GM Plays THE COW vs Anna Cramling!! 

Bro thinks he's Anna Cramling 💀💀

The Cow is on the rise! 🐄

Despite Anna's loss,the cow opening prevails,100% winrate in otb classical,so still a win in a way)

Nice of the guards to let Hikaru make videos from his cell.

Bro roasted And Praises Anna Cramling at the same time ☠️👽

3:43 “Big Black Center” now I finally know what people mean by BBC

Well, damn. This was a quick upload. Anna Cramling's stream ended less than 30 min ago 😂

I love how both players went for a fun and interesting game rather than the usual theory

Amna gets a free game analysis by a super GM, couldn't ask for more.

12:00 "there's no bishop to mate with" 💀

She threw the game 100%. The cow must prevail!

Now we're waiting for the development of the Fence Defense to contain the Cow!

Tyler1 just got disrespected 💀💀

Bittersweet: Anna went down, but the Cow jumped over the moon!🐄🌙

He's so envious of The Cow :)

Anna never expected The Cow to be played in classical chess, especially by serious players. She designed (rediscovered) The Cow as a symmetrical opening that would be easy for beginner chess players to remember and have fun with, despite it putting white at a slight disadvantage, and black at a bad disadvantage. For beginners-facing-beginners the opening disadvantages aren’t going to make a difference. She thought through the name to find an English word for an animal that she thought beginner English-as-a-second-or-third-language learners would be familiar with. It was also a joke birthday gift to her GM dad, and her GM mum *hated* it and roasted her mercilessly. Juan said he might use it once, maybe, and Pia told him she’d leave him if he used it in a tournament. Neither of them used it once anywhere until Anna begged and pleaded for them to come online and on camera for a one-off experimental game. To me Galperin obviously chose to take The Cow classical for two reasons that I think are very intertwined. In researching her he came across her pet cow. And he realised that with their comparative ratings, he had some wiggle room to handicap himself. So in playing the cow, he makes the game more fun/challenging for himself by taking an opening handicap instead of taking the white advantage against a much lower rated player. And he gives her a present that he can afford to give. He plays the Cow, and Anna being Anna, she is thrilled whether she wins or loses that The Cow was played. She was definitely disappointed she lost. But still thrilled for her Cow. So excited in her RU-vid video. And Pia turned out to have a lot of fun when forced to play the cow as a favour for her RU-vidr daughter. Much more than even the indulgent Juan. It’s not what Pia is used to. Pia doesn’t handicap herself when she plays, she’s a relentless shark in sweet packaging. So The Cow gave her an entirely new experience in chess, beyond playing a new opponent. Being a shark even with such a handicap thrilled her.

Free coach for Anna...coming from Hikaru is just amazing

Wow, Hikaru is the master in passive aggressive self-assertion.

Hikaru loves BBC (the Big Black Center)

learned a lot here, the thing with playing tactical vs positional vs lower rated opponents. helps also undestanding oneself

Clearest and most concise explanation of chess game I’ve seen so far

I love the Cow Opening xD

Hikaru is a Goat, not a cow

Hikaru makes recaps faster than players make their moves❤

It's been a while since I watched one of your recaps and I had just forgotten how well you explain :') coming back for more, thanks Hikaru and good luck on the Candidates!!

Props to Anna for trying to fight

Nice to see you cover her game. Interesting one with that double sac.

So glad you're covering this.

I do agree the Openning setup was really beautiful 🤩

Gotta love this chess community, highlighting and encouraging lower level play! Awesome breakdown.

Thank you for reviewing it for us. Watching the game I can say that Anna concentrated every move, had to be more aggressive near the end due to time trouble. Looked like a gg to me.

“Don’t ask me about the origins” had me dying laughing.

Tyler is not going to be happy with that reference lol

The cow is rising suddenly. Even at elos around 1000 I have faced my first cow recently...

Great analysis!

I would still invite Anna to play against over any other personality. So charming.

Love that Anna is treated as everyone’s younger sister in chess.

Brilliant analysis, H.

" but, alas we do see it." 😂

Volcano eruption just started here in Iceland again!

anna watching this is so grateful for having such a tremendous analysis for her game for free, keep up hikaru!

Hikaru's cadence is iconic

Excellent insights Hikaru, cheers, all the best regards from here on the West Coast side of Australia 🌏🇦🇺🙏🖖🤟🐨👽

Bull is Magnus, Then Cow is .....

A game analyzed by a SUPER GM like Naka is just amazing !!!

The description of this video should have been the title. It's so good.

"don't ask me abou the origins" says the spreader of wooden shield, guccireza, and others

Great recap! Claps for the constructive and instructive comments!

BBC (big black center)😂😂😂😂😂 hikaru you are best in both chess and jokes

Bro is milking FM’s now 😂

I like that I made the COW opening as a kid 20 years ago when starting playing chess.

3:46 hey Hikaru, I think in chess terminology, a big black center is shortened to BBC

Great recap!

Thanks Hikaru, nice to be back

Hikaru premoving the recap

Tyler 1 catching a stray 😂

Hikaru's yelling like Gilbert Gottfried! 😄

Anna must be Happy tho

Cow has now 100% win rate in classical chess ;)

Yeah i love openings with animal names like teh hippo. My favorite "animal name opening" is teh "bird opening" ofc. I love it. :) Animal openings are op!

It looks like kidnappers mistook the target this time.

Man, love this video 😂😂

Excellent recap...

Thank you for this coverage Hikaru. This was actually good to watch and listen to, and definitely very educational for me, and for Anna. I'm pleased to hear that she created good chances to win. Hopefully she can evaluate in favour of the better moves next time around. Something I like here in this particular content is the objective commentary, and I'm thinking that that's something which has been missing in the world of chess content. So, I now see a better side of you where your insulting of chess babies had shaped my first impressions. Turns out you can be cool too. Good stuff. If you're reading this comment then do me a favour by smashing those like and subscribe buttons - Hikaru came up with the goods here.

The Cow is a great way to make a mess.

Anna wanted “her opening” to win so she could win by losing.

hikaru cow speedrun when?

Thank God the kidnapper lets hikaru record

man it's been a minute since I've seen hikaru and haha he rly got that algorithm voice and intro on lock edit: 2:15 hikaru sounds like a frustrated uncle here like "don't ask me about that meme"

A minute and a half and we already talking about BBCs big black centre 😂

Moooo 😂😂 can someone convince her to moo it makes the opening all the more fun 😂😂😂

The sad part of this is, as Anna herself said, she didn't know how to play AGAINST the cow opening.

Na6 the main villain, basically a piece down while it is not playing. Had it been active or at least been on d7 to make Bg4 not a check or something like that... maybe the actual piece sacs had worked alright.

Anna is milking the cow opening for all it's worth.🐄🥛

I can only imagine one witty comma in the video title

that Big Black Centre tho

I think she lost on purpose to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Cow. 😂

I wish i could see in real time the look on a chess streamers face when Hikaru rightly points out that their "creation" is nothing more than a silly meme. Truth burns 🔥

While i do not particularly like hikaru's general attitude and behaviour at times, one has to recognize and appreciate the amount of subtle memery the guy gets into his videos, it's a treat and nobody else in the chess community seems to be that good at it (at least from my knowledge). The BBC made an appearance a bit too often in this video i feel, but the cow opening being strong when played by good players and the reference to tyler1 made me chuckle or even laugh out loud.

That thumbnail face expression 😂😂😂

Rise, The Cow

Hikaru cow opening speed run please!

Anna getting a bad position off the bat makes one wonder if she actually studied any theory on "her" own opening. Just to show that she doesnt take "her" opening seriously.

Mr Hikaru do you recommend the cow opening im a begginer , im learning until now jaja, thanks sir !

WELCOME BACK EVERYONEEE FOR TODAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYS VIDEOO

"Moo moo moo moo moo, moo, moo moo, moo" - Hell Bovine

now i know that BBC stands for big black center, ty

I play like Anna Cramling just sacrifice and attack attack 😂

Do Alexandra Botez's game. She had a shocking victory.

Hikaru milking the Cow.

Animal facts: cows are how you refer to female adult hippos, the same as cattle.

nice, cool to see

Is this Galperin's way of calling Cramling a cow?

So for for the opening COW defense, is it bad to attack the knights from the outside pawns as we see in this game? Is that what got Anna in trouble?

*Anna Cramling levou uma Bellon !!*

BIG BLACK CENTER 😂😂

All hail the Cowking!

new meta is always op

LOL this is so funny

"Ah, la vaca"