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  • Rxd6! didnt see that coming

  • Why didn't Nakamura take the rook with his queen at 1:57?

  • @wallstreetatheist His face can only mean that the next few moves will have him at disadvantage :).

  • @wallstreetatheist If he eats rook he'll pretty much lose the game.

  • @wallstreetatheist QxR Be5 which creates a skewer, Queen moves away and Aronian picks up the rook on b8 after that it looks like white has much better control over the queenside.

  • what the fuck happend in 1:20 - 1:29 ???

  • @2668860 its a special move called "En passant", you can easily find about this move in google and wikipedia.

  • @2668860 It's an "en passant" capture, which means "in passing" in English. It's one of the three special rules of chess. It can only be done with pawns when one is moved out two spaces, another can capture by capturing its path.

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  • What's Aronian's opening called? I'm a casual chess player, just curious.

  • @ICarnag3I i think the queen's Gambit: 1.d4-Kf6 2.c4-g6 3.Kc3-Bg7 4.g3-0-0

  • @ICarnag3I Fianchetto variation of the King's Indian Defence.

  • LOL those knights must be so anoying at the end there.

  • And Nakamura was playing black and this was a speed chess game, so I wouldn't describe it as "crushed". he was defeated in a competetive game.

  • Funny how nationalism even creeps into chess matches. Where a player comes from doesn't matter. I am a huge boxing fan, having boxed for ten years. And it's the same thing. Always comes down to race baiting, ethnic arguements and like nonsense.

  • @zooMZooMlikeATyphOOn Be5, queen cant protect the rook behind it with Qb6 because of Nxb6

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  • I don't understand how white took blacks pawn at 1:22

  • @Liliumforsth En Passant.

  • @Liliumforsth En Passant.

  • @Liliumforsth En Passant.

  • at 2:50, why doesnt Nakamura take whites rook with his queen? I may be looking at the board wrong, but that move looks safe to me

  • @reanimator6190 because of Bishop E5, both Queen and Rook in B attacked losing the Rook

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  • If he checked with the other knight, things will be better for Nakamura. Try and Calculate.

  • I wonder how much you would be crushed, Mr. big mouth.

  • naka got butt fucked

    

  • I am an arbiter and by no cicumstance I would allow a player to use both hands to play. Even a child amateur knows that ! Shame on Nakamura !

  • @azertyqsdf9 You have no idea what you are talking about do you?...

  • @Pshoeshus As said before I am a chess arbiter. All moves must be executed with one hand (including castling) as per FIDE rule 4.1 and the clock must be pushed with the same hand (art 6.7b). Even in amateur competitions, playing with two hands would never be tolerated.

  • @azertyqsdf9 Well it is tolerated in most matches that has Nakamura in it. What you say is true, but it is not as strict as you have described it. On a side note, flaunting around your apparent title as an "chess arbiter on the internet doesn't accomplish anything. O look I'm typing this from a space shutter in orbit, because I'm a NASA astronaut.

  • ruthless precision from Aronian. 

  • at 2:04 couldnt queen take rook ??? can someone explain plz

  • @OMagicks after Qxd6 White plays Be5 and the rook on b8 is hanging

  • @OMagicks

    If he takes the rook, Aronian's dark square bishop skewers Nakamura's queen to his rook. Nakamura also isn't getting that bishop in return, one square that allows for the recapture is guarded by the knight, the other has the line of attack blocked by the backfile bishop.

  • Nakamura's crushed face at 1:57 and at 10:35. "AWWWW MAAAAAAAN!!! I'm losing to the best players in the world, how is this possible???"

  • strange background music

  • beautiful performance by Aronian

  • Nakumara's games are always so eventful :) superb play from Aronian

  • I love watching Nakamura lose. As much as I'd love to have an American World Champion, I'd root for anyone else in the world to beat Nakamura... well, anyone but Topolov.

  • @md65000

    What's the word on Nakamura? Why do people not like him...?

  • @Raddlesby I don't like him because he's an arrogant ass. In once instance an interviwer (very graciously) compared his play to Bobby Fischer's, and Nakamura's response was simply to agree with him. Did you read his recent comments about Kasparov only being great because of his opening preparation? That's another example. He's just an arrogant prick with no respect.

  • @md65000Just like you being an arrogant prick here, except you are nowhere near as good in chess. ...makes you a putz.

  • @Raddlesby because american pride has become jealousy?

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  • @Raddlesby once in a blitz game (somewhere here on youtube) his opponent is about to queen their pawn so they take their queen in preparation to do it, and nakamura whispers under his breath: "*snort* yeah right". But he did it loudly enough so that everyone including the camera can hear it.

  • @md65000 people with low self esteem or lack of worth often have similar feelings as you. I hope you get the right help.

  • @md65000 lol

  • so is it legal now to take the pawn when it is beside the other now? I learned the "classic" way to play I guess. Unless this is just for this particular style of playing.

  • @84Drumcircle

    It's called "en passant," and it has been a normal, legal chess move for centuries.

  • @steerpike213

    I never heard of this move until about a year ago, and I'm always playing Chess online or with anyone that I know that does play when I can. I watch videos with grand masters who I never see use the move. Why is that?

  • @84Drumcircle

    I'll let google explain how it works, but suffice it to say that it's a very specific situation when it comes up, so it's not as common as other moves.

  • @MrRazorblade999 I think they're using the Bronstein delay.

  • Well Nakamura is probably still the better bullet (1 min.) player.

    But I think they only care about that on ICC.

  • How the hell does the clocks work?

  • @MrRazorblade999 Two clocks in one housing. Each has the same number of minutes and count down to 0. Black starts Whites clock by pushing the button on his side. That starts White's clock running and will continue to run while he is thinking about his move. After White completes his move he pushes the button on his side and it stops his clock from running and starts Black's clock. And so they repeat until the game is won or drawn or someone's clock runs down to 0, which is a time forfeit (loss).

  • @bigresonance That I understand. But they seem to win time the faster they move. At the end Nakamura's clock goes from 10 seconds left to 7 seconds left and then back to 10 seconds left. Same with Aronian's clock. I don't get that.

  • @MrRazorblade999 I think the clock goes up 2 or 3 seconds everytime they hit the clock

  • @MrRazorblade999 Every time a player completes his/her turn they normally receive 2 seconds of thinking time added to their overall time. If a player takes less than 2 seconds to make their move they gain time.

  • @MrRazorblade999 Each player gets an additional 2 seconds for each move they make.

  • @MrRazorblade999 haven't heard of the term increments?

  • @ninjavariation No, what is that?

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  • at 2:05 why did aronian take, and nakamura react the way he did and chose not to take? is it something to do with the f5 pawn?

  • @controvesorry No beacuse after Rxd6! if Qxd6 then Be5 and he wins the rook back and is a pawn up with a better play

  • @controvesorry If Naka had taken with his queen, Aronian would have a pin on Naka's rook with his dark square bishop

  • 07:10 - Nakamura makes Kasparov's face

  • he won but didnt crush him like it says

  • I like Levon Aronian

  • I don't understand a shit about chess, but, they played really good !

  • @rufjvm2008 LOL.

  • is levon a lefty?

  • nakamunkia.

  • at 1:25 how did he capture the pawn if it was next the the pawn???

  • @HarSidShow It's called en passant, it's a legal move

  • @mc65000 It is just the arrogance of youth. As he matures he will probably lose a lot of that arrogance.

  • am I missing something? why didn't nakamura take the rook at around 3:30?

    

  • @jsrl010 I think because then aronian can play Bb2-e5 skewering the queen and rook

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  • @btkw ahh! now i get it. ^^ tnx

  • Nakamura acts quite annoying in the end...

  • @TobiKooiman Yeah cuz he lost his queen. Id be pissed too

  • lol im really glad to see nakamura in chess, i thought asians were not known to be grandmasters of chess, but chinese checkers.

  • @Apoic123 Nationality has nothing to do with anything. At any given time any given human being can do anything regardless of whatever they are.

  • @Apoic123: "i thought asians were not known to be grandmasters of chess, but chinese checkers.: - you obviously never heard of the Asian game Xiang Qi. Look up you might learn something.

  • I dont like nakamara he seems like a wanker! lol

    

  • if a player castles touching the king first, this is quite unambiguous. If he touches the rook first (and touching BOTH at the same time is taking a risk) then the arbiter can insist it was a room move alone and not allow castling.

  • nakamura missed the queen takes rook early in the game datx y aronian pulled it rite back and reloaded & capitalized off a miscalculation

  • I bet you won´t see anyone besides Nakamura using both hands for making a move (like castling) in all of these vids, because it is sometimes allowed according to USCF (rule 4a and b) ... when castling, capturing a piece or by promoting a pawn.

    Fide however states (rule 4.1) that you´re only allowed to use ONE hand, also in blitz games. I learned that as a 10 year old, so the GM surely do know as well. This tourney was under Fide laws... but Aronian didn't make a deal about it.

  • @ripspique Aronian has a lot of practice using only one hand.

  • @ripspique

    Maybe he noticed and thats why he took rather longer before stopping his clock, so that it wouldn'd be taking unfair time advantage. But like you said, aronian wouldn't care... would you? ;) thanks for the ruling clarification, btw

  • @ripspique Why would anyone make a deal about that? He's taking the decision to castle..end of discussion

  • I like it when different races and ethnicities duke it out, kinda like saying the winner's race is superior to the race the loser belongs to.

  • BLUNDERS ABOUND AT BLITZ. Masters make less blunders than us amateurs, but they still make em . . . . . . . .

  • what a impressive player the great armenian!

  • Wow that was intense.

  • That queen trap was riDQlous!

  • @keithbcook i hope you dont mind me asking...but i am a fairly new player hoping to become decent at the game...what caused the castle by nakamura to be illegal?

  • Sidenote: anyone who DOESNT think this was a crush by Aronian doesn't understand chess. Period.

  • LOL!!! how can someone as high rated as nakamura miss SIMPLE rxd6 tactic???? that's totally INEXCUSABLE and he really deserved to lose this game after such an early blunder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO ARONIAN!!! for those of you who dont know also aronian's an INCREDIBLE bughouse player. (bughousemaster (dot) com !)

  • point am tryinmg to make is not which hand (or both) that is used, but that the king ought to move first, He play rook and king together which (in normal chess anyway) is at best bed practice and worse illegal, where he could have been asked to move just the rook

  • Wow!!! at 1:25-1:26 a cool en passant!!! You almost never see this among GMs!!!

  • yes, he did not move the king first so castling was illegal (unless different rules for speed chess!)

  • As much as i'd like to have an American be a contender for the world championship, I have to admit I enjoy watching Nakamura lose. He seems like such a prick...

  • this is not a crush whatsoever...Naka had many missed tactical opportunities, that if he had seen any of them, would have led to a victory for black. given that's the case, you cannot call this a crush at all.

  • didnt nakamara castle illegally??

  • @keithbcook

    Yeah... kind of...

  • @bumblebee1607 he didnt castle illegaly

  • @bumblebee1607 why is it illegal? is it because he moved the pieces with both hands?

  • @keithbcook No.

  • @keithbcook No, that is not illegal. You can use both your hands to castle, or one hand, in which you first have to move your king.

  • @keithbcook No. In Blitz you are allowed to use both hands to castle and to promote, as long as you show a clear intention of doing so. The video clear shows that it was intention, as he moved his king two squares.

  • @keithbcook the rules say that he have to touch the king in first...

  • @keithbcook No, he took pieces with both hands. That is allowed.. What you cannot do is take rook and not king..

  • Aronian just found a nice way to win the queen.. he won this tourney, right?

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  • @keithbcook No, that's legal in Blitz.

  • @keithbcook why is it illegal? he didnt move his king x.x

  • @keithbcook what was illegal about his castle?

  • @keithbcook

    1. It's blitz

    2. He's a very respected player

    3. No one really cares... honestly.

  • Never get tired of watching this video.

  • Actually naka missed a win on two occasions. One of them in the latter stages when he used the wrong knight for a check followed by a back rank rook check. And the other was to roll his rook between two white minor pieces. But then again who doesnt blunder in blitz. But just to show what a class act he was there is NO RECORDED EVIDENCE OF BOBBY FISCHER EVER LOSING A GAME OF BLITZ IN HIS GLORY YEARS. Just b4 his clash with spassky , in a blitz t,ounament in moscow he won it.(14 wins/2 draws!!)

  • Can Anyone explain to me more why Nakamura didn't take the rook? After Be5, couldn't nakamura just move the queen, and then once the bishop takes the rook, nakamura can take back with his rook? So nakamura would be up a bishop?

  • @nKhid there's a bishop between the rooks....

  • @nKhid

    Black's light squared bishop blocks the other rook.

  • GM Aronian is Awesome and a really nice guy too.

  • @Ronbo710

    Nakamara however comes across as a little arrogant, i think

  • Funny to see Nakamura castling by using (illegally) both hands, some practical joke?

  • Rd6 best move of the tournament

  • what i like bout naka, he seems honest in his analyses. most titled players check with with computer before talk, he actually says he doesnt see it or know. bur maybe im wrong and it was just verry quick after games.

  • @YtubeUserr i think u are confused, the fact u r using chess terms doesnt mean u understand it,

    as i said : based in his huge advantage aronian traded some major pieces (included his queen) triying to let Naka with some pieces imposible to him to reach a win (although aronian lose some exchanges, as u pretend)

    at 7:46 (....Bf2) aronian starts to smash naka, its imposible for that poor rook fight againts that huge, terrific pair of knights : that is the whole point of those exchanges.

  • Rxd6!!! awesome

  • @7:31 Why didn't Leva play Qc2 and not lose the queen? Is it just me or are the blitz games by even the best of the best GMs riddled with ridiculous blunders?

  • @YtubeUserr was not a blunder, aronian got a pawn, a knight and a rook for his queen,

    this maneouver is just for simplify the game, with less pieces on the board is more difficult for naka strikebacks

  • why didnt he take the rook?

  • @thegame52291 Be5

  • @YtubeUserr and queen can still take...unless ive became really retarded over the last few days i dotn really see why that rook cant become taken...

  • I have so much respect for these guys even when they lose. If you had given me 10 minutes i would not have found Rxd6

  • Love to see Naka's face when he is losing, it's hilarious.

    His face after Rxd6! was priceless!

  • that knight in e5 was a fucking monster all the game

  • That guy forgot to say "WINNING!"

  • 8:58 bc3

  • Yeah)). One of the best games in this tournament by Leva played!

  • When is the next one? Is there a stream?

  • I forgot to give Aronian his due!

    He is a tremendous player in all time controls, and honestly, he is who I predict will dethrone Vishy in the next WC match.

  • @WeinerschnitzeI Your prediction is wrong! Anand will crush Gelfand

  • fighting spirit by Naka!! What a legendary blitz player. Of course needless to say that he also is a top pro at std time controls, but he will forever be remembered for his out of the ordinary feeling for blitz, akin to the ways of the blitz god Alexander the Great Sasha Grischuk!

  • aronian plays 2 brilliant moves in this game, Rxd6 and Ng4!!

  • Hmm, so after Rxd6 if black takes Qxd6 there is Be5 and take rook on b8 i think..

  • @oxiigen Of course - otherwise Rxd6 is just a blunder!

  • Rxd6 and nakamura almost suicide after see than the queen is pinned after Be5 cuz the rook at b8 :P

    easy trick :D

  • @zippofuck Not a pin, but a skewer. A pin is when the more valuable piece is behind the attacked one. 

  • 5:28 ...what was that ... a flash light?

  • @majotnf

    No, but I didn't notice what it was. Someone...

  • @bumblebee1607 i think someone in the crowd was analyzing the position aloud

  • Nakamura needs to learn a few things about good behaviour.

  • @majotnf

    On 8:06 Naka could have played Ra3-d3 instead of b4-b3 and white has to fight far the draw, most likely lost in practice (blitz)

  • yeah, Im not a big fun of Naka's jerky bullet moves either...

  • Naka discovered  he's just another blitzer out there.

  • Intense 

  • They way he plays with N+N+B is impressive! With 2 sec inc. amazing skills

  • Mura needs to calm down , can not play a good chess flipping out like that

    he acted through entire tournament like there were needles up his arse

  • If you take a look at 7:01: Naka was so hypnotized by his two knights in the opponents territory that he was totally blind for his queen beeing trapped on f6:-) Its good to see that even GMs are humans :-)

  • Incredible. And Nakamura is a fighter! I really respect him.

  • notice aroniaon had his clock hovering around ten seceonds for nearly half the game, was moving on the two second inc: that is some kind of skill

  • @doctornoooo Yes but he was also using the opponents time too, but I agree amazing skill

  • exactly 12 seconds for aronian to snip the pawn: if Naka can somehow get out of, break the habit of bullet chess and slide into true blitz, just a whit more second or so given to blitz assessment he still, at least to me, could be the best blitz player

    in the world: came very close this tourney, but his bad bullet habits landed him in

    the second row.