Yeah he went for the tie and she instead chose an M2 position... Because she knew Magnus didn't have enough time to pre-move a3,a1 right? Which he could do in a fraction of second, it just looks like blunder, right?
Can you tell me where the mate in 2 is? I was looking at Rgb2+ Kc1then couldn't find mate, also Ra3 is still in the way of doing some tactics and the knight is blocking a mate in 2 . Rad2, then Rc3 prevents mate in 2 also.
What's crazier is that ...well he lost ... No Matter how much you argue. After the match You can come up with any number of reasons. Eg. Magnus had muted his stream to concentrate on match but she didn't ... So There's one benefit for magnus
@@soulsbourne you are super delusion if you think that magnus world champion muted his stream to beat botez who is not even a gm. magnus was having fun while botez was playing seriosly that the reality and get gud at chess,
between the time handicap and the win happening after like 6 losses while magnus casually laughs and chats with his friends is such an older brother vibe. her celebration under the circumstances is such a lil sibling vibe on top of that
So bizarre that so many people here seem to think that everyone needs reminding that Magnus is still better than her. Yeah, no shit, people. Obviously everyone knows it, but it's still a huge win for her to squeak out a time win against the GOAT, even with a major handicap.
1. Hes has just 30 seconds 2. Hes not calculating anything,pure intuition 3. He spent some 4 or 5 seconds doing nothing 4. Hes talking to his friends most of the time. 5. He was a couple moves from mating her. Taking all this into consideration,it defo takes down the value of that win by a LOOOOT
@Niranjan Rajesh Again, you seem to think you're saying something no one else realizes. Loosen up and realize that this is about fun, not about trying to prove anything about "who's better".
@ThomasBarthoulot chess is played by a clock, each player has an individual timer that you start when it's your turn and stop when you finish your move. If your opponent runs out of time, you win.
I mean..... If she used the time advantage to have a positional advantage at any point id be impressed. But she was losing from beginning to end, and only won by making 900 rated moves at the end. Not taking the rook ect. If she's happy with it then I'm happy for her, but if she's serious about being a good chess player this wouldn't be any kind of achievement.
They’re not just there to watch him play though, they’re there to hang out with him while he works. It would be like if you were a cashier at Walmart or a security guard at the mall and your friends showed up for an hour or two to talk to help pass the time faster. Magnus playing a WFM with a handicap takes as much mental effort for him as a cashier scanning groceries. Streaming for 8 hours a day sounds boring and monotonous so having friends around always helps. I’ve dated multiple women who’ve asked me to visit them at work whether they were at Victoria’s Secret or Whole Foods or a doctor’s office.
@@limitlessunknown8676 That wasn't the point of the comment smartass. Of course the act of "thinking" itself is the core of chess, but "seeing him thinking for a moment longer than an intuitive instant" is what the OP was talking about. He's so good he usually doesn't have to ponder anything, but she made him pause to think. That's the achievement. The fact that you didn't understand the context tells me you're not such a great thinker yourself.
It absolutely is, especially when time is so critical in a handicap like this. Making him think is the entire game. That’s the whole win condition. Flag him by making him think
2:27 She's lucky he turned away to banter with his friends the moment she made a move. It cost Magnas 5 seconds - which turned out to cost him the game as she was about to lose
I think she was fairly calm considering it was a win against possibly the best player in history of the game...I would have had to be scraped off the ceiling ..👏
Carlsen is the greatest chess player ever. Although Carlsen had only 30 seconds and Alex five minutes, this game was an exceptionally big achievement. Somehow I found it sweet when Alex was happy.
Hah yeah same, I think Alex is a bit of a spoiled princess (even moreso now due to Twitch), but in this particular moment I was glad for her and brought a smile to my face. Only another player who has beat someone much stronger can understand the feeling (happened to me a few times with IM scalps, although not with odds as shown here). Some cringe and overly defensive comments on here.
@@LeafyPeach He said on stream that he was supporting Alexandra instead of Magnus. But you don't even need context like that. Watch this video - he celebrates when Magnus loses...
To those of you who don't understand this time odds buisness can actually get really frustrating. I once lost 5 in a row in 1 v 5 minutes against a 2100 FIDE (I'm 1600)... It can get extremely frustrating happy for Alex here... It's a massive win.
People just somehow forget how absurdly good Carlsen is. Like, anyone in this youtube comment section would lose to a blackout drunk Carlsen under these time odds. Botez is obviously not GM level, but she's a perfectly decent chess player - and Carlsen just obliterates her. Squeaking out that little time win is huge. People just don't understand how unreasonably large the gap is from Carlsen to even many other GMs - and certainly anyone who is IM or lower.
@@tochoXK3 yeah what i'm saying is people who can occasionally flag opponents 100-200 higher rated than them, but never actually tried to play someone 500-600 higher than you FIDE with time odds don't understand how hard/humiliating it can be :) Because you -know- you should be able to flag someone when they start so low, but you just can't...
@@helloagain4546have you considered the idea that if they lift the time restrictions you would spend all day getting your ass whooped by the players above you, relentlessly, right? You’re complaining about a handicap, which exists in almost all forms of matching making from video games to real life sports. It’s no different than a handicap in golf and you don’t hear them complaining. I’ve never heard Carlson complain about its existence.
She's so intense and focused and Magnus looks like he just woke up and is laughing with his friends haha. Still a great accomplishment though, beating Magnus is so hard that even you get him wasted and then give him a concussion you should still throw yourself a parade
The trick when someone is down on time like this, especially magnus, is to play moves that they cannot premove against. Because you aren’t going to be magnus in classical chess. You can’t play chess to beat him, you have to play the time. And if he’s premoving, he’s not wasting any time. So what you need to do is simply force him to use his time by not allowing him to premove. And this is something that Alex did really well. If you look at how often Magnus was premoving, watch how little that actually paid off for him. She wasn’t playing how he predicted she might play. Which is the reason she ended up winning even though she was in such a worse position. I don’t know how intentional it was on her part, but she played just weird enough to throw him off and waste his time. Beautiful game
Funny how she says if she takes time to think then that give Magnus time to think on her turn but when I look he's just laughing and talking to his friends during her turn.
And a winning position at that. No matter how many times you see it Magnus is a spectacle. Even she had only 5 seconds to spare, if it were increments of 0.2 seconds I doubt Magnus would lose.
i just realized it’s not just the fact it’s a 10x time difference, cuz if magnus had 5 min to 50 min for her, magnus would ALWAYS WIN since 5 min by itself is a lot for magnus. but they had to shrink his absolute time down to 30 sec to make it nearly impossible for magnus to even finish the average game in time simply due to physical constraints on reality lmao
I believe you mean rook to f1, and no, there is no immediate checkmate because white's rook on e1 is preventing either rook from checking the white king. The sequence Magnus played is the best. I'm a 1700+ rated player
Magnus premoved a forced tie trading both rooks so Andrea would have insufficient material to win but Andrea instead moved the king which is a terrible move because Rxa3 a1 is checkmate.
What an electrifying game! I'm only six years old and I absolutely love chess, so watching Alexandra finally beat Magnus was super exciting for me! It was like watching a real-life chess adventure. Alexandra's strategy was really smart, especially when she changed her opening to something unexpected, and her quick thinking when the game looked tough was so inspiring. Plus, her reaction on stream was priceless-it's not every day you see someone so passionate! As someone who loves chess, this video was a perfect mix of tension and joy. Keep it up, Alexandra!
I have seen movies where villains are to op that you have to put all odds against him and still just winning by a very very slim margin. This felt like that.
actually if she was 100 perc concentrated on the game she wouldnt have been talking or even streaming. she would be play in dead silence and without any single soul watching her in any way, only then total concentration could be reached.
So basically in a 10 games (don't know the exact number) where Magnus had 30 seconds and she had 5 mins, Magnus lost a single game on time (even there he had a huge material advantage and mate was almost there). This is what I call absolute domination.
Magnus holds the world record for not loosing streak of all time in official games. That in the era where super GMs use computer to research lines. Dude, I would be happy if I won a single 5min x 10s match against him.
Of course it is, he's basically the greatest player of all time. He dominates the top 10 players all the time while playing troll openings at every opportunity. For a 2200 to not lose by move 10 is an achievement, winning on time is still a great moment.
"If I think, he is going to think on my time" I love this you can tell how pumped she is. I played Counterstrike on a community server regularly, and a couple days we found out some pro players were in America playing on the server. I had never been so pumped to try and defeat them in a gungame and got very close. One of my friends actually did beat them. For him it was probably one of his best memories of the game ever. I also played a match one time against FMPONE on Santorini. We had our asses whooped, but it was still one of my favorite memories.
Imagine being so good at chess that 1. A 2000+ rated player 2. playing with white pieces 3. having 5 min clock while you have 30 secs 4. Just missed getting forced checkmated in 3 while you lost in time Not to mention that botez is tensed as fuck as if the world is going to end while this guy is chilling with homies💀
For Alex this was the greatest day of her life. For Magnus it was Tuesday.
Can't you be original?
You mean Wednesday. It's Wednesday my dudes
I thinkj it was close to the weekend considering the bevarages that was consumned!
tuesday morning.
the same for you if you beat him
Alexandra: I have more time but If I think he will also think on my time.
Magnus: talking and laughing at his chat while she's thinking on her time.
You must pull chicks
luhmfao
Lmbfao
Still impressive tho. I bet magnus could beat you while beating 9 other players blindfolded. Also he could beat two of you not focussing.
@@baronhelmut2701 or guys
"he's trying to mate"
Always gets me.
lmao 💀
imagine the voice of david attenborough saying it
ditto
@@La_sagne AHAHAHAHHA i died
4:44
This was so brutal because Magnus was literally 2 moves from mating her. 😆
Yeah he went for the tie and she instead chose an M2 position... Because she knew Magnus didn't have enough time to pre-move a3,a1 right? Which he could do in a fraction of second, it just looks like blunder, right?
Can you tell me where the mate in 2 is? I was looking at Rgb2+ Kc1then couldn't find mate, also Ra3 is still in the way of doing some tactics and the knight is blocking a mate in 2 .
Rad2, then Rc3 prevents mate in 2 also.
@@phen-themoogle7651 Rxa3, Kc1 is forced then Ra1. He could click that so fast.
That sounds so wrong.
@@DrHannibal1105 Are you ten years old?
Alex is a great chess player and I’m happy she finally got a W. But it’s incredible that it takes a 10x time deficit for Magnus to lose.
and still be a few moves away from mating her
+finishing with 6s to go XD
but with their elo ratings, isnt that exactly how it should’ve went?
5mins against 30 secs lol u call that win?
@@rimiko86 it was very clearly a win. Maybe you’re confused on the definition.
I love that magnus has a chess entourage
More like drinking buddies.
Groupies?
@@valerieschiano2959 more like a posse
He's like the chess Elvis
He's git goons
3:01 Magnus’s reaction after seeing that he only has 11 seconds
"Oh wait i have 11 seconds?!?!"🤣
@@amnathegrande lmao perfect
What's funny to me is that if at 2:28 had he not be chatting with his friends, where he lost ~4 seconds on the clock, maybe he would have won.
He chose to do so it doesn't matter, 'if's don't matter, the outcomes do
What's crazier is that ...well he lost ... No Matter how much you argue.
After the match You can come up with any number of reasons.
Eg.
Magnus had muted his stream to concentrate on match but she didn't ... So There's one benefit for magnus
@@soulsbourne you are super delusion if you think that magnus world champion muted his stream to beat botez who is not even a gm. magnus was having fun while botez was playing seriosly that the reality and get gud at chess,
@@soulsbourne
He lost... Well that's fine....
She had a nice time.....
He didn't give a sh*t
And chapter closed
@@datokvartskhava4711 not even an FM*
between the time handicap and the win happening after like 6 losses while magnus casually laughs and chats with his friends is such an older brother vibe. her celebration under the circumstances is such a lil sibling vibe on top of that
So bizarre that so many people here seem to think that everyone needs reminding that Magnus is still better than her. Yeah, no shit, people. Obviously everyone knows it, but it's still a huge win for her to squeak out a time win against the GOAT, even with a major handicap.
Yeah like It’s so dumb, the clear disproportion of power is exactly what makes it funny
It’s most likely just butthurt incels who can’t stand to see a woman beat a man at anything.
I mean I'm not sure how big of an accomplishment that is, he lost like 4 seconds cuz he was not looking at the screen in the middle lol.
1. Hes has just 30 seconds
2. Hes not calculating anything,pure intuition
3. He spent some 4 or 5 seconds doing nothing
4. Hes talking to his friends most of the time.
5. He was a couple moves from mating her.
Taking all this into consideration,it defo takes down the value of that win by a LOOOOT
@Niranjan Rajesh Again, you seem to think you're saying something no one else realizes. Loosen up and realize that this is about fun, not about trying to prove anything about "who's better".
2:28 that's where he lost. He was talking with his friends and didn't realize that botez made a move, so that he lost 5 secs
The win is basically "survive a match against Magnus"
Survive 30 seconds to win
Still a win
@@Noisehead101 sorry not familiar with the website but how is it a win if there's not check mate ?
@ThomasBarthoulot chess is played by a clock, each player has an individual timer that you start when it's your turn and stop when you finish your move. If your opponent runs out of time, you win.
@@Noisehead101may be u forgot the time difference….that’s not a win😂
"He's muted his stream, how'd he do that??"
This is still an accomplishment I hate people talking down to her like she doesn't understand what a fucking handicap is.
I mean..... If she used the time advantage to have a positional advantage at any point id be impressed. But she was losing from beginning to end, and only won by making 900 rated moves at the end. Not taking the rook ect. If she's happy with it then I'm happy for her, but if she's serious about being a good chess player this wouldn't be any kind of achievement.
@@fractal_mind562tfu god damnit 😮💨 go beat Magnus in this situation please 🙏
@@fractal_mind562 I dont think anyone cares how impressed you are lmao.
@@fractal_mind562dude is so pretentious, “if she’s happy I’m happy for her” LMAOOOO
@@erops7933 Of course I could beat magnus in this situation, all you have to do is play 900 moves that his premoves cant predict...
This is that moment in every video game when you beat the final boss.
Well, against Magnus it would be like a Dark Souls game
Magnus always has just like 2 spectators watching him play all the time no matter what time it is😂😂
They’re not just there to watch him play though, they’re there to hang out with him while he works. It would be like if you were a cashier at Walmart or a security guard at the mall and your friends showed up for an hour or two to talk to help pass the time faster. Magnus playing a WFM with a handicap takes as much mental effort for him as a cashier scanning groceries. Streaming for 8 hours a day sounds boring and monotonous so having friends around always helps. I’ve dated multiple women who’ve asked me to visit them at work whether they were at Victoria’s Secret or Whole Foods or a doctor’s office.
he's gay so theyre there to you know what.
And it’s never his girlfriend…
4:03 Magnus realises his time
Alex was happy seeing him just thinking 😂like it's an achievement just to make him think during the game
Yes it is
@@mojibino it isn’t 💀 the point of chess is literally to think
@@limitlessunknown8676 That wasn't the point of the comment smartass. Of course the act of "thinking" itself is the core of chess, but "seeing him thinking for a moment longer than an intuitive instant" is what the OP was talking about. He's so good he usually doesn't have to ponder anything, but she made him pause to think. That's the achievement. The fact that you didn't understand the context tells me you're not such a great thinker yourself.
It absolutely is, especially when time is so critical in a handicap like this. Making him think is the entire game. That’s the whole win condition. Flag him by making him think
@@limitlessunknown8676He thinks so fast that it seems like he's doing it unconsciously
Her reaction was a pure moment. Nothing sweeter than the self affirmation of beating the World's best
I mean he had 30s compared to her 5 min but yeah that must have felt good
Reminds me of that guy who beat a world class cyclist by riding a motorcycle.
@@trollsearching8968 💀
@@shinep_ag if it were me, even he has 5sec and i have 24hrs, I'd still be glad.
This is not beating the world's best, she was totally lost if was not because of the time
God, when she yelled "he's thinking". You made my day. Magnus really having fun with even so limited time. He's really genius
4:44
“please don’t mate me”
“i’m not ready”
“not like this”
🤣🤣🤣
Lol right out of The Matrix!
That's what she said
@@ll_0.0_ll9
fr? can’t believe it
@@Papayajoseph Thats what i was thinking
I guarantee that the folks talking shit about her would get DESTROYED by her in a game where she gave up a similar handicap. She is absolutely LEGIT.
fax
💯 agree
Maybe, but not myself. Way to sound & defensive in the way I play. It’ll end up being a game of pawns 9.9/10 games. 1607 rating here.
@@KingxDavid2024 bro where'd you find so much audacity, put it back
@@KingxDavid2024 botez is almost 2.3k rating on this vid and ur 1.6k , there are huge differences
Lmfaoo loving how carefree magnus is
He lost like 8 out of 30 seconds in total just by being distracted
2:27 Magnus losing 5 precious seconds while talking to his friends lol
*4:44* "Please don't me mate me, I'm not ready ... not like this."
Good one, Alexandra.
I like how both sides are synced! I like watching these type of videos!
you're being sarcastic
Agreed! It took time to line up these two streams
chess is the only sport when you can casually encounter the world final boss
not true
Poker too
Not really a sport lmao it's a board game 😂
2:27
She's lucky he turned away to banter with his friends the moment she made a move.
It cost Magnas 5 seconds - which turned out to cost him the game as she was about to lose
I think she was fairly calm considering it was a win against possibly the best player in history of the game...I would have had to be scraped off the ceiling ..👏
Maybe it's tempered because of the major handicap. If she beat him on equal standing I think she'd be even more animated hahaha
@@hay5813 Indeed, if you beat Lebron James in basketball 1-on-1 but he gave you a 20-0 head start, that's still pretty good
@@BrendanBeckett more like Lebron without the use of his arms
Her breaths during this sounded so anxious. She must've been on a hell of an adrenaline rush when she got the win.
@@braddivens5179 for sure!
0:55 guy comes forward and yells his soul out
Carlsen is the greatest chess player ever. Although Carlsen had only 30 seconds and Alex five minutes, this game was an exceptionally big achievement. Somehow I found it sweet when Alex was happy.
Hah yeah same, I think Alex is a bit of a spoiled princess (even moreso now due to Twitch), but in this particular moment I was glad for her and brought a smile to my face. Only another player who has beat someone much stronger can understand the feeling (happened to me a few times with IM scalps, although not with odds as shown here).
Some cringe and overly defensive comments on here.
Yeah, if I played against him I’d probably lose even if he only had 5 seconds
I like how David Howell was supporting Alexandra. :)
???
@@sashirmunoz3780 What's confusing?
@@GMBethHarmonhow was he supporting her? Not everyone knows the context of every situation.
@@LeafyPeach He said on stream that he was supporting Alexandra instead of Magnus.
But you don't even need context like that. Watch this video - he celebrates when Magnus loses...
@@GMBethHarmon i see
To those of you who don't understand this time odds buisness can actually get really frustrating.
I once lost 5 in a row in 1 v 5 minutes against a 2100 FIDE (I'm 1600)... It can get extremely frustrating happy for Alex here... It's a massive win.
People just somehow forget how absurdly good Carlsen is. Like, anyone in this youtube comment section would lose to a blackout drunk Carlsen under these time odds. Botez is obviously not GM level, but she's a perfectly decent chess player - and Carlsen just obliterates her. Squeaking out that little time win is huge. People just don't understand how unreasonably large the gap is from Carlsen to even many other GMs - and certainly anyone who is IM or lower.
Most people downplaying Alexandra's accomplisent would lose against Alexandra with these time odds (she gets 30 seconds).
@@tochoXK3 yeah what i'm saying is people who can occasionally flag opponents 100-200 higher rated than them, but never actually tried to play someone 500-600 higher than you FIDE with time odds don't understand how hard/humiliating it can be :) Because you -know- you should be able to flag someone when they start so low, but you just can't...
@@helloagain4546have you considered the idea that if they lift the time restrictions you would spend all day getting your ass whooped by the players above you, relentlessly, right?
You’re complaining about a handicap, which exists in almost all forms of matching making from video games to real life sports.
It’s no different than a handicap in golf and you don’t hear them complaining. I’ve never heard Carlson complain about its existence.
She's so intense and focused and Magnus looks like he just woke up and is laughing with his friends haha. Still a great accomplishment though, beating Magnus is so hard that even you get him wasted and then give him a concussion you should still throw yourself a parade
Lol what? She beat Magnus even with a Handicap that's impressive.
@@CHRISG612 LOL I think you misunderstood me. I was saying beating Magnus under ANY circumstances is worthy of major celebration
concussion huh- literally beating and handicapping the man sounds like a tactic
"he is trying to mate. he keeps doing that it's very annoying" 3:42
She also said she's not ready for that 😅
That terminology is never not funny to me.
4:43 "*sigh* please don't mate me, I'm not ready ..not like this!"
the most wonderfull part when magnus is having a chill time with his friends as a normal day
5:03 Magnus's speed and decision making here 💀💀💀💀 IMPRESSIVE AF
Some comments here are just cringe. They don't know what fun handicap game is.
Funny how they're acting salty over the loss, when Magnus himself wasn't!
Your mom is cringe
@@GMBethHarmon yeah some people just dont seem to enjoy chess. the games were fun as hell.
Thats just how magnus fans acting when their idol lost in any type of match, they tried to justified everything to claim that he won 🤣
@@GMBethHarmon typical teenage boys
The best part of this entire video was listening to Alex while watching Magnus laugh and goof around with his friends/entourage/posse
I think my favorite part of this is when she said “He’s thinking, he’s thinking”. Magnus was already like 4 pre-moves ahead lol.
The trick when someone is down on time like this, especially magnus, is to play moves that they cannot premove against. Because you aren’t going to be magnus in classical chess. You can’t play chess to beat him, you have to play the time.
And if he’s premoving, he’s not wasting any time. So what you need to do is simply force him to use his time by not allowing him to premove. And this is something that Alex did really well. If you look at how often Magnus was premoving, watch how little that actually paid off for him. She wasn’t playing how he predicted she might play. Which is the reason she ended up winning even though she was in such a worse position. I don’t know how intentional it was on her part, but she played just weird enough to throw him off and waste his time. Beautiful game
"I just got dizzy!"
No kidding, you were breathing like you just drove your car off a bridge, and it was rapidly filling up with water!
Those last 10 seconds on magnus's clock must've been the longest 10 seconds of alex's chess career.
That last Ra3 move was brilliant from Alex - she knew he expected her to take there so she broke his premove when he only had .3s left
"He is thinking!"...Even that's a win against Magnus 😂
I think this was hilarious. That was some pretty raw emotion at the end. I think I'll have to watch her more often.
It's nice to see Alexandra so happy.
I’d type “ez game” in chat to annoy him further more.
Im happy for her. Massive handicap but well played. Zero chance I win with those odds
If you play defense and try to make some forcing moves, you could flag Magnus. You just need to survive 40 moves or so.
@@RationalEgoismdo you think I could beat Magnus? Btw I’m 1200
@@FruitOfTheSpirit no chance in hell
@@t-rozbenouameur5304 guess he gotta try it in heaven then . Don't lose hope yet .
@@da1315 never lose hope
Funny how she says if she takes time to think then that give Magnus time to think on her turn but when I look he's just laughing and talking to his friends during her turn.
She played so well.
At 2:05 would d5 bishop be a good move?
That hangs a queen mate
lol "i just got dizzy" i think she was born dizzy
And a winning position at that. No matter how many times you see it Magnus is a spectacle. Even she had only 5 seconds to spare, if it were increments of 0.2 seconds I doubt Magnus would lose.
That primal roar made me feel a certain way
Lol
Lmaoooooo
That was pure unfiltered emotion right there
i just realized it’s not just the fact it’s a 10x time difference, cuz if magnus had 5 min to 50 min for her, magnus would ALWAYS WIN since 5 min by itself is a lot for magnus. but they had to shrink his absolute time down to 30 sec to make it nearly impossible for magnus to even finish the average game in time simply due to physical constraints on reality lmao
its the kind of joy when you finally beat the final boss youve been stuck on for weeks in a video game
5:24 Was it possible for magnus to bring that rook to f2. Move the knight. Move to rook to f8 for checkmate.
Edit : Asking coz i am 800 rated player
He could have also move knight to d3 followed with rook to g1 that would be mate in 2 moves if im not missing anything
He had 0.5 seconds
I believe you mean rook to f1, and no, there is no immediate checkmate because white's rook on e1 is preventing either rook from checking the white king. The sequence Magnus played is the best. I'm a 1700+ rated player
Magnus premoved a forced tie trading both rooks so Andrea would have insufficient material to win but Andrea instead moved the king which is a terrible move because Rxa3 a1 is checkmate.
@@thwartshroom2946 Rxa3, then Kc1 is forced so Ra1 is mate.
5:49 She almost fainted over that match and celebration, that's passion right there brother KKona
"Please don't mate me, I am not ready " is crazy 😂
What an electrifying game! I'm only six years old and I absolutely love chess, so watching Alexandra finally beat Magnus was super exciting for me! It was like watching a real-life chess adventure. Alexandra's strategy was really smart, especially when she changed her opening to something unexpected, and her quick thinking when the game looked tough was so inspiring. Plus, her reaction on stream was priceless-it's not every day you see someone so passionate! As someone who loves chess, this video was a perfect mix of tension and joy. Keep it up, Alexandra!
I have seen movies where villains are to op that you have to put all odds against him and still just winning by a very very slim margin.
This felt like that.
4:24 - "I made Magnus Carlson think! YES!"
Sounded like she had a good time from that scream.
Wow, really, Alex makes no secret of her emotions. 5:52 "I just got dizzy" 😅
He gave the game to her out of pity. 5 mins.....
Awesome video! Congrats Alex!!!
Alexandra: total concetration. Chat, distract him. Should I move here?
Magnus: So, yesterday I came to this bar...
actually if she was 100 perc concentrated on the game she wouldnt have been talking or even streaming. she would be play in dead silence and without any single soul watching her in any way, only then total concentration could be reached.
4:44: Alex - "Please dont mate me. I'm not ready. Not like this." JAJAJAJA
I'm confused, why does black move twice at 5:26? He moves his rook and then his knight? (looking at the small board).
He's premoving, basically saying that regardless of what white plays, if that move is legal, he will play it.
So basically in a 10 games (don't know the exact number) where Magnus had 30 seconds and she had 5 mins, Magnus lost a single game on time (even there he had a huge material advantage and mate was almost there).
This is what I call absolute domination.
He is the World Champ...kinda comes with the title.
around 700-800 elo difference. A win is a win and she should be proud, no matter the circumstances.
Magnus holds the world record for not loosing streak of all time in official games. That in the era where super GMs use computer to research lines. Dude, I would be happy if I won a single 5min x 10s match against him.
Of course it is, he's basically the greatest player of all time. He dominates the top 10 players all the time while playing troll openings at every opportunity. For a 2200 to not lose by move 10 is an achievement, winning on time is still a great moment.
@@digiscream That shows how low your level is. Good IM will not lose in 20 moves to top gm. Just because of knowledge.
"If I think, he is going to think on my time"
I love this you can tell how pumped she is. I played Counterstrike on a community server regularly, and a couple days we found out some pro players were in America playing on the server. I had never been so pumped to try and defeat them in a gungame and got very close. One of my friends actually did beat them. For him it was probably one of his best memories of the game ever. I also played a match one time against FMPONE on Santorini. We had our asses whooped, but it was still one of my favorite memories.
Alexandra while playing: stressed screaming
magnus while playing: 👁️👄👁️
Thats the most yes yelling yes i've ever heard
He's just laughing and talking to his buddies, Magnus is barely looking at the board. LOL!!
1:48 So Magnus, how do you feel about sports?
3:40 - "Aaaand he is trying to mate. He keeps doing that--it's very annoying." A little sus for those who don't play chess I suppose.
Magnus is like that one boss in boss fights without a health bar and the only objective is to survive
“He is trying to mate… keeps doing that, very annoying.” 😂😂😂
Beats Magnus? More like outlasting the Magnus Survival Mode.
1:31 was that a queen-rook fork?
The pure joy in her scream 😂
2 FREAKING MOVES AWAY FROM CHECK MATE XDD
They probably muted because his entourage shouts "Lisan al Gaib!" after every move.
"Please don't mate me, not like this" 😭
luhmfao
rape confirmed
She was concentrating so much , Magnus was just laughing through out his stream 😂😂😂
Imagine being so good at chess that
1. A 2000+ rated player
2. playing with white pieces
3. having 5 min clock while you have 30 secs
4. Just missed getting forced checkmated in 3 while you lost in time
Not to mention that botez is tensed as fuck as if the world is going to end while this guy is chilling with homies💀
"please don't mate me"
Don't worry, his pull out game is strong.
Dude Magnus is crazyyyyy... They can't even mate him with 270 more seconds on the clock... Like fr dude is a King 🙇...
And he won 6 games in a row
I stared at the 2:25 position for ages and was smug to eventually pick the same move. Took her about 10 seconds 😢
she gave birth at the end :D
"Chat, distract him" - Magnus already pre-moved half of the game.
bruh
the fact that magnus lost to time because he gave her 4:30 seconds advantage
The fact that it took that much and she didn't fully (if at all) win on skill. Magnus just read her wrong that time.
2:28 Magnus looks away and loses time. That cost him the game :)
Alex yelled yes just the way Michael Scott yelled no LOL
This is how I felt when I beat my older brother at a Mario Kart cup once
Winning by time when you are absolutely pounded is a great feeling
10-1 time odds. But yeah, beating Magnus anytime is a serious achievement, even if he is clowning around with his friends.
Breathing like delivering a baby..