The most weird chess incident that you will ever come across 

To anyone who doesn't get it - the kid had to take white rook but had only one second remaining at his clock, at first he took the rook but didn't put his rook in the right square ( here e8 instead of d8, because he probably went really fast ), his opponent call the arbiter and claim illegal move. Then the move has to be played again, the player playing white starts the clock and the kid loses on time, they get up from the board but then the arbiter says that he was the one supposed to start the clock, so they sit back and replay the move again ! except this time the kid makes the move with two hand, which is also illegal ( probably cause he would lose on time making it with one hand only ) at first the arbiter just wants to give the kid a warning, but his opponent insist that he has to make the move with one hand. Finally, they replay the move one last time, and the kid loses on time, not managing to capturing the rook with one second. Not perfect english, hope everyone got it !

2:19 - that's probably the most intense SHH I've ever seen in my life. The eyes man...

The player that complained about the young boy playing with one hand and pressing the clock with the other is correct. This is a very clear rule and it is part of competitive chess.

It's amazing that the players remembered the right position of every piece when they were asked to re-do it.

So much tension built up then it ends like a comedy movie at 4:30 , even the arbiters couldn’t help but laugh.

The kid knocking down the pieces at the end is comedy gold.

The arbiter stands there like a doofus for 30 seconds and watches as they reset the pieces before he says, “I was supposed to start the clock.”

Sometimes I feel like chess players are trying to make any social interaction as awkward as possible.

If someone make a movie about chess in future, this scene should be included in it for comic relief...

The guy on the left is Kovalev who waited Magnus for 7 minutes to come to the board))

If you leave yourself with only one second to make a move, then this sort of scenario can easily happen. Bizarre things become the norm in a time scramble. I watched a game where a player had a few seconds to make the time control. He picked up his rook, and swung it over to the other side of the board, and it slipped out of his hand onto the floor. He picked it up just in time, and put in onto an adjacent square than he'd intended, which was a game losing move. Use your time wisely.

After allllll that, the arbiter starts dying laughing after its over.. I love it, cuz no one else laughed, especially the players who were pissed! It almost felt like a moment on "The Office"... hahahah

2:17 I liked it how he shushed the kid away

Lol adhiban always comes to enjoy these controversial funny moments he is too funny guy ..

What makes it even more funny is that Rxd8 is a terrible move because it loses to Qxd8+ followed by Bd4 threatening checkmate (as also pointed out by Adhiban). Very easy to spot for these players if they're not under time pressure. So by the time Uskov had to repeat his move Rxd8 everybody already knew that he would lose no matter if he would manage to execute the move in one second or not. Another fun fact: When they reassemble the pieces at 2:08 Uskov confidently puts his king on h7 which would be a safer square, then at 2:20 Kovalev puts it on g8 where it actually was.

New Challenge: ¶Take a rook with a rook ¶Using one hand ¶1 second in the clock ¶Press the clock as faster as you can without messing the pieces up

Pause it exactly at 1:00 and the facial expressions of everyone in the scene sums up the situation perfectly.

Adhiban was having fun...

4:30 was the funniest thing I have ever seen in chess!

This isn't chess; it's prestidigitation !! It's a game. It's part of the rules. The younger players lost on time . Full stop. And thank you, Elu, for an excellent summary.

I think getting really good at chess is bad for ones mental health.

While resetting the board around 2:00 the kid deliberately puts his king on h7 ( to avoid checkmate ) and Kovalev had to put it on g8 to correct the position !?

So glad this was captured on video. So comical and the Russian accents make it so much better.

This is the third video of issues with the kids in the tournaments. This kid was apparently screaming behind towards another game.

That’s the part I don’t miss about playing competitive chess 😂😂😂

It's not the chess play that is weird... this is what I call wtf moment. @ :23 where the guy just go in front of another guy and block his view like he doesn't exist.

These chess people are serious af. Reminds me of pit bosses in a casino

That other boy defending his friend and becoming a collateral damage in the process lol. Reminds me of my school days.

This is so stressful to watch I ain't gonna lie lmao

To me the most weird incident was when Sam Sevian took Niemann's king and started fiddling with it, really weird, I guess it was US championship.

Uskov, 12 years, is doing very good at the tournament. Ahead of names likes Van Forest, Harikrishna, Niemman and so on.

The kid should have received first warning when he misplaced his rook and second warning and DSQ when he played with 2 hands. That is it........

Hikaru be like: I'm gonna show this Big kid how flagging from this position works..😆

You have to give them credit for remembering every piece on the board, that is impressive! Probably nothing for these guys though.

I would feel very pathetic winning like that. What a sad little man.

@2:50 - The arbiter when he says 'playing with two hands is not an illegal move' is the cause of this confusion. If all players could do this, each player will have one hand on the piece to move and the other hand on top of the stop clock at all times during the match and then clock will never run out, especially with a two second increment per move during blitz.

I love that the arbiter says 'I was supposed to press the clock' but when you watch it back he has no intention of pressing it.

I hope we can have integrity in chess of all things. That young kid knew he lost, more than once. No two hands and no illegal moves. Touch move etc. These are THE rules. He should have resigned

This is one of the videos we will see again in 2 years and can't believe it has more than one mil. views.

I love the arbiter laugh at him in end. So savage 😂

You're not allowed to play with two hands in chess. So @2:37 he has one hand on the piece and one hand on the clock. So if he takes the rook with his right he must punch the clock w his right hand. This is well-known rule that every blitz player knows. Furthermore if you knock down pieces you must set them up before hitting the clock. In the end I guess he has like 1 second on the clock so he loses if he plays correctly.

The arbiter found it to be quite funny too. Also, he has a great singing voice. He sang a couple of songs for the Norwegian TV journalist. Great guy. The journalist too!

The last laugh was with the arbitars and both players were real pissed.

it should be viral in few months like any other good video this is gold

The arbiters shouldn't go back on their decision just because someone insists a lot. They decided to give the kid a warning and continue from there after he used both hands, then the opponent insists that he repeats the move and the arbiters just concede after the 3rd time he insists with the argument: "no". Makes it look like the player makes the decisions around there by pressuring the arbiters.

wow still they know all the positions..

3:45 is very weird. The ref changes his mind after Kovalev complains. It's like he's improvising. What is the rule? Should a player be forced to redo a move that he's played with both hands or not?

that's the most scary paper guy on the side. thank you for sharing this guy

I feel sorry for everyone involved, especially for everyone who had to watch this.

1. kid took rook but replaced his on the wrong square arbiter called 2. blonde guy started the clock when arbiter should have they make them replay the move 3. kid used 2 hands replay move again 4. kid loses on time

They sure made this chess tournament interesting, watched more of it than that world cup so far

Everything has gone the right way in the end.

Actually, watching it in 0.25x you can ensure that there was much less than 1 second on the clock somehow, after arbiter pressed the button it has to be four seconds on 0.25 but it was not much than 1.5

He took his rook and placed the piece he used to take it on the wrong spot

Slow motion at 2:36 clearly showed the boy pressed the clock while still not finishing the moves. Is why the two hand rules is important.

2:05 they destroy the board... And then redo it exactly like they have a photogenic memory ✌✌

I'm like that white hair uncle...just standing... nothing to do with situation

That advertisement at the end was as unexpected and random as the content of the video.

"it's impossible" 03:30 wow he can speak english now

Mark my word. This video will cross millions of views 😂

Adhiban is like: Entertainment 😅😃

Adhiban laughing in the background is making me smile everytime 😅🤣

It is sad how many people who do not know rules are commenting. Very poor decisions by arbiters. Firstly, Kovalev starting the clock and later arbiters realized that Kovalev should have not. Secondly, it is true that the player cannot play with both hands, it is illegal, but the penalty for this behavior is not going back to the previous position and letting him to do the move again (in normal circumstances with more time it would be pure nonsense). I don't understand at all why they listened to Kovalev. Unfortunately, Black wasn't experienced enough to protest against it.

Player with white actually understands the fine details of chess rules very well. Sometimes, the rules are so complicated (unbelievable, I know) that not even the arbiters know how to best handle the situation.

Artem Uskov hits the clock without ending his move.

Did the arbiter actually say using 2 hands is not illegal? 2:44 They don't even know the rules! Kovalev had to explain it to them! What an absolute joke!

The fighting and arguing is so calm and quiet

I thought I was half decent at chess when I was a kid, but when they just set that board back up exactly the way it was… that blew my mind haha

Nothing can top when Sam took Hans’ king lol

They had reached a position where Black had one second on his clock and it was his turn. On this turn, he has to make his move completely with all pieces in their proper spots, and press the clock, and do it all with one hand only. The boy didn't do that task. The first time he tried it (in the original game), he didn't place the pieces in the right spots. The second time he tried it, he used two hands instead of one, to save precious time. When he was finally asked to do it with one hand and do it right, he knocked pieces over. All this demonstrates that he should've rightly lost on time in the original game. If you're down to one second in your game, you have to deal with that first. You don't get a pass. All White was trying to do was recreate the original situation exactly, down to its last detail. That's only fair. You can even see the frustration in White's voice. He asks for the original situation and for Black to do the original task with one second, as he was supposed to. If in a game you manage to get your opponent's clock down to one second, it's not fair to have that accomplishment taken away from you. White just wanted those circumstances reinstated, and we play from there. In the end White got it, and won on time fair and square. In the end they even gave the kid everything he needed to play on. The original time he had left, and the right to move. It's just that this time they insisted he do it with one hand, and place all pieces correctly before pressing the clock. These are just normal rules that apply to everyone. And you don't get multiple attempts to get this done. You get one. He got one. And he didn't do it. So he lost on time. This is a fair outcome.

2:40 ahah the kid's excuse is like "how can I do it in one second?!"

That's why they should just play Chess digitally or on digital board no worry of illegal moves and timer.

2:51 "Playing with two hands is not an illegal move", meanwhile in the Laws of Chess: "7.5.4 If a player uses two hands to make a single move (for example in case of castling, capturing or promotion) and pressed the clock, it shall be considered and penalised as if an illegal move." Those arbiters are a joke for not knowing the rules and for laughing at the end 🤦‍♂.

The fact that they remembered where the pieces were to reset it up amazes me

This is the «i would prefer if you would be quiet» guy of chess games

The ending looks like a comedy movie :D

The boy is 12 years old lol . Even if the boy is wrong ,it might be awkward arguing with a kid in front of that many adults

That ending is hilarious.

Upload the full video please .. i want to know how this kid was rushed into playing Rxd8 ..

The move with two hands is just a warning the first time and then the arbiter can decide the appropriate punishment (usually adding 2mins to the opponents clock but if it continues he can even disqualify him). The kid did not have to replay the move, but in this case there is an issue because nobody can make a move and press the clock with one hand in one second. So by playing with two hands the boy avoids the loss. I believe that here the arbiter is correct to change his mind and force the replay of the move. That's why we have human arbiters and not computers, to be able to judge according to the situation. Only thing I have a problem with is that the arbiter is not quick to think on his feet: 1) Initially he accepts the loss but then realizes (correctly in my opinion) he was not the one to press the clock so the players are forced to setup the position again. When you don't have a scoresheet it's not easy to setup a position from scratch and if the boy insisted that he had an extra piece somewhere things would escalate. 2) He changes his mind and forces the kid to replay the position with one hand (again correctly in my opinion), but only after his opponent strongly insisted. That seems like taking sides, although in reality his opinion was swayed by the argument.

On another note their ability to recreate the position from after after they reset the pieces from a blitz game is impressive.

This isn't even top 10 weird from my own tournament play. I hold the all-time record for a king toss in the Adam's Mark Ballroom (250 feet), plus knight, bishop, queen and rook toss, No one batted an eye. It was a bad World Open for me (they all were).

What a passionate yet quiet scene.

Man I really don't miss the competitive scene.

Simply the kid made misplaced his piece on the wrong place after captured the rook. So, it's considered he made illegal move, wasn't it?

Article 7.5.4 'If a player uses two hands to make a single move (for example in case of castling, capturing or promotion) and pressed the clock, it shall be considered and penalized as if an illegal move.' And the chief-arbiter did/does not know that!? Come on FIDE how did you select completely incompetent arbiters?!

They have such a good memory of the pieces on the board..amazing

That clip was enough chess to get me through the next couple of decades.

The kid is playing illegally yet showing angry attitudes.. just accept the loss and shake hands with ur opponent.. this is the good sportsman attitude we should teach kids..

Ma boi adhiban was having fun~~

The way kept the pieces 2:24 🤐😵😵😵

There is a video of Kasparov in which he takes less than a second every time he makes a move and press the button. It's called something like "Kasparov didnt let his clock go down from 5 seconds"

It is time control 3minutes+2 seconds increment. So Black should always have 2 seconds added to the clock after hitting the clock. Therefore, Black should have AT LEAST TWO SECONDS REMAINING from is previously pressing the clock, especially since white is given 2 minutes additional for Black's illegal move. If an illegal move is made, take it back and replay it, giving the player a warning (and adjust clock for penalty). You cannot be penalized twice on the same move, no matter how many infractions are made on the same move. This entire video essentially showed Black making three infractions on the same move: illegal move (Rxd8, Re8), then two hands, and then knocked over pieces. Knocked over pieces must be corrected while clock runs... However, the incorrect 1 seconds remaining is what caused the hurried situation.

Rules are rules, you like it or not.

That one dude is the Jedi of ‘Shhhhh’, stopped the whole room, most intense shush ever

the little guy was also wrong because he didn't conclude his movement after pressing the clock

These videos without Sagar's commentary is like body without the spirit.. We need the drama.. We need the action.. We need Sagar back on these videos. Please😊

Niemann's little brother doing his thing right there.

when even the arbiters laugh at what just happened

I couldn't hold in laughter at the last capture try🤣. Welcome to the dark side of the game.