One Move To Rule Them All! || Praggnanandhaa vs Nepo || Round 5 || Candidates (2024)

[@LeonardoP4]

17:07 Indeed my uncle told me about this black queen move... i should've warned Pragg about that line 😂

[@Philopantheon82]

Nepo so far played the two most dramatic games of the candidates and he defended brilliantly two very dangerous position that any tiny inaccuracy could have led to a defeat. To survive those two opening preps by each Naka and Pragg was a great achievement in itself

[@njabulocele1888]

"And you resign here because really bad things will happen" 😭😂

[@jx14aby]

That's the beauty of chess. You can see danger lurking.

[@Hoopalalia]

The two most overused childicons.

[@37jamjam]

Felt bad for pragg and vidit this round. First time we saw ian down on time too in this tournament. Im rooting for ian but this was heartbreaking to watch. Now i truly believe agad that not all draws are equal

[@kostkacukru1776]

Yea, it happens quite a lot, that black hard defends and in the end, even after 3000 attack from white and slide or higher edge advantage, black can manage to draw. With white it is rare, but with black, it happens quite a lot and we must give credits to both sides. Pragg just outsmarted Ian and played higher quality chess, however Ian did really perfect defense with almost every move ''ONE ONLY MOVE'' situation... Hands down to both.

[@user-dw4dq1if1m]

With this being said, it just show that ian is really rock solid in defense, couple with his game against hikaru

[@GoodManPT]

Chess-wise, I can't feel bad for him. It's not like he had some brilliant ideas or fought really well and drew anyway. He had just memorized a line and as soon as the prep was over he made sub-optimal moves. I did feel bad for Vidit though, because he did fight for a long time and he did have many good moves made by himself.

[@P.sherman45]

i love the chess, but its sad to see that all the "brilliant" games are just about home prep and line memorizing.

[@Wisdom.Phoenix]

​@@kostkacukru1776Prag played higher quality chess or just memorized some good engine lines and threw the advantage when he had to use his own quality chess

[@deadeye4520]

Pragg has had winning positions and hasn't been able to close the deal. I think given more experience, he'll be winning these close games.

[@AllyssaGreyOP]

I feel like Pragg gets stuck in “complication” mode and doesn’t recognize when to simplify and go for the throat yet.

[@Docta123]

Yeah As someone said it perfectly... Pragg is not YET clinical in his execution

[@ignaciomeneseslopez3282]

I love how you continiously show photos and prsctice.the precious art.of.observation and interpretation

[@kimcostantino1051]

I WAS OTHERWISE ENGAGED 😮 where did agad learn such beautiful English??? I would just say “I was busy” or something

[@curious_banda]

What's beautiful about it? Seems like a standard phrase. Also something you can hear when calling someone.

[@kimcostantino1051]

@@curious_banda thank you for your contribution

[@curious_banda]

@@kimcostantino1051 thanks for your valuable intellectual response and contribution too!

[@curious_banda]

@@Ash12345p wrong thread bro

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

It's an allusion to the fact that he attended the birth of his son -- a baby brother for the two-year-old sister.

[@AkshaySinghJamwal]

This tournament has a crazy matchup, even though my money would be on Nepo if I were a betting man I wouldn’t be able to guess who’d come out on top.

[@Yusuf_K7]

Ian really needs to watch out with the Petrov. Everyone prepares novelties in it, as they know he will play it.

[@Saiganesh2108]

#suggestion one of vaishali game featured a Marshall attack. Lei had one game with kid opening and she also played evans Gambit. If possible please cover the above games.

[@КошарбековЭмир]

The titles of these videos and all the rest in Agad’s library is just nuts 😂😂😂 This man is never tired to impress me

[@nishanthprince]

#suggestion Zhongyi vs Muzychuk. One of the best games in the candidates so far

[@failedjokes5469]

Nice photo of Prag analyzing the board on the ceiling like all legends do.

[@jx14aby]

In the photo, I see two microphones pointed at the players. There are also at least two photographers in the picture. I can't see how these guys can concentrate under those conditions. Bobby Fischer would refuse to play.

[@herodeadman007]

They are only allowed for first few moves after that nobody allowed other than arbiters. I have attended it last weekend and there was pin drop silence.

[@jx14aby]

@@herodeadman007 That's good to know. But what about the microphones on the table? Always there listening.

[@herodeadman007]

@@jx14aby I think those are Cameras. You can see those angles during live coverage. It shows player’s expressions.

[@ymtonemanlaer4088]

At 10:34, instead of your option: black rook to e1, Nepo could have played queen to e1.

[@rogerstone3068]

This is possibly the most exciting drawn game I have ever seen. Without Agad's analysis, it would have been just another draw; but when you understand the cliff-edges they were both standing on - absolutely scary.

[@rameshwarkshirsagar5636]

How many Petrov's these people have played in this tournament? Like all of them??

[@KennedyMister95]

I think this is how most tournaments go, it wouldn't make much sense for everyone preparing their own opening

[@chriswright3179]

One move to rule them all. Isn't that b4? I kept waiting for it. Entertaining game, entertaining commentary. Thank you, Antonio.

[@mrpinguimninja]

This is one of my most proud 'pause the video' moments 'cause I saw it instantly. As a borderline 800 elo player, felt really good to see the tactic

[@theoffbeatgamer8285]

I was lucky enough to see this game live. Nepo after D5 had the look of someone who believed they were beaten the whole time he was calculating. Doing classic Nepo esc discontented muttering and gestures. However he went on to play masterfully with the position he had. It was also fun to see when they were on move 16 most of the rest of the hall, open and women’s only on move 6.

[@benjihuynh2970]

8:34 According to browser stockfish, the position after bxh2 is evaluated at +0.1 so almost certainly a draw. However, the line that occurred in the game was evaluated as +2.4 but only if white can find the singular winning line. Obviously, engines see all, but it is interesting how big that one mistake is

[@blackwidow7804]

15:22 Knight on f4 is also a fork with check and after the Knight takes Rook, the black Rook on e2 will be defended by the Knight.

[@turgaycoruhlu4648]

İt was a huge preparation.

[@tufol33k78]

"you and your uncle can find it" 😂

[@phicomingatya]

3:37 How is it al preperation for white when it was a completely new game a few moves ago after a new move by black?

[@HarunYiniyan]

What are you asking? Pragg prepared the lines, what does that have to do with it being a new game ?

[@phicomingatya]

@@HarunYiniyan When playing a new move, it often takes your opponent a bit out of preparation. How many lines does one need to prepare if one anticipates moves by the opponent that have not been played before, and so far in the opening?

[@adamas8516]

At 7:55 how isn't be6 before exchanging the rooks winning on the spot?

[@theowp9039]

#suggestion Tan Zhongyi vs Anna Muzychuk from round 6 of the Women's candidates

[@whirlwolf369]

This is the Agadmator version why i starting liking chess more! 👍

[@pt7258]

As Agad gives credit Svidler for Praggs game but I think this type of strong plays has always been in Praggs playstyle. Pragg always has shocked us with his unlikely extraordinary move all the way back he played before. He is unique. That's what I think.

[@JustAnotherSomebody001]

Believe it or not, but I saw that variation (and their next moves) in the first go! Guess that solving those tricky Maths questions are finally paying dividends!

[@brukujinbrokujin7802]

Hello Agad. Just for Candidates and World championship will you add clock. These 2 are the highest level of tournament so its good to know the ammount time used for each move.

[@michaelmassaro4375]

During live coverage the commentators were taken aback when they saw Pragg play the Bishop move instead of capturing the h pawn it’s surprising being Pragg was playing Brilliantly up to that point it makes you think he confused the move order of what he should play Nepo than forcing a Queen trade should be a Great game today Pragg vs Alireza

[@diffidenceskc8576]

The critical position reminds me of a anand caruana game for some reason

[@cygnustsp]

You watch too much chess lol

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Suggestion # Round 8 Gukesh vs Vidit

[@cygnustsp]

I've been missing for a couple of weeks, sorry about that. 7 years of watching agadmator.

[@chesstekken5287]

Why not BxNd7??

[@jerometruong]

why the Petrov?

[@DracoVolantus]

!! Amazing game !!

[@tusharkhanna5238]

1:26 Why is gukesh having two jackets ...is it that cold ?

[@HarunYiniyan]

Thats not gukesh

[@IOSALive]

agadmator's Chess Channel, I liked this video because it's awesome!

[@Zain-dx1zb]

the title shows that you are a man of vast knowledge

[@carlshimota1022]

You and your uncle taking cheapos at the bar and or library. Awesome! Never change

[@steliosnik915]

i was waiting and waiting for this game...

[@nedmerrill5705]

We've reached top dead center in the tournament. Now the explosion happens.

[@matthewfairchild3846]

I have seen the light! Lol

[@desmondtekki9170]

Chess or life, that is the Q

[@junc3354]

I chose life then came back to chess after forty years...

[@strooomon]

Pragg has certainly made the tournament extremely entertaining

[@DarkKnightIndia]

Finally my repeated requests got noticed, thanks Antonio.

[@AndrewH1994]

IMO this was the best game of the tournament so far despite being a draw! I wish Pragg had won it though.

[@istiakislamSEO]

Anyone else still missing Wei Ye and Agad playing rapid?

[@beltenebrosgr1904]

Damn! I found the move that saves the game...

[@IbraahimNuhaad]

You ever wins candidates will be world champion, I don't think ding can hold on last place of this event

[@karbingamer8118]

#suggestion please cover the evans gambit game in the womens candidates!!!

[@GoofyAIVideos-m9k]

the titles are just OP!!!!

[@eljanrimsa5843]

My uncle would not play this cheapo but I would. The queen remains strong in the center and perhaps Nepo misses that I can take on h6 now.

[@Seth-L]

You seriously overestimate me and my uncle’s chess abilities

[@burimsaliji23]

My uncle called me during the game and said Qe5 is the move 😎 and I agreed imidiatley 😎

[@imana1528]

what a title🔥

[@armaanmalhotra9042]

🔥🔥

[@asmithgames5926]

I found the game-winning move!!

[@nationalsocialism3504]

"Once there was only darkness... if you ask me that means the light is winning" is a total inversion of "Time is a flat circle" since that means that deterministic outcomes can't be possible as the Light is making progress against the Dark.

[@cygnustsp]

Wholly disagree. Light's path is determined, as is all matter. We only perceive an illusion of choice.

[@nationalsocialism3504]

@@cygnustsp posted on the wrong video but just cause all paths of all matter can be predicted with enough processing to calculate all probabilities doesn't make it actually true... nothing is perfect and therefore that imperfection invalidates Deterministic outcomes. The universe being run on an infinite loop will always have an infinite number of solutions since those "imperfections" will manifest themselves in infinite ways. As that's the very definition of what "Free Will" is by being imperfections going against the perfection of "God's Will"

[@rahmanagayev6829]

Will Ian do it again... and where is the Chosen One?😅

[@bruceazumbrado5387]

As usual, the Petrov's Defence leads to very dull games. Is it defence or defense?

[@mr.zedkun7909]

#7

[@dlmc1]

Nepo is going to melt Hikaru when they next play.

[@LukeLongboneOfficial]

My uncle doesn’t always play the moves you think he would. 😬

[@elpollolocoman119]

Pragg needs to polish his tactics game. That one move, would be elementary for Magnus.

[@martingrillo6956]

chapeau for the cheapo

[@teb1687]

i am a 1500 and found that line in 2 seconds 😂

[@Singhkayoutube]

3 indian flags❤❤ in one picture

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

And it was in this position that Pragg missed the chance to throw in a cheapo.

[@mtaur4113]

FID

[@fourtime7]

Lot of Petroff this tournament.

[@siddhant07wc6]

"I see what you did there with title" Lord of the rings reference

[@marekmarecki6116]

Why Nepo don't have Russian flag(instead of fide one) on the tale?

[@rockybhattarai3439]

One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

[@Kreshel1]

Prag has to hire my uncle for prep

[@miebakaigah9730]

Nepo is always so lucky

[@jayaram2u]

One move to RUE them all or RULE them all???

[@PeterM8987]

Nepo holds! 🎉

[@rahulbanerjee9968]

antonio's obsession with my uncle is concerning!

[@sadaf2775]

Won't you show us any game of the greatest chess player of all time on his birthday? 😢

[@erikasp205]

“One move to rule them all’? Are you a Tolkein nerd, too?

[@cygnustsp]

He's used that phrase before so perhaps but he's probably just reusing the meme.

[@mubaraksenju7521]

First!!!!

[@insanestuff9470]

My uncle is legend killer 😂💪

[@SmugAmerican]

We keep seeing all the ways Nepo will lose in the championship when those lines are calculated all the way.

[@johnmallette3143]

gg

[@andys_industries]

F

[@HydraliskX]

Man, what did my uncle ever do to you lol.

[@Intradayfutures]

Once any one watches you.... He will became fan of you... Just small request... Can you give a small shout out to Vidit in your next video.. He is really playing very nice just being little unlucky

[@cygnustsp]

I've been watching for 7 years. Use hashtag suggestion for Antonio to notice you.

[@kkarx]

Out of ordinary: Prag is showing with his finger that he is aroused and Nepo gives him clear no with his hand over his mouth. Ok, you asked for it. 😁

[@thiagobastos3562]

Are you getting married?

[@risaalshaan]

Wow….

[@conquerersyt8928]

Not sure about marriage but he has a kid

[@svennmivedor9191]

His kid was born recently

[@basil1400]

He’s married. He has 2 kids I believe

[@Story2Bed]

​@@conquerersyt8928 Agad has 2 kids. A daughter and a son.

[@spacecomunication]

this is an old game

[@orionspur]

Nepo makes exciting games boring. 😞

[@adammiira]

First.

[@platypusperry5574]

Nepo has receding hairline.

[@cashboymusic245]

first

[@r.i.a.n.63]

This is my favorite youtube channel by far, but these recaps are coming in way too late. C'mon Antonio, we need you to start working some longer hours during these wild and crazy times.

[@nicktomato7]

i can’t tell if this is a joke or not - his wife just gave birth like 4 days ago

[@r.i.a.n.63]

@@nicktomato7 Didn't know. He always struck me as a guy to plan his family around major chess events lol

[@LympyDownunder]

1:12 in the host is still trying to figure out how to youtube, ffs, chess fans deserve better than this level of crappy professionalism

[@user-dw4dq1if1m]

Chill down sherlock

[@Davidl928]

Did Gukesh Lost a game to Pragg?...i think Agad made a mistake

[@safwansifat]

pragg lost tk gukesh