Game Ends Before it Begins

[@kohalmiendrekristof2312]

The most amazing part is that Ricsi defeated Maxime in Grünfeld, the opening he is the most comfortable in, and plays against really everybody no matter what rating. To find some line which he not comfortable in, and a so dominating win is huge. I hope Ricsi makes it to final (and to candidates tournament), he is playing great chess recently, can be an other breaking through point here.

[@sandorszabo2470]

"Mostanában" sokat fejlődött, egyre "finomabb" partikat játszik. Jó lenne ha a többi "fiú" zárkózna fel szépen. A lányok között van egy pár egészen tehetséges, pár éven belül komoly eredményekben bízom.

[@puma2766]

És nem csak, hogy eredményes, de nagyon innovatív, szép partikat nyer. Hajrá Ricsi!

[@Sharkmoves]

@@sandorszabo2470 nem gondoltam volna, hogy találom majd Tanár Urat :)

[@derekbaker4763]

Maxime has been pounded many many times playing that opening.

[@raylopez99]

Rapport is a genius and it reminds me of the Marshall Attack in the Ruy Lopez, the master Frank Marshall prepared this attack for ten years before he sprung it on an unsuspecting Capablanca, but Capa refuted it over the board. Lesson: even if you are a book genius you will lose if your opponent can calculate well.

[@chuckcheese4805]

"And now rook back to the starting square. Not the starting starting square but the second starting square." -agadmator 2022

[@manomishra]

You beat me to it.

[@m.u.550]

What a meaningless comment

[@alekhinesgun9997]

@M. U. Irony

[@kamitebyani5309]

Best comment 😆

[@joonpak]

@@m.u.550 by Agadmator, Chuck Cheese, or you?

[@TadashiTravelTours]

@7:56 ahh the power of the fully operational bishop pair. excellent

[@benr3799]

Agadmator, I have not seen a video of yours in almost a year. You bring light to my life. I love you sir. You’re funny as hell and I’m so happy you are still making these EXQUISITE videos. Thank you

[@mustafaharford6393]

Richard Defeated MVL even without using his rock and without castling

[@MinutemindEN]

Yes Ricsi is a professional player

[@josuke21]

RAPPORT WELL DONE!!!!! Top 10 in the world !!!!! LESSS GOOOO, YOU CAN WIN LEG 2!!!!!!!

[@josuke21]

@Afalku same!!

[@askthepizzaguy]

Those bishops and pawns were so brutal white didn't need his kingside rook.

[@robertpsotka3525]

I was going to post that it was a Union Rook ( sitting back and letting everybody else do the work).

[@vivekjoshi5207]

Absolutely

[@mdb831]

Not the starting starting square, but the second starting square. Never change dude please don't ever change.

[@davidhughes7174]

Well Played Richard, a wonderfully talented and original master.

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

03:23 in his repertoire, in his toolbox, I always liked "in his back pocket"

[@jaceks6338]

Yay, Rc7! I think it's the first time I ever "felt free to pause the video and found the winning move"!!

[@xethnyrrow]

That was a pretty savage beating to be honest. Great game.

[@MinutemindEN]

Yeah right, that was a pretty brutal beating and it was a great game.

[@gouravnigam1987]

Actually this one is first victory of rapport over MVL in classical chess

[@josuke21]

More to come :) But it won't easy ofc

[@gouravnigam1987]

@@josuke21 i doubt that 😅 i mean you can clearly see that MVL isnt playing at his peak and we all know what kind of monster he is when he is at his peak on the other hand i think rapport is playing at his peak right now and ofcourse any 2700+ at there peak is no joke so we just have to wait and see

[@josuke21]

@@gouravnigam1987 that's what. I told it won't be easy though

[@bhough410]

Thankful for Rapport being more prominent the last couple years! Chess has largely become a game of memory at the top tier, it's so much more mechanical/theoretical since the use of engines. Richard has been filling the large void since Chucky doesn't get many invites to top tier tourneys. Hard to imagine the possibilities if Rapport was committed to tourney play as much the others in the top 10?!

[@mekkler]

That's the power of the bishops, fantastic!

[@Idn5244]

Rapport defeating Maxime to secure his top 10 in classical chess

[@josuke21]

Awesome!

[@eriktempelman2097]

Do the Agatmator bingo: "completely new game" "nice prophylactic move" "b4, always a good move" "... (pausing while reaching under the table" Just kidding, great content, as always.

[@amishasahini4413]

"f5, never a good move"

[@rafadawabe]

some nasty discoveries

[@johnthompson5741]

“Sorry about that”

[@j_sum1]

That's the good stuff.

[@uubuuh]

of course knows this...

[@Stl71]

An amazing game! How the white's Bishops danced on the board!

[@gabrielalmada25]

#suggest has been a while since we saw the last Fischer game, so u maybe can show a Nice Game he played with white against Miguel Najdorf in Varna 1962 . Greetings from Argentina!

[@igorz4582]

Why do latinos always need to state the country they're from? Greetings from brazil

[@AThousandSunsinphysics]

@@igorz4582 and Asians too Greetings from India

[@Dyllyn133]

I have never found both moves before 😎 watching this channel is teaching me something

[@cyanhallows7809]

“I try and pretend I’m a professional chess player but come on look at my results” - Richard Rapport

[@dfjanus8014]

rapport playing god level these days

[@Josh_Fredman]

Maxime will be adding this humbling experience to his vast knowledge!

[@Teccler]

In the days of Znosko Borovsky Maxime looked like to have a winning position before moving his rook to C8: but we are in the 21st century now & accurate openings aren't enough anymore!

[@ramachandra776]

" he who does not move the b-pawn when the b-pawn has to be moved always loses , with white or black " 🙂 . Maxime should have played b5 .

[@chikajinanwa9179]

Bishop pair from hell🔥🔥

[@ndnd7614]

uncharacteristic of MVL to miss a rook move to the seventh rank, which no matter how you look at it, looks really strong and natural to play

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

He wanted to take advantage of white's king being in the center of the board by opening the position

[@pedrorengel9603]

That's the strength and the weakness of MVL's play, he invites dangerous positions.

[@blackoutgenez]

hikaru was doing a live analysis and showed that mvl was winning/better positon in all of the lines except for the d6 push inbetween move which hikaru says that MVL prolly missed in his calculation

[@torikipitt750]

He had to play pawn f5 or he loses the rook to bishop b4 (so he thought)

[@torikipitt750]

6:05

[@_.perme._.kadum._]

“still nothing out of the ordinary. This is something Maxime knows in sleep” 😂

[@pokerstar2926]

5:04 ??? Rapport is using the white peices, not black

[@rahulvignesh2775]

The joy of finding the move . Yayyy! And the follow up move, I was considering between pawn to A4 and kF3 and would have preferred kF3 (only because I'm still learning how to utilize and play with Bishops).. the way Rapport moves his bishops, I'm getting a feel of how Magnus would play coordinate his bishops to advance passed pawns.

[@kgk4782]

What if after f5 and c7, just sacrifice the Bishop and go for e4? Because whatever white plays, you can check next turn or begin a death march with your pawn, no?

[@nikitastsakirakis8946]

Thats what I was wondering too.It seems to me that its more difficult for white to calculate after the e4 capture than after a bishop salvage so i was a little surprised no to see this possible move addressed

[@erica8863]

What a wild game. I somehow managed to find the Rook to C7 move but I didn't appreciate just how absolutely dominating Rapport's position would be with just the Bishop pair and the passed pawns. He was literally unable to castle and the other rook never entered the game but Maxime was basically rendered helpless. Really shows you the power of pieces in the right position rather than the "innate" value we assign the pieces.

[@IHWKR]

Terrible feeling to have that you've lost before you even sat down at the table.

[@PeterM8987]

What??? Talk about being disrespectful towards MLV

[@IHWKR]

@Peter Marendy grow up kid. It's not being disrespectful.

[@kimgysen10]

Rapport on fire! Big fan of Maxime, but this was probably a surprise to him. Very impressive and original combo, strange it was relatively unknown!

[@sauravgarg7193]

5:50 is it also wining after Bb4? We are wining exchange after this move ig

[@lightsviewpodcast6011]

I watched this live today, great stuff

[@pawnstorminreno]

take a drink whenever MVL plays black pieces!

[@denzelurieta9206]

What is MVL’s repertoire against 1.c4?

[@williamgoss4691]

Fantastic play by Rapport and fantastic guidance by Agamator.

[@17lobb]

And it was in this position I subscribed to Agad

[@kapilras]

When rapport moved rook to seventh rank and attacked MVL bishop. Why not go on offensive. Fxe4, followed by exf3 check and both rooks r in game for black

[@polillaWins]

7:22 and what's it wrong with B f6 blocking

[@baerayyani]

As Indians say "bhai yeh toh shuru hone se pehle hi khatam ho gaya"

[@simontimothy7051]

2:57 why not b5,b4 by Black?

[@musa071]

hmm, what if after rook c7, he took e4 ? Kinda tricky. it would be three pawns for the bishop plus a better position.

[@franktuyl]

I agree - no reply from anyone?

[@musa071]

@@franktuyl lol, there's something more i just noticed. If he actually take e4 and the rook captures the bishop then it's game over for white cause no matter where the white king goes after the discovered checks, the white h rook will either fall or the pawn get promoted, unless the king captures the pawns then in this case the white bishop is lost in a fork.

[@juela2092]

​@@franktuyl @Meuse @K GK, i thought this too so i put it in a (mediocre) engine, the engine points out that after ...fxe4 white has d6+ Kh8 Rxd7 exf3+ and because of the pawn on d6 white has Re7, blocking the check and blocking the e file rather than moving the king, saving the position for white. black will still get a few pawns for the bishop, for example after Re7 the engine suggests ...Bf6, Rxe8 Rxe8+ Kd1 fxg2 Rg1 Rd8 Rxg2 Rxd6 black for the moment has 3 pawns and traded off the advanced f pawn for white's advanced d pawn, but it seems in this position this is not good enough against the bishop pair as the engine evaluation seems to fluctuate between +2.5 and +3 as i let it run nonetheless the engine does give ...fxe4 (or ...Bb5, a4 then ...fxe4 extremely similar) as the best line for black (ie better than what was played in the game trying to save the bishop), and at least to me the position after Re7 still seems quite interesting, so i do wish agadmator had addressed it in the video

[@juela2092]

@@musa071 tried to also tag u in my comment but idt it worked

[@franktuyl]

@@juela2092 @Meuse Thankyou for your analyses! Yes, agadmator should have mentioned some of this!

[@rickharold7884]

Long love King Richard!!! Slicing and dicing with those bishops

[@BonasBuden]

I'm a novice in chess and can't quite get it why that pawn to F5 move was so detrimental? Can someone please explain.

[@calendar9136]

Nice thumbnail pic of him thinking, cold.

[@haiminhtrantrong2433]

We can call this The Dance of Four Bishops.

[@coxscorner]

I love the Gruenfeld but it took a beating in this game.

[@brandonmiles8174]

Rc3 in the open looked great to me. Then the Rc7 line was the most obvious one to me. Feel like I'm on a roll with the rook.

[@PeakPotential46]

Dang rapport's combination of attacks after the f5 move by maxime ruins his position, 🔥 I think this is one of the incredible games that i've seen.

[@davidcopson5800]

I wouldn't say move 19 is "before it begins".

[@victorsilvapacheco9630]

Why is the title "game ends before it starts"? Can someone explain please?

[@seand6683]

Possibly due to Rapport's fantastic prep for the match

[@victorsilvapacheco9630]

@@seand6683 really? What a disappointment

[@S810X]

It was in this position that I saw a new video uploaded one minute ago.

[@maganogm784]

On move 14 how did you know it's a completely new game, which chess database are you using?

[@jamestrojnor-barron5075]

It's a GM data base. Just Top GM games played.

[@MrAndMrsGrover]

@@jamestrojnor-barron5075 does he mean the position or also the specific move order to get there? Thanks

[@eruwa1550]

@@MrAndMrsGrover specific move order too, usually he specifies if necessary

[@maganogm784]

@@jamestrojnor-barron5075 so the name of chess database that he uses is called grandmaster chess database?

[@piyushjha757]

Been waiting for it 🔥

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

1. White's king was in the center so Maxime tried to open up the position. But that was a blunder. 2. Rapport was basically playing with a rook down, because his h1 rook had not entered the game, yet his attack was too strong. 3. Both players had the bishop pair, but maxime's bishops couldn't neutralize Rapport's own even with the help of the extra rook. This is what makes chess elegant 👌🏾😍

[@markfarhoomand7302]

Where is Alireza? Haven't seen him participate in the last few tournaments, I think in all of 2022 so far.

[@TheHawk007]

Was waiting for it🔥🔥

[@propsik123]

#suggestion Maybe Mr. Agadmator you can do a video about the longest chess game ever played and the shortest chess game ever played? Love your vids!

[@clementdeazevedo5469]

Maxime's defense is yet impressively resilient.

[@aronuchukwuezugo615]

That's right

[@mihuuuu]

beautiful rook lift

[@moon4tzuyupokeonce41]

Wowww, This video's title is NGNL's reference... (No Game No Life) I'm loving it...

[@S810X]

Is that Aerith in the background?

[@agadmator]

Not just Aerith

[@S810X]

@@agadmator awesome! I saw on my mobile and I wasn't sure. Really happy when I stumbled upon your FFVII comment in one of your vintage videos, definitely best game ever 💪

[@CuriousCouple]

lol may be rapport was as surprised as MVL after he played f5 while preparing this line of grunfeld, he probably was like '"yeahh! got you stockfish...good luck running with your king" and then stockfish: Rc7😅

[@hustler3of4culture3]

Why not 27. e5 Bxe5?

[@acousticmeatus8141]

Richard is on fiiirrrreeeee dayum

[@dantedeloden]

yeah i instantly saw rook c7 line. i was like holy crap once that rook hits the pigs that bishop is stuck and all pawns are free to run. very strong line for sure.

[@mohammadkazim4395]

A big fan, thanks for the game. Please include engine eval bars in all of your games, that will make it more interesting.

[@AhsimNreiziev]

He would want the eval bars to be accurate, and that would take too much processing time. He has stated this in the past.

[@RISING-RK0711]

Anish is not in candidate 20222?

[@jansupronowicz1300]

So, in what sense the game ended before it begun? I don't get it.

[@mikavaljevo]

This game should be an example how dangerous is a bishop pair when the truly master is playing. Great game by Rapport!

[@PeterM8987]

So MLV isn't a "truly" master?

[@Vmac1394]

Rapport is the dark horse player I've been waiting for. Plus his name is Dick Rapp, there's so many puns that can be made.

[@claykeen485]

What an awesome move!

[@davidcopson5800]

Which one?

[@claykeen485]

@@davidcopson5800 The move you never saw coming! The rook move back

[@davidcopson5800]

@@claykeen485 Thanks for the explanation.

[@rodrigopavez6322]

#suggestion today was Fischer's birthday

[@wolfgangmozart9099]

Nooooo! Hopefully Maxime will bounce back!

[@arunbeckham8384]

I heard hikaru as resigned from chess world. Is it true?

No, he is back to playing classical. He won the first leg of the grand prix last month

[@arunbeckham8384]

@ that's great. I mean, I heard dubov and some other guy talking like, hikaru left chess to do some fulltime job to earn money for living. So thought he left.

[@yousifahmed5410]

I can't believe that agadmator would miss Bobby fischer birthday... "There are tough players and nice guys, and I’m a tough player." - Bobby fischer

[@bytemark6508]

Why not sac the Bishop on move 12 ? Just take the pawn on d4 instead of moving the Bishop away. You would take at least 2 pawns for that, and massacrate the center of the white defense, to me this is the more sensible thing to play. I'm not ever sure you could call this a sac. You didn't seem to analyze that possibility, all you do is trying to save the bishop.

[@nikitastsakirakis8946]

Yes that baffled me too

[@erolbarut98]

Also saccing but not capturing second pawn and pushing pawn to e3 looks really good. h1 rook will have hard time entering game

[@erolbarut98]

engine gives d6 after fxe4 then it simplifies it really quick

[@lelaihoang8722]

In 7:54 how about black play bd8

[@jamesstack1504]

Bd6 hitting the rook and threatening checkmate on e5

[@khann2159]

When the Gruenfeld is played it means one of the players will be crushed

[@abdullahalshafat3552]

First like given, before the video begun...

[@misternewoutlook5437]

Fischer's birthday. A good game for him to enjoy.

[@ryanhooper7195]

Well technicaly this title isnt true cuz how can it start if its already ended (cool sunglasses emoji)

[@n20games52]

Very impressive bishop pair! LOL

[@mscir]

Great fun, thanks.

[@JeremyRobertWalker]

MVL was in sleep-mode.

[@zainquadri1206]

MVL plays like me, he has a pet line which he ALWAYS plays and the best he can hope for is a hard fought draw and quite often he loses... Maybe it's time MVL gives up his Grundfeld repertoire, try something else...

[@felixfabio1473]

ah yes, mvl plays like you for sure

[@alessbritish228]

something like what, bruh

[@zainquadri1206]

@@felixfabio1473 Another latino who thinks he can understand English...😆. I said MVL plays like a 1200 rated player not the other way round, but it's ok I understand, your education system has failed you, it's not your fault...

[@PeterM8987]

Seriously? LOL!

[@MrBaumGeo]

I hate comments that say "First"

[@niccolopaganini1782]

Indeed

[@mohammadali1972]

give this man a trophy

[@MrBaumGeo]

@@mohammadali1972 thank you. I randomly saw this just uploaded

[@rainersustinkins8377]

"First"

[@hpostal9]

second

[@Mornepin]

Rapport's beating everybody, what's going on ??? Nobody can stop this man.

[@Neonator08]

You da man Agadmator!

[@paulatkins9675]

I got confused with the title - I thought Putin bomb the place just before they were about to start the game

[@anthonysellers6455]

Repertoire*

[@azigazibelabacsi]

Finally a Rapport game! Thanks! Go Rapport! Go hungary! :)

[@stevenvary7324]

Go Richard! HAJRA RICSI!!!!!!

[@egads3696]

Take a shot every time he says d4

[@فؤادسليمان-ع3ع]

رائع

[@JeremyRobertWalker]

what a weird game

[@TheMarksT]

Awesome game by Richard!