today we started the legends of chess finals and a very intriguing matchup between magnus carlson
and jan nipomnichi if you don't know the history between these two players jan had a pretty decent
score against magnus in fact i think he was at some point undefeated in classical chess
so a lot of people thought he was a legitimate threat gown also brings a very exciting playing
style to the board this was game three let's see what happened so the players jumped out
to a night or sicilian this also happened in the first game and without spoiling too many surprises
yan plays the move rogue g1 the rarity of this move really is astounding on move six in the night
or if there have been according to my database close to four hundred thousand games and rook g1
is played in less than point two percent okay so just about one tenth of one percent of total games
the idea very simple you sacrifice castling rights but you'd like to play g4 b5 g4 bishop b7 and this
crazy idea that jan played in games one and three daring black to take on e4 in game one magnus was
too afraid to do it and in game three he seemingly did some homework with his team and took and it
was the last mistake he ever made because this game was astounding 94 bishop e4 a4 so obviously
queenie 2 is an idea a4 played by jan nipomnichi magnus responds with a central strike and let the
computer preparation begin a takes b5 why is this knight not hanging spoiler magnus thought for a
while and played bishop e7 but e takes d4 let me just give you a couple of computer lines queen d4
black can defend the bishop with d5 or queen e7 it's too dangerous to move the bishop back
because of the maneuver rook g3 rookie 3 and no one can guard your king because bishop e7 will be
met with this move devastating your territory so if d5 were to be played the same little maneuver
and you cannot play the move bishop c5 because if you do i'm actually not even going to take that
because the engine gives king e7 is better for black because the knight is covering all of
these squares excuse me astounding right instead i'm simply going to play queen d5 you can't take
if you take the rook then i check you king f8 and i simply pick up this bishop and apparently
here i have a huge advantage because of your weak king and the fact that your rook is not actually
playing in the game another interesting variation is the one with queen e7 and you have to play
something like bishop d2 preventing queen before check which would have simplified the queens
knight d7 and rook takes a6 and something like this where once again white is dominating the
position a ridiculous piece sacrifice for central control and a very weak king on the
other side of the board so magnus plays bishop e7 but now comes the thumbnail of the video rook g4
what this move breaks every single principle magnus strikes back on b5 that's actually a very
interesting move disregarding this threat entirely the rook opens up so it's guarded but this allows
bishop b5 and here magnus went for a long think he can play king f8 after king f8 i'm going to give
you another engine line takes takes knight b3 and here if he tries to consolidate with g6 and
simply safeguarding his king a beautiful move rook a4 and there's nowhere you can put this bishop
if you move the knight i will take and the queen cannot guard both pieces so you need to move the
bishop if you move it somewhere to c6 like trying to trade then takes takes queen d5 and i'm just
never going to let you consolidate i'm going to continuously attack your pieces if queen d7
now i play knight c5 and you can't take you play queen c7 i play knight e4 you finally get your
king safe boom and and so on and so forth and i'm just constantly chipping away at your material
there's there's other engine lines my favorite is that if you play something like bishop b7 i can
still chase you and the computer here suggests the move bishop h1 and at that point you know
something is just wrong with computers and the way they understand the game of chess so in the
game he played knight d7 which is still a very dangerous move because you're pinning yourself
and we got bishop d2 anyway because now the rook is guarded this is still hanging but that doesn't
really matter bishop b7 now probably the most logical move here is the most human move of the
entire game you can actually pause if you'd like where would you move the knight on d4
correct you should move it toward the king that is i mean the bishop used to cover that square so we
play knight f5 castles and now this is my favorite part of this game here the computer suggests a
move that is so astounding you can try to get five guesses okay i'll give you five guesses
and i'm not gonna say something like you won't get it probably because on the last video some
guy commented that he was very offended by when i said that the viewer will not find it
it discouraged him and he threatened me to unsubscribe from my channel
so hi to you and well hopefully you guys will figure it out the computer move is rga4
what let me show you if the rook takes then rook a4 and this rook goes this way and if
there's another threat here there is another threat the other threat is bishop sorry bishop a5
and there's just nowhere to put the queen so for example something like g6 bishop a5 queen
e8 and you just take and the bishops dominate the queen the threat is bishop a5 they say okay
well levy that's great but what if i don't take the rook what if i play like knight b6 okay rook
a8 bishop a8 bishop b4 and i'm threatening this and i'm breaking through again with my bishops
in the game jan took and then played rook h4 which was incorrect according to the computer
again because of the move g6 but then here apparently queen g4 anyway
knight c5 and it should be noted that at this point magnus had about a minute okay he had a
minute on the clock versus 11. i'm gonna give you another chance to figure out the only move
in this position which wins for white according to the super computer the only move there's only one
now i'll spoil something before you try to think in the game we got queen h3 which according again
to the uh machine was not correct what was correct here is to play the move king f1
why because the idea is to go bishop a5 deflect the queen away from this bishop
but normally queen a5 would come with check you say levi why can't i take then queen h5
and mate okay why can't i play h5 because of a move that i will not spoil because it's what
happened in the game what if i play knight e6 and i consolidate nah bishop a5 anyway queen a5
97 kg7 and there's a beautiful checkmate rook sacrifice with queen to h6 and it's just over
that is why king f1 is the winning move in the game we got queen h3 which still makes a lot
of sense because he's going for the h7 square h5 played by magnus white to play and win i'll wait
correct if you haven't seen my chess tips video you really should
it's the rule of plus two when it comes to attacking you need two more attacking pieces
then there are defending pieces of the king in this position there are zero
this doesn't really count because there's no way to prevent this if rookie 8 g6 queen knight
three attacking pieces versus one empty king and actually after 96 in the game magnus played 96
and just resigned because g6 and you cannot stop mate if knight g5 i just take and if this this
here there is one small thing to remember don't just take the knight check the king
once force the king into a check and then check and mate that is how you would win this position
boomerang all right if there's anything you'd like to learn from this video besides engine lines
boomerang technique check the king force the king to the square you want it on
then go back and take on e6 okay and magnus played knight e6 and he resigned
an astounding game i i i i simply cannot say anything else about it now let me just
quickly spoil the surprise for you obviously h5 played by magnus but not the best the best move
was bishop takes g5 and here the moves according to the computer are rook takes h7 bishop takes d2
check king takes d2 queen g5 check king c3 again the constant thread of mate cannot be overstated
queen takes f5 loses to check here check here and this rook is lost and supposedly this king is safe
so you can't do that so queen g5 king c3 knight e4 check forcing king b4 allowing queen d2 king
a3 queen a5 and bishop a4 and this is a draw after the moves king queen c4 and king to a3 you cannot
go to the back rank because i will check you and check you and force off the queen and you
are just in a bad position there and if you play king a1 then i'll happily take this with a check
so you actually have to repeat back and forth bishop b3 also loses to check
king b1 knight d2 king c1 i take c takes b3 i get my rook and it's actually you who is getting mated
i'm not really sure what the lesson from this game is but what i will tell you is that this is
the only game that jan defeated magnus carlsen once again the final position of which was 96
and resignation with the looming threat of g6 after this they drew their fourth game
and magnus went on to win in the blitz segment but jan nepomnichi came to fight
and in this game in particular he trounced the world champion with some absolutely
mind-boggling chess so the question i have for you if you're still watching do you enjoy the
role of computers in chess do you personally watch computer chess championships what ideas do you
potentially draw from computers even if you're a beginner i'd be happy to hear your thoughts two
videos are going to appear on the left hand side and i'll see you in the next game recap