This is SERIOUSLY the Best Game of 2020!? 

Before the pandemic I never thought I would be watching chess at 3 A.M. yet here I am.

Who this noob? We want Agadmator back.

Me a 600 Elo :En passant Gm Hikaru: N peasant

When he speaks of human moves and u wouldnt do Any of them

Meanwhile agadmator : my career is at risk

Meanwhile Levy and Agadmator : You think you can steal my career option like that ?!!

my checkmate to a 550 rated guy was up there too man

"I don't think this game is brilliant because I would've come up with that move" - brilliant super GM

Wrong. The best game of 2020 was me, an 800 player blundering my queen and then my opponent blunders his queen.

Hikaru repeating "as a human", "humanly", and other phrases many times in many of his last videos confirms that he is indeed a cyborg.

i watch all of this guy's videos and i don't even play chess lol

seems Nakamura is downplaying Dubov's genius, saying he would most likely do it as well, of course retrospectively it's easy for Naka to say this when he could've gone for the dry position himself in a tournament as opposed to this sacrifice...

The person who makes these thumbnails deserves a raise..

Me: Moooooom can we have agadmator at home Mom: no, we have already agadmator at home Agadmator at home:

“Its just a pawn nobody cares”

Dude who took the effort of putting the subtitles

5:10 i fucking knew it. He says "en peasant" as a joke, but says it so much and so often you really wonder if he doesn't know how to say it. Fooled me, for certain.

"Its a mixture between the GIUCK PIANO and the Evans" all italians: am i a joke to you?

The thumbnails are honestly the best thing I've ever seen

"a5 g5 very unnatural moves" hmmm yes very, why I knew that the moment I looked at it

I've learned a lot from your vids, played with dad for first time in years. Used the vampire once and had tons of fun, actually went 4-0.

I think Hikaru undervalues pawn to b4 in his analysis. It's not so much the queen sacrifice but that b4 move that makes a difference.

Isn’t the point of Qxg6 being a good move that it’s the best one? The second best move for white, which is very human, is only -0.23, so I’m not sure why Hikaru says it the only move that doesn’t make white “much worse”. It would be extremely easy for a human to play bxe6 and just figure they’ll try to defend a worse position. Even when he went through the lines trying to prove his point, white was never lost, just worse.

You are saying this does not rank with Kasparov-Topalov, but you yourself showed Kasparov's whole combination in that game was flawed, there was a defense for Topalov getting him at least a draw!! But you didn't find a flaw in this one!

Where's your immortal game Mr. Hikaru

Better grab my dumbrella its really stupid out their today

This is just my opinion, and I'm sure many people will be angry and upset with me, but there is something severe that bothers me here regarding the analysis in this video: Why does Hikaru seem to criticize in a somewhat derogatory way and even a little arrogant to Dubov's new move against Karjakin, seeing him as if it was really easy to act normally against that in any game, even between GM's or as if he really easily took care of it? I mean, if the movements are new to the opening of the white pieces, it is not at all easy for the black pieces to move, attack, counterattack and defend themselves correctly against that if there is no theory, evidence, sightings, not even a clue, rumors. or whatever is written before what Dubov did here; Karjakin was literally not prepared for that (NOBODY was really), and not only did it take him by surprise, but it dislodged him from himself, his strategies in mind went to the trash can and even if he had defended himself excellently and removed a lot of problems over against White, I'm sure that Dubov, who previously DOES studied the possibilities of this new move that he created, would have taken care of that too, at least in a comfortable way. In this case, Hikaru criticizes Karjakin at times as if to indirectly say "But what are you doing Karjakin? Why are you doing/not doing that move or that move? Why don't you do what I think? I can do better. than him because I'm the best. Period, there's no arguing, because I'm Hikaru Nakamura, just for that. " This same strange attitude I see in chess RU-vidr/Streamers like Ghotamchess (and not just once). And remember, it is a game between masters, THERE IS TIME RUNNING IN THE MIDDLE, therefore, it is even more difficult to make a good decision at the moment in the face of what is new in those movements of White. I don't know, maybe I'm just imagining things against Hikaru to make an excuse for his criticism, but I sincerely believe that the departure of Dubov Vs Karjakin was more than great, and that Karjakin defended himself more than great also to be the first person to He faces Dubov's new move, and of course, Duvob with that tremendous move that took us all by surprise and revolutionized an old chess movement from 400 years ago in a masterful way, he played just as exceptional, and they just want him correct both to appear to be better to everyone.

At 9:17, does Hikaru reference CS:GO by referring to the bishops as AWPs, or is he using a chess term I don't know? It would make sense because not long after he talks about their scope (like an AWP/sniper has a scope)

It's not an immortal game because of the queen sacrifice it's an immortal game because of all the moves that came after the queen sacrifice.

Would be interested in immortal game series. Some of my favourite games are Rubensteins immortal, Alekhines windmill, Evergreen game. Many works of art.

Hikaru, you should make eye contact with the camera lens in order to make it more communicative

2:31 Literally the 2 unnatural moves were the first ones that came to mind for me and objectively not that good at chess at all

The variation is also amazing not just the queen move

That guys analysis during the ADs sounds pretty interesting

All your moves blows people minds they are so deep like rabbit hole deep

A super GM with no immortal game, but he has an immortal twitch channel

"Queen sac is his only move" yeah but he set up that position against a very strong GM. I think there's some jealously in this analysis

Please upload the review of the kasparov immortal. I was mind blown watching your understanding.

Hikaru do a similar video of the games Dubov - Carlsen from the Airthings master!!. They looked kinda crazy to the mortal people.

The Dubov gambit

can u analyze rapport - studer ? I think it is the game of the year

Really hope Hikaru was joking with the "in peasant" comment

Please never change the thumbnails

Good guy Hikaru(or editor) with the clutch midnight uploads

07:33 That's what i told my girlfriend... ...when she watching the game live.. ...blindfolded and handcuffed.

It's like watching Tal but at 3000 meters altitude. Astounded by this game.

Captures Captures

I really like these types of videos. You and agadmator have helped me out a ton!

I really like the Erwin l'Ami game vs. Fabiano Caruana. Both were beautiful games.

Can you do a vid on computer vs human moves? What exactly makes it hard for humans to do computer type moves and why are they considered nonintuitive?

But does anyone seem really interested in the way the game played out until roughly 3.06. The way Dubov plays and destroys his own base structure to hem in Rajakin is really interesting

Happy new year master of chess

More I understand chess it's not the best moves but achieving an equal position where there is a devastating response to every good move of the opponent.

Human intuition is a beautiful thing

@GMHikaru why you engine is limited with computation depth? On this depth it plays like 1600-2100elo.

Hey, Hikaru, Happy new year!! I have a question for you -- on 7:19 you say that you don't consider this a legendary game because queen is the only good move, well then. Why don't you play as Black vs any engine to see how many winning moves will the computer find and start analyzing them?

Love this analysis 👌

Nehzmetdinov and Tal will be proud

I really enjoy nakamuras analisys it is great to get some insight as to what he thinks about the positions.

4:20 I thought that's a lolly chekmate

Eh, I disagree. I think this game is immortal beyond the Queen sac. I was more impressed by how much value he extracted from a bishop & rook pair than him sacrificing his Queen.

nice video. Thanks! I need to pause it a lot to follow the lines :P

Normally I sacrifice my Queen because of Ultra bullet-time trouble but I do it for no reason and lose

You should analyze more game Hikaru 🙂

I showed the video to my 5 year old. Great opportunity to be taught what en-passant is from a super GM.

more of these pls

Imagine being 380 rated and watching this 3550 GM and wanting to understand

Did he upload the Kasparov immortal game analysis?

I will promote the Shirov game with Knight to E4 as the best of 2020 till I die.

why is the notation for knight "N"? R=Rook B=bishop K=Knight...

Background Music is so great

It's a great review of the game except, d5 that Hikaru says he would do doesn't work because pawn to b5 takes the rook on c6 out of the game. I saw this in another review btw.

3:26 what a legend hahahaha

What are you? The GothamHikarumator?

instead of bishop x c3, can he take g7 ?

Why is Queen g6 an option? the bishop now blocks the pin on the pawn ?

There's something very funny about SuperGM Hikaru Nakamura making clickbaity chess analysis titles on RU-vid.

Now waiting for agadmator to become the blitz world champion

It's a good movement how my grandmother will say.

Everyone is first , until they refresh 😂😂

Post analysis of Gelfand game immediately.

algorythm gambit

THANK YOU !!!!

Hikaru is Agad now Pog

GG good analysis but sometime u show the obvious and it eats up time, but GG

Please show us Supi vs Carlsen!

Is Giuoco pianissimo a thing?

Agadmator income will be half soon

Observe my game against the United States next please? Thanks.

Morning person? I'm tired man :)

So what was the game of the year in your opinion?

Taking Agadmator's job WeirdChamp

Omg it's the fooking evans gambit 🥴

Why is that checkmate called ice skating?

Are jealous or something hikaru?

- I guess it's a fine move, yeah whatever. I could have played that game had I wanted to.

Why doesn’t he play pawn b6 at the end?

It's just a pawn, who cares? *Soviet anthem starts playing

4am someone is here??

Double D is too OP