I Spent 6 HOURS Defending This Chess Game 

The shortest classical tournament game and the longest classical tournament game you've played, all in one tournament.... what are the odds? Great recovery!

Uwe played really well. The idea of how to win at the end is super creative.

Pia's commentary on this game was incredible. It'd be awesome if you edited a highlight reel of her during the tournament. She was so professional but you could also tell she was rooting for you and anxious for you. It was so sweet!

I am so happy when Pia says "Anna probably won't find this move", and then - you play that exact best move in the position :D

"I forgot the king can take"! You have no idea how happy I am to hear you say that. I have done that so many times and it drives me nuts. It is so great that even a great chess player like you does that. Kudos to you for being so open.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The shortest game followed by the longest game is REAL!!!

10:20 I remember Pia's reaction after he did not play that scary move and she was so relieved. That end game took so long from there until just two kings standing though 😮

That was a really interesting game. Intense. Congrats to both. And cheers to Anna for defending his rival attitude.

I once spent 2 hours trying to make a move that would defend my position. Then I realised that I had just blundered my queen in one move. That was a not a good day.

Pia's commentary throughout this match was incredible

Hey, I loved the intro to this video!! Nicely done by your producer! Great recap, great game, and the ending was very instructive. I have never played longer than about 70-ish moves I think.

I saw another game live on twitch yesterday. Pia's commentary was great. Real passionate but also really impressive. Like the opponent makes a move and GM mom is instantly like (without running it through stockfish!): "Yeah, the best move here would be this but maybe Anna does this or that" and half an hour later, Anna does one of those moves. 😀

learning to play chess because of this channel 🥺 thanks anna and pia!

A draw to the bitter end with high accuracy is very impressive! Great find with the bishop sacrifice while you were low on time. Go Anna!

My longest over-the-board chess game (so far, because I am still occasionally playing) was probably about two and a half hours. And I was wrecked after that. I can't imagine going for six hours. No way. That's crazy.

Props for the epic editing

Love the pan over the empty tournament hall and the arbiter saying "you don't need to whisper". My longest game was 5 or 6 hours in the old 40 moves in 2.5 hours plus additional amounts for more moves.

Bravo! Well done recap and very informative. Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos and especially when you are tired. Keep up the good work!

I learn so much with these recaps, Anna is great, she explains the mistakes and alternatives, awesome.

I only recently played my first classical game (75+15) and it lasted 3 hours. Got into a bad position and defended for 60 moves and then blundered in time pressure. Opponent then somehow blundered his queen in one move and I won. Crazy game!

Thanks for your generosity in sharing so much detail about these matches when you must be SO TIRED! Your videos have helped me fall in love with chess. Please keep them coming.

I see an Anna Cramling review and I’m happy.

That was a great game save for a draw by you. Could tell by his expressions that he was going for the win and wasn't happy with the result. But I'm sure that your play earned his respect. Love the video intro, by the way!

My longest game was almost 5 hours and around 80 moves, I think I won but it was quite a while ago so I'm not sure anymore... I admire your capability to find this perfect defensive plan after this kind of mental exhaustion, very well played and good luck in the rest of the tournament!!

Watching Pia's commentary on your games is like taking a chess course.

Omg!! I remember more than one comments in the previous (edited) video of the previous round and they were saying that your next game should the longest you would ever play, after the shortest game ever 🤣🤣. AND HERE IT IS!

Impressive, for me, for the knowledge of k+p in the corner against out of position king+q is a draw and then calculated the ways to get there in pretty short time.

I see an Anna Cramling review and I’m happy

I thought playing for 6 hours was mad until you said you had to play another game in an hour 😮😮😮😮 Crazy! Big respect 👊🏿🔥

That intro was excellent! Love these recaps so much! Great game & good luck at the next one!

Hi Anna! Watched many of your videos but first time commenting. I just realized you have become my favorite chess player. Love the explanation and thought process of the moves you man. Keep up the great work!

Anna looks so serious playing classical... Almost unrecognizable, but it's interesting to have a peak at this side of her.

Great endgame technique, Anna!

I respect your opponent, he is a real warrior. You are doing great, this game was difficult. Thank you for your videos!

Great recovery Anna, I totally understand that you can blunder a rook in the end of a game THAT long. I think my longest classical game was about 2 1/2 hours in a clubgame against Arlõv but THAT draw actually was winning for the club.

Whoever that guy was. He was no joke

Honestly, if I haven't seen the part of the stream I would think Uwe Arndt is a young player who is actually stronger than his ELO shows. He played really well and then even pulled "Carlsen endgame torture" on Anna. Great game by him. But Anna found a precise defence in the end. A very instructive game for me. Even though my peak ELO was similar to Uwe's (when I was still playing competitive chess) I believe he would beat in most of our games.

Congratulations on defending the draw, Anna!! 🇸🇪 👏👍

Wow!! I'm exhausted just from watching your video about the game! Great job, Anna! 95% accuracy! And of course you had to play your longest game ever since the previous game was your shortest ever! This is how you balance everything out! Can't wait to see Round 6!

I appreciate the explanation on the draw culture bc I definitely did not know that!

Impressive lessons from the game Anna! Crazy clock! Good luck!

Wow, very cool calculation with that bishop move in the end. Such a cool line.

These are some of my favorite games, congrats on the victory!

Way to go, Anna! I really appreciate your hard work. Thank you for posting your videos on YT. 👍

RECOVERY, is what separates the greats from GOAT's. Brain as muscles, can be stressed to limits and improved, but as with muscles, you will not improve it much if you wont master the RECOVERY game(this can be your one advanced advantage against all other similar players). Imagine if you would religiously sleep 8 hours every day, and on top of that tune your diet and every other aspect of your life to favour THE BRAIN RECOVERY, like body builders do with muscles. No matter how good you are, if your brain is never close to 100%- you can bank only on small sprints,good days, or luck. Athletes goes through oxygen chambers, ice baths, diets, sleep- while you stress your brains with tournaments, and rarely propperly regulate even sleep. Learning and practicing is great, but... All you do is rev and tire your engine into the red on the first gear instead of stepping back, getting your body/routine/regular recovery/forced active recovery like athletes/ under control and switching into the second gear and opening your eyes into high rez, sharp world, where you improving x2 routinely, and where you efortlessly quicker. Instead of putting massive effort to struggle in overdrive- put at least half of that effort into science of LOADING THE BRAIN(learning/working) and RECOVERY speed and frequency maximum increase. Then when others have one day, you manage to take in two days worth and stay on top.

Love the epic intro! You should include more of your mom’s reactions from the stream. They’re so great!

Beautiful endgame! Very instructive!

Congratulations on saving your game. Good luck on the next ones!

The first 30 seconds of the video are very cinematographic, loved it.

That was a brutal defence, well deserved!

Recap commentary is excellent, well done

Congratulations for winning a draw out of this, especially your brilliant move that saved it.

That defensive idea of simultaneous bishop sacs is really neat. Definitely deserves the !!

Thank you for providing us insight into the etiquette of a 6-hour chess game Anna!

That were 12 rounds heawyweight boxing. This endgame would be an example study in legendary book writer Kurt Richter "right or wrong" Two long distance pawns in such an endgame with bishops with unequal coloured fields is high tech. I won an endgame with 2 vs 0 pawn. Hard for a player like Uwe under 2000 to win such a game. You need the power, that water comes out of stones.

Good content as always, but also really appreciated the short explanation of chess ettiquette

Anna is impressive! Pulling a great move and brilliant move when needed! 🐮👑🏆

to be fair, I think in 14:17 going Kf4 is the simplest move and denies the possibility of any race because white's king will have to remain on h3 to guard the g4 pawn if he wants to play Bf1 to mvoe it to h3. If he goes back to h3 you can repeat with Kg5

I appreciate your comment about not offering a draw when you’re a pawn behind. It’s an etiquette thing that I learned many years ago and I wish more people understood it. It’s rude.

What great tenacity to stick with your way of play and just hang in there! Good job, and good luck to you!! Well DONE!!! That's what a true champ you are! And you get to own that!:) Whoooop!

My longest chess game was 4.5 hours and I managed to win after defending my opponent’s attack

Starkt och uthålligt försvar! Det får du ta med dig.

Brilliant play, Anna!

I love your mom's commentary, she shouldn't have to be by herself. you should let her pick her own non-chess friend to talk with during the commentary. i think it would be fun especially for longer games.

This was a wonderful endgame you played and the draw did almost seem like a win. I just finished playing a chess game that last 101 moves. Wasn't OTB but online rapid. By move 65, both our pawns had just promoted. I had a king, queen and pawn. Opponent had king and queen. He asked for a draw by about move 80 but I declined as I was up a pawn and I need the end game experience (like your mom says, the best way to improve in endgames is to play them). After mostly dodging checks by the opponent's queen the rest of the game, I finally was able to force a queen trade and he resigned as I had a future queen with my remaining pawn.

Outstanding video opening ending with a killer look!

Congratulations on your win/draw in round 5. 💞 Because of your RU-vid videos I've been learning how to move each piece, what check and checkmate is, and how to write out my moves in chess notation. My next lesson is playing "a game"/lesson will be how to play the shortest possible game with the fewest number of moves. On to the next lesson/round.

Way to go, Anna! Glad you snatched a draw from the jaws of defeat.

Tough endgame! Nice job with this.

You're telling me that chat was impatient and wrong about something!?!? Inconceivable!!! (That was a really impressive result Anna, all of us here in chat would have failed that end game)

Got the Marathon achievement for game over 100 moves few weeks ago. If i remember correctly it was just two horses chasing each other around passed pawn and me not being able to win. It ended as a draw.

thanks Anna, your games are a great learning experience.

wow, what an endgame, seriously Anna, that was a masterclass! :o

You did well to draw. Feel good about that. I played a 119 move draw by 50 move rule, and another one at 116 moves on that chess website.

So much fun stuff to watch this tournament :)

You inspired me to re-start playing chess (I play blitz online). I would've never thought it would be so much fun.

I had a game go to 110 moves when I was the arbiter. iirc it was 40 moves / 90 minutes, but thankfully they didn't use all their time. Those Grunfeld-like pawn structures are a pain. Qb6 was nice

You’re doing great Anna. 10 hours of chess at a high level is an impressive feat!

"My brain was so fried" 🤯 Really've felt that 🫠

just glad all went well

Gut zu wissen das ich nicht die einzige person bin die im spiel schon mal vergessen hat das der König auch Figuren raus nehmen kann ❤

Good game, Anna. And a fantastic sweater!

Thank you for the great recap and for defending Uwe ♥

i had a similar endgame at Tata Steel

Estupenda partida. Una muestra de tu gran talento 🎉

WOW! One of the most interesting and educational matches. Chess Princess

"Boy was I wrong... Wait, I've never used that sentence. "Boy was I wrong."" I dunno why, that just tickled me 🤣🤣

Now it's her longest. You the 🐐! What a stressful game! 👍👍👍 and SUB! Love your mom's commentary, like you chat. She SACRIFICED THE BISHOP!

18:26 I think the most disrespectful thing you can do in chess is to sacrifice your queen for nothing in the opening and then win anyway...

What a dramatic and cinematic intro! I love it!

And the oscar goes to ... ludwigdelarge (editor).

I would have a lot more confidence in the Gruenfeld if I could play it with a move in hand like Uwe did.

Yay amazing video keep up the good work

I like it when you surprise yourself by using common english phrases 😂

I stumbled across your videos and I enjoy your enthusiasm for chess. 3 questions for you, if I may. Curious to know if you recognize mistakes soon after making them or when you review the match afterwards? Do you mostly focus on playing standard format? And a personal goal question. Do you hope to surpass your mother someday and become a top ranked player in Sweden? Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm and I hope that you have success with your Reykjavik tournament.

I saw Rd4 I’m surprised you didn’t realize the King would be able to recapture on f7 but Wow a Brilliant !! for the Bishop sacrifice that was Great that you were able to calculate you could make a draw of the game even after he promotes his pawn to a Queen Fantastic you had a really great focus even after playing for so long

i had game about 120 moves, and over 6 hours, in the past there was the old time control : 2h for 40 move after this add 1 h for the next 20 moves and after this 30 min for the rest of the game. And in the first years i played in chess club, there was also even longer games: 2h 40 moves +1h 20 moves +30 min 10 moves , then wirte donw the possition and continue the game on other day with 1h for next 20 moves.

Epic intro! Loved it.

I enjoyed watching the last hour or more of the game as it happened, after starting from the beginning at 2x speed until I caught up. I was quite surprised it went long enough for me to catch up. I saw no etiquette problem with what either player did. I like playing my games to the end, unless it is obvious that both players want to stop it with an agreed draw, or someone wants to resign. In live classical games, if I am going to resign, I will sometimes ask if they'd prefer to play it out. I always like playing a game out, because I love seeing checkmate combinations being found, and love seeing them being missed also. I don't mind if it is me who will be checkmated, though of course I prefer the reverse. Having the full record of a game from move 1 until the game is over via play, I simply find preferable to seeing a partial game and a decision to stop playing. Of course, once the result is obvious, I play quickly. And if it reaches an uninteresting end like king and rook against king, I resign without enjoying or needing to see the boring and common checkmate to follow. Anyone who gets into that position against me, is sure to win it, and sure to also find it uninteresting. But an overwhelming attack, or king chase, or converting a middle game advantage to an endgame win, I love seeing through to the end, regardless of which side of it I'm on.

I am really enjoying these videos ☺️