@stefanc4520 lol I'm a little older. Old enough that when I was young books were still a main form of entertainment. Saying you read something well on the toilet was an insult to whatever book you were talking about 😂
Is so fun when you don't stop the energy of the talk, like it is going to collapse but no, it stays until the end. Hope your style remains, it is very different to the other chess channels.
This is why magnus is the goat. He can continue to apply pressure and get out of it. Finding the best moves and even when he mistakes unfortunately his opponents miss the best moves. The guy is arguably the best chess player of all time.
@@tonynippolei Your comment doesn't make sense, and the comment you're replying to doesn't make sense either. Of course he is not the chess world, no one is the chess world... He is *part* of the chess world, anyone who watches chess is, even a 800 rated player.
I notice Magnus always trying to get a passed pawn I think he said Rapport in the last game should’ve tried pushing his pawn which he didn’t instead got stuck with no way to finish up the mating net
Kc1 is essential. If Magnus plays f5 instead there is the possibility of a perpetual starting with Qg5+. The king cannot escape to the Q side. Magnus as usual spots the trick
I followed the games but did not listen to the commentary. Here in Norway we are spoiled by the engine free commentary of IM Torstein Bae. So now I like to follow without engine. Thanks for a fun commentary James.
It would be great to post URLs for PGNs with videos. Is there a reason why chess streamers do not do that? It would be great to play with certain positions, without doing the set-up. For example, when you said that the queen had no squares to go to (6m15s), why not g3...? There were a couple of other positions I had questions about, as well. Love your shows - thank you!
Thanks a lot and I think just because if extra effort that barely anyone cares about and yeah sorry that was a mistake, it had g3 but then ne4+ comes and wins queen
@@epicchess2021 - Thanks so much for getting back to me. I'd assumed someone must be creating PGNs soon after games. Maybe not? Anyway - REALLY enjoy your channel. Sometimes it is a bit above me (puzzles/tactics engines say 1200, but I'm more like a 900 when I play against humans... and I don't do either often, so I am not good at tracking speed)... but your presentations are very pleasant, and I am learning from them. Thanks, again!
In a blitz it's not fair to say "for some reason he did that"...player is hastily making real time read for audience and in lot of ways for benefit of game's humanity.
6:10 why is the queen checkmated? Can’t it go to g3? Or you can block with the knight on E6 temporarily and then retreat along the dark squares? Second idea is probably still losing tho
6:14 You say the queen is 'checkmated', but isn't Qg3 available? Not that Nf3+ follow up isn't truly awful for white to deal with, but thats still a bit different than immediately dropping the Queen, correct?
@@epicchess2021 I like his humor. He and Gustafson are a hoot. Though Anish's commentary is at a different level. That's when you see the difference between a regular GM and a super GM.
Hey, thanks for analysing some possible lines after …g5! Other coverage so far has been less than convincing. What a rich and complex position. :) At first glance, the pawn duo looks fairly wonky and attackable once White 'consolidates' … but where does his king hide in order to achieve this? And what a pity Black pushed forward on the very next move, offering Carlsen the type of positional weakness which has become his staple diet over the years. Nom nom. In short? Areally beautiful game which could've been just a little better.
Wow, complex game. It seems to be a bit of a pattern that Rapport does so well in the opening and middle game with attacking ideas, but makes an error that means he can't quite follow through.
Was the chess world really speechless? I mean, he's been the best player in the world for a long time now. I don't see any of the great moves he finds until long afterwards, and often have to have them explained to me anyway, but he finds so many (and so often too) that I've largely come to expect them from him, rather than being left speechless. Is the world of football speechless when Messi curls another rocket around a defensive wall? Was the cricket world left speechless when Warne turned another ball a foot or so out of the rough and into the stumps? Magnus is a great player, possibly the GOAT but certainly right up there on the all-time-great list. I'm closer to being speechless when he blunders in some way.
@@epicchess2021 the question is - does Magnus befriend commentators, or are they commentators because Magnus befriended them? (Trent, David etc) 🧐🤷🏻♂️
Do you know that Kramnik played from Khismatullin’s account on Title Tuesdays? he was exposed by a chess streamer and Kramnik had to admit it. I'm surprised you didn't make a video about this
Hans Niemann won the GRENKE Chess Open 2024 Magnus Carlsen wins the GRENKE Chess Open 2024 Is this like one of those sliding doors parallel universes type things or are there different categories? It's hard to get a straight answer out of Google these days...
Rapport gave Magnus a bit of competition in the Grenke for a renowned tournament seemed like a weak field some interesting games though Good for Magnus I heard Hans won the open and someone said he’d be invited to the Grenke next year that would be something to see him vs Magnus Thanks for the Game James enjoy your day
I'm sorry, but you have to do the amazing second game too. Watch Magnus explain his thoughts in the interview afterwards. A miracle of cynical improvised problem-creating in the face of total disaster!
lawrence trent has been doing my head in since the dark times, when only kingscrusher served up daily chess videos. nothing wrong with that guy per se but he's not exactly mr. personality. 😂
Is there any chance next time you play in a crowded setting you put your opponent in check and say check, mate, just to start some controversy? Could be your first epic chess breakdown of epic chess. I said check, mate not checkmate!
Another banger. I'm not a cat person. I don't even like cat people. I don't like cats either. Cats suck. Fight me if you disagree (not aimed at Epic Chess-- I'm directing this particular sentence to the rest of you buttheads). Anyway, Magnus is like a cat, toying with an animal it can kill at will (e.g. a small lizard, or maybe a flightless bird or something). All he has to do is stop toying around and slap the life out of the hopeless competition whenever some kind of it's-time-to-snuff-this-clown-out-of-existence switch flips in his mind. I'm thinking that happens when he starts to get bored. Either that, or his goal is to set up the stupidest possible opening position, mostly based on what his opponent does (I don't mean "opening" in the traditional chess sense, obviously). Once he determines that he couldn't have given his opponent a more advantageous head start if he tried (or, tried harder-- he did try, after all), that's when Magnus decides to clown him. tl;dr Magnus is awesome and I'd suck-- Hey. Gotta go. I'm not gay. I was just kidding. That was a joke. I didn't mean it. I said that to be funny. I wouldn't really
he over explains the hell out of potential moves that don't happen. just show us the damn game. his accent is like a chainsaw on my ears. this is torture not chess
I like considering alternative lines. I've improved a lot watching this channel and it's always entertaining. If you don't like it then don't watch... but why waste your life posting negativity online? Pathetic.
