QUARTERFINAL | New In Chess Classic Recap

welcome back ladies and gentlemen to our coverage of the new in chess classic this is a rapid online tournament part of the champions chess tour and today is the first day of the quarterfinals we have magnus carlson taking on timor a job of wesley so and levon ranyan hikaru nakamura and likuang liam and shakuryama midyarov and alireza firuja the way it works today is they are going to play three or four games of rapid the winner of today's mini match takes a lead into tomorrow and then overall there are two rampant mini matches if it's one one then they play blitz on the second day okay so i'm going to take you through some of the games i'm going to take you through some of the stories we're going to take uh everything uh on in round number one hicaro plays laquan liam he plays d4 d5 we have what's known as a queen's gambit declined and we have this move a6 this move is tricky because it's intending to take on c4 and very quickly go for b5 much more normal as knight f6 bishop e7 even the triangle system and here hikaru just takes on d5 says you're not going to take me and puts his bishop on f4 and plays e3 normally and when i say normally i mean about 95 of games in this position go bishop to d6 uh either a capture or just a retreat trying to capture back with the g with the h pawn to open up the rook and play just develops like that but liam plays a move that's basically played in like i don't know five percent of games uh even less and almost by nobody like very strong and that move is c5 and this seemingly harmless pawn trade is already a very big decision because after just very simple development by both sides and bishop to e6 this uh forces the game this that move c5 that liam played c5 all the way back on move six it forces the game into a pawn position uh or pawn structure known as an isolated pawn otherwise black would have had a c pawn to help its you know its friend isolated pawns have no neighbors on e and d or i mean that's at least in this case no no no uh pawn neighbors on e and d and an isolated pawn wants to be pushed forward and ultimately simplified with a move like d4 if you are playing against an isolated pawn like ikaro is you want trades which is why he plays knight to e5 because should black take you win control of the square in front of the isolated pawn put something there and then stockpile pressure on it and you know remove its friends one by one like darts did to yugi in the final duel and then isolate the friend and uh and try to capture it so liam tries to make a trade on his own terms liam basically gets this structure now he has one weakness but what he's able to do as hikaru tries to plant the the pieces on these squares is he's able to play c5 now what hikaru does is he takes he brings his rook moves his queen up one square to maybe go to a5 and play rook to d1 uh and plays this move b3 this prevents liam from very easily playing c4 it prevents liam for very easily playing d4 and the reason why liam is not rushing with this move is because the queen wants to go here anyway so it will go there and then you'll apply pressure to these pawns not allowing them to move forward liam plays rook c6 applying an extra layer of defense to the sixth rank i don't fully understand this move but i guess his intention was to put his queen behind his rook now both players throw in an h move because you know it's always good to give your king a left beginners keep that in mind stop getting backrank checkmated bishop f3 and now we have a5 now a5 is a big decision because it really weakens the b5 square and it also just puts the pawn in the line of sight of the queen knight comes back to c3 rook to d8 and now hikaru finally has all the things ready in the position to do something so he does something and the something that he does is the move e4 the point is you can't take me because i'm gonna take your rook because you awkwardly coordinated your rook queen another rook so now liam plays d4 and hikoro strikes with e5 and the center is really open right this is hit this is hit knight comes here and this knight comes to b5 attacking the queen and the knight transfers into the square on d6 looks very nice and the pawns have trouble moving forward all of them the m things for us for a while here plays a very bold move a4 the idea being that if the pawn gets captured now you have doubled isolated pawns black has two past pawns by the way now and black will just go here take the pawn back and call you a bozo probably not because they don't have chat turned on in the game but that's what i would imagine but liam must have missed the power of hikaru's next response which you are more than welcome to pause and try to find i don't have water with me today so i'll just stare at my paper towel roll okay and now the move is b4 because of one pin two pin red pin blue pin and uh the problem is that if you take for example with the queen then i'm just taking you and you have you have no response that's not gonna lose material uh you can't say with the pawn because then i'm gonna take take and take you can't say with anything which is why liam very quickly bails out into an end game with a massive sequence of exchanges where he's just down a pawn now i don't know if a computer can draw this with black but this position is extremely treacherous if this bishop just turned if this knight just turned into a bishop like that i mean i don't like some cinderella nonsense but if it just did this would be a draw because again opposite colored bishops all the pawns on the same side that's probably just the drop i mean you just that's what it is however ladies and gentlemen you cannot turn knights into bishops with fairy dust okay that's not how it works um and for that reason bishop e6 f4 i mean hicaro just starts rolling the pawns and now big decision just because you can take on poisson does not mean you should stop doing it i know you do this i know you do this don't lie look at me stop it's an addiction all right you need help is what you need so hikaru leaves the structure and instead goes in with the rook and he fights for these weaknesses his king is always safe no back rank made king g6 nice move here by hikaru h4 and that move basically forces h5 if black does not play h5 this pawn will always be used to deflect the king and as we can see in a couple moments that's exactly what hikaru does he deflects the king he takes the pawn takes knight eight beautiful move the idea to transfer the knight to f6 and because knight fight fights for a different color complex than the bishop there's nothing that the bishop can do it can't stop the knight from coming to a dark square and once the knight lands there he takes the bishop and you say well why did liam do that liam was trying to get into an endgame where this pawn doesn't exist the problem is that's kind of a pipe dream because it's always going to exist and on move 48 he resigned as king walked up the board to join its pawn very nice win for hikaru who takes a uh who takes a one nothing lead in his mini match uh very convincing first game honestly like from from start to finish that was very very nice now for our second game of the day we have the game between chakri or mommy jarvan alireza faruja now what i compared this to i compared this to a matchup of like uh a young and old boxer all right mamijarov is definitely the older of the two he's much he's much more um experienced at this top level but they both love a complex tactical exchange an attacking game and we get a slav defense from alireza followed by a6 now a6 is not the most common move but here's the idea you want to play b5 and attack on this side of the board chakra plays b3 keeping the tension alireza can't just win a pawn because this is just idiotic for him to do e4 bishop c4 he's going to lose the pawn back very quickly you just can't hang on to it i mean this should be six knight g5 so um but that is that is ali russ's point and when shock plays b3 he just turns to you know the other side of the board to play this move except he just doesn't do that he plays bishop f5 okay fine finally wrestle fine uh bishop d3 now obviously you take take and just develop and move on with life right no alireza plays e6 okay castles um alireza might be the first person in human history to put every eight all eight pawns on the same color complex now there is a you need to take this okay you need to take this i oh wow why what wait i'm sorry why did you put eight pawns on light squares therefore drastically weakening your dark squares and then trading off your dart yo this is some degree some chess i don't understand y'all i mean the computer doesn't think it's even that bad and it thinks that after knight d7 black is chilling but i would yell at all of my beginner students if they play like this like bro just put your bishop on g7 so what does chakra are begin to do he's like all right i got the bishops right so let me play knight e5 let me make a couple of exchanges and make a knight versus bishop game yeah and he's right because oliver's position is like is like swiss cheese and he's the mouse he's gonna run through it with the dark squid bishop like look if you play a move like c5 here for example okay and it's like the one pawn that you've landed on a dark square throughout the entire game you've massively destabilized this knight like i'm going to go f3 i will kick your knight out to this dumb square and then i will just obliterate your pawns while your knight stands here drunk out of its mind and unable to move anywhere okay we all have that friend so alireza plays bc and after another sequence of trades exactly that happens but alirez is able to bring his knight back to e6 but if you just instant replay that rook c1 because alireza spent so much time in the opening comfortably getting his pieces to normal squares he had to sacrifice a pawn you could say well why didn't he play rook c8 well then i would have just belligerently attacked you on this diagonal with this or i would just say you're not going to castle ever again like my bishop is going to park right here and this is the perfect example of bishop is better than knight the knight can't touch the bishop it just can't do anything and you can't castle so alireza got the knight and got castle but he's down a pawn and shock plays this move and now he's on the verge of winning a second pawn so aldi reza has to make a queen trade even though he's down material a3 and we get this end game and i mean i mean this game the game is playing itself for shock like he he he almost doesn't even need to think so we get d4 takes takes and now only russ has made progress he's made some progress some some progress a little bit of progress all right let's see that super grand master uh endgame skill in action king 2f2 trying to bring the king maybe g4 to stop knight coming back to f5 but the first place g5 good move because he wants to prevent shock from just expanding rook to d3 covering everything pressure on the knight rook c2 king to g3 i'm not really worried about checks because my king is always going to come out this way all right we repeat once so i go this way instead fine knight back to c6 and now rook d2 offering a trade of rooks he doesn't want to trade or rooks all right we're going to infiltrate with the bishop okay four rook b2 and let's swap some pawns knight takes a3 ladies and gentlemen do you play bishop takes a3 in this position i swear if one of you said bishop takes knight go to go find the nearest mirror in the house palm face what are you doing why would you trade your bishop for the night just cause you take cause cause you can take it doesn't mean you should take it go attack the go attack the king and the pieces the knight's got no moves and what ends up happening he said oh the rook and now it's just easy now it takes a little bit of time but rook versus knight and chakriar brings the king closer plays this nice move h4 pawn can't take knight would hang and um he simplifies and now this very nice idea rook d2 stopping the knight from coming he's going to go rook d6 he's going to take simplifying into an end game where he is completely winning and just kings and pawns very nice game from mr mummy dyarov he takes a one nothing lead over ferugia and for our third and final game of the first round we have this game between wesley so and levono except we are not going to look at the game what why would i click on a gotham chess recap video and get debated well we were in this position on move 19 and the position is pretty much balanced uh it came out of a london opening and here wesley so played the move rook to e2 and after bishop takes e2 he just lost the rook in one move well wesley so mouse lived he meant to play rook e3 with the intention to play rook h3 and pin and that would have been a game but he played this and people were like well lev should just play this move and then rookie one bishop h5 but levon took it's not against the rules to take uh also queen h4 check and mate is not possible because the bishop covers and so just some moves later wesley so had to resign because he is just i mean frankly his position is completely lost so wesley mouse slips in a completely equal position giving lev on a one nothing lead and magnus carlsen and timur job of uh drew a game and i mean there was not not much to show there they just drew their game but we are going to pick things up now in round number two all right wesley's out for revenge i mean that's what he's got to do wesley's out for revenge so we have a london system and it's funny because we just had a london system in their first game except the colors were reversed it was wesley playing the london versus level one i don't know what these guys are doing but they're taking trips to big ben and we have a london system where the queen comes out early to b6 and doesn't allow white to lazily play moves like rook to b1 at this point the critical move according to theory is to take this pawn deflecting the queen over to c5 and not taking here or the queen goes down but now queen's in a bit of a stranded area and it immediately gets attacked taking on a2 is possible but it's a little bit dangerous after bishop b5 this pin is way too strong and oftentimes this queen can get a little bit stranded with moves like knight b3 knight d4 etc so rather than going for this the queen hangs out on c3 bishop b5 g6 has all been played before and here levon aronian plays a novelty he plays a move that my computer doesn't realize is even possible probably he's worked it out with some sort of super computer and that move is pawn to e4 which at surface level looks like it simply hangs upon with tempo it does not however there is an idea the idea is to play this move attacking both cannot be taken due to this pin then taking and then taking and saying i'm better and he's not wrong he is better very good so after e4 we got bishop g7 bishop e5 queen a5 and the most obscure sequence of moves you'll ever see pawn takes you cannot take because you're bishop attack take take here castles he didn't take because he didn't want to remember we just saw this a couple like like a game or two ago in the mummy jar of game the same bishop that's why you stick around in chess it's all about the patterns right so castles he sacrifices and plays this move and now wesley so here must have received a message from some sort of alien colony that said if you don't take on e7 we will spare your family okay because for the rest of this game wesley soh refuses to take this pawn now at this point it's smart to not take this pawn because otherwise knight c4 would win with queen coming here attack on the queen and the queen can't get back he takes on c5 now he can take on e7 with the rook not the queen he refuses to do that again bishop to f5 bishop to d4 now attacks the queen and now you're not going to be able to take so easily rook b3 c5 rook e5 okay what's worth more than a bishop a queen so now we get queen d7 bishop takes knight comes into e4 he also had knight g4 attacking the right but he goes this way what's worth more than a a bishop what's worth more than a knight what's worth more than a rook you i yeah and a queen rook d3 nice move from levon queen b7 takes takes on e5 takes on e5 takes on e4 rook d8 utilizing the piece that you didn't take and now we have a weird position where again if you take this knife for free uh you just lose rook takes this way because now if your rook takes i have queen the check using my pawn as an eighth ranked defender and promoting it that is very important of how you deal with past pawns so we got king to g7 and this position is really good for white it's really good for white because you're the only one with a dark square bishop and you are attacking opposite color bishop's favorite of the attacker i say that a lot and you say well black is up material really can you count knight rook rook rook okay black has two points extra one two three four one two three four five six welcome to gotham chess recaps where we learn how to count except that's not well that's not what got played in the game i apologize i just clicked that square so black's not up any material it's knight in two pawns for a rook and after ff3 kicking out the queen we got queen d4 lining up an attack on the king back rank check is not a problem because the king is going to hide takes takes knight comes back to c4 and we have knight d6 and e8 on the way so we get queen b1 check king f2 queen takes a2 check king runs out to g3 and here wesley plays this move this move monitors the pawn from the other side in fact he could have played this move without even giving the checks he could have just played queen e2 right away and this king is here and not there and you would think that the guy wants the king on g1 because it's safer right no actually white wanted the king exactly where it ended up white wanted the king on g3 looks like black would want the king there wrong actually black wanted the king on g1 i'll show you why because after this queen d8 and you can't take i would make a new one and now perhaps the most beautiful one queenie one check bishop f2 in here that's mate the knight is hanging the queen is hanging what's the best move here for white e8 but knight beautiful right aren't you happy you stuck around 18 minutes into this video under promotion live in a game and now you take the pawn because there's no checkmate on g5 and if you take the knight i have knight d6 a four sequence of moves knight f7 knight f5 queen comes back now a beautiful move you're not the best i mean you can mate in like eight here according to the computer but bishop b6 is like made in like 12. so you know levon finding maintenance and not made an eight what a bum uh the idea of bishop b6 is deflecting the the queen away from pinning the knight and now he comes back to d4 and the threat of bishop g7 knight f7 the king moving up sorry queen g7 knight f7 all these moves and wesley resigned what a game by levon aronian whoever said the london system was boring now every other game this round was drawn so magnus were job of drew uh hikaru and liam moved to one and a half half and uh mamijarov moved to one and a half half versus ferugia and what's funny is we're actually going to go to round three at the same exact match because now what wesley needs is he needs to win to force a tiebreaker game uh and levon needs to put him away and obviously i'm sharing the games with you that are the most exciting right so those are the games that we are going to look at uh and we have c4 knight f6 and wesley goes for this the mechanism variation this is one way using the english you can get out of the nimso because the nimso was bishop b4 whoop where are you going bro bishop b4 this is the nimso but english players get uh nimso players out of their comfort zone with this this is what i used to do intermediate and advanced players take notes beginners just don't hang queens by move seven or pieces by move six so d5 takes takes e5 now after knight e4 knight f3 bishop f5 pawn attacks knight knight takes knight pawn takes knight pawn c5 attacking for the center knight c6 on the way uh d4 queen to a5 attacking the pawn bishop d2 protecting knight c6 developing a knight c4 counter attacking the queen and kicking it out queen back to d8 queen to b3 attacking this pawn and this pawn this is all theory this looks like these dudes are inventing this they're not apparently this has been seen before at the super gm level black sacrifices the pawn on b7 and lures in the queen allows the pawn on d5 to get captured and now this absolutely ludicrous move pawn to e6 threatening queen takes f7 mate and if bishop takes pawn bishop b5 pins the knight to the king which is very unpleasant if pawn takes then bishop b5 bishop f4 and this bishop can't guard the f7 square and white is pressuring here so wesley once again plays a move that ignores a pawn capture and then just ignores the pawn now according to the computer if you just take here with the king and stop messing around white is better black is better black is better my engine might not be as strong as theirs so now i'm thinking did wesley mouse slip i don't think so i think wesley played this move deliberately but these two these two guys provided us such trippy games throughout this day um queen to a6 takes takes takes and remember levon doesn't need to win this game he just needs to not lose so live on with black is not taking a lot of risk he's playing rook c2 plays queen c8 goes for a queen trade um queen b8 in this position is kind of funny because this queen doesn't have a lot of moves and it looks like you're just trapping it uh but you're not castles bishop b7 looks like the queen is trapped but uh don't forget i i have this square so we got queen c8 instead takes takes and again levon essentially took no risk so how does a guy like wesley sow win a position of two rooks two bishops four pawns completely equal 0.00 i am not joking a4 invest where you're strongest bishop d7 rook c4 bishop f5 little bishop rodeo and get it back to d3 to try to put pressure on this pawn so we get bishop before lavon's going for trades and he accomplishes that bishop c4 now we have a very tricky move here rook b1 intention is that if rook takes rook in between move in between move suicide on c4 check and then i take your rook and then i win the game so we get rook takes a4 now i give you a check and i give you a check and i give you a check and now you're running towards me and i like that i like that i like that very much come to oh yes oh absolutely now i'm gonna go for these pawns over here while this juicy king is just in the line of sight of all of my pieces in fact if black plays a move like g6 here then after a check here i mean you're suffocating all right let's keep it let's keep it honest i mean you're barely not getting mated so for that reason we got rook before with the intention to push now we got rook c1 with the intention to take take pin the rook to the king that's not good we move out of the way and now a gorgeous move and a move that if you are subscribed to the methodology of benjamin feingold you will not play and that move is f3 ben feingold's never play f3 makes sense but not in this case because the king needs to come to the party and the king starts coming to the party forcing the move d3 and after check king b6 we have a couple of checks and the pawn is lost and black has every problem they had in their position 10 moves ago which is the ridiculous king the pawn weaknesses and the miscoordinated rooks except now you have another problem and it's the fact that you put your own bishop in jail congratulations you messed up and you played yourself because now wesley's got a very easy life his king hangs out in the middle and he hunts down the enemy king and takes the bishop you say wait a minute how did that happen wait wait what well he blundered a little combo here he was trying to just give this away and take the rook the problem is that i have a deflection check now now had that not happened had like just the move h6 been played wesley just would have went for the two pawns like levon just can't move anything and so on ultimately he ended up losing uh his bishop this game went a little bit longer like he had to be a little bit careful because this pawn is on the verge of promotion but he just immediately got it and uh king d2 and here perhaps the most constructive moment of this game is that when you have king versus king bishop and h or a pawn h or a pawn if the promotion square is not the same color as the bishop okay there are drawing chances particularly if the defending king is in the corner already if it's in the corner already it's just a draw because this bishop and pawn cannot kick it out if it's on this side you need a dark squared bishop okay but the problem with this end game my king shoulders yours like in hockey right or in football the stiff arm i'm not letting you get close to me and so had they gone for a little run down this way i just disallow you from getting to the corner completely and i'll promote and that's why this is winning and that's why wesley so gets 2-1 meanwhile we have more art school between carlson and rajabov we have another draw between hikaru and liam and we have another draw between mamidyarov and farouja which takes us to the final round of the day which is going to start with ali raza faruja needing to win against mamidyarov and he tries to do just that by playing just very standard queen's gambit stuff and we have c5 this is called the semi tarash takes takes and normally here play goes e4 knight c3 bc3 cd4 cd4 bishop b4 bishop d2 bishop d2 queen d2 castles bishop c4 or bishop to d3 something like b6 bishop b7 maybe knight d7 castles knight f6 rookie 1 b6 rook d1 bishop b7 and you do something with this pawn or otherwise um yeah none of that happened because the razor just played the move e3 knight c6 and he went for this position this is actually known as the pillsbury structure uh and the structure is an interesting one because again we have isolated pawn just like we saw at the very beginning of the video and ali wrestle would love it if chakriar did this like knight takes e3 so for example if shock played like this move okay because these pawns are very strong and now you laser beam to this side of the board and white has very good attacking chances here but chakrayar didn't just you know um want to get obliterated so he made alireza work alireza sets up the cannon here with the queen so we get 97 queen d3 knight g6 a prophylactic maneuver back to the g6 square bishop e3 b6 queen e4 ali reza is attempting to navigate the queen over here but chakriar is up to the task he finds the best move once again knight to e7 another backwards night move gluing it all together and now the bishop has opened up on the long diagonal bishop to c2 rook c8 rook d1 and shock plays probably his biggest decision of the game which is bishop takes knight okay and this move so he doesn't want the bishop he also doesn't want white to have a knight attacking on the side of the board you see this you see that you see that guarding both yeah that's going to become very important also alireza can play this move damaging the structure and just going for an end game he chooses not to do that he chooses to bring back his bishop setting up for another wave of attack takes takes he decides to not trade queens he parts ways with the a2 pawn and he plays bishop takes h6 i don't know if shaq missed that or analyzed it and was just not afraid obviously you do not take just because you can because then you're gonna get queen f6 and get smashed so you don't do that instead instead you play knight h4 attacking the queen and then you rotate the knight back and you want this trade you want it because the less pieces white has to attack you the better so bishop d2 gets the bishop out of the way and guards the c3 pawn from the rook and now we get g6 very solid now the reza here needed to go all out he needed to play h4 h5 this is a sacrifice and here the engine just very cold-blooded completely changes its mind and goes this way first this move hits the bishop now rook a1 rook a7 and computers like i don't understand black is winning i mean white white is winning or also i guess the knight is hanging so that was dumb of me i guess this is better and then rook a7 uh a1 rk1 rk7 and um well i mean human beings are kind of committed to one side of the board so rook a1 probably never crossed alirez's mind which is one of the reasons he played g3 in this position but this one move gives black all the time that he needs to begin concocting a defense he gets all the pieces back and now he's just fast enough to prevent the h5 advance he brings back the bishop breaking the pin that the queen had on the king and now chakri armamidiarov plays a very nice move e5 just confrontational in the center and um it's just a nice move and ali russ is not equipped here to stop the break computer again gives some absurd engine line here but i'm not even going to show it instead shock radar very cleanly gets all of alireza's important pieces off the board and in one final search for a tactic if you take me i will take your knight beautiful move here knight b5 and again shock kind of showing uh that he has two threads here and other brushes is just going to lose material which is exactly what happens and uh shocks just simplifies it down into a much better end game and um alireza resigned just some moves later here because he's not going to deal with these two pawns chakri are showing once again that he's kind of the veteran boxer of the two right um he ends up winning his mini match against ali reza farouja wesley so came up short against levon aronian carlson rajab ended with four draws those two getting their art school phds and hikaru after that first convincing win fended off the attempt of laquang liam to fight back and ultimately will take a one-nothing lead going into tomorrow so every match has a leader we have hikaru leading he will take on the winner of mummy diara farouja if he were to advance carlson rajab is all tied and aronian has a one nothing mini match lead over uh wesley so ladies and gentlemen once again thank you so much for hanging out with me these past 30 minutes you are amazing i'm i'm hoping that these games entertained you hopefully i made you laugh as always and it's the rare sight that you will see me without a video this is what my neck looks like i'll see you in the next recap

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Length: 30min 48sec (1848 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021

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