Praggnanandhaa's Mind-Boggling Calculation

hello everyone and welcome to another game you guys requested as soon as it finished it's from today's Tata still India Blitz tournament uh the rapid is now over the rapid Was Won by MBL and now we are into the Blitz and this is the third round of the blitz section it's pagna and the versus Vincent kymer and uh Prague did the very well in Blitz he got third place in blitz so Vincent got eighth place but Vincent defeated praga sorry in the rapid Vincent defeated frog in the rapid section and now is a fine opportunity for Prague at uh well retaliate against Vincent and this uh remember this is a Blitz game so the game that you will see now uh is so incredible so precise that it's very hard to believe that it was actually played in a blitz setting so now let's dive straight into it Prague has the white pieces and he opens with E4 uh Vincent goes for Pawn to E6 sorry Pawn to C6 he goes for the Karo Khan D4 D5 and progos for the exchange variation of the Karo Khan with captors captures and Bishop to D3 uh C4 is still a bit more popular but Bishop to D3 is the second most popular option with Knight to F6 Knight F3 Knights the C6 and C3 adding a Defender here Bishop to G4 and now Pawn to H3 with Bishop to H5 and Bishop to F4 so this is the the main line nothing new being played here and they are just the blitzing out moves as both of them know this very well Bishop to D6 with Bishop characters Queen captures and both of them just castled here castles castles and The Rook to E1 and this is basically where this setup begins as black now has uh any move is an option for black you could play Rook B8 Rook C8 rookie eight Rook after C8 you could play A6 you could play Knight to back to D7 you could play Bishop to G6 so those are all ideas and black can play them in any ordered uh well all depends on what black wants to achieve here so Vincent goes for Queen to C7 and now we have uh Ponte A4 now there are a couple of games where Queen to C2 and queen to B1 were played but A4 is a new move so now as of move 13 we have a completely new game it's okay Ponte A6 and now Rook the e 3 already a very nice rock lift because the Rook cannot be contested the Knight cannot reach the rook and it's on a dark Square so you don't have to worry about the light core Bishop later on you might move the Knight and put the Rook on G3 to go after the black king Rook 8 to B8 preparing to strike with B5 and now Queen to F1 uh stopping this for the moment is now the pawn bishop and queen are fighting against Pawn to B5 so of course the Vincent's a bishop on H5 now that the queen move from D1 isn't all that useful so let's remove uh one of prague's strongest pieces and that is the bishop on D3 okay product trades we have captors captures and now Queen to D3 activating the queen a little bit more Rook after C8 you could go B5 right away but first Vincent wants to improve Knight to B3 and now Knight to D7 stopping Knight to C5 uh we have Knight to G5 Now by playing on the queen side Prague basically a forced Vincent to move his pieces over to the queen side and now uh the black king is kind of exposed so Queen to F4 the forcing product deal with the undefended Knight on G5 and now Rook the G3 onto B5 now and Rook to G4 chasing the black queen back Queen to F5 offering a queen trade and Prague very elegantly declines this with Queen to G3 uh Knight to F6 now attacking the rook and The Rook to F4 now the queen is attacked and Vincent moves it to the C2 and this is now sort of a problem because the B2 Pawn is saying and also Knights the H5 is coming with a fork on the queen and the Rook so what does Prague do uh Prague just ignores both of the threats and he plays Knight to C5 and now uh what do you do here do you capture on B2 do you go after material with Knight to H5 both of those moves are are fine and the engine in fact says that you could play any of these two moves and your you know your position is very much okay with black even better so Vincent goes for Knight to the H5 with a nice Fork here Queen to H4 and he grabs material Knight captures on F4 Queen captures an F4 and now how do you defend against Queen captures on F7 well you can't really play a rook to f8 you can play Rook to C7 as the queen guards um at the C7 square and if you go a rook to f8 then you go Queen H4 and the black king does not have the f8 square to escape so instead after Queen captures an F4 F6 is the move that Vincent has to play it is the strongest move and of course he plays it but that means that he will now have the part with his E6 Pawn so Knight G captures on E6 and now B captures an A4 or you could capture with the queen on B2 but this makes more sense as The Rook wants to come to B2 to put pressure on the F2 pawn and now uh proc plays Knight captures on A4 which is uh again incredibly precise for Blitz if you I I was even that interested in in this position that I allowed the engine to Crunch the numbers up to depth 50 and it it is the absolute best move the other move that you might Place Queen to D6 because why not just Checkmate the blacking right away the problem is root capture some B2 and now you you you have the F2 pawn undefended and if Rook to F1 now you think the h8 is very strong and now if Queen to D7 of course Rook to G8 and you you can even give up a piece here if Queen characters in C6 the A3 Pawn is just winning for black so that that's a problem so proc plays the absolute best Knight captures on A4 uh Queen to F5 Vincent again offers the queen trade and now Prague against uh again uh well declines but what a way to decline the queen trade this is uh it's very hard to to calculate this and I I have uh problems even uh you know comprehending that calculated this in a Blitz game so I'm just going to show it to you otherwise I'd make this a pause the video moment but uh you you do not calculate this so I have no idea how Prague did it but let's just show it uh he played Queen to D6 which of course makes sense if it works but what if it doesn't now even with the absolute best defense by Vincent let's say Rook to E8 goes after the Knight now Knights the C7 and again progress back into the game attacks The Rook uh puts pressure on the pawn here and if rookie 2 goes going after the F2 Pawn he will just trade Queens captures with check Wing captors Knight captures and okay Vincent is up the exchange but Prague is up two pawns and his position is better uh so it's a very passive uh position to go uh in for Vince and especially against two knights you know in Blitz two knights are basically three Knights uh so Vincent played Pawn to G5 this is again the second strongest move recommended by the engine and a you know more of a human movie because it gives the G6 Square to the black queen to defend against Checkmate but now look at what proc found Queen to D7 presence Checkmate Queen to G6 and now look at this Knight to B6 attacks The Rook uh you can't really move the Rook anywhere uh well the Knight on C6 would be hanging so the only move for Vincent is Queen to F7 and now look at this queen captures an F7 King captures and now Knight captures on C8 we have Rook sorry King captures on E6 uh okay uh Prague got his material back but the Knight here is stuck on C8 so what's the idea here is probably just gonna be down tonight in this end game nope Prague actually found Knight to A7 and uh without finding this Knight the A7 move at that moment where he played Queen to D6 when Vincent offered a queen trade I don't see how Prague would actually commit the queen to D6 so he saw this Knight to A7 move at the time that he played Queen to D6 or you know you could call it luck but I I wouldn't say that these players uh rely unlock that much so I'm gonna call it um that he calculated it and now there is no way for black to uh avoid losing the game now the problem is of course if you capture then Rook captures an A6 comes with check and he wins back the night and if you move the Knight then just throw captures on A6 and he wins more material so Vincent had to trade here Knight captures an A7 Rook captures an A6 with check and now King to F5 uh we have Rook captures on A7 winning back the night and now Rook captures on B2 Rook captures on G7 and now Rook the C2 going after the pawn here and Rook the C7 proc defends the pawn and Prague is now up two pawns but okay for Vincent he does have the incredibly active King so uh he will probably be able to minimize this two and uh to a one Pawn Advantage so King to E4 rooked the E7 check King to D3 and now Rook the E3 with check for the moment defending King to C4 and now G3 and this is the problem and um this game is like a poem uh you could actually trade Rooks here even though you're down a pawn if if not for this Pawn being on F6 it's that silly uh the idea is after Rook captures Rook captures with check and King captures H4 wins the game for Prague as you probably expected but the problem is after King captures on D4 H5 uh King to E5 and H6 there is no King F6 the just the the pawn being an F6 loses the game for black so if it was on F5 or an F7 it'd be fine but it hits an F6 so it doesn't work you have to waste the move or you know go around and the king is just not in time to reach the pawn so very very strange here I mean uh of course I I don't think uh Prague calculated all the way to here when he played Queen to D6 but still very very nice so Ponte F5 Vincent says all right I need my Pawn to be an F5 in order for my king to win this race but now Prague of course just gets the uh the extra Tempo that he needs spawn to H4 and now he's ahead in the race with G4 King to G2 and now Rook the A2 again he cannot trade uh we have Rook the E5 and now Rook the A5 defending so he can start gobbling up pawns here Rook captures on F5 King captures and C3 and now Rook to F4 defending and attacking and he was in this position on move 46 that Vincent kaimer resigned the game as there is nothing more to be done here so Prague didn't just uh get his revenge on Vincent he also uh is the leader after the first day of the Tata steel India Blitz after nine rounds and he started by winning with five out of five I think yeah with five out of five uh and then okay he he suffered some losses and then he won the final game I think I even have it here no sorry that's for the next video I'm just going to check it real quickly uh so give me a second uh give me a second I don't want to trick you guys uh there we go yeah he started by winning uh yeah five out of five so he defeated uh the job of mvl Vincent now in round three he defeated abusatron in round four uh Hari Krishna around five dinner dragons grishock then he loses two games to visit and bukash and then he defeats Arjun uh in around nine so he is the leader after the first day uh the standings being Prague with six and a half visit with six grishock with six then we have with four and a half Arjun irrigation with four mvl and Abdu satrov in Hari Krishna kaimer uh in ninth place with three and a half and rajabov in last place with two points at the moment so we'll see if Prague can keep this up until the very end but you know if he will be playing like this and once again this is Blitz like everything you've seen in this game is Blitz if if you've seen this in a classical game you'd probably say okay of course it's a masterpiece like this is you know it's classical you have time oh no this is blitz so incredible stuff by Prague we'll see what happens I interested the tournament and the standings that I accidentally showed you now are actually for my next video that I already have planned and it's a very special one it's a classical game from 1981 between Gary kasparo and tignan petrossian uh the the at that time the former world champion facing the future world champion and I I can tell you guys it's it's such an incredible game you guys who really want to see it I will post it at 9 00 PM Central European Time so you know uh stay tuned for that but yeah and once again really hope you guys enjoyed this I would like to thank obvious mimic.com Gerard Princeton bon bon Solon baby boo girls niches festival.org.gg and Amanda Oliver the most beautiful girl in the world for your contribution to my channel thank you a lot I really appreciate it as usual you can check to all my previous videos here thank you for watching and I will see you soon continuing the coverage of this wonderful event and everything else that happens in the Chess World so thank you all I will see you soon and have an excellent rest of your day

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 08 2023