Pretty much, or just way above his league

Magnus has weaknesses, especially the opening and the early mid game

He’s human every world champ has lost therefore every world champion has a weakness

Hikaru won 15 games, that's pretty good. Sounds like weaknesses exist for Magnus

@@dunzhen if Magnus’ goal was to win then sure you could say he has weaknesses somewhere but if Magnus’ goal was to learn then the score tells us nothing

Exactly what I thought, if it’s an advantage for him to play you and not vice versa, then you’re a worse player or you’re making excuses for the fact you are.

Possibly. I thought it was because Magnus had this in mind before, to analyze Hikaru and Hikaru didn't had that idea until after it. Because it was Magnus who invited him to play.

@@TheUndulyNoted I don't see this as making excuses at all. He states the plain fact it was a mistake. Not that under X or Y circumstances he would have won. Plus he clearly says later in the interview that he is nowhere near Manus level, and that Magnus has no discernable weakness.

implicit concession? dude says early on hes nowhere near Magnus' level lmao, he knows Magnus is one of the GOATs

@@peterblacksmith3817 i know brother, but what I mean is that in the context of this clip, it doesn't even need to be said anymore because it's understood.

Magnus has poor communication skills so I wouldn't expect a good autobiography. I will say I think Hikaru far exceeds other GM's in his ability to introspect but also articulate himself. He's a pleasure to listen to.

@@ThatOneScienceGuy Autobiographies are hardly ever fully written by the author. There's usually ghostwriters, brainstormers, publishers, etc. so I would not worry about a Magnus autobiography lacking 'communication skills'

Well, that goes both ways. Hikaru could have learned about Magnus and exploited weaknesses as well.

@@LMR72 it seems like magnus learned way more from this exchange considering their record

@@jordanjose6475 I mean you dont know how much they learned really...sure he might have learnt more about hikaru but hikaru likely already knows magnuss weaknesses anyways so it doesnt matter. These two guys cancel each other out.

@@dave.8the fact that magnus isn’t a blitz player means that de facto he’s going to learn more playing against hikaru than hikaru will learn.

Levy?

I think it's the obsession with chess.

It’s the obsession with getting insight on what it takes and the mindset of being the best at something, there’s not many in the world

@@Dog3D all of this + the algorithm loving Magnus

@@fadeidham2932 Lex

Except Hans 🤷‍♂️

@@adamdunlaptv w

Kasparov better

That's what he thought too but turned out Carlsen had no pronounced weakness, Naka himself says this later in his podcast. But Naka did have a weakness, and if it weren't for this match, Carlsen wouldn't have figured it out and Naka would have a better score against him.

@@anuraglamichhane1733 thats what he says at least...

more like them playing random street basketball 1vs1 lol

almost :D we all know how barkley swings the ball hahaha

Magnus has no obvious weaknesses that you can take advantage of. His weakness may be that he doesn't know every single opening and every single line it can go. That's not much of a weakness, no one knows every opening. Another weakness may be that he can't calculate 50 moves ahead, only 49. It's not like anyone else can calculate the 50th move anyway, so they can't take advantage of it.

@@Zero-ef4sc Where did you find how much he can calculate ??

I guess Magnus’ only “weakness” is that he doesn’t like being attacked.. the thing is that having the opportunity to attack him is excruciatingly difficult to achieve, and that makes him have barely no weaknesses at all

Hikaru himself said in this podcast that Magnus's strength is that he has no weaknesses. You can exploit Magnus on the opening but he will figure it out eventually

@@shamsursagor293 as an example.

lol that's YOUR assumption. To me Magnus looks much chiller than Hikaru, and has always showed great sportsmanship. I feel like if hikaru was world leader he would be an arrogant brat. That'd my assumption too but it's based on many interviews of the two

Magnus was literally the one who chose to leave his world champion title undefended, I'd argue their love of chess is different, not one higher than the other, with Magnus's drive to win rather than have fun being lower than Hikaru's just from their past actions

Reason doesn’t have to be justifyable

Yeah, I couldn't disagree more. I feel many things in life are due to circumstances. Mistakes happen. Luck happens. Random events are part of life.

Everything happens is a much more down to Earth mentality

Post traumatic Magnus disorder

@@lekanosagie i want one, please

He never ever made it to wc match never won candidates , so how could he have been a world champ. Don't live in dreams

Beautiful to watch. Truly squeezing water from stone.

Not really hahaha

With how salty he is about it, I'm not surpised he remembers them in detail.

@@starmorpheus dumbest comment ever

@@starmorpheus cope

Wouldn’t say it’s a no brainer, sometimes you can deviate from the main line to catch you ur opponent of guard and deviate from their prep

Its a known tactic of Magnus to intentionally veer from prep to send people into the realm of intuition, where he is just flat out better than everyone. It is more even for his opponents to stay in prepared lines

@@jonahsummersell431 Ok that make sense, cheers.

I mean if you look at a guy like fabi, magnus would likely make a mistake before fabi because he is just so good in the opening

@@None-zv2qk Fabi currently is a shadow of his former self

It's not. If the pawns are fixed in a bad way, the side with 4 pawns wins.

@@ChessJourneyman Yup, it was a silly question really

Hikaru blitz champion, what have you been smoking

Magnus is the blitz champion for the last 6 years lmao

Magnus won the world blitz title six times. Hikaru zero, zero in rapid, and zero in classical. He barely got Fischer random title recently in a small field and with the help of So for the openings.

no hes not

Firouzja has almost peaked already

Didnt expect you here

Of course, he is Magnus, the King of Chess.

Against the best player to ever pick up the pieces. Yeah.

@@trnc9082 that's not bad. although i'm sure hikaru wishes it were inverted

Id take that record to the bank

For a delusional homeschooled brat thinking he is a chess god...yeah, that score was devastating.

JKD?

@@akshaygulabrao4423 guessing it's Duda

I think what he understood is that Magnus has no exploitable weaknesses. Big ones anyway. He still managed to have more than a few wins against the best player

Hikaru only beat Magnus by Magnus dead brain moment. Really equal level. But if im not wrong, Magnus won a game in a st louis Fisher event. Not sure

@@juliocadavid6640 Hikaru just beat magnus in another tournament

@@leonthethird7494 Yeah i know, still i was talking about 960 here. Very good by Naka, Magnus still couldve done better if he wouldve played faster, he scrumbled too much bcz of time haha Naka was/is way faster and thats why he probably won and he was very strong. Still Magnus is better at rapid if you ask me, magnus has the numbers in the online events last years, magnus has been as active as Naka in rapid while in blitz, Magnus wasnt favourite. Everyone knows both of them would win, probably more Naka cz hes faster

You have no idea what you're talking about. Magnus' strength is intuition and he doesn't like prep either. And he has beat Hikaru several times in Fischer random chess.

@@leonthethird7494 that's nice... look up his head to head record against Magnus, then add in those hotel room scores and you have to ask why does anyone think of those two as a rivalry? There isn't much of a rivalry. Magnus way too dominant

Well I know this... I would not want to be a professional chess player. They are constantly traveling around and living out of a suitcase. Most of their free time requires constant attention to chess. Not many friends or relationships because of commitment to the game. Not an enjoyable lifestyle in my opinion 🥺

There is definitely art the openings are just that openings how you play after that is what makes or breaks the game and openings aren't just a set of moved you memories you have to understand openings the ideas.theres a lot more to ches than just openings and traps

magnus is the goat, kobe is borderline top 10, so no

It's not really that easy. Hikaru has probably known his weaknesses basically forever

"I'm bad at openings compared to Magnus" is not an excuse

LOL.

humble 😂😂

i dont think so

LOL

LMFAO no it wouldnt, dont delude yourself

What the hell are you on about, lol.

Damn bro, did hikaru promote his pawn to a gun to shoot ur family. Chill bruh

You spouted off like a 12 year old lol 🤡

magnus has no weakness.... so

You forget Hikaru’s ego, won’t happen

It's like finding out the moon is earth's weakness, all you need to do is get to the moon and you'll have control of the earth. You can see a weakness but it doesn't mean you can necessarily do anything about it. "Oh, Usuan Bolt skips a step every 68 stride, I'll use that to my advantage by still running as fast as I can."

You sound insecure

That’s actually not it. Magnus is just at a higher level than Hikaru. I’ll give you a similar and more relatable scenario. Imagine you get to have a private conversation with someone you’re about to have a public debate with next week. For the sake of simplicity, let’s say that your IQ is about 20 points higher than your opponent. Having a private conversation before your debate will allow you to pick your debate opponents brain before the public event. The reason why you can pick your opponents brain more than they can yours is because your level of intelligence is at a higher level. You’ll be able to read their tactics of information extraction better than they could yours. Do this for a few hours and you could set yourself up nicely to completely dismantle your opponent at the public event without them realizing how much information they gave up to you. IQ plays a big role in society and most people are unaware of this. High IQ is correlated with rapid pattern recognition. First person to recognize specific patterns is going to come out ahead. This is why Magnus was able to acquire the information needed to beat Hikaru for many years

Doing any of those things is easier said than done. Pro chess players are always improving their game, but so are all their opponents. Hikaru may be much stronger than he was then, but so is Magnus. If it was so easy to figure out Magnus's weaknesses, then somebody would've knocked him from the #1 spot. The fact that he's reigned for 10 years suggests that maybe he has nearly no weaknesses, at least none that humans can exploit consistently.