Titled Tuesday: Am I Going To Win This Thing!?

[@alextodd429]

Simon missed one week of Titled Tuesday and the UK was so upset there were country wide riots!! We Love you Simon!!!

[@kippercockle8799]

Thats so right I rely now on my midweek fix of Simon Titled Tuesday

[@lukecain756]

I watch a lot of chess content on KZbin but you are my favourite by a mile, just so funny and your depth of knowledge is just incredible. It is a pleasure and an honour to watch you.

[@barrysanchez6682]

Hahaha love the abrupt ending, highly amusing! Bloody Gotham...never you mind that little weasel. Thanks for the video mate :)

[@ronniemacdonald2768]

"I'm going to lose to a knight fork." Loses to knight fork.

[@ThomasSutcliffe-ho5lj]

The legendary Ginger GM summed up in one video... Crazy sacrifices, genius tactics, hilarious anecdotes, philosophical quotes and occasional relatable blunders. But above all just a top bloke. You should hire someone to clip up your videos and run accounts on TikTok and Instagram, I think they'd blow up.

[@Meurth]

​@Drang_Gei found the racist

[@benjamiheras9294]

@Drang_Gei Why?

[@benjamiheras9294]

@Drang_Gei So...?

[@jryaniow]

​@Drang_Gei What's worse, having an opinion or saying nothing at all? I would argue the latter. Current events in the UK are remarkable. No single individual should be silenced into not remarking. Whether you agree with the remarks or not.

[@GingerGM]

I dont normally reply here, but what you just said is a load of bollocks. When I say stuff it is an opinion, why would you think otherwise!? For a start I was there first hand witnessing the depressing shit around me. Seeing sad fat hooligans and desperate youths looking for something to do is hardly a revolution. Secondly you are mistaking stuttering for thinking before speaking. Something people need to do more. Finally I don't watch the news. What's you opinion anyway? Sit and judge behind the screen without doing anything or moving your fat arse out of the chair? ​@Drang_Gei

[@onialex64]

Simon !!! The greatest GM in all of human history

[@blueguitarist]

Simple as

[@Hellmuth4]

*greatest human in all of GM history

[@oisin9533]

@@blueguitaristI love me greggs

[@GlasgowAir]

Absolute gold dust watching you Simon. 😂 Please just never change… I wanted you to take Gotham but if a GM can get forked like that and quit in disgust - maybe the rest of us aren’t so bad either. You’re just one of us at heart Simon - one of the damned and the fallen 🤣. Just another honest-to-God labourer trying to stick it to The Man every now and again. 🤙

[@AmateurSurgeonThe3rd]

"Shaking hand with grubby little kids and sweaty old men who probably wash every four weeks" 😂

[@landsgevaer]

"Sweating like a paedo at a playground" is one I'll remember. 😳

[@donaldtrumpforprez]

Playing OTB tournaments helps, you can see Simon game has somehow improved

[@danjeory3659]

100% then he saw his score and collapsed. Like getting vertigo.

[@mimahassen3785]

I’ve noticed Simon is most dangerous against 2800s. He struggles against 2700s and 2900s, but mows down 2800s. Weird!

[@dhuguna]

simon: Am I Going To Win This Thing!? me: no mate, video is only 1hr 40mins

[@waitz27]

Actually, he's editing the videos down now so they will be less than 2 hours. Played all 11 games this week.

[@emi662002]

I always skip to the end to see when I should stop watching, I stop when he begins to lose cause I rage 😂

[@wce-tube]

Not a clue anymore, he's cutting pauses in the last games

[@marcrob100]

All brilliant stuff! Your comments on the riots in Hull ( at 24:08 ) were spot on. Particularly about an element of local yobs just being out for mayhem. I was playing at the other venue and you could smell smoke in the playing hall on the Saturday. We were advised where a fire was by the arbiter after we finished.

[@guillermoblanco8056]

Beautiful ending, what a great video!! You are the best, Simon

[@RiskyRiskForRiskers]

Simon, you have fans from Egypt. Your TT is the only I watch and actually finish to the end. We missed you last week.

[@edf9577]

This TT of Simon's will ALWAYS be brilliant stuff!! Welcome back dude.

[@slagorourke]

This TT ends exactly like all my blitz sessions. Same language too 🤣

[@wce-tube]

😂😂😂

[@vladimirsantos2568]

Simon, what happened to the mate the f*;#ker gingergm soundtrack?? You didn't play it in this video😢😢.

[@ConciergeArgoHouse]

Good point

[@32braveheart]

Please play it next time you're up against Gotham Chess

[@dustinirwin1]

Greatest end of all time. Like Babe Ruth calling his shot. This is what we're here for.

[@bmcmvp]

When is the recap coming for the championships?

[@GeoffFClark]

Lmao what a rollercoaster this Titled Tuesday was, banger Chess

[@samuelbruyneel]

1:35:10 Rh8+ KxR Rf8# is just a forced mate in 2, right?

[@irderuijter]

Great to see you play so freely Simon, great video as always, I hope you get better soon!

[@DougWilliams-pq4kn]

Sweating like a paedo in a playground - ffs, just too much but so funny, brilliant 🤣

[@greennin]

46:00 "When you're trying new openings out you've got to expect to lose" Thanks for saying that mate. SO damn true.

[@mphailey]

Thank you for another awesome titled Tuesday video! I love your KZbin channel Simon!!

[@HbagMbag]

A bit behind on your updates Simon. But looking forward to binging! Thank you sir!!

[@milkyBK370]

Great to have you back and what a show this week!! Total barnstormer.

[@kevinjmuller]

Simon, you're an absolute class act as always!

[@zzashkittyzzonna2474]

The riots were done because you did not play titles Tuesday last week

[@fredd3.14]

Thanks as always for doing these. Uploaded at the perfect time, needed something fun to watch!

[@robertaston1155]

Sweating like a fat lass in a bakery is always my favourite analogy but yours is just as good couldn’t stop laughing 😆

[@jeffscott5312]

Last few weeks struggling against 2200's - this week, mowing down 2800's. Love it.

[@Seanus32]

Right royally forked at the end but some VG play overall :) Always a pleasure to watch and hear the commentary :)

[@Tims75312]

Great to see you back Simon. I wanted to come and see you play in Hull but didn’t manage it. lol at the Sicilian refutation looked so complicated 😊

[@JonasDanish1999]

Always looking forward to your uploads.. keep it up man.. you’re the Zoolander of chess..

[@JeffPHamm]

Sorry to hear you came down with covid during the tournament. I was following your games (after the fact, I'm in New Zealand so the time zones don't align) at the time. I was excited when I saw the set up unfold in the last game, as it was reaching a similar position as one of my best ever games from the late 90s (you would have been proud as I sacked my way to victory! ha ha). Anyway, Hoping you'll be doing some recaps to go along with the Titled Tuesdays and that you're over the covid.

[@russellwallis1531]

Ah bless Charlie the chess cat

[@torrawel]

sorry Simon, really sorry, but the last minute really made me laugh a lot :) Nxb7 was actually quite interesting... I said it before, and will say it again: try to play as if it is bullet. it will speed up the thinking. Even for old guys like us (same building year...)

[@Thaddeus9287]

Good to see another upload. Starting the video now, good luck Simon!

[@walterbrownstone8017]

As always very entertaining content. I had to laugh at the way the video ended.

[@guywheatley4000]

Some savory and spicy highs in the first half before you came crashing back to earth in Harry the Hang-Gliding man-kite. Condolences on how your game with GothamChess ended there, I was rooting for you to "mate, mate, mate the fucker!" but admittedly was laughing my ass off after ...Nc3ch and the RAGE STREAM END moment. You were right--you predicted how he'd beat you!

[@armtwister]

Great performance Simon! You should try English/Owens defence in the future with black and Jobava London as White!!

[@opinionday0079]

What an Ending

[@sk1e]

your videos are the best

[@joelmcentire1]

Loved the ending!!!

[@magic_hotel]

Not sure why the cops didn't employ famous chess-boxers Williams and Trent to repel those rioters. Maybe with Arkell and Hebden as back-up. 🤣 I was staying at one of Hull's out-of-town hotels and got completely stranded when the taxi companies refused to come into the city centre. But yes, I echo your observation about the large numbers of local kids joining in. Unlike the EDL thugs, they mostly had the sense to cover their faces. Very disturbing though, to see their eagerness and excitement while throwing bricks at the Police. Clearly no respect for authority, other people's property, or their own community. Parents and teachers are not stepping up to the mark in Hull.

[@NicholasDLyne]

Simon here you go if haven’t seen already.. Westworld, Mr Robot. These two are unbelievable Plus Yellowstone prequels 1883 & 1923 👌

[@LoFiSymphony]

Eating fish and chips and watching my favorite British streamer. Hell yeah dude.

[@MamboRasco]

Some great games Simon keep it up. Oh you know I think that Rapport dutch would not be a bad idea for a chessable or ginger gm course. There was a quality chess book on the dutch not too long ago that had it in it, it is not so bad.

[@TheRovardotter]

Simon in there squeezing water from stones!

[@unglaublichwaserdamacht4346]

Love to see the upload!!

[@reverie24]

really called that Qh8+ move, non-linear positions tilt bookworms, noted

[@aorange8630]

What happened at the OTP tournament you played last week?

[@BamThwok76]

Simon, have you seen The Bear?

[@BamThwok76]

check it out. it's really good

[@LoFiSymphony]

Incredibly based and serious political takes, it's so refreshing and relieving to hear you're one of the good guys. ❤❤❤

[@kaliessenplays2479]

Really inspiring Simon

[@iancoughlan5]

Did you give your opinion on the Bangladeshi riots or the Leeds riots Simon?

[@SteveNoverini]

You know, I love Simon… but his politics are treacherous.

[@ravecrab]

You geniuses literally have one feeble tactic, don't you: try desperately to find some kind of hypocrisy so you can witter on about "two tier" blah blah blah. I must have missed the part where he was playing at a tournament in Harehills or Bangladesh mid-riots.

[@SteveNoverini]

@@ravecrab why should we give up our nations to foreigners for free, and for nothing, and without a fight?

[@ravecrab]

@@SteveNoverini Don't delude yourself that being suckered by some fake news online about a criminal's ethnicity and immigration status and then attacking a load of irrelevant mosques and hotels is "fighting for your country" or whatever self-congratulatory claptrap I keep seeing online. Immigration is an economic and social necessity in a country with an ageing population and a skills shortfall like the UK. You might believe (with some validity) that immigration numbers are too high - that's a political issue. We just had a democratic election, and the party standing on a platform of "net zero immigration" got 14% of the vote share. Throwing bricks at policemen is just a temper tantrum that your views aren't as important to the British public as you think they are. The irony is that the face of "taking back our country" is now a load of sniffed up thugs smashing up Greggs. You couldn't have done a finer job in toxifying your political cause.

[@ravecrab]

Eyes down now for right wing bingo. "MSM", "deluded", "two tier". Get those marker pens ready!

[@jonnywhite952]

Let's have the recap videos of British Championship!

[@GamingChanne-IQ]

42:42 interesting opening i will use it in my games

[@danjeory3659]

Losing to that **** like that... Nightmare. Would love to have seen the unedited ending 🤣

[@blueguitarist]

That dodgy dragon was a howler m8

[@Davidaspe]

Brilliant ending 😂

[@wce-tube]

What a last chord 😂😂😂

[@complexplayer100]

Best in weeks -playing Bcc helps your game seemingly

[@joshuaeichler-summers2173]

Get better soon!

[@ChessBootCamp]

Simon, when you're looking at the game review and you want to see the in-depth analysis for a position, just click the magnifying glass icon at the very top-right. It bugs the buggery out of me when you try to switch between the views and try to find the last move. Stop it.

[@BobBurroughYT]

Worth every penny of the price of admission. 🤣

[@alphgeek]

Great chess Simon 😊

[@tjweav1331]

That ending 😂

[@bobrossofwar4096]

47:10 the craziest castle I have ever seen

[@ronniemacdonald2768]

Like adjusting your sunglasses while your junk blows in the wind.

[@playtimbo7345]

hahahaha, classic end 😁😂👍

[@jonnamechange6854]

Just keep feeding the cat for the best results

[@HunduzaChess]

1:45:20 The knight fork 🍴😅

[@topgunbass]

Another video making me laugh😂😂😂😂. Bloody knight forks...lol

[@sons-braddalton]

Chess… the only game you could lose to a 9 year old girl and people would actually understand

[@TimJapan]

Lookining for a good TV series Simon? I bet you haven't watched Mr Inbetween. 100 percent sure you'd love it.

[@azemzejnilovic2893]

so Charlie the cat is still well and alive, wonder how old is he

[@dracandros]

21 💪

[@JamesDuBois-e6z]

What an end!!!

[@colinwichman1084]

Was that a rage quit

[@hoegaarden2003]

Hoping to hear my new fave song “Mate the Sucker”

[@Hellmuth4]

awesome ending

[@zzashkittyzzonna2474]

Good job in British championship 5.5 point in 9 rounds

[@yiguanas812]

Heavyweight British Covid Chess Champion!

[@thomasbeckett1245]

My whole group of coffee friends all are sick at the same time… I was thinking Norwalk, but the symptoms fit adenovirus 7… definitely not Covid🎉

[@raudhabubakuru2955]

When's Charlie the cat reveal or have I missed it hahaha

[@zzashkittyzzonna2474]

Mate the sucker fight the power (new song)

[@surfingmantis6162]

best ending ever

[@ConciergeArgoHouse]

I missed you.

[@complexplayer100]

unlucky missed mate in 5 but first move appears more obvious rf1 to f8

[@williamh694]

Post-COVID pandemic, humans still shake hands. Sigh.

[@BillJohanson-hn7up]

Exchange those damn knights early! Not another fork!

[@dominiks5068]

thanks for speaking out in favour of multi-culturalism, especially given the riots.

[@6-4-3-DP]

That would be great except multiculturalism is causing the riots

[@nanoboi101]

11 children stabbed and he says people are only there because they're bored while making comments about their low social class, no comments about the peaceful Muslim riots in Birmingham, pub smashed 2 people stabbed and one beaten... I watch Simon for his chess not to listen to him talk about politics just stick to the chess please

[@xavieryates9782]

Are referring to the kind of ‘multi-culteranismo that has Muslims trying to install Sharia Law in the UK? Or perhaps the kind that grooms little girls? Or the kind that simply wants to get rid of all whites? Which one?

[@tristansnow]

Never capipulate!

[@theplayzpaidoff]

I think you place too much of an emphasis on the opening. Most the time when you go wrong it is due to being overly ambitious and/or during the middle or end game. 🤔

[@aaronsontube2647]

Im sure the GM will take the feedback from a randomer on KZbin on board

[@lamestraw6409]

@@aaronsontube2647 Yes, esepecially since the statement can be boiled down to " you go wrong in all phases of the game" :D The more i think about it, the more it seems like a troll :D

[@ias1x]

Hey Simon great video once again. Although maybe next time you could speak againt child stbings instead of right wing protesters 🙏🏼

[@andrewmackillop4771]

Nah say whatever you want subscribers dont have to subscribe😊

[@plumjam]

No politics please. Come here to get away from that crap.

[@Para-rt9uk]

Yeah seems to be alot of Gaurdian readers lol.

[@leocossham]

Shut up

[@maxytwist]

Top bloke Simon, also glad to hear speak up against the mindless idiots in the UK. We should be railing against the injustices caused by the rich and powerful not against the colour of people's skin.

[@uncookedbert3216]

Mindless idiots just protesting about 3 kids murdered by immigrants.

[@uncookedbert3216]

Why is my reply being blocked

[@SteveNoverini]

@@uncookedbert3216exactly not allowed to have a sane opinion about “immigration”

[@oraz.]

Seems there's a legitimate question about immigration and public safety imo.

[@apct7]

Was expecting to see many more what the fuck was this display comments. He shows you he’s actually on top of things in the analysis even if he’s a bit on tilt, but how terrible are the rest of you? Somehow.

[@theuobtube]

Great takes