Magnus Carlsen Is Rewriting Chess 

Thanks a lot yeah sorry I made myself misunderstood in this video as I meant it’s the correct word to use, not that I was pronouncing it correctly

"Tsuh-vi-shen-tsoog", german Z sounds like an english "ts" ; and the w in german sounds like the english "V" 😅

​@@PatrickStockl and the g should be unvoiced, more like a k

.....but don't try this at home 😆

@@blaze1148 Indeed 🤣

You can only get away with it if you're playing blitz or rapid

@@blaze1148 You can… and you’ll succeed to the extent you understand the opening phase of chess better than your opponent.

Naa he watch Emil Diemar 17 pawns move and he prepared this with improvmant😂😂😂

Haha I know the feeling!

That's the funniest comment I've read all day.

That is right, but see that only Magnus and sometines Hikaru are the only ones who troll their oponnents, the rest dont even try despite if they play blitz, the rest stick to conventional and usual openings and defenses

I think in many blitz games the players are already well out of book by the 10th move. You could argue that maybe the pawn structures are unfamiliar, but even that argument is sus. I think the 'real reason' MC is so good is not that he takes players out of book but he can calculate better.

@@raylopez99 he isnt calculating that early in the game

He also takes advantage of the fact that everyone is afraid of him it's super weird I don't think there's a single player out there that doesn't play noticeably worse against Magnus. You can see the demeanor shift and everything. He's got a mental strangle hold on all the top guys it's craziness.

@@chicken29843 MVL isnt afraid of him

Magnus don't see tactics, tactics find their way to magnus' eyes 😅😅😅

I think Hikaru is slightly faster, but Magnus goes both deeper and wider and has better instincts.

Hikaru himself being so great he definitely knows what he's talking about.

@@LeafyPeach yeah for sure.

@@LeafyPeach it has been very hard for him to come to peace with the fact that Magnus is his better. Because honestly Nakamura probably would be that guy if Magnus wasn't just better than him. But I think he lost a lot of steam and worrying about his normal chess career realizing his position as far as his legacy goes is pretty much dependent on waiting out Carlsen. Of course Nakamura is a little bit of a choker so that's kind of his big problem and why he hasn't been able to be that guy compared to Magnus who does not choke. Of course I want to be clear this is all within the realm of being like one of the best three players of Chess in the world so like you know compared to most people he's not a choker and the margin of difference is so tiny.

I think he is challenging not himself because he is mostly finding a solution to level the game again. It´s more a challenge for the opponents to find a solution for uncommon positions they are not prepared for. Magnus wants to play creative chess and not a pure memory game.

@@andremuller8546 It could work both ways, to make himself more fun, and totally confuse the opponent

His yet to reach his prime!

He's never beat me at chess.

Nor me 😉 ​@@TheJpf79

ah I like it haha

Only the King should be able to EnPassant like a Queen.

@@user-th1hu6hg9s I know this was a throw-away joke, but you got me curious. How would a King en passant look? Can you explain an example of how you envision this would work in the game? The like a Queen comment kinda sticks out to me. What does that mean? If you were simply being cheeky as the op commenter no worries. Be well.

would be impressiver if he made it possible for a king to commit a mitrofanov deflection

@@sterlingmullett6942 When a Bishop goes from b8 to h2, King on c3 can capture at c7 or g3.

That may generally be the case but here it almost backfired. Magnus won due to his endgame prowess and his opponent making a crucial mistake towards the end. His unorthodox opening actually backfired. Even though his opponent flubbed a bit, it was not enough and Magnus got slowly pushed back, the evaluation bar dropped into the negatives.

Magnus realised modern day GMs are extremely weak in endgames, because everyone is focusing on computer-analysis and memorisation of openings, very complicated mid-games, then hoping for a draw. So he literally designs several "endgames" right from the beginning, leaving all preparation useless.

no worries thanks for watching!

Oh cool thanks a lot really appreciate the feedback!

It's true. I didn't skip through the video at all. Straight to the game after a relative and concise intro.

The term "pieces" in chess language usually doesn't refer to pawns; they are pawns, not pieces

@@dancer2234 lol nope not true. Id say you just blundered the pawns

You are welcome to stay ignorant if you'd like. Just know that the way you use the word 'piece' is different from the way nearly everyone else does. As seen in this video.@@goodtoGoNow1956

Ah thanks! I googled and you’re correct much appreciated

@SCBB24 - The number of distinct chess positions after White’s first move is 20 (16 pawn moves and 4 knight moves). There are 400 distinct chess positions after two moves (first move for White, followed by first move for Black). There are 5,362 distinct chess positions or 8,902 total positions after three moves (White’s second move). There are 71,852 distinct chess positions or 197,742 total positions after four moves (two moves for White and two moves for Black). There are 809,896 distinct positions or 4, 897,256 total positions after 5 moves. There are 9,132,484 distinct positions or 120,921,506 total positions after 6 moves (three moves for White and three moves for Black). The total number of chess positions after 7 moves is 3,284,294,545. The total number of chess positions is about 2x10 to the 46 power. If you understand this and like math tell us the answer.

@@uforferdetnilsson2595 😂

@SCBB24 I get what you are saying, but at the same time, the game is fundamentally about memorization. Even "calculation" is to some extent memorization, it's seeing/imagining the board in the mind, just as you would when playing blindfolded, and recognizing patterns. Pattern recognition is a form of memory. In many cases the positions are not identical but there are similarities in the pattern of the piece placement -- especially pawns -- which points GMs to candidate moves and lines to consider. This has been looked at in chess studies. As to @uforferdetnilsson2595, this is a common thing people say but it is very misleading. There are countless "theoretically possible" chess positions but many positions will be immediately ruled out as unfavorable or outright losing, which is why popular lines are far, far fewer than the mathematical possibilities. In many cases, there are only 1 or 2 moves which maintain a balanced game. The vast majority of the "possible" moves will be seen as unviable right from the start. In addition, just because positions are different, doesn't mean they are dissimilar. You will often see in interviews GM's making comparisons to other games they played before which were "similar", but the similarity can seem pretty abstract (e.g. pieces can be in different locations, but pawn structure is similar). If you only look at possible combinations of pawn structures, already the number of possibilities shrinks dramatically.

Sure there are that many positions, but there are absolutely terrible positions within that. So that completely removes a lot of those possibilities from the pool. So it is still a lot of memorization.

Yeah! And thanks very much

yeah might look at that, he had a nice one against Giga Quparadze that I'd like to do, thanks for suggestion

Haha yeah !

Thanks a lot! Don’t have board in front of me but visualising it the problem is after kg7, rook, g8+ the knight on f6 will take your rook! But in the knight blocking line yeah would be mate otherwise. It also helped me visualise knowing that, from memory, the computer only showed me one path to mate which is what Magnus played

@@epicchess2021 - ah makes sense - keep doing your thing mate loving it

Appreciate it! Thank you

Glad you like them! Thanks very much

Haha

Thanks a lot hope you’re enjoying!

Thanks a lot!

Thanks haha although I made myself misunderstood in this video as what I meant was it’s the correct word to use, not that I was pronouncing it correctly

Haha

Thanks very much! And for the kind feedback

Exactly no it doesn’t, sometimes it gives a huge advantage but the reason is obscure and hard to find!

Thanks a lot! Glad you're enjoying, cheers for watching

Glad you like them!

Haha thanks a lot glad you’re enjoying! Cheers for watching

Thanks very much! Yeah my ECF (English chess federation) is my most U.K. to date and is 2107, I’m hoping to get to 2200 one day so that I can get my national Master title

Thanks very much and yeah this game was really special for sure!

Haha yeah I made myself misunderstood in this video as I meant to say it’s the correct word not the correct pronunciation!

Yeah they have openings prepared by then after that they play on their own by general principles of good moves etc and then combine with tactics too, like learning a language really and there’s lot of pattern repetition

Thanks a lot glad you enjoyed!

ah very good 😁

Haha nice, yeah these games are so much fun to watch

Haha old school game aye 😁

It’s hard to even say, even when they get advantages tho he’s often up on clock or just simply setups tricks/ reaches an endgame and they crumble!

Time is certainly a large factor. Carlsen has great insight and thinks fast. He also converts to regular play in a timely manner, i.e. he doesn't let things get out of hand. Still, even super-GMs do not seem to get the advantage that should result when the opponent (Carlsen) makes provocative, "wasted" moves. Have they forgotten how to attack right out of the opening?@@epicchess2021

You have to give it to him he defended extremely well and had an excellent middle game, creating good chances of holding or even wining, given the situation

​@@mrtech2259 very true! it's so strange with this "Magnus" effect - the middle game really felt like Alexander would actually turn it around and win.. but Magnus is so strong in the end game.

@@amusik7 exactly 💯👍🏻

Yeah pronunciation not great lol sorry

😁 yeah I know the feeling haha

:o

I don’t follow the reference to Nureyev sorry but glad you’re enjoying the videos! Thanks for watching

@@epicchess2021 Rudolf . For some, the greatest ballet dancer ever. The are other greats but there is only one Nureyev, never to be confused with anyone else. Search YT for “Le Corsaire, Nureyev”. And behold.

Thanks very much

@@epicchess2021 yeah man, I’m a big fan of agadmator, but I have to say that you’re more fast paced and dynamic with your analysis, including some great insights. 🤘🤘

ah interesting! Yeah I believe Carroll coined the term in relation to words (or neologisms you should say, to be precise, I think). Though the suitcase term had been around for years as you say

@@epicchess2021 interesting. I first heard it in relation to Finnegans Wake which is wholly written in not just English two-word portmanteau but multilingual multi-word portmanteau making it unreadable at first glance haha as Joseph Campbell said "He had to smelt the modern dictionary back to protean plasma and re-enact the “genesis and mutation of language” in order to deliver his message." Quite the headscratcher. Didn't know the Jabberwocky was portmanteau, I just thought it was gibberish lol.

Yeah it is an edit lol just for some fun