dude YOU TALK TO MUCH...let the guest speak or interview yourself...cause you stink here

Ame la historia.

A fantastic series!

Hans is chess' white knight :D

Лучший выпуск

Who are these cheaters in the top 10?😂

A great chess player and a true patriot of Russia. Thank you, master!

Thank you so much Levitov.

Каспаров аж дважды предал Родину. Сперва СССР, потом Россию. Ай, маладца.

Илья и команда,СПАСИБО огромное.А что,усё?Последняя серия была?Гарри Кимович мог бы ещё на 29 серий рассказать)Очень интересно было смотреть.Будем пересматривать)Здоровья,Мира,Благополучия всем.

Большое спасибо.

Karpov and Kasparov, the two greatest geniuses ever !

Thank you for this brilliant series.

Very insightful!

These two fantastic books about Tal and Petrosian....

Каспаров - великий человек. Надеюсь когда-нибудь смогу лично пожать руку. Все выпуски смотрел и слушал с огромным удовольствием! Вдохновляющая работа! Спасибо всем от души

Thank you so much for uploading the great content!!!!!!

I respect very much Kasparov's knowledge about the history and global culture of chess. He doesn't just know a lot of things, he has a feeling for them.

Superb. Fitting conclusion!

Thank you so much Mr Kasparov, thank you so much Mr Levitov and all your team; What an historical moment. Too strong, too great.

Левитов гений!!!Все вопросы которые хотел бы задавать я(во время интервю),задавал он!!😊😊

Don't you post too frequently? People who could be involved will be frustrated and start ignoring videos.

Did kramnik ever publish a white paper (or something to that effect) on his mathematical methods/findings? I hear that he hired a mathematician to back up his claims of "statistical improbabilities", but rather infuriatingly, I cannot locate any such report anywhere.

When is the movie about Kramnik coming out?

Great 24-hours interview! Thank you for subtitles!

An absolutely fantastic series, especially for those of us who grew up with Kasparov as our chess-hero. Kasparov-Andersson 1981, Hubner-Kasparov 1985, Karpov-Kasparov 1985 game 16 and game 24, Kasparov-Karpov 1986 game 16, Kasparov-Karpov 1990 game 20, Kasparov-Portisch 1983, Magerramov-Kasparov 1977 (?!), Kasparov-Chiburdanidze 1981 etc etc. His games are a treasure trove without limit. Shame on Kramnik for never wanting to play the rematch after he got a free shot at the title after losing EVERY qualification cycle AND to Shirov. He seems to have gone crazy now, but that´s a whole different topic.

Great series! Will this be the last episode?

Great series! Will this be the last episode?

Первый!

Karvov feom Russia wa easy?

Капец Каспаров махинатор, ему не в шахматы играть, а в напёрстки

Thnx a lot

Shirov deserved to play that match. Money is not the center of chess. Chess is the center of chess.

You're Kramnik. You optimized your entire life around becoming world champion in classical. Then, you optimized having the highest Elo second and the most money third. (Or perhaps you optimized these three differently, depending on the type of person you are.) People who stream themselves playing chess all day are optimizing creating situations that bring the viewers. Events that make people click their KZbin videos. Imagine if your only concern was to achieve wins on chessc against opponents of a certain rating and nothing more. You don't pick opponents that will challenge you, because the viewers don't like to see their hero lose 50% of their matches. You play no increment as it's easier to win lost positions, especially if you're quick like Hikaru is + you create interesting complications that burn clock time like he does. Getting a winning streak means a cool video with lots of clicks. You might do many different things with a mindset like this that you aren't considering, because this type of stuff isn't your current goal and has never been your goal. Perhaps, Hikaru tries to play people from timezones that are late since tired people are easier to beat. Perhaps, he does preparation against no name players specifically in blitz, because he knows he encounters them a lot. Off stream, maybe he's going over the openings of all sorts of random people that a "pure" chess player would have no interest in playing and beating repeatedly since they are not in the top 20 worldwide. Maybe, Hikaru doesn't do a rematch to someone who drew him, beat him, or to someone who seems to be playing drawish chess rather than fighting, risky chess. So he's intentionally picking weaker players that are in the mood to lose (with a small chance to win) rather than in the mood to tell other people that they drew Hikaru. I believe your #1 error in your argument is the assumption that Elo perfectly predicts the outcome of matches. In reality, if you pick any two chess players with their particular current mood, their play styles, their opening repertoire, the tricks in blitz they see/do not see, their gaps in chess knowledge, etc. and have them play each other, the results might deviate from what their Elo difference would predict by a large margin. I'm sure you know well that Shirov never beat Kasparov in a match. Doesn't knowing something like that tell you that Elo isn't a perfect model, and the actual results of a pair of specific players going at it for 1,000 games might differ than predicted? Elo is there to approximate something, not to tell a person exactly how the future will play out. There are other variables too like a player could be drunk, playing worse than their Elo would predict. Maybe, an opponent is having a bad day for a million possible reasons like drama in their personal life, having had a bad night of sleep, or anything else. Perhaps, when Hikaru is feeling off, he plays people even lower than normal, taking precautions not to put up a bad show for his fans. A person might play nonserious openings just for the fun of it, but Hikaru knows exactly how to win against it. Or maybe Hikaru knows an offbeat line that he correctly predicts this and that player will falter to with high probability. Perhaps, Hikaru has an internal model for how good each player is at blitz, and he plays it like the stock market. He plays when a person is overrated and does not play when a player is underrated. The list of real variables someone like Hikaru might be observing and optimizing around to farm players is vast. It's an actual business, he has a good mind, and he has undoubtedly invested a good deal of time into how to farm efficiently so that his viewers keep coming back. Put yourself in Hikaru's shoes and try for a second to consider what you would do to farm. I'm sure you could do it too if that were a concern of yours. (Although blitz is a young man's game, so you likely can't match how well Hikaru or Alireza does it. You still could improve the number and size of your own streaks.) It's just never been on your radar, because you find it to be a waste of time. While you see it as a waste of time, he sees it as a way to earn money as a job. I caught wind of all of this drama recently and watched your videos, read your blog posts, watched a few chess content creator videos about it, etc. I think people took your original concern that maybe a proper statistical analysis can prove some cheating in TT. The issues really started when you assumed Elo is perfect to predict matches between any pair of players, using it to calculate stuff and then set your sights on Hikaru with that assumption. Does classical Elo predict well? Probably, because everyone showing up to tournaments have prepared to the max and are there with their game face to win. It probably predicts pretty well who will win a classical chess tournament for that reason. Now, casual blitz that has so many different variables like I discussed up above? You're treating chessc Elo with as much respect as you treat FIDE classical Elo. For so many reasons, a top 5 Blitz player in the entire world can farm people quite well if they put their minds to it, doing stuff you just haven't ever thought of or considered as you've never had as a goal to get as many streaks as possible. That's basically his job, so he has optimized for it. He likes to win a bunch against people with a big enough chessc Elo that his crowd thinks, "Wow, this is amazing." That's it. If you put yourself in his shoes, I think you will start to understand why his feats are quite possible when a person of his talent that has worked as much as he has puts his mind to it. PS I hear you don't premove when you play blitz. This is an essential skill as you burn a lot of valuable time not doing that. Hikaru, Magnus, Naroditsky, etc. all premove. If you apply your mind to the theory of premoving, you might also discover some new techniques that matter only in chessc blitz matches that will boost your performance. You've got to look at all the variables and optimize against them. Also, cheating in online games has been a thing ever since there was an online game and people playing it. Everyone wants the cheaters to be caught, but since it's a game of cat and mouse, it's an impossible goal. You have to accept this if you are going to play games online. Even in your videos, you detail how easy it is for a real chess player to cheat in a way difficult to detect. They're not just doing top Stockfish moves at depth 28 every single move, and as they are a chess player, they can choose not to play an engine line if it looks weird. It's an unsolvable problem. Every company that deals in providing an online game tries to minimize discussion of how many people are cheating. They just give it their best, and they might even do a little PR thing here and there saying fabricated stuff about the percent of cheaters and whatnot. It's a business after all, and they make the most money when people choose to play. A game being overran by cheaters is a reason many would not play. It is what it is. I think focus on cheating by titled players in money tournaments is an honorable discussion, but I wouldn't push for chessc to be honest about how many people cheat overall. It's not a realistic thing for them to discuss in an honest fashion. That's just the way it works. Part of the efficiency of how their systems work is simply the illusion that their system works. A titled player who would cheat might not just out of fear of getting caught. That's likely the most effective impact of their system to be honest. And the parts of their system that do actually catch people, it must stay secret. I was surprised they even published a report for Hans. They can't publish 100-page reports about 10 players a month or something. It would just show how rackety their system is and how it doesn't work as well as people would like. Their best defense against cheating is 1.) active detection with camera requirements and stuff like that and 2.) People fearing their magical system detecting them. I think your suspicion about Hikaru is misguided though. Perhaps, your suspicion about others is as well, because Elo isn't a perfect model. There are many variables to consider when one particular person plays another particular person in a game of online blitz. As a simple example, an OK player might play a bit better against a legendary player simply because they have studied their blitz games while the better player hasn't studied the other person's games. Very many variables to consider. I think chessc having camera requirements likely eliminates almost all titled players cheating in tournaments. The statistics you're bringing up are devoid of all the tiny details that statistics ignore that are important in a situation like this e.g. worse players studying the games of better players but the reverse not happening.

I’ve been beaten down to 1800 on lichess and the reason I don’t report it is because I’m paranoid that it’s an Ai and I’m probably not playing a human So it feels like I’m alone all the time The cheating is awful but I’m getting better at beating them but they most of the time really try to win and if you get too down on time you have no chance You have to keep the game going long enough and fast enough so they get bored or cocky

Kasparov is a great player, he is younger than Karpov, but it is obvious that he has a worse memory than Karpov. Karpov underestimated Kasparov, and the weight of the great player. However, no one played like Karpov, I mean the style.

Amazing episode yet again! Thanks a lot for this work 👍🏻

Incredible how our hero explains first that Rentero was the wright man and second that he was the wrong man for the cycle. The chess players ego is unlimited.😅

Many many thanks for uploading the great content!

Great stuff, food for one's soul!

It is truth

I like Hans but the fake accent is so cringe. The constant “uhhh” or “let’s say” like he’s trying to think of the English word lol. Next he’s going to say “how do you say, uhhh”

Marvellous video, as they all are. On a point of information - the photo at 58:29 is of Leonard Barden, the famous English master & journalist!

Please make a dual audio English language options please 🥺

Sicilian Najdor defence was worked out for Draw, Especially the variant 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Qb6! Its a draw so White may try 7.Qf3 probably a piat, once more? Whats your- greatest expert- opinion? I have all your DVD s and alll about,Najdorf, and a, all of them of course, please try to take out politics about we maybe can never agree because im pro Putin, You are not, but Im interested only in Chess. 6.Bc4 is not perfect 6.f4 is not perfect 6.f3 seem to be a good move, but very passzíve, maybe as i played 6.h3 followed Bobby Fischer of course, but first i played did not knew about Fischer,, first i played 6.Rg1 and i showed it Portisch Lajos, the variációs became after 6...b5 7.Nd5 similar i was 17 years old then.. If you may have any answer for this, would be big pleasure, Thank You Great Mamaster. SORRY i was so great fan of Fischer.

Garry cheated Vishy in 1995 and then baselessly accused deep blue in 1997. Lol. Like Magnus. Cheated Alexandra Kosteniuk, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alireza Firouzja et al and then baselessly accused Hans.

Really a fantastic series, it will be watched many, many years from now. Imagine having series like this with players like Tal, Fischer, Alekhine and Capablanca? A very valuable documentary. Thank you!

Beautiful episode

Again, I cannot thank you enough for these marvellous videos, and for the subtitles without which I would miss a great deal! On a point of information - the game which Karpov describes at 34:36 was not played at the Alekhine Memorial tournament, but in the 41st USSR Championship, in 1973.

Мажоры и красивые шахматы,каспаров развалил шахматы,,,,