We Broke Lichess!

[@GMHikaru]

Thanks for the first part of the event, Antonio. I look forward to Part 2!!

[@gabrielesguerra8765]

REALLY HIKARU!!!!

[@wildexperiense]

Hikaru upvote my meme in your subredit.

[@prajwalpadwal69]

This Hikari guy played well 💯

[@oxey_]

you were completely unleashed, can't wait for part 2 as well

[@callum1971]

Well played!

[@Anthony-nd6vk]

We crashed lichess, and, “there was nothing more to be done there”

[@arightscepter]

That is bad for those who just wanted to enjoy the show.

[@angelo90th]

“Sorry about that”

[@branominal]

It was in this position that the servers resigned

[@BryanN4]

And it was in this position that Lichess resigned as there was nothing more to be done, there's simply no way to hold that many attackers and another victory for Agadmator and Chess. Pd: Congrats! It was really enjoyable to hang around and watch the games.

[@gmsi7d371]

ant it was in this position that japanese " love trolls" left comments on agadmator channel

[@philipr1567]

At the moment the server crashed, Agadmator leaned over and said "sorry about that".

[@gmsi7d371]

weak players shoul not have been allowed to play in the tournament. 17,000 players is too much. it doens't make sense to watch absurd pairings like Magnus against a beginner at chess

[@johnkildea2796]

@@gmsi7d371 that was the point though. Not like they would make it deep anyway

[@ramachandra776]

It was a noble initiative pairing a lower rated chess enthusiast with chess super GM's with whom we don't have a hope of playing . And to be frank , i thoroughly enjoyed the humorous philosophical commentary even though it was 2 in the morning . Also the games were fantastic with some major upsets . Carlsen lost to an IM , Dubov lost to Gothamchess and Hikaru lost to Eric Rosen . Sincerely wishing the next tournament will be a humongous success for which we can assume that this edition was a trailer . Agadmator and lichess deserve kudos for even imagining this type of tournament .

[@mobiblaize]

Holy shit. The bots are taking over

[@Fdragon1337]

@@mobiblaize Delete the bots!! Watched the hikaru strea. Vod it looked like a fun time Hikaru was cutting through people and he didnt even know what beserk did and still managed to get to first hahahaha.

[@TheHawk007]

Yes, good tournament even though it crashed

[@conanbdetective]

The games were mad fun before it all went down

[@vk4462]

you stupid?, some of those lower rated players are the cheaters...and those affect the elite players plus nobody wants to see scrubs playing... this should be only rated or at least 1 minute no increment rating >2200 or something like that

[@omni-man3137]

Bro ,I'm astonished by the fact that you didn't lose the cool and handled this big tournament gracefully when situation went south. What can I say? Great work!

[@ronisaiba9623]

That is our man Agadmator. Calm, refined and pure class condensed into a human form.

[@antoineblondeau2898]

Fantastic tournament ! Game between Hikaru and Rosen was epic. Hikaru's reaction is priceless.

[@kaueadm]

That game was a great game tho!

[@BigJawnMize]

Hikaru was pissed. He sounds like such a baby when he loses.

[@JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos]

@@BigJawnMize if i spent 30 years playing a game losing would sting like hell for me too chess players are humans they should be allowed to cry and whine

[@johnshogskins4443]

@@JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos HIKARUS BITCH SPOTTED

[@sl__p.d_priv_d]

@@johnshogskins4443 lol is the word "fan" replaced with bitch? Damn, I didn't know that. Thanks

[@robelengida6211]

I love the fact you don’t choose profit and let chess players with no resources have their moment playing with/against legends. Thanks so much. A man from a very poor country.

[@Hakabas01]

"one does not simply quote oneself"-Not Agadmator

[@Atombender]

Lichess: "Finally a worthy opponent!"

[@81OH4Z4RD]

had fun yesterday, it's a shame lichess crashed but thanks for attempting such an inclusive tournament. think of all the people who can now tell their friends at the bar and library that they played in a tourney with Magnus, Hikaru, Dubov etc etc ... that's a cool gift sir.

[@sleeponthefloor9622]

That was a good time yesterday. And in a way, the breakdown made the whole thing rather epic. Appreciate your efforts.

[@finnam841]

This event is wonderful, from world champion, super gm, famous chess streamer and youtuber and our daily opponent mr. 'cheater' all gathered in one place. Thanks for making this event btw, such a joy to watch

[@JustAPokemonCommentingOnVideos]

it was insane seeing all the legends online in one arena is amazing

[@zaq.3138]

Mr. Stockfish!

[@AThousandSunsinphysics]

And common people like us

[@gamingforever7336]

if servers crashed due to any other streamer : OMG WE CRASHED LICHESS OMG OMG, Agadmator meanwhile: they just have to feed the hamsters which run the servers (and continues chilling with chat)

[@theoneonly8472]

Agadmator is always cool, calm, and collected

[@TheLadida42]

"something that shouldn't have happened has happened" - as a software engineer, I can say, this is usually the case if something breaks

[@Exayevie]

Next thing you know you're gonna be asking us to turn it off and on again

[@tariqmhusain19]

Was amazing and hats off to you for such an initiative.

[@dududududu6019]

Great fun, thank you Agad and all GMs that joined!

[@Jagar_Tharn]

It never ceases to amaze me how every video it's a "completely new game" after so few moves. Really drives home the point how countless the number of possible games is.

[@prascena3235]

Antonio handled brilliantly after the server crash! Stayed calm :)

[@mdrakic]

"He was disgusted by it. Completely and utterly" - Antonio, The Master of Legendary comments 🤣🤐

[@PT84]

I loved the whole time Hikaru was asking chat how to berserk and didn't know what it did.

[@ChessJourneyman]

Fake af. He's been playing on lichess for years on multiple accounts.

[@istg5619]

@@ChessJourneyman ikr there's literally a big berserk button besides the clock

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@@ChessJourneyman yea stl accounts

[@theoneonly8472]

He knew what it did, he just had some trouble doing it at first

[@samuelbruyneel]

Dubov missed a tactic, but we get a couple of seconds to find it.

[@Christoph5782]

Yeah, but Dubov had a few tenths of a second to find it :P

[@DaMan56100]

i think the point is that you pause the video and take as many seconds as you need

[@johnduncan5117]

It took me about three minutes lol

[@elakstein]

@Jalesa Nina love you Nina 😝

[@Bladieblah]

We know there is something to look for, that alone is a huge advantage

[@PaulThronson]

"He spent a few seconds looking at the position and he was disgusted by it, you know completely and utterly" - quote of the video.

[@ataberk3539]

You are awesome! Thanks for the content

[@equi9317]

and it was in this position that lichess resigned the game

[@lopezmt5]

🤣🤣🤣

[@michaellacy8510]

We are living in a great time when there are tournaments in which a 800 player can play a game with a 2800+ Super Grand Master. Thanks for the opportunity!

[@BlindBishop]

Awesome tournament!

[@RFmath_]

Agadmator:"This is a rare move" Me (novice chess player): "I see people do that ALL THE TIME lol"

[@Kasj0]

Yeah, he means titled players rarely play that move

[@matt_indy]

@@Kasj0 The commenter understands that…

[@Rollersox]

@@Kasj0 that's the joke lol

[@cptnoremac]

Someone: (says words) Someone else: (says some different words)

[@RFmath_]

@@cptnoremac The meme was there and I took it

[@obeyviegas5298]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought it would be the games between Eric vs Hikaru and Dubov vs Levy since both GM's lost to this well known IM's and youtubers 😅

[@sl__p.d_priv_d]

Don't forget Magnus' game too! He lost to an IM I think.

[@AmmoBoks]

I think this Christmas arena was an excellent idea, esp. since it's open to a lot of players. I hope Lichess can come up with a solution to handle the influx, as it was very enjoyable to watch and the sheer amount of (top) players shows that it's such a good thing to do.

[@The182joe]

IT WAS IN THIS EVENT AGADMATOR CEMENTED HIS POSITION AS THE CHESS HERO, YOU SIR ARE AN AMAZING HUMAN BEING!

[@coleclark6866]

agad youre the best, this tournament was amazing.

[@dimitrijepopovic2151]

the tournament was a huge success!

[@barbwireboy2]

hikaru was going crazy in this arena, was so much fun to watch

[@strikersoccer9535]

When Lichess got fixed after crash be like "Sorry about dat"😅

[@0wenfox]

Great game and position! Ty vm

[@KancerKowboy]

Merry Christmas!!! Thanks for all the hard work

[@DekritGampamole]

This actually fitted with the christmas theme event, where the immortal gods humble themselves to meet the mere mortals.

[@peggym7699]

Great tournament. I’m looking forward to Part 2 & of course your analysis of the games.

[@chrisfoot2007]

Enjoy the holidays Agadmator, thanks for all the content this year!

[@youtubewatcher8982]

Hikaru just plays once on Lichess and just dominates the whole site lmao, the man is insane.

[@martinpaddle]

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and hear "capture, capture" out of the living room... turns out my 6 year old is already awake and playing against himself :)

[@agastyadhanorkar7917]

Finally something common between agad and samay

These guys are coming to the Grand Prix as well. So excited

[@mrfaresty]

#suggestion if it's possible please invite a GM to participate as a commentator in the tournament along side with you.

[@andreidinu7316]

#suggestion for Agad: make a pre-tournament for unrated players. The top 1000 or whatever get to play in the tournament. This way you make it interesting for everyone, but you also increase the quality of the opponents for the GMs.

[@user-yf1vj8ez3s]

I like this idea. You can make a U2000 qualifying tournament.

[@akshay4107]

Thats not practical. A 1500 can't magically beat a 2000 to play titled players. Only top rated players will qualify for the main tournament.

[@livinglogically8180]

@@akshay4107 but that doesn’t mean you don’t give a 1700 opportunity to beat a 2000. in the arena itself I’m 1700 and beat 2 2000+ opponents

[@andreidinu7316]

@@akshay4107 so if a 1500 can't even beat a 2000, why let him play a GM? You need to give the GMs quality matches, otherwise they won't come again. I get the wow factor for a 1500 to say he got his ass kicked by Magnus, but that's quite selfish and it doesn't help the tournament at all.

[@ubaidhassan2677]

The sort of format already exists, Lichess have warm up arena before titled arena, so warm up arena can be like a qualifying round, top 1000 qualify to meet titled players in main event

[@bjelar]

There were probably too many Evan's gambits going on at the same time.

[@Jacob99174]

“Disgusted by [the position], completely and utterly” Haha

[@jasonkoch3182]

Wait just one minute: The day Hikaru and Dubov get invited to the Grand Prix they play the Grand Prix? I guess we should've seen that one coming.

[@josephknurek7795]

it was great, I liked the idea that anyone could play anyone in the beginning and loved your coverage just watching pairings of note early in the game. Look forward to part 2 and the next one. I might sign up for chess just to play in it. :-) I hope it is not restricted as it will be a great gathering of chess lovers. Kind of like the US open where the leading amateurs qualify, anyone can have the dream of winning (till they dont) lol.

[@decreasing_entropy3003]

I faced a FIDE master with the alias Wagnerovsky from Brazil, who is above 2200 on Lichess, while I only have a mere 1400+ rapid rating. So, it was a first, although I got miserably butchered!

[@decreasing_entropy3003]

@Franco phile Nobody wants to be vanquished, but it was good nonetheless.

[@lionrawr92]

Me: how disgusted were you? Agadmator: completely and utterly

[@rogerstone3068]

REALLY hope that you manage to achieve the full open tournament with all those great players, Antonio - for anyone, to be able to say they played in the same virtual room as the biggest names in current chess - it is wonderful. Even if you come 18,503rd...

[@Jernvess]

I was so busy with something else but the moment I saw Dubov I postponed everything and I came here to watch him 🤩

[@TheNimes]

Agadmayor breaking Lichess. Winding down 2021 with an absolute win 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@lopezmt5]

"This jurry-rigging won't last for long." -Engineer Scott Starship Enterprise

[@victormorving7265]

Thank you Agadmator, great spirit.. I hope the IT-folkes at Lichess are able to sort it out, fairly easily, and I hope that Santa or some generous person will send some better servers to lichess (if needed), so we can have more of these big tournaments in the future, without any crashes :) regards from Denmark..

[@DaveNeve]

Listening to Agamator about restarting or picking up where the tournament left off sounds a bit like a Formula 1 race after the safety car came out. 🏎🏎🏎

[@adershgr]

Thank you for a dubov game, hoping for another one soon

[@acoustic_AB]

Finally Agad's quote is up there Medo's up next.

[@Newcenturion100]

It was fun to watch. Hope you try it again.

[@TheMarksT]

They were probably at Raid10 too, with such an audience and with such action too! So many super GMs and IMs too. Great games were played.

[@kicken41]

I respect the attempt, it was very ambitious and why shouldn't one be!

[@Q_QQ_Q]

i think i have seen more people on other lichess arenas & they never crashed but who knows what happened

[@TheBassBaritone]

Hikaru vs Nepo was the best bullet game that I've seen. What a crazy tactic from Hikaru.

[@StambeccoAllaFragola]

It's possible that the issue Lichess had is related with an AWS server blackout in the United States, many services crashed because of that yesterday. Just a guess though!

[@TheErminem]

Lichess is France based, I don't really think that would interfere with it. Ofc if someone who knows this stuff really good wants to chime in feel free, I only made some crap private servers on my own pc so I'm def not an expert on this.

[@wuwei1846]

It was a thrilling event. Can hardly believe I was in a tournament with 19.000 people. Didn't meet any GM's though. I saw Hikaru on youtube with his incredible run. Including loosing a great karma game against IM Eric Rosen. (Yes GM's blunder pieces, queens and mates in 1 just like the rest of us) Looking forward for more!

[@bastawa]

the combined ELO of participants was too heavy for the servers to handle it

[@kingmarin5820]

I have some extra $$$ now at the end of the year so I gave a donation to lichess. They are doing a great job IMO and as a regular user it is the right thing to do. Just putting it out there in case someone else is in a similar situation. I am not affiliated with them in any way BTW.

[@akshay4107]

Agreed

[@saimanohar334]

Lol when u break the server and upload a video with title : we broke lichess servers 🤣

[@williamwelch1978]

Agadmator You had done a Beautiful Gesture with Your Tournament You're a Great Man in the World of Chess!

[@Aesthetickenda1]

Awesome concept for the tournament. When you actually have to play against a super GM then the average player will feel the weight.

[@bettyjane6684]

You could also have qualifying events so that the heats are not made of all of the participants at the same time

[@robbie_]

Not sure Lichess can set up something like that. Better for them just to fix the bug in their server code.

[@diamondeye1305]

At 4:05 why can’t dubov move his pawn to d4 and attack the knight?

[@ic4me2ba11]

I love the Hikaru videos!

[@ALF8892]

Thats awsome you let everyone in to play the GMs.

[@peterwinters8587]

After I beat Alireza, Nakamura, and Dubov, they shut the the server down.

[@vishalpujar8632]

Are you Eric by any chance?

[@general_alexus2533]

What could have probably be the issue one might ask? I mean which programmar would have ever expected the server of one turnament to handle 19000 players at once?

[@robbie_]

Using my software dev hat, I'm imagining a fixed size array somewhere... in code written ten years ago.

[@novceru5927]

Ur mom

[@austinwheeler3665]

I can’t believe I missed this event. What an incredible idea.

[@Garspawnish]

Top 20 playing in part 2 sounds fair.

[@bigfacts534]

I think nepo’s reac after the second blunder 🦉 sums it all...after that He was avoiding some moves bc he didnt want to play the extreme defence ( he still needed the device for his preparation)

[@bigfacts534]

This is why he severly doubted dubov’s play

[@nicbentulan]

Agad, are you ever going to review chess boxing or Choker (chess and poker) games?

[@ejsampana426]

Lichess: We have a powerful and modern server system Agadmator: Hold my beer

[@kev4241]

there was still a substantial amount of great chess with like 17k players and most all the top ones the collective ELO rating must have been astronomical

[@Chris-io2cs]

1:00 > 2:00 if you want to consider this a real bullet event just sayin ... that way we get more games between the top guys too ... *runs*

[@danbuchner28]

Hikaru is a very strong player, and almost unstoppable in any rapid format.

[@MrSupernova111]

Hikaroo is a tactical beast! Wow!

[@Bobby-fj8mk]

Resign? - you never resign in a bullet game.

[@tangohotellima1895]

"Could be we had over 90 thousand people in the tournament..." You think? 🤣😜✌🏻 It was an awesome initiative, anyway; chess brings people together!

[@icollectstories5702]

More like 19 thousand players; Agad thought a previous tournament had 10 thousand over a week, so it was an experience for lichess, too. And thousands just watching.

[@tangohotellima1895]

@@icollectstories5702 Thanks! "90" sounds like "19" when u listen too quickly.✌🏻👍🏻

[@sujitbhattacharyya3705]

Even computers getting weakness against Hikaru - Dubov battles.

[@kappablanca2095]

We love you Agad!

[@SaeedAcronia]

But as I remember some players played more games before they faced the crash. Better to restart the whole tournament.

[@Reydriel]

Was this like an FGC-style open tournament? We gotta get Chess on mainstage EVO now, damn

[@landi2244]

1:35 a rare blunder on this family channel.

[@blaze7437]

lol i was in the daily rapid arena and i didnt have any clue what happened

[@robbie_]

I hope Lichess get it fixed. I'll be in the next tournament for sure, with my 1650 rated wrecking ball.

[@limitlesswave]

Im intrigued to know if the number of participants surprised you.

[@garvhanda4277]

Restart would be better option than resuming, we missed out Nihal Sarin. He was playing in Sunway Sitges. ☹️☹️

[@danjeory3659]

And if Qd8 instead of Rd8 then f5 looks crushing

[@Rusty44444444]

Congrats on the tourney Agad. Servers crash, it happens. Glad to see you are taking it in stride. And man, Hikaru is a beast.

[@stickymoney]

I'm new to chess. What do you mean when you say "on move 9, we have a completely new game"? Has no one ever played up to such a move before in the entire history of chess?

[@Tarif2809]

Yes i think

[@stickymoney]

@@Tarif2809 I see

[@kostadin_ristovski]

The quote did age well :)