I love the use of a real chess board. This video is top-notch diamond studded content. And to cover Fabi’s historic tournament in such detail is just a tremendous gift to the chess community. The best tournament performance in history. Must be a nice feather to have in your cap.
This is arguably the greatest tournament victory in Chess history. Some others that come to mind are Fischer 1972 Candidates tournament, and Karpov at Linares in 1994.
@@mustaphad1319Absolutely not. You must have been born in 2010, you discount all of chess history, just pure nonsense. Olympiad is not a strong tournament like elite round robins. Olympiad is not even close. And Gukesh badly blundered to Abdusattorov in the final game
@@tomgriffiths6558 Tom, you are correct, the average rating of the players in 2014 Sinqufield Cup is the highest avg. rating in the history of chess tournaments ever.
Fabiano is the player because of whom I started following chess more regularly. In the post Vishy-Kramnik era, Fabi felt like the best competitor to Carlsen.
Yeah, he's the only one who's ever been close since the Magnus era started. And I also must say I like his personality the best out of the top guys. He's confident but not cocky, respectful but not submissive, and just seems to be a really good dude!
@bobing1752 Yes, Levon was the second best player in the world for a long time. This tournament changed it all. I remember waking up early everyday to check updates on the RU-vid broadcast of this Sinquefield Cup edition. I had already heard of Fabi before, and I believe he was already a 2800+ player, but this tournament was a seismic shift.
@@bobing1752 Yea Levon is definitely the second closest, but he was never really that close. Hitting 2830 is obviously insane, but Carlsen was 2881 at that point. While Fabi was like 3 points behind Carlsen in 2018 and could literally have overtaken him on the rating list by winning one single game. Would have altered the course of history for sure!
@@noone-ld7pt true. My point wasn't that Levon was closer than Magnus than Fabi would ever be, it's just that in the context of this video, Fabi was not yet considered as the main competitor for Magnus because form 2010 to 2014 it was Levon.
I still remember this incredible result. Magnus was the only other player with a plus score and a distant, distant second, with a loss against only one player: Fabi
Proud owner of one of the limited DGT enabled chess sets of this memorable event. Nice memories and an exceptionally beautiful chess set. This was one of the huge tournament victories of chess history.
That Fabi performance (and ofc Yasser & Maurice's commentary) is when I restarted playing chess after giving it up 20 years before when I was about 9 yo
I love Fabiano's subtle hint at 1:52 when addressing certain colleagues who believed he was cheating in the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. "I'm not sure if their opinion was modified, later on . . ." Yeah, modified after Fabi won the 2018 Candidates Tournament, drew Magnus 12 times in a World Championship match, and became the 3rd highest rated chess player in history. That might have something to do with a change of opinion. 🤣
I have a feeling Hans will not have the same validation of strength. Hans already dropped 50 rating points and is mired at 2650 for the foreseeable future. Hans went from 2480 to 2700 twice as fast as Firouzja and three times faster than Magnus. Hans cheated.
This tournament is the reason why I am always rooting for Fabi even till this date. I was a budding chess player who just started following top level chess online (I was 11 that year; just finished my first world youth championship the year before). What Fabi did there completely blew my mind, it was astonishing how powerful his play was and how easily he demolished other top players, including Magnus.
I really like Fabi's style of explaining things - there is some special, gentle timbre of emotion in the voice. Also that kind of objectivity is compelling. Really enjoyed the show.
That Fabinator 3098 is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are mated!
The game against Levon is much more impressive to me - Magnus just played poorly in the game he lost, whereas Levon made a bunch of relatively minor inaccuracies and still got wiped off the board
I am only a new chess adaptor, but I now know of the two greatest moments in sporting history: Fabi's 2014 Sinquefield Cup Cristian's 2023 Ju-Jitsu Competition Cristian cutting weight and Fabi cutting down his opponents. Love your work lads, keep it up, All the way from Australia!
The issue that I noticed with cheap induction stoves: they don't directly turn down the power, but always go full-power. If you turn it down to e.g. a 5 it will do a 10 second on, 10 second off. Especially in a lighter pan the temperature will go up/down all the time. For most stuff that you cook that doesn't really matter, but if you have a tortilla in for 15 seconds it can differ quite a bit how much heat the tortilla gets.
I must admit, I only watch Chess since 2017, with Caruana as a Chess role model from the beginning. Therefore I got the joy to look watch the 2018 Candidates and World Champ live, but I only got to see the StLouis Games some years later. To be honest I still find it hard to believe, how it can be possible to get 7-0 against such strong opponents, when theory and everything was already so far, that you loose so much winning chances. Truly impressive, showing that Fabi is the third strongest Player in history for a reason. Looking at the games, its just inspiring to see that no matter how good your opponent is prepared, you can always play for a win.
I believe that, and everyone here should agree, Fabiano will become world champion. He is currently the people's champ. He's had an amazing year tickling that 2800 rating and staying around 30 rating points away from Magnus. This Sinquefield cup review going 7-0 should remind people on why. Mark my word, he will be champion. Great review and glad you guys are making this a series!
Basically everyone wasn’t as cautious while playing him as they are now.They underestimated fabi & went for a kill got crushed. This episode is awesome❤please upload part 2 soon
i dont care about the best tournament performance or about aliens in hudf yd3. both beyond my horizont of imagination. i care about the best streamer performance ever! best topics, best quality, best insight in chess. chapeau for fabiano and cristian. you are the brightest stars in my chess streamer universe
For some reason the ratings Cristian cites are all very inaccurate, e.g. Fabi was not 2823 and Magnus was not 2847. The ratings of the players were: Fabi 2801, Topalov 2772, MVL 2768, Magnus 2877 (!), Levon 2805, Hikaru 2787. It does somewhat throw cold water on the narrative build-up that Fabi and Magnus were "very very closely" rated. Great video though, fascinating to hear Fabi's explanation of the positions.
Love the otb analysis, it's obvious that fabi is a chess purist and i love that he brings that energy to these games Suggestion for future content. Christian vs Fabi in a mini match (eg 4-6 games of 10+5 OTB or similar?). Then a deep analysis of the games between you guys. Showcasing the gaps in understanding of a 2530 GM and a top Super GM.
I'm curious who Fabi was referring to when he said some of his coleagues thought or think he cheated at that tournament... levon and maxime are good friends with him, magnus hikaru and topolov remain, speaking of minimum 2 means that one of magnus and hikaru is on the list
For a beginner like me it's a bit difficult to understand all the analysis that Fabi is doing at the board, any way we can get a digital board for that also?
Don’t worry if you don’t understand it all yet. Fabi’s play in this tournament was the greatest chess playing by a human, ever. His game against Aronian is arguably the greatest chess game of all time. You could write a book on each of the 7 games in the tournament; that is how miraculously complex and beautiful they are
Question for Fabi, I think there would be manny others, interested as well: How much time do you plan, for people to learn the Archangel? Just a number of hours or days practicing would be amazing, as well as the question, if the top players are actually that fast in remembering opening lines, or if they just spend more time in practicing. Thanks in advance!
Fabiano Caruana's winning streak at the Sinquefield Cup has me reevaluating my life choices. I mean, I can't even win an argument with my cat, and here he is dominating grandmasters like it's a casual Tuesday evening at the chess club. Maybe I should start practicing my moves with my morning coffee. Checkmate, world - or at least my coffee cup!
Wonderful video! I wish you would pass on the digital board, though, and just show the actual board in close-up, like 7:57 (or better yet, show it from above).
If I have the choice between an autograph of Fabi and Christian, I would always take Christian, as you only have to travel to an Event in which Fabi plays, but its really hard to visit the tournaments in which Christian plays in.
This was not the best performance in chess history. It was great, so don't get me wrong. But, there were a number of greater tournaments. One was Fischer's 11-0. Another was Zuckertort's 1888 London. There were others as well.
White rook on f8, knight on g6 , other knight coming in soon, queen coming in soon. Opponent is Magnus fucking Carlsen Fabiano : it’s a *bit* scary but I think I’m alright That right there is the understatement of the century
