today ladies and gentlemen we have round 11 of the tata steel 2021 chess tournament the
rest day the final rest day i should say is done and now we're down to our final three
rounds going into today anish giri is in first place by half a point ahead of everybody else
but he's got a game with the black pieces against none other that is bromance partner magnus carlson
we're gonna kick that yesterday anish in his interview said i'm terrified but he also said i'm
terrified of playing everybody and then we have a couple of other very interesting games i will
show you time stamps on the video player let's go magnus carlson plays the move e4 and each gear he
plays e5 not looking to expose the night or which uh you know he has a course on but the night of
has been getting crushed in this tournament so and each goes for e5 they develop classically
with the horses both bishops come out in c3 black plays knight f6 and now you know d4 is uh is the
way you play this aggressively with white often times you lose the e4 pawn center explodes but
these guys know what they're doing when all of the craziness happens so magnus plays the move d3
anish geary castles and and magnus goes down like four or five layers in the database here and plays
the move b4 this is not a very common move it's not a bad move by any stretch of the imagination
but the thing is that you know early on when you extend your pawns like this
they can just be targets you're bringing your pawns closer to your opponent's territory
and after knight d2 you see a niche who's fully prepared with with development plays the move d5
he plays as aggressively as possible uh and magnus actually backs up to b3 and anish finishes his
development without even what what was what was that my god without even taking this pawn
aneesh finishes his development magnus plays queen to c2 now we have a trade and bishop d6 officially
no games left in the database is a brand new position so let's see what happens
h3 attacks the bishop anish says there's no need for me to trade this for no reason rugby one
super cryptic stuck stuff going on here i gotta say like why are you not castling
magnus i i don't know my kids are watching not my i don't i don't have kids but you know students
this uh this is not good a5 nice move from a niche making uh magnus decide what he's going to do with
the b-pawn if you take i'm going to take with a with the knight i'm going to trade my knight for
your bishop plus if we trade i have an open rook so i'm going to play a3 so the thing is if magnus
plays b5 in this position to try to attack the knight when the knight moves again you've just
extended so far you can play a4 this is probably the best way to play this position so now my rook
is still blocked in but this is chess is a game of decisions right so that's why magnus plays a3
but this allows the niche a little bit of time and now anish himself plays the move b5 clamping down
on the c4 square and the big question is is going is going to be if magnus carlsen can successfully
play the move c3 to c4 for now he castles anish drops his knight back this is called a reroute
his knight can't do anything on c6 so it's trying to get to another more useful square queen to c8
flexible move uh gets the first of all the queen off the d-file if there's ever going to be any
sort of pressure it eyes this entire diagonal uh g4 for instance for white you know now the queen
has has some vision there uh difficult also to move this knight so for example if here you know
if magnus plays the move knight f1 there is bishop f3 gf3 and queen h3 so that's another way to stop
magnus's development that's where magnus plays the move queen d3 rook b8 defending the pawn on
b5 from the queen we get knight to h4 this is uh you know very instructive way to play the position
trying to play knight to a5 maybe we'll see knight to g6 and what's interesting is that it doesn't
play knight to f5 if you play knight two five black also gets knight to a four you know it's
a give and take so instead he trades and he and he has a new knight new knight is gonna try to
do the dirty work rook d8 hits the queen and uh anish giri another fine example of pawn play on
the other side of the board magnus brings out the bishop to hit the knight anish brings it
back knight g3 and this uh this allowance this what is that a word what magnus allows here
it's not good very uh squalid situation here for the bishop on c2 i just learned that word
so i'm trying to use it in a video to act smart it means extremely unpleasant so the bishop on
c2 just really isn't isn't doing much and anish actually said in his interview it's very perplexed
that magnus let him do this if you take on c5 and you make me take with the queen
then this is not under any pressure but at least your bishop stays alive right
what happens in the game is that the bishop is completely shut out and anish is able to just
kick out magnus's bishops activate his queen even make this trade because again what do bishops like
open space and this bishop is stuck in an apartment with no windows as i
said in my last video look at this this bishop just never moves again
when's it ever going to move again when's it gonna move again hello can someone call the bishop on c2
magnus carlsen got his bishop on c2 shut out of the game and it literally never moved again
and then the players just repeated that's that's you know they're super jams what are you going to
do they get to a it's impossible for anybody to make any progress here uh fiona asked after if
anish made this draw from a you know position of strength you can argue that here you know
anish has more potential with his pieces but the problem is that if anish is ever going to play
just hypothetically speaking like let's uh let you know let's bring the knight back
let's deactivate this queen further uh let's go here you know let's i mean i'm trying not
to change the position too much but for example let's say let's say anish tries to make progress
with his pawns right to play the move f5 you know getting some trades going this is only benefiting
white like you're not supposed to open the position for the guy that has the bishops
even though the position is completely fine for black like that's why they repeat it because you
shut the bishop out of the game but you're never gonna get to this no one can ever get to this pawn
you're not gonna have enough time to somehow sneak around and ho ho maybe magnus won't see it
you know but magnus gets his bishop shot out uh and then each gear effortlessly draws the game so
kudos to him a high-level game of chess but relatively tame game but now you know we have
to that's our appetizer as you saw picture of the thumbnail now it's time to get serious ladies and
gentlemen we have arya and sorry the number two player in the world ah not not yet in norway
in norway see if i hadn't caught myself i would have seen some comments you said in the world
gotham no that's fabiano carowana number one handsomest player in the world though versus
andreas panco recently a super gm that's an unofficial title in chess once you cross 2700
uh pencil has done it huge congrats to him we have a ruler pass d6 knight f6 and bishop d7 very weird
there's no bishop on c5 there's no pawn on b5 not the usual stuff it's very very strange and unique
so notice that as a beginner you might be thinking get my knight into the middle but these guys
they play pawn up because if you have a chance to get two pawns in the center it's good even if you
use a building block and yes panko plays g6 so he turns the position into kind of a king's indian i
don't know what the king's indian defense is after this you got to go look up king's indian defense
learn it it's great fantastic opening for black so when black has the bishop on g7 this kind of setup
and you know tary plays bishop c2 so officially like no more moves in the database and knight h5
super common idea we see these knight jumps onto the h file to get back into the f-file uh but tari
goes takes takes uh and has his own reroute planned with his knight now the bishop sees
the knight coming into a four so we get knight f4 knight e3 doesn't want to take just yet king
to h8 very clear what uh yasipanko wants to do maybe he has an idea to storm some pawns
so we get knight to d5 nice activation of the knight knight comes back to e6
and h4 same side attacking idea with the pawn yes pencil says anything you can do i can do
better it's officially a grand master game ladies and gentlemen both players have recreationally
moved the pawns in front of their king uh which you know you're not supposed to do but there's
gm so they make the rules and now bishop e3 so the interesting thing about this position
is that white is a lot better if you plug this position into a computer it says plus 1.5 which
means one and a half pawns why why is white so much better well this is how you evaluate
a position little mini lessons with gotham number one obviously material in this case
is the same number two king safety you could argue that black's king is a little bit weaker a little
bit i mean more you know that the pawns are tender you can identify more weaknesses as hard as it is
to get to them a little bit of weakness but number three and number four number three activity of
your pieces the future prospects of your pieces in this case you can't try to tell me these bishops
leave an impression on anybody considering neither of them has any forward movement
right so also white has moves like b4 so white is equipped to play on both sides of the board
h4 b4 down the middle white is controlling and dominating on three sides white has more space
which is the fourth category space pawn structure how many squares you control or fight for in your
opponent's side of the board so now we get knight to e7 the person with less space wants to trade
in some cases you can't avoid trades but you can transform your position in an advantageous way
in this case this would open this and this again that weakness see that weakness comes
back to bite so black can't take black has to maneuver meanwhile arientari just keeps advancing
he's like bro i can take as much space as i want you basically saying walk into my backyard
put your foot down this is how much land you own now right so we get a5 a3 he's trying to hold it
all together knight a7 little action there on the queen side and we get this position
take take but you know white is still better here white has more space on the queen side the full a
file and when you are in a worse position you have two choices number one just defend suffer
do your best impression of a buddhist and try to reach nirvana number two
you know you're losing four rounds in a five-round mma fight what do you do bite
down on the mouthpiece you go punch and that's what yusi pengo did he said i don't like this
position very much i'm gonna go f5 the problem is when you're worse you're not equipped to do that
so take take and immediately i'm punishing you for moving the knight uh sorry for moving the pawn
to f5 this square i've been granted access to and now you would think that he plays bishop takes
but no pawn takes why did he do that well if he moved the bishop this knight would get into d4
that's like the biggest problem the knight would get into d4 also this opens the h file so in the
future maybe you get up up and rook h1 and who's gonna guard this pawn actually the other thing
is this pawn just takes away squares so we get f4 from isipanko rook a8 rook a8 look at that danger
levels and if you take my rook i have check king g8 and double check and mate oh my goodness what a
dynamite move that is why i have a video on danger levels clearly ariantari reviewed that video
before he saw this game not you know that's what i think the rook a beautiful move forces queen g6
and now very simple take take and very calm bishop d2 and we see why yesipenko was not equipped
to move any more of his pieces on that side too many weaknesses everything's hanging everything's
hanging uh he moves the knight to a3 the bishop slides back attacks the queen queen takes g5
defending everything just for a moment but remember this open weakness queen joins with
the bishop bam bam bam and black resigned black actually has no way to stop mate you can't move
your king and if you slide the queen back to g7 it looks like you've done your job except you
die a very slow death here i play bishop c3 i'm gonna take on e5 and pin your queen to your king
and you can't do a damn thing about it i play the move bishop c3 you know i play it i screw it in i
press the clock i write it down and i look at you like i'm hungry man i'm hungry restaurant outside
closes in 40 minutes resign the damn game end this game right now and that's what happened ari antari
gets revenge for his countrymen andres pengo beat the norwegian and world number one but lost a few
rounds uh later to uh arientari which is one of the struggles of when you first you know crossed
the 2700 elo barrier you got to start beating on the guys that are you know 40 50 points lower than
you and they're really strong like that's what first has done really well he beats a lot of 2700s
he still struggles a little bit against magnus against you know maybe fabi he drew fabi today but
that is that is the path and i am not saying this from experience i'm not a member of the 2700 2600
2500 and even now 2400 club but what i'm trying to convey here is uh that is what it takes to
get up there you pick points from them withdraws every now and then you get a win but everybody
who you start who's beneath you on the rating ladder you stomp on him not actually that would
result in some sort of lawsuit i i imagine but uh that's what you do and for this last game speaking
of people who are on the up up and up we have jordan van forest who's got one of the highest
performance ratings in this event over 2800 playing uh pensalahara krishna from india so e4e5
okay we've seen this in every game today how interesting but this we have not seen
uh but this structure we have seen d6 castles h6 now i actually recommend for those of you
with playing this with the black pieces who still for some reason play the italian for both sides
you don't play the danish gambit you don't play the vienna you don't play the evan's gambit you
don't play the scotch you like these positions by the way if you like positions like this that
look completely the same what are you what are you doing do you pour your milk in your bowl
before your cereal do you drink your cereal you eat your cereal with water or something
y'all people are weird man but look this is how i recommend you play this position with black
well until he did that g5 there's a lot of really interesting games where black doesn't castle
and black waits for white to castle and then gets all of their pieces out and castles side
it will lead to a lot more exciting stuff i'm actually disappointed i thought harry waited
a little bit to castle king kingside i was going to hold it suspensefully but he castled kingside
on the next move um that's just one way to play the position but hari also plays this
position in an interesting way he plays knight g4 and then look what he does he plays king h8
and f5 very aggressive very aggressive this is how you should play you should make people
uncomfortable whether that's by kicking them when you play them physically under the table
or on the chessboard and it looks like he's sacrificing a piece but he's not really
sacrificing a piece because taking this knight is too dangerous uh just uh just to show you what can
happen you know queen h4 now the bishop the rug the queen the pawn the bishop the other rook when
the other rook comes in very bad so jordan manford strikes back in the center and jordan when forest
has shown a tremendous preparation in this event uh leads to a four sequence of moves where a ton
of things fly off the board and knight f1 happens and what is going on so jordan is down a pawn
but uh excuse me not down upon he's up a pawn of material he has a knight whereas pentala has uh
has the extra two pawns right so again if you're confused about what happened there jordan exploded
the position he played the move d4 e takes d4 happened all right we got h takes g4 f a d3
from hare krishna what harry krishna should have done here is played pawn takes g4 knight takes d4
and then g3 kind of enabling this diagonal he had the sacrifice still there there was the move in
knight f1 there's a lot of theory there's a lot of different complicated ideas but in general
the position that you get after all of this explosion happens is that white has the knight
black has the two pawns uh white is a pawn up not pawn down not point down but black has a lot of
pressure black has the bishop black has the queen black has the rook the thing is that you know
pentalic gives the knight so now if jordan defends the position in the right way
he's going to be fine and he immediately goes for a bishop trade then he plays bishop c4 activating
his bishop plays bishop d5 centralizing his bishop plays knight to g3 developing
his knight trades once plays queen d1 why do you play queen d1 well b2 is a bit of a target
he doesn't want his queen involved with it this is gonna potentially be a weakness in the future
so a5 uh let's also not forget that the pawn on a6 was hanging so we got rook a2
rook b8 rook d2 and queen h4 trying to hunt him down jordan finds the best move
here according to computer which is b3 moving the pawn out of the sights of the bishop and
technically the sights of the rook because now the pawn is protected by this bishop
and now it's it's surgical pentala backs up because otherwise bishop c4 was coming and
i was going to win the pawn anyway so now i just have one pawn and the rest of the game
i mean it was a very long game but watch so first he gets his knight out of the way no mate this
knight is the lifeline to the h2 square completely covering it now we kick the queen out now we take
this pawn on c5 a nice little flashy tactic gets the rook in cannot be taken because if you take me
it's a fork of your rook and your king so you've got to go here jordan calculates this all down
and transforms the position he gets an end game from a piece up situation to a spot where he's
only up a pawn look at that that's how you know it's a sign of a mature and very strong player
and queen d7 he uses his dominant piece activity to make penzala back up and look at
this everything in his position is tied together the bishop can't move the queen can't move because
it's guarding everybody and now jordan just plays knight to e3 who guards this pawn he calculated
all of this out into in advance and uh slowly but surely wins the second pawn advances even noticing
that his king is wide open where are the threats there's no threats he brings the queen back to
guard he activates the rook look at that look at that that's almost mate can't take because of this
and then queen h5 cold-blooded calculators are all out come and get my king bro come come and get my
king yeah i'm gonna run i'll be fine queen e6 and easy gets the queen trade and watch
as even with the passive king on the first rank look at that nice technique everybody gets a turn
you see that everybody gets to turn the knight the pawns each one by one don't just run one pawn
down the board and after rook f7 look at that even at the end the king got got involved right
so after knight age six pentala resigns because after he'll play king h8 i'm just gonna play a
five great game from jordan i mean what can you say absorb the opening pressure uh and when i
said that you know i i think that people should play openings like this that pensalas playing
i know you're gonna be like well gotham he lost the game so clearly we shouldn't play like that
no but that's not what i'm saying first of all you guys aren't gonna be playing 2700 level you
know grand masters in jordan van forest uh but uh things like this with g5 really throw people off
because people don't like to be attacked so i can give you a few bits of advice from this video
it's how to evaluate positions using that those four points of material
king safety peace activity pawn structure and who has more space and at the same time you know uh
putting people under pressure and not just lazily moving in the opening just trying to
attack them before they get comfortable that concludes the most exciting games of the round
of round 11 and tata steel 2021 and last but not least we will end with our usual these are
the standings and each giri still sits atop the leaderboard with seven and a half points out of 11
but now he has three suitors and they are fabiano caruana jordan van forest and alireza farouza then
yes pengo with a half point but then we drop a full point off a cliff there are two rounds
remaining ladies and gentlemen and tomorrow i will go full screen for intensity purposes tomorrow
aneesh giri has the white pieces versus alireza ferruga seven and a half out of 11 versus seven
out of 11 youth versus experience handsomeness versus uh height i think alirez is really tall
i would be a bad hype man for this match but i look forward to the recap video tomorrow