Who'll Win Without Theory? ft. Magnus, Fabiano, Gukesh & More | Freestyle Chess GOAT Challenge 2024

The $200,000 Freestyle Chess G.O.A.T. Challenge is an over-the-board Chess960 tournament featuring Carlsen, Ding, Firouzja, Caruana, Gukesh, Aronian, Abdusattorov & Keymer. It starts with a rapid event to decide pairings for the classical knockout tournament, with all games played at the Weissenhaus Private Nature Luxury Resort in Germany. Watch: www.chess.com/...
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[@randomverse1501]

Ding Chilling at the bottom 0-4. Hope he bounces back strongly.

[@afkass4965]

Gotta feel for him, he's out here with his mother losing matches, when in this time of the year if he was in his country he would be celebrating spring festival with his family. He doesnt even have any friends here because of his limited english fluency. He's not in a good state man :/

[@randomverse1501]

@@afkass4965 After the world championship even his health is not good.

[@AffectionateCurling-ps4xo]

@@randomverse1501 stfu bro who cares nobody hurt him, just be playing chess you will be hurted much, he is a man at least

[@siregardsnalom166]

feel him as well.. 😢

[@toziassmitt]

Weakest “world champion” to have ever existed

[@rezamind5708]

The PETER LEKO himself!!!!🎉

[@nomoreblitz]

"Freestyle" = Chess-960 = Fischer Random

[@joeyvirrosai3574]

how many more names are they gonna make bruh

[@firebug3256]

@@joeyvirrosai3574 As many as they need to avoid giving Bobby his due

[@adomaskuzinas2137]

Weird question about one of those positions where you only need to move the rook over in order to castle, while the king stays on the same square: what if the player touches the king first on instinct? Must he then make a king move because of the touch-move rule? In classical chess touching the king can indicate both a king move or castling to one of the sides. F.e. Carlsens position at 2:18:23, after developing the queen and bishop.

[@davidhoffer1148]

Usually you are advised to verbally (or by a gesture) announce castling, also for example in a position with the king on f1, when moving it to g1 might be castling or might be just moving the king.

[@christofferore6285]

Castle is king move!

[@christofferore6285]

Thats why you cant castle twice.

[@mapilem]

The king move would then be putting him at the same square as he was, unique in chess but should be legal in this case.

[@BoothTheGrey]

Daaaamn Niclas - great job. As a german I tried out Niclas' youtube channel a few times and never got into it and stayed at other German (and international) KZbin channels. But holy moly - he did an absurdly good job at the monitor to complement Peter and Tania. Really well done, Niclas. Hope you will join many other international chess broadcasts in future. This kind of tournament is really interesting. Especially for someone who doesnt play chess a lot like me. I am not that good and have no real ambition to get better. But watching top chess players and get explained the many ideas by other very good chess player is really, really interesting. Like it a lot. Congrats to Vincent (and its such a pleasure to listen to him in interviews - he so full of joy for chess)... but I hope everybody will find strong moments - especially Ding. He is MUCH better than he can show currently. And although it sounds a bit unpolite... but... I like that Magnus is not leading clearly but is "just" part of the group. All 8 player are just great skilled people. Thanks for this very interesting tournament and looking foward for the other days A LOT 🙂

[@christofferore6285]

Please quit and never come back. Throw out the yelling lady too. Get me some GMs

[@CoolCentrists]

Well said !

[@debaterofeverythingpresent2775]

Whoever wins the candidates becomes world champion.

[@kingStribor]

Alireza...and then Magnus will play candidates

[@BoothTheGrey]

@@kingStribor Actually I hope for Fabi - he has so deserved the title. If there wasnt Magnus in almost exactly the same age Fabi would be a huge champion. Alireza still has many many years ahead and will have to face a lot competition by Pragg, Abdusattorov, Gukesh and Keymer. These five youngsters will be very strong in the next 5 years.

[@kingStribor]

@@BoothTheGrey I agree actually...I just mention Alireza, because I would like to see real champ to be champ again, this situation feels somehow unnatural for me...but he told that he'll only play championship with Alireza...but who knows, maybe if FIDE change time controls for championship match, he could change his mind...Also, guys you mentioned, they are really fierce competition and they still didn't reached their peak. Nodirbek is certainly champ material, I follow his games lately, he have incredible mental strength, but all of this youngsters are also beasts, chess have bright future, that is undeniable. Anyhow, good times for us, chess fans, we will not lack in really quality chess for sure.

[@toziassmitt]

@@kingStriborif Fabi becomed chqnpion and magnos chooses not to challenge him, that says a lot to be honest….

[@BoothTheGrey]

@@kingStribor But thats why I think Fabi deserves his title. He took Magnus clearly to the limits and showed that in classical chess he is as strong as Magnus. Fabi lost agains Magnus only because today we dont do this crazy shit like decades before when they would have to play til one of them finally wins. Magnus is clearly better in rapid or blitz - but in classical they are both as equal as you can get. And Magnus doesnt like classical (anymore) - which I deeply respect. But this means... actually the best classical player right now should be Fabi when he is in good shape. And I do hope very much he sees his chances and prepares for the candidates very well and takes the lead there. Ding maybe isnt the best overall - but when he is in good shape he clearly is one of the best player. I assume Ding stays in international chess only til his next world championship fight and then will let go. Maybe he even wont do this fight when he notices he isnt in good shape. And maybe... this would be a good compromise between you and me. If Ding steps back and the first two ranked player from the candidate tournament will play the world championship game... and those two player are Fabi and Alireza 😀

[@Amethyst_Friend]

Producers: let the commentary team- especially Leko- go to the games they want. It seemed like they were frequently being instructed to switch games, sometimes when interesting remarks were still being made.

[@krankin88]

Great production team and anouncers/analysts, thanks for the free coverage. Thank you, and keep up the good work 🙂

[@indianfan1029]

Go Gukesh. Seeing a future world champion in him. India's second after Anand.

[@pavkal6603]

I’m surprised none of them people are not impressed with gukesh …!!!! No one at all in comments ..!!! I guess that’s the power of mag …

[@siregardsnalom166]

please just take care of your health first Ding.. You're the Champion already, now you can leave the title like Magnus did.. wish you the best..

[@jgone4856]

He hasn't defended it even once yet. Magnus held it for 10 years, a bit different

[@synthycliff]

Great to see Peter and Tania commentating together in person! 🥰 They complement each other and work well together ♟🔥

[@varunvasan5797]

Alireza,keymer,nodirbek,prag,gukesh,arjun,esipenko,lazvik the new generation and future of chess seems to be in great hands🎉

[@Badi_life]

THE GUKESH ❤❤🙌🙌

[@dank2476]

Ding is the incarnate of Max Euwe.

[@a3a2_m]

i like how they all had different colored jackets with the color of the jacket next to their names on screen, nice idea haha

[@RyanLeBlanc-w3v]

They aren’t showing the right board setup

[@bobraisbeck4185]

Good to see Wincent conwert.....

[@monikaghai9188]

hikaru being the fischer random champion was still not invited

[@mrbl5234]

i thought this was fischer random, they call it freestyle chess ?

[@andreapizzichini]

Also 960 chess, it's all the same it has a lot of names😂

[@bruce2953]

Don't forget Chess 9LX as well

[@filipkevely]

Not chess-related: Production quality of the tournament coverage leaves a lot to be desired, unfortunately. Putting some scene timing and sound issues aside, not showing 1st round chessboard variation while they were discussing it back in the studio (around 22:32) was just too not considering the viewer for me not to stop watching and write this commennt. Undeniably, 195k for prizes affects the budget and it is important for the players to have comfort and space to perform but this (not showing the unique chessboard all future games in the round will be played at) was a big mistake imho. UPDATE: 26:19 why two different starting board positions??

[@RVeda-vh5on]

57: 50 "If we zoom out to our birdseye view, Peter, we see two boards completely fubar because someone forgot to randomize their starting positions." Even in the second round ( 2:47:30 ) this is still completely wrong and not corrected, although actually Tania continues to fail to notice it. Just keep falling down on the job, guys. This is what we've come to expect from chess24.

[@mightbefire]

2024=eval bar. there's no better way to get a lot of people to not watch this than to forget to include an eval bar.

[@nickcalderaro9166]

yup a lot of the production was horrible for this event. i hope they improve

[@ginger0403]

I would strongly disagree! Looking at the evaluation bar before analysing a position takes away the essence from the game just like starting a movie knowing what's gonna likely happen at the end. Chess feels more "human" without an evaluation bar and that's the correct way to enjoy chess.

[@mightbefire]

@@ginger0403 I'll work on being more "correct" as my 400 ELO brain tries to understand anything that's happening without an eval bar..

[@Disentropic1]

@@mightbefire Maybe your brain is 400 ELO because you won't look at the board and only stare at the bar.

[@mightbefire]

@@Disentropic1 Or maybe it's because I don't play chess.

[@JimAlexander-h1x]

Exciting. Great coverage.

[@nomoreblitz]

Wesley So?!

[@dank2476]

If Magnus can win this freestyle 5 times in succession then he's definitely the goat.

[@jgone4856]

1 down 4 to go

[@Mirkamol_Sayidov]

keyingi tur soat nechchida boshlanadi

[@samitgurung6980]

Can anyone tell me the name of Background music?

[@samitgurung6980]

yeah but the name of the sound @@michaelmassaro4375

[@samitgurung6980]

@@michaelmassaro4375 yeah but there is any name of this bgm?

[@trainmaster0217]

Doesn't sound like music...just a bunch of noise.

[@teddymagcawas1332]

My ratings in chess 960 is 1,100.😊.i liked to play this set up.

[@trainmaster0217]

Mine is 0

[@superlemon8382]

Step up the production, this is audio issues are too much to bear. And this is nothing new...

[@a3a2_m]

this is great

[@TylerHumphrey05]

so aggravating watching all this and actually not getting to see any of the games. Maybe have someone scroll through the games or something. just first move to end doesn't have to be much

[@tiredVeteran1984]

I'm sorry Tania, I wouldn't ever wanna play on a turd board.

[@kristianfagerstrom7011]

"Freestyle"? Looks just like 960, what have they changed?

[@Topav05]

Nothing is changed on the board, Chess organisers are just annoying people by changing the names. They're like 6 of them now

[@syrocynical]

probably making the name more understandable to non chess players

[@kristianfagerstrom7011]

They are making it more confusing. @@syrocynical

[@syrocynical]

idk i feel like if a random person saw a mixed up back rank and it was called freestyle they would understand the concept faster than if it were called 960.@@kristianfagerstrom7011

[@johnnybbrown5296]

Looks like 9LX to me. Actually, now that I'm looking at it again, I think it's Fischer Random.

[@toziassmitt]

Ding is so weak 🤦🏼‍♂️ this is embarrassing for the chess World champion to be at this level. Wow!

[@nonpareil.indeed]

Terrible sound from the mic

[@fahman3422]

Is this the so called World champion? 😶😐

[@MsNosis]

great format, horrible presentation. keep it to the dignified chess, do not disgrace the whole thing with silly miss angola sillyness and similar.

[@yibowu144]

There are a lot of horrible things about the presentation such as many wrong broads, chaotic live vs. analysis boards, bad mic, and poor commentary, but I don’t see anything wrong with miss Angola picking the starting position at all.

[@christofferore6285]

Why not 1c3 in first move with tempo on pawn he defend by playing g6 opening up his bishop and than you take center control by pushing d4. Now you can develop your knigths and get king to safety. I saw nobody having this ide only one close and that was c4 but that gives black bishop a strong diagonal. Okei keymer plays similar with d4 first move. Mby little better but c3 mby little more forcing Hahaha just realized it was the way Magnus played