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Ladies and gentlemen, congratulations.
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You have just clicked on maybe the rarest video that I have ever uploaded on this channel.
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Ever.
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I have made content about Magnus Carlsen like you wouldn't imagine.
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Hikaru Nakamura, good cash, other top players, low elo, high elo, computer level chess,
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bots, drama, etc. etc. But one year ago, I made a video called 30
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Brilliant Moves in a Row.
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And in that video, two people had played against each other in a tournament,
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and their names were Mikola Bortnik and Ling Shizhou. And they're back.
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The two of them played another game, and I'm going to turn it into a YouTube video because it was absolute cinema.
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If you haven't seen that video yet, go watch that game.
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That game was so crazy.
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and they've done it again.
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How rare is it that the same two people manage to play in a tournament, and I make a video about it,
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and they're outside of the top elite players.
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Obviously, I cover all the Grandmaster games, and they play each other all the time.
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This has never happened before on this channel in six years of making content, and now you're here.
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You're witnessing it.
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This is history.
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This is history.
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A brilliant rematch.
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A rematch for the ages.
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This game was bananas.
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Bananas.
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So, Mikola opens with d4.
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Now, he is a d4 player.
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In that previous game, even if you've watched it already, you should go back and watch that game, all right?
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Because there's no way you remember it.
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In that game, he played e4.
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So this time, he plays d4.
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Link, she plays knight of six.
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The most aggressive, dynamic opening you can play with the black pieces is, of course, very good.
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Not the England Gambit.
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The King's Indian.
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Very vast.
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Very deep.
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Like an ocean of a chess opening.
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Mikola plays knight to c3.
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Black can, of course, play d5 as well.
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You can go for a Grunfeld defense, but Lingchi plays bishop g7, e4, d6.
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And now white has a million things to choose from.
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Like, really, there are so many variations.
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Let me put my oatmeal over here.
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Shout out, by the way, to those of you that have pre -ordered this signed.
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Shout out to all of you.
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Bishop 2e2 is one of the lines.
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The historic main line is knight f3, bishop e2 castles.
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I also have a course on the king's Indian defense, which is very nice opening.
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But Mikola plays a line that I like a lot.
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He plays bishop e2 and he plays what's called the double bishop variation.
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It's also called the semi -Averbach according to chess .com after Averbach, the Grandmaster.
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But bishop e2, bishop e3, you know, is the line chosen here.
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There are a lot of lines here.
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Black can play e5, c5, knight a6, knight d7, c6.
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I mean, a million different things.
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Lingxi plays a move I've never seen before which is the move a5
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but basically you can play pawn to a5 at any moment in this opening.
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The idea can be to play knight to a6 and then e5
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and then win control of that square and then the knight would go there and white can't play b4.
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So a5 is a really long -term planning type of move.
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Also, sometimes you can even play a4 and a3.
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But anyway, McColl in outplays h3.
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Kind of a waiting move.
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You know, maybe you want to go knight f3.
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Clearly with this, you know, you also have bad intentions of playing g4 f4.
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McColl is a very creative attacking dynamic player and this game gets attacking and dynamic within 10 moves.
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So this is white's seventh move.
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Link sheet continues with knight to a6.
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He spent 10 minutes on that move.
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He got locked in the toilet.
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No, I don't know.
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Maybe he was just evaluating the position.
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Knight to f3 and now black plays this move e5.
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So black has finished his plan, right?
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White now has a choice.
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White could take, but that obviously opens up the position.
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You can't really take twice with white
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because you would be opening up this bishop and you don't really want to do that.
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If you want to attack in chess, you need to close the center.
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Fun fact.
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You cannot really attack in chess if the center is wide open.
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It's going to be really difficult.
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So you generally need to lock the center and then go for an attack against your opponent.
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Linkshii plays knight h5.
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Very nice move.
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Two ideas of this move.
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Number one, f5.
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Number two, knight to f4.
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You know, bringing the pawn to f5 is a very key piece of the king's Indian defense.
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And putting the knight on f4 honestly can even work in a position like this.
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Like even here, Linkshii can already play knight f4.
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According to the computer, he already has a slightly better position.
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He can choose between f5 and knight f4.
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The problem is you don't get both.
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It's very rare you get away with both of these moves because white will have something to say.
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He plays f5.
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I think knight f4 was a little bit better.
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And you might be wondering, doesn't that just lose a pawn to takes, takes, takes?
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Yes, but this bishop coming alive is absolutely worth it.
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And black is actually better despite being a pawn down, which is quite fascinating, right?
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Very instructive example of how this bishop is kind of passive.
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These knights don't really have a lot of forward mobility.
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It's going to be black kind of controlling the game from here.
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Anyway, f5 is the move chosen.
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Pontex, Pontex, ladies and gentlemen, please.
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take one final look at this game, because we're not going back from here.
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We are not going back.
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I think both of these boys were in a little bit of collusion.
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They both know that they participated in a 5 million viewed YouTube video.
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By no choosing of their own, of course.
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I put them there.
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But they had to put on a banger game.
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Maybe they spoke before the game.
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They were like, hey, let's just play the craziest game ever.
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I don't think they did that.
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I think it just kind of comes naturally from both of their playing styles,
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because in this position, Mikola Portnick spent 14 and a half minutes and played g4.
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Oh yeah, here we go.
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G4.
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Now that is just a pawn sacrifice.
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The idea is pawn takes, pawn takes, bishop takes, g4.
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But the thing is, black can't do this.
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Black cannot open this.
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He cannot lose the f and g pawns, because it's actually not an attack on white.
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White is going to go here, and then the second that you trade and you come here, I'm just going to take everything,
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put my knight on e6.
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I'm going to long castle.
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I'm going to play queen h5, queen d3.
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It's just going to be made.
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Black's king is actually way too weak in this position.
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So g4, Lingqi just plays knight at four.
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He's not in the business of opening the position.
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You need to get rid of this.
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So Micola does, takes, takes.
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And now white has, again, a lot of options here.
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A lot of options.
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He can't take.
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He can't take because pawn takes, and then obviously you're in a lot of trouble here.
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You don't really want to take this either, this move only helps black develop a piece.
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Yeah, you got rook g1, but you have no follow -up.
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There is no threat.
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So white needs to make a timely move in this position.
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One of those moves, he could long castle right away.
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He could do that.
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The move that Micola chooses, somehow this man always finds a way to make the most interesting move in a position.
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I don't understand.
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Micola in this position is like, so black wants to open the position.
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Black would love if both pawns were gone because then the rook would be strong, the bishop would be active.
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What if I go G5?
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Now, computer is debating this move.
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It's debating whether it likes this move or not, right?
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But basically the idea is black is not going to activate either piece.
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Black is now walled in by his own pawns and white, meanwhile, can go for some sort of attack on this side of the board.
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Link, she plays a4.
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Okay.
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a4 is clearly designed to go a3.
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Soften up his diagonal because he anticipates that Micola is going to go over here.
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Micola shuts that down, plays a3.
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Very provocative move.
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Black is now going to put the rook on the e -file
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and try to get his knight in the game where it can go to b3, forking the queen and the rook, or to e4.
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Very wild game.
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Very imbalanced position.
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Link, she plays rook to e8, which is a very reasonable move.
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He also could have went knight c5.
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You know what the computer wants black to play here?
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This is, I mean, this is how you know you are deep in the forest of the variations.
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It wants knight c5, which is at least understandable, and then it wants black to play rook a6.
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And the idea of rook a6 is just put the rook on b6.
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Just put the rook on b6 and apply pressure.
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There is nothing you're going to gain right.
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It just wants to do this first.
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Link, she plays rook e8, because what could be more natural than lining up the rook against the king?
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Any way the king castles, there's going to be problems.
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Yeah.
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Micola knows that, which is why in this position, he plays king f1.
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He doesn't castle.
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He doesn't castle.
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Actually, the king is completely safe on f1.
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It doesn't need to go to the traditional square here.
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It doesn't need to go here.
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It just stands right on f1
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and it is blocked by four different pieces
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it is wearing the world's biggest hat
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it's just wearing a hat the king's just wearing a hat
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nobody's gonna get to the king not from this diagonal not
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from here not from straight down the king is safe
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and this rook
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which would have had to go to f1 is now going
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to escort the h pawn up the board where white actually
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can still attack white can still attack white can go here and here and here and here and get in.
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So Lingxi brings his knight.
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McCollin now is like, all right, if I'm going to attack this guy and end up in another YouTube video,
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I need to bring all my pieces.
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All of my pieces need to come to join the party, right?
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Before I go for h4, I need to play rook e1.
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I get out of knight to b3 fork.
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The rook is here, replacing where my king was.
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King's just chilling.
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King's absolutely safe.
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That is actually the least of the concerns in the position.
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So now Lingxi doesn't really have much of a follow -up here.
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He can continue to improve his position.
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Bishop d7, just kind of getting the bishop sort of out and then maybe the queen.
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c6 is possible to try to attack the center.
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Plays a very natural move as far as I'm concerned.
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Knight to e4.
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Knight e4 is a mistake.
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It was a natural move.
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He obviously wanted his f -pawn taken.
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Those double pawns are not doing black much good.
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They're kind of in the way.
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But if you lose one of the pawns, you know, then we're going to activate the bishop.
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We're going to get all the pieces going.
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But Mikola takes on f4.
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So now white has an extra pawn.
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And for this move, black can win the pawn back.
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He can go knight takes and bishop takes, etc. And then win the pawn back and then proceed with the game.
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You can also play bishop to d7, bring out some more pieces, etc. But Lingxi takes the knight.
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And then he takes his pawn.
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Now, a normal person in this position sees that his rook is hanging.
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Sees that his rook is hanging, and he moves his rook.
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Duh.
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And some of you might even go, hey, can't you move your rook and attack the bishop?
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Well, yeah, but then there is a fork, so you want to be a little careful.
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So, you know, maybe you play rook b1.
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Rook b1's a nice move.
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Stops bishop b2.
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Pressures this pawn so the bishop can't move.
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And then you play bishop d3 here.
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You improve your position.
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Chill game.
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Chill game.
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Mikola's not normal.
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Bishop c3 arrives on the board, and I told you these boys, they are back in a Gotham video.
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The only two people
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that have ever played each other in two tournament games outside of the world's elite players and are back.
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They are back.
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I don't think I'm making a mistake.
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Anyway, Mikola thought for 30 seconds in this position out of 51 minutes,
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and this absolute lunatic went g6.
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He sacrificed his rook.
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Pawn to g6, trying to get an attack on the black king.
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Now, I think it's fair to say that if the bishop takes the rook, pawn takes h7 is going to happen,
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and the g and h pawns have been cleared, so the black king is obviously looking quite endangered here.
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But if this pawn was taken after queen h6, this is very, very scary.
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It's nearly lost.
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There is a potential variation that could have occurred here.
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King f7, knight g5 check, king e7.
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You don't have a discovered attack by moving the bishop because your rook is actually hanging.
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And then here, I can play queen here, and the king just goes to f8 and actually is safe.
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Or I can play knight h7 and then there's queen g7 threatening a queen trade, which obviously would benefit, you know,
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the side that's trying to defend.
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So g6, Lingshi thinks and plays bishop takes e.
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I think at this point, Lingshi was like, I think I'm going to end up in another YouTube video.
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Like, I think when g6 appeared, he was like, yo.
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So bishop takes e1 on the board, and this is where the game gets even more ridiculous, because g takes h7, king h8.
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Now, again, a normal person here probably picks up this bishop.
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You know, you're looking at this position, you're like, okay, so maybe knight to g5, knight to f7, maybe rook g1.
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Okay, I can give this check, but then the king is going to take...
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Actually, you have to give this check.
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You have to give this check.
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Because you force the king to take your pawn.
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You guys have to understand, the king's not taking the pawn because he would walk directly into a knight attack.
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This move with a tempo, tempo, winning time against the king, and then anywhere the king moves, there's rook g1, and that's it.
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The king has nothing protecting him anymore.
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The knight moves, the queen gets in, it's mate.
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You even have the bishop coming.
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So, by playing queen d4 check, you force the king to take the pawn.
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We don't take the bishop.
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Mikola is down a full rook, but he plays rook g1, and that is the first checkmate threat of the game.
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That is the first checkmate threat of the game, and if you actually look at this position, it looks completely lost.
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It looks completely and totally lost.
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Because if black plays rook g8, knight g5 check anyway.
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Rook takes g5, queen h4 check.
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And that's it.
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King here, bishop h5, you can no longer defend the rook.
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Unbelievable.
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McCullough is going to win this game.
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And now, you might be wondering, why is it 0 -0 -0?
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Well, Lingshi has a He has one move that saves the game.
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He is about to be flattened with a knockout punch,
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which is kind of crazy because Mikola is like a 30 -year -old man and Lingshi is 12.
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But, you know, whatever.
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In chess, you're allowed to beat up 12 -year -olds with your fists and the chess pieces.
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Lingshi finds the only move, the only move in the position, bishop c3!
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The bishop resurrecting itself from death and covering checkmate. and
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if you just take
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this bishop obviously what else could you do this is not
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mate the queen takes what else could you possibly do here
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if you take this black is better
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because now black has rook g8
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you might be like levy what are you talking about didn't you just say yeah
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but when the queen went there it can no longer go to h4 it can't go to h3
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so this no longer works the queen cannot participate in the attack bishop c3 link
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she probably is like yo i'm winning you
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Like he fell from my trap.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Mikola had the whole thing planned out.
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He gives a check with his rook instead.
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The rook must arrive on that square.
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Why?
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Why does the rook have to arrive on that square?
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Black is just going to go here.
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Now white can take.
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But what's the difference?
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The difference is that by going into this sequence, you force black to play rook to g8.
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You force black to play rook to g8 and the king, the king has moved up.
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Right?
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The king moved up to h6, and that's very important because now the king, by going up to h6, is susceptible to a check.
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On h7, he was only susceptible to that check.
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Everything in the position works.
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Rook g8, and now Mikola here.
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The best move is so absurd.
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He plays a very natural move.
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Rook takes and queen takes.
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He can also play pawn to h4, apparently.
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Unless I'm mixing this up.
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Not in this particular position.
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Pawn to h4, there's rook takes rook.
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Wait, I'm mixing something up.
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Hold on.
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Hold on a minute.
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Hold on a minute.
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Maybe he needed to play rook g5, not h4.
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Rook g5 with the idea to play h4.
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With the idea to play h4, rook g5.
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What is rook g5?
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Rook takes g5.
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Knight g5.
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If king takes queen g7, king f4, queen g3, and this is mate.
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So he can put the rook on g5 in this position, which is just crazy.
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And if queen takes, like this, there's check here and you can hunt the king around and then h4.
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This is a key idea in the variation h4 attacks the queen.
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And if the queen goes for a trade, there's this mate.
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So queen c3, rook g8.
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Mikola plays rook takes g8.
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Queen takes g8.
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Queen f6.
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Queen g6 blocks.
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Mikola is down a rook for a knight.
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So any endgame for white is going to be losing.
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It's going to be losing.
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You got to win this game with a vicious attack against the king.
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McCullough doesn't have a lot left.
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But this man, it just has this ability to maximize the effectiveness of every piece, to utilize everything that he has, right?
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Worst comes to worst in this position, white has a draw.
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White can go check, here, and check and the game will end with perpetual
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because king h5 is made in one so this would be a draw
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but micole is not going to make a draw
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so he goes check queen h7 he's like hey how do i play a move
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that maintains the tension queen d8 queen d8 is a great move
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because not only does it threaten checkmate
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and force a response from black who for the record has not moved a rook and a bishop in 29 turns.
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I don't know how it's possible to be playing a game and just not move two pieces, but Mikola finds a way to make that happen,
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and then he's also threatening to eat some pawns if the Black Queen moves.
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So, Link, she plays Queen G6.
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Queen G7 is a better move.
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It's better to go Queen G7.
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Very tough to defend this position.
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He goes Queen G6 instead.
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Not really sure what he was trying to cover here versus something else.
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And now, Mikola plays just an utterly heinous move.
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Just like, I can't even believe he played the move that he played.
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Maybe Lingxi thought that after queen g7, there was this, this, and some sort of knight sacrifice.
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Or maybe like, I don't know.
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Maybe he didn't want to put his king on g6.
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So that's why he went queen here, so he can put his king here.
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So first of all, the best move in the position, according to the computer here, is c5.
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And the point of c5 is very simple.
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If takes, the knight gains access to a square, and you win because you infiltrate.
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But black doesn't have to take.
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But the thing is, if black doesn't take, if like f4 is played, check, somewhere the queen moves, and you win the pawn.
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So black just doesn't have a move.
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If you play something like rook b8, I take, take, queen, not queen e8,
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queen h8, queen h7, and then I'm always going to be winning this pawn.
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Anyway, the move Mikola chooses in this game is not c5.
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This man goes here.
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this is so ridiculous.
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Knight g5, you get hit with knight g5 when you're playing black, you're like, bro, ain't no way.
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And this position is actually holdable for black.
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The idea of knight to g5 is if black does nothing,
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this is game over because there's king takes knight, h4, mate.
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if you do take the knight, which you do have to do, it's that same position that I told you.
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Queen h8, king here, and then this move, pawn to h4.
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And Lingxi had to see this position and spot the only defensive move.
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Bishop d7, which is not even the end of the story,
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because here white can play h5 check and then take the rook.
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And I mean, there are no guarantees you are going to be able to save this position as white.
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There's also no guarantees you're going to be able to save this position as white.
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Because here it's not about taking on h4.
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You have to go queen f6 and correctly evaluate that this endgame is a draw, which is...
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I don't know how on earth you're supposed to evaluate that
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because white is just going to go like king g3 here, queen g5.
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Like, I don't know how you're supposed to evaluate this.
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Knight to g5.
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Oh my goodness.
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And Lingxi panics.
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He goes here and now he's losing.
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He cannot allow the knight to stay.
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He just couldn't allow it.
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He needed to take the knight.
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He had to be brave.
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He had to understand that like, okay, I don't know if that position is losing or not, but this position is definitely losing.
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And Mikola uses his final piece.
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Talk about an anime, by the way.
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This man has moved every piece.
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Black hasn't moved four different pieces.
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Mikola has used every piece in this game except the F pawn.
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And now he goes F4.
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And this is it.
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The final piece of the puzzle has been utilized.
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He touched every piece got used.
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Maybe one of them got captured without moving.
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Anyway, he used every piece he could use.
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The game is now lost.
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It is lost because Black does not have a move.
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Black doesn't have a move.
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And Mikola is now going to launch the final wave of attack against Lingxi.
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B6, trying to go bishop to B7, Queen E8.
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That's checkmate.
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Black has to defend against that.
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He can even give a check.
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Doesn't matter.
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The king is going to move.
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He goes Queen F6.
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Now this is no longer mate.
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But the second that the queen goes there, the queen goes there. And now that's mate.
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And if you go
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Queen G7, Knight F7 check, and the black king has no escape.
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So lynx, she goes queen a1 check, king to g2, and queen back to g7.
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And now there is no knight f7 check because he has pinned the knight to the king.
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But the attack continues with queen e8 back, threatening the same checkmate.
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The queen goes here, and now with queen h5, there is king f8, king g7, and the king is running away.
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Doesn't matter.
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Best move.
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And then queen h7, and the king is hunted over here.
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And now the simplest way to win a game of chess, especially in a position like this.
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You don't have to end an attack with a checkmate.
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You can end an attack by incinerating your opponent's position.
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Queen c7.
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And black has a ruined pawn structure.
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Pieces that will just hang in all the tactics.
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Knight to h7 is winning the queen.
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Bishop h5 will always add an attacker.
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And you know who else is going to win this game for white?
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This guy.
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because all white has to do is go h4, h5, h6, h7, and black just cannot stop it,
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which is just absurd that black cannot prevent any of this from happening.
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He cannot move the bishop away from e6.
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He cannot move the rook at all.
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King g8, and the winning formula here for white, h4.
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The position is so dominant, you can just move your h -pon.
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Black goes queen g6, Qd8 check,
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Kg7 H5 Qf6 check here Qh7 here H6 That is how we are going to win this game.
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There is still no mate
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There's no mate
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No mate But you're going to win.
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Why?
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Kg8, H5, Kf8 Qc7 back
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The pawn is untouchable
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There are checks available to you
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But if you give me this check on b2 I go to h3, and then when you check me like this, I will just block.
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And then I go h7, and then I win.
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Queen c7, king g8.
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Queen c6, queen b2 check.
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Queen c3.
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Queen e1, there's still maybe something, and there's no queen e8 mate.
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Link, she's doing his best.
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There's a hanging rook over here.
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He takes it.
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That rook was taken 50 moves into the game.
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this is hanging queen f1 check he blocks queen check
473
you can go king h4 here for good measure honestly i kind of wish he did
474
but micola doesn't allow his opponent to get anything brings the knight back queen c4
475
and the game ends not with a checkmate
476
but with a surgical move queen c6 not no checkmate no
477
queen a7 queen g7 queen c6 forcing a trade of queens because if Queen a6, Queen e8.
478
And in this position, Lingxi resigned because he's down a knight and he's going to lose the game in short order.
479
Folks, Mikula Bortnik managed to play this game where his opponent didn't move a rook and a bishop.
480
For 54 turns.
481
And the way in which he won, g4 blowing up the position, then walling out the pieces,
482
his dynamic understanding is so good.
483
King f1, king was safe the entire game, and the second the board opened up, g6, he gave away the rook.
484
Good defending from Lingxi, bringing back the bishop to deflect the queen off of the fourth rank doesn't matter
485
because we forced the king to a dark square.
486
Everything was played perfectly.
487
Queen f6, queen h8, he hung around in the position.
488
And this absolutely disrespectful move, just shoving a horse in the face of the opponent, there's nothing you can do.
489
Nothing.
490
It's over.
491
You had to take the knight.
492
You had to go for it.
493
You had to risk it.
494
You couldn't.
495
Game over.
496
We anchored in the knight, and the attack began.
497
And I love just, like, how this game ends.
498
Like, what actually tips the balance?
499
It's the H -Pon moving up the board.
500
Well, that concludes the rarest two -episode saga in this channel's history.
501
And maybe these two will play a trilogy game one day, because the score is now 1 -1.
502
That is all I have for you today.
503
As always, there are a couple hundred copies remaining.
504
Last call to get a signed book.
505
Check out the link in the description.
506
Get a ticket for the Europe tour if you live over there.
507
I will see you in Amsterdam.
508
I will see you in Zurich, Paris, London, Antwerp, we've recently added. And Köln, London.
509
Shout out to these guys for putting on some banger games.
510
And hopefully we keep following them.
511
Hopefully Lingxie gets his IM and GM norms.
512
Maybe McCollick can become a Grandmaster too.
513
That's all I have for you today.
514
Get out of here.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “100 Brilliant Moves IN 1 GAME”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: queen, rook, knight, king, bishop. This video has 514 sentences and 4837 words to shadow. The speech runs for 26:50. The speaker talks fast, about 180 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 80% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| knight noun | /ˈnaɪ̯t/ | An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages. |
| bishop noun | /ˈbɪʃəp/ | An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church… |
| pawn noun | /ˈpɔːn/ | The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only… |
| chess noun | /t͡ʃɛs/ | A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the… |
| castle noun | /ˈkɑːsəl/ | A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or… |
| defend verb | /dɪˈfɪnd/ | To ward off attacks against (something or someone). |
| variation noun | /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/ | The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing. |
| dynamic adjective | /daɪˈnæm.ɪk/ | Changing; active; in motion. |
| opponent noun | /əˈpəʊ.nənt/ | One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something. |
| evaluate verb | /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/ | To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise. |
| threaten verb | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | To make a threat against someone; to use threats. |
| arrive verb | /əˈɹaɪv/ | To reach; to get to a certain place. |
| sacrifice noun | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity. |
| chill verb | /tʃɪl/ | To lower the temperature of something; to cool. |
| shout verb | /ʃaʊt/ | To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| open up verb | To open. | |
| follow up verb | To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| move up verb | To promote, put onto a higher level. | |
| beat up verb | To give a severe beating to; to assault violently with repeated blows. | |
| blow up verb | To explode or be destroyed by explosion. | |
| bring back verb | /ˈbɹɪŋ bæk/ | To fetch something. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Because there's no way you remember it.
- The problem is you don't get both.
- I don't think they did that.
- I'm going to long castle.
- You know what the computer wants black to play here?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have just clicked · have made · haven't seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be made · is now walled · is just put |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | defense, which is · before which is · down, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 85 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, doesn't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: bishop /ˈbɪʃəp/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, shout /ʃaʊt/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
- Long words — get the stress right: ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, participate /pɑːˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/, unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like knight, bishop, pawn.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.