 sooner or later you're going to get punished for it.

43:21 But yeah, I should have seen this, too.

43:23 If I had seen this I wouldn't have lost.

43:25 I had 33 seconds.

43:27 Ah, so annoying.

43:31 So annoying.

43:35 So annoying to miss that, but ah, that's life.

43:39 Yeah, after I after I got myself back

43:41 in that game to mess that up was just so bad.

43:45 Yeah, it's just lost here.

43:47 No, I mean I just blundered, too.

43:48 I mean I just blundered.

43:49 I thought the knight was trapped and it goes knight

43:50 to five and I was like uh-oh, I lose the rook.

43:52 Like I mean I probably could have drawn this more often than not,

43:56 but ah, that's what happens.

43:58 I missed a tactic.

44:00 I missed a tactic.

44:00 That's life.

44:04 Yeah.

44:05 Um yeah, those of you guys who are asking political talking about politics,

44:08 I'm not going to get into politics.

44:09 Like that's not my jam right now.

44:12 That's not my jam.

44:15 Not my jam.

44:16 I mean I played poorly the last couple of months at titles Tuesday.

44:18 Is it due to too much candidates prep?

44:19 I don't think it's due to prep.

44:20 I think it's due to just a bit of apathy and like

44:23 also turn being very strong and not not like not focusing completely.

44:28 I I think it's kind of like it's

44:30 a situation where because I have the candidates turn,

44:31 it's like it's hard to get like pumped up for this.

44:35 And if you're not if you're not really into it and you're

44:36 playing really good players and you're not like all there, bad things happen.

44:41 But I I mean I'd rather I'd rather I'd lose this game than the first game.

44:44 So if I lose the first game,

44:45 I'd probably lose in round three and just call it a day.

44:48 So.

44:49 But that's life.

44:50 It's life.

44:50 Still many more games to go.

44:53 Many many more games to go.

44:58 I think I think also what I should done this game was right around here.

45:04 I should have taken, right?

45:05 Yeah, if I take This was my initial idea, but I I'm actually better here.

45:08 Wow.

45:09 I didn't think I was better, but I probably should have done this, too.

45:13 Opponent was 18.

45:14 In chess terms, that's actually pretty old now.

45:16 This guy beat me 2 weeks in a row.

45:18 I lost to him last week.

45:20 Uh, these days I don't even know cuz they don't show the username.

45:21 Like if I see the username f g f g h s m n, I I know who he is.

45:26 But if I see like if I if I see the actual name,

45:28 then it's like yeah, it's like kind of like I don't know.

45:33 Thank you so much to Eric California for 35 months.

45:35 Appreciate it.

45:41 What was the last time I won titles Tuesday?

45:43 It's been a few months.

45:43 I've had a couple couple where I choked at the end.

45:46 There was that one against Duda.

45:48 So.

45:49 Anybody who brings up random topics, I I don't care what someone says.

45:52 They're so irrelevant at this point.

45:54 They've ruined their entire career um and and their standing

45:57 in the chess community that I just I'm not interested.

46:01 But it proves it proves the point that nothing

46:02 that was done was in good faith actually.

46:05 That's the one silver lining to all that nonsense.

46:06 It was never done in good faith.

46:08 It was it was done 100% in bad faith and by someone who's very very jealous

46:12 and and unhappy that other people are doing very

46:14 well being successful and have have a lot more relevance.

46:18 That's like that's all that's all there is that needs to be said.

46:21 It's sad too.

46:22 But that's the that's the world of chess.

46:24 I mean, I I make no bones about it.

46:26 Like I I I tell you guys the truth even though

46:28 a lot of people don't want to hear it and a lot

46:29 of people get annoyed by it and people would rather bury

46:31 their heads under the sand and not listen to listen to the truth.

46:34 I mean, I'm I would just say, you know,

46:36 fact is chess is something where it's all about your you have

46:39 to be better than everybody else

46:41 and when other people other people are successful,

46:44 it's like it's it's very easy to become bitter and jealous and everything else.

46:47 Very very easy.

46:48 Especially when you think that everyone's

46:49 going to like show respect automatically.

46:52 Like you post something online and everybody thinks they're you know,

46:54 people are going to automatically respect you and then they

46:56 don't respect you and it's like WTF what's going on?

46:59 Because the internet doesn't work like that.

47:08 No.

47:10 Yeah, I'm annoyed about this last game.

47:11 This was very bad last game and I I hate that it's on the break too.

47:15 It's the first break after four rounds.

47:18 But that's life.

47:25 Also also I mean, I'll I'll be brutally honest.

47:28 Like also I'll I'll be honest.

47:29 Like if I hadn't found if I hadn't found something that's far more rewarding

47:33 and I'm I'm I'm I'm I have a lot of fun doing and streaming.

47:36 I mean, I'll be honest.

47:37 I probably would be like a lot of these people and I'd be like,

47:40 you know, these kids they suck this that the other thing.

47:42 I would hate all these kids who are who are like would potentially

47:45 be stepping all over me and taking my place in the world of chess.

47:48 Like I I will say that.

47:49 Like if I hadn't found something better, I might very easily have the exact same

47:52 mindset as a lot of these top players have.

47:55 Like legitimately I might have the exact same mindset.

48:05 So.

48:07 Is Alireza the best bullet player in straight

48:08 pure 10 Alireza is definitely the best player.

48:11 In a short match, maybe I have a chance to beat him or maybe Magnus does,

48:14 but in a long match, Alireza is going to just dominate us.

48:17 I mean, he will just dominate both of us in a long long straight up 10 match.

48:21 11 a little bit different, but 10 he'll he'll crush us all.

48:25 Yeah.

48:32 How's the market doing?

48:33 Market look great today.

48:35 I mean, I don't know.

48:36 Yeah.

48:37 Dow's up, S&P is up, every everything's green.

48:40 Unsurprisingly.

48:43 I mean, it's pretty obvious market was going to go heavily green after I mean,

48:47 last week or so they've tried to keep it down

48:48 at the start and they've just been unable to keep the market down,

48:51 so it's not surprising that we're getting a bit of a breakout again,

48:54 2 days in a row now.

48:56 It's like 2% of the Nasdaq is up.

49:00 Self-awareness.

49:02 Yeah.

49:05 The whole Korean market crash hit,

49:07 that is incorrect because EWY is currently up 1.2%.

49:12 So, that is incorrect.

49:13 Korea did not crash.

49:14 In fact, Korea had a big run up yesterday.

49:16 I I mean, I actually I bought I bought

49:18 I bought a bunch of calls yesterday on EWY.

49:20 Um I bought March 20th cuz I saw some some flow.

49:22 Someone bought I think 1.9 million of the March 27ths uh for 150 at a buck 55,

49:28 I think, if I remember correctly.

49:29 Um so, Korea is definitely not down.

49:31 I I would actually I would I would actually know that.

49:34 Um so, yeah.

49:36 Anyway, um did I see the Candidates pairings?

49:38 I did see them.

49:39 Oil's down.

49:39 Yeah, oil's a conundrum.

49:41 Hard to judge what oil is doing at the moment.

49:49 Dance, dance, dance, dance.

50:00 I do not buy oil.

50:00 No, I I actually wrote I wrote the Exxon wave all the way up.

50:08 It goes on and on and on.

50:14 Let's play something more standard.

50:17 No, that's too drawsh actually.

50:18 I think it's too drawsh.

50:20 Yeah.

50:23 Let's play one of these old lines with Chuck.

50:34 Up like it's dynamite.

50:44 You can play this order.

50:45 I could take here actually.

50:48 I need to win this game.

50:49 So, what am I going to take?

50:54 Let's take.

50:56 Okay, I can castle, I guess.

51:00 95 I just take the pawn.

51:01 Let's go D5, of course.

51:21 Not a great opening for me again, but I'll make it work, I think.

51:25 Could have just played 97 first, maybe.

51:30 Like it's dynamite.

51:43 Hm, this is not ideal.

51:55 Mhm.

51:57 Let's go here.

52:30 Okay, knight d1.

52:31 Interesting move.

52:32 Not the move I was expecting actually.

52:36 I wonder if I can go e5 or something.

52:42 Queen b6 also move.

52:44 Um Knight d3 queen d4.

52:50 I think I can go queen b6 here to hit the pawn.

52:54 I also guard my pawn in the process as well.

52:57 Or process I should say.

53:00 Knight b6 I think there's bishop a5 which is why I didn't play that.

53:23 Okay, he's thinking for a long time here.

53:24 I think knight d3 I just take the pawn so I should be fine.

53:36 Okay, logical.

53:37 But if I take, I mean it's classic show me the money.

53:40 I I don't see it.

53:41 Um I'm going to take it.

53:43 I mean, it's two pawns.

53:46 That's logical.

53:47 Queen D6 knight C5, so I guess I go this way.

53:52 Cuz now if all the pawns come off here, it's just a classic 4 v 4.

53:56 Let's go.

53:58 Here knight of four, I just go queen queen of five and I'm fine.

54:02 Maybe uh maybe I should just play queen queen of five knight

54:05 C Maybe I should have gone to F5 right away, but okay.

54:08 Whatever.

54:09 Whatever.

54:09 It's life.

54:11 Now there's least E5 E4.

54:13 I'll pre-move in case he takes.

54:17 I suspect queen of five was better, but we'll see.

54:22 Okay, so he takes.

54:24 Take.

54:25 Now how do I win this game is the question.

54:27 I have a position that's completely fine,

54:29 but winning this is not going to be easy.

54:33 Um if I take and play A5 maybe.

54:57 Expected that.

54:58 I'm going to go A5 here try to hang on to my extra juicer.

55:04 I'm going to go F5 or H5?

55:08 H5 hits the pawn.

55:10 Um H5 also gives me knight four.

55:14 Queen of four knight of four queen of five.

55:17 Four.

55:19 Somehow I think I want this knight on F4

55:21 cuz the knight goes there's squares for the knight,

55:23 which currently this knight cannot move cuz this knight's here.

55:26 So if he moves the knight, I swing and then the squares open up.

55:29 So that's why I wanted to play knight of four.

55:32 I also I'm hitting Yeah,

55:33 so now I go here and now there's a free square for my pony or so I thought.

55:39 Well, mean good night Oh no, knight E5 there's rook C5, yikes.

55:41 Knight C4 maybe?

55:44 Knight C4 bishop D2, not easy.

55:47 Five doesn't work.

55:48 How do I do this?

55:51 Okay, six is also a move.

55:55 I'm going to go I think I'm going to go rook A6 here.

56:21 I saw that I can just go rook A A8 here.

56:25 Yeah, let's go rook A8.

56:28 So if he trades everything off here,

56:30 I have knight F8 at the end to guard the king.

56:41 Probably I'll play H6 create some space for the king on the next move or two.

56:55 Okay, rook B1 logical.

56:57 Let's go queen F5 hit this rook on B1 now while guarding the pawn.

57:06 Uh wait, knight C knight C5 rook A5 takes queen A5 takes and it's mate.

57:13 That's lovely.

57:14 Okay.

57:15 The chief I don't know.

57:16 Let's just go Uh it's getting tricky.

57:18 Now there's E4 also mate.

57:22 Let's go here.

57:24 Now knight C5 is maybe or knight C5 there's also rook B5,

57:26 so maybe not a big threat.

57:28 But I just want to create space for my king to escape here.

57:33 Illogical.

57:35 Knight B6 knight D5 looking kind of exciting here.

57:39 Yeah, uh knight B6 rook D4 queen E5.

57:46 Also rook D4 queen E5 might just Wait, if I go here I don't see it.

58:05 I don't know how he guards the rooks cuz I don't think he can guard squares.

58:17 Yeah, okay.

58:17 We take.

58:25 Go here.

58:38 Attack the queen.

58:47 Here.

58:49 Okay, now I have check queen B7 take the rook.

58:51 Yeah.

58:54 Okay, there we go.

58:54 We got the win.

58:55 That That was actually a much better game by me.

58:57 Much better game.

58:58 A four out of five.

59:00 Not what I was hoping for, but still we keep going.

59:07 Thanks so much to Nikolai for the 36-month resub.

59:09 Thanks so much Nikolai, I appreciate it.

59:10 Thanks so much.

59:22 Now, anyway, what are people asking?

59:31 Yeah, I don't know what I don't know what the question is.

59:33 With an early loss we get easy pairings at least.

59:35 Not necessarily.

59:37 Not necessarily.

59:38 I mean that's the one that's the one

59:39 thing that's really annoying about Title Tuesday

59:40 is that you can lose the game early and you still might play a 2700.

59:44 Oh, I was right about queen of five.

59:46 I was right.

59:46 Okay.

59:49 Yeah.

59:49 Actually, now I do need to use the restroom.

59:51 So, let me go use the restroom real quick.

59:54 Okay.

59:55 Let's go to round six.

59:56 Here we go.

59:58 Oh, yeah.

59:58 Objectively an easier pairing but no guarantees.

1:00:02 As soon as you say easier.

1:00:03 But, I get a double black which is that good?

1:00:05 That means I'm going to get white in 7, 9, and 11.

1:00:07 So, if I win this game I'm in good shape.

1:00:11 Play Caro-Kann.

1:00:12 Maybe I should play Scandinavian but whatever.

1:00:14 Okay.

1:00:27 22.

1:00:29 Okay.

1:00:32 How do I create a mess here?

1:00:33 Cuz Okay, whatever.

1:00:36 Let's just go for it.

1:00:37 I I I need to win this game.

1:00:38 So, let's go for it.

1:00:38 Let's play C5.

1:00:41 So, here.

1:00:44 Play E5.

1:00:55 What do I do here?

1:00:56 Hmm.

1:01:04 Can play A5 if I want to.

1:01:07 I think I will just play A5 here.

1:01:12 A4.

1:01:13 Oh, he's going to try to clog the toilet on the queen side.

1:01:15 He might.

1:01:19 Uh-huh.

1:01:19 No, he's going to go for this.

1:01:20 Let's go here.

1:01:25 Basically trying to make sure the f-file doesn't open,

1:01:27 but I can't actually ensure that.

1:01:35 Let's go here, I guess.

1:01:37 Try to trade the knights off.

1:01:40 Okay.

1:01:43 Okay, I guess I'll play like Okay, I see his idea at least conceptually.

1:01:47 Um I'm going to go here.

1:01:52 Let's go here.

1:01:52 I want to stop this bishop h3 idea specifically.

1:01:56 Let's go here.

1:01:59 There is knight g4, but I have rook g6.

1:02:03 I have a very pleasant position in this game.

1:02:16 Let's guard the pawn.

1:02:27 Yeah, it's a very, very good position for me.

1:02:29 I I control the game completely, so now it's just a matter of converting.

1:02:34 I can't go h4 cuz then he'll clog the toilet with g4, so I can't do that.

1:02:50 Aha, so he's trying to play g4 anyway.

1:02:53 Hmm.

1:02:55 Let's go here.

1:03:02 That's okay.

1:03:04 I don't know if I should play f6.

1:03:05 It feels right, but it also closed the diagonal for the bishop,

1:03:08 so I'm going to try to um How How I do this?

1:03:15 Okay, I need to get this knight around.

1:03:18 Um Here.

1:03:25 I misplayed this didn't I?

1:03:36 Trying to get the knight, but I think I I think too slow.

1:03:40 Should have just moved the bishop and the knight.

1:03:42 Whatever.

1:03:47 Think I'll go here knight to G6 anyway.

1:03:49 I'm going to sack the rook I think if I can.

1:03:52 I'll sack the rook, bring the knight in, and hope that it's good enough.

1:03:57 Back.

1:04:05 I think I have a chance to win this.

1:04:06 I mean I I think I should be better here.

1:04:08 Okay, let's go go here.

1:04:11 Cuz now if he takes my bishop gets in.

1:04:17 Um He'll take with the E pawn.

1:04:22 Somehow I feel like I need to get this bishop in.

1:04:23 This bishop needs to get into the game.

1:04:29 How do I do this though?

1:04:33 Queen D8 maybe?

1:04:34 I'll go here.

1:04:45 Here maybe?

1:04:48 Okay, if I take take Okay, he takes with the F pawn,

1:04:57 which I think I'm happy to see.

1:04:59 Cuz now I can spring my bishop back.

1:05:02 I'm just going to move my king to safety here.

1:05:04 I can never take the knights and I get killed on the diagonal.

1:05:09 But actually, if If can't take the knight, then what do I do?

1:05:12 Hmm, let's go here.

1:05:13 Maybe bishop c3.

1:05:22 Very tricky.

1:05:34 But now I can actually take.

1:05:37 Yes, I can take.

1:05:37 Now I just take the g pawn and now I infiltrate on the g pawn.

1:05:40 I've got this great wooden shield on the diagonals here.

1:05:44 I'll pre-move it cuz it's the it's it's a safe pre-move.

1:06:08 The U Okay, now I go here, rook g3.

1:06:14 Again, this wooden shield so well placed here.

1:06:19 pawn If queen g8, there's rook rook g2.

1:06:30 Go here.

1:06:38 Sac the rook and play rook h1.

1:06:42 Crazy.

1:06:47 Okay, there's no way that he can draw this.

1:06:50 There's an open file here.

1:06:51 This can't possibly be a draw.

1:06:54 Go here, tickle the rook, tickle the king.

1:06:58 Up all night.

1:07:01 Yeah.

1:07:02 Okay, there we go.

1:07:02 Good win.

1:07:03 Good win.

1:07:07 Good win.

1:07:07 Okay, let's take a look at the other games.

1:07:08 I'm not sure if I was actually winning that game though until very deep into it.

1:07:14 Yeah, I'm not actually winning here.

1:07:16 So, I'm winning here?

1:07:19 Small edge, but nothing substantial.

1:07:25 Takes knight h4.

1:07:26 Wow.

1:07:28 Maybe I was winning here.

1:07:30 But one important point that I that I mentioned people probably missed

1:07:32 is somewhere early in the game around here I was saying f6.

1:07:35 But if I play f6 and we get something very similar,

1:07:38 the problem is that in the long run this bishop can never get in the game.

1:07:41 It's just walled by these pawns.

1:07:43 So, that's why I actually didn't play f6.

1:07:44 It was specifically cuz I felt like I needed to use this bishop.

1:07:47 As we saw later in the game like once I go here now the diagonal's open.

1:07:51 Whereas if we get this position just to illustrate

1:07:53 the point something like this, now there's no diagonal.

1:07:55 So, even if we get this and white goes here, this bishop is still dead.

1:07:59 I mean, maybe I can eventually get it into the game,

1:08:01 but the pawn clogs the diagonal.

1:08:04 So.

1:08:05 Yeah, it's very very important not to play

1:08:06 this f6 move here and close the diagonal.

1:08:08 Even though it guards the pawns, it just shuts the diagonal for the bishop.

1:08:12 So.

1:08:12 All right, we got the win five out of six.

1:08:14 Let's take a look at the other games.

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