Post-game Press Conference with Alireza Firouzja and Gukesh | Round 7 | FIDE Candidates 

So it's optional attending?

@@haitajimambo5851 For the person who wins, I think its kind of expected for them to attend but for the person who loses, its not.

The players get paid as part of agreement to attend post-match conferences.

No both of them should come it's in contract . Before only winner should come but now if Even if you win or loose you should come.

It’s to avoid a fine

Yes❤

Whilst I agree, its is disappointing that with 2 huge nations and continents behind him, at only 20 years old he is not motivated by his God given talent and is talking about other things this early in his career, there are people who would do anything to be half as talented as he is, just slightly disappointing to see this in him.

Mostly Indians cant handle that cause they were all thought that they need to stay humble dont laugh and dont say anything remotely negative in the world and always listen and obey and get mature early in life without a chance to pass the childhood just like a sad image you see in Gukesh as a 17 years old kid.

@@JT11111 Nepo wante to become a video gamer instead of chess in early 20s. it will pass some people grow up late and thats totally fine if not better than growing up without having a childhood and dreams like Indian players.

Ya like Insta and Facebook. There is no one way of living life, it just depends on what one wants out of it and what one wants to do in life. There are millions who are jack of all and masters of none, but the fact remains that no one knows them. People who devote their life to a single thing become experts and achievers and are respected by others. Having different hobbies and interests in life is totally different from being confused about what one wants to do in life.

Alireza is a better speed chess player.

Alireza was no.1 blitz player

Alireza was grinding Blitz at 1AM

@@M3N04 because Alireza is a highly intuitive player. The downside of this type of chess player personality is that they are often temperamental and therefore get tilted easily. Meticulous "accountant" types like Caruana are much more stable, but don't do as well under fast time controls where they can't calculate everything carefully

Not sure if Firouzja had any pressure, afterall as he himself said that he has nothing to lose as his tournament is virtually over. Whereas Gukesh had everything to lose and he just crumbled...

the inaccuracy almost cost him the game so

One is happy and one is sad .. has nothing to do with maturity and immaturity

Wow, never seen a 21 year old kid XD

@@Neo__01 21 year olds are kids

​​@@Neo__01anyone above even 25 will 100% agree that 21 year olds are kids

@ammster1234 Well, you can be a kid your whole life if you live by the spirit of it... But the real question is at what point does the society stop treating you as a kid? Legally speaking, 18 years is the standard going around the world.

Gukeah might have taken it as insulting.😂😂😂

Alireza should be happy after days of abuse from people like you. 👍 😂

Who tf cares. ​@@timothylee2772

He Has Given Up Clearly Alireza Is Not Even Serious Now Sad For Gukesh To Lose From A Given Up Player

Sure, you can't say the same with his opposent of today!

If you mean to say that sitting there completely devastated after what happened and barely saying a couple of sentences, then yes, he did handle this pretty elegantly lol.

Alireza was just be himself without showing of and gukesh was so professional I think

​@amar-vt6wr Many pros won't even be sitting there... And just to see your opponent laugh off such devastation, I think was a bit insensitive from Firouzja showing zero empathy so yeah , Gukesh did handle is pretty well, definitely better than what you'll expect from a 17 year old.

​@@Neo__01he lost a game not his mother died lol

he played many moves in extrem timepressure and win ..maybe adrenaline /endorphine still high...

I said that many years ago, watch his hand when he gives interview standing. And also watch his walking. He is the top gifted player in the world however he is not that driven to have a proper trainer or second. In chess960 he is only second to MC.

You finally know what stressful mean

Test of character now. If he can recover strongly he could go on to win this event. He is very impressive and can grow from this bitter defeat. Let's see. I think he will recover and improve (Hopefully).

Angela merkel's sister

😂​@@Yazdanjavid

Trash interviewer. They should put Charlize the main presenter.

Not really, it's called temperament. Character is something totally different.

What was he supposed to do? Whine about alireza? Lol

​@@Yumyumyum42069yes, other people would

Let him, dude wants to be himself after having a bad start.

And? Is laughing banned in Toronto or something 🤔

I'd be laughing to win a game like this too lol.

@@Oussama-uo1gf You know that one of the games your gonna lose and you don't want to be laughed to right by your opponent or funs.especially when your stressed.Its not good.

Stress laugh

Attending the press conference is the norm (not to mention a contractual obligation), regardless of the result. Has anyone not come to the conference in this event? That would be childish behaviour. it's a bit of an insult to Gukesh to compliment him for it, that's like saying "lots of respect for wearing shoes and not coming barefoot"

​@@vibovitoldlol

How is alireza childish

Alireza is just himself without pretending and showing off

Most of the time, the loser didn't come to the press conference. Which is absolutely fine in my opinion. @@vibovitold

Any blind man can see that its lucky

@@asociacionvocla4391 are you deaf even alireza has said in the video that he got these lucky resources like qb3 and nd7

For Alireza it begins

A man with nothing to lose is dangerous!

Yeah, it's almost like: "So Gukesh how does it feel like to lose against a fashion designer?"

I'm curious what makes you think that. I would actually find it kind of hard to pick two chess players who I think have more dissimilar personalities than Fischer and Firouzja.

I mean they lead it to be a time scramble😅

The interviewer is shit. Probably a DEI hire.

It seems that you know very little about chess. Watch this interview ten times and you would know why there is only one Alireza. He doesn't miss the correct moves but intentionally plays the worse moves just to avoid the draws. ( I am not talking about his blunder vs Naka). Anyway, still wishing Gukesh to win the candidates as he is second most exciting player in the world ( first is AF).

Lacks the maturity? Alireza has done in his 20 years what super GMs have failed to do in 40 years. If you haven't been following him for long, don't let your ignorance show.

You forget that a fox would hide once he knew he was being hunted. But, only a lion can walk into a den of hyenas even after a defeat. Him showing up after a defeat is proof enough for you.

@@jampubharadwaj9374 don't bother replying. Kirubanithi is a useless loser and a troll who feels tall by cutting of the heads of 17 yo kids who are top in their sport. Our Guki has arrived and is facing DIng Liren for the World Championship while Kirubanithi will keep shit posting on youtube because he has no other work.

nah

Nope. He needs 2 more wins just to to be on 50%. And after that he probably needs a minimum of 2 more wins and zero losses to be in contention

After losing thrice and on the verge of losing another one he magically got resuources to win the game which made his day but i guess your bias wont let you see that

@@boogieman6529 Trueee. And also it is so hard to talk with people who are bias. If he answers probably will be something with lack of logic and just pure out of emotions.

Looks like he's enjoying life - good for him

when you watch interview when he was a child (after genius games) he's just laughing like that too ..yeah its the same person ofc but its amusing to note it seems its in his personality

​@iuven.T some people have tendency to laugh to hide nervousness. Like mee

He is 20! I think Gukesh is strangely calm and pro for his age, Alireza is just bein himself

@@Yumyumyum42069 Of course me too lol, that instinctive laughter during discomfort. I think he's mostly happy "finally a win, especially with a few seconds on both sides" but there's that nervous thing as Alireza laughs saying "I've got nothing left to lose" he knows he's made a very bad start to the tournament and is a bit embarrassed about

its too early to say a huge talent like Alireza at his 20s will never be WC. you cant predict the future

Not 'even though' but 'even if.' like movieshistory wrote, we can't predict the future.

Who saye he can never be a champion? Wtf bro!!

Norderbik smashed by alireza Many times

Ya so? ​@@afsane_nezhadi anything can happen 5-10 years down the line. We might also see new chess prodigies challenging these guys.

you are being generous LOL

Winning the tournament do you know anything about chess or not?

He Has Given Up Man

Dude lost, how do you expect him to act? What if there's difference in personality and so on? Is Being sad and passive rewarded?

@@rojareyhani9436 idk bruh i like alireza but feel sad for gukesh

@@KaranS2022 i do too, he's such an amazing palyer, so did i for alireza when he cried after last round as well! But insulting a talented kid's personality is absured. I always thought india was a big beautiful country with rich culture, some of the indian chess fans are just not good examples it seems!

​​​@@rojareyhani9436 maybe the difference in personality is not throwing tantrums like hikaru or magnus back in their days

He is still second open your eyes

Gukesh would be #1

He is 17. 17. The most pressure i had at that time was asking a girl out.

@@siddspain yeah. Just like Rohit Sharma said in the world Cup match that he would have batted first .that was a joke .😂😂it's natural players don't expose their weakness in front of the camera

From what I’ve seen , he is not that good in shorter time controls

​@@bisket81yes bro 😢

Cry harder

dont you see the guy has no social skills? genius with a child mental, he will never be a champion because of this. Gukesh in contrary is the right personality for the big guy in the future.

​@@piotrek8438I am a big alireza fan but I totally agree with you. And not just lauphing, moving his hands up in the air, and lying on the chair like he is watching tv, etc etc! He genuinely need to spend his money to hire a psycologist in his team instead of buying clothes to not teach him a professional manner but also help him with hin nervous and stress! He also need a coach in his team if there is not any!

​@@fxstreamer238 yeah like he cried in round 6 against Vidit

​​@@alikarooni9713 Oh boohoo hating on a guy because he defeated your country mate fair and square. He won his first game. If anything he should be happy and excited. It's not like he's being insulting and negative. So why are you being this negative? Just because he defeated your favourite player?