I am defending my PhD thesis next week, I will conclude with "so yeah that was my thesis, hope you guys enjoyed it, I would like to thank my advisors for contribution to my work, I really appreciate it, as usual you can find two of my previous papers here. Thanks all for coming and I will see you soon, have an awesome day".
I'm assuming it's in math, in which case you should also throw in something like "it is as of page #... of the thesis that we have a completely new proof"
Nepo wins candidates tournament. Everyone: that's so cool, Nepo is such an attacking player. Definitely we'll see many decisive games, instead of boring draws we've seen in previous matches. Magnus: exactly my thoughts.
I expected more dynamic play from Nepo. His choice of stale 500 year old drawish openings was pathetic. Play some hypermodern lines which create a number of possibilities, imbalances, and either side can win.
@@MrK623 in his defense why don't u go against Magnus Carlsen and lets c u do that. its easy to criticize from the side but it hits different when you are in the spot, opposing the world chess champion
@@Asgardians3t I am a big Magnus fan. I have seen spectacular play from Nepo, and he didn't show any of that in this match at all. Of course it's not easy (going against Magnus). As for criticizing, I am questioning his teams preparation which consisted of over analyzed 500 year old openings. You are going to need something more dynamic, with many possibilities and chances to go wrong to have any chance against Magnus.
@@torstensandvei4973 Yeah it was pretty disappointed. I'll never hate Ian; he is incredible and such a good person. But it was... really not fun to watch. I hope next time, it'll be Ding or Wesley So, maybe Alireza.
What a domineering performance from Magnus Carlsen Just imagine the pressure he is going to put on the players around the world.. First you have to qualify to the candidates and then you have yo win it beating multiple super GMs and after all that you know that there is magnus himself who wont even give you an inch!!!!!!!
But every contender had to go through it for the last 70 years, including magnus himself. Imagine the road Kasparov had to take to win over Karpov, and kramnik in vet kasparov etc.
His understanding of the endgame is so strong. Perhaps the best of any world champion. When he is in a drawn position he will either draw or win. And this is when the other players crack. They know how good Magnus is, it's not luck. And they must play perfectly to draw. 1 slight inaccuracy and Magnus is going to get blood out of a stone.
@@mtekleel well yeah grand masters may SOMETIMES play it in games which are a LITTLE serious But SUPER grandmasters i a world chess championship? That's never happening mate sorry):
the World Blitz and Rapid Championships are postponed but everyone got to know that only after WCC 2021 started. So Magnus played this knowing he had to play 2 other championships immediately after this concluded and he won by playing all games without a mistake, miss or blunder, the longest game in WCCs, got his lifetime record with Nepo equalized and then gained it by now having a positive score against Nepo in classical. Dude is beyond human
Chess GOAT? If it's your personal opinion, I cant really put it in polite terms on what many people think about that. If there's been an official/factual study over it, please share the source. Thank you
@@daman2960 Actually Carlsen is probably the best chess player of all time. Engines have made our analysis far deeper than ever before, in both opening novelties and deep endgames, in a way that human exploration prior to their existence can’t compare to. Learning how to mimic these engines and their accuracy has simply led to a higher level of play. If you check today’s games from Carlsen and other Super GMs, they are more accurate than past games historically. Obviously with engine access, past world champions would probably reach this level too. However, in a world where the Bobby Fischer of the ‘60s, or Kasparov of the ‘90s, could play current Carlsen, Carlsen would win the majority of matches with the lessons engines have taught us. Additionally, there is the simple fact that with time, more and more theory from humans is discovered as well.
@@manu-ox4fe That has nothing to do with this. Magnus made overall more concise moves because he wasn’t nearly as distracted as Ian seemed to be (kept leaving the table back and forth) and doing a lot of rapid moves.
@@Thesamurai1999 Wow a freaking analyser of World Championship Challenger . You should interview for a position on his team cause you seem like you already have all the answers 😃
carlsen really sent a message with this wcc defense. ill admit going in as a magnus fan i thought nepo had a genuine chance but whooowee magnus well silenced the doubters to say the least
Magnus showed that no one grinds like the champ, a lot of people had Ian being the most challenging challenger of his career. Looking forward to next years candidates the field is rounding out quite nicely.
@@josephsong8911 it's so sad that insufferable ppl like this exist. Instead of positivity and knowledge they embrace negativity and decadence. As u rightly say this was supposed to be magnus' toughest test, however game 6 proved to be Ian's undoing. Ian could've played it safe afterwards but all lines wouldve lead to a draw.
@@fernandovargasmejia8512 I think probably that's true, based on his age, potential, and most importantly his playing style. But only time will tell when, or even IF. Lots of people have come to 2800 and still never won, i.e. Fabi, Ding, Grischuk, Levon, Wesley So, Mamedyarov, MVL, Hikaru, etc.
@@josephsong8911 A winning record from when they were kids is beyond worthless. The candidates tournament was a mess because of covid. Anyone who thought there was much value in this round are typical shallow-minded sports spectators. Ian is great but fluctuates badly. That was never a good recipe for the WCC. Though, it COULD have turned out well. Magnus is stable, that is almost more important than his ability to calculate moves. Any good challenger needs to be stable... and find Magnus when he's off his game. I feel bad for Ian. When he is great, he's great. But to call him the most challenging challenger for Magnus (Even before this WCC) is goofy at best.
I believe Captures, Captures is on his merch in the store linked in the description (you've got to scroll down some). :D Also, just my opinion but agad is a very strong commentator with preparation (the best imo), and it's not quite as clear from live vods that he'd be better than some of the other commentators in a live broadcast format -- Rensch, Hess, & Caruana were actually quite good live.
The only thing I really wish were different would be for Nepo to use his time. He was playing with incredible precision early in the match, and had some great attacking ideas throughout, but twice he missed blunders in part because he spent like 2 minutes on a move. In the post game chatting with Carlsen he even says he missed a certain move (maybe the queen h3?) that is well within his calculation capabilities. Obvs you cannot spend forever there, and also it's easy to say as a spectator, but he hadn't even used half his time by time control, and by that time he was losing... :(
Actually it's his playing style, even Anish commented on this point, nepo usually plays very quickly with very good accuracy, they may not be the brilliance but enough to make the opponent to put in time pressure. This has always been his style. Yeah we don't know what would have happened otherwise, but I want to believe he WANTED to give his best, but couldn't deliver it, obviously defeating in-form Wesley and Anish in the candidates proves he is the best challenger for this WCC
Yeah this is how Nepo qualified for the WCC to begin with. Playing quickly with high accuracy and putting pressure on his opponents via time crunch. Unfortunately Magnus is a psychopath. In an 8 hour game he allowed himself to go down to 30 seconds on the clock with absolutely no concern whatsoever.
Thank you so much Agadmator for not spoiling these matches and covering them so well! I have really enjoyed the last two weeks of watching these! I’m a big fan of Magnus, and I’m glad he won, but winning off two blunders can’t feel as satisfying as one would hope. Keep up the great work!
Honestly this game was very interesting as Nepo didn't just trade everything. I liked this one the most right after the game 6. His performance in this one was much better then in the previous ones.
The problem is this isn't the way to play in classical. This game is pretty one sided the moment Nepo blundered, not saying that it's easy, it's just that it give Magnus only one line to calculate and he just went into autopilot. IMO he should've played save in classical and contest Magnus in the tiebreaks as Nepo is much more on Magnus's level in rapid and blitz than in classical. Complete opposite of Fabi who's strong in classical but not as strong in Rapid and blitz.
Talking about Magnus Carlsen's play, Fabiano Caruana said: "In some positions you can't compete with him. Certain pawn structures he just plays like a machine..."
I think everybody already here knows that Nepo went down like a bag of wet cement after game six. I feel bad for him, I really wanted a much closer match.
@No Body I remember when Magnus played against Wesley So and both players had heart monitors on them. Despite Magnus losing the game, the heart monitor in the endgame showed Wesley's heart beat at like 180BP|M and Magnus's was a steady 84BPM.
@@hauntinghaze5161 1.2 millions. It's split 60%-40%. But that's not really the point, the amount of funding, sponsorships and conditions the world champion can request for attending other tournaments are worth much more.
It feels like we were shortchanged, really. The World Championship started out so promisingly with two very interesting and hard fought opening games where Ian looked well prepared (even got better positions than Magnus). By the fifth draw, we were wondering if 14 draws were on the cards. Then, out of nowhere, the all-time classic Game 6 crushed Ian and he just collapsed. Sad way to end the tournament really. But for once in this game, I don't think he actually blundered. He could easily have played safe moves and settled for a draw, and if this had been Game 6, I have no doubt he'd have played out the draw, and we'd be wondering about his chances. But forced to win 3 games out of 4, he had no choice but to go for suboptimal moves hoping to complicate the position and induce an error from Magnus. It didn't happen. But for once, I don't think it was a blunder like Games 8 & 9. He made a deliberate decision to go for it having nothing to lose.
I don’t think he can settle for safe moves for this game. He needs to win so he has to force something from the position. Had this game been a draw and Game 11, it’s mathematically done.
@@denzelurieta9206 I mean, he can draw this and then maybe make Eric Rosen happy with “Stafford Gambit time” sure the end result is probably the same, but Eric becomes happy
@@jurjenvanderhoek316 I don't think he would care if lost the "top 100"th position. He would be more concerned about losing his No.1 spot has has maintained for more than a decade.
Let's not forget that the only reason nepo won the candidates is because the covid break happened conveniently after MVL beat him or else he would have spiralled down in the candidates just like he did here, next year I hope it's firoujza who challenges because I am sure the games will be super exciting. Also caruana would be an excellent opponent, giri would also be an entertaining player to see, so let's see
Magnus even managed to gain some rating points during the WCC, sure Nepo's blunders helped but it shows how brutal Magnus has been in key moments, especially during game 6 where Nepo had to blitz out top engine moves in time trouble just to defend the draw. Doesn't matter who you are routine for, you have to appreciate the fact that we're witnessing a chess legend writing history in real time.
"you have to appreciate the fact that we're witnessing a chess legend writing history in real time" Yes, and that's what the "it's boring/disappointing" people seem to be missing.
@@JSSTyger that doesn't necessarily mean she would play it in a game , she is thinking out loud for the sake of the audience, need to understand the bad moves ang why they are bad as well as the good moves
I think Nepo was playing like someone with burn out .Perhaps he prepared " too much " for the championship . Two huge blunders in a world championship match ? It reminds me of when I was a proffesional pool player , I would play 10-12 hours a day , sometimes money matches would last 20 hours or more, One day I got to the point where my mind would not focus on key shots , most of the time I was good, but occasionally while approaching the shot and just before pulling the trigger, my mind would go blank and a blunder would occur. It was like , from playing so much my mind was rejecting the process and refusing to focus at key moments in a match .I attributed the phenominon to burn out .Nepo was doing well until the record breaking long game and it seems he never recovered from that one . Anyways , that is my story , and that is what I believe was going on in this match . Magnus is a monster too !
As I commented a month ago , beating Carlsen here and there is one thing, playing with him day in and day out and beating him is another one.Ask Spasski.
Exactly my thoughts. If it was a general tournament where Nepo had to meet another player before the second half of the match he would have done better. Facing same magnus continously just drained him.WCC is another level.
I think we can say Carlsen is the GOAT now. Simply because he is the most accurate player of all time and has dominated classical (5 x WC) , rapid (3 x WC), blitz (5 x WC) and online tournaments in a time there has never been more active players. The competition is on a different level now than 50 years ago.
That he is the goat is out of question. We have stockfish and alpha zero and they get better with time. A 2500 player today would beat Fisher and Kasparov back then. The Engine has a big influence on super GM play.
Yeah, I have to say that, even with all due respect to Ian and how hard it was to become a challenger,... this was a freak show. Those last 3 defeats were simply beneath the level of a World Championship and those 3 games will be memorable for all the wrong reasons.
I don't think this should be judged at that level. A person feels a bit pain and a bit sadness and then in that mood he has to try even harder. It's not possible. Imagine u getting failed in 1-2 exams and then u have to score 100 in all the others . Not gonna be possible. Give a respect that he defeated everyone around the world and reached there and tried and it's ok to loose.
I see So and Firouzja being the two main players vying to be the challenger. Personally, I would like to see another format for the challenger to be decided. A Challenger's Knockout Cup to determine the four top contenders... with a week off before the Challengers Final might help... where 1 vs. 4 and 2 vs. 3 play in a best of seven game match for each, three days off before those match winners compete in another seven game match to decide the challenger. The "match" play in the actual Championship is so very different than the tournaments running up to it. Match play might better prepare the challengers.
Fabi looked really hungry for another chance at the title during the commentary, wouldn't be surprised if we see him back at his best, people have forgotten how good he is at his best, his recent game against Firouzja being a good exemple.
I don't think I have ever hit F5 while looking at a RU-vid channel before. I did today because I love Agadmator's videos and was anxious for this one to appear.
Playing candidates as the top seed might definitely help Alireza. He plays it in his peak like Magnus. Very likely that he will might, but you never know
He would go in as the favourite but succumb to the pressure of the biggest tournament of his life . The difference between any tournament and the Candidates is that Every player studies every person's game and has some deep prep for them . For example , just after Covid when Candidates were resumed , the round 8 game of Fabi Vs Mvl . Fabi literally prepared a piece sacrifice out of the opening from the 1 year he had .
Started following this channel years ago, it’s actually what got me into chess. Great job narrating these games, your story telling ability is exceptional. Great job!
Congratulations Magnus Carlsen. Thank you for Ian Nepomniachtchi for the games, your sportsmanship, and your willingness to fight. Both of you are incredible Grand Masters, I wish I had even a fraction of the talent or class that you possess.
Thanks Agad for the recaps, congrats to Magnus, better luck to Nepo if he ever gets another chance. He was the most promising challenger theoretically but fell apart after the blunder in game 8, not game 6.
@@tauqueerazam417 The final score line seems to agree. It was a tournament of two halves. A hard-fought first half with some brilliant chess that petered out to draws. Then the second half where Ian simply collapsed. He was crushed in the end. There is no other way to put it, even if it's his own blunders in Games 8 & 9.
Just wonderful coverage, and not just the mind boggling fascinating lines, as always the dry as sticks, dead pan humour. Who would be anywhere else for the championship coverage? Love it!
Magnus and only Congratulations. I think Nepo lost mentally well before he lost on the board. It was brutal for him. I hope he recovers from this one sided debacle.
Agadmator is the friendliest youtuber I think. He makes chess understandable for lowrated player like me, and he is so down to earth with his comment that make me feel like we are a long time good friend
Thanks for the videos! I would humbly request a video about yourself if you ever have time. Where you grew up, how you got involved in chess, etc. Would love to see it!
Congrats to Magnus for this beautiful championship 👍 I don't see anybody else on this planet who could defeat Magnus on a 12 games round. I bet Magnus will be the World Champ for next 3 or 4 years, until he loses some mental capacity due to ageing while young Alireza may build some strength on long competition. Thanks to Ian who did very good until that small pawn inaccuracy on game 6. No doubts he is the nowadays #2 world wide, until some challenger arises.
Day 1 Reporter : " Why do u think you will win against magnus ? " Ian : " Normally I think the better player wins." MAGNUS being the best and defeating him straight 7.5 -3.5 with the biggest margin in his world championship career proving him his worst opponent : 😬😏
You are wrong. It is always a question of how much you risk. Ian is a very solid player defending well, and never gave up, but simply hadn't risk too much. Another player maybe would risk more, and play very attractive looking, then result 7-0. Anything can happen in chess.
I would like to say thank you for having standard video titles. I can't catch all the games live so I wait for the recaps afterwards. Unfortunately, other channels I follow spoiled the results in either the title or thumbnail.
It's easy to congratulate Magnus, he won. But I also congratulate Nepo. He made it to the finals of the world chess championship, an amazing achievement. Two champions. Thank you both, and thank you Agadmator. You've exponentially advanced my appreciation of chess. Heroic.
Nepo has not used his available time properly. If you have 50 mins left on the clock and you're getting crushed you didn't spend enough time calculating. Nepo banging out moves and walking away. Yeah it's cool and all, but it was never gonna put pressure on Magnus. Magnus using ALL of his available time for calculation.
Ian was the best player that came out of the candidates, which was itself a collection of best players, but Magnus just keeps proving he’s better than everyone.
yet Ian played way worse than his own level, so Magnus did not prove that his play was better than everyone's. He proved his play was better than Ian's when he was in disoriented state.
@@oleglukianchikov3029 Putting your opponent who is super grandmaster in disoriented state, itself shows how powerful Magnus is... And IAN who beat everyone in candidates plays bad here, that means it's because the opponent is Magnus... And He played with 99% accuracy and he doesn't need to prove anything, he is already better than everyone
"... an equal endgame against Magnus, so ... you can't really hope for anything there" 🤣 An equal endgame against Magnus isn't really an equal endgame, is it 😆
I think it's fair to say that Nepo beat himself as he didn't even play the way he normally plays which would have given him a chance. He was the underdog going in and should have played for more earlier on. I also think after game 6 he was mentally/emotionally crushed completely which led to an embarrassing rest of the match.
@@jibrankhalil4837 Mechanically speaking I agree with you. My comment is more that he psychologically defeated himself and did so while not playing in his own typical style of play.
It is probably better for Nepo this way. He is still one of the best and will bounce back. #suggestion - please have a series on Anand - Kramnik wch. That was one of the best performances ever and somehow is not talked that much about.
Thank you for your coverage of the championship. Enjoyable as always, although my pause and arrow buttons are getting shiny because of having to use them so often. Much of this stuff is over my head, but I'm amazed by it, anyway. As someone who has always loved astronomy, I suppose it's in my nature to enjoy looking up.
