Carlsen's Genius Leaves Chess Commentators Flabbergasted 

Thats our Epic Cheese, the way Magnesium Calcium is getting milked for content. I'm all for it.

The one-liners in this vid had me cackling like a hen on nitrous. PURE GOLD!!!

Magnus and Fabi and the top GMs grow their hair out as wild and high as possible to sense their opponents thoughts like antennas/aerials. Hikaru is successful by dwelling in those spaces to literally get in his opponents’ heads.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="263">4:23</a> I love the term "dynamic defense" for not accepting the Botez gambit

I dont understand how everytime i watch your videos it feels like only 5 minutes have gone by and i feel disappointed that the video was so short but when i actually check the time i realize i was locked in for 13 mins and i was so entertained that i didnt even notice it was that long of a video. This is always the channel im most excited for!! 🤩

Epic cheese is the best. Its very gouda

What we got here is failure to communicate….. great reference to GnRs. This is why this is one of the best channels

I love Epic Cheese for the commentary and the comment section both 😂

It was fun to see him squeeze out a win there. Thanks James.

That Cool Hand Luke reference was excellent

Can't wait on Magnus Vs Hans. Or wait, better yet: *your* vid on those matches!

Thank you for changing the board colour when you're exploring potential scenarios! I've been asking other channels to do this for years. It can be really frickn confusing, especially when you're watching a live match.

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="265">4:25</a> i paused the video to push the like button

Never mind the nay sayers... The effort you put into this by posting daily, after work even, taking time away from your family on top, is to be commended. The jokes do get repetitive, but you can't get new material day after day. I would suggest covering other players more, so it's not just Magnus and his jokes. That might help. Great job anyway.

Loved the poetry about the cycle of sea prawns 😊

You’re quickly becoming my favorite, “prawn to seashore” “stock barnacle” the memes and videos 😅👏🏼 so good and obviously I still get my chess analysis and what happened. Thank you 🙏🏼

dad's in a bit of shame, I thought you'd moved out into the world! Hahahahaha I love it

Cool hand Luke and Civil War, all in a chess game😍

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="617">10:17</a> rook's pawn to d1 looks especially spicy.

Love the Cool Hand Luke line, and baby C pawns circle of life was gold. Love it. Also agree with comment above that would be cool to see more other players.

"A new C prawn is born, you don't see that everyday, it's a beautiful thing." And "One C pawn dies, one C prawn is born" are two of the funniest lines I've heard from you. I'll be laughing about that for years

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="559">9:19</a> bookmark 🔖 for anytime Mongoose Carlton races to the F1

I haven’t watched much of your channel but the Lufthansa made me laugh and I really like the style of your commentary. I get what people mean by the jokes but honestly as long as you keep the wordplay subtle and only for attentive viewers I think the humour is great. Also you could use humour for illustrative effect (I.e. when Levy talks abt the bishops being in an apartment with no windows) as it definitely helped with my conceptual understanding of this game when I was starting out back in the day. Great job well done!

Maestro Carlsen with the bishop pair. Stunning.

"Top grandmasters like to make the sounds of the piece" BAHAHAHAHAH 🤣🤣🤣

Commentary is so dank, subscribed!

"He dreams of Hans Niemann" hahaha

How to show you're a world champion without being a world champion

I wish you added a clip of you laughing making that Magnus clip.

The Goat sticking his horns you know where.

I watch for gems in the commentary and no hype straight to the point gameplay. The leading lady early exit line 😂

If Arjun let the b pawn run it would’ve been a much different game having the light squared bishop

Incredible end game by the goat brother you doing well👍

Lots of laughs on this one, but the the Epic Bob Chess pic was harrowing 🤣

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="532">8:52</a> how do you say things like this with a straight face 😂😂😂

" failure to communicate" Cool Hand Luke ! ..... nice .. after a previous "Frost' reference a few days ago. Cheers from Cornwall.

Bob Ross is looking a bit Sierawan there.

Your videos are so much fun to watch! Hopefully your funbase will grow as much as deserved 😊 Way way better commenting than overestimated agadmator

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="666">11:06</a> "Kc7 really tough to find" This is sarcasm, right? To me that move looks incredibly natural, maybe im missing something.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="102">1:42</a> - Arjun calmly rsponds with pawn to sea ships (c6)...ha ha🤣

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="550">9:10</a> best part of the video

I gotta say I freaking love this channel and its community!

White rook to D1 at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="311">5:11</a> solves the "issue"

I love how your reviewing the game. Makes it much more interesting. I already watched the match soo this was cool to watch after.

Whinnies and neighs incoming within first 2 minutes = sigma chess recap. I salute you.

Cheddar cheese used to be my fav but now it's Epic Cheese. 💯

Economics, the same as with recycling. Loved the ohh, my God, no @ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="218">03:38</a> LOL. Thanks for the vid.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="803">13:23</a> Check again The knight E1 doesn't say "Check" - it says "Ni!" "Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni" Listen! "Ni! Dreaming of that Eki-eki-eki-eki-Ptang!"😉

Spiritual successor to Finegold right here...

Great video brotha, haven't watched anything in a year but honestly I am happy I checked this out keep up the great videos brotha

Making chess funny is a super power!

I realise why I suck at chess. I would have covered the c3 pawn with rook a1 to c1 but Magnus goes rook f1 to e1 forcing a rook exchange which leads to c3 pawn defense after queen recaptures. There’s no way I would ever have thought of that.

And at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="817">13:37</a> a new beautiful 'Black King' is born. more beautiful than c3 pawn, LoL.

"Magnus wasn't born yesterday..." ahahaha excellent mon ami, what a crazy game again. I'm playing at really small level, actually 1300/400 but when I'm looking your analyse, I'm learning a lot. Thanks for that ;-)

never put rookie in a corner! XD i can’t decide whether you, Finegold or Banzea are funnier. different styles but I think you put the most work in :P it shows

"also a champion of this sort of nah nah nah nah nah technique; often known to run this upon defeating opponents." ROFL I DIED. where on earth did u get that clip?! cheers on the content lol

Six times That’s probably the most so far

Pure précision

The jokes are good and they’re not long either keep the jokes

the endgame goat finished this one easy. thanks James

love the BR shout out. RIP you cool mofo

When / what section Magnus lost to Arjun 0 to 3? In this SpeedChess too?

Less random nic names would be better like you dont have to try and come up with a cheeky nic name every 10 seconds

Are you so hungry, that you keep saying prawn instead of pawn?

He overlooked f7. Can happen.

Just here for the stock barnacles 🤓

Hello mr my rating stuck in 1200 elo I solve daily puzzles and play games and analyse them still not improving my game how can I improve my thought process and tactics which opening should I play sometimes I play Sicilian and Italian, caro cann, king Indian suggest me how can I reach 2000+ elo

Lufthansa was very nice but the Qantas square still unchecked on my bingo card. Please help, Epic Cheese

Yeah, Magmaximus pulls out another victory yet makes you wonder if opponents have skillset to finish off a potential 'V' which Arjun couldn't after playing decently well to get a passed pawn advantage. Speed chess kills!

magnus is a beast

does he always say 'prawn'

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="690">11:30</a> Doesn't this lose the passer anyway at least? If Carlsen just takes the bishop and the rook recaptures it's no longer protecting the passed pawn. Not a chess expert so very happy to be proven wrong, genuinely curious. I also saw Bxe6, Bxe6, Rxg7, Kxg7 and Be4 for the fork winning the g7 pawn

"Arjun happy, got his bits out". More information than we needed Mr Cheese. No Stinking Bishop here please... please edit more Caerphilly...

Yasser. That's Bob Ross

Great end game by that lad. He's got a bright future in chess I predict. 'Ardest game in the world!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="805">13:25</a>, what kind of monsterhorse can e1 check the king there? 😋 Man your videos are amazing! Entertaining through and through :D

Im still laugh every single time when I see the pony-clip

I don't think we'll get to see a video without the pony clip.

Epic chess on an Epic chess channel!!!

Did you get it from Cool Hand Luke or from Civil War?

Their flabber was ghast.

wow!

Prawn? it's not cute it's old!

I know how to make Chess engines more accurate. I know why there is "slippage" when it comes to accuracy with chess engines. They are insecure.

Fkn brilliant

I remember when this channel was strictly about chess commentary and not about having any fun whatsoever. 😝

Carlnus Magsen.

Bobrosser Seirawan

Hahaha 🤣

not a comment on the video, but a belated happy 34th birthday my fucking dude! in honor of your great heritage, i'm throwing down with some hard metal tiddlywinks, but instead of using small / large disks we're using chainsaw blades. A lovely tradition, remade for the modern world. Might I suggest a russian tradition? Vodka and chainsmoking while talking about everybody you know who lost a limb in [insert armed conflict, which could be anything given your generation-for me, it was the Soviet effort in Afghanistan-only to move to America and see them go to the same damn country and lose even harder-might I suggest trying our hallowed tradition of drinking to the point our liver sends up a white flag of surrender through the esophagus and out the mouth in an attempt to save the host body. Also, don't play roulette with Russians; there is no way to win, but - if you do - play with nerf guns or a super soaker, which is what we use in the old country to bathe ugly children. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, birthday boy! Just wait until thirty-five, man. You'll feel off the whole year, since it's the only instance of an odd number, where both are odd, and yet it feels fucking even by some voodoo. Oh got a recommendation for you mate. A puzzle book I was able to complete recently-Cain's Jawbone, an elaborate literary puzzle wherein you have to know the subtleties of english language history, literary allusions which span thousands of years, and put together abstract double entendres to work it out, and you do so by ordering the hundred some odd pages in the precisely correct order. At the time of its release, Cain's Jawbone was only solved by 2 people in the UK and now, nearly one hundred years later, it has been recognized as solved by 8 people … and as of yesterday, *fucking nine* . The first people to solve it were awarded 25 pounds, which has the purchasing power of 750 USD today. Once it went out of print, it became a sort of literary legend that you'd hear about, for example I was introduced to it in my lit 101 course in my first year at Cornell. It was rediscovered in the 21st century and published again in 2019. At the time it was put forward as a puzzle for anyone to solve in a year, with anyone who could do so winning a thousand pounds. It's a mind boggling puzzle and it took me 6 months to put it together, and the author Edward Powers Mathers (he goes by the nom dés plume Torquemada, which … has a certain spark to it ;) really has created something unique. To solve it you have to re-order the book's one hundred pages to discover the identities six murderers and their victims; since it is 100 pages it can be arranged in … oh, just 32,000,000,000 possible combinations. I think now 9 people have solved it, and I would really recommend it. My fiancè (she said yes!!) and I spent some months on it before she gave it up to watch reruns of The Next Generation but, to be fair, TNG is awesome, especially Data playing around as Sherlock Holmes even though discount Beverly Crusher Dr. Kapalski thinks him unable to actually use deductive reasoning, which he absolutely demonstrates on numerous occasions since she's a hack. so, Edward Mathers' - Cain's Jawbone would be a really fun puzzle for you to work out. Since you enjoy chess, and it is-despite the number of fucking gobshites involved in the game today-a thinking person's game. Maybe you could make some progress. Shit, if I can do it, you should have no issue! I am simple working American man, I work one hundred weekly hours in hamburger mine to buy the rock and roll disks like true patriot. And if you can find it, work on it with your wife man. There's a satisfaction to bringing many disparate threads of a larger, more expansive whole together, bringing into focus a nebulous, diaphanous image to see in sharp relief what had been only blurred, opaque. Like a bitch of a chess puzzle designed by Stocktopus. sry once again, too lazy to stop once I start typing! It's been a pleasure to have been able to speak with you and get to know you, not only to enjoy your videos each day. I left the channel I worked for, and have put together a team to launch my own channel as the chief creative director since I'm tired of making rich people richer. I should be that guy doing that for me! Peace man, and thanks for all your hard work. I'll drop a line to the channel when our first video goes up (I'm writing an essay on how Paul from Dune gradually becomes a monster over the second book Messiah and how his son, in children of dune, takes over and reigns for 3,500 years as a giant worm with the humble title of God emperor of Dune. The channel hasn't really got an official name yet, but i wanted to call it Fish Cannot Carry Guns but worried youtube would strike us with the banhammer for including the dead-seed propulsion device. It'll be dedicated to video essays on art/history/science fiction like dune, star trek, Asimov's foundation, etc, as well as whatever the fuck i want, and not anymore LOTR so help me Eru Illuvatar). Maybe something like Aperture or visually speaking or, Kamikaze Life Insurance, LLC, or the Yiddish Detective Agency… more to come. . . XD g'night brother, live long and get dem bags son!

A general comment, for which I hope you will forgive me. Your analyses of the games are interesting enough to keep me coming back, but your attempts to make them more interesting by supplementing them with characterizations that remind me of attempts to get a three-year-old to eat a bite of food (here comes the train, choo choo choo) are just annoying. Prawns and banana hammocks and horsies and gobble gobbles. Ick. Just ick. All right, done ranting. Maybe most of us think it's funny, after all.

Magnus not known for being super sharp tactical ? Guess it's just luck that he wins so much.

Top grandmasters do this btw

Lots of ponies in this carousel

Wtf are you talking about? " He dreams of hans niemann" dude you're losing it.

I've never played Chess in my life apart from a few games when I was a kid but I predicted the Bishop move at the end. I guess I couldn't do it in 2 seconds flat though.

Im low key starting to get tired of these magnus stroking titles

Don't waste your time being funny.

your repetitive chiches are really just too much - every video is the same over and over and over

First 😊 Amazing commenting! Big fan!