😂

That’s a good one lol

I see what you did there. good one.

KEKW

XDDD

Only world #1 since 2011 so I guess he might be one of the best, for all time.

​@@ChrisHyde537 Its hard to judge. I would say give Magnus a couple of year more where he clearly dominates the chess world and then you can call him the GOAT. But these are also different times. Every new chess generation has an advantage compared to their previous one since they can build up on the already existing knowledge. Also a big differents are the engines ofc. Now you can prepare way more faster and precise than 20 years ago.

​@@mewithmychick6960 magnus, garry and Bobby will always be top 3, in interchangeable order

@@mewithmychick6960 but also the oppenets improved alot so it is kinda balanced

​​​​@@mewithmychick6960 ... But also your opponents also have all that previous existing knowledge... And also in today's world, it's even different to break through the position when everyone has so much resources... So if you have engines, your opponents also have engines... So even in today's world, if Magnus has been unbeaten and undisputed no. 1.... I don't think anyone should have any doubt that He is the GOAT... Simple

No he's not, this is similar to Khabib's case in MMA, Magnus as Khabib has been very dominant champ, perhaps one of the most dominant ones, but seeing history of reigning champs year for year, he is not the best to have ever lived, the contention is between Kasparov, Emanuel Lasker, Ruy Lopez, Steinitz, greats who explored the game from scratch and gave everyone learning base, basically inventors vs learners, to invent and to discover is much more valuable and arguably more difficult than to learn. Also, the fide tournaments or the world championships tournaments are just tournaments by an organization not a testimony to who is the best necessarily, before those tournaments centuries ago people played chess and their overall progress over the year or the years is what set them apart to be the best not just some single tournament that we arbitrarily decided to be a WC tournament in an arbitrary period of history which means nothing, chess players such as as I said Ruy Lopez and Philidor who have achieved far greater reigns as best players and were de facto world champs, hold zero world champ titles solely because of the lack of arbitrary red tape procedures and organizations, when in reality their reign are to be translated to minimum 14 consecutive title defences each (Magnus has only 5, Kasparov 6).

the best not realy, he also went cry cry when niemann beat him

@@baneinurarse8952 he's lost against younger players several times before but never accused someone of cheating directly like that, Niemann was the most suspicious clown that day

​@@isaacharton7851 Hey, I'm sorry, but even in their primes, Magnus would absolutely school most of these gentlemen. *Consider:* Magnus has used computers to aid his learning in ways old masters never dreamed. Magnus is a machine, as he was raised by machines. *Consider:* Magnus' average rating is higher than Kasparov's all time highest rating -- and it has been for over a decade (since 2012). *Consider:* Magnus' competition today is much tougher than that of the old masters, and yet, he dominates by an even higher margin. Also, the fact that you left out Bobby Fischer and Paul Morphy shows me that at best you have some holes in your list. =] For me, Magnus' prowess as All Time World #1 is not in question. And he is amazing in all time formats, not just classical.

He obviously means of all time, which is impossible to ascertain because of opening advancements over the years.

He's like SnoopDogg, He finished his main quest and now is doing only side quests.

BIG statement lol

Probably wants to take his mind off of it himself.

Bobby Fischer would have played Chessmaster grandmaster Edition and defeated it and uploaded the game. The dumb player Magnus just sits and laughs at fart-players. No wonder he has so low fans.

Yeah like when Michael Jordan goes to play Baseball.

Ahahahah

Gold!

Haha brilliant

Ahaha

😂😂😂

Also his ability to concentrate for hours.

One of the best of all times if not the best. At the moment, he's the best by a considerable margin

I mean he’s not wrong. He’s just being a bit conservative with his praise which is completely fine, especially as this is not a chess event.

He is so good he gave up his title for fun

If you take the entire history of chess, then modern chess has come a long way thanks to computer analysis and learning opportunities. None of the champions of the past at the peak, be it Fischer or Kasparov, could have won the crown from Magnus. Therefore, we can safely say that at the moment Magnus is the strongest chess player in history!

I was about to make the same comment. what a moron the commentator is.

lmao

He was bored because he is unbeatable at chess

Soon to be unexploitable at poker too

​@@MtnMichael88 LMAO. Stu Ungar went broke playing poker. Magnus is a fish at high stakes.

​@@charlesa1234 hikaru:???

Bobby Fischer would have played Chessmaster grandmaster Edition and defeated it and uploaded the game. The dumb player Magnus just sits and laughs at fart-players. No wonder he has so low fans.

Lols 😋

Was machst du denn hier

And i think that is good thing for him because he gets to analyze everything over and over. If you want to win over Magnus i think you need to play poker fast so that he does not have so much time to think.

​@@Jakelol1980eh but he's still got plenty of time to think before making his own decisions..

just like Ester Ledecka, who won Olympic gold in both skiing and snowboarding in the same games

I’m thinking about your king me figure skating. I work in finance but would be cool

​@@panda4247 if you know how to ski, you'll find snowboarding easier to learn

Forgot about @MichaelJordan 😮

It's a tournament, so it's not money - at least not immediate.

mentally skillfully, id like to see him play pool though

​@@chasebob8327 nah lol he can't even dribble in correct form. Movement-based sports (except football) ain't his forte

Magnus is not a good poker player

@@EdgewoodTennis based on? we can't really tell from limited info, we don't know his thought processes behind plays we've seen and we haven't got his results over a meaningfully large sample. based on the limited info I'd say he's a capable player who has studied theory

​@@EdgewoodTennis this hand he played almost perfect bet and raise sizes were on point. Atleast this hand he played like a top pro

underrated comment

nice one😄

Magnus ain't need no queen to make him a king, the guy is already the GOAT.

So underrated haha

what's the pun

Magnus is a chess player and the queen is the most powerful piece in chess. To have 2 queens basically means you've won the game in most cases

You bet your girlfriend and lost her?

Gud one😂 its better than twips

Guess the don’t have barbers in Norway

😂😂😂

We’ll probably never know

With how much good he is, I'm sure he gonna get world champion title

Only way to win when the opponent has 2 queens I guess

If he has an AK then he's gonna make all the cards red 💀💀💀

being good at chess has very little to do with being good at poker

@@rooksman64lmao hence if he spends the time to study and improve.. but thanks for your opinion.

@@lelio422 based on how he reacts when he loses I doubt he has what it takes to be a high stakes reg high stakes poker is a very weird thing…but I doubt you understand much about poker anyway

@Ozymandias Ok. You're the best at poker. Cool? Arguing further with trolls like you is a waste of time. But if you really want to know I'm a winning player at all stakes up to NL500. I don't play high stakes because I understand very little about weird things. Have a good day 👍

@@lelio422 you need a bankroll to play high stakes you’re forgetting that important part of it lol

I can’t see a legendary chess player reducing himself to playing tournament poker with the public

@@chevy4x466 too late

@@whoshotya117 I am suprised magnus does it at all. Perhaps after he is washed up in the chesss scene he enters high stakes poker.

superb? its just a standard cbet lmao

Yesssss 😂😂😂😂

he looks like he just underwent a lobotomy in this video lmao

Magnus has always been a degen...

He always looked like an inbred. Just sometimes he wears a suit

To be a good chess player you have to be a degen.

Kasparov too

I would say inarguably

Wait huh, what reason do you havet o dislike him?

@@chuckbass7276 he is too handsome :(

What's wrong with being careful and conservative about a praise. If he said "he's the best" everyone would go crazy in the comments comparing him to Fischer or Morphy or Kasparov saying he's not the best. People are never happy.

No doubt he is the best human chess player, but he hasn't mastered the game at all. Even modern day engines or AI's haven't mastered the game and they are leauges above Magnus.

@@mklein6265 Mastering comes in different forms. Nobody can "Master" chess. There is an infinite amount of moves, for the simple fact that ANY PAWN, can become ANY PIECE. Thus, him being significantly better than everyone around him, in a certain field... Is pretty much mastering the sport.

To my knowledge Magnus has played tournaments off an on for a few years now. Obviously not super regularly as he was the reigning world chess champion, but he's definitely a very solid poker player from what I've seen of him.

@@lashaunbeazer9264 of course number of moves isn't infinite, it's just about 10^40 and, as any constant, this number is negligible compared to infinity. And even more: as set of moves is finite, this means that there exists some sequence of moves for white that will always win game, or sequence of moves for black that will always draw game. And only findng one of those sequences can be considered as mastering the game.

@@mihalious Chess is infinite from the human perspective. Now, just because technically there is a finite number of moves than can be made doesn't mean there is a sequence of moves that guarantee a win. Rock, paper, scissors only has 3 possible moves from each player. that's only 9 possible combinations between two players and no strategy will ever guarantee a win.

I’d say the core skill required for both poker and chess are similar.

Dude he sucks at poker. Played that hand terribly.

@@crystallized1676 you right. that’s why he won the hand. because he played poorly. makes sense.

​@@fruitsnacks155 he won because he got lucky.

@@fruitsnacks155 Dude it's a poker... It's not about winning or losing a hand (if you exclude bluffs from the equation) it's about extracting the most value when you win and losing the least when you lose. He didn't manage that.

i prefer the way Magnus played to be honest depending on how disciplined our opponent is he might just fold if we fire the turn. and by checking turn we allow ourselves to get called more often when we go for river value.

I don't like the size of the bet on this flop, even checking or going all-in looks better. And with this line, you should bet smaller on the river too.

@@user-cw9mj4cl5y lol

@@user-cw9mj4cl5y Yeah sizing on flop was terrible. Everything is better besides all-in. I don't like sizing on the river as well but I wouldn't call it smaller bet necessarly. Check is also viable in my opinion to induce some fringe valuebets and bluff from sth like AQs. I would rate river plays as 1. check 2. bet smaller 3. bet higher. 4. bet as he did. I only like check on the turn. All in all he didn't play this hand well.

Haha. Fair enough.

Paul Morphy

Definitely the best current player... probably best of all time.

What about Bobby?

Haha

Hilarious

Not sure he is playing that stake cash games

He could, but it is very unlikely (I could also earn more money than Jeff Bezos for just breathing, if someone payed me that much for it). Magnus made over 10 million playing chess, so he would have to play a cash game pot of several millions, which he just won't play. Magnus is intelligent and wouldn't risk a large amount of his net worth in a cash game at these stakes, where he would most likely be the biggest fish at the table, because he would be matched with absolute top pros.

Oooo please do. I will fly out to see you play live. Would love to meet you one day Magnus!

No. XDC is

The best ever.

@@grlldfsh123 No, XDC is best

@@bobbyjonas2323 who?

The opponent actually lost very little. Magnus could have gotten more.

That’s just his awesome hair dude 😂😍

I agree. Just a little correction: He didn't have Cowboys (KK). He had big slick(AK). 😊

The river call was just terrible knowing Magnus' playstyle. His 4-betting range is basically JJ+ and AK, so the opponent ties with the one remaining QQ and loses to all the other remaining hand combos. Magnus played the hand well, but his opponent's river call was just terrible. If it was someone like Phil Ivey or Tom Dwan in Magnus' position, the river call might have been close, because these players have bluffs in their range (at all times), but against a conservative player like Magnus the river call is just a donation of chips.

@@mklein6265 i wasnt appreciating the opponents call i was appreciating magnus bet

@@CanariasCanariass Yes I was wrong to say it cowboys instead of big slick

Aren't we all?

@@MoveJunkie Masters can be many, but Champion can only be the ONE

Poker is 80% luck so it’s hardest to master. Other than maybe slots & roulette which are 100% luck.

​@@brettreason484 more like 10% luck in the long run.

i dont follow poker at all, are all seated guys multimillionaires outside of poker?

​​@@Aeradill tbh I'm not a poker world expert myself but nah, i don't think that's a thing. this event is a pretty big deal tho held in cali and joined by several known content creators, I'm assuming at least half of these people got big banks lol

What's wrong with being careful and conservative about a praise. If he said "he's the best" everyone would go crazy in the comments comparing him to Fischer or Morphy or Kasparov saying he's not the best.

@@tdb517 haha yeah I know why he said that, so I wasn’t being too serious with my comment. I agree with you

Except in blitz and bullet.

@@vickmackey24 the man held all three titles simultaneously and has held #1 in all 3 multiple times. It’s arguable that he’s the best at those too. There’s a lot more variance on those formats, so nobody really claims it.

Oh you said bullet not rapid. Eh bullet is fun but not real chess, but I pick naka for that for sure

Still WCC until Ding or Nepo win

@@victorn6997 He resigned the title. If he was still champion then Ding and Nepo wouldn't be playing for it. The title is officially vacant.

No, that makes no sense. Until we get a new champion, Magnus is the champ. He never resigned the title, you made that up. All he did was decide he wasn't going to defend the title. Meaning he still holds it, until someone else wins it.

@@bgdgdgdf4488 Magnus sent a notarized letter to Fide rescinding the title. That's what Fide was waiting for so Fide could go ahead with the match to crown a new champion. Wherever your getting your information from is incorrect.

@@euclideszoto997 my mistake, much better i get info from a random youtube comment with no sources

I think that is one of the dumbest posts I've seen

😂😂

Hold your horses there, tiger. Hikaru is ranked higher in blitz at the moment. 2885 vs 2852.

😭😭

Ain't no way

Welcome to 99.9% of poker

still more exciting than checkers or chess.

Please lol

Ew