ladies and gentlemen there are many characters in the world of chess and one of them in particular
dresses up in a full body suit of a chessboard and goes around playing people of course i'm talking
about spain's rey enigma a completely anonymous individual who is probably around international
master or grandmaster of strength he recently competed against anatoly karpov in spain's got
talent he's got a massive audience and about a week ago he came to new york city first rey enigma
and i met up we played a friendly blitz match uh which is on his youtube channel you should go
check that out it ended two to two so we decided to come back to the marshall chess club and play
a first to three wins for one thousand dollars time stamps are in the video player for all of
the games of the match they were all super hard fought and exciting i hope you enjoy east hablas
okay let's watch some chess let's do it baby let's go oh no cola system is coming
i know you like this movie okay i'm gonna talk about this right i'm gonna play something a little
bit different i'm gonna play this okay that's a very good move yeah that's my suggestion for black
as well really yeah oh i didn't study your course i'm sorry but but you should study his course yeah
they're living and and and and mine too uh yeah some grandmaster played this against me
in blitz yeah i won but i was losing nice uh interesting okay play very solid
i don't want problems yeah but now yeah now i'm happy okay let's play this still do you know my
idea right still but i'm i'm so happy that's maybe progressive right if i go g4 what do you think
you should yeah yeah now let's play more solid okay i'm gonna take this one
d4 is too much right yeah well you played h3 you might as well play gg
right why'd you play hd that was my first intention but i'm gonna
go like this it's a lot a lot of money on the line you know you have to play for g4
very solid
have a lot more time that's true okay i have to invent something here
hmm
let's go for c5 square maybe
this first yeah that's a good move thank you
i want to go for some some tactics which one so i kind of start calculating
uh yeah yeah okay maybe maybe i shouldn't have gone for some tactics
yes go back okay i'll go back i'll go back over that's fine
oh now he's going for that now he's going for g4 but i'm not so sure okay gonna stop that night
that is pretty fine that's the ugliest move i've ever seen in my life i know i know i know
what no way no way you can do that but probably i don't i don't care if you're yeah
you can't play no the move is terrible stop it actually it is i've just realized
how bad it is but okay how can i i can i stop that f4 is annoying
f4 is really annoying no i didn't see that no no at first i was going to take
okay let's play these that it's pretty ugly as well
oh my god are you gonna play g takes f4 no no no no no no okay i have to take
right no i have to to do it sorry some something i mean it's very heavy pieces
just that's a good move as well and i probably have to go back to defend with e3
kind of kind of solid how are you playing chess like this yes this is terrible it's weird you have
subscribers watching right i'm weird as well so so can this call v3 induce a weakness okay maybe
wow i have to right yeah but i actually didn't stop that one oh you have 30 seconds okay oh no
this is the scariest part of the game playing here you play just
that one that's a good move that's a good move
i didn't even know you could do that
that's probably not a good move well maybe yes what it's not the butt
it is
still scary i don't i don't i don't fully i don't i don't trust that i'm
just i like your appreciation yeah me too okay i officially really like my position
now even more right
i'm gonna win all the fun what no way no way no anyway but i have this ah i didn't
know i didn't see it i resigned the whole house falls apart very good game wow so in this first
game reigning begins with d4 and rather than playing into his kali system which he is known
for i decided to go for a very off-beat dutch defense we have a very complex fight with that
central blockade in the board uh and then i when i ripped it open finally he really underestimated
my attack he also played a little bit slowly this game as he was trying to kind of talk and
kind of entertain so i jump out to a one-nothing lead let me build on this and take home that one
thousand dollars let's move on to game number two okay i have to remember my i play like this v6
this is almost four
we played this before right yeah i have to make it interesting though i
have to play something i didn't play beat yet okay let's play
i don't like to repeat openings
you repeat openings you have to i have to i changed you know i changed my whole
repertoire when i started this reigning muscle yeah somebody on my twitter said
you uh they know you because you press a colleague yes okay i don't think that's okay okay
it's dangerous to play the openings you have courses on because if you lose yeah
it happened to me okay if i would be very risky right
so i don't like that much my position if i let's go for it
you want to push f4 e4 sorry i don't know if this is good enough but
yeah i missed that oh that's not good okay oh no i'm pretty sure i've seen and then you play like
and then bring everybody yeah yeah yeah oh oh we'll take one okay i have two h5
i've seen like alireza play like this with black i think and just what do i do if i play c5 you
play d5 i play d5 you play c4 that's it i'm very sorry i miss these pawns yes but what if i play
b4 b5 yeah that's a that's clever why did i put this bishop here okay i'm gonna play b6
if you play c5 i'm gonna take and play d5 yeah but but i'm gonna take with
but i can take and play d5
i was going to take like this okay ah so you can open everything right that's what you want
not sure let's go for this one hmm
okay you can play b5 i can also do this okay i didn't see that one coming at all that's
interesting actually i'm just greedy yeah you want to play bishop b7 right and just go for it there
here we put dramatic music in the video yeah notice here
not easy at all okay let's play this one
right there's no
wow really want to defend there maybe play d4 at some point
who's winning who's winning oops not yet okay i'm not resigning yet
i'm trying i feel like i'm playing like a very nice positional game yeah absolutely
i just feel like it's a smart game like with
queens bishops everybody yeah i'm gonna sacrifice i guess if not that i'm completely lost
you can take that rope yeah i'm gonna i think i have to rent if you offer okay
what are you gonna check maybe well not sure about it but i'm gonna try it's fair okay i'm gonna
take can i take a knot i don't know can i take or not okay let's go okay i don't want it it's clever
i don't wanna even that's very interesting as well knight g4 is possible okay let's play like this
i don't know what's going on okay i have no clue what about what can i what you can take it
no i'm gonna go here okay defense and offense
that's not very clever actually
yes i don't have a queen queen wow i didn't see that one
okay i guess you can really hope yeah is to check me there but it's it's not gonna be
that's interesting wait what how do i stop me what
oh my god what just happened
i can't i have to play some defenses
oh but now it's all about time
okay here
no i have no time
that was very bad for my side oh my god was that i you how did you do that oh game two was
so upsetting i was playing the game of my life with my queen and my bishops on the queen side
expanding building around my c-pawn but somehow i just completely underestimated his attack
on the other side of the board i decided like to to to kind of get cutesy and not allow his queen
and i should have just been a bit more cutthroat i don't know i i i i don't know what happened there
but i let him back into the game i mean i thought that game was completely unlosable and i did lose
it all right it's one to one damn it but we're gonna bounce back in the third game here we have
something different wow wow okay oh that's no i can't always do the same you know before
okay not c3 um
okay that's what you want right going back i don't know we'll see if it's what i want very soon this
is very annoying just don't let my bishop get out um 22 bishop h6 oh you're going to play 22. okay
good thing you told me i had i was gonna well maybe okay yeah so 22. i still okay
what if i play in this crazy way i don't care oh wow wow really
uh i mean that all is risky it's very reasonable it's okay
now you want to third castle am i going this way no i don't think you can play g4 not not now
okay this is a very blitz open thing very very much for blitz
how can i how can i attack you i know that's not my responsibility
okay let's put my knight here yeah it makes sense actually we're about to play b5 or not
i yeah yeah yeah i guess i still yeah actually i thought my queen was trapped
i forgot i can go here
i'm not sure what's going on next c6 you go queen c7 right
no i'll just let my queen die yeah no it's yeah actually that would be nice for from you
okay a3 i don't want to play three i don't want to skip this but
yeah just okay let's go here but now i think
that's clever wow it's very clever i didn't see that as far as
knight c6 to this was a genius opening innovation actually very interesting if i play that bad
it's very good oh yeah i don't think it was very good but okay let's play this of course
i don't like my position at all yeah that's rude as well now you can't play g4 yeah you
don't have a pawn that's it okay i'll play this but it's very bad actually i've just realized
okay i'll go for this it's sad but it's probably a chance now ah
ah you want something some something there you're gonna make me
probably not but you can try the same as before i'm gonna try for sure okay hmm
at some point yeah i did not see knight before oops that's cool
okay i guess i don't want to play this movie
oh well i don't like this i mean i'm still we are still very good actually i'm gonna take that well
i can take on asics as well yeah that's what i'm a little bit worried about yeah yeah yeah
no what are you doing to my pawns but this one is very weak okay i can't have my pawn
yeah i mean you're very very safe actually okay let's see seven maybe that's risky
is your knight like trapped actually it is
uh it's not possible no it's possible maybe it is maybe it is
i mean this that was very clever oh my god okay queen
ah that's a good move
that was not smart
ah sorry how is the enigma school of rook and games
oh my god
oh my god is it check or not
what happened your time didn't go down oh no no no i'm sorry i'm sorry it's okay i just felt my
soul leave my body your time was point four i'm not gonna show you that was point four
and i pressed your clock and i was like okay he obviously will not make a move in time
and your time didn't move this one was such a heartbreaker because it was such
an interesting game i mean i kept my king in the middle and it got a little bit dicey there
uh when he found a way to infiltrate my knights were jumping around beating up his bishops
and then i had this nice tactic and i almost promoted but somehow we got into a rookie
game and this dude is so fast at the end i thought i pressed this clock and he had point
four on his clock and it just never moved it just never moved i never i had no idea rey enigma could
control time this dude picked up the time stone or something it was nuts all right all right let's uh
it's down we're down to one we've had some really good positions so far let's get the next one
okay i'll use to use stupid g6 not sure i'm gonna play yeah let's go for it i'm very boring
principled
this is i played this recently i played this in the game recently
yeah yeah it was with black i equalized i outplayed my opponent i drew with flat
yeah i was in my tournament so you don't know how to play with white right i don't
know how to play chess period that's right white black doesn't it doesn't really matter
yeah yeah yeah yeah i i these structures are very annoying
for everybody yeah actually yes for everybody um
i'm gonna go this way and now this way
yeah this is this is what i don't understand about this position okay let's play quintet
let me just give you your beautiful bishop wow yeah yeah you won the center right yes i
feel like stockfish would play like this you know just against the bishop probably yes actually it's
probably an insult to starfish something stylish stuff is what would they do with black pieces
no h5 but something at all no e5 it's just too much right e5 maybe where are you going to castle
it depends where you where you move well i'm talking too much
i'm not sure actually okay five wow yes
okay you convinced yourself yeah okay you want to go this way
i'm gonna take this one yeah you want to open the position
so what not that much
are you scared or not i mean my bishop is very
i want to open up the position for my bishops you know okay let's go nothing happens actually
this is this is looking very good for me now yeah well i'm gonna take this one
i think i'm gonna go here
can i take this one really you want to take there right one of us is wrong
that's the way it works because i have no choice
okay well if you survive this then you you deserve to win the match
what can i say oh my god really it's a v8
no chance no way no way no what happened i mean your kinney is also a little no my king is great
it's greater than mine that's for sure this is yeah it's not easy i mean i'm gonna take
your sisters would be cp8 wow that's possible
no i mean come on this is ridiculous
what's going on i want to sacrifice something i don't know bishop d5 rogue
you should let me do it though um go like this um maybe i would convince you play more solid
queen effect if needed okay um no queen of fate is ridiculous why are you playing
with me you speak english but maybe i think it does work i think you're fine this is not fair
oh my gosh
this is not fair no you cannot play like this okay well that's
annoying as well that's really annoying that's why i played it yeah okay let's go here okay i have
wow this is such an absurd position wow yeah yeah yeah
so what i'm completely lost actually wow queen v8 i didn't see that
okay now okay let's go here wow play two more moves i don't know maybe it's more than two moves
oh wow ah yes i have some contrast yeah i thought you were attacked i think you might be a genius
no i don't think so no what no what happened i'm just gonna take your pawns okay here here
here
oh no i know this strategy
okay
you win that was very good oh folks it was going so well and then i hung my rook to a pin i didn't
have to sacrifice on f7 or at least try to go for that big attack but i definitely had him in a bit
of a bind and somehow i just i let go i mean you see right when the game starts shifting i have 40
seconds and rey enigma has 20. but i let him off the hook he escapes and a huge blunder leads to
him winning the match the backdoor sweep he loses the first game and then he wins three in a row
and i owe the man one thousand dollars but if you stuck around this far in the video
you will know of a little bit of a plot twist we actually agreed to donate this money to charity
so i am going to be donating a thousand dollars uh to rey who will uh buy some chess sets uh who will
buy some clocks some supplies maybe even get some chess lessons uh for various programs in spain
visit them uh play against the kids and make some more content so it was a pleasure to meet
you rey enigma and your team as well and it was a tremendous fun and shout out to the marshall chess
club also for letting us play these games shout out to lance we were in communication with him
uh nice guy there uh thank you all for giving us that opportunity and if you're ever
if you're in new york city or new jersey or connecticut and you're looking for a
place to play some chess uh check out the marshall chess club that's all that's all
i have for you i hope you enjoyed the video i'll see you in the next one get out of here