Banter Blitz with Peter Leko 

12:30 - Except that Peter is actually behind here, which is hilarious in its way. So... maybe a 'surgeon' where the patient is in doubt.

beautiful intelligence

except it's just a board game ;D

Peter is the surgeon of chess

LMAO! I thought the same thing, I was like, this is probably going to be the most instructive moment of my life, haha.

Couldn’t have said it better myself

Actually he draws the match so for me he IS a CO-WORLD CHAMPION!

With a few flicks of his fingers he makes mere mortals turn to dust on the chessboard. All the while commenting for the audience.

For me it's close but Peter Leko won me over with his wrestling fandom. :)

absolutely no way. Interestingly, it looks like precociusboy's blitz rating has been reset and his games wiped.

@@danjeory3659 surprise, surprise! I’m amazed how prevalent cheating is. I play blitz regularly online, and every single month the site organisers restore points on my account after they discovered that some of my opponents had cheated. I just don’t get why anyone would cheat. How can that be fun or make you feel better about your playing?

Putting him against randoms shows us how truly good he is. What chess fans think of him (or others with a similar style) is that he's "boring" or "drawish" but he obviously has tons and tons of knowledge and knows how to attack just fine. He just wants to make sure that attacks are sound and well prepared. And against other 2700+ players that can mean that his attack is neutralized before it starts (perhaps at the cost of some positional concessions by the other side).

The Anti-Marshall is very solid for White and I think a 1900 can keep up with a GM for a little bit with White using solid openings, what were you expecting him? To lose in 20 moves?

@@claudiog7692 Have you checked the last 2 games with an engine? First it was a scotch, the 1900 played all the corect moves, and at move 12 they were equal so he played a slightly worse move, to not get caught (these type of cheaters are hardly caught beacuse they play engine moves, and at some point they include some moves on their own, because if you play 40 top engine moves, you will get banned in no time, also when they have an advantage or smth they start to spend some time, to look like they are thinking, also they play very fast when the oppeonent playes the best move, because they are already prepared for it, I ve seen this type a lot, one defeated Nepo, some defeatead Hikaru, not to talk about lichess arenas ), then he continued to play the best or the second best move, and by move 20-25 he was at +1.5, and he traded everything for an eqaul endgame, where he played all the best moves, except some 2 moves inaccurecies with the knight, which again he played those to not get caught. How can an 1900 outplay a gm in an opnening, and then play almost all top moves in a difficult endgame, to maintain equality? And then the spanish game, played to perfection, an opening in which Peter Leko is very good, and at move 19 engine says small advantage for black. I mean he has years of preparation in these lines, and then comes a 1900 who outprepares him? Sounds completely legitimate to you? Of course he played g5 which is an inaccuracy, at that point it was outrageous already, and look at next moves, he almost equalised, at move 27, and the played a bad move Nd4, but Peter Leko didn t found Nxe5, so it again was very close to equal, so he played Rg8, which loses the exchange, if he really played that well till that point, why he allowed Nb7, guarding the Quenning square, I mean, that is why he played Rd8 to stop the pawn in the fisrt place, why move that rook away? And after losing the exchange, again he plays top moves by the engine, and Peter smells the cheater and starts to play very fast, and eventually the cheater has to make also fast moves, and since not all Peter s moves are the best, he does not see all of them coming, and he eventually loses beacuse makes fast moves without engine help. I did not say that I expect a 1900 to lose in 20 moves, I really believe that a 1900 player can defeat a super strong gm, but only if the gm plays poorly, and makes some blunder. I do not expect a 1900 to outplay an super gm in the opening, middlegame and the endgame. But since you commented that, I think you barely watched those 2 games.

@@unnume4389 precociousboy was definitely a cheater.

@@unnume4389 if he was cheating he wouldnt have lost the second game .. i myself won against a 2600 rated plater and im just 2000 .. sometimes you just play good moves and win

@@SalemSalem-br6vn he lost because Peter started playing very fast, and inaccurate. (He stated that is a nervous reaction) Also this is an intelligent cheater, he plays like 10 top moves, and then 1-2 inaccuracies. Check with an engine. Also when Peter plays the best moves, he plays fast (he expects), and when Peter plays not a move recommended by engine, he needs time to check the move. Also he is clever in time management. He plays very fast, till Peter makes some inaccuracies, and the spend some seconds to pretend he thinks. I also believe a 1900 can beat a super gm, but not in this way, outplaying him in opening, midlegame and endgame. Basically the 1900 guy is equal or better till those small inaccuracies (to avoid getting immediate ban), and the saves almost lost positions with 7-8 best moves, which ar not obvious. Basically he is saying give me a bad position against a super gm, and I will save it in no time, outplaying the super gm. This is not possible.

The mod said that there was some server error and actually it was a 2600 and not a cheater. (A youtube mod. I don't know what exactly the server error was -- something about ratings not "up to date")

Magnus trolled Jan once on a Banter Blitz but yeah that's Jan :)

If they cheated they would have won the second game I think. Imo, it’s someone who didn’t play enough on the website for their rating to reflect their strength. Not cheating but not fair.