The Best Chess Tournament Of My Life

in this video i'm going to take you down  memory lane and share with you one of the most   important chess tournaments of my entire  life i'll take you through rounds one   through nine show you pictures show you games  and tell you the story and how intense it all was   the year is 2016 the month is october i am  20 years old and i started taking chess a   lot more seriously that year as i was finishing up  college i was studying a lot and i was playing in   tournaments more and so i went to the millionaire  chess open which was an experiment of three years   by maurice ashley chess grandmaster to have a  massive prize fun tournament hundreds of people uh   sorry hundreds of countries like people from all  over the world participated the first two were in   las vegas this was kind of the picture of one from  atlantic city new jersey which is the one in 2016   uh and i mean really the the tournament just  kind of looked like this uh well that's kind   of small but it looked something like this  i mean it was beautiful there were these   world champion you know uh statues all the way  down the left side and i was a 2354 rated fide   master so i was not in im yet uh in the very  first round sorry i'm gonna clean my glasses   in the very first round i was paired against an  unrated player uh actually just like traveling   the world and playing chess and i won the game  okay and i started the tournament one and oh   and in the second round i was paired against  grandmaster alexander strapinski i had the black   pieces now i actually don't have this full game  because this full game i recorded on pen and paper   which is what you do at these tournaments uh but i  can take you through kind of a critical moment in   the game so i was with the black pieces i played  the french defense because before the game i had   done a little bit of preparation and i noted i  noticed that my opponent plays the move knight to   d2 and here one of the lines that i was enjoying  quite a lot is c5 uh and my opponent played knight   to f3 which is one of the one of the ways you  play this position uh and then i took on d4 and   played knight to c6 so my opponent took took and  then played bishop to d3 and we got a position   in the opening which was relatively balanced but  i had done a lot of preparation and after a very   tense fight i actually won the game uh this 2016  was the first time in my life i had ever beaten a   grandmaster alexander strapinski was the only the  third grand master i had ever beaten in my life   and i actually started this tournament with two  points and it's extremely important to start a   tournament like this with a win over a strong  player because essentially what happens once   you get to a score like this is you get bumped up  all the people with two out of two play each other   and so in the third round i got paired with the  black pieces against lazaro bruzon batista who at   one point was like a top 10 player in the world  he's a grandmaster from cuba uh and he's just a   a brutally brutally strong player i'll just slide  this up here a little bit so it has a little bit   more space just an extremely strong player uh and  i was like okay well i'm going to do my best and   see what happens he played against me the english  i played f5 and i went for a dutch defense with   castles he developed in this fashion delaying the  move d4 uh actually delaying it forever basically   uh and here playing b3 and bishop b2 very  non-confrontational what i should have done   here is i should have just continued with for  example maybe e4 to block out his bishop uh knight   to c6 is not a bad move just developing even c6  to kind of negate the movement of this bishop   and then try to go d5 but i was very excited  and i am a very aggressive player for better or   for worse and so here i played the move g5 uh  and my opponent being the grandmaster that he   is and was back then as well uh struck immediately  taking advantage of something f4 and actually i'm   not the one attacking on the king's side it's  he who is attacking on the king's side so i took   he took like this and then i thought well  okay this is very easy i mean i just play e4   look how good my position is his bishop is  stuck but the problem is that now after d3 he's   basically threatening to break out if i take and  he takes his bishop is extremely strong i have a   pawn that's just a target not going to be taken  right away but it's very unpleasant and then i   play d5 so again i'm not i wasn't really scared  here of him i was i was trying to just fight him   in the middle and and and consolidate with all  my pawns and my logic was well if he takes me   i just take back and look at this and i'm actually  like better here i have a much better position   but he played the move bishop a3 and i was like  wait a minute it's not so easy to defend myself   here because now that the bishop has moved rookie  eight he can take take and he just did what super   g what super gm's do he played something  which is so natural and i just completely   overlooked it the move rook uh queen takes  the eight rook takes the eight and rook to d1   and it's like wait a minute  if i trade rooks with this guy   i'm not developed at all i have a whole queen  side that hasn't moved and it's move 16.   so i went okay well that doesn't look very good  let me get out of danger but then came the other   bishop and uh well this guy is showing me why he's  a 2700 level player i know it says 2600 there but   you know it's like 26.50 or something 26 26 50 26  60. i'm in i'm in some serious trouble here so i   played c6 to stop his knight from moving forward  uh but then knight to d4 and now once the knight   is on d4 there is no way for me to protect this  sufficiently so i have to play this move but he   trades and just plays a very calm move rookie one  and there's no way for me to defend my pawn so i   push it forward and he just calmly brings back his  bishop and in this game just picked the pawn up   went back brought the knight back to hit this  knight and this is hanging and the game ended like   this i have almost zero development i can play the  knight back to e6 knight e4 and f5 uh i resigned   after knight f8 knight d6 because there is  literally nothing for me to move he is going to go   here he is going to go here this is hanging this  is going to have no defense very soon i lost the   game to a gm in 28 moves and it felt like i was  fighting some sort of superpower i did not play   it a single move with this rook i just fell behind  in development and he just completely destroyed me   but this is where we started turning the  tournament around in the next game i was   paired with the white pieces against at this  point international master andrei gravitz   rated 2 uh 2543. now in preparing for this game  my opponent basically played everything uh he   literally played like seven different openings so  what do you do in that case this is what you do   just put your feet up you just say whatever not  during the game but you just i mean there's like   nothing you can do you just you watch tv before  the game and that's it and by the way uh i guess   you've made it seven minutes into this video  and i haven't even said that uh the format of   this tournament is the games are two hours a piece  and then once you get to the 40th move of the game   uh there is a 30 second bonus sorry there is a  30 minute bonus per player so the game can go   five six hours right it's a classical chess  tournament uh d4 d5 and i played knight f3   and the reason i played knight f3 in the game  uh was that if my opponent here played uh   he there was a few games in the database that  he had been playing knight f6 uh and against   this i was going to hit him with a tricky move  order rather than developing my knight here   i also saw he had been playing some other openings  and i kind of did a little bit of preparation   but he played an opening called the triangle  system and this made me think is this guy going   to play the immediate capture of my pawn and then  b5 and i was thinking i was thinking i was like hm   i didn't do that much preparation on that  variation so i'm gonna play something   super solid and boring and i played the move  bishop to g5 and this is a boring line because   normally black goes here you take take and then  you can even play like e3 knight d2 the reason why   this is not considered very good for black and  slightly better for white is because black has   moved the dark squared bishop and traded the dark  scored bishop but look at all these light squared   pawns right so black is left without a dark  squared bishop but also doesn't have any pawns   covering the dark squares so my opponent thought  for a while here and played a really funny move   knight sorry f6 i just said this so dramatically  f6 which is not a very good move but he didn't   really respect me is the truth i mean he was  like i can play whatever and i can beat this guy   so i went back to uh d2 i could have gone to  f4 but i didn't want to trade bishops and then   bishop to d6 i also kind of didn't want to get  hit with this i was like is this crazy guy gonna   hit me with like g5 and then go like this just go  completely crazy like attacking me with his pawns   i decided to be as solid as possible because  he's a higher rated player and i want him   to take the risk and so what happens is we  get a stonewall that is what this is called   this is called a stonewall setup so which  of black's pieces do you want to trade   of course this bishop so i played queen c1 and  bishop to f4 i could have gone with the bishop   to f4 right away but again i didn't want to get  hit with these pawns now that's not a concern   my opponent goes b6 i go g3 and bishop g2 just  finishing my development my opponent goes bishop   a6 the reason my opponent is not taking my pawn is  because my bishop here will simply be too strong   it's a common idea in these positions i would  put my knight in the middle and this would happen   so in the game my opponent did take but i castled  and he played knight d5 immediately starting a   fight so what did i do i took the bishop as  i was planning and moved my knight into the   middle of the board attacking this pawn of course  my opponent took and i took so what's going on   here i have an open file there was just a bishop  there in my sights it is protected but black is   struggling to move a little bit but it's kind of  it's it's not so simple to move at all because if   my opponent moves back very passively i'm going  to go e4 this is my whole idea here i'm going to   strike in the center and get a position like this  where i am down upon but i have very active pieces   my opponent thought for a while in the game  played the move knight b4 i just finished my   development i want to go here but i'm pinned so i  go rook d1 defending against this and my opponent   played rook c8 moving the rook away from the  king now i continued with my plan which was e4   of course if pawn takes e4 i'm happy to trade  again i have this active situation i played e4 and   to my surprise my opponent played the move knight  to d7 and i was like okay well obviously i'm not   gonna take because that's exactly what he wants  so i'm thinking you know do i go here do i go   here do i pin the knight like this and then i was  like wait a second wait a second i can just trade   and then this knight has no guard and i can  go attack it and if the knight moves i just   take the bishop wait a second my opponent just  made a horrible mistake and it suddenly started   hitting me wait a second i'm winning this game  i'm going to beat another nearly gm level player   take take queen i3 and the problem is my opponent  can't just play a move like this because i have   the move knight a2 i'm just winning i play  knight to a2 the knight is pinned to the queen   and if knight c2 that's it if c5 i take take  and i take i'm just up a piece i'm winning this   game so i forced my opponent to give me the two  pieces for the rook we traded i played queen b1   and suddenly i'm like oh my god i'm just winning  i'm gonna win my second that's oh this is insane   so i play bishop back bishop slides out to attack  the pawn centralizing my queen i'm nervous as hell   by the way i mean you know i'm like wait a second  this wasn't supposed to happen i'm i'm i'm beating   a guy rated 25 40 rookie 8 queen d4 and that's it  and after knight f6 my opponent resigned on move   31 the rook is hit the pawn is coming through  i'm threatening queen h4 king g7 and take   that's it just like that knight d7 boom boom queen  a3 this little knight a2 trick opponent blunders   my strategy pays off of playing the game extremely  solidly and not uh not giving my opponent any play   opponent gets too aggressive three out of  four wait a second i'm starting to believe   in the next round i got paired against oliver  barbosa and i actually have a picture for you uh   which i it's not the one from the screenshot  i don't think is it this one yes this is the   picture this one's gonna be a little bit bigger  now this is the picture so essentially what   happens when you're in the top like eight or ten  boards is you're not in the big ballroom there's   a whole area where they don't let spectators  get close called the stage the main area   and i was playing on it me it was me i was playing  on the stage with my no facial hair and my my   glasses uh is this another picture from there  no that's that that's from later round that's a   little bit of a spoiler this is the other picture  so i have my little cup of hot chocolate because   i wasn't drinking coffee back then maybe it was  tea and i'm just sitting there you know my hoodie   i look a lot like fabiano caruana that's oliver  barbosa and i had the black pieces this game and   he doesn't play e4 so he surprised me on move  one i played the french because back then i was   for this tournament i had prepared the  french and he played d3 d5 and now queen e2   this is kind of like a anti-french is what this  is and i was like already very surprised but in   my head my logic was he doesn't play this either  okay so i'm gonna surprise him back and i played   something that i've never played in my life  which is the move knight to c6 uh generally   you're supposed to play c5 to take space so i play  knight c6 he plays knight f3 and i waste another   move with my e pawn and i play e5 again i figured  that this would surprise him the point is that if   white takes takes and then attacks you have bishop  b4 and basically black goes for a position like   this where black is doing okay like has absolutely  no problems uh though the way i had practiced this   line was playing a few blitz games on the internet  i figured he has no clue what he's doing i have   no clue what i'm doing let's have a fight he plays  c3 this is a common move controlling central space   i played f6 and already at this moment the point  of f6 by the way is to play bishop e6 and i didn't   want to get my bishop hit with the knight and i  was going to castle queenside that was my idea   he plays b4 and i was like well i don't really  like that uh so i'm going to play a6 he played a3   bishop e6 so super super weird game already it's a  game that almost has no theory if you look at the   database if i'm not mistaken there's like no games  played it's a total fight total mess my opponent   spent like 20 minutes here and played a move  which i completely didn't understand it showed   the difference between the two of us he played the  best move though he played the move queen to b2   which is kind of a ridiculous move but  the point is that you want to play b5   and you want to develop your bishop and castle  and it turns out that queen b2 is actually the   best move i continue with my development he plays  bishop to e2 and i anticipate that my opponent   is going to castle on that side so of course i  play the move g5 i ha at this point in my career   i had no respect for the for the people that i  was playing no fear and no respect and that is   what that is in my opinion the best thing to  do attack them put people into uncomfortable   situations and maybe good things will happen so  my opponent plays g3 i bring my knight to stop   g4 knight h4 and after h4 g4 we get this position  and black is doing extremely well here i have a   lot more space i'm controlling the position my  opponent plays f3 to break out and here there was   actually a really cool thing i could have played  which i saw i just didn't think it was very good   but computer showed it it was this if pawn takes  knight i have g3 if knight here i have g2 and my   pawn makes it all the way to the end only to get  captured but maybe i'm doing well but in the game   i was like nah i'm gonna play queen d7 opponent  played knight d2 and here what i should have done   is i should have closed the center down with the  move d4 or castled queen side but instead i played   f5 and i blew open the position so pawn takes  f5 bishop takes f5 knight to f3 and again here   i could have slowed it down a little bit maybe b6  to prevent the knight from coming forward but i   just couldn't resist and i got too aggressive and  i and i i played the move e4 so there's the whole   center is on fire again no respect the problem  is that after pawn takes pawn takes and the very   calm d4 suddenly it's not so clear what's going on  here my original plan had been to play bishop d6   but what i had missed is that my opponent can  just play knight f1 and everything is holding   together now the opponent will play bishop  to e3 then they will play c4 d5 c5 queen is   out all my pieces are going to be under attack  and i'm like wait a second how did it happen   that i went from total dominance to my opponent  coming back into the game now this is not very   good so what i what did i do well when in doubt  sacrifice upon e3 bishop takes e3 queen to e6   playing on the e file opponent goes back and i  keep developing i said you know what i i don't   need the pawn open up the e file let's see what  happens opponent plays knight to c5 i chop chop   and i bring this knight back with the intention  of going knight to d5 bishop g5 knight d5 is   planned long cancel and i say all right knight  to a5 here we go the knight is just jumping into   the territory knight a5 is completely losing to  the move c4 but at this point both of us are in   a deep time trouble it's move 25 and we both have  probably less than 10 minutes to play the next 15   moves so that we can make it to the time control  c4 is just winning for my opponent and actually   looking at this position i'm not really sure what  they missed maybe knight c3 queen takes and then   queen takes e2 but and the point here is that if  rookie won i have this beautiful move look at this   looks like i'm losing knight b3 check and i saw  this from a distance and maybe my opponent saw   this from a distance and got very scared and in  the game they played knight d2 this uh let me   castle on move 25 i castle knight c4 take take b5  here we go we attacking rook to e1 and i played   bc4 sacrificing my queen rookie one rook b8  and i remember during the game my opponent   after rookie one like looked to be just dominant  but danger levels rook b8 and all of a sudden   it's like wait a second if the queen moves  to like e2 for example i have rook b1 check   king b1 knight c3 uh oh so my opponent sacks the  queen and goes for this and i took on c3 so what   is the count suddenly the count is now completely  equal opponent goes bishop d2 back and this is   where i went mega giga ultra super brain knight to  b5 four king the pawns we're both very low on time   here opponent goes d5 i take on a3 opponent is  unable to push because rook b1 is mate so bishop   to c3 rook b1 check king here and i found the  only way to apply pressure rook b3 the threat   is now knight b1 check king is hit bishop is hit  d6 takes takes knight b1 opponent is sacrificing   a bishop in order to promote the pawn so i  play knight a3 king d2 and i repeat why did   i repeat because that was my 40th move now  i have more time i've gained my 30 minutes   king c2 takes and king takes b1 okay and you  will say levy i mean king c2 here king b1 okay   so now what if you go here then white plays d7  and wins because if you go here there is check   and promote so then what are we gonna do and in  the game i played king f7 which attacks the rook   the opponent played rook to e5 attacking my h5  pawn and i realized here that i'm just winning   i just took on g3 i think my opponent might have  thought in this position they can play rook d5   and just promote but i have rook d3 defended by  my pawn and they just they're not in time king   c2 was what was played in the game i went here  he took i took rook f5 rook f6 just block i'm up   i'm up two pawns king g7 sliding out of  danger rook d4 and just rook g6 i don't need   my c pawn if rook c4 just push h5 rook g5 and  in the game that's exactly what happened and   after rook g5 my opponent just resigned the game  out of nowhere like a total complicated fight   where i made a mistake and then he made a  mistake and then we had we had a crazy end   game and it turns out that if you go back some  moves to this position here my opponent had to   not go for my knight king e1 is apparently the  way to draw because after rook c3 there is d7   and rook e8 and if knight c3 there is d7 rook b1  check king f2 and uh if i go here here here here   uh this end game should be a draw there would  be 94 check my opponent would have to guard   and then i could maybe try to push my pawns but an  insane game a crazy fight that goes back and forth   and all of a sudden mr gotham has four points  out of five defeating three gm level players   you could see why this was the craziest tournament  of my life my next two games were some of the cr   were some of the wildest so first of all in round  six i got paired against emilio cordova who's a   26 40 rated player um and i'm i'm honestly is this  the image that i have of this game uh let me pull   the i already kind of spoiled the opponent but  uh and at this point if if you notice where we're   playing i don't know if you can see it do you  see how that the number five where the board is   like you see like the names i was playing on the  fifth board of the entire tournament there are   like a hot like like 70 grand masters and it's  me the whole stage is gm's and it's your boy   20 year old gotham this game was insane uh i have  the game up it was 87 moves i'm i'm honestly gonna   jump in to around the 30th move as you can see  i have the white pieces and it's a really closed   position and basically i was trying to just  right here we started opening it up uh and it   opened up and he played the move e5 and there was  a big explosion right and and i'm gonna take you   right to move 40. now my opponent is completely  winning here i played king h1 setting a trap   and he played g4 and the point is he was probably  thinking well gotham's going to play rook g i was   in gotham back then he's going to go rook g1 and i  can't take but i'm going to go here and i'm better   but he played g4 and i played bishop  takes g4 and he looked at me like okay okay c takes d5 but the problem is that now  i have a pass pawn and i'm gonna go push it so   he played king e8 king e6 and i jump in with my  rook and all of a sudden from the depths of hell   here rises the phoenix gotham chess rook hate  opponent goes king of seven i pick up this pawn   and i look at this move i am so proud of this move  to this day rook d6 the point is that after takes   by the way where else is he going to go bishop  takes e5 rook has to block and i can play the   very calm king g2 king f7 bishop of 6 king f6  king of 396 i am down a full knight but i used my   creative defensive skills while both of our times  were ticking down to zero to trick my opponent   my opponent was defending this position but i  have pawns on both sides and i tricked him to   the point that i brought my king in brought my  king in brought in my rook king h7 and now look   at this rook h5 and what is going on i am about  to pick up some pawns here f3 rook f5 rookie 3 i'm   going for the knight check king c5 opponent says  take it i don't care rook c3 king b6 push rook d8   king h6 rook d6 check king g5 rook d5 check king  f4 rook c5 but i miss evaluated that after both   of us promote queens my opponent is actually the  one potentially playing this for a win although   this end game is also a draw which is the craziest  part i mean this whole end game we had both like   he had two seconds but before the time starts  running he has a time delay i have one second   and we got to this end game f2 queen h3 king to  e4 and in this position i played queen g2 check   king to e3 queen f1 and he pushed this b pawn  i played king to b7 so i could push my seep on   and he found the move queen f3 king back  to b6 by the way i couldn't push my pawn   king this is 80th move of the game queen e2  and here apparently i could have just taken i could have pushed he would have pushed i  would have queened and this endgame is a draw   it's a draw because of b3 i have queen c4 check   but of course i had one second on my clock so  instead of doing that i went for another queen   and this end game because the king is closer by  one square is losing and several moves later my   opponent was able to promote a queen because now  i do not have a check and the pawn is promoting   that's what this game came down to it  took 80 moves and me being left with   one second on the clock losing to emilio cordova  and that was that and i went to four out of six   a heartbreaking loss good thing i avenged  myself against emilio two years later that's   my best game ever played video you haven't seen  that one check it out but that's okay three gm   wins a nail-biting finish here i could have held  the draw but we moved to the seventh round okay   in the seventh round i had the black pieces versus  yaroslav jeribuk who i played earlier in 2016.   i played him in also this queen's gambit accepted  and this time i surprised him by playing e4 b5 and   this is a variation where black plays like this  sacrificing a rook i swear to you this is a real   thing hikaru's played this except i forgot my  preparation i played e6 not taking the pawn here   uh which is the computer suggested move i just  remembered that then playing this crazy move f5   and then here the move is knight to e7 which  i had forgotten so during the game i spent 20   minutes and i played knight to c6 which is not the  computer move but it confused my opponent as well   he played knight to e2 i took and we got this  position from the opening absolute crazy stuff   uh but the biggest mistake that my  opponent in this game made came right here   when he played queen to d4 you'll notice that  the knight is hanging and actually during the   game i sacrificed my g7 pawn and my f5 pawn  because my logic was i'm going to go queen f4   rookie 8 or rook d8 and i have a huge attack  on my opponent who's rated 26 10 by the way no   respect right no respect fighting and my opponent  went here thinking that after this there is this   but my opponent blundered that i have this  this look at this i have knight e4 check   getting out of this and in this position  i have the defensive move castles   check when have you ever seen o-o plus and after  king g1 queen f5 rookie one black is completely   winning and in one of the most painful moments of  my chess career here i calculated for nearly 20   30 minutes debating where to move my  knight should i go here here should i   go here and here or something i played knight b4  thinking i actually did not play the right move   turns out knight b4 is the best move after queen  b6 though i had to find the engine move bishop   d5 it's not even so clear what the idea of this  move is at first of course my bishop is hanging   and in the game i played the move king h8  because it cannot be taken because of mate   but there there is h4 and my opponent  is able to bring the rook into the game   if in the game i had found bishop d5 by  the way this is not hanging because of this   if the move h4 is played in this position i have  knight to c2 and the reason why this is winning   is because after rook to d1 i play queen e4 and my  opponent cannot prevent me from playing rook takes   f1 check and queen takes g2 mate that is why and  i did not see that and i lost the game my opponent   can play rook h2 but i have some ridiculous engine  move here as well i can play like h5 or something   some total insanity the computer finds in the  game i played like a human i played kh8 trying   to sidestep queen e6 check by the way which would  have traded the queen which is another benefit of   playing bishop d5 right and that's all my opponent  needed to bring out his rook and his bishop and i   sacrificed my bishop thinking i was some sort of  genius but this end game is just better for white   and i was so upset with myself i couldn't  recover and a few moves later i blundered rook f8   i just blundered rook f8 check if i  take there is this and the game is over and that one hurt i went from four out of  five to four out of seven and this my friends   if you stuck around for this one uh this is  where the tournament went completely insane   i showed up to my eighth round game and this is  what i saw i was paired against the grandmaster who did not show up a forfeit i show up to the  game there is no grandmaster there grandmaster   withdrew they never marked it down so i don't have  an opponent it's a forfeit win now the rules are   this if there is a forfeit win you cannot get an i  am norm that's just how it always works so i spent   hours running around talking to the chief arbiter  the referee calculating wait a second what do you   mean i've beaten three gm's what do you mean i  can't get a norm that's insane i have to get a   norm a norm is one of three things that you get  to become an international master or a grandmaster   and um they said you couldn't do it a bunch of  gm's came over to me and were like i'm so sorry   this happened to you you know this happened to  me many years ago i wasn't able to get my norm   i was devastated i was like are you kidding me  that's that what if you pair me against somebody   just a random person who also doesn't have an  opponent because there was a forfeit like please   like anything and they did they just like found  a random guy like a 2200 sat me down and i had   spent so many hours running around that i thought  i had to win the game and i just played like a i   played like an idiot i played too aggressively and  i lost and i only found out when the game was over   it didn't even matter you can't make a fake game  according to the international chess federation   so that's it i i went into my ninth round game  thinking that it was over i mean there was no   way that i could get a norm but then the chief  arbiter said this to me he said you can still get   a nine game credited norm even though you only  played eight rounds depending on who you play   in the last round because what happens is it it  matters your average rating of your opponents   and what score you get against those players so i  spent the whole round after losing to this random   2200 in a game that didn't even count looking  at who i'm gonna play who am i gonna play what   result do i need do i need a win do i need a  draw do i need a win do i need a draw and it   was determined that i needed to draw my last round  game against the grand master to get my norm okay   so keep that in mind i sit down and in the last  round i'm playing grandmaster samuel savion   very strong player um and uh i apologize  it was determined that i need to win   they were like they looked at it they calculated  they said you gotta win your last round game   and i said okay i can score a nine game norm with  a high enough performance in eight games i gotta   win fantastic i'm playing a grand master d4 my  opponent plays knight f6 i played the trompowski   knight e4 and i'm like well i gotta win this game  normally i play bishop back but i'm gonna get   really hostile and aggressive h4 here we go here  we go i gotta win this game let's make this norm   and the arbiter taps me on the shoulder  in the middle of the game and goes   i calculated wrong you actually only need a draw you have one job and you calculated it wrong why  did i just play the super aggressive opening i   would have just been really solid oh my god why  did you tell me this three moves into my game   why didn't you tell me you know i gotta go  and i'm like all right you know what this   is completely insane and long story  short i was able to draw this game   savion played like c5 i played d5 he played here  i played a very aggressive line and we basically   got a position which was like very closed very  complicated uh but like 20 25 30 moves later   after a tense fight we ended up just drawing the  game by repetition and i managed to clutch it out   i scored nearly a grandmaster norm level  performance but i drew and uh this was the   second i am norm that i earned in my life uh  i had the highest ever performance of my life   uh i was winning in nearly every single game that  i played which was kind of impressive except the   game against bruzon he just killed me but against  cordova i had winning chances it was completely   winning against jerabook uh even in this game  against savion there were moments where i was   doing well i don't have the game unfortunately but  it was by far the best tournament performance of   my life it's a bit of a long video but i i mean  you can't really shorten this with the amount   of games that i'm gonna show so hopefully  you enjoyed uh i figured i would share this   with some of you because you are interested in  my competitive uh days and my career and those   tournaments so uh you want me to cover any sort  of topics in my upcoming videos as always like   the video leave a comment i do enjoy reading them  very much and i will see you in the next video

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Length: 36min 34sec (2194 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 06 2021