The final round | Anish Giri vs Richard Rapport | Tata Steel Masters 2023

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[@nevermine3672]

Anish year in the making? Some next level brilliancy he was able to pull off this tournament. Hoping for an exciting year for chess in 2023.

[@Jaylooker]

It kinda ironic that Jorden Van Foreest ensured Giri’s victory by beating Abdusattorov when in a previous Tata Steel Jorden beat Giri in a tiebreak for first.

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

yep when Anish lost a match on Armaggeddon because he blundered on move 60, the last move before increment came in (so gutting) - much different feeling today!

[@sebszab76]

Congrats to Giri for the tournament win. I feel sorry for Nodirbek, but Giri finally won a big tournament, well deserved. Actually Carlsen made a pretty impressive comeback in the end and won a nice game against Erigaijsi. Tata Steel is always a great tournament to watch.

[@MAli-wu4rx]

Very subtle opening play from Giri. Excellent analysis as always..

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[@paulmeyer1756]

Congratulations to Giri on a fine game and tournament!

[@paulgreen7906]

Great tournament. Great games and great commentary and analysis by Robert and yourself. Many thanks. Perhaps another game of Shirov or Judit Polgar or my idol Morphy. Anyway I must get back to the opera, the Count and Duke are expecting me.

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This year will hit the 100k subs for sure!

[@DKarkarov]

Well deserved by Giri, in the final moments when the odds were completely against him he persevered and won one of the most prestigious events in chess.

[@JMyepes]

I like your comments and nice variations on the game!!! Thank you very much! And this Tata Steel Masters was wonderful.

[@Matthew-bu7fg]

Nodirbek desperately wanted Anish to be playing Wesley in the last round, not Rapport! Great tournament win for Anish! Ironically this wasn't his best ever Tata Steel score - half a point down on when he drew for the lead with Magnus in 2018 (but lost on TB). A real coming of age tournament for him I think and I hope he is able to use this to become a big time tournament winner more in the future too! He has the talent for it. Great coverage!

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Algorythm. Happy for Giri. Thanks King.

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Thank you! I am wildly consistent :)

[@davidcopson5800]

@@PowerPlayChess You're into oxymoron territory there Daniel, but I like your wit. May your wit never end!

[@DG-ss2zd]

Great coverage thanks

[@davidcopson5800]

Another cool piece of analysis Daniel (even without the tea mug). Giri Steeled himself for victory, and when he'd won said "Ta ta", and left.

[@stephanegodts9052]

Quel plaisir d'écouter un commentaire de cette qualité. Merci beaucoup GM KING !

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Merci, monsieur!

[@illowrenollow423]

It's a pity for NB, anyway grants to Giri even if I am not a great fan of him, but his rc1-c2-e2xe6 game was amazing ;-)

[@tonysu8860]

Thx. Lots of good stuff. I was really dumbfounded by the opening chosen by Rapport and appreciated your comment to confirm what I thought were nearly immutable chess principles broken in the opening, in particular vounteering the IQP and doubled f pawns. Your comments suggest that Giri's insightful play defanged any possible advantages Black was looking for, which left Rapport with essentially a neutered position with Giri only slightly better. When I was following the game live, computer evaluation didn't rate either side particularly well, the evaluation was nearly completely even which left me a bit puzzled... On the one hand it was true that Black's hopes for certain advantages were neutralized but I also felt that the backwards IQP was a possibly decisive deficiency which it apparnetly was not. I don't know if Giri's treatment of this line might be considered nearly a refutation especially if the computer evaluation leaving the opening is dead even, but it's extremely useful to understand Giri's moves as described in this video.

[@SteveSingerFowkes]

Great analysis Daniel!

[@reddevilkev]

This is actually a ver good game for beginners no complex moves but solid and logic moves to study

[@davidcopson5800]

True.

[@Andha1]

Thanks for covering this amazing tournament. Can't wait for the next classical super tournament!

[@thomasherbst6771]

Great analysis, as always. What I don't understand: how can you voluntarily play an opening with Black in which White gets a stable advantage with quite natural moves.

[@simazar]

Watching the interviews perhaps betrayed why Magnus couldn't get over the line and Anish did. Anish: this is not the peak but preparation for qualifying for the candidates tournament, still a lot of work to do. Magnus: I'm taking a break from classical chess because I'm tired of it after these weeks. When there are only margins between them, sometimes the difference is desire.

[@warnaoh]

Bro you're looking too much into it xD. Had Magnus beaten Prag or Rapport didnt blunber this round you'd have an all other narrative. This tournament Giri was the best player and that's it. No need to psychoanalyse some interviews.

[@PowerPlayChess]

It came down to fine margins, a few moments that changed everything. Magnus strives for the maximum in (almost) every game and on many occasions that pays off. This time, he made a couple of incorrect decisions and he fell the wrong side. I don't think we can read more into it than that. Giri played consistently and the results went his way.

[@jackkrom]

Great coverage. thanks Dan.

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Very detailed commentary, thank you 🙏

[@djgresearch]

I very much enjoyed the coverage. Many thanks to yourself and Robert. I like the informal yet technically detailed style, and of course, if you want to test yourself, instead of having it too easy, you can pause the video at any stage. I thought that was a good objective final summary about Giri, as well. I notice from my database that the g6 line in the Classical Sicilian has actually been played a lot. I have played the standard e6 but each time found it difficult to develop serious counterplay. Regarding Rapport, I know that the pressure has a way of wearing anyone down but Kg6 looks dreadful for a player of his standard.

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Enjoyed it 🙏

[@zeezmusic7245]

Giri handled the opening like a boss. Beautiful game

[@LateCloser]

Sad for Nodirbek, but his day will come. Hard to say that, considering he's already been World Rapid Champion. :) Congrats to Anish, got a little lucky he didn't lose to Jorden but he put himself in that position by his excellent tournament play. He deserved to win. Great tournament to start the year off with! And of course amazing coverage by PowerplayChess! Thank you!

[@chessdad182]

Probably this experience will prove a plus for Nodirbek. Magnus seemed to empathetic for him.

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I have seen games by Botvinnink as Black winning with a nice kingside attack

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Very nice coverage as always, thanks! Let's hope classical chess isn't dead :)

[@PowerPlayChess]

On the basis of this tournament, absolutely not - but the organisers know how to assemble a great line up of players, mixing the best with the lean and hungry, engendering an excellent fighting spirit. Other tournaments could learn from them.

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Thank you

[@skakdosmer]

I like Giri for his humour. (And also for his most charming wife! Lucky guy!) But it seemed that he didn't quite appreciate his victory. Mysterious.

[@guest_informant]

Really pleased for Anish. And Thanks Danny :-)

[@sabaikorajan]

Results started showing... Good going Anish

[@TessaTestarossa]

Sad for Abdusattorov, but one can't argue Giri's claim, he did perform excellently.

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the storytelling aspects of this channel quite humbling

[@RoyGazoff]

Giri played just fine

[@osgubben]

Fun fact from yesterday: A very short time before Pragg blundered with Re8, Magnus had calculated that he would punish such a mistake by Nxf7! But when Pragg did play Re8?, Magnus completely forgot it! When the interviewer on norwegian sport channel 2 asked him about the missed pawn win, Magnus looked like he saw a ghost, completely disgusted and in disbelief. Maybe the tournament victory got lost there. One move can decide Tata Steel!

[@chessdad182]

Funny as it seems like Magnus never forgets anything. But Magnus gets credit for a nice recovery in the tournament. Poor Ding.

[@Akhilesh70]

Good commentating

[@imeprezime1285]

Giri played great, as a real super GM should play. But I'm really puzzled by Rapport. He plays in enterprising style, sometimes brilliantly, but then too often blunders like an amateur. He is kind of mixture of Morozevic and Saric. Very unique

[@michalsindler3931]

Please, cover today game of Magnus Carlsen.

[@chessdad182]

Giri destroyed his reputation with this win.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Not at all. He played the tournament in exactly his way: excellent preparation, playing pragmatically to maximise his own chances while reducing his opponent's, and seizing on mistakes. Overall he was consistent in his play: I cannot recall any big blunders. His final score of nine draws and four wins was a typical Giri result - when everything works well.

[@chessdad182]

@@PowerPlayChess That was excellent preparation.

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The king is dead.. long live Daniel King!!😏

[@ExcelStrategy]

Strange blunders happened in this tournament, rapport played kg6 too fast I can't think that a player of his caliber did not see that kg6 was a disaster... maybe he played that move on pourpose under the pressure of someone...

[@zacharycat603]

looks like just a bad opening choice by Rapport - according to databases white has almost an 18% edge.

[@klausfiedler64]

Small thing, the t in Rapport is silent. Rappor

[@PowerPlayChess]

Are you Hungarian?

[@klausfiedler64]

@@PowerPlayChess No.

[@klausfiedler64]

@@PowerPlayChess I didn't really think my contention would be instantly bought. You've almost certainly had direct contact with the fellow. But the "proper" English pronunciation, with a silent t, is certainly more pleasing to the (my) ear. On the other hand the whole notion of silent letters troubles me.

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​@@klausfiedler64 In Hungarian, the 't' is pronounced. End of story.

[@csarmii]

@@PowerPlayChess I'm Hungarian. We tend to pronounce all our letters, that's why we're writing them down after all. That "t" is no exception. Your pronunciation is fine. The "a" is supposed to be somewhat different but I don't think English even has that vowel.