The REAL Difference Between A Grandmaster And A 2000 In Chess (Part 2) 

Pia is so sweet. She'll invite you in to the living room, make you homemade lemonade and then crush your spirit. 🤣

I love how Anna is so proud of her mom guessing all of Magnus' next moves.

Anna please this type of content is absolutely perfect... analysing positions is a crucial element of chess for all levels of rating and this different perspectives are so instructive.

Anna, for the 100000th time: my plan is unstoppable! Also Anna: wait...

Several big differences I notice with Pia: * At the beginning she spent much more time evaluating the position. * Once she had had thoroughly evaluated things from a positional perspective, she proceeded to calculate a large number of concrete lines. This let her blitz out a lot of follow-up moves. * She plays the endgame effortlessly. Therefore she looked to take it to a slightly winning endgame as quickly as possible.

Anna went into a complex tactical line which computers will always calculate better than humans. Pia went for a simplified endgame that reduced the possibilities and meant she could match the calculation powrler of the engine (on its setting).

Wow, it was impressive how fast Pia managed to force the engine to concede pieces. Such a class in positional chess.

Pia really demonstrating her positional awareness here, I doubt Dad would have played it like this lol, we may have seen a more attacking game from him, similar to Anna's game. Great video!

Literally have a grandmaster giving commentary on Magnus end game. Anna: yeah whatever let's just show this quickly. LET HER TALK! SHE'S A GENIUS

Pia is incredible, effortlessly breaking down the position at an instant and explaining it so poetically

Always love the collabs between Anna Cuteling and Pia Calmling!

my god your mom analyzes fast and accurate. sharp intellect. a joy to try and learn from. deep insights.

Love how Anna is analyzing her mom. No problem following her thought process, very excited by it, and absorbing every bit of it. How fun!!

would love to see one where both your mom and dad compare a chess position like this, given they claim they are of equal strength, would be great to see the differences in their thought process

I love your videos with your parents! It's so cool to see the differences in approach and your mom does a great job of explaining her thinking in each position.

Such a good video breakdown! This solidifies my chess aspirations: I want to study and learn enough to get nearly as good as Anna, but I don't think I could ever become as good as either of her parents no matter how much practice and studying I do. I also love how much joy you both found in the moves of this game. You adored your mom's analysis, finding it beautiful. Then your mom found Magnus' approach so elegant and beautiful it brought a huge smile to her face. It's amazing that such a simple game can provide such endless nuance and joy!

This is just phenomenal content! I loved getting this glimpse into these great minds. The only thing additional that I would have loved to see was Pia analysing Anna's moves from earlier and see how well she predicted the computer's defensive lines which Anna missed.

Yay another instructional video with Mom. Love these. Thanks!

Ok I have to pause this. I remember about 15 years ago, father's day, Pia was playing on gamecolony sitting there a stout 3000 destroying everyone in the lobby. And she was the kindest, warmest, most wonderful lady to me. So nice to see this video! Godbless her and her family! Happy Thanksgiving!

This is an amazing way of teaching chess - talking through all your thought process!! Thanks for this video!!

I've been watching chess vids non-stop since the beginning of the pandemic and this was the best rating comparison I've seen - I thought your path followed the safest logic, your mom found the safest winning path, and Magnus used a narrow winning position to slam dunk on his opponent.

Fantastic and informative as always - thanks Anna!

that was probably the best 30minutes I've had in 2022! love the excitement in both your voices for this game we adore so much! Thanks for the analysis & Happy Holidays to you all!!

One of the best chess videos ever. You both are great, thanks for posting!

Please make this kind of video more often becoz we get to learn variety of thought process from different rating players. I trully enjoy this and learn more 😊

As someone between Anna's and Pia's playing strength this was actually super fascinating to watch. In the initial position my thoughts also immediately went towards Rb1 and Qb4. In general, my thought process matched Pia's much closer, though it may have more to do with stylistic differences. I think Pia's calculation was much cleaner than I would have calculated and she was super fast at evaluating a lot of things I would have struggled more with. Also her accuracy when they went through Magnus and Grishuk's actual moves was really impressive. I also wonder if part of the difference is just the environment of the players. Similar to Pia, most of my chess development has been in more of an over the board classical time control environment, whereas Anna seems to have a lot more of the internet speed chess "education" (quotes because I can't come up with a better term, not meant in a negative way). Anna was quick (often faster than me, despite the rating gap) to spot attacking ideas, but was often missing some of the defensive concepts.

Pia always sounds so calm. That level of calm is not even in the same universe as me. If I could ever be that calm about chess, I'd probably be around 1500 now, rather than my peak of 1250 that I have right now.

Why did i watch this. I dont even know the pawn names

Wow, great content and fantastic to see the comparison between your analysis and play compared to your mom's. Your mom seems so calm and cerebral in the way she goes about things. Awesome!!

Loving the difference both in skill level and style but also personality. And the encouragement between mother and daughter almost made me tear up. Such a wonderful relationship!

Pia’s humble confidence and calm demeanour is so amazing. Really wholesome to watch. 😍

Love the content with your parents, the dynamic is enjoyable to watch

Loved it. You both are good explainers! Thanks for the video!🤓

This format is great. Lovely to see you and your mum working through positions together. Thank you!

So heartwarming to see and listen to these beautiful souls and minds family!! You guys really motivate me to learn chess better and my game improves tremendously since I found your channel! Respect from Indonesia!

Best learning chess video i have ever seen !! First thing about GM is calmness in evaluating position, taking time, thinking pawn structure, thinking end game, thinking no risk. AMAZING !!

That’s disturbing… she looks so sweet, kind and gentle while she’s kicking asses 😂

I am a novice when it comes to chess, but I appreciate these videos very much. I enjoy learning! Thank you to you and your mother.

Excellent video. Loved the analysis from both of you. Thank you for this.

So cool to see Anna and her mom together, so sweet and clever is her mum talking and playing (even with Anna talking a bit too much aside and disturbing her mother concentration, ahah). Very , very nice! Thanks to both for that :)

Fabulous quality content. Tactics and accurate visualization so important even at 2000

Really like this video and the concept of it!

Anna, this was perfect! Would love to see more videos like this!

Really wonderful summary, thank you!

Her positional understanding is superb! She made winning the game so easy! GG

The 3 different approaches by players at different levels also shows how rich the game of chess is.

Wow! Pia is so calm yet formidable! Great win! This whole series is extraordinary. What a gift for us all. Thank you!

Great video, great channel. 10 videos in and very much enjoying them. Your encouraging many people to play this beautiful game. Stay brilliant!

This is so wholesome. Warms my heart that there are such good people in the world.

The main difference I noticed, which was revealed when Pia said "I Can't Resist!" was that PIa instinctively distrusts attacking moves when she can't see the mate, whereas I think Anna wanted to heap on pressure as much as possible, and didn't have that distrust of the move. It wasn't that Pia calculated the engine's refutation, it was that she was comfortable assuming that there was counter-play and wanted to play safer moves that made sense positionally.

I love how instructive this video is!

Watch your mother with you bought tears to my eyes. Great Content!

Your mom is a genius.

It was great to see how 3 players with different ratings treated the same position!

I find this really helpful. So many times when you watch these types of videos, they start rattling off squares like we are also grand masters. My brain just doesn't move that quickly. She is teaching concepts. Perfect.

Lovelovelove all this wonderful and valuable dialog here, thank you both!!

Wow. Pia is amazingly good at chess. Thanks Anna, this was a really great demonstration, and we also got to compare to the 2850+ Magnus! So cool! Great idea!

Pia is amazing, she played a similar plan like Magnus with different development. But Magnus being a bit more aggressive

Really a creative and interesting idea for a video. Thanks, Anna.

Love this video!!! Pls make some more videos where your mom (or dad) is sharing us her (or his) thought process. It surely helps us in improving our thought process as well. 😊👍👍👍❤

We had this 9 year old kid walk into our chess club last week..unrated and he won the blitz 7 from 7 top rated was Jamie Kenmure who lost to him.. was unbelievable night...

Your mom is a gem, she's so humble somehow while calculating everything like the grandmaster she is!

Jag är så glad att jag hittade den här kanalen :) Det är riktigt roligt att titta på schack här.

Your mom is very wholesome, she explains the ideas really well, wish to see her start her own channel where she analyses her games

I don't have a clue how Chess works, but what a sweet mom and daughter doing this together. Made it fun to watch something I don't understand.. : )

**EVERY TIME I WATCH ANNA & HEAR HER CRAZY HAPPINESS, I GET 100% HAPPIER MYSELF = THANK YOU YOUNG LADY!!!**

one of the most educational chess YT videos i've seen. strategic vs tactical approach from mom vs anna

Binge watching older content! So enjoyed your play in Menorca. Pia's commentary was fabulous.

The main difference I see is that your Mom always take a time to analyse first the structure of the pieces.

Woaw Pia makes it look so easier

Great video. I believe Pia actually mentioned going qg3 instead of trading too, very interesting all the way through. Awesome job!

this was just the most perfect approach to a chess video ive ever seen. doesnt hurt that youre moms voice is so lovely and youre just about as beautiful as it gets. but besides the aesthetics, it was an incredible way to get inside the mind of multiple chess masters to show HOW we should be thinking. well well done!

Thanks for sharing! Great game, the both of you. Thoroughly enjoy the energy of both you fine ladies too. Keep 'em coming!

Gosh it takes a lot of patience and it's great to see your mum think through the plays

This was a really great video. I learned a lot about endgame analysis

Watching your mom's process is really amazing! Love that you have access to someone to be able to do video's like this.

This was awesome! Great idea and very nicely executed.

Instructive and interesting and fun. I hope there's more REAL Difference vids to come.

Fantastic video! I'd love to see more stuff like this! Very entertaining and didactic

I love this series. More like this please!

Amazing! I enjoyed watching and listening to the thought process.

I appreciate these videos for multiple reasons. One, is the principles that are mentioned, such as pawn structure. That way when I can't figure out the best way to get the opponent, I defer to the principles.

Vad trevligt att se er båda spela. Hittade nyligen denna kanal. Särskilt kul att se Pia briljera med sin kunskap och erfarenhet. En Svensk schacklegend . Jag lär massor och följer kanalen. Tack.

Awesome video an explanation, really enjoyed it!

Awesome video, couldn't stop watching, so cool to see the same game played differently.

Awesome video love seeing you both together.

Great analysis! The way that your mom can read the board is amazing!

that was really awesome. Thank you and your mom for this really great comparison and analysing and the insights into your apparently really nice relationship.

I love it. You both take mom and daughter's conversation into the next level 😆😆

Pretty interesting concept for a video . I liked it a lot. Ty

I think that knight e5-g6 was the best choice for Anna at 8:06 as it opens a lot of options all at once to check and to pin, and it stops his queen to e7. But the black rook makes king on h1 a constant danger and weakness not to be forgotten.

Fun wholesome and instructive , Keep it up

really informative, thanks!

I just love how you enjoy your mum, and admire her. Also, although I'm no player, it was great to learn some elemental strategies from just listening to Pia.

Really interesting seeing how you each worked things out. Wow.

great concept for a video, could watch a long series of it.

This is great! Important to hear what is going on in GM's mind when looking at a position

Loved this format! Subscribed! Now to see how Martin plays the position.

Amazing Channel! Thanks for your lessons.

This got ya +2 subs. Me and my friend subbed because your mom is so clear how she explained the game.