Brilliant strategy, deadly attack - Ding Liren vs Vachier-Lagrave | Grand Chess Tour Finals 2019

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[@tome57a]

Ding played right on the edge here. If he had been off by one tempo, he would have been toast. Extremely impressive.

[@tennisblood]

IMHO, One of the best games of 2019! Super cool stuff from Ding! What a player!!!

[@joaquincabeza]

Daniel, I´m about to take the IELTS tests on january, and I think that your videos are really useful. Let me say that your are a language GM as well. :) greetings from Argentina.

[@ythehunter755]

Joaquin Rueda I’m usually not responding about language, but given the subject. It’s “you are” or “you’re” not your are

[@joaquincabeza]

@@ythehunter755 well thanks! I just didn't notice that :D

[@PowerPlayChess]

and it's 'in January' - prepositions are difficult! Good luck :)

[@arvraghu]

What marvelous commentary! Fantastic analysis. GM King at his best, as was "King Ding". Game of the year for me, alongside Ding's masterclass against Giri @ Sinquefield, earlier this year.

[@alieskandari6036]

What a game😃😃👏. With his unique commentary style, GM King adds more spice to any games and makes watching them more fascinating. Well done 👏🌹

[@davidblue819]

This is how top players are supposed to play. This is why we look to them for inspiration. In a position where I and many amateurs would have found no path through the muddle, Ding Liren found positive ideas which he backed with great judgement and calculation.

[@yzfool6639]

I don't agree. MVL played an opening whose aim is to counter white's normal English Q-side play with a K-side attack. He chickens out and plays on the Q-side. Then MVL could have eliminated all of white's Q-side counterplay by closing the position on that side of the board, as Mr. King pointed out. But no, that would commit MVL to attack the K-side. So Ding gets the normal Q-side advantage you get in the English and MVL's Rooks are on the wrong side of the board when he needs counterplay. Caissa favors the bold, and it is poetic and ridiculous that MVL lost to a direct K-side attack in the Botvinnik System of the English. Top players should play for attacks when they play attacking openings. No Najdorf player in his sober mind would attack the Q-side or not close the Q-side in the Botvinnik like this one did unless he was afraid.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Yz Fool Harsh

[@bobby2ram]

Great game by Ding and a superb commentary by King

[@kojiattwood]

Was hoping for your analysis of this, thank you sir!

[@vzssb782]

9:00 "There is a clear division in the position between white's ambitions to take the A pawn..." Yo Daniel's got bars eh

[@mithileshwadurkar8809]

Sick bars

[@RangeWilson]

MVL was already struggling, with his pieces scattered around the board, but 34... f5 once again cemented its reputation as the hara-kiri move. It left the light squares around his King fatally weak, and Ding took advantage masterfully.

[@davidblue819]

That blocked bishop on h1, passively avoiding exchange and keeping a defender around the white king, looked so harmless. But after ...f5 it wasn't.

[@brucelee1723]

A very instructive game. Ding fascinates with nerves of steel and a strong belief in his calculations. In my opinion, a terminator from the stable of ex-world champions Botvinnik and Petrosian

[@Laarrshh]

Great analysis Mr. King. As always!

[@vegardhvidsten8560]

Fantastic! I really hope Ding will keep playing very well and that he will be the challenger in next year's world championship match. Thank you so much for this treat, Daniel :-)

[@Forest_Knight]

A brilliant analysis of a brilliant game. Thank you.

[@12Knaves]

Missed Ra4 at 9:30 haha, such a deft move to involve the rook in the kingside dynamics AND blockading that A pawn. Plus opens the possibility of a double up on the A file. Right until then I thought what was Ding doing, almost ignoring blacks kingside attack like they were nothing.

[@Drprathamchess]

Very nice analysis and also graphic design far better than before

[@gohain123]

Waw..superb game played by Ding Liren... brilliant...

[@fravatel]

Hi, I was just wondering: in the variation you gave at 16:50 (starting with 43...Rcb2 44.Bg4 Qe8 45.Bf5: won‘t this be met simply by Rxd2 winning? (46.Qf3 with the idea Qh3 and Rxh6 should be too crude after 46...Rxf2 47.Qh3 Qf8 there seems to be 48.Rxg7 Qxg7 49.Rxh6+ Kg8 and there should be a saving threat of Rb1 in many lines. But since it is late, I might be missing something...

[@skakdosmer]

"Ding is deadly". Absolutely.

[@doncar9]

Ding's play Reminded me of Petrosian at his best.

[@mithileshwadurkar8809]

It reminds me more of karpov

[@heamkiewwong606]

After move 44 Nc4, why the best next move by black was a3, why can't black move Ra2?

[@zeezmusic7245]

Wow what a beautiful game

[@MikeBassil]

Ding plays like Kasparov, Carlsen plays like Karpov. Is this history repeating itself?

[@mwangikimani3970]

Carlsen is a very versatile player, it's fashionable to pigeon-hole his style. He can grind endgames, can play technical positions and definitely play beautiful dynamic games (probably more like Fischer than Karpov probably)

[@jimgeary]

Ding seems to be approaching peak Kramnik. Tough to beat as black and deep strategic conceptions combined with accuracy as white.

[@chessdad182]

Deadly chess

[@Bagual133]

Mr. Ding is always a move forward! 🤔

[@doncar9]

Reminded me of Petrosian at his best.

[@sausage4mash]

that game had everything