in this video i'm showing you two of my blitz games from the recently completed
title tuesday tournament uh where i played two different grand masters you get to see
my thought process when the games are live uh as well as the emotions associated with
playing such a high pressure high stakes event hope you enjoy all right let's go for e4 yes
yes this is the greatest will he play professional he is playing the professional variation
this is the professional variation d3 now which pawn will he push
all right he's let me push to h5 now bishop a2 and it's
it's a tense position i'm always threatening h6 i like it when they let me when they let me play h5
uh if he takes on c3 and then takes on e4 uh anand kovalev or the other way around was that game
i think it was kovalev a non-played like this would but uh mirrored and um and then kovalev
took but i'm gonna gambit i'm not going to oh and he's doing it okay this is going to make the game
very interesting this is going to be super super interesting now i need to play something okay
let's play bishop g5 so i'm just i'm gambiting the pawn i'm gonna let him take me i'm gonna go
for quick development this makes the game a lot more exciting so right now the threat is to take
which would force fg otherwise he would have played knight g6 that's the current idea of bishop
g5 the other idea is to put the bishop there and then he will not be able to castle but imagine
that that is his best move to counter attack me on the side of the board okay okay h6 does he doesn't
seem concerned so now the question is what do i do with this knight hello does he want f6
i don't know let's get let's develop let's develop i'm gonna leave the pawn on h5 for now
maybe i should have just played bishop f6 okay but he's he's just going for development
wait a second is he just going for development or is he just gonna lose the game
after takes knight e4 wait a second this is this is suspicious for the grand master
because if he takes i go 94 with the threat of literally mate
on the board uh oh we might get a we might get a quick one here full minute time advantage
he's got a way to defend this for example he could play f5 but that seems so weakening because i just
take take and then i bring in my rook and it is looking mighty dangerous mighty dangerous for him
here another benefit is that the queen is shut out so he does play like that if i take
i mean naturally okay just bishop h6 right i mean special page six
and he takes my pawn take his rook this pawn what
he's not afraid well okay i mean wait but don't i have check here and then queen f3
or something or what if i just play queen f3 so i'm hitting f6 and i'm hitting his knight
and if he plays king g7 how am i not winning on the spot knight e4
where's my win rook d1 is an idea also queen e3 to go queen h6
what also knight h5 takes queen h5
oh no i'm having like information overload this is kind of insane 94
94 knight f5 queen h3
also g4 oh d2 check well that's interesting can i just take that though
that's a creative move though i kind of like it okay let me just take
should b7 also hangs this pawn so it's very difficult for him
to actually get counter play in this position
it's not easy not easy 94 90 i just go back and rook d1 again i feel like
something's really bad here for him namely his entire position but hey rook d1 knight d6
queen h3 kf8
it should be six also knight d6
looks very bad because i also have this move just too many threats here i think
might be seven he takes king d1 okay he does it like this
taken b7 yes actually it's just over because if he takes with the knight
i thought i had bishop e6 but he kind of covered that queen h3 king f8
this is the easiest hits this pawn knight is still under attack rook d8 i i just break in and
ah bishop e6 takes bishop e6 bishop e6 bishop e6 knight a5 even queen d7 is winning
i thought i had queen d7 here oh did i make a mistake
wait a second oh why did i do it like that
i forgot that he has 96 in this position that's stupid
okay let's go here
and hide terrible
i want rook d1 but he also wants stuff
weird game
it's crazy that i'm not actually checkmating him here somehow
some way there is actually no mate like he's safe
insane how is that possible
oh let's check oh my god that's so scary
oh my god
c4 b6 here we go playing yvonne ivanisevich serbian grand master
last round b that is that is a move i did not expect to see b3 okay i'm gonna play knight f6
big question is where do i put this bishop if he double fee and ketos i'll be very sad
because i'm trying to double fee and keto and then we'll just have a very boring game okay
cool it's it's time for the double fiance oh he's he's getting aggressive with me oh my
okay but i don't actually think this is so great why can't i just take it
like i don't there are some positions you can play h5 and this does not strike me as
one of those positions so it looks like it may be a last round tilt so we will
do the double fiance and we will see what he does he plays h5 i'ma snap it
i'm gonna snap it normally you need more you need some sort of queen reinforcing but
okay he plays it but i mean is this is he going all in because i don't think wow
oh okay so now the big question is what do i do
i guess i just get don't give him the option anymore just rotate my knockout i'm just up a
pawn it gave me a pawn but of course he does have an open age file and he's going to try to castle
queen side maybe it was better for me to leave my knight out there but i don't know if it was
knight a6 knight b4 potentially maybe knight e4 94 i imagine he plays queen c2 then maybe knight c6
the idea to go there or just take on c3 or maybe just keep it chill queen e7 quick
development see where he puts his queen he will try to open the position once again given his
good positioning okay knight a6 is not a problem because bishop a3 is met with d6
i'll defend mike my guy and then c6 is coming next oh but c6 there is this i need to be a bit careful
that actually allows c6 but first i'm going to put my knight in the center of the board
because now his knight on c3 is no longer there and i actually probably am trying to go here this
is not exactly what you want if you're playing with the white pieces i don't think it is anyway
but i should maybe ask my opponent although then this is a little annoying because now this move
got a little bit too creative although i guess i can just go knight here
but just d6 d6 knight b8 a6 and don't fall behind on the clock too much
okay i'll go back i'll play a6 if he goes back at least i trade so that's
that's really good
but e5 here was relatively straightforward but then i guess he takes
if i back this knight up ah then he takes on e6 plays six and he goes here
play six knights hanging i miscalculate it's the last round miscalculation central
i didn't like taking the pawn because then i opened up his queen to hit here
which seems like it could be a problem but uh let's see if a6 somehow keeps my position together
yeah now my idea was to take because now there's a difference now that's not hanging anymore can i
just can i just go and get this i just beat up two pawns here and there is nothing for my opponent
this was the whole point is that my move forced his knight out
and i i don't see where his compensation is my next move also probably is c5
and he just castles i don't think he knows where his move is either so c5 here and then
i'm thinking queen f7 do we like it or do we just go queen f7 or did we just develop a piece
let's go c5 he was aggressive now it's our turn also i have knight takes to hit his bishop get
my knight out of the center of the board bishop is not guarded but he's pretty far away from a tactic
so now we start our own fight and based on the time situation i don't think he likes it and
by the way there could be some knight f2 but a little bit a little whoa okay well either this
wins by force or i'm winning so i'm just gonna take i mean again either this wins by force
i don't think that wins by force can i just castle can i just go short castles here and
guard my f-pawn i just do this he's got 30 seconds he's got 30 seconds on the clock also
c4 takes bishop b2 is a new threat he's got 20 seconds there's no way this is good for white
but i already screwed up a good position once i don't want to jinx it and try to do it again
he's letting me take on b2 with check he takes with the king some queen g7 here don't really
know what the best move is but i'm gonna do this one oh my goodness he goes forward yeah i did not
expect him to go forward that that is brave wow okay so i'm gonna back up wait but if i back up
this knight at five uh-oh
if i take and play queen f7 it's like weird to do this but he can't take if he takes i
take and i win his knight we're solid we're solid and f2 is hanging at the end we're solid
isn't this just a fork of his pieces wait can't i just take and hold on a second
don't i also have d5 potentially queen d5
alright let's not over complicate matters also at b5 there maybe that's just a full rook
that there there is no compensation here that is just a full rook and
rook a7 is on the way his knight's out of the game
rook a7 rook d7 he resigns
let me also just save this knight while i'm at it
no you can't have it you cannot have it gg yo that's how we do it that's
how we do it a nice win there using the grandmaster's aggression against him
that's what i'm that's what i'm talking about that was a nice win that was a nice win 7
out of 10 is the highest i've ever scored yes this is my this is my record in title tuesday
that was a good win there at the end we got it done
and we crossed 2600 while we were at it let's let's let's break this game down real quick
the double fiance setup an overly aggressive grandmaster
actually analyzed like this overly aggressive grand master sacrificing
here is is way too risky because while he can play something like knight d4 i mean
i'm very easily defending this with my queen normally you need a little bit more than that
so then you play something like knight f6 he he created a very annoying bind was 94 even a
good move it wasn't this this was this was too much i basically just made my knight a target
what i should have done is i should have just played c6 kicked his knight out
and then d6 slow crawl with my pawns knight c7 e5 e4 etc and uh uh-oh
but the way the game happened first of all when he got really aggressive oh apparently wow i
mean oh i miss this i can take taking just short castle here i can just take taken short castle
and uh he doesn't have anything did i did i make a mistake here no i played i played the best
that i could but but long castle was a mistake apparently he has to play rook c1 and go for this
but instead it's long castles ah there it is the counter attack and he just he goes a
little crazy because if he goes here oh apparently the engine is not scared it just plays knight f2
and then takes here just like this but knight b3 i was just planning to like maybe short castle
and okay the engine likes this as well but yeah he just he just went to nuts and uh yeah
stability stability stability stability nice win simplified it at the end and just good conversion