Having these games happen late for you as well as having to deal with the birth of your child and still being so consistent with your content upload schedule and quality is amazing dude. You deserve a billion subs.
Hi Antonio, Minor feedback - the board is a bit large and is not fitting the space properly. (The h file is like 80% visible) Nothing big but its a little bugging. Pleasure as always.
Naaah you're oveinterpreting one photo. Vidit is always chill and soft like a lamb, he's the nicest one out of all of them there. He just has a good focus, he meditates a lot.
Ya he has chosen to PLAY most of the games, infact all the games. While players like Hikaru and Ian have just come to draw certain games. I m not saying its good or bad but just explains why all his games have really been worth watching
It's not exactly the dominant strategy. If you're just trying to draw games , it'll hurt you at the end as most losses stem from a mindset of drawing . Caruana hasn't been winning the last 2 candidates for the very reason that he won't win , but he won't even lose and play so much theory that half of his games become drawish by move 30 while Nepo , Nakamura , Ding try to make most of every game they play . When you play candidates , you're not facing just one opponent at a time , the job is to compete with all the other 7 players in each and every round . I'm not saying Caruana is weak but his 2018 form was so good where he trusted himself and started getting wins and outruling any opponent who came close to his score @@3DHDcat
Some Cafe? Do you even follow the news? He earned his ELO by playing a LEGAL tournament accepted a huge risk. Not too many players have the balls to do something remotely similar.
Must be the pressure to win has gotten Alireza in a tail spin I feel bad for him to be struggling so much this game was a catastrophe I think there is a Great deal of pressure on all these players to perform well the ones handling that the best are the ones having good success 8 more games to go people will say a lot of negativity about Alireza now of course once a player struggles people are quick to make sharp criticism whether or not he can make any gains in this tournament eventually he will bounce back Thanks for the Game Enjoy your day
#suggestion Vidit Caruana from Round 5 A very interesting game where Vidit gets out prepared in the opening and then outplays Caruana in the middle game only to not convert in time pressure. A very worthy game of being shown with sone good pause the video moments
To me it is crazy that there is a queen trap and he instead does something positional and eventually ends up ahead two pawns and still wins. I couldn't have left the queen on the board unless I miraculously calculated an m2 or m3.
I’m sorry but I can’t relate to people saying they feel sorry for Alireza. He’s getting his just desserts after the embarrassing way in which he qualified for the tournament in the first place. I just hope his performance serves as a warning to others who try using the same tactics in the future.
Those people should educate themselves. There's a difference between winning an exceptionally strong grandmaster tournament that has already been announced months in advance and farming lower rates opponents just for the sake of rating points.@@varun8762
@@npgatech7 He qualified because he has the higher elo of any player who didn't otherwise qualify. He entered two low elo tournaments, including one he personally organized, to increase his elo (over Wesley So) right before the tournament
@@npgatech7he was farming opponents essentially. The French chess federation organised a tournament that they literally named "Alirezas Race to the Candidates" or something along those lines. The other players did not play against each other. They only played against him. Despite this he embarrassingly failed to win one of the matches and so had to find a subsequent lower rated GM tournament to farm.
It's obvious that Alireza was fully tilted before taking the pawn on f2. He basically resigned the game there and then and pushed wood from there to the 40th move.
I went with my father to the event and got to meet Vidit after this game! Nepo and Hikaru left the fan zone a bit earlier but Vidit was hanging around in a great mood after this win
@@muntasirnafiz6190Gukesh played in a tournament to help him qualify for the Candidates and many other players were invited as well. Nothing backdoor about it; it was a tournament planned months in the making
I've been following Alireza for like 4-5 years now. I am extremely disappointed as he's no longer a junior and no longer a potential for the World Chess Champion. He's now just another failed chess prodigy. But I learned a valuable lesson over the years: DO NOT PURSUE F**KING FASHION AS A PRO CHESS PLAYER!
I wish you would progress with the times and see that adding an evaluation bar is an important learning tool that’s adds to your chess teaching not takes away from it.
@@JohnS-il1dr The "correct answer" is that people trash talk anyone on the internet being safe behind their screen. If it weren't for Firouzja they'd trash talk Ding, Niemann or Kramnik.
He just must decide which path to follow. He's an incredibly talented chess player but if he wants to play at the absolute top level he has to focus on just chess.
Vidit is an incredible player. It was impressive when he outplayed Caruana in that middlegame battle before seemingly getting into his own head and blundering it to a draw. Credit to caruanas tough defense as well but it should not have been enough to save that game.
you seem to have overlooked that while trapping the black queen, she can acrtually take the h2 pawn with an escape tunnel after this capture. Am I wrong?
Why would you play Qf4 instead of pawn to e5 to protect the d6 bishop ?? I mean the queen is in good position near the king so that it can both attack or defend. Why would you move the queen and weaken your defense ? I don't get it.
It's a Chocobo. One of my earliest donors was on a team that created Final Fantasy 15. It was a special thanks for her but I thought it looked good so I left it!
Expected an outcome from this match other than a draw. Knowing alireza and vidit will go for a win here😂vidit should have won the previous game against fabi .missed a great chance there
The Richter-Rauzer has been much more popular than the Sozin for a long time, and stockfish prefers the Richter-Rauzer as well. However, surprise value and preparation are always a factor, and Firouzja was apparently not thoroughly prepared.
There was a time when Alireza used to leave poisoned pawn😢....why is he not taking candidates seriously?...who is his second? wesley so or abdussatarov would have performed much better than him...
what's the point of taking a rook when there is a pawn which is going to queen, white simply stacks the rooks , if you take one the other will take its place, still protecting the pawn. then knight as to move and pawn is pushed.
has anyone considered 14. Na5 after 13. ... Qxf2? This threatens to pick up the bishop on b7, which is undefended, and if the knight takes then Bxb5+ picks up the black queen. The black bishop on b7 cannot avoid the white knight without leaving their own knight on c6 undefended.
Is it me or do the Indian players seem to be more intense than everyone else in this tournament? Pragg’s prep, Vidit and Gukesh calculating every move precisely… sure seems different this time.
Alireza is the salad of the candidates that everyone feasted on so far. Wishing him the best in rest of the candidates games. Would you please recap that crazy game between Pragg and Nepo# suggestion
