The Real Reason Kramnik Is Accusing Danya Of Chess Cheating

[@dave5857]

Danya, bless him, should never have engaged Kramnik, because as we have seen, Kramnik will never be satisfied. And Kramnik doesn't want to be satisfied, he wants to maliciously cast suspicion on people who are performing well and achieving success. Danya has literally set up multiple cameras to show his entire room and Vlad the Implier (not my invention, but fantastic nickname) isn't satisfied, because one camera is a laptop filming things from the other side of the room. Whatever proof Danya offers will never be enough, because you can't retroactively prove definitively that you didn't cheat in a game played years ago. This is why the burden of proof is on the prosecution, who in this case is Kramnik. And his evidence is....Danya thought about playing a move Kramnik didn't think of two years ago, and he sometimes glances away from his screen when playing. The fact that Kramnik challenged Danya (but not Hikaru afaik) as though that would somehow prove something tells you all you need to know. A heads up match just proves who played better on a given day, because people are not robots. Anyway, don't entertain Kramnik. He can demand answers but he is owed none. Just tell him he's an idiot, a bully, and has a fundamentally terrible understanding of statistics, then move on with your life.

[@juandelacruz46]

He is not an idiot. He is not a bully. HE IS A PSYCHOPATH.

[@RecycledBikes-jj]

​@@juandelacruz46not quite, but he does have a serious Psychosis....

[@tchapatata76]

@@RecycledBikes-jj at leats not using engine while playing

[@johnwest7993]

Kramnik's problem is that however brilliant his chess is it is completely traditional. It always makes sense. The best modern GM's will throw in moves that are to their own disadvantage just to throw for a loop the traditional players like Kramnik who are buried in the conventional, to ruin their prep and send them into unusual game positions. Modern GM's have watched many Stockfish type games and have learned a higher level of subterfuge and deflection than older GM's have learned. Kramnik's mind is so regimented that he can't even grasp this new level of chess.

[@djdarklyceum]

This is the advantage modern day players have, they''ve played thousands of games in blitz and bullet doing this exact thing and seeing what works and what doesn't.

[@gargamel3393]

This is what I've been thinking about. How can you even suspect someone of cheating if they actually learned a lot of how they play from Stockfish/bots? It's just using the tools at your disposal to become better.

[@KhrissZaitsev]

My thought exactly, although I put in a slightly different way above 😋

[@jackcristo1628]

Agree, though it's more like he's actively preventing himself from grasping this new level of chess than that he can't. All these baseless accusations are him intentionally avoiding the issues with his play when he could be confronting them and improving instead. The longer he does this (and I don't really expect it to ever stop) the more he's gonna fall behind. His blitz rating is already down 130 points since 2021 and down 170 points from his peak. This is way, way more decline than what's expected from age.

[@Danthonyt]

I agree and this is exactly what I was thinking while watching the video.

[@mime4331]

Kramnik has got overinflated ego which eclipses the reason. "It wouldn't remotely cross my mind" Wow.. maybe your mind. Are you the last instance of truth Kramnik?

[@matthewpiper6526]

That's exactly correct. @VBKramnik clearly suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder and has no mental perspective from which to understand others' points of view or the result of his actions on caring others.

[@loosehorsemedia]

"Never wrestle with a pig. You get covered in filth and the pig just enjoys it." Wilhelm Steinitz

[@epicchess2021]

😂😁

[@joostvanrens]

* George Bernard Shaw

[@suntzu6122]

Making moves Kramnik doesnt expect = not allowed.

[@demianschultz3749]

Kramnik would totally think that Tal is a cheater, he can't accept that some players are just better than him

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

Kramnik is probably being paid by russians to discredit chess as a revenge from ruski chess teams being banned from FIDE events. So is Nepo. that's all there is to it.

[@vik24oct1991]

Tal is not strong as kramnik though, terrible example.

[@ThorfinnBus]

​@@vik24oct1991 Tal's style is unique and hyper complicated. He is just as strong as Kramnik.

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

@@vik24oct1991 Kramnik is a washout hasbeen, Tal would have been much stronger for sure

[@uduehdjztyfjrdjciv2160]

Kramnik problem that he cant accept he is bad in blitz now. In classical with big time amount he is still rape danya and jospem ez pz, his positional understanding still superior to those, who can only show themselves in fast chess

[@sems2864]

This evening i went to the dairy shop. I've asked for some Epic Cheese. I was given the question mark

[@5inghster]

I asked for Dark Squares Swiss Cheese, and got the same answer..

[@Corteum]

We're gonna have to 'run the procedure' on this cheesey move you made. 😂

[@dash_r_media]

I went to an escort service and I was given the miss

[@Corteum]

@@dash_r_media Because you had too much cheese? 🧀😂

[@NicholasSandar]

@@dash_r_media her defense had too many holes, and the bishop made light work of it.

[@joshaa1004]

Where was kramnik looking at 2:02? I am just asking a question

[@harleyphillips8434]

He’s thinking. Some people look to the side when in thought. Magnus does it a lot!

[@slipperybogle1910]

​@harleyphillips8434 yeah the person was joking because kramnik accused danya of cheating for looking away to think

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

@@harleyphillips8434 r/whoosh?

[@Patryyyyck]

😂😂😂😂 got him with the counterstrike

[@gredax]

@@harleyphillips8434 No he definitely has stockfish engine on other screen, it is clear to me now, we do the procedure

[@WilliamCacilhas]

So kramnik is mad at Danya for realizing bishops can indeed move backwards?

[@stephensinclair8127]

I've heard Dina Belenkaya strip the bark off someone in commentary for not moving a bishop backwards. It was savage.

[@arthurdent5357]

He's mad that he's still losing even when he does what he accuses others of.

[@brunoram]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MoldbugReads]

That's not what He said it all, and the fact that the owner of this channel hearted this shows his lack of integrity. Really stupid stuff

[@fateaglio]

​@@MoldbugReadsKramnik is a child in a man's body and doesn't understand that his old age has really affected his brain not only in chess but also general logic.

[@SpecialAgentBillMaxwell]

But if you're playing 84% accuracy against a GM, you're going to lose. It doesn't matter who you are, so what did he expect?

[@adamvs95]

I've hit 90% accuracy against players of my elo (embarrasingly low). If I load up against stock fish my % goes right down. The stronger the opponent the harder it is to keep a high %. If Danya was cheating I'd expect his opponents accuracy to be lower than normal. That said, I don't think he cheated, just that it's a bad argument.

[@bring-out]

@@adamvs95 That's not really a good example and I'm not sure why you think your "embarrasingly" low ELO makes you a decent arbiter of accuracy. It's true that a stronger opponent makes it harder to make the best moves, however the degree of mistake plays a huge factor in terms of accuracy, and a strong player usually doesn't make big mistakes, resulting in a high accuracy. A strong player does make mistakes against an engine but they are small compared to your big mistakes. It's not hard for a weak player to reach 90% accuracy against an even weaker player as the best moves tend to be obvious. If you hit the scholars mate in 4 moves you typically get 100% accuracy but that says nothing of your strength, really. However 84% accuracy from a GM against another GM indicates serious mistakes or blunders.

[@Pullapelle]

I have had games over 95% accuracy. First 15-20 moves of my pet line theory, then opponent goes astray and the game lasts another 7-10 moves. Sometimes those moves are easy or even obvious. Nothing sus in Danya’s moves. Just delutional opponent.

[@bring-out]

@@adamvs95 I should add as it wasn't clear in my previous post that a player of Kramnik's level playing at his normal level against an engine in blitz would reach plus 90%. 84% suggests serious mistakes below normal level.

[@wagsman9999]

"Springer on the ringer is an absolute wiener schnitzel." Lol

[@epicchess2021]

Haha I said (or tried to say) rimmer btw but both work 😁

[@douggieharrison6913]

Sad to see Danya with him as a child. Danya is a little Russian schoolboy who was in his nascent phase of learning chess when Kramnik was champ. He undoubtedly looked up to him for years before all this insame behavior

[@changedhandle86]

Danya was born and raised in California (“little Russian schoolboy”? Puh-leez!)

[@vm2000]

​@@changedhandle86father from Ukraine and mom from Azerbaijan

[@simpboigaming]

He's Ukrainian

[@bipolarminddroppings]

I did love Hikaru's take on Danya playing with 12 cameras just to satisfy Kramnik "You don't even indulge them. You just say 'no, fuck you' and that's it"

[@jedross2136]

Hikaru came out swinging, good on him.

[@jackcristo1628]

tbf to Danya, he does acknowledge that Kramnik is acting in bad faith, and I presume his intent is to appeal to some of the people who may have just seen these recent tweets/vids from Kramnik. Kramnik himself and his cultists are beyond redemption. No idea if this approach is gonna do Danya any good, though.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

@@jackcristo1628 never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

@@jackcristo1628 they are not cultists they are ruski bots. It's all being done to discredit top chess players as revenge for ruski chess teams being banned from FIDE events.

[@uduehdjztyfjrdjciv2160]

​​@@godfreyofbouillon966kramnik is not related to politics, he keep silent about war all this time 😂 his sectants are from levitov chess channel

[@bchain6416]

4:50 Lol, I am rated 2000 and I immediately thought that Bc1 is the move I would play. Kramnik is just oblivious.

[@emperorsascharoni9577]

This video is satire. The backwards bishop move is something he used to accuse Dayna for a game during titles Tuesday

[@douglaszare1215]

I thought of that move, too, after learning about moves like that from GM Naroditsky's videos, where he talks about making moves like returning a knight or the queen to its original square. It can be the best move even though it is counterintuitive and most humans incorrectly view undeveloping a piece as giving up. He loves finding good times to move knights backward.

[@peterlue9274]

BF4?

[@bchain6416]

@@peterlue9274 This loses the b2 pawn, no?

[@peterlue9274]

@@bchain6416 Yes you are right

[@tywonellington]

I just love how Kramnik acts like chesscom doesn’t know who Danya is. Better report him so he’s on their radar… like every game Danya has played hasn’t been analyzed by engines.

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

And of course he knows it perfectly well he is only doing it as an attempt to discredit Danya in the eyes of viewers

[@sadretu]

if you're talking about Kramnik's comments in the video, those are from random Titled Tuesday games. Still most of them are delusional lol

[@michaelmassaro4375]

I think Kramnik has hurt his own standings in the chess community when people think of him it’s not as the ex champion but rather the guy calling everyone a cheater that’s his Rep can picture him ten years from now doing the same ole Procedure

[@dash_r_media]

In Kramnik, we are seeing the last vestiges of the old Soviet School of Chess, where paranoia and selective integrity ran rampant. He studied under Botvinnik who was the embodiment of this.

[@6dmiller]

Um, at 2:03 when Kramnik realizes he has entered unplanned territory, what is it that he looks at?

[@howard5992]

likely some 18+ video content ...

[@yabbadabbado4103]

I saw the glint in his eyes. Undoubtedly a second monitor with stockfish.

[@TimTeemo]

Sometimes it’s easier to think and find something you never would have found when you’re staring at the board

[@6dmiller]

@@yabbadabbado4103 Yeah, I wasn't sure if anyone else had noticed that same glint. Undeniable proof.

[@melisaaraujo2604]

Kramnik admitted to going after Danya for not defending him from Hikaru… that’s all you need to know. He was butthurt.

[@chesscomsupport8689]

Kramnik changed shirts in the middle of the game! Is he allowed to do that?

[@donsurlylyte]

probalby changed his underwear as well

[@jackcristo1628]

start the procedure

[@ianstopher9111]

He won't premove on the board but he will premove shirts.

[@sam2725]

4:23 every new video brings a new phrase to "knight on the rim" 😂

[@joan4p704]

The orangutan cut when he says it's impossible and wouldn't cross his mind... this is genius editing.

[@HelloImDavid1000]

Recent TT has Danya with about 5 cameras. Ridiculous the lengths he has to go to, only for Krammers to demand more!

[@gilgamesh8334]

It’s borderline abuse and harassment

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

@@gilgamesh8334 Not borderline. It *is* harassment, period.

[@jamesmaskell3743]

Kramnik getting jebaited by that laptop, leading him to rush out a video he would later delete was brilliant. We saw the Task Manager for that laptop and he was clean 😂

[@adamvs95]

These one liners man. It's killing me trying to explain to my wife why I'm chuckling watching a chess recap by a male model.

[@epicchess2021]

🤣😁 haha glad you’re enjoying cheers for watching

[@isaacbugalho]

I can't believe you didn't use the "Let's do the procedure" clip 😢😢😢

[@epicchess2021]

Haha sorry mixed it up

[@darkcitizen]

2:05, 3:05 Kramnik even changed his T-shirt, so sweaty he was during that game!

[@esheppshepard]

also hair and clothes in the background. interesting!

[@ThomasThorr]

Kramnik is too paranoid to play online chess. the sooner he realises this the happier he will be

[@daviddurbin7682]

Okay so instead of trying to understand what Bc1 was played for he just throws up his hands and decides Danya is cheating lmao

[@gijsw8681]

Ofcourse it is cheating, because it would never cross his mind. He is the god of chess, everything that does not cross his mind is cheatin 😂😂😂😂 its funny how delusional he can be , plus he is bad at statistics too xD

[@thefart]

You never see that Kramnik seemed to change shirts during the game? Falling for obvious bait are we?

[@gredax]

@@thefart Yes good point, I imagine he has stockfish in his wardrobe so it is an elaborate way to cheat "Oh no I spilled more vodka on my shirt"

[@thefart]

@@gredax now that's a cheating method I haven't seen. you might be onto something

[@motsy15]

Kramnik has become an embarrassment

[@sam2725]

5:12 video quality has been gold recently lmao

[@aughlnal7333]

4:55 Is Bc1 that suspicious? What else was he supposed to do? Rb1 and lose the bishop pair?

[@gayatrins7818]

Nah that reaction is not for this game...he just used different clips like a satire video

[@Sprysage]

Kramnik got into an advanced French as Black. He was in unfamiliar territory

[@martinpaddle]

He played the French a lot as Black, even as recently as in his match against Jospem. But the line that Naroditsky goes into is not objectively the best and you wouldn't see that in top-level classical chess. It has, however, a high success rate for White on Lichess among amateur players because it is tricky to play for Black. Danya clearly prepared this better than his opponent.

[@Sprysage]

@@martinpaddle Kramnik did not play a lot of French as black. Not even close to his regular repertoire

[@harleyphillips8434]

Hmmmm weird that kramnik’s shirt and room changes even though these reactions are supposedly from the same game….

[@epicchess2021]

Yeah was just having some fun in this video

[@gayatrins7818]

These aren't from the same game

[@gredax]

Clearly he has stockfish in his wardrobe, and he is changing having a quick peak at the engine, why else would he change multiple times,

[@michaelmassaro4375]

That’s funny the monkey playing with the saw as Kramnik talks that pretty much sums it up right there 😅

[@ianstopher9111]

Both are great apes.

[@epicchess2021]

😆😁

[@THA1ErAsEr]

Why did you put Kramnik reactions from another game over this one?

[@MartinMaier-g5t]

The bishop C1 move was so obvious lol. Defending the pawn and saving the bishop pair. Sure it undevelops the bishop which might be positionally wrong from a human perspective, but it's so obvious why one would play it. It's not some weird undeveloping move that only makes sense in some variations five moves later. But Kramnik seems to think undeveloping = computer move

[@macleadg]

It also prepares b3 by preventing Na3. I play moves like that in blitz all the time, and I’m not a good player.

[@obiemmanuel1514]

Kramnik didn't say those things about the move... This channel is known to troll everyone for laughs... Nothing is true here... Just laugh and move on

[@MartinMaier-g5t]

@@obiemmanuel1514 I fell for the troll nooooo 😅

[@liamf-2255]

I get the feeling Kramnick is after a Netflix series at this point.

[@cpking7]

Hard to imagine any former chess world champion could lose his mind as he got older, so clearly Danya is cheating. Still, hard to figure out how he manages to cheat just as effectively over the board.

[@_.alex.-]

Danya is the epitome of a chess ambassador. And a lovely human. Good support from Hikaru and I also like how he recorded his entire setup with his phone because he knew Baby K would complain about his original additional camera footage. Great vid James as always. 100k before long!

[@russellhammond371]

The backward bishop move is often strong if you're trying to dull someone else's attack and force them to reroute, or instead of letting them trade knight for bishop, or simply wanting to dominate the knight on 4 squares. How do I know that at 1300 ELO and Kramnik doesn't??

[@BlunderMunchkin]

Kramnik sure does change his shirt a lot.

[@susbedo9258]

Nepo is the real catalyst as to why Kramnik is acting like this. Everytime Nepo loses or plays badly against a player, he starts insinuating that player cheated. He eas thebone that started the rumours with Hans. And later he has gone on to insinuate that Hikaru, Gukesh, Danya cheated as well. The Gukesh allegations was the wildest, just pure saltiness from Nepo

[@zfeazcesd1047]

While Nepo's behavior has been poor, what Kramnik is doing is on another level and if you go to his youtube videos you can see a minimum of hundreds of people convinced by him (judging by comments and likes on them)...fortunately it still is a tiny minority of the people familiar with the situation, but I'm sure it bothers Danya that there is anyone convinced by him. This is the kind of BS that turns nice and optimistic people into grouchy cynics.

[@jackcristo1628]

Nepo has a bad attitude and a lot of paranoia, and I know he spread a lot of fear about fair play issues and Hans, but I'd have to hear the things he actually said about Hans to know if I'd call them rumors. Hans was found to have cheated in ~50 online games using Ken Regan's very conservative methodology, including some tournament games. This means that Hans likely cheated in hundreds if not thousands of online games, as most instances of cheating would not reach Regan's standard. No one in a position of authority can really frame it this way because they don't want to be sued, but that's what those figures imply. So Nepo's fearmongering could've been grounded in reality and still been enough to make other people paranoid.

[@full_afterburner]

“Single, male, former cheater, looking for retired GM to accuse all my enemies of cheating, while making me look like a genius. will pay $200k”

[@vik24oct1991]

Kramnik is unintentionally funny especially i love his line while answering post match question, " was he a good sport ?, no he wasnt a good sport" 😂😂

[@altpuntotechlabvr]

Talking with Dramnick is like discusing with a flat hearther.

[@faerenz187]

Why, when Kramnik has called out multiple people for looking away from the screen, does he look away everytime Danya played a move he wasnt expecting... Seems really INTERESTING

[@gasolinebased]

What a move. What. A. Move...

[@nolanmccune8982]

Hearing Kramnik lose his mind brings me joy

[@pullupterraine199]

Thumbs up who understood the joke of Étienne "Backrow" Bacrot!

[@ianstopher9111]

James has used it before.

[@samsonpug]

Orangutan ✅ Scottish play quote ✅ Kramnik ✅ I can sleep well now.

[@epicchess2021]

🤣🤣❤️

[@steinanderson]

@7:27 - is mate more important than taking the horsey? I'm unconvinced.

[@epicchess2021]

😆😁

[@blazeesq2000]

Every time Kramnik loses we accuses his victor of cheating. Every time a person Kramnik prefers loses, Kramnik accuses the opponent of cheating. I am not saying cheating does not exist. I know that Kramnik is not as good as he thinks. Kramnik was in the top 5 in his day. Today's top five would not include him. Please tell me why Kramnik is worth listening to/

[@billythekid-bestservant1]

I've seen only 5 minutes. The engine clearly doesn't like danya's move. Idk why kramnik is having a tantrum while his opponent is playing a not really good move.

[@jeanjasinczuk7543]

A smart very strong player who wanted to cheat would not follow the computer recommendation at every move. Would be too easy to spot. He would need only the best move at critical moment.

[@TheLaughingOut]

"I wouldn't have thought of it, so nobody else would either!"

[@БрокколиМэн]

I really like that nobody of Danya's protectors say NOTHING about Kramnik's questions. All of these videos mean nothing in terms of discovering whether Danya had suspicious activity or not. Every FM could comment a game with an engine, i see no problems at all. Doing it real time without engine is much harder - as Kramnik did at recent Candidates!

[@kurzabel]

I like it too. Thank you for your support.

[@MeatLasers]

Kramnik changing his shirt two times during a blitz game… Very suspicious…

[@lollycopter]

"Always play bishop c1" -Grandmaster Benjamin Finegold

[@joseraulcapablanca8564]

A great win for Naroditsky, no pleasing Kramnik a really sore loser. Thanks James.

[@ournewlifeonmadeira]

Way too many cheaters in online chess...

[@Berek71182]

Danya played similiar games on his Speedrun and even in Blitz Tournement. He likes sub-optimal pawn sacrificas that will be crushed by the engine, but are still lethal enough against GMs.

[@chadbishop-sr]

I'm telling you brother. You cracked the case. We all knew the Final Procedure. We introduce, The Ultimate Procedure, when the Final Procedure doesn't work, engage in a witch hunt with spreadsheets while constantly saying you are just asking questions but really make accustations.

[@epicchess2021]

😁

[@Avalenor]

The Springer on damn rimmer is an absolutely Wiener Schnitzel 🤣🤣🤣 wtf bro!

[@fabiofernandes8706]

The Kramnik investigation into this is fascinating. I was initially skeptic but after watching all of it from both sides, it became increasingly clear to me that yeah Daniel is a cheater. There's a lot of people who have a hard time believing such charming soft guy would cheat, so they ignore all the evidence

[@MaggotKing9]

Is that evidence in the room with us right now?

[@Thematic2177]

These clips of Kramnik's "reactions" are from different times. Why make these fake videos? People will do anything for view these days

[@danielmaske9946]

@2:04 Where is Krammy looking right now? We need to get 14 more cameras set up in that room, stat.

[@rodgersmith6593]

One of the first computers to beat a grandmaster in chess was named Deep Fritz. The grandmaster it beat was none other than Vladimir Kramnik, but out of 8 matches he won half of them. I wonder if this affected him somehow, he does remark how he has to strive for a draw against engine abusers, could be from his score against the first machine. I also think this could explain the paranoia for engines in general, and possibly being apart of the event made him bitter.

[@psybranet]

I hereby fully endorse the term "WORLD CHUMPIAN". Well done Epic Cheese. 🎉

[@epicchess2021]

haha

[@zaheera6899]

I am 2000 rated. I have played that bishop backward more than 100 times. It keeps the knight in check without having to exchange bishop pair. What's so difficult to understand for him.

[@devjyoti5614]

Bro has a generational skill in commentary

[@donsurlylyte]

kramnik will be remembered for this shit, more than for his WC. tragic, really.

[@gajofre]

Kramnik is becoming crazy Bobby Fischer, completey paranoid and not accepting his own inadequacies.

[@trunk39able]

At this time of year im sure there is a Pantomime looking for a comedy villain. Kramnik could make a fortune.

[@tchapatata76]

it's easy to do when you have an engine running

[@HDGF64]

Every move that Kramnik didn't not think of is a CLEAR indicator that his opponent is cheating - what a grumpy old man he has become! 😢

[@jsj297]

Danya is a cheater and is terrible at hiding it. Obvious engine moves. Eyes looking at his chess engine next to him.

[@razoo911]

Kramnik accused a lot peoples we know that but this time he can be right because Danya on streaming never explain his moves ahead, never explain his ideas, everytime he look away from the monitor or chat (Danya said there is wall but before every move why you have to look a "wall"), and the most important "proof" it's when one time he slipped up saying he was looking engine while he was playing a match......there are a question that Danya should answer, don't ignore this thing just because is Kramnik the accuser

[@polarisalpine1530]

I got scared when you said 14th July, it’s my birthdate.

[@kirkstable]

Danya had a cocky grin on his face when he saw Kramnik say “no, he wasn’t a good sport” 😅

[@arnieus866]

This whole game could have been lots of computer prep. Kramnik assumes that if he loses it must be cheating.

[@josephnewman713]

Online blitz and otb blitz are completely different. Kramnik's mouse skills are so poor he starts at a disadvantage. In TT he is starting every game down 10-15 seconds on the clock. He does not have pre-move enabled. He has a huge disadvantage in every time scramble. Danya and Hikaru have huge online ratings because they win so many dead lost positions with the clock. Danya and Hikaru get hit with a great move and "start the procedure" of challenging their opponents to convert a winning position within the time allowed. That's why Hikaru farms his rating in 3-0 games. 3+1 games like in Titled Tuesday allow players more time to convert a winning position. I am honestly amazed Kramnik's online rating is so high. It is a reflection of how great a player he is by overcoming the disadvantage of his poor mouse skills.

[@gungagalunga9040]

NO footage of Danya and his wandering eyes from this game?

[@UbyTuesday]

I am really struggling very hard to understand how moving the bishop there is considered such a suspicious move by Kramnik. Can anyone help explain what his thinking might be?

[@pobnoonmunch2255]

Oh looking forward to this. I hope there’ll be a segue to mushrooms ( a lesser known zeplin track ).

[@sormu16]

There's nothing weird about Be3-c1 It is super-normal, just like Bd3-f1. Kramnik is losing his head when he says he'd never think about it.

[@chesswhizzard]

Kramnik entered a tournament, he lost his first game and immediately complained “he’s definitely cheating!” The arbiter said “Vladimir, it's a simul and you were playing yourself!” Kramnik narrowed his eyes and muttered, “Even I don’t trust me these days…”

[@Grandcapi]

Alapin is the name of a Russian player, not lapin, the french name of the rabbit.

[@ianstopher9111]

I often play the French rabbit response to the Sicilian

[@adilahmed3955]

Funny enough that i would have played Bc1, to defend the bishop and the b2 pawn. I don't know why Kramnik was so upset.

[@joshuabgambrell]

Ah that's hilarious, I was thinking "if Qb4 at the end why not just take the free queen?" But I guess mate in one is better

[@hansvonmannschaft9062]

On one hand thanks so much for another fun vid James, can't begin with anything else. You managed to slip in some humour and of the good one 🙂. On the other hand, what I find funny, is that if I were to suppose someone was cheating, I'd say Kramnik was. Because, as you pointed out, he escaped every single trap. Each time you said: _"...if captured, then comes xy, zh, and the knight with check..."_ or something of the likes, which would require quite a bit of thinking to figure out, Kramnik reacted with a: _"...so that's why it was not played..."_

[@obiemmanuel1514]

Why did the 3 time former world champion know good or bad moves? Interesting question... You must be 1200 Elo rating and questioning a 2800 Elo world champion.. Now is time to start the procedure on your iq

[@hansvonmannschaft9062]

@@obiemmanuel1514 Oh my, a person on the internet is insulting me! What am I going to do now! I feel so... afraid! Haha, not really. I'm sorry if you felt important for a second. You see, you shouldn't draw if you're going to pull a 1cm pee-pee. I'd explain in detail, if it wasn't because you chose to follow the path of the idiot. No rewards in said path, not sorry, not played.

[@user-hi3ke6qh7q]

I mean maybe Danya just didn't want to give up his bishop and that was literally the only square. WTF? you don't have to be a GM for that one.

[@loosehorsemedia]

Epic chess but also epically fast costume changes from Vlad the Implier

[@Corteum]

Whati s Kramnik's nexxt move going to be? Demand a lie detector test for Danya?? The man has lost the plot!

[@godfreyofbouillon966]

He knows the plot very well. The plot as told him by his superiors of ruski federation, is "lets revenge us being banned from FIDE by attempting to discredit top western players". Nepo also knows this plot.

[@Corteum]

@@godfreyofbouillon966 How do you know of such a plot, or is that just your personal evaluation of the position? 😆

[@MavianW]

🧐 "I report and I block" 😂😂😂

[@justintharp5652]

What was Daniel accuracy rating? I thought Daniel played a strong game - but I wouldn't necessarily say Kramnic got destroyed- out played yeah... However Kramnic seemed to play a bit more passively then normal?? But that's not Daniels fault.

[@paulgosney5919]

Good job on making these video!

[@8964TS]

Honestly, Bc1 is just the sort of move I play all the time. It's quite incredible to me that it's seen as a red flag here. My thinking would be that it keeps my Bishop on the board AND protects the b2 pawn at the same time, so double whammy. I'm genuinely amazed that this was viewed so suspiciously. It looks like the most natural world in the move to me!

[@konberner170]

While is may be true that if your legs are broken it's hard to cook orangutan, having one try to pound a nail while Kramnik is talking is pure comedy gold :)

[@llc2430]

Stop defending this Daniel.. he is true cheater… Kramnic is not fool … Kramnik say correct ✅.. … this is not first time danya cheated … he cheated so many times You all (except few one ) the online streamer are cheater to show your hegemony. Even Levy Gautham, Eric also uses engine support while playing against online players in the name of speed run.. and making fool to audiences by showing cool win 🏆… And this is the reason You all streamer Goes Against Kramnik so that again you can disguise to audience… He just said truth

[@jareddmenard]

"If you play chess with a pigeon, expect that your opponent, win or lose, will strut over the board, knocking over pieces and voiding their bowels over the squares, dark or light notwithstanding."

[@epicchess2021]

Haha

[@tiorofioro-jd4bs]

The more I hear the more I believe Kramnik. I was not taking him seriously before I listened to him directly.

[@ShogiDojoLyon]

8:13 did you say "en passant" ? i heard "en croissant" 😆 Great review thank you 😃

[@epicchess2021]

defo hear right haha