today's video is going to feature one of the greatest chess battles that you have ever seen
played between Nate Hale with the white pieces and Leslie foo with the black pieces as part
of the chess comm twitch rivals pogchamp events a friendly reminder before we get started that
both of these players started chess about a month ago and so while the game is going to have some
mistakes in certain moments we're going to try to make it instructive and still provide some
quality entertainment for everybody involved so let's just jump right into it Nady Hill
starts out the game with a London system and the players get out to this position from the opening
okay both castled both developing all of their minor pieces and playing in the center exactly
as their coaches have advocated but here Nate Hill makes the first potentially questionable
decision and backs the bishop up for a second now what Nate should have done here and kind
of an instructive moment right off the bat right after you get fully developed you've got all your
pawns out your pieces out you're castled what's a good way to proceed well you should maybe look
for pawn breaks and an instructive pawn break as early as this position is the movie for this
already puts black in a bit of an uncomfortable situation because if black doesn't take the pawn
white pushes forward or King both of these pieces if black does take the pawn then white recaptures
with the knight with pressure on this bishop pressure on this night and all of a sudden
the open rook on the e-file with the Queen on the opposite sides not to mention the fact that black
loses a pawn in the center of the board but after Bishop before the players traded and here loosely
in the same kind of situation not really sure what to do here because there are so many pawns
on the board how do you begin to make progress in this position hops the knight into the center and
white simply picks up upon a good weapon here would have been to maybe play the knight to h5
putting pressure on f4 or even begin some active operations on this side of the board remember the
Kings have castled on opposite sides and for that reason you can actually start to open these lines
for the rooks to calm down and put pressure on the King on the opposite side but we get to this
position g6 e3 f6 Bishop d3 Nate he'll uh you know kind of like a point sir he's not he's not
trying to throw any punches he's trying to be as solid as possible plate quickly and foosley in her
in her attempts to kind of stir the pot stir up some trouble place 'if I've but once again this
is a this is a moment where White's got for attacking pieces on that Square and is able
to pick up another pawn and get to this position now when you're up material you've got two ways to
play for for a victory number one is simplifying the position to an end game number two is to just
start a massive attack Naida Hill goes for number one he trades the pieces plays a nice solid move
h3 for his King Leslie plays h5 Queen d2 and now a peculiar move rookie six actually running into a
central pawn fort but in his infinite attempt to simplify the position a perfectly good strategy
Nate Hill trades off the rooks and we we get this position now g5 is a very aggressive move trying
to mobilize the pawns I wish black was doing this a little bit earlier in the game because of the
opposite sides castling of the Kings and from this point forward both players started to get close to
time trouble it was a 10 minute game to begin with they already made it out about 25 moves and just a
fair warning for those of you watching things are about to get crazy and if you're a chess
purist you might want to might want to look away or back up from the monitor because it's about to
get wild first things first Nate Hill busts out d5 which looks like a central fork but who's Li can
just take right here and instead she backs up the knight so Nate grabs the piece and place queen c1
but his queen is so strong he should be looking for a queen trade or potentially getting the
Queen further into the territory Queen c1 and now Knight of four attacking the bishop an excellent
move but in his attempts to move the bishop from from danger eight blunders 92 check we have to
blunder check you have to look for actual checks for your opponent right before you make a move and
disaster strikes but foosley plays g4 attacking the knight still a good move but not the best and
now g3 countered zagging the knight and because she saw that her knight was under attack she was
able to come up with this move all of a sudden the queen is lost all of a sudden the knight is lost
King e1 the game should be over in a few moves all foosley has to do is take this pawn which at get
in with the Queen and here are another crazy move queen c6 oh my goodness right in the line of the
bishop but Nate please check and after King b8 King Ditu now Foose leaves back at it she gives
a check she brings in the Queen she brings in the Queen again pick picking up some pawns pushes and
makes a second Queen and for a moment has an 18 point advantage now obviously this is the part
of the game that's supposed to be entertaining both players at this point had about 30 seconds
Nate had about a minute I think with the white side there's five second bonus now the way you
just win this game is you bring both the Queen's as close as possible to the King and you look for
checks and she did that right up until here she had to spot Queen f7 which was decisive checkmate
is either coming like this or like this and it's or excuse me or like this and it's over but here
in trying to pin the bishop to the king and in a deep tribe time trouble she allowed Nate to
promote a queen and continue to run up the board who this King she grabs the bishop Queen g7 again
a moment where you can just take the Queen get in front of the pawn easily winning but in trying to
hunt him down with the Queen's and make moves to not lose on time she blundered her own queen
and she's still winning after a little bit more shuffling all of a sudden it looks like nate is
the one who's going to promote another Queen and he actually managed to do so bringing the Queen
to secure the promotion Square and all of a sudden we go from 2 to 0 to 1 to 0 or 0 to 1 or however
you want to look at it I told you this game was gonna be crazy entertaining let's keep it rolling
now whose Lee's the one trying to make a queen Nate swoops in Queen CA prevents the pawn from
going any further King b6 the Kings got to come help both Kings running and she tries to sneak
the pawn past the Queen but Nate brings the Queen all the way down and takes now here of course the
night before was the best move but taking the knight now this is a stretch is a theoretically
winning endgame for white whether it's one pawn or two or even three the Queen is just simply too
powerful but you've got to keep bringing your king and here they did a pretty smart thing he
checked and was supposed to pick up this pawn instead he brought his King which is fine he
brought his King again and after a three he's got a moment here where he had to take this pawn or
play here and it's may but because his last move he was looking at b6 he decided to take the pawn
so a little bit of tunnel vision hear something beginners do struggle with but Queen b6 played
Queen b5 obviously a perfectly good move Queen a3 totally a perfectly perfectly good move but
as Grandmaster Rahman Hambleton says when you see made in one looked for better Queen b6 King a4 and
now sliding the Queen back one Square this little dynamic beginners like to keep a distance with
their pieces because you know the the mechanics of attack and defense are not as automatic Queen
g4 King b3 and now a good way to play a queen and Pont Queen versus pawn endgame get the clean on
the promotion square just put it there bring the King but again both players at this point
deep in time trouble and after allowing the pawns to get to a to Queens e4 King v1 Queen D one King
b2 tries to bring the King with the pawn promotes the final pawn promotes how many promotions is we
have how many queens were there in this game and after a quick set of checks the queens were traded
and both players reached the position King versus King and the game was drawn a fascinating back and
forth I think maybe the first draw of the entire pawn champs events a game where white was winning
followed by black was winning followed by white was winning followed by I'm not even sure at this
point how many evaluation swings there were but listen with two players competing in in in this
event and having learned chess just a month ago just just both under 50 games of practice overall
there was still instructive moments for all of us a ton of entertainment and we can't thank them
enough for participating in the pod champs event kudos to both of them for this titanic battle and
a draw seems like the fair results in the end normally in an immortal game one of the players
plays that are mortal but I think both of them played an immortal game today so congratulations
to Nate congratulations to Leslie and we hope to see them playing chess in the future