It's never the best move when I try and play b4.

​@@danielward7008 and never go for checkmate if there's En-Peasant available 😂

@@con_el_maestro3544 Yes, those damned peasants committing regicide like that. How uppity they get sometimes!

Dedication is being the first one to the recap!! I've been looking for several mins.

It is? I don't understand what it has to do with "serious dedication." I'm glad he did it, but it seems like a simple thing to do.

Could you say the same for Magnus as well?

​@@zulz1g😂 good point

Well you also have to take into consideration that Hikaru is one of the strongest players of all time. If Magnus were never born Hikaru would have dominated this game in at least 2 time formats for a century already - probably more due to how Hikaru's kryptonite was always Magnus no matter the format.

Say, he enjoy the chess. That is it

He's not playing the best chess of his career (he has been 2800+ in the past) but he is peaking again after a bad period for his standards.

i saw this comment on another video... coincidence?

You mea in the world?

It's just a canon event

@@zilla5749 5 times U.S. chess champion, not world champion

@@Mikesco10 it was me lol

I disagree, he played extremely defensively and fabi was moving forward when he could just stay dormant and create a draw.

@@TheHeavyassaulter Huh? I can name you like 5 moves that were aggressive, attacking moves from Nakamura (ne5 near the end for example) while fabi was put on the defensive. Why do you say Nakamura was necessarily defensive this time around?

The man played the fried liver, literally instigating from move 3

In my humble opinion Fabi was caught off guard from the beginning. It's very rare to outplay Fabi in the opening but Hikaru managed to do it. He was expecting d3 and not Kg5 on the fourth. I I remember well Hikaru played this only against Ding at Candidates' Tournament. Let's wait for next episode of C-Squared Podcast . Surely Fabi will give us an answer.

@@luisduenassalazar8816 actually as agadmator said, hikaru played the knight attack, the fried liver is only on the board if black plays the bad move Nxd5, and white plays Nxf7.

I want to ask Karjakin what he thinks of this result. Since he open his mouth, blinded by nationalistic pride, Esipenko fell to #58 and Nakamura skyrocket to #2 with a bunch of wins and fantastic results all over the world. And talking about nationalistic pride and dangerous behavior, Russia invaded Ukraine, placing the world on the verge of a nuclear holocaust. Albert Einstein: "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind"

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Tell that to Kramnik.

Then players like So and Giri would lose every single game with black

Why I am proud to be Queenpawn player. Op against Black. Overprotective or overpowered is up to you.

This streamer kinda looks like Nakaru Hikamura, Idk.. Maybe just me

@Telecined I like to play (usually just the first half of) the game on Lichess Analysis as Agad calls out the moves. Usually I just see what everyone is doing, but today I hit that Masters button… 🤷🏻‍♂️🙏

He has told us that b4.

It really is wild that a streamer is winning tournaments against the best players in the world

Lol I always follow the latest opening trends thinking it'll work like aGM

I disagree

Yeah this game isn't up to Fabi's usual ability.

Naka deserves a little credit there... 🙂

Your level of exposition is perfect for me.

Interesting is that actually better than rivalry of warlords for decks like say lightsworn?

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Na4 followed by d4 or Nc3 depending on the response. The rook is undefended.

The 'principle' if you will, is that when a Knight and another piece are separated only by one square along a diagonal, It will take at least four moves by the Knight to capture the piece.

Sounds like a Magnus Carlsen game

@@rhysgriffiths9675 could be but I don’t think it was. There was definitely a positional queen sac involved. I’ve never been so amazed by an endgame, and I can’t find it since I first saw it.

@@jahizahmad Probably not what you're thinking of, but this is a pretty cool game with a queen sac and similar theme: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pNdxgraVrtHTfp8.html&ab_channel=Spect

Lol these guys are entertainers and friends, it's not that serious for them... it's like saying Seinfeld must be mad at George or Kramer for always being in his apartment. They play so many games against each other and win or lose they have a good time especially behind the scenes. Hikaru said it best himself about Fabi "we're not rivals we are just competitors".

Real arsenal moment

Hikaru literally plays chess 24/7 every stream so no wonder he has experience with more lines.

@@oboyoh3960 Only Hikaru is a entertainer since he is a streamer. They are good friends but if you follow Caruana, you know he is very serious and competitive when it comes to classical chess, dude was called human machine at some point. The point is that Caruana spends 10x time more in classical training compared to Hikaru so this loss and the tournament frustrated him badly inside.

Very few people on the planet play more chess than hikaru. Calling him a streamer is a misnomer as all that can be thought of as practice.

He put his jacket on after the first 10 moves.

isn't he the only one with 0 wins out of everybody?

Carlsen gave us notice of the decline ages ago with the drunken streaming and paranoid accusations

(Not to mention abdicating the world champion title because he likes shorter time formats)

@@oboyoh3960 im sure playing the WCC over and over again gets tiring and boring. No other sport is the reigning champion given so much privilege. NBA, Tennis, Gridiron Football, Futbol -- they all need to compete to be in the final. Only other sport I can think of is MMA and Boxing but even then title defenses can occur multiple times in a few years and the actual fight only happens within a day. The WCC is a month long of madness and I'm sure Magnus doesn't find it as fun

​@Zilla where did you get this stats

Yes, congratulations on your opponent's blunder.

@michael rocke happy birthday kid.. it only goes down from here.. 🎉