Nepo crumbled on game 12 lost. Devastated. Hard to watch 

Hess said it the best. Painfull to watch

I don't understand, what else could've he done? It's not like he can complain or anything even if he wanted to, Ian can use his time how he wants and if Ian needs his moment before resigning, he HAS to wait. The only thing that can be called respectful is that he stayed at the table instead of leaving but at the same time someone could say he didn't leave because he expected Ian to resign, in which case you couldn't call it respectful. He just normally waited for Ian's move, the only thing he can do, nothing more he could've done.

@@Snoowfy Ding is respectful, relatively. Concentrating on the game instead of being overwhelmed by undue emotions is in itself respectful. I don't know if Ding for once threw tantrum for his blunders leading to some loss in the championship. He's a wholesome quiet guy.

@@user-sx2we1xe5q That is understandable but I think that's more about mental fortitude than respect. Nepomniachtchi in the classical portion of Chess is on par if not slightly better than Ding but, he is too emotional of a person to be a champion. He is too emotional for a chess player in general. That's why he reacts like that. Ian simply lacks discipline. I guess that's more of a personal view but mental strength in itself is relative to the person and has nothing to do with respect. Also, try to see it from Ding's prospective, if you see your opponent break down like this, besides feeling sorry for him, you feel confident because his reaction confirms you that you're indeed winning like you think. This will surely improve your confidence and make it easier for you to sat politely and just wait for the opponent to make his move without much worry. Idk maybe it's just me, but I'm saying that the original comment about him being very respectful doesn't really apply to this situation in particular.

Indeed, Ding could have stripped and danced on the table, could be singing, could be calling Ian names. Instead, he is just sitting there and waiting for resigns like a boss!

@@Snoowfyhe kept his head down, not making any eye contact, not showing the slightest sign of happiness,relieve,relax or being entertained , or impatience or anything. Ding is known to be super calm, polite and humble, I think this situation shows it well.

that would be so cool to watch

Carlsen disagree.

@@danielszczypka6977 Rubbish. Carlsen will never beat a top chess engine. No human will. You know nothing about chess. He makes plenty of errors, just less than other humans. Doesn’t make his play remotely close to a top engine.

@@gruntgobshite i don't think he meant it in literal sense, although the internet is so flooded with Carlsen's fans (who indeed know net next to nothing about chess and mostly post stuff like "Carlson can demolish eVeRyOnE") that it's hard to say sometimes

IAN has to work on his physical fitness. Fitness will help in mental strength also.

yea man, i felt his pain in my gut. this is a life work for these guy,the pressure is like nothing I've experienced and all that in front of the world.. and people jumping on hype trains and hate trains without any regard for fellow human.. respect to you my man,for having empathy..

@@slanigrad respect to you for respecting OP for showing empathy

there is support for nepo too ,,

I think Nepo will get more symphaty now

Game 8.

Yeah

So cringe when ppl say that sh

As funny as it is, I don't think she understands the meaning of tilt. It's when players become frustrated due to a string of losses, which is not the case here. Nepo was winning the overall match and the computer shows that they were about even in position in this particular game.

she dont know what the word means lol

@@cw9282 that is what tilt is ,, when a number of blunders lost him a winning position ,,

tania makes me smile

Cost him world championship

@@StupidChess yeah, this was the decisive moment in a way. it was the worst, the most AVOIDABLE of his blunders, i'd say. tiebreaks are indeed somewhat more random (which is not to take away from Ding's applaudable finish), but there were serious chances for the match to never get into those tiebreaks in the first place.

Caruana's voice is just soothing for a time like this. Really tough on Ian

Man i really feel for Nepo

@@mosesabunike2055 Chess is beautiful, but cruel at the same time 😓

İn chess this is just called chess blindness. He calculated for so long that he misses the most simple mistake

​@@ozanozenir2503 sometimes a player can get so entangled in calculating very deep and complex variations that they actually miss something very trivial... which would have invalidated their calculations to begin with but there's this psychological "too much invested to quit" effect - once you've spent a lot of energy on calculations, you sort of become emotionally attached to this product of your work, and your subsconsciousness starts to block out whatever could prove this work useless (because, apparently, it must of great value to you). this is of course just a hypothesis, but that's how i imagine it works underneath (or at least one of possible ways) i think it was Jonathan Rowson who once said that a crucial part of the fun (and the torture) of chess is that it forces the brain to perform tasks that it wasn't generally designed for chess is like hammering square pegs into round holes even the geometry of the chessboard is non-intuitive, because (long-range) pieces effectively move at lightspeed - for a queen, rook or bishop there's no difference between travelling through 7 squares and just 1 square, it can happen in a single move regardless or a diagonal - unlike in real life - isn't actually longer than the side of a square (it's still a single move), and on the other hand zig-zagging doesn't necessarily slow you down: this often comes up in king & pawn endgames, when the correct trajectory for your king isn't the straight line - because it's important to block some squares while heading towards the destination, while reaching this destination still takes the same amount of moves, surprisingly in this sense chess isn't really a battle against your opponent's rooks, knights and bishops, or even your opponent's brain at the end, but more against all the mechanisms of your own brain that aren't pure logic, which have to be shut down (and whatever is called instinct or intuition must also be subjugated and confined to only serve pure logic). and that's where the difficulty lies, because you can't just shut them down. it's like processes or services in an operating system that keep on restarting by themselves over and over, often hiding themselves in the background

This is right. She did not need to be.

@@truberthefighter9256 she was emotional, its normal…

@@Medsas nah bro Fabi and hess are human too but they had more restraint and empathy

Especially Fabi considering he's been on that position before

Magnus Not Interested In Amateur Chess.

actually with top engine moves after rxe6 it will come to white having a lot of pawns ,,

Ruins every commentary, so cringe to watch

@@harshkumarf4379 if you analyse engine lines to sufficient depth the advantage almost always turns out to be pawns. No GM is looking at this F5 move and thinking, oh Nepo dropped another pawn, no their reaction is that this is just completely lost because there's 0 compensation and counter play. You need to play with engine precision just to LOSE ON PAWNS.

the point is that it's the ONLY tangible outcome of the move, and this already demonstrates why it's losing

So you're criticizing her for stating a fact? 😂 okay

Lol

What's your rating and title?

i don't think it's confidence. it seems like more of psychological reaction to high pressure - he can't resist the temptation to try and find a shortcut when he feels uncomfortable. and if this shortcut doesn't exist (as it often happens), every now and then Ian hallucinates one out, because his mind needs it so badly

Why?

@@frix8826 2021 Chess Championship Game 6 Ian vs Magnus. Longest game in a world championship match ever. Ian drew games 1-5, game 6 he loses in the end game in a match that took nearly 8 hours. After game 6 he lost 3 more games (including 2 with white). It's counted as the game that basically broke him in 2021. Saying "GAME 6" now is basically implying that Ian is going to crumble and lose the chess championship.

​@@revilconn he did

because the good thing would be 14 draws, right?

​@@marcosclaudio1729 depends on who you ask. I rather like it when games are played perfectly. I don't understand what the problem is with that.

@@marcosclaudio1729 Magnus would have punished those blunders from Nepo and crushed him like he did last time. We got 12 draws when he played against Caruana, because Caruana was almost at Carlsens level back then.

this is way more fun

Magnus chickened out, he wanted to be GOAT...a real sportsmanship is different..

Tania obviously did not have any ill will towards Ian. She's just a more exciting commentator who does a good job drawing in regular viewers and chess novices. Yes, you can say that as a master or above chess player you'd rather ignore that type of commentary because you think it's not necessary, but it is undeniable that those types of energetic commentators are in great demand in all manner of sports. I think it's good that she adds some level of excitement to the game commentary.

no

To you or to Nepo? Frankly i feels chess players should not represent their countries. And ding shouldn't have a Chinese flag, and nobody should have any flags unless it's chess Olympiad. I am just voicing my opinions i couldn't care less about flags Frankly.

Ask Putin to stop destroying other countries and the flag magically reappears..

It's not. People with this same flag have killed and murdered thousands and tens of thousands of adults and children.

That doesn't make any difference to him. This is to determine the best individual chess player in the world, it has nothing to do with countries. But if we really want to blame someone for Russian players not being able to display Russia's flag, we could blame a well-known individual whose name starts with a P.

not just that, she contributed ZERO analysis in the whole commentary. Not sure how but she ended up talking the most during the match without actually saying anything

@@catherinesmith950 I usually skip videos she is in.

if you're in for pretty voices (by whatever standards speak to you), i recommend "America's Got Talent"

would have, could have - didn't

Because some countries are more equal than others, utter hypocrisy

So you understand that it is wrong for Russia to invade Ukraine, just as it was wrong for US to invade Iraq?

if only there was some difference between Hussein and Zelenskyy

I think she knows her role here, despite being designated as commentator, as primarily more of an announcer. But it is also unfair to her, although I am cringing to that “childlike analysis” (more like a repetition) sometimes, that you are making a big deal about her announcing Nepo’s blunder. In 2021 World Chess Championship, Anish also made a similar (or even worse) remark on Nepo’s blunder.

@@oats9755 i understand some of what you are saying, other parts aren't so clear. There isn't a super GM or at least a GM who can play the role of announcer? I think Hess is superb. They really don't need three people. You're repetition comment made no sense to me but you are completely missing my point with your Giri comment. He gets to say whatever he wants because he's a super GM. This woman is playing catchup from the early middlegame onwards most times. Giri actually understands whats happening and sometimes even sees something the players don't. It's not a useful comparison. To reiterate (or repeat) whichever you wish: she is on the show because she is a woman, she can't do her job very well and the product suffers because of this. Not a complex point.

I don't grasp why "affirmative action" is the thing you immedately jump to here. If you think she's ruining the commentary because she's not as knowledgeable as her co-commentators then that's perfectly fine, but there's no evidence anywhere that she's here explicitly and exclusively because she's a woman. Not to mention she's an IM commentating with two GMs - of course she's not going to sound as experienced as them. Gender's got nothing to do with it. If anything it feels like you're just airing out a personal grievance here.

I think in a chess game she would probably kick your ass... She's a GM as well, if I am not wrong. I loved her commentary.

​@mrnono5034 She's an IM. It says it in front of her name.