So Close it Hurts! || Nakamura vs Carlsen || World Rapid Championship (2021)

[@davidsanders5861]

How such a ridiculous rule is allowed in a "World Championship" is beyond me. It's unfortunate, but justified, for a weekend scholastic tournament. But to arbitrarily exclude 2 players that tied for the lead is just crazy for a world-class competition. FIDE should be ashamed in how they organized this event.

[@theo7371]

FIDE's tournament formats are very often terrible. Nothing to see here.

[@TheWaxlemon]

@@davidschneide5422 everyone can say it's not fair though, not only magnus

[@lachezarlazarov3626]

Oh come on. We all know you wouldn't say that had Magnus been the one of the top 2. Just filthy hyporcacy

[@Bladieblah]

How did they decide the final 2 candidates? Did they check the match record between the potential finalists to decide?

[@nick050387]

@@Bladieblah nope. As far I understand it tournament performance deciding (however higher your rating is that much more difficult is to get performance better then others). Carlsen was highest rated player so his performance was lower than Ian and this 17yo kid. Sick rules! Anytime there will be 4/5 players at the top with same points Carlsen has no practical chance to get to playoff 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@doublebirdie]

I think it`s strange that a Rapid WC shall be decided by blitz-games. All 4 leaders should play, let`s say 10 minutes games until there`s a winner!

[@Northex23]

To be fair, I think tie breakers of the Classical WC is rapid, then blitz, then armageddon, no?

[@davidwhite2949]

Interesting point.

[@terriblehits3157]

@@Northex23 yes but it's not quite the same

[@rishabbhadke7418]

But it's possible that there are many players on for the top spot. If there are 7 or 8 players, it will take a long time.

[@chessgains8075]

@@rishabbhadke7418 has there ever been that many with the same score? I don't think so. It's a good argument yes but it basically never happens. So not that much to worry about

[@lionelmessi4953]

Glad Hikaru kept his composure. He usually gets frustrated in Carlsen endgames and gives Carlsen hope for a win. But here he looked so confident that Magnus trusted him and missed that end game move!

[@omniyambot9876]

He don't look to magnus at all. I think he tries to forget who is he playing with and just plays his best. If he continues this and not very affected next games, he would have a chance.

[@martinpaddle]

Hikaru, the online player, uses body language to influence the game

[@omniyambot9876]

@@martinpaddle yeah that's how he win in online games, he uses body language with no talent at all.

[@davidjr4903]

Nakamura looked so confident he barely got a draw with White... He's terrible

[@Liara_I_Sorry]

@@davidjr4903 He was the only player undefeated in the tournament. Take care now. See you next year.

[@squareroots6003]

I actually thought carlsen will grind out a win from the drawn position, as he usually does. I guess magnus has spoiled us.

[@023achilles]

Well, when we had a few seconds to find the move, I'll admit I didn't find it! I thought about moving the rook, but there didn't seem to be a great spot to put it, but admittedly because I was thinking of forcing a check, or somehow pressuring the opponent's rook. The correct move was a third way, indirect attack!

[@robertmoore2527]

Carlsen

[@garygarypov5060]

@@robertmoore2527 i thought you were objecting to the first-name familirity thing, and I was super on board with that...but you're just quibbling over capitalization and that's laughable. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go laugh.

[@goldenboypierre3284]

Thank you for reviewing these games so quickly, you’re amazing Agadmator!

[@morganplayaaaaaa]

I second, third, fourth and fifth this comment!!!

[@ObiwanNekody]

Pretty rapid turnout, eh?

[@NotSoLiberal]

You do realize he makes money out of it … right??

[@hardikprajapati7018]

Salute to agadmator the game literally ended like 20 mins before and here’s the analysis video Great job

[@kkmac7247]

tf are these replies?

[@hardikprajapati7018]

@@kkmac7247 loll who knows

[@nl_kripp]

@@kkmac7247 spam. Instead of removing dislikes youtube should focus on removing this bullshit.

[@kkmac7247]

@@nl_kripp I know and agree, but there were a lot of spam replies on this specific comment. Seems they've mostly been reported.

[@jaredmoss5064]

With only a few minutes on the clock Magnus ran from his board to check on another game - presumably to see if he needed to play for a win. It seems ludicrous that the world champion could be that aware of his match strategy and still lose the tournament to these tie-break rules.

[@alekhyadas2187]

Imagine Fischer seeing such Fide rules. My boy would altogether demolish the whole Fide organization

[@Kim-tr5op]

So weird ending to a tournament. Even in League of Legends has better way of dealing with tie breakers

[@kaliciusername]

@@shaquilla1662 why this channel...

[@ihcfn]

@@kaliciusername it's a bot, report it

[@dengai2932]

Games in League of Legends can not be a draw. It is either win or lose so it is easier to manage.

[@Bai_Su_Zhen]

Of course it does. League of Legends is not claimed and run by boomers so the organizers actually think about what they're doing. I will put my ballsack into a burning campfire if they asked a person like Dubov or Firouzja beforehand and they agreed that these are the best possible rules for the tournament.

[@Mokinono45]

If League of Legends holds a better set of rules, you know your tournament is awful.

[@Cecil_Augus]

Since it's a land event and we haven't seen many of these nowadays Some pictures of the players would be specially nice to see

[@ainsbass]

Land lol?

[@davidanderson_surrey_bc]

Ah yes, nice to see a land event after all those tournaments played at sea and in the clouds.

[@TraumaTizedLOL1]

terrible tie-break rules. FIDE yet again showing how incompetent they are. sad to see.

[@NotSoLiberal]

Chess officials have very low chess IQ

[@jonhjonhathon5142]

what do you want from an org that's run by russians?

[@mranonymous8815]

The regulation is ok, Abdusattorov had the strongest opponents - expect that there should not have been a final at all, he should have won directly.

[@grandmasteryoda9893]

this might change next year

[@syedhosneyjahab1941]

@@jonhjonhathon5142 LOL..FIDE VP is an English

[@aaronchan1088]

naka was crazy to sac his b4 pawn... that one blunder eliminated his chances of making the podium as he could only salvage a draw.

[@shashank22]

And it was in this position Fabi resigned from the championship as he thought there was nothing more to be done

[@Goodpizzaa]

Lmao

[@FakDrei]

maybe it was a statement to this unfair tournement rules. i can understand to resign its dumb.

[@jamesknapp64]

There were 4 players they could easily do 3 Armageddon games, 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd with the winners playing for the championship, higher seed has choice of color each game.

[@tonyleone6709]

I just don't understand why they don't cut to a top 8 or top 6 with the top 2 players in the standings getting byes after the Swiss. More excitement and the players get to battle it out, and you get a chance to highlight more of your players or an individual having an excellent tournament. Better for the brand , easier to understand and more transparent.

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

yeah, it's a stupid way to do this tournament, it should be 15 rounds for all players, and then top 8 or top 10 advance to the next round where they all play each other twice and winner of that is the Champion.

[@alihamadi719]

Whenever Carlsen and Hikaru face it always ends with a poetic battle

[@worldalternate]

BOTS 👉 🚪

[@davidjr4903]

It always ends with Carlsen owning this Japanese 🤡

[@howdyman5961]

I knew antonio would post this game, you always deliver ☺️

[@kellamyoshikage286]

8:55 "A most interesting maneuver", well, it makes some sense in that if a2 comes you don't want to allow Rh1 to set up a skewer to win the rook.

[@Juiced10111]

They should change the point system. Something like 3 for a win and 1 for a draw. Players will push for wins and get reward for that. Less drawn positions at the top going into finals.

[@suryanshshirbhate5954]

That's a wonderful idea but similar idea is being used in Norway chess but then many fans dont like Norway chess.

[@Lucart123456lol]

Funny how Hikaru is the one to deny Carlsen the rapid champion title...almost like a poetic justice for the comments he made

[@AFeigenbaum1]

Excellent coverage ... thanks for the quick update right after the match ... whew ... a nail biter ...

[@GM7550.]

At this point i think you can time travel 🤯 thanks for all the quick uploads

[@MArk-yn4sp]

Irony upon ironies if Nepo wins. Redemption.

[@sajaljaiswal1659]

Stupid rules. Can't blame the players going for draws. They were doing what they thought was best for them. Don't think Magnus cares about accolades too much now. Still King 👑

[@przemysawmoskal2823]

Magnus literally doesn't care

[@marcuspoosz2190]

@@przemysawmoskal2823 he literally does you muppet.

[@keithmatthews1673]

Sounds as though Fabi did not fully understand the rules and Nepo got lucky to reach the final after agreeing draws. I think it is a safe guess that the rules will change in future

[@phrophetsamgames]

Don't underestimate FIDE's committment to their crappy rules.

[@tonym2513]

Nakamura is good at rapid and blitz. He’s got many silver and bronze medals to prove it.

[@ramachandra776]

Crazy tournament . Hikaru knocking out Magnus (albeit with some help from the rules ) , Nepo again in an world championship final , Caruana tying in points for first place . And in place of Alireza , it is Nordirbek .

[@marcuspoosz2190]

Hikaru didnt knock out Magnus. The rules fucked magnus over. Dont try to say Hikaru knocked magnus out when it was definetively the rules that made it so. else he'd been in playoff togheter with caruana.

[@exlordinthedude8080]

@@marcuspoosz2190 bullshit rules are still rules. Reality is reality.

[@othmanewins5656]

@@marcuspoosz2190a win for magnus in this game was enough to give him the world championship but he drew so yeah hikaru knocked him out

[@SuperLari1234]

what happened with the rules?

[@HermansAbel]

​@@SuperLari1234 To clarify: they run an algorithm defining the two contenders rather than a long play off. The algorithm is based on the performances of the players. Where the ones with the best score against tougher opponents receive a spot in the finals. This is not considered satisfying to anyone and quite complicated as the highest rated players relatively underperform and therefore are excluded from the finals. So looking from Magnus perspective this is even worse as he never played against himself. I think in the end its all about the tournament having not enough games to decide on a winner by force and therefore they decide it by rules.

[@chessgains8075]

Former champ gets 9.5. As does 3 other players. But two other players faced on avarage "stronger opponents" so they got a better tie break and gets to play for the title. So the format is unfair to the current defending champ? Because he was the highest rated? ??????????????????????????????????????????

[@valentinewiggin9705]

Ikr, what a stupid way to choose tiebreaks...

[@simohayha6031]

That's so utterly bullshit

[@eldoreschess2428]

It is performance of the people you won against. Yeah they should change it in the future.

[@Bladieblah]

The classic world championship format is incredibly biased towards the reigning champ so a tie-breaker rule with a bias towards lower rated players isn't the worst imo. The classic world championship favors the champion because he doesn't have to compete in a tourney with all the strong players and show they're the strongest in the field, they just have to beat one opponent in a long format who happens to have won the tournament in a very strong field. Of course it will be a strong opponent and he still has to win but it's laughable compared to an actual open tourney where you have to come out on top playing all the best players and win to become world champion

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

@@Bladieblah it's supposed to favor the Champion, genius, the whole point of the challenger is for him to beat the Champion and prove he is better, if he can't beat him then he doesn't get to take his title, simple.

[@dengthebest]

Hey @agadmator, I think for view curiosity you should include the evaluated accuracy, I feel as though it would ad an element of helping certain games stick for the numbers people such as myself

[@christopherhaddad8841]

Thank you for the wonderful content Agad!

[@sondres5831]

Imagine if the top two premier league teams ended up on similar points and the winner was decided because one of them lost to Norwich..

[@philippquos2493]

If you lose to Norwich, you don't deserve the title :-)

[@harshvardhanray9247]

#Suggestion Fabiano Caruana v Alexander Grischuk, Round 12 of the WRC. Queen sac by Fabi as black, time trouble.

[@O_Lee69]

What is worse? World #1 don't know tiebreaker rules or random chess player don't know how the knight moves?

[@tomzebik6695]

Congratulations 2021 rapid World Champion Abdulssatorov! #suggestion Abdulssatorov-Nepo final game

[@medicoseboredom4179]

best part of video is that at this point we have a completely new game

[@hideomituns2184]

You are awesome Agadmator. Still the best latest game reviewer.

[@danielwhite2178]

Thanks for showing these games

[@the_bravedave]

Fast, faster, Agadmator!

[@tech_to_know]

Agad tomorrow: So as of now we have new Rapid champion

[@nicholasstamper3352]

I finally make the same move as magnus in the pause the video moment --- only for agdamator to say it wasn't the winning move XD

[@mitseuler]

One question about the analysis (in the very end of the game), when Hikaru grabed the pawn in F5, why Carlsen's Rook on F2 is not a good move to continue?

[@di_na_mi_tk1937]

Ra5 and its still a draw

[@artemtimoshkov8140]

Then Hikaru would just take the rook and play Ra2 and pick up the a pawn. In case of kb3 Hikaru would play Rf3 and get the pawn on the next turn. Both cases leave 2 pawns against 1 and white king closer to the action

[@di_na_mi_tk1937]

@@artemtimoshkov8140 lol If ..Rf2 Rxf2 Kxf2 Magnus wins with ..a2

[@mitseuler]

@@di_na_mi_tk1937 my point....

[@Shadowboost]

@@di_na_mi_tk1937 white doesn't take the rook. Put the rook behind the a pawn so it can't promote

[@franz009franz]

honestly calling this event a "world championship" is a farce. it's a nice little tournament 13 rounds. mostly random opponents. tiebreaks decide. yep fide, i think the dress code is very important instead of fixing this structure.

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

yep, this is not how you decide a world champion, and the result is easily proof enough, a player who is not even in the top 100 Rapid chess players doesn't just win the World Championship

[@orange8003]

First the F1 race finale and now THIS

[@rks515skr]

Why should rook take f5 pawn? Move rook to a4 or f1

[@Yabsrakibret]

I was angry for Magnus but happy as the same time b/c of Abdusattorov

[@siratti66]

At 9:57 if white moves Tf3, black how can win? Can sb tell me pls.? I can image, black a2, Ta1, after white plan will g4...sacrifice his rook, but h4 peon will be free, and try to make draw, is it possible?

[@TheJohnsonJohnny]

Finally better picture of Magnus :)

[@christophercoreano2787]

Awesome video!!

[@jx14aby]

#suggestion Gukesh D VS Nodirbek Abdusattorov | Fide World Rapid Championship 2021 | Round 12 This one is fun.

[@jcd1412]

props for seeng the move my guy, i hope you win next tournament, you saw the move in 2 seconds, and il magneto couldn't see it in 2 minutes😀

[@FOO1512]

Hell yeah brother

[@MrWarlock616]

I found Re2 through some intuition but didnt fully understand why it was winning. Does that count?

[@redringofdeathgamer]

Instead or R or C or B, can you put the actual time control on the robot's head?

[@phaque3115]

That’s exactly what’s on the robots head.. the time control.. R=Rapid.. C=Classical.. B=Blitz..

[@redringofdeathgamer]

@@phaque3115 true, bit rapid can have +X seconds, as with the others. It would be helpful to know when gauging why a mistake was made at what time or repetition of moves. You are correct though. I may not have been clear enough.

[@phaque3115]

@@redringofdeathgamer got’cha, well throw a #suggestion on this then

[@douglaseLamb]

Thx 🙏🏻, Antonio, another great presentation. Too bad for Magnus! Have a great New Year’s Eve!

[@ShashankhT]

Me finding Re2 immediately and knowing Magnus missed it. My mind - *you have ascended*. All 9999999 times I've missed moves that Magnus finds instantly - my mind *nah it's cool he's like 2900 don't be so hard on yourself*

[@PRIMEVAL543]

What would have happened if in the end rook to f2 was played? I tried this and the bot said absolutely necessary move.

[@tonorikoakuma]

When they agreed draw? I guess just rook takes h5

[@michanawrocki3973]

Hi agad, what about Duda - Salem Saleh? absolutely crazy game, you have to make a video about it

[@johnmerlino581]

For those of you who were as confused as I was about why the critical Re2(!) move works, here's what happens if, after Re2 Rxf5+ Re5, White plays Rf3 (instead of Rf2)....a2 Ra3 Re2 and now White has two choices - 1. Ra4, trying to hold back the Black King, but this fails to Kc5 and now if the White Rook moves the Black King can help promote the pawn., or... 2. g4 Re3+ Rxe3 hxg4+ Kxg4 a1!Q, and Black has a forced mate in 28 (assuming you can calculate it!)

[@gabor6259]

Agad, you did a better coverage of the games than Gotham. He really rushed it.

[@praiseshishi2189]

"thankyou for watching this rook tutorial", lmao it was enjoyable for sure

[@tech_to_know]

8:15 why don't Magnus play A4?

[@Drepano]

It changes nothing?

[@Eskiii]

you cant move your rook or pawn after that because then just rook takes the a pawn

[@tech_to_know]

@@Eskiii but the rook protects the pawn because the rook is in b4 after checking the king

[@tech_to_know]

@@Drepano maybe

[@Eskiii]

@@tech_to_know idk engine says it's more drawish

[@Traumatree]

I was checking the web site for standings and I notice something that doesn't jive with me: why are the prizes for the men championship better than the women prizes?

[@Bladieblah]

There shouldn't be a separate women's championship to begin with when you think about it. And I could be wrong but I think most chess tournaments allow men and women to play in the same main competition. Chess is a thinking game so men don't have an advantage like they have in most physical sports. However, chess has a very skewed male/female distribution where it's maybe 90% males and 10% females at the highest level. I remember it being brought up earlier and statistics showed women are statistically not worse in chess, they're participation is overall much lower which is why you don't see women at the top level. The women's championship can be seen as a way to promote the sport for women and that's a good function but it doesn't need to have a similar prize pool when women are free to compete in the "men's" competition

[@jps_user20]

The "Men Championship" is actually an open tournament, ask them why they don't want to join a tournament with better price

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

because Men's chess bring in more money than women's chess, so there is more money to give away as prize, simple economics.

[@_barncat]

what's agad's elo?

[@bmac8322]

It's so surprising how many top players didn't understand how the end would be decided. You'd think at this level, everyone, or at least the contenders, would be totally clear on these conditions about only 2 players going to the real final.

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

there was 4 players tied for 1st, the way they decided which of those 4 would be in the playoff was extremely stupid.

[@anuj68]

Fabi didnt know? Thats how you can tell these events are organized poorly. For a game as old as chess the tournament format should be set in stone by now, not changing every month.. get it together fide

[@AlexBanzea]

Crazy how they can play perfect chess without knowing the rules lol

[@equelin6071]

And again we have Chess drama, its amazing

[@foundthingsifound]

I'm told I'm as good as Hikaruu... . . . . . . . Hikaruu is the name of my 2 yr old nephew, he cant even play chess yet

[@AntonyDaou]

If Magnus had found that winning move …

[@martinpaddle]

Finally someone who can hold an endgame against Magnus

[@45rockmachine]

Dear Agadmator it was in this position that your excitement made you miss that in this position you put Abdusattorov vs Carlsen FIDE notation in description of the video, Also big thing in comments that friends from the bar and library are asking why didn't Magnus played Rf2 instead Ra1, With Love and Hugs Happy holidays. Thank you for all that you do for us. Humble chess enthusiast.

[@GS-qe3pt]

Because Magnus also looses

[@45rockmachine]

So dear friends from the bar and the library,if Magnus played Rf2, Hikaru would picked up H pawn, and had two connected passed pawns, and Magnus couldnt promote without sacrificing, while Hikaru could. Like Agad mentioned few moves before aforementioned line.

[@TheRcEngineer]

The speed chess championship paid of, Nakamura wiped the floor with his super gm oponents.

[@TheVanred]

tiebreaks video before it happens please

[@Jack78680]

On what basis are the tiebreak?

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

lower rated players get advantage, it's why Magnus was kicked out even thou he was tied for 1st.

[@Jernvess]

Nakamura could have won the game but he decided that even a draw against Magnus is a winning game 😆

[@3pICTheAnimal]

Nepo blundered the format like he blundered that bishop lol

[@sampathn4429]

3:26 how did you know "he thought"?!?!

[@ThroneandLibertyEu]

can someone explain me if he is now still the world champion or no? im so confused with all the world champion videos , sry for the noob question xD

[@xJoinable]

He is still the world champion in classic time format. That is the title he won against Nepo in Dubai. This is rapid and blitz time format, meaning that it is a world championship but for other time formats. Magnus got 3rd place in rapid, but he can still win blitz.

[@ThroneandLibertyEu]

@@xJoinable ah ok thx for the detailed answer . and one last question. was he before in all 3 world champion format the whole time the king or just in one?

[@SuperWotman]

@@ThroneandLibertyEu in all three

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

technically he is not the Rapid Champion anymore, but he is still the #1 best Rapid player so this title doesn't really mean much especially when it's decided in such a stupid and retarded way.

[@nicbentulan]

Spoiler for pause video . . . . . . . . . Quiet move to build a bridge?

[@virammehta1161]

Agadmator be like: I am Speed

[@ALLROUNDERTECH9829]

"That's what she said"

[@kritontzimas6444]

#suggestion...Nepo -Magnus obviously

[@zekeslavens]

The moves in the description are for the wrong game :)

[@JanjuaGamerRajpoot]

#Suggestion Tylkowski vs Antoni Wojcienhowski 1931... Pearl of Poznan

[@a-russianperson7255]

Guys remember to like videos if you enjoy Antonio's content! ♫♫♫

[@iamalittleboat]

Maybe the rapid and blitz world championships should become separate events

[@ДаниилВорончихин-и4р]

wrong description

[@greyfox3954]

2:57 Why Bishop not taking pawn on b7? If Queen takes, then Rook take Bishop

[@orilachman8853]

Maybe because of Bishop to a4? I think it wins the exchange

[@SebaKmwtw]

lets goo hikaru

[@gorkem6543]

I love the decent moves that u let us found it feels really good after finding them😊9:40

[@somtovitus]

What extra parameters did they use to decide it was Ian and Abdu to play tie breaks?

[@chessgains8075]

I heard commentator Hammer for chesscom saying its based on who had the more "difficult" tournament. Which would suggest Abdu got better tie breaks because he played higher rated opponents, on avarage, then Magnus for example. But if thats the case then thats stupid. Then Magnus and Abdu could have played all the same players and with the same results but if they faced each other then Abdu would have better tie breaks because Magnus has a higher rating then Abdu. It seems the system favors "lower" rated players.

[@jonhjonhathon5142]

@@chessgains8075 system favours russians cuz fide is a russian org

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

@@chessgains8075 that is the system, which is retarded since Magnus will always be last by tiebreaks since he is the highest rated even though he played many difficult opponents and still got the most points and it's still not enough, what a stupid system.

[@somtovitus]

@@coldspine3697, I think the system makes sense. Instead of playing more games between the four. Let the difficulty of games(opponents) faced decide.

[@virammehta1161]

This is real speed

[@rafalpitner4879]

Magneto Corleone

[@davidwhite2949]

I don’t know who Nepo had to play, but Magnus had to play Alireza and Hikaru, which is a rough road

[@garygarypov5060]

Carlsen brought a steamroller to the Firouzja game, to extend the metaphor.

[@andresv.8880]

nepo massacred duda, was pushing magnus and got beat in the end by nordirbek

[@malcolmwebster7948]

Rules are rules unfortunately , I would have thought that if there were more than 2 players in the top spot , the top 2 with the most wins should have gone through .. Congratulations to young Abdusattorov for beating Nepo in the finals

[@Dr.Macrophage]

man i hate those bots

[@mranonymous8815]

Fabi deserved that (for the 5 moves draw), and Nepo would have deserved it, too.

[@peterjames232]

If Carlsen miss the winning move here or miss the draw against Abudsattorov which would give Magnus the title, how about playing chess and missing winning moves.

[@techguy2696]

This is more fun than the WC

[@6cylindertuned]

Why draw? It looks like Magnus can't stop the H pawn.

[@fahidshadman7000]

#suggestion Fabiano Caruana vs Alexander Grishchuk