Please don't listen to what some people say and ever put an engine bar in your videos! We come for and appreciate the mortal beauty of chess in your analyses
Just a quick anecdote on why I think Agadmator may be one of the greatest chess visionaries of our time. When he started promoting Pragg's games, there were quite a few snide remarks here in the comment section. At that time, Pragg was in the 2650+ range and 88th in the world. In fact he was behind the remaining three (at that time) teens of Indian chess (Arjun, Gukesh, Nihal) by quite a margin. Fast forward to today and he is in the top 10 and appears to be getting stronger all the time. Clearly Agadmator saw something many others didn't (including me). Hoping to continue to marvel the glory of great chess play and great narration on this channel for many more years to come.
Watching Agadmator's videos everyday will improve your chess skills greatly, he's the best teacher at it. The grandmasters may play better, but He teaches better.
I realize Fabi lost this game but he always amazes me with his subtle queen moves. He slides it one square over to E8 only so he can get it into the game with a subsequent move to H5. It's just amazing to watch. You should slip in some mini pause the video moments for subtle moves like this, because it really is amazing to watch and think about.
Long before most on this channel were even born, Reshevsky was a firm believer of making his opponents work for their meal. When he continued in a lost position, Botvinnik says 'Further "Resistance" is hopeless'. After falling into a trap against Keres, in AVRO, losing a piece for 2 Pawns he continued playing. After losing his Queen for 2 minor pieces in a Sicilian against Fischer, he continued playing. To be fair, it must be said, anything can happen, since most mortals cannot predict the future. During a game in Capablanca Memorial (Fischer had to play remotely with Teletype) a player in a lost position, instead of resigning, sealed his move, his opponent did not return, having died of heart attack!
The computer engines have spoiled the players and the viewers. Those games are "drawn" only with perfect play, but humans are not computers that is why Magnus sometimes can still "squeeze water out of stone" out of these "drawn" endgames.
1300 here with a question. Why at 5:55 shouldnt white move f4 instead of f3 after blacks Re8? Before this my thought was to move the kin to f3 to attack the knight so thats why i said f4 first instead of f3. Besides a break away pawn on the left side of the board, that i feel like would be easy to counter; Id love to hear your thoughts.
Then you commit a pawn to defend a knight on an end game where knight should move around. You doom your own knight to become passive center piece. Its okay for middle game but for end game... Too passive
Great game and awesome narration, as usual! The always gentlemanly Antonio reveals his chess darkside/killer instinct from about 15:00 to 15:10. If I ever play you Agadmator and if I'm not winning decisively (as if!) I'm quitting at 14 minutes and 59 seconds to spare myself being ground into dust :^). Best wishes always from a long time subscriber and benefactor of your channel. Peter
"Rooks are drawish pieces, but knights are tricky bastards." - such a deep quote for endgames with a one pawn difference! Beautiful endgame by Pragg! Looking forward to seeing him as World No. 1 sometime not too far ahead.
At 2:00. Fabian has 3 pawn islands, a less secure King, and a Bishop w/ no targets. I assume this is Praggs prep but is this really the position Fabi wanted?
Fabi and Magnus is both already "old" engine style player. Nowadays younger player like gukesh, prag, is playing "newer" engine style move that is AI based. More daring, more brilliancy.
@6:10 why did not he capttre on b5 and attack the night so that. e2 pawn can be saved bypusing it to e3 Moreover b pawn is pass pawn I dont understand?
when i see the top20 i ask myself, if a top 10 terminology does even makes sense anymore? especially around the tenth spot with lets say 2750 as the middle its 7 players, maybe 8 with max 10 elo points difference.
Not looking good for Fabi. He's going to lose again today to Hikaru. Then he faces Magnus last round. So there's two losses there. He'll beat Ding again. As a Fabi fan it's painful to see my guy doing poorly.
As Agadmator is my favorite chess youtuber, I'm really disappointed that he is late at Norway chess coverage. Yesterday we had three decisive games and I had to watch Gotham to know what's going on 😢😢