Magnus Carlsen Is Rewriting Chess

[@ViewBothSides]

"Question this move we must" says Yoda... classic Epic Cheese.

[@epicchess2021]

Haha

[@olvesolvoll8300]

3:54, B4 he can capture

[@spillmill]

That was gold!

[@JJ-kl7eq]

That committee was organizing the next Catnidates tournament and the next round of Interbonals.

[@epicchess2021]

Haha

[@OliverPaulino11]

"Fleetwood Mac not happe" LMAOO this dude's a comedian

[@KevinBachaalani]

you commenting the match like its a football game

[@24tommyst]

The eval bar doesn't understand sadism so it will never understand Magnus...

[@Jay0neDE]

I would actually pay money for a top chess pros game where they neigh whenever they move a knight and bellow "EN PASSANT" in their finest french accent accordingly.

[@Fourevrlearning]

Where is Aretha Franklin to say a prayer 😂😂

[@wconradjr]

Let’s be real, Magnus rewrote the book of chess long ago, he’s simply still proving his theories.

[@ndnow12]

The best Magnus content farmer since Levi (RIP).

[@sonOfLiberty100]

how is this content farming. He creates original content. Its just an analysis about Magnus

[@danielpaulsson3475]

Hope he will branch out to cover other players as well eventually. The format is incredible, but the Magnus-centric coverage will get stale.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

Totally disagree. I never get tired of watching magnus videos and I have no interest in any other players

[@shred69]

There’s a ton of other videos what are you talking about.

[@toddmyers1586]

I really enjoy your channel. You and Agadmator are my favorite chess channels. Your humor has earned my subscription mate!

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks very much glad you’re enjoying!

[@amirsyoutube9518]

The fact that the last 20ish? moves were each made with under 5 seconds remaining is absolutely incredible.

[@epicchess2021]

Agreed !

[@JohnKuhles1966]

1:46 "to pressure the white knight here" meanwhile it is NOT pinned AND 3 times defended ... "what a "pressure" that is .... amazing

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

Epic commentary James. I think Bortnyks opening is what the ginger GM calls the British Grand Prix. Thanks for the illumination and wit.

[@epicchess2021]

Ah interesting thanks Jose

[@Moot_Point]

... "as the top GM's like to do" is your signature metaphor. Many chess listeners know that you are the most hilarious commentator, with always an actual learning experience. Top Notch stuff, or as you say over there, "Top Shelf".

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks very much appreciate the feedback!

[@raylopez99]

James is channeling NM James Canty with his rhymes. Busta Rhymes!

[@jenkem4464]

Insane how fast they can process these high level moves when you actually look at the seconds left on the board.

[@WhispersOfWind]

"Feel free to click around." Loool.

[@epicchess2021]

Haha

[@El_coolo]

0:17 yes, I also like to play king G5 on move 2 😅

[@krishrao2778]

When Magnus plays in amateur style, Gms start playing like beginners. That is why it is important to study amateur archives.

[@Ricardo7250]

4:20 white doesn't lose a pawn, he can capture at c5. It's just that it's a questionable exchange since white's pawn at e5 is pretty good to just trade it off

[@epicchess2021]

I forget details but always had to watch ng3 forking queen and rook once the queen goes to e2

[@ThatrandomBen]

Keep making contents I love your content

[@hm09235nd]

the best contents

[@antoinepoupard2418]

small mistake in arrows at 0:23 : king's movement is marked instead of queen's one

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks but was no mistake haha 😃just having a bit of fun with it. Even for the Queen that move would be illegal!

[@robertzepf6039]

Excellent chess channel. Best on youtube! Your analysis is so informative! fyi You said "Magnus" 41 times in 15 minutes mate!

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks a lot oh haha too much maybe idk lol

[@justinkauffman731]

That dude can make anyone look like Stockport County.

[@gerhardmehler4202]

Quite a lot of pressure! Bortnyk held on for a long time.

[@ArnoldSommerfeld]

Dionne Warwick was the original singer of "I Say A Little Prayer". Franklin's version is later and inferior.

[@epicchess2021]

Oh thanks a lot didn’t know that

[@MartyHirsch]

Wonderful finish to this game. So nice to see real endgames rather than 15-move draws like a few years ago!

[@murkywters]

That Krammik insert at 0:30 though lmao

[@gamevidsnstuff5805]

I love the way you describe the action.

[@daviddurbin7682]

Magnus makes endgame look easy

[@JohnKuhles1966]

00:31 "TIT a LAID TUESDAY"

[@JoshuaJomosuol]

I love the way you explain things and your accent is cool. Nice video, buddy! 😁

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks a lot glad you’re enjoying!

[@Kitties-of-Doom]

savage. That slow and degrading engine liquidation. It's like there is hope but the engine is 35 moves ahead and every exchange gets you closer to your end.

[@JohnKuhles1966]

2:29 you forgot to mention WHY h2 h3 is not played because the black sniper is forced to exchange his bishop pair for a knight when that happens!

[@epicchess2021]

Ah thank you

[@dirtibertfirst]

The increasingly surreal aspects of your commentary are rapidly approaching art.

[@epicchess2021]

Haha thanks

[@marcinsocha1500]

Interesting to say that people used to say that chess is so slow and so boring... I hope that these times with unjustified opinions are done. Of course classic format is still alive and kicking especially during live commentary and indepth postgame analysis. But this kind of semiofficial rapid matches shown this way put the chess at least on the second place when referring to entertainment in the web, imho. And the first place claimer is overated.

[@levonthurman-hawke2019]

Your videos are genuinely incredible. You make chess as fun as it feels

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks very much glad you’re enjoying!

[@111wolff111]

2.king g5 is such a Magnus move

[@mentalsoup60]

Awesome breakdown as always keep it up!

[@BattleAxeRX]

OK man I'm subbed. Thanks for the quality content

[@epicchess2021]

Thanks very much no worries glad you’re enjoying

[@koenraad4618]

Only Dennis the menace has answers to win from Magnus.

[@faizshaikh8681]

There is no reinvention

[@russellandrews1177]

Brilliant commentary

[@Money-Fast-Plan-a]

"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." ---Earl Nightingale

[@john-owenmiley-read9530]

Epic Chess - Daily Chess content direct from Harry Potters bedroom...

[@epicchess2021]

😂😂

[@RayScheelhaase-nd9rw]

Mangos r the most calorie rich fruit (colloquial definition).

[@kylejohnson7053]

I could watch or listen to epic cheese all day. Thanks for content as usual.

[@epicchess2021]

Haha thanks a lot cheers for watching

[@mpmpm]

I did not see any rewriting of chess.

[@patience9323]

Much love!

[@francois7355]

Very elite prew(picture of cats)

[@BOLDBANGER]

this dude should have more subs than agadmator. god i hate reddit.

[@robboinnz]

Who’d he lose his 2 games to?

[@carlkligerman1981]

My boy! My beautiful, mop headed, Nordic, always late with a bad case of the munchies little boy!

[@BWOOHAHAHAAA]

That was a nice fighting game.

[@andreasboe4509]

You truly lived up to the name of Epic Chess with this one. Wagner would be proud.

[@saketsagar2156]

What a game 🙌🏻

[@patrickwahl5333]

All of the "cleverness" gets in the way of the actual chess commentary.

[@epicchess2021]

Yeah it’s trying to strike a balance appreciate not for everyone

[@SuperJuiceman11]

Double Exclaim should be banned from thumbnails...

[@Shovlbum]

Dionne Warwick not Aretha Franklin

[@willschifrin7767]

They both sang "Say a Little Prayer."

[@raylopez99]

@@willschifrin7767 Songwriter always gets little public recognition. Check out the discography of songwriter Desmond Child for example, incredible the hits he's written. The frontman usually doesn't write anything (Prince, Phil Collins and a bunch of others are of course exceptions; modern artists like Taylor Swift get credit for a few bars of music but behind the scene they have talented songwriters too)

[@freakydeaky1435]

If he's re-writing chess can i have two queens please? that would help... a bit

[@DanielixKlimax]

You'll just botez them both...

[@daytonagreg8765]

SAME TITLE every day?

[@davidkimura3034]

King Magnus!

[@Harley.1]

Mahogany Son of Cedar

[@epicchess2021]

😂

[@kingStribor]

Wasn't there some better games? This is blunderfest.

[@Brandon-a-writer]

a bongcloud is not such a bad idea for a saturday and, pardon my french but, ahem, fuck Wagner and his ring of the nibelung shit though i have heard his music is much better than it sounds

[@epicchess2021]

Haha not a fan then I don’t know much of his stuff tbf

[@Brandon-a-writer]

@@epicchess2021 nah most of my great-aunts and uncles died in Leningrad during WWII what we russians call "the great patriotic war" and since he's such a fucking nazi i just can't, every time i hear march of the valkyries i turn into a war wet with that fuckin thousand yard stare kids get from wondering around the killing fields, and remember my gran's stories of starving through the 900 day siege, watching her sister (my great aunt sofya) literally die in the corner of their home and freeze there, remaining for weeks because every one was too cold and hungry to get up and move her. the dead were put outside in giant piles on the streets. tbh i might have been fucked up as a child from hearing all these stories "Ah yes, back when we were in Auschwitz…" harrowing shit bro lol [tmi sorry] to be fair one doesn't need this level of connection to the events to dislike nazis :D

[@epicchess2021]

@@Brandon-a-writer it's truly awful, hard to even comprehend. I never knew so much about Wagner but I did know that Hitler liked his music so it all kind of connects. Very dark time

[@NotSomeone68]

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[@hyperbolicsign6542]

whats the next title, magnus carlsen created a blackhole bec of his godlike chess :D A bit too criss-cross your titles, but epic chess has to have epic chess in it

[@epicchess2021]

Yeah it’s gets a bit hard keep thinking of them sorry lol

[@amark350]

Keep this up and you’ll be nipping at Gotham soon 👍

[@epicchess2021]

Haha idk about that but thanks for the kind words!

[@JamieMartin-b6g]

About time ♡

[@Ripsnort12]

Awesome!

[@petridev77]

You love Magnus? 😂

[@SabiN-to5bt]

Queenie!

[@LunarProjectND]

Is this a magnus channel 😂

[@epicchess2021]

I do a lot of Magnus tbf mainly cuz ppl love his games

[@terronescyril8494]

Too strong ;-)

[@karlstone6011]

a comment and a like!

[@epicchess2021]

Haha thanks a lot

[@bangclips01]

Mongoose carlsen 😂😂

[@storefot]

carlsen is not on top, he is first loser.. why even bother.. 🤣

[@osgubben]

Magnus only 10.th place, and rating a lot lower than Hikaru. Naka is the GOAT of bullet.

[@aegontargeryan1499]

😢 first

[@as7dev796]

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