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One of the best king marches I've seen! Love Wei Yi's chess

Wei Yi played one of the scariest and best one-sided games of chess I have seen. Ian Nepomniachtchi did everything you are supposed to do and he still got wiped off the board. Black's classical pawn center was not as important as the knight on b5. When Ian Nepomniachtchi very reasonably exchanged that strong knight Wei Yi's bishop dominated the Black knights for the rest of the game.

I've never seen a Masters this close after 9 rounds. Like you said, 8 players could win this. Usually by now it is down to 2 or 3 or Magnus has it in the bag.

the second beautifully elegant game in the tournament, which still is wide open and has delivered some great atacks some horrendous blunders and now a second beautiful and elgant strategical domination. Thanks Daniel

Really classy at the end there!

You have a great voice. I can listen to you all day long. Going through Power Play 10 right now. Thank you for the video.

Fantastic coverage. Thank you!

Great king march! Got to say that was AlphaZeroesque. The way black was totally immobilised and white had all the activity. Think the resignation was not a moment too soon.

@arkadiuszjandylewski152

5 ай бұрын

Miserable black pieces which occupy pure squares are a common theme in high level chess.

the Black knights on d7 and f6 "tread on each other's toes" for most of the game. Thanks for showing Wei Yi's cool-headed play, Daniel!

@jasondoe2596

5 ай бұрын

Do horsies have toes, though? 🤔 Brilliant game!

Very really nice game, beautifully commentated, thank you Daniel!!

whacky day of games and great analysis of a game which almost seemed to go under the radar today in amongst the other chaos! I can't imagine a player who hates defending passively more than Nepo and yet he was forced to do that for half the game! Excellent from Wei Yi!

Nice patience play by Wei. He continued improving his position before cashing in at 12:17.

Great game and coverage thanks

Why can't other tournament organizers learn from Tata Steel? it is by far the best tournament at the moment and has been for more than two decades, at least since I started following chess. :) Those other elite supertournaments are just "ok let's draw, we are getting paid anyway and let's not lose rating points". And this new generation seems lively too. P.S. This is one of the most impressive games I have seen during the last few years. To defeat Nepo like this is no small feat.

This is such an artistic game - thanks for the analysis!

So nice game. Thank you, mr. King.

Amazing game, thanks for covering, very similar with Nigel short game, when everyone is frozen in the opposite army, the King feels free for marching into fight.

First I thought of that famous game when Kasparov pinned down all of Karpov’s pieces - then I thought of Nigel Short! Wonderful Daniel ty!

fabulous game and great analysis

Beautiful game!

Can we agree that classical chess is not dead? And that is it actually pretty enjoyable? Proper chess! Many thanks GM King.

@mevansthechemist

5 ай бұрын

Couldn’t agree more. For example, 11:26 no way you’d see this move played in a blitz game. The way the better side can just squeeze and completely shut down the weaker side in these classical GM games is just beautiful IMO!

That opening, certainly had plans I would have not guessed or sought out. And then suddenly Nepo misplays it and is in trouble. Very nice conversion by Yi. Frankly to me, the conversion was the only normal part of the game. Thanks for sharing! :)

Another game in this tournament, where the more active pieces dominate their counterpart. I think Nepo won in a similar style against Nordirbek and there was even a third game, which was won due to the dominating piece. That´s really nice of them, that they play this "theme" tournament for us improving players :)

I don't know when was the last time I saw Nepo crushed so much.

11:42 White to play hmm…I think h3 is a decent move? Further restricting the f6-knight’s movement before going for the material, there’s no rush. Maybe even Re3 as well to further improve the position before taking on f7. Update: hell yeah

Please check the game Warmerdam-Magsoodloo. The endgame is dramatic and unbelievable. Poor Max, he could and shoul have won, but the resistence Praham put up was phenominal. One for the books!

@PowerPlayChess

5 ай бұрын

Parham fought brilliantly. To win such games one needs to calculate right through to the bitter end, and that’s not easy after hours of play, and with an opponent who senses you are struggling!

@tobyornot

5 ай бұрын

@@PowerPlayChess , indeed! They both played brilliantly! This endgame will become famous, Warmerdam missed one chance in the end (Ba3) for a beautiful finish and was brutally punished. What a game!

that king pimp walk up to g5 was hilarious

Is that half of the tournament's players at no more than ½ a point from a potential win, with 4 rounds to go? Thanks for your videos!

A strong endorsement from our host. Play a modest opening and win.

Brilliant endgame king march

funny how black knights on d7 and f6 stay there for so long after opening and became useless

Wei Yi understands the position as Nepo does but he demonstrated a way on how to dominate and control the position and that was his chance and grabs it...hmm luck is on his side i believe. 😊

What happened to Wei Yi? I heard he was punished and can’t compete internationally, also some other things where he dropped off. Glad to see he can compete at the highest level again. People was saying he could have been a future world champion.

@shangao5028

5 ай бұрын

I don’t think there was anything like that. With the pandemic travel restrictions lots of Chinese players haven’t play lots of games in the past few years. Also some people say wei yi is in uni so has not been very active

Knight endgames are complex

Nice nice ⚘️⚘️

A good example of steeds becoming geldings .

Wei Yi is not the best matchup for Nepo. The whole chess world knows what he can do tactically.

Go Wei Yi

This match show why nepo will never reach #1 in chess rankings 💯

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That why nepo never can't be world chess champion he is hopeless

@osgubben

5 ай бұрын

I wish I were hopeless the way Nepo is hopeless.

@michaelblankenau6598

5 ай бұрын

Never can’t ? Might want to think about what that actually means .