@@carlyoung7004 during an interview he was asked "the other day I saw you sparring with a young boy, do men ever come up and ask to spar? Do they say 'look...i'll'" to which muhammad Ali said "if he ever dreamt it he better wake up and apologize!" It sounded pretty similar and ben is the master of references.
You should watch Kasparov vs Topalov (1999) that is also an insane calculation :) And I happen to know that Ben has an absolute killer cover of the game.
You should watch Magnus playing 10 people simultaneously without looking at the boards. That’s tracking 320 pieces at the same time, I can’t even calculate how many variations
"When you lose you are like.. 'oops I hung my queen' or 'oops I hung my rook' and 'I hung mate in one' and 'Im playing on the wrong board' and 'my flag has been down for an hour.'"
Hi, why did you stop the twitch transmissions of the candidates? Banned again? Your work is so much better than the other streams from the candidates... Terrible
He said on the last recap video that they are traveling to the World Open this week so no more live coverage. He was having internet issues the last couple days before he left also.
With regard to where Rapport stands with the super GM's .. when he is running bad he does poorly, which is to be expected, but when he is running good he only holds his own, which is only to be expected if he is otherwise outclassed on a fundamental level.
"outclassed on a fundamental level" is pretty unclear, and "holds his own" isn't true for his standout performances. He consistently plays at the level of super gms, whether he's crushing or getting crushed. He wouldn't maintain his rating otherwise
In the last game it is amazing to me that Rapport must have seen the whole 15 move-ish variation when he allowed all this taking on b3 and Qd8 stuff. And it was not the only variation. And they were probably in time trouble. Or he just had insane intuition and was ready to go for it blindly - which I highly doubt.
good job... i'm super low but i love watching the gms... esp attackers like rapport... you dont have to play football to like pele... you dont have be 1200 to like tal.... keep it up!
@@vibovitold i will never understand the mastery of the deeper level... i, like agadmator i believe, just marvel at someone willing to make so many sacrafices in classical time... i dont know if i've seen any gm be as bold and fearless... doesnt always work out... but when it does...
How come Magnus always does well against Hikaru if Hikaru likes to make games crazy? Magnus likes positional games but he's obviously very good at calculating, its just a weird paradox
I think there is a large psychological element between Hikaru and Carlsen. I won't deny (and Hikaru admits it) that Magnus is better, but in practice he outperforms him by a larger margin than the detectable skill gap. Nakamura used to be higher rated (in blitz of course) than Carlsen on multiple rating lists, and yet their record is very uneven, in Carlsen's favour of course. It's kind of like with Anand vs. Kasparov, when Kasparov was better, but Anand suffered from some sort of a Kasparov complex and performed worse against him than their performances against other players would make you expect.
Being a true Caruana fan. I cannot watch this. Kinda funny but not funny. "Plays for a win" even in a known draw, in the middle of the candidates vs the guy outright winning, who ended up outright winning. even worse (punctuation and grammar not needed now) watch the post round interview, "Like I wanted to lose not draw" . Impeccable timing to go for the lose Champ.
And I appreciate it. With all due respect to Caruana, I hope chess doesn't get dominated by such play-it-safe "bookkeeping" types. I like that even in the 21st century there can still be some sparks on the board.
