I remember Finegold having high praise for Keymar years ago, basically saying he would go far. Keymer reaching #14 in the world at merely 19 years old certainly proves him right.
Well prag has also finished his schooling. prag, Arjun, nihal, gukesh all have gone to school while competing. On the other hand prag has already qualified to candidates and gukesh has also most likely qualified to candidates, so yea we can say they are a level above keymer at the moment.
@@neerajnongmaithem392you gotta be kidding. keymer was 2nd in rapid wc last year. beating pragg already in e.g julius baer cup in a time control that favours pragg. i love the indian guys you mentioned but just have a look at the ratings. nowhere near a level above vincent. absolutely ridiculous take
@@neerajnongmaithem392 I think they are all about one level right now, also Abdusattorov. The qualification for the Candidates is only one of many aspects, and also often involved with luck. Vincent has clearly improved since about half a year, but his Indian colleagues are equally promising of course.
I'm not in a position to correct Nakamura's judgments, but I wonder how did he justify this view? They're of very similar age (months apart), Pragg only has a very slight plus score against Keymer and almost identical rating. Doesn't seem like "a league above" to me. What am I missing then?
I think it's difficult to compare these guys. They are all very good and talented with an individual profile. Keymer finished his school recently. Before he didn't act as a professional chess player. Now he is. His future is bright and promising. Maybe he can make chess popular in germany.
Wasn’t always that way. During his 2600 rated stints (while he was still in school) he was often able to go head to head with the world elite and even Beat many of them but Magnus was always his kryptonite. That has changed since the World Cup. He is more confident in his abilities
@@ehmjay3457I mean tbf he had some close encounters with Carlsen already before the World Cup, in one of them he even lost a winning position against Carlsen.
seems like he missed an opportunity to move forward his king and shut out black's king on the kingside at that critical point while leaving open a path for his own king to his advanced pawn. Still impressive the way he shut down any counterplay by Keymer.
In the opening Carlsen looked like he was about to play 8.d3 and then switched to play 8.a3 because he wanted keymer to play 8...Bg4 9...Bxf3 10...Nd4 11...Nxb3. Thus he made it look like he didn't know the opening and confused what to play. Instead he probably knew until 15-20th move.
Sometimes yeah but in this case it wasn't Vincent's doing. Magnus missed a move to hold a significant advantage in that endgame and he realized it very shortly after. That's why he was so upset.
@@stoutlager6325he didn’t have any advantage in the position you’re talking about He was just annoyed because he let get the opponent unnecessary counterplay
I think this was amazing Magnus....he messed up a move, got angry and still managed to draw. Its normal to be angry...u play a perfect game to your plan, u make one mistake, one on a very high level. If anything well done Magnus here. If you dont agree, go play checkers
@@donnyramonhernandezmendez5300 He probably realized that there was no way to defend the pawn in H3 from Keymer's King attack because his King was being blocked by the pawns and there was no square for him to put the knight to defend the pawn either. At the end that's how Keymer managed to get a passing pawn.
Keymer and Fabi is the only 2 people right now that can match magnus on end game. Too bad keymer weakness is in opening and middle game. If not for that, he could be the world champion
Well he just turned 19 last month, so he has a few years yet to get to his peak. And he has only been playing chess full-time for 1 1/2 years after finishing school, school is so time-consuming in Germany
Keymer's major issue is still his time management, but he improved here the last two years very well. Before that, his major issue related to Magnus was his huge respect for him I guess. Now, this respect might still be there but doesn't seem to affect his playing strength significantly anymore.
Nah mate If it's classical then you know that no one matches magnus Just look at game 6 from his last world championship match against nepo Simply the goat
No one can match Magnus in endgame, Fabi lost to Magnus from winning/drawing endgame many times in Champions Chess Tour final just this month and Vincent and Magnus haven't played each other enough to draw any conclusion so far.
Hübner, who even once played at the Candidates, was ranked the world's third best player at his peak, Naiditsch had some amazing tournament wins at an early age and there were also some solid players like Uhlmann and Unzicker who were sometimes even within the world's top 20. But Keymer will surpass the legacy of all of these in no time for sure.
I remember watching this game live and in chat was a dude with the GM Magnus Carlsen handle. He was telling chat that he got caught cheating by his Asian boyfriend with an African man. Someone saw this to right? 😂😂
@@winningsm_iie2447 Carlsen saw the best and maybe winning move too late, after he'd already moved the "wrong" figure. He was just angry with himself ...
@@winningsm_iie2447watch the full game. Magnus was winning and then he blundered. He was playing like a true geniuos from the beginning cause his plan was to play a knight vs bishop ending with equal material but having a superior knight. Then he blunders when he missed Kg4. That's why he got so angry.
Might be nothing makes Magnus madder than messing up the endgame. Think he jokes about being the best endgame player ever. But I think it's true. Believe magnus thinks his position is better. Has the better minor piece, better pawns and is about to mobilize his king. But through oversight he allows Blacks King to become much better and very threatening. Now realizes he's worse. Maybe losing. All because he got careless and did not restrict black's king. He's so angry because that's not something the best ever endgame player should do.
Magnus's emotion at 6:00 is eloquent. He apparently realized that he should have gone knight to f5, not d5 (5:23), and therefore was upset that he missed the victory
I don't agree. He should have played Nc3 after Kf5, recapturing the e4 pawn with the better position. His mistake was g4 (after Kf5), after which the black king threathens to crawl to h3.
@@l.v.d.sluijs8009you are partially right, as you said G4 was a mistake which suddenly equalise the position but Nc3 was not the correct move which also equalise the position engine shows b3 is the correct move keeps white slight edge.
@@l.v.d.sluijs8009 b3 is shown by stockfish as the only move that keeps white slight advantage.otherwise after Black's C4 ,bishop will come to C5 it allows black to equalise fast.
Magnus is mad because at 4:45 he didn't take the free pawn at f7 with the knight move. Oh nevermind Bishop c7 results in a perpetual trying to save the knight.
@@timothylee2772 Bishop c7 takes away d8 and d6 while defending e5, so where is the Knight going to escape if the Black king advances to capture it via g8? the only way to rescue the Knight is f4, giving back the pawn (and keeping things equal). so the e7 pawn isn't "free".
@@samuelf3866Guys calm down, they're the same level - both are very promising; and also Gukesh, Erigaisi, Abdusattorov. And I dont call Nihal out either.
Magnus was totally wining, ten minutes, against 30 seconds, and good position, g4 just draw or perhaps gets a worst position, big mistake. Nc3 perhaps.
@@sarangtamirisa5090 No, there are two cameras, one each side, and the reference board comes from the digital DGT board itself, not from the cameras. By the way I wonder what are the cameras for ...
Because black has pawns fixed on black squares and white can have all his pawns on white squares. This means that only the knight can attack pawns. Besides, black's bishop is stuck defending pawns while white's knight has the hability to jump and attack any square. And there's also the better position of the white king.
@@peristiloperis7789Appreciate the reasoning but that particular logic has flaws. The knight in the endgame cannot attack any pawns as the white king is more locked than the black king is because of the only passed pawn. White's b-pawn is traded for the c-pawn and there is no other alternative for it, leaving white with no possible win by definition, while the only theoretical win would be for black. The only feasible thing I can see is for white to get his knight on e6, which may be the reason for the eval depending on the king position. Anyone who understands this endgame give an insight?
