GUKESH ON FIRE AT TATA!!

[@MeannMugginn]

i hope Gukesh is okay, being on fire sounds like it hurts

[@akshayjain1977]

It does

[@djwalkzz7031]

😂😂😂😂

[@doublewalla2874]

Call an ambulance....

[@thesaralkumar]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 brooo

[@xavielgaram]

gutrash

[@meerak90]

He was doing weeks of celebration, felicitation, award functions, meeting film stars, interviews, ads etc and kept up with prep as well! So impressed by youngest world champion.

[@Stoneface-SD42]

I've said it before and I'm keep gonna say it.... Gukesh is just a guy who likes to play chess

[@DC-zi6se]

He is calculation powers in the middlegame is a bit op, ngl.

[@LukeJAllen]

@Stoneface-SD42 actually, he's also the world champion and a strong grandmaster who studies a lot and works to improve. glad to clear up your confusion!

[@DC-zi6se]

@@LukeJAllen his calculation powers are incredible. Reminds one of Fabi. But more aggressive.

[@XerxesGammon200]

You said it before??

[@Cazh023]

They all do… but makes sense.

[@knowledgeablechad]

what i have learnt is gukesh strength is not playing engine moves. he play a questionable move which you might think like what is this guy doing? but as soon as you close the engine you would see how practical those moves are. he demands his opponent to be precise till the end. that's the gamble he plays. almost got beaten by anish but as i said anish had to be accurate till the last movement. same with nodirek. it refreshing to see a guy playing weirds moves. i like positional masterpiece once in awhile but i like this much more.

[@PritamOG]

He always plays some unique moves in the mid game

[@ezmony1]

and then we realise Ding's style is also same as Gukesh. He too plays weird moves .

[@pratikkroy3442]

i think prime ding is stronger than this version of gukesh. not discounting the fact that gukesh is the WC but i still feel he is only going to get better and hit his peak later

[@HELLO_019]

​@@pratikkroy3442 we have not seen prime gukesh yet ,he is just 18

[@Devrish04848]

​@@pratikkroy3442 gukesh is currently at starting he is not even hit prime, the prime would be around 23-26

[@DC-zi6se]

Gukesh has acquired an excellent performance rating of 2908 so far. Nodirbek and Pragg also have played well with a performance rating of 2866 and 2831. The future of Chess is so exciting.

[@animos36]

True

[@johnhonai4601]

Is this like actual chess rating. I know Magnus is 2830s.

[@Ashwillchange]

@@johnhonai4601 it is not the actual rating , it is the level at which they played in this tournament

[@nr1771]

I'm starting to think this Gukesh guy is pretty good at chess.

[@GodLxSugarDaddy]

Tru ,i wonder if he can become the youngest world champion

[@pratik6342]

Isn't he a youngest world champion? 😁

[@lemons20]

Maybe he could be the world champion

[@joshabrillo4237]

he definitely has potential

[@AstitvaMishra-ed6fg]

No chance. Do you think he can win the candidates when players like Nepo, Fabi and Hikaru are playing? ​@@lemons20

[@MSMINDIA100]

30:49 Hikaru- ''Gukesh is showing it was no fluke that he won the World Championship Match against Dong Liren'', says all to Kramnik, Nepo, Russian Federation (who blamed Ding, for making blunder, and not praising Gukesh).. Gukesh, Arjun, Pragg all are top 10 material in Classical Chess. And the next few months will show it clearly..

[@rhed-l1d]

Damn this gukesh guy should play at the championship

[@Vk-ts5yc]

Yes absolutely he will play😂😂😂

[@tuxsharx]

GUKESH EFFECT.

[@omegastudios-minecraft1865]

Gukesh has been on fire!

[@failedjokes5469]

This Gukesh guy will be a world champion one day

[@PritamOG]

He is the world champion currently 😂

[@KeertikaRJ]

Just 1.5 month late for the prediction..

[@Vk-ts5yc]

Just chill guys this is a sarcasm😂😂

[@failedjokes5469]

@@Vk-ts5yc Never mind it’s a failed joke anyway.

[@itzyuzuruclips]

lmao

[@arcaneben9171]

Gukesh haters: lucky

[@sayansamanta3775]

they are crying right now. will be back tomorrow with the "lucky" claims

[@buggah_man]

​@@sayansamanta3775they already are crying lucky. He won again today. This game was from the previous round

[@burgundian-peanuts]

Which haters are you imagining?

[@cmon9505]

​@@burgundian-peanutsliterally everyone who hates on gukesh for no reason atall

[@krushna4181]

​@@cmon9505It's because he's Indian and a Hindu.

[@deepak_su]

Gukesh looks very sharp after becoming the world champion 🏆

[@ezmony1]

Many fellow Chess players thinks Gukesh is always lucky so my reply: Seeing as spectator we may have assistance of engine to see the best move but we realise later that opponent is a human, suffering time pressure , complicated position, fear of loosing and there's Gukesh questionable moves. Its so hard to predict what Gukesh is thinking sometimes.Gukesh's style is how much a human can calculate. If he play against stockfish or "maybe" Magnus Carlsen no doubt he may loose but when against other humans the opponent will have hard time thinking and collapse as result in game.

[@sravanpatri5851]

I mean bro is still 18

[@TheoTugnao]

Gukesh - the role model of professional chess players. He will get stronger and show Carlsen who's his daddy

[@ReynaldoJose23]

Delusion

[@nikhildawani2913]

Show the one who gifted him the Wc title??

[@anirbankoley6599]

It's too much to consider Gukesh above Magnus for now, he has not achieved 10% of what Magnus has achieved

[@pratikkroy3442]

lmao he wont give you his D bro, calm down 😂

[@HELLO_019]

​@@anirbankoley6599 now compare magnus at age of 18 with gukesh at 18😊

[@MR-le5fc]

Fluke? Winning candidates, olympiad gold on top board, world championship, and leading the tournament here- all against the best except for carlsen. He's easily the world number 2 here!

[@napster2482]

People forget Carlsen was there too in olympiad top board in which gukesh had better score than him

[@Dhyaam5989]

People who hate young champion will keep on saying every tournament he wins is lucky and fluke

[@PritamOG]

​@@napster2482 Yup

[@pratik6342]

Burnol moment for haters 😂

[@pratikkroy3442]

@@Dhyaam5989say that to garry kasparov mate.

[@MangicZ]

Hikaku Takakura🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@thenerdycollector5013]

Someone just told me that the Netherlands is Holland. Well, then who are the dutch?!

[@garrysmith1029]

Well Holland is in the Netherlands and it depends on the language you speak. Germans are German but in German they're Dutch. While in English people from the Netherlands are Dutch.

[@ilmaprova1073]

Actually in Germany people are not Dutch but rather Deutsch. The word for Germany in German is also Deutschland. The word for German(the language) in German is also Deutsch. It's a little confusing but has nothing to do with the Dutch. The Dutch are called Holländer in German.

[@jaccocornelisschutter8895]

​@@garrysmith1029 No ,not true,

[@altrfryd5859]

Dutch is also Netherlands and it came from the word "Holland" which was a province in the north of the country but was changed back to Dutchland in the 1840s but was then named to The Netherlands in the 1913 which it remains until this day but can also be called Holland by it's local people

[@jaccocornelisschutter8895]

DUTCH is like a nickname, just like you say a Yankee is an American

[@motionsickness1903]

In WC Gukesh was not his best,always in pressure of all the background noise of being youngest,but now this is his unleashed version,no baggage,the lead may slowly get out of reach of everyone.

[@thecalculatedcreativecoder1428]

He pulled out this level and even higher than this at the Olympiad too. Without pressure he is a monster. Just winning top level tournaments like it is nothing.

[@onlyformotovlog]

19:31 "what is A4?" Hikaru asking calmly

[@prashantthakur9329]

Its not Gukesh , its world champion for title in videos

[@bharatnair15]

30:54 the WCC was just last month. Guess all the drama in between made it feel much longer lmao

[@anonymousxyz9629]

No it wasn't, it started in early-mid november

[@rajpanda5065]

@@anonymousxyz9629it started on November 24th

[@jopromc5900]

It actually started late november…

[@zhangyic]

It was not last month but wasn’t 3 month ago like Hikaru said either

[@halliluyahh]

Fide rating system is such a joke. Gukesh should and would be world number 1 or 2 with proper regulation. There should be elo decay for people like Magnus and Hikaru who barely play and performance rating should be taken into consideration

[@kaushiknath380]

I actually admire fabi because he does not fear of losing elo he play as much classical chess he can

[@halliluyahh]

@@kaushiknath380 fr, and bro is so wholesome

[@FLOT11]

Exactly and there should be a fixed time period like 3-4 months if you don't play any classical then your name doesn't show up in the next published rating list until you start playing again

[@halliluyahh]

@FLOT11 100 percent

[@kavithakandeepan5529]

@FLOT11 yes true

[@RatnadeepChoudhary]

Gukesh getting stronger & stronger every day!

[@riddhimanmedhi99]

This is another caee of "What is a4?"

[@UrbanMonk-pd9sv]

Keep barking haters. Gukesh is the most deserving WC (when Magnus is not playing). Fabi's time is over 😅😅😅

[@Krishna0660]

Nobody is stopping magnus from playing....if he's not playing... it's his problem.... Gukesh IS the most deserving world champion

[@MrEpic6996]

From the classical tournaments that have happened in 2024 and now 2025 Olympiad included(where gukesh finished above magnus on board 1) It seems like gukesh is the strongest classical player in the world currently

[@nikhildawani2913]

​@@MrEpic6996not even close lol😂,1tournamnet proves nothing

[@MrEpic6996]

@@nikhildawani2913 Why did magnus finished below gukesh in board 1 olympiad And now gukesh has been over fabi in 3 tournaments candidates,Olympiad and now tatasteel Gukesh is clearly the 2nd best and most likely 1st strongest in classical based on performace rating of 2024 and 2025

[@nikhildawani2913]

@MrEpic6996 is magnus playing in Tata steel??No,so it doesn't matter l,magnus doesn't care about olympiad as it is a team event,has gukesh ever won any single tournament in which magnus was there??No,He is 2 best classical player but not even close to strongest or 1st which is magnus

[@stag_zzz]

People said when Anish blundered it's Gukesh's luck... then when Fedoseev couldn't find the better way to put pressure on Gukesh , it's Gukesh's luck.... and same with Sarana , when he was better and couldn't find the best way to continue, it's Gukesh's luck.... and When Nodirbek blundered and game ended in a draw , it's Gukesh luck... If it happens for first time it's called coincidence. If it happens for second time it's called luck. If it happening again and again, it's called as MAGNUS EFFECT OR NOW GUKESH EFFECT.

[@pvjaswanthreddy9643]

Gukesh ,The monster ...Showing his class❤❤❤

[@yamini_rawat450]

the c in mendonca has the sound like c in lucy not the c in cat

[@davehastin3683]

how do you know?

[@burgundian-peanuts]

@@davehastin3683 Because they understand Portuguese pronunciation?

[@Aditya-dw4kz]

​@@davehastin3683I know people with that name and he is correct

[@goshine3847]

Hikaru one correction in the video Gukesh Current TPR is 2908 not 3081.

[@sterey3571]

Few years later... LEVY ON FIRE ON TATA!!

[@pratik6342]

@@sterey3571 not possible as long as gukesh, prag, arjun is there

[@RaviKumar123.]

​@@pratik6342 yes bro its possible i wish he become a GM... his gaming analysis is amazing...

[@pratik6342]

​@@RaviKumar123. Becoming GM and leading the tournament are two different things...difference of sky and earth.

[@huseyintok02]

Did he really say "Gucci Piano"?😂

[@napster2482]

Hikaru seriously have some issue with a4 since wc😂

[@MixbOOsted]

lolll

[@sterey3571]

What is a4? What in the world is a4? What is heck is a4? What on earth is a4?

[@-IGRIS-]

​@@sterey3571 ding played a questionable a4 move against Gukesh in last round of WCC which Hikaru keeps goin on about every time he gets a chance

[@MixbOOsted]

@@-IGRIS- 🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@hngaming2667]

For All haters... Remember Karma hits back

[@elevendamnshots6855]

Gukesh is the strongest in the world rn with Magnus the second is crazy, his performance have never been in history of chess, on the road becoming the goat of chess world

[@nikhildawani2913]

Magnus is strongest with no one even close

[@vaibhavkumar-ql2fw]

​@@nikhildawani2913for now

[@stag_zzz]

​@@nikhildawani2913tell this to bobby fischer's soul 😂

[@elevendamnshots6855]

@@nikhildawani2913 Magnus is afraid of playing againts Gukesh, he withdrawn from Classical Tournament wherever Gukesh play

[@pratik6342]

@@elevendamnshots6855 Gukesh performed better than Magnus in Olympiad, just saying

[@pratik6342]

He is proving why he is youngest world champion 😊

[@harshjain5841]

Just a random 2800 chess streamer

[@afzalansari4244]

Hikaru the Picaso 🔥🔥

[@altrfryd5859]

I love my Gukesh always ❤

[@yahrna]

Thanks for the recap. Very impressive by Gukesh!

[@pritamsuna8433]

Gukesh is best

[@vu2tve]

"What the hell is a4" is back!!!!???

[@PixelPioneer37]

30:35 Bro trying to be safe 🙏😭

[@jeongukk06]

Hikaru, why dont you play any tournaments 😭

[@npa2005]

I think it’s because he wants to keep his 2802 rating as long as possible to ensure he gets the rating spot for the candidates. Also, because he enjoys streaming more

[@sterey3571]

He's semi-retired on professional chess

[@shayxnazar_k]

Hikaru, please make a video about Nodirbek Abdusattorov

[@Itsdead-chill]

what are you doing hikaru you and magnus should be present at tata

[@nandamyeswin]

i like how hikaru discusses about small mistakes that happens quiet often at lower ratings, even though he is a super GM

[@SphamandlaZungu-b6t]

South Africa Loves you Hikaru🙌❤

[@rohitkumarjha2657]

You lying bro

[@anadipandey1931]

O o spaghettio 23:22

[@AnjanaJain-l2m]

It's 1 am, nd I m here watching recaps

[@saiyanchai8145]

Hikaru ‘s shirt taste changed

[@DvyY0383]

I would love to see you react on the round 10 game in B group - Vaishali vs Nguyen.

[@JorgechavezSan]

I realle want to see a play off from Guk And Nord

[@Raamayan1]

Would be great if they organized ‘The REAL Chess World Championship’ event with Magnus Vs Gukesh and see how FIDE responds :D

[@bucklau3933]

Is Hikaru or Fabi taller?

[@vaibhavmeshram9700]

bring back the todaaaaaaaaaaay's video

[@WGMAtousa]

Wow 💫

[@wjo9756]

Love Hikaru

[@karl_the_memer4906]

Gukesh : RATATATATATATATATA💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@igmtvb]

Mr Hikaru Nakamura can you recap for Nodirbek Abdusatorov's games on your next videos. He got some great games on this tournament. Especially with Gukesh and Pragg. Love from Uzbekistan ❤ hope you find it worth

[@chandrasekharmukherjee2794]

With Vaishali also!

[@sanketj8724]

​@@chandrasekharmukherjee2794 That the other Nodirbek. Not Abdusattarov.

[@igmtvb]

@@sanketj8724 wdym

[@wakeealshafee]

hikaru up

[@savagebruh2340]

Gukesh "Dis 🥜" not These Knight

[@akash251yt]

Sir,may I know how did you start your chess career

[@tech_hacker2685]

🎉

[@DhruveelDave]

What's up Hikaru?

[@JeromeLambert-x1g]

Bees ultralol

[@ayushsingh5214]

Hi hikaruuu❤❤

[@ManuShivannaprakash]

I think chess rapid and blitz future chess Classic chess max 2900 or 3000elo can achieve by human Next free style chess is future

[@Randomboiwhogames]

Can you talk about the handshake 🤝

[@sanyamtrehan6409]

I just don’t know why magnus still compares him to alireza. And magnus didn’t even have gukesh as favourite to win the tata steel. I think magnus has some beef with gukesh

[@Arvind-e4m8c]

Haters crying in the comment section

[@Theopenwindowmaniacs]

Today’s “TOday” is honestly a little bit disappointing. It sounded a little bit forced, and the first syllable was entirely too short. Gonna have to give it a 4/10.

[@JujuLi-x3u]

Why didn't black take free pawn in e4 begining of the game?

[@yoorrsa]

how to spell Mendonca correctly ?

[@sanketj8724]

It's pronounced as Mendonsah. It's a Portugese name. He is from the state of Goa in India which was a Portugese colony for a long time

[@सचिनराजपूत-ज9ङ]

Hyyyy

[@sauravghosh7064]

Hikaru is so sad inside watching Gukesh being a real deal 😂😉

[@SrijanKaushik-xt2iz]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@RadvinSalari-i6r]

Why dont you and magnus participate anymore??

[@AbdulhamidFadeshire]

luckesh 🔥

[@Krishna0660]

Cry more Abdool😂

[@AbdulhamidFadeshire]

@Krishna0660 lol he's a good guy I'm not jus a fan nor a hater

[@triggerdriver1735]

​@@AbdulhamidFadeshirewinning candidates and world championship and winning again and again all in luck , he's pretty lucky huh!

[@Krishna0660]

@@AbdulhamidFadeshire no worries....I just don't like that people only focus on the "LUCK" part...he won the candidates, Olympiad Gold and WCC and moving forward towards TATA steel.... There's a perfect quote for this "Fortune favours the brave"🌟

[@AbdulhamidFadeshire]

@@Krishna0660 yeah my point he had a great performance at the right time 👏 🙌 and he has proven himself worth and the world chess champion

[@con_el_maestro3544]

Day 4 of asking Hikaru to play chess against DeepSeek

[@Mukund474]

Most liked comment is gay

[@Chaosattractor225]

Bait

[@netfixakki4143]

Hey ❤

[@froggy41046]

Bro fell off hard

[@agentraydg839]

Here before Gothamchess recaps Gukesh's game too! A big congratulations to Gukesh on Tata Steel! 👏👏🎉

[@СвятославКітенко-ч1с]

💷💶💴💵

[@15Anvesh]

Bro thinks he is hikaru 😂

[@joelmacinnes2391]

Team India win trading lol

[@mrsigma7669]

I didnt knew Warmerdam was Indian. Damn cheaters

[@acharyachaanakya]

No views 0 likes

[@Ajedrezado]

editing suggestion: remove first 2 seconds of every video :)

[@MarcelLu-w9r]

Hikaru, youre saying en passant incorrectly. Thats like the 4th video I'm hearing it and finally feel like sharing it here. I know you've met some French guy who said it that way, you've mentioned that in another video. But I guess he trolled you or somebody in this particular situation. Ask another fellow GM like Magnus if you dont believe me. But its kinda cringe the way you say it

[@burgundian-peanuts]

It *is* the Archangelsk Variation. 😀It's named after the city of Archangelsk, Russia, where it was popularized. Sometimes English-speakers call it the Archangel Variation, but strictly speaking, that doesn't make much sense, since the city is called Archangelsk even in English.

[@habibjonhomidov]

Nodirbek will win

[@pratik6342]

Not when Gukesh is there...

[@manasadhikarionlinejedi]

Nopes Nodirbek can't win it, because Gukesh will steamroll the other matches

[@JackBonano]

The urge to say I’m the first viewer 😏

[@DhruveelDave]

Naah, clearly 9 people were ahead of you.

[@yourlocalguide3422]

I don’t think he will be able to defend the world championship. I have a gut feeling that Magnus will play against him in the next world championship to prove who is the real champion

[@YashKumar-c1x]

He is coward gukesh already openly called out him for wc but the coward said no. I mean just look at his performance in 2023 qatar master he lost to 2500 and 2600s that why he doesn't want to play classical anymore. He knows he will be crushed in classical.

[@mrsigma7669]

Gukesh will be 21 in next WCC ...and if magnus comes back remember his WCC match against fabi all 14 games were draw no wins for Magnus. And as we witness how Gukesh really squesh milk from stones in classical and at the age of 21 he will wipe out magnus. It will be a humiliating loss for Magnus and he knows that so there is no way he is gonna come back. He wants to go down as undefeated without any challenge for new champions of chess. That's just self bullshitting behavior

[@FahimHoq]

Magnus no longer has the motivation. He even shared the blitz trophy with Nepo instead of trying to win. So it's highly unlikely he returns. And even if he does, it's unlikely he is the player he once was, as he hardly plays classical these days, so he probably wouldn't be able to defeat Gukesh. Gukesh is now the true world champion now, not Magnus.

[@endthisnonsense7202]

I do understand making use of mistakes opponents make is part of chess, and I do know it can be very unjust. I saw two games of Gukesh, for 1.5 points, all of them made possible by opponents inaccuracies during time scramble, he was completely losing both games. and should have gotten 0 points for these games. I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to lead, but he could easily have been a 6 points instead of 7.5.

[@ridhamrana0402]

Time is a factor of game,so gukesh plays tactical with a huge stamina

[@halliluyahh]

Chess games are won due to mistakes. It's just that Gukesh puts pressure on opponents and he utilises the blunders of opponents, that most people would miss. You lot think you're Einstein with engines 🤣🤣

[@prerakdoshi2774]

See that's the thing. When you look at the evaluation bar, all see the best moves acc to stockfish and none of them ( or atleast most of the times, most of them) are some absurd pawn pushed which only makes sense to computer. But these are humans. Chess bots have seriously restricted people's ability to appreciate good chess because a BOT has memorised billions of games off the data base and it tells you it's a winning move. You think all the games played by vishy and carlsen and kasparov were winning throughout or did they play an unusual sequence of moves putting the opponent into think mode , thus creating a tension and pressure and forcing the opp to blunder. Think abtit

[@Themystery321]

Even if u watch magnus games it is highly inaccurate according to engines

[@brasangt]

It appears that you don't seem to have much idea of chess (especially high ELO chess). You don't learn chess looking at engine moves as a human cannot predict those moves at all most of the time. An engine predicts hundreds of move ahead. Even a high rated player can maybe see 10-20 moves at max, considering the player has time. High ELO chess works very differently. You can be +2 ahead and have only one right move in your turn to maintain your advantage, any other move (even the 2nd best engine move) might take you from +2 to -3 sometimes). Say, if you are +1 playing as white and you are close to middle game. If you let the engine take over as black from that point; you will definitely lose to the engine. The engine will make that +1 advantage of yours disappear by the time you reach the end game. Try watching and analysing some super GM level games and you will get what I am trying to say.

[@orangejuece]

We use telekinesis to contemplate the threshold of material exchange for compensation of Chess game. Your guess my elo....I guess your's. We both become stronger and use the connection of brain receptors to understand "the move".

[@OMARMOHAMED-em3io]

First

[@wjo9756]

First :)

[@altrfryd5859]

Congratulations my brother!

[@ChristopherBitti]

Nodirbek > Gukesh tbh Even had a completely winning position against Gukesh this tournament but mixed up the move order and lost his advantage in time trouble.

[@manasadhikarionlinejedi]

Then ultimately it proves Gukesh > Nodirbek 😂

[@ChristopherBitti]

@@manasadhikarionlinejedi Average Indian logical capabilities lol.

[@SoumikRoy-t3m]

​@@ChristopherBittihe is right if nodirbek is better then why he is not a world champion and world no 6 where gukesh is world no 5 .gukesh defense was simply greater than nodirbek's attack why you are not accepting it?

[@ChristopherBitti]

@@SoumikRoy-t3m LOL. Gukesh got bailed out by time trouble, that's it. You're just insecure like the rest. If you were so confident Gukesh is clear of Nodirbek as a player, you wouldn't even pay attention to my comment. Imagine thinking rank 5 versus rank 6 determines that Gukesh is better lmao. Hikaru even said that Gukesh will probably dominate for a while after the WCC because he has a plethora of prep left over. Even with that Gukesh got outplayed by Nodirbek and was lucky to survive lmao.

[@manasadhikarionlinejedi]

@@ChristopherBitti Then bring your Higher than Average IQ reasoning in the statement you made above, and prove me wrong ! 😂 Obviously you can't because you can't bear an "Indian" becoming a World Champion, that certainly proves your shitty mindset.. Nodirbek is a brilliant player, but what makes Gukesh better than him, is he plays human-like positionally very good moves till the end which questions the opponent's calculation, he grinds the opponent up to the very end ! That is where the opponent makes a mistake, and Gukesh capitalises on it.. Magnus also does the same, he just grinds till the very end, and when Magnus does it, guys like you tell it's Genius, but when Guki does it, you say it's "luck" ! Even the crocodiles would be ashamed of your hypocritical tears ! 😂