ladies and gentlemen on march 2nd 2021 i participated in twitch rivals hand
and brain essentially a chess creator was paired with a non-chess creator
we were the brain and they were the hand we would say the name of a piece and they would have to
move that piece the events prize fund was 35 000 i was partnered with cutie cinderella and we had a
very tough group one that included hikaru hikaru's teammate was hutch 1400 rated about 600 points
higher than cutie cinderella but in this video i'm gonna take you through our head-to-head matchup
give cutie cinderella her deserved credit and then i will analyze the game and if you're curious why
i took a few days off youtube well all i can say is i'll talk about that at a later date
it's all good you got don't panic you're fine tonight
whatever just night you chilling it's all good yeah he plays the best way too he plays uh that's
a good move someone followed my stream and then i actually didn't even follow just popped in and
told me to go die oh yeah oh not even not even oh thank you for the note thank you thank you thank
you kind stranger thank you for that you know you know what i feel uh queen you know what i always
feel bad about if i roast someone and then they like resub and then they say sorry i'm like um
i know i feel i hate when that happens they just won't let me see stuff and even if they
like see me scrolling up and clicking on like message deleted they'll be like stop cutie
king yeah yeah yeah i definitely i definitely do that like i always do a chat history segment
let's go knight can't decide if i want to develop my b night or if i want to set something up on my
by moving this knight over to e because if i do that
then if he for some reason took with his knight i could take the pawn and my pawn would be staring
at his bishop or if he took this bishop i could take with that but it's the beginning of the game
so i should just develop oh come on he actually played that move i hate both of those guys like
oh that's a good move all right um let's say
queen i think this is the better move because i'm
developing question mark i don't know what i'm doing
i'm gonna have to start going a little faster just oh but he also has that there
hmm yeah i just simply don't know if i go here
i go here chad
he takes i take he takes i think this is interesting but probably bad interesting but
probably bad yeah okay interesting but probably bad mm-hmm yeah i feel bad for your bishop okay
i have to get your bishop out his knight is is very strong there in the center i'm trying to find
the best move not just for right now but also like down the line uh queen really i think you're
gonna like what i'm about to do okay i cannot confirm whether i like that or don't like it
if he takes my knight i get his rug he doesn't take my night we trade queens and then my
knight is in a cool position that i like because then i can take his bishop
i mean you're up a pawn against the 1400 on move 14 welcome to the big leagues okay let's uh
let's say let's say night okay i want to nope that's not what i want to do i want to
i want to get where no sorry i'm trying to look for forks and there aren't really any and i'm
curious i need to use my other night i use my other night i'm staring at his night that he would
have to move or he would have to trade with me so i think that's safer i guess so i'm gonna do that
okay i guess yeah you're up a pawn against the 1400 how you feeling uh stressed let's make a
let's make a pawn move here not 100 sure on which one i need to get my bishop out so i'm
going to say this yeah it's like the first game remember the very very first game of the day you
did like this night jump and then you just got kicked out mm-hmm yeah if the less of
those one-move night night like night jumps just attacking because like 800s will blunder but 1400
like he will he will defend he'll just see it stop it and then kick you out so i think this
is a better move because then i have more eventually to maybe fork these rooks i hope
we'll see chat starting to do something a little crazy over here i see i think the move is this
i can't decide if i was supposed to go a or b but i didn't want to take that i would take me
probably 45 seconds to figure it out so so i need to count if i go here
one two freak very aggressive so they're also gonna start playing fast i feel like so pawn
okay i really need to count in this section over here i'm like struggling to figure out
okay maybe that's fine i feel so awful i'm just sitting here like
yeah i don't know um dude my heart is pounding there's a micro war here being fought um
let's say pawn i'm stressed um the issue is if i get trapped in over here i might want to move
my h pawn so then i can take that eventually or i can just try to promote rook i was just
staring at the rook if i go here and then he takes i take that's pretty good i'm doing it
king hmm my brain okay yeah king
oh okay so clearly i'm not going where you want me to go uh king move
i think it's this i think i don't know a king [ __ ] hell what is it
oh i gotta go back king dude i don't know i guess so it's the only part a spot i haven't gone
rook oh my jesus christ i or i i don't want to go back because i go here rook oh no king
ah kill me oh they got us they got it king oh man king and now he's the flex
the flex oh man dude you were winning oh you're such a beast it was so close you almost won
so i told you i would analyze this game and i will because to be honest cutie and i had
a very difficult group and when your opponents are double your strength uh to score 95 accurate
games against them while they have to go 97 to beat you is extremely impressive the whole point
of this is to motivate all of you who think that if you're ever stagnating you are getting better
and you will have these games where you can stay toe to toe against people who are supposed to just
wipe the floor with you right so we begin the game with what's known as a stonewall
dutch now a dutch defense could begin with d4 f5 d4 e6 and f5 but cutie plays it like this she
always kind of mirrors she plays a queen's gambit declined and then she goes for a stonewall so
the benefit of a stonewall defense is in a in a world where you get everything you want right
like this you will control the center square from their night and you will control the
other center square for your knight you win the battle for these two squares this f pawn
allows you to move your rook to target the castled king and you have this open line
maybe you'll go g5 and g4 and so on and so forth and clamp down here in the middle of the board so
that is what a perfect stonewall looks like and you can even play the stonewall with the white
pieces i have a video out on it but what are the drawbacks of the stone wall all your pawns are
on the same color which means that one of your bishops hates life and it's this bishop on c8
whereas this bishop gets to roam freely but the problem is when you play a strong opponent
strategically speaking they're gonna target that bishop immediately and they're gonna trade it
which nerfs your attack and now well knight to e5 and the problem is black doesn't get any of
what they want so how do you adapt to this right strategically speaking black is doing not great
here not great right so we play knight d7 and now they play f4 they just clamp down on the position
at this point white is slightly better because white has the better bishop that's literally it
it's the fact that our bishop is pretty bad black should now consider kind of phase two you're not
gonna get an attack you shouldn't take because they just fork you so i told cutie to make a queen
move and she did um because you know you also have to realize when you're playing hand in brain
while i do think a move like c5 is the best move here for black to shatter things could get
a little bit wild so you know queen here queen e2 and now knight b6 at this point when i when i was
telling cutie to make him knight move i meant you know jump into the middle she does this hitting
this uh they push and now she finds knight a4 and actually finds the fact that you can take on b2
to be honest i think taking on b2 is better with maybe the knight but it just was a little bit too
complicated so we trade everything she brings the knight back uh and then you know they they make
this trade so actually black has emerged from the opening up a pawn and as this game was progressing
cuties just calmly upped the pawn now of course here it's better for black to play a move like
knight to d5 just get this trade why is this better because you activate the e-file like that's
it and this is guarded and you stockpile pressure on the e-file and you fix your pawn structure qt
plays knight g4 these one-off knight moves aren't great you probably should try to avoid them
rook to e1 b6 great move making a pawn break on the queen side they play h3 we back up trade trade
and a4 super important to play a4 otherwise black plays b5 so a4 i said knight takes and she took
with the c pawn slightly better again to take with the e pawn because at least you open up the file
for your rook so you need to think about these kinds of things right like but this is completely
fine except now we obviously have a target and they go for that target immediately with the rook
but we double up we defend everything and we're chilling now at this point what black needs to do
black needs to go trade the a pawn for the b-pawn infiltrate and win the game using this past c
pawn right so they play g4 we take it's in my opinion better to just reinforce the pawn but
i said pawn and she didn't know what i meant so pon pon and now g6 the problem is that when they
go here they do something to our structure called fixing our pawns making it impossible for us to
move and also making it impossible for our king to move up it actually would have been better
here to play h6 because this is a big difference this is a big difference because we can play h5
and then g6 and even though our structure is locked we have a protected pawn that can maybe
move down the board later in the game but rook a e4 which is a bull a bold move we play bishop
a big trade happens they don't trade rooks okay they don't trade rooks and we play rook a2 now
the mistake that cutie made here in the game uh was the fact that she tried to look for checks
in this position when you've got pieces like this uh you need to go for the weaknesses like you just
need to go for the weaknesses of course taking a free pawn is also not bad so they play rookie
one now at this point the easiest way to win this rook behind the pawn and push the pawn so i told
her pawn she pushed they immediately played this move uh here you can win by playing rook to h2
it's not about giving checks it's about finding the right check you can't take now because check
the king has to stay guarding the rook and then wherever it goes you have the second rook so it's
about the right check it's not just about giving check right so out flanking the passive king and
if king to g1 you do something called rooks on the second rank or you come and defend your pawn right
what ends up happening in the game is she goes for a rook trade which is the wrong decision because
they don't have to take if take take check that's good but the problem is that they can go here
and now we give too many checks and when i told her king she moved the king in the wrong direction
of course you want to bring the king this way because if white tries to win this pawn you got
rook a4 king d5 and you can try to win the that pawn in return but what ends up happening qd
spends a too many move shuffling and this is still a draw the craziest thing is this is still a draw
but i knew that at some point they were going to create winning chances and they did uh they did
create winning chances you know what it's very difficult because i know that they want this
and if we go king e7 there are some positions where d5 might be possible and you know even with
the trade of rooks like we might get to a king and pawn end game that if i tell cutie to move
her king she either goes here or king d7 and we might lose it in in in the king and pawn end game
but ultimately what ended up happening as you saw there from the video they got the king in and even
here it's still a draw it's still a draw because you have to monitor the pawn but ultimately this
happens d5 and even this position is probably still a draw but yeah you've got to go king e7
king e7 would have still been enough to hold because for example king d5 here and then king e7
there's rook d3 check that we can play king e5 and rookie 3. that's the key is that you have to
keep giving checks so for example king d5 rook d3 king e4 you can go like rook d6 for example
and even if black white is able to win this pawn it's two on one and it's a draw but cutie played
rook d6 forgot about the check and they were able to get uh get the rook but a very close game
so close and uh i couldn't be more proud you know we almost we almost took down hikaru ultimately
he carwin hunch went on to win the uh the the big grand prize uh which i believe was five thousand
dollars so you've been mildly clickbaited if you made it this far on the video and i apologize but
that's how cutie cinderella and i uh almost took down hatch and hikaru uh in the 35 000 uh twitch
rivals prize pools so like i said hopefully this was a bit inspiring for some of you and uh
yeah the underdog doesn't always have to lose i'll see you in the next video