Chess Grandmasters Solve Puzzles In 10 Seconds!

[@John_NYT]

Hikaru: "Very straightforward, It's obviously x y and z checkmate" "sorry, incorrect" Hikaru: "I knew it wouldn't be that easy" XD

[@sujay750]

Peak autism

[@joebennett7174]

I think he meant the solution he found was too easy to be the actual answer, he probably thought that somewhere in his mind.

[@marianorivera3272]

@@joebennett7174 OR, he’s just a showoff who got caught on his bullshit.

[@Chamojcs]

@@marianorivera3272 bro called hikaru a showoff 💀💀💀💀

[@parzingtheasian]

chat, i don't care. i don't care chat, i really don't care. i just don't care chat. chat, i really just don't care

[@rando9232]

2:07 "I'll go for Ne2+, which is just perpetual" Anish never disappoints.

[@amiramir-fk3bj]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@HassleHoffer372]

Bro gave a draw to a puzzle

[@D.U.D.E-]

Drawgiri strikes again

[@vitojohn8168]

Drawish giri

[@clementdenis4212]

Best sense of humour in the circuit.

[@darkrai4627]

Anish is the type who would offer a draw to a puzzle💀

[@darkrai4627]

@@tfwthewhen offering a draw and finding a draw ina 'puzzle' is a different thing 😂 but yeah..

[@ashtimbog]

@@tfwthewhen anish would find a way

[@augustarcana]

@@tfwthewhen its... a joke

[@PantheraLe0]

😂😂😂😭

[@pb6270]

​@@tfwthewhen it really does though. the absurdity of offering a draw 'to a puzzle' is the key element in the joke. he wants to draw so much that he will do such a thing, treating even the forced win puzzle as yet another opportunity to draw.

[@nlaszg]

Anish Giri: where the hell is a draw?

[@ChessMasterNate]

Cut him some slack. He has not been playing drawish chess lately.

[@AlbertZonneveld]

You do not get to 2790 drawing much unless you only play Magnus and then drawing is fine

[@rinslow]

bahahaha

[@redskins973]

Those jokes got old years ago. He deserved some shit after the 2016 candidates, but he’s no longer the most drawish top player. He wasn’t even the most drawish player in the video (Wesley’s chess has less fight than Anish’s)

[@sagittarius5466]

Same old joke

[@Gaxar913]

Duda aboslutely nailed it

[@yellowslime4145]

Polska Gurom

[@kryst1492]

Tak, polska gurom

[@FirstnameLastname-hg5gt]

sin duda (read it in Spanish)

[@bergrugu]

EVERYBODY SING A SONG

[@oashky]

aboslutely

[@GearsDatapacks]

Everybody else if they can't get it: Think about it for a long time Hikaru if he can't get it: "I can't get it without thinking so just tell me"

[@fdart5854]

Balancing the desire not to lose with the desire not to think

[@Epyxoid]

@@fdart5854 And the second one is important because of faster time controls. So he basically just sets the bar high for himself as a speed demon. It's classic Hikaru. Always worrying about his speed 😁

[@swsmp]

he didnt want to think too much so he just castled

[@CrAzzyWak]

Well he's not a chess player anymore, he has a REAL job now, so it's not like he's going to waste his time thinking or anything.

[@Jan-de-Munck]

He just doesn't care

[@Philson]

Hikaru would have got it if he didn't premove.

[@pheronactus]

legendary comment

[@w花b]

This man litteraly doesn't care, that's what you don't understand

[@c2c001]

gchh

[@brickathon7322]

@@w花b how do they not understand? They obviously made a joke unless you jokeception me

[@oashky]

looks like he didn’t ask his magical ceiling for help

[@theunknown21329]

It takes me 10 seconds just to figure out which side I'm supposed to play

[@SAM_UL]

The most incredible part of this video is how they memorize the positions in their head after looking at it for 10 seconds.

[@dhammarosi]

For just that they prolly needed like two seconds 😅

[@tobiasvanavelon9684]

What's really interesting is WHY. It's also why they can consider a position for a few seconds and note that it's probably constructed rather than coming from a real game. There is a purpose to placing each piece on each square in a game, and you can reconstruct several variations for how you might have gotten to a given position. Thus, some positions that are invented for puzzles will have a distinctly unnatural look that is obvious only to someone who has seen those patterns over and over again and can thus notice their lack. So memorizing the board is not memorizing the board as much as it is noting which tactics have been employed so far. Once you've done that, there are only a few pieces left to remember the coordinate position for - a now-isolated pawn that has moved 3 squares forward for example or a bishop that is in the center of the board because the position is post-capture and it has not yet been repositioned. Having an understanding of the flow of the game in this way makes it relatively simple to play with your eyes closed, or blindfolded, because your understanding enables you to not need to remember.

[@KatieLifts]

@@tobiasvanavelon9684 I believe there was a study which conducted that chess masters are way better at memorising positions that could've been reached in a normal game compared to a normal player. However, when the position is very chaotic (perhaps, randomly-generated), there is suddenly little to no difference between the memorisation skills of a normal player and a master. This really highlights how much of a pattern recognition game chess is.

[@fos1451]

@@KatieLifts I need a definition of what normal players are and what masters are, because as a 1700 I wouldn’t be able to remember these positions in my head and these are not chaotic position

[@KatieLifts]

@@fos1451 well, in this case I meant most untitled players as "normal". I'm not sure where the division begins, but as a 2100 (lichess), I'm unable to memorise those positions as well. It probably all depends on the amount of time you have spent studying chess.

[@DanacaoZumbi]

it's crazy that at certain level the players see so much of the same moves, even the same "mistakes". Super interesting!

[@extrusix969]

Its because they all recognize the same patterns. To solve the second puzzle for example, you first analyse all the checks and you will quickly see that 1. Ra3+ bxa3 2. b3+ Ka5 3. Be2+ is almost mate but the King has a6 as an escape square. So you think of changing up the order to cut off the king's escape route and you come up with Be2. Now you have a mate threat already and you check if there are any ways to stop that threat. Rg3 to stop it was just not that easy to spot which is why most of them thought they hat solved it. After Rg3 I personally gave up and couldnt find Qf3. Hikaru shouldve tried a bit harder because it is quite poor for his level to only think as far as a 1600 like me.

[@TristanSune]

@@extrusix969 And did you analyze it all in 10 seconds?

[@BlackMoonMaster]

@@TristanSune i mean hikaru has double his elo, that's a gigantic difference

[@mtp_player]

@@TristanSune he analyzed with shown answers for 10 minutes. so yeah, hikaru is 1600))

[@TristanSune]

@@mtp_player exactly))

[@jackberding7654]

Don’t be deceived guys, Wesley is much better when he’s not multitasking (that being figuring out the chess position and figuring out how to be cute af around Nemo)

[@dav5593]

LOL

[@Fluxion11]

I think she threw them all off. Lol

[@justinbieber8028]

Nemo the baddest fr

[@xizumix]

😂😳🤭

[@DavidKfilmmaker]

Should have seeen when she interviewed him after he won this

[@pugsnhogz]

Duda's clarity of tactical reasoning and practical approach to problem-solving is one reason (of many) why he's produced some of the most brilliant games over the past few years, even against the strongest opponents

[@kaigankaigankaigan3905]

Make this a regular content! It's always good when GMs try to solve these

[@zenystyfn5670]

WE NEED MAGNUS

[@TheJayMoses]

I love how Duda crushes them all then admits to not liking puzzles. He’s THAT good.

[@richardsmith9615]

He clearly has put in the practice despite not liking them, very good lesson for us amateurs, really.

[@MaskedDeath_]

Nah, this is how chess is taught in Poland. You are pretty much forced to do puzzles a lot, this is why he hates doing them. And that's also why he said he remembered each one.

[@soisaus564]

1:22 hikaru droppin straight up calculation bars 🔥

[@hardikjuneja1]

Holy sh8

[@zarbilzerian]

ok

[@maaarcosfavelaa1696]

So accurate hahaha

[@Krzyslawus]

peak comedy

[@ThreeDings]

what the hell how did u know i was eating LOL

[@xerofire]

Me reading this while eating dinner: 😯

[@Wiiillz]

Hahaha

[@benjamin11235]

it’s not just knowing what to do that blows my mind, it’s that they can keep the position in their mind after looking at the board for 10 seconds.

[@bluedoggo483]

me too, i cant even remember what i ate this morning

[@jefft5854]

The second one was very hard. It's amazing to see how quick Duda and Giri reach the solution.

[@joharysalim8586]

Sam Sevian is so underrated and underappreciated he'd easily solved it and no one talks about it.

[@GamersUnityPH]

Cannot disagree

[@LePingouin92]

Absolutely

[@derkuhschubser6488]

But just with a 7up in his hands

[@Phurngirathaana]

​@@derkuhschubser6488 I'm winning!

[@KenFullman]

He's the only one I'd never heard of, until this video. He's obviously very good. It's a name I'll now remember.

[@ranjeetrajput4577]

This is interesting concept,i would like to see more of it.

[@julbor9002]

there already is a first one of these on the channel :)

[@Caracazz2]

"It's OBVIOUSLY bishop d2... so easy" "Wrong" "Oh..." Priceless

[@Kavan5797]

Duda knows the board like back of his hand. This guy is crushing it. Answers like yeaaaa man it’s Wednesday what’s up

[@alfaro30]

I love how Hikaru says “its obviusly” and gets it wrong

[@Em4gdn1m]

Anish: "If it were my game, I'd go Ne2, but that's just a perpetual no?" Yep. Sounds like Anish.

[@nhalsey99]

"It's chess, right?" Anish, you are the best.

[@rossgeller6650]

Hikaru is a freakin machine ..his brain premoves automatically lol

[@froyo11]

Wow! It's actually very cool to see all of these high level players getting the same answer wrong, but also having the same answer. It's amazing.

[@Clifton100]

Such a great video. Do this again!

[@camreese]

These are great we can see them in real time calculating and how their personalities differ love these vids

[@leeh2503]

Should get Magnus vs Neimann in puzzles

[@MajorAddiction]

Beads or no

[@florentino5486]

@@MajorAddiction puzzle speaks for itself?

[@stephbug1619]

i think the "poor" guy is not i:n a good shape right now, wonder why ;)

[@lucoa460]

@@stephbug1619 he is butthurt

[@virtualfairy9784]

1. d4 Nf6 White to play and make Black resign

[@derekrios8691]

Wesley is so 😁funny... "obviously this is the training that I needed " 😆 🤣

[@elementsofphysicalreality]

It’s crazy that Wesley is as good as he is and possibly doesn’t train as hard at tactics.

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

because there's a distraction

[@OhWaker]

​@@AlexandrBorschchev oh this is probably why women's chess is a separate category. There's that distraction element that can make people not think with as much focus

[@PartidasInmortalesdeAjedrez]

It is incredible their capacity to solve puzzles.

[@sptc7616]

2:10 Drawnish Giri instinctively looks for perpetual check.

[@FT029]

For each position I gave a wrong move that one of the grandmasters (at first) suggested. The 2nd one was completely shocking, great puzzle selection and really liked the interviews!

[@hermaeusmora424]

The second puzzle is actually insane, because while I like duda's explanation and how they showed it play out, it only plays out like that if black "blunders" and takes the queen. I wondered if it is possible to survive by not taking the queen and instead running away with the king which turns out to be the best attempt at delaying the mate in 6. If you do that it plays out like this: Qf3 Ka5 Ra3+ Ba4 Qxb7 b3+ Rxb3 b5 Rxb5+ Bxb5 Qxb5#

[@tomd9819]

Isn’t Qb3 faster than Qxb7 there? King has nowhere to go

[@Ringcaat]

@@tomd9819 Ah, but what about ...Qc6, guarding the pinned bishop?

[@TheLivingJon]

You seem to understand this second puzzle better than me, can you help me understand why they were making such a big deal of Bd2, Rxg2? Wouldn't white still have mate in 2 with Ra3, bxa3; b3#? Edit: I Just realized after posting this that the move was Bd2, Rg3; not Bd2, Rxg2. Oops.

[@drunkpanda7661]

@@TheLivingJon ah legend, this was giving me a headache, had the same predicament

[@ScuzzMB]

Ah, GMs sometimes make the same mistakes we do. Nice to see. That queen move to mate is insane in the second or third puzzle. I could have studied that for 2 hours without finding that.

[@larsdev.271]

The point is to cut off the rook on the third file while allowing the rook to checkmate because of the bishop pin. I would have found the bishop move but QF3 is just too much man.

[@lmfao3293]

@@larsdev.271 they just have 10s to look at the board and have less than 1 min to solve it cuz they dont wanna wast time

[@dragondish904]

Anish had to checkmate and not draw the position... Most difficult if you ask me 😂😂

[@charliehegarty5478]

This was great, they seemed down to do more puzzles as well and we'd love to see that

[@ym1359]

As usual, Hikaru became overconfident in the 2nd puzzle.

[@rafinha15d]

Interviewer: "a..." Hikaru: "It's obvious"

[@rizaabila4865]

Duda is underrated person in chess... Just him can beat magnus winning strike in classical chess..

[@sammy_trix]

Wesley So shows his Filipino side when he was off duty. That funny aspect of a barkada is something that could easily lighten the day.

[@sugarwraith888]

8:55 So uses his engine in his pocket to solve it real quick

[@juancabral2003]

Hikaru on disrespect: "you are so bad, can't believe you guys" Hikaru in front of Nemo: "sorry miss Nemo, you get me anxious"

[@rogerbalasubas6437]

Wesley is a diesel engine . Needs time to warm-up and he's unstoppable after .

[@bowlofwhiskey]

9:33 “Did anybody get the second one?” More like everybody, Hikaru 😂

[@catarmy6927]

I usually need 10 seconds to be sure if I am playing White or Black in a puzzle.

[@williamhenning4320]

So and Giri didn’t know the checklist of checks, captures, and attacks lol

[@aldelatorre9775]

well thats a 2900+ rated puzzle yeah konda hard but yeah hahah

[@th6n]

@@aldelatorre9775 No lol I solve 3000 rated puzzles for fun. The puzzles in the video are a million times harder.

[@thegreatgojousatoru5846]

@@th6n whats ur elo

[@apaarshrivastava]

Giri solved 2

[@th6n]

@@thegreatgojousatoru5846 1900 in both blitz and rapid

[@hans1783]

It's always something unique like sacrificing queen as part of the answer. Basically these puzzles makes them get used to thinking outside the box cause that's where the best answer lies.

[@rip8867]

ngl its a similar playstyle to cheaters

[@RyanHarris77]

My favorite in this competition is Wesley because I can relate.

[@musayevmurodjon6859]

All of them respectful chess players. Anish and Hikaru are always funny men.

[@rakshanm834]

Wesley is nice and vibing and also has lot of humour sense

[@mixowski9071]

Duda absolutely nailed it

[@napiernygma8075]

02:55 i can feel Hikaru pain on that one

[@chessloversonly]

Awesome video! Love how Nemsko is the interviewer! Keep up it!!

[@Rosario2488]

Everyone: puzzle is solved. Me: uhh what colour to move?

[@Krzysio290]

Every top player is great player, but I really like the Duda's chess style, aggressive, creative, risky. Beat regards to all you!

[@GMHikaruClips]

6:27 WHAT?! YOU'RE GIVING HIM THAT ONE? *flips table*

[@aarontigner6500]

That Qf3 puzzle was insane.

[@3alexander3]

"...here's how Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and more got on..." Was it too hard to write two more name? What's the name of the guy sitting down right?

[@bidilz]

bottom right is Sam Sevian and top left is Wesley So

[@sottx8268]

The description is disgraceful.... Thanks for the answer

[@domwitsauce]

comment I was looking for

[@3alexander3]

Thanks! I didn‘t know how Sam Sevian looked like and couldn‘t find a way to understand who that dude was)

[@tahmidjahangir7527]

So wholesome. Feels good to see great minds work

[@TruthHurtsFAFO]

As a borderline expert player it boggles my mind how effortlessly these GMs can complete this. No way I could memorize this position in 10 seconds let alone solve it

[@methdxman]

What’s your rating?

[@lucoa460]

@@methdxman 1

[@HexxuSz]

@@lucoa460 mittens detected

[@docxyz1042]

​@@lucoa460 most dangerous rating of all time

[@j_o_k_e_r9187]

The difference it makes to Hikaru's brain when a beautiful girl is asking you to do a puzzle is astonishing

[@greatvaluebleach7606]

My boy Duda killing it

[@blueboy4803]

Duda is a beast! Damn!

[@alkinooskontopodias5919]

Hikaru: Did anyone get the second one? Everyone: Anish and Duda nailed it. It was only too hard for you.

[@Ringcaat]

But see the above comment; maybe Hikaru saw as far as Qf3 Ka5 Ra3+ Ba4 Qxb7 b3+ and found it complex, while the others missed the pawn check, for example. This one really was a lot harder than the first or third puzzles.

[@junghaein_nextdoor]

I need more of Duda vs Carlsen tbh

[@jeff-8511]

Amazing how they can calculate without even seeing the board anymore. They just memorize the position so quick

[@joehempel5472]

It's so hard to not root for Welsey So. He's the awkward friend in your group that's always so nice 😂

[@EduardoMarra84]

This is so fun, should be a playlist...

[@gcdsuite8471]

Krzysztof Duda is definitely badass

[@code_of_honour]

interesting how they're all great but think about chess differently

[@Dots3rd]

Make a escape room that requires people to solve chess related puzzles somehow for them to escape, would be cool to see.

[@sense5972]

The thing that they look at her iPad for like 5 seconds and memorize everything and they just solve the puzzle and or make changes is insane ….

[@joaocampeloribeiro6038]

"Was there a puzzle?" So was distracted by this beautiful lady..

[@sfurules]

I like how Hikaru get's one guess and they are like NO... But other people get like, 4 tries lol

[@e.i1476]

Nah he had a second try but chose to be told the answer because he "would have to think for a couple of minutes" before getting it right

[@lutimstrickshots9253]

2:41 My two braincells rubbing against each other: "1.Ra3+ bxa3 2.b3+ Kb4 3.Bd2# 2...Ka5: "I'm about to ruin his whole career"

[@onnoquinten2944]

I've seen another clip of Wesley doing some insane puzzles without seeing the board ( someone tells him the pieces ). You can tell any chess player takes their skill seriously, but probably just an off day for him

[@rubireyes242]

Wesley So was Shy because of her. His body language

[@MarkB-vp9ki]

Duda nailed this but shout out to Sam who did a great job too.

[@discharm210]

You can see that the type of tactical player like Duda can solve this more easily

[@Raven_Ray1]

I like how they play the same wrong move like they share one brain at different time.

[@sydneysitwala]

Getting Nemo to do this is brilliant for many reasons.

[@America-ev4rk]

Nemo makes all the guys blush.

[@BerryFin]

aw hell nah he's good but he's not that much better

[@princevonny]

Sam Sevian is an absolute beast.

[@Thetiersofmadness]

The thumbnail looks like Hikaru is looking at stockfish while the others are just doing it mentally😂

[@mixowski9071]

Damn Duda nailed this puzzles!!

[@eduardobuitrago]

Wesley answering correctly after adjusting the antenna of the wireless device in his pocket. You have to be incredulous nowadays 😂

[@nathanweston9681]

Lovely Wesley! I don't recognise the GM in the bottom right, could anyone help me please?

[@louielogronio3463]

US GM Sam Sevian

[@noahdelarosa4485]

Sam sevian

[@jacovermeulen8739]

Would love to see more of this !

[@picky_lp187]

Hikaru didnt get no help at the second one

[@testingsomething5280]

cry

[@deathmeter4049]

@@testingsomething5280 pry

[@meron7700]

He literally asked her to say the answer. Also, So tried to solve it for like nearly a minute while Hikaru gave up in about 10 seconds lol.

[@forblocking9484]

05:37 you're nailing THIS one

[@arnoldo8642]

Lol and right before when he says the line is a beautiful one and looks right at Nemo as he says that

[@richardsrensen4219]

this shows how hard it is to calculate precise in chess even among those top GMs

[@williamw8590]

Its so funny how they all had the same thought process on the second puzzle where they think it's bishop d2 and then realize 10 seconds later that there's a rook trick

[@Siraj-123-q5p]

Bruh 💀 i need 10 secs just to see where the pieces are and they are solving it 😭

[@anivibes7466]

We need more kind of content like that! :)

[@ItsZim0]

2nd puzzle proves that human are risk adverse to sacrificing queen for 3+ moves to mate

[@zedarmy4444]

Do more we loved it!!!!

[@colescalisthenics]

That's insane that he can look at it that shortly and then memorize where the peices are!!!

[@garlicbread8116]

Hikari; i wonder who else struggled withe the second Everyone else: YES i got it