Longer Games #10 Climbing the 2500 mountain... An interesting Endgame

In this online game I pick a longer time limit, 15+10, my aim is to really explain the thought processes behind the moves that I am playing.
Hopefully this will help you understand better the way I think, and the way Grandmasters approach the game.
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[@jennybonah3565]

The cheater alarm got stuck on for a reason !

[@utilizatori]

Simon knows he playes against cheaters but he plays anyway and thats why I love his videos. Ok it's not the only reason but one of them

[@nofanfelani6924]

He is lost but he upload the video anyway, the true MVP

[@Treegrower]

Hey Simon! I don't know if you read the comments, but I just wanted to say that your videos have been an absolutely huge help to me. Explaining how a grandmaster sees the game in a way that a 1700 player like myself can understand is an amazing talent that you have. I have been noticeably improving my game since I started studying with your videos, and many people in my local club have noticed my improvements too. So seriously, thank you so much for making these! I hope to buy one of your famous "day-vay-day's" soon! PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT!

[@Mr-fy6zb]

We love your long play games Simon, no matter what the result is!

[@kevingallagher3742]

You lost the game but this didn't detract much from your very instructive insight. Thanks as always for being so generous, you are spurring lots of us patzers on :)

[@markwaterfield740]

Yay another longer time limit video, thanks Simon.

[@kiickinballistics]

14:05 is a classic moment. Hilarious 😂

[@abrarkhondker428]

Thank you for the dual uploads. It's much appreciated

[@boceksiadam]

I never expected to like this series as much as I do now. Seriously, I look for these like I look for Kurzgesagt videos and I should thank you for that. Thank you.

[@howardcurtiss5048]

Fully addicted to chess again - thank you Gingerman! Even when you prove to be mortal, your spoken-aloud analysis is symphonic in breadth and carries us along as we can get glimpses of the road to perdition and beyond. Utterly and brilliantly a treasure trove of strategic, tactic, counter-play, and counter-analysis. Please continue this series. I intend to support your financial endeavor, but I want you to suggest the first DVD that I should purchase. Please. I haven't a notion where I should begin.

[@mikek4025]

two rooks are usually better than a queen but i often feel that it's hard to calculate all the tactics available for the enemy queen especially under time pressure

[@pallav5833]

i'd take a queen + stockfish over two rooks any day lmao

[@Combsdave1]

These and your streams with prepared material ae def. my favorite. Always a notch above the rest.

[@Ridabu]

I very much like the way you go over the different ideas, pros, cons. Instructive af.

[@richardlancelot3829]

On fire with the videos lately!

[@nicholasmahoney4143]

No need to get discouraged - we all hate losing (and would sooner see you win) but the ethos of being instructional is still being upheld.

[@mejva]

There is a reason why that bell did not want to stop ringing.

[@beatbang000]

the alarm LOL!

[@sryan2640]

Maybe you could try an alternate account to avoid cheaters, I think they get jealous when they see the Ginger Man tag

[@toequantumspace]

Super cool London system again - my main opening now. Thanks!

[@tommessig2060]

thanks for the video again Simon!

[@redhaegar]

What is wrong with these people? Can't they just enjoy play a GM? Noooooope - the temptation is too strong... Could you imagine any GM playing simultaneous chess when they get outplayed by 2000 er player in every local tournament? And that blatant comment in the beginning from the opponent... Well, what can you do. It was instructive as always. Thing is: over the board these 2000 rated Rambo players bullying a GM do not exist. Only internet players trouble GMs like this. Ok, it happens but on very very rare occasion.

[@muntoonxt]

This ginger captured my soul

[@bengski68]

_stastegic_

[@mariushav]

Stra-ste-gic

[@vga1232]

Pisitional!

[@lukeempty3386]

he has dyslexia

[@MedicalNemesis]

ys2949 banned for cheating on chess.com. Thank you for the video, Simon. Sorry this keeps happening.

[@nickburggraaf3977]

I don't see the cheating. He made mistakes and also threw away a winning position once or twice. A 2000+ player is perfectly capable of beating a chess master. But then, I'm not a cheat detective.

[@ShoebAdnan]

Damn, 2500 does seem like a mountain now. Do not know which mountain though. Perhaps the Olympus Mons in Mars? That is nearly 21,229 m high! Happy climbing.

[@storiesreadaloud5635]

Because the mountain is really 3500 due to cheaters.

[@nanoboi101]

The tallest mountain in the solar system!

[@tharindanimnajith3525]

Thanks Simon!

[@sagheysajeevan6958]

Thank you for the videos!

[@GSBroker]

This series should be renamed to "Climbing the stockfish mountain". Geez.

[@smar1k359]

for a moment I thought that I was watching the previous video..As always nice video simon!

[@per-axelskogsberg3861]

Really like these long play videos where you can play good moves, without blunders, while discussing the options and thought process. Maybe instead of playing random opponents you could play another youtube gm? That would eliminate engine usage and provide commentary from both sides of the board.

[@Pawnlust]

Do you cover 1. d4 e6 and 1. d4 c6 on the DVD? The c6 move especially is quite annoying due to early Qb6 ideas without d5.

[@simba1608]

More like "Climbing the cheating mountain"

[@sealdoll5050]

Indeed, I had a feeling this player would be a cheater when Simon rang the "cheater alarm" and was unable to turn it off

[@alephnull4044]

Lol it was trying to warn him!

[@georgia-je5mw]

:DDDD

[@xebit6661]

Its so sad to see him blame himself after this loss, while he played (I think) really excellent chess. His mindset to keep on pushing instead of bailing out for a draw is what I admired him for in this game. Really high quality chess here, anyways!

[@rpgisaboutlife4396]

His opponent was caught for cheating via an engine!

[@sahtan62]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!!!

[@Holtgrewex11]

SIMON, I just got to London and I want to explore some of the chess world here. Any ideas of good shops or areas to play old-fashioned outdoor chess?

[@CraigDagostino]

The chess and bridge shop on Baker St has outdoor sets. There's a few casual nights in London too. Check out the Casual Chess Cafe

[@nielsgissel6134]

Great game and great comments !!

[@buzzspiker]

i haven't played in a while because my computer died and this made me remember how great chess is

[@DeCamJ]

thank you for the game! and lol the alarm.

[@pushkar260]

nice to see such rich unbalanced material, a grandmaster thought process in such complex positions. better luck next time👍👍

[@thomasswoodward]

Hopefully, in the near future you could put together a play list of confirmed non-engine long games? Also, would it be possible to include PGNs in the description? Thanks again for all of your efforts in bringing chess to the KZbin public.

[@amiridon2080]

king d1 in that critical position.

[@lochvids108]

We saw the flag and we knew lol

[@MysteriousLabyrinth]

I wonder how much you were playing against yourself if he was tuned into the live broadcast,he seemed to make a lot of the moves you were suggesting.

[@rpgisaboutlife4396]

His opponent was caught for cheating via an engine (which is very sad of course).

[@nvmefiend2555]

Around 23:00 in the video why not rook to e4 if he takes with the pawn he's blocking his bishop and that's his main threat gone and you can take the rook with the bishop next move. Looks pretty safe to me.

[@doggy-chess2691]

Ikbal Hyusmen if your going to suggest that I suppose Ne4 is even better?

[@malegupta8404]

i amt hinking same like simon williams yaar mazaa aa gya great improvemen in last 7 days.thanks laot

[@jennybonah3565]

Game #1 in this series is past 31,000 views. Impressive!

[@Wingspan183]

Nice game by Stockfish

[@TheDanishGamers0705]

Love you Simon, im a ginger too, and i've hit a rating of 1660 or around that in 30 minute games on chess.com in about a year and a half, and i wanna know how to improve -Felix

[@titmewtit]

is chess.com analysis that bad ? i mean it says black did 2 blunders and white did 1 .-. Excellent 36 43 Good 11 6 Inaccuracy (?!) 2 2 Mistake (?) 3 1 Blunder (??) 1 2 Forced 1 0

[@bifflowman2000]

Hey Simon, I love your work. I have to say frankly as a devout fan that I believe you underestimate a lot of untitled 2000 players at this time control, which may have led you to play for a win a bit too hastily here. I'm a rapid player on the site and can say that from around 1800 on up, there are some very strong players (not all cheaters either), some of whom may have never played in a live tournament: I never have. All that said, I understand that you're a GM! :)

[@zachlward]

these are so damn awesome

[@turtle207]

Have to admit this cheater was far better than the others. But Bxg3, Ng4, Re8 and many others are engine moves. In this game he used engine carefully, but look @ his other game - our cheater played vs another cheater (that was banned later) and won! The second cheater thought he can afford one move from his own brain, but was panished immediately. Here the game, almost all moves from both sides are stockfish first line (depends on depth), 9 centipawn average loss (better than "average" top gm) game is here: lichess.org/CMCO9jp2

[@luisg.ontoriaalvarez2334]

It is too easy nowadays to accuse someone of cheating without real proofs.

[@zwishking6032]

Some are just natural moves

[@blahtoausername]

Why would he just use the engine for those moves? I mean, I guess they could be moves he learnt from an engine - using Analysis. Which is no different to what Simon does when he's researching lines.

[@turtle207]

Zwish King agree all of them are natural moves. For engine. No player will open the h file towards the king by taking Bxg3, or trap his knight on g4 or instanly calculate the Re8. All those moves played instantly, but in fact requiring deep calculation.

[@zwishking6032]

Um... Re8 wasn't instant, and a couple odd moves doesn't mean anything. Sure they were played fast, but that doesn't mean he knew they were good, peraps, when rushing, they didn't think about the unappealing repercussions. Perhaps, at first, they too might've thought these to be mistakes, and faced palmed after releasing the mouse... Of course you could be right, do you have any more concrete statistics?

[@dbcane]

Hey Simon, curious about the possibility of Qc2 at the 8 minute mark? Immediately threatens all kinds of nasty on the G6 square.

[@nickburggraaf3977]

I would take the queen over two rooks any day of the week. So much easier to play.

[@Aparaititos]

I actually am certain he's not a cheater. His exchange sacrifice is extremely dubious (he had a clear refutation of Simon's plan which he would have played had he used an engine). He just found one nice tactical shot with Re8, which is not that complicated with a forced draw if Simon doesn't sacrifice the queen. Afterwards, he still commits lots of inaccuracies in the queen v rook+rook endgame. Unfortunately, the world of chess has two problems to deal with: cheaters and witch hunters.

[@Aparaititos]

Not to mention he also missed a clear win in the q v r+r endgame

[@Iceman_HSV]

Despite your doubts, the player was banned for violating fair play policy only one month after playing against the ginger gm. with an average cp loss of 0.23 and 71.7% top suggested engine moves, the data is very telling of the integrity of the banned player. it was only after ginger gm was an exchange up that he turned around the situation (and likely turned on the engine). With all this information currently, it is harder to believe he didn't cheat.

[@malegupta8404]

dear simon sir honeslty i wa s thinking of took sac for the knight and black has much better positon and compensation.

[@Phoenix-ox2jr]

Remember to always think srastegically!

[@vinayak_2805]

at 6:10 was it possible to go Qa4 and after protecting the knight d×c5 as Ng4 is unprotected

[@jezziledizzle]

After ...Qc7 why not Bb5 with the idea to exchange the knight then e5 would be yours?

[@elbay2]

Chess is tough.. it's tough I tells you!

[@sablewskies]

I know im a bit late to this party, But what I dont get is why the Queen sack. The way see it bishop take rook. then Night goes into fork with queen and rook. I dont see the issue. King could have gone to D1 if knight take rook queen takes back, night take bishop queen take other knight. I chess notationBxRe8..Nd3, Kd1..Nxe1, Qxe1..Nxe8, Qxe8.. from there advantage white. So why the Queen Sack what am I missing as I dont see it. the Pin on the queen could have been blocked by the pawn. so no real threat. Enlighten me here as I just dont see why

[@chasethemace1759]

If Kd3+ and Kd1 black can play nxb2+ which leads to a perpetual with the king moving between d1 and c1. If you try to get out of the perpetual playing Kb1 or Kc2 black plays nf4+ and picks up the queen, the position is still two rooks vs the black queen but white will have a vulnerable king because of the pawns black has on the queenside.

[@sheefra7731]

This guy was NOT a cheater- sacrificing the exchange was unnecessary according to the engine

[@malegupta8404]

waaoh what a move re8!!!! how can human find sucha computer like move ??simon??

[@arsenalfanrichi]

I love your videos and your enthusiasm, Simon. I don't know if your opponent cheated, I certainly hope not, if so I hope it doesn't destroy your confidence in Online Chess! Chess.com seems to have a conflict of interest in banning cheats due to the subscription infrastructure, but lichess.org has even banned titled players recently found to be cheating. Maybe in future this may be an idea. I know it would be difficult due to your affiliation with Chess.com, however it seems they aren''t taking paying members Cheating seriously due to the revenue created.

[@jsgovind]

Yes!!

[@burakokumus2509]

After Nf6 why not Qc2 instead of Qe2 to threaten Bxg6?

[@franzpauthner2939]

At 28:17 why not plying Rd1?

[@inguh7041]

Yeah. I agree white should have drawn it at some point... with low time it is impractical to push... the question is: was this guy cheating or not? =)

[@rizqiefajar]

Lol, he met a player that has a high possibility of not cheating, but somehow the siren kept sounding.

[@CGiant]

Why not Kd1 @23:52?

[@topgunbass]

great video Simon. I've learned so much on how to attack the castled king. keep doing what you're​ doing. those queen moves at the end seemed pretty fast and accurate. thanks again for your time.

[@CoeyinJapan]

Strasstegic.

[@jordypma1413]

Why not Qc2 at 8:09?

[@StringDogg]

I was thinking that but then black can play Qe7, if Bxg6 then hxg6, after Qxg6+ (check) then black can play Qg7 blocking the checkmate and offering a queen exchange - which will favour black due to being material up. It's a great idea and if black ever moved his queen away from being able to block, then it would lead to a checkmate. Overall this is a great idea against lower rated players but when playing on higher levels it's a waste of tempo and the queen is far better on e2. Hope this helps :)

[@chrishey4480]

36:42 you can win his queen for 1 rook, Re8+ Kf7, Re7+ Kf6, Re6+...

[@PatrickMorcillo]

Yep! I just saw it as he was playing the game

[@barcabashar]

actually , after Re7+ black can play Qxe7 where he sacrifices a queen for 2 rooks.

[@cheytac1990]

why pushing a3 if c3 control B4 already ?

[@SniperMonkeh]

Maybe he wanted to take with cedric the c-pawn? If not, the pawns will be dangerous in the center and will become mobile.

[@cheytac1990]

Moe Lester that makes no sense to me, why would black puts his knight there if a pawn is already attacking it

[@SniperMonkeh]

What do you mean? Only if black plays cxd4 and then white plays Nxd4.

[@cheytac1990]

Moe Lester ah yeah indeed that would then be not dimple for white

[@TimJapan]

ys2949 account closed three weeks later for breaching the fair play standard.

[@Gray-dr2ri]

NOOOO!!!! At 41:14, missed mate with Re8!!

[@Gray-dr2ri]

My bad. Qxe8

[@circleviii1801]

Here's analysis of the game in case anyone is interested lichess.org/d22ewxD2 Pushing for a win in drawn positions is a problem I have much of the time too.

[@circleviii1801]

It appears as though 17. Bb5 was a blunder that both you and your opponent overlooked the consequences of after ...cxd4 with some complicated variations

[@Infamous_V.I.P]

More like climbing the ladder to 210@

[@paulostriantafyllidis6706]

Plz don't missunderstand me I do learn alot from ur games but it's really sad see a gm lose so much. I started from 1 video and till now I see u have hard time at 2k elo. Sad...

[@sanitary103]

it shouldn't matter if he wins or loses. it's for instructional purposes. plus, he does run into quite a few cheaters so what do you expect?

[@Vincent-fv1ch]

when are you going to play hutch? :)

[@yamiegg394]

Please no...

[@Vincent-fv1ch]

checkmate with pawn is not common put it happens from time to time

[@boceksiadam]

If you weren't joking, could you tell me why do you wan to see that match? Like, why do you think it's interesting?

[@Vincent-fv1ch]

you sacrifice bishop or knight for positional advantage for your pawns, had a game like that a couple of weeks ago where i had 2 pawns pushing to the other side with my king behind them, ending up with a check mate ;)

[@Vincent-fv1ch]

and also his videos with tal have been very entertaining and educational

[@jordypma1413]

Then he had to degens g6 first

[@fullfix1973]

31:43 u could win easily with some checks and a fork

[@fullfix1973]

srry, didnt see Kf7(

[@kenkeller6072]

shhtegic

[@sandorclegane2485]

At 20:57 couldnt you just take his rook with bish and then also win knight

[@-Mohog]

Weren't you paying attention? :-) He did take the rook, but his opponent didn't recapture it, because he had a tactic with the knight.

[@swedlifeboiii9619]

too bad he has association with chess.com, far less cheats on lichess.org. also lichess.org's interface isn't aids, no ads, free.

[@igorthemeister]

Simon, you should do a "cheater catch" series, you play against cheater upload the video, and everybody sees (especially chess.com crew) and the "smart kid" get a ban. This is so unfair to you and your fans, 1000s people watch some ugly cheater, playing like Magnus. #stopcheatingonchess.com

[@TheMarto0804]

this guy is a cheater playing super fast and making so accurate moves

[@finnsteur5639]

Stop accusing ev eryone of cheating ^^... Simon was winning when he had the exchange +1,5 according to stockfish.

[@John-hi4sp]

And after that the player's moves were perfect. The queen vs 2 rooks endgame requires a lot of calculation.

[@Aparaititos]

Not perfect at all, he actually missed a clear win (but Simon slipped again) and before that he committed lots of inaccuracies.

[@gregoryzala136]

stockfish actually takes a couple more seconds sometimes until it figures out the best line so when under time pressure you gotta just pick the first suggestion that seems well enough

[@Iceman_HSV]

you might be surprised then, to find that his account was banned one month after playing against the ginger gm for fair play violations. he had a 0.23 average centipawn loss and 71.7% of his moves were an engine's top suggested move. This data is very telling of the integrity of this banned player.

[@malegupta8404]

what the fukc is black he is playing very fast what a cheater i think i think he is uisingengine but good play by simon thanks al ot antoher brilliant game by himwaaoh

[@lochvids108]

defo cheater

[@Maarten8867]

So many cheaters here, IM bartholonew plays way fewer cheats on lichess.

[@tharindanimnajith3525]

We love your long play games Simon, no matter what the result is!

[@LCFojomen]

love your intro music please don"t shut it so fast :(

[@roland.j.ruttledge]

Thanks for sticking with the London. Love your style, many thanks.