@@agadmatorevery time for the past few years I’m so confused at why you’re fixing the sound cause I never hear it. This is the only time I’ve ever noticed lmao, just shows how professional you are 99.9% of the time
Yeah, I felt that the little girl who played the ceremonial first move was among the best moments of the whole World Championship (The chess has not been good.) But to see a child getting the honor of the first ceremonial move was really nice. Not sure how our legendary Antonio Radic didn't know about it.
The kid in question was Ms. Alanna Berikkyzy, winner of the under-9 Fide Chess championship. She moved a white piece. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2023#Organization
The first move was played by a little kid as streamed. Then this gentleman made the second move. Just to let you know . Thankyou. You are truly amazing Agadmator
I really liked your coverage of the classical portion, especially since u didn't tell who won or drew until it happened. Ty so much 4 that. I hope the rapid portion and your coverage of it is just as good as it has been. Ty 4 your videos
Beautifully done video Antonio this is one of my favorite breakdowns ever just from how thoroughly done it is and this also to me is one of the most noticeably complicated games I’ve ever watched live so hats off to you 🤝
only saying this cuz IIRC fabi and hess believed dingt saw this line back when he played Qe2 (albeit a mistake). , which they didn't understand and apparently only sesse sees the winning continuation for black.
9:31 these are the moments that I cherish from agadmator’s videos. I was introduced to his channel years ago from a compilation of these, they always make me smile
90 moves , 6 hours and 35 minutes . Probably one of the longest last classical games played in the world championships . Ian and Ding have given an tremendously exciting match .
Thanks for keeping the outcome secret till the end. I love your time format and in depth look at the game. (As always) Looking forward to the rapid games. Cheers from the USA (FL)
My heart was pounding for both players watching this live. Ian to find a winning idea and Ding to find resources! Crazy! Tiebreaks we go! May the best player win.
#suggestion Hey Agadmator Could you consider doing a series on *The greatest Underpromotions in Top Tier Chess History* I.e. Games where GM's underpromoted a pawn to a knight, bishop or rook, to draw or win the game? There are quite a few fantastic games, and I think underpromotions can be the greatest games in history. Have you ever seen the Five Rooks game? (The only known game with 5 rooks on the board) Look it up
Eric Rosen is always looking for creative ways to checkmate his opponent, for example by en passant or castling queenside, when such moves immediately end the game. I might be misremembering this, but I seem to recall one game where Hikaru was killing his opponent and decided to promote every single pawn of his to a knight. Then he simply horsed around until his opponent ran out of pasture to run in.
Hey, #agadmator, I think you missed it, The First Move was played by a little kid with White. that's why this gentleman plays the second move d5, which is odd to see two ceremonial moves in one game. 🙌
The LiChess engine is magnificent at forcing a stalemate. I used to find myself in positions where I was sure I could queen my pawn, as in this projected endgame, and the engine positioned its king where it forced a stalemate. In my whole life I've never managed to salvage a draw from a lost position in this manner. I just can't count the necessary moves carefully enough.
It uses a table base When there are very few pieces left, all the possible positions have been worked out and it's known whether it's a draw or if one side can force a win how many moves to checkmate So it just checks the position after every legal move and plays whichever gives the soonest mate (or if there's only a draw it plays a random drawing move)
@@anonymousAJ I believe the table base currently stands at 7 pieces on the board (any combination 7 pieces by both White and Black); all possible positions of all possible combinations are compiled, and a complete tree of move sequences is stored for each starting position. Maybe the base is now 8 or more?
For the people always asking, what does Agad do with "sorry about that", you can hear in this video that it hasn't been done :) I'm not complaining, I'm just giving ithe info. Also, the gues made the cereminial move with the black pawn because th move with white was done by the little girl, who is hidden behind Ding in that photo. For some reason they had two guests today.
@@Sivajivaylajilebi come on... you did not hear the echo of the pieces? (recorded from the chess site itself, but also through the mic with a little delay, as he forgot to turn off the speakers, as he usually does)
Friendly reminder for everyone to please let the ads before the video to play through🙏. Agad is awesome enough to not interrupt his content so we should be awesome in return by giving him revenue from the ads. Thanks Antonio for being the only UA-camr in existence who'll make a video longer than 10 minutes without a single commercial break. You the man Antonio!
The WCC should not be decided by short time control games. After game 14 it should just be next to win a game is the champ. For the title to be decides in armageddon is the equivalent of flipping a coin.
I think this World Championship was way more than we were anticipating ! It was been just great so far and continues to be way more than more than we bargained for
#agadmator I’m not necessarily suggesting this, but I’m just curious if you’ve ever thought of putting a white/black engine bar on the side of your videos so we can see the engine evaluation of each position (much like they do during the FIDE world championship). Love your videos!
commentary was excellent. Only slight technical thing is that when they were showing live camera, it was quite hard to see the current board position in the bottom right corner.
@@richardfredlund8846 yea man. what helped me is when i saw that live chat is full of morons spamming, and when I turned it off,i got needed space to see live board...
At 20:42 briefly, I had to put the video on 0,25x speed (from Kc6 onwards and included) because you are enunciating the moves faster than I can, and I suspect many others can, think.
6:22 I know I’m probably missing something but what if white played Bishop to H 5? The Knight can’t capture or check mate. Black would need to react to this and if he brought down the g pawn White could sacrifice the bishop and then if captured take a second pawn with the queen with checkmate Obviously I’m an idiot so I missing something can somebody tell me what I missing lol
I watched most of the 6 hours. Had to see how ag does it. Dubov gave some of the lines and nepo was better at some point in the middle and they went all the way just to end up with this draw. Great final game though you could feel the tension in every move.
@Agadmator, your video is full of sound echoes!! Now I understand why u always say "Sorry about that". U should have fixxed the echo at the start of the show.
At 16:06 is R(D) x Bishop worth a try? It seems you could liquidate from there with black ending a pawn up in the endgame. A distant pawn that would just about guarantee a win.
Why does Magnus say: “Whoever wins this match, has made a very strong performance, and won the world championship. But not more than that.” Isn’t that more than enough??
The real reason Nepo was trying so hard to prolong the game was that he didn't want the whole world watching Magnus crush him when they Google the longest WCC game ever
I would like in the future to see the ceremonial first move being whatever the person making it wants to be, then the person playing white has to figure it out from there. F4 right out of the gate! Na3! Mix it up, lets get crazy!
I don't think it's abt finding the whole engine line, I think it's more abt staying patient and making it's difficult to white to move and avoiding simplification. Make small progress, then u take it from there
First the first time I see the secret behind the *sorry about that* after being such an excellent subscriber for the last 6 years! Ironically there is no *sorry about that* in this video!
What to say: Ding with crazy openings, Nepo taking advantage of it, Ding consuming time to mess it up more to find a way back in the game, Nepo with a winning move bit he blitzes (who knows why) ñ, blunders, and rather lose or draw the game... And then you go to press conference to hear many nonsense questions. Idk. It is a very exciting match but full of errors too. I can imagine Magnus rising his chin and smiling
Thank you for your excellent commentary on all the world championship games. I'm actually quite surprised by the 'club-like' level of this championship series. Not particularly high quality games. As carlsen says, ...has become world champion but not more than that!
At 3:40, why no mention of Bxe6, fxe6, Nxe6 forking the queen and rook. This is a combo I often look for and it seems you're getting a rook for bishop and two pawns and opening up the king.
You're getting a rook and 2 pawns for a bishop and knight, but the engine is showing -2.5 for Black after 1. Bxe6 fxe6 2. Nxe6 Qc4 3. Nxf8 Bxf8 4. e4 b6 5. Qa4 Qxa4 6. Nxa4 Nxe4 7. 0-0 Ndf6 The board is open and black still has the bishop pair, and black's knights are in much more active positions.
Hi Agadmator. I love your videos, but could you not use two people shaking hands as the thumbnail in future? I wasn't able to watch this game live, and so I was looking forward to watching your analysis of it later, seeing the game played out and only finding out the result at the end. I've done this several times in this and the previous World Championship, but this time the thumbnail was a bit of a spoiler and all the suspense was lost.
Wait, what.. The first ceremonial move was made by (quoting agadmator) "the chess person of the senate of the parliament of Kazakhstan". How does one get that title? And, ofc, "he's premoving the, hehe, he's moving the black pawn to d5".
3:37 After black moves Qc7, why not Bxe6, forcing black to make a decision - take the bishop & white forks the Queen & rook or - take the knight & open up the h-file? It might not be mate, but white sacrifices the bishop and the knight for the rook and 1 or 2 pawns as well as open up black's defensive structure. I thought this was the reasoning for playing Ng5 in the first place.
#agadmator, please fix the sound. The sound of moves keep repeating. Its annoying to hear
Now you see why I always fix the sound :)
@@agadmator Sorry about that.
@@rudrakshthakur5637 classic
@@agadmator lol u did it on purpose 😢
@@agadmatorevery time for the past few years I’m so confused at why you’re fixing the sound cause I never hear it. This is the only time I’ve ever noticed lmao, just shows how professional you are 99.9% of the time
9:31
39 minutes for: Nepo
43 minutes for: Ian
Total 1 hour 22 minutes for *Ian Nepo*
Hahaha🎉
And 0 minutes for Liren Ding
He was playing himself. Ding was just a spectator.
Was looking for this comment 😂
GMs think on their opponent's time, super GM steal it
The first ceremonial move, d4, was made by a little kid with White. This explains why the second ceremonial move (0:26), d5, was made with Black.
Yes the little Chinese Girl moved pawn d4
Yeah, I felt that the little girl who played the ceremonial first move was among the best moments of the whole World Championship (The chess has not been good.) But to see a child getting the honor of the first ceremonial move was really nice. Not sure how our legendary Antonio Radic didn't know about it.
@@weray7605”the chess has not been good”😭reported for misinformation lmaoo
@@benr3799 Is a championship without the best player defending the title still a championship? 😅
The kid in question was Ms. Alanna Berikkyzy, winner of the under-9 Fide Chess championship. She moved a white piece. source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2023#Organization
Watching this live, it was a very complicated game. Almost every move was a trick move. It was like watching Tom &Jerry trying to trick each other.
Yes but in one hundred times slower tempo.
This who are playing in world championship will feel the heat how every move is imp
Good remark
They are indeed Tom & Jerry😁
Oh 💩! Now I’ll be seeing Ian as Tom and Ding as Jerry for the rest of my life
The first move was played by a little kid as streamed. Then this gentleman made the second move. Just to let you know . Thankyou. You are truly amazing Agadmator
Thanks!No need to be sorry for a longer session. Time is well spent on your channel!
I really liked your coverage of the classical portion, especially since u didn't tell who won or drew until it happened. Ty so much 4 that. I hope the rapid portion and your coverage of it is just as good as it has been. Ty 4 your videos
Beautifully done video Antonio this is one of my favorite breakdowns ever just from how thoroughly done it is and this also to me is one of the most noticeably complicated games I’ve ever watched live so hats off to you 🤝
the b6 move was so nice seeing it live. really deep by Ding.
Was it ever a question that he'd play it?
@@cygnustsp Actually yes.
There was some debate
@@emilyscloset2648 I suppose there was suspicion he'd freeze and miss it but everyone agreed it was the only move
only saying this cuz IIRC fabi and hess believed dingt saw this line back when he played Qe2 (albeit a mistake). , which they didn't understand and apparently only sesse sees the winning continuation for black.
I mean pawn moves are just the besf
9:31 these are the moments that I cherish from agadmator’s videos. I was introduced to his channel years ago from a compilation of these, they always make me smile
seems like ding was forced to play instantaneously
90 moves , 6 hours and 35 minutes . Probably one of the longest last classical games played in the world championships . Ian and Ding have given an tremendously exciting match .
Not even close to longest classical games
@@Mahidhoni5227 which was longest wcc match then?
@@aWise_MonkMagnus vs Nepo, game 6
It was a snooze fest
You should watch Game 6 of the last WCC
😂
Who else would have blundered the Rook and the Game with King f3 @ 21:22. Me for sure! 🤫
with 5 seconds left, yes.
"And of course,there is no way that that happens,but there is always...you know...a way that it happens..." 😂😂 classic Agad right there
Couldn't be me (after blundering a queen on a winning position)
Thanks for keeping the outcome secret till the end.
I love your time format and in depth look at the game. (As always)
Looking forward to the rapid games. Cheers from the USA (FL)
I like the way Ding played here. He just plays his style, no matter the stakes.
They ought to let Agadmator make the first move in one of these games. It would of course be B4.
That's the good stuff
9:32 I love it when Antonio mixes things up😂😂
My heart was pounding for both players watching this live. Ian to find a winning idea and Ding to find resources! Crazy! Tiebreaks we go! May the best player win.
The first move was made by the little girl ( she is not visible clearly in the picture you shown ) , she made the first move for white .
#suggestion Hey Agadmator Could you consider doing a series on *The greatest Underpromotions in Top Tier Chess History*
I.e. Games where GM's underpromoted a pawn to a knight, bishop or rook, to draw or win the game? There are quite a few fantastic games, and I think underpromotions can be the greatest games in history. Have you ever seen the Five Rooks game? (The only known game with 5 rooks on the board) Look it up
Nice #suggestion
Eric Rosen is always looking for creative ways to checkmate his opponent, for example by en passant or castling queenside, when such moves immediately end the game. I might be misremembering this, but I seem to recall one game where Hikaru was killing his opponent and decided to promote every single pawn of his to a knight. Then he simply horsed around until his opponent ran out of pasture to run in.
Always on the ball. One of the best chess channels on the Tube.
who's better?😊
Hey, #agadmator, I think you missed it, The First Move was played by a little kid with White. that's why this gentleman plays the second move d5, which is odd to see two ceremonial moves in one game. 🙌
The LiChess engine is magnificent at forcing a stalemate. I used to find myself in positions where I was sure I could queen my pawn, as in this projected endgame, and the engine positioned its king where it forced a stalemate. In my whole life I've never managed to salvage a draw from a lost position in this manner. I just can't count the necessary moves carefully enough.
It uses a table base
When there are very few pieces left, all the possible positions have been worked out and it's known whether it's a draw or if one side can force a win how many moves to checkmate
So it just checks the position after every legal move and plays whichever gives the soonest mate (or if there's only a draw it plays a random drawing move)
@@anonymousAJ I believe the table base currently stands at 7 pieces on the board (any combination 7 pieces by both White and Black); all possible positions of all possible combinations are compiled, and a complete tree of move sequences is stored for each starting position. Maybe the base is now 8 or more?
14:14 by norverian supercomputer you mean Magnus Carlsen?
It’s amazing how you deliver the content so quickly!
For the people always asking, what does Agad do with "sorry about that", you can hear in this video that it hasn't been done :)
I'm not complaining, I'm just giving ithe info.
Also, the gues made the cereminial move with the black pawn because th move with white was done by the little girl, who is hidden behind Ding in that photo. For some reason they had two guests today.
He rearranges his balls or scratches them
I Cant hear anything even without sorry about that
@@Sivajivaylajilebi come on... you did not hear the echo of the pieces? (recorded from the chess site itself, but also through the mic with a little delay, as he forgot to turn off the speakers, as he usually does)
Friendly reminder for everyone to please let the ads before the video to play through🙏. Agad is awesome enough to not interrupt his content so we should be awesome in return by giving him revenue from the ads. Thanks Antonio for being the only UA-camr in existence who'll make a video longer than 10 minutes without a single commercial break. You the man Antonio!
What ads?
stfu life is short and nobody owes corporations their time
Not watching matches live and have been waiting this video since the match ended 😄 you made us addicted to this tournement and chess, thank you
one of Agad's most complicated videos ever, and I loved it!
Never apologize for longer videos dude,you are awesome
The WCC should not be decided by short time control games. After game 14 it should just be next to win a game is the champ. For the title to be decides in armageddon is the equivalent of flipping a coin.
I think this World Championship was way more than we were anticipating ! It was been just great so far and continues to be way more than more than we bargained for
#agadmator I’m not necessarily suggesting this, but I’m just curious if you’ve ever thought of putting a white/black engine bar on the side of your videos so we can see the engine evaluation of each position (much like they do during the FIDE world championship).
Love your videos!
i need to give props to Commentators of WC, Fabi and the crew... amazing job,and kept me inforned when i was totally lost about what was played..
commentary was excellent. Only slight technical thing is that when they were showing live camera, it was quite hard to see the current board position in the bottom right corner.
@@richardfredlund8846 yea man. what helped me is when i saw that live chat is full of morons spamming, and when I turned it off,i got needed space to see live board...
At 20:42 briefly, I had to put the video on 0,25x speed (from Kc6 onwards and included) because you are enunciating the moves faster than I can, and I suspect many others can, think.
6:22 I know I’m probably missing something but what if white played Bishop to H 5?
The Knight can’t capture or check mate. Black would need to react to this and if he brought down the g pawn White could sacrifice the bishop and then if captured take a second pawn with the queen with checkmate
Obviously I’m an idiot so I missing something can somebody tell me what I missing lol
Great match👍
Lichess found the winning line right away when I inputted the position. Is there a supercomputer out there that's better than stockfish 14+?
Fabi found the b3 "supercomputer line" almost instantly in the live coverage.
I never thought it would be tied after 14 games.
Ding survived somehow.
We got more WCC matches
Tomorrow is war
9:30 I didn't know Nepo was playing against himself 🤣🤣
funny thing was that fabiano was one who actully found rbf4 move as a wining move
CC mandalorian, "this is the way"
How has he already made the video
What an amazing championship, so far
19:57 f4 looked dangerous but apparently it was the only saving move.
I watched most of the 6 hours. Had to see how ag does it. Dubov gave some of the lines and nepo was better at some point in the middle and they went all the way just to end up with this draw. Great final game though you could feel the tension in every move.
I waited till you cover the game I'm excited to see how it ends.
Fabbiano found that winning line in real time
Wow. I'm surprised he choked at the Ccandidates. he drew all 12 games against Magnus in 2019. Extremely strong player.
Disappointing that Classical Chess Champion will be decided by Rapid games, but I'm happy to see more games by these two.
Demain aux départage il y aura toujours ce différé d'une heure ou pas ?
Merci de me répondre
@Agadmator, your video is full of sound echoes!!
Now I understand why u always say "Sorry about that".
U should have fixxed the echo at the start of the show.
At 16:06 is R(D) x Bishop worth a try? It seems you could liquidate from there with black ending a pawn up in the endgame. A distant pawn that would just about guarantee a win.
Why does Magnus say:
“Whoever wins this match, has made a very strong performance, and won the world championship. But not more than that.”
Isn’t that more than enough??
Because he's still the strongest by rating.
@@nigh_anxiety you are soo right!
Great video with perfect length for the game.
The real reason Nepo was trying so hard to prolong the game was that he didn't want the whole world watching Magnus crush him when they Google the longest WCC game ever
Super GM Gurjas has spoken!
I was really hoping to get a world camp in classical format.
Nepo has a HUGE advantage in Rapids. Ding is always nervous and always burns more time than Nepo.
ding is the 2nd rated rapid in the world,, onlu 11 points behind magnus,, rapport is number 5th, nepo no 7
I was waiting for "sorry about that" the whole time.
I like the points being listed as 6½ and not 6.5 or 6,5
Gotta appreciate your dedication to delivering the good content.
Ding effectively played the game without his bishops! In particular, the dark squared bishop did nothing!
I would like in the future to see the ceremonial first move being whatever the person making it wants to be, then the person playing white has to figure it out from there. F4 right out of the gate! Na3! Mix it up, lets get crazy!
what time do they play tomorrow?
What engine do you use?
I don't think it's abt finding the whole engine line, I think it's more abt staying patient and making it's difficult to white to move and avoiding simplification. Make small progress, then u take it from there
First the first time I see the secret behind the *sorry about that* after being such an excellent subscriber for the last 6 years! Ironically there is no *sorry about that* in this video!
What to say: Ding with crazy openings, Nepo taking advantage of it, Ding consuming time to mess it up more to find a way back in the game, Nepo with a winning move bit he blitzes (who knows why) ñ, blunders, and rather lose or draw the game...
And then you go to press conference to hear many nonsense questions.
Idk. It is a very exciting match but full of errors too. I can imagine Magnus rising his chin and smiling
Thank you brother. I missed the live broadcast
Ding won the drawing of lots held after the press conference and will open the Rapid games with the White pieces.
1:40 FTX Crypto Cup. For some reason I don't think there'll be another one of those
Thank you for your excellent commentary on all the world championship games.
I'm actually quite surprised by the 'club-like' level of this championship series. Not particularly high quality games.
As carlsen says, ...has become world champion but not more than that!
At 3:40, why no mention of Bxe6, fxe6, Nxe6 forking the queen and rook. This is a combo I often look for and it seems you're getting a rook for bishop and two pawns and opening up the king.
You're getting a rook and 2 pawns for a bishop and knight, but the engine is showing -2.5 for Black after 1. Bxe6 fxe6 2. Nxe6 Qc4 3. Nxf8 Bxf8 4. e4 b6 5. Qa4 Qxa4 6. Nxa4 Nxe4 7. 0-0 Ndf6
The board is open and black still has the bishop pair, and black's knights are in much more active positions.
@@nigh_anxiety Thank you for that!
Wait, are you saying black doesn't move first? And I thought I was pretty good at CHEST!
wait til you find out what the horse can do
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Chat disabled for 3 seconds.
Ian din shake hands….Hello everyone and welcome to the final game of the world championship
Idk why I’m rooting for ding lol
When you say norwegian supermachine, do you mean magnus carlson?
6:00 this would have been a funny line, everyone putting all the pieces back where they were at the start
Found Rb3. My lucky day, I guess.
Now I gotta wake up at the Crack of dawn tomorrow to watch the game 😢
A young girl played the first move with white and that guy played the first for black. Two opening moves.
Hi Agadmator. I love your videos, but could you not use two people shaking hands as the thumbnail in future? I wasn't able to watch this game live, and so I was looking forward to watching your analysis of it later, seeing the game played out and only finding out the result at the end. I've done this several times in this and the previous World Championship, but this time the thumbnail was a bit of a spoiler and all the suspense was lost.
Now, I am looking for more gaps by Richard Rapport, too
We appreciate you so much, Antonio. Greetings from Brazil!🇧🇷
Positivo
Brazil-the rape state of the world.
🇧🇷 🙏
Um abraço pra vcs, desde Moçambique. 🇲🇿
People usually avoid the Nimzo. I like how Ding success straight into it
not, nimzo only without d5
Drawing with white is not considered success at this level.
Sassy is incredible machine of this world. One of the greatest invention of mankind
fishing pole, in WC ...have to admit I wasn't expecting that.
I think if he wanted to, he could upload the video even before the game is finished
Is the sound of no "sorry about that"?
No way! I never saw the move for Nepo to win. I wasn't even close. Too bad it goes to rapid, a time Ding is at a disadvantage.
This match (and the winner's name) will have the biggest asterisk in the universe by it, and we all know why.
That may answer the question I posed above LOL. Great take on the situation!!🤙
Wait, what.. The first ceremonial move was made by (quoting agadmator) "the chess person of the senate of the parliament of Kazakhstan". How does one get that title?
And, ofc, "he's premoving the, hehe, he's moving the black pawn to d5".
Weather Ding wins or loses he has nothing to regret here because he went further than people thought he would go
14:47....don't need super computers here, Stockfish sees 36...Rb3 with no problems at depth 20.
Looking forward to Rapid.
Kinda glad this ended in a draw.
Stopped this video at "hello everyone" just to comment on how fast and hard my heart is pounding
Stockfish on my phone found Rb3 @ 14:44.....
Ding will lose in the rapid section due to his poor time management.
Good luck, Ding
Ding is rated like 75 points higher then Nepo in rapid... Obviously rating isn't everything but clearly Ding knows what he's doing in Rapid
@@slickytail
I'll be happy if he wins the WCC.
I appreciate agad never spoiling the game but the duration of the videos themselves are a spoiler lol
3:37 After black moves Qc7, why not Bxe6, forcing black to make a decision - take the bishop & white forks the Queen & rook or - take the knight & open up the h-file? It might not be mate, but white sacrifices the bishop and the knight for the rook and 1 or 2 pawns as well as open up black's defensive structure.
I thought this was the reasoning for playing Ng5 in the first place.