Nepo when plays solid is a beast. This Karpovian python style from the opening to the very last move was masterfully played.

Brilliant capture by Dubov at 1:32, even if he's not playing in this game, not even in this tournament.

Nepo intentionally giving Nodirbek breathing room is just downright power move. As if showing off his prowess as the man who fought as World Championship challenger twice and still pursuing the title. I hope Nepo win the candidates this time as well.

When Nepo starts blitzing moves, you know it’s going to be a bad day for the opponent.

I love the Anish quote 😅

Lets take a moment to appreciate agad. I have been watching his videos for years, he explains the chess to me the best way possible. Everything in his videos "Hello everyone" "The classy theme of board" "The quotes written above" "Pause the video moments" "Some bizzare stocfish lines" "Video titles" "Sorry bout that" "So its of move __ we have reached a completely new game" "B4" everything is perfect. Thankyou Agad !

1:28 in all 3 games daniil went pawn to a6 but dubov goes bishop captures on c4

Good work as usual Agad. Late to comment on videos this gear but happy new year!

I love how absolutely Ian dominates his opponents when he knows they are weaker than him. Its like watching a python slowly choke its prey if the opponents don't blunder immediately. If he can keep his nervousness at bay around Magnus' slow positional improvement style it'll be such an interesting match. Its really a clash of styles in some ways like Kasparov vs Karpov. The Positional Player (Mag) vs The Attacker (Ian)

Nepo was like a python in this game.. Just squeezed ever slowly and took the life of his prey 😮 It was one of the boring games of this tournament, but what a masterclass on the other hand.

Bravo Nepo! I can't wait until the Candidate's Tourna 17:47 ment, especially since I live in a town 100km from Toronto, and will be there in person for three days. Can't wait!

You boil a frog by increasing the temperature one degree at a time otherwise if you threw it in hot water, it'd jump out

Nepo is a beast!

All the 2700's below Magnus are all on the same level. Any of them can beat the other at anytime, it just depends on who is on form.

Wow what a strong game by Nepo showing his stuff in this game pretty much man handled Nordi It is a great tournament great players great games and of course we have Agadmator to give us the rundown on this event Greatness all around 😅

Very impressive!

Its games like these that really show why GMs are GMs. Slowly accumulating incrimental advantages leading to a winning endgame. Crazy how Abdusattarov dididnt really make a glaring mistake all game.

1:30 dubov goes bxc4 😂😂 (it's nodirbek🤔😇😂) Danil & dubov is same person amazing agad 😂🤟

brillant strategy from nepo... slowly but steady winning the game this reminded me karpov's style

It's a positional masterclass from Nepo. I absolutely love these types of game

Thank you me for all your interesting chess wisdom.❤😊

#suggestion Pragg vs Ju Wenjun in round 9 is just fire. Would be pleased if you show that game.

Chess world without Carlsen is so beautiful, interesting and competitive😂😂

I feel like Nepo is the true prep god cause when he's prepped to his best, it's an easy kill for him while Fabi has become more of the calculator

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I love the thumbnail.

"...a very very slow squeeze..." Last time I heard something like this was in Pawn Sacrifice 2014 when describing how the Russians played in Bobby Fishers time.

Great game

Could tou have a look on the challenger part, salem is having a great rournament

The Giri quote at the top is awesome

The quote above by anish giri is very inspiring🤣🤣

On a good day, Nepo is really a positional champ

The opening we have seen on the channel 1000 times.

Ya! Nepo can be both In and Ian. Bravo maestro.

Hello agadmator

Nepo just discovered his inner Fischer. He likes the moment when he breaks a man's ego.

Can someone tell me why isn't Vishy playing TATA Steel this year

Suggestion Ding vs Anish Giri round 9 tata steel it was a draw but I would find it interesting to see how Ding played as most know he has been struggling in the tournament

Nepo, you beauty!!!!!

Engine preparation vs human mind

nepo ruthlessly destroyed nodirbek, what a game!

gg

tactical cold war secrets

@9:05 Nepo doesn't repeat in order to allow Nordibek to get to move 40 etc - he does so to put his R onto d2 instead of d1 so after ...Nf6 Nd6 if B plays Rd8 the N won't be pinned and he can play Nxe4 and the R will be defended

# suggestion Nodirbek vs Van forrest

Everyone forgets that Nepo is a 2 time world title challenger, meaning he has the qualities of being a champ in the making, when he plays a solid style , it'll take a Magnus to put a stop on him.

This match summed up: Youth give energy drink to thief so they can beat him again..

Haha love that "Anish Giri" quote...

عندما يضيء نيبو ...❤

Nepo is just too strong, what a forcing win

Giving time for nodirbek so that he could crush him later 😂

Pawn b4 is ALWAYS the best move, unless its not. Then, and ONLY then, it loses by force.

So why didn't Nepo take the Nite after @11:06 Ra2? It would take his Nite 2 moves to attack it, or three moves to attack it with the king.

Hola

Sasha's tip to us for improving in chess was to never blunder and nodirbek learned it BUT the 2nd tip should probably have been don't play Nepo.

I was hoping to see a Fried Liver Attack from Nepo.

nepo playing like magnus

Knight on rim is a grim

Dubov does what?

Nepo allowing his opponent to reach time control just to crush him without any time trouble excuses 😂

Nepo strangulates his opponent

Nodirbek did make a severe positional mistake by giving up his e pawn. f6 was crucial to play.

Well 11:06 could have been "pause the video" moment, because Nepo could have taken black Nite, but he moved the rook.

Nodirbek had a an off game, but he will be back.

If you're going to talk about the purpose of N-d7 , why not mention that it can go to c5 ? Especially since that's what gets played on the very next move .

Are we all going to ignore the Quote for the day by Anish Giri

😅😅

Total annihilated

13.24 : Nepo? goes to Kf6

Nepo had all it took to beat Ding Liren, but always blew winning positions

I am minding my own business.

Tournament without king Magnus😢😢😢😢

1:32 it's abdusattarov and not dubov

Just like a cat playing w a mouse. Then once bored he finish it off. Just like nepo

Nepo still champion contender

2nd: Nepo is the best overall as of 2023Apr30 in an equal combination of -classical chess, -rapid chess, -classical 9LX & -rapid 9LX Being 2nd in -2023 classical WCC (only by rapid) -2022 rapid WFRCC, -2021 classical & rapid WCCs -2019 classical WFRCC score And 14th in 2022 rapid WCC (ahead of Hikaru, Wesley So, Liren) That's right: Nepo AND NOT MAGNUS is the top 2 classical 9LX player behind Wesley So! - This is because Nepo's score is higher than Magnus'. Not just for a weighted average of the classical & rapid portions but even for both the classical & rapid portions individually. Nepo lost only 3x to Wesley So while Magnus lost 4x. - Magnus & Nepo played the same opponents - Wesley So & Fabi. Both beat Fabi. Both lost to Wesley So. Nepo was just unfortunate to face Wesley So 1st. Imagine if the pairings were reversed or they played a double knockout. Now let's take a look at the top1 of each. -2023 classical WCC - Liren never even played 9LX ? ( kTGBSAR-lxE ) -2022 rapid WFRCC - Hikaru is lower in rank than Nepo in both classical chess candidates & classical 9LX and never won a classical 9LX game -2021 classical WCC - Magnus sucks at 9LX and even cheated Nepo here -2022 rapid WCC - Both Magnus & Hikaru suck at classical 9LX -2019 classical WFRCC - Wesley So scored -2 in candidates. -2021 rapid WCC - Nepo beat Nodirbek in 2022 rapid WFRCC via Magnus I am Filipino / Filipina / Philippine, love 9LX and hate chess, but there is no shame in admitting that treating these 4 titles equally Nepo is the best overall. -Au contraire there is actually arrogance rather than shame because Nepo is the top 2 in classical 9LX behind Wesley So and ahead of Magnus. Lol. -And I know Bobby Fischer would value the classical WFRCC far more than all of the rapid WCC, rapid WFRCC & classical WCC combined and thus would consider Wesley So the 'real' world champion for 2019Nov - 2023Mar over Hikaru rapid WFRCC & Magnus classical WCC, rapid WCC, blitz WCC (and MVL blitz WCC & Nodirbek rapid WCC). But Nepo Vs Wesley So in Bobby's opinion? Ummm...well let's say unresolved. Hehehe. After all Wesley So reached 2800, but Nepo is peaking. 2023Aug Update : Oh, there's a 2024 WFRCC. If it's classical, then we might be able to settle Wesley So Vs Nepo. . . . . . . P.S. Wesley So on Lex Fridman xcdhgq P.P.S. Interview while imprisoned p1w4Rr-1Uk Pablo Mercado: So what is your advice to the Filipino chess players? Uncle Bobby Fischer: My advice is to give up chess and take up Fischer Random. - 2004Oct11, 15 years before nephew Wesley So became the inaugural WFRCC in CLASSICAL time controls.

He must have applied the Indo-malayan style. That's how you beat players like Noderbek.

so Nepo will again win the Candidates and then proceed to waste chances with weird blunders in the WC match

4th: PLEASE agad it's been 4 months! 2023 USCC - Atousa almost beat Carissa Yip, the eventual winner! Carissa was losing most of the game. Atousa just blundered in the end. It's Hikaru's WIFE vs Wesley's GIRLFRIEND. #suggestion #womeninchess #uschesschamps #uschess #uschesschamp #uscc

What a great game and great analysis by Antonio as usual, but I want to say something to you Antonio personally. As you have stopped playing rapids on lichess, I saw your performance level went down drastically, you only play blitz and it's harming your performance, just take it as an advice from your little brother from India, start again with those rapids, study more theory and openings, as you are already good at tactics so it will not be much of a problem for you in the middlegames and endgames. Think it over and start afresh, I am waiting for that segment to return. Best wishes to you and your family and to your little daughter especially, take care of yourself and meadow. Love ❤️

3rd: Hans Niemann = next Bobby Fischer - Wesley So = current Bobby Fischer - Bobby Fischer's ghost = old Bobby Fischer - Beth Harmon = Bobby Fischer in another universe Each of these 4 'is a prodigy, had a rather dark childhood and is American'. Speaking of Wesley So Hikaru's (the rapid WFRCC) wife almost beat Wesley So's (the classical WFRCC) girlfriend! 2023 USCC - Indeed Carissa Yip won and thanked Wesley So as her secret second in the 2023 USCC closing ceremony speech. But in Carissa vs Atousa, Carissa was losing most of the game. Atousa just blundered in the end. move 54 for black is an 8-move equality puzzle it's so sharp [Variant "From Position"] [FEN "1Q5k/3r1rn1/p3N3/Pp1p2P1/1q2p3/1B2R2P/5P2/6K1 b"] 1... Kh7 2. g6+ Kxg6 3. Rg3+ Kf6 4. Nxg7 Rxg7 5. Qf4+ Ke6 6. Qh6+ Kf5 7. Rxg7 Rxg7+ 8. Qxg7 Qxb3 PS xcdhgq #suggestion #womeninchess #uschesschamps #uschess #uschesschamp #uscc

You can't be top rated 2727 in fidel by working into checkmate.

Ding : The accidental Champion

Nodirbek should've resigned this game much earlier than he did

why are russians so good in chess ?

if nepo were the champion . people will critize him too.

Anish is correct about the pawns but, if he wants us to stop commenting on his play then he should quit playing in public.

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Russian power

Only if nepo's nerves didn't always fail in world championship match. We would have had a better champion than ding . Sorry to say but ding Liren is turning out to be weakest world champion ever . No dominance at all

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Ian Nepomniachtchi rules. Liren Ding sucks. Wesley So rules. Magnus Carlsen sucks. Liren's STUPID LIST of role models : FlNsFKeq-iE A-Veselin Topalov B-Garry Kasparov C-Magnus Carlsen Explanation : A-Veselin Topalov - baselessly accused Jewish Vlad B-Garry Kasparov - treasonously cheated fellow Jewish Europeans Judit & Alexei Shirov, cheated Vishy Anand & 2 Americans MSN & Daniel Edelman and baselessly accused American IBM re Deep Blue C-Magnus Carlsen - cheated Jewish-or-American players Anish Giri, Wesley So, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Sergey Karjakin, Danya Naroditsky TWICE & Ian Nepomniachtchi - baselessly accused Jewish American Hans, Jewish Alisher & American Alice Lee ( source is PgHQdOocI84 ) - Also cheated gentile non-American Alireza but Alireza was becoming French whose top player prior is Jewish MVL. Why wouldn't Nepo like the opposite? A-Vladimir Kramnik B-Bobby Fischer C-Wesley So Explanation : A-Vladimir Kramnik - easily beat Veselin 2006 WCC (1 game was forfeited!) B-Bobby Fischer - would've easily beat Anatoly Karpov 1975 WCC under either rules and then Anatoly drew a million times w/ Garry C-Wesley So - easily beat Magnus 2019 WFRCC 13.5-2.5 including win 3x classical games in a row and is the only player better than Nepo in classical 9LX. --- Aaaaand then 2023Jul chess idols - Wenjun chose Liren while Tingjie chose Vishy Anand & Vlad Kramnik: pbM0wG8wNLg Tingjie Lei rules. Wenjun Ju sucks. --- Hence: Good guys vs Bad guys - Axis of Evil (Good guys?) wesley so, hans niemann, bobby fischer, sergey karjakin, vlad kramnik (still! See below), ian nepomniachtchi, alireza firouzja, nodirbek abdusattorov, andrii baryshpolets, vishy anand, jan-krzysztof duda, chesscube, Sergey's hypothetical pure 9LX parallel, christopher yoo, leela, ferdinand marcos sr, ben johnson of perpetual chess podcast(?), elon musk(?), gata kamsky, donald trump, andrew tate - Allies of Evil (Bad guys?) magnus carlsen, hikaru nakamura, garry kasparov, daniil dubov, veselin topalov, liren ding, aryan tari, vincent keymer, arkady dvorkovich, peter heine nielsen, richárd rapport, PCA, FIDE, andrew tang, stockfish, prospero pichay jr, lex fridman(?), mark zuckerberg(?), alejandro ramirez, george bush, piers morgan - axis of evil (female) (good girls?) tingjie lei (or paikidze), janelle frayna, dina belenkaya, lotis key, sara khadem (or carissa yip), robbi jade lew - allies of evil (female) (bad girls?) wenjun ju, bella khotenashvili, andrea botez, leny so, atousa pourkashiyan - nakamura, nemo zhou More info: ARNSi0cPu60 Re Vlad : I view Vlad's accusation of Hans similar to Bobby's accusation of Anatoly Karpov & Wesley's wanting Sergey to not be in the 2022 candidates - it's a good guy fighting another good guy. The real bad guy in each respective case is Magnus, Garry & Magnus again. Tsk tsk. It's sad Vlad/Bobby/Wesley didn't realise that Magnus/Garry/Magnus is far more evil than Hans/Anatoly/Hans. Wait, I think Bobby did. Not sure. I think Bobby hated Garry more than Anatoly, but maybe not by much more. More info: eXHvXpOnAOE --- P.S. Wesley So on Lex Fridman xcdhgq P.P.S. Interview while imprisoned p1w4Rr-1Uk Pablo Mercado: So what is your advice to the Filipino chess players? Uncle Bobby Fischer: My advice is to give up chess and take up Fischer Random. - 2004Oct11, 15 years before nephew Wesley So became the inaugural WFRCC in CLASSICAL time controls.

Imagine not being able to understand when to use WHO instead of THAT. Chess players huh?