The Best Endgames from the Chess.com Champion Chess Tour Final!

In this video, we analyze the most instructive and entertaining endgames from the recently-concluded Chess.com Champions Chess Tour (CCT) Final, held in Toronto, Canada and won by Magnus Carlsen. Each endgame is carefully examined with an eye toward extracting beautiful themes, and offering clear and concise take-aways for a wide variety of different endings.
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Please continue the endgame series ! BTW, look at two games where White was forced to do a knight underpromotion to reach a zany endgame three knights versus one (theoretically winning). Vujic Katanic - Petrovic Kula 1985 where White forced the win, and Sankalp - Rustemov chess com 2023 where White missed the amazing 75.Ka6!! zugzwang and mate next.

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When Danya is discussing the Firouzja game, he humbly admits Ke2 was not on his radar. I went back to the original clip, and he actually predicts the whole sequence with the underpromotion even before Ke2. Amazing.

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I also like that these examples illustrated well the endgame importance of forcing a piece or pawn to be overworked, like in game 4 when whites king moved to d4 forcing the black bishop to have to cover both d4 and h7, which was impossible. Excellent video. Thank you.

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Interesting concept/motif in game 4, the king fork. I'd guess few players consider that the king can fork pieces, or pawns, like here, as any other piece or pawn can. It's something to look for in endgames.

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Hi Daniel, Will you de the game Kanmazalp-Naroditsky, Benasque 2015 to the Knight endgame video? In my opinion your best underpromotion.

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knights are tricky.. in the first example i'm pretty sure Nh5 wasn't the "only" move, that Nd5 was even more flashy, especially because you're not making one queen but two, worst case scenario you get a queen vs knight with some pawns, so still clearly winning.. also, at like 38 minutes or so, i loved how it seemed only like 10-15 when Danya says "it's been 38 minutes" haha, these endgames just remind me of childhood so much and of course now i'm a lot better at them and i get that these sirs didn't have enough time, i wouldn't be able to play them correctly purely on 3 sec increment either but still, it made me so happy and thanks for bringing us content like this, it indeed is very instructional and inspirational, yes, happy holidays

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Great video! Out of curiosity and related to the Carlsen/Firouzja endgame, does anyone know how promotions are handled over the board when in timetrouble?

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push the pawn, replace it with a piece that u want , press the clock after that.... it is impt that u keep the needed piece in your hand to make the move quickly or else u will lose a lot of time searching for the needed piece

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0:27: 🔍 The video discusses the conclusion of the Champions Chess Tour in Toronto and the selection of instructive content from the event. 5:28: ⚔ Wesley So successfully thwarts a drawing mechanism to win the game. 10:06: 🔍 The video discusses a chess game with a surprising drawing idea. 15:14: 👑 The video discusses tricky Knight endgame tactics and the importance of precise positioning for the black king. 20:38: ⚔ The video discusses a chess game where the player sacrifices a knight to generate a major Pawn majority on the queen side. 25:12: 📺 The video discusses intense chess endgame examples and a famous rapid game between Carlsen and Caruana. 30:22: ⚔ Magnus Carlsen secures a draw in a critical endgame situation. 35:13: 👑 Fabiano Caruana blunders in the endgame, leading to a surprising outcome. 40:29: 🔑 Hikaru's radical move F5 disrupts white's pawn structure and creates potential for black to gain an advantage. 45:21: ⚔ The video explains a winning plan in a chess game. 50:32: ⚔ The video discusses a critical mistake in a chess game that led to a missed opportunity for a win. Recap by Tammy AI

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Something that puzzels me: did Wesley So see this whole mechanism in advance? If so, from what point? Is there also an element of luck involved? Of just trusting you have these kind of resources in your position?

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I think that Daniel should make videos about other endgames because the pawn endgame videos were great

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[@sqttttt]

22:10 Alireza does not go gentle into that good knight Wonder if that was intentional 🤣

[@monkerud2108]

The important thing is that the line i gave is a bunch of forced king moves and checks, so there isn't that much to calculate even though it looks nasty and scary and complicated, i saw that if the queen gets to the 6th rank with check, the king will end up on e4 and from there with the queen on f7 it is nasty af, you win easily and stop the pawn easily, i didnt worry about the mate because given a, b follows. Maybe there are som complications somewhere but i didnt see any.

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What intricate fractals of complexity, with subtle differences even with only a few pieces on the board. Whew.

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[@monkerud2108]

I dont know why but i instantly liked a7 because the 6th rank seemed to box the king in so much that winning the queen with check immediately seemed likley to be a thing, i was fooling around looking for mate after king d7 and scratching my head a bit because i forgot i could take the pawn with check, force the king back and with queen and rook checks win the rook by force by discovery. Help very little to calculate many deeo lines if you forget you can capture a pawn lol.

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[@monkerud2108]

I calculated a7 :) you have a oretushirt forced line, i didn't see a quick mate but you can win the queen and stop the pawn with checks all the way.

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Would love to see the Magnus win against Alireza with rook & bishop vs rook in part 2! That game really blew my mind watching live.

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[@monkerud2108]

It works lut with king d5 as well but for king b5 everything is forced i believe. And with d 5 you have roon f5and another forced line leading tl mate i think, basically kd5 rook f5 king d6or e 6 either way q g8 or q f8 lets to mate i think with some rook back to f6 ideas and since e7 is just a mate the king either has to go to c7 in some lines where you take the queen with check or youforce the king back to the 6th rank with check where similar lines as before go on, if there isn't some simoler forced mate i missed

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A7 then get the queen to the 6th and fromnthere you cannforce the queen off with check byg getting the king to d6. Forcing king d4 rook f4, take the queen with the queen with check and from there i didnt calculate anything other than stopping the pawn after king d2 holding onto the rook, and that is trivially impossible because of rook f2 rook f3 so i concluded a queen is better than a pawn because when the queen or rook takes the rook its behind the pawn, but there is probably a short forced mate there.

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