Playing Unrated Genius in Madrid Park During Candidates 

If the GM it's Hikaru, it's even better.

@@amigosXcorrespondenc *is

After Hikaru heard he has 2400's rating on Lichess, now make sense why he so good even tho he is not a professional chess player.

@@shakezpere He said 2200 not 2400, which is even more impressive.

A super gm top 10 player too lmao

Was going to write similar. Cheers!

That Rc3 was such a good find. Hikaru completely missed that move. If that kid didn't find Rc3, he would have been blown off the board very quickly after that.

That’s the opposite of humility. But keeping simping for him

I wouldn't call it humility but Hikaru is happy when his opponents do well, knowing how happy they will be just playing a great game against a GM. They probably tell that story for many years.

@@BroCactus u have no brain cells if u think thats the opposite of humility

Isn't 2200 good tho?

@@robertwilson3866 but is a online elo. I mean its a decent elo but that in original ranking maybe its lower idk

@@robertwilson3866 It's very low compared to Hikaru's rating but it's a lot for unrated player. It's around Candidate Master level.

I was pretty surprised at that because I average around 2100 on lichess and felt like he was finding much better moves than I was seeing in the time he took to make them. I would have guessed about 2500 blitz from his play.

Yes I’m imagining just being 2200. Have you imagined being just 2200?

Coach him, Hikaru!

Hikaru needs a coach

stop it

i got a question about this position termometer ... isnt it that that it shows a position strength from a perspective of one player only? i mean if player could make move that increases its termometer score it lies as to strength of position (as if you may make a move in that position than increases it then it lies) .. so not to lie this termomenter should show a position score that cannot be improved .. but if so isnt if from one player point ov wiev only? (im a bit lost in my logic at this moment)

@@johnstone5766 The thermometer is called the evaluation bar, and it works by a computer calculating X (usually 20 or 30) moves into the future, based on how the board is currently. As such, it doesn't represent how good one player is, it represents the advantage one player has, assuming both players play perfectly. The bar is negative if black is winning, and positive if white has an advantage. For example, let's say it's early in the game, and the bar is at +0.8. White is in the lead here, as white usually is by being able to go first, and that evaluation means the absolute best move by white will maintain that 0.8 advantage. If white makes the perfect move, it's now black's turn and will still show +0.8. Any move that black makes will, at best, keep it at +0.8 as the computer has already calculated all of these responses. If white makes a huge mistake, and gives away a bishop for free, that gauge will go from +0.8 to like -3 as the computer realizes black can just take the bishop and gain a huge tactical advantage.

true

@@randomguy9249 oh hello there !

Hikura trying hard not to laugh is too funny

Yes the show of your favourite clown 🤡 drawing intentionally vs Nepo instead of playing to win

@@yugiohfanatic1964 Any other alternative would have been lost for hikaru lol. This is nepo in peak form. If you lost, you would be criticizing hikaru for giving ian a free win

wth..😂

😄

The last guy who beat you is still okay right? "No my friend"

Look at the board, hector.

he had nothing to lose

So fearless he ran out of time.

He peolly dont even know him

@@eneasadiku9836 Sure thats a factor but many people who are high rated would get very nervous knowing they play someone they admire/look up to.

Pll Llppk K

He called him no genius

Anyway good game

@@gonzalovila99 Yup but I assume he just typed the title :)

@@arindamsatapathy175 i think he doesnt edit his own videos because in most videos he would be writing titles in 3d person about him which is quite weird

Naaa!

-200 ELO

Stockfish is reflecting off the sky

Hikaru was looking for the ceiling and then when he realized there was no ceiling he was like oh no I will not win the game. Poor Hikaru does not have stockfish when he goes out.

😂😂😂😂

Good observation 😂😂😂

That kid played veery well

How do you know that he didn't know?

There was a gentle breeze and the warmth of the sun touched their cheeks. . . . good game, guys.

@@robert93mm probably in some sort of vicarious way thru RU-vid? Idk

@@robert93mm I know Hikaru isn't overt in his praise or humility it's hard to read that from him. It's subtle but it's there and if you didn't know him it's easy to miss.

The problem is that to have rating you need money. Hooe this video helped him having a sponsor or at least to be noted. He deserves to play real chess.

@@MrMarcec85 One more example of an unjust world that is so often, as the saying goes, "sad but true." Chess has historically been a pay to play a game, and while it's true that the internet has made it more accessible for people to learn and play, that has regrettably had no real effect on the excessive costs involved surrounding the ordeal of live tournament chess. Without money, one simply can't compete equally. It's a shame that talent is so evenly distributed when wealth is anything but. You make a great point, as much as I wish you were wrong (as I'm sure that you do, yourself). Cheers.

A lot of players have 2200 or 2400 online and only played online....They are usually from 1800 Fide to 2000.

@@SevenTheJester Thats with a lot of sports these days - if you have the money you can afford to travel and play. Money makes money.

KEKW

Super dedicated hard working streamer

he literally doesnt care

Hikaru went to candidates just for the chance to record this exact video. 😂

Dudes cussing in Spanish in the background.

Yeah, like every other content creator. This is the absolute worst side effect of this job. Your life is content. You start recording useless stuff and some people still watch it because it's you

Me too. It’s like he’s there for business but taking time to appreciate the country

More of this side from Hikaru!

Casual blitz is relaxation time for Hikaru at this point. He must stretch his concentration to the limits agains Nepo, Fabi etc. Firouzja said that he was playing bullet at night during the candidates. Not wise maybe to give up sleep.

This game might inspire him to reach GM status

To be fair, Hikaru was just playing casually, not really forcing anything. He was also well ahead on the clock. I mean, these days he is beating 2400s sacrificing the queen for a bishop so if he was really forcing there's no way somebody in a park would keep up. This is not to take anything from the guy, he played really well for the majority of the match. I think I would blunder from the emotions alone, playing Hikaru on the board.

@@alex86firelol this guy had a better move accuracy than hikaru. He might only be 2200 but he played a 93% accuracy here according to stockfish eval, whilst hikaru played 91% accuracy. The game finished in a drawn position. If not for time flagging, say if this was a +3 like most online chess, there’s a good chance the kid at the very least gets a draw. For the record stockfish 16 eval says that if he plays as accurate as he has been, he should actually win this game. You can say hikaru wasn’t taking it serious, but 91% accuracy is pretty serious lol. He just faced a worthy adversary here

Hikaru was careless when he moved the knight back to defend his bishop after trading queens. After Rd3 threatening an exchange sacrifice Black has no real chance to win.

yeah

LMAO Hikaru looks up during official games, its him remembering his prep, but this time looking up to avoid showing it

Easily avoided prep on move 1 by playing Sicilian. He only plays the Berlin defence against 1.e4 in the candidates so far.

Yea, he won't play the Sicilian in the candidates, according to one of his videos.

nobody likes preppers

nah it's the opposite. He's manipulating the other candidates watching.

I'm 1900 blitz lichess and he seemed more like 2400 blitz to me...

He said he is 3200 I think

i am also 3300 it was not easy for me either

​@hasancebi5203 if you are 3300 what are you doing here talking to amatuers

​@@ericm4426cause he's LYING

Amigo quien gano? Gracias

translation, amigos?

@@AzamFahmy the gist of it is like "could play with GM hikaru... but that's scary, no way" "why? what, is he 3000 elo or what? bah, that's nothing" "more or less he's 2xxx... 2700? no, more than 2700." "i don't know, then... bah, that's more or less our elo" kind of edited to make more sense out of context, and spanish isn't my strongest language for sure.

"With GM Hikaru, man... But it scares me! 'I'm scared'..." "Why? What, is he 3000 or what? Is he 3000 Elo? Bah...that's nothing..." "More or less he has 2xxx... 2700... No, more than 2700..." "I don't know well... Bah, more or less what we..." Translate says

@@jayure1346 I think he mentions Hikaru being 3000 something? But apart from that, yep

Dude I can't even make 2200 players think for 2 seconds much less 10.

yup, you know the shit is real when a super GM sacrifices a rook

Move,move,move,move,move,move.... yep draw.

Why did he sac?

@@hamiddehghan6248 I don't know either

@@hamiddehghan6248 came to the comments section to ask this same question. I mean, clearly it was setting something up, but I can't see what. Obviously it went his way later. I need to study this more, lol.

Nah then hikaru would have had to hit up the casino right before they played

what are you saying? he is at least 2700 on lichess

@@koranews_ar at the end the dude says he’s 2200 on lichess. Probably what he is referring to but he definitely played much stronger than that rating.

@@koranews_ar lol troll

I heard it as "24 hundred"

Ikr. I'm 2200 on Lichess and I've played Hikaru and gotten absolutely destroyed. This guy was super resilient.

i like the sopranos/breaking bad crossover reference!

@@danwdrums "thank you very much sir, you're a gentleman and a scholar." And I love the fact that at least one person got it.

So true man, well said.

at one point the older guy jokes about the younger one being scared to play hikaru after him lmao

They honestly prob don't understand how big Hikaru is.. They prob stay within their own little circle playing chess only on the board..

@@DNozz777 ah the old baseless assumption. Everyone in the park knows about Hikaru except those two for some reason? Yeah that's totally _probable._ Seems highly unlikely to me 🤷‍♂️

Established, world class boss, faces young challenger! That lad is really, really good! He didn't prepare for that game. No training. It was a spontaneous game in the park, but he did himself very proud!

Yeah, I wanted to see him finish the game. Would be really interesting. Very talented

No the position was clearly winning for black but it was very close all game , the other guy played very well GG

No, E.A. is right

This unrated guy reached a drawn position against one of top 3 Blitz players in the world: amazing!

He still would’ve lost. Time is part of the game. No time and they’ll take days to play 1 game.

@@Thaumazo83 no he was dead lost lol you can even see it on the eval bar next to the board

It should be winning for black but not an easy endgame. I am pretty sure though that Hikaru would have won it against the guy

It was winning for black but even if it was a draw with perfect play, unless you are a super gm you cannot hang out with them in an endgame. They have an incredibly vast amount of knowledge there from books, and long grueling studies. They make no mistakes. The guy, while a good 2200, would be simply outclassed. That is why the worst thing to do against a super gm is liquidate the position to an endgame.

@@moonbalancedd They do make mistakes, or they make inaccuracies, especially in a blitz game. The problem is that those "mistakes" aren't so unless you're also a supergm that can spot why they are mistakes and how to take advantage of them

Stockfish was around +6 for black at the end so I assume with perfect play by both sides Hiki probably would of won 🤷

@@Gaspa79 they do make inaccuracies. but those die down the more and more the game becomes theoretical which is what happens in an endgame. They even have theoretical piece and pawn structures memorized at the end. Look up something like Troitsky line to see how deep of theory they have at their fingertips and see if you want to hang out with that in an endgame.

So what makes you think other super gms hesitate to play casual

In a lot of ways Hikaru makes himself more accessible than other GMs and I love that about him

@@456death654 I have yet to see other GMs do it so often and so casually...... Hikaru has been on other chess channels as well playing club players far more than other GMs. So put your sarcasm to bed

except magnus

And (obviously) he is a really, really smart guy! A Professor of Materials.

Smart for chess buddy.

who is a professor?@@S.Trades

More than that. You could tell when Stockfish gave him the advantage after the queen trade (4:53), Hikaru clearly took a pause.

How did he lose?

@@linaheid7514 he run out of time

@@chrisknorr1326 Hikaru had a dominated position before Nc5 , position got messy after that and black needed to be cautious . white made many random moves and got crushed after the sac exchange .

I think he said that he was 3200, which would make a lot more sense

I found that funny too! 😂

he said 2200 lol i feel like he's underrated at 22. I'm 22 and I can honestly admit the guy is a class above me.

2700 is a lot in lichess,a lot of masters,fm,have around 2350-2400 only

@@lacanau8881 this guy would be titled otb, if he plays like this consistently

@@ktfjulien that is probably true

@@ktfjulien yeah minimum cm but probably he is at least fm level already

white was dominated after the sac exchange, no serious counterplay , but after Nc5 position was messy and Hikaru had to find the accurate moves not to be in danger . If he 's 2200 on lichess , there are probably some reasons ...

Hiraku lose all the advantage movimg the knight earlier

What's the point in 2nd place in candidates apart from some money?

@@Lol-qy1dy by some chance that Magnus doesn't play the WCC, its 1st place vs 2nd place for the championship.

You're beating everyone except #1.

@lol u can check video of hikaru vs nepo round 12 match and he told his strategy why he makes draw and what he is expecting.

@@kennywiseman6551 You can still dream about it. But reality ain't gonna change, GM humours can only be understood by GMs

Not much since the ceiling tier is only accessible online. Unless Kasparov or some Genius out there are playing with people secretly with those people not having access to computers. Yeah, weve been there for awhile where computer assisted prep is a thing but that doesnt make the new players of today any better from the god players of old. Difference now is just you have a tool to actually tell you how good you are.

A lot in the street. A few online who don't play rated games because they couldn't care less about it when they have another life and chess is just a fun thing to do on occasion. Yeah, there's a few like that out there.

every unrated player is worse than every gm tho

There are a few 2200 fide strength street players I'm sure, but none stronger then that.