Caruana was tired and disillusioned after his loss to Pragg . Probably wasn't focussing on yesterday's game leading to disaster . But the loss to Nijjat awakened him to create this masterpiece .
Yep, even more, so that he commented that Prag was good, very strong but not yet a top-tier player : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gUyeQg46hdI.html
He almost threw the game when he didn't just take a pawn and instead moved the bishop to connect rooks. You will get the idea if you watch live footage
Wished Fabi to have won this entire thing though. Sad to see him defeated. I really like his style, his choice of opening and how he handles endgames is really inspiring for me.
@@MislavIvkovic-sx8vdnot really it was a tight game being up a rook advantage vs having a bishop helped that final move was fantastic though really great way he got through and figured things out at the end
Seeing chess played in the right spirit without any stakes is the best chess you'll get to witness.. Thanks Fabi and Abasov for this absolute beauty of a game!!
Hi Agad, as a kid I learned at my local chess club that it was common to say "gardez" (french for "Protect!") when attacking the opponent's queen in the 19th century. Maybe we could bring that back, I think it is a noble tradition.
When my father who was Czech taught me chess, there was a word for attacking the Queen. It was 'Gardez' . I have no idea what it actually means. It was supposed to be used as a matter of courtesy that you do not want your opponent to blunder his queen by missing that it was attacked.
Great ending of the game that was Brilliant of Fabi to come up with those winning moves and strategy to finally break through the defensive play by Abasov As much as I am a fan of Fabiano I’m truly impressed by the play of Abasov in this tournament I hadn’t heard much about him prior but he’s been playing some excellent Chess Thanks Agadmator Enjoyed
Word for “check/checking” a Queen? You could use “read/reading.” i.e., “bishop to B5, reading the Queen.” Comically appropriate due to Drag culture; a ‘read’ is like a sharp comical observation used to challenge another queen. Practically appropriate due to Versus Fighter Gaming, (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken) where read/reading your opponent means precisely predicting your opponent’s next move (before-or-as he uses it) and immediately countering it.
Since Magnus Carlsen has repeatedly said he won't play in the Candidates tournament, both Abasov and Caruana are through. But had Abasov won this match and secures third place, you could say Carlsen withdrawing "legalises Caruana" for the Candidates.
Caruana for World Champion. He just had bad luck to be in the same era as Carlsen. Unless Pragg does something and the new generation, I don't see So holding this title
@@kamogelohabile1648 I completely agree with you on the Magnus effect on Fabiano Caruana not being World Champion. Despite never been World Champion and never been #1 rated player of his own era, he is still the third highest rated player ever behind only Carlsen and Kasparov. Until he started losing form in the last year, Fabiano Caruana was consistently the 2nd best player in the world for years. Had Magnus Carlsen never been born, Caruana would probably have been world #1 and world champion for a long time.
4:46 actually buddies I've played chess with have named attack on the queen as "шех" (pronounced "sheh" (the "h" isn't silent)) while giving a check to the king is called "шах" ("shah", which is also the name of the game in Bulgarian) xDD
@@Phronesis1037 Wow, I had no idea, thank you very much! And it makes sense, Bulgaria was under Ottoman rule for 500 years so we have a lot of words originating back to Persian
I believe that at one time long ago, it was considered polite to say "garde" when attacking the queen, since "check" was for when you were attacking the king.
4:43 actually in some countries there is a word for "checking the queen" move. In Czechia, Slovakia and Germany the word is "garde", originating from frech fencing - gardez. cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garde_(%C5%A1achy)
@Agad: You *may* announce your attack on the opponent's queen with "En Garde", "On Guard", or in simple English: "Queen Check". Of course, no one does this.
"it would be useful if we had a term for attacking the queen" In my country, we still use the expression of "garde", which describes exactly that. Apparently it comes from French "gardez" which denotes the same thing.
greetings from your fan in indonesia, here we call "skak" for check, and "ster" for queen check, don't know where ster comes from tho, in playing casual chess we tend to declare check "skak" or queen check "ster" just to make sure the opponent knows his condition, checkmate is "skakmat",
I did hear though that in some slavian countries like Albania for example casual players have adopted like an unwritten rule where you also have to say “check” when attacking the queen. So I don’t know how well this “checkes”(😉) out as it was only one guy telling me this, but I just thought why not adopt it for your chess-analysis maybe? Could be a fun idea 😉 #suggestion
I don't feel too bad about today's pause-the-video moment. I figured out what Fabi's plan was and played Rb6 to prevent Rc6. This is the losing move, of course, but a GM played it, too, so I'm actually feeling pretty good! 😁
This is my longstanding critique of engine eval: Even if it says +3, it doesn't know how to win, or it tells you some 130 moves long dark path that no human should ever follow.
@@SriranganathHosur stfu, I appreciate pragg and carlsen both, I would even say that pragg had a difficult path to the finals... Idk why you're making such irrelevant comments..
@@SriranganathHosur Ultimately, Pragg did obviously win the match. But to say he beat Fabi emphatically, when he was back peddling and on the verge of loosing all but one game (Pragg even attested to this) is silly.
It's the first time i see this. The engine gave even +4 for white but not a definitive answer if this is winning. I hope that AI in the future will give us a better understanding on winning positions.
I've seen this quite a lot of times when checking games or situations - the engine gives a notable advantage but the suggested top moves lead to a repetition. I think it was even criticized in the live coverage of this game.
When we were kids learning to play the game, we used to say: “queen check” to alert your opponent that their queen was under threat - otherwise the game is ruined.
