One of the most beautiful Leela Chess overprotect restrain and thorn pawn games in Engine History!

[@kingscrusher]

Replayable game with indented variations: www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/ltpgnviewer32/ltpgnboard.asp?GameID=5023890&v=c9_XjKOLnzA

[@bhgtree]

I love everything about Leela's style of play, But the way the black King marches in, with his head held high, is so wonderful.

[@n8style]

That final mate by one tempo was amazing

[@douglasquaid7550]

One of the best games ever.

[@horatius2006]

What an elegant dismantling by Leela! Very well annotated and commented on as well. Thanks KC!

[@palfers1]

Wonderful game, and your enthusiasm is infectious! On a more sombre note, Leela (same version) was decimated by the lowly Pedone yesterday over at CCC. Perhaps it's also a good idea to look at Leela blunders to gain extra insight?

[@MrRayne911]

I've commented, liked, shared, and apparently was appreciated. Absolutely beautiful. Very instructional. thank you KC

[@seasideman]

Another astonishing game by Leela where the transition from middle game to end game gave huge advantage. Just brilliant, and thank you for making such a complicated game understandable by the likes of me!

[@sambowie4989]

This Leela games are amazing. Some of her moves make it look like she is actually "thinking"

[@mrbdzz]

Watched this live, what a stunning game. Thanks for the great analysis!

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

A beautiful, beautiful game and a fine analysis. Thanks KC keep up the good work

[@paragkamat4416]

i like the fluency and the way you explain stuff even for a novice like me. you excite me about chess. keep the good work going kingkrusher

[@pablosartor6715]

Inmortal game by Leela!! Thanks KC!

[@zhu05107]

Where is the "Love" button?

[@hellooohowareudoing]

Leela is amazing

[@raekm]

This game was pure art, pure genius. Thanks for the awesome analysis!

[@thomasr2472]

6:00 "This is Caveman Leela" 😂 One recurring theme we see in the Leela games is the knight vs. bishop trades. And in many cases, like in this game, Leela's compensation is a development advantage. The white knight moves three times to capture a bishop that has only moved once. So that's a tempo gain for black, which clearly shows in the position around 2:30, where white will need to move the bishop before even castling, while the black rook is already gunning up the E file

[@christopherlees1134]

Outstanding commentary!

[@VividVortex]

Leela has much better coordination and you get the impression that she can look into and snipe these tiny advantages from so far away! In other words, she is stacking the opponent's inaccuracies move by move.

[@SoB_626]

Great game, great analysis, great commentator! Thank you and more, please!

[@MrDannyg77]

Leela and her fawn pawns. I’m so enamored.

[@Th3Wick3dOn3YT]

That was restrain to the max, I love this masterpiece.

[@Durian_Defense]

And with this gem of a game, Leela qualifies to meet Fish Stock in the semifinals.

[@Durian_Defense]

And fails to make fish stock out of Stockfish. The good news is that Leela stretched the knock-out match against Fishy longer than any of Fishy's TCEC knock-out opponents.

[@rocinante666]

Astonishing. Thanks for the video

[@octane2344]

Leela had an overwhelming domination of the board from very early in the game... Another day in the life of Leela with the business of crushing Kings.

[@peterpetrov6522]

This game was amusing!

[@adnan4688]

Wow what a title,i am writing this before i even saw the the game

[@davidchang8428]

that is some awesome stuff!!!

[@phen-themoogle7651]

When (/how if possible already) can I use (one of the strongest versions) Leela to analyze one of my games? Instead of Stockfish 9 I rather have something that plays this way lol I want to play like Leela. (I know sometimes they might find the same move when it's obviously the best in a position but still) I understand most of the opening ideas and her super aggressive style on the kingside lol (fawn/thorn pawns), but her opponents don't play the same moves as some of the engines I battle against in the opening phase and I can only draw at best usually if I get into a comfortably equal position, so I'm curious how Leela would play in certain positions sometimes... Leela is already on the path to change the chess world in a positive way, but chess will make huge progress when Leela game analysis becomes available that we can use to help us analyze our games. It would show so many amazing positions/continuations. What I'm curious about in the opening for this game is, what if white plays 12. Bd3 , then kingcrusher mentioned Bg4, but white could simply castle right? And then I wonder how Leela would play from there (if she chooses Bg4). Stockfish would knight post on e4 or play Qd7 or Rc8..hmm, maybe Leela continues with the same kind of plan with h6 -g5 again and gradually builds up the attack, I understand the theme but there could be a lot of weird inbetween stuff in a slightly different position that makes it have less winning chances and more drawing chances. But then again, advanced pawns on the kingside when properly installed are overpowered... The future rule of chess is: First player to get a thorn/fawn pawn installed wins (no need to play out the rest of the game lol)

[@petrabanjarnahor229]

I honestly like A0 gameplay better when you sacs tons of material for the most abstract shits like putting your rooks or queen on 6th or even 5th rank. Anyway we still need to have Leela trained into stuff A0 plays.

[@reubenosman2288]

You already can. Just download the network (11248) and engine off github.com/LeelaChessZero/lc0/wiki/Getting-Started

[@phen-themoogle7651]

Thanks! I just tried that, do I put them both in the same folder after extracting the files to a folder I made on my desktop? I tried opening it up in Tarrasch , I added the exe file to the engine section but it only played about 6 or 7 moves with me and kept freezing... and I tried to view it's thinking lines but it didn't list any. I also have tried Arena but not sure how to add it there, also my Arena software is kind of buggy (has half German and half English for some reason and board looks weird now) . What GUI do you recommend? Ah, I just saw the guide/blog about it in more detail, it looks kind of complicated, why can't they just make some software that has Leela already installed in it? Like a GUI program already with this version of Leela...

[@Bobby-fj8mk]

13:48 - giving up the light square Bishop was a bad move for White. Black controlled all those white squares leading to the White King. Computer programs can't see that. Leela is perhaps showing us how a human could one day beat chess engines rated at say 3300.

[@russellmemo1353]

I saw many fawn pawns in Leela vs fire match. Wish the same will happen in semi-final against sf

[@manuelgarrido5602]

Yes this game is lovely beautifull. In a previous game Leela with a similar strategy just obained a draw but this time, she get the win.

[@reto.]

At around 15:00 I can see the Nf8 plan immediately but Leela first tries to get some rook moves in - I think what we can learn is that if there is no defense against one threat/plan (Nf8 and so on) we can first try to get the opponent to make more mistakes and improve the position in other ways.

[@ilyakalinin2660]

Now there is no need to introduce Leela to anyone! She is now officially no doubt 100% "Mighty" TOP-4 Engine! I hope she will become even stronger! Btw this game is a masterpiece in alphazero-style)

[@GautomChutia-sc8qq]

Revolutionary chess player.leela

[@warrendsmith6832]

At 9:41, what if white tries Bf3? Perhaps then ...Qe8 to be followed by ...g4?

[@paulbloemen7256]

Yes, amazing game!

[@ismailsaadatpay]

could you tell us where can we find notations of this game?

[@gruffyddgozali]

Wow.

[@sausage4mash]

you'd think a few top flight GM's would be looking at her games , even at my low level I've improved by watching her games , i just love the positional stuff .

[@pepepepito7158]

Fun pawn

[@michaelmorris4515]

This one is very pretty. Someone needs to put Leela on iOS and Android. I've played her a couple times on lichess - she'll beat the snot out of a 1700 like myself, but she's more enjoyable to lose against than Stockfish.

[@LightEnergies]

Doing all these different scenarios is getting quite annoying. Wish you spend more time on the game, like when you explains the squares, that was very useful. Thanks for all your Leela videos, much appreciate it--cheers!

[@patrickpotter1620]

wow, I didn't know you could put so many ads on a video lol

[@jonavuka]

What the heck is a thorn pawn? I think u meant fawn pawn

[@stargleamer]

An advanced pawn on the 6th or seventh rank near the opponent's king. Usually it is an advanced rook pawn on the 6th rank.

[@davidchang8428]

haha!

[@amphibian87]

FAWN PAWN

[@MasterStroke.]

A fawn pawn is a special case of a thorn pawn.

[@leslassiter6378]

The Russians call it a pawn nail.

[@u.v.s.5583]

Always overprotect your king, so nobody wants to attack it!

[@mstfici2685]

17:19 Why is Q exchange accepted? Isn't this a mate in 2? Qxf2 Kh1 Qf1 ?? what am I missing?

[@kingscrusher]

Qe5 is check to the black king

[@piyushsharma5938]

MSTF ICI it is a check first. ... you have to first take care of the check given to your king. ...lol

[@Mikeontube]

you're missing the check by white queen :)

[@mstfici2685]

Oh right! I was amazed by Leela's attack, I didn't imagine white could give a check ! Thank you

[@mstfici2685]

My bad, Let me admit I am a noob. started playing chess a few month ago after a long time

[@pierrestober3423]

#CavemanLeela

[@sonaruo]

so much squeezed the white if you get so much squeezed you know the end is near your pieces can not move to protect and the opponent has the ability to manner pieces at will , while you repeat a silly move out of desperation the only thing you have its for opponent to do a mistake the traditional engines need re evaluation of how the see their psotion fire position was terrible its was not a bit more for leela it was crushing for leela whats the point to have pieces that you can not move??