Chess Can Be So Heartbreaking... 😢 

I mean, aside from that, Nepo is also heartbroken cuz he had the lead for so long but just lost it all. Fabi deserved to at least get a tiebreaker but yea, sucks that things happened this way

​@@bitsy_0523 nepo is bad tho . He just goes for draw even against weak players like abasov and alireza

​@@mohammedashraf.1463if you play for draw this doesn't mean you are bad player yes in your 100 elo games with all those pieces you hang chance of draw is low but even lower rated players he plays are really strong players

@@mohammedashraf.1463 you dont know chess if you call them “weak player”

​@@mohammedashraf.1463 Alireza weak? Don't comment when you been following chess since last night

I probably would have cried when he said he was sorry.

Everyone is heartbroken. Hikarus almost cried on stream

What does "very sorry" and "my fault" meaning? what do they infer?

@@mrvlacp Ian is sorry he didnt lose or sorry that Fabi couldnt convert his winning position. Fabi says its his fault because he could've won and multiple times in the game. If they didnt draw one of them would still stand a chance to win the candidates

Why he said sorry to him ?? Can someone please explain?

Both of them have played world championship matches against carlsen

​@@seya_2yess but he is probably talking about Nepo's championship match against Ding. That clip went viral. The moment Nepo lost, he was shaking

Wow this hit hard

​@@Phoenix.219 He blundered his win against ding.. every body was shocked

what happens if one of them intentionally let the other one win so he can face gukesh for a tie break ? will they be punished or fined ?

What had happened?

@@Aman-fo1yiIn the last round of the candidates, Gukesh drew against Hikaru and was winning by 1 point. Either Nepo or Caruana had to win to make it to tiebreaks. Fabiano had multiple chances to clinch the victory over Nepo, but complications were made and he couldn’t finish the job, leading to a draw. This made it so that Gukesh won, with Fabi and Ian trailing by 0.5

​@@Cats83747small correction: Gukesh was winning by 0.5 pt. Hikaru, Fabi and Nepo were all tied for second by 0.5 pt

Nah after he drew he was winning by a point that's what they're talking about​@@jonathanechevers6265

@@jonathanechevers6265 Yea but I meant after he drew against Hikaru he was up by 1

Why do you have the Taj Mahal as your profile photo?

Why not ​@@techrumour

​@@techrumouryou've got a rare username lol

​@@techrumourHis choice bruh. Cry elsewhere.

@@Epicarto it is a symbol of Mughal imperialism

You lost two wcc finals?😮

@@Leon-ou4ol he meant nepo -_-

@@rotiyt6307 I know but I thought it was funny hahah

​@@Leon-ou4olunderrated comedian 🤣🤣

He should started with "coming from a guy who" so ur right for thinking he meant that lol​@@Leon-ou4ol

Yeah. It's insane. The dude was absolutely dominating for a third time in a row, going unbeat for 6 years straight. Now that he finally went down it wasn't because he lost or because he wasn't performing far above World Champ level but simply due to circumstances and the outside possibility of someone having a dream run.

Thank you for that comment man, i feel so bad for Nepo, even thou he didn't lose a single game in this tournament

legend

@@eliasvonbrille If he only manages to win a single game against Abasov... He played too passive I think, that's why we got such circumstances.

@@eliasvonbrille He lost to Maxime in 2020. It was a french game.

It ain’t that deep

They were "engine mistakes", not mistakes or blunders, in the live analysis the commentators couldn't believe how complex the position was, and for some of the moves they needed more time.

@@Drumaier there were clear misses too, especially later in the game and in time pressure.

@@christinemurray1444 clear misses when you have the engine and expert analysis from gm commentators to rely upon. but when you have a minute on the clock in the biggest chess game of your life, and you need to calculate a whole line like Rd1 instead of the natural Rd7+, and also make sure that the resulting checks by the opponent don't lead to a perpetual draw, I don't think you can call them "clear misses" lmfao

Can someone explain why Nepo said Sorry to Fabi?

​@@Tabaspikaif Nepo had won, he would have fought against Gukesh in a tiebreaker and same for Fabi. The thing is, Nepo was losing the whole time but decided to play his best defense instead of giving up, and as Fabi failed to convert his winning position into a win they agreed on a draw, but a draw wasn't enough for Fabi to get that tiebreaker against Gukesh.

@@irontree3842 I think its not about giving up. He just felt sorry because he truly believed that fabi was worth to go for champion

@@Tabaspika For me, it was part guilt, part compassion. But after all, you can't resign just to give the win to the opponent. The sorry was a bit pointless, but the emotions were also very intense. There's really nothing to say in a moment like this. Fabi, as any adequate chess player knows, has only himself to blame. We can say he missed the win, because he was low on time or whatever, but if you are in his shoes, those are just excuses and won't help coping with the situation.

But Nepo said sorry, because Fabi was completely winning and messed it up :(

Had no chance of anything but a draw at the end. However Ian is apologizing because fabi had an advantage and he couldn't convert it to a win. Ian feels like he blocked fabi from a title shot by playing great defense in the end. Ian knew he couldn't win he could only draw or lose. By drawing he stopped fabi's shot at world champ. Ian knows how it feels to lose that shot.

Can't watch Gothamchess with his over the top dramatic coverage and lazy video titles

I would say Fabi is the unluckiest. He drew Magnus in all games at their prime, but still hasn't become the world champion. He is like Korchinoi.

2nd place syndrome

@@Anonymous-8080 "somehow manages to take a win or a draw" that doesn't happen out of nowhere, you know? Nepo and Hikaru are two players that make it INSANELY difficult for opponents even when they're losing, it's a skill that not many top GM's have (not to that extent), not to mention anyone below that level - that's why you see them save these games all the time. If you saw this last game and thought it's "luck", Idk what to say man, watch all of these unlimited amount of variations that Nepo created with his defensive resources. That game will be studied in so many chess books because of just how complicated of an endgame it was, even though at certain points it looked like an "obvious" win for Fabi, before Nepo found the most opressive moves that tested Caruana time and time again

​@@Anonymous-8080 There's no “somehow always manages to take a win or atleast a draw” in chess.

All these guys are unlucky to play in the Magnus era. It's like playing in the Jordan era.

Why are you feeling sad for nepo? He had 3 chances to become wc. Gukesh had 1 & fabi had even more.

@@datdudeinred so what? he earned those chances given he messed up in finals they have been at it for so long one cannot do anything but feel sad for them

Nepo? More like Fabi

Everyone tried their hardest, and everyone did well. They all deserved to be there and it showed. Congratulations of course goes to Gukesh, but mad respect to literally everyone there.

@@datdudeinred congrats to Gukesh but you can't lie Ian was pretty much robbed of the tourney by Abasov

He didn't GIVE him chances but yes. Respect

Maybe it was purely Ian's fault

bruh thats match fixingu saying

Bro Ian didn't give him anything on purpose. The position was Crazy. Both ppl blundered because that was completely expected for humans in a position like this. Don't make it sound like match fixing. Nepo played amazing defense despite it not technically helping him.

Yeah sure bro. I meant like he gave Fabi so many chances unexpectedly.​@@eliasvonbrille

They are human too. With pressure and so much at stake, its not possible to find every winning position.

Here’s the thing; if you were playing and didn’t have an eval bar you would struggle too. At the end of the day, everyone is human, even Fabi

Time crunch, pressure, and nerves got him it sucks but we're not robots like magnus, I just hope that ding can actually give a good fight to gukesh for the championship title despite news of him being a bit laid back in terms of chess lately

They weren’t easy moves to find, especially in low time and under so much pressure.

Tbf it was damn hard to play. Many study like positions where you had to find strange patterns and unusual moves down the line. After 4h of play AND under time pressure, you just cant expect from them to play it accurately.

who said that

Poor communication

As an American, I'm very happy for Gukesh. Couldn't have asked for a more well mannered and composed person. He was my second choice behind Naka

As a canadian, I really don't like indians dominating game of chess. It will be the end for chess. No hate for Gukesh.

@@nickchin5208 You had Naka above Fabi? As a neutral fan I was rooting for Fabi and Pragg.

​@@rambo2667tbf, Fabi and Nepo have had their chances at the WC. I was rooting for Hikaru merely hoping for something new, even though I like much more Fabi as a person. So happy for Gukesh though, seems like a great kid

same.

Even the official commentators were explicitly biased against Nepo.

I agree with you, leave it alone ,and move forward , the media are a bunch of clowns trying to make themselves look good cause their life is dull , and boring, and have no imagination, forgive one another, and move on

​@@Max-le2dwonly reason is he is not from US

i was 100% expecting Nepo to resign, eventhough they were clearly in a "stalemate" by the end, he was constantly shaking his head, i know he wouldn't actually do it though.

​@@MaxIronsThirdthat would be unethical, to intentionally lose in a drawn position

@@MaxIronsThird if it is fabi vs hikaru then I think one of them could do it, but Nepo vs Fabi, both has no reasons to let another win

​@@semaht03 In the era of Fischer that's what the Russians used to do

​@@semaht03 That is the reason why players from the same country plays against each other in first round.

It was tough luck getting abasov in the first game - before he's tilted.

I don't know about that. Both of them are in their early 30's. Vishy won his first undisputed World Chess Championship at 37. Both of them have quite a few years to win world chess championship for themselves.

He faced a more motivated abasov in rounds 1 and 8 than what gukesh for example did later on. This was one of the reasons he couldn't farm points on him as well.

@@itsguzzy but bro we cant say that is reason gukesh won i mean see vidit his tournament wasnt that good but he beat hikaru twice which played a big role in gukesh win it is not about who is when more motivated and all gukesh dominated when needed

Ian simply understands the pain Fabi is going through.

​@@ThatRaisinTho so how is he in any way responsible for that pain?

​@@arofficial3344 Because he was the one Fabi was playing against.

@@devadathans5506 rather say playing for himself.. that's the end, it should not matter who are you playing against other than their tactics.

@@arofficial3344 Doesn't matter. It was gentlemanly of them. Neither owed an apology but still the gesture shows class.