How I Won the 2022 Golden State Open | R7 vs. FM Ezra Chambers (2249)

[@nklristic]

I would guess that getting over 2 400 again will be a nice psychological boost for tournaments to come. It is really difficult to ask for a better result than this. Congratulations for such an excellent overall performance and the tournament victory.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thanks! Unfortunately I probably dropped a few points in Vegas in December (which will only be counted for February) but you're absolutely right in that it feels like a huge psychological boost

[@soumyajitroy5239]

Congratulations Kostya, thanks for the recap, nice one.

[@adal6002]

Congratulations Kostya! Thank you for the great recaps.

[@jasonbraun3149]

Another wild game. I can imagine what you felt like after drawing this. Congrats!

[@stevec2227]

Congratulations!

[@algs5483]

Hey mate. Just found out about your channel and saw the whole series about this tournament. You explained the games very nicely ngl!

[@ThorBiddlesworth]

Congrats Kostya!!!

[@Evilanious]

Well done!

[@chris_harvey]

Congrats!

[@artcamp7]

that's awesome. well played

[@rudiwiesenblute2111]

let's go! I'm glad you won it very deserved

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thank you!

[@ronfuse6993]

Congratulations 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 🎊

[@bluefin.64]

In the latest Endgame Sensei on Chess Dojo you mentioned that you recently won two tournaments in a row. Are you planning to bring us the games from the second one? This was a great series and besides the content for many of us it's compelling to keep up with the struggles and progress of players/KZbinrs we follow.

[@pczapka]

21:40 What's a geometry with that ....Qg6 :O :D Congratulations for winning tournament! :)

[@pdomckenzie]

Another really interesting video thanks. Is it fair to say that not playing Re8 (instead of h5) was the biggest regret and thus learning opportunity? It's interesting how annoying and limiting it was to have that Qd5+ threat hanging around. I was thinking about Re8 and realized that not only does it improve your worst placed piece (Ra8), but it actually improves your two worst placed pieces (Ra8, Nb6).

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

After the game that was the moment I certainly wanted back, because Re8 felt so much more natural

[@pdomckenzie]

I just plugged it into Stockfish and it agrees that Re8 is clearly best. -6.7 at depth 30. Interestingly the top 7 moves are all either the R or K moves, thus addressing the Qd5 issue, and are all -3 or better. Prophylaxis was key here it seems.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

@@pdomckenzie Haha I guess we didn't need Stockfish after all!

[@SylvainSoliman]

"probably mate is better…" ^^' Congrats!

[@RobBCactive]

Congrats on your win!! You've worked for it. Nice deep exchange sac to win the B pair!! 😉😉 😁😁 All that tactics training must have helped defend under pressure, would have been Morphyesque if you got Ra8 into the counter attack against the naked king. In other sports, even elite competitors keep drilling the basics so it holds up under pressure

[@gavinjones8543]

excellent thanks.

[@Chess_Improvement]

Congratulations!!, what's next , how about the rating and preparations?

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

I think I earned about +18 FIDE from the event. Will be playing more tournaments in the next few months

[@davidheath5429]

Really exciting last two games! Congratulations on your tournament win. Is it a GM norm?

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Thanks! No, the event needs to have at least 9 rounds to qualify

[@jjr6929]

I was wondering why no one looked at g5 instead of d5 with all the pawn possibilities that were there.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

During the game I thought just Kh7 should be fine for Black

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

Hey Kostya! It's Dino (we did a video in 'Diagnose your chess' series). Are you interested in doing 'one year later' video? We can look at my classical games from Montenegro championship.

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Hi, sorry I missed this! Can you contact me on Discord? hellokostya#0588 - send a friend request 🙂

[@ChessMasteryOfficial]

@@IMKostyaKavutskiy I sent you a friend request. My nick is Player999999999999.

[@foxy3.o891]

Wow u won a tournament with incredible performance defeating 2 GMs in a row. Sure you will be GM in this year

[@richard-b-riddick]

I think white is not winning in minute 31:03 because you have Queen D4 check, and win the rook ¿?

[@theuntruescotsman5214]

There's a bishop on b6.

[@richard-b-riddick]

@@theuntruescotsman5214 Thanks. Bishops always hiding ;-D

[@zamicczsmicc7464]

I'm new subscriber

[@zwebzz9685]

Nice

[@yahya89able]

Congratulations 🎉 you deserve it , I hope you get gm title soon

[@IMKostyaKavutskiy]

Haha it won't be soon but thanks!

[@davidschneide5422]

Refreshing to watch a normal human play chess. Titled Tuesdays are often too humbling and emasculating.

[@regginopize2896]

Nice avatar blacks are hating usrael and it is another hocaust like whoppi who hates jews

[@Paul-Feyerabend-C-Lévi-Strauss]

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