Super GM Wesley So solves three studies without a chess board!
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2018
- Wesley So is a world class GM. Rarely do we get to see the thought process of a player of such high calibre. How does a 2765 rated player actually think? When Wesley was in India for the Tata Steel Chess India 2018, IM Sagar Shah caught up with him at the Taj Bengal Hotel and gave him three studies to solve. The catch? Wesley had to solve them blindfolded!
So here's our suggestion. Watch the video as the position is being called out. Once the position is setup, pause the video and think about the solution. Only after you have found the answer, restart the video and go over Wesley So's thought process. You will be able to compare your thinking with one of the best chess players in the world today!
Video: Sagar Shah
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I tried to do it blindfolded around 2pm, and I just woke up now at 6pm. That was a good sleep.
Lol
Looool
You had us on the first half ngl
Mood
Actually lmao'ing
that moment you realize that you could never be a super GM
Lord of the Pies Start playing already
_/\_
:(
Serious question, what are the chances of a dude in his 30's who is currently at around 1500 rating to become a GM while still holding a job and taking care of a family.
@@undeadnightorc 2000 is quite possible, becoming an IM is very unlikely, and I think you should scratch the idea that 30yo could become a GM. It's not like I want to discourage you, but most GM follows the same recipe. Start from the young age, have certain talent different from 99.9999999% of people, and train rigorously for years.
I play like I'm blindfolded.
hahahaha
I play like I am asleep.
LMAO, made my year.
Lol, I laughed harder than I should've
LOL
Wesley So is such a nice person
Wesley so nice
Not to his real mother....lol....bye........!
@@goodlooking5554 Okkkkkkkkkkkkkéeeeeeéeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeddddddeeeeeeeeeeeeee loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.........l
Le malicieux Cx Cx
He looks so humble like Senator Manny Pacquiao too … nice people
Wesley is my favorite super-GM. He shows you can compete at top levels without arrogance. He takes his wins and his losses the same way with grace. This was incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Agreed! I really wish he wins the World Championship some day.
from elite gms only naka seems to be a bit arrogant.
@@edwardshowden5511 IMO it just comes across like that because he's a bit awkward lol. If you check Naka's streams I think you'll find he's not arrogant.
I met Nakamura a few months ago at the finals of the PRO Chess League in San Francisco. He was actually very nice, smiled and spoke openly. There was no arrogance. As a matter of fact, one could argue that Carlsen is the only arrogant elite player.
"You must have contempt for your opponents, Josh."
"I don't feel that."
So seems more like Waitzkin than Fischer
Im hopeless. I couldnt even remember where I placed my phone and it's on silent.
Lmao 🤣
Did you found it
@@ankitt_v not yet
Word on the street is he is still looking for it. May be he should ask mr So where it could be and the calculation to the most probable spot.
bruh i am even more forgetful in nature. I keep a pen in my hand and search for it everywhere until someone points that out to me.
Spoiler alert:
Wesley So is now the official 1st fischerandom World Chess Champion❤😂
Yeah, he destroyed Magnus. Never seen MC beaten SO bad.
I love how you make the Fischer Random in one word
Joseph it's more iconic when you spell it that way..hahahaha
Love you 3000 that’s the same as chess960 right?
sampson623 yes it is👍
My advice to anyone wanting to play blindfold chess is to iniatially do it with an empty board in front of you to look at. It's a very useful crutch to start getting used to blind calculation in my opinion.
I'm pretty good at calculating an empty chess board. It's when you start imagining pieces on the board that it begins to get difficult.
@@SlyMaelstrom XD
@Daniel Ger***The most I can muster is the nine empty squares in the bottom left corner, after that, my working memory runs out
Better advice is to lay off the drugs.
I was trying to be serious; it will be very helpful to start with. It's not easy right away, but we can all do it with some practice and interest in the game!
7:30 He peeked! (Kidding.)
lmao
HAHAHHAHAHA
humility is his main asset....he is a legend in my eyes
i would love to see Wesley in a world championship match vs Magnus
Umm no his asset is work ethic.. thats how winning is done
@@petergianakopoulos4926 According to the Bhagavad-gita, humility is the first sign of knowledge, because it shows that we understand how small and vulnerable we are. It also opens the gate to more and higher knowledge, so Patrick Liang definitely has a point. A person who is not humble is blinded by his pride.
Uh, they are on a different level. I am a decent player approximately 2000 but the way top players can visualize things in their minds is amazing.
blindfolded chess is not a top player thing. Any one can do it. And if you can visualize a chess board you will be good vizualizing others spacial problems to, like a 4x4x4 tic tac toe board or non squares things. i think i could solve the first one even not been really good
2000 rating in what chess website?
@@1estab41 Fide
@@crowcrow760 good for you. I find it impossible to 'see' a whole chessboard, let alone put pieces on it. playing strength about 2000
@@talstory it took me like 3 or 4 weekends to start to "see" something. Trying to think in a method. Im not that good but i try to divide the board at 4. Each one of this small boards are the same. all start with the same color. Than just observe how each diagonal relate to it other (from one small board to the other) all start to make some sense. That works for me. Than you can put the peaces on board like would do on a real one. to get used with than. than move bishops and Knight. than pratice with puzzles and games with week friends
This made me realise that I'm just stupid lol
you have to do more of these. super interesting to see him figure it out.
Watched it again after Wesley won the Skilling Open against Magnus
He destroyed Magnus Carlsen in 960. And Carlsen is a calculating genius. So awesome!
Yeah! "SO" Awesome 😎
just won the Skilling Open as well! He beat Magnus in blitz!
Very inspiring to watch. Shows you how talented and skilled this top GMs are. I agree with Wesley when he says the only way to improve at blindfold is to practice, overall chess strength is useful but it is not the main ingredient. I find that having an awareness of the pawn structure, squares and tension at all times is more useful than trying to remember the position of all pieces all the time.
Both amazing and sort of discouraging for chess mortals like us...
Don't get discouraged improving at chess requires time and dedication. Never, ever give up! Always work hard!
You can't win if you give up!
@@jjsoledad8553 I know but this kind of stuff just make me realize that I'll never be good...
@@morelrenaud2339 with a mindset like that you won't be good
@@asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 well maybe, but sometimes, you have to be objective...
@@1estab41 What the fuck did you just say ? Learn english and write a coherent sentence next time.
Here after wesley beat magnus to win the skilling open. All hail the champ!
Thanks Sagar for this video and thanks to Wesley for the recommendations suggested towards the end of the video!
This is unbelievable. He found the underpromotions in the second puzzle so fast, all without a board
Sisyphus Thx now I know I have to look for underpromotions.
it's literally his job
I rewatched this video again after a month and I don't remember anymore the solutions to the puzzles.
This clip was so intense. Thanks to both of you.
"Ah b6 and d6 so many pawns" had me dying
Super grandmaster calculate superbly
A good video, and good interviewing skills by both sides
When you were asking .."So who can kick ass Carlson?"..you had the answer all the way.
Keep bringing this kind of videos my friend, thank you.
Wow this channel is fantastic! Great insight into how the mind of a super GM works, thanks!
Very nice video! Thank you, Wesley and ChessBase India!
One can only admire him. The talent and humility as well.
Great player and a great person
please more of these puzzle solving videos from strong gms! they are great!
the kante of chess
Rare and beautiful combination of genוuisity and humbleness.
What the heck. I can't even imagine the starting position of the kings and queens in my mind.
I am proud because both of us are Filipinos. But too bad for him because he has less support here from the Philippines 🥺 Still, all of his supporters here supports him fully ☺️
Narinig mo ba siya mag tagalog o ako lang yun? 12:14
Wesley has it all, very intelligent, nice kid and killer smile
That's impressive!
10:36 when teacher is questioning a riddle but u already knows it .
Congratulations to the first official Fischer random world champion
My gosh I cannot even name the squares
Wow. Amazing. A beautiful mind.
Wesley has to be the nicest and most humble superGM ever
I really like Wesley So as a person, and I really respect him as a top player who is willing to take his time to share how he analyses positions. Thanks to Sagar Shah for this video!
Great video! Very instructive to struggle with these compositions and hear him think through them. Also I have never seen Wesley on video before, he has very striking eyes.
What a sweet guy! Such a gentle soul
Wow! That's impressive. After 40 years of playing and studying chess (about 1800 elo), even if my positional understanding can be improved my lack of visualisation in this blindfold format and hence tactical comprehension is painfully apparent and probably not rectifiable.
Amazing interview! Wesley is great!
"Very nice puzzle, very sweet." The beautiful game of chess!
Such a nice and humble guy for someone at his level
big fan of chess india youtube channel, salutes from Spain mates
He is so humble ❤️ & generous person
Seems like a nice guy. I cant picture where 1 piece will be when planning strategy.
Most appealing player in professional chess.
Amazing and very humble Wesley So!
At 10:00 he mentions it is very important for the king to be on g5 to control the dark squares. Can someone explain why this is?
Also Wesley So is amazing!
Edit: i see it now, the reason was beause the squares not covered by the king would either be taken by the knight or would lead to a FORK. This part of the puzzle was insane
It only means that the black rook cant go to those squares. That means the black rook is completely trapped.
Only available move for rook is either takes for king and knight or get forked by knight
uh-oh By the end of the video I couldn't even remember the first puzzle.
Wesley So is such an amazingly kind person. Have you seen the incredibly kind things he has said to and about magnus carlsen after magnus had
So humble
Blindfolded is just insane to me
@Chessbase the only thing you have to improve is to show board position during live matches. The camera angles are very bad and I have eye sight problems
1:00 i knew it he is the one who is really the GOAT .. we thought it's in the audience
Very beautiful studies! Also, the skills of elite players like So is truly phenomenal. But its clear that players like So had formal instruction to learn this beautiful patterns.
Amazing Vision.
10:55 Wesley So studies from the same source as Ludwig, now it makes sense
Sagar sees any famous GM, time to create some blindfold chess video and again make the audience amazed
Great video, beautiful postitions
Wesley beats magnus in fischer random, airthings and now the opera ... wesley is the next chess world champion..
Amazing 👏
Wow! You are so amazing!
#LoveFromThePhilippines
Player of his caliber,it is no challenge at all by the this Monday November 13th I was in Kolkata iccr venues which was a rest day before the blitz Tata rapid,and in an interactive session I took a selfie and like he was absolutely down to earth.
Visualization skills of Wesley 🤩
It's so easy to get behind someone as down to Earth as Wesley and support him , Congrats on winning the Fischer Random Chess Tournament mate , you'll forever be the first Champ!!!.
You are the man Wesley! So cool (and sad for me) to watch that.
Genius working!
really impressive the solve that first problem
I couldn't even find the solutions. This man is insane.
He is so humble.
The guy asking questions said the puzzles “are not very tough one” ... they seem so difficult
keep it Wesley,we are still so proud of you even though you switch Federation.
Philippines do not deserve a world-class talent like Wesley. He would never have peaked had he stayed here.
Its because incompentency of phil gov. He have every right to move to us.
@@ui6144 GM So became Super GM on 2013 he still represent the Philippines that time. It was on 2014, when he switched to represent the USA. He got the highest title or 2nd highest title(considering World Chess Champion as the highest title) in chess when he was still in the Philippines. Until he become a World Chess Champion while representing the flag of USA, I would disagree on your statement that he did not reached his peak during his residency in the Philippines.
Though I agree that if he wants a better compensation for his talent Philippines is not the right place for him.
When did Ip man become a super GM?
That’s racist but funny! I like the comment hahaha. I get mistaken for Jet Li myself when I was younger.
Proud filipino. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Wesley seems like such a nice person. He’s really humble for his skills unlike a certain 2 highest rated rival GMs.
A beautiful guy and an absolutely brilliant player.
subtitles on this are golden
And here i cant remember if i washed my face
Obviously a very talented and bright individual and also seemingly very kind hard good for him what a Class Act
jusy a really gentle guy.....
Pornographic memory
You mean Photographic ?
@@Boxingshorts234 it means that So remembers all bed positions
@@Itachi3040 lol.. Ok..
Itachi3040 And he is good at mating.
Magandang gabi sa inyong lahat mga kabayan
Damn, that’s insane, I really find it hard to believe that on average, anyone can develop that level of visualisation just by practising.
You'd be surprised how much you can improve from practising. But you're right, biological factors/genes do also play a part. To reach the highest levels of visualisation (or any particular skill, for that matter) one must get lucky in the lottery of birth.
Its super basic. I think any 2000+ player would have this ability. Solving the problems themselves requires a good pattern recognition and some calculations. But visualizing a variation with 8 pieces is really nothing special to somebody who does chess for a living.
I really think if you give him some much harder puzzles, he will not solve them, even using a board. It would be much more interesting for me listening to his thought process of a real game in his mind.
I can't visualize anything in my head, not even the most basic objects or colors, yet I'm not weaker than the average chess player just making use of abstract thinking.
Nope u don't need luck or any of that crap hard work , consistency , perseverance and than u too will be solving like so or even better. No offense but i don't buy into that born lucky by birth crap. It's bullshit.
Every chess player has this ability. For example, a group of chess mates can analyse particular position - from a chess game or endgame study - without chess board, easily throwing around moves or variants, back and forth. This may occur anywhere - in front of tournament hall, in coffee shop, on the park bench... and may continue hours.
This man is a blessing.
That's why they are called Super GMs only less than 1% can reach that level of analytical and photographic thinking ..
0.01%
@@bastiangutierrez4115 actually more like .00023986%.
¡Brillante!
He'll be Skilling Open Winner in Future.
At 7:43, what if black plays Re6, white king moves and then Rb6!! Preventing queening on d8 as this results in stalemate and also picking up the fast b pawn. This results in black trading the rook for the d-pawn, and the black king is able to stop any advancement of the 3 remaining pawns.
Never mind just finished that bit
Wow... Very nice puzzles
i hope you can feature Dubov or Firo next..thank u
Fantastic! These guys (Carlsen, Caruana, So, Grishuk, MVL, Ding Liren, etc) see everything...
Second puzzle is an insane rook trap
Funny thing he said they are not very difficult, they were all very tricky 😂