That Hans is brilliant, he plays like a machine. He must be buzzing !

I think brilliant move triggers when you offer some kind of piece sacrifice to gain an advantage. Because in this case the sacrifice for the Knight is offered multiple moves in a row it may explain the multiple brilliant moves

I’m not a Hans fan, but if I’m being honest, this seems to be intuitive play. It was not hard to see the first move or the others. The key is I’m not a grandmaster, so I’m sure the pressure not to do this is much higher in a game that counts vs a decent casual player that looks for tal inspired play.

Well done to Hans. Those moves weren't groundbreaking more so intuitive.

It's been a while since I've watched chess content, but I'm happy to see you now at almost 15k subs!

I don't care what the exclamations imply, there is nothing odd about those moves. Queen took initiative instead of the empty knight attack.

That program ever seen Fischer play? It would call him a cheater every other game😩

I would agree with your analysis. Queen h3 is certainly a stunner, but for a top player like Hnas it shouldn't be hard considering every other move loses. I don't see any reason to think Hans cheated in this game. It was simply a masterpiece.

There is a youtuber called SomeDumbTrucker, and he had a game with 7 brilliant moves in a row ( He was around 1600 on chesscom at the time of the game I think, and he has a video showing the game somewhere on his channel). I know the guy personally, so I am 100% positive that his game was legit. In his game he can take the opponent's queen , but he ignores it and continues the attack. Had I played that position, I would have just taken the queen ( I am 2250 on chesscom). So, I would not have made any brilliant moves according to chesscom, but would have still won the game, most likely. Now comes the question: "If chesscom says the move is brilliant, should we agree that it is?" Chesscom is establishing many new standards (by sheer power of their assumed authority) which are to put it mildly - questionable. However, most people are accepting these new standards as a given. Nice video, nonetheless!

I had low expectations if your analysis given the title of your video. But you now have new follower in me. That was a pretty fair and accurate /plausible overview. That algorithms benchmark in brilliant moves is pretty low. Only one if the four seemed to merit that distinction as u pointed out. Look forward to watching more of your analysis.

I'm a mediocre player at best, and I anticipated the 4 'brilliant' moves quite easily. The Queen move and potential Knight sacrifice seemed worth the risk, and the rest seemed like logical attacking play to get the rook behind the queen. If we are going to suspect people of cheating when they play well the game is in trouble.

Great, short, concise video. Subscribed. (btw, you're not kidding that all Hans Niemann games are heavily analyzed -- when I use chessbase to have a look at them, there are literally already thousands of users who have beaten me to it.)

It did not look like cheating in this game. That looked like sharp intuitive play.

I've been analyzing chess for over 35 years with 34 1/2 of those years just staring blankly at the board being used as a food tray.

Your sense of humour is always great 😂

Great analysis. I'm a below-average player (and I play against below-average players) and we'll frequently just send a Queen down into a square like that behind the pawn line just to see what opportunities it might create. To me, that was an aggressive move that might look a couple of moves premature but it didn't look brilliant to me. It looked like a great spot for the Queen. She was in no danger but was pretty close to being in the King's face with no way to attack or get rid of her. Plus, white seemed pretty tentative. Black might have sensed the timidity and ratcheted up the aggression. Just my below-average opinion.

Great analysis great video :)

I'm gonna go with Hans being just that good!

It's so nice to have plywood behind every wall. You can literally hang whatever you want wherever you want without worrying about hitting a stud or not.

Great video (and great beard!). Queen h3 was a perfectly normal human move; put the Queen in the danger zone. Even I saw it. I don't think I'd have played it because I couldn't see past the white Knight guarding g2, but I felt it was a normal attacking move. Queen into the danger zone. Especially as she always had a way back out again, no matter how passive.

Hans isn't a cheater. He's beading his opponents straight up.

Hans Moke, his chess speaks for itself. However, nice attempt of explaining Hans brilliance.

Whoa your channel is starting to grow quickly!

Great analysis. Interestingly, Qh3 was my first idea as it pins the f3 knight in place guarding g2 with the threat of mate and if gxf4, exf4 was looking pretty sweet. The following three I had trouble finding because I wanted to force something with a rook exchange sac after moving to d3 and then capturing the knight on f3.

I guess it's counted as brilliant because he just hang a knight for all of those move

blongna, he just figured it out, its chess,both players have a shot

When you called her video suspicious you were right the first time.

None of these moves are too hard to see, actually. This is one of the least suspicious games by Hans

this is just a result of the knight hanging for consecutive turns. if the best move is something other than saving the knight and you make that move, its pretty much guaranteed to be 'brilliant'

what's your take on what a "brilliant" move is and why lichess won't include in their analysis system

I love the beard

brilliant move triggers after the person makes a move that the engine didn’t consider the best move but after reevaluating the position finds that the move was better than what it had originally came up with.

10:46 - I would say it is "brilliant" because it opens up the column H for the rook to protect the queen. I did not notice at all such opportunity when I considered that move.

If Hans was a battle strategist, I would want him on my side. He clearly knows how to mix up well known set plays. That's exactly what you need to beat other incredible generals who use old wars as a handbook to win.

Finding the move in a game when you have no knowledge that it exists is the brilliancy. Seeing the move broken down in a post game analysis gives it a false air of normalcy.

32, nice to see 'older gentlemen' still making content on youtube man. i'm 38, been writing for youtube since 2018. Good luck on this mad platform dude.

You have to have beady eyes to see as far as Mr. Niemann.

my thoughts are that the Algo is very generious in its praise

Dude made serious {BLUNDERS}

If Dubov was watching this game, he'd have found every one of the brilliant moves as well.

I heard Yosha screwed up her analysis and did it wrong.

Sometimes the obvious move is brilliant. All of these brilliant moves were obvious.

Qh3 (!!)... Hans turns on the engine?

It all boils down to character. If you have created a character that says "not only have I cheated, but I have lied about cheating," it automatically will make you a suspect in any situation that seems out of the ordinary, like a player playing above their level. whether you like it or not, it's apparent that Hans can't be trusted.

Beads played well.

Strangely, it was the first move that came to my mind.

Qh3 is never a human move.

Brilliant game!

I didn't see them as brilliant, myself. Moving the queen up to the white king seemed kind of obvious. All up in his grill while his protection was all to his left. I think these moves were simply allowed by the opponent who didn't have any good defense at that time. Maybe white should have moved f2 to f3 and give his king some breathing room and also allows for his queen to return to defend.

His down under might be hurt from all the buzzing.

I agree with the Movember technique. Just growing a mustache is hard, but if you grow the whole beard and then shave it down, you're home free.

I'm 1300, and they looked natural to me (as someone who looks for tactics). Throwing your queen in looked like a natural attack to calculate. Knowing the knight isn't enough, you look for backup and see that there are no attacks from white if you move your king to free up a file for your rooks. Therefore, all the calculations are made in the pawn/knight exchanges, knowing that the queen traps the king AND cannot be budged.

I don’t even play chess and still find Hans suspicious 😂

great channel

where were these so called "experts" before magnus accused hans? now everyone is an expert

This algorithm classifies brilliant moves by when there's hanging pieces but you instead of defending the piece you make a better move. In this case it was 4 brilliant loves in a row because the knight was hanging for 4 moves while hans was playing other moves.

If it is online...then he has 2 computers running...one for the real game...the other one for a running a chess program.

I would be disappointed if a GM couldn't see that move. It was obvious there was something there. To a GM that must have been a cake.

I don't think we can draw anything from it since I saw this strategy and I'm a 1800-1900 player. I saw the Queen move hoping to capture the 'h' pawn and then swing over my rooks. I was not sure exactly how but that was my strategy!

I'm 1700 and was playing against Danya 2650 bot. I played "2 brilliant moves in a row". I still lost but yeah.

Hans is an instinctively aggressive player who also uses psych-warfare techniques against his opponents (in interviews as well as OTB). Sometimes, like here, this works out fabulously: after he goes full send with the Q right beside their K, they literally crap themselves in fear and make several sub-optimal if not downright bad moves, opening opportunities which he improvises to exploit, and it ends up with him looking like an absolute genius who foresaw all, although there's a fair chance he did not. OTOH, those opponents who can keep their nerve will generally belay his ardour to win or draw. It makes for exciting chess, with plenty of cut & thrust, which is better than being bored to death by those GM's who play for 20 draws in a row. Cutting such a talent out of the industry due to some juvenile sins + the caprice of a Prima-Donna (Carlsen) would be a great loss for the sport. And of course there was no assistance or cheating in this game: the 4 brilliancies in a row is more an artefact of CC's analysis algorithm, as the latter 3 were fairly easy to find. Good video, btw, thanks!

Great chess channel! Not super human 4 in a row. Only Qh3 deserved a double exclamation mark and even a single exclamation mark would have sufficed. The 3 follow up moves were a continuation of the idea behind Qh3.

He found the moves needed to carry on the attack, his opponent played many innacuracies..nothing to see here

damn, i'm surprised i guessed several of the moves.

In order to make a judgment, I would need to ask what kind of security they had at this tournament. Any? None?

Hans sets up h6 g6 pawns often. Sometimes if he’s trolling he goes a6 b6 h6 g6. Finchetto both sides. It's actually a decent setup.

Suspicious to all hell he is

The only suspicious and brilliant move I thought was the defense h4 from white. Who does that!? The other brilliant moves kind of played themselves if you trust your intuition and don't want to give back the initiative. Standard stuff if you got a little Tal in you.

The HANS 9000 played brilliantly 🙂

I thought from the thumbnail that the whole game he was going to play with 100% accuracy though 🤔 But hasn’t that happened too btw, and could you cover it?

The game looked OK to me. Han being aggressive might have been thinking of opening up the H-File so Q to h3 seems fine and had white not taken the knight then Han would have gotten good attacking chances and gotten the knight back with a "levelish" game. So to me, his 3rd and 4th "brilliant moves" were, pretty much, forced as he had committed to the attack and had to get the H-file open for his rook...I think Han plays with a lot of intuition hence Q to h3 and like to be aggressive ...

Best chess channel online. Thanks.

I once had two brilliant moves in a row

0:52 why are people still equating accuracy with engine correlation. It’s apples to oranges

I'm sure if Hans was asked for analysis he'd have no idea, say "chess speaks for itself" and buzz off

Hey Bud!! I think you must have been analyzing Chess for far longer than any mere "over 15 years." I would guess that you must have been analyzing Chess for, say, a century or two. Great work!!

maybe a clicking signal on its leg like on casino's.

u never seen stockfish playing before? hes rly good

Makes you wonder if the plan was to get accused of cheating so he could then sue them for money that would be the mastermind move

Watched a few Anna Cramling videos today and 4 hours later I've made it to Epic Chess. I love how Epic Chess explains everything and all but I don't speak the chess language yet. I feel like I'm starting a new video game on the hardest mode. Anyone know of a good but more basic channel I could use to work my way up to Epic Chess? The news style videos were easy to watch and very interesting but to hear a game being explained I realize how completely out of my league Epic Chess is. Not a knock on Epic Chess whatsoever, it's a me not understanding what's being talked about without pausing and googling every other second kind of problem.

Yes I saw all of that after move 6.

It looks like a logical way to play, not suspicious at all it's just good tactics. No engine needed to find the queen H3 attacking move I found it in less than a minute, the next moves weren't that hard to find either. If this is how chessdot finds cheaters than it's pure witch hunt BS.

To sac a knight for an extremely strong attack is where the fun begins - all other moves have been logical follow ups - not double exclams The rest is a question of your opponents skills - - Giri or Karjakin would have not been impressed - for a weaker player to defend? Hard task!

Id have played that Queen move, I wouldn't/couldn't have worked it all out, but it looks like a good move

hans niemann is a bad bad boy!

I like it that the board awards some of black's moves with a "?" or "?!", when according to the engines his play was (almost) perfect. It was a pretty straightforward game, though.

I played 1 game and puts this to shame and I had to agree to never play chess again

Lol dude is a strong GM . If an IM even played this game I would not be shocked.

Game of the savants

I don't know, the third brilliant move was just super obvious so it was kind of just 3 in a row imo

Too many people giving a known cheat too much of a benefit of the doubt.

Hans Niemann is turning out to be the Uri Geller of chess...

Really nothing suspicious. White blunder , black play simple moves

Hans is guilty. Can you imagine drinking 3 water bottles in 1 game hahaha

Everybody body saw the Queen move that was obvious.The rest of the moves are what is being discussed.

A very balanced assessment. Was there anything hanging on the result? It's the sort of sequence that any decent player might execute in a casual online game where the fun outweighs the result!

I would've made all four of those moves in that position. There's nothing unusual about that to me

I'm not a Hans fan, in fact I'm a Magnus fan but what I'm seeing on the screen just makes sense from a player of his caliber. How can this prove anything? it's just normal moves.

I noticed all the commentators are extremely hesitant to say they think he cheated publically

No one can beat the Beads Gambit opening..takes you to a dark place..narrow full of..corn..?