Richard Rapport's Top 5 Unbelievable Moves 

Rapport is a super entertaining and creative player, he's a great addition that makes this year's candidates even sicker! And Canty, you're a great host, keep up the good job!

I love this "Top 5" series.. and this installment may be the most entertaining yet!

James rocks, he has such a really great vibe.

That last one though 🤯🤯🤯🤯❤🎉😮

I found all five solutions without much trouble, but it's one thing to find a combination when someone is shouting "There's a combo here!", and quite another to find it over the board.

1:57 in this position you could consider doing Kb2 to attack the rook and defend the F3 square

Great collection, but pls put the player we're playing as at the bottom. In broke my mind trying to figure out the moves for *black* while they were on the other side.

What a lovely freaking host; made it fun for this noob!

#1 is a classic idea of deflection. The idea is that Rapport is already so close to mate

On position 3 I was thinking h6+ and if king takes then fxg5+ would have a discovered attack on the queen. But obviously it’s not as forcing as the line played. Good stuff. Been watching all of these.

james is amazing!

Hands down, this is the best I've ever seen from JC III.

i only found last brilkirant move and follow up too

@canty waiting for chess engine games 🥺 This video was brilliant too

great video, nicely explained. 'scribed

Canty waiting for your chess engine games plz

I actually found all the moves

Found all the moves except for the extremely brilliant Bxd7 I went Bc4 an inaccurate move.

for the first problem I was thinking Rd3, because the rook cannot be taked, and you menace to take the knight or the rook (resulting in Qc3 with unstoppable mate)

Bojler eladó

This guy's energy is amazing, hoping to see him in even more stuff

Richard is so creative in all of his games. His style is definitely something to get behind!

Here after discover Ding and Rapport friendship at world championship 😂 Rapport is an amazing person and friend

JC3 on fire. Rapport really is a chess-alien from Planet 64-squares with big brain. Stunning moves.

"Everything must go sale. Everything got to go"

Richard's most unbelievable move is Ding Chilling

youll find an incredilble move in pretty much all of his games

I am pretty sure Rapport won't consider any of these as his top 5 moves. These are like, top 5 flashy moves, which would impress a 1200, nothing much!

8:14 James Canty III invented "THE ROOOK" before it was a thing

Mr Rapport is on fire nowadays. Tough Candidate, no doubts. And Mr Canty, please keep making this top 5 series a highly educational series. Awesome work

Absolutely love James as a presenter

Great job James Canty. Love the energy and good luck on your GM quest. Heard you yesterday on the Chess Experience pod. Love the mindset. Love the haters then block em!

For puzzle 4, I found a rook sacrifice on h4. For puzzle 5 I found the brilliant move bishop takes d7 who was the answer.

I like the commentary. Thanks for the entertaining video!

I found the 5 moves being a 1650 Elo. It makes a big difference if you know that there is a winning move. It´s half of the job done.

Not sure how recent it is, but I see those FM initials next to Mr. Canty's name. Congrats to the big dog!

I am in no way a chess pro, nor even good at chess, but I did fine the first brilliant move and I'm proud of myself.

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wow i didn’t knew Rapport was so genius. As a 1800, i stopped the video and thought a lot, and i guessed just the last three

I'm just curious if 1:10 is mocking "THE ROOOOKKK!!!11" or foreseeing it.

Some of the best puzzles ever, and all the better for not being compositions!

Why is it that when I sacrifice the queen in my games I lose?

Who is here after Ding Chilling the world chess championship 🥶😎

Richard Report☠️

Fantastic moves by Richárd and also a great video!

I'm proud to say I found bxd7 on the last game. Great video, James always makes things super hype and interesting!

In move 1, playing Nc6+ is actually saving the situation - if black takes with Rxc6, it enables a series of checks at the end of which you can trade your queen and rook for both rooks and the bishop (Rg8+, Kb7, Rxd7+, Kb6, Qxh1, Qc3, Qxc6+, Qxc6, Rd6, Bxd6 and exd6). Black is still winning, but not checkmate. Of course this isn't the only way, but it's what stockfish recommends to both sides. And if black instead takes with dxc6, you play Rg1 which turns this into a trade of Queens instead of checkmate (with a sacrifice of the knight of course). In comparison to the situation before, if black would instead try to play Rxg1, followed by your Qxg1 and his Qc3 (the unstoppable checkmate from the video) You can actually not just stop it but turn the game around with Qb6+, and after some forced moves you take black's bishop. In short, it's still not the most favorable situation, but it's not a forced checkmate like the video suggests :)

Canty is 🔥, plz more! Also 12:26 nice effect 🔥

James's reaction is just gold 😂

I appreciate these brilliant moves, thanks! Hope Richard will find sponsors to support his living. Guy seems so distressed and not enjoying the games in FIDE.

Nice. I could only get 1 and 3 haha. Made me a RR fan :)

I definitely felt those shockwaves! And thoroughly enjoyed them!

U paused my video but u were still blinking

CONGRATS TO JAMES CANTY FOR GETTING THAT FM TITLE!!!

3:56 Ik you're an FM, but you have all the time to prepare. There's still qxe3, rxe3, bxe3 & it's two rooks for the queen. Show qxe3, rxg2+, kxg2, rxe3.

Well I saw Rh1 nearly instantly and I am around 1700 on Lichess. Maybe I was just lucky but I don’t consider it a brilliant GM move if I can see it in seconds…

This video does not do justice to Rapport. Very poor selection of games Clearly ...e5!!! against Noel Studer is Richard's best move.

How did I find rook h1 so fast?! I am noch Richard Rapport :O Maybe its just knowing that there is a crazy move that makes it easy.

Casual 1000 here. Found all that moves in 1st glance. Haven't played for a long time. If I'm gonaa play again gona go back to days when I would have spotted none of these moves lol

What a fantastic video! Absolutely sick moves by Rapport, and amazing fun commentary by James!

It's 'look' van Wely ;), played him in a simul in Utrecht once! great video

Bc4 works as well at the last one, it seems. Even if black bishop protects, we just grab a bishop and anyway open a diagonal to the king ?

Rapport and JC3 both criminally underrated

Now I just need Canty, over my shoulder, telling me that there's a brilliant move in the position I have in my games in order to find it....

I like the picked moves, but the presenter's style is not for me. I'm not American, that probably explains.

I found all moves on my own

The way Americans call themselves 'the third' if their father and grandfather had the same name is hilarious. You're not kings, lads. Give it a rest.

I mean if u call these moves brilliant then u r nothing against me I m not lying but I found every brilliant move in the the video within 1 minute after pausing I mean u really got to step up show the moves of magnus carlsen those are the ones difficult to find I have no intention of hating Richard rapport. He is a legend

Great work by James🔥 He reads my mind throughout the video too😂 Found all that he said I found xD

I found all the right moves when he told me to! Obviously, without context it would be almost impossible for me.

In the situation on 5:35 you could push the pawn to h7 for a check, king takes, push pawn to g6 check, king takes, white takes the black queen

The halting death molecularly shelter because activity fundamentally time into a tart sunshine. acidic, dashing rock

When seeing gm draw the match..Imagine how many move they managed to avoid all this high level tactic..one simple mistake can make they lost the game.

10:00 Instead of Q taking the bishop, why not Q to c7 or e7-preventing the f6++?

One of Ding’s smartest chess moves was to get Richard to be his training partner in the world chess championship.

Was really mad about how dumb i was for not seeing the solution to any of the first ones, but i was so happy when i managed to find mate on the last one even though it took me 5 minutes lol

Loek is pronounced look

loved this dude explaining all the moves. thanks man, love your energy!

Me, a 900 who got the first move correct: *I’m ready for the Candidates- loses to a 900*

Rook Sac h4 is faster on Puzzle 4. Queen takes, then Bishop e6 mate

Dude really enjoyed your humor and description lol! just subbed 😎

The first puzzle was not unbelieveable lmfao I found this out first minute ezpz

7:52 can do it with rook sac on h4 and follow up with bishop which the queeen is forced to block and gets got with a pawn!

12:55 "beautiful gross" :D which one is it? or both maybe beautifully gross lol

This is not chess, this is simply a pure piece of art. Unbelievably beautiful.

The first one was really easy to spot, Im shocked Nils didnt see it in advance!

I expected Rapport's game against Noel Stüder to feature in this.

World Champion Ding Liren brought me here. Good job Canty.

first game - the only way to get out of checkmate loop is to move pawn to c3 or c4 to make space for king to escape

Okay, I'm not lying. I'm a thousand and I found the first 2 and the last one.

😃😃😃 I can felt the shockwave here @Wonogiri-Indonesia

12:55 I've never heard someone say beautiful and gross to describe the same thing in the same sentence

One possible addition in last puzzle is Bf6 freeing the space for the king

Love your analysis and commentary, wish I could hit the like button twice, Cheers!

Number 1. I paused the video and I thought about Rook d3 with exactly the same idea that Rook h1. And i think it also works 🤷‍♂️

i like when you look at the camera and wait. plz wait some more its so funny for me

the last time i saw, your title still NM Canty, congratulations on your new title mate.

At 2:00 what if white goes pawn c3?

This man loves chess..it is better than NBA top10))