pretty wild how many people thought that "the world chess champion is bad at chess" was an argument that made sense (not that he's had a great year or anything, but people were talking like he was going to forget how to move the pieces)
@@pelicans123 At this point I'm not sure if the problem is people talking at all, or people taking other people talk seriously. Any event in any sports that happen is followed by "happy X won because Y said Z" no matter the result, they just change X, Y and Z for the current situation. Can't stand how boring all this is. I miss things that don't have a dumb narrative behind it
Ding is such a gangster. Comes into the world championship unfavored, plays the French, plays near perfect and wins game 1 with black. Glad to see he's still got it
@@MartinStaykov1 time in my life i see guy is completly sofocated even do his oponent have a fool centar this is what you get if you just push the pawns instead of delelopment
I think one of the engines had Ding’s accuracy at 95% and Gukesh around mid-80%. So, yes, he was just out played, but it seems as though he made a lot of sub-optimal moves.
I had trouble understanding that Nd3 move by Ding, but after listening to your review of the game I now understand that it was to block the White Queen from seeing the Bishop on d4, allowing its capture by the Black Queen if White does nothing about it. Great analysis!
Saw the game live. Nb2 was brilliant, a positional masterstroke by Ding Liren! Gukesh would later say that he underestimated that move. What a thrilling start to this World Chess Championship! Applauding from the Philippines! And great recap, Ben!😊🙏💕👏
Educational analysis. It was interesting to see how the c4 square was used by so many black pieces to infiltrate into white's back ranks, after that earlier missed chance by white to dispute the square with the bishop.
Thx for the recap! You cannot discuss every line in 5 minutes, even 2 x 5 won't be enough. But the line 30. Bc5 Q:g4 31.Q:h7?!!? Qd4+! is really worth to be included.
If you're a Gukesh fan, remember that losing Game 1, as white, vs the French, is a full-blown catastrophe There is no reason to be optimistic moving forward Go, Ding Chilling!
Yeah looks like I misremembered. I remember it being a bad game for ding, but looking at the results he was able to save it. I stand by what I said that anything can still happen. It's likely to be an exciting match!
@@blblblblblbl7505 It was Ding's first game with white indeed, which made it the... 2nd game of the WCC, since Nepo was the one with white in the first game of the match
The chess community has forgotten the extraordinary spectacle that was Ding beating Nepo. Behind in the match many times, astonishingly vulnerable in the press conferences, and then self-pinning and winning, surprising Nepo and everyone else… I’m still amazed by THAT victory, and excited the match ahead 👏🙏
Richard Rapport seems to work extremely well with Ding. I'm surprised that Ding is so open about who his second is. Usually it's top secret who's on the team for some reason.
"Usually it's top secret who's on the team for some reason." Really? Must be some new thing -- it was very well known in the Karpov/Kasparov/Kramnik days and earlier.
A top 10 coaching is what makes it interesting. A top10 could play anything. All the secrecy is for the non top10 coaches because they are highly specialized players in the way that if someone know he is coaching, then they could infer the lines.
It is so weird too. A discovered attack on the Queen would be the first think someone looks at and Gukesh did this probably too. There is no way he did not see it. I wonder why he disliked it.
He saw Bc5 Qxg4 and thought he could play Qxh7, but then realised Black has Qd4+. So I guess then he abandoned the idea and went Qc2. But he could’ve gone Qc2 after Qxg4, or Rf3 followed by Qf1 with counterplay, when he’s worse but still in the drawing margin
I'm so happy Ding closed the mouth of so many shit-talkers. Now I hope we will have an exciting match.
pretty wild how many people thought that "the world chess champion is bad at chess" was an argument that made sense (not that he's had a great year or anything, but people were talking like he was going to forget how to move the pieces)
@@pelicans123 At this point I'm not sure if the problem is people talking at all, or people taking other people talk seriously. Any event in any sports that happen is followed by "happy X won because Y said Z" no matter the result, they just change X, Y and Z for the current situation. Can't stand how boring all this is. I miss things that don't have a dumb narrative behind it
@@gmatsue84 I choose X=Ding, Y=Ben, Z=fries.
Great recap.😊
I Always know he was acting fool 😂😂😂
Ding is such a gangster. Comes into the world championship unfavored, plays the French, plays near perfect and wins game 1 with black. Glad to see he's still got it
If you put it on 2x its 5 minutes with ben
and 29.5 seconds more
That’s just what I was going to say too
@@JunaidHasan23 the truth hurts
You cant show to your oponent that your position is lost head down and such this is unexperiend player make the poker face 😂
@@MartinStaykov1 time in my life i see guy is completly sofocated even do his oponent have a fool centar this is what you get if you just push the pawns instead of delelopment
A lot of stupid stuff has been said about Ding. Watching the game live i heard commentators say that Ding didn’t even see b4. Ridiculous.
Might be true for all we know, he did take a lot of time after Qc7
The truth hurts
Not only did he see b4, he still sees now.
A double five minutes with Ben and getting to say “I told you so” to everyone who wrote off Ding? Man Christmas has come early this year.
Just a marvelous game. It doesn't appear that Gukesh really blundered. Ding just outplayed him very smoothly. Thanks for your analysis!
I think one of the engines had Ding’s accuracy at 95% and Gukesh around mid-80%. So, yes, he was just out played, but it seems as though he made a lot of sub-optimal moves.
I had trouble understanding that Nd3 move by Ding, but after listening to your review of the game I now understand that it was to block the White Queen from seeing the Bishop on d4, allowing its capture by the Black Queen if White does nothing about it. Great analysis!
Saw the game live. Nb2 was brilliant, a positional masterstroke by Ding Liren! Gukesh would later say that he underestimated that move. What a thrilling start to this World Chess Championship! Applauding from the Philippines! And great recap, Ben!😊🙏💕👏
Yay Ben thanks for the analysis
Educational analysis. It was interesting to see how the c4 square was used by so many black pieces to infiltrate into white's back ranks, after that earlier missed chance by white to dispute the square with the bishop.
Thx for the recap! You cannot discuss every line in 5 minutes, even 2 x 5 won't be enough. But the line 30. Bc5 Q:g4 31.Q:h7?!!? Qd4+! is really worth to be included.
Very pleasantly surprises with this first game, thanks for the review!
Nice recap! What a great game to start the match.
Great recap! keep 'm coming!
I didn't think Liren would get a KO but at the end of 1st round it was like "Ding, Ding, Ding".
Great review, thanks Mr. Finegold!
If you're a Gukesh fan, remember that losing Game 1, as white, vs the French, is a full-blown catastrophe
There is no reason to be optimistic moving forward
Go, Ding Chilling!
Didn't Ding lose his first game as white last time around? I would be happy for either of them to win, but anything can still happen.
@@blblblblblbl7505 black hasn't won the first game of a wcc since 1969
Yeah looks like I misremembered. I remember it being a bad game for ding, but looking at the results he was able to save it. I stand by what I said that anything can still happen. It's likely to be an exciting match!
@@blblblblblbl7505 It was Ding's first game with white indeed, which made it the... 2nd game of the WCC, since Nepo was the one with white in the first game of the match
Bobby Fischer was even 2 games down against Spassky before he steamrolled him
The chess community has forgotten the extraordinary spectacle that was Ding beating Nepo. Behind in the match many times, astonishingly vulnerable in the press conferences, and then self-pinning and winning, surprising
Nepo and everyone else… I’m still amazed by THAT victory, and excited the match ahead 👏🙏
Richard Rapport seems to work extremely well with Ding. I'm surprised that Ding is so open about who his second is. Usually it's top secret who's on the team for some reason.
It's well known from their bromance in last wc match.
"Usually it's top secret who's on the team for some reason."
Really? Must be some new thing -- it was very well known in the Karpov/Kasparov/Kramnik days and earlier.
We most likely don't know everyone in Ding's team.
Likewise, it is no secret that Anand is one of Gukesh's seconds.
A top 10 coaching is what makes it interesting. A top10 could play anything.
All the secrecy is for the non top10 coaches because they are highly specialized players in the way that if someone know he is coaching, then they could infer the lines.
We have the two five minutes, and we have the vat else.
Great game!
Amazing. I thought Ding was in real trouble for this match.
Double 5 minutes double the fun
great recap!
what a game!
Thanks for pointing out the trouble that black would have faced if he played Kh7 rather than Kh8 at the end
Awesome video Ben! But more sarcasm please!
eleven minutes with ben!
Now it’s a fight
Go Ben!
thank you!
Double five minutes! It’s Christmas in November!!
I think this could be a great match!
Thanks for keeping it brief. Tried to watch Hikaru and fell asleep.
Ding is different, isn't he? I like it
Missing Bc5 was terrible by Gukesh
It is so weird too. A discovered attack on the Queen would be the first think someone looks at and Gukesh did this probably too. There is no way he did not see it. I wonder why he disliked it.
He saw Bc5 Qxg4 and thought he could play Qxh7, but then realised Black has Qd4+. So I guess then he abandoned the idea and went Qc2. But he could’ve gone Qc2 after Qxg4, or Rf3 followed by Qf1 with counterplay, when he’s worse but still in the drawing margin
Cannot help but notice that Gukesh played f4.
How did he know it was going to be about 10 minutes?! Is Ben the terminator?
Kramnik is still reviewing the game to see if he should start the........
Like & subscribe! Nice game, commentary, thanks!
We have a match!
Fun fact about 5 minutes with Ben?
It's not five minutes.
gg
gukesh lost like i lose in the french! careless play ignoring the queenside, trying to build a checkmating attack that doesn't exist.
woot
11 mins is too short
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Thank you, great commentary, I think Ding delibaretely played badly , last year, to make his opponent relax, why not?
Go Ben!
Go Ben!
Go Ben!