Is Magnus's Opening Prep so bad he'll go under 2800?

0:01 Welcome back everyone.

0:03 For today's video, we are back with the fourth round

0:06 of the TPA Sigman tournament being held in Malmo, Sweden.

0:10 Now, after three rounds, there is a fiveway tie at the top.

0:14 And of course, we're going to start out

0:15 with one of the co-leaders of the tournament,

0:17 the fivetime world champion Magnus Carlson.

0:20 Now, Magnus is playing against Jordan Vanforest from the Netherlands.

0:23 Jordan has been on a massive run.

0:25 He's gained something like 50 to 60

0:26 rating points over the last couple of months.

0:28 This is bolting him up into the top 15 in the world.

0:32 And let's see what happens in the scheme.

0:34 So we have Yord with the white pieces, Magnus with the black pieces.

0:37 And let's jump into the action.

0:38 We get E4.

0:39 Magnus plays the Sicilian, knight F3, D6.

0:42 Now we get the move D4, the trade, knight F6, knight C3.

0:46 And here Magnus plays move pawn to A6.

0:49 Now this of course is the Najdor system in the Sicilian.

0:52 has been played by many great and illustrious players in including

0:55 two of the greatest players of all time the world

0:57 champions Robert James Fischer from America and of course Gary

1:01 Chess also known as Gary Kasparov from the Soviet Union.

1:05 So Najdor very very solid.

1:07 What this opening tells me however is that Magnus

1:10 does not want to sit back and be solid.

1:12 He wants to test his metal.

1:13 He wants to play sharp aggressive chess with both white and black.

1:17 We of course saw that in the previous

1:18 round when he played the extremely dubious opening,

1:21 the Ben Oni against Neils Grandelius, it did work out in that case.

1:25 But playing the Najdorf against a player of Yordan's

1:27 caliber shows that he is ready for a big fight.

1:29 Now in this position, Yordan decides to play this move F4.

1:33 And I actually would say that I was

1:34 a little bit surprised to see Steam Magnus played

1:36 Najdor specifically against Yordan cuz as someone who does

1:39 play chess every so often at the professional level.

1:42 I have noticed that Jordan is a player who tends

1:44 to have a lot of very creative ideas specifically within the Najdorf.

1:48 He's played moves like F4.

1:49 He's played stuff like rook G1.

1:50 I think he's played H4.

1:52 He's someone who is always ready with something creative.

1:54 So I'm surprised that Magnus chooses to play this against him.

1:57 And let's see if Magnus has actual good preparation for this game.

2:01 So, we get the move F4.

2:02 Now, I'm going to tell you guys a short

2:04 story fitting with the theme of this whole tournament.

2:06 I almost want to say the players are intentionally doing

2:08 this so I get a great story time out of it.

2:10 So, I get great stories out of it.

2:12 Um, but this F4 system is something that when I was growing up,

2:15 specifically between the ages, I would say 9 and 11.

2:18 A lot of players play this move F4.

2:20 It's not considered to be particularly great these days,

2:22 but it was extremely popular when I was growing up.

2:24 And there were countless games when I faced this.

2:26 And usually I would play with Magnus Placer, which is the move pawn to E5.

2:30 Now, back in the late 90s into the 2000s in this bishop,

2:33 it was it was a default that you drop

2:35 this juicer back to F3 to pressure the pawn on E5.

2:39 But nowadays with computers, pretty much anything is playable.

2:42 So Jordan goes knight to B3.

2:44 And here Magnus plays bishop E7.

2:46 And now we get the trade, the trade of the queens.

2:48 And Jordan plays move bishop B3.

2:50 Now Magnus plays this move bishop to E6.

2:52 And you'll notice his time evaporates.

2:55 He has an hour and 10 minutes on the clock.

2:57 when he plays this move, bishop to E6,

2:59 he goes from an hour and 10 all the way down to 46 minutes.

3:02 Magnus Carlson plays this move.

3:04 Clearly, he's out of preparation.

3:06 I don't know if you guys would agree with me,

3:07 but it would seem that Magnus' prep is not

3:09 that great when his bluff finally gets called in this game.

3:12 Of course, if you guys agree or disagree,

3:14 make sure to let me know in the comments um below.

3:16 So, Yord is still in prep.

3:18 He blitzes out the move knight C5.

3:20 And now Magnus played this move bishop to A5 after another long think

3:24 of nine minutes trying to pin the pony on C3 to the king on E1.

3:28 Now I suspect that here Jordan had probably looked at the move bishop to C8,

3:32 maybe looked at knight G4.

3:34 Again, when you prepare with computers, there are a lot of different lines.

3:36 It's very hard to evaluate what is most human, excuse me, and what is not human.

3:42 I would say that this is of course

3:43 a double-edged sword of preparation in the modern

3:46 era because in this position after Magnus goes

3:49 bishop A5, Jordan spends a ton of time.

3:51 He spends 30 he spends sorry at 129.

3:54 He spends approximately 35 minutes on this move.

3:59 35 minutes before playing this move and clearly he was out of preparation.

4:03 Now, in the recent candidates tournament we saw in Cyprus,

4:06 there were many games where players would blitz

4:07 out a bunch of moves and then they would have to think for a very long

4:10 time and they would immediately make some mistakes.

4:13 So, Jordan plays bishop d3 after a long think.

4:15 This is actually a top computer move.

4:17 It's very easy to think that you should trade the knight for the bishop here.

4:20 And with these double stack pawns, two bs, white should be better.

4:24 But with the weakness on e4 here, you have to guard the pawn.

4:27 And now after a move like knight to c6 here,

4:29 let's say rook to f1, black can play rook c8.

4:32 And these B's, this dark square B is on a completely open diagonal.

4:36 This light square B, while the pawn is guarded, of course, you can't take.

4:40 You're stuck guarding this pawn, which means the diagonals closed.

4:42 So here, even though white has the two B's, black is actually better.

4:47 So Jordan plays bishop D3 instead.

4:49 And the main point here is that now if Magnus

4:51 tries to play play a move like knight to C6,

4:53 white can simply take this pawn on B7 as it's under attack.

4:57 So Magnus drops the bishop back, guards the pawn.

5:00 Jordan plays knight B3.

5:01 And now Magnus trades the bishop for the knight.

5:04 And here he plays the move bishop D7.

5:06 Now, of course, we're in an endgame.

5:07 And I have to give a lot of credit to Yordan because,

5:10 as we all know, Magnus' reputation precedes him.

5:13 He is known as the greatest endgame player of all time.

5:16 I don't think that's even in doubt.

5:18 I don't think anyone would disagree with that statement.

5:20 So Yur is going into this endgame against Magnus,

5:23 who's just the best at best of all time at it.

5:26 Now, computer here actually dislikes the bishop d7 move.

5:29 It wants max to simply castle the king out of the middle of the board.

5:33 And I think the reason is that in this position,

5:35 if white plays knight a5, black can play b5.

5:38 Maybe later on you'll put the bishop on the diagonal.

5:41 Maybe you put the bishop on e6,

5:42 but you keep a lot of flexibility available for the bishop

5:45 and this knight can go to d7 or c6 later on.

5:49 So plays bishop to d7.

5:51 Jordan correctly plays move knight to a5 pressuring the pawn.

5:54 And now Magnus plays move bishop C6.

5:57 Now you may be wondering,

5:58 can't black go B5 like in the previous variation and be fine.

6:01 That would be really nice if you could.

6:03 But here, white can play bishop to C5,

6:05 stopping black from castling the king out of the middle of the board.

6:08 And now black is in a lot of trouble if you go knight to C6.

6:11 I go knight B7.

6:12 And this knight is going to start forking all over the board.

6:15 Black can't castle the king either way.

6:17 You can't castle this way either with the knight covering the square.

6:20 So with the king stuck in the middle,

6:21 the juicer coming to D6, all kinds of forks.

6:23 Black is in for some serious suffering.

6:27 So Magnus plays bishop C6 here, trying to target the juicer on E4.

6:30 And now Jordan plays the move rook B1.

6:33 Now Magnus no doubt was hoping that Jordan

6:35 would trade the knight for the bishop here.

6:36 And you would figure two B's versus two knights, it's fine.

6:39 But after a move like rook to B1 and knight to D8, black is rock solid here.

6:43 Say you were to castle after knight D7, let's say rook D1,

6:46 and a move like rook C8, let's just say rook B3 and F6 here.

6:50 Black is very, very solid.

6:51 You're going to bring the knight to E6 later on.

6:53 These bishops are simply not doing anything.

6:55 And due to the compromised pawn structure here,

6:57 I think black has decent chances to outplay white and win the game.

7:02 But instead Jordan plays but instead does not take the bishop.

7:06 We get rook to B1 pressuring the pawn on B7.

7:08 And now Magnus plays move bishop takes E4.

7:11 We get the trade of the bishops.

7:12 Rook takes B7 is played.

7:14 And here Magnus plays move knight to D7.

7:17 Yordan castles.

7:18 Magnus goes rook to C8.

7:20 Perhaps here knight DF6 maybe a little bit preferable.

7:22 And in fact, I think if you were to ask Magnus after this game,

7:25 he probably would say that he would think that this line with castling

7:29 and sacking the pawn on E5 would be a more prudent way of playing here.

7:33 After castles, computer says after C4 and rook E8,

7:36 position is maybe marginally better for white here.

7:39 But with these double pawns, D's knights in the middle of the board,

7:42 I find it hard to believe that white can generate serious winning chances.

7:47 But instead, we get rook to C8.

7:49 Now Jordan plays C4.

7:50 And here Magnus has a problem, which is that you would love to castle

7:54 the king out of the middle of the board here,

7:55 but you hang the knight on D7, which means you have to move the knight first,

7:58 but now Jordan correctly blitzes out this move.

8:01 Knight to C6 here.

8:03 This is a double Xclam move in this position.

8:05 You hit the pawn on E5.

8:07 And now Magnus has real problems to solve.

8:09 Now, I don't know what Magnus was thinking.

8:11 Maybe he'll talk about this game after the tournament,

8:13 but my general view is that there are two possibilities.

8:16 One possibility is that he actually missed this knight

8:18 C6 move or he underestimated the strength of it.

8:21 The second is that he also just flat out missed it.

8:24 Like either he calculated the line and he misunderstood how dangerous

8:27 it was for black or he actually just outright missed it.

8:30 Now the funny thing here is that knight C6 is not the only

8:33 move computer also after C5 and C6 here with the knight guarding the pawn.

8:37 White threatening to push the P up the board.

8:39 White has a substantial advantage here.

8:41 But I I'm not surprised that Jordan plays this knight move.

8:44 It's beautiful move here.

8:46 If black were to castle, you have knight E7, forking the king and the rook.

8:50 So, you can't really castle here.

8:52 And if you can't castle,

8:53 the only move which Magnus plays is he plays rook takes knight,

8:56 sacking the rook because we get the check,

8:58 rook takes, and now we get the move rook C4.

9:01 Now, at first glance, I looked at this position,

9:03 my thoughts are that black should be relatively okay here.

9:06 You have very, very stable knights in the middle of the board.

9:08 You have four pawns on the king side,

9:10 these four pawns versus the white two pawns here.

9:12 So your king and these pawns are all very stable.

9:14 You have a stable knight.

9:16 Black should be better.

9:17 But as you guys can tell from the valuation bar, that is simply not the case.

9:21 White is much better.

9:22 And so my general view is that I think Magnus probably saw this knight six line,

9:26 but he actually assumed that this position after rook c4,

9:29 it was probably at least equal and maybe he would have winning chances

9:32 due to D's knight and the very very active rook on the Cfile.

9:36 So Jordan plays rook to A8.

9:38 Magnus now goes rook to A4.

9:40 both guarding the pawn on A6 and pressuring the pawn on A2.

9:44 Here we get the move C4.

9:45 And this is an excellent move from Jordan in this position.

9:48 One of the great things here is that the preparation worked out really,

9:51 I would say, really well for Yordan.

9:53 He's up on time here.

9:54 He's 20 minutes against four minutes.

9:56 This means that Jordan can take his time, drink some tea,

9:59 relax, and try to come up with the best plan.

10:01 And C4 is the best move on top of being extremely explosive.

10:06 So Magnus takes.

10:07 And now you're probably thinking, well,

10:08 Magnus has has a knight and two pawns in the middle for a rook.

10:11 How can Magnus be worse?

10:13 I would also add one other point, and this a general note,

10:16 but my view is that Magnus,

10:17 when he probably calculated this position, he probably thought he was fine.

10:20 I would actually argue that in a blitz game, I would prefer to be black here,

10:24 cuz I think it's much easier to play with these knights and the rook.

10:27 But this also highlights the big difference between

10:29 classical chess and playing a lot of blitz because

10:31 the instinctive reaction and evaluations they sometimes can be

10:35 wrong when players have a lot of time to think.

10:36 And I will say I think if this were a blitz game,

10:39 Magnus probably would win this position if I'm being honest.

10:41 It maybe a draw, but more likely than not he would win or draw.

10:44 He would never be in any danger of losing.

10:47 So we get back to the game.

10:49 We get rook A2.

10:50 And here Jordan plays bishop B6.

10:52 Another extremely good move from Jordan.

10:54 Understanding the passive nature of this dark square B.

10:57 You'll notice that you can't go to C5.

10:59 You can't go to G5.

11:00 You're staring at a lot of open diagonals.

11:02 So, this bishop simply isn't great.

11:04 So, when Jordan plays bishop B6, he now has the idea of playing bishop to D8

11:08 to tickle the king and the knight on the diagonal.

11:10 It also frees up the move rook to E1 to put pressure on the E file.

11:14 So, this is simply an allstar move.

11:16 And when I saw Yur play this move,

11:17 I was like, this is really, really good chess.

11:21 So Magnus plays move king to E6.

11:23 Jordan plays C5 pushing his P trying to force his pawn through to win the game.

11:27 And now Magnus plays move rook C2.

11:30 Jordan takes the pawn.

11:31 And now Magnus plays his move king to E7.

11:34 Now this is a clear byproduct

11:36 of the time control and Magnus mismanaging his time.

11:39 I have no doubt that if Magnus had 10 or 15 minutes on the clock here,

11:43 he would probably calculate the correct variation,

11:45 which is not very intuitive, I might add, but is to play knight to d5 here,

11:49 allowing all the fossils with the rook targeting the king.

11:53 Now, probably Magnus assumed that after

11:54 knight d5 there's something like bishop d8, white takes the juicer on f7.

11:58 If you take the bishop, there's rook a8 with a classic ladder checkmate.

12:01 King got stuck.

12:02 GG.

12:03 Why not?

12:03 But after rook takes f7, black can very calmly go king to e8 here

12:07 where you now attack the bishop and the rook.

12:10 And if white were to play move like

12:11 rook g7 hoping for the same checkmate here after

12:14 rook g7 there's rook c1 and it's suddenly

12:16 the uh spaghettiio moment with this classic ice skater checkmate.

12:20 The white king can't escape due to this pony and you lose on the spot.

12:24 Now this is still a draw after rook a7 here.

12:27 But after knight to e3 for example or even a move like knight to f4

12:30 you look at these knights which are so close to the white king here

12:33 and white here I believe simply has

12:35 to force a draw by repetition there's nothing

12:37 better because if you don't force a draw here say you were to go I don't

12:40 know rook takes g7 again there's rook c1 mate and if you play play

12:44 a move like h3 for example now black can take the pawn you go this way

12:48 it's checkmate and uno you go this way same problem here black goes rook to f2

12:53 check if you go king e1 there's check and then rook to d2 2 checkmate.

12:57 King can't escape.

12:59 And if you were to go to G1 here, now black can play knight takes H3 check.

13:03 King H1 and knight to G3 here.

13:05 King again gets completely stuck and D's knight's checkmate the king.

13:09 So it's very very messy, very very sharp.

13:11 Computer says that I think here bishop D8 is

13:14 I think this game would have been a draw.

13:15 I think it's very likely we would have gotten this position with rook

13:18 takes F7 and probably rook A7 and some version of knight F4,

13:21 knight E3 with a peaceful result.

13:24 But Magnus instead plays king E7.

13:26 Now, here Jordan plays move rook A7 after a two-minute think.

13:29 And I'm going to be honest, this is somewhat inexplicable to me based

13:32 on the situation with Jordan having 14 minutes.

13:35 Magnus' 2 minutes.

13:36 You never want to give Magnus an extra move here,

13:39 getting one move closer to time control.

13:41 But instead, we get this repetition.

13:42 Now, here for a second time in the game, Magnus can play knight to D5,

13:46 but for a second time, he goes king to E7.

13:49 And now, Yordan correctly does not take

13:52 the draw by repetition here with rook A7 check.

13:54 He plays rook D1.

13:56 Now computer says rook to E1 is very slightly better,

13:59 but rook D1 makes a ton of sense.

14:00 You threaten to play bishop D8 with the rook guarding

14:03 the bishop and then you attack the king and the knight.

14:05 So now Magnus plays knight to D5 here and Jordan plays move bishop to D8.

14:09 This is an allstar move from Yordan sacking this bishop checking the king.

14:14 Now if black takes a bishop you rook takes knight and black cannot go

14:18 rook to C1 checkmating the white king as your king is currently in check.

14:21 Say you move the king.

14:22 I drop back here with rook a7.

14:24 the classic kebab and a Pac-Man situation where

14:26 you eat all the pawns on the seventh rank.

14:28 White is going to win this game without a doubt.

14:31 So Magnus goes king to E8.

14:33 But now Yordan plays move rook to A8.

14:35 And here Magnus plays move F6.

14:37 Now this is a very very good move to play under pressure.

14:40 It would be very easy here to make a blunder like a move such as F5.

14:44 Before we get to F5, black plays move like knight to E3 trying

14:47 to checkmate with D's knights right near the king.

14:49 White simply goes bishop to F6 checkmate.

14:51 King can't run to the D file.

14:53 You're in check.

14:53 King can't run up either.

14:55 King gets stuck.

14:56 GG.

14:56 Why not?

14:58 So, were Magnus play F5, which I think is more human reaction instead of F6.

15:02 White can play the move bishop to G5 here, checking the king.

15:06 When the king moves, white takes the pony.

15:08 And here you do not have rook C1 checkmating

15:10 the king as the bishop drops back to capture the rook.

15:14 So, after king F7 takes, knight G5 here,

15:17 white can simply play a move like rook takes E5.

15:19 And with the same number of pawns on the board, three pawns for each side,

15:22 and white having a rook versus a knight,

15:24 white should have great winning chances.

15:27 So Magnus correctly plays the move F6.

15:29 You got bishop takes pawn, king to F7.

15:32 And now Jordan plays this move bishop to G5.

15:35 Now, it's easy to look with the computer and be like, "Oh, this is a blunder.

15:37 That's a blunder." And we'll see much more of this throughout the game.

15:40 But I really think bishop G5 from a human standpoint is

15:42 the most logical move because we're only on move number 35 here.

15:46 So players still have to make five to six moves before time control.

15:49 And even though the computer wants bishop H4 a little bit more

15:52 after knight to F4 with D's knights right near the white king.

15:55 This looks very very menacing.

15:57 You're going to have to make a lot of moves very quickly.

15:58 There's no obvious plan.

16:00 So it's very hard to play this position.

16:02 Now for posterity for anyone who's wondering the reason this is so good

16:05 for white is here you can play rook to E1 very calmly ignoring this pawn.

16:09 Black were to take after king to H1.

16:11 There's no checkmate on F2 because of check.

16:14 You simply take the knight after rook f2, rook c1.

16:16 You're simply pushing your pe up the board and you're going to win this game.

16:21 So, rook to e1, knight takes c5, rook e5, g5 is the top computer line.

16:25 The game gets very messy.

16:26 It goes on.

16:27 Probably it's still going to be a draw.

16:29 But this this is a situation where white also has to be careful because if you

16:33 make one wrong move with these knights and the rook so close to the white king,

16:36 you could also lose the game.

16:38 So, I really like this bishop G5 move because

16:40 it's the same concept that if black takes a bishop, you take the knight.

16:44 And now again, same thing.

16:45 You've got you've got two rooks and three

16:47 pawns versus a rook knight and three pawns.

16:49 The rook for the pony should be winning.

16:52 So, Magnus here plays rook takes C5,

16:54 which is the top computer move guarding this knight on D5.

16:57 We get the move bishop C1.

16:59 And now Magnus plays move H6.

17:01 Now, at this point, the dust has relatively speaking settled here.

17:04 We're in the we're in a clean endame where black

17:06 has a pony and a pawn in return for the rook.

17:09 But one thing that's so unique about chess is every situation,

17:12 every game is different.

17:13 And in this case, we're going to see the power of this dark square

17:17 B in terms of why even though it looks relatively drawish based on material,

17:21 white has substantial winning chances.

17:23 So we get the move rook A7.

17:24 Magnus goes king G8.

17:26 We get H3, rook B5, king H2, knight F6, and now we get the move rook to D3.

17:32 Now here on move 40, Magnus plays move rook to C5.

17:35 And this is the start of the position getting out of control.

17:39 Now the computer says after the move rook to B1 here,

17:42 if white plays bishop to A3, you can go E4.

17:44 If rook G3, you have knight to H5 here.

17:47 And with this pawn rolling up the board, say rook G4,

17:49 there's also knight E3, I guess, here to hit the king.

17:51 And it gets very scary at this point.

17:54 White has no way to be better.

17:56 So probably what white should play is bishop to E3.

17:58 And after E4, you go rook to A3 here.

18:01 I should say actually E4.

18:02 Maybe computer wants rook B5 here.

18:04 E4.

18:04 Rook B5.

18:05 White still maintains the advantage.

18:07 But I think that in this case,

18:08 it's going to be a lot harder for white to prove an advantage.

18:10 And I think Magnus would have had very, very good chances to draw this game.

18:15 Instead, we get rook C5.

18:16 And now Yorn's able to put the bishop on this great diagonal, spying the pawns.

18:21 This bishop will never be able to be removed

18:24 from this diagonal for the rest of the game.

18:26 So the bishop on the long diagonal hitting both the pawns.

18:30 options to move the rooks all over the board here.

18:32 White should have great winning chance.

18:34 And in fact, the computer says at this point from a technical standpoint,

18:37 white should be winning.

18:38 So, we get knight to f4.

18:39 Jordan plays rook g3.

18:41 Apparently, rook c3 first is slightly better.

18:43 And after rook to d5 here, you can play his move rook c7.

18:47 Don't ask me why this is better.

18:48 Jordan plays rook g3.

18:50 And now he goes rook c3.

18:51 And after rook d5 here, you can't go rook c7 because the knight guards the pawn.

18:55 I think the main point is that after this in this one

18:58 after knight H5 here you can play bishop C3 stopping the check

19:01 on the second rank and now this idea of G4 hitting

19:04 the pony which guards the pawn is simply too deadly to deal with.

19:09 But instead we get this line.

19:10 Rook D5, rook C2, stopping the kebab with rook to D2.

19:14 We get king H7, bishop A1, knight G6, and now Jordan plays move rook A2.

19:19 Here Magnus plays the move rook to D1.

19:21 And after this move, I'm pretty sure this is a straightforward winning endame.

19:25 Computer wants rook to D3.

19:27 This is a very weird line because after rook to F2,

19:29 black can now play rook to G3 here with the idea

19:32 of moving one of D's knights to the fourth rank.

19:34 Whereas in the game after we get rook D1,

19:37 if Yordan were to play the move rook to F2 here,

19:39 if black tries to close the door on the F file with knight to F4,

19:42 white plays bishop takes pawn,

19:44 threatening to capture his pawn on G7 with the rook.

19:47 And after takes takes with a rook for a knight and only two pawns on the board.

19:51 This is also technically a win,

19:53 but instead we get rook we instead we get rook to E2 attacking the pawn.

19:57 Rook D5.

19:58 Jordan goes bishop C3.

20:00 Knight F4.

20:00 And now we get the move rook E3.

20:02 Now again, there have been many, many quote unquote mistakes,

20:05 but Yordan's followed a relatively straightforward and simple plan here.

20:08 His idea is he wants to trade off the rooks.

20:11 If he can trade off the rooks here,

20:12 the bishop and the rook should be much better than these knights here.

20:16 So, he just wants to go rook to A5, forcing a trade.

20:18 And then he expects to win the endame

20:20 with the bishop and rook versus the two knights.

20:22 So, Magnus plays rook B5.

20:24 We get rook to A5, rook B3.

20:26 Jordan plays bishop D4 here, guarding the rook while targeting the black rook.

20:30 And now we get the trade of the rooks.

20:32 Now if black were to move the rook to B4 after takes

20:36 takes and rook a e5 and rook b2 rook g3 and a move

20:39 like knight g6 this is still probably winning for white but after

20:42 rook f5 and rook b7 it's going to require a lot of work.

20:46 So we get the trade of the rooks and now plays

20:49 knight to h4 trying to pressure the pawns with d's knights.

20:52 And here Jordan plays this horrible horrible move bishop d2.

20:56 Now, my view of this position is that Jordan actually assumed

20:59 that this move G4 was not good enough to win the game.

21:02 Computer says it is good enough.

21:03 Obviously easy when you're at home chilling

21:05 to to see the evaluation and understand.

21:08 But my assumption is that Jordan assumed that after

21:10 G4 and black goes G5, say bishop F2, knight G6 and king G3,

21:15 I think he incorrectly assumed that with a bastion

21:18 pony here that's supported by the two pawns, this great knight on F4 here,

21:22 he assumed that he could never bring the king without

21:24 losing this pawn and thus the game would be a draw.

21:27 But the computer does show here that after knight G6,

21:30 if white plays the move, I think king G3 is the cleanest.

21:33 Let's say black was king G7.

21:35 Now white should play the move bishop to E3, pressuring the knight.

21:38 Let's say we get king F7, rook to A7 check.

21:40 If the king comes forward, there's rook to H7, winning this pawn.

21:44 So king has to go back to stop the rook from sliding over to win this pawn.

21:47 And now here I believe that king to F3 sacking the pawn and going king to E4,

21:53 knight F4, king takes E5 and H5.

21:55 This should be a winning endgame here with the bishop and the rook just

21:59 going after the black king to checkmate it without knowing that this is winning.

22:02 Very very hard to go for and generally speaking the first assumption

22:07 is that with no pawns on the board this should be a draw.

22:09 But in fact here these knights the meme meme is part of the joke.

22:13 These knights are just not very good.

22:15 These knights are on the rim.

22:16 They're not super active.

22:17 And the the way the white should be winning

22:18 is let's say we get king f8 check king e8.

22:21 This top computer line you go check king d8.

22:23 And now you go king e6.

22:24 Black goes check.

22:25 You go king D6 here.

22:26 Black goes knight F6.

22:28 Go check.

22:28 King C8.

22:29 And here you play rook C7 check.

22:31 If black goes to D8, now you have the move rook to F7 check,

22:35 discovering the king and winning the pony on F6 in the game.

22:38 And when black goes for move king to B8 here, now you go check, king to A8.

22:42 And here you play the move rook to F7.

22:44 Let's say knight E4, king to C6, knight to let's say G6 for example.

22:49 Now you go bishop D4, stopping the check.

22:52 And these knights simply cannot get over to check the king.

22:54 And white is going to be checkmating the black

22:56 king in a couple of moves in this position.

22:58 And this also showcases the power of the dark square B that with these knights,

23:02 the knights can never eliminate this awesome bishop.

23:05 And that's why this would be winning.

23:07 Now again, that's a crazy long line.

23:10 Not super obvious.

23:11 And Jordan, I think incorrectly he trusts

23:13 his intuition that he's not winning after G4.

23:15 So he plays the move bishop to D2.

23:17 And this is an attempt to go for a study-like solution.

23:20 So Magnus takes with the F knight here.

23:22 Now if Magnus were to take with the H knight,

23:23 this would in fact be winning because after king to G3 here,

23:26 these knights get stuck.

23:27 If you move this one, you lose the knight.

23:29 So knights are kind of connected here.

23:31 They can't move away from each other.

23:32 And after say G5 and rook takes E5.

23:35 Let's say black plays king G6 for example.

23:38 Here you move the rook away.

23:39 If this knight ever goes, you take the knight and you're winning.

23:42 And if you move this one, you lose the knight.

23:43 So knights just are completely stuck.

23:45 They look nice, but they're just glued guarding each other.

23:48 So what will eventually happen is say you get king G7, rook B5, king G6.

23:51 And I believe at the right moment what you're going

23:53 to get here is that white's going to play the move H4.

23:56 If you take with the knight after takes takes takes, you win the game.

23:59 If black takes here with the pawn, you simply go king to F3.

24:03 And now after H3, you take the knight, black goes H2, rook B1, you win the game.

24:08 So nothing special there.

24:10 So very very very long messy line.

24:13 Instead, we got knight F takes G2, king G3.

24:16 Magnus plays E4.

24:17 We get rook a7 here.

24:18 At this point, it feels like the game should be a draw.

24:20 We get king G8, E3, takes, take, and the move king takes H4.

24:24 Now, here, this is a theoretical draw.

24:27 Black has a knight and two pawns versus a rook and one pawn.

24:30 This should be a draw.

24:31 Period.

24:31 Period.

24:32 And it's Magnus Carlson, the greatest endgame player of all time.

24:35 So, what's the big deal?

24:37 Magnus here plays king H7.

24:38 And this is still a draw, but if I were playing, I would go knight to D5.

24:42 Get this knight to F6 where it's guarded by the pawns.

24:44 Let's say white goes king G4.

24:46 Even a position like check, king f5 and knight h7 is draw.

24:49 I think even king h7 is also a draw.

24:51 This is just known theoretical draw.

24:53 Draw draw.

24:55 Period.

24:56 But Magnus instead plays move king h7.

24:58 We get the move rook to a5.

25:00 And now Magnus rather peculiarly plays move king g6.

25:03 Now it's still a draw after king g6 here.

25:06 But knight c4 would be a lot cleaner because after rook to d5 here,

25:09 now you go king g6, white can't go king

25:12 g4 because of check forking the king and the rook.

25:14 And after white plays move like king G3,

25:16 you're simply going to um black's going to go here.

25:18 King E6.

25:19 Rook D1.

25:19 Knight D6.

25:20 Black gets a knight back again with the knight near the pawns.

25:23 This is an easy draw.

25:24 But we get king G6.

25:26 Now rook E5 is played.

25:28 Knight F5.

25:28 Check here.

25:29 Knight C2 is apparently still a draw, but after check and king G4,

25:33 what's amazing about this position is that there is one move to draw the game.

25:36 Every other move loses here according to table bases,

25:39 which is the endgame database of known positions.

25:41 And that move is H5.

25:43 And the reason this is a draw is after king to f4 here,

25:46 black can actually play knight h6.

25:47 And this is apparently a draw even with one pawn each.

25:51 Very hard to go for.

25:52 But you can also play the move knight to h4 here.

25:54 And after check, king f7, rook to a6.

25:57 Actually, maybe it ends up the same thing.

25:58 You have to go check.

25:59 King G5, knight f8 takes.

26:00 And after the move knight to h7 with knight f6.

26:03 This is also a theoretical draw, but Magnus instead he plays knight d4.

26:08 He doesn't want to go into that end game.

26:09 So he assumes it's dangerous.

26:10 We get rook E4, knight D5, rook C4, and now we get the move king to H7.

26:15 Now the problem for black is the knight is kind of stuck here.

26:17 If you go knight D6, it's uh-oh, spaghettio, you lose the knight.

26:20 We get this rook C6, knight D4, rook D6,

26:23 knight B5, and now we get the move rook D7.

26:26 Now the computer says the winning variation is rook to D8.

26:29 So after king G6, you can now play the move rook D7.

26:32 And this knight is completely stuck.

26:34 If you go over now, white starts to bring the king close.

26:36 And after knight C3, white plays rook D3.

26:39 Let's say knight E4 check.

26:40 Rook check.

26:40 You go king E5.

26:41 And after king G6, knight G5 and the move rook

26:44 to A3, white's king is going to gobble these pawns.

26:46 And this is a technically winning endgame.

26:49 But Yordan plays rook D7.

26:50 Both players low on time.

26:52 Makes more sense, honestly.

26:53 Magnus goes knight C3.

26:54 And this is also very shocking to me to see,

26:56 which is that king G6 here would still be a draw.

26:59 I don't know what Magnus missed specifically.

27:01 Maybe thought king F4, king F6, and king E4,

27:03 and the king's getting super close to knight.

27:05 But in this position, black can simply play a move like G5 here.

27:08 start pushing the P and this should be a draw.

27:10 Now, I could obviously do 20 more minutes on this endame,

27:13 but it's going to take a lot of time and we want to see the conclusion.

27:17 So, we get rook D7.

27:18 Magnus plays knight C3, king F5, knight E2, rook E7.

27:22 This is a mistake here.

27:23 Apparently, rook to D3 is the winning move as this knight

27:26 really starts to run out of squares to jump to.

27:28 So, we So, after rook to E7 here, we got the move knight D4,

27:31 king F4, king G6, and now we got the move rook E4.

27:35 Now the the drawing line I believe here after um

27:38 or maybe it's not drawing but I believe in this position no

27:41 maybe it's still losing uh so there isn't a way

27:44 to draw um but this this requires a lot more precise knowledge.

27:49 So after king G6 rook E4 we get knight B5 black back same problem.

27:52 Knight C6 runs into a check and we'll notice here that it's

27:55 very similar to the previous position but there's one big difference.

27:58 At the start of this whole position after rook

28:00 C after rook E4 the king is on G4.

28:03 Whereas here in this position, the king is on F4.

28:05 It's one square closer to the center.

28:07 So this makes a big difference.

28:08 We get rook C4.

28:10 Magnus goes king H5.

28:11 And now we get the move king E5.

28:12 Now you might be thinking, well, rook C5 check.

28:14 Check the king.

28:15 When the knight, but black is G5,

28:16 counterchecking the white king and then moving the knight and saving the game.

28:20 So we get king E5.

28:22 G5.

28:22 King E6 is played here.

28:24 This is a big blunder from Jordan.

28:25 Rook C5.

28:26 Actually, rook C5 is is winning, but it forces us to get back to this position.

28:30 And then you have to go king D5 here.

28:32 And the winning line is very weird.

28:33 It's knight A3, rook C3, knight B1, you attack the knight.

28:36 Knight goes here, you attack the knight.

28:38 If it goes here after rook F2, the knight gets trapped.

28:41 No squares available.

28:42 So, black has to go knight D2.

28:43 And now you play rook F2, knight to B1.

28:46 If black goes knight B3 here, you can play rook to B2.

28:49 And after knight A5, rook B5, knight gets stuck here.

28:52 No squares available as the rook and the king cover the critical squares.

28:56 So, this this line is apparently winning.

28:59 I think after knight d2 just to just for posterity sake it goes knight b1

29:02 you're supposed to play rook b2 knight c3 I think king d4 knight a4 rook

29:06 b4 wins the knight knight d1 rook d2 also wins this knight as the squares

29:10 get covered so it's a very very long lengthy line I think knight a3 supposed

29:14 to play rook b3 knight c2 and then king e4 to go king d3

29:17 to trap the knight this is all winning but with seconds on the clock even

29:21 even even for us top humans this is way too difficult to play so instead

29:25 we get the move king e6 now plays knight a3 we get rook d4 4,

29:29 knight B5, rook to D3.

29:30 And at this point, after Magnus played king to H4,

29:33 I was sure the game was going to be a draw.

29:35 Black is pushing P.

29:36 You just push some pawns, make an easy draw.

29:38 Right.

29:38 The main point about this, if white goes king D7,

29:41 trying to go after the pony here.

29:42 Now, black can sack the pony with G4.

29:44 And after takes, takes takes B3 or G3,

29:47 I should say, the black king and pawn are too close.

29:49 King H3, king C4, G2, king H3, king H2.

29:53 Black queens.

29:54 Game's going to end in a draw.

29:56 So, I sure would be a draw here.

29:58 So we get king to E5.

29:59 And now Magnus plays move H5.

30:01 Here Jordan goes rook to B3.

30:03 And now Magnus plays knight A7.

30:05 We get rook to C3.

30:07 Knight to B5.

30:08 Rook C5.

30:09 And here Magnus blunders with this move knight to A3.

30:12 Now the drawing move here would be knight to A7 back.

30:15 If rook A5, there's knight C6 to fork.

30:17 And if rook C7, you simply reach the same position here.

30:20 And after king to E4, there are many ways for black to draw,

30:22 but probably cleanest is to take the pawn.

30:25 Play H4.

30:26 And after rook to C5, king G4,

30:27 the knight is still boxed in here whereas has no squares available,

30:31 but you have this pawn that you're going to push up the board.

30:33 So eventually, white's going to have to release the pony here.

30:36 Something like check, king H3, um something like this, for example.

30:40 And once you get the knight free and near the king, this is a theoretical draw.

30:44 So instead, we get the move knight to A3.

30:46 And now after king F5, once again, Yordan is winning this game.

30:50 We get knight B1 here.

30:51 This is maybe the last moment where No, not last moment.

30:54 There's one more moment.

30:55 And we get knight B1, rook C2, knight A3, rook B2 played here.

30:59 And now Magnus goes G4.

31:00 If you take, there's rook to B3, winning the pony.

31:03 And if you go knight C4, same thing.

31:05 Rook B4, which also wins the pony on the fourth rank.

31:08 So you get G4, takes, takes, king F4, king H5 played.

31:12 Jordan plays rook A2 here.

31:13 And this effectively throws away the win.

31:15 Now the winning line here would be to go back with king F5,

31:18 king H4, and plays move rook to G2.

31:21 After G3, white plays king F4.

31:23 And effectively what happens here is that the black knight is too far away.

31:26 If you go H3 and here for example,

31:28 I can play rook to D3 and this knight just can't get back.

31:31 If you go knight C7 for example, I go king F5 stopping the knight from jumping.

31:35 If you go knight to E8, now there's rook to D7 here.

31:38 The knight is simply going to get trapped and white will win the game.

31:41 But Yorn instead plays rook A2.

31:43 Magnus now goes knight C4, we get rook C2.

31:46 And here Magnus plays the total howler.

31:48 Knight to A3.

31:50 Now, knight to B6 here would draw the game for Magnus Carlson.

31:53 This would be a dead draw because now the knight is free.

31:56 It gets loose.

31:57 There's nothing to do.

31:58 But instead, we get knight to A3.

32:00 And the reason knight B6 is draw is after check.

32:01 King H4 check.

32:02 There's knight D5.

32:03 Let's just say king, let's just say king to E5, knight E3, knight G2.

32:07 And here the king and the knight are together.

32:09 They're safely safely at home.

32:11 And it's a draw.

32:11 But after knight to A3, now Jordan plays rook C3.

32:14 You can't go knight B5 because of rook C5 winning the knight.

32:18 You have to go knight B1.

32:19 And now after rook to D3, your pony dies.

32:21 The pony has no squares available.

32:23 Every square here that you can jump to, the knight gets captured.

32:27 And after king to H4, there's rook to D1 attacking the pony.

32:30 You move, you get checkmated.

32:32 And if you play, I don't know, king G6 takes king F6.

32:35 White simply brings the king over.

32:37 You can't get this knight out of jail.

32:38 You go back.

32:39 And now I'll play king to E3 and rook to B3.

32:42 King covers a square.

32:43 Rook covers the other two squares.

32:44 You lose the knight.

32:45 And with king and rook versus king, this is a very easy win.

32:48 So Bjorn gets a huge win here.

32:52 And this actually is kind of remarkable because this is

32:54 a game where Magnus was drawing easily in an endgame.

32:57 This is end game that I swear if you showed me this, I'd be like,

32:59 Magnus draws this endame in his sleep 99 times out of 100.

33:03 But this was the one time when Magnus does not draw it in his sleep.

33:06 And Yur continues to put little bits of pressure

33:08 on him and Magnus actually cracks and loses the game,

33:11 which is a rarity to see in endg games.

33:14 So for Yord an epic victory over Magnus, but as this is type of sigman,

33:18 there are a couple of other games we want to get to relatively quickly.

33:21 So the next game we have to cover is a game that's

33:23 played between Yagis Khan Erdomus from Turkey and Neils Grandalas from Sweden.

33:28 Now Neil's off to a bad start with three losses in the first

33:30 three games and Ardomus tied for the lead with one win and two draws.

33:34 So we get E4.

33:35 Neils plays E5.

33:37 We get a classic Spanish with bishop C5, C3, knight F6.

33:41 And now we get the move castles.

33:42 Neils castles.

33:43 We get D4, bishop B6, and here we get the move bishop G5,

33:47 pinning the pony on F6 to the queen on D8.

33:50 Now, you also have this big white center here,

33:52 so it's a tricky position to play.

33:54 We get the move H6, bishop H4, and now we get to move D6.

33:58 Erdomus plays A4.

34:00 And at this point, you'll notice that thus far,

34:02 the game is working out in Neil's favor.

34:04 His preparation is great.

34:05 He has not used any time.

34:07 Erdomus has already used 40 minutes thus far.

34:10 So, we get A5.

34:11 Erdomus plays queen C1.

34:12 Neiels goes queen E7.

34:14 We get rook E1.

34:15 We get trade, trade, trade.

34:16 And now we get the move queen to E6.

34:18 Now again, you can tell that black,

34:20 which is Neils Grandelis, is still in his preparation.

34:22 Erdomus is down to 36 minutes.

34:24 And it's a very, very tough position to play for both sides.

34:27 Now, black has the two B's here, but in return,

34:29 black has compromised pawns on C7 and C6.

34:32 And white also has this big white center.

34:36 So here, Arerdomus takes the pawn on C6.

34:38 Computer, I think, very slightly prefers knight D2 or knight A3.

34:41 Instead, we get takes bishop B7, queen C2, and here Neils plays move G5.

34:46 Now, up to this point, it's clear that Grandalius in his preparation,

34:49 whereas Erdomus is simply playing over the board, down an hour on the clock.

34:53 You figure this should give Neils good chances to not lose this game.

34:56 So, we get G5, bishop G3, knight to H5.

34:59 Erdomus plays E5.

35:01 We got the trade, and now we got the move pawn to G4.

35:04 Now, here Ardomus takes the pawn on D6.

35:06 And Neils correctly plays move queen G6.

35:09 Now, you'll notice here that that at this moment, Neil's in prep,

35:12 but he spent so much time on the next four moves.

35:15 And this comes back to what I was

35:16 saying in the Magnus game about double-edged swords,

35:18 as we saw in the candidates, where preparation is very tricky because if

35:21 you know exactly what to do, it's great,

35:22 but as soon as you're on your own, it's very easy to make some mistakes.

35:26 So, Neil here plays queen G6.

35:28 And this is a top computer move.

35:30 I'm going to be honest, as a human,

35:31 I would have preferred queen takes D6 because after knight E5,

35:34 it feels like bishop takes D4 or rook A D8 are much easier

35:37 positions to play than what we see in the game because after queen G6,

35:41 once you play this move,

35:42 you better be a 3500 Stockfish if you want to save the game.

35:45 We got the trade knight E5, bishop takes D4, takes the bishop on D7,

35:50 we get rook takes F2, and now we got the move rook E4.

35:53 Now, here Niels plays the move rook to F4.

35:56 And this is why I talk about positions that are easy for humans to play

35:59 and why the eval bar is such a such a fickle fickle thing in this position.

36:03 The best move according to the computer is to play bishop

36:05 to A7 and after white moves the king out of the way.

36:08 Let's say rook to F1.

36:09 It looks like white is simply up a knight here and winning the game.

36:12 But computer says you check if king back you simply make a draw.

36:15 So white runs up and now you play this move bishop to C5 here

36:19 threatening to checkmate the white king

36:20 on the edge like knight takes bishop rook H1.

36:22 King has no escape square.

36:24 So you go bishop C5 and after rook G6 you go king H7

36:27 rook E6 and now after the very calm move bishop takes D6 you're down

36:31 a piece here but due to the activity of the rook coming to G8

36:34 rook coming to H1 the pin on the back rank black is completely fine.

36:39 Now again if you're a 3500 stockfish it's very easy to play this without

36:43 being 3500 it's so difficult to find this line because you're down a piece

36:46 here and you see basically where you stop is you probably see this position

36:50 after um after check king H3 that white's going to play rook G6.

36:53 There's no immediate way to checkmate the king.

36:55 You figure you're down a piece and you're going to lose the game.

36:57 So without being able to see this idea with bishop A7, bishop G1 and everything,

37:02 this position is simply too hard to play.

37:03 And Neils now makes a mistake.

37:05 He plays rook to F4 creating the fossil.

37:07 You attack the rook and check the king.

37:09 We get rook takes bishop sacking the rook takes.

37:12 And now we get the move knight C3.

37:14 Now this position is still probably defendable for black.

37:17 If you play rook takes pawn here, but after rook takes,

37:19 Neil's probably on knight to E4 and we see D's knight starting to jump and fork.

37:23 If you take, there's a classic fork of the king and the rook here.

37:26 If you play rook to E6,

37:27 now white can play something like king to F2 because if takes,

37:30 there's this opposite fork.

37:31 And with the king and these knights combining in the middle of the board,

37:34 it looks like white should be winning.

37:36 computer says after rook E7, knight to C5 and a move like rook D8 here

37:39 with the two towers in the middle of the board.

37:41 Apparently, this is still completely fine for black,

37:44 but very very hard to play because you probably see move like B4.

37:46 And if you take after A5, white has knights that are connected to each other.

37:50 White's pushing P and it feels like white should be winning.

37:54 So very very hard to find this.

37:55 So Neil instead takes with the pawn

37:57 trying to trap this knight behind enemy lines.

38:00 But but Erdomus is simply too good and he

38:02 finds the best move which is a winning move.

38:04 Knight to D5 here jumping with the knight to the center.

38:07 If you take there's a fork of the king and the rook and you lose the game.

38:10 So now with this great knight here which is going to become a bash

38:13 with the knight jumping the rook coming to E1 or F1 and infiltration here.

38:17 These knights win the game for Adomus.

38:19 Unlike Magnus where these knights actually lost in the game.

38:22 So here we get the move H5 from Neil's trying

38:24 to guard the pawns on the king side against the forks.

38:26 We get rook to E1 here.

38:28 And now Neils plays king H7.

38:30 We get knight to F4.

38:32 Rook to E7 is also possible.

38:34 But but Ardomus figures bring this knight, target the pawns on the edge.

38:37 You still have rook E7.

38:38 You still have rook E6 here.

38:39 And it's just a miserable miserable position to play for black.

38:42 So Neils goes rook to C8 here.

38:44 Apparently rook takes A4 is a top computer move.

38:47 And after knight B6 trying to fork these rooks, you can sack the rook.

38:50 And I guess here after knight takes A8 and rook B4,

38:53 maybe there's a small glimmer of hope that black can save the game.

38:56 But instead we get rook to C8.

38:58 And now Erdomus plays king to H2 dodging any

39:00 weird stuff on the C or the D files.

39:02 Now with the knights and the rook combining here, this is just GG.

39:05 Why not?

39:06 So we get rook to C2.

39:08 Here we get rook to E7, king to H6.

39:10 And now after knight to F6,

39:12 Neils plays rook to D1 here trying to desperately survive,

39:15 but we get the move knight to E6 here.

39:18 Now with D's knights, it's black king is getting checkmated.

39:20 If you check, king gets out, but the knight covers the square.

39:23 So rook H7 is mate.

39:24 We get G5.

39:25 And now after knight to f8, Neiels resigns the game here because there

39:28 are two checkmates that are unstoppable if you

39:30 play a move like rook c1 that not only is there rook h7 which is checkmate.

39:34 But there's also knight to g8 checkmating the king.

39:37 King can't escape and these knights mate.

39:39 So this mate is almost unstoppable.

39:41 The only way to stop it is to play h4.

39:43 But then I go rook to h7.

39:44 King can't escape and it's checkmate.

39:46 Which is why Neils resigns this game here after knight after knight to f8.

39:50 And Ardomus now I believe takes the sole lead in the tournament

39:54 with two wins and two draws in the first four games.

39:57 So a great game from Arerdom from start to finish.

40:00 He was down an hour on the clock but he shows great resourcefulness.

40:03 Just plays amazing amazing stuff.

40:05 Finds knight to D5 and really really really high quality top-notch stuff.

40:10 And our do is showing that of course he belongs to be

40:12 in this 2700 plus elite club even though he is all of 14 years old.

40:18 Okay.

40:18 Now, I might have run through that game relatively quickly.

40:20 I do apologize if I miss some of the finer points.

40:23 But the reason we are doing that is because we have

40:25 a third game that we're going to cover in this video,

40:27 which is the game between Zujaneire from China,

40:30 who's the currently the number four ranked female player in the world,

40:33 and Andy Woodward from the United States,

40:35 one of the co-leaders going into this round.

40:37 Now, Zujaneire is off to a terrible start as well.

40:39 She has one draw in her first three games.

40:41 She got a draw against Jordan Vanforest, but she has two losses.

40:44 yesterday was a very tough loss against Erdomas,

40:46 but she has double whites against the young American junior player.

40:50 So, we get the move E4.

40:52 Andy plays C5.

40:53 And once again, we're going to get

40:55 a classic Najdorf Sicilian defense to in this game.

40:58 Same as the Magnus game against Boris.

41:01 Now, here we get to move bishop to D3.

41:03 And speaking of my own story time and old stories,

41:06 I remember all the way back, I believe in 2015, if I'm not mistaken,

41:09 this bishop D3 system was pretty rare until a player

41:12 by the name of Hikaru Nakmur started playing it.

41:15 He had a very, very nice victory over Maximus Vashier LRAV in Norway chess.

41:19 It was 15 or 16, so if I have the year wrong, I apologize.

41:22 But after I played that game, this system became extremely popular.

41:26 So we got the move E5.

41:27 Knight D to E2 is played.

41:29 We get knight C6 from Andy castles.

41:31 And now we get the move bishop to E6 here.

41:33 Zujaneire plays king to H1.

41:35 The idea is to play F4, but you potentially want to avoid any

41:38 weird stuff happening on this long diagonal.

41:41 So we get the king H1.

41:42 Andy goes rook C8.

41:43 We get F4.

41:44 Andy plays bishop takes D5.

41:46 And this actually shows that Andy is out of preparation.

41:49 I don't know if it's because he he just played the knight

41:51 more on the fly or he wasn't ready for bishop D3,

41:53 but he goes wrong very quickly with this move.

41:55 Bishop D5.

41:56 Now again, back to the point I was saying about preparation.

41:59 First move out of preparation for Andy 25 minutes and it's

42:02 a big big mistake here and white is now much better.

42:05 And this is why preparation is so tricky.

42:07 As I've already said a hundred times in this video

42:10 in this position I believe knight takes takes bishop d5

42:13 and f4 is a very very sharp theoretical line where if

42:16 you don't know what you're doing it goes on and on.

42:18 After g6 I think there's there's either knight c3 or c4.

42:21 Computer says computer is changing its mind but let's just say knight c3 and f5.

42:25 And black is up a pawn but white has a lot of great squares for the knight.

42:28 You can also play queen H5 here.

42:30 F5.

42:31 Very, very exciting position with a lot of play for both sides.

42:34 So instead, we get takes.

42:35 And now Andy plays knight B4.

42:37 This is a mistake as well.

42:38 If you were to take the pawn, there's bishop F5 creating the fossil.

42:41 You attack the rook and the knight at the same time.

42:43 You move the knight, you lose the rook.

42:45 You move the rook, you lose the knight.

42:46 GG.

42:47 Why not?

42:48 Now, knight to B8 is the best move.

42:50 And after, let's just say C4, for example.

42:52 White is much better in this position,

42:54 but with even material and no clear-cut way for white to prove an advantage,

42:57 the game will go on.

42:58 And I I I do wonder what would have

43:00 happened if Andy had played a move like knight B8,

43:02 but instead he goes for the move knight B4.

43:04 And this is an all-in move.

43:05 Either black is going to win this pawn on D5 and be doing very well,

43:09 or you're not going to win the pawn, and your knight's probably going to get

43:11 trapped and you're going to lose the game.

43:13 So, we get bishop F5.

43:14 Andy plays rook C7.

43:15 Computer here already, I think, says you should sack the rook and play

43:18 this position with a knight and pawn for the rook, similar to the Magnus game.

43:22 We get rook C7 instead.

43:24 And now Zujaneire plays knight C3 guarding the pawn on D5.

43:28 And already here, black has a lot of problems because after we get bishop to H3,

43:32 if you play bishop G7, white simply plays A3.

43:34 And now if knight goes back, you lose knight.

43:36 If you take on D5, you're simply going to be

43:38 down a piece here and white will win the game.

43:40 So already it's very very critical.

43:42 And you can tell from the valuation

43:43 bar that white is actually already just winning.

43:46 So Andy plays rook C4.

43:47 a desperation move here because now if white

43:49 plays A3, you rook to D4 attacking the queen.

43:53 Queen goes, you take the pawn and now you're back in business.

43:55 Now, what's funny is even this line with an extra pawn,

43:58 computer says after takes and I think uh

44:00 G3 apparently white's also much much better here.

44:03 Your rook in the middle of the board is under serious pressure getting trapped.

44:06 So, it's very hard to play.

44:08 But Zujaneire doesn't play it.

44:09 She actually finds the absolute best move in this position,

44:11 which shows that even though she's having a bad tournament,

44:14 she's still a very, very dangerous player.

44:15 and she plays this move F4 here.

44:17 Now, the reason this move is the best move is that if black plays bishop G7.

44:21 Now, you can trade the pawns and go queen E2, hitting the pawn and the rook.

44:25 Black does not not have time to castle.

44:27 She'd lose the rook.

44:27 And after rook C7, bishop G5, the pawns weak,

44:30 there's a pin here in the middle of the board.

44:32 It's just a total disaster and white will win the game very soon.

44:35 So, Andy goes E4.

44:37 Now, Zujaneire plays A3.

44:39 Andy sacks the rook with rook takes knight.

44:41 We get takes takes.

44:42 And here we get the move C4.

44:43 Andy drops knight back.

44:45 But after Zujaneire plays rook B1

44:47 with the pressure on the pawn, this diagonal here,

44:50 the fact that black has not finished the development at this point,

44:52 barring a big error, Zujaneire will pick up her first win in the tournament.

44:57 So we get bishop G7, rook takes B7 played by Zujaneire.

45:01 Andy castles trying to keep the game going.

45:03 And now we get the move bishop to B2,

45:05 developing the bishop and putting it on this long diagonal.

45:08 Andy goes knight C6.

45:09 And here Zujaneire gives up the bishop pair by taking the knight and after takes

45:14 and queen D5 with both the knight and the pawn on pre at this point Zujaneire

45:18 should win this game every time you get the move knight D8 rook B3 rook E8

45:22 and now we get the move rook to E3 putting pressure on the pawn on E4.

45:26 Now here Andy plays move queen B2.

45:28 Queen D4 is the best move.

45:30 But after rook to E1 putting even more pressure on this pawn after takes

45:33 takes F5 and G4 you have to go bishop D4 rook E2 and something

45:37 like rook to F8 to guard this pawn but after takes takes rook G2

45:41 king H8 and I think rook G5 going after this pawn black should lose.

45:46 So Andy goes queen B2 but we get rook takes pawn takes

45:49 takes and now with no pawns in the center of the board

45:52 just a clean rook for a knight here the activity

45:54 on the open E file there's no way back for Andy Woodward.

45:57 So Andy Woodward goes bishop f6.

45:59 We get queen to d3 here guarding both the pawns.

46:02 Pawn to a5.

46:03 Queen takes d6.

46:04 King g7.

46:05 And now we get the move g4 trying

46:07 to go after the bishop and this whole diagonal.

46:09 H6 gets played.

46:10 We got bishop to g2.

46:12 Andy plays queen to c3.

46:14 We got queen d3.

46:14 Queen b2.

46:15 And now we get to move pawn to f5.

46:17 Andy plays g5.

46:18 We get c5 here.

46:20 And now with a dead pony on the back rank,

46:22 which maybe is a theme of today's games.

46:24 Knight can't jump to any of these squares

46:25 here because of bishop covers these squares.

46:27 Pawn covers this square.

46:28 White's simply pushing the P.

46:30 Andy plays queen E5, C6, bishop E7, queen to E4, queen C5.

46:35 And now Zujaneer finishes in style.

46:37 She sacks the queen with queen takes bishop.

46:40 And here Andy Woodward resigns because after takes,

46:42 white plays F6, forking the king and the queen.

46:45 You have to take and after takes takes, white goes C7.

46:48 Here the pawn is rolling up the board.

46:50 White pushes the P.

46:51 You promote to a new queen.

46:52 Extra queen on the board.

46:53 No chance for black to survive.

46:55 So Zujaneir picks up a very very big win in the fourth round of this tournament.

47:00 Her first win of the tournament.

47:01 Very very nice to see her come back after the tough loss yesterday to Ardomomas.

47:05 For Andy, I think this will be a very good learning.

47:07 This will be a good opportunity to learn in that you need to be you need

47:11 to you need to basically pick your moments when

47:13 to take huge risks and when not to take

47:15 huge risks because my view is that he tried to be very aggressive in this game

47:18 cuz Zujaneir was having a bad tournament and he

47:20 gets punished very very severely for underestimating her.

47:24 So three very exciting very decisive games.

47:26 Of course the Jordan game is the big game of the day

47:29 but still Erdomis is now the leader of the tournament.

47:31 I think Erdomis and Magnus are slated still have not played.

47:34 So that's going to be a very very big game in terms of the tournament standings,

47:36 but big wins for Jordan Yiz, big win for Zujaneire.

47:40 So three exciting games.

47:41 I believe the fourth game of the day between

47:42 Argent was the only peaceful game with a drop.

47:45 So three decisive games, really exciting to recap.

47:48 Sorry if the Magnets game ran a little bit

47:50 long and was really dank in terms of the analysis.

47:52 But at any rate, I hope you guys enjoyed this recap

47:54 from the fourth round of the TPA segment tournament being held in Malmo, Sweden.

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