GM Akobian playing speed chess

[BSMan77]

to people who don't know, giorgi and varuzhan are both in roughly the top 10 of all players in the US. Speed chess is usually fast but these guys are considerably faster than even blitz specialists. For example they would destroy someone who was 2500 on ICC blitz like they were a joke.

[scatterblast123]

Jesus morons the rule is as long as you hit the clock with the hand you move the piece with its legal he can take the captured piece with his tongue if he chooses as long as he hits the clock with the same hand as he plays with

[chessguy0]

You can use two hands the way he did it. The one hand rule says you have to hit the clock with the same hand you use to move the piece. Akobian captures with his left hand, hands the captured piece to his right, and hits the clock with a now empty left hand. It's one way of doing it,

I would just break down and use my off hand instead of reaching across every move heh, but thats me.

[Furansowakun]

Akobian use his 2 hands but it's forbidden I think. Quite strange.

[pAbedaNSK]

when i first went to the marshall chess club, Giorgi was staring at me with amazement lol

[itsMinuteMaid]

I'm sorry, but if I'm gonna give someone $75 dollars for an hour of something, they better be tryin' to get me outta jail, out of/into a good lawsuit, or some mean sexual favors. But that's just me.

[dayjun]

@itsMinuteMaid why the fuck is this thumbs upped ?

[jendeh32]

I got chess lessons from this akobian guy in North Hollywood in California. He's a real nice guy but he's expensive $75 an hour.

[Faztlan]

Barely enough time to come up with a strategy!

[mburch1974]

how many hands does it take Akobian to move a chess piece ? LOL

[alpha754293]

Who won!? lol...I can't tell...the guy closest to the camera or the guy furthest from the camera???

[JediMasterRadek]

draw

[byakuganmaggot]

it was a stalemate or a draw

[mouton23g]

draw. stalemate is if one of the sides has no legal move. they had the whole board to run around with the kings. ;)

[chadg1313]

a draw it says in info

[IncreaseThePeaceeeee]

i love speed chess.

end of.

[TheChessPlayer22]

That was a comment to 246trini

[iamevildoing]

holy cow...how long are these 'talking ' lines? they go on forever on how to do this and do that......weird

[246trinitrotoluene]

speed chess is stupid... (i know how to play it well, although i am a strong regular time player)

winning formula, play positional and defend, then when opponent makes an obvious blunder, just attack that area until opponent runs out of time

rinse and repeat to get a 3:1 win:loss ratio (against good players)

[Xenogaska]

wow you got to be better than me then.

you see its hard to have that eye of attacking man, I aplaud your skill.

[246trinitrotoluene]

Playing sharp tactics in speed-chess is difficult (2 minutes easier than 1 minute). Many players try to win tactically, when playing strategically is the best way to win. Watch a speed GM play, they never force it. When you start trying to set traps, the newer player will always take the bait, the good player will let you ruin your position, and then attack when all his pieces are aligned.

Overall I dislike it, sometimes I knock over pieces and lose because of time. It's still chess though.

[Xenogaska]

Yeah I guess its for some people and not for others.

I personally play an attacking style, I've only played one game of speed chess though.

I can see why you don't like it though, but hey I know guys who would love a fast paced game of chess.

I personally have always wanted to get into correspondance chess, but I'm scared I would not have the time.

[markommmz]

I dont agree, because defending size make mistakes faster than attacking, just look at the mihael Talj games, when he attacked defenders broke because of the pressure they felt although that they had 1 or 2 hours to think, except if you are botvinik or computer, than you can say this :D

[246trinitrotoluene]

did you read my post? 3:1 win:loss ratio

in speed chess, when playing opponents who are 'stronger'/'equal' to me, i play a tight positional games, and they usually make a mistake

but i also said loss too, because occasionally i will miss something too (i am human after all)

strong chess is based on good strategical/positional play, with tactics as a method to help you improve your position -- be this in material/space/time whatever

[TheChessPlayer22]

A couple of things:

1) "positional and defend" are indeed often quite the oposite of each other

2) If you just defend your bound to lose because a good player doesn't usualy make completely unsound moves but ones which require unbelievable precision to counter.

3)Unless you are a computer you won't fight for every tenth of a pawn in blitz.

4)This is not "speed chess" but "blitz chess"

5)Judging by your comments I kinda get the feeling I would have a better than 3:1 winning ratio against you.

[246trinitrotoluene]

1) positional play is not attacking chess. maybe you got confused by tactical

2) obviously i dont just sit and pile all my pieces around the king, i align my pieces up for an attack

3) let's play a blitz game and we'll see just how good you are

[yravni]

Akobian is of Armenian descent by the way, his opponent is ofcourse Russian

[nonbonumest]

His opponent is not Russian, he is Georgian.

[mooneepondskid]

"It's perfectly legal to use two hands to capture."...not in blitz it isnt.

[GPS1971]

ah ah he plays with two hands, what is the level of this guy?

[lenks0]

What I don't like about these games is that you're not allowed to move your piece until your opponent has hit the clock and you see many times in these games especially with recaptures they make the move before their clock is started... essentially moving on their opponent's time.

[MauroAmaral130976]

Lembrando que um jogador não pode jogar com as duas mãos ao mesmo tempo.

Mauro Amaral

Árbitro Internacional de Xadrez

[cbgirardo]

It's perfectly legal to use two hands to capture.

[Andha1]

No, it's not. Article 4.1: Each move must be made with one hand only.

No discussion about that.

[jflores333]

Really boring, I can't see the board closely

so don't even know what's going on.

[thelight43tdubb]

Wow, it's funny to watch speed chess played on a real board. I play 1/0 games all the time on yahoo chess, but it's much easier on a computer cuz all you have to do is tap your index finger on the mouse and move your hand within a square inch on the mouse pad. It looks so much more intense with arms flying and hitting timers between every move. Maybe they could invent a touch-sensitive board that registers the movement of a piece and switches off the timer?

[lenks0]

Actually they have boards like that (I've even played on one) but they don't have ones advanced enough to handle that speed yet, mostly because when pieces get placed off center or are dropped the computer gets confused.

[Tomzen9]

Top chess players can play really fast and they still play strong moves. Chess is a one handed game, the hand u move the piece with hits the clock that is the rule and chess players abide by it.

[jaydub114]

thats the guy from true life: im a genius

[robertkarpov]

akobian cheated he hit the clock with a different hand several times

[pilisopa]

Look carefully. He's always hitting and playing with his left.

[robertkarpov]

ok yeah i didnt see that correctly. Are you a USCF member? I play chess with USCF

[zluvu4ever]

I didn't see him cheat there...as you can use both hands to capture. :)

[dduppie]

I think the rule is: the hand that punches the clock must be the same as the hand that lifts the capturing piece. You can still use your free hand to remove the captured piece.

[tipau]

who cares? it's just a game of speed chess, akobian wouldn't do it in a serious game

[BlingBlingDo]

They act like robots ! Bip f2 bip g2 -error- Over-heating of central system - alarm !

[themeepy]

ROFL.

But seriously, Good game. Speed chess is real fun. >_>

[JonathanRambourg]

That was very real and by no means rare. That is what a typical speed chess game looks like. Especially during the end game.

[heqyelienmilk]

OMG Soooo FAST!? (I think its funny that they could almost be faking the whole thing and no one would know! but it must be true cause its on the internet :P)

[trollcollect]

nice