Imagine you want to be the best player in Sweden, but there’s this super strong player ahead of you that is never going to quit. And it’s your mom.

@shouryaaswal5681

Жыл бұрын

sounds like the plot of a new anime

@gigachadzyzz2906

Жыл бұрын

@@shouryaaswal5681 Baki plot but chess.

@abdjahdoiahdoai

Жыл бұрын

Strongest woman player*

@giannisxalkis1965

Жыл бұрын

@@abdjahdoiahdoai he didnt say strongest he just said super strong

@Snowkobbie

Жыл бұрын

@@shouryaaswal5681 Death Note vs Hunter x Hunter, where L plays chess against Chrollo Lucilfer over 26 episodes. That would lead to some interesting mind games. (I'm just boldly assuming that you've watched those series. 😉)

Mom in '86: dear, tell me some special words I'll remember forever Dad in '86: mmmm what about the variation against K-H3 in the closed Sicilian?

@Oblitus1

Ай бұрын

The only thing I remember about 1986 is that it came after 1985. I bow to Pia's powers of recollection.

@RossMoorsTours

26 күн бұрын

Nh3

Thumbnail of Pia with red, glowing eyes cracks me up. Her chess power is great, but she's so soft-spoken and kind.

@rogergeyer9851

Ай бұрын

She's so calm and objective in her analysis. Pretty much the opposite of Anna. Which makes sense, as you don't become a GM by chance.

@fluxrider7027

3 күн бұрын

@@rogergeyer9851 Calm, objective and soft-spoken, except when she's live streaming a game of Anna's. Then she is a non-stop flow of words and excited tones. 🙂

Your mom not only is still playing chess but in the chess Olympiad AND clocking IM's out in 9 moves? What a powerhouse 🙌

@bobmatt5175

Жыл бұрын

WIM is very different than an IM and significantly weaker. It’s not that surprising for one to get wiped off the board by a GM, although in 9 moves is unusual.

@blondymonk1535

Жыл бұрын

WIM*

@onniruusunen9444

Жыл бұрын

@@bobmatt5175 9 moves is super unusual. Maybe like one in 5000 games WIM loses that quick

@newt2120

Жыл бұрын

@@bobmatt5175 whats a WIN? and whats IM?

@montysaini8602

Жыл бұрын

@@newt2120 WIM is women international master, and IM is international master. The difference is between rating

The pride you have in your mom is simply heart warming. Really enjoying your videos.

GM's - resign with almost all pieces on the board because they can see 10 moves into the future. Me - keeps fighting until only my King and 3 pawns are left.

@JimmieBrown-sg8fq

10 ай бұрын

Same here LOL to the bitter end keep hope alive.

@pthelo

3 ай бұрын

Right on. I've scored so many stalemates instead of losses by not resigning!

@mofe620

3 ай бұрын

The better you get, the better your opponents you face. At some point you just know it's not worth the suffering waiting for the final defeat. Yhh you try a bit, but at some point, you know your opponent will convert and you have no meaningful counterplay.

@Leoatwallacerockhole

Ай бұрын

Me too lol silly me

@brentmason6782

27 күн бұрын

Wrong! She’s not seeing 10 moves in…this is yet another example of “click bait” from Anna! The title claims her Mom win in 9 moves…a resignation is not at all what I’d give myself bragging rights…only the person looking to boost their own ego would! I’ve played this game out much further and “White”could have still won! More “click bait” “my Mom is a genius…”garbage! That was truly the last video I waste 10 mins on from her!!!

About early wins, this reminds me when I was a student, our school was invited to a tournament. There were 20 teams of 4 in total. Our first match was against a very strong team (the guy on the first board was rated above 2300...). I was playing at the third board and next to me was a player who we had to find at last minute since one of our players wasn't able to play that week-end. Before the game, he asked for a trap and the guy of the second board showed him an opening trick that ends with a smothered mate. So we start the games - these were rapid games with 20 minutes and no increment - and after 2 minutes I heard "Mate!" on my left. I looked at the board and I saw the exact position of the trap! That completely changed the entire match since our opponents started to panick. A few minutes later, I played c6, forking a bishop and a rook. My opponent tried to save the rook and my next move was not cxb7 but c7, TRAPPING THE QUEEN on her original square! 2-0. We finally won by 4-0 a match we should have lost by the same score.

@re8688

Жыл бұрын

nicee

@gonzobatano5352

Жыл бұрын

Black pawn on a8, can you imagine that?

@obeyourfatheryah

Жыл бұрын

What a great story! Tales like this one are what the KZread comments section could have been known for. (Maybe I'm more likely to be grilled on my grammar choice using 'are' instead of 'is' referring to the plural 'Tales' instead of the qualifier 'like this one'). gg Pia Cramling

@julianhodgson1202

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Nd6 smothered mate in the Caro Cann

@italixgaming915

Жыл бұрын

@@julianhodgson1202 I don't remember exactly what trap it was but for sure it was with Black (since I had White on the 3rd board).

Impressive. I can't believe your mom remembered a line from 1986. I also can't believe that her opponent blundered even after thinking for 13 whole minutes

@ifbfmto9338

Жыл бұрын

I can’t believe her opponent is a WIM What a freaking joke, that title shouldn’t exist

@tylersoexclusive713

Жыл бұрын

@@ifbfmto9338 something to make them feel important I guess. Although me personally I would take that as an insult. But there’s only 1 woman in chess history (Judit Polgar) that was able to keep up with top men chess players. I don’t know why it is that women are worse at chess than men are, but they definitely shouldn’t have their own rating system. Give everyone the same system and the women that really care about it will strive to reach their deserved titles.

@tarikcavalcanti4867

Жыл бұрын

There are considerably fewer female players in general

@dieterschneegans1850

Жыл бұрын

@@tylersoexclusive713 I think the reason these exclusive titles exist is to make it more appealing for young girls to join the game because chess is just a male dominated discipline. Just take a look into a tournament hall of an open tournament. It's like 95-98% men. Given that distribution I say it's no wonder there are so few female GMs

@lampshadow64

Жыл бұрын

@@tylersoexclusive713 Actually women do have the same rating system as men and lot of them do have GM titles, the highest title you can have in chess except for being a World Champion. Hou Yifan was also fighting with the best players and was at least in the top 100 at her best but I think she treat it more as a hobby now and have another career outside of chess. Maybe the reason there are so few world class women chess players is that women are more "normal" than men and are not ready to spend 8 hours a day for 10 years to become a world class player and treat it more as a hobby.

The fact the she remembered what your dad said in 1986 about a Nh3 closed Sicilian line is just mind boggling

I love how much Anna loves her parents, its too sweet.

And here's me... Someone who only knows the barebones of chess, doesn't follow chess and doesn't know he got onto watching your chess videos, thinking "Wow, nine moves!? That must have been a quick game!" And then hearing that those nine moves was a forty minute game.

I dig these recaps. The "inside chess" stories are interesting. Props to your mom. I can't remember what I had for breakfast let alone what someone said to me in the 80s.

@jackieking1522

3 ай бұрын

I remember a comment from a friend in 1969..... We were trying our first game of tennis for the season. After game 1, as we crossed over he said " When you told me you were no good at tennis I thought you were just being modest." I think I'll send it to him right now, sorts a New Year present.🤗

You beat me with this system at a park stream in NY a few weeks ago. Now I see where you learned it from haha - e5 is definitely best way to play w/ black against the closed Sicilian.

The fact that you analyze every possible line makes me happy.

@Av-uv6xu

Жыл бұрын

so much analyzes for "the content" instead of immediately showing the cheapo blunder at the end xD

@toba5878

Жыл бұрын

@@Av-uv6xu yeah - seems more like tryhard go 10 mins + to me xD

@zero-ui1ew

Жыл бұрын

I think your underestimating "every possible line"

@treeman10

Жыл бұрын

It’s just to get the video longer than 10 minutes

@marvin_yee

Жыл бұрын

i kinda lowkey want anna to play my opening lol just to get her perspective on the lines to be taken

wow more of these videos please, its great to hear the analysis of the games and why the players are moving as they do

Wow, what a great move and a great game your mom had. Great job on your moms part remembering the advice of your dad from so long ago too. Thanks for adding those little details, that’s what makes following you so fun.

What a wonderful tribute to your mother Anna, especially after round 4. Thanks for the analysis and good luck and much success in your future games in the olympiad! Full fart framåt! Vámonos!

Props on respectfully avoiding to mention the opponent´s name. Class move. Anyone can blunder and i would want my opponents to be that respectful if i was on the losing side of that game. (I know it shows in the video, before someone mentions it)

@jameskaufmann765

Жыл бұрын

Anna has some class, indeed. I didn't even notice that point of yours when I was checking out the video. I think that says something, too, about her delivery.

@rudeboinoddy5576

10 ай бұрын

literally says there name in the left lol

@Turalcar

Ай бұрын

Professional games are in public record so I don't think that crossed her mind. She would probably be more worried about mispronouncing it.

Drives me nuts how she keeps saying "af" instead of "F" 😆

I learn so much from your videos. I hope you have a great career in chess either as a player, coach/teacher, and or commentator, and or whatever!

Thank you! I was wondering about this game after you told us about it! Good luck on YOUR next game!!!

9 moves....wow... love that it was a move your dad told your mum about - Cramling family effort but still shows just how good your mum is - plus remembering it from 1986 - wow! GMs are just another level.... I understand that her oponent blundered but she put her into the unusual situation that forced her to overthink...

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought so long before moving and as soon as I moved my opponent moves I immediately see my blunder and…yep…resign.

What a great game. It would be awesome to see some more recaps of your mother's games!

What a brilliant move and game by your mom! You have the most talented chess family ever! Love always!

Pia Cramling is a beast, like she is a monster. She is this nice, lovely lady, so charming , soft spoken, calm, soothing voice , just seems like the nicest person on earth, and then just DESTROYS on the chess board. So freakin cool. :)

Takk for analyser! Jeg har selv ca 1700 i rating, og derfor er det perfekt å lære av deg som ligger over 2000. Har venner som kjenner moren din godt :) Håper jeg får muligheten til å treffe dere personlig en gang selv..Lykke til videre med sjakken !

So happy for your mum. Well played to her

It's amazing that her mother remembers, and to reinforce the theme of you are not lost because the other is super strong, Fabiano blunders a win position that before was a simple draw (he could give the points to his team), in the same olympiad. So yes it happens, at she say, at all the levels. In Spanish we have this saying "al mejor mono se le cae el Zapote"

Hi Anna, from the last month I’ve been watching chess content. I have been seeing your channel, but I didn’t see this video. It’s nice to see your mother GM Pia Cramling playing with WIM ms.Knarik. She used to be my old math teacher, she used to also teach us chess.

I'm new to Chess, and I always kind of end up in this position. Now it makes more sense what I need to do in this situation! Thanks this was a big help!

It's amazing that Anna can teach chess and make people's day at the same time.

@newt2120

Жыл бұрын

How is she making ur day?

@skiddwister9143

Жыл бұрын

@@newt2120 The fact that Anna is always positive, accommodating, available on all her socials, and has a bright, positive personality no matter what she is doing. Playing, talking, and teaching chess, Answering questions, riding a go-cart or a bike. Her smile alone makes a day brighter. In the world we are in now, people like Anna stand out.

Great analysis thank you for all explanations and lines, loved it! And thank to your father back in 1984 ... the 80's baby!

That was a great explanation, I don't know if this works at that level, what I have done and it has worked out great is to place my white square bishop on e6 and then my queen on C8 which provides a 2 for 1 exchange if the knight stays. However I can see that the knight likely moves out and then back to f3 strengthening their position

You bring joy to the art of chess; you and your mom (and dad)! Anna, "You are an inspiration to more chess lovers than you can imagine!" Muchas gracias from the bottom of our hearts, from Texas!

Wow, great analysis, and you have such a nice smile and energy. Your videos are a treat! Keep up the great work.

Your mom is amazing. Great commentary! 👏❤️

Saw thiis ages ago and so many different sources repeated this "recap". Still, it's always intreresting to see your version of it !! :)

Great Recap of Mom’s play. Thanks so much :)

Ya había visto la partida pero siempre es interesante el trasfondo. Impresionante memoria la de los ajedrecistas, por cierto. Probablemente su rival ni se planteó que el caballo fuese capturado porque cedía toda la diagonal. Ceguera estratégica. :))

Salute to your mum, all the best with the olympiad

She's a legend!!! Great game Pia

Your mom remembering your dad's advice from 40 years ago is such an anime thing to do.

Really loving the thumbnails for these recaps, they are super cool !!

@gigachadzyzz2906

Жыл бұрын

Seems inspired from Levy

@gianniskypriotis9817

Жыл бұрын

@@gigachadzyzz2906 or stolen lmao

@gigachadzyzz2906

Жыл бұрын

@@gianniskypriotis9817 Yeah lol 😂

Always love to see more family content on here too :D

I play closed as white, from time to time and I find that Bd2 is preferable to Be3, to avoid setting up a fork on d4 (if black moves a pawn there). Not doing Be3 and letting black block his kingsbishop with all his pawns is quite okay. Also, with an early Bd2 you open for Qc1, threatening Bh6.

*sees thumbnail* Ah yes, Gotham's latest rival, AnnaChess

Thank you GM Anna for this analysis.

Congratulations! You explain chess so well, and also the most excited chess player that I have ever known. Good luck.

@mmathems395

10 ай бұрын

She's so inspiring. She might be the face of Chess.

Well, in a normal game, when noticed the blunder, he could just castle and will not lost any other piece, just exchange. But maybe for this kinda of game, was already a end game!

Anne just keep that wonderful heart and that magnetic smile ... it's contagious Youngin !.. By the way your Mom Rocks !

I lost to to Sicilian w/Nh3 (as Black) in lightning last night. Got shredded on the King side. I remember threatening the Knight fork but wasn't allowed to do it.

This is a lesson in the close Sicilian. Awesome. Saludos de México y España

Walking around in Stockholm and you see Darth Pia, she takes out a chess board, and slays anyone who loses, dumping their defeated pieces into the canals. What a bad ass photo though 😂

First of all congratulations to Pia Cramling`s brilliant game one of the female best players of all time. The beauty of chess is in that, it's not old enough to play sometimes we have great young geniuses at the top of the world rating and other older GMs who continue to play well and delight us.

Me están entrando ganas de ser un día profesional solo por compartir tablero un día con esta chica. Este año lo tengo un poco a full para empezar a entrenar, pero el que viene quien sabe .

this is the best thumbnail in the history of chess YT videos

I continued the game after move 9, I don't think WIM would've won, because of the Pawn on F3, but that's a skill issue, if WIM was on par during this game, this game would actually still be playable after making a mistake like that.

Knight on the rim is dim. You can support the f4 pawn br4ak from e2 just as well and also eye the d4 square to make black think twice about mover their knight there.

hey Anna really love your content!

Anna mentioned Ng5 and Ng1 as ways to prevent the g2 bishop from being overloaded. But castling queenside seems to accomplish this while being a lot more natural move. Is there anything wrong with it?

bro the thumbnail made me hallucinate wtf

WOW , that looks like me playing the white pieces. I'm pulling for you to get your norm! Congrats to Pia !

it must be really cool to have amazing parents! surely the proof is this high quality human we see before us that they have created

I thought that this white square bishop of the white would take on his black counterpart as it was anyway the "bad" bishop due to the white structure of the black. Couldn't anticipate the double chess of the knight on D4 going then to F5 though. Brilliant game.

Thanks for sharing Anna!

I don't always love seeing the eval bar but here it punctuates they move, or just screams out in comic-horror.

I like the set up for black in this game. I play the Modern Defence, could similar ideas be used for this too? Thanks.

Crazy to win in 9 moves in a game of this length.

Loved that game. I had that position today. Mom remembers move from 1986. I'm trying to remember moves I see on youtube. LOL

Instead of 6.Be3, I think the opponent should have played 6.Nh3. Then if 6...e5, then 7.f4 Nge7, 8.0-0 and if black castles also then 9.f5. It's a pawn sac with a lot of tactics. If black takes the sacked pawn with the bishop then white can sac the exchange with the rook followed by Be4, or if she takes with the knight then you can play Qh5. If black exchanges pawns then declines to take the sacked pawn by closing the position with f6, then white can play g4 and eventually maneuver the knight to h5. And in many lines whenever black plays Nd4, the c3 knight can go to d1 or e2 and push c3 to kick the knight.

I saw the thumbnail and GM and immediately thought GrandMa

I hope that you realize how happy your mom is to have you with her. You are an inspiration Anna.

13 minutes to make a blunder move... incredible! Also incredible was your mum remembering a move your dad showed her in 1986!! Wow!

I recently had a win in five moves, ninety percent accuracy, it felt great, like the best win ever, although a few months ago I had a 100 accuracy game. It’s always fun though win or lose.

Pia: "it's been 40 years..." 😔😌 Also Pia: *And yet I still remember!!!* 😤🔥👹👹👹🔥

the thumbnail has me dying i love it

Incredible! Congrats!

I wish that chess players would just play to the conclusion of games, even when bad stuff like that happens. No resigning, just playing to the bitter end!

Great mom, great player

I had to examine white's position for a long time before I agreed he was about to lose. Thanks for the analysis before the resign.

Sometimes a blunder is the result of steady pressure from not playing passively. You're Mom had her pieces all in a position to take advantage of mistakes, and her opponent made a doozy.

Your Mother is a Living Chess Legend! 💯

brilliant, thanks for posting.

Thanks for Sharing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an amazing family 😊

I play the English opening and get into this position with reversed colours often. As soon as black played e5 I knew what was going to happen

You could say (puts on sunglassess*) that round was a Pia cake for her.

She was playing against Pia Craming. The game was actually decided 9 moves ago.

Only in Chess are the "Highlights" 4 times longer than the actual game lol

Wow 9 moves sicilian mod, experience is the best teacher 🧐👍

Hey Anna, love the content. I’m very much just learning from scratch. I realise this video is from some time back now but I’m watching relevant videos as I’m going. One question about this game (which is fantastic btw, congrats on this one Pia). Would WHite king to F1 not have saved the day here?

@craigjeavons3218

11 ай бұрын

F2 is even better saving all pieces 😊

The biggest thrill is keeping your career to the very last day . Remember never retire 🙏❤️

I'm a big fan of the dragon style positions in the Sicilian

Thanks for the Joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the way you say move, “moove” 😍

"Nobody wins at chess, you can only lose" - John Weimar

At her age she not only remembers all Lines but won. While me struggling to remember what I had in lunch the day before 😂

The youtube title wallpaper kindly reminded me of gothamchess

I beat WIM in rapid online, I'm only 1800. Why do these titles even exist? ( I've beaten WCM and WFM every time i got matched up against them )