to get in the second round of this thing we just beat somebody we've got one out of one who are we
paired up against I really hope it's not Hikaru I hope it's like firoozeh Yevgeniy thomashefsky
well only one thing to do huh we're playing a 2700 rated player this is like the number seven
or eight player in Russia leave for he's gonna go be five let's see if we can coerce him he's
gonna he's gonna play the two knights or sure he's gonna play the two knights and now he's probably
gonna play Knight a5 or Bishop before that's the professional variation that gets played here I'm
gonna play Bishop b3 back take stakes he'll probably outplay me I so firuze should play
this against Magnus Wow deep thought there from from the GM let's play Knight f3 hitting this pawn
I'll play h3 as well very slow here sir I think this is gonna go like d5 kh3 does this
is this is very very very standard protocol I just take away the G for square I'm going to
castle I gave him two bishops but the centre is pretty close for now and I can basically
hold out for a future advancement very solid position very low risk and play Bishop III I
can play d4 maybe I will play actually d4 now all right I'm gonna just try to play fast it's
generally worked for me in the past to try to play quickly against these guys not show them
a huge amount of respect okay ninety seven so I have 95 um I'm gonna play it again I biggest
thing here is just trying to put some pressure on the Grandmaster and make him think you saw
in the last game how hesitation made me you know get low on time and that's really the
killer in these blitz events you just got to try to play confidently even if you're
not it you know fully sure of every move that you're gonna make now I'm going to clarify the
central central positioning of the pieces maybe he'll play here he does I'm thinking Bishop f4
but I can also take on e7 I can also take and take on e7 and just be extremely solid that's not
really my style take stakes I also play like takes takes Knight ff3 so what I'm gonna do this takes
takes I'm gonna play Queen f3 it's not necessarily the best move objectively speaking but I'm gonna
put a rock on the open file he's gonna look for a move like c6 probably to kick out my knight
but we'll you know we'll see like my position I'm not I'm not too disheartened but just shows
you that you know the e4 course works even against you know former top 20 players in the world pretty
decent position here for white close structure it means that the two bishops don't get a whole
lot of activity they plays Bishop f8 I wonder what he's gonna do with this Queen play likes like rook
everyone one seems pretty natural Bishop III is a very strong square for the bishop what
is this so he's telling me to move yeah and I go here the bishop is hit on the next move so
where is he gonna move his pieces okay so what if I just go back and play Bishop III
again III don't know if what I'm playing is right but I do know that he's pretty passive
you know and mr. basics I have this move I'm not sure it's like great but
he can outplay me from this position this Bishop again is still just so
passive might have been better to put the knight on c4 but it's it's so hard to tell
a place b5 that is a commitment it's a good move though
up on the on this file now
if you rub d3
think about this
let's yeah let's play rugby --the reais pink
gonna play this should be six I'm gonna double up
he's slowly starting to untangle but I do have the time advantage
okay Queen g3 I don't actually know what that does but again I just need to play quickly
just means you know putting the Queen on a good square she plays f6
maybe 92 like my Knights not doing anything there anymore so many move it he's gonna go here I think
maybe I have this move of this move but not a good move think I have it hits the bishop
looks like a decent idea he can't take me bishop has hit a
you still can't take me but I don't have I don't have a knockout punch Bishop age six
Knight f5 rook d3 Knight h6 King h8 9 f7 doesn't quite do it
maybe Bishop here although I don't love this move he still can't take me but I guess he has
this but then I have this so my other idea here is that if I move my knight I can take
like this that was my other idea wrote this is also not so bad but this was my idea so I
want to move and I want to take like this so he's only got 37 seconds on the clock
um which I like he out of the way which I don't like
yeah I guess I'll go Knight a5 offer him the trade
looking for an exchange
let's bring the knight back
you
I don't know what to play and I'm running out of moves here let's play b4
bring his king are we gonna go in game-mode against super GM
okay wait about Queen ce3 not not allowing him to get what he wants I
don't even know what he wants but I'm not allowing him to get it Queen d4
f 3 still not letting him get what he wants C 5 now I might have to let him get what he wants
takes
you have to uh so ugly hey let's do it he's got he's got the pressure in his
favor right now putting a lot of pressure on me he's got the outside pass pawn as
well he's gonna go here ah wait he didn't do it why didn't he do it that was so weird
okay let's go night d1 night b2
you
I still don't see a way through for him but he's gonna try
but nights are so tricky time scrambles
and putting as many pawns as I can on the dark squares yay
very tense position though
I play king of three and I play King III
yeah he's gonna go here I go here
I play for a win one night d3
take
you
we won we won time oh let's go
let's go we're taking down super GM's
heart is pounding let's go tricky position for the king this Fork yes that's why we do it
let's go two out of two that's what I'm talking about
you
whoo
which is read the 38th ranked player in the world 34th active number eight in Russia let's go
let's go