Damn, it is actually extremely impressive that Wei Yi has been away from the Chess competitive scene for that long and still won Tata Steel. Congratz to him
Well, I wouldn't exactly call his opening choices "dubious", e.g., the Bishop's Opening. He knows how to manipulate these seemingly old, outdated, and well-trodden openings into positions that are vibrant, exciting, and new...especially with engines giving us new insight into these so-called "dubious" openings!
The whole human race, minus 1. He is very strong, though. If he devoted his life to chess, I think he'd have a legitimate chance at the title. However, that's not for everyone.
He is the real genious he doesnt play 8 years and won Tata steal like this Gm Ramazan he is also a doctor of medicine and he didnt lose 1 game in 1 big tournament
@@namikazeswapnil671 No. Just a fan of Vidit, Vishy, the 3id movie & TBBT. Poll: Which anime character best suits 1 decade (2013 - 2023) reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen? --- Wesley So, Bobby Fischer & Hans Niemann have NEVER done ANY of the ff evil things in chess as adults. Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov & Hikaru Nakamura HAVE done EACH of the ff evil things in chess as adults. Evil : -Cheating -Baseless accusations -Discrimination (eg by cheating or baselessly accusing people mainly of a certain ethnicity or citizenship) -Treason Re treason: - Magnus betrayed fellow Scandinavian-descent Hans by baselessly accusing Hans - Hikaru betrayed fellow American Hans by baselessly accusing Hans. - Garry betrayed 2 fellow Jews Judit Polgar & Alexei Shirov by cheating them. --- Hikaru Nakamura is almost as evil as the Hikaru in Oshi no Ko. Magnus Carlsen is almost as evil as Light Yagami, Alejandro Ramirez & Vidkun Quisling. A Light Yagami from Death Note - who is about as big a sore loser as Magnus Carlsen Vs Hans Niemann or Wesley So. - For Hans in particular, Magnus cheated Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alireza Firouzja, Danya Naroditsky & Ian Nepomniachtchi but then accused Hans of cheating. LOL. Light did something similar. Light is a serial killer. - In this case Magnus' Death Note is Magnus' power over tournament organisers / arbiters / directors. Magnus manipulated ches***m to remove Hans from the 2022 CGC after Magnus quit the 2022 Sinquefield Cup. Magnus manipulated FIDE to lower the time controls in the WFRCC from 60min to 32.5min so that Wesley So will be less favoured to win after Magnus quit the 2023 WCC. HUGE PARALLEL: - FIDE lowers WFRCC time controls from classical 2019 to rapid 2022 to lower AMERICAN Wesley So's odds wanting Magnus / traitor Hikaru to win after Magnus quit 2023 WCC JUST AS - ches***m kicked out AMERICAN Hans Niemann of 2022 CGC wanting to please Magnus after Magnus quit 2022 Sinquefield Cup. COINCIDENCE? oprocyona (2022Oct) : 'Many decisions in tournament chess are made to favor the player that brings in the most sponsorship dollars and views, which is undoubtedly Magnus. There's also no doubt that Magnus generally dislikes americans- he said so on one of the Magnus effect podcast episodes.' See here : Magnus Effect episode 2 - 20 Best Ways to Introduce Yourself Source: ydwn2y zs4zpf B Bandit Keith from Yu-Gi-Oh! - who is a hypocritical cheater for cheating but then accusing Joey of cheating like Magnus who cheated but then accused Hans of cheating. - Actually Bandit Keith is a non-Japanese who cheated a Japanese and then accused a Japanese of cheating. - Magnus is a non-American gentile who cheated Jewish Anish Giri, Jewish Alexandra Kosteniuk, Alireza Firouzja (non-American gentile too, but Alireza was becoming French - the top French at the time was MVL who is Jewish), Jewish Danya Naroditsky & Jewish Ian Nepomniachtchi. Also, Jewish Garry Kasparov cheated FELLOW JEW Judit Polgar (Also, Judit's onee-san Susan is American) & Vishy Anand (non-American gentile, and I have no explanation for this). - Yet Magnus baselessly accused a Jewish American of cheating. Also Garry accused American company IBM of cheating re Deep Blue. C TALENTLESS Nana Hiiragi - because Magnus is TALENTLESS for losing to Wesley So in the world Fischer Random chess championship DESPITE being then 4x reigning world chess champion. (In chess, how good you are is a combination of opening theory & then talent after the opening is done. In chess960, there's no opening theory, so if you lose, then the only reason is talent. This makes Magnus TALENTLESS because h strength is 99.9% opening theory and 0.1% talent.) Based on episode 1: Magnus Carlsen reveals to Wesley So that Magnus is actually Talentless, and that Magnus is killing Wesley So before Wesley So leads the other Talented to become the true Enemies of Chess. As Wesley So loses Wesley So's grip and falls away, Magnus receives a text message claiming Magnus has saved one million people from 9LX. D Kaguya Shinomiya unlike Miyuki Shirogane from Kaguya-sama Kaguya is a 'pampered goldfish' like Magnus, the top classical player. Miyuki 'is a prodigy, had a rather dark childhood and is American' like Beth Harmon, Wesley So, Bobby Fischer & Hans Niemann. (Well Miyuki might be an American resident if not ultimately an American citizen. Also, Miyuki is blond.) Wesley So is the top classical Fischer random chess player, and Bobby Fischer is the creator of Fischer random chess. Kaguya's chess strategy highly relies on opening prep. You can see Kaguya has a huge team of computers and seconds like what the Soviets had before. But Miyuki's chess strategy is largely about thinking on h feet. Bobby Fischer single-handedly ended Soviet domination of world chess championships in 1972. Similarly, Wesley So single-handedly ended Magnus' domination of world chess or Fischer random chess championships in 2019 (Fischer random chess by definition has no computers). Kaguya is greater, but Miyuki is more talented. This is what I was told in 2021 about why Wesley So's chessgames page is the top page in kibitzing : "He has some very ardent fans, mainly from his native Philippines I think. I get the feeling that when countries haven't had a history of producing elite sportsmen, they really gravitate to the ones which they do produce. For example, Salah's Egyptian fanbase is pretty infamous. On its own, it's pretty harmless. There was a period however, where a section of his fanbase tried to mark Carlsen down as Wesley's big enemy, saying that he only rose to the top because he was a 'pampered goldfish' who got invites to elite tournaments early on whereas Wesley had to face the 'barracudas' in open tournaments. Think that's died down though and when goldfish and barracuda are brought up, its more often in ironic fashion." E Long Feng from ATLA/TLOK - gaslights people 'There is no cheating done by Magnus, Garry or Hikaru.' Hans is like Zuko. F Ash Ketchum from Pokémon, world champion - JUST KIDDING. MAGNUS WAS NEVER THE WORLD CHAMPION. Wesley So is the WC. Magnus is a 5x classical WCC, 6x blitz WCC, 4x rapid WCC but a 0x classical WC (& 0x rapid WC). Wesley So is the only (classical) WC in history. (Hikaru is the only rapid WC in history.) Here the joke is the I'm arrogantly defining 'WC' to be 'WFRCC' instead of 'WCC'. But really who would Bobby Fischer consider to be the Ash Ketchum of 2019Nov - 2023Mar : Wesley So, Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura? . . . . . . . . . P.S. Wesley So on Lex Fridman xcdhgq P.P.S. Interview while imprisoned p1w4Rr-1Uk Pablo Mercado: So what is your advice to the Filipino chess players? Uncle Bobby Fischer: My advice is to give up chess and take up Fischer Random. - 2004Oct11, 15 years before nephew Wesley So became the inaugural WFRCC in CLASSICAL time controls.
I took a break from chess in 2017 and started again in 2019 and the first game I saw from Agad then was Nepo wei yi game from fide grand prix. I still remember that grind Nepo did in that game. Now Seeing wei yi again being back into chess is amazing
#suggestion please please show the clocks on the channel for all games if available. Even classical games. It is not only about how much time is left at resignation but also how much is of the moves are part of prep. Where a player is thinking for how long and much more insights. Even for blitz there are so many time controls like Tata steel playoff sudden death had 2:30 vs 3:00 minutes. So please forget the robot with C R B.
Luckily Wei Yi won the tie break to become the champion. If he has not, all these immortal games played by him would not stand on very high ground as only the winner will be given due recognition. He made so much Stockfish moves in the Classical section that I suddenly think if itis even humanly possible. Waooo. I am totally taken aback and hope to see more of him in action in the future!
Oh I don't know about that. Great games are often remembered regardless of the outcome of the tournament they were played in. You're certainly right that it helps though.
Wow Tsinghua University is the best university in China and in Asia! An amazing feat in his education journey!! The way Wei Yi played vs Wenjun and Nodirbek reminds me of someone (I think it could be old self some 12 years ago!) I love playing reckless and sharpest lines, almost like a sadist lol (like I love getting attacked and don't mind putting my king in weird squares if I think my king is safe!) Came back to chess around 2years ago and I can't find the same joy playing like the old days because now I've learned some openings and became more of a rigid (more solid but less adventurous) player 😢
Many are like you Amoldivo, well said your concern. Best thing is to mix both. Prag, and all is a dull player but keep on defending worst positions and he is like in this height now.. Come on , Start your old style and crush the grinders, mixies
Wei Yi seems to have a very cool, calm, and clearheaded approach to the game...even in the most objectively tense, difficult, and pressure-packed situations! In other words, he doesn't seem to get "rattled" by any of his opponents...no matter WHO they are!
First time I literally saw the idea, I did look at some ideas like bxd4, and that the knight on d4 covers the squares of the knight at the rim which might be why you want to sacrifice it to trap the knight at the edge, I also saw that qh4 would be a perfect move to follow up the bishop move!
Impressive games!!!! definitely mr Yi is a genius. We are fortunate that he is dedicating more time to chess and we can see these attacking marvels demolishing top gran masters
Hi agadmator!! I've been watching your videos for years. Thank you for discussing so many matches. I just wanted to share I played the most epic match of my life earlier tonight. It's so memorable to the point I wrote out the complete notation for it. I can share it with anyone who is interested. I understand you probably wouldn't make a video on it considering the game was played between 2 random free online chess internet players and nobody notable. But if anyone is interested in reliving my experience I can copy and paste the notation.
19:08 i have been following antonio since time immemorial...but only now i come to know of this? That the letter on the little robot represents the time format...how did I miss this...lol
Not only both men and women world champions are now Chinese, but also next world champion will be Chinese as well. Just wonderful wonderful chess from Wei Yi in this tournament.
"It's not about counting pawns" but like with other chess maxims, it so often is. One of the many ways I lose games is to think I have an initiative and can ignore the attack on a pawn only to find my opponent takes the pawn and blunts my initiative. As always the skill is knowing when to apply the maxims.
if wei Yi would have taken chess seriously as a career, he would be one of the best ! Yess ! Irony of chess as a career is that, even if you are exceptional, you yould think twice before going career, many prodigies have left chesss to pursue other things in life. There are not many men out there as sharp as Wei Yi, he plays almost without any prep !!! a lost G.O.A.T he is
I think the Alekhine against Nodirbek was a great choice. You have to wonder, when doing prep for this tournament, how much time Nodirbek spent on review of the Alekhine. He may have done a bit as Yi has played it before but certainly nowhere near the amount he would have done on more commonly played stuff.
Hoping to see more women gets interested in Chess. It promotes logic, tactics and critical thinking something that Western women desperately needs right now.
I found the bishop captures d4 move, but I didn 't like the quenn move first, because I thought that white could just capture my bishop with the night and then no check mate. The thing is, that when you play chess, no one tells you to stop and think in a certain posstion. Wish I could find these moves in my games.
15:02 Nordibek Abdusattorov - hello agadmator, you mentioned Wei Yi is the youngest chessgrandmaster achieving a 2700-rating with the age of 15. I googled Nordibek, and he is 19 years old, and he must have reached the 2700rating at a low age as well. Do you know what age?
I was hugely disappointed in Ding lirens performance only to be astonished by Wei Yi.…. I hope magnus carlson is watching and thinking Now there is a worthy opponent!
I don't care much about pronounciations but since some do: Wei Yi is pronounced more like Wei I. (And Ding Liren more like Ding Lijen. You can find ressources for that one/himself saying his name in english interviews asking about the name.)
Unrelated but chess question for you all. I can't understand that a mediocre player can get, say, a 90% accuracy rate in a game. I get that it also depends on the opponent s own moves, but still. Would that player face a good one, the latter would take quick advantage. Anyway, you get the gist: how can accuracy be high if the moves could be so much better?
I googled Wei Yi to see what it translates into the definition was given ‘Majestic presence’ awe inspiring manner ‘ also Yi Wei was given to mean ‘to believe to think ‘to consider to be under the impression there also is a game that originated in China called Weiji it’s also referred to as Go it’s a board game where stones were placed on the board
Idk how you googled but put the chinese sign for yi in wiki and you'll see it means smth like "playing cards, chess" (etc) Of course it would be more likely to refer
What appropriate measures should be taken if Magnus Carlsen invades the Engine Chess World Cup, simply start holding a barbecue in honor of the six-time champion Stockfish, and start inviting everyone to eat Magnus' picanha, and even inviting Stockfish to eat a barbecue