Outrageous Attacking System vs Sicilian Defence! || Leela vs Houdini || TCEC Season 16

[@kingscrusher]

Leela playlist: bit.ly/leelachess || Computer chess playlist: bit.ly/computerchess

[@batistalift]

Incredible. White's most valuable piece was black's e4 pawn.

[@robharwood3538]

KC, you might want to review SF's latest game against Stoofvlees at TCEC. Really super-deep endgame foresight. Everyone was like, "Why is its eval so high?" Stoof defended admirably, but succumbed to the fish.

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

A truly fantastic blend of hyper aggression and patience. Thanks for an illuminating analysis. Keep up the good work KC

[@kingscrusher]

Cheers, K

[@SimonFoxGuitar]

Thanks KC, fascinating as always. Love how you show all the side-variations.

[@dmitryyanovsky2426]

WHAT IS THE EXPRESSION USED BY kingscrusher @ 11:55 about "Queen in Siberia" something... Please tell me. I cannot quite hear what is said there. Some slang? Thanx!

[@ludgerkres.1437]

19:58 Black Knight: You're on your own. I'm done.

[@miladibrahim1068]

The fawn pawn strikes again

[@kingscrusher]

Fun comment - Cheers, K

[@-_Nuke_-]

Leela danced around that e4 pawn so dramatically until she finally won it, engines love taking central pawns as much as Humans like taking Queens, amazing game!

[@-_Nuke_-]

Engines like to make quiet simple one or two square moves, so I think the lesson is, when you can't just make a big long move, you have to make one of those moves that you move a piece 1 or 2 squares Max :p

[@JohnDoe-di6ml]

WOO MORE LEELA CONTENT KEEP IT UP!

[@-_Nuke_-]

What would be Leela's best Network right now?

[@phantom7crossrose528]

should have used dragon variation with castle and fianchetto bishop

[@dannygjk]

Sicilian is inferior anyway. Morphy and AlphaZero said so.

[@piyushsharma5938]

Why did the knight go to H1, 😂

[@robharwood3538]

In the TCEC chat, someone joked: Nh1, Houdini resigns.

[@may011886]

@@robharwood3538 Houdini had no escape.

[@adanexe1498]

Funny game

[@JimJWalker]

e6? Come on...the real test is e5!

[@Brandon-a-writer]

when you go so far into unrelated games and down the variation rabbit hole, interesting as it can sometimes be, it really breaks the flow of the game and becomes frustrating. i enjoy your channel and your vids, but i doubt i'm the only one who could do without the 15 move variations that never happen every few minutes. it fragments the game. i'm not trying to be a dick. cheers, really enjoy your work.

[@lamp5055]

So I kind of agree with this but he likes showing “potential moves” that might seem good on the outside and fall apart. It helps to show how accurate the computers need to be

[@Brandon-a-writer]

@@lamp5055 showing a few critical variations for the purpose of interested parties is fine, enjoyable even ... but when you run a variation for 5-6 minutes, especially when someone is watching on a lunchbreak or what have you, it just becomes frustrating. it's a matter of taste, i suppose. but at some point, "get on with it" comes to mind. i like his vids, and i like looking at variations - but come on, there are "potential moves" and then there are "here's 10 moves that never happened" - it moves from interesting to getting in the way of someone trying to enjoy the game being presented. again, i'm not trying to be a dick to anyone. cheers

[@kingscrusher]

Brandon, I put in the variations to highlight in particular why certain moves were not that great. E.g. why b6 instead of b5 was played. Why g6 wasn't played, etc. By getting some examples of why moves were not played, it increases sometimes the appreciation of what essentially becomes the 'main line' which is the way the game went. Part of the reason I made them go deeper is to reach a clearer conclusion because sometimes people are not convinced by an evaluation and have asked for more evidence sometimes. Of course there is a balancing act, and I could perhaps evaluate the position after just a few moves, but the extended variation also points to key resources for both sides sometimes as well. If you just want to play through games you can use a site like chessgames.com. Cheers, K

[@Brandon-a-writer]

@@kingscrusher I understand and I apologize for being overly critical. I just think sometimes it is a bit much, and muddles the enjoyment of the game being presented. As I said, I enjoy your vids; I just don't always have the time to enjoy them. If i am the only one who thinks this way, I am the odd one out and of course you know what is better for your channel than I do. cheers.

[@romankusnir45958]

"Breaks the flow" it means you have to train your memory to be able keep in mind mainstream.