WoMeN bAd At ChEsS || Ju Wenjun vs Alireza Firouzja || Tata Steel (2024)

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Ju Wenjun (2549) - Firouzja, Alireza (2759)
Tata Steel Masters (chess24.com) [5] 2024.01.18
C01 French, exchange variation
1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.c4 Nf6 6.c5 Be7 7.Bd3 O-O 8.O-O Bg4 9.h3 Bh5 10.Be3 Nc6 11.Nbd2 Re8 12.Bb5 Ne4 13.Qa4 Nxd2 14.Nxd2 Bg5 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Rae1 Bxe3 17.Rxe3 Rxe3 18.fxe3 Qe8 19.Re1 f5 20.Qa6 f4 21.Qf1 fxe3 22.Qd3 e2 23.Nf3 Qf7 24.Ng5 Qg6 25.Qxg6 Bxg6 26.Rxe2 h6 27.Nf3 Be4 28.Ne5 a5 29.Nxc6 a4 30.Re3 Ra6 31.Nb4 Rg6 32.g3 h5 33.Ra3 Kf8 34.Kf2 Rf6+ 35.Ke2 Rg6 36.h4 Ke8 37.Re3 Kd7 38.a3 Re6 39.Kd2 Rf6 40.Ke2 Rf8 41.b3 axb3 42.Rxb3 Bg2 43.Re3 Be4 44.Na2 Rb8 45.Nc3 Rb2+ 46.Ke1 Rb3 47.Kf2 Bh1 48.Nd1 Rb8 49.Re5 g6 50.Re1 Be4 51.Nc3 Rf8+ 52.Kg1 Rf3 53.Nxe4 dxe4 54.Kg2 Rxa3 55.Rxe4 Rd3 56.Kf2 c6 57.Kg2 Rd1 58.Kf3 Rf1+ 59.Ke3 Rf7 60.Rf4 Rg7 61.Kd3 Ke6 62.Rf8 Ra7 63.Ke4 Ra1 64.Rd8
Timestamps:
0:00 Hello Everyone
01:00 Game Starts
13:40 Pause the Video
19:08 Contributions
World Chess Champion Ding Liren returns for the 86th edition of the Tata Steel Masters, a 14-player single round-robin taking place from 13-28 January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.
The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move from move 1. A tie for first place will be decided by two blitz (3+2) games. If still tied, the players keep playing single "sudden death" games where White gets 2.5 minutes and Black 3 minutes until one side wins. The monetary prizes will be shared evenly. Official website: www.tatasteelchess.com
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[@coreychitwood4968]

“An extra pawn always wins the endgame most of the time” 😂

[@albo_ar]

60% of the time, it works every time

[@mikecroke6078]

This end game was absolutely ridiculous. Congrats to Ju Wenjun on this masterpiece!

[@swagatadhara4257]

End game was not good But obviously better than Alireza

[@mikecroke6078]

@@swagatadhara4257 What makes you say the end game wasn’t good?

[@Russ-Sandiford]

Indeed! Wenjun is very talented at grinding a win...

[@FredPlanatia]

@@mikecroke6078 agad explained it during the video. Did you watch the whole thing? Just before time control she didn't make such optimal moves, fortunately for her Alireza didn't find the way to exploit them

[@mikecroke6078]

@@FredPlanatia she didn’t make engine precise moves that humans don’t find. And yes I watched the video. And I watched the actual game in real time.

[@Peterdeskater100]

And another one: Eline Roebers, defeating Hans Niemann!

[@thetunefulquire]

Yes please #suggestion

[@Sam-qi2gw]

#suggestion +1

[@vicitacious]

#suggestion!

[@jougetsu]

beads malfunctioned

[@FALliadxi299]

#suggestion

[@manmanman2000]

12:11 "an extra pawn ALWAYS wins the endgame... (most of th time)" 🤣

[@StarryNightGazing]

Agadmatorism

[@soogasooga]

"60% of the time, works every time"

[@gmnotyet]

You're best chance of drawing a losing position is often a pawn-down rook ending.

[@colegieseking5136]

14:56 the most impressive thing about this game is that Ju Wenjun foresaw this position and evaluated it as a win for white. Rook and pawn endgames where one side is up one pawn is more often than not a draw. Even more surprising is that white doesn’t have a pass pawn and white’s king is less active than black’s and it is actually cut off from moving up the board by black’s rook.

[@qazzaqstan]

Even more so that she needed to see this 12 moves back and induce g6 because it isn't winning if Firouzja has a reserve tempo to force her king back to f2 and can now reach a pawn ending where the king is 1 tempo too slow so he holds a draw.

[@ndnd7614]

Alireza’s endgame has always been his weakness

[@Mantose262]

@@ndnd7614 She saw a winning position because of a 1 tempo difference about 15 moves in advance if she induced a pawn move and your response is Alireza's endgame is his weakness?

[@ndnd7614]

@@Mantose262 is my statement not true? Magnus agrees as well.

[@Mantose262]

@@ndnd7614 I don't really care if it is true or not. It is just a dumb thing to say considering the situation. The only point of saying what you said is to try and downplay the accomplishment of the women's world champion beating the current number 6 player in the world, former number 3 not too long ago.

[@bhamdeezy]

Dude.. the postgame interview was released like 20 minutes ago and Agad already has this up. God bless, my friend. You are an EXCELLENT content creator!

[@DasTannenbaum]

What an incredible game, I watched it live. Hess and Houska couldn't believe the endgame (and neither could I!)

[@jeffperez9563]

it was so crazy seeing such strong players not trully understand the endgame even with the use of evaluation. Obviously i also couldn´t understand hahaha

[@nasku8172]

her finding Kf2 and having the next 10 moves all figured out absolutely amazed me and the casters aswell

[@meekaboi]

2380 rated and 0-4 Eline Roebers coming in and crushing Han's tounament chances.

[@gmnotyet]

Huge loss for Hans. Needed to beat the 0-4 player. Losing means he might not win Challenger's now.

[@vaibhavsharma2700]

He still might,lot of rounds and not too much point difference

[@nicbentulan]

​@@gmnotyet Are you the same guy in X?

[@gmnotyet]

@@nicbentulan No.

[@shanathered5910]

there's still a lot of rounds to go

[@Dzokhar]

I will never tire of the photo analysis.

[@thenewstyle8704]

The live breakdown analysis of the pawn g7 to g6 position was incredible by GM Hess with Irina. Highly recommend it to anyone as it's such a nuanced endgame change that loses Firouzja the game

[@AlexWyattDrums]

Not Irina but Jovanka, right?

[@ShadowK0ng]

Could you please specify a time stamp for this discussion? Thank you. ( GM Hess & Irina's)

[@ihcfn]

Caught the end of this game and Ju Wenjun's use of time to calculate this was impressive.

[@luigicarlos]

I am now one of the newest fans of Ju Wenjun!

[@stoutlager6325]

Go back and take a look at some of the games in the latest women's world championship match. There were some wild ones.

[@alexisperrottey1640]

beta

[@roz472]

I love their game because of the extreme sharpness in their moves, and also considering they did not end in a draw despite the amount of time invested in their game. Wonderful win by GM Ju Wenju! 🎉👏🏻

[@piyushjha757]

#suggestion Gukesh bounced back winning against Nepo in round 5

[@agadmator]

Of course, coming up next

[@water8773]

No one cares about a random Gukesh except Gukeshes themselves.

[@jeffperez9563]

@@water8773 Gukesh random? he is such a worldwide known GM

[@azeemuddinkhan923]

​@@water8773you are literally inviting people to shit on your face by being so cocky.

[@georgeray649]

​@@jeffperez9563leave him bro. Let him blabber whatever he wants

[@_UnknownEntity]

Ju took Alireza not into a deep dark forest but all around the board, untill he fell off the edge. 😅

[@jameshogan6142]

lol

[@pineapplesareyummy6352]

Nice game. I did say earlier I want to see the only woman in the tournament, and the underdog in the 2500s (I think her rating is too low for her) do well and win one or two games, send someone's rating crashing. It didn't take long. The game against Giri was a bit unfortunate when Ju could have won or drew. She is playing quite well.

[@starliaghtsz8400]

Why do you think it's too low? The rating system isn't fair or something?

[@conanbdetective]

I'm glad I clicked that stream as soon as I got off work to see this masterclass live. Amazing game

[@JohnDuthie]

Great recap! Usually your lines are over my head but this one was explained cleanly.

[@jackreacher8324]

Wonderful game, brilliant endgame skills by ju wenjun, really enjoyed it.

[@jambellen3090]

#suggestion, of course from Tata Steel Challengers, and from these previous videos, please cover Eline Reobers vs Hans Nieman game. #WomenInChess

[@agadmator]

Of course

[@kaashmonee]

Good lord. what a pleasure to watch. what a brilliancy and congratulations to ju wenjun

[@doctor_who1]

can you put the chessboard a bit higher? when i zoom in on my mobile the bottom pieces are cut off while there is still space above the top pieces.

[@miecha4445]

Yeah he should really put the chess quote under the board

[@willudallmusic]

an extra pawn always wins the end game, most of the time 😂 love it

[@OmarAhmed-es8qr]

#suggestion Salem's game from round five in the challengers. And perhaps take a look at the challengers' games in general because they're poorly covered this year by most channels and commentators unfortunately.

[@hdmotivated]

Tata steel never covers the challengers section..this is not new

[@omkarpandharpatte]

She's a Fighter! She's doing great in this tournament considering rating gap.

[@goose5462]

great battle between two strong feminine players.

[@scudder91]

And it was in this position, on move 1, that Alizera's stylist resigned.....

[@somebody700]

Why do I get a massive deja vu watching this endgame? I feel like I watched this exact endgame previously on this channel and I can't pinpoint which game it was.

[@AndersonNeo12]

Alireza and Ju already knew a couple of moves before the end, but they agreed to finish it on a perfect chessboard move 8x8= 64 well done ☺

[@shalevueable]

Ju Wenjun plays like an engine!!! 👋👋👋🌹🌷

[@raylopez99]

Interesting!?

[@michaelmassaro4375]

@@raylopez99yeah very !!

[@mp8359]

I wonder how thorough is the screening🙄

[@Katarina-wr2hi]

omg your naming is a separate type of art ahhah i love it

[@prafullamorankar6315]

The way Agadmator analyse & explain chess games is so inspiring !!

[@qazzaqstan]

Ju Wenjun beats Mr. Hoodie Guy in a fantastic endgame!

[@jeffersonparsons5519]

it serves him right for playing the French defense.😄

[@HamasakiFanz]

I like the new photo that you use for Ju Wenjun :)

[@giovannicorno1247]

Very good victory against one the best, egregious tournament for her at the moment.

[@bhunts4]

Epic game. Epic Win. Candidates tournament next?

[@MrSupernova111]

Nice game by Wenjun!

[@barun9665]

Awesome. Always great to see Ju beating someone especially Alireza. She's such a nice woman. And a very dangerous player.

[@SFTaYZa]

How many women in the top 500

[@anthonyvincel7266]

#Suggestion ELINE AND HANS ELINE AND HANS PLEASE PLEASE ELINE AND HANS

[@studbagl]

Putting the bishops on d3 and e3 like Morphy; that’s how you know it’s gonna be a good game.

[@Lahulndc06]

#Suggestion Please cover Santos Latasa, Jamie vs Maurizzi Marc Andria from Tata Steel (2024). It's an unbelievable game.

[@shanathered5910]

I concur

[@stateofmontanapal.2506]

Ohh Alireza always wanted to gain more points so he would get back to 2800, unfortunately old times are gone.

[@thereminundergrad]

#suggestion you should make a video of every chess game ever played.

[@PaulSas1963]

Yes, check out the Eline Roebers-Hans Nieman game, beautiful one🎉

[@spinacina_]

Hi Antonio! I highly suggest you to check the game Maurizzi - Latasa from the challenger section round 5. It's a 30 move game with 4 brilliances and 98+ accuracy. ^^

[@nichtrichtigrum]

#suggestion

[@artsenor254]

It's easier when you don't feel the pressure of playing against Alireza, she thought she was playing Alireaza all along.

[@MohamedKamalfarag]

Man add the eval bar it is useful

[@lemat8558]

Wow, great!

[@keithmatthews1673]

Today's quite might have been "Women cant play chess" by R.J. Fischer!

[@pieterpek5385]

Thanks!

[@twa9342]

Absolutely brilliant game.

[@michaelblankenau6598]

You have a low bar for brilliant .

[@joeldick6871]

#suggestion Can you cover Eline Roeber's game against Hans?

[@rickharold7884]

Masterful. Great precise game

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Suggestion # Gukesh vs Nepo Round 5

[@WtItCbtLoR]

kick ass Ju Wenjun!

[@michaelmassaro4375]

Great Game pretty tight game just being up a pawn with better position wins the game wow a nail biter 😅Thanks for the game I think it’s great a female player like Ju Wenjun beating a top male player nice to see the ladies representing 😊

[@dinofx35]

Yes, there was a spelling issue on the board. Black should be “علی‌رضا فیروزجا”, and white: “居文君”

[@aliparandeh6973]

Why did Alireza use weird defenses? why looking for strange things?

[@tristan7720]

Well that's what you do against much weaker players. Ali just butchered it

[@starliaghtsz8400]

You don't play "normally" Against a player 200 points below you, like if you just play respectfully like you will to someone your own level you're probably just gonna get a drawn position out of the opening. You play offbeat lines but without revealing your actually good prep to get a win, cos a draw is basically a loss

[@tristan7720]

@@starliaghtsz8400 He blundered in the middle game tho

[@starliaghtsz8400]

@@tristan7720 middlegames an extension of the opening, the endgame is separate tho

[@tristan7720]

@@starliaghtsz8400 whatever He blundered like crazy. Nothing to be praising Ju about she didn't play great chess in that game.

[@memathikan98]

Ju Wenjun congrats

[@timbatimbero3934]

Hurrah !!😇

[@KennedyMister95]

Title had me rolling 😂😂

[@CudiBuddy4Life]

What’d I miss, Knight E7 at 6:38 ish w check doesn’t work? Might be obvious to everyone else

[@dark_magician_sdy]

#suggestion bring medo into a video ❤

[@CompuREDA]

Alireza tried to force the win against a solid player.. he should've just go for the drawish endgame after that opening..

[@MrSauri1]

You the best Antonio great recap 🫂🔥

[@blaecccuebbler7711]

I wonder how many top GMs watch your videos to catch up on the games they missed...

[@EnGardeLoL]

Just wondering why do you never say Ju Wenjuns name during the commentary, only 'she'? While you often say Alireza

[@amirhurwitz6186]

focusing on the most important thing ever

[@testingmysoup5678]

Because in English that's how linguistics work, she is the subject of the game while he is the object. You can say she because she is in the driver's seat there's no disrespect by saying she

[@EnGardeLoL]

​@amirhurwitz6186 it's just something that felt off. I noticed and commented on it. If it's not important to you or agadmator then so be it

[@EnGardeLoL]

@@testingmysoup5678 ofc not suggesting agadmator is intentionally disrespecting. Just felt like a weird listening experience, hearing Alireza and then 'she', as if he forgot her name part way through the video

[@danisirooszadeh7305]

How much rating Alireza lost?

[@vineetthakur1884]

I love her 😭

[@francismapuia]

Sup, i love her first before you, you go love your kind, didi

[@TalsBadKidney]

Everybody loved that

[@arkzbh]

#suggestion Gukes vs Ian, where Gukesh played liked Ivanchuk, the great horse move

[@dragonpuppet_ilso]

Ju Wenjun kicked ass!

[@The-wu6uo]

She also got her ass kicked

[@noahbirdrevolution]

Awesome game!

[@dominikmuller4455]

Not bad for a 2500.

[@yourn4m3h3re]

I wish I would play as "badly" as Ju Wenjun 😅

[@IgorFGamerHD]

what a game

[@sanfords]

I love it..."Always... most of the time." 12:09

[@theotherjoedimaggio]

12:10 it always wins, most of the time

[@abominationdesolation8322]

It's not that women are bad at chess. It's that there is a sexual dynamic being undermined to everyone's detriment. Speaking only in terms of archetypes and generalities, a man wants to defeat a woman to impress her. Women have the maturity to handle losing to men and are more hardwired to be impressed by it. When a female beats a male, he is not usually impressed, and the female does not give them a sense of "yeah you lost but you can depend on me." That's how I look at it. I want to win so that I'm seen as dependable. Strictly in terms of intersex competition. :p I have no delusions about taking on any female player ranked higher than 2000. I'm not going to win. I would like a girl who IS that smart, but how do you date someone like that? I would always feel like they would be unfulfilled without a partner who is stronger than them. Keeping in mind chess is just a game and doesn't speak on overall intellect or competence. But in terms of primitive, r-complex based psychology, it's just not a good time for someone like me to lose to a woman. Women are not lacking in intellect, but generally speaking they do not have the same level of competitive drive as men. When a man beats me I know there is competitive blood in both of us and that we can both always get better and rise to the challenge. But when a woman beats you, it feels as though you're losing to someone who isn't even fully trying. I also think the less competitive nature of women makes them more defensive and balanced players; they don't get tunnel vision quite as easily as men do. Of course this is all more true for some people and less true for others. I don't mind a chess prodigy gf as long as she's nice to me. :')

[@abdulmuzaffaraladinbahaman7896]

Alireza really underestimated her

[@lajos-berenyi]

Congrats to Ju Wenjun, nice win! WoMeN are not bAd At ChEsS (after the title), but if it is a sensation, when the women word champion wins a game, and she is still under 50% in the tournament, it means, that uplift the women chess is only possible in the way, what Polgar Judit chose, that she didn't play in the separate women tournaments, only on (in gender) open tournaments.

[@starliaghtsz8400]

Judit polgar was gangster tbh, we never had another girl truly be "good" (At the 2700 level) Since then, honestly I wish they stopped having women tournaments and women titles

[@ExtraMaritalAffairs]

#suggestion Roebers vs Niemann - Tata Steel Chess 2024

[@cholongsesangtam1626]

Why did he resign?

[@mariomatanovic2383]

12:13 Agadmator 2024 "and an extra pawn always wins the endgame, most of the times "

[@pt7258]

This match is going down in history for sure.

[@toSirius]

why?

[@Potatoes_with_peanutbutter]

@@toSirius she evaluated the endgame for white really well. So basically, she moved R3e to R5e and then Ali defended the h5 pawn with pawn to g6. She then played rook to e1 and basically won the endgame with the white king being one less square away from the h5 pawn. This is like 13 moves ahead and pretty accurate since the king was one square less away and able to reach before black could.

[@Potatoes_with_peanutbutter]

I am oversimplifying it though, maybe watch like levy's video on the whole take or rewatch the entire video itself.

[@pt7258]

​@@toSiriusit's very rare for a GM 2550 especially women beating super GM of 2770. Feat achieved only by Queen Polgar.

[@trashl0rd]

Yet she's currently ranked 12th out of 14. Great game or not, her performance isn't stellar.

[@MrQuaker122]

Queen Wenjun

[@KingOfNebbishes]

This is why endgame study is as crucial as opening study.

[@tristan7720]

She just converted a winning endgame, it's not like she outplayed him there, he blundered in the middle game. Think bro, think

[@KingOfNebbishes]

@@tristan7720 When you can do the same against Alireza, you can talk.

[@ashokpayamkulath]

#suggestion.Gukesh-Nepo Round 5 Tata Steel

[@OmerTamer]

Remarkable win by a female gm against a formidable player like AliRiza. Congrats to Ju

[@badjaeaux]

if you lose as a grandmaster, you 'succumb' if you lose as an online player, you just 'suck'

[@omeee]

This win is already the best thing that happened to women chess 2024

[@raultorres3427]

I like the titles of your videos but this one is kind of bad I know the meaning cause of how is spelled but a win as big as this deserves a much better one

[@bigolboomerbelly4348]

Is Agadmator a metal fan? I'd like to say yes for sure.

[@fourtime7]

King is the most important piece in the endgame.

[@maheshpadaya3376]

Alireza, Gukesh, Ding all need to improve their endgame techniques.

[@user-if6mc2uw8k]

"Juwen Ju with a big glass of water that I believe she refilled over the course of the game "- Agadmator 2024

[@HERU-GK]

Very funny the way you describe moves recommended by the machine as being "elegant".

[@klefdnb]

No review??? 🙄