Perfect timing on the video release I was JUST about to go to the washroom with nothing good to watch! ❤

*In the same intonation* "Apologies if you hear screaming, kids are kicking off, it's dinner time. Now we see the bishop takes."

Is so fun when you don't stop the energy of the talk, like it is going to collapse but no, it stays until the end. Hope your style remains, it is very different to the other chess channels.

Love these thx for uploading x

Great video (as always) you’re such a fun person to listen to. I’ll be quite glad to see your subs well over 4,000,000 🤞❤️

Wow!! What a great tactical game. Would never have been able to appreciate it without your commentary!

Great vid. Love the narration - Edge of the seat stuff

If it left the chess world speechless, why is Epic talking about it?

Thank you for the comments and for the prompt diffusion.

End-game grind from the end-game GOAT.

I feel Mags pawns are very strong and pushing to become a new queen, wonder if theres statistics around it to see who got the biggest pawn threats

Kc1 is essential. If Magnus plays f5 instead there is the possibility of a perpetual starting with Qg5+. The king cannot escape to the Q side. Magnus as usual spots the trick

This is why magnus is the goat. He can continue to apply pressure and get out of it. Finding the best moves and even when he mistakes unfortunately his opponents miss the best moves. The guy is arguably the best chess player of all time.

Cool vid as always ❤ thx EC

Really enjoy your videos...lots of humour and fun!

I followed the games but did not listen to the commentary. Here in Norway we are spoiled by the engine free commentary of IM Torstein Bae. So now I like to follow without engine. Thanks for a fun commentary James.

I sorry but ive got to say , please finish end game on blitz unless time constraints. No give ups on blitz 🎉

Very interesting, thank you

Thank you for the video.

Great game, great presentation. Agreed on L Trent.

Turn that pawn into a baby girl by smashing the like button!!

Please do also game two!

Wow..to go that deep though.wonder what kinda rating ud need to start seeing these kinda traps&tricks..I'm Killin it at 500 and it's deep even for me😢

Sacrifice at 7:20

Lawrence Trent caught some strays 😂

It would be great to post URLs for PGNs with videos. Is there a reason why chess streamers do not do that? It would be great to play with certain positions, without doing the set-up. For example, when you said that the queen had no squares to go to (6m15s), why not g3...? There were a couple of other positions I had questions about, as well. Love your shows - thank you!

def hands up !!!!!

Hey, thanks for analysing some possible lines after …g5! Other coverage so far has been less than convincing. What a rich and complex position. :) At first glance, the pawn duo looks fairly wonky and attackable once White 'consolidates' … but where does his king hide in order to achieve this? And what a pity Black pushed forward on the very next move, offering Carlsen the type of positional weakness which has become his staple diet over the years. Nom nom. In short? Areally beautiful game which could've been just a little better.

Wow, complex game. It seems to be a bit of a pattern that Rapport does so well in the opening and middle game with attacking ideas, but makes an error that means he can't quite follow through.

Thank you

In a blitz it's not fair to say "for some reason he did that"...player is hastily making real time read for audience and in lot of ways for benefit of game's humanity.

Pretty interesting

6:10 why is the queen checkmated? Can’t it go to g3? Or you can block with the knight on E6 temporarily and then retreat along the dark squares? Second idea is probably still losing tho

Nc3 is not the Winawer, it’s only the Winawer after Bb4. Nc3 is the Paulsen

Lawrence Trent is a super IM and the people's champion.

Do I agree that Lawrence Trent “is doing your head in”? I dunno if I agree or not, since I don’t know what that Means 😂😂

6:14 You say the queen is 'checkmated', but isn't Qg3 available? Not that Nf3+ follow up isn't truly awful for white to deal with, but thats still a bit different than immediately dropping the Queen, correct?

How does one have no weakness? Especially in a world filled with 15 move preps and stockfish and KZfaq etc, no matter the time format 🤦‍♂️

I thought that Hans Niemann won the Grenke open...

tRENT DOES MY HEAD IN!

Appreciate the breakdown, but I confused on what the players play when you are sharing your theories by actually moving the pieces

Magnus is a monster

Was the chess world really speechless? I mean, he's been the best player in the world for a long time now. I don't see any of the great moves he finds until long afterwards, and often have to have them explained to me anyway, but he finds so many (and so often too) that I've largely come to expect them from him, rather than being left speechless. Is the world of football speechless when Messi curls another rocket around a defensive wall? Was the cricket world left speechless when Warne turned another ball a foot or so out of the rough and into the stumps? Magnus is a great player, possibly the GOAT but certainly right up there on the all-time-great list. I'm closer to being speechless when he blunders in some way.

6:16 I'm a noob, but why can't the Queen go to g3?

at 5:#3 queen can take the pawn xD and then check - queen xD

6:12 Queen could go to g3 - yes, but then ke4, a fork King/Queen...

Don't do anything different. Your videos are perfect

Enjoyed watching Grenke, Laurence Trent is ok

Hans Niemann won the GRENKE Chess Open 2024 Magnus Carlsen wins the GRENKE Chess Open 2024 Is this like one of those sliding doors parallel universes type things or are there different categories? It's hard to get a straight answer out of Google these days...

Do you know that Kramnik played from Khismatullin’s account on Title Tuesdays? he was exposed by a chess streamer and Kramnik had to admit it. I'm surprised you didn't make a video about this

I figured out the final move at 12:19.

lawrence trent has been doing my head in since the dark times, when only kingscrusher served up daily chess videos. nothing wrong with that guy per se but he's not exactly mr. personality. 😂

6 17 the queen is not mated

I'm sorry, but you have to do the amazing second game too. Watch Magnus explain his thoughts in the interview afterwards. A miracle of cynical improvised problem-creating in the face of total disaster!

5.30 Queen isn't trapped is it? How about Qxg5?

I can't not watch you on x1.75 speed :P

I missed this tournament because the commentary was appalling, I couldn’t stand listening to it.

Ding is in an echo chamber in China. Needs to play against more European players clearly.

Rapport gave Magnus a bit of competition in the Grenke for a renowned tournament seemed like a weak field some interesting games though Good for Magnus I heard Hans won the open and someone said he’d be invited to the Grenke next year that would be something to see him vs Magnus Thanks for the Game James enjoy your day

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G3 no

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Not a fan of Lawrence Trent either, poor giri

Is there any chance next time you play in a crowded setting you put your opponent in check and say check, mate, just to start some controversy? Could be your first epic chess breakdown of epic chess. I said check, mate not checkmate!

Another banger. I'm not a cat person. I don't even like cat people. I don't like cats either. Cats suck. Fight me if you disagree (not aimed at Epic Chess-- I'm directing this particular sentence to the rest of you buttheads). Anyway, Magnus is like a cat, toying with an animal it can kill at will (e.g. a small lizard, or maybe a flightless bird or something). All he has to do is stop toying around and slap the life out of the hopeless competition whenever some kind of it's-time-to-snuff-this-clown-out-of-existence switch flips in his mind. I'm thinking that happens when he starts to get bored. Either that, or his goal is to set up the stupidest possible opening position, mostly based on what his opponent does (I don't mean "opening" in the traditional chess sense, obviously). Once he determines that he couldn't have given his opponent a more advantageous head start if he tried (or, tried harder-- he did try, after all), that's when Magnus decides to clown him. tl;dr Magnus is awesome and I'd suck-- Hey. Gotta go. I'm not gay. I was just kidding. That was a joke. I didn't mean it. I said that to be funny. I wouldn't really

Probably gonna stop watching the channel with all these clickbait titles. Great content, annoying titles.

he over explains the hell out of potential moves that don't happen. just show us the damn game. his accent is like a chainsaw on my ears. this is torture not chess