Hey man! I don't leave many comments, but you got one out of me. Your pacing, your commentary, your knowledge, its all brilliant. I never even played chess before the algorithm tossed me one of your videos. You just doing what you do naturally is making chess my next new obsession. In short, you fucking rock man. All of that is to say: don't stress about your content. You make good stuff! Take care of yourself, cover the stuff you want to cover, you are not beholden to the KZfaq mob. Keep it up and good work!

"Magnus does something to Fabio which you won't believe" Do I need an adult present to watch this? I think I might need an adult.

The unbelievable feat is to be so dominant against a player acclaimed for the quality of his play and preparation, besides world no 2, and not some obscur 55th ranked.

Thank you for great commentary, and, especially for "but like a spider, he wants to slowly unravel his way out of the web here and eat a big fat juicy fabi fly."

I heard Agadmator say " Knight on the rim is grim"

"Knights on the edge have less bets to hedge" is my little addition

Thanks for all your commentary videos mate! The way you cover these games actually made me better in thinking of strategies that I use and my opponents is trying to use. You explain it really easily, but in great detail. Bunch of losses have became a ton of wins now, went from 1050 to 1573 ELO in a couple months time.

In Norwegian we say springer på randen er i sanden. Springer is knight and randen is the edge. the rest explains itself. Thanks James.

You come up with some brilliant turns of phrase! Very entertaining.

Thank you for the mention, James! Very nice surprise. And nicely done commentary. You’ve got a good broadcaster’s feel for brevity and pacing.

This was brutal! It looked like something out of a Mortal Kombat game. 😮

In My Entire Life I've Never Seen Carlsen Domination Like This

Wow! Quality stuff

I lost count of how many times I've hung my head in shame

Brilliant as usual. Would love some candidates action though.

Thanks so much for covering great vudeo

22-4 is crazy dude

Great, thanks James

I highly recommend anybody who hasn’t seen this speed chess matchup in full to watch it. It’s seriously some of the best chess I’ve ever seen from Magnus ever. Fabi didn’t win one game…

Danny "wretched" acting like Daniel "the stoned" Narrow-dipsy...This is Epic Chess!!

Great fun listening your comments.

What about the candidates????? Loved your coverage

When fabi played h4, they both only had like 30 seconds left so fabi probably just played that instead of wasting precious time find the best move or even a plan since he didn't see anything obvious. Then next move magnus played a4 and then it becomes obvious what fabi needed to do.. stop the a pawn from queening. When Magnus was offered the chance to sac the Queen, he only had 15 seconds left, and by the time he retreated his queen, he only had 8 seconds. Maybe he thought it would be worse for fabi to leave the pieces on the board, since after saccing it would simplify the game. Granted, it would be simplified into an easy win for someone like Magnus, so maybe he just missed it or didn't want to calculate anything with 15 seconds left and counting. Tick tick tick. These things happen during time trouble and high stress situation. The game was complicated enough as it was and they had been blitzing out the last 10-20 moves already. The fact that Magnus or Fabi made so many best moves with just one or two inaccuracies(like h4 which isn't even that bad and was a good practical move when you don't know what to do and have no time to waste on coming up with a plan) at the end is already insane.

Nepo got served a Vindaloo ..

Can we have some more So or Nordibek please?

Great analysis- even at 2600 I’m watching you 😂

You could make a snail race exciting.

A Knight on the side has nowhere to ride

Wow magnus adopted fabi

“Knights on the rim are dim.” Knights on the edge, someone talk me off the ledge. Knights to the outside, someone’s plan has now died. Knights way out there? Guess that player doesn’t care!

2022 I think Fabiano playing a bit better nowadays I’m surprised Magnus didn’t take the knight sacking his Queen but being able to get it right back why not maybe time was a factor letting that Bishop fork Fabi’s Rook and knight id say was a Blunder on Fabi’s part he should’ve saw that coming Thanks for the Game James

SCC is the best chess tournament. With the commentary by legends, it's a must watch event. JSCC isn't bad either.

Knights on the border; procedure disorder. Always give a nod to Kramnik where possible.

Enjoyable commentary as always

ein Springer am Rand bringt Kummer und Schand

Why aren’t you covering the candidates tournament?

A knight on the side I will not abide

Knights on the abutment are bait for youtube engagement

Careful with the self flagelation reference. Someone might enjoy that 😂

What even is that scoreline....

A Magnus knight on the edge is a lej

Every Russian schoolboy knows that knights on the adge are sadge.

I watched a video about how Magnus has learned from Alphazero and this game shows it

Knights on the rim are Tim 🐴

Knights on the side gets crucified 🎉

Off topic: Where is your accent/dialect from? I think England, but where?

Caruana should be happy to have the chance to lose a game against the goat

Knights on the edge of the board are bored

Fabio actually looked good even after Carlsen’s so-called amazing moves.

64k -> 100k in progress...

All while he loses to kids and teenagers ! 😱😂🤣

You need to cover a game with a wooden 🛡 or an ice ⛸️ just to say the terminology lol

Most painful to watch game in chess history

ITs a disgrace to humans that this guy is not playing or defending his World Chess Championship, there has never been anyone on his level at this time!

Knights on the perimeter Massive inhibitor Knights on the outside Always a downside

Why no candidates coverage? A fan for a while bro I like your style.

Knights on the rhum are dumb.

Knights on the fringe are cringe

1st

Knight on the rim...let me know any more... You asked for it but im making these up as i go along so may be bad chess advice. Rook on the closed file seems.a bit docile. Bishop on the back is often a lack Pawn in front of pawn, its probably time to mourn Lost a Queen for a Rook, well youre a stupid... I cant finish the last one. Mind gone blank 😂

carlsen is such a daddy dom 😫😫

I'll an elderly middle aged man and I'll second what Epic said. We live in interesting times. Now here's a topic of conversation: what if Carlsen, undoubtedly the greatest chess player of all time, turns out to be a fraud, who is using Stockfish wired to his body? That would be a bigger scandal than when cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted to cheating after winning numerous awards and being tested thoroughly. I personally don't think that's possible however, though for about $200k one could design a two-way transceiver or even an "on board" chess computer to give you moves in real-time.