HIKARU Premoves Mate-in-9 

imagine how humiliating it must be seeing your opponent's pieces move instantly, knowing that you just got premoved for nine turns in row.

somebody: *commits slight inaccuracy* supergm (hikaru in this case): a classic mate in 57

me: plays e4 Hikaru: He blundered. Mate in 27

How does he manage to keep a straight face when he finishes pre moving? That's more impressive.

That description lol. Agreed. I love Naka flexing more than your kids.

It's a light-squared bishop guy's and his kings cuttin off his king from moving forward but I mean none the less hikaru's a beast 100%

As someone who can barely see mate in 2s the fact that people can see mate in 9+s is just absurdly impressive to me.

In no world I'm trying to reduce this amazing play. Now, hear me out. He blocked both enemy pawns, his Queen was protected in a black square blocking the King, he walks his king in black squares so enemy white Bishop can't do anything. When you look at it that way, it's simple. Obviously he being able to get the game to that situation and make good use of it like he's been here a thousand times(which really is the case) is something that let me in awe.

0:29 premove mate in 9, flex his US champ ring as well, damn

"Your eyes should be catching up with my movements momentarily."

This is like how Sherlock Holmes plays out fights in his head

Me: Get a Legall’s mate Also me: Happier than I’ve ever been before Hikaru: Premoves a mate in 24 with a queen, and double rook sacrifice. Also Hikaru: Alright, next game

you know it's over when hikaru starts looking at the ceiling

Fun fact : Hikaru can checkmate with a king

Its actually not that complicated he keeps his queen in a spot so that the king is stuck in a tiny area and he moves his king on the dark squares so the bishop does not interfere and then sets up a checkmate

King and Queen endgame can lead to a long series of safe premoves, which is cool for time management online. Hikaru give us a great example, because is position add a bishop and a few pawns to the mix.

to be fair its a king crossing the board vs just 2 pawns that can't move, a king on the other side of the board and a bishop on the white squares, so he pre moved along the black squares to get near the opposing king for a simple mate

“Let’s keep going” like nothing happened 😂

This is impressive, and if you know the logic behind, its even more amazing, he had his pawn and king on dark squares, his opponent only has light squre bishop, so there no way for him to lose his queen or pawn, so he just place his queen there to cut off the kings escape, and just premoved his king all the way over

when you are a super GM

a true master of his craft. inspirational

“Alright let’s keep going”

Absolutely brilliant. The only threat was the light square bishop and by moving on dark squares he got it

Well, for once it wasn't that difficult.. he blocked the king with the queen and moved his king towards the queen on black squares only not to be checked by the bishop. Still, his skills are impressive

what till your partner finds out about the description 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

coolioX646: How many premoves did you see? Hikaru: 14 million, 6 hundred and 5. coolioX646: How many did I win? Hikaru: 0.

The reason why he could premove it so easily is because the King is unable to move away from the squares where the queen can mate him and because white has no other move other than moving the light square bishop so Hikaru can just move his king and queen across the dark squares and mate him.

Well yes. White square bishop, you take the dark square to walk your king

It's not that complicated, but the fact that he saw it so quick is impressive

Imagine being the guy on the other end. He must have never wanted to quit chess more than this time.

He kept the pre-moves to only dark squares, given the light square bishop.

At 0:18 wasn't this a faster mate: d3, Kb1, Qc2, Ka1, Qe2, Kb1, d2, Ka1 and then d1, pawn promotes to Queen or Rook

The "flexing intensifies" was hilarious!

I play d4. Hikaru just mates me before I know I would do this move. He even knows that I would play this move before I wake up on the morning.

Stand name : King Crimson Stand's ability : Time Erase / Sees Future Stand User : Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru has Stockfish in the ceiling telling him the next move

That's just ridiculous. OMG. He so good

ACTIVATE BETH HARMON MODE** "stares at ceiling"

The crazy part is that since the pawn would promote on a light square, the bishop can sacrifice itself to prolong the game meaning mate isn’t forced. Mate in 9 was literally the fastest way to

imagine he took the white pawns and promoted his passed pawn into a queen. When you realize your opponent has premoved to a check mate, you're playing another kind of chess.

I like how he says “we win the game” makes me feel included a little bit, but nah that was all him

I mean pretty cool, but this is a pretty easy premove to make since the enemy king is stuck and he can only move the light square bishop, so you just bring the king in through the dark squares and do a standard mate. You are not worried about stalemate since he can still move the bishop.

This was actually pretty easy, the king was blocked and all you had to do was to get your closer and mate with the queen. The impressive part is the knowledge to not pat it

If the opponent knew you premoved the only way he could've beaten you was to take your pawn at c6 and make himself a queen

only white bishop, keeps king in black, blocks two pawns, protects the queen... fucking genius

0:19 A lovely example of where the white squared bishop is useless against a king that stays on the dark squares. Hikaru could should have premoved the king to dance around on 8 or 9 more dark squares just for fun.

The pre-moves are pretty straight forward, the impressive part is how he set it up for this mate, most players would instead go for another promotion and then go for mate because that's a brain-dead maneuver.

The lower your ELO, the more impressive this appears. And vice versa.

i got you! you look at the stockfish monitor on the ceiling for sure😂😂😂

"all right lets keep going"

"Alright, let's keep going."

If you just look at the opponents moves, you notice he only had the option of shuffling his bishop around uselessly. The 9 moves were not a super prediction. They were just all dark squared moves that could never be stopped by the light square bishop that was the only movable piece.

It was the "Alright, let's keep going.." for me....

Wait I get this one. The bishop is the only peice that can move, and it can't interact, its like stalemate but without the stalemate then you win for free.

The editor: Has kids Me: Impossible

The thumbnail has potential to be apart of a meme 😏😏😏

Fuck me that was fuckin’ gnarly dude. That other player was begging for some more time on the clock, and by the time he realized what was happening ….

The King's movement reminded me of how Josuke moves in the first opening of JOJO Part 4 (Shining Justice)

Kramnik: It's interesting

Is this even particularly impressive? Most of the moves are moving the king up the board while the queen is boxed in?

If you use more than two braincells to think about it, it's really easy to do

the ceiling stockfish thumbnail lol

The “alright lets keep going” is disrespectful 💀

I mean... everything was safe

Why doesn’t the other person resign, Hikaru simply consolidates to dark squares.

[Flexing intensifies] Got me off guard lmao

Hikaru: bobs head Opponent: why do i hear boss music

I give you the Mate Master title, Hikaru

it’s eerie how similar he and that magnus guy look.

whites king cant move while the bishop only covers white squares, which makes it easy to get to a mating position by moving the king only on dark squares. still looks cool tho

just gonna say it. He litterally restricted the kings movement and kept both the queen and king on dark squares to avoid being attacked by the bishop. That was not too hard to premove.

The king and queen were on dark squares, so the bishop couldn't do anything to them. The pawns were blocked and the king was trapped. Still, very cool.

Bros pulling a get harmon

He's just keeping the king on colored squares to keep away from the bishop which is only moving on the white squares, setting the position of the king in the corner near opponents king to back up queen for final finishing move.

0:26 here he calculates if opponent instead of random moves could take black b and c pawns and promote white c pawn and the answer is opponent was 1 move short from the draw, so Hikaru's premoves were correct. His brain is scary...

I actually think it was theoretically possible for white to escape from this, given the premoves that Hikaru made. Taking the position at 0:21, Hikaru's king is on e7, and he's already committed to moving it up diagonally all the way to d2 and he's already on the verge of premoving his queen to b4. But if the sequence then went like this: Bf3 Kf6; Bxc6 Kg5; Bd5 Kf4; c6 Ke3; c7 Kd2; c8=Q Qb4+, the engine has it as a drawn game with both players having queens. And that's assuming Hikaru had already seen the bishop move from c2 to d1 and factored that in. If from 0:18, the bishop had moved to take the c pawn more directly, and Hikaru still put the same premove sequence, then black would wind up losing his queen while it was still on c3. Of course, all this is quite unlikely unless the opponent knew Hikaru was premoving, because the above sequence would just lose the bishop and the pawn under normal play.

me: *grabs first piece* hikaru: *mate in 12*

I would also premove this position. Both pawn are blocked king cannot move more than 2 square due to queen's position bishop is on white square so just bring the king from dark square near queen for checkmate

I expected this to be more impressive than it was lol

me: Was born Hikaru: Classic mate in 69

Hikaru premoving having wife and kids

bro can see future

Me: plays my first move Hikaru: haaa he blundered mate in 35

I had to watch two 20-sec unskippable ads to watch this

"Alright let's keep going" -😊☠️

To be fair, the king is trapped, the pawns can't move, and the bishop can't contest the black squares. It's not like Hikaru predicts the opponent's moves or anything, he just places his king to make the check mate.

It's easy when you have stockfish on your ceiling 😴

If you watch it closely, it was pretty easy premove sequence

*Pre move with Blind Fold, next time.*

I mean tbf his opp only has a white square bishop and his queen is protected by the pawn blockading the opps king so literally all he has to do is move the king to win.

Ah yes every answer is hikaru's celling

I can't even see a mate in one. 😂

I'm not impressed he found this move. I'm impressed he found it instantly. It's fairly straight forward. White king was locked by a protected queen and white bishop was on a white square. So all black squares are fair game.

wtf just happened it looked like the bishop had a stroke

you know your done when hikaru premoves

He pre-moved Mate in 9 in a way that I, a player 2000 points lower rated than him, can pre-move Mate in 9 haha. All White's pieces except the bishop are static so just bring king in on dark squares and deliver mate.

This one was easy tho, the queen locked the white king, and all black king had to do was avoid the white bishop and walk on dark squares. He has way crazier premove mates tho

this is easier than it soundds.

just funny how that bishop was just dancing around

i thought this was some insane foresight by hikaru but then i realised he just had to keep his pieces off the light squares lol