He wouldn't resign... so I played 550 moves

[@dawidouss6333]

The funniest thing is that this was during the tournament, so everyone else was forced to watch this game before the tournament ended and the players could see their final standings.

[@szhzs6121]

funniest? or really annoying for players who wanted the next round to start?

[@lostblue5651]

@szhzs6121 which round if it was the last one, genius?

[@stupiditiusmaximus]

@@VedicOutlook I had a person who assaulted me several times outside and he was straight, which is why i believe all straight people should be forced to live inside their homes and not allowed to leave. /s

[@pearljam_1]

@@lostblue5651 still had to wait on final standings, genius

[@diegoschneider96]

I for sure love some classic generalizing classism in my chess videos

[@werdo9638]

You could have Played an extra 250 moves by forcing him to capture your queens

[@P.sherman45]

honestly this is genius lol

[@786sami786]

True

[@AtomicAndi]

damn, Aman is such a noob at this... he basically gave in!

[@SchighSchagh]

Aman left a _lot_ on the table. He made most of the pawn moves after only like 35 king moves.

[@kekwbrugmyhands]

@@SchighSchagh I genuinely couldn't tell if he counted exact amount of king moves before moving a pawn or not, but I guess it'd be insane trying to do exactly 49 king moves lol

[@vitahast]

there is a chance your internet will die or you will have a heart-attack. gotta play them odds.

[@Aizensosukke]

Best comment by far

[@MrDutto]

Or you forget to plug in your laptop.

[@andy02q]

As Amand played a somewhat random number of King moves around 40 there was a real chance that he actually does 50 King moves leading to a draw.

[@irjake]

@@andy02q There is no way he wasn't counting, or at least keeping track of the squares he had visited. His king never went to the 1st or 2nd rank, that leaves 48 other squares, if he just makes sure the king doesn't visit any square twice before he makes a pawn move he'll never hit the 50 move rule.

[@Stiles2004]

Dude did it for content. We should be thanking him

[@kimcostantino1051]

I think so too🎉

[@cpaniaguam]

Thanks from the heart, CM Assylov!

[@chrissondej6962]

This guy watched the Building Habits series - NEVER RESIGN!

[@AtomicAndi]

yeah, first they publish a course/series - then they wonder why people get THIS good 🥱

[@Maybeyoucandothis]

Started playing chess and ended up playing snake

[@NortonMalcontent]

They were both still in their opening prep too

[@Daniel-ng8fi]

this is the best comment, lol

[@AkilanNarayanaswamy]

If they have no obligation to resign, then you have no obligation to checkmate. I say fair's fair

[@P.sherman45]

the answer to the ultimate question "who is the asshole here?" is nobody both are playing within the rules.

[@truthboom]

The former fight to the last one standing, the latter should resign if one does not wants to win

[@konroh2]

Who has the intiative? Whoever does is obligated to play chess. Therefore Aman is the erring party. Why would the guy continue to play? BECAUSE THE POINT IS TO PLAY CHESS NOT DINK AROUND. Aman, you don't understand why someone would play around? What do you think you're doing? Sure, content, but you should thank the guy for the content, not ridicule his perseverance.

[@trollerskater]

One of the first things you (should) learn in chess is grace and part of that is resigning when you’re clearly beat. Some of you probably don’t realize chess was invented before computers. In a real life tournament a game like this would delay the next round and the whole day for everyone because you want to pout about losing. Very poor sportsmanship not to resign when you’re beat. It’s like fouling in the last minute of a basketball game if you’re down 30 points. Yes it’s within the rules but it’s not cool.

[@CiinnaSiinna]

agree

[@christophertenke-beckham14]

The king got some major cardio

[@juhonieminen4219]

LoL. Both kings did. One king ran a marathon and the other made hundred pushups.

[@iLikesTheCoke]

This is why there are more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe

[@adamshehata6466]

Thats not true lol

[@irjake]

@@adamshehata6466 It actually is true, assuming you understood that he meant "observable universe." The estimate for number of possible chess games is 10^120, whereas number of atoms in the observable universe is "only" 10^80.

[@ac4694]

@@adamshehata6466 bro casually counted how many positions are valid 💀

[@cegrewex]

​@@adamshehata6466bro is new to chess, math and other things that involve logic and numbers.

[@Bruh-bk6yo]

Guys, keep in mind at least 99.9999% of those 10¹²⁰ chess games are including a stupid 2 kings run across the board until reaching the 50 move rule, split by different games ended through resignation, repetition or draw agreement at any possible point.

[@alansmithee6273]

This works better when you set up your queen/rooks to trap their king on two bottom two ranks. Then every move, you either move your king (forcing him to move horizontally on the same rank) or give a check with your queen (forcing him to move vertically to the other rank). Now he can't pre-move, since he has to guess the 50/50 of check or non-check every move, while you're free to pre-move all you want. I find it makes people much more miserable.

[@HighlyCruciferous]

So much better !

[@josueramirez7247]

Genius!

[@HighLigerBimBam]

After 100 moves, he probably was like: "That dude doesn`t know how to win."

[@louayyahyaoui3616]

It would be possible if his name and GM title weren't on the screen.

[@Alistair]

@@louayyahyaoui3616 there's a concept you should look up sometime. It's spelled Y O L K I think

[@Alistair]

or did it just rhyme with yolk? I can't remember

[@miladibrahim1068]

At the end of the day he still managed to make you checkmate him 😂

[@chessbrah]

honestly I did lose the mental battle here

[@anonymous123456on]

​@@chessbrahboss you should have let the time run out as well

[@michaelfeher8602]

And that's exactly why Aman takes the L here. Because no matter what, since this game was played with increment, Aman was going to either have to checkmate him and give his opponent what he wants, or take a draw. And if you take a draw in that position, obviously that's an L too.

[@irjake]

@@anonymous123456on He clearly should have waited to play the checkmate with 0.1 second on the clock 😅

[@blueguitarist]

@@chessbrah 🤣

[@bastianhahn7320]

Aman: Resign already!!! Opponent: Paint me like one of your french girls.

[@szhzs6121]

"i wonder what he gains from this" - Aman, i was thinking the same thing about you

[@Neodynium.the_permanent_magnet]

Content. We gain from this.

[@joeb4142]

Content. This was funny AF 😆

[@irjake]

Ad revenue from the resulting KZbin video?

[@gregmartin3425]

Content. That was absolutely hilarious watching the King scoot around the entire board dozens of times. I've never seen anything like it, have you?

[@THEBOYDALEK]

He gains by being labelled the biggest knob on TT. I’d ban him for not showing courtesy not resigning. Prick

[@rakhatthenut3815]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="554">9:14</a> time, aman, time. He gains time. +1s for each move

[@stepkka]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="686">11:26</a> the rare case where the same DUMB question applies to both of opponents

[@RishabhSharma10225]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="673">11:13</a> Careful Aman! This could have been a stalemate if the opponent had moved his king to c1 and then d1 when you played king to c3.

[@SimonSCJP]

dude his king was like on h6 at 11:13 he was like 7 premoves ahead

[@organismable]

⁠@@SimonSCJPYes, but the white King eventually reached c3 7 moves later while the black king was still shuffling around a1 and b1, so the point still stands

[@thesilentpearl8575]

King was on a1 when he promoted

[@uilulyili2026]

Good catch! That would have been something eh

[@uilulyili2026]

@@thesilentpearl8575it's not about promotion, it's that the black king on D1 would have been stalemated because queens cover C file, E file and the 2nd rank

[@chessbrah]

honestly I had nothing better to do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@jgyekis]

there's never any doubt what you have to gain (content, entertainment), I suppose he has a one in a million chance to gain a spectacular mistake with a brain fart draw, with a side benefit of perhaps thinking that he might be bothering you and that's the only way he could take revenge after losing on the board (stubborn people are not rare in chess)

[@P.sherman45]

@@jgyekis if he knows chessbraw he could also be in a youtube video by being silly that's another thing he can gain by doing what he did

[@codyjackson8884]

If it’s true that you had nothing better to do, then it’s a fine choice to make, but it’s also not the other person’s fault, or their responsibility to resign right? Like if you’d had to be somewhere important, you’d just win and get there.

[@YoungJustice1997]

You are a werido just checkmate your opponent and move on don't know what you proved with your little experiment

[@leonardopires4836]

then why are you insulting the guy for doing the exact same thing you're doing? even called him "some kind of special" while you proceed to not checkmate him

[@Rhymes-and-Reasons]

To me there's one really simple reason I can't feel sorry for your opponents for this. They can literally make it stop at ANY TIME at the press of a button :)

[@drayott-jr]

He doesn't need you to feel sorry he did this on purpose. And he got what he wanted, Aman was forced to checkmate him.

[@nick1752]

There was the same situation in the local tournament I have played. We were forced to watch a match where one dude made 6 knights and after about a hundred moves, finally checkmated his opponent who just didn't resign. The founder of said knight order got a warning from judge to never do this again in this tournament. It was funny af :D

[@AI-xi4jk]

It doesn’t break any rules so they can’t give him trouble for doing that 😅

[@ZDTF]

​@@AI-xi4jkjust a friendly warning probably Like teasing "bruh you wasted so much time NEVER do that again😂" Like that maybe Or he was actually annoyed and threatened him that he'll use his judge powers to judge all over the place Even if it doesn't go against the rules Judging 🥵

[@slowfreq]

Stalemate would have been really funny.

[@sortehuse]

That was what I was rooting for 🙂

[@Mon_Ouie]

CM Opponent: Doesn't resign Aman: Does the procedure.

[@BasedGob]

I’ve done this before, got to over 1000 moves once lmao

[@andrew1717xx]

😂

[@chessmasters9012]

Can we just talk about how the opponent could've saved a draw at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="660">11:00</a> by bringing the king to e1 after Ke6 was played, and getting a stalemate after c8=Q Kd1 Kd6?

[@MatsMatsuo]

11:07 is the timeframe of the position, and true, it was possible to stalemate, not the cleanest troll conversion by Aman, very unlikely for the guy to stop premoving on the corner but still there was a theoretical chance.

[@rutgerhoutdijk3547]

Haven't seen Eric in a while, what did you do to him?

[@xard4spl]

Eric didn't resign

[@Shawnmell]

You should create a “Salty ‘tear’ list” to place every non resigning titled player that you’ve faced and keep it updated when more come along

[@SquinkyThreepwood]

Burbur coming in at no 1.

[@aaaaaaaa02945]

This has got to be one of the most legendary ending to a titled tuesday

[@Grasuggan22]

Why not check mate him?

[@kylezo]

That's the real question. Pretending this was the opponent's doing is just dumb

[@aufarthoriq07]

​@@kylezoto raise Awareness against non-resigner. More often than not, non-resigner rather stall the clock than resign, very bad and disrespectful.

[@itsokthen]

Should have thrown in a check to break his pre moves

[@federicosor471]

You ask what your opponent gains from this. He's allowing you to mate him, which can be construed as good sportsmanship. Ask yourself what YOU gain from this. For a change, question yourself as you question others.

[@Reodeoneo]

Shaming is still an important part of social regulation. Thank you for raising awareness regarding non-resigners

[@THEBOYDALEK]

Well written

[@kylezo]

It's a valid tactic that challenges your opponent to win. If you make a mistake their best hope is to grab a draw from what would have been a loss. If there's a mate on the board you're not playing, then you're the one delaying the game, not them.

[@lollycopter]

I don't play for stalemate, but rather I just enjoy watching to see if my winning opponent comes up with anything funny or creative. At the same time, I ask myself what I would do in their shoes. Gives me time to untilt too.

[@escapedlunatic27]

"What does he gain from this? What has to be going through his head?" He could ask exactly the same questions about you. A "game" like this just shows that both players have decided to mess around, and it reflects badly on both.

[@AndyA1]

There is no rule stating a player must resign. If you wanted to end the game, play checkmate. You could have accidentally stalemated, or lost internet connection. Just because you're a grandmaster doesn't mean you get special treatment.

[@rcdanger]

You were meant for each other.

[@ifrmin5021]

POV: Bro can't find the resignation button and doesn't want to lose on time.

[@kemal6039]

Aman : My opponents should resign Burbur : And I took that personally

[@kiralycsavo0]

Bro just did it so that you can pull off one of your beautiful checkmates

[@Andha1]

I'm very disappointed. You could have easily played 1000 moves. That should be your challange for next time you play a non-resigner!

[@nathangrabias8045]

50 move rule makes it harder

[@truthhurts4948]

You should arrange your pieces into the letter: F & then: U

[@truthboom]

He should've afk at the 6 min mark XD

[@andy02q]

As soon as 5 minutes in the bank wait a random number between 5 and 300 seconds between every move.

[@tomsmit2251]

You wonder what he gains by this. The question is what do you gain by this?!

[@chessbrah]

this video

[@andrewflemming5071]

adsense

[@Mircose]

I think, because this video is not great content... Aman should have checkmated earlier.. but he he was able to create a nicer checkmate like the one he promote a bunch of pawns into all pieces and premove to checkmate that would have been nicer and well worth keep playing for.

[@tomsmit2251]

@@chessbrah nobody needs this video

[@marcel2711]

@@tomsmit2251 you're wrong

[@allstarreject]

If my opponent refuses to resign, I'll go out of my way to promote every pawn to a queen

[@kylezo]

That is equally as petty

[@CheapShotFail]

At least while he was stalling the tournament your king got in a great cardio workout, that many laps around the board really gets the heart pumping.

[@jasonstevenson4067]

Fair is fair. Do what you want. But I personally never resign, because finding a stalemate or even a brilliant move to make a draw is one of the most satisfying things ever, and even at high levels it happens more than some might think.

[@THEBOYDALEK]

Ah another total time waster. When you get past 350 rating you might learn a bit of etiquette

[@koolerstream921]

​@@THEBOYDALEK You are wrong :D If you are able to get into a winning position, you also need to be able to convert that winning position. Let me ask you, chess played perfectly is a draw yes? So this means, in order to get into a winning position, one side must play a blunder, or at least an inaccuracy. So just because I make the first mistake, this means I should just accept defeat? No, it is a game, and now I need to try and hold on, and hope my opponent makes a mistake just like I did earlier in the game. There comes a point where yes, I would have resigned in this game once I really had no shot of coming back for a win, however, there is no shame in hoping for a blunder by your opponent. If they are really as skilled at the game of chess as they think they are, they should have no problem converting without a stalemate. If they blunder, thats on them not me.

[@filipgasic2642]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="710">11:50</a> You were sitting there for THE SAME AMOUNT OF MOVES Aman. Bro you're just as petty and even more than that guy.

[@diggitus]

The real losers are you and me for watching the video

[@THEBOYDALEK]

No Aman is not, just because gen z don’t show courtesy and resign, long before computers players would show respect and resign a pawn down if the position was losing. This clown is just a twat

[@nematoad5821]

Don’t cry on your keyboard it could short out!!!

[@AdmiralADD]

Chess decorum at the higher level, is to resign in a losing position when it is reasonably unlikely for your opponent to blunder to enough of a level to upset the result. Essentially, this game was a show of mutual disrespect, but Aman had reason to be disrespectful given the other TITLED PLAYER’S initial disrespect.

[@cptnoremac]

@@AdmiralADD If you can even count CM as a real title.

[@bramgoossens3478]

You are not in the wrong, but your opponent has all the right to Play on if he is not roping

[@grnarsch5287]

He is in the wrong. Opponent may be tilted. You dont have to make it worse just finish it and go on. Bouth sides showed disrespect. So bouth are wrong. But still the winning not tiltrd player has to end it fast in this case. He isnt a 12 year old kiddo anymore

[@TehAdrenalinePickle]

Hey Aman! I understand you said you weren't able to do a full "Reset Mate"/"Mona Lisa Mate" in this game closer to the end, but you are able to do something adjacent to it. The kingside knight and rook, ultimately, don't contribute to the final checkmate itself but are mostly there for aesthetics- so you could've just attempted the mate with the small omission of those two pieces.

[@thesilentpearl8575]

kingside rook is used to bring the king over to c2

[@aaaaaaaa02945]

This is the most legendary ending to a titled tuesday I’ve ever seen🤣

[@ShadowCooper77]

In my opinion no one is obligated to resign and no one is obligated to give checkmate. If either of you wanted to end the game more quickly, you could have. So no one is in the wrong. Also, if "no one is interested [in continuing the game]", why didn't you mate?

[@redminote7334]

Aman: what does he gain from doing this? Meanwhile the opponent: KEKW

[@manudude02]

Poor guy didn't know where the resign button was.

[@smrf73]

He wanted to be content.

[@benjis540]

i'm honestly impressed that he managed to premove the king to the right in the end, once he couldn't move to a1 anymore. That's a real pro you were dealing with

[@ilmanti]

Aman just playing Snake: Chess King Edition

[@erdling3132]

I disagree, both players have the goal to win the game. If you’re in a winning position it’s your duty to close the game out, resigning should never be required although it makes sense to do so in some instances

[@THEBOYDALEK]

What an asshole attitude.

[@Nobody-df4is]

You are absolutely right, there is no rule that says you have to give up. But now it is sometimes considered rude when one has no hope. And yes, chess has etiquette. It can be interpreted as being disrespectful, as if you are hoping for a blunder from your opponent. I don't mind when my opponent plays on. I'm going to practice my Knight Bishop ending. Or I might mate with 3 Knights.

[@sam2725]

"I wonder what he gains from doing this" I mean its the same for you 😂

[@DaveLovesDoves]

But Dude... if the opponent let's you checkmate him, and you don't, you are 100.0% just as bad as him. maybe worse - there's a courtesy around letting the opponent deliver mate.

[@archangel-604]

I think if the honest intention was to give Aman the honour of checkmating him, he would have noticed Aman didn't want that honour 10 moves later and then resigned

[@AAABeatbox]

In the previous game. Bro resest the chess pieces positions. In this game, bro reset the timers.

[@tfosss8775]

539 moves ... Rookie numbers ... Starting at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="468">7:48</a> i count 19 potential pawn pushes. Add 1 more move to checkmate and that is 20 positional moves. At 49 king moves inbetwen pawn pushes, could have had 980 moves between <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="468">7:48</a> mark of video and checkmate...

[@kacey69]

Should have gotten 1 move from checkmate then ran down your clock

[@parkourbee]

This is the chess equivalent of Achilles dragging Hector

[@tolkienfan1972]

He doesn't know how to resign

[@Alistair]

yeah poor guy doesn't know how to read. We shouldn't be making fun of him

[@junaubomber6977]

Dude first hoped to be stalemated, then stayed in for the lulz

[@Spanque]

Nope, never resign. Perhaps your opponent has to go to the toilet real bad, can't hold it any longer and at some point has to go. Then you win on time 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@bm9tube]

The question is what do YOU have to win from this.

[@clerothsun3933]

"Why is he prolonging the game?", he says while prolonging the game.

[@gregmartin3425]

Hilarious watching the King scoot around like that. What was going through his head was that he was hoping you would get careless and stalemate him via the 50 move rule, and forget to move a pawn or something while you were shaming him. That would be very awkward, and something lesser mortals would fall prey to. But he forgot he was playing Aman Hambleton!

[@matthewk3233]

You may have won the battle, but he won the war. You folded and gave in.

[@eivindhanssen2200]

I didn’t know chess had Snake built in 🤓

[@arivald6677]

Dont play with your food. Just finish the game instead of this trolling. He didn't fold because you could screw up and make a draw. Even if ods of that happening are small its not zero. Not scooping was a better play.

[@singhcostan2928]

premoved so hard he ended up with twice the amount of time he started with

[@modalize]

he gained a clown of a month award

[@Grahamster00]

Surely the mental toll of playing 539 consecutive king moves has to be worse than whatever ego loss you incur by just resigning.

[@richardsspeirs777]

If they dont resign gotta do that monalisa 😂😂

[@samreid1893]

What does he gain? 530 seconds of time Aman.

[@Mrfchy]

Bro won his mental battle.

[@bloodcake1337]

this guy has already blocked all messages lmao

[@maxrochnik7262]

probably because he has annoying losers like you spamming him

[@WatermanViolinStudio]

At least he didn't WAIT out his full clock. Also, you could've tossed in your queens to also reset the 50 move rule. So you could've easily made it to 700+

[@dieago12345]

your clock appears to break some of Einstein's rules

[@gregmartin3425]

I don't see why people are getting on Aman's case. What he did was hilarious , an entirely reasonable to expect his opponent to resign. What is annoying ( and all too common ) is when people expect you to resign when you lost a pawn or a piece, when there wre still plenty of chances or in an endgame with pawns and rooks, and they want to demonstrate their superiority by trolling you to resign, even though there is still plenty of play in the position. That is not the case here. There is zero play in the position, and his opponent just refused to resign, so he brought it on himself. He could have resigned at any moment, but he chose to let Aman humiliate him, like a cat playing with an injured mouse.

[@TyrannosaurusCHEX]

It's one thing to rage about a swindle or disrespectful play and force them to waste a bit of time but aman played a really sensible controlled win here so black had no real reason to be this petty - plus delaying titled Tuesday like that just means that he's put his name out for hundreds of viewers to see what an idiot he is.

[@soscar56]

It’s so hilarious how the king struggles with all that back-and-forth movement😂 I wonder if he would’ve waited that out too if you had let the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="417">6:57</a> run down before delivering the M1

[@guillaumejuillot9317]

I also troll my opponents when they refuse to recognize they have lost. So I totally support this video

[@joetegels2591]

That guy is an idiot. Some people don't have enough common sense to resign.

[@thijsbeentjes4008]

Never resign is a fair policy to have imo

[@WillyBotson]

I just love that this game is now in the masters database

[@bjornandreas1997]

It is easy Aman. The Guy is frustrated, that he looses the game and his feelings are hurt. Then he knowes that it will trigger and nerve you, so by playing on he is giving you some kind of pain back and releases his tension this way.

[@jonjones820]

Aman certainly plays the most humorous chess. It's most appropriate for the world #2

[@BreakfastItem]

If you are playing your moves quickly then it is fine. If you let your time build up and stall as winner (or loser but as winner is worse) then it is wrong. The fact that neither player stalled i think no one is in the wrong.

[@NoName-xc6cg]

"What has to be going through your head" you're just as weird as your opponent hahaha

[@screamer22222]

Bro playing snake on a chessboard, what a gigachad 🤣

[@hughp5646]

I’ve never seen a GM play in such a childish way as not checkmating as soon as possible. When I was a child I used to take great pleasure in getting as much material as possible before checkmating. I grew out of it. The only person who is stupid in this scenario is the side with overwhelming material advantage; it turns a 1-result game (mate) into a 2-result game (mate, or stalemate/3-fold repetition). I’ve played annoying players who don’t resign despite overwhelming deficit, but I just go about my job of checkmating them as soon as possible.

[@jb17415]

I’m firmly on team checkmate. Never know if your opponent will blunder a sure fire win or stalemate. Also on the opposite side, I want to checkmate my opponents. Not have them give up. Play til it’s over. But I understand why people disagree

[@johantennapel1882]

How to checkmate your opponent as much as possible. Even if Black could move his king twice, it’s still checkmate…

[@matteopriotto5131]

Both of you can end this circus at any time, but it's the most optimal strategy only for you, since it's the shortest path to victory. So, in my opinion, it's the winning side duty to deliver mate quickly.

[@30stmisawesome]

Always saying to keep your stick on te ice and banning people if they don’t but also flaming people if they keep their stick on the ice. Classic Aman

[@bug_catcher]

I was taught to never resign. Even if I'm down 6 queens.

[@getmilked6216]

I WANT TO SEE 1000 moves in a titled tuesday game next tuesday.

[@nathangrabias8045]

You know your doing something wrong when in the end game you have double the time you started with..