When Magnus Carlsen Gets Angry. Run.

0:00 Ladies and gentlemen,

0:01 welcome back to the 2026 Tepe Sigman tournament being held in Sweden.

0:06 It's a seven round tournament.

0:08 And what makes it really exciting is

0:10 the fact that Magnus Carlson is participating.

0:15 And in the fourth round, Magnus Carlson lost, which not many of us expected.

0:20 He lost to the Dutch Grandmaster Yordan Vanforest.

0:23 And well, in this video, I will be showing you two more rounds of action.

0:28 Uh, and it's been an action-packed tournament.

0:30 Uh, Magnus Carlson looking dicey, but always exciting uh when the goat uh

0:36 gets punched in the mouth in a chess tournament,

0:38 which uh has yet to happen literally,

0:42 but metaphorically uh it is quite exciting when uh

0:46 he loses because almost in a completely scripted manner

0:51 uh he then proceeds to make a resurgence

0:54 and that is exactly what I will be showing you today.

0:56 Uh first in this fifth round game against the uh Chinese Grandmaster Drew Jiner,

1:02 uh Magnus with the white pieces went for a ready and after

1:07 D5 uh let me unmute this so we can hear the clicks.

1:12 Went G3.

1:13 So he went for uh standard setup.

1:16 Black played black has many lines uh in the ready.

1:19 She chose D5 and C5.

1:22 And then she's going to try to play knight C6.

1:24 And then black can either go for a full storming

1:26 of the center or play like uh she did which is G6.

1:30 And now Magnus has a big decision to make.

1:33 Either white goes for C4, D4 or D3.

1:37 One of these moves.

1:38 You have to commit to the pawn structure.

1:40 And if you go for D3, then you're probably going to go for E4.

1:43 So you have to decide which of the pawns you're going to push.

1:46 Uh and then ultimately which of the next pawns you are going to push.

1:49 So D3 is the move.

1:51 She goes bishop G7, knight BD2, knight C6, E4 and castles.

1:55 Black has a very very normal position.

1:58 D and C pawns came forward together.

2:00 You could push and then you could advance like

2:01 this and then the position is is a Kings Indian.

2:04 I mean that's basically what we are playing.

2:06 Um it also actually technically resembles a Sicilian defense.

2:10 It just looks like white played a weird sideline of a Sicilian.

2:14 So you you get Kings Indian structure vibes,

2:16 you get um Kings Indian attack structure vibes,

2:19 you get Sicilian type of vibes, you get all these different vibes.

2:23 Uh Magnus goes rook E1.

2:24 Uh she locks the position and now white can play this move knight to C4.

2:29 Uh this move prevents black from playing E5 completely.

2:33 Uh but then you will be subjected to black playing B5.

2:36 So you don't actually get all of your pieces

2:38 uh to all the squares that you want.

2:40 Magnus ends up playing E5 himself and then goes for this move A4.

2:44 So this prevents B5 and it enables knight

2:47 C4 when you will completely control the position.

2:50 But it also gives up the B4

2:51 square to one of the potential corresponding knights.

2:54 She plays H6 very flexible move.

2:56 Uh now white will not ever put anything over here.

2:59 Black can also play king H7 which is just kind

3:01 of like vaguely a useful move almost all the time.

3:04 uh because there are lines where you want to move your F pawn and then if you do

3:08 that your G pawn is weak and then maybe

3:10 on this diagonal your king is you know subjected to some stuff.

3:13 So H6 is played.

3:14 Knight C4, bishop E6, and Magnus plays bishop D2,

3:17 developing his last minor piece.

3:19 Now again, for another game in this tournament,

3:21 Magnus Carlson is losing on the clock.

3:23 He's down on time.

3:25 Now here, uh, black played knight B6, looking to trade the knight.

3:29 Uh, apparently the best move here was knight A5.

3:32 Uh, B3 is also a possibility.

3:34 That is what Magnus chooses,

3:35 looking to recapture and reestablish some control in the center of the board.

3:40 Uh, but she just goes immediately back to D5.

3:42 Now B3, knight D5 is almost like a it's kind of like a juke out.

3:47 Like basically black is like I want to trade

3:49 and then when you go here you weaken the C3 square.

3:51 And since pawns don't go backwards, I basically play the same move.

3:55 And now it's like white got an extra turn but had to play this move B3.

3:59 And it's not clear whether or not this is a good thing or not.

4:01 Uh, queen C7 is natural.

4:03 Black will simply play king H7.

4:05 The computer still likes that.

4:06 And then it likes the knight going to H4 and white playing F4.

4:09 I mean, the computer is just looking

4:10 for all the resources to plug into the position.

4:13 Magnus plays knight H4 straight away,

4:16 and his logic for playing this move was, well,

4:18 he's he's baiting Drew Jer into playing the move G5,

4:22 advancing a pawn in front of her own king, attacking the knight.

4:25 And then his knight would move back to F3.

4:27 And Magnus is saying, well,

4:28 I did kind of to you what you did to me, only I did it better.

4:31 Except he didn't do it better.

4:32 This is actually just bad, apparently.

4:34 In fact, this has only helped black.

4:36 It has helped restrict the knight.

4:37 It has helped restrict the dark squareed bishop.

4:39 Uh yeah, it actually hasn't done any favors according to the machine.

4:42 And after queen D7, black is just doing very well.

4:45 Magnus thinks for some time,

4:47 plays H4 and forces black to commit two more pawns forward,

4:50 which is certainly a way to play.

4:51 Like out of nowhere,

4:52 the pawns went from G6 H6 to H5 G4, which is severely advanced.

4:57 But the problem is that because of this severe advancement,

4:59 you cannot actually reenter the game at all with the knight.

5:02 Like it it has no way back.

5:03 The only way Magnus is going to get out of this position is to play the move F3.

5:06 He's going to have to try to break apart the structure.

5:08 And apparently, if you look at the Stockfish lines here after F5,

5:12 after F7, F5, black uh is really really thrilled with the position.

5:16 White is very, very restricted.

5:18 But it's a messy position against the best player in the world.

5:20 So, you have to maintain your nerves here.

5:22 He plays queen C1, and she does in fact play F6.

5:24 Magnus plays bishop H6.

5:26 In some respects, playing f5 would have been more forcing because f5 if

5:33 you don't take me on pant immediately allows me to then play f4.

5:38 So for example, if f5 was played,

5:40 there would be no bishop to h6 because after bishop h6 and queen h6,

5:46 uh, black can play rook f7 and be very close to advancing this pawn to f4.

5:50 And if that pawn gets to f4, okay, you can take this pawn.

5:53 Uh, but I have rook h7.

5:54 If you check me, I play king H8 and then I'm going

5:56 to get both my rooks over and I'm going to start my attack.

5:58 At some point, I will probably use my F pawn.

6:00 And even if I don't,

6:01 your knight and bishop and all these pieces are totally stuck.

6:04 In the game itself, she went F6.

6:06 And this allowed Magnus a little bit more

6:09 time to conjure up some sort of counterplay.

6:11 He went for F3.

6:12 And this is the last moment.

6:13 The computer's screaming for F5 here, saying,

6:15 "If you lock up this position and you don't allow Magnus to open things up,

6:20 it's minus one." Now, minus one is not really fair.

6:25 It's minus one with without a single trade, I'm pretty sure.

6:29 So, yeah, it's the 20th move of the game and no trades have happened.

6:34 Both bishops, both knights, both rooks, all the pawns.

6:37 Very complicated.

6:38 Uh, she went bishop H8 a H8.

6:40 She refused the trade of the dark squareed bishops.

6:43 And she now was like, well, this bishop is kind of useless.

6:46 You're not going to have an opportunity to attack me.

6:47 But now the position opens up a little bit.

6:49 So we have pawn takes, bishop takes, pawn takes, pawn takes.

6:52 Two pawn trades.

6:53 This makes things a little bit easier.

6:55 Now maybe we are unclogging the position.

6:57 Bishop to E4 is apparently a very good move here.

6:59 But the clock situation is being managed fantastic by black.

7:02 300point underdog by the way.

7:04 So we have bishop to G5.

7:05 All right.

7:06 She plays bishop H8.

7:07 Again, refusing the trade.

7:08 The position is unbelievably messy.

7:09 I mean, if you look at these lines, it's like bishop here or A5.

7:13 How can two moves on the complete opposite sides of the board both be good?

7:16 Basically, it's like a stable situation where the setter is so locked.

7:20 There's really not a lot of forward progress.

7:22 Black might try to bring the second rook.

7:23 White could try to instigate on the queen side.

7:25 Super messy.

7:26 But they only have 10 minutes.

7:27 They have to make some sort of decision.

7:28 Knight to F1.

7:29 She jumps the knight into C3, the square that she weakened a long time ago.

7:33 And uh and uh and you know, controlling uh key squares.

7:37 Uh now white plays knight to D2.

7:39 And apparently black is better again after the move bishop

7:42 d5 trying to trade off the lone protector of the king.

7:45 Knight goes to E4.

7:46 And now Jujin here, she needed to have

7:49 a little bit more experience watching my content.

7:52 We know other players like Fabiano, probably Magnus,

7:54 you know, no, they watch my content.

7:57 Apparently the move here for a major advantage,

7:59 an absolutely gangster move is rook to F3.

8:05 The threat being you take the knight and then you take on G3.

8:09 It's basically just trying to target this uh this very weak pawn.

8:12 And yeah, apparently if you give away the the rook for the bishop,

8:15 you have this queen infiltration.

8:17 You have the backup of the rook and this pawn landing here,

8:20 covering the king's square and two squares

8:21 away from queening is a major problem.

8:23 I mean, if you play rook f3,

8:25 there will be an anti-cheing drug test for you when the game is over.

8:29 Rook f3 is just lunacy.

8:31 Uh she of course takes on e4, which is much more normal and plays like this.

8:34 Magnus now with an attack against the king,

8:36 but the rook sacrifice anyway defending because after bishop G7,

8:40 there's queen takes G3.

8:42 I mean, it looks like white's king should be mated here,

8:44 but he's just barely defending himself.

8:46 Now we have bishop takes G7.

8:48 The king goes to H1.

8:49 Rook F2, a move away from checkmate.

8:51 Magnus Carlson with 50 seconds on the clock defends it.

8:55 And here the only way to continue the game,

8:58 the only way simply unfindable if you ask me is king f8.

9:05 You have to remove your king from the pin because there are some positions

9:11 where you need to move the bishop and uh and it's the most useful move.

9:15 You cannot move the queen, the rook, the knight, the knight, the bishop.

9:18 King F8 is apparently the move.

9:20 Uh I don't even know how you can go about explaining this to somebody.

9:24 Uh, she goes E6, which is also very reasonable.

9:27 Magnus now brings the second rook and you

9:28 needed your king on F8 already apparently.

9:32 Uh, and that was the only way because, you know,

9:33 your bishop could maybe go to F6 and other pieces could go to F6.

9:36 She plays knight E2.

9:37 It's looking very, very likely that here you're going to win because rook F1.

9:41 There is knight to G3 check.

9:42 The rook goes to A1.

9:43 But now is the final moment.

9:45 You have to apparently only play the move king to F8 because

9:49 you are trying to put the bishop on F6 and get this pawn.

9:53 You you have to activate the bishop.

9:54 And the only way to do it, you have to go to H.

9:56 It's the F file.

9:57 You cannot go to the H file.

9:58 It is so unhuman to put your king and queen

10:01 on the same file like this with this brewing everywhere.

10:03 Knight G3 check is the move chosen.

10:05 And now Magnus is winning.

10:07 Now the attack is over because neither the knight nor

10:09 the bishop can join the party because the bishop is pinned.

10:12 You had to play king F8.

10:13 It was extremely close.

10:15 It was extremely tense.

10:16 But Magnus finishes the job here.

10:18 Rook G2 isn't coming.

10:19 Bishop F5 is there.

10:20 Queen G7 mate.

10:21 Black just ran out of steam.

10:22 she just didn't have the mobility of the pieces uh to counter white's position.

10:26 Uh and it yeah and actually after this game Magnus was really disappointed.

10:29 He was like she outplayed me for the majority of the game.

10:31 He was very complimentary uh towards Juju Jiner and it was crazy booting up

10:35 this game like black had an advantage for 80% of it but Magnus made it scrappy.

10:39 He made it a dirty a dirty fight and uh and and he got it done.

10:42 I mean these positions minus one is is nothing.

10:45 I mean being down a goal in a Champions League is is that's minus one.

10:49 Uh but uh yeah this situation this is not minus one.

10:53 Very different situation uh if you ask me.

10:57 So um on that note uh I will show you his next game

11:01 uh because uh Magnus played in the sixth

11:04 round against the superstar Andy Woodward.

11:06 Andy uh Magnus had the black pieces and he

11:09 opted for a Kings Indian defense uh which is awesome.

11:12 Bishop E2, bishop E3.

11:14 Uh, and uh, you know,

11:16 there's a bajillion lines that you can play with white against the uh,

11:20 against the Kings Indian defense.

11:22 There's H3, H4, G3, F3, F4, four pawns attack,

11:25 knight F3, bishop E2 is the main line.

11:27 All the different places you can put this bishop.

11:30 Um, I'm probably forgetting some knight E2.

11:33 The sameish variation.

11:34 He goes for the double bishop, which I actually used to play myself.

11:38 Uh, and the idea, there's actually very quick attacking ideas with H4 and G4.

11:41 Highly recommend the system, by the way.

11:43 Uh if you are looking for a line, Magnus went A5.

11:46 This is not a move that I faced very often

11:48 when I used to play this line with the white side.

11:50 Now knight f3 and now we have the green light and we play knight to g4.

11:54 So he deliberately plays a weird Kings Indian.

11:57 Uh Andy goes here.

11:58 Magnus kicks out his bishop and Andy puts the bishop on the home square.

12:03 If you are watching this and you are lowrated

12:05 or if you are watching this and you're a child,

12:07 do not play like if you are watching this and you're just a human being,

12:10 don't play like this.

12:12 This this is too complicated stuff.

12:14 How can I possibly explain bishop E3, bishop G5,

12:17 bishop C1, A5, H6, knight G4 to a person.

12:20 Essentially, white is saying that the way that black played

12:22 this was a little bit stupid and that, you know,

12:26 you can't take these pawn moves back, but I can take my bishop back.

12:29 And then we continue with the game.

12:30 Magnus plays E5, a very normal move in Kings Indian positions.

12:35 And now, rather than developing his knight or his light squareed bishop,

12:38 he just brings the knight back to F6.

12:40 Um, now granted he has he's down again 20 minutes on the clock.

12:44 He is completely improvising in the opening.

12:46 He is using what he knows about chess combined with some analysis

12:49 that he might have done and he's trying to make decisions like that.

12:53 Uh, white plays bishop to E3 back and Magnus

12:55 plays knight G4 and Andy goes back to C1.

12:57 So Andy is essentially offering him a draw.

12:59 Andy saying if you go back to F6, uh, I will be,

13:02 you know, I, we're kind of playing a game of cat and mouse here.

13:05 Magnus thinks for three minutes he's never in a million years making a draw.

13:08 Plays knight D7.

13:09 Knight D7 uh is a move uh that is designed to do the opposite of knight C6.

13:14 If knight C6 had been played, you know, white can always attack the knight.

13:17 There's a lot of different places this knight could end up going.

13:19 But knight D7 will go to a completely different complex of squares.

13:23 So Andy goes H3 and Magnus goes back with the knight to F6 and Andy

13:27 once again plays bishop to A3 and now there is no knight to G4.

13:31 Magnus chops in the middle.

13:32 That is why he put his knight on D7 because

13:34 now his knight has a selection of squares to go to.

13:36 It goes here.

13:37 Andy goes here.

13:38 And now we have knight to H5.

13:39 Again, how do I possibly explain this to you guys?

13:41 The knight goes to F6 to F6 to G4 to F6 to G4 to F6 to H5.

13:47 And black is trying to infiltrate along the dark squares.

13:50 All these pawns are on light squares.

13:52 Uh targeting the middle here.

13:53 Rook E8 F5 is always an idea.

13:54 Bishop D7 is going to be played.

13:56 Very useful move.

13:57 C6 could be played.

13:58 Uh Andy plays queen D2.

14:00 G5 is the move that Magnus opts for.

14:02 So kind of similar to the jujian game with h6 t6

14:05 g5 except the I mean completely different structure of the pawns right.

14:09 Uh so um now we have bishop to d1.

14:12 Magnus plays bishop e6.

14:14 He's allowing the bishop to be captured.

14:15 He's attacking the pawn on c4 and Andy plays b3

14:18 and basically Magnus will now have to play a4 breakin over here.

14:22 It's a little bit too risky to play on this side of the board.

14:24 White is very well protected there.

14:26 Uh f5 is reasonable but at the end of the line I think you just lose the game.

14:29 We trade everything.

14:30 then I fork your rook and your knight.

14:32 So that wouldn't work.

14:33 Uh so A4 is the move he chooses.

14:35 And around here I was thinking, well this is not looking very promising

14:39 for Magnus because the A file is controlled.

14:41 Now when the rook goes over here and controls the A file,

14:44 it does kind of leave the king.

14:46 The problem is that even if you play a move like

14:48 this, you are never going to accomplish anything on the king side, right?

14:50 I mean Magnus is not going to land the queen on H2.

14:53 There is quite literally no possible way to get there.

14:56 Uh but you know, you can play G4, HG, and then queen H4.

14:59 And even that doesn't do anything.

15:01 Even if what black got the queen to H2,

15:03 if this knight was lost in the battle, uh there would be nothing here, right?

15:07 One would think.

15:08 Rook A7.

15:09 So Andy is basically saying, Magnus, if you try to attack me,

15:12 I will start countering you on the queen side, and I will win all of your pawns.

15:15 C6 is the move chosen, preventing white from jumping forward with the knight.

15:19 The knight goes back to E2, and Magnus plays knight F4,

15:22 which it does not look like he has the ability here to play such a move.

15:27 I mean, how can he commit to something like this?

15:31 Now, I think I think this is all connected via the move queen to B6.

15:36 Basically, at the end of this sequence,

15:37 if after knight f4 there's a big trade and you play queen b6,

15:40 this rook is hanging and then I hit the knight.

15:42 So, if all this clears out these three pieces, this knight is unprotected.

15:46 Uh, and that is why this sequence of moves is simply too dangerous.

15:50 Uh, I will play queen b6.

15:51 I will attack the rook,

15:52 rook a2, and then I will have a lot of tactics against this knight.

15:55 a little bit too dangerous, which is why Andy Woodward does bishop F2 instead.

15:59 Uh, and actually I was unbelievably impressed with how Magnus played this.

16:02 Uh, he took took queen F6 and I am the, you know,

16:05 I am the biggest glazer of course of of one Magnus Carlson here.

16:09 Magnus sacrificed the bishop.

16:12 Bishop takes H3.

16:13 Look at that.

16:14 Spotting that he could just give away the bishop completely.

16:19 And if pawn takes, you take on F3.

16:22 And there's no immediate danger to the king.

16:27 But with black, you are going here and here.

16:32 And slowly, white's position of the king will just disintegrate.

16:35 There is no good way to defend yourself here.

16:38 If you try to play a move like B4, I'm not even going to take.

16:41 Maybe I'm going to play knight to E6.

16:43 And I and I just have major problems here for your king.

16:47 Even though I'm only doing it with a with a queen and a bishop, which is rare,

16:50 but because this rook is so out of the game,

16:52 it's not participating whatsoever in the defensive task.

16:55 Andy here after bishop takes H3 thinks and plays B4.

16:59 Bishop H3 could have caught him off guard,

17:01 but still the position is around equal and he's just taking on B7.

17:05 He is completely ignoring what Magnus is doing near the king.

17:08 Magnus backs up with the bishop.

17:10 The knight goes to D4 and now Magnus plays rook A8.

17:13 The second that Andy used this attack, Magnus now focusing over here,

17:18 focusing over here, zips around and is

17:20 infiltrating on the other side of the board, he has gotten in these two games,

17:24 he's really raised the level in playing these complex,

17:26 imbalanced positions, even with low time.

17:29 Andy grabs the bishop pair.

17:30 But the problem is that bishop was a nonfactor.

17:32 That bishop was not useful.

17:34 And this is a very different case.

17:36 This is a case where two bishops are actually dominated by bishop and knight.

17:39 This bishop is a way higher quality than its counterpart.

17:42 And this bishop is staring at its own pawns.

17:44 So these pieces are not participating and the rook

17:46 is not coordinating well enough with the white pieces.

17:48 If knight if this just moves, the rook straight up has no job.

17:52 None.

17:53 All right.

17:53 Bishop to D3.

17:54 Rook A1 check.

17:57 Yeah.

17:57 And Magnus has activated every single one of his pieces.

18:00 Uh there are going to be tactics brewing all over the place.

18:03 And this rook can give a check, but the king will just go up.

18:05 There is nothing here.

18:06 Andy tries to trade it.

18:08 And uh the rook zips over to H1.

18:10 Andy is not going to be able to trade that rook

18:12 and his king is about to get pulled out of the castle.

18:14 Knight to G4 wins the game on the spot.

18:16 The idea is simply queen F6 check.

18:18 And then there's queen F1 mate.

18:20 Andy has to scramble now.

18:21 It goes like this.

18:22 Knight H5 instead of knight G4, but it doesn't really matter.

18:25 The attack breaks through.

18:26 Rook A1 is going to win the queen.

18:28 Andy has to give it away.

18:29 Magnus picks the pawn up on E4 and just locks in the knight.

18:32 This is the only remaining try for black to maybe, you know, save the game.

18:37 But the rook hangs.

18:37 The bishops are too weak.

18:38 The king is too open.

18:39 you're not going to have time to accomplish everything.

18:41 And we end the game in style.

18:43 We go for the bishop.

18:44 If you take the knight, I take on G2.

18:46 Uh we give a check.

18:47 We try to avoid it.

18:48 But uh that's it.

18:50 With my queen guarding my pawn, hitting your bishop.

18:53 I disconnect the bishop from the game.

18:55 You can take my knight whenever you want,

18:56 but then I'm always taking on C4 or even going queen D2 and winning this bishop.

19:00 And you resign here because if the bishop had taken on F2, you would play check.

19:04 The king would move somewhere like here.

19:07 You would take.

19:08 The bishop is still hanging.

19:09 You can give a check.

19:10 I will zigzag my way out of the checks like this.

19:13 And now if you go here, I just play C3 and it's mate.

19:16 Actually C3.

19:16 There is rook D6 check.

19:18 But even this pawn endame is winning because of these pawns.

19:22 Magnus two wins in a row.

19:23 You do not beat this man uh two times.

19:27 Uh very nice wins, a Kings Indian win.

19:29 Very very nice game.

19:30 Magnus in this game played anti-kid chess.

19:33 Andy Woodward is young, 15, 16 years old.

19:35 He played anti- youngman chess.

19:37 Andy Young Manz, dare I say.

19:39 Uh, but I got a I got a bunch of other games for you uh around around the horn.

19:44 Eric versus Jordan Vanfist.

19:46 Jordan just beat Magnus.

19:48 Arjun also was having a very very good event thus far.

19:51 Looking very clean.

19:52 Jordan played a weird sideline.

19:54 H6 in a in a Slav.

19:56 And then he put his bishop out like this.

19:59 And from the opening, Arjun took some space.

20:01 He played very aggressive.

20:02 F3 E4 developed his bishops like this.

20:05 Now he castled and basically here black has a solid setup.

20:09 White is looking to break forward but it's not so simple.

20:11 Rook D1 and then yeah Jordan decided that he would tuck

20:15 in the king in bed with the horse uh because reasons.

20:19 And now he can reposition a little bit and also he can maybe use the F pawn

20:23 to attack and activate his rook and also break

20:25 into the pos into white's center a little bit.

20:28 But uh beforeh he could do that here was Arjun

20:30 rerounding his knight to A2 to support the B pawn advancing.

20:34 Right.

20:34 and then trying to break through on this side of the board.

20:38 And if you do, your a pawn is going to be massive.

20:40 This a pawn will very easily clear out these two

20:42 pawns on its own and white will go up a pawn.

20:45 Rook D8.

20:46 Apparently Jordan just had to stick to this plan because when he went here,

20:49 he mixed too many plans.

20:51 He had made this plan that he switched from it.

20:53 Arjun meanwhile walked the king to E3 and he completely stabilized his center.

20:57 Very instructive by the way how here king F2, king E3 was played.

21:01 Uh Jordan fought back.

21:02 Arjun played bishop f3 and basically throughout this game

21:05 had everything totally under control until Jordan decided

21:08 that he would try to break out of his position

21:10 by force and it was basically a terrible decision.

21:14 Uh Jordan should have continued to suffer with his bad position.

21:17 Something like a rook a5.

21:18 I mean just some mysterious moves because you know

21:20 white is just going to come in with these three

21:22 pawn moves and his rook and uh he's also going

21:24 to maneuver the knight to d3 and c5 and e5.

21:27 Jordan decided to go for this.

21:29 And this simply loses by force to E6 and E7.

21:32 And even though it looks like you're going to win the pawn,

21:34 I'm always creating threats.

21:36 You can take my pawn on A4.

21:38 Uh but I go rook D8.

21:39 And that's the end of the game.

21:40 What Jordan I think might have just

21:42 simply underestimated was this and just rook D7.

21:46 And uh yeah, white is just completely winning here.

21:48 So Jordan self-destructed here after a very good win.

21:52 He went E5 and he just never got the pawn back.

21:55 I mean, the pawn just survived for the next three, four moves.

21:58 So, Jordan's going to be really annoyed at himself, I think,

22:01 after a game like this, after such a big win against Magnus.

22:03 And Eric wins another game,

22:05 and he's completely just dominating in this tournament, looking fantastic.

22:09 This game was very short, but the lore of it is incredible.

22:12 Uh, Nils Grenel has played four games and has as many points as I

22:16 do after four games and actually the same score as all of you.

22:19 Nerbach is doing decently well,

22:21 but he has missed some chances in this tournament.

22:23 Uh and you know with wine at at an elite level if you if

22:26 you want to play uber solid you will play uber solid and you can

22:30 potentially make a draw quite easily

22:32 and like against nils Magnus played the Benoni

22:35 whereas no played the queen's gambit decline

22:37 so he did play something pretty solid.

22:39 uh Niels played uh normally in this game.

22:42 I thought Nobeck was doing some reasonable things, but uh yeah,

22:45 white played in a way here that forces sort of black to be

22:48 liberating his position by trading off the pieces and well after some 20 moves,

22:54 this was the position.

22:56 Uh and this is uh completely equal uh rooks

22:59 and obstacle bishops and the same exact four pawns.

23:02 Um and the players made a draw as you can imagine.

23:05 Uh nothing is going to happen here.

23:07 Neils will hold the draw.

23:09 And apparently apparently what Neil said, I saw this on social media.

23:13 Uh Neil said that when they shook hands and they made a draw, No said to him,

23:17 "Congrats." Which which is some of the most coldblooded he

23:26 congratulated his opponent for getting his first points of the tournament.

23:30 Bro, he did not mean that unless something is lost in the translation here.

23:35 Like I don't know if he was annoyed that Neils played

23:37 in a way that was very boring and kind of traded all the pieces.

23:40 I don't know if he was annoyed at himself

23:41 for his opening choice because he could have chosen a different opening.

23:44 He could have played the Dutch defense but uh and I

23:47 also don't exactly know if the players misheard each other.

23:49 I mean I don't know maybe there's some Sweden

23:52 Usbekistan there could be some uh but of course

23:54 they are completely fluent in English but yeah apparently

23:56 Neils was he told him congrats which is crazy.

24:01 Uh what a crazy thing to say.

24:03 This game uh ver uh with Andy Woodward and uh Erdomous.

24:07 So it starts with Erdomush.

24:09 Clearly a Gotham fan by the way.

24:11 E6 B6.

24:12 One of my favorite openings.

24:13 This is one of my ancient ones.

24:14 Taught this back in 2020.

24:15 Played this line with so much success.

24:18 It's a great line by the way.

24:19 You try to trade the bishop for the knight.

24:20 As you get stronger though, they start playing this move.

24:23 Very sneaky move preventing your bishop from coming

24:25 forward and white just gets a very chill game.

24:27 Although there is this move knight E4.

24:29 I actually have played this move myself and the idea of this move is

24:32 to trade the knights and white just kind

24:34 of can't develop the queen side so easily.

24:37 So he's got to develop these pieces and he played bishop f4.

24:40 Clearly hasn't like seen the system before and then decides to play h4.

24:44 So maybe he hasn't seen the system before but he remembers some

24:47 of the analysis because this is the critical way to play with knight to g5.

24:50 Then he trades the light squareed bishop and everything he's done is fantastic.

24:54 Uh modernday computers have inspired a lot of players to play like this.

24:57 You have ideas to put the something on G5.

24:59 You have ideas to play H5.

25:00 H6.

25:01 Knight D7 castles.

25:02 And Andy just proceeds to, you know, take as much space as possible.

25:06 E4 and E5.

25:07 Erdomish plays F5 trying to block up the position.

25:10 Andy chomps down in the middle of the board.

25:12 Keeps the tension here with the bishop and the queen.

25:14 And then we have E5 played by black.

25:17 So very aggressive move here.

25:19 Uh, and after the trade,

25:20 the white king is going to be in the middle of the board.

25:22 And that's why we castle and we go to a queen and rook endgame.

25:25 The queen on C7 uh threatening black defends himself.

25:29 Rook E1, rook D8.

25:30 You know, players improving it.

25:31 It looks like here Andy is just smashing down the position.

25:34 Takes.

25:34 Takes.

25:35 Rook E8.

25:35 Queen E8.

25:36 Queen C4.

25:37 King F8.

25:38 Queen D4.

25:39 And B5 played.

25:41 So, white has five pawns and a queen.

25:44 Black has five pawns and a queen.

25:45 They're the exact same pawns.

25:47 But optically, this looks really, really bad because you're going to win a pawn

25:51 here and then you're going to move your king.

25:53 And it's like, how is black going to defend this position for so long?

25:58 Queen H8, king F7.

25:59 We have F3, which is apparently not the best move.

26:01 And we have B4.

26:04 And B4 is apparently losing because of pawn takes this and the move H5.

26:15 So Andy needs to play H5 here.

26:19 And then after pawn takes, queen takes, and king e6,

26:23 the only winning idea for white is g4.

26:29 But it's not that hard to spot because if you take, you trade the queen.

26:33 And if black goes queen b2, there's queen f5.

26:36 And this endame is two versus one.

26:39 But there's queen e4 check.

26:41 Now maybe black can run away to like no,

26:43 I don't think black can run away anywhere.

26:44 You have queen f4 and you win this pawn.

26:46 And erdomush when this happens.

26:49 H5 is winning on the board for Andy.

26:51 If he plays this move and and and uh and and uh and and chops down the pawns,

26:56 he can probably win the queen endame.

26:58 But he goes here and that allows black just

27:01 enough time to clear out that side of the board.

27:04 And now, despite your extra pawn advantage and h5 played now,

27:07 uh this position is a draw.

27:09 So, so for the second time in this tournament,

27:10 Erdomish is saving a queen endame.

27:12 He did the same against uh Erici and the white

27:15 king is simply it's too exposed like with white

27:18 here you can try to make as much progress

27:20 as you can and that's what happened and they

27:21 gave a million checks and but you can never

27:23 move your G pawn because there's going to be

27:25 this but right here if Andy had gone H5

27:28 instead of allowing A3 he would have been apparently winning.

27:32 Now, chess is hard and queen end games are very tricky.

27:35 But Andy, yeah, I mean, Andy having uh a potentially very very good

27:41 tournament could have beaten his his fellow prodigy.

27:43 Um but then he goes down to Magnus in the next round.

27:46 Uh in this game, it was uh the madman.

27:48 Drew no, Arjun is the madman versus Jujin.

27:52 And Arjgin is the worst nightmare opponent of any 25 2600 rated player.

27:58 He literally plays the Piers defense.

27:59 I have no idea when the last time the periods

28:01 defense was played at 2750 level in classical chess.

28:05 For all I know, it was probably Arjun himself.

28:07 Uh Arjun in this game doubling his own center pawns,

28:11 deliberately making things uh very provocative and complicated,

28:14 lashing out with pawns, you know,

28:16 inviting his opponent into the complicated forest.

28:18 And what he does against 25 and 2600 rated

28:21 players is he plays really fast and really uncompromising.

28:24 And because he plays really fast and really uncompromising,

28:26 they spend a lot of time trying to navigate the waters.

28:29 Here we have opposite side castling with a totally insane position.

28:32 I have no clue how he's going to make

28:34 progress here though because this is totally locked.

28:36 So he play So H4 played by white, right?

28:38 She's going for the attack.

28:39 He goes knight H5.

28:40 Happily inviting a fight.

28:42 Happily inviting the tension in the middle.

28:44 He's not taking the pawn on D6.

28:46 White here ends up chopping things down and desperately

28:48 searching for a queen trade which Arjun is not having.

28:51 Queen takes B7.

28:52 Queen E3.

28:53 It looks like white will never lose this.

28:55 How can white lose?

28:56 B2 is the only square you can get mated

28:58 on and it's defended by the knight on A4.

29:00 And you absolutely cannot get close.

29:01 What is everybody going to do here?

29:02 He plays queen F4.

29:04 All right, he's still trying to maintain a time advantage,

29:06 but it's not so easy because the position is so complicated.

29:09 And now this move, queen B5, and you're going to lose a couple of pawns there,

29:11 but not on Eric's watch, right?

29:13 He grabs the pawn on F3 first.

29:15 We have queen A5.

29:16 Knight F6 attacks the rook.

29:17 The rook comes back to attack the queen.

29:19 The queen continues to cover the pawn and also threaten white's H4 pawn.

29:23 And for the second time in this tournament,

29:25 Arjun just had a game with white against Neil's Grenelius where he had three

29:28 pawns promoting on this side of the board and four promoting on this side.

29:31 Do you remember that game?

29:32 Well, now he is on the opposite side.

29:33 Only Arjuna can play a mirror image position with three pass

29:37 pawns on one side of the board in the same exact tournament.

29:39 We enter an endgame.

29:40 The position is still hovering around equal,

29:42 but white only has about three minutes to make nine moves.

29:45 Not very easy.

29:46 And we are in an endgame where black is up a pawn.

29:49 Position is mighty complicated.

29:50 She goes knight d7.

29:52 Jujuner.

29:52 We have rook e8.

29:53 A4.

29:54 There we go.

29:54 We're going to get a pawn race.

29:55 B takes a3.

29:56 Knight takes e5.

29:57 Rook e5.

29:58 Ba3.

29:59 Knight and three.

29:59 Bishop and two.

30:00 Here we go.

30:01 It's a race.

30:02 King to f8.

30:02 Argent centralizing his king.

30:04 A4.

30:04 F5.

30:05 Bishop d5.

30:05 King d6.

30:06 Walking voluntarily in a discovered attack.

30:08 But then you're going to get the king to c5.

30:10 The position is still equal.

30:12 It's it's equal.

30:12 But even in the endame, Erici is very very tricky.

30:15 He's not going to.

30:16 This is the second time in this tournament

30:17 he's going to drown the opponent in a messy, complicated endgame.

30:21 Rook H7.

30:22 He only has two pawns left.

30:24 She only has one.

30:25 And the C4 pawn is looking very delicate.

30:27 Rook G7.

30:28 Arjun plays Rook A7.

30:29 He doesn't have many resources left.

30:31 King C3.

30:32 But now we have rook A3 check.

30:35 Here you had to go to king E3.

30:37 You needed to go this way.

30:38 Give away this pawn and run and basically end up in rook versus rook and knight.

30:42 That's probably what you have to do because now you're

30:45 going to have a lot of difficulties getting to those pawns.

30:48 Bishop C8 played, but the pawn runs away.

30:50 The last chance here was to play rook C7 check.

30:53 And uh if the king moved, probably move the rook back.

30:56 And if rook C7, king B6, you go rook E7.

30:59 You put the rook on the E7 square.

31:01 Uh and maybe try to come back and trade rooks or defend a little more actively.

31:06 This is apparently wrong because now Arjun's pawns

31:08 get on the dark squares and it's losing.

31:11 You don't have enough time anymore to save the position.

31:14 All Arjun needs is one pawn and he's going to promote and he's going to win.

31:19 And Eric Gy only won this game because he had one pawn remaining.

31:23 Just unbelievably close.

31:24 This is a winning endgame.

31:26 You put the king here.

31:27 You get the rook to the first rank and he wins.

31:29 He wins another game.

31:30 This dude is on fire, man.

31:32 Uh Arjun Eric after six rounds has four and a half points,

31:35 three wins against Grandelius, Vanfest and Junin.

31:38 He's up 12 rating points.

31:40 He's got Woodward.

31:41 That's what happens when you draw against

31:42 Magnus Carlson effortlessly to start the tournament.

31:45 Not much happened in this game between Erdomush and Nobeck today.

31:48 No showed up with the Najdorf.

31:50 This is not the Queen's Gambit decline.

31:51 This is one of the most combative openings in chess.

31:54 The problem with the Najdorf Sicilian is

31:55 both guys have probably studied it so much.

31:57 Although bishop E2, E6, F4, Bishop E7.

32:04 Erdomous spent 13 minutes on this move and then another 18 minutes on this move.

32:10 So he was down on time immediately

32:11 and this position actually the structure resembled Yordan Magnus.

32:15 You might remember in that queenless position

32:18 but this is a very different type of game

32:20 because in that game uh black's bishop was on D8 and he struggled to develop.

32:25 Uh this is a very different type of game.

32:27 No gets all his pieces on good squares.

32:29 Y uh Erdom does not get the same type of position

32:33 uh as was in the game between Magnus and Jordan.

32:35 Here, black is active castling.

32:36 White's king is in the middle of the board.

32:38 Uh and yeah, the game actually doesn't end very it doesn't take very long.

32:43 White, despite his extra pawn, cannot get off the first and second rank.

32:46 The bishop is squished.

32:48 It cannot move.

32:48 The rook cannot move.

32:49 You have to protect yourself.

32:51 But black has nothing better because if black allows

32:53 the game to go on with a move like king B7,

32:55 white will play here, trade rooks, and win because he's going to be up a pawn.

32:59 So you basically play a Najdorf where you sacrifice a pawn.

33:02 White plays very safe.

33:03 That move never happened.

33:04 That was a broadcast input error.

33:06 Uh and the players just make a draw.

33:07 So basically uh you know in the Najdorf sometimes

33:09 you grab each other and you both jump off

33:11 the cliff together and hopefully you have parachutes

33:13 or maybe one and then the other carries the other.

33:15 Uh and last but not least we have Yordan Vanfest versus Nils Grenelius.

33:20 Uh another player who's going to try to score a win against Nils.

33:24 We have an Italian which is a good maneuvering game.

33:26 But even one of the players in the tournament who is

33:28 struggling with without many points will be able to equalize here.

33:32 Uh and uh so you would think but Neils of course

33:35 having a bad event taking a little bit too much time.

33:38 Uh and despite Yuran not playing and by the way

33:40 here the move pawn to D5 just emphatically breaking open

33:43 the center would have been good even though white has

33:45 the bishop pair uh he actually got himself into trouble nils.

33:48 He allowed Yordan to really you know transform the structure.

33:51 White has more space.

33:52 White is going to play E5 and D5 and and try to start some sort of attack.

33:56 And this is a typical position for Yordan.

33:58 He beats people in stuff like this all the time.

34:00 He gets a very nice advantage here.

34:01 He has ideas to sacrifice.

34:03 He has to play G4, H4, H5.

34:05 Uh he actually takes the wrong path again and allows

34:07 Niels to play F5 trying to lock up the position.

34:10 And then Niels gets to the opposite colored bishops,

34:13 but white is just dominating here.

34:14 He's going to put the bishop on E5.

34:16 Position's completely miserable.

34:17 Niels is basically sitting there waiting for the dentist to come

34:20 in and operate on his tooth and finish the procedure.

34:22 He has no moves.

34:24 He's just sitting there waiting and well,

34:26 he's going to mess something up because this is the kind

34:28 of tournament that he's having as we cross the time control.

34:30 This is a mistake.

34:32 And here, rook F7 is the way to go for Yordan.

34:35 He needs to give away the two rooks for the queen and then play G5.

34:38 Rook F7 uh and then G5 and just push forward.

34:41 It's a little hard to give away your pawns.

34:42 He goes here and that's not the right plan.

34:46 uh he he does it like this.

34:47 He goes uh he spends 11 minutes here because

34:50 he had calculated rook g4 and he completely missed

34:53 rook e5 and the point is that if you

34:56 take you actually get countered here and you lose.

34:59 So that's completely brutal.

35:00 Uh Jordan here after the time control you

35:02 know rook f7 is basically winning on the board.

35:04 I mean everything has worked out.

35:06 He went for G5 because he calculated HG and then rook F7 uh which is winning.

35:12 But there is this and this doesn't work because you sag the rook and if

35:15 pawn takes I just take and everything is

35:17 defended and I'm going to trade the queen.

35:18 And actually this position is completely losable for white because black all

35:22 of a sudden has an avalanche of pawns and you have no attack anymore.

35:25 You have no mate.

35:26 King is safe.

35:28 Uh so yeah, Yordan played very well but uh loses his advantage.

35:33 We have an opposite color bishop endgame and this one a draw after 57

35:37 moves and unlike Nbec Jordan did not

35:40 tell Nils Grenelius congrats after making the draw.

35:44 Uh unless he did and I just missed it.

35:46 So your standings after six rounds uh Erici

35:51 four and a halfos and Magnus with four.

35:53 Uh if Erici wins the last round

35:55 with the white pieces against Woodward he wins the tournament.

35:57 If Magnus wins and then there's some draw or dod Domish

36:01 wins then there will be a tie and maybe a playoff.

36:03 Najgerbeck three and a half out of six decent event.

36:05 Honestly, a lot of the top players are having a a decent event.

36:08 Even Woodward might not be down rating.

36:10 He's up a point on his score.

36:12 Jujuner has one and a half and she's break even in rating.

36:15 And Neiels is Yeah, Neils is he's not doing very well.

36:18 Uh he has he has one point out of six.

36:22 Tomorrow we have Carlson Erdom.

36:24 That should be very fun.

36:25 Their first matchup in classical chess ever.

36:27 and maybe ever.

36:28 By the way, I'm not sure they will ever play again.

36:30 Magnus is one foot in, one foot out.

36:32 And Domush and he don't really play classical tournaments against each other.

36:35 So, we will see.

36:36 That is all I have for you today.

36:38 Get out of here.