Hello

We love chess brother.

Well much more I guess your counting only chess24 India viewers. But people were also watching from Chess24 and also from many other sources. 0:00

Much more than that bruh. Most south indians weren't watching chess24 india coz of Hindi commentary. And chess has a much bigger following in the south

A streamer here in Brazil got 13k viewers in his live! Biggest part of us were chearing for Gukesh. Chess is getting popular in all over the world!

True

I feel like Levy should mix it up and sometimes pre-hype the move that was found

A few times I've missed the actual games and the scores, got excited for a player during Levy's review and then heard him utter that awful sentence...

It's actually '... had to go here...

Yup, the most heart racing Line that sir Levi has said the entire match

Truu

The AI is too strong

You have a big heart

Yeah his face looked almost apologetic at the end.

He did apologize to Fabi after the game. By saying sorry. Fabi responded with no, it's my fault. I guess they will both need some time to recover from this event.

Nepo deserves a wc..is so sad he didnt win again

@@History23455 last one should have been Nepo's. Feels bad 😞

So right. And then in the press conference Fabi goes, looking at the mid- game "It’s unbelievable anyone could lose from those position." I can only conclude destiny was at play.

gotham liked you!

you got a like from the man.

levy give him a pin of wholefulness

agree

I avoided all spoilers and knowing the result and then KZfaq FREAKING SPOILED IT by recommending a winners interview with gukesh DIRECTLY NEXT TO GOTHAMS VID!

Lmao

Hopefully it wasn't your wedding

The correct thing to do

Worth it

Stay focused lads 🔥

Yeah, it's why he always was one of the favourites to win this. He's not as creative as Hikaru, but he plays incredibly accurate. He doesn't fall for many traps.

Incredibly accurate?! Have you seen this video at all? Or previous ones? He is just lucky that his opponents weren't find how to win in winning positions

@@MrIvanUp Do you really think luck is the only thing that made him be able to not lose a single game against these incredible players? Let alone lead the candidates nearly every single time? No it's just that the only wins he allows his opponents to get are extremely hard to find, and he never allows them to transform it in a confortable advantage. So the accuracy at which he forces his opponents to play is ridiculous and obviously this will mean that the clock would play a huge role. Of course he would lose against stockfish, who wouldn't? but every time Fabi was able to play 10 stockfish moves and get an advantage, only one inaccuracy and it was over.

he's better than call center scammer for sure

@@paullemaire2977 the dude never said luck was the only thing. he said nepo was not playing incredibly accurate, which he wasn't.

i thought it's E-well bar

@@ryanbrown4618 eval is short for evaluation , so its evaluation bar. evaluation means "the making of a judgement about the amount, number, or value of something; assessment."

THIS. that was sick. I feel like anyone who’s stared over a chess board without an eval bar felt that.

@@ryanbrown4618 how did you hear e-well bar

@@Sarah-uj4hv 22:51 an E-well bar

It’s crazy he’s only been playing for 10 years and went all the way to the WCC. He could potentially be the GOAT when he reaches his peak.

And imagine hikaru is 37 and what he achieved gokesh will also achieve more than that​@@user-uc7qb1su4e

@@user-uc7qb1su4e if gukesh wins world championship that would result in a massive boost of chess in India

@@SmilingAnt-rx6gx The game returning to it’s home

@@user-uc7qb1su4eyep, to china

The One piece is real.. 🔥

spoiler

If Gukesh D is this good, imagine how good is Gukesh A

THE ONE PIECE…. THE ONE PIECE… IS REALLLLLLLLLLLLL 🏴‍☠️

Gukesh D luffy ❤

Fabiano Chokuarana

The plot twists were absolutely crazy

For me nothing will beat Magus vs Nepo game 6. I showed up late to work because of it and regretted nothing

Fabi is a choker.... threw away the win twice. I'm surprised he didn't play on. One could throw the game to force gukesh into tiebreaks. he also threw away the win when he went g3 instead of Nc4 in 2018, allowing magnus to escape with the draw and went on to lose 3 - 0 in tiebreaks.

Fabio Mariuhana

Warranted

I COUNTED, IT'S 32!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@Balisong_Dude No, it is 31.

@@jsdp No, this is patrick

***It's pronounced GOO-KAY-SH*** !!!!!!

It was only missing magnus

​@@M_D764 Magnus would make this tournament boring Wow guys, he got 11 points of 13 and he does not even need to play the last round, so excting! Not having him here made this crazy events possible

@@iuricunhamurakami8261 true

​@@M_D764lol magnus effect is real saiying the guy creating history isnt good 😂

***It's pronounced GOO-KAY-SH***

...and I'll check that coffee table chess deck out. Least I can do 🥂

Can you link it?

She didn’t

Hans Niemman did

@@rionvalet he didn’t

​@@patogordo1385ig he did, on chessbase India stream when he came ig during the previous titled Tuesday, he was rooting for Gukesh.

Chess is brutal i was rooting foe gukesh but sad for fabi

Brother like nepo got lucky whole tournament like happened lot in this candidate he was loosing and like opponent blunders like he was really lucky sometimes

@@aryanaggarwal6592can’t say just nepo got lucky because he made his opponents to miss the chance by playing consistent best moves and time control. Most of the time when he was loosing, his opponents had less time and got high pressure because of it.

if its constantly an occurence in every match and even candidates, theres no luck, theres something he knows that we dont

​@@chaosincursion that's plot armour

Nepo said 'I'm sorry' to Fabi?? 😭

@@user-eg3iu6pk5e yes, after match

Crying? When Gukesh lost in WAZ in a tie break, it was a heart break as well....life goes on, you win some, you lose some. One should have the courage to smile through losses to enjoy the wins even more.

​@user-qc2oe5ng6i Gukesh is 17, Fabi is 31 and Ian is 33. Gukesh would have had plenty of time even had he lost whereas Fabi and Ian are running out of chances. That is why it is much sadder to see them lose.

@@user-eg3iu6pk5eyes you can hear it on the mic after the game. He says “I’m sorry” fabi says “my fault” and leaves.

Gukesh has very high chances to beat Ding.

His strength is in classical, not rapid or blitz. I like classical best.

People won't respect you until you win

I feel like apart of it was also how strong this field was

Spoiler

Agree, love him or hate him, that fabi nepo recap was perfection for me.

​@@iskaaa37true

Specially fabi vs nepo game...❤❤❤

Vidit, the hero we need but we don't deserve. His decisive matches led to these epic final 2 rounds. Vaishali and Vidit went all in.

Fabi choked tbh

Everything ive seen from fabi when I see his games its constant choking, first in a game against magnus recently then all thru this candidates

@@eyeofhorus1301 That's crazy to say when the magnus-fabi WCC was borderline perfect chess. Compared to every WCC since then, both dudes mentals were bulletproof. Nepo's resilience in that game is genuinely impressive as hell. Finding that rook sac that initially saves the game with the clock ticking down is unreal.

@@PhantomL7 He did, but honestly Ke2 was the only realistically findable one - every time after that, even though he was winning, the commentators were going through the winning lines and everything except like 5 unnatural computer moves in a row was a draw

@@SARCASMlC I mean he chokes winning positions way too much in important games... that WCC was a drawfest never converting any wins and choking in tiebreak

Classical chess should have more time, Fabi would've rolled Nepo without the time pressure. We chose the best player on tricks and time instead of quality of chess. World champ isnt even gonna be in top 3 at this point. Whoever made this rules is a joke.

@HandofFreedom more like Fabi should be faster and NOT throw the game multiple times. He threw it AFTER REACHING TIME CONTROL.

@@svarogwolf come on. The move he needed to play after time control (Ka2) is an insane computer line. I think he threw it away earlier when he was down on time and missed Ian’s Rg5 exchange sacrifice.

​@@HandOfFreedom Fabi blunderer after reaching time control the first time. He got a second chance and threw it again. Someone's just salty

@@svarogwolf the most obvious move was a draw The winning line was a deep computer line that no one can play in a real game

And Fabi sacrifices... THE TOURNMENT

And Fabi sacrifices his Time!!!!!

Fabiano Chokuarana

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

The Roooooooooooooook

True but thats typically easy when assisted by the engine as for their commentating it wasnt the best nor the worst I mean we have seen way worse commentating but they kinda missread the players in many occasions for example when fabi first blundered and the bar went at 0.5 for white they all where like "With this move Ian finally has the draw he wants" which was truly idiotic and missleading not to say dissrespectful to the player cuz Ian never wanted a draw a draw meant that he was out of the tournament for good he was all in and he proved that in many positions where he didnt follow the draw line but the risky one and the worst part about this was that they said this kinda stuff about Ian many times wich was really hard to listen to. 2nd example On the game of Hikaru and Gukesh after the 40th move where it was up to Hikaru wither to go for a draw or continue the game they started saying stuff like "and Hikaru here will propably draw because lets be real what else is in this position other than a draw" which again was truly stupid thing to say even a 900 elo player could tell that the position still had a future players like Magnus Kasparov Bobby Topalov and many others have many times pushed far more drawable positions for win and they have won Hikaru in the end indeed went for the draw but as a comentator and as a GM/IM u cant say "the position here is a draw" while u got a a bunch of pieces in the game and a bunch of pawns of which one was a square away from promoting. 3rd example at one point they found an engine line on Fabis position which led to a draw if i remember correctly then after the move was made one of them asked the others "yeah but why did we declare this a draw I cant see it" What happened then is them awkawardly trying to pass the ball to eachother to answer why the line was a draw till the engine could show them cuz they were just unable which led to the whole chat laughing at them 4th and final example when Magnus joined the call and without any engine help he really presented some intresting lines which they had completely missed making them seem like the kind of idiots they are

@@talionthenazgul3213 It was very complicated game. The last one its almost impossible to find all for so low time. Also they never said Ian wants a draw anywhere give me the timestamp if you are so sure. They said both doesn't want a draw. But they said ,,is he crazy at some moves'' not bcs hey are trying to win but they are just losing you can't win while losing right? Also learn to use this thing ........ Points ......... You understand?

@@talionthenazgul3213Beautiful example of the dunning-kruger effect, showing little understanding of both commentating and chess. Keep entertaining.

@@talionthenazgul3213 Someone tell this man about punctuation lmao Yapper of the century holy shit

all the time they tried to play a move someone with the eval bar was like "nah, that draws" or "nah, that loses" and the explanations were sooo complicated they couldnt believe what both players would have had to find to play perfectly...

Hey don't make a Jo out of him please 🙆‍♂️

Do you think you can win the candidates? If ian or fabi win, then it would give me some trouble. But would you lose? Nah, I'd win

Corny ahh coment so cringe

​@@talionthenazgul3213 Bro fr 😭 These people are the worst

​@@talionthenazgul3213it is cringe but not more than the existence of you

Cringe

@@KershalJC ur mom is cringe retarded loser

@@KershalJCcringe profile+cringe reply+liked own comment

​@@KershalJCjust like you

​@@KershalJC nothing is ever more cringe than typing Cringe in comments 😂

Caruana and nepo were the fava

Gukesh defied the plot armor

Pragg was never the favourite

Where's Caruana?

The glazing goes mad💀💀

Fabi choking +8 advantage multiple times shows why he doesn’t deserve to be champion

@@user-uc7qb1su4e It's more emblematic of how good of a defensive player Nepo is, tbh (he didn't lose a single game!). You have to realize many of those points were in low time scrambles, which really isn't Fabi's strongsuit

@@mayredwood some were with straight up an hour on the clock, next was half an hour, he just didn’t find the best moves. That and Nepo has plot armor.

@@user-uc7qb1su4e almost every single one of those were in low time scramble. The only one that wasn't was the 41st move

⁠@@user-uc7qb1su4e +8 according to an engine that can calculate a hundred million moves a second

It is the end of an era for Fabi and Hikaru. Hikaru played a good team game to give USA a chance to proceed. Not sure about Nepo and Alireza from here either.

Ian also blew his chance three times in the last 6 years, if you know what I mean.

It won't sting as much as Ian blundering game 12 against Ding.

​@@vincelopez756I have some doubts about the whole Ding-Nepo match if you know what I mean. Glad Nepo is out now, and looking how bad he plays now, Ding will be out too.

@@bradmodd7856 End of a what lol? Did we watch the same Candidates? Fabi, Hikaru and Nepo overall played much better than the youngsters.

Naka is the recap GOAT. Can't beat the world number three recapping his own games in a very accessible format.

Bros been watching him for 3 years and has 7 comments (I'm joking btw)

I agree, I was also impressed he never once dropped his performance. I literally didn't know what will happen. so thrilling

Thanks to his engine

​@@ahrrydepp493Lol what 😂😂

​@@ahrrydepp493🤡

@@ahrrydepp493 RACIST :)

@@daphenomenalz4100 damn, must be the Indians that invented the engines

Same❤

He literally doesn't care

@@tomnguyen1999 I'm sure he cares a little.

@@koalabrownie of course he'll care a little but he got second best outcome out of this. He basically got to the final game and got the best content for his channel and made good money and made his fans proud. they will help him get over it in a month

@@percywhitehead9228 exactly

@@percywhitehead9228fr

There were much better ones

Hello

2006

I am at the same age but my rating is fucking 1000😂

2009

​@@OpCHESS_JoUrNeY same here 😂😂😂

This!

And Ash could never beat the red

Nah , no chance he beat Ding.

Go Pikachu..... Use thunderbolt

@@dylanellis7656 there is a 50 percent chance

fabi had so many winning positions to convert. A greatest draw would mean both players thinking of brilliant strategy to outwit each other. Ian didn't do that, Fabi kept letting him of the hook. Fabi will take some time once he analyses his game to see how close he was on so many moves to win. Also Ding is probably the easiest person to dethrone in the history of the game. and fabi is better than gukesh in faster time format. so most likely favorite to win. the younger players are coming through. Fabi might never get this chance ever again

Tbf, those winning moves were extremely hard for humans to find in time trouble, the Ka1 instead of Ka2 was the most human move.​@percywhitehead9228

@@sethschexneider you're probably right.

@@percywhitehead9228 But the final winning move was a findable one for a player of his caliber.

🎯

Gold comment

Gukesh Dormammu

​@@joshyycute5823magnus appears after gukesh winning it, "dommaraju, I'm here to make a bargain!" 😂

@@teenbull2907 if that happens that would be legendary 🔥

the D speaks for itself

I CANT WITH THIS CORNY AHHHH COMENT SECTION HELLP😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

Lassi* (he's only 17 lol)

Yes​@@teenbull2907

@@teenbull2907 he anyways wont drink alcohol, guys like him, are very much introverted and traditonal strict hindus..that white vibhuti on his forehead, show hes more religious than 99% hindus, meaning he wont be touching bad habits like alchol...

​@@user-SkmBeats No one cares. "Hold my beer" is an expression....

​@@user-SkmBeatscry more

🎛️ take your medicine

@@patogordo1385eat your cow shit

Basically, Nepo faced Abasov right before he was devastated by other gms, in a good mood. GG, Gukesh, but the fact Hikaru and Gukesh milked Abasov, Pragg, Alireza and gained free points tells me that was hell out of luck. And, you know, luck ain't a bad thing...

​@@Bruh-bk6yo Everyone played everyone. If Gukesh and Hikaru "milked" the others (whatever that means), Ian and fabi also had the opportunity to "milk". It is a clear and fair win. And more than that, it's one of the best candidates in years

​@@patogordo1385why say somethin like that? He is correct out of all the players Ian was the strongest one Gukesh indeed won but there aint a single above 1300 elo person that thinks that Ian wasnt the strongest player among the tournament

Hikaru was the best player in this event. Let’s not kid ourselves. Gukesh just didn’t throw more than 1 game

@@andrewcecchini3188 Hikaru lost to Vidit not once, but both times. A miracle he was even still in contention in the last round.

Fabi since last few rounds except for the final one where he choked was on an absolute monster mode on. 🥲

fabi was the best player you can have love for a player but u can't deny gukesh played like a champion​@@andrewcecchini3188

I'm pretty sure Hikaru was actually the best player. He just got unlucky and all gukesh had to do was force a draw. If they each had to play for win, Hikaru wins