Typical Botez Gambit Speedrun "Lets sac" "I need to clog the center" "I have terrible pawn structure" "This guy knows what he is doing" "I blundered, I am gonna lose the game" "I'm gonna need to move fast" "BUT NOW HE ALLOWS ME TO DO THIS" "Now I have 2 horseys and 2 bishops and 2 rooks for the queen" "I gonna win the game"
This is by far the best chess series I have ever seen, it’s actually so helpful watching how hikaru uses tactics to win back so much material against such high level players. Amazing series Hikaru, keep the content rolling!
props to hikaru for not saccing for that rook in game 2. If I were in his shoes - one game away from my goal after 19 hours against an IM - you couldnt pay me to bring the queen back and sac for that bishop instead. Big Dick Energy making it harder on yourself in that position
@@han-huo here is my limited chess knowledge: Trading for an active bishop at least gives some tempo compensation. Trading for an inactive rook in the corner leaves the active bishop in play while also putting the Queen on a strong diagonal. Usually, the reason for killing an undeveloped rook in the corner would be that you then proceed to trade material and transition into a winning endgame with a material advantage. But Hikaru wants to trade his queen. Material is irrelevant once you are down a queen, everything is about tempo and position.
The only thing sus here is the quality of the thumbnails and intros. I mean how can the editor deliver such a high quality time after time without being some kind of impostor?! I am asking as a mere crew member. 😂
Botez speedrun in a nutshell - Hikaru sacs - 2000 Opponent plays normally, the position is not good - 2000 elo Opponent makes a blunder that NO 600 player makes when I play the game - Hikaru wins
@@nomecognome1221 sure but he's also sacking his queen every game which is the whole point of the speedrun. botez gambit hence the name botez gambit speedrun which makes more sense than just calling it "the hippo" btw he wasn't playing the hippo in the early games for the most part he played normal openings and sacked his queen for a pawn. But you probably haven't seen the whole series so you wouldn't know
@@Tsundemo i saw them ....of course it is better the boetz speedrun...it was only a funny comment about the opening he used very often on this speedrun
He's literally not. Just because no other GM has done this yet does not mean they can't. Hikaru is a streamer and he does this for entertainment: that's it. Don't get me wrong: Hikaru is insanely skilled, but Magnus Carlsen has the highest rating in all of chess history for a reason.
@@Noname-ur1vu He actually did the entire speedrun over the course of a few weeks. The last few episodes that have been posted on here he did on one day
@@brunolara2293 It goes exactly as I laid it out. Black traded the queen for a bishop. So if white trades their queen for a knight and a rook, white will be up a rook for the endgame.
