SuperGM Doesn't Know Names of Tactics and Finds it Hilarious

[@SonuKumar-gf3zk]

12th Grade sees teaching 4th grade to second grade.

[@GMHikaru]

Thank you for this comment - Hikaru was laughing because apparently there are chess terms he's never heard of. Chat was laughing with him - most people hadn't heard some of these either. I changed the title to reflect that's what's going on. BTW Sam Copeland was flattered Hikaru made a react of his video. -- the editor

[@GloucoseSugarDevourer]

@@GMHikaru WOWOOW hi hikaru 20 minutes ago plis say hi i just hung my queen without my opponent realizing

[@predator699]

Pin of shame

[@zhangyic]

@@predator699 Why tf would this be a pin of shame

[@joshuareynolds8134]

​@@zhangyic More importantly, is it a relative pin or an absolute one?

[@Tarnbar]

When I grew up pawns were not called "juicers"

[@octobsession3061]

when i grew up, bishop in the middle of the board wasn't called wooden shield

[@aryan4880]

When I grew up, pair of knights was not called "deez knights"

[@iskywalking420]

When I grew up, I played with no en passant....

[@GenPac-q7z]

@@aryan4880😂

[@MrShaapey]

You can thank GM Felix Lengyel for the updated terminology

[@carljustin5323]

Who uses the term cross-pin? Real chess players use real chess terms like ice skater, wooden shield, and deez knights

[@BofaDeezKnights]

Only a fossil would use cross-pin.

[@jabinkooistra-bond]

In german chess, the white king is mandated to sacrifice all of the pawns... supposedly due to socioeconomic issues on the second rank. Only a real super duper galaxybrain gigachad hypergrandmaster would know these advanced rules.

[@critica77y77]

@jabinkooistra-bond Don’t forget the part where you have to let the enemy pawns immigrate to your territory.

[@trollar8810]

who the hell uses the term cross-pin? Real chess players use clogged toilet, upside down W and botez gambit

[@howtobeit9149]

@@BofaDeezKnights no, fossils usually stfu and play, it's usually these new age wanna be try-hards.

[@ivan_pozdeev_u]

27:47 FYI: the narrator says "International Master Axel Smith coined this term in his book" while the book cover on the screen says "GM Axel Smith". This discrepancy is explained by the fact that Axel Smith is in fact a GM now, since 2016, but when he wrote the book -- and thus coined the term -- in 2013, he was still an IM. The shown book cover must be a subsequent edition.

[@elonstruths1475]

I mean, sure. But he was a GM when the video was made, so why call him an IM now?

[@AdamHedley82]

@@elonstruths1475 because he got demoted by making the king touch each other

[@vlnow]

If Magnus or Hikaru hung a piece, i think their opponent would waste most or all of the clock trying to work out why.

[@benwoodcock8805]

It probably wouldn't help any to not take it lol

[@AdamHedley82]

i be like "this is some trick right?" like how Rosen is like "oh no my Queen" and just wrecks people for taking it

[@shivanshgupta89]

@@AdamHedley82 you can't talk in tournament or you will be given warning. You can show emotions though

[@AdamHedley82]

@@shivanshgupta89 so if i farted i can't say "excuse me"?

[@tmithoth8956]

Just hold your hand up and gesture apology. Like a sane human ​@@AdamHedley82

[@ssbeast101amv8]

you know its a goofy ass tutorial when a top 10 player in history has never heard of it 😭

[@stmnsdaddy]

not in history buddy

[@myth5002]

@@stmnsdaddyin terms of Fide ratings Hikaru is tied at #10 with Ding Liren and Veselin Topalov others at a peak rating of 2816. So he is technically within top 10 in fide rating history.

[@sesanti]

That's a stupid take. A GM no longer watches "tutorials". Hikaru is being a douche here. All the patterns mentioned in the video do exist, and most are named correctly. Maybe relative pin etc. are just made up terms, but it's still a pin, so they are not wrong.

[@michaelreed2787]

Totally disagree. Naka was pushing 2300 when he was 11. He didn’t learn this shit because he is a prodigy.

[@michaelreed2787]

@@stmnsdaddyYea Nakamura is objectively a top 10 player in the history of chess. Theres no argument. Hes literally one of the best players to have ever lived.

[@joshuabgambrell]

This is my friend Sam Copeland, he's an excellent chess teacher. I don't know why Hikaru is making fun of a video aimed towards sub 1000 players and children.

[@superhero5834]

Well Sam was happy that hikaru reacted to this video..and actually no, the video is aiming for the people who don't know chess yet.. cause even for a beginner these types of names and examples ain't useful to raise ur elo

[@joshuabgambrell]

@superhero5834 I figured he would be, even with the tone hikaru took Sam is such a good guy

[@superhero5834]

@@joshuabgambrell he looks kind honestly.

[@DavidWongfl]

Why? For fun

[@tomaszrasolomampionona5609]

Wasn't Anish Giri lateley saying that Hikaru invents terms also? He talks about 'right triangles' and 'wooden shields'. These are also not traditional terms in chess.

[@MauricioMartinez0707]

yeah but hikarus just joking, quoting popular streamers

[@Chris.M]

😂

[@tomaszrasolomampionona5609]

​@@MauricioMartinez0707 I am not saying they can't do that or anything. I would in fact be hard-pressed to criticize the guy from the guide, considering he is not talking completely out of his ass. He is describing actual positions in the game, inventing terms or not.

[@seheyt]

@@MauricioMartinez0707I’d love some sources. Because it is kind of annoying “creates the classic fossil”, “geometric blabla”, “juicer”. If I knew what memes they refer to I’d probably enjoy it more. It’s a bit like Epic Chess. You have to be in the mood to decode all the banter/nonsense

[@supernaut314]

​@@seheyt idk if he made the term "juicer" for a bishop, but sadisticTushi uses it often on his shorts and videos.

[@absoluteradiance5423]

Reminds me of a presentation I made in class about a boardgame, chess of course, that basically explained how to play, some common tactics, as well as brief overview of positional analysis. Overall, it was aimed at new player audience, similar to how this video on tactics is mainly an introduction to some common strategies to include in a Chess game plan. In general, Its more useful to practice the actual calculation of moves, while still accounting for piece value and positional patterns.

[@sachensager8476]

25:26 Chesscom failing to spell "chess" in german correctly

[@MyraGibsonMyraGibson-qh3do]

also 24:44 zwischenzug

[@personal.assistant]

​@@MyraGibsonMyraGibson-qh3doThat's spelled correctly... Also it's 24:35 Why would you use a timestamp that's after what you're talking about is already over?! 🤦

[@maxkho00]

@@personal.assistant I really hate when people do that, and I don't understand why. A good 60% of the timestamps that I come across on KZbin are incorrect to the point of being completely unusable - in long videos, they can be up to 10 minutes off; I've even seen timestamps that were an hour off. Is it that hard to literally just rewind back to the thing you're commenting about and look at the time? I really don't get it.

[@personal.assistant]

@@maxkho00 You don't even have to look at the time since, when writing a comment you can literally just click on the timestamp feature that fills in the exact time that you're currently at in the video. All that's needed is the mental capabilities to go pack to the part one wants to mention and click said button. But I guess that's too much to ask for from most people lol

[@Ritz_Quest]

25:38 Yes, that is not good German. It's pronounced "tsug ts-vong"

[@kingkillah101]

I am a monk in the toug ta-vong chess monastery

[@44r0n-9]

HAHAHA In an Austrian dialect maybe. It's "t͜suːkt͜svaŋ".

[@labestianegra6373]

No American ever pronounced "Zugzwang" correctly. Including Hikaru. And it wont happen. Maybe Levy sometime.

[@nikirol4051]

​@@labestianegra6373It's wild to me people can't pronounce it when the word "Pizza" literally has the same sound

[@KaptnJolly]

Tsook Tsvung

[@genedios4473]

Bro, 'pump up your rating' sent me to the nether realm

[@ProxorGaming]

The whole video is a mix of him trying to rizz a girl and a medieval comic book

[@robertbastrup8893]

Danya says “loose pieces drop off” pretty often in his speed run KZbin videos

[@droidgeist]

Obnoxious Hikaru. That guy's video was good. Guess he should have talked about the juicer fiancheeto making the classic wooden shield, forming a classic right triangle and fossilising the pawn.

[@bosnbruce5837]

classic khebab?

[@gregolevi]

😂

[@DutchDread]

I've never played a game of chess in my life, but I have heard commentators say "the loose pieces drop off" quite a bit.

[@colonelsanders1617]

2:05 SHOTS FIRED

[@GrizzlyBear569]

Levy always catching strays

[@michn5711]

@@GrizzlyBear569 cause he loves levy lol

[@BrotherK-ex2co]

Only after sacrificing the ROOK​@@GrizzlyBear569

[@YungLilBoii]

Cmon Hiki. This wasn't nearly as egregious as you made it seem. Pretty good beginner tutorial.

[@samwarren6008]

Exactly, it just gives names to associate moves, positions, and tactics which makes them easier to remember and execute.

[@AndrejIzAwesome]

Lpdo is pretty ridiculous honestly

[@Dani_el_Duck]

Too overloaded for a beginner but not terrible. That said, some decisions were definitely silly

[@blackjackAY]

Hikaru: "But anyways let's keeping going" That's how you know he said something hard

[@aldebaranaldebaran1677]

7:04 he spared you bud :)

[@andrewbloom7694]

So Hikaru was so good he never heard a single beginner term before lol

[@joseraulcappuccino]

laugh as you might but my favourite video on Hikaru's immortal King's Indian vs Gelfand (and where I first learnt about it) was the one by Sam. the nature of these tutorial videos may be a bit weird but Sam's actually a great teacher in his game analysis videos.

[@Translating...]

Hikaru: Remembers every single position he's ever seen on a chess board. Also Hikaru: Doesn't know names of tactics. Sam Copeland: Probably doesn't know the real names like ice skater, wooden shield, and fossil.

[@Kaze_Neko]

:Cross pin Hikaru:☠️

[@Marveryn]

on that cross pin should not the best move be reinforcing the bishop with a pawn that let you move the queen out of the pin. and if he take with the bishop you take with the queen that now protected with the pawn?

[@Princevx]

0:41 I don’t know when combinations become chess tactics. When I was young, I I read in books, the term combination and not tactics.

[@ivan_pozdeev_u]

To my knowledge, in Russian terminology, these are called "combinations" if they involve a sacrifice and "maneuvers" otherwise. "Tactic" seems to be the English term which covers both.

[@ponzi_0]

​@@ivan_pozdeev_uthis makes a lot of sense, the only other distinction I could think is that a combination uses more than one tactical pattern in the same sequence, but I like the idea of tactical combination (sacrifice) vs tactical maneuver

[@jogoselegendas]

I think this video was plain mean. Chess is getting more popular because of you guys and other KZbinrs are popularazing it, so I dont think its fair to gang up on people trying to make chess videos

[@shivanshgupta89]

No i actually liked the memes of NM though. I mean it made the video more fun ngl

[@skout23]

Having a name for something can indeed make it easier to recognize and remember. This phenomenon is known as the "labeling effect" or "naming effect." Having 4-5 different names for a pin.... :shrug:

[@sleepysoundz7573]

Hikaru seems to have the maturity of a 11 year old. The video was excellently made and for sure would be really helpful for beginner to intermediate players. I don't understand why Hikaru gets the urge to belittle what the presenter says every 5 seconds.

[@jogoselegendas]

I wholeheartedly agree. He doesn't need to do that.

[@ChessinaVan]

I agree

[@ЮрийПрокопьев-ъ2с]

You also can have fun. Instead of worrying about non-existent problems.

[@tufol33k78]

@@ЮрийПрокопьев-ъ2с exactly

[@tufol33k78]

I mean... he's right from a pedagogical standpoint, most of terms referred can be useful, but they are made to intellectualize through concepts what from practice "just works" Learning a language, for example, grammar, syntax and theory is all good way to get better, but it's not the fittest for most people. It's in general more natural to learn through repetition, self-awareness, copying another human, finding what practically is said (or in chess, what actually "just works")

[@Toma-621]

I'd love to see you or Levy make a parody course like this but its actually useful

[@張謙-n3l]

I would argue separating relative pin and absolute pin is very important. When a piece is pinned to the king, it cannot move away. But if it's pinned to other things, even if it's pinned to the queen or a checkmating square, the pinned piece can be moved away if it can create a bigger threat, in this case, the pin doesn't really exist

[@shivanshgupta89]

True but for a guy like hikaru who can find this difference in seconds, he doesn't really need it

[@sylviaelse5086]

When people conflate knowing the names of things with understanding them.

[@alexschmitz3414]

That just looks complicated for no reason lol

[@robbob5302]

But he was right on point. “Stop hanging pieces!!” Seems simple. But once I got it through my skull, I went from 1200-1400 over a summer.

[@sqwop1]

Bro was like: Move piece and checkmate em How could he not know these😭

[@lucasryan8520]

That video is really how it sounds when chatgpt writes your essay

[@diogosantos1186]

Just looking at Hikaru’s face already makes me cry laughing 😂

[@Madagon367]

I am laughing so hard. The guy is hilarious and Hikaru does not disappoint either as per usual. 'Nobody can bike that badly that must be a stuntman, right?' I'm in tears.

[@Salmankhan8378a]

Hikaru destroying career in one video.

[@jordancypress]

How they remember the exact coordinates of moves from past games is incredible. I couldn’t tell you my move sequence from a game I played 5 mins ago.

[@asumazilla]

Other people: Tactics. Chad Hikaru: moves.

[@Zraknul]

The confusing clips in Sam's videos are the best part of this whole thing.

[@simondewitt7161]

9:53 The absolute pin position is borderline impossible

[@thecactusrespector]

Bro was trying to reach a word count 😂

[@eek6764]

JP guy went full conspiracy nut

[@sightninja]

Frankly - I’m not shocked.

[@JacksonFairweather]

What conspiracy theories were nutty?

[@eek6764]

@JacksonFairweather He's just one of the wu-wu spirituality guys that went nuts on health/far right stuff after COVID. It happened to like 75% of the tarot/astrology/white buddhist community. They were already all a bit nuts with "vitamin D/crystals will cure everything" and such views, but they just got sucked into more of the "global events are a planned conspiracy" type views during COVID.

[@johndavidallison7601]

LPDO is definitely a well known term

[@diogosantos1186]

Man, I swear to god I am crying with Hikaru’s reactions 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Caelestus59]

This is how you know when someone is a GM. They know when they hung their pieces... The rest of us regulars: What SORCERY is this!?

[@scallygaming00]

Hikaru might need to use his game analysis to figure about what the dude in the video was talking about. But I don't even think stockfish can see through his brilliancy. Bro is just too smart.

[@DarkKnight-rf2uu]

The 10th game ended 5 minutes ago wheres the recap?

[@gtg309v]

I'd spend more time learning to pronounce Zugzwang than actually learning the play.

[@khodion]

LPDO comes from John Nunns Secrect of Practical Chess / Play

[@wendydelisse9778]

A lot of chess tactics have shared or overlapping themes. As an example, a "pin" and an "X-ray" attack have in common the idea of taking advantage of two (or more) opposing chessmen being on the same diagonal or on the same rank or file. A "fork" a greater percentage of time than one might initially think also takes advantage of two (or more) opposing chessmen being on the same diagonal or on the same rank or file. The tactics of encouraging an opposing chessman to leave or enter a certain square or set of squares somewhat often overlaps with the concept of the dreaded "poison pawn", a pawn that merely looks like it can be taken for free or taken in exchange for a pawn at first deemed to be of lesser value. The theme of "poison" chessmen is not only limited to pawns. Even a queen can be a poison piece. A poison queen that at first glance might wrongly appear able to be taken at the mere expense of a couple of minor pieces in the form of a knight and a bishop might after just a few more moves turn out to be a much more expensive grab than just the loss of a knight and bishop. In the first 12 or so moves of the game, the offering of a poison chessman, typically a poison pawn, is usually formally referred to as an "unrefuted gambit". However, the offering of a poison chessman does not have to be some "book move" from some long established line of play in the opening 12 or so moves of the game. Perhaps for example some supposedly free pawn one hastily snatches up around move 20 well after the opening "book move" stage of the game has played out will become an unfortunate grab that opens a path of freedom for a previously trapped opposing chessman to then sortie out in support of some ultimately game winning rampage by the opposing side. Short version: Chess "tactics" of various names often have shared or overlapping themes in common with one or more other named chess tactics. For the sake of simplicity, it might be better in game to look for a shorter list of themes to take advantage of, rather than to mentally go though an entire list of a couple or dozen or so named tactics. Rather often, "book openings" in the first 12 or so moves of the game will often invoke such tactical themes, but tactical chess themes can very definitely be sprung much later in a game of chess as well, and are not limited to memorized early game "lines of play".

[@noberto_brown8549]

the "ay ya yai" from Hikaru, always puts a smile😂👌

[@livinlush4841]

Hikaru with the Levy shade…

[@ivan_pozdeev_u]

19:07 "I think he's [actually] trying to be serious [in this video]!" That's called "edutainment", Hikaru.

[@wingwang007]

“How many were new to you?” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@delicrux]

as some one that has tried to learn from a 1800's chess book called the art of chess, i can confirm im still trying to learn what all the old names for the moves have become.

[@Pahis1]

Being able to name a tactic helps you find it in a game is a strange claim.

[@shivanshgupta89]

True

[@shadyshyguy4058]

There is a big difference in its power when you know its name than when you don't.

[@gamingwithazian1453]

Free grandmaster ahh tutorial

[@victor6010]

26:23 the chat and hikaru reading it lmaaaaaaao

[@captainxorro8553]

Imagine how good Hikaru could be if he knew about these tactics.

[@shivanshgupta89]

Wrong assumption. Hikaru can still find these tactics in seconds without knowing that this is the name of the tactic. For example he knows what's a pin but not the types, he can find those pins easily but he doesn't know that it is a different pin. Sultan Khan doesn't have knowledge of openings, he defeated top GMs easily without knowing anything. Even Capabalanca took it as disrespect and tried to defeat him but lost. this just shows these knowledge are not important

[@xtennis77]

The 'Hobbled' horseman

[@someinternetguyiguess5068]

If the Family Fork would get you demonetized, then the Royal Fork would as well. If history and the family trees are documented well enough, that is.

[@TTVAfluenza]

1:30 Nakamura has realized he can't be the number 1 chess player in the age of Magnus so he has to settle for biggest and best chess streamer lol.

[@Zoro-4life]

And you are subscribed to Hikaru and comment on his videos inspite of not liking him lol?

[@hdmotivated]

He's not the biggest. Levy is.

[@Luke123podcast]

GENERATIONS RIGHT NOW MUST BE CHANGED

[@nevermind994]

when you want to sound fancy and intelligent when you are presenting a school project you just copied from wikipedia:

[@3psical]

"I go here, she goes there, I go here, she goes there, I win" nah there aint no way theres not a hidden meaning to that 😂

[@brun4775]

Don’t believe Hikaru has never heard loose pieces drop off.

[@brazilianmonk7670]

"Top 4" was hilarious 😭

[@HamsterTown1]

Ain't NO WAY that clearance moment. 👀 Reminds me of 8 Mile: "This guys a gangsta? His real name is Clarence. And Clarence parents have a really good marriage." 🤣🤣🤣

[@musculusiv4172]

Calling them "the big 4" instantly made no sense when the second was just sub-form of the first one lmao Edit: "absolute" and "relative" pins?? Now we're just creating terms for the sake of it 😂😂

[@aivjiol]

11:23 here a pin, there a pin, everywhere a pin pin

[@VivaLaFlaem]

His "A" Sound in Zugzwang is better than Hikarus. Hikarus "A"-Sound is very english sounding

[@jburch5752]

I'm amazed that Hikaru could remember a game from 2004. Just consider how many thousands of games he's played since. But then again he is one of the top players in the world.

[@BillyBall35]

Yeah. But I feel like a lot of Grandmasters, especially the best of the best have extremely good memory, if not just photographic. Like Magnus has one of the best memories I've ever seen

[@ClarkPotter]

I hit a 2000 rating and 20yrs of competitive chess without encountering the concept of "connecting rooks," which I find to be a wholly superfluous principle. It's just something that happens when you develop your queen and in the natural course of ensuring your pieces are coordinated and protecting one another, intrinsic to their geometry. It's silly to think of rooks "connecting" as somehow an end in itself one should strive to achieve as a principle unto itself.

[@flippert0]

I _always_ use soccer analogies for chess education. Didn't know there were other ways?

[@ponzi_0]

Curious of your examples

[@JacksonFairweather]

you mean football not soccer

[@ponzi_0]

@JacksonFairweather American comments on American KZbinr's channel let bro say soccer 😭

[@shivanshgupta89]

@@ponzi_0 example SWOT analysis to find best moves.

[@Alekhine01]

I started playing chess about 50 years ago and have heard of all of these terms.

[@Moglix3montana]

Every time They put a little clip i completly zoned out tf

[@stevep8217]

Levy Makes Bankrolls

[@Vulganizator]

This video is hilarious but the comments from kick viewers are even funnier

[@highsocks4169]

9:30 it should've been the queen behind the rook if anything. The rook isn't the more valuable piece lmao, so that just makes no sense. My interpretation is that if you move the queen then the rook gets taken. *ETA* 12:20 doesn't make sense either. The guy wasn't there at all. For it to make sense the video should've started with the van already in front of him, that way he truly is "discovered". If we can SEE that he's not there, then it's not a discovered attack. This is awful lmao.

[@nathangrabias8045]

yeah these edits are very off.

[@TimeLordThe10th]

Hikaru reactions are just the best 😂

[@Chris.M]

You can have a relative discovered cross royal pin 😂

[@TheRunescape09595]

He missed the classic KEBAB on the 4rth rank !

[@anonymousscrub]

never heard of a cross-pin in my life

[@happybuggy1582]

It’s a new technique

[@jeyserreacts3444]

apparently its a thing.

[@Catatonic419]

Chess grand master can’t imagine bending a rim.

[@thedigitalnerds]

I actually found the tutorial watchable.

[@titoburrito2236]

Poor guy is probably gonna see this video

[@Zraknul]

Pump up your rating is clearly trying to riff off Pump Up the Jam by the Legendary Belgian group Technotronic.

[@xtennis77]

It's funny because @Hikaru is legit god reviewing this guys sins

[@ThiamUncomo]

19:40 Look at Hikaru's eyes Hikaru's mind: His what? oh... to draw white queen to d2

[@attilakiss8585]

19:44 "Decoy" and "lure out" are not good terms in the example, because it is forced, so the "attraction" is better.

[@Tocinos]

I've 100% heard "Absolute Pin"

[@adamhankus1153]

Hikaru losing his mind of juicer on bicycle 🤣

[@SPPnumber2]

BRING OUT THE JUICER!

[@andrew_owens7680]

El Pedo - how could you forget? The trauma!

[@mariotschl]

I need a video of just Hikaru laughing

[@adamhankus1153]

Bishop takes the pickup, simple.

[@x-1a000]

bro tryna use hikaru and magnus to make the vid more profit, until hikaru came by💀💀

[@jmain.m]

Danya uses LPDO in his speedruns

[@ALF8892]

We don't have time to wait for Hikaru to understand memes. Hes reminding me of my mom. "Wait what, I don't get it"