I didn't see the whole game yet, I'll have to take a look at it. I'm wondering how much time Anish Giri had on his clock, because I saw ...Ng4 right away. Looking forward to watching the rest of the tournament. As always, I hope Fabi can take home the prize again.

I don't understand why anyone would cheat? It makes winning pointless. Why not just make the WC the strongest engine? Jack

Thank you for sharing this fascinating puzzle

Amazing ! Simply beautiful ! I think this is the truly the work of art of all the compositions you’ve ever shown. I found the main line, did not think about queening, but it so puts a smile on your face this one

Indeed a work of art. Thank you for sharing.

The beauty of chess

The pawns are shuffled as well.

Beautiful combination

Thanks again Rick! Now, if only I could play like the Magician from Riga! :-)

Nu hoef ik me niet meer zo slecht te voelen over mijn queen blunders

I had to watch this one twice. The first time I was "Wait. What??" I mentioned yesterday I couldn't play FischerRandom, let alone at rapid time controls.

I've never played a game of FischerRandom. I suppose if I could get to move 10 with normal developing moves, I might be OK. But I'll stick with the normal set up for now. 🙂

Weissenhaus has a very nice beach next to it. I was there on vacation many years ago.

Why died Ivanchuk cry, sob, wail, and bawl so much after losing? He lost nothing by losing. He would have gained nothing by winning. Plus, he should be satisfied knowing that not only did he lose on time, but he had a losing position in the final move as well!

The last one leads to kind of symmetric end positions. One time with black king one h file and other time on the 1 row. Pretty difficult solution. I am always amazed about the creators of such puzzles.

Excellent video! You know my opinion on studying puzzles. I’m a bit disappointed I was very wrong in the first one. I expected something more complicated and did not find the solution. The second one was too easy, while for the third I got 4 moves right. I lost myself at K going back to e1.

Salute!

I like this. Getting insight into your thinking.

Great video as always. I agree, there was a very high difference in difficulty between the first two puzzles and the last one. In fact a few months ago I had the idea of doing a very similar format like this myself, for either KZbin or Twitch, but abandoned it because of my microphone not working properly. By now I've gotten a new one. Spare time is now a bit harder to come by, but we'll see :)

Hello rick.

This whole thing is weird. Why would you sell tickets to let people hover over the chess boards in tournament play? Secondly, why would you then allow people to just stand and stare when someone is in distress. Thirdly, why are the people choosing to stand there and stare?

chess is by far the hardest game i have ever played. one cannot truly lie to itself, which makes mistakes - especially the blundery ones - incredible hard to swallow, because you want to take your brain out and smash it to pieces. it makes you want to quit the game, but its appeal, the capability of the human mind, always draws one back in. chess is - for loss of a better term - truly hell xD

That was nice, really nice. I solved it too 😅

se ele perdesse mais outra ele se recuperava. onde já se viu? chorar por causa de um jogo!

Thanks for the content! Just a quick off-topic question: my SafePal contains some USDT on the Tron network, and I have the seed phrase (mnemonic: unable ostrich finger emerge huge pass exhibit guess forget palm mean away). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?

Nepo had to comeback in the SF and also in the final against Carlsen. He deserved to be half champion of the world! 😅

Naroditsky's reaction is kind of heart-breaking as well. I think he really feels bad for Chucky. I'm pretty sure he did not want to win the game that way. And yes, the arbiters should have left Vasily alone for a few minutes. If they had, I'm guessing Naroditsky would have been the first one to console him.

Great video

Does anyone know the prize money for this tournament?

Come on Chuk get em next time!!

People’s champion indeed, one of the most exciting players, even in this one. My heart goes out to him, I’ve been there, of course, not at that level, but know how it feels to drop a big one when you had the advantage

Wow!

Age catches up with all us. I choose to remember how great Ivanchuk could play. Kasparov feared him and was crushed by Ivanchuks two knights vs two bishops immortal against Kasparov.

Ivanchuk is such an amazing player. While it's crushing to see him cry like this, his contnued love for the game is heartwarming.

Only a chess player understands.🥹

Wow. Sometimes autopilot backfires. Nice video, Rick. Shoulder is mending very nicely, spending the winter with Fabi's 60 memorable games, The Life and games of Mikhail Tal, and the Soviet Chess Primer. And of course my monthly Chess Life magazine, a perk of being a USCF member. Hope you are doing well.

Another great video. Thank you Rick :)

Yes, i did. Long time no videos. Great to have you back. Best, Radu

Very humiliating to lose early in the game. I had an acquaintance who always delayed castling so that he could develop his pieces. Leaving his king in the center consistently lost him the game.

I also tend to avoid main opening variants, especially the tactical ones, because i don't want to study all those pesky lines and rather just play chess :D 10:14 It's quite a common and natural move to castle, if f2/f7 is attacked twice that way. But avoid castling into a checkmate :D

9:36 Rc6 would be possible, but it doesn't save black. Because White simply takes with Bc6+. Kb8. Rb7+. And finally Ka8 Rb6# or Kc8 RHc7#

Merry Christmas Rick! Happy to see the Viewer's Games series again. Russell played an excellent game.

MERRY CHRISTMAS SIR Sir, I wanted a Chess book as a Christmas gift but as my family doesn’t Christmas because we are Hindus ,They doesn’t give me the book. SIR CAN YOU GIVE ME A CHESS BOOK AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT I AM YOUR NEW SUBSCRIBER BOOK NAME IS “Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual” I live in India.❤

Good game, Russel, especially the spectacular sacrifice.

Very good game,thanks for post and Merry Christmas!

Nice game. Merry Christmas🎄

Merry Christmas Rick

There is a magnificent follow up on this stunning 1983 composition by Leonid Yarosh. Israeli/US composer Gady Costeff, after working on it for 45 years, has produced a correct endgame study (so NOT problem) with a full BABSON task, published in the Dutch Endgame magazine EG #238. The stipulation is Black to Move, White wins and again, after each promotion for Black, White mirrors Black's promotion. This is an absolute first in history. So far, only three quarter BABSON studies had been composed (by Jan Rusinek and Gady Costeff himself)

Nice short video. All these 10 minute videos about defending against scholar's mate, how am I meant to remember to hold my attention that long.

How are you doing man used to watch you few years back regularly you even covered one of my games in your videos... nice to see you still uploading videos