2022 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz: Day 1

[@cjh-bk4pn]

love that firouzja is just wearing a t-shirt and jeans

[@francescobruno418]

He always does

[@gardenvariety9957]

That kid is my favorite chessplayer

[@francescobruno418]

@@gardenvariety9957 how can one not love him

[@brentonh1626]

The commentators are all great!

[@chessclips982]

firouzja - shankland game was crazy !

[@x0cx102]

1:13:43 svidler also shares the opinion that fabis second half play in candidates was largely due to him believing that he needed to get first to have any chance playing wcc and if he had aimed for second he likely would have gotten it

[@roxyknight4909]

GM Peter Svider is back ... very cool

[@kwhd559]

What happened to Maurice Ashley?

[@gunner4life568]

he said he is taking a break from chess commentary this year

[@ahmetmehmetali9977]

Dead

[@lindalarracas606]

You should give a team name to the commentary team, to be passed on. The best ever commentary team and format!

[@Mike-cp1tj]

is Hans Newman playing?

[@ekkonomicalxd]

Peter is great

[@janetoss]

49:00

[@fadhilsyarif5374]

That was fun!

[@krident]

very great video

[@donchandler3671]

Looks like Levon is exporting his shirt styles to St Louis.

[@RogerBranch]

I think Fabi's play started going downhill when he and Rustam parted ways.

[@4jsfarm142]

Where is wesley..

[@aminsarabi5508]

Its a tour, he already played 3 tournaments of the tour, he cant play here

[@ahmetmehmetali9977]

Killed himself

[@4jsfarm142]

Ok

[@pingerfrints6716]

I think Wesley is preparing to defend his world chess 960/Fischer random championship in Iceland I think.

[@DRD363]

Hopefully Gukesh, Pragg or Arjun can get an invite to the sinquefield cup next year.

[@4jsfarm142]

No indian..

[@aminsarabi5508]

This is elite tournament

[@venomsexy8335]

For doing what? What they achieved for invitation bunch of kids with rating farming and online rapid results , this is for elite players

[@4jsfarm142]

Hahshaha thats true..

[@MannanGoel]

@@aminsarabi5508 Jeffery Xiong lol

[@bariseker4193]

How do you find Commentators? Write down under this comment!!

[@hellostranger2012]

svidler commentating!!!!!!

[@Aarvaagen]

Disappointing day one for Hikaru. Hopefully he bounces back in the next rounds

[@CWPWWRESTLING]

Miss Maurice Ashley

[@daveren5419]

these commentators need to slow down and stop talking over each other. it's fine to guess moves, but for non rated viewers (the vast majority, i assume) spit-balling 5 different lines without showing the audience any of them, isn't too helpful

[@daveren5419]

@@3rdrail931 yeah i debated calling him out specifically but didn't want to be too hash. you can tell he's just excited and loves the action, which is great; he just needs to rein it back a little and think about the audience.

[@hardcorecode]

@@3rdrail931 I disagree, put a little more effort into your chess and then you will really appreciate how rare Peter Svilder is. You are getting a free master class lesson!

[@cristobalbustamante4549]

Peter Svidler talks sooo much, as though it is a race to comment every possible move.

[@hardcorecode]

His is a walking chess encyclopedia. I love hearing him talk!

[@cristobalbustamante4549]

@@hardcorecode Yes, I agree. But Yasser is starting to analyse a variation and Svidler immediately starts talking over him and continues himself the analysis, it's a bit annoying. Check out in KZbin the press conference between Svidler and Carlsen in the Candidates 2013 and you will get my point.