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i'm gonna flag him oh it's a threefold i let it high ah  i fell into the threefold oh very poor   playing fan during okay here we go again 3-0  to start so again i'm using my paper mouse pad   um as always then we'll we'll go from here   okay plays knight of three let's play d5 go  bishop g7 97 knight b6 pretty standard so far   actually i'll play knight f6 and just differ from  knight b6 um let's just castle knight a3 i mean   i guess i'll just go knight e4 knight d6 this  actually is not the right way to play this but   it seems kind of interesting at least probably  it's not very good now my idea was just to take   i guess i'll take and play knight d6 kind of  a weird structure that i'm playing here but   okay i can play a5 a5 and c6 makes sense  here a little bit worried yeah he's going   to take too much space in center if i don't  do this let's go here bishop five maybe i guess i'll go here hit the queen let's go here  and knight e4 back of course i also knight before   but i like knight e4 here i also have f6 i can  obviously take i guess and play like bishop e4 yeah let's go here attack the  knight knight g5 okay plays e3   i guess i'll go here solidify the knight now i  have a bishop back to d5 as well i also have f6   uh queen d5 looked like a move for a  split second maybe it is a move but   i don't really love it so i guess i guess i'm just  going to place like a catalan and take and play e6   and queen e7 and pretty balanced [ __ ] queen e7  me rook d8 i can play h5 i'm not really sure if   i should but i'll play it anyway let's go here we  go d8 very standard so far let's go here i guess actually i'll go back to the square this is  the right square now probably stack the rooks   i should put on c7 to start with let's go here with d8 we'll go here maybe king g7 very balanced  position not a whole lot happening   i do have b5 maybe at some point uh let's  just go for it it's early in the tournament   no reason not to play this knight b2 can go c5  here i can also just move my queen maybe to b6 very very dry position of course  um so i go here just guard the pawn okay please rick c1 kind of  a little bit ugly actually   i think i just have to go for a draw probably okay i guess i'll go just here probably just take  the pawn oh that was actually a terrible move i   think a little bit careless by me um maybe not  now i could guess i can play like e5 is obviously   queen b4 is awesome move going a little bit too  slow at the moment let's just go here and trade it's obviously gonna take he  doesn't take i'd be really confused i guess i go here guard the pawn i  work f6 hitting a4 at the same time too yeah i should have blundered this too  okay um very careless what was this totally misplayed this i'm actually just down  two pawns here but he's low on the clock maybe   takes on a5 do something like rook d2 maybe no this is just losing i kind of have to move and   too slow out of the gate  here i might lose this game yeah what is this even very very poor start by me it is long time okay there i guess i go here i attacked the pawn i might still survive  this i think i'm i'm close survivor d5 i take   that i block he's also got 29 seconds  so i mean if he doesn't find a win here   goes queen d5 uh now the question is do i  make the draw or not yeah okay just take oh   wait why did i do that wait that was a kind of a  serious mistake by me why did i do that oh jeez all right blunders yeah he blunders sheesh yeah it's just a draw i'm just  gonna save time not gonna waste time   okay let's go again not a good game but uh  what what is okay who cares let's go again   not a good first game but it's still  again two hour arena a lot lots can happen let's go here okay let's go rookie please e4 now i can play g5 here um   it's not really how i want to play so  i'm gonna go here in g5 knight g6 maybe i can just take and play g5 just  jagged annoying me give me one second all right let's go g596 of course much better much much better you take i take it's before  logical i'm gonna go here i'm gonna go here maybe the other  night was better but we'll see replace c651 i can still take a4 here this is see what he does um 800 guy with 13  points yeah i mean obviously anything can happen   plays queen b3 interesting move i mean   because there's trying to do something here  let's go here hopefully this isn't a blunder knight of five against okay now i go here i mean what's going actually  everything's kind of hanging like everything is kind of hanging here so  i'm a little bit confused i guess i go here that's a blender too of course it's supposed to take first yeah i just made a blunder very very poor start   although he doesn't take advantage  of it um play a five maybe here try and chop with the structure here b5 i  take let's take i mean maybe i blundered   here i don't really know what's going on takes  the questions do i take which one do i take here   i can also take a4 as well this is very  sharp um i guess bishop seven looks wrong let's take this one very complicated position here plays queen bee one so he hangs a bishop  he hangs upon as well i can also just okay if i take wait so if i take his knight d6 i guess actually  that's a clever trick by him very clever trick   i actually kind of am not doing as well  as i thought i was doing i have to move i guess i'll go for this gonna get very very wild okay knight d6 i have  tricks like king g8 or something or h8 wait h8 to move wait a second i  think this is the right square yeah now i can i thought i had a  check or something in here like check go here hit the rook hit the hit the rook wait now i oh it's meeting one oh my god it's  meeting one oh yeah wait but richie one i also   have queen d1 wait queenie one wait this is  actually tricky still now i'm gonna go h5 first oh here i guess i had queenie one maybe  which was me the right move i just have to find some  way to keep the game going probably loses but i don't see the wind i have to oh my mouse jeez oh my mouse jeez there we go not good not a good game it's a win though  it's a win so when yeah my mouse was not   good there but we got the win and move on next  year okay 26.50 i want to win this game quickly important to win this one quickly no it's just it's a mouse pad  three blocks to start the event   yeah actually kind of weird to get  three blocks but oh well it's like this one i want to win quickly if i can but this   guy's thinking for a long time  so it's not gonna be so easy plays h4 i think i should go f4 here it's like a g5 at least g4 i mean i assume i take i  don't actually know if this is right   my knight actually is kind of  misplaced okay let's go here of course i have a classic double  double with queen d7 hitting the   knight in the rook so everything looks good go here hit the rook of course i'm  gonna rotate my knight to b6 maybe okay way up on the clock so so far so  good obviously it's a long tournament   so please a4 that looks kind of insane um  let's go here of course i love queen a4 very   poor but i'm still in good shape here let's  go here i have knight b7 knight a5 i guess i'm also hitting f3 i just realized  too but i didn't even see that   i guess i just wait okay i think i  should probably take this and go b3 d4   this must be the right approach  and f3 is also hanging so i guess let's just go here  and take with the e pawn   feels like this must be winning it's work f3  knight b6 as well kind of hard to see this   positions hard to see white survivors let's  take the pawn i can swing the rook as well let's go i guess here to hit e4 i always  have the stack with rook b3 so i think   i'm gonna win this game okay just take  another pawn i can block with rookie three   did i just blunder maybe i think i almost just  blundered maybe i did just blonder in fact   wait i've rook up two rooks c1 let's go here target the rook goes  rook c1 i guess i take and play d3 i should be winning yeah i should be winning okay now i trade but i mean this is just winning  there should be it i just moved the rook and   i'm gonna get a quick win here because  there i go here's c4d3 of course um i guess this is the  cleanest way rook b2 rook b1 okay there we go quick win okay good stuff next game coming okay i  guess he's not gonna resign kind of annoying okay okay resigns keep going next game okay good  win up to six points still a long way to go   obviously i looked a bit different he shaved yeah  i did shave sorry if i'm a little bit focused too   it's kind of a weird situation okay let's go  knight f3 here okay i get chest lever again   i'm getting a lot of tough pairings here  at the start which is probably a good thing   i beat this guy in arena kings  yesterday title tuesday yesterday so it's gonna go b4 oh or not okay as i as i referred to the other day uh i played  him entitled tuesday yesterday actually so   um i can obviously trade here which is kind of  interesting i'm gonna do it i don't know if this   is actually good but i have e5 bishop g5 i don't  think he really wants to break the structure the   thing is i can also go c4 here which is kind of a  weird move but it may be as good because e5 gives   me knight f5 and otherwise i go e5 and he has  no jumps that's why c4 is such an effective move there's someone on your channel  stealing your subs you mean me   yeah thanks i shaved because again my beard  was starting to become annoying and i didn't   it does wow did not expect that  okay this looks really insane   let's go here i mean it looks like there's  a ton of pressure i can obviously trade   bishop h4 also looks strong he's got  problems with this king whole king side i should be doing very well here i don't know  if i'm actually winning or anything but it looks   quite bad for black to put it mildly he just resigns what i guess he doesn't  like his position so he just resigns but   surprising am i changing hotels no this  is the the site hotel again the hotel was   only covered from today so i just came to  this hotel today okay we're playing jobaba going to take of course let's go here i guess i'll play d4 now knight c3 or something  you cannot actually check i realized but   i'll probably play a bond cloud or something   and maybe a bond cloud's too much because  94 uh whatever it's early in the tournament   let's play for the memes i'm sure this is bad  by the way but oh he doesn't take advantage   interesting i i was sure that he would but now  after bishop g2 i'm probably kind of okay here i guess i just take when in doubt play for the memes  that's that's the moral of the story   once i get ricky 1 and king f1 i'm  actually kind of okay it's really weird very strange i'm actually  probably not worse already   i only got better but i'm probably  not worse after king king f1 king g1 let's go here i'm gonna go rook d2 of course takes i take and i'm already kind of close  to okay i'm probably after 94 just equal but   surprisingly decent it's going to  go 94 i mean probably it's a draw   i can play b4 maybe b492 let's go b4 takes  oh i have to take with the queen whoops   actually i didn't realize i didn't see knight be  through with the fork okay so this is actually   a touch scary although maybe i have here because  i have a7 that's hanging so it's like kind of   okay maybe i could have played bishop e4  and drawn but i didn't want to do that   maybe i should have but again we'll see he plays a6 king g1 is an obvious move i guess  i'll just take and play queen d3 and rook d2 okay let's go queen d3 with d1 or d2  maybe i think i'm okay i don't know   if i'm better probably i'm not better  but i shouldn't really be worse either definitely a tough start to the arena  though that's for sure tough pairings okay plays rook c4 which is a pretty  logical move i guess i'll go with d1 this isn't actually a blunder although it looks um i wanna take maybe i can  just go 52 wait a second i'm just going to go here and see where his great  move is well first of all i can take but i can   also go here i think and take some queen d7 wait  but now i'm just now i should be fine it's still   a draw probably but it plays b5 but now i feel  like it's going to be tricks that i've looked up   for here i also broke a7 maybe i should have gone  rook a7 first although probably not just there   but wait wait a second i go here now it's getting  scary for black because now the king has problems okay i think i might win this game now his king is  very iffy if he pushes his cut off the back rank okay goes for it so i mean this must be the right  capture i have the stack towers okay i'm up a pawn here and  i i can actually threaten to   split the rooks wide he resigns let's go again i'm not you seeing it without the beard  also sorry you guys for some reason i'm   not looking at chat up maybe it's too too  far away let's put it a little bit closer   there we go okay 23.80 want  to win this game quickly yeah okay let's just go here i guess have i had german beer not on this trip but of  course i've had german beer before with someone let's go here maybe i stopped e5 because there's a  trick with this jam yeah i mean welcome to twitch   you guys only place you will ever see someone  who's uh a gm beat jamming out to a takasha i can imagine the horror of past  chess players thinking of that   i should have gone queenie too why did i go  to d2 actually let's go here hit the queen probably queen e2 to hit the pawn as well i guess i'll go here and take with a knight maybe okay it's gonna have to go e6  i go like rookie d1 i guess not a great position but i think  it's decent i also bishop c for me russian masters turning in their graves exactly  no for sure obviously okay i don't like queen   h5 i mean do i really want to outskill  him in a end game like that i think i do   yeah let's just go here and force the trade promise this game is going to take time so i  don't actually have the position that i want   i think i'm just going to go like hmm  let's play a4 and just trade rooks am i buying the paypal dip i did something  in paypal this morning yeah i think it's   way oversold i think it's way oversold all right knight g5 let's go  bishop g3 guard guard this he plays rookie eight but now i  got bishop b5 97 knight c6 also   pretty scary position for black okay now wait  let's go um hmm i'm gonna go here to hit the   rook too it's like very very awkward position  for for black to play except knight f6 maybe he's also very low on time  too i guess i'll go here i mean actually i don't have no i just  have to reset it doesn't actually work   let's go c4 attack the knight i have bishop  e7 that's what i should have played right away oh i missed knight f4 whoops   i guess i go f3 and take with the rook  i can play knight 27 next move as well who's f6 it can't be right let's go here hmm actually i'm gonna go here on the bishop c4  or something i actually don't know why i did this   i have knight c5 i guess urban okay goes there  now i go here and now i win the game e5 was a   big blunder okay midlane of course 19 points  he's doing fine looks pretty normal so far okay now we win the game so hopefully  we'll resign pretty good time usage   only using a little over a minute in this  game as well so let's just take i guess this is hanging that's hanging with  these sevens hanging um here i guess so let's take the pawn let's go here trade the knights okay we're gonna get the win let's go go ahead  next game all right pretty good looking good   so far 18 points we're about like one point  out of the top top 16 at the moment i believe   it's still top 16 chad can tell me um but i'm  pretty sure it's top 16. we're playing tawny let's go here uh let's play the uh let's play the  bee feeder we're in germany i actually for dinner   i ordered something um what did i order for dinner  i ordered something i ordered the um i ordered the   uh uh what was it called um i'm sorry that's wrong  man you give me a second let's go queenie five all right let's play queen c3 queen g7 of course let's go clean up wait where is it somewhere on this menu um oh  there it is i wore the berliner curry verse so i   don't know what that is but it looked interesting  berlin curry burst yeah i don't know uh berlin   curry verse doesn't know just go along so i mean  it's probably something good but i don't know   is sausage okay okay plays this of course  it's actually just garbage by the way   but i think knight e4 was in her knight h5 i think  was knight h5 which is fine so i can go rook g8 there's takes i can take g5   did i just blunder maybe i might just  blundered somehow i don't see it though let's see what he does it's g4 okay so i mean i guess i go rook g8 okay bishop v2 is a strong move i mean is rook  h5 really a threat there's probably a blunder   but i don't see the wind for white right away  so i'm just going to play this with knight f6   and hopefully i'm not just lost we'll see pretty  soon if i'm just lost but i don't think i am   it does that but i block i play knight f6 next  move i'm not actually sure i mean i'm probably   in bad shape somehow but i don't see the  win i just go wait first i can take g4   wait a second fg4 queen g4 knight f6 looks good  yeah this looks fine because if f5 here i just   take so queen g4 i go knight f6 and i create the  double attack if he takes on g4 i even have queen   h1 so i think he just blundered and this again  you guys is why i would say what tactics are   really important puzzles are good but there's  no substitute for the actual game because in a   puzzle i suspect tony would have found the forced  win which now i think just does not exist even   so let's see so i take i think there was a force  went from that he missed i think there was a   forced win um although i did blunder96 that's kind  of stupid oh that's actually really stupid of me i spoke too soon um so i'll go here yeah i spoke way too soon that was a  big mistake but maybe i'm still okay   because i do have knight of six next move  there's no there's no clear-cut tactic this kingdom too it's kind of a  strange move because now i can block yeah but now i just go here if i get 94 loose  if he takes i take with the pawn and he's   losing there too i mean yeah it goes to e6 but  i mean this let's go f5 consolidate the chain okay b6 i guess and now i just take e6  queen h1 was actually the move to hit   the diagonal queen b3 i just blocked  with b6 now i mean now he's just lost now i can play rook e8 i mean takes is fine  i guess it's cleanest let's just go uh here i mean okay he just resigns let's go again   this is just a bad position okay  up to 22 points we're number nine okay here we go knight of three okay 2373 okay  another game that i want to win quickly if i can i guess i'll play here and take let's go here this b5 i'm just going to play c5 here i'll  go a4 to hit the structure a little bit i mean rk8 maybe okay goes there so i take i go   here because now i'm hitting h7 too this  feels very brittle and very loose i should say   let's just take the rook a6  start targeting the pawn here and now i have rook a1 i think this is  actually already very very bad for black this looks really bad at least to me it does play e5 which i think maybe is a good  move it's maybe not a good move as well but   it seems reasonable at any rate i think seems reasonable so i'm just going to ignore  it with b4 now it has to go e4 bishop e2   and i have knight b3985 and  i should just be much better let's see what he does oh by the way you guys it's top eight not top  16 so i really do need to play uh i do need to   be very sharp it's not top 16 it's top eight  so i do need to be on my game um let's go here okay 98 is a good move i guess i'll play f4 here he does have this knight a6 i guess takes  which i'm actually kind of surprised i'm   gonna take with a pawn probably not the  right capture i'll go here to guard the pawn   and i'm gonna go king h1 i  guess yeah okay now i got four okay i can just go here knight e5 i suppose knight  bishop g4 as well let's take the f pawn why not   d takes was actually right i think but  i'm still still in really good shape here   i guess i'll go um let's go here  target the knight that's a free pawn okay now i can actually take f6 h4 is strong   i think i'm just going to go  here though target the knight ah because now i can take it all so i can  play h four with the pin and that's game over   this is actually a very effective move by me they're talking they're asking exclude a  lot of best players yeah i don't like top   bait objectively but uh it is what it is  as the saying goes so i i do really need   to put my foot on the gas here okay i think  i just take so queen takes i take pawn takes   i have age four o'clock tonight on this  game over okay there we go another win yeah top 8 is unpleasant for sure i'm gonna  play e5 um yeah i'm gonna play i'm gonna   okay he wants to play not surprising oh did i just  blunder i just played the wrong order it's great okay i think d5 is fine here actually this isn't fine it's just bad i mean i have c5 at bishop a6 also   i'm gonna actually take with a pawn try to  try to open some diagonals here can you hate   rook g8 maybe very costly that i played this um  let's go here maybe knight g6 to hit the bishop i did this the other other day too against um  against joshua blunder and it was actually the   knockout portion so it's a lot worse but  i mean it's it's what it is it goes 92   i mean it seems like the right move c5  seems like the right one bishop g4 bishop h5   f5 is okay i'm just gonna play c5 just open  up the open up the diagonal for the bishop   here it must be the right choice if i get an  open diagonal there are chances potentially   play c3 i kind of expected that i  can trade if any takes with the pawn let's try let's go here rookie eight  i'm still worse of course but there   is some counter play for sure if i get rookie  bishop e2 it feels like there's counter play   the queen b3 i kind of expected that um it's not  great but i think there's play so let's go here   you can active rook put the queen here  it's kind of scary a little bit for white   i mean i'm also trying to take  on d4 as well and then rook d2   so it's not easy for white to prove  this i'm sure white's much better   it's not easy to prove i can see three now  that looks like a inaccuracy i should say um   that looks like an inaccuracy but i don't  know how to punish it so i'm just gonna play   oh that feels like an inaccuracy how do i  do it queen six might be three queen five it feels wrong but i i don't see it so i'm just  going to play a traditional 97 night night at 5. just feels wrong somehow but i don't see how  to punish it okay a4 is actually a good move   yeah actually a very good move  that i forgot even existed   and now i'm probably just in bad shape okay go  here i'm gonna go knight b3 i go like bishop b5 i think i'll go hear a knight of five like this   here knight of five it's obviously  bad but the question is how bad it's maybe not the end of the world especially  because knight f5 i mean there are back rank   ideas here like some threats okay but now i go  here to hit the [ __ ] when i always a bishop b6   and now my bishop is active again  i think that's a fairly serious   inaccuracy he's still probably so much better  that it's winning for white but like here i mean this b4 can i have no way through but he also has no way through either so i'm just  going to play h5 and go like here i guess why not   kind of want to see how he breaks through  so i actually don't see a way through   it's a very strange position white should  be better but by going a6 letting me get   this [ __ ] once diagonal really makes it hard  for him to win now i'm not actually sure he is   winning honestly i think i just wait he plays  rook d2 so i mean i can obviously trade yeah i   mean he's actually not winning anymore i can even  go queenie too maybe let's go here force the trade and also take queen c4 queen b 194 is no good  maybe i should maybe this was a mistake i mean   maybe i got a little bit too ambitious by letting  this happen here i guess hit the pawn of a2 uh i made a mistake again  wait but i have this maybe thank you appreciate thanks um it's hard to calculate this oh he played queen c oh i  didn't i did not expect that way oh this is also blender what what  did i just do a like a panic blunder wait but are there tricks still it takes i don't actually see a makes i can also go king c8 wait i might actually win now i  just run this a pawn up before i gotta go i gotta go oh i've got no time who there was no mate in one of shaq  it was chuck queen b7 was made in one   wait okay i have no time to look  wait he missed a mate in one oh he missed him it was wait did he miss  the mate and won whatever okay we keep   rolling again topic qualified so i really  can't take my uh my foot off the gas at all i guess i'd take and go here and  richie one queen six two or twenty two let's go here i said knight h4 no um so i'm just gonna take  i know this is right but it makes some sense   maybe knight e5 maybe knight g5 or knight h4   no queen g2 was made in one but he he apparently  missed a mate in one too i don't know but whatever it takes for the f pawn i expected that questions   do i go knight h4 or 95 i  think i'm just to go here taking oh i meant to oh i meant i was  ah that's a nice slip but whatever   got to keep going so nothing's wrong  let's go here it takes i take him with q1 that's a little bit frustrating i think i can go yuck that was just a big  mistake let's look out here it goes rook g8 i think that's a mistake actually  because now he's got now there's a lot of pressure   he made a mistake but i'm still  not like winning or anything if i can somehow reroute the  bishop i'm also okay here is that because farm on the  leaderboard is not the real caspar no he takes the wait i thought i had this and this   oh wait or this guess i'll go here  i'm trying to get really sneaky i think this is winning but i'm not 100 sure can obviously sack if he wants see what he does here again sorry i'm not  thinking subs by the way i i know there are   plenty of people who have subbed um wait i was  trying to go queen d3 that's actually a good move   geez wow that's a great movie i just found um  that's crazy i don't actually have a way to   win here geez that's a very very good move by  him okay i can't move the kings it's a check guess i have to try i mean worst case it's a draw he's using a lot of time though oh maybe i should repeat um no i should i repeat i think i'm gonna actually do  a repeat repetition yeah he's gonna use more time   he's using too long because now now i  repeat and then i go to a1 at the end   and now i block and i just took  10 seconds off his clock here i took all his time off the clock  use all your tools of course   yeah i took all this what what is h5  wait a second isn't this just losing   it's taking block with queen g2  and let's get him over there we go are we back in poland no i'm  i'm in a germany got the win   okay another one up to 34 just need  to keep it going again mid lane and i   are doing well but there's really no room  for for letting up basically just no room okay now i get round like  another tough pairing um okay okay let's play standard i guess and play this in bishop d3 i guess there's not a blunt wait no it's not a  blunder i thought that was a blunder at first   let's go here i'll take next  move let's go here f4 obviously castle's like castle play f4 of course can obviously trade 92 is a move as well why am i thinking so long um oh geez it's just a blunder what are you doing let's take let's go sharon trade or something i mean f6 i just take and i have a check luckily okay takes i'm actually really happy  to see that at least now the game   goes on i'm definitely worse but the game goes on here please queen e7 this is not what i wanted at all   g4 and f5 is not great i guess i just  developed basically let's go here okay it goes queenie four i'm a little  surprised i mean i'm still worse   but am i really that much worse is the question  i'm definitely in trouble to some degree and the thing is how do i rotate just  got to get my knife back in the game oh it's got a3 which i forgot  about too let's go here that's a mistake maybe kind of oh he's  just got c3 which i also forgot about   yeah i'm just hanging the house here very very poor game by me  that last game rattled me   um although wait did he just blunder b2 i  take wait i think ronak just blundered though   because now c3 hangs at the end i maybe  i'm still losing somehow but if i get 96 we'll see i look much younger when i shave yeah thanks um i'm still probably in trouble somehow but  but i don't actually see a way for him to   win because he has to guard the pawn he  goes roxy and i take and i tempo the rook   i mean he can try but i think it's  actually not working for him somehow he plays bishop b4 okay now the thing is it's  a very creative move it's probably a good move   um let me see if i can come up with something  or i had a feeling he had something if i take b2 k2 queen b1 knight c3 or something  yeah bishop b4 is probably winning but   let's see do i have any way maybe rook f2 it's a b2 i just take i take and i take i take and then i take i'm sure that i'm in trouble  but it's only two pawns now questions do i play a4 or not my  instinct is that i do but rookie one is also   reasonable g4 i guess i should have decent drawing chance if i play  this correctly so let's go here threaten e4 maybe this is actually just  losing i guess i go here so i'll go here in king g3 probably   and i have g5 oh that's a i made a blunder  but he didn't take advantage i'll go here wait now i start running the  pawns oh wait no he's got yeah i play e4 yeah it's got that that's it's also the wrong oh no  it's the right pawn whoops oh and i just blundered what is that there we go oh no it doesn't quite work shoot i'm gonna flag him oh it's a threefold i let it hide i  fell into the threefold oh very poor oh that's unfortunate that's  unfortunate really unfortunate um   yeah i agree okay whatever we  keep going again we're only   one hour in and i'm right i'm right at  the cutoff which is where i need to be okay let's go here let's go hear castles uh that's  unfortunate i had a chance i had a real   chance yeah a draw is better than a loss  obviously but i had a real chance there oh that's unfortunate okay now i  think queen after is still fine like is queen of six queen g3 was it  wait i thought there was supposed to be   something wrong with this or is this just the  refutation this might just be the refutation i think it's just this is just a refutation i'm  just going to place down up down down material   i walked into this because they  can go here knight d5 is the idea now i go d4 and i get push above seven again it's   still not great there's actually some  serious danger now for tawny again i can go knight b5 but takes must be right  okay this must be right this must be right because takes knight d5 and it's very saucy  if takes i can also take and go rook d1   i think tawny's made a mistake here   he takes wow okay so if i wait so i take and i  go check okay this does not look right either here and take although i  think i misplayed this maybe   maybe i also bishop 6g7 this also looks kind  of insane let's go here so i'm gonna take allowed that poor that was a mistake too um not playing this very well   trying too hard to complicate matters  and instantly let's go let's go g4 and knight d4 i expect that take c3  hit the this but i just blundered again getting careless because it's a  top eight situation not a top 16.   i can probably draw this but i'm gonna it's  gonna require a lot of technique to win   i'm not even sure i can win this but  i have chances let's take one maybe sure this is the whole plan  get the rook on the wrong file   now i know king d7 because i have knight f6  actually it's very hard for black to play this   okay goes bishop five that's just a clean  blunder knight g3 rook f1 and he resigns   very good very very good not a good  opening but it's a win it's a win okay i just take okay i just take and take and push b4 let's go check v3 let's go  here bishop three knight e2 i think h3 is solid just to guard everything  let's go knight c3 let's go here let's go check   king has to go back oh no it doesn't  wait okay let's go here let's go here take check and take the rook geez there we go next  game okay right on the edge right on the edge yeah   rini kings is top uh top eight you guys so it's  complicated let's go here it's not no guarantees um there are a couple ways i think i'm  gonna take with a bishop and play like   a3 here just to stop the bishop a3 trick and just  play the game you can always go off four later okay c5 is interesting actually  but b4 is also just fine okay takes i guess i can take both ways i  think this knight must be the correct one   and now i think i'm just going  to go like rook a c1 queen b3 he takes i think that's a mistake so now i've rick  d1 and knight d6 i think this is very i also have   e4 but rook d1 looks right i mean e4 knight b6  knight a5 looks good if knight f4 i go g3 of course his knight is headed to the wrong side  of the board here although i did allow that does he have some draw here here takes check  here check here no he has no draw yeah let's   go here he has no draw because here it takes  checking knight h3 seems like a dubious move also   i can also go f4 but i think queen e2  and rook d1 followed by f4 must be right queen g4 i have f3 looks very good it goes there okay wait now  i can go 96 there should be six f4 i think   this is still fine four of course knight f2 i  just take the knight rook f1 i'm in good shape all right now i just go here stop knight f2  and i should just be much better all right   let's take the pawn king g2 coming in next move he  finally goes g5 but there's knight f5 he was also   just like fg5 looks actually pretty clean and i  okay there i go here no knight of four i just take   h6 bishop c1 and this should just be winning target the queen okay now the  question is how to win queen g4   knight f2 probably is winning but i don't love it  bishop e3 actually looks very simple just to trade   the bishop to the knight his knight is stuck on  h3 oh did i just blunder wait no wait no i just   taken i have queen of three for a split  second i thought i blundered split second for a split second i thought i  made a big blunder but i didn't   yeah now it's just now he'll probably resign once  he realizes there's nothing left let's keep going okay a few more wins and we'll be in the top eight  probably about three or f if i win three or four   in a row i think it's guaranteed isn't it rather  unbalanced someone can create a new account they   basically said you're not allowed to do that  um now again whether chess.com catches that   before the arena ends who knows but that's what  they've said is that you're not allowed to do that   like for example i have a second account  jim picaro on twitch and i'm not allowed   to play on it now of course the rating is  3000 so it wouldn't really make a difference   but i'm not allowed to play on that account so  you assume that like that they're checking i   mean again i don't know if they are but that's  that was what i what i've been what i read um   also my bishop should not be  on d3 here should be on e2 let's go here knight d3 now i got the jumbo ponies to the  center and this should be really   really good for me there should  be seven i guess i go rook c1 obviously trade i'm just going to show you guys  uh why is such a bad position although i gave   him that which was also kind of dumb because now  he's bishop b5 let's go f3 kick the knight first i have six okay now i can play like  i'm just gonna stack everything show   you guys how bad these pieces are let's go  here and here i have queen c2 just trade yeah these knights are really good here on on d3  and e5 they can even put on f4 and target upon e6 because 98 okay i can play queen before and  try just out skill completely i'm gonna do   this for the memes and uh i don't have to  this probably isn't the best way to win   but these knights i'm going to show  you guys the power of these nights it's not actually as good as i  thought it was when i look at it yeah his knight f6 and now it's  actually not easy to win this i'm trying to run the king up i  guess oh that's a blunder though and now the knight gets gets out and  i should just win this pretty cleanly oh g5 i guess just a4 i always  have knight b5 at some point   so i'm not really that concerned i can  all start to run the pawns of the board   that however i don't really believe in because  now he's gonna have to go g4 king of four   and now this should be easily winning so king gets  in entry squares every which way let's go here let's go just i guess i'm just gonna  start to expand on the queen side too here and he'll probably resign in a  second or two now i just take here f4 i just take and take  he resigns let's keep going   another win up to number five so yeah i think two  more wins i should be pretty safely in the top uh   top eight but again no guarantees people that  losing to those new to council lose points too   well like i said i mean it's on the it's on  them to stop it uh let's play carl khan again   actually no wait that's i was  playing g6 against obama yesterday go here is going to be really rough for people  like job here he's got 15 points i mean   very tough um i guess i'll go knight  f6 and just castles maybe like 97 a6 b5 this is pretty standard stuff b5 just trade i guess 95 knight c4 must be correct here okay  i'll go here it takes i take okay queen of six   of course it's rook c8 let's talk about keynes i  don't even know if it's a good move or not but h4   i think i'm gonna play h6 h5 g5 maybe well i gave  him knight h2 which wasn't very smart of me just   go here i guess just consolidate guard everything  queen four is a good move that i also missed   not in love with my position here okay now the  question is how do i do this i guess i'll go here   queen g3 now the thing is knight f3  is actually a problem now kind of   but i'm just basically just going to sit  here and ask him what he's doing kind of   let's go here knight h7 i guess regards everything so go knight h7 i think yeah i don't see  because i have queen g7 in the rook guards   if he goes knight h3 i can even go rook  b7 and start to target this way too maybe knight h7 wasn't oh wait no my knight was  yeah i couldn't go anywhere better okay i'll   pre-move this because it's a good pre-move it's a  safe premium excuse me all right he goes queen d6   okay i'm gonna take i think i'm gonna go here in  rook b8 um and i should be okay shouldn't be that   bad monkas yeah no no i was just trying to talk  and i got some uh some saliva stuck in my mouth   so i don't know if i'm okay here if i'm  in bad shape but we'll find out very soon   my instinct is that i'm in bad shape here but i  don't know how to prevent chest.com um a couple   possibilities wait that's a good that's actually  a very good move i think i'm gonna go here and   try to bring the queen back maybe let's go here  queen e5 ago king g8 i mean i have rick b i mean   well i mean if i'm just losing here i'm losing i'm  not going to really start thinking at this point   because my idea either works or doesn't let's go  here guard laterally guard everything side to side   oh wait i have check and queen c7 and if  work f7 i take with check trade and now we   reach an end game and now he's in deep doo  doo because he has weak pawns everywhere   yeah he's in really deep doo  doo here really deep doo doo this should just be winning actually yeah there's rook b3 and he's got nothing i'm gonna go here just target the pawn i mean  he's trying to run the king up which actually   is inspiring i could have maybe i could have  stopped this actually i guess i'll go here   let's go here target the pawn i can't  lose so i'm gonna go check go here   this king is kind of wandering a little bit  okay there's g3 i guess i'll go here because   now the rook is locked he can't really oh he  can trade rooks interesting i guess i'll go   ah he's trying to use his king as an active  piece here but i don't really believe it   let's go check okay i'll go here and now i must be  winning let's go here i also have rick d2 rook d3   yeah this is just winning we'll go here on  rook d3 oh is king of four king d6 maybe i think i go here to hit the pawn and  now i'm just gonna out zoom him he's   yeah now he's in zouk's volume  he has to go g4 h4 and he resigns   it's a soux von very fitting  considering we're in germany i oh i should not have taken  i should have played h3 first   oh that's very careless i  should have played h3 first   i was wondering if there's some kind of style made  actually wait i kind of let him off the hook here oh but he just resigns anyway okay okay let's  keep going we played jaws from here we're on 48. i   think if i win this game i'm qualifying i actually  don't think there's any doubt if i win this game i   have 48 i'm on a street i think if i win this one  okay please c6 so he's trying to place like a um trying to place like a uh let me go e4 i don't  know this is right trying to place like a um i   can't think of a system right like a queen's  indian or something now you can obviously   take i can also just play e5 here i think i'm  just gonna place like a king's indian attack let's go here probably i go h5   i'm just going to keep playing standard maybe  reroute the bishop go here knight g4 of course go here again put more pressure okay  i'll put the fish on f4 where it belongs i really like my position i  think i'm doing extremely well   place a5 logical move to try and go a4 i think  at some point i'm probably playing d4 though so   hmm this will go here definitely going to play  for d4 in a move or two i go d4 here or not is   a big question i can also take on a4 which is also  i'm going to take and just go knight to knight b3   number one dude is killing it well i mean  who knows if he's legit or what's going on   like i said it's on chess.com there's  something uncouth going on that's on chess.com   and they they they should do their job but  if the guy's legit good for him i mean that's   just what i would say those are really the two  options either he's legit or he's not legit um   but i'd like to believe that he is legit just  that's just me uh how i look at things um   i saw repeat rookie but what did i think  i had here i thought i had some tactic   i think i just have to take and  play 93 and make a draw kind of   it's not the dream that's for sure let's go here  oh primox is the same prey move oh he had knight   c3 oh he just had knight c3 they're very poor very  poor by me he just had knight c3 there oh yeah   now where do i put the knight as a question h4 h2  my instinct says h4 to go to f5 this must be right   he can obviously take a palm then queen d3  probably it's only equal but the game goes on   i also have queen b5 to hit this his knight's  not great okay plays with d4 which also for   some reason i forgot was a move just take and go  here hit the pawn probably headed for a draw again   i might offer draw in a second  depending place rook a8 let's go here um not very not very good actually wait but i can actually take his knight is in a weird position here somehow i assume he's fine but yeah this is just a just a  draw i'll go knight f3 i think he's going to play   rook d8 i'm gonna offer him a draw after that  most likely or maybe i'll wait a few more moves   okay goes queen a5 which okay now he doesn't do it  quite the way i thought he would so not now it's   not now there's no draw now i played a win very  strange by by by jose or jossman i should say   because now the game now the game goes on and  yes this is a draw with perfect play but at   least now the game now now i have chance  to just play on until the cows come home   uh but he has this which i also forgot but okay  weakens the pawn structure should be a draw but   kind of want to play on for some reason  i don't really know why but let's go here let's go here making a little bit of a hash out of this   like hash browns knight g6 i have f5 this is  starting to look a little bit questionable still a draw but i go here he takes a take i mean  this is a draw with correct play but   i'm definitely playing on here about how i do this okay now i'm just gonna bring the king back wait how do i do this actually this was actually kind of stupid okay i guess it's  just a draw okay i'm just gonna save time here   yeah just gonna save time he's 19 seconds i'm not  gonna waste a minute there trying to win this game   it's not worth it better better to save time  here 43 versus 19 he can just repeat and make   the draw so i can't can't go for broke okay this  guy is gambling okay i'm just gonna attack him uh what am i doing let's just move quickly thank you joseph manuel for the  five dollars appreciate thank you   let's go here try and move quickly here i look  strange now it's cause i shave that's why um   take i mean i don't know i don't actually wow okay i really don't wanna trade so i'm gonna go here  you can play c4 i supposed to force an end game here i need to win this game quickly though  because as you guys can tell i'm still in good   shape probably up to third is relatively safe  but it's not a guarantee by any stretch so i'm   i'm in the top eight right now so let's castle i  have e5 here i mean a force move i want to play   but okay let's just go here try to stop him from  castling or something let's go here of course i'm   making a complete mess out of this too so here i  have e5 maybe h6 is also hanging i just realized okay i'm gonna take the pawn maybe it's  wrong in fact i'm pretty sure it is wrong   there's queen c3 i guess i just go  wait i have e5 maybe wait i have e5 but   don't panic just play e5 at knight  e4 okay everything should be fine now okay now i'm 94 i guess to hit the queen i  could just move the bishop first but whatever it's actually kind of really spicy also  i love night of five almost big yikes um   i'm just gonna go back try to be  solid here it takes i take and play h5 i'll pre-move it because knight b6 which is a weird move   i can play rook b1 i think this is  actually best of target pawn e7 guard h4 over here target pawn again i might just start pushing the h pawn even start pushing it when you pass pawn push baby push i mean he's just very very slow if i don't blunder i'm gonna win this game on time let's go here and take okay how do i win this game  actually this is kind of a problem i go here in rook f4 or something i'm actually throwing this game hard shoot okay i have to do something  here i just have to move quickly i go check you know i blundered rook c3 trying too hard to flag him he blunders okay blunders that's good go  here i have these i have two pawns maybe yes d7 i win very close to losing this am i  gonna win tomorrow there's no game tomorrow   the first round starts uh on uh whatever  thursday is gonna make a queen and that's ggs   very close to losing this game i  get the win but not a good game all right let's keep going 51 so i'm  just outside the topic by one game   next game where are we going i would like a  nice soft game here i don't get a soft game   so i get redbox chili peppers let's  go here so basically the top three   spots are all in play everything else  is kind of out of out but let's go here i can play b4 but i think i'm just going  to go c5 and place like a sicilian maybe maybe night of okay takes i guess i take with  a bishop i mean c3 is kind of hanging too   a4 that's a good move i guess i'll take why not now there's a pawn on e4 i think i'm just  going to take it and step back kind of weird see what he does place there i think it's still fine now if you  successfully if i get castles i should be better this should be good i go here i just cancel   once i get castle i think i'm fine  now now i can't really be worse maybe i should throw this  in first but should be seven   just b4 okay now i think okay but should  be somebody wants to go with a7 so okay um what's the right push  b7 does look right though   it really does look right so i'm going to play it it's just d6 here just consolidate maybe i maybe have some bishop g2 trick too  okay let's go c4 i can play 97 i go bishop   g2 and sac it's kind of interesting it's  probably not good but i want to do it probably not good but i think it's playable  maybe if i get the knight to c5 i should be fine here rook b was maybe better too but i think i'm trying a little bit too  hard to create a mess let's go here check bishop after i just take wait i can blockade maybe i think he  missed queen b6 okay now i can put the   bishop on the dark squares and i should  be fine let's go here just guard the pawn it's a good move too not easy to play i guess how  do i do this let's go here and guard the knight maybe i have knight a4 knight c3 or something too   i think rook 8 was also a better move there  let's go here okay now i can route the bishop   to c5 so i think i'm okay now so pre-move  this in case he does it i don't think he will but let's go here lock the knight in place i   should be able to win this just  because the time situation alone now i think i should probably  play e6 bring the king up let's go here king of six as well   i should win this game but i have to be smart  about how i play this i mean h4 seems fine with g5 maybe no don't tell me i just  blundered moving too fast here oh moving too fast here for no  reason let's go here and take i guess but he is using a lot of time here i think i should put the knight on the dark side  where he can't touch it i also hit h3 just take   and drop back i think you missed this um i just  go back again hit the hit this critical squares   i have a h pawn that's ready to launch as well i  also have a rook that's ready to meet so there's   a lot of tricks here i think i'll just win this  game so now i can go here and i'm threatening mate let's go check and take oh wait i can  just block what am i doing let's go h3 go here stop everything let's go check  and now i just take and i win the game there we go another win okay there we go just just win the game yeah tough  very tough but this will get me to 54 i guess   the resigns go again i'm up to 54 so i'm  basically yeah i still have a good chance   i really don't like top eight though i will  say that topic really seems uh skewed towards   uh towards like towards preventing the top  players from making it in let's go here and here like where is minlai actually  i have no idea where manley is go here hit the pawn interesting choice i guess i mean  i kind of want to take but i don't   really know if it's good or not so  i think i'll go here to hit the pawn top 8 is going to be what is going to be a  snooze fest well yeah actually if i make top   8 and nobody else does i'm almost guaranteed  to win the whole thing so i have to say i mean   yes if i make it in it's great but i don't like i  just don't like it because it doesn't feel right let's go here and takes i'll just take yeah i don't like it though i don't like it   if if half of them aren't streaming  that's actually really bad honestly so i just go here and hit the pawn he goes e3 i think knight a4 is strong queen  a4 is also strong i think i'll just go queen a4 i thought you'd just try to participate no you  don't have to stream to participate you only have   to stream to win prizes so theoretically  someone could just snipe me actually so   so yeah who knows okay so you guys are saying  the players at the top will still make it okay   so i don't know anything okay i mean i'm not  shocked if what you're saying is true that   that actually makes some sense but who knows  is this the other hotel room uh i changed   hotels i think i told you guys uh let's take i can  actually just take take here and i'm just winning   yeah because the hotel is only covered from  the second so i just took a different hotel   at a courtyard marriott uh got  my got my points so why not no reason not to get those  points all right let's keep going   okay i'm up to 58 so now we're definitely  in the running am i still in warsaw yeah   by the way this looks like this looks  like a total troll username by the way so   i kind of wonder if this user is not going  to get like got like um banned or something   let's keep going again we're basically three good  games away from a guaranteed qual qualification i think first time viewer and it's very fun i did  win both title twos this yesterday yeah i did i matched with a zero point  andy oh that's yeah that's true let's open up the position here hotel castle it should be slightly better because farm cannot be banned because he  invented chess i think it's i don't think that's   i don't think it's legit let me click  on the name how many games is it played   294 games again maybe it's legit hard  to judge though very hard to judge uh sign up for factory cars code i thought i'd  let you know that it tastes really good i wish   portion size were a little bigger though  hey calories what can i say calories yo   um i mean you want a big portion size but  uh you pay for you pay for it in other ways let's go here and see for let's go here oh the last time the guy played  was on january 10 so he doesn't seem legit   yeah that doesn't sound very good does it yeah that sounds a little bit sketchy so i  wouldn't i wonder um what they're gonna do okay i guess i'll i mean i can obviously  trade and win but i'm gonna go queen e2 here just inactive yeah it seems very suspicious  though it might be as far as all yeah   but anyway um yeah we're in sixth place i mean  once i win this game i'll be doing pretty well i   mean a lot of these usernames look kind of sauce  at best uh let's go with d1 i'm just gonna go   here i always have 95. you can also stack the  rooks maybe as well you can also go knight h4   d5 is actually an interesting move there maybe i  should have played it can you visit the tournament   spectator i think if you're 2g plus you can now  don't ask me what 2g plus really means uh because   i'm not any genius on everything but if you're  2g plus i think you can visit it so those of you   who are german you can you can tell me i mean  all about that but uh i'm okay with knight f8 um feel like i have something  here just wait a second 94   i'm just going to go here and threaten rook g4  very simple um yeah i mean 2g is what a 2g i   don't even know i don't even know what all the  differences are of everything i guess i'll go here and hit the queen yeah i mean you guys can  tell me it means vaccine and recovered are like   three three three shots or something i don't  know he provides aaron's entire galaxy i was   thinking like how stupid do they have to be  to to call it um to call it call it like 2g   and 3g like you'd be pretty pretty insane  just gonna go here like just just just uh i mean you just have to be like insane like i  mean you just be insane to call it that like out   of all things you could call it like just feel the  conspiracy theories even further by calling it g   okay now i think i just take with a rook and take  with the queen i think i'm doing very well here   oh it means gempt and gnessen okay i mean i don't  speak deutsch so i don't know what that means but   um but yeah it makes a lot of sense in german  okay but yeah i just been thinking about it's   like you call it g um oh did i just blunder  this great i did lovely just to go here and take still gonna win the game not thrilled  by my play just take up a pawn do i have any friends competing in the beijing  olympics not that i know of uh maybe but   not that i know of i'll just go here let's go here target everything   and i'll win the game i'm gonna get  another win up to 62 so pretty good stuff a pretty quick win up to 62. yeah if i win like two more i'm definitely in two  more games in a row and i'm definitely qualifying   uh he tried to trick me yeah okay we get  a 26.50 i should win this game this guy   is pretty decent so let's go here c6 d5 keep  it simple or actually let's go g6 this guy's   pretty good i've played him before so it's not  a gimme win but i do still want to move fast   aim for five in a row yeah five and are would  be really nice let's take let's go a6 if it   plays h4 i'll go h5 let's go here trade some  juicers probably i'll take with the rook i don't   i think brook takes must be  right so i'll take with the rook novak no no vax will take  the vaccine according to news   that's not shocking i guess i mean it's kind  of one you assume that he's going to be like   you know what i'm not going to let rafa  just win without me participating so yeah okay um no this isn't a great position  for either side i think i'm just gonna   move my king here as well yeah he goes b4  pretty bold um i don't really believe in   this but this is kind of dangerous so i should  be a little bit careful how i play this oh wait   i can't go quindia what am i doing okay now i  can go king d8 nor c7 i think i'm kind of okay   he goes there but i'm gonna hit the queen with  him with the pony maybe king e8 maybe knight c5 tricky position i think i go here we both stack  and it's a tough position to play goes rook c3 now   that however strikes me as a slightly imprecise  move because now i can play knight c5 and i think   i'm hitting everything i think i'm doing well  now because a5 is weak c4 is weak f2 is weak   uh what's his idea rook d6 is idea that's actually  maybe a very good move so i'll go here and stop it   but now a5 and c4 are still  weaknesses and i don't see his next   move so unless he has something  that i'm missing then it's all good oh yeah yeah okay it goes king b3 i mean i can obviously  take a5 if i want but is it actually good   because it does allow c5 and then c5 then gets  tricky so i think i'm just going to go here and   consolidate further let's go here lock it lock it  up probably bring the knight back sooner or later yeah i think i bring the knight back  and now knight d7 is a very big problem   so i'm just trapping it wait  knight here rook d6 wait this can't be right wait wait  a second knight d7 rook d6 d5 is no good or it takes d5 is playable hmm why do i not have a move here this is so weird i'm gonna go here try to actually  complicate the matter further   because now maybe i even have a a5 at some point he's using a lot of time here it's very tricky   it's almost like a zug's long i think both players  are struggling to move their pieces somehow   it's a very strange like zugsvan  that's what it feels like he goes queen wait now oh but 1970 still  wait but now i can take take and check yeah let's go for it because takes  i've rook c5 check collect the rook   yeah now i check and i just take it now he's  getting made it actually just check made in one   that fell apart really fast only out of nowhere okay let's keep going i need to win one more game   one more game and i think i'm pretty  much guaranteed let's go here in here let's take let's go here of course knight t7 c5 i think it's just a viewer 95 or  sorry i think you know you're 95   for the four months thank you so much you're 95.   i guess i'll just take and make a check it's gonna  block a traeger97 it's not wonderful it's playable i also have queen h2 okay yeah  let's go here stop stop f5 i guess i'm gonna go f6 maybe and try to  shut the structure a little bit let's go here of course i'm gonna go  king f7 next i'm gonna guard everything uh i can actually go g5 maybe i think  g5 is right because takes i take   takes i take and i hit this and i hit that i could have also played c5 first maybe but  maybe not right he's playing this well though maybe i should just take him right away  why don't i just take i'll take anyway here   it's gonna take and i go e5 it's fairly  balanced there still is a lot of play i think let's take and take should be fine okay it goes g5 let's go  here thank you so much to adan bad two   for the five months saying so much i'm  trying to capture the pawn what if i go i missed this move this is a very good move okay somehow i need to do something i  think on the uh the queen side if i can   i might not win this game  this is actually really iffy is like the only or no that doesn't work either i'm gonna go here and try to confuse  matters i'm up on the clock so let's just take and go king g7 of course i should not have  played it this way either okay it goes rookie six of course this was really  insane by me because i go here in rook g1 maybe i also had c4 first maybe but see definitely misplayed this you know of course  he finds g6 that's not surprising either probably just losing let's check it's got one minute like it's too much time the c4 that's of course a blender too okay go c4 or bishop c2 at least  now i get a check and a check maybe   i can check and put my  knight on g8 or something and so here looks no this doesn't even work either it's 56 okay go here yeah is this moving now i mean i'm still just lost  but maybe maybe i can make a draw here let's see   i have chances i think i'm still  drawing this game check and i take here i'm still going to try to win this   what's with the time usage also i shouldn't have done this either i have to make a draw it's too risky  just too risky now let's keep going yeah i should be fine here but it's still  not guaranteed it's only a five-point   lead so i have to win like two  games still let's go here on f4 let's go knight of three i mean suspicious i  mean like i said his the time usage throughout   that game was very weird um but i mean whatever  it's it's on chess.com the guy cheated chess.com   catches it if he didn't cheat chess.com doesn't  catch it or doesn't you know obviously fine   there's no problem so that's just how it goes  but um yeah let's go clean for no prime shout   out why i mean we're playing blitz and this is  pretty serious like i'm not guaranteed to qualify   right now so so that's why i like i'm not really  talking much i mean also obviously i'm not on my   main setup so i don't have multiple multiple  windows and everything so it's not not as easy   i don't really know what i'm  doing this game either but   it's a game root rotate the knight  to g3 i guess seems reasonable why am i not playing on bullets oh i don't  play bullet chest anymore what's e6 i just take   i can go bishop g5 i mean knight g3 looks  like the safe move bishop g5 is not safe   but i kind of like it more than the alternatives  i can play a4 maybe yeah let's go a4 i guess i'll print okay yeah b4 i expected i  think i'll just go here on king h2 probably i guess asia i don't know if the h2  or h1 is better they both look about   the same i don't know what the difference  is i'm gonna play a5 and touch the queen   now he has some of the queen somewhere he  goes to c7 and this is why also i think   my move i should have been on each one  but it's so hard in retrospect to do it if knight f4 i just take knife g3 i think  26 is logical i guess let's go here and of   course i just blundered or did i no i okay he  misses it i think he had something there that   he missed so i guess i'll trade let's go  here target the pawn okay i feel like i'm   better here but i have to prove it so let's go  b3 step one is create the a weakness long term i feel like i'm better i guess i'll go here and  here not easy to prove this though very very tough but i think i am better i  think i have this knight f3 nope of course that's wrong too  naturally i should have gone to c1   but okay i mean i can't lose this end game  so if i can't lose i should just go for it   i mean draw is not great but it draws somewhat  decent draw is still kind of okay here   and i can't lose so because i can't  lose this has to be the right choice pawns are hanging everywhere i also have knight  d3 knight before i should be winning here i'm   gonna go hear a knight be7 or 97 or 926  should be good should be good i go here of course i forgot about this move too just great so i take and i go here this pawn is fast at least  don't understand e5 at all oh because he has knight c8 that's why   okay i guess i go here okay i think i'm better  but it's gonna be tough to prove okay i can play   bishop e4 i think this is correct i'm trusting  that this outside pawn is gonna be too much let's go here i mean again six cause i check you  know i can go i guess i just grab   like i'm not worried about king  d forks i think i'm just too fast if i go king e4 i can take  p393 and i'm winning so i take   and b3 i have knight d3 and i think i'm just  barely winning let's go here a knight c5 of course   and now i get the classic sack and i have the  wide peepo's they're too wide i get the wide   peeps okay we win the game up to 69 very nice  score but i get a very unpleasant pairing here   i think being solid is fine though again  warning is so far back that he has to win   he has to win against me or else he can't  qualify so i'm gonna use the meta against   him here is he really just gonna force a draw i  think he's gonna for no he's gonna force a draw   i thought he wouldn't want to draw but i get a  quick point anyway right so it's not that bad yeah it's gonna be a draw okay let's go again next game can  we play him on here let's go g6   i'm i mean i guess he's thrown in the towel i  was sure he would play but oh mega lol berlin   berliner yeah i was surprised i thought he  would i thought he would try i really did let's go here nobody's on a streak though by the  way everybody near the top is not on a streak so   i think it's kind of okay i don't actually know  why i played knight f6 so just stupid because   now he goes f3 and it's actually not good at all  but it gets g4 h5 maybe okay this is pretty ugly but we'll see here goes a4 that's  interesting so i guess he's actually not   castling i guess he's not castling  queenside so he's not okay so then   i'm going to castle and now i mean i'm not  too worried saying play knight h7 and f5 a little bit confused by iman's play here i  don't really believe in this he takes i take   i get knight g6 is a little bit iffy just there  i mean but he hasn't castle so i guess it's not okay go here he's probably gonna try to manually   castle the king but g4 and  knight g5 is really fast i'll go here of course i'm definitely  going g4 okay good g4 force him to trade   king c2 i can obviously go g3 i  think it's actually the right move   i guess i'll just play like um or  kiran bishop this must be right i can maybe take on a take on b4 as  well depending probably not right though   i also have knight h4 i just realized  plays b5 so of course i go a6   okay take i hit the pawn this looks very strange   i don't understand what a mon is  doing here it's not knight h4 also   what is amon doing this doesn't make any  sense at all it's not knight h4 at some point he's also way too slow here so if i get the win   it takes me to 72 so i'm pretty close to  being guaranteed this knight b5 i mean   obviously i take let's go here actually why did  i take that was actually kind of weird of me i'll go here target the pawn can always go c4 here   yeah i actually don't know why i did  this this was kind of insane of me and i'm not even doing anything  i guess i'll go knight h4 g1 i'm tempted to go c4 but i think i'm  just going to actually go for a sack here oh i can't stop what am i doing i'm  actually playing this very poorly nights before i sack though that's the whole point  so he can't do it and of course he sees it maybe i'm definitely sacking on f3 i think wait isn't  this now a blunder because i just take and i oh   my god i just blundered oh geez what am i doing  oh yeah that's horrible i just threw the skin oh   my gosh if i don't qualify and be really mad mad  at myself okay but he misses it he lets me get b5   geez if he goes queen a4 i resign a little  bit lucky queen a4 i just resigned um take over here take and go here trying to get the bishop in okay now i wouldn't just take the pawn awful game we go okay we got the win let's keep going  no bueno no bueno 72 points one more game   and we're in 72 so i think yeah one more  win and we're in we got a nice pairing too i don't know who's streaming that's the  only thing is like who's streaming in this that's the only question here yeah i think one more game and i'm  pretty much guaranteed to make it in   now i can obviously take i think i'm just  going to go hearing angle oh i also had   bishop f1 there i realized i think you don't  matter horror for the five gifts it's i think   it's a very tricky move i don't know if this  works so he takes i've queen extremely gets mated or did i just i just blundered oh my  god oh wait no wait i have queen h3   wait this is weird there's like he can't takes  he gets mated i'm also threat this is very it's   like the the bishop is like poison on f1 he  can't actually take it this is very strange   i think i won a game like this somewhere uh not  so long some sometime background not so recently   but i won a game because basically the bishop  is poison he can't capture that mate but i also   can't check because then i lose the juicer it's a  very weird position oh no is there a mate in one   what no no there was no rookie h1 there's no mate  in one okay no i'm eating one no no mate and one no one's on a streak except for me i think right  now so but i think i'm just winning because he   just can't do anything i'm just going knight four  mating him a different way now this is very weird i'm gonna go here because now he can't take  this one because he's getting made it this way it's a very weird position i think he  has to move the queen to stop i like   i think i just take it now he gets made on h2 and  that's gg ggs yeah it's a very weird checkmating   sequence there but it's winning uh we're gonna get  a win i think with this one we're guaranteed to   make it in where's on minlai jasmine and leia are  not gonna make it in by the way they're both toast   checkmate let's go again okay 76 i think i'm  in now i should be in but i will try to win   one more game okay minlae has 63 so so this  is uh i mean the question is do i give min   lay a draw here or do i just burn the whole clock  because i can also just burn the whole clock here i think i'm just gonna play it doesn't  feel right trying to do anything else   okay already a mistake by men lay  playing knight c3 let's go here   yeah i'm just gonna play the whole  game just burn the whole clock out here   and this way he doesn't get another game either uh  he's on three he's on a three-strike yes so yeah i   just burned the whole clock i mean he has bishop  f3 but i think e4 and c5 is very pleasant for me he's in 15th i doubt all the top 15. well that's  that's why i'm going to actually just burn the   clock here for that exact reason because i'm  just going to treat it like this is the game   and if he doesn't if he doesn't uh if he doesn't  win this game i don't think he qualifies basically   okay so let's just go i can play  f5 which i kind of like here   but i'm just gonna go bishop h6 for starters okay  i guess i'll just go f5 consolidate the chain go here f5 maybe wasn't right i don't know if  i played this right i also probably   should have put the other rook on e8 it's  king h1 so he's trying to go f3 obviously   i should have i don't know why i  didn't put the other rook on on um   on e8 this is very weird choice so i'll  just go here on bishop h4 if he plays f3 i really don't like the way i've played this by  the way i'm very unhappy so just take and go back   his rook is all everything's kind of misplaced  for both of us here it's a very weird position   it goes bishop c2 i mean bishop e4 is  obviously a move but i have misplayed   this i'm quite confident of that um yeah i  have definitely misplayed this i'll go here i've totally misplayed this   not happy with this position at all huh okay goes  rookie one i can obviously trade and play like   actually that's a slight mistake by him i  don't know why but it feels like a mistake   i think i'm okay playing this position because  i think with the pawn structure i should be okay but he's probably not going to  trade so it probably is irrelevant does take so i take and play rook c8 i mean he has knight d2 i just come  back to like e6 bishop foreign h4 again   wait he oh this i forgot that he could do this   i guess i'll just back up that and wait  i'll basically ask him what his idea is here the problem for minlae here is that he's gonna  have to use the whole clock now i go here g5   or key three because there i go back now c3  is weak too i think d5 was a serious mistake   like a very serious mistake by midlay now i  can go g5 i want i can also play like bishop   e5 or knight e5 actually 95 is wrong so  g5 bishop d6 rook there rook f5 rook e1   i mean it's it's better but it's not clean so i  think i'm just going to try to just blockade here   all right goes there we'll go back okay is it draw  good for men lay or not i think a draw is very bad   right it draws bad from inlay i assume so  i have a tough choice here a draw is bad   for him i'm i know that a draw is not going to  get it done but he might take the draw anyway   okay you know what i'm just i'm  just going to call this bluff   okay he does it he's got 243. yeah i don't think  a draw is good enough for him that's the problem   i don't think a draw is good enough for  him whereas a draw is good enough for me   because i i mean eighth place is 71 so yeah i i  don't think a draw is good enough so we'll see   maybe he makes it anyway because nobody's  streaming but i find it hard to believe let's go here i might offer  this guy a draw move 20. i'm gonna offer him a draw  move 20. oh i meant to go a4 don't draw you lose points  yeah but i mean qualifying   is more important than that than anything else you can't offer okay okay now i'm in now i'm in okay  now i'm in okay let me play this   guy the other gate other day yeah yeah  i think i'm in though 77's gotta be in no draw round i'm sorry no draws no draws um yeah this is gonna be the end of this is gonna  be the end of the of the arena we're gonna finish   number four so we're gonna make it in just barely you

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Length: 119min 27sec (7167 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 07 2022