FIDE Chess Olympiad Round 3 | India vs Italy in Open, India vs Greece in Women

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome everyone to this live stream. We are live here with the one and only Amruta Mokal and myself, Sagar Shah. How are you doing, Amruta?

I'm very awesome, Sagar. Already 2 days have been so intense, which was not expected, and today, uh, the pairing is very, very tough. For everyone, actually, not just for India. So मजा आने वाला है. पर तुम बताओ how has it been?

It's going to be an intense day, Amruta. Guys, very sorry that we came late to this live stream. We were going to start it a few minutes ago, but we had a lot of things happening here. There's always something going up and down, and talking about up and down, we have the one and only, the man who's always bumbling with energy up and down, the one and only Harshabhai.

Let's go! How are you, Amrita?

Awesome, bhai. ये क्या juice हूँ? आपका मतलब work without a juice, right?

We need all the energy that we.

Very tough pairing.

Tough pairing for both. Why India is playing against Italy? And if you remember last year, Lorenzo Lodici.

Oh my God!

Was the man in form. He defeated quite a lot of 2700 players. And they have all four grandmasters.

Yeah, and all about 2500 between the range of 2530 to 2570. As we see the Italian team already seated.

Let's go, guys!

And where are the Indian boys? Not yet here. They are still out there. Yes, yeah.

You know Prague today has an opportunity to eat pizza very happily. At night, let's see if he does that or not.

People are saying it is Modi ji versus Meloni ji.

Game लेकिन melody जैसे होना चाहिए। But in the women section, by the way, we are playing against Greece.

Oh my god!

And you know the match? The most exciting match.

Yes, of course. The match that everyone's waiting forward to is. तावरुला सोलाकिडू, the women, the player of the tournament in the GCL takes on कोनेरू हंपी, who she actually beat there, right?

Yes.

And actually got the bike, the महिंद्रा जावा bike.

Oh, today गुकी is here. Bye. Today गुकी is going to play on board four.

Wow. We have this camera.

Guys, we need all of your energy today. Today is a huge day. From today onwards, we need All the hearts, all your prayers towards the Indian team. We play against the Italian Federation in the open section.

Prag is calling somebody. What happened? He's calling the arbiter. Something seems to be happening.

He's saying too much energy here. There is too much energy from Harshit bhai.

Guys, जल्दी-जल्दी like तो को यार let's go. Thousand people watching.

We need as many people.

As possible to watch this very exciting clash, Sagar bhai. What's your feeling? Like you know, you know entering this match and both of you, Amruta as well, in both sections. What do you feel?

So firstly, let's just go through the pairings for our viewers. So this is what we have with Pragnananda taking on Lorenzo Lodici and Prag as white. My feeling is Prag will strike today.

Prag will strike with white.

With white, he will strike today. And on board two, I'm with you by the way there. I'm with you there.

Let's go. I think Praghu, the man in form, will win today with the white pieces.

And then we have Ajubai, who has come back from a tough game yesterday. Let's see what Ajubai brings to the table. Day before, sorry.

Yesterday he got some rest, and now he's back.

Actually, we have a very interesting camera. Let me see if I can bring this up. This is Moroni Luca Junior. And Ajuba is not here, so we also have the bullet cams now on top two boards.

Oh, thank you, Menno, Lena. That's awesome, yeah.

Yes, so like we can see Prague this way also, and we can see Prague this way. Maybe they have to maybe they have to fix their cameras. But इसमें दिख रहे तो चाहिए भाई. Let's see if they are able to fix this. But we have this and let's quickly before going to the. So Arjun, I think will end in a draw. With Moroni Luca Junior, Nihal Sarin bhai unstoppable.

I think Nihal will win. Nihal bhai, this is one board that I'm always confident about. Nihal Sarin's board. Nihal especially. Oh by the way, Nihal has gotten double white.

Hmm.

Oh again white because he moved the tables. Exactly.

I want to see a Sicilian. ले देखो yesterday I missed a lot of Sicilians.

आज होना ही चाहिए। But where is Nihal and Arjun? They are not here.

Oh handshake.

Oh gosh!

का handshake हो गया। And we have started.

No no no he just arrived. Sabino Brunello versus Bukesh. I have a feeling that Bukesh will win.

Yeah, you know, I actually played Brunello just 1.5 months back.

And you beat him?

Also with the black pieces. Oh yeah, wait a minute, let me—

guys, we need to see Harshit bhai's face here. He has beaten Sabino Brunello, and I think he's a very good player.

He's a good player. Uh, I played the Sicilian opening with black.

Which Sicilian?

I always play the Natchdorf.

Oh, and which line did he go for?

I actually somehow seem to like forgot which line he went for, but, uh, I have a feeling that Gukesh can outplay, outplay Brunello. By the way, Gukesh also getting double black. He was also playing with the black pieces yesterday. So, you know, guys, in this team event, we cannot care at all about the rating. I saw a lot of you were mentioning, oh, Gukesh dropped, but you can see He's chosen to play for the team again with the black pieces, which is actually a great sign and a great boost for our Indian team. That because agrees to play with two black.

That's why you both are also wearing black today.

Yes.

And I was wearing black, but almost.

ठीक है, चलता है। But you know what? Yeah. Many of the top players actually decide not to play when they get black pieces, take rest, and so on. So I think really a big, big step by Gukesh. Exactly. Let's head over to the women's board, and here we see that we have already the Greek team.

Why? We are all red today. We are looking for blood, it seems like.

Oh, that's awesome! Good relation over there. By the way, we have 2,000 people in the live chat already before the games have started. So guys, we want 2,000 likes.

Let's go, guys! Let's go, guys! Patapat like karo! सारे लैंग्वेज में बोलो प्लीज लाइक करने को हर्षित भाई। Let's go। भाई, please he stream like करा। ये stream like कर दो guys। Guys, we want you to like the stream। Oh ho। Por favor amigos। I would say like। Por favor चलेगा भाई। और Greek में बोलो भाई। भाई Greek। Greek। बोला ना?

Spanish। Spanish बोला ना? Spanish तो था por favor। हाँ ना?

अच्छा like नहीं पता Spanish में?

नहीं भाई। Love पता है। फिर love पता है तो एको मैंने कैसे कैस किया?

कागज़ भाई, हाँ भाई। By the way, today we have an excellent production. The sound is great. We have the cameras.

Internet is good. भाई शुभ शुभ बोलो भाई। अभी हो जाएगा कुछ ऊपर नीचे। भाई शुभ ही है भाई। Just like okay and there is inauguration happening with Diana at नीचे। Oh shit!

We can go for the pool.

ओह यस अमृता दैट्स अ गुड आइडिया अरे यार थोड़ा लेट हो गए बट यस डी फोर्थ प्लेड एंड लेट्स गो ऑन द मेन बोर्ड तू सी व्हाट्स हैप्पेनिंग प्रग इज रेडी अजूबा इज हियर लेट्स गो इनका हो गया रहेगा आई थिंक द मैडम यप सीम्स लाइक बाय द वे देर इज अ 15 मिनट मिनट डिले गाइस सो फॉर 3:15, and I think we are just a few seconds away from seeing the handshake and the first few moves. अरे माँ ये लॉरेंजो कितनी धूल पोछ रहा है। सब धूल निकाल रहा है भाई। You know my prediction for the Indian men team is that we are gonna win with a score of three to one.

Three one and women? Women let's let's look at the women board.

Let's break it down.

Let's break it down. Because here we see that we have Humpy versus Tavrula Solakidu, a very important match. And then we have on board number two Divya versus Avramidou. Avramidou is two three three zero, quite a strong player.

And you know, very often we haven't heard of these players. Like I haven't heard of Avramidou, but I'm sure she is a very strong player.

I've heard actually, Harshit bhai, she's good. And then we have Ekaterini Pavlidou.

They are wearing a heart rate monitor.

No, not heart rate. It's actually a black band.

By the way, because I love that scene as all four players shook their hands in symmetry. As the games begin, and you were saying, wait, are they protesting something?

No, they're not protesting. I think it's mainly for Georgios Makropoulos who passed away, uh, and maybe it's just, you know, he was such an important figure for Greek chess that they have won this. Even the Greek men team has won it. So there we go, Humpy versus— let's go to this game and start today with women's board. And we have d4, Knight f6. Big, big shout out to our Harshit bhai. Sorry, Rashid bhai, for putting the bars, for Nordwin Gaming for helping us to set up all the scenes today, and for both Amruta and Harshit bhai to be here. We have lot of amazing energy drinks here. Enjoy.

Hello, cheers, bye, cheers. I will have my energy and focus later because I am about 18 years old. Let me clear that. नाइस वाओ यूरो एनर्जी एंड फोकस मेंज जस्ट व्हेन वी नीड द एनर्जी आराम से अभी थोड़ा बिल्डअप होगा फिर फिर करेंगे नहीं बट तुमने बोला कि कल हर्षित का आज ही बताया विदया भाई को कि मैंने गलती किया हर्षित मैंने मेरे को ज्यूस दिया मैंने वो पिया उससे मेरा शुगर स्पाइक हो गया और फिर म Then it will drop.

So you have to like build it up. So I am taking one one sip.

Got it.

Slowly.

Okay, Nimzo Indian and I love this opening. Oh my God! You know I used to play D four D five Queen's Gambit Declined and I used to always lose. And then I prepared this with actually you know Shashikant Dada who had come yesterday in our commentary. They were in the specially abled Olympia team and we prepared and I started getting good results with black. After I met Sagar, I even started getting better results with black. Yeah, he was he's a very expert Nimzo player. You know that, Harshikant?

But by this is Bogo.

Shashikant is a no no Sagar also. Sagar भाई नहीं कुछ भी नहीं सुना इसने कुछ भी नहीं सुना use less.

मैंने सिर्फ एक्सपर्ट सुना और बोला सागर भाई कैसे ये ये सेंटेंस में आ सकते हैं?

I heard that you prepared this with Shashikant Dada. But then suddenly Thakur bhai came in the picture.

So by the way, a very good super chat by Vishal Parashar who has said that why don't we also have the opposing team?

Correct.

So by the way, just to add, like let's say Greece flag or against India, if we can put the flag of Italy, then many people won't know the flags. Then they will say that put the name of the team.

हाँ तो सिंपल लगता है ना नाम। We will do something guys.

Thank you Vishal for doing this. But guys, this is known as the Bogo Indian, and usually, Harshit bhai, people block with the bishop.

Yeah, trying to exchange the bishops. And what they argue is that after takes, takes, white will have a slightly better bishop than black's. However, Hampi decides to deviate from the main line, going for the move knight bd2, which is also quite popular. Castles, a3, bishop e7. And this is the big question. The question is whether Humpy wants to play the aggressive move pawn to e4.

I think Humpy won't do it because it's the main move here, and she sees that Stavrula is very well prepared, and she can play something more positional with e3 or g3. And I think she will go for that is my feeling. But she goes for e4. Let's go, Humpy!

Center control.

By the way, just for both of you to know and also our audience who's just joining in, Exactly four days ago in the finals of the GCL, we saw the Ganges Grandmasters face off against the Alpine APL Pipers, and these two players played each other, and Stavrula beat Hampi there, right?

Yes. Stavrula won with the black pieces.

Yes.

So that's the reason why Hampi will be looking for revenge here, and I think this time, that time we were like, okay, maybe Ganges could win, maybe Alpine APL, but today we are rooting for Hampi.

Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. This is a very important game for Hampi because Stavrula is the strongest player in the Greek team, and in fact in the entire Olympiad right now considering her form. Oh, she has been playing exceptionally.

Do you think like she's right now in amazing form, like maybe the strongest player?

One of the strongest players.

Her rating doesn't say that she's an IM, but well, she scored 22 points back in India in GCM. Exactly.

And that's why she got the Java bike.

She got the player of the tournament, actually, and that's why she received this, uh, bike.

What if Tech Mahindra calls her and says, if you win today, we won't give you the bike?

Oh, that would be cool.

So Hampi starts with an aggressive, uh, opening with the move pawn to e4, bishop to d3. I like how—

But Stavrula went more positional with d6 because you can also play d5.

Yeah, d5, but then I think it allows white to go e5 and then bishop to d3, which then potentially puts Pressure here. She wants to keep the game close. Goes for d six. White quickly goes bishop d three, and we'll see how this game develops because we have a few more games that we should quickly take a look at.

Let's go to the open section.

Sure.

And then we can.

We have Sachin K Johnson super chatting for Nihal India gold with both bishop d two and bishop d three.

नहीं bishop d two नहीं board two and board three. So for the board medals. What counts is which board you are in the original board order that is submitted. And so Nihal was on board three, Arjun board two, Prag board one. So even if he scores whatever points, he will get the medal on that board.

Yeah, and this is our by the way guys, this is our main lineup. We have Vidit Resting was on board five. So we have our A lineup playing for the first time.

What if Vidit bhai just decides to join us for five minutes in the commentary?

That would that would be amazing, but also we don't want to you know.

Yeah, we can see if he comes to the venue, then we can ask.

Yeah.

Nice, yeah, Harshit bhai.

Yeah, I love this chess base logo. They gave you their lapel pin.

They gave they gave.

Oh, by the way, Pragnananda's game is getting quite spicy.

Hi, you did some flex at some point that you had beaten Sabino Brunello. Yeah.

I want to do a little bit of flex.

Have you beaten Lorenzo?

Yes.

Oh, even I don't remember. Wait, then we get Spalliora.

No, this was in Italy itself. It was at the T.S. Play Open.

Yes.

But he was a young boy, around 2400 or 2300.

But that's great, bhai. Bhai, I think you're an expert at beating people when they're not like a bit younger.

मुझे भी हराया था। बाकी लोगों को भी हराया। अरे पर वो पहले like you used to play only.

Accent चली हर हर्षित भाई से। होता दिल्ली हाँ वो और लोगों को हराता था he would have कुत्ते वो ऐसे बोलते हैं हर्षित भाई ने प्यार से मैंने बहुत दिल पे ले लिया है लेकिन हम बता रहे हैं we are both getting old don't worry no but you would have beaten a lot of people if you would have played in last ten years chess खेलते थे तो I'm sure हर्षित भाई को तो हराते थे और एक बार जब वो बड़ा भी था no no I mean I'm not okay by the way generally पॉन्ट तू सी सिक्स या इस तू बिल्ड अ सेंटर एंड व्हेनेवर आई प्लेड दिस ओपनिंग विथ व्हाइट बिकॉज़ आई यूज्ड तू प्ले दिस अलॉट आई वुड प्ले डी फोर हियर बिकॉज़ द पॉइंट वाज़ आफ्टर टेक्स टेक्स माय क्वीन कुड नो लंगर बी अटैक्ड राइट एंड दैट इज़ एक्जैक्टली व्हाट प्रग That Lorenzo has gone for.

Here, White has an option of going for this move pawn to e4 and going for some sort of this King's Indian setup, like you know with the three pawns in the center. But I think in general, Prague is just really good in these slow and steady positions. So I am quite comfortable and happy with the outcome of Prague's opening.

Right.

Also, if you develop your knight to f3, let's say e4 is not happening because it's not a defense.

Can I take a very one second break and come back?

Sorry.

Knight g five.

I'll be back in a second. Please.

Why? Okay, second.

आजा, आजा.

By the way, E four is possible, Amruta.

Knight, no. How is this?

Knight G five four D five is bad according to generally you want to put the knight to H four and the reason is that you can meet G five with knight to F five and whenever you go D five, white very often wants to go for castle and the F three break.

Okay.

So I think this is quite quite a nice position for white with castle on f3 coming in next, and I think now Prague is thinking for the first time deciding because he can go knight f3.

He can go best move क्या है लेकिन तुम like क्या खेलते हो?

I don't really think there is a single best move here. I think there are a few ways that white can choose from. I think you just need to decide what kind of a game you want to play. I want a rash game मतलब super rash ऐसे सब्जियों I think for SuperRash, I mean, Black is playing a solid setup, but I guess Knight f3 would be a way to try and do that because d5 is a very positional way to play.

Oh, you're gaining some space, but you are also blocking your g2 bishop.

By the way, I'm not a very, very big expert of, uh, positions where White plays the move pawn to d5. I kind of want to keep the tension, and I would prefer to play the move Knight to f3.

नहीं आपको टेंशन मेंटेन करने को अच्छा लगता है ये पता है मुझे exactly so Prague is thinking on this what do you want to take a look at let's go to Arjun's game everyone saying Arjun's game कुछ तो हो रहेगा by the way Nishant Sharma I super chatted Harshit looks like Ori bye I don't know if that is a compliment or not bye that is true that is true I didn't know who Ori was until he came on some days later Just looking like him is fine. What? What is? What does Ori do?

It's fine. Just joking. By the way, knight f three four on the board.

अरे ओह दिस एक ही क्वेश्चन मैं मैं वन क्वेश्चन विच इज़ द मोस्ट नैचुरल मूव विच इज़ नाइट g five.

Uh huh.

Okay. There the best move for black like I felt that d five is weakening for black but C D C D की बात है, but is it not?

तुझे crazy line दिखा हो क्या? Here white can very often go something like F three. Like there are some variations. Like for example, I think it it happens more when we go knight H four. Just to show you a variation, let's say D five variation. F three G five. How can I do this? Let's say castle. Like very often white just sacrifices the piece like this and goes for like a very strong center.

Like I'm not showing you the exact variation because this is a this is I think it's easier sometimes to play like this in a individual format, but in the team format many times they are also thinking you know whether should I start taking risk from the opening or not. But but okay, this these are all cool ideas Harshit bhai has shown us guys. You could think of playing this.

Oh, he goes back knight d two though. But e three wait my first reaction take right e three I will just say thank you very much for the pawn.

You have no combination. What about knight g four?

Knight g four, knight f three back, and we protect the pawn on e three. If you attack again, I'll just defend it again, and at some point I'll kick you with h three.

Okay, so e three is just a tempting move which doesn't work.

Yeah, d five played quickly. Lorenzo Lodici is actually quite well prepared here. Amruta Prag is thinking, whereas Lorenzo Lodici is blitzing out his moves.

Oh my goodness!

And we will see how Prag manages. To navigate in Lorenzo's preparation, let's go to Arjun's board.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Arjun has decided, but I'm not sure.

Something very interesting.

First, मुझे देखेगा?

First, D four D six.

D four से शुरू हुआ भाई.

D four D six is going for the pork opening.

Oh!

Yeah, this is a slightly मतलब ही इसे ना कंपलीटली वारियर मोड़ गाइस मेनी टाइम्स इन आर्मगड़न आल्सो यू विल सी दिस सेटअप मैग्नस आल्सो प्लेडेड आगे देखते हैं जी सिक्स ए सिक्स या सो इन जनरल आई वुड से दैट ही इस एक्सेप्टिंग एन इंफीरियर पोजीशन एंड ट्राइंग टू आउटप्ले हिज ओपोनेंट इन द मेडल गेम बिकॉज It's not such a big deal. It's still a very, very well-known opening line. It's called the Perk.

And which Sagar used to play a lot.

I feel like this guy losses do not kind of demotivate him. It makes him even like I want to push more for victory.

And already now look at his D six and D five. Exactly. He has played the move D five and I have a feeling. That Arjun can get an advantage right from the opening.

E5 के लिए तो opponent will push e5.

If he pushes e5, knight to g4 and bishop g. The problem is that the pawn on a4 is just misplaced because it gives black control of the b4 square. Castling is out of question and black is ready to break with c5. But by bishop f4, just c5. That's the point.

So what if bishop?

If I take I guess knight d four, d four and then you just pick up the pawn on e five.

Okay, let's go two moves behind, guys. You guys are international master and grandmasters, and you know that's maybe not the best thing right now. We have to focus a little bit more on the masses who are not.

No, but the point is here Moroni Luca.

अरे हंसना चाहिए ना joke था sir. Horrible, horrible.

Ah, so a six and here Luca Moroni played the move a four. But in general, I think he should have just focused on his own development with something like knight to f three. And after b five, a setup that one person had taught me unfortunately is no longer with us. Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman. And he had visited me at his training also once. Yes, wow, a few times he had visited me at my home and he told me that white can play this setup with placing the bishop to d3 and it's very easy to play with white. Bishop b7 and generally it's— you're just very solid like this.

Like, but now I'm threatening b4, right?

Uh, I guess I can play a3 if I want. e5 is also an idea. Uh, generally I think we had like I had analyzed when black had already castled, and that's when white played the move bishop to d3 and castle.

And white's idea many times is to push exactly e2 to g3.

Exactly, exactly.

But a4 takes away the option of wrong castling now.

Okay, Amruta allows wrong castling line, and d5, like at let's say a lower level, e4 and e6 is equal to 1-0.

Sorry, e4 d6 is 1-0.

No, come on, come on, come on.

That's how much perk is, you know, giving away the control of the center, the development of the pieces for white. If white's understanding is good, then it really works.

It is a risk.

It is a small risk, Kamruta, to play the perk opening, but Arjun has managed to confuse his opponent, and I think Yeah, I genuinely think that he can get an advantage very soon.

Already has ten minutes at advantage.

Well, the time is one thing, but also on the board, not easy at all to make a decision with white. First of all, how confusing it is that your opponent plays d six and then plays d five.

Yeah, yeah.

That's super confusing.

Actually, this reminds me of this. You know, can you show the few moves from the beginning?

Yeah.

एकदम beginning. E four c five. E four C five D three Knight C six Knight F three G six or इसमें बाद में Knight इसमें बाद में D four आता है correct wait I did the more right C six and now here D four sometimes when you even lose a move it's okay to play this because this is somewhat weak so yeah Amruta your point is right that here in some way it is better for white also you lose a tempo but you are basically taking advantage of the Should we go to another game? Because you don't expect कि वो E pawn हिलने वाला है। The best move, best move in the position. Nice, nice.

Which is take, and I'm pretty sure he will take, take, and then push C four and ask Arjun that where does your queen want to go?

Yeah, and that's a that's actually a great decision by Luca because you know for me I would have been very tempted to play E five and punish my opponent, but he does manage to find E takes D five.

Bye, we have Moroni Luca's video. Is he is he Moroni Luca?

I think he's the one. He's Luca Moroni. Yes. Yeah.

There you can see him, guys. So okay, let's see what Arjun does here because he's not on the board. He will come back and make his move.

We'll go to— by the way, while you shift, Sassy is saying keep reminding us, Amruta, when to laugh, please. I'll definitely say every 10 minutes laugh, and you guys will have to laugh wherever you are. Okay, okay.

This is actually the reason why I've been healthy all my life, and I keep laughing because whenever Amruta jokes She always asks me to laugh.

Of course, you're so serious when you're working like this, and I I just don't like this thing. You know, like this.

So now we go to the game of Nihal.

Sorry, Nihal taking on Sonny's Francesco.

इसके गेम में तो कुछ तो rash होने ही वाला है. Bloodbath. Nihal is showing all the time swashbuckling chess.

Incredible, right? By the way, you know yesterday Wesley came on the show and he mentioned that Nihal plays the Trompowski opening from time to time. And guess what? He goes for it today. He goes for D four, Knight F six, Knight F three.

By what I have heard is if you play Knight F three and then Bishop G five, it's the Torre attack. And if you play Bishop G five directly, it's the Trompowski. I mean doesn't matter.

What's the name?

Yeah, but just.

No, but Torre is over here. I don't think Trompowski is here, but Tore, we can invite once.

No, but he is not the same Tore who found this. There are— there was other Tore. Oh yeah, I think so. e6, Knight d2, h6.

And it's interesting, Nihal doesn't give up the bishop because the other option is to take the knight on f6. Well, that's why, you know, very likely we have come with that bishop on g5. And after takes, we push our pawn to e4. We gave up our bishop pair, but for very nice control in the center. And black has already moved the queen outside. And generally, we've heard that we don't want to move the queen early on in the opening stage because it's prone to get to to being hit.

Right, absolutely. अगर नहीं बुलाया है किसी ने कि आजाओ इधर हमारे घर पे तो फिर आना ही पड़ेगा। You played you faced this with black, right? I'm sure like because you must be playing knight f six a lot.

Yeah, I actually found these story attacks. To be quite, uh, quite unpleasant if I was not prepared.

I agree with you, but then I needed to face this.

Yeah, but then I somehow managed to find some, uh, some ways to play against it.

And can you share what ways did you find?

Oh, but this is something that leads to a very interesting position, uh, for both sides, uh, because White's Plan is clear. Castles, Queen e2, a4, and Black— so I, I can even tell you what the next moves will be because I've prepared this at some point. Castles.

With white?

Queen e2, Knight bd7, Rook e1. Maybe sometimes you go Rook e8 with the idea of Bishop f8 and e5 break. a4, a6, and Knight e4 comes. And then when you trade, these are the trades which happen usually. And then if such a position comes, I used to play D five.

Wow man, that is so impressive.

क्या ना क्या चाहते हो भाई?

इतना प्रेफर करके भी GM नहीं बने। Oh my god, भाई सागरशाह goated भाई। मैंने बहुत game खेला हूँ मैं ये line में। दिख रहा है भाई। भाई मुझे लगा आप कि चैट जीपीटी से पूरा पैराग्राफ पढ़ के आए हो। You have to make a short course on this, like a ten minute twenty. ये तो मैं पगला ही गया भाई। Okay.

Nice, awesome.

You know Nihal sir generally comes up with such unique positional ideas. Whenever I want like you know he is someone who has generally a big impact and influence over my understanding of chess because Whenever Nihal plays even in blitz and bullet, he tries his best to play best objective moves. And I think this is something that we can learn from. Whenever you're playing blitz and bullet online and you want to learn from it, try to not just play on your opponent's clock. Try to actually make good moves on the board because that way when you analyze, you can learn from your thought process.

Nice. That's great point, Sarshit. Bye.

Guys, if you really have a— like, try this out in this Olympiad. You have made a notebook and all these advices which are upcoming, the plans and ideas. Let's say if you write all of them, तो फिर crazy चीज़ होगा ना from the live streams। हाँ, बहुत अच्छा होगा। उनका notebook भर जाएगा। दिमाग का पता नहीं। And then when do you find like many times such advices will come at the right moment? You know you can't say कि अब भी बताओ और आ जाएगा। ये moment है इसके लिए वो advice आ रहा है। So try it out all those who are serious.

So I just zoomed out a bit from that camera, and we can now go to the game of the world champion, Gukesh Domaraju, and he is playing against Sabino Brunello.

And if you see Harshit Bhai Amruta, I think Ding had come and maybe watching the game.

By the way, Vantika is there. Was it Vantika? Yes, she is watching the games of the open section. Gukesh also going for this.

Oh, Bishop e6 line! I love this.

Didn't Gukesh face this with white in the first round? He was white and he played b3.

Wow.

Bishop b4 check, Bishop d2 against the 1900-rated opponent. This is exactly what happened. But so, uh, Brunello plays Knight d2 and Gukesh goes c5, Bishop g2, and a very sharp move, Knight c6.

Played.

Yeah, so when is the d5? You know, this pawn sac sometimes is there. d5, e5, and h4, that kind of a thing.

It happens here when you play the move queen to c2. Yes, c5. And now white plays the move pawn to d5. This is the pawn sacrifice. And the explanation is that after takes, takes, you cannot take the pawn immediately, guys. Why?

Let's ask the first question here.

And what's the move here, guys? We also have the names of the teams that India is playing against in the title of our YouTube video that is live stream. So some people who do not know whom India is playing, just read the title: India versus Italy in open and India versus Greece in the women, right?

Yes.

गीता हरि, बद्रीनाथ, अनमोल, बट्टू एंड केशव। Yes, lot of people finding it.

निशा वर्मा। You are hitting the knight. If the knight comes back to defend itself, you lose the rook in the corner on a8 and white is totally winning. Wow! And and that's why this is a very sharp line. This doesn't happen as white goes knight d2.

And I'm very surprised by Sabino's decision of taking here. Because I'm pretty sure you will take back. Like we are told always to take, you know, develop our pieces in the opening. Yeah, but this is you control the center.

Yeah, for sure.

But b takes c five is natural. But I actually even bishop c five I like it because there's no knight a four and you know these kind of ideas.

The problem about bishop c five is that at some point you probably want to play pawn to d five and that makes the position quite solid in nature. I think b takes c five keeps the game a lot more complex, right? Which Gukesh might want.

He did it.

Yeah.

Gukesh takes with the pawn capture towards the center. Rook b eight coming in. Pawn to d five. Bishop e seven or bishop d six and castles. It's a steady position. Interesting equal.

Yeah.

Steady तो बिल्कुल नहीं मतलब d five if you are getting in hanging pawns and it's gonna be a super dynamic मतलब it's well known position.

Yeah, and I think I think Gukesh will get a lot of chances to outplay his opponent. So this is the roundup of the open section. Just to finish it up, Gukesh has a very dynamic position to play. Nihal, I think, is he has now by the way decided to take the knight on f6. But why?

Because of Vishwanath.

No, it's an incredible decision.

You know what he's arguing?

Because I have never you know I've faced this many times. I've never seen anyone take.

And it's his के बाद bishop पर जाने के बाद he's taking.

I mean, of course, in this position after knight b to h six, we have seen bishop takes f six many times. But this delayed bishop takes.

Oh, look at his next idea, Harshit bhai! You're going to go crazy. Wow! H four.

Oh, and once again bloodbath he's waiting for.

And look at where is Nihal? He's not there. He played the move h four and he's left the board.

Bye!

It reminds me of the young Nihal. Do you remember? There is a very old video on the channel of YouTube India. Go into the archives and check it out.

Hi, it's not even on ChessBase India. पता है? It is some. It is before ChessBase India when I was putting on Sagar Shah channel. तब का video है वो। Unihal is walking around.

He makes the move and he just quickly walks. He was very very young back then. By the way, I was telling you he finds these very unique positional ideas.

सागर भाई टेक्स्ट ऑन एफ सिक्स एंड गोज़ ह फोर एंड दिस इज़ द रीज़न व्हाई वी आर सो ग्लैड टू हैव निहाल सरीन ऑन अ टीम भाई बट कैन यू एक्सप्लेन व्हाट इज़ द पॉइंट ऑफ़ दिस इफ शॉर्ट कैसल गाइस व्हाइट टू प्ले व्हाट्स द मूव यू विल प्ले चाह I'm not seeing the engine so I could be wrong like yesterday but Harshit भाई can understand what I'm thinking is that right I think you're you're on Absolutely the right track, Amruta.

We don't have to go for that move immediately, but it's for sure something that white is going to employ.

Okay, people are saying after if black short castles, white wants to go g4.

Exactly.

Oh, I wanted to go knight g5, but it is useless. Yeah, because h5, h5, h5, bishop g5, queen h5.

Guys, uh, something to just say about this move knight g5. It's very tempting and it looks really good. But in fact, it's not doing anything because if white black takes, of course you are very happy. But why would black take, right?

So I think in general we should bishop takes g five, g five queen g five is a pawn.

Yeah, exactly.

It's tempting. It's like it's a chocolate move. Like chocolate is tempting, but it's not.

Whereas g four is just a brutally strong idea because black has played g four is also a chocolate move, but dark chocolate.

No, no, guys. Today we got a gift actually very very sweet of somebody coming.

I cannot believe.

Here we got.

Can I show?

Yes.

Can you show the other one?

No, we can't show that on the screen.

Why? It's a gift.

No, but we can't show it.

No, we can.

No, it's. We can't show the bottle.

अरे bottle एक gift है. Let's show it. So what happened was a girl from Tajikistan. Or no, Kyrgyzstan. She came here. She's the top board of her country, and she said in the 2023 World Cup, she was playing in board one against in the first match against Theodora Inyak.

Yeah.

And I was commentating for the FIDE livestream along with Irene, and she played very well, and I had actually praised her play, and it gave her a lot of boost of confidence, and now she's on board one of her team.

मैंने उसे बताया था कि मीडिया कवर्ड है। The media got that.

So she gave us this cognac.

Wow!

From so Harshit bhai. This is yours, bhai.

It's a very such a sweet gift. It's a very nice gift.

Thank you so much. She's a very good player now, and who knows? Maybe she'll become a very strong player. So Harshit bhai, please be careful what you talk.

हाँ भाई और दिस इज़ दिस इज़ फॉर अमृता शी गेव अ चॉकलेट तो स्वीट एंड इट्स अ कारगिस्तान वेरी नाइस वेरी नाइस पीपल वेरी अनप्रिडिकेबल अनफॉरसीन थिंग्स हैप्पीनिंग ओवर योर वेरी पॉजिटिव वन्स नाइस एंड H four is as well quite an unexpected idea here by Nihal I like it I like this unexpected idea by him going for Some sort of aggression here. Nihal's boat looks good.

And a disclaimer, as Sakar says, alcohol is bad. So guys, it's not to drink at all. It can be a showpiece.

We have received sometimes alcohol as a gift and we have kept it for many, many years in our house just as a sentimental gift from someone.

Yeah, like if anything happens to me, if I die, then I think he can that time see.

So by the way, Knight d7 played here. I saw this, and guys, I'm actually not a super big fan of how Nihal has played this. Yeah, because I mean, on one hand it's very interesting and exciting. On the other hand, I don't see the point. Like, I jump with my knight, you'll go back, and black has the bishop pair. The other idea is you can decide to go Queen e2 and g4, g5. By the way, he's played Queen e2 instantly.

See, Sagar, you don't see a point, and that's where maybe somewhere you could not become a grandmaster.

No, but what's the point? I mean, still, I mean, the point is—

look, the point is to create a situation, psychological situation, for your opponent. So the opponent is Francis Kusonis, and Nihal wants to pay Play sona chess. I think this is so cool, very interesting chess.

Sona sona kitna sona.

The queen comes into e2 and Nihal is going for a very aggressive idea by long castle triple.

I love it.

By the way, there seems to be some tactics. I'm threatening. Maybe Nihal wants to exchange one bishop.

So the natural move is a six.

No, a six to stop that. Just as a thought.

I'm worried about bishop.

Knight c four.

Attacking d6 and b6, bishop e7. And I don't know if this position has any something interesting to look at, or maybe not. Yeah, nothing much.

Yeah, but in general, I think it's a good idea that you mentioned because the knight is not doing a lot on d2. But I do think that the knight can reroute itself to e3 and perhaps at some point consider d5 as well to to completely block. This light-squared bishop on b7. So I, I think this idea that you mentioned casually is actually something White is seriously going to consider down the road.

Yeah, so we did round up the Open. Should we go to the Women's? Let's go, let's go, let's have a look at the Women's board. And you can see Stavrula Solakidou is in deep thought here. She's thinking, and Humpy is not on the board. She has left Stavrula thinking, and let's have a look at what's happening here. So d4, we we went through this line till e4, d6, bishop d3, e5.

Okay, we didn't see e5, so black kind of stops white from playing e5.

And by the way, there is a very nice tactic which people should know. If I take, take, and knight takes e5 because I protect my bishop, what is A good move here for black. You knew this? Wow!

I think Sagar, because of making so many recaps, you you sometimes pick off on.

Also, I used to make whatever I used to play. I remember it well.

Nice.

मुझे बंद कर दिया। And the move that a lot of people are saying is yes, exactly. G four.

Adrina chess, Sangarsh, Mayank Sadhu. There is a better move, but you're on the right track. The the move is actually to deflect. This knight from e5, which is protecting this bishop, and it is knight to g4. The point is that after you take on g4, queen takes d3, you've gotten this important bishop stopping white from castling now, and black has excellent compensation. So this is the reason why knight takes e5 doesn't work. Well done, everyone! Guys, everyone is improving here. Let's go!

Let's go! Let's go! We also have Sakar who is mentioning RB Ramesh sir is analyzing live games with his students. Future of Indian chess. Wow!

That's so cool. Who is analyzing with him?

रमेश और स्टूडेंट्स। नो बट विच स्टूडेंट्स?

कैन यू शो?

कैन यू नो?

यू कैन वी ओपन द स्ट्रीम देर, सो वी कैन टेल हुआ द फ्यूचर। बिकॉज़ आई एम शोर दैट देर आर सम अमेजिंग प्लेयर्स देर यंगस्टर्स, विच मेनी ऑफ़ दूध। आई एम प्रिटी शोर दैट प्राणी विल बी देर। ओह हीज़ डूइंग So cool. So he's doing with Adwik. I can recognize Arshya Das, Sharberto Mani, Madhuendra Pratap.

Lovely.

And Kalyani Sirin and Divi Bijesh and Vyom Malhotra. Oh, I could recognize everyone.

Man, Sagar is—

maybe I missed one wrong name, but I think they are the ones. They are really the future of Indian chess, guys. They are amazing.

So so go and raid Ramesh sir's channel guys chess भी इंडिया raid हो जाएगा इतना time हो गया है ना raid हाँ but हमने तो वो raid वगैरह मतलब they are just analyze नहीं disturb मत कर रहा by the way in this game we had a few moves e takes d four knight takes d four rook to e eight developing e four oh humpy is like expansion and she wants to expand as well as get this bishop on the fianchetto diagonal So black plays a five, trying to challenge white's expansion. White goes pawn to b five. Knight goes back to d seven. This is a very cool move.

Can we ask our viewers?

Yeah.

Which square has been weakened where the black knight wants to settle in?

And while they think, can you explain a bit more about space advantage?

So the thing is. When we three are sitting together, there is less space. But when let's say I move away, then Amruta has lot of space. So this is the space advantage which white has because white has more more pawns that have captured space. And people all those who said C5 square.

Well done, guys! Well done!

Any square that cannot be controlled by an opponent's pawn and is quite relevant is a weakness. So let's say here it's a relevant square in the center. So knight C5. Let's jump in with our knight.

A beautiful idea because Stavroula doesn't play knight BD7. She goes knight FD7. And one of the reasons why this knight was chosen. Is to allow the bishop on E7 to come into F6.

Let's go.

Great point. Bishop B2, bishop F6 has been played. Bishop to C2 and a mistake by Stavrula Knight to C5.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What's that move? Wait a second. Wow! Yeah.

The most natural move, but the queen is going to jump, I think, to H5.

No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. By Stavrula here.

I can't figure it out.

A big chance.

For Kone Ru, but let's let's see if Hampi can find this because Harshitpa it's look candidate moves में I will say yeah for like candidate moves for me would be Queen H five E five and F four ठीक है these are the three moves let's इसमें से if there is one move which is right then obviously Hampi will find it and the move here guys भाई wait wait wait is it correct to find But tell me now, is it correct?

One of the guys.

I don't know.

I have to think. I'm thinking.

Okay, I'm checking. Oh yes, my one of the move is correct. Well done, Amrita. Which move is correct out of that is the question.

Not easy.

Queen h5, f4, or e5?

Played. She plays it.

And humpy ope ho jai chat me because f4 How come this move is so strong?

I don't get it.

Well, because now we are utilizing a space advantage to create some sort of an attack.

But that's the queen edge.

Well, no, because black should have challenged white's central control with the move pawn to c5 here, and this would have kept the balance. Because after b takes, black is developing a piece. This was a golden opportunity for, for Stavrula to equalize now. But I thought that knight c five f four.

Okay, let's.

This is close to winning for white.

I'm not sure yet. Let's go knight d seven.

Okay.

I can queen h five. Queen h five.

Let's go g six.

So queen h six नहीं जाता। अच्छा bishop g seven जाओगे ठीक है?

Guys, this reminds me of Nihal's game yesterday. Knight b six.

Knight b six.

Yeah.

g four.

I want to put pressure on.

C four okay, Rook A one.

नहीं G G four नहीं क्या? G four.

G four. Our Ruta is going crazy. Oh my god!

I mean it's too overboard.

Well the problem is knight you need the knight is coming to A four. Yeah. And hitting your bishop.

That's why Rook E one के बाद you have the A one square.

Which Harshit did not think about but it happened naturally.

What?

Really you thought?

Okay okay.

Harshit bhai that's why the grandmaster he Look at this. The way you attack matters a lot.

क्योंकि मैं इस R5 पे अभी threaten कर रहा हूँ। Okay, okay.

ये बट छोटे board पे मत दिखाओ सब वो mobile पे। You keep a big board.

Look at Divya by the way. She is almost like sleeping on her board.

Let's meditate. Let's just sitting calmly. Okay. Very very cool Arshad bhai rookie one finding.

No, I think Hampi is a Very big advantage, guys. This was a board that I was actually a little scared of, but Hampi has played beautifully in the opening stage of the game and now has a +1.5 advantage.

And guys, you know, like, if a player gets such a big edge out of the opening, it really reduces the pressure on the team, right? Because you are leading from the front. Yeah, so Hampi is showing her class here. But to tell you the truth, I honestly feel That Hampi will be feeling it's a good position, but to think like it's plus 1.5 is a bit too much.

Just think about it. I mean, black has so much difficulties in developing the pieces and getting some coordination, uh, in their pieces.

Why?

I can play knight e6.

Guys, check this out quickly because there is something very crazy thing happened in Nihal's game.

Really?

He's made a move which you cannot believe, and people are talking mouse slip.

Oh wow!

He has played the move king to f1, and you know something?

What the hell is queen king f1? Where is Nihal? He comes here, but he also played a4. So he has played a4 and h4 both, which means that the king cannot castle here. It would be very weak. If castles here, it would be very weak. And he plays now king f. One bishop e seven.

But why did he go for a four and not knight c four, which you were showing, Sagar?

Oh, Arshid Bai has played this move against Stefan Leupler in a kind of similar structure. Yeah, a four also he played.

I'm sure he must have seen the game. Oh, this is so similar, man.

By the way, guys, this is Arshid Bai by equipment. नहीं but there is a big difference C file open है इसमें let me let me just show on a big one so this was Harshit's position against Stefan Löffler a well-known journalist and he played the move King f1 the only problem I think only difference is black's pawn was on c6 in this game and not on d6 so that's a small difference But yes, King f1. Why did you play Harshit by King f1?

Because I did not want to move my rook away from h1, but I wanted to bring my rook from a1 in the game.

Oh, Rook a1.

King f1 just felt like the move which, uh, give me enough flexibility.

Also, I feel g3, King g2 might make sense if you can trade these bishops.

If you can trade the bishops, yes.

So like, let's say I go Bishop e4 and I trade and then play g3, King g2.

Yeah, but I'm to be honest, like, I felt a lot more comfortable in my game doing that because there was no bishop on b7. In Nihal's game, uh, I am, I am not as confident about this move king to f1 because, uh, I am scared that this bishop on b7 can get quite strong. So yeah, in my game it was, it was a lot easier to make this move, but king f1 in this position is a bit risky.

Well, yeah, very interesting call there by Amruta. To go to Nihal's board, very critical moment actually.

And I said, let us trust you so that you are telling the right news and it's no no fake news. Then it's a lot of fun.

But I must say that Nihal Sarin is that guy who's providing the masala in this tournament. You know, good, bad positions, totally up and down. He's the guy who is creating the magic on the board. Like well, while other games if you see are all equal, Nihal is like करते हैं ना कुछ मस्ती करते हैं। So he's Trying to cook up something interesting.

Let's see how he tries to develop from this because black is very solid. Black has no weaknesses in the position, and white has already lost the right to castle. So we'll be curious to see.

Can black castle now? Why?

Because I think black would also want to be flexible, right?

Yeah, it's white to play, by the way. So let's see if Nihal goes Rook e1, which is what Harshit wants to play here. And this is we were looking through. Let's look at other women boards.

Divya Deshmukh versus Avramidu, and and Divya also has a very very fine position with black. Divya has managed to equalize.

It's a London system.

London system. Bishop d six castle b six bishop. a6.

She goes c5 and queen c7, and now plays bishop a6, getting rid of this very important bishop. And Divya essentially saying, I've gotten rid of my problem piece, I should be fine.

And the idea for black, as you can see on Divya's game, is to reroute the knight to d7 and challenge this central knight on e5. Divya has managed To solve all of the problems in the opening has equalized, and she'll now try to potentially play for more.

धीरे-धीरे, धीरे-धीरे, हॉले हॉले। Yeah, it's because white has many possibilities to simplify after e four in the future, and you know it's not going to be.

It's not easy to win, but Divya is with black. You know the first step is to equalize, and she has done that. Let's check Vantika's game as she has won both of her games. For the women's team here, and this is a King's Indian opening. King's Indian defense.

Some people were saying that Antika has a big advantage, but if we can take it from the top, yeah, first move. This opening often is given a big advantage to white because of the space advantage which Amruta has spoken about. D six. Knight f3 castles, bishop e3, and here this knight bd7 by Pavlidou is a slightly you can say passive move because you want to often play e5. I think ninety four nine. I mean it's playable and that's why the advantage grows a little bit more by for the engine.

Right.

For humans it's just a normal position.

Absolutely. I mean kings in in kings Indian defense the engine always gives this static 0.6 to 0.7 edge for white. But, uh, one of the reasons why black does quite well in this opening is because white is playing on the queenside, trying to expand and gain space, whereas black is actually attacking the white king. And engines don't have this fear, don't have this emotion of fear, whereas when you're playing again, when you're human, you're obviously going to tend to get a bit afraid when black is coming towards your So that's the reason behind the engine evaluation.

Let's go to the last.

Humpy का what we okay first we check Savita and then we go back once to Humpy after four.

Savita is black against Antonia Christodoulaki, and I think this is a board where Savita would be looking to strike. She's playing against slightly inexperienced. experienced player in terms of, you know, playing at the top level. And, uh, Savitha, who's in great shape right now, will be trying to, uh, trying to strike.

And if you try to win a pawn, then usually I can take here.

And a very, very common idea that also happens in Spanish, queen to d4, hitting the knight on e5 and the pawn on e4.

So that's the reason why, uh, she castled. सविता पुटर बिशप हियर, दिस इज़ वेल नॉन, दिस इज़ बिकमिंग पॉपुलर. नेक्स्ट यू गो नाइटी सेवन कासल्स, व्हाइट शुड ट्राई सी थ्री डी फोर, राइट? शिवेंट टेक्स, ऑलरेडी अ स्मॉल इनएक्यूरेसी. सविता का बिशप ओपन्स अप.

या फॉर सुर.

डी थ्री, नाइटी सेवन, एंड आई ऑलरेडी स्टार्ट ल I hope that's the best move.

Or yeah, f6 is generally how you want to play this pawn structure. So a bit surprised that Savita goes for h6, but she had to take.

No, e7. Like, bishop takes e7.

Yeah, white should take on e7 because it's a close position. And very— this is a great point, Amruta. This is the best move you've suggested the entire day. It's incredible. To give up this bishop is a very hard decision to make, but you spotted it right away. And this is amazing understanding because the position is closed and you want to get rid of this knight. And this actually is very, very fine for for for white. Now, however, after bishop h four, this allows black the possibility to even play g five followed by knight to g six. And this is what Savita should play. This gives black a huge attacking chance.

This reminds me of Fabi versus Bukesh from Olympia 2024.

Yeah, the bishop is out.

Exactly.

Oh, very interesting, Harshit bhai, that you suggest that we can actually push the pawn, bring the knight here.

Yeah, that doesn't happen.

And even for g5, knight g5 is not allowed.

Knight g6 directly, which is fine. Savita is doing well. I think, yeah, uh, we trust in Savita. She has played amazingly on board 4. Both her games she won without giving opponents any chance. Let's see if she can keep that up today. Yeah, these are the roundups. I feel the women's team is looking more stable than the men's team in this tournament, right?

Amruta is so excited to see Hampi's board, and yes, there is a good reason for that because she has a 1.6 edge.

The evaluation keeps increasing in Hampi's favor because look at Stavi there, stabilized like by एक कहाँ से कहाँ पहुँच गई?

एक भी Indian player board पे नहीं है। Oh my God! सिर्फ jacket है चारों। Wow!

Let's have that.

Seen guys. Oh, there is Savita. Savita should quickly make her move and get up, and then there should be a photo of all Greek players like thinking like, "What's the partner scorecard?" And all the all the women players, नहीं भाई ऐसे बाहर ऐसे they are drinking some tea or something.

Nice. But you know what? This like the whole thing is about space advantage. It was so huge that black had to be very. Cure it in order to you know face that space advantage. जैसे life में भी if you see सागर, the space advantage which is there like many times for people they are like free है कुछ भी कर सकते हैं at the same time there is a vacuum sometimes loneliness आ जाता है है ना हर्षित भाई कभी-कभी but you know when you don't have space advantage sometimes there's an emotional thing कुछ support रहता है but कभी-कभी थोड़ा ऐसा congested भी लगता है So every— like, space is an advantage and a disadvantage, you know. Definitely nothing is—

if you can manage your space, you are better. But if you can't, then you will be left with a lot of weaknesses. So Amruta dropping some life advice here for everyone who are, you know, in your life. If you are looking for space, remember that it is good to have space, but often space can also have downsides. Correct, right?

No, no, but you can face the downsides. Like you can be, you can say कि I never feel lonely at all.

No, I just analyze the downsides, the upsides of this game.

First of all, do you feel lonely anytime?

I do.

No, but do you think you can actually like how you practice chess like that you can practice in a way where you will not feel lonely?

But I'm not, I'm not sad that I feel lonely. I think feeling lonely is a part of life. So why should I feel?

But is there a possibility that you can, you don't feel lonely at all?

Guys, I have some work to do. I have to look at the same work, boy.

Oh my God!

Amruta starting her psychology sessions here. D five. By the way, just one second. Can we can we just show our audience that the E four pawn was hanging? So had to play D five three times attacked and then.

F3.

Yeah, Prag breaks the structure, putting so much pressure. Yeah, so he took.

White, black had to take.

He takes with the knight, giving up a pawn. Exactly, which black said I don't want.

It goes bishop e7, castles, castles, and Prag says, lay low, bye, free me.

And now he takes it, and Prag is a pawn down but gets his knight on f5. Yeah, and we have a very Interesting question by Shrikar Sam.

He asks, on each turn, players have several possible moves. Is there always a brilliant move hidden among them, or only in certain positions?

Only in certain positions, not in every position. But there's always moves that are better than the others in every position. So let's say you can— it's like a normal day of life. It's not every day you can achieve something.

But every day you can live it well.

So the same thing is about the move. You can make good moves, but the brilliant moves comes only like three four times in a game usually. Correct.

By the way, I I I I Prag is on his way, Mike. Prag is on his way to.

Hi, so soon.

Is it's a good start. You can feel it, you know.

Hey, I have one question. Can black go knight b six and the variation that I saw? क्योंकि मैं आपके नाइट को बिशप से लेना चाहता हूँ। हाँ, बट मैं थोड़ा सा मैंने बिशप जी पाँच। मैंने बिशप जी पाँच। Exactly.

Because I thought that you cannot afford to get doubled pawns here and white is threatening knight e4. Potential sacrifices like rook takes f6 are in there.

This looks. I can go back knight d7 now.

Yeah, but then knight coming into e4, I doubled triple down on your knight on f6 and this looks like a very very nice advantage for white.

So actually a big moment here for Lorenzo. You can see him a bit stressed out here. He's thinking about what to do. And as we go into the full screen here, you can get the he's a bit tense. You could see him emoting a bit.

Why tense actually?

Because what move to make?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And did you see? Did you see Prag? He looked like super focused with lot of energy. Amazing. Prague is in focus, and you know what, Harshit bhai? We have to find every day the neurofocus move of the day. Yeah. So do you think that there is not yet?

Not yet.

King F one maybe.

We're we're we're I'm not so sure if it's if it was a good decision. So we'll find out eventually.

I I think this one already is a good one. No?

No? Well, I think he has he has found a nice plan, but I think it's too soon. We'll wait for the critical moment. By the way, guys, there is a reason that Prag is playing on board one. He is perhaps the best player in the world, right? Besides Magnus, and that says a lot because he won Norway Chess. He also won Grand Chess Tour, which is so difficult, like extremely.

Where are you going? It is extremely difficult to win such like. You know, it's such a long circuit, the Grand Chess Tour, and every tournament is stuffed with so many different formats. And to win Grand Chess Tour is next level at this moment, uh, after World Championship.

Yeah, for sure. So Prag is in great shape, and also in this position, guys, we like it because he's potentially also considering to expand his, uh, grip of the center with the move pawn to e4. Prag looking very good on board 1 here. And his opponent looks very nervous.

I love the position. I love that you are able to bring such a situation after ten moves where it is all intense, it is all imbalanced, and there is nothing clear happening over here. So that is super cool what Prague has managed opening-wise success. I will can we say he's out? Played his opponent in the opening, or that is too early to say?

I think he has. I think he has managed to, uh, in some ways outplay the opponent a little bit here. So Pragg is slightly better.

And guys, we have big news! We have a guest who's going to join us, and that will be very exciting because the person who will be joining us will be donning a couple of hats here. Uh, we will be speaking to him about the Olympiad And also he's a strong grandmaster and he is the CEO of FIDE. Grandmaster Emil Sutovsky is going to join us. And Emil, if you have time, please, please do join us. Maybe here, that would be— no, this is nice actually. And there we have Emil joining us. Hello, Emil.

Hi.

I don't see where shall I look.

Yes, right here.

This is the camera. No, maybe you can zoom out a bit so that yeah. And there we have Emil, the CEO of FIDE. Emil, welcome to the broadcast.

Thank you, sir.

We have a lot of people who are following this tournament. Very exciting.

Always, Olympics are so exciting.

Your thoughts on that? How many Olympics have you played?

I never counted.

Ah, maybe it's a good time to count.

Okay, I played the first one in 1996. That was 30 years ago. It was in Yerevan. Then I played '98, I played 2000, I played 2002, 2004, 2006. 2008 I skipped, then I played 2012. 10, 2012, 2014, 2016, I skipped 2018.

Would you be like in the top 10 players who have played Olympiad? No, not, not, but you finished like around 10 or 12?

10 or 11, I think, yes, but yeah, but, but, uh, but surely there are people who played 15 or so. So a quiz for you, who played most number of games?

In Olympiad?

Yes.

Is it, uh, Tore?

Yes, good one, and the second place? Fortnite? No, but it's the same generation more or less.

Uh, should not be a very famous player.

Very famous.

He's very famous.

Oh, top 10 players, player for 30 years. Really? Yep.

Yeah, Ivan Chuk.

No, still no.

Now you have to understand that now Olympiads are Shorter. Previously they would play 15 rounds, 17 rounds at times, okay, the number of games they would play semifinal and then final group, so it could be up to 20 games or something.

But he's not playing anymore?

He's not playing anymore, he's quite old, but he's— I met him 2 years ago and he was— I give you a hint, I met him 2 years ago and he was very energetic and going strong, not, not King Zubair.

Oh, you met him in Hungary?

Yes.

Aha. So then the legend of Hungarian chess. I have to because I tried to interview him as well. No, Portish.

Portish.

So why is Portish?

Yeah, he is the and and there's also one more person who. I was trying to interview him. He has a YouTube channel. He's in his 80s right now, a very big legend. Also played the Candidates, I believe.

Um, anyway, so that's, that's, that's an event where many people played 200 and more games. I played maybe 120, maybe something like that. So no, I'm nowhere close, but, uh, I attended it in Maybe I attended it in more capacities than anyone else because I attended it as a player, as a coach. I was a coach of Azerbaijani team once in 2016, obviously as a chief organizer and in many capacities. And it's always exciting, so many people. And of course, here you see during the games typically only the top players. Maybe in the first rounds you see top players versus not so top players. But I think they're very special. The essence of Olympia is, you know, it's huge festival and they have so many people just for whom just being in Olympia is such a great thing. Yeah.

Amazing. So Emil, I'm going to ask you the tough questions right from the get-go. Who do you think this year is looking stable, strong as teams? Um, all that we have seen, not much, you know, only 2 rounds. Your thoughts on open and women both? Because you know in the women, Georgia already faced their small setback yesterday. They drew two-two.

Yeah, but it's too early to say. I would say that Indian team looks a bit vulnerable.

The open one.

Yes, yes. In Arjun losing the first and the second match was very close.

Yeah.

Actually, you could even lose it.

Yes, if Nihal lost.

Yes, yes. So it was. I mean, if the guy would have played knight c five at that point. Yeah. So, uh, you know, many teams here are having very dangerous squad that they can beat anyone, but they probably would not win the championship.

Hmm.

So there are many teams who are rated, let's say, between 10 and 40 or 10 and 50, who would be dangerous for anyone to meet, but they would not win, and the winner would be among top 10 teams.

So what is the difference between that team that wins and those which can actually beat a top team? Is it like consistency?

Consistency, consistency. Look, without false modesty, I myself have beaten most of number 1s, 2s, and 3s in the world, and I never was in the top 10 because I like this.

By the way, Emil has a plus score against Magnus.

And against Fabi and against Kramnik. But yes, but I like this consistency. I never belonged to really the elite. I never was in top 10 because yes, I sometimes, I instead of playing, uh, you know, solid game and taking a draw, I was not solid enough, or I was, uh, too emotional or whatever. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's sort of mix of factors which you cannot really— there is no recipe. Exactly, there was no formula. It's something that is unique for every player, what works for him or her. So, uh, but consistency, it's, it's one thing which defines Magnus. After all, he himself said he's probably not a clear number one in anything, but he's about number one or two in everything.

And that is very interesting.

You do—

maybe there are better attackers than Magnus, maybe there are better Opening experts than Magnus, but when you compile everything together, there's no one like Magnus. Very interesting, this POV.

And in the women's section, yeah, I want to talk a bit about the women's section because it's inevitably time after time we when I follow not only your broadcast but also official broadcast, women part is always getting less attention. And obviously, the competition is very interesting because there are many teams with. Young players, and you do not really know what they are capable of. Yeah. For example, Chinese players, apart of Zhu Jin'er, I don't know these girls there, but I won't be surprised if I've heard of Liu Mao, Song Yuxin. Of course, I mean, you know them, but you haven't seen enough. Yeah, yeah. Let's say when I say I don't know, of course, Song Yuxin, I saw her playing at Batumi, excellent chess. And, and who we have?

I mean, Liu Miao is—

Liu Miao played in and so on, but we don't know her as a— in the top events within CBS, that's what I mean.

Right.

So Indian squad looks good, we have Hampi after many years, I think, yes, and all the younger girls are excellent, Divya and all the others, so you surely will be in top 3, but to win it, I don't know.

I mean, I have a question, like Olympiad has such high importance, like, you know, the Chinese team always bring out their best for the open, in the open section.

Why is—

why are we still missing, uh, the, the female players from the, from the Chinese women's team?

Oh, I, I don't know. I really don't know. We have been asking this question and raising it with our Chinese colleagues. They have a very interesting, uh, thought process. They, uh, Always try to inject new blood, younger players and so on. And if you pay attention, many of their players retire at relatively young age. It also was true not only now, before that. For example, Xu Yuhua, she was a world champion, she became world champion, and at the age of 30 or something she retired. And so there are many players like— and, and even Hou Yifan, she basically retired. So it somehow matches with the probably policy to give way to younger players and so on. It does impact results sometimes, but still, this is a—

Yeah, yeah.

They're still excellent. I remember very well how the young team came to the World Team Championships in Israel in 2021, I think it was, and they won, although they were rated number 7 or something like that. So, but once again, many countries have Excellent lineup. And these upsets which are happening, well, separate games, let's say standalone games, do not actually talk about a lot, but we will see a lot of setbacks from the top team playing 2-2 or losing narrowly to team number 30 or something like that.

That's actually a great point, uh, here that Chinese team many times Have and I was speaking to someone and they said they have a selection process. They have some selection tournament and maybe someone like Ju Wenjun or Lei Qingye might feel like okay, I mean we still have to play selection process might be a bit too much. So yeah, there are many reasons. Emil, we are we are seeing some interesting games today. Prague is taking on Lorenzo Lodici. Any thoughts on this position?

I don't know this opening line, but it's very. Exciting one. I already see it. By the way, Lodicci is also young and very progressing player.

He became famous in the World Cup.

In the World Cup, yes. He beat someone very suspiciously.

He beat Hans Niemann as well.

Yeah, maybe.

And then he had this most amazing celebration there.

Yes. So, but I think, I don't know what's computer evaluation. I see a bar, but I'm not sure where it stands.

Yes, it is very small edge.

Yeah.

So we are actually surprised that But I, I find it, uh, very hard to play with black, right? I mean, it looks like something went wrong because bishop f6 you'd never want to allow. I mean, at least practically speaking, I feel like the advantage is bigger than the engine says.

No, it looks funny because it reminds me in a way, if you'll have time to find it, is the game Kasparov won against Ivanchuk in 1988. Oh, if you can have a look and Quickly get it. It was a very first encounter. It was Soviet Championship 1988, where everyone participated, including Kasparov, Karpov, and everyone. And Ivanchuk was sort of a young genius who just emerged as very top player. But it was his and Kasparov played the novelty in the same opening line—not same—but English opening with e4 and then taking. If you can have a look, you will—you will see what I mean. Very strong resemblance. What I see on board, it's a bit different line, but let's see.

So we are looking at this amazing— by the way, you know, Emil, you, as you said, you have been a coach of many top players. When you teach them something, or let's say when you train them, do you also take this approach of showing them some classical games with some ideas? Is that—

No, because I've worked with only very top players.

So they know it already.

So when I work with Kamsky or I work with Judit Polgar or I work with Rajabov, it would be strange to teach them. I could at times mention some game and maybe they wouldn't know, but mostly they would know.

Yes, yes. But what if you started working with someone like, let's say, a youngster who is very strong but they don't know these, uh, classics? Do you think it will help them improve if they learn this?

I think you must study classics for at least for one reason, because I feel that in order to success in chess, you have to feel that this game is something more than just a game. And this knowledge, this, uh, possession of, uh, chess culture basically—

Las Palmas, right?

No, no, not Las Palmas. 1988.

This one?

Yes. So let's have a look.

Well, let me try and bring it up on the board. Yeah, no, you can continue. I will try to get it.

So, so, uh, I think even for this reason, but also knowing classics can help in various endgames or various typical structures. And, uh, in a way it's overvalued the way it was presented, that you must do it in order to be— no, you don't. It's not exactly you must do it, but it helps you. It basically makes you a more well-rounded chess player, and also the feeling that you are doing something than just playing, and but, but, but doing something which is having a heritage. I think it, it adds to your self-esteem.

Actually, Emil, I'm— I was thinking about this for quite some time, and now that you're here, I would love to ask you, these days with so much resources, it's बिकमिंग वेरी इजी तू गेट तू 24-2500, लेट्स से फॉर एग्जांपल। नॉट इजी। वेल, आई मीन, लेट्स से इन अ लिटिल बिट, एंड इट्स वेरी हार्ड तू विन विथ ब्लैक, बिकॉज़ ऑफ़ हाउ वेल व्हाइट प्लेयर्स आर प्रिपेयर्ड। सो आई हैव ऑलवेज़ बीन लाइक थिंकिंग दैट इट कुड बी इंटरेस्ट And if you, let's say, draw with a lower-rated player with black, you lose 1.2x lower rating than right now. Because I feel like right now, to like, just being black is a huge disadvantage.

So you mean not black, then white? Yeah, then white should be incentivized because I heard the theory that it is white, it's a draw, so white should lose more than black.

Yeah, same.

So I mean, let's say for example, if I am playing against you and I am white, Yes. So I should gain less rating and you should lose less rating.

Uh, in a way, yes. The problem actually is a general discussion with ratings, and I'm also, to my, uh, let's say, duty, responsibility, uh, pleasure, but also punishment, I'm in charge also of QC, which is doing with ratings in FIDE. And there are a lot of problems which we have to solve for one reason. Think about it. The rating system today includes so many layers of players, so many different ranges, and it's not similar to anything else. Because imagine that you would have the same ratings for ATP player and player who plays in the local club and a player who just went out to play with his kid. They wouldn't have the same rating. In chess, we have, we have the same rating system. And then any solutions which you try to apply They would be suitable only for this specific category, because the problem which you talk exists when 2500 plays against 2700, or 2200 playing against 2400. But if you are 1700 and I'm 2000, I don't have a problem.

So in general, let's say white is starting with a small advantage, right? Right. So to just to compensate that and to make it completely equal, wouldn't it be interesting? Because on all levels, even for 1500s playing against 1800s, the 1500 would for sure much rather have white, right?

Yes, but they cannot, uh, dry out the game, and that's different. Because the issue which you raise, that any strong player, let's say 2600 player, if he would want to play a draw against 2700 player with white and would play for this draw, most likely he would get it unless 2700 would take some unreasonable risks which are completely unreasonable. But the same, uh, the same system wouldn't work if you drop 500 points from it, and it doesn't work. So no good solution for that so far. Your point, your point is correct, but only for this certain rating band. And that's why— and we have the same, the same about being inactive players, the same being having K-factor for your ratings. I mean, those are things that FIDE do not understand what, what the problem is. We do understand. So it's so many ways to tackle it, and there's very difficult— that's why we started with, uh, uh, FIDE circuit, because FIDE circuit is very different measurement system. Anyways, I think—

I got the game here, and I was wondering what was the point that you wanted to—

Yeah, d4.

It's a very famous game, right?

Yeah, but look, the structure, the structure was f-pawn with extra pawn and so on. It's very similar, but by that time d4 was a novelty. So it was considered that after d5, Black is doing well. cd was considered the main move, and then Queen d5, and, and, and there was quite a bit of theory here with d3, I think, and so on. And then Kasparov unleashes d4, which looks— not only gives away a pawn, it, it also looks like it's weakening important square. And the idea was— I'm sorry, let me take back. The idea was that if he takes on c4, you play Bishop g5. And you will get almost identical position, which which will happen. Thank you for sharing. Put the knight on b six and otherwise it's it's almost like also the move g four in this game was very yeah yeah well not played till the end because Kasparov had a very yeah g four. Harshid bhai did you know this?

They did not know.

Wow. Okay, so I'm happy.

Maybe today some new learnings for actually I'm very happy whenever Emil comes because he tells me about the history. Which very often I actually am not very well-versed with.

But this is rather famous game, but I'll give you another one look after that because it was a very special game in this championship. Uh, as I mentioned, everybody played apart of Mikhail Tal, who, who was actually paired but felt ill and couldn't play. He, he was basically there, he was supposed to start and couldn't participate, and instead of him they had to replace him. And, uh, the replacement was Grandmaster Einhorn. Unfortunately, he passed away recently. Now, Einhorn is, is like one of the unknown top players of that time. He was around number 15 in the world, but, but he was in the mid-'80s and late '80s was, I mean, super solid, super good player. He played like, uh, 2 of the strongest Soviet championships in a row. Losing only one game, and this game came from this tournament later. Check it. And about everyone, he didn't lose to Kasparov. He didn't lose to Karpov. He didn't lose to Ivanchuk. He lost to Vasily Smyslov, who won a fantastic game. Actually, Einhorn decided that okay, Smyslov is old. Actually, I played with Smyslov ten years after that, and he was not old even ten years. But but he thought that in 1988 he was old because. Because Smyslov was born 1921, so he was already pushing, you know, 60s and 67. Yeah, and he played very sharp line as black, and Smyslov played a fantastic game, and it ended with a zugzwang with several pieces on board. So after that, check this game. Smyslov versus Simon. Smyslov with white.

Yeah, we will check this out. And by the way, Lorenzo has gone bishop g4, and also By the way, guys, today Emil has very little time. He has to also have a meeting. So before he leaves, I want to also thank him and, you know, congratulate him because of the very amazing news. I am sure many of you are aware that the World Championship is now no longer called the FIDE World Championship. It's called the Salesforce World Championship.

It's Salesforce FIDE. Oh, sorry.

You ended FIDE. Sorry, sorry. Salesforce FIDE. I mean, it's not It's just called P-Day. Salesforce P-Day World Championship. So Salesforce has become, uh, the partner and sponsor of— with P-Day, and they're going to work together. And it's a big deal.

It's a big partnership. So it's 3 years, and not only the sponsorship part but also the AI part. And actually, you guys, I'm sure if there is a chat, some of you might have been following the Dreamforce conference, which is in San Francisco these days. They have Amodei from Anthropic there and all the big guys. Just answer in chat if you do. So on this Dreamforce conference, which finished last night in San Francisco, chess was represented by 2 prominent personalities, Maurice Ashley and Sam Shankland.

Oh, wow.

Yes, we had a zone, separate zone, which was called Grandmaster Garden.

Really? When did this happen?

16th and 17th September. Oh, just yesterday? Yes, yes. And they are sending us now a report we will be publishing shortly. A lot of people come into the chess zone. It was branded together with FIDE and Salesforce. And I think it's, it's very important that FIDE exposes not only itself but the game of chess in partnership with such a major player. So after that, you can check the Dreamforce conference. It's, it's really had been special. If not the Olympia I would have been there, but of course he has a responsibility on me to be here and to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

Well, there's a lot happening across the world of chess. Thank you, Emil, for, you know, powering many of the things. And also, here we have this expo where there is also the elections brewing and the chess happening. I mean, I've never seen so many things happening at the same time.

A lot of exciting things, and I I would take another opportunity to visit you maybe for a bit longer. But today I have some meetings I have to attend. So thank you, Sakar, for everything you are doing.

Small message by Abhinav Patel, who says, "Hi Emil, I'm building a software that I believe could kickstart Fidesz digital transformation and complement its Salesforce partnership. How can I contact you about it? Can they write to some email that?" Yeah, I'm just just drop.

Anyone is welcome to drop the mail to emil.sutowski@fide.com. It's very easy, emil.sutowski@fide.com, and we will surely respond. I cannot promise, or I even would say that it would be very unlikely that we would do anything now because we're totally focused on the forthcoming match in Geneva. Right. And a lot of work and a lot of backlog already. But maybe towards events next year, sure, do drop your suggestions, ideas, uh, whatever you have to. We will surely respond. Thank you, Emil.

That was very kind of you, and thank you for joining us. Thank you, sir. And hope we can have you again at some point. Thank you, guys. That was the CEO of FIDE, Emil Sutovsky, joining us with some analysis Some history lessons, some very interesting anecdotes. I think always so much fun to have him here. And I think Harshit bhai, we need to do a very quick roundup of all the games to tell our viewers what exactly is happening. So if let's begin with Pragnananda's position, your thoughts. Lorenzo Lodici is like, "I'm okay with the double pawns." I am. Pinning you here on E2.

Yeah, he found the best move in the position. Kudos to him for that. But I still think that Pragnananda is in good is in a good position. I think so.

You would say, as we guessed at the start, is is small favorite on track.

Is still on track. Let's go to board to Arjun's board. Arjubhai. Actually quite an interesting board.

Oh, we had a few moves just quickly running through them. D five takes knight takes. Bishop at six. Not the best. Take, take. Ajubai says I bring my knight out. Knight f three. Bishop g four. Ajubai fully developing quickly, and this is the live board position already.

I mean, Arjun has equalized, and I do think that he's not gonna have any problems. The question is if whether Arjun can win, which I'm not sure. I think he for sure can draw. To win won't be easy. Won't be easy.

You know, Arjun at some point was this machine. Give him any position against lower-rated players and he would convert it. Maybe that part in this tournament, he has to be a bit careful. Already, he tried a bit too hard against Prin.

Right.

And it didn't work out. But he cannot—

I mean, he cannot just have that in the back of his mind and make the next decision. He needs to play like he always does. Because if Arjun is having that loss in the back of his mind, that's bad news for us. We need him to have have forgotten that loss, and that's that's the Arjun we need. Right. Fresh Arjun.

Okay, so equal maybe right now. Nihal Sarin. Oh boy! Opa! What a play! Knight e four, knight f six. He takes takes. Rook h three brought the rook up.

Queen c8, knight comes into d2, queen d8, and you can see from black moves, black just doesn't know what to do. Black is just like completely baffled.

Black is like, मैं करूँ क्या? Nihal Sarin king f1 वगैरह कर रहा है। Completely baffled. Both queens. Wait, let me let me get Nihal Sarin on screen. Yes.

And after knight d2 goes queen to d8, white plays pawn to h5, and I think white has seen great development in his position the last few moves. The idea of playing king f1 is very, very like you know crucial because it's also protecting the g2 pawn now. Oh! And now we can see the fruits of this move because the rook can come into h3. White has already artificially castled, and this is the kind of vision Nihal had while playing the move king f1.

I actually want to ask him if he had seen my game. I very unlikely, but I still ask. Yeah, yeah, could have. You know, these top players look at many games, so maybe they could have. But you know, this point which you mentioned, Harshit bhai, was so interesting that the king on f1 protects g2. It's like saying that when you have like a kingdom and there is one— like there are many roles to be done and everyone has some specific role, and there's one more role that has come up, which is like every morning the bell has to be rung and no one is found, then the king himself says, That I will go and ring the bell every morning. And that's what this king is doing. It's defending the pawn here and letting other pieces do their job. Yeah, beautiful.

Very nice, very nice play by Nihal. And he, he continues to be the board which we can put our money on, uh, and we can bank on. And I think Nihal is in a great position once again. So board 1, board 3, very good. Board two is equal. Let's go to Gukesh's board and Gukesh has an advantage at twelve. Bomba, भाई. This is turning out to be a very good round for the Indian team.

भाई देखते हैं पर B three even bishop E seven and we have another camera here of Gukesh. हमने थोड़ा ऐसे changes करके रखा है so then you can actually watch both the players now here. Guki is on your screen by the way just for Everyone, we have this beautiful view thanks to our friends Menno and Leonard who have put multiple cameras now. Earlier there were only one camera on the board. Now they have put two, three, four. They are introducing more cameras. Is there as well? Maybe.

No, Srinath is there. Srinath. And of course there's always interest around the Indian team.

We can we can show our viewers who are coming here for the first time. This is the Indian team that they that we can see by. Yeah, so cool.

Very cool. The Indian women team wearing the red jersey here.

I think Humpty is wearing white, but everyone else is looking very cool in red. And this is the reason why we should all come here to the Olympiad. There is massive chess love here. I think it's the place where you get to. Meet every single person who is affiliated with chess in some way. By me, तो बोल रहा हूँ, Arshid bhai. In future, even if we don't have anything to do with chess, maybe just coming to the Olympiad is a good idea.

It's one event you don't want to miss. You can see almost every person from every single country in this tournament. More than one eighty countries participating in some way or other. But look at Gukesh. Mukesh is completely unbothered by all of, uh, what's happening around him. He's completely locked in.

So, Harshit bhai, this is your which Olympiad?

Third.

Third, uh, 2024, '26? '22.

'22? Yeah. Wow.

It's actually my fourth because I was in 2018, then 2020 I online, so it didn't happen.

And, and we were talking About the hanging pawns and the bishop. The light-squared bishop is nicely on a6, putting pressure towards the pawn on e2. And after rook e8, rook e1, bishop.

By the way, this is isn't this losing a pawn?

Because the bishop on a6 again coming to the rescue, hitting the pawn on e2. That's the trick. That is the trick.

This is why rook e8 was so strong. Exactly. So he went rook e1. He defended this pawn once again, creating the threat.

Bishop goes back to f8, and now white takes.

Oh, इसको बचा के और ये. And white goes knight g5.

Yeah, this is a this is a bold move that white has made. White is somehow saying that I might want to reroute my knight via h3 and f4. At some point, white is saying that the bishop on g2 will put pressure on the pawn on d5. But I I don't think it's a very smart move because Gukesh. Can now play the move rook to c8, just bringing one last piece in the game, and this is gonna give him a big advantage.

Well, the threat is d4, Harshit bhai. The threat is d4. Close down that bishop on b2. Yeah, it would no longer be active, and just push. And if you do it now, uh, just a second, uh, if you did it now after knight g5, d4, the problem was that the knight is hanging. Exactly. So rook c8 is a very good idea, and right now we can see that it is actually a very nice position for Gukesh. Let's see if he plays rook c8 or not.

Hi, this is like so good for everyone is looking good on all the boards for the Indian team. You know yesterday we had a scare, and I think they might have had a team meeting and decided that guys let's lock in from today and make sure we don't come in a. In a similar situation again. True. I love how the Indian open section players are playing right now. Guys, do like the stream.

Sir, Arshid bhai, a question to you. What is the dance step for today? Bhai, आपके लिए.

What is the dance step, bhai? Good try.

Guys, today's dance step is we will figure it out. Let the team win. हम कुछ तो करेंगे. But we are looking at this, and if you are here and you are enjoying this stream, please do like the stream. You can also subscribe to ChessBase India. You can also contribute to the Help Chess widget, uh, Help Chess that we have. 6 hours ago, Sakshi Dhanur contributed ₹1,000. So a big, big shout out to Sakshi. Also, Jagdish contributed yesterday.

So people are saying Arjun made a big mistake. Did he?

Uh, One second.

Not really.

Oh, but already something has happened in the Arjun game. He has imbalanced the position a lot. If you look at it, Harshit bhai. He did play. We left it at bishop e2. He took on c3, b takes c3, and you can join us whenever you have time. Yes, queen d6 and long castle.

Man, Arjun is again playing very risky chess. A little scared for his—

but the thing is, Arjun has said, I will give you an open file, and then he has decided to long castle.

Yeah, and you know, by the way, just so that everyone knows, he could have just played the move queen to d6 here and kept it balanced. But I think Arjun in some ways wants to take risk and win the game. This is, of course, this comes with a price. This comes with a price that, you know, he can even lose, of course.

Yeah, I think Arjun is one of those players who is very highly momentum-driven. And I think, uh, you mentioned this about him, that when things go really well for him, he's unstoppable. And then sometimes, like in tournaments like Waikānzé, we see him a little bit out of shape, and then he loses many games in a row. So here, because he started off with a loss, can he make a comeback is the big question. He needs to win a game soon to feel confident.

Not really though. That's my point. Not really. Why should he force himself to play for a win? No, not needs to play what's best for the team.

I understand. But also the thing is, you as a player, I saw this happening to Vidit recently in Global Chess League. He was maybe not in the best of form before coming to the tournament. The moment he won his first game, he just felt like a new person, right? He just felt like now I can do it. And then he Played well, and now he's looking in good shape in the. I think for Arjun also that boost of maybe a draw is okay, but he needs to make a confident draw.

He needs to make a he needs to make a solid result and gradually build his confidence. And I think he's trying to go for the former. He's trying to go for a win. Like you know in this round itself, he doesn't want to draw this game. He wants to play for a win. And now. Uh, there is an imbalance, right? He— White has a very bad pawn structure when it comes to the endgame, but at present White does have access to this open b-line. And while Black's king is in on the queenside, I think this does give White a lot of attacking chances.

And by the way, we just got to know that Gukesh does— has not played Rook c8, Harshit bhai. He has played some other move, has played h Also good. Which is playable. Yeah, and perhaps he has lost some bit of his edge.

But it's pretty good. Yeah, pretty good.

It's a decent move that he has played here. And now, uh, next up his opponent will go Knight h3 with the idea of coming to f4. And if Bhukesh is in that crazy mode, Harshit bhai, he might go for the move g5.

Man, that would be Epic. If he actually plays g5, that would be really epic.

Because then he, he really restricts this. But think about this moment. Queen takes f6, bishop takes d5, and looks like we have won a pawn.

Yeah, but, uh, you know, it's, it's just about how well black's pieces are positioned. The rook comes into d8, and this is actually totalmente winning for black. Totalmente. Wow.

Yeah. Will Vedant Shetty appear today or Bodhana? Well, let's see who comes here. The day is just beginning today. We are at one hour into this round roughly. About two hours actually. No, we started at three fifteen. Yeah, one and a half hours. Yeah. Into the into the game, and we are seeing a lot of action. Maybe Harsh. Oh, Gukesh has played a move. He plays it. Oh my God! A good on pad, Harshit bhai. This is the time for us to create this as the neuro focus moves of the day.

Bye. Let's go. Bye. This is for sure the.

It is the focus move of the day. What a moment this is by Gukesh.

And these are the kind of moves that build confidence, right? Playing a move like G5, not not only builds confidence, but it tells us that Gukesh feels confident about his piece. भाई मेरे को तो डर लग रहा है, दख दख बोल रहा है। भाई नहीं क्यों भाई? It's brilliant.

It's a great move, but it also weakens the king a bit. I think. But it also shows that Gukesh is in good form.

Exactly, because this is the Gukesh who loves to take risks, who loves to play for a win, and we are getting to see that back in action. And this is by the way the best move, guys. Wow! Just so that everyone knows, G five was the best move in the position. So well done, Guki. Well done, Guki. On board number four, Nihal's position seems to be improving by every move as black decides to copy white. He plays king f eight.

भाई इतना confused कर दिया, इतना मतलब crazy कर दिया निहाल ने। भाई मुझे लगता है कि Francesco Sonis thought it's a no castle. Yeah, so he touched the king and he's like— Nihal looked at him and he's like, castling? No castling.

But you know, so, so Sonesh's position is not going to improve as much as Nihal, as, uh, Nihal plays Bishop to e4, exchanging the light-squared bishops, because the bishop on f6 is just bricked by White's pawns on b2, c3, and d4. And Nihal, Nihal has a huge strategic advantage.

Yeah, this is looking really big.

But Francisco is very strange because his rook is not coming via h6 to f6. The rook is just trapped there. Yeah, whereas white's rook is actually coming into the game. I don't know.

Oh, he plays d5. Yeah, and he makes his bishop on b7 bad. This is bad. I mean, if you wanted to play d5, Arshid bhai, maybe you could have taken on e4. And we have Amruta joining us. Let's go! Come, come, Amruta! अमरुदा सबको बकरा सबको बुला रहे हो भाई तुम्हारा unbelievable games going on हाँ अमरुदा are you okay what happened अमरुदा did you drink tea because at four thirty you are going to drink tea हाँ no I drank coffee you should eat something अमरुदा did you eat something no I am good You seem a bit tired.

Yeah, what happened, Amrita?

अरे नथिंग. Did anything go wrong? No, no. Please share with us.

And I better take some rest if. Yeah, nothing is tired.

No, no, no. Please come in the middle. By tired, I would rather rest.

लो तुम बोल रहे हो middle.

I'm coming that side. Cooper. I want to adjust the camera.

हाँ, but then you come in the middle because obvious.

अच्छा यू कैन आल्सो कम देर शुरू आई विल देन एडजस्ट दिस तुम्हें कबाब में हड्डी डालना था ना इसके लिए क्या ना ये चेंज नहीं सच में नहीं तो आई वाज थिंकिंग यू विल कम इन द मिडल बट यू डिन वांट टू कम पर तुमको उधर बैठना है नहीं मैं उसे सबसे एडजस्ट करती हूँ अरे पाशा इस ओके एंड वी आर नाउ बैक विथ अमृता मोकल यार अमृता हाउ वाज़ योर ओवरऑल लाइक यू वेंट अक्रॉस द वेन्यू प्लीज़ शेयर समथिंग विथ आर पीपल बिकॉज़ अ लॉट ऑफ़ पीपल वांट टू नो व्हाट इट इज़ लाइक टू बी एट द ओलिंपियाड वंसी आई नीड अ ज़ूम लिंक वंस आई वुड लव Yeah, today maybe not.

Tomorrow. So here firstly we have Pide merch over here in front of us, which is amazing by the way. They have created some nice things. So all those who come to Olympiad, Summer Kandh Olympiad, they have t-shirts, shirts, uh, bags, books, pens, diaries, uh, for all the Olympiads. Really? Yeah. He doesn't have good history knowledge. But does he need a good history knowledge? I'm making history, right?

Oh! Whoa! Correct.

So that's the thing. तो अच्छा बहुत सही है people are playing chess. There are these trophies. I don't know for whom. Maybe last day we can steal and run away. वो देखो ना trophy.

But that is the Kaprinda Shivili ka pamrutha.

ओह या डेट इज़ गोइंग टू बी गिवन तू द बेस्ट टीम बिफोर दैट ओनली अरे नहीं तू अरे प्लीज प्लीज अगर टच मत कर उसको तू गिराया तो बहुत प्रॉब्लम होगा कैन वी जस्ट क्लिक हियर ऑन द कास्टर डेस्क बटन अरे मैं बहुत धीरे इधर से बात कर रहा हूँ उधर माइक है सुनाई दे रहा है किसी को I think so अरे सुनाई दे रहा है क्या सागर showing you these trophies and they are the Yeah, this is look DGT stall. It's beautiful. It's chess-based stall, guys. These are the DGT boards, DGT shirts. क्या-क्या नहीं है? It's crazy. धीरे-धीरे कैमरा पैनिंग too fast. Yeah, chess base. Whoa! That's Pasha we have over there. Yeah, show them the PDA merch. Yeah. And you come like over here. Great camera work. I feel like I'm watching Spielberg movie. Spielberg movie. Steven Spielberg.

डायरेक्टर का नाम है। क्या हो रहा है यार राउंडअप दे दो एंड प्लीज नोट मेक द राउंडअप 15 मिनट्स अभी राउंडअप हाँ हर्षित भाई लेट्स डू अ क्विक राउंडअप वी वेर ट्राइंग टू डू राउंडअप एंड वी गोट इनवॉल्व्ड इन द एनालिसिस सो गुकेश इज़ डूइंग रियली वेल लेट्स स्टार्ट विथ प्रक अग Let's see if we can talk less and give a round up. Ready, Arjun bhai?

Start put to करने तो एक सेकंड। So Gokesh Pragna going to Pragna's game has made a risky move pawn to h4 here. I love this position now after h4 still complicated. It's getting more dynamic. I would say Prag still a small small favorite. Going to Arjun's board, I am a bit scared about this one. It's white has some chances here. Arjun should try and save the ship, and I do have not only four eight games to cover.

नहीं नहीं ये क्या?

नहीं नहीं नहीं one and I think that Arjun Arjun should try to to hold this game. Nihal is the board where I feel really confident about. He has great strategic advantage. I mean, black's bishops are blocked. He has an active rook on h3. He is going to go to f3 at some point. Nihal is Going to win in my opinion, and Gukesh is going to win. Look at this move G five that shows authority over the position. The knight on H three completely passive. Bishop on A six good. All black pieces good, and that concludes my sixty second summary.

India will win three to one. Wow! Amazing! But I have some doubts in this. भाई अभी एक मिनट में करना था। Of course अभी तुम इसको भी अगर put my doubt my doubt हाँ मैं करता हूँ उसको ठीक but I have a feeling that Pragnananda seems to be taking too much risk. You feel it? Because now he's got H4 is strange yeah H4 because the last move H4 so what happened was he brought his bishop here Prag pushed it back away then pushed it again then brought it here H4 and now the best move is H6 My point is, after take take, it feels like black's position is not great. Yeah, I could not assess it as better for black. But look at this. After e four, which square in white's camp is weak and which black can start attacking? F five. No. Okay. Which square in white's camp is weak?

What's our square be here?

Let me see if our viewers can find this knowledge. Yes, Abhil Sajan, well done! Abhil Sajan has found the exact weakness which I wanted. Also Saurabh, d4 pawn, and so Rook ad8, and this will become a weak pawn.

Yeah, yeah, it's actually h4. I don't know what's the logic behind h4. Because after h6, he wants to trap. Yeah, but after h6, black even gets this square of the bishop going back to h7. So very surprising decision by Prag there.

By the way, h6 has been played. Lorenzo Lodici, don't underestimate this guy. He's good. He's beaten Hans Niemann. He's beaten top players. Amruta, do you feel a bit worried for Prag? Yeah, bishop takes f6, g takes f6.

Not yet sure because the b6 knight is still a bit, you know, somewhere else and the whole action is happening somewhere else. So, oh, bishop f6, all happening. I also think Prag has entered all of this consciously, right? I mean, it was nothing like it was forced to enter this. Yeah, which means maybe the way these players are assessing could be very different from what we are looking at the engine assessment.

Yeah, and Prag thinks for twenty minutes and make this decision of of playing pawn to h four. I think it's a very risky one. It's a very risky move that sorry. तुम वो साइड हैं वो थोड़ा पाँच मिनट ब्रेक ले रहे हैं। So I don't know if Prag felt as if he needs to he needs to really take. A lot of risk and that he needs to win because h4 is a risky move. I still don't think that like he's in trouble. I still think that it's just a complicated game. The engine prefers black a little bit, but I still think it's, it's just a complex game. So he goes for the move Queen to d2 in my opinion, and yeah, Queen d2 played. And black plays the move king to g7. So actually, the engine is starting to like black quite a bit, Amruta, in the board of Prague. I think h4 was perhaps not a great positional decision by him. Maybe he had to do something in the center.

Yeah, sometimes it could feel that gf6 and h6 structure is weak, but suddenly maybe black has assisted well.

Exactly. So Prague Prague needs to play a few accurate moves here to steady the ship.

Slightly worse here, but you know, Harshit bhai, imagine the light square bishops are exchanged. Okay, light square bishops are exchanged for Prague. Yeah, then white knight is on f5.

Yeah, that would be great, but I think it's, uh, I think it's very unlikely for it to, uh, for it to work out.

Absolutely. It's okay, it's okay, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Adjust कर लेती हूँ। हाँ। कैमरा भी बहुत बार adjust। Otherwise कैमरा ही adjust। नहीं नहीं it's okay ऐसे ही चलेगा। So I think right now Prague also needs to play fast.

Slightly slightly scary situation on Prague's board. Let's check Arjun's board.

As his opponent, I actually like Arjun's position, very honestly. I don't know why the engine is so happy for white. The queen seems to be on h6 doing literally nothing. Black seems to be good with long castle. Black— oh, I understand why the queen is there. It just wants to stop black's h5 and g5 and so on.

Exactly.

But then your one strongest piece is tied down to do some work. Which is not meant for that piece, you know. So I like, I like Arjun's position.

I mean, it's, it's a complex position, uh, you know. The thing is, white could be slightly ahead in terms of attack because rook b1 puts direct pressure towards black's king, whereas for black, he doesn't really have an open line to put pressure on white's king. And I think that's the reason why the engines perhaps like white's position a little bit more.

Okay, but I could is I am seeing this bishop e six bishop d five. I would have loved it to be on this diagonal, but then c four b hai. You have to be careful about certain things, and as you mentioned, the b file is open. Exactly. फिर भी, फिर भी, I think my bold prediction is Arjun will win this.

By the way, very interesting idea that I saw by Prabhat Queen c one and Queen to b two. It's a very cool idea at some point actually. I love this concept.

But just to show as an example, if the queen right away goes back, then is Arjun getting like a you know bishop d three के बदले?

If the queen c one, it's a very decent move actually. And then bishop takes h five g five h five queen b two and you can see the danger of the white queen being on b two. So bishop d three and Arjun is trying to make a decision.

Let's see Gukesh's game because actually Nihal's game first.

Nihal's game definitely brings some relief.

Wow man! After the king f1 move.

Oh yeah, you left it here but look at we saw it but let I'll show it to you again Amruta because after bishop e7 he goes knight e4, knight f6 he trades and now brings the rook from h1 into the game. Rook lifts.

इसको भी तुमने गाना गाया कि नहीं?

तो लिफ्ट करा दे, थोड़ी सी तो लिफ्ट करा दे। and here and look at this, this is such artistic you know I find Nihal to be a very artistic player. Now brings the knight to d2. Black was just completely confused. Goes queen c8 to d8, h5, king f8. Black goes for the same, but after bishop e4, d5 and bishop d3 back, white has a huge advantage.

F5 provocation was so good, man. यहाँ पे बस इधर आया because he's like if you exchange I am happy. If you don't then I am happier. Yeah. He moved the bishop.

Exactly. And now both black's bishops are staring at a wall. The white pawn on d4 and the black pawn on d5 and white is going to bring the knight from f3 to e5. Bishop c8. Oh!

But this is such passive chess by Sonish.

को लेकिन ए पाइ के लिए obviously you can easily prepare no yeah just knight f three is a great move here if e five knight e five bishop h three take on e five sacrifice your exchange because after bishop takes h three g takes h three what you are doubling the pawns yeah because after bishop e seven you are just simply going to go for rook e one and e six break this is game over knight d four man not easy after you know those doubled edge pawns Yeah, not easy, but, uh, Nihal has a huge advantage. So looking good on board 3. Going very quickly to Gukesh's board, and, uh, Gukesh also has a nice advantage. So Amruta, in the open section, boards 3 and 4 look very promising, right? 3 and 4, we can hope to get 2 points. Board number 2, Arjun's board.

I'm predicting a win for Arjun. Yes, and vote number one draw. That's a good reason. I think that should be good. Three and half. Three and half is very ambitious.

Very ambitious, Amruta. I think we might have three to one or two like two and half, one and half. Three to one is very, very ambit. Three and half is maybe not easy.

पर ambitious तो होना पड़ेगा ना? If we want to win the gold medal, then करना पड़ेगा.

Yeah, yeah. I think it's going to. Be very interesting to see how Prague plays now. Rook to f4, he's gonna bring this rook, but black is ready as well. By the way, black is a pawn up.

Six pawns for white, seven for black.

Yeah, that c4 pawn जब से वो खाया है वो वहाँ पे है.

Exactly. And I think black will now try to go rook d6, rook fd8. There is a move by the way played by Prague. What did he do?

What did he do? Rook f1 लाया है शायद. Yeah, Rook a f one, I guess.

My guess is yeah, that's what he played. Rook to f one and a very natural way to continue for black is Rook to d six.

Rook d six के बाद what is the way that look you are saying that white pawn cannot be pushed to e four because d four is going to be weak. Correct. Now how do I bring the minor pieces? The knight on c three, the bishop on g two. To, to improve their potential is my question.

It's not easy, actually. It's not easy at all. And that's the reason why the engine perhaps favors Black's position, uh, because after Rook to d6, he's ready to go Rook to d8. You cannot go Bishop e4 easily because after Bishop e4, I'm not gonna take and make your knight, uh, happy here. I'm going to have you take on g6 because if you do that, I'm going to improve Oh, and then you control the f5 square, which is, yeah, very important.

Exactly.

So Prag has a complex game here, slightly worse. Let's go to the women's section. It's been a while since we have seen there.

Did you analyze the last position of Gukesh also?

Yeah, Gukesh is doing very well. Uh, so let's start from the top. Humpy, after f4, Knight d7, she goes Queen f3, Knight f8 brings in the rook in the game. Rook comes in on E1 as well. After Bishop D7, she goes Knight to F1. I think Hampi is playing excellent chess here. She's bringing the knight via G3 to H5.

Yeah, it's like Hampi is going for a very calm attack. Yeah, you know, which is not easy. Generally, you want to start doing something very quickly. G4 खेलना है, ये खेलना है, Queen H5 जाना है. But यहाँ पे she's bringing all the pieces. And then will come this mind-blowing blow, I believe, somewhere.

Guys, we cannot look at 8 games altogether. We will go slowly, one by one, towards all the games. So, uh, bear with us as we try to show you all the games. Black has played c6, Amruta, and this improves white positions even further because, uh, one idea, I mean, that comes to my mind is if we can just Ignore that and go knight to g3. It's a good move because I want to go knight to h5 and just put a lot of pressure on this diagonal.

I think this is going to be. But my question is, if cb5 cb5 bishop takes b5.

So after knight g3 cb5 cb5 oh I love knight h5 bishop takes b5 yeah knight to h5 and this is just huge for white. This is Simply huge for white because of pressure on the time.

That's a yeah. Otherwise, it was a big trouble if knight h five was the savior there. Nihal plus three, नहीं यार plus three था क्या वो? But हमने देख लिया है वो अभी we will look at Humpy doing very well and giving her team a big relief there. Let's go to the next game.

Divya on board two is actually also better.

Wow! Man, how is this better? Because you know the pawn structure is quite symmetrical. I mean, there is this double pawn over there, but can you explain, Harshad bhai?

Because I think black is very happy to have control of the c-line. You know, there is only one open file in the position, and black is controlling it. And I think that's the reason why black has the advantage. At some point, black can go for the move pawn to h5.

उनको बीच में बैठना है। नहीं, ODS तुमको एंड में तो बैठना पड़ेगा ना?

At some point black can play H5 and bring in the queen to C2 and it's not a big advantage but look at the clock. Look at the clock here for Avramidou. She has only 22 minutes on her clock.

Oh but one hour for Divya and 22 moves to be made. So Divya का position is slightly better, but her time-wise, the time bar which I love to talk about, I would then give Divya maybe a plus, नहीं minus zero point seven altogether advantage.

Yeah, I think she has close to one even because one hour is a lot and twenty-two moves for Avramidu to make. Let's go, guys! This is excellent news. For the women's team here, because Divya with the black pieces has managed to put some pressure on Avramidou on the board as well as on the clock. Looking very good, the top two boards. Vantika's board also excellent. Wow! The women's team is doing really well. Crushing, crushing. And look at how Vantika managed to bring the knight from H four to G two. Just Incredible chess by Vantika.

For that Manuheru to understand, it wasn't easy. Knight h4, knight g2. पर किया कि उसको f4 खेलना है। This is just classic understanding of the position here.

Brings the knight to g2, potentially going for f4, but just making sure black cannot ever even you know think of attacking the white king here. Everything is completely solid. And one tikka has a winning advantage here. Excellent.

ये तो मतलब you know this is what one maneuver can do to you basically where a right place for the right person can change his life.

I was thinking not one maneuver but one tikka maneuver.

One tikka oh nice one.

ताकि रुक कैमरा इंट्रेस्ट करना है। Knight h four and knight g two.

Maybe you can come this side actually.

मुझे तुम्हारा four card हाँ four मुझे वो four cards वाला भी देखना है। Arshad bhai they are asking you if you want to do grandmaster versus other players five versus one minute for fun chess here यहीं यहाँ पे so then later on when you want to take a break you can go and play. हर्षित भाई का साथ के लिए आंसर है। हर्षित भाई sure sure is in demand here guys lot of people from different countries will come and play against him he will have one minute versus five for opponent मजेदार होने वाला ही है oh क्या हुआ जागर? ये Wesley So is already winning opponent made a huge blunder क्या कर रही हो अमृता? यहाँ पे कुछ नहीं होगा adjust होगा होगा Queen d7 played here. So one thing, for me it doesn't feel like she's winning or anything, Harshit bhai. It's the same thing which we discussed, right? The, the King's Indian gives an advantage to white, but it's not like Vandika has done anything right now that like she's winning.

You know why? Black's pieces are tied down. The f6 knight cannot move now. The bishop takes h five would be actually it's not a threat maybe I don't know but then f four it's like a little bit like with its position yesterday right no no because black cannot move a single piece maybe I go this maneuver सबको वैसे लिखा देखना है game क्योंकि कुछ तो बहुत बड़ा हुआ है सुना बड़ा क्या हुआ है एंड येस्टरडे आई थिंक वेसली वाज़ हियर गाइस ओह साक्रिफाइस पीपल लव साक्रिफाइसेस सो दिस इज़ द बोर्ड वेर इट वाज़ इक्वल सब कुछ इक्वल चल रहा था एंड नाइट हच फोर बाय वेस Obviously b6, Queen e2.

He swing— swung the rook. And bhai, what sort of move is Rook d5? Like, how can someone play Rook d5 when this is hanging? No way. Sorry, Bishop h6. But then again, what will you play? If you play King h8 check, if you play King h7, there is Queen check. So maybe it's not so simple. The right move was Queen d7, Bishop h6, and Rook e7 to defend. Quite tedious, quite tough, but he went for the move Rook d5 and allowed Bishop h6. This is resignation almost, and there's no way to defend. Yeah, that's it. And by the way, people actually missed the board. I'm very sorry, guys, I made a huge blunder. I should have put this one, this view. I'm very sorry. So the point is it was equal till here, and then at this point after rook d five, no, अभी डाला। This was the move in which it would have been possible to defend, but went rook d five, and after bishop takes h six, it is game over. As Harshit Bhai mentions here, take take. G7 मर रहा है। There's just no way to defend it.

No way to defend. White is completely winning, and Wesley is going to score a huge win. You know, he continues to be a very stable player for the U.S. team.

By the way, I went outside and someone came up to me and said how to make chess base in their country, and I was like, you can go and talk to chess base, and they were like, no, tell me what is the investment needed, and I was like.

I don't know. Investment is passion, full-time passion which doesn't die. Well, we don't know anymore because Chess Biz has new owners, but that won't matter, no, because there is a Chess Biz India. So people can say, okay, we would like to do what Chess Biz India does, or we would like to do what you have done in Chess Biz Germany. So there are many ways to— many forms. Maybe they bring in something extremely new and different. So everybody can add oh by the way हर्षित को तुमने completely हाँ every screen में change नहीं हुआ है correct finally camera ये adjust करना वो ना वो एक feature सीख सकते हो तुम कि जहाँ पे सारा change applies to everything I know how to do it हाँ क्या तब आता है तुम्हें और सब लोग बोल रहे हैं गुकेश is winning I want to go there गुकेश Let's go, Guki! Whoa, man! बोला था dynamic play होने वाला है। It's completely something to his liking what's happening over here. And the knight on H3 has been पूरा life दुख में है। काफी गम में है। उससे याद आया मेरा energy level कम है। मुझे चाहिए neuro gums अगर which has been the focus of the day move.

Oh, we already did the focus Of the day move by Gukesh when he played the move g5, and right now this position after g5 Harshit by knight f1, rook c8, f4, fg hg.

Yeah, and a big blunder by Brunello, uh, just missing, uh, Knight takes g3, I think. So, uh, Gokesh has a huge opportunity right now to just take Knight takes g3 and win, uh, and win a pawn. I mean, what did he miss? Knight takes g3.

I guess Brunello wants Knight takes d5, but isn't that Knight takes e2?

Okay, first of all, g3, Rook takes c3. Yeah, for everyone to know, it's a disco. जो यहाँ पे after a while it will begin. So knight takes d5.

And here after knight takes e2 check. Hmm, another reflection.

Yeah, because if you take, take, queen takes, then eventually there is. Oh no, sorry.

Melo is banking on is after king h1, he thinks that white black cannot take the rook on c1.

Because of rook e8, queen e8, and knight f6 check.

Nice.

But this is where Mukesh has to find a good move.

Wait, can we try and find black to play? Oh, it's not difficult at all. Very easy. fg3.

I think Bishop g7 is what I want to do.

Yeah, because we would love to exchange the—

Oh wow, it's the right move!

Let's go, buddy! Very well, very well done. Very well done, bhai, because bishop g7 gets rid of the most important piece in white's campus.

So that is knight f6 check.

Yeah, so you are guarding f6 square and you are challenging the g b2 bishop.

And this is possible at this point.

You know, okay, the Gukesh still needs to evaluate all of this. So if we go to the live position, Gukesh needs to find all of this and only then. Take the pawn on g3.

And if you don't take the pawn on g3, then can you play something simple which is maintaining your advantage, Harshit bhai?

I guess you can consider to play d4 here because your pawn on d5 is falling. So Gukesh in general does have a good position, but knight takes g3 would be a killer blow. Come on, Guki! Big moment for Guki. And this moment will tell us whether he if he's in good shape or not.

क्या लगता है खेलेगा कि नहीं? I think he will play.

आपको कितना time सोचा है उसने? Guys, knight takes g3. Let's go, Gukki. Guys, we want your energy.

Two minutes for Gukesh because to find this move.

If he plays d4, yeah, I want to analyze this so that we analyze.

And already the position maybe knight will go to f5, right?

That's more— or Knight g4 is more natural to me. Yeah, maybe.

I mean, no. Well, the thing is, this bishop then becomes strong, so I tried to block it, and it's a nice square. I want to look at things, but the main point is take. If this takes, this is winning. Better clear, because then this is also hanging.

Yeah, this is quite clear. I was a bit Unsure about the variation after knight takes d5 though.

Here, and because there's a massive check incoming here, Bhukesh has to calculate takes king x1. Not just this, he has to also look at rook takes bishop takes. I believe knight f6 check and maybe queen takes, right?

Ah, nice! Because if you take on f6, you win the queen on d1.

But maybe the engines allowed. Rookie two more, I think. Yeah, rookie two.

But then now knight f six check. This is too difficult, right? King g seven getting into the line.

No, then more natural is bishop e two. Even if you don't make the best move. But think about it.

If you find this play.

No, no, you can't find too much.

No, you can't find.

Ready play? Oh, and he's getting up from the board.

Did not play.

What did he play? Played d four.

Yeah. Oh, he played knight d four. Oh my God!

Okay, what is the idea for knight d four? First of all, bishop takes d four, c takes d four, queen takes d four is a crazy game चल रहा है ना because of bishop c five. Yeah, this is insane. First of all, if takes takes queen d four, bishop c five look.

Very good.

Looks good, but it's the easiest.

Yeah, Bishop g7. Yeah, just winning on the spot. Queen b6 coming in next.

Ah, okay, okay, got it. Queen b6 and then you— that's it. Yeah, so simply you cannot capture.

Knight d4 is very interesting, putting more pieces in the fire, but Knight g4 now is a very strong move for white. And white is again eyeing the f6 square, threatening e3 as you highlighted. That's a very, very strong move.

And what if I go f5 here? Bishop takes e4, f takes g4.

It was very hard, guys. Knight takes g3 was very difficult. Always easier to find it with the engine. How will the winner of the tournament be decided? Well. Uh, at the end of 11 rounds, the team with the highest amount of match points— so if you win 1 match as a team, you get 2 points. So who will have the highest match points? If the match points are tied, then we'll come down to game points. The margin of your victory in every round is important because of, uh, the— this tiebreak. So Knight to d4, and, uh, the evaluation has tipped To equality. Uh, what about Pragg's game, by the way? Because we were a bit scared, or just to make sure if Pragg is doing okay. Bit worse. Yeah.

Oh, he's got e4, but then you had mentioned earlier that d4 will get weak, right?

I think overall the assessment of Pragg is that he has more weaknesses to attack But I think the assessment of Lorenzo is right that this is more weak and more relevant than this week.

Also, he's claiming that even if I lose a pawn, it will still be equal because he's up a pawn. Yeah, this h4 was very uncharacteristic by Prag. Very surprised by this.

Like, such, uh, positions can easily go downhill. I would say that Prag should really hope to try and equalize.

And this was the moment, just to highlight everyone, the moment I was about here. The move pawn to h4, even going g4, you know, even g4 in itself, in my opinion, is, is a bit too much. Uh, just queen to d2 simply felt natural to me. Uh, bringing in the rook to e1 had a very simple position, but after h4, I think white got— black got that important tempi that, uh, he was looking for. And now after rook d8, rook d6, black is in time for defending everything. I love how Lorenzo has played this.

Yeah, yeah, there was a possibility for this. Now Black can go Rook d8, but now the position kind of equalizes, which is the most natural.

But guys, I don't like— I am not understanding something because I feel the bishop on g6 is so much out of the game, and, uh, that Feels like an important part.

But isn't it the bishop on g two kind of similar? Just looking at the pawn on e four.

Hi, yes, it's four.

Oh, by the way, black plays a move and gets up on the board.

What does he play? Queen d eight. He went for.

He played queen to d eight. Very interesting move.

He gets out of. This he doesn't move the rook away because f7 needed protection like we saw.

That's a good move by Lorenzo.

Oh, Arjun! Everyone's like Arjun. Something happened over there. It seems Sagar.

Oh wow! Arjun is getting better.

Oh, the queen went back. See, this one is definitely pay off. Hundred percent.

Sorry, we were here. Yeah, we saw bishop f5, bishop d3 and E6 played. Queen came back to E3. F6, and man, F6 is a is a brilliant decision by Arjun to control the E5 square. Knight to D2. I mean, it's not like he's much better yet, right? The game is still around equal as white is trying to reroute the knight to C4.

But I like this move E5 now. Knight C four.

Wouldn't it simplify? Yeah, that's what I was feeling too.

D takes E five, and if I try to trade everything, Max says draw.

I was looking at H five में problem है क्या? Bishop F five को you can't take G F five because E six is hanging. So maybe H five को bishop F five G E F five मारना पड़ेगा and that is clearly better for white.

Yeah. Well, its idea is knight. E four, and if you go queen E seven now, oh man, the knight comes into C five, and that's the key square.

Yeah, and then the B open file is like a सोने की chain.

By E five played, E five played by Arjun. Yeah.

Oh, but then this will most likely simplify.

Possible, possible that Arjun gets a draw. Yeah. Possible that.

Oh, Niall Zarin, we need to go to Niall Zarin. He had an advantage.

Nihal Sarin again needs to be the savior. This guy is going to be like—

सब लोग ऐसे देख रहे हैं भाई। हाँ। निहाल भाई, बचा लो अपनी नहींया। पर बचा लेंगे भाई। वो निहाल is going to save the day for us once again. Very stable advantage for him. And I think you know we can safely say that Nihal should very likely give us the full point.

By the way, a question to both of you. Why did Nihal not take the pawn here on a6? Wasn't it a nice juicy free pawn? Because he played the move pawn to g3, and this was possible to be taken, right? Or he just didn't like it.

I, I have a question for you. If you are offered a movie, okay, and you have to give 3 years to that, But you cannot focus on chess, doing anything. Would you take that offer? Three years. Why not? No chess in life. That's in the contract. Yeah, I would. How do you know? In the movie, you were you don't even know what you're doing.

I yeah. You will take. You can ask.

You cannot play Arshad by chess for three years.

Yeah. I mean, even now I was I didn't know. I was just thinking. About why not take the pawn on a six?

I couldn't believe it.

I mean, the point is, I would know. जैसे इसमें you took a pawn, right? If you knew it was good, so I would take a role if I knew it's good. Because bishop takes a six feels like a free, nice, juicy pawn.

But there is queen e eight and if b three there is b five. That's the point.

So that a six pawn is like a movie saga and you will take it really? तो मैं ही ऑफर करती हूँ ना तुमको तीन साल सागर मूवी ऑफर करती हूँ। What a great analysis by Harshit bhai!

B five, that is insane. A b five and bishop takes and this is the problem.

Queen b five, queen b five, bishop b five, rook a one over.

Wow! So Harshit bhai looked at the surface at the ceiling and came up with the answer. Queen e eight maybe that is what he wanted. I think so yeah. So Nihal said, why to get into this junjut? This is already hanging. I will go King G2 next.

Yeah, exactly. Because the pawn on A6 is, and the thing is, once the rook on A1 is defended, then he can take the pawn on A6. क्या हुआ?

Yeah, that's a good point. King G2 connect the rooks and then take the pawn. अच्छा। क्या हुआ? हाँ वो किंग जी टू एंड देन कनेक्ट द रुक्स। नो दैट्स व्हाट यू सेड राइट? या दैट्स व्हाट आई अंडरस्टूड। गॉट इट। बाय द वे टुडे इज़ द बर्थडे ऑफ़ नॉर्थर्न बैक अब्दुल सादरो। एक्जेक्टली। डिड यू गाइस मेंशन दैट?

नो, वी एक्चुअली फॉरगोट। लेट्स से कैन लुक एट द बर All of you to wish him.

And Alexenko is trying his best to give him birthday bombs here because he actually has a very good position.

Alexenko, when was the last time you gave birthday bombs to someone?

School में भाई। हाँ, बहुत time। भाई बहुत। भाई बहुत। बहुत। भाई डर लगता था school जाने को birthday के दिन। बहुत मारते थे। बहुत ही भाई। भाई I don't know did you guys play in your school?

पूल डेज़ आबुदाबी सॉरी आबू आबा दुबी आबुदाबी तो खेला होगा भाई आबुदाबी में जाके खेलना but आबा दुबी नहीं नहीं has anyone played आबा दुबी भाई आबा दुबी वो crazy भाई red hands खेला है ops bats ops bats खेला है भाई वही खड़े होने के बाद बैठने के बाद ना sorry बैठ गए तो bat हाँ ops खेला है luckily I did not waste much time in school.

So, नहीं अच्छा waste? हम्म school is very important.

Time में eight hours every day.

हाँ not for education but you also learn I mean education as well but you also grow.

देखो मैं भी आऊँ तुम भी आओ ये भी आया है for us.

Yeah but we learned so many social skills a lot of things we made friendship like you know.

Friendship क्या फिर? Talking about स्कूल, स्कूल इस समथिंग दैट स्कूल में यू लर्न एट सब्जेक्ट्स जहाँ पे तुम्हें अच्छा चलो शिवाजी महाराज के बारे में इट्स नॉट जस्ट अबाउट दैट इट्स अबाउट द फ्रेंडशिप्स यू मेक इट्स अबाउट हाउ टू लाइक यू नो बिहेव इन सर्टेन सिचुएशन्स या इट्स ऑल ओवररेटेड लाइक फॉर एग्ज It can be good. What is the neurological connection and all of these? ये सब तो नहीं दिखा रहा है। बहुत सारी चीजें हैं। हर school will teach you one track thing, but there are so many things to learn. So it's a choice. If somebody loves school, it's amazing. If somebody doesn't love school, there is so many things to learn in your life. If you have a billion years to live, you will still learn a lot of things. Like it will never learning is never over. Just school में सीखना है किधर और is your decision.

Oh my God! भाई लुक एट पब्लियानो करुआना ही इज़ इन ट्रबल। रिप्लाई तू माइंस। नो आई अंडरस्टैंड। लर्निंग कैन बी डन एनीवेर एंड एवरीवेर। लाइक हर्षित भाई का पॉइंट दैट देस अ सोशल पार्ट तू स्कूल, बट आई गेस्ट इफ यू प्ले अ स्पोर्ट देस आल्सो सोशल पार्ट देर बिकॉज़ यू मेक फ्रेंड्स यू Sorry, I think creative people don't like school, but all others like who are very smart guys.

In smart intellectuals love school, creative intellectuals don't do. And let's coming back to chess tiger. What's our analysis?

USA is also in. Some trouble, yeah, with Fabiano Caruana actually. Oh my God! Having a lost position against Johan Jonas Beer.

He's losing, yeah. Wow! And Jonas Beer actually very talented player from Denmark has played in the Global Chess League as well.

But then you know Fabi also as we discussed yesterday he did not get his luggage. Over here, I don't know. Can it really impact your tournament also in the beginning? You think? Has it ever happened to you? Because we travel a lot, and you've not got your luggage. And what do you think?

I somehow am someone who can easily adjust to situations. I think like I have been a bit lucky in this regard, where even if I don't have anything, I can somehow adjust. But I guess like some people really need to have certain things with them. Like Even for example, in my family, my sister would love to be very systematic, but like about her like bag and stuff, but I'm fine with, you know, whatever I have.

Yeah, I also think that earlier maybe I would get very affected if my bag didn't arrive because I had these plans in mind. But I think, Harshit bhai, if you think about it, maybe the people who are on the flow can adjust better. Those who are like, oh, I need to wear this on this day, I had Plans. I feel confident.

For them, it's a bit disturbing.

So I guess those who plan really deeply, for them, it might be really a big blow if the bags don't arrive, and then their performance can go down. Correct. But I don't think Fabi is like that. I think Fabi is a planner, right? Or not?

Maybe you know him better. What do you think?

I do think it will. I don't. The thing is, like these guys are so good that it doesn't affect them during the game. They know how to keep things at bay, everything else, and just focus on the game. So I don't think we can use that to to explain him having a bad position.

By the way, people are saying, by the way, Prague has just defended his ball, and now Humpey, people are saying, is better. Completely better. Yeah. Quickly going to Humpey's game.

Maybe this is one. Get four zero in women's.

No, no, no. It's too much.

ओह गॉड कंपलीटली विनिंग भाई हम भी ना जिस तरह से क्या नाइट सी फाइव व्हेनेवर यू कॉल योर ओपोनेंट तू मेक द मोस्ट नैचुरल मूव एंड इट्स अ मिस्टेक आई थिंक ब्रिंगिंग दैट पोजीशन इज़ अमेजिंग एंड नाइट हच फोर एवरी टाइम स्टेवरुला इज़ मेकिंग अ नैचुरल मूव और पोजीशन इज़ गोइ And after b takes c six here, I guess take knight takes c six.

Sorry, yeah. Takes takes. This is even queen takes c five was possible to take before. And this is just completely winning.

Wow! I think e five move को देखके मुझे एक song का याद आया। Exactly. मेरे सामने वाली खिड़की में अरे बोलो I am TNT dynamite ये गाना ये भी अच्छा सॉन्ग है मेरे माइंड में आया खोलो खोलो दरवाजे पर देखरो किनारे घुटी से बंदी है हवा मिलके छुड़ाओ सारे nice आशाओं का रंग लेके अपने ही दंग लेके आसमान का शामियाना आज हमें हिस्सा जाना क्यों इसका डर है रान्तू कमांड हम्पी E5 will be amazing but you know I I even think like हम्पी someone who could just play a small waiting move here and like A4 or King H1 and just say that like you know black pieces have absolutely nothing but I think also हम्पी feels it right like there is pressure here the rook is opposite the queen the knight is a little bit in The air, e5 is begging to be played. Yeah. And Prague has an advantage. Oh, let's go! Exactly. Oh my God!

नहीं है, नहीं है. It's possible. Let's see.

So c5 was a move that came to my mind as well. I did think d5. I didn't know what what is the assessment, and I think Prague may have improved his position a bit. With this c5 d5, although I do see a very clean plan for black to put the knight on e5.

Yeah, but then you have to do it at the right like right now if knight d7. Yeah, what is it that white is having? Because c4 पे attack करोगे तो knight e5. I love the knight on e5. So here is an important move, I believe.

Oh, I think I got it. Yeah, queen c3, right?

Yeah, knight e5 and the idea is knight g3 and rook f5.

No direct this time.

Ah, this just works. Wow, wow. But yeah, पुरुषी पे बैठने नहीं देंगे मतलब knight को. So it's timing क्योंकि अभी b five केला okay तो भी g five.

I just wanted to say like let's say yeah knight g three and I think in certain situations after queen e seven this concept of going rook f five is going to be quite important. Oh positional sack wow. You cannot take, and otherwise we have the g5 ideas with us. Love it, love it.

Harshit Pai likes to be on the edge where, you know, opponent can take it but you cannot take it. You know, I'm like, what will white do? Because black will not take, white will also not take, rook will be here. But I think it's just pressure.

It's pressure because knight e5, g5 is a problem. That's the reason why I played this. Wow, calculator.

But Cookie is winning, guys. We need to go to Cookie's. Wait, wait, Harshit.

देख के जाओ। Oh wow! Wow!

Knight he did not find Knight g four.

Knight c two.

Of course you never want that knight to be sitting in the center. So naturally you want to challenge the knight. So exchanges के हिसाब से it's a good move. But why it did not work? Cookie is thinking. But he has to find the move.

Okay, guys. Let's not look at the engine. Let's try to. Think on our own because I'm not okay. My first candidate is take here, rook takes, bishop takes, queen takes. Ah yeah, can I? And then knight g three and knight e two, right? Does it?

I think the idea is that we have we have bishop g seven, knight takes d four, c takes d four, rook takes c eight. Why are you?

Why are you playing such a move? Why not knight e two, rook e two, bishop e two, queen e two, knight g three, knight e two and take the because there is queen e five, f six and queen takes g three.

Maybe you should show the analysis to the viewers and me. Okay. How queen e five?

What are you saying?

Queen e five. Why मुझे समझ में नहीं आ रहा है। रुकिए क्या है ना? Ah okay okay you two points.

Oh, it's a blunder! It's a blunder! The most natural move turns out to be a blunder because of Queen g2. Sorry, Queen h5. Oh my God! This is what Gukesh cannot play because now in this position, even though he's materially up, it's game over after Knight g5.

Okay, when he sees, I will bind.

No, but this is crazy calculation already.

Okay, so you have to be careful. Actually, it's a careful moment. That's why White was tempted to go Knight C two. So it's a tricky move.

Bye. This is a very thank you, Harshit bhai, for being here. Actually, Amruta, this is a key moment.

I know Harshit is needed with his calculations.

Need to focus. Focus mode, yeah. Focus करना है भाई.

And you will see that guys, Harshit. Always when he is calculating, he looks up at upwards and tries to think.

Yeah, or away from the board. Oh, look, Yan!

Oh, hi, Polly and Yan!

Wow, we have Yan, Polly, and the people behind the freestyle chess are here. Yeah, and also they are going to Fight for the FIDE presidential election. Let's go! Crazy how the air is bumbling with energy. Too many things happening.

We'll not only know who's going to win the Olympiad, we'll also know who's going to win the election soon.

Okay, the right move here is Bishop g7, right? As Harshit has already spotted.

Of course.

So the right move is bishop g7, which is the perfect move. Let's see if Gukesh finds it because everybody is like Nihal is winning. Really?

Why Nihal is winning? Wow! Nihal is completely winning. Nihal is a beast, guys. He has played some you know just This game is actually one of the best games of Nihal. The the strategic ideas that he has found with King f1, Rook h3. This is just too good by him. And now he goes King g2, and his last move b4 just probably wins him the game because if a takes b4 here, he's going to play c takes b4. And the problem, Amruta, is the rook on h8 and the king on f8 completely out of the game.

मतलब व्हाइट तो निकल गया वो सेम प्लान करके बट ब्लैक उधर का वो H5 का पॉन वहाँ पे मेकिंग शॉर्ट दैट ब्लैक कैन नेवर टच इस G पॉन एंड कंपलीटली विनिंग हियर इस निहाल सरीन आफ्टर इस मूव पॉन टू B4 लेट्स यू नो दिस किंग्स हैव बेसिकली शोअन दैट दो वी आर यू नो सेम ह्यूमंस बट वी मेरे लिए नहीं चलेगा हर्षित भाई coming back to the point okay okay okay of course मैं गई हूँ school निहाल going for it here okay what if a four what if a four then I thought rook h b one can come in हाँ so everything you are banking upon the passer yeah and the passer cannot be stopped because this bishop is doing nothing much as soon as it moves the knight is going to jump the d five pawn is Super beautiful to stop the black bishop from opening up, and यहाँ पे there is absolutely disharmony. Exactly.

You know there is one song that I love from from Italy in Italian language. Two of them actually.

One is you can sing Italian song.

Una mattina. This guy in Bella Ciao. Have you seen? No, not in Bella Ciao.

In yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

In the in Mani High actually. Moneyized, yes.

Can you sing that? I love that song.

Oh my God! Something like this.

Italian is singing an Italian song, Sagar.

I mean, it's very, very popular. You know this, right?

I know. I know this. I love the music, actually. Yeah. कितने सारे reels में भी उसकी है। I'm sure you You have also made them.

Yeah, it's a very famous series, it's Money Heist.

Okay, so, so, okay, round up, guys. So Prag, let's start with board number 1. Prag over here, Prag is better. After d5, Rook e8 was played and the knight did not go back to d7. So yeah, Prag is getting, as you guys have shown, Rook f5 ideas, Knight g3, and the bishop is not able to do anything in life.

सब कुछ रेस्ट्रिक्टेड होगा सड़नली वाइट है ज़मोर स्पेस प्राग डूइंग वेल अर्जुन एरिगेसी डूइंग आई थिंक इस इस एक्चुअली दिस वन इट्स नॉट एस ड्रॉइश एस इट सीम्स आई थिंक बिकॉज़ ब्लैक आल्सो हैज सम सॉर्ट ऑफ़ पास्ट पॉन विथ बी सेवन एंड ए सिक्स पॉन अगेंस्ट द ए फोर पॉन सो आई And d3, c3 could also be weak, while e5 is Arjun's weakness.

Correct. So maybe Arjun is pressing very slightly here, is my feeling, but actually it's equal. Maybe nothing much happening here. Nihal Sarin, how did he start crushing here? Hi.

He, he firstly, uh, got his king on g2, and black was forced to try and find some counterplay, but it backed Expired here after b4.

After b4, it's done, bro.

It's over. It's over.

Oh, he's just created a passer. Yes, so if you take here, he will just take back. And now this pawn push, this rook is not coming into the game. If you trade, it's even worse because I have all my pieces in the game.

And your rook on h8 and king on f8 is, uh, is just out of the game.

This king f1 move is worth So beautifully for Nihal and so poorly for Black.

Actually, why did Black not castle? I just didn't know.

He actually thought that, you know, he he has to do what Nihal did as well—not castle—but it backfired. By Bhukash has found the best move, which was was it Bishop?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Harshit Bhai had also found a move. No way! And this one was like minus.

When Harshit Bhai told me this move Bishop G7, I was like. Okay, that just looks like a normal move. That might not be the move because I was looking at all these tactical ideas, but actually it's the move. Can we explain to our viewers why this move is so strong?

Yeah, because now, I mean, okay, knight takes e2 is a huge threat. First of all, knight takes e2, so black has— white has to take the knight on d4. Exactly. So takes, c takes d4, bishop takes d4 now loses to rook takes c1, and you lose Uh, the defender of the d4 bishop. So you have to start with rook takes c8, queen takes c8.

By the way, this knight could be hanging.

Yeah, in some lines. So I think queen takes c8, bishop d4. The biggest point is knight c3. That's the killer move. That's the move that seals the deal here.

Wait a second, knight c3 hitting the queen and the pawn, but I can simply take here. But now, oh, and take with the bishop. Yeah, and the rook is hanging, and if you move the rook, then bishop takes pawn.

Yeah, and everything falls apart for white.

But take.

Yeah, you could have started with queen c5 check to just make sure that this doesn't happen. And, uh, and now bishop e2 coming in next. I think, uh, it seems difficult, but you know, this is a classical tournament. Which means that the players have a lot of time to calculate these variations. I mean, uh, just in a few minutes, if, uh, if me and Sagar and Amruta analyzing together can make us find this, then I'm sure Gukesh can also come up with this. And he has, he has found this. So, Gukesh is winning, Nihal is winning, Arjun around equal, and Parag around equal. So, we are looking at 3-1 about to happen. 3-1, about to happen. A victory around this match.

But my guess is three and a half. Ha! Wow! Very ambitious.

Would also be four nil if Arjun starts to turn around, but I'll just be right back. Yes. आपने उसको जाने नहीं दिया था। अभी जा रहे हैं। That side we can spread out a bit. Yeah.

But he's coming back, no? Yeah.

So in a way, a Very very nice pleasant position for Arjun winning. Wait, wait, wait. Really?

Winning नहीं but slight initiative आ गया। A small edge here. छोटा-छोटा edge भी you know it's like the piggy banks अगर वो एक-एक रुपया डाल डाल के तुम्हारे पास Well, I I had a piggy bank.

I also had a small like a basic piggy bank, and at some point someone gifted me a piggy bank where there's a dog that comes out and then you put and then it goes in like with a button. Something like that was there.

कहाँ गए वो पैसे? काम आते थे अभी?

Yeah, I just travelling. I think I might have bought a chess book out of it or something like that. ठीक है, काम तो आएगा। चलो अच्छा investment होगा। I just feel that Arjun should not take, is my feeling, because if he takes, d takes. In fact, it's the best move. Wow, I thought the knight would come and sit here, but it turns out that after takes, takes, Rook d7, Arjun is the one who is pressing in this endgame because of the very concept of— I'm going to ask our viewers, can you tell me what concept Except am I talking with with all these markings?

Oh, and the hint is vacation. बराबर नहीं है hint. Hint is vacation, guys. For all the newcomers, for of course all the experienced players.

Wow! We have so many people who know this, Amruta. Vignesh, Om Sagar, White Devil.

ये जो speed में सब लोग जो लिख रहे हैं ना, I don't think we have ever had the answers at this.

पॉन आइलैंड्स एक्जेक्टली देर आर मोर पॉन आइलैंड्स और व्हाई? व्हिच मींस दैट देर आर मोर स्कैटर्ड पॉन्स यू कैन सी दिस इज़ वन आइलैंड हियर, दिस इज़ द सेकंड एंड दिस इज़ द थर्ड, वाइल ब्लैक हैज वन, टू एंड थ्री, इट्स एक्चुअली थ्री आइलैंड्स, बट समवे दिस टू पॉन Black already, and knights can't be exchanged very easily. नहीं तो king pawn endgame easily outside passer निकल जाएगा। So maybe Arjun should take and black white should avoid going into an endgame here.

But we have to see whether Moroni Luca Junior will play like junior or senior यहाँ पे। वो सबसे important है because if he plays like senior he will be able to Yeah.

Should we go, Amruta, to the women's section?

Hampi has been. Did he? Oh, she found E five. या तभी तुमने गाना गाया था सागर? एक बार खेलने के बाद.

No no, she found E five, Amruta. She has found E five and the song that I was singing was खोलो खोलो दरवाजे पर द की करो किनारे घुटे से बंदी है हवा मिलके छुड़ाओ सारे and He goes back, but here is where I think you can simply win a pawn, right? He takes d six, but maybe there is something even stronger.

Let me find. Let the chat also find, guys. Black white to play over here. Can you find the move? Wow, pray! I don't know how do we deal with everything, Sagar, but सब लोग उनका बहुत ही फराबत चेंज हो रहा है। This is very much winning.

I think there's another move which is very strong is to trade this knight and put even more pressure down here and here with this knight on H4 being out of the game. Very strong position, and then Divya Deshmukh is better against Avramidou. Wow! So Divya Deshmukh is now pressing after we thought that her position was very even. But she got the C file and now got her knight to G four. Knight cannot come here.

Can I tell you that Prague is winning? Wow, that's a huge news, man. That is so huge because this is the first time that he has such a huge advantage in the game.

Knight G three and opponent goes Rook E five, but it's not so clear. Guys, let's try to think what.

Oh no, I looked at the image. मुझे ना रे यार but तुम सोचो white to play there are many good moves but the best move is separates every other good move what are your candidate moves अगर top three candidate well I want to play h five one not in top three rook f six not in top three hey अभी रहेगा fourth शायद join fourth पता नहीं एक move बताओ सागर सोच के Yes, Aradhya Garg. Oh, we also have Shubhi Gupta in the chat. Aradhya in the chat. All strong players are rooting for our team India over here.

Thank you guys. But I'm not able to find the move here. Uh, it doesn't seem so easy. Rook f5, as what Harshit was saying, is one move that comes to mind.

Oh, chat is lovely, lovely. There are many moves, so chat is also confused.

But Queen c3, I like Queen c3.

Hey, third move, Sagar. Well done, which is equal to the second move. So Queen a5, Queen c3, and the best move is Knight to h5. But ये move difficult है ना?

Too tough, too tough. Exactly. Let's try to break it down. Knight h5.

Firstly, I'll look at takes, takes, Rook h5. क्या प्रॉब्लम है? No, wait a second.

Do we have to take this or is there some other move also?

I don't see any other move. So we must take. रुक टेक्स ह्यूआई को क्या है पहले?

I don't see अमृता very clear that this move is very easy and I don't even see प्रगति playing it actually.

But let's look at the.

He played something. He played knight f five.

Yeah, that looked very natural. But queen a five was very strong because you are attacking a seven and c five and you are Winning, recovering the pawn, and Prag's edge has dropped down massively because I'm because the moves are tough, and you also could not guess the moves.

Yeah, Knight H5 looked very tough, but Knight F5, Bishop takes, Rook takes.

This is not love the knight. Like I really thought the bishop on G6 is doing nothing, but you know what? I think what Prag wants to say is. Your knight on b6 is not doing anything, and your king over here is weak.

But Amruta, just to finish this analysis, that if you take, take, and rook takes h5, maybe the move that was bishop h3, trying to get the bishop here and then moving the king away and attacking. It's too difficult to find, but it's a very amazing idea.

Yeah, I agree with you. This cannot be found on the board with 16 minutes on the clock and so much pressure. It's an engine-like find, you— I can see.

Meanwhile, Gukesh on the board has managed to find all the right moves. He is now pressing a lot with, uh, Bishop g7 takes, takes, Rook takes. He found Queen takes, and now this is the board position. He is threatening Knight C three next, and Amruta the main point here.

Oh wait, but Bishop E four and Knight G five.

That's a great question because take here. Let's say I take with the rook, then Knight G five comes in because this knight was protecting the pawn.

Ah, you have Queen H three intermezzo.

Queen H three, I simply go back. No, Bishop takes D five. Yeah, Bishop. I mean, I don't.

Queen is okay. G four, that also.

Well, the thing is, Amruta. What about what about the move D takes E four?

Knight takes G five now.

Two strong pawns and the knight is hanging. You take here. Queen G four. Oh trap! Yeah, almost trying to trap the knight. Queen F five or Queen G four.

Hey Queen G four H four भी नहीं आ रहा है ना फिर? Right. Problem है क्या Queen G four में?

Also good move. Also good move. Both moves are winning. Is Prag match going to be a draw? Can't say. Prag is better for sure, but he lost a big advantage when he did not find the move Knight h5. He played Knight f5. Bhukesh is playing incredible chess today, and you know, the game is all about assessment. Many of the people think chess is a lot about calculation, about seeing the variations. Yes, it's one part, but to assess that this position is completely winning is not easy.

Absolutely no. This is a— and you know, so many times actually assessment is more difficult than calculation because you can calculate, many times it's forcing also, but you cannot assess it appropriately. And that is why many people have rejected the right calculations just because of wrong assessment, right?

Right. Yeah, I know you're right.

Okay, but Gukesh is playing Excellent chess here.

Today he's playing really well, and Gukesh is being supported in his bid to play excellent chess by Nihal Sarin, who's played this last move b4, Queen d8. And Nihal is winning because after pawn takes pawn, rook takes, uh, there is a very cool move Queen b2. And, uh, you know, we all know the football theory, right? The football theorem says That if a side has eleven players and another side has ten, it's going to be a close match. But if you remove one from here, keep on removing till till we get to a point where one side has two people and the other side has one. Then the side with one player is clearly going to be lost, and that is exactly what's happening. You keep on trading, trading. And this rook which is out of the play is slowly going to get into trouble. Like for example, King e7 check, and white has just one more player which is playing in the game. So this is actually very, very difficult position for Sony's Francesco.

Yeah, this one is like the smoothest you know way for the passer. मतलब एकदम clear है से clarity हो गया twelfth हो गया engineering कर दिया print इंजीनियरिंग उसके बाद कॉमेडी कर दिया क्लीन एंड क्लियर मूवी हो गया डन राइट ये इतना क्लेरिटी है वेरी कूल बाय द वे वी हैड अ सेल्फी विथ मोरोक्को गर्ल्स राइट नाउ विच इज इंटरेस्टिंग सागर आई थिंक यू हैड गोन टू मोरोक्को राइट यस आई हैड आई हैड बीन टू व्हाट वाज़ द प्लेस Pratik Agrawal is showing her complete class today. She's given— loved her Knight h4, Knight g2 maneuvering, Sagar. It was amazing.

And Knight e3.

Yeah, very, very great handling of pieces.

Now guys, there is one break that white has in this position. It's white to play. What is that breakthrough you will make here? Go for it. We have 7,300 people.

I'll read the top 3.

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Many people want to go F4, but the right move is found by Bhavin Gupta, Ashish Chawla, and Minasan Konichava, who found the move A5.

Yes, A5 was the strongest. move, you're breaking this because if you take, I will take and attack these 2 weak pawns. And if you do not take, I will take and attack the b6 pawn. This is also known as the minority attack, where one pawn starts to attack on a major majority there. Sir, by the way, your football theorem which you've developed, I think one of the times you might meet Messi or Piqué or Haaland, uh, क्या कैसे प्रोनाउंस करते हैं उसका नाम हालर्ड तो तुम उनको बताना फुटबॉल की है या या unlikely that I will get to meet them anytime soon but let's see meanwhile okay let's keep switching we can't be very oh Savita Savita का game is looking roundabout even I think her opponent has played quite well because she Was looking worse out of the opening, but now it's equalized, and this rook is very active. The knights are doing quite okay. The bishop is a bit passive, but okay.

Yeah.

C four. She's taken a break, but most likely. One second. What if I take? Takes b takes c four.

I think she wants to play bishop c five. I don't even see a good square. Rook a2 maybe, and bishop d4.

Okay, this can get very complicated.

I don't know, this is a very, very dangerous move played by Savita because she is in effect giving up a pawn with knight c4. So very interesting decision. We will come back to this game.

And Deepak Patra said Olin actually is the right pronunciation, heard from Magnus. Okay, Gukesh is winning. Gukesh has got great advantage. Could change हुआ क्या?

Oh, the game has moved on and I think Gukesh is finding one good move after another. We did say Harshit did find this move Knight c3 and Gukesh has also spotted it. Wow! And the main point here is after Bishop c3 which is taken, a very important move now is to take Bishop takes c3, not queen takes c3. Yeah, no, if you take queen takes c3, you are attacking nothing. And exactly knight takes, or maybe even bishop.

Knight g5 is a blunder. Let's ask the chat.

Ah, knight g5 is a mistake. Why?

We have GPS, uh, itis. I don't know how to pronounce this. Superchatted. I think women's team is well planned. Savita, Vantika playing all games and tougher boards being rested early. Open seems to be mixed.

Your thoughts? Well, I agree that in open tournament we don't have that clarity yet that who are our players in best, best form or shape. But I do feel that, uh, they are getting into shape. Like Nihal clearly seems to be in amazing Form. Uh, Prag today did play a bit up and down. Gukesh's game, as we are seeing, he's taken on c3 with the bishop, a very good move. He's attacking the rook.

And someone found the answer. Queen e3, you are winning the knight. So well done, guys.

And there, here is what was seen. Black to play, because if you play Bishop e1, you might lose the g5 Pawn. So what is the move black is looking for? Black to move and win. Go for it. The move that you can play here that gives you the win.

नहीं bishop c three मारा है ना मतलब black to play है क्या यहाँ पे?

Black to play because white took queen takes d five attacking this pawn and we have an amazing answer by Neerav Vishal. A big B. What an amazing chat we have, Amruta, who are able to find this tough move. Surya Thangavel, Atharva Gulches, Newton Gaudam, Meera Gopalakrishnan, and joining us. 5 seconds to give the answer. Black to play and win. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

And that's a grandmaster for all of you guys there.

And then you pick up the rook. What an incredible play! And if I go queen d six, Harshit bhai. Queen e eight looks good, but there might be a struggle. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four. Three, two, come on, one.

Yes! Because Rook g six is there.

Oh, let's go! Oh, full pressure में डाला तुमने हर्षित को ऐसे ही करना चाहिए। Yeah, and look at Bhukesh.

He's already gotten up and looking at other boards. He knows that his team is he's going to win on this board. That already shows confidence. And now gets back to his board.

Okay, he's minus six, but can this be You know, can you go wrong over here in any way?

Amrut, I love this thing here. It's amazing the way in which the scene is, right?

सस्ता ही करूँ। कौन सस्ता ही कर रहा है?

सस्ता ही करूँ इस सच्चाई को नहीं। हर्षित भाई, महंगा हर्षित भाई, not सस्ता ही करूँ। नहीं पर सस्ताई का भी महंगा ही आरिशित भाई हो। एक्सट्रीम वन इज़ अनदर वे ऑफ़ हैविंग द सेम थ्रेट ऑफ़ पिकिंग अप द पॉन ऑन जीप। भाई नाउ द बेस्ट मूव, आई एम गोइंग, आई एम हंड्रेड परसेंट शारी विल प्ले इट, एफ सिक्स। रियली? गिविंग अप द पॉन विद अ चेक, बट किंग जी से। नहीं नहीं नही Next two days smoothies on me. If F six, then smoothies on next two days on you. Okay.

Anyway, you are bringing tea. एक मिनट F six is not the only move.

It's not the only move. I'm surprised you think F six will be played, right?

Rook E five is a good move, but F six is just so clean. Rook E five actually it's not so clean, by Knight takes G five there.

तू आपस ले रहा है तेरा challenge?

नहीं भाई हर्षित भाई को smoothie पिलाएँगे अपुन.

I mean, no, maybe you will win.

Let's see, guys. Do you agree that Gukesh will play f6, or do you think he will play Rook e5, which is a good move, or Bishop e1?

f6 to give up the pawn on d5 with the check is not, is not what I would consider initially, right?

But I'm thinking more from Gukesh perspective. I would never think of f6 myself. Yeah, but Gukesh is a little bit different kind of a player.

Welcome The chat, guys. Welcome everyone, all of you watching third round of the FIDE Chess Olympiad here in Samarkand. India won the first two matches. Today we have a very formidable opponent in terms of their strength. We are playing against Italy, but India is playing exceptionally well in the open section and in the women's section. We take on Greece and we are doing really well on the women's. Section as well. Today seems to be a very good day for both of our sections, guys. Lovely, lovely.

Thank you for being with us. You know, round up for all those who have joined us over here. आज मज़ा ही आ रहा है. And as we have been discussing about, if India wins, they can have pizza and pasta happily. Right. शायद मसाला पिज़्ज़ा खाएँगे सबको.

And by the way, I want to make a big announcement that. Chola Chess is actually launching two new chess clubs in. They already started. We have one in Mumbai, in the mall since a long time now. Chola Chess is supporting that. Then we had in Chennai. They started it in Phoenix, and now in Pune, Harshit bhai, your hometown in Viman Nagar. Wow! There is a Phoenix Mall. It's starting tomorrow from three to six p.m. So if Anyone is a chess lover in Pune can go to Viman Nagar, where three to six there will be youngster Avila Chauhan coming to inaugurate it. And then in Bangalore tomorrow, in Mall of Asia, that is Phoenix Mall of Asia, it's also launching with Charvi making the the inauguration from three to six p.m. So now this idea of chess in malls is taking shape. This Beautiful concept, which I think Harshit bhai will really lead to more people taking up the sport. Bye, फिर तो कितने ही malls हैं India में और कितना ही chess होगा। So anyone from Pune in the chat, anyone from Bangalore tomorrow three to six pm Viman Nagar Phoenix mall and in Mall of Asia in Bangalore can go there would be very cool.

Whoa, whoa, me Pune, me. Okay, Arjun is better. Is that is that true?

Well, let's let's wait and see what what fish does because we have something online everybody. Yes, we can. Oh, rookie five.

Sid bhai ko do smoothie mil गया भाई crazy crazy awesome awesome.

By the way, very happy because rookie five was also the best move in the position. आह, ताकि ना दिल में मेरे हैं दर्दे डिस्को। बस फेसबुक के लिए बिशप। Let's go.

We are very happy. Knight takes g5. Bishop e1 is hanging because the queen is defended here.

So lasty finisho. Lasty finisho. Hi.

Gukesh is playing too well today. Yeah. What's wrong with him?

Hi. What's everything is right with for him?

Just a joke. But it's amazing. But guys. Gukesh is back in shape. He's playing his best chess, and that is what we all are looking forward to. You know, Gukesh has not really played up to the mark till here, but when he's getting back in shape, we are all very excited.

Absolutely.

And that is what—

This was a brilliant game. I think, you know, Nihal playing a very positional game, and on the contrary, Gukesh played a very aggressive game. So we had a very nice, you know, combo of one strategic masterpiece and one dynamic masterpiece.

Also, Nihal's game, I would call it positional plus— I mean, it was a mix of attack and defense, you know, in some way.

Yeah, I think this King f1, Rook h3 was very— Knight d2, Bishop e4, very positional in general. But this g5 move by Gukesh, if you can show that, that was a like just move of the day, I think.

We actually called it the neurofocus moves of the day. Because we do mention that one move will be the focus move, and this move pawn to g5 by Gukesh is what was the neuro focus moves. That was really, really special.

Yeah, and now let's go back to the top two boards, either of this section or the women's section, just to catch up to see how we are doing. The score is still zero zero.

No results. Just yet. And yes, this is what we did speak about and was very cool. Yes.

Bye. Okay, let's go to Sagar. We'll go to, uh, the next game because Prag, uh, sorry, Arjun को advantage आया है। We have to look at that.

Oh wow! Hampi's found E5.

Okay, मैंने नहीं मैं भी chat से पूछा। Hampi ने कब कब? Wow! This is just Actually, Humpty is playing one of her best games also.

Well, you know she got some help because Solakido did not play her best.

No, but you know, Knight D7, Knight C5 to understand that this natural move is not the best move. I think it was very good. No?

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Humpty played a fantastic game and and I think full points to Humpty for this for this important win.

We have Bharat MV sending a super chat. Did someone say house? Sorry, Bharat bhai, losing houses and smoothies and everything here, but very happy that Gukesh is finding some great moves and really playing his top chess today. I think winning this will bring him back to 2700 above in the live ratings and cannot—

the Indian team wins, we are all winning only. So I, you know, at the end of the day, we are all rooting for the Indian team. So guys, No one is losing if India is winning.

Look at this move. Extra pressure, full pressure, full pressure. Beast. Knight b3 is a beast move. Okay, so if Humpty plays knight b3, she would be better. Yeah. Divya Deshmukh started to get slightly better in this endgame. My guess is she might be able to convert it.

I think she might.

Oh, by the way, uh, Humpy just made a move. Did she find knight b three?

What did she play?

She made a move. She took knight takes d six.

Reborn. Is that a good move?

Yeah. In b two को क्या हो रहा है?

Yeah.

What is it? Rook b one trap.

I can just take the h four knight. Rook on e eight and then the knight on h four and white is completely winning. Got it. Got it. Simple chess by Humpy. I love it.

Oh, we have Prachura in the chat. Oh, and he says that, why do you think you won't be meeting those football players, Sagar bhai? I am there. No, let's go Team India, both sections, guys. Prachura is the founder and owner of American Gambits, the Fires American Gambits in GCL, and he got in Gerard Piqué as the strategic investor प्रचुरा भाई एक टूर्नामेंट हो जाए बिटवीन जेरार्ड पिके मेसी हालेंड एवरीवन मज़ा ही आ जाएगा यू नो इनिशियली मैग्नस डूइंग द कमेंट्री ओह आई हैव एन आइडिया इंसेन हर्षित भाई कैन आल्सो टेक पार्ट देर शुड बी पेनल्टी शूटआउट्स एंड एवरी टाइम यू हिट अ पेनल्टी यू गेट टू मेक अ मू Many, many place, not many sports. I'm seeing like chess with something like tennis. I saw Sadistic Tushy doing rock paper scissors, but why not do like this one?

Yeah, and also Prachur had earlier also super chatted, by the way. I think at that point of time maybe Emil was here. So he had said loved Wesley's analysis yesterday, rooting for Team India. Come on, Sagar bhai is a great wingman the world didn't know. Harshit bhai, great insight.

Great wingman. For Harshit bhai or we all need a wingman like you, Sakar bhai. Why? I'm ready always to wing it, but I don't think, I don't think you have right now the wings with you. Harshit bhai in focus mode here. Yeah.

Which game to really, really tell me? Arjun's game. We have to go, guys. Okay, Arjun's game.

Here, let me go. Chat का सुना रहे मैंने। Arjun, Arjun, Arjun बोल रहे थे वो अर्जुन अर्जुन तो one of the things that Arjun has and we spoke about is more weaknesses to attack and the move that we are looking that Arjun will play Arshad bhai do you want to bet he will play knight a five here very strong move हाँ very bet सोचने तो दो सोच रहा है ना I think he will play it He'll play it. Yeah. Oh yes, he played it. Yeah.

That means that if a simple major piece endgame is actually not at all a draw, too many weaknesses. And, and all those who want to improve their major piece endgames, guys, you should order the book Major Piece Endgames by, um, Boris Gelfand. Endings.

And by the way, Harjab सिंह ने कहा जस्ट आउट ऑफ़ क्यूरियोसिटी व्हाई इस निहाल प्लेइंग ऑन बोर्ड टू इज़न डी बोर्ड ऑर्डर स्ट्रोंगेस्ट प्लेयर्स आर ऑन बोर्ड वन विच विल बी प्रग और अर्जुन वेल निहाल इज़ ऑन बोर्ड थ्री प्रग इज़ ऑन बोर्ड वन अर्जुन ऑन बोर्ड टू निहाल ऑन बोर्ड थ्री एंड भुकेश ऑन बो Who is hand and who is brain? Well, everyone would want Harshit by there. Well, I think when it comes to football, he's one of the strongest after maybe Magnus.

No, Magnus is not. He's good, but not— there are better players. Really? Who? Ivan Sheparinov is very, very good. Hey, better than you?

Who is better than you? Magnus is not. Why? Who is better than you? You tell that. I mean, Magnus is not that good. Magnus? I'm asking who is better than you.

Sheparinov is good.

बेटर देने में हाँ, I think मैं पानी का बोतल में हाँ, I always thought Magnus is the best chess football no no no no no no but I have to hear it from Magnus if Magnus says I'm not the best football player like chess football player then only I will listen but how can Magnus be the judge yeah Magnus is in football since like ages right oh he's losing oh one second one second let's you take Bishop takes h3. If queen takes h3, there is queen takes c3. But we can go first check. King g2 only move. Check. King has to move and rook f2 check.

That is just too beautiful. Where? Where? King f3, rook f2. Very beautiful.

No way. Yeah. Reflection. Wow.

Oh wow, man.

And that is Is this beautiful movement? Wow! And it's happening, it's happening, it's happening! One finish!

Let's go, Gukesh!

Let's go! Finish, guys! Should we go full screen? Not Gukesh, guys!

We need hearts for Gukesh. We, we have criticized him when he was not doing well. We need hearts for him when he is doing well. Excellent play by Gukesh!

Queen takes h3. He has taken opponent. Didn't go king f3. Takes the piece.

No perpetual after queen takes g5 check.

Rishabh Baran says you three are so cute together. अरे thank you, thank you भाई.

Eight thousand.

What a game! What a game! मतलब it's a masterpiece. He will have a for lifetime कि एक treasure में ये game बार-बार दिखा सकता है। ऐसा कुछ है?

Well if this is board 4 for India, then it's dangerous.

Guys, better be careful.

Monster is back. Dukesh on board 4 feels like board 1 from this angle, says COD.

And such experienced play, drawing yesterday when the team needed to and winning today with the black pieces. The first points coming for Team India from Dukesh's board, and, uh, I think this is, this is only going to get better From now because Nihal on board three also on the verge of getting another point for Team India. Guys, the Indian team is demolishing the Italian team.

Yeah, I think the Italy team was strong. That was not at all weak in terms of players. Lorenzo Lodici, Sabino Brunello, Sonis Francesco good players. But actually, the Indian players have risen up. To the occasion.

Absolutely, they have. And I'm sure that— I'm curious, you know, if some point we can ask, like, did you guys have a meeting yesterday and decide, like, you know, how can we have such a close match against, uh, in the second round itself? Yeah, true. And, uh, I'm sure they, they made up their mind to give their best, and they are giving their best.

By the way, Mukesh is back to 2700, and yes, we have to update the scoreboard. Let's go!

It's 1-0, guys.

All the chat is hearts and बुकी ओपी एंड एवरीथिंग। I will ask thank you, Harshit bhai to do the needful. Can you press this button?

Oh, I would love to do this. Love to do this.

Press one and one nil is on the scorecard. Let's go.

By the way, guys, let's not give a lot of importance to rating because it's very dynamic these days.

Let's give when they win.

Let's just let's just Root for the result. Yeah, and Team India winning is finally what we want. Nihal, what's the move here? He's a pawn up. No, it's equal material.

Yeah, his opponent is a rook down. Just that's the problem. This rook is out of the game. Oh, actually, and Nihal is playing with one extra rook here. Very powerful, uh, piece in the position, man.

This just goes to show you like how important The placement of your pieces is right. We give so much importance to material. Here the material is completely equal.

Yeah, actually, where are you giving the importance to material? You lost two iPhones. I mean stolen. They were stolen right from your pocket.

I want to actually double down on this point with this chess example because in your house there can be many many things which are just lying down there and you are not using it at all. Like the On H eight, and the best thing to do is either start using it or just get rid of it from the board. You can't do it in chess, but you can do it in life. Give it to someone else who may make use of it. This game is a very good reminder for that. Yeah. Well said.

एक चीज़ दे दो guys all those who are watching. एक चीज़ अपने house से निकाल दो जो useful है किसी और के लिए.

तूने क्या किया अमृत?

मैं बहुत कुछ अभी.

अमृत अब before leaving for J C Actually, thanks to one of our friends who came home, Charmi gave out almost like hundred things that were in the home. Like she had kept score sheets or she had kept memorabilia and all this.

So वो रखी हूँ मैं। मतलब वो सब shoot करके देख रही हूँ। Okay.

So Nihal is about to win his game.

What about Arjun and Prag? Prag, let's go to Prag board first. Praghu? Yeah.

Prag का actually very complicated. Oh why?

Where's the queen? Oh, so rook takes f5, knight d7. Prag did play g5. Yeah, queen e7, queen c3 takes on g5, and Prag said thank you so much for this. Yeah, and now we have a queen versus two rooks.

Wait a second, why was queen c4 के बदले better मुताक्या?

नहीं, it's okay. And I think this position Prag doesn't risk. much because the black king is very weak.

Actually, I find it a bit scary for white if the rooks and knights come together. Yeah, along with the g-pawn.

A critical idea for white is going to be at some point, uh, bringing the bishop from g2 to h3, hitting the knight on d7, which protects the rook on e5. Nice. And I think, uh, we would love to get rid of the blockade black has set up. Can we do it now? विश्वेश्त्री G4 is a big problem right now, and rook G5 and we are just getting sauced on the G line. Why don't we just wait for exactly exactly? And we have a super chat by Memoto. Thank you so much. Memoto bye.

All the best. Always supporting.

Sixty nine point ninety nine maybe because he's the sixty nine.

Oh because India has ninety nine GMs and Harshit is sixty nine.

क्या बात है? Thank you. 9,000 of you watching. 1-0 in the open section for Team India as we are actually going for 4-0, going for a clean sweep.

Let's go, guys!

And you know, we are trying to bring back the points we lost yesterday. Queenie one was the best move.

भाई निहाल सरीन ने क्या खाया है भाई? He's a beast. Actually, Harshit भाई, as a as a strong player, can you Can you just tell people what Nihal's move Queen a1 means? Like, is it easy to spot?

You know, many of Nihal's moves are—they actually don't make any sense in short term. But when you think a bit long term, Nihal always has a very, very, very cool idea behind it. He's a very—I feel he's one of the visionary players on our team. He's very artistic. And here with Queen a1 at some point is making sure that the black king cannot come to e7 because there is rook a7. So this makes sure that black doesn't have this idea of escaping, uh, with his king on e7.

Very prophylactic move.

Plus, plus he also has an idea of playing queen to a4. So it's a multi-purpose move with at some point hitting the bishop on e8.

And there's a small tactical point. If you take here, take here, and try Win the pawn. There may be many ways to win, but Queen A3 check is just game over.

Nihal is छोटा packet बहुत बड़ा धमाका from our team.

Does it feel like he's using the he's mixing the styles of Carpo and Kasparov?

Yeah. Today he played like that actually. Yeah.

So so you know Nihal is playing very well against these 25-2600 players, akin to how Arjun was. Well, their styles are different. Arjun was very dynamic. Nihal is quite positional. However, I am curious to see how he is going to fare against players who are 2650.

Like for example, when we will face Uzbek team and he will face someone like Shamshid Din Wakhido or against the US team when he will face someone like Levon Aronian. Exactly.

That would be because against these players, I feel like Nihal just has too big of a problem. Positional advantage over them.

Yeah, and you know the best move for black over here is g five. That just goes to show like how bad the position is and how much you know one person doing nothing does matter.

Yeah, men is completely winning. But women's section check करना?

Yeah, I think we should go. I think U.S. guy just have a quick look because Fabi is losing. That's the news upcoming over here. That will be the biggest. Upset of the day if that happens.

Yes, actually, he's come back.

No, he's not losing. He was much, much worse.

In fact, the people in chat are right. It was plus two for Bear, but Fabi, Fabi and his resilience is coming in handy here. He has managed to make a comeback.

Okay, and yeah, women's board if we'll go because Vantika is winning, Divya is winning. Oh, Richard! क्या है?

क्या है? Twenty five hundred. Wow! By the way, we have Fabi here against Jonas Bear. Guys, look at this. Oh, this is so cool. I like this angle very much. These are the bullet cameras.

ये बहुत मस्त layout है. I love it. How do you like it, guys? By the way, Nai Ranjit says Zagar gives away his home. Amruta gives away everything inside.

So Fabi is slightly worse. And then let's see what is happening on another board. Wesley already won his game against Thibaut Jesper, so no one is there on that board. You can see it's empty. And then we go to the next one, which is Hans Niemann versus— oh, and we have score sheets being offered of Hans Niemann. What happened there? Hans won. Hans won. US is crushing it, 2-nil already. Yeah. And on the last board, we have Awonder Liang against Oshner, and that is a draw. I think somewhere Awonder needs to find his footing. I mean, it's equal, sorry. He's not yet getting into the best of shape, but maybe he will slowly as the tournament Continues. Yeah, guys. Do we want to have one last look at Sindaro before we leave? Because we just saw. Oh, he's winning.

By the way, did you guys see his brilliance yesterday?

Did you see it?

No. No. Okay.

You have to bring it. No, but not now.

We have to go right now.

No, no, no, man. We have to go to women's sports. भाई बहुत कुछ हो रहा है। अर्जुन विनी एक मिनट। Same thing. Okay, let's ask the chat, guys. Do you want to see Sindaro's brilliance right now?

It will take one minute. Amruta, you you will lose your mind. Just go in the end, bhai. ये सब ठीक है। Just go in the end.

Oh, Niall won. Niall won, guys. Niall won. Really? No, we have no time right now.

No, we will see that also. Wait one second.

Yes, especially everyone wants to see. ठीक है। Harshit bhai always right. That's Niall OP. Wow! Niall का final moment कैसा था?

Won all three games of his. Let's go! 100 for Nihal. Wow!

Actually, I don't know what happened there after Rook a8, Queen a1, Bishop takes e5.

Ah yeah, g5 played but ooh Z Bumba check.

If you played Queen d8, it's gonna be checkmate.

Bishop b5. King e7, Queen e3 checkmate. Wow, wow, wowzers!

And all Nihal's games have been so attractive, super thrilling. Like he's born like brave. ऐसे पूरा ही no no stress.

Too good. Hi, let's do the honors. Amruta, second pin add कर. Oh yes.

ये वाला। Oh okay okay okay okay sorry sorry sorry I touched it by mistake while giving you. I will give you the next one.

Sorry. चलेगा अरे बहुत सारे जीतने वाले हैं अब उन तो कोई ऐसा tension ही नहीं है। Arjun is winning now. Arjun is winning.

Oh my god! अजूबा है। Yeah. I I want to see what Harshit bhai was saying about Sindharo because it's playing in my mind so very quickly.

Unbelievable. You want like this is the perhaps the move of the like the beauty of the tournament perhaps. Okay, I'll go here. Go here. Go f five. Okay, okay. Look at this move by King f seven giving up the queen, giving up the queen.

Wow! What?

क्या हो रहा है पर एक मिनट हो क्या रहा है?

Queen e two rook f six is the move.

हाँ one just it doesn't stop here. King f seven if you take the queen rook h three like what is this?

Wow! No this is too good.

H six mate.

Hi, this is Javokir Sindarov is in hot form guys. What is Rook f six and King f seven?

Guys, let's have a look at Javokir. We need to see him and then you see. Too good, too good. भाई आज भी वो तोड़ रहा है भाई। हाँ, he's winning again। भाई मेरे को तो लगता है जावोकिर सिंदारोव इधर सब hundred points करके जाएगा सारे point मतलब ten on ten। Eleven you mean? No, he hasn't played one game.

Yeah, yeah. Maybe he'll not play all the games.

Yeah. और वो भाई ऐसे opponent के pieces को फंसा रहा है ये क्या queen trap हो गया कि क्या?

हाँ भाई चीज़ क्या? ख़तम. Rook d and just rook f seven and followed by rook d seven I guess wins on the spot.

Oh my god!

Yeah, king g eight queen f five.

He's crushing हाँ मतलब he's not even giving any chance. That's it. That's it. And he's using the time advantage. What he did in candidates with everyone.

Oh my God! Javokir is just. थोड़ा डर लग रहा है जावोकिर का। Amazing form here by the way. Going back to Arjun. But also Gukesh playing well, Javokir playing well. मजा आने वाला है। Yeah.

And both of them have so many fans over here like when they are exiting.

Oh Javokir is so of course a big star. Correct correct. Okay so let's quickly check the women's board. Humpty. Stavrula, is she coming back?

Hi, this, this girl Stavrula is some sort of a nemesis for Humpy. She keeps on fighting well against her. Humpy was winning, but with less time on the clock, made a small mistake here, giving up a pawn, and Stavi is fighting back.

She's a fighter. Well, the position is still better for Humpy. She is an exchange up, but clearly black has some counterplay.

Absolutely, with the bishop pair and the passed a pawn, she surely is in the game. Not at all over this game.

But I think Hampi should be able to convert this. Okay, let's go to Divya Deshmukh. Yeah, this is going to be a draw now. No hopes. Yeah, for Divya.

This is king f three.

Her rook is active, but नहीं king f three.

This is a draw.

Okay, one clearly better.

A crucial board for us.

By one three minutes for Vantika.

Eleven moves to be made. Okay, that is a stretch.

She's kept the edge from the opening. Yeah. Yeah. I think dangerous to play Kings Indian against Vantika Agrawal.

She's very she's very classically sound. Very strategically good player, Vantika. And she's bringing her bringing in her experience for the Indian team. Now, however, with two and a half minutes, she needs to keep the game under control.

Guys, I'm bit worried for Vantika because F four is coming, right?

Yeah. B six is so weak.

No, but don't care about that. Look at that. Already the bar flows down. The threat was this pawn is not the problem.

F four and the king. H one if I go. F four still. Yeah. Yeah.

This was not an easy decision. And she takes on F five and now E four is the move.

But E4 is difficult to find. Attacking your rook, opening up. No, I don't think so. Having 3 minutes only, this can become dangerous. And I hope that Savita has gotten things under control. No, today it's the women's team who's facing a bit of stress because Hampi, who had a +5 position, no longer is winning. So today the women board have to really get their act together.

भाई, भाई लोग सब लोग जीत रहे थे और मतलब या nobody expected this situation for sure. सविता का तो obviously it was always complicated. She never had an advantage.

Yeah but she still has a decent position actually. I do like Savita's position. So yeah I feel I feel like if everything goes down to this board, if it's one and half one and half and we are down to Savita's board, I think she's Still gonna have some chances.

Yeah, I think it will be main board will be Vantika's. ये भी draw होगा, वो भी दिव्या का भी draw है, तो main board will be Vantika's. Okay, let's go to Vantika's board for a while.

Sure, let's check that because Pavlitu has made the move before. And if if Vantika doesn't find bishop g four here, she is losing.

What? Bishop g four?

Take take you want to नाइट ऑफ़ फाइव को भी ये मर रहा है। बाय द वे वी हैव अ वेरी गुड शॉट ऑफ़ द एंटायर मैच हैप्पेनिंग हियर बिटवीन इंडिया एंड ग्रीस। लुक एट दैट विथ ऑल आवर फोर बोर्ड्स कंपलीटली स्विच्ड इन विथ कोच स्वयं मिश्रा ट्राइंग टू लुक एट द गेम्स। ओह, दिस इज़ अ वेरी टेंस मैच हैप्प And Stavrula board two, Divya and Avramidou board number three, Vantika and Pavlidou and Savita versus Christo Christodoulouki guys.

But it's a dangerous situation because how to like bishop g four as the only move? It doesn't feel very obvious.

Let's keep an eye on this board and and find and see whether Vantika will find bishop to g four guys. She has to find it because she doesn't.

And if she plays anything else, then the threats on the G file will become too intense. Exactly, they're overwhelming. But I think this is a natural move, right, Archibald?

Is it? It— I guess it is. I guess it is. Yeah, it is.

I, I agree with you. I agree. I don't know. Yeah, she plays it.

Well done.

Good job.

Well done.

Oh, but now, you know, Black has to find a move. Oh, that's too tough. Oh man, I don't think she can find. That means that Vandika will get a winning chance.

Because Vish, wait, I will tell you what the move should be.

Vish, तो मैंने बोला। No, you just lose on H3.

Yeah, but I thought some sack, but not working.

Bishop move, bishop move.

It's very tough. Bishop move. I think Vandika actually saw this, and I think she's assessing winning, na?

And I think she she's right in some ways.

I think she has assessed it correctly. Yeah, this is a very good position for her.

But bishop g3, g3, knight h5 is the only way. A bit too random, I think.

It's very random.

With 6 minutes on the clock, you have to make 10 moves, and if you don't find it, the advantage goes plus 3.5 to Vantika.

Yeah, I think I just saw a nice line which is, uh, on these lines takes takes knight h5, bishop h3.

रुक टेक्स किंग ह 2 एंड क्वीन ह 4 एंड दिस इज़ गेम ओवर। या बट इट्स वेरी हार्ड टू फाइंड दिस विथ ब्लैक गाइस, इट्स रियली हार्ड। आई मीन इफ पवलिडो फाइंड्स दिस, आई मीन शीज़ फुल क्रेडिट तू हर। बट आई थिंक आल्सो आई वुडन't ब्लेम वन्तिका फॉर मिसिंग दिस। इट्स इफ आई वाज प्ल Maybe they made forty moves. Could we just go on their board? No, they are there.

But on the other cam, they weren't there.

Why? There was a move played by the way. One Tika's game pay. Did she find it?

The Greece team is winning. Oh yes.

Knight f five she took.

She did not find it. That is what she.

By the way, this is the move I was also suggesting.

But bishop h three को भी knight g three आ रहा है ना?

Mistake. Now the only way to win for one. Let's find it. Let's try to understand this very carefully because the move is bishop takes f5 check. Okay, you take back and now a very key move needs to be found. I believe I don't see it though. Is it queen h?

Yeah, queen h5 is the best move and this is not. That hard to spot.

But now g six queen six mate. Sorry. Oh, it's a double attack. It's a plain double attack. Yeah. And if the queen goes here, then rook takes b six.

Yeah. That's the winning sequence. Vantika has a minute and twenty seconds to find this. If she does, this is going to be a big relief for Team India.

We'll stay. Oh, by the way, today we have had. Three people, Sahana, Ajish. Thank you for contributing to Help Chess. Nilesh and Satish Vithalan, Vithanala contributing five thousand. Thank you so much for becoming backers of Indian Chess. Sorry, believers of Indian Chess on helpchess.org.

Thank you. We actually crossed three thousand five hundred. Wow! That's a very good number.

By the way, the clock has become red and she takes on f five. And now queen to h five.

Let's Go, Vantika. बस अब और एक move and then I think it's much easier to find the next moves.

Yeah. Queen H5 is going to is going to win.

Vantika OP हो जाए, guys. Vantika OP हो जाए.

She was the she won the gold medal on her individual board in the last Olympiad was a key factor for us winning the medal and this time again she is making sure that our team does well.

Hi, this is not Indian women actually. Oh, that's why. Sorry guys. मुझे लगा इंडिया के वुमेन प्लेयर्स हैं अभी ये। Sorry. Vantika is winning now. This is done. It's done bro.

Then we have to look at our Jules game very quickly because it's important moment because he's winning.

Hampi's game was very interesting. ये तो draw है। अगर इधर कुछ भी नहीं। Hampi's game was very interesting.

हाँ, this is a critical one. We have a super chat. Guys, later new episode is out.

Okay, thank you. Wow! Who is who is in it apart from Samay? I I was not aware that today the new episode is coming and guys do check it out always. Whatever Samay does, very interesting.

By the way, the scores for all those who are above eighteen only.

Again, Nero Chuingam and also Samay's latent show. ओ नवाज़ इतन सिद्धि की crazy okay ninety five but I do think that because Hampi has been putting a lot of pressure you know on Stavrula for such a long time कहीं ना कहीं Hampi will be able to cut word this by the way look at the Take one of the people in the chat said they said let's play knight b seven with black to play firstly, but such a move would then run into such a tactic.

So be careful.

Can can we look at Prag and Arjun Sagar quickly because it's been a lot of time since we went narrow one.

Prag has started to press.

हाँ और प्राग का forty moves के आगे जाएगा तो ये लंबा जाने वाला है for sure. And Prag is better, which is amazing. I think the rook on e five cannot move, but now two passers will be very powerful. Yeah. Maybe that is. Maybe I thought the other way. The king will be weak, पर ऐसा सीन है नहीं। And Arjun? Oh, Arjun is clearly better.

It's just a pawn up.

It's just a pawn up and.

When did he snatch this pawn? Okay, when his opponent played knight e three and then queen g four, which just gave up the pawn. Arjun took it, chewed it up, and is now a pawn up and completely winning. Yeah.

Oh, उससे याद आ गया सागर दांतों का जिम हो गया मेरा। प्रैक्टिस और करना पड़ेगा, फिटनेस और बढ़ाना पड़ेगा। and now actually an important move for Arjun.

he has to somehow defend the pawn on b7 and white is threatening him. no he has to play c6 here but yeah he seems to be on the court.

why why queen is on d5?

it's rook c5 is a threat right now and that would attack the queen on d5.

And that's why. So C six is a is the only move.

By the way, a question to our viewers: King B eight.

Very simple, no?

There are two good moves here, and both because the rook on B one pins the king on B eight, and that's why rook. Rook takes c6 or queen takes a6. Both moves would, would work quite well for white. Queen to b4. Arjun taking his time, making sure, uh, he makes the 2 best moves before reaching the time control. 2 results so far in the open section. Now, no, no results so far in the women's section, but Vantika and Hampi are completely winning. Six and half minutes for Arjun.

Prag misses, but yeah, Prag's position is so complex that it is not easy for both the sides to play. So I think the engine will go up and down a number of times, and we should not trust it completely. Okay, so yeah, यहाँ पे तो अर्जुन को C six ढूँढना ही है six minutes. Are we going to look at the look at other games अगर? Yeah.

वांतिका and Humpty Humpty I think we were looking at because बहुत सारे moves हो चुके हैं यहाँ पे And there are a few exchanges on the board, which is a good sign for Hampi, I guess, because she is up an exchange. Table edge. Six more moves to reach the time control, however, and she needs to keep her advantage intact. Fortress नहीं आएगा क्या?

Fortress नहीं आएगा क्या? I'm not very sure about it, but right now the advantage for Hampi is plus three, but six moves to be made. She has one minute thirty seconds and Stavrula has two minutes thirty seven seconds. So I think the best of course the rook is attacked and the best way is to come to the c-file, put more pressure over here. The bishop is lovely. She's an exchange up. Overall, it looks great, but yeah, you still have to be a little careful. And Arjun has blundered. Oh my God! That's the news coming in. Did he not play c six?

Played rook to b eight. Oh, he just blundered a pawn.

No way! He gave up. Oh, but it's a tactic.

He just blundered a pawn.

But why does you find rook c seven, rook c seven, queen b six?

Crazy! Just blundered upon here.

No, I think he thinks Queen D3 over here.

He I don't think he this is what he intended.

What's the problem for Queen D3?

He played it. Luca Moroni has taken on C7 and let me look at. Well, Arjun doesn't give any expression, so hard to understand whether he wanted this, but I don't think he did. This is—

let's see how fast he plays Queen d3. It depends on that. And how does he feel? Like, does he get up from the board?

Yeah, this would actually hurt Arjun a lot because he would have won this game, and instead of that, now it might end in a draw. Yeah, because even if you go and pick up this pawn, right? I mean, you can't take on e5 because b1 is hanging. So maybe Rook b6, right? Some— but it's not so clear. I, I just get this feeling that Arjun might get another chance.

Yeah, but still a big improvement. By the way, Queen takes d3 played by Arjun, and they have reached the time control, so we'll get moves, uh, quite, uh, quite slowly now.

Yeah, I just think he'll think through now.

Yeah, okay, but he has chances to convert, to get an साइड पासर एंड स्लो एंड स्टेडी रुक एंड गेम में भी क्वीन एंड गेम, तो इट्स गोइंग टू बिकम अ वेरी कॉम्प्लेक्स एंड गेम फॉर आरजून्स गेम। या, बट मेबी मेंस ही सॉw सी सिक्स, बट मेबी देर वाज समथिंग मोर इंट्रिकेट दैट यू नो ही डेन लाइक इट्स पॉसिबल। या या शुरू। वी कैन नॉट जस Pitan has become the backer of Indian chess, and thank you tech so much because you know all these memberships they go to the laptop funds and so many laptops were given this year. Yeah, Sagar and Arshad bhai. Okay, so then we need to move to the next game.

We should for sure check out the time pressure.

उधर जाते बहुत ज़्यादा चल रहा है टाइम प्रेशर आई थिंक विमेन्स गेम्स में आई थिंक ऑन द मेंस बोर्ड्स ओपन बोर्ड दे हैव क्रॉस्ड 40 मूव्स। शुड वी गो टू वंतिका?

सी इज़ कंपलीटली विनिंग। वाओ! वाओ!

सी इज़ गोइंग टू गिव अस द फर्स्ट पॉइंट्स एंड लुक एट हर, शी इज़ वेरी कॉन्फिडेंट ल She boom took here, took on f5 with a check, and she's completely under control. I think, hi, Vantika is doing what Nihal is doing in the open, and both of them on board three.

Oh yeah, exactly. So the board three is actually doing really well for both our teams right now.

Vantika Agrawal, guys, ये नाम याद रखना। She's actually Someone who is performing brilliantly in the Olympiads, and she's also been sponsored and supported by Sam's LG LG LG right?

Yeah, she is doing really well right now. By the way, Hampi's board is very critical right now as well because she has a minute on the clock. One minute for Hampi.

Three more moves to make. But how do you see this?

Position, like can it go wrong? How how much advantage at a practical level is this? Like do you see huge plus three लग रहा है?

Yeah, I feel it's a huge edge because now you're weak attacking a weakness. If you defend it, there is rook b one.

But I do see it going wrong as well. Like I would play king g seven immediately with black here immediately. Like I wouldn't. I would play king g seven immediately.

But then bishop f seven is a mistake.

Yeah yeah. So oh but she plays.

King g7, Harshit, by Rook b1 and Queen c5 check.

Yeah, yeah, sorry, there is a move here. Thank you, Golden Knight W Divya, he's super chatted.

I don't like Bishop c5 check. No, that's, that's a bad move. Oh, and we have big news.

Savita has made a mistake because of which she's losing now. Wow. That sets this match in really interesting situation. But her opponent is under extreme time pressure.

Oh, twenty seconds. Let's let's see. Big mistake.

But I don't see what is the move here.

Is it very tough? Take the pawn.

It's very tough. E five. Very tough. Actually, an incredible person joining. In our studio, we have the one and only Bodna here. Let's go! Hi, Bodna.

So nice to have you here.

Bodna, how are you? Good. Did you win your game? Yes. By what question? Sorry for asking that.

How did you win your game should be the question.

But Bodna, before we go to your game, can you help us with analyzing this? Crazy time trouble for Savita Shri, board number four for India. And do you think that your white is better? Black is better? What's happening? We can't understand.

After night E two, I I like black. I mean, black is at least okay. I think not worse. Black is at least okay.

That does give us. Because the last move by her opponent was a bad move. Here she played bishop f2, and that turned out to be a critical error.

Queen e3 was much better.

Yeah, because e5 she had to find.

Let's stay with the position because queen a1.

Last 2 moves for the 40th move thing.

Would you play c3 or podna, or you want to keep the pawn on c4?

I don't like C three. You don't like C three, yeah? And why?

Knight F three and Queen B two. But I guess it's yeah, maybe it's better to keep the pawn there.

Davita has fifty seconds and she has to make two moves. Oof! What's what's the move which you will think about?

Well, for all the people who are right now joining in, we have an incredible young talent with us analyzing. Her name is Bodhna Sivanandan. She is number one board for England and she is 11 years old and can crush me in 10 minutes. Maybe it's possible soon me as well. Yeah, I think very soon will happen that as well. But she's 2340, 2335, what is it?

I think something like that. I don't know.

You don't care about rating, very well. So somewhere in that range and very powerful, very strong.

King h1, is that a blunder or mistake or something like that? Yeah, there's a double attack here with the queen going to f4. Still not, not some, not easy. Oh, she goes e5! She founds the right move. Ah, which means Savita Shree's game is going to Stay unclear. Yeah, even after forty.

But she has to make one more move, and that could be a mistake because the last move before time control. Fb five, maybe just rook e five, and white structure is much better. Yeah.

Somehow bishop d five looks tempting, right?

What now? I thought either bishop d five or rook d five. Ah, rook d five is the best engine move.

That's awesome. I was thinking bishop b5, knight f4 ideas for black, but the problem is after this our opponent will get 30 minutes.

And now the only move is rook e5 because if you take here there is 32. So yeah, okay, I think Antonia will, yeah, will definitely find it. And Humpy's final moment is also done.

Oh, Humpy's game, but I think Humpy is totally winning.

Yeah, totally winning because she got on the 4th क्या तुम्हें दिस E six ब्रेक ओप्स सॉरी द E six ब्रेक F takes E six and bishop takes E six and here we are okay what do you want winning for Bodhana and so and one sorry sorry winning for Bodhana already won sir are you feeling a lot of stress with the Bodhana you know over here well I'm very happy that she You know, you were in her, uh, team when you were playing against Judith Polgar. Yes, in Hungary you were playing with the Saimal with Judith Polgar.

Yes, and thanks to Bodhna we drew, right?

Yeah, exactly. Well, not only me, but yeah, I was on the team.

I mean, thanks to you we were in a— thanks to me we were in a losing position, and then thanks to you we drew. So that's how it happened. Okay, this is around roundabout even. I think Bodna, you would you say that this would end in a draw, or would you say black has chances?

I think it should end in a draw, but if anyone has chances, it's black though. That's a good point, especially with the queens off. If they do come off, if the queens are traded, like if you take.

Queen e5 here, for example, and then I mean could take on a4. That looks good. But if Queen e5, Rook e5, just as an example, even this endgame would be quite dangerous for white.

Like b5 and the outside passed pawn is nice.

And last, we can ask her about Prague before going to Bodna's own game, and we can This is insane, Bodna. If you can break it down for us or our viewers, we just don't understand what's happening. It says 0.00, but definitely it's not equal, right?

No, it looks, it looks equal because black is kind of has to defend the d and e pawns, and white has to like has to keep the bishop on g2 to defend like f 3 and e4. So like white can't really do anything with just the queen, and black can't do anything if he has to watch the d and e pawns. So I think it makes sense.

So very likely this will end in a draw, or maybe Prag will try, right? Can bring like king h4, king g5. Do you think like that's too risky?

Good night, very good night.

You are both nice here to again It's good that I am here and not playing there. Black might go g3 and then—

My question is, if you had to choose like this position to play with white or black, which one would you prefer?

Good question. Or commentate, that's the third option.

Uh, I think white I prefer. Okay, then we are happy to hear this, you know, that she prefers, uh, being in Prague Shoes over here. Yep.

Okay, let's look at Bodna's game because she was— which country did you play against, Bodna? Uh, Brazil. Brazil? Yes, I think. Yeah. And you were playing against an opponent who was 2200. Let's take the game from the start. Uh, you are black. Can Flip the board. Yeah.

Oh, you played Caro-Kann.

Wow! I love the opening.

But you know, you love the opening, but she plays really well. Let's see.

Let's see. Ed cd bishop. Okay. C three. Oh, I also play queen c seven because you stopped bishop f four. And now did you play bg four? Oh no. How easy! This is like this new way to play out.

Inside, yeah? No, I just saw it today and I thought, why not try it?

But it does look, uh, like you give white a small edge right out of the opening, or not?

Yeah, but I thought like I will have like f6 and e5 and maybe some minority attacks.

So you play knight e7. Ah, okay. And now f6.

This is a very cool idea actually.

Thanks for sharing this idea with me. I will try it. Oh, and g6. Okay, interesting. Maybe a good move. Yeah, by your opponent.

Yeah, yeah, because e5 is now not happening immediately.

How did, how did you assess this position?

I thought it was about equal, but I have— I haven't seen like this c4 idea before, but so I was like confused as to why she played Queen b1 two moves ago, but if she did play Queen c2, then the c4 won't work because of Knight b4. So if she were to play Queen c2, then if I play g6, then c4 Knight b4.

So ah, that's very smart of her to play Queen b1.

Queen e4.

Yeah, I love this knight.

And now b six, I believe you must have. Oh no, you want to keep the bishop there to protect e six. Correct. G three, rook c eight.

What's the knight going? C four.

I feel like I when I want oh a five. What do you feel like, Sagar? I feel like when I'm watching Bodna's games, I want to guess her moves and see if I can try. Why don't you try?

Trying to create a weakness.

B five. B five no, no.

B five is bad. B five I thought then C five is just weak forever for the knight.

Ah, you mean the knight would come somehow there? Yes. You know I saw that knight is not coming to C five now, so I pushed it. But maybe you have to. Maybe the queen will move away because you live in the present.

No, Sagar. That's why.

It's quite poor way to live though. Why? That's what you keep. सेइंग लिव इन द प्रेजेंट, क्वीन बी सिक्स। ओके शी हैज़ टू डिफेंड नाइट डी टू। आई थिंक शी वाज़ प्लेइंग क्वाइट वेल, राइट? सॉरी, यू आर गेसिंग, नो ए फोर। ए फोर। व्हाट्स द पॉइंट? इफ़ क्वीन टेक्स बी टू, यू जस्ट लूज़ द बी सेवन। नाइट सी फोर। ओह वाओ, वेरी कूल ट्र Knight e2 traps the queen.

Crazy. Fall for the mate. Rook c7, she played this one. I played to play Queen b2 next because then if Knight c5, I can go Queen b5.

Oh wow, and there is no Knight b5.

Yes, very cool, very cool. She played it immediately.

And then what do you play, Sagar? Yeah, no, go on.

Queen a6, knight e3. Oh, now she wants to take twice on d5, so already you're under pressure.

I, I, I— she didn't take twice on d5, but I thought that was best.

But what did you play? Queen d6. Ah, okay, now take on d5, right? Take, take, bishop takes. Ah, she took h4.

I, I didn't want to face bishop takes d5, to be honest. And who do you take with the pawn? Pawn takes, queen e7.

When you're playing these 2200 players with black, how do you— like, what's your approach to the game? Like, do you want to, uh, like always play for a win, or do you feel like, uh, like, you know, what's your strategy?

I try and play for a win, but if like it's just not possible to win, then You can't really over push.

You know, Harshit is asking for a friend because he plays many open tournaments where his friend gets 2200 rated. Actually, he's asking for himself.

But so, but how is this? My clearly better for okay. This I have rook c two at the end. Ah, okay. It's unstoppable. That's why because I thought the bishop. Was bad, but even the knight maybe right now plays bad. Got it. So she played like— so that's why I think she went for h4 ideas, maybe King g7. You played h5, then Knight f4.

Guys, actually many of you maybe haven't seen, but I have seen many of Bodna's games, uh, and, uh, I think you were playing in the British Championship and you managed to defeat, uh, quite a few grandmasters. In that event as well, you yeah won. I mean, but recently you have done quite well, I think, right against higher rated players.

Maybe. I'm not sure.

Actually progressing really really quickly.

Oh, there was this one player where you had a very nice tactic. Was it some 2600 GM? What was his name?

Yeah. I remember. Yes. And Amit Ghosi from the British. Amit Ghosi.

No, no, no. Even before that, he was not 2600. Some other guy whom you beat your first 2600. Ah, Moritz. Yeah, Moritz. Yeah, that was a nice tactic. I think I put it in chess ranga tactics actually. Oh wow! The future for sure.

Like of how I feel. I see a lot of, a lot of, a lot of a very bright future for how she's. That was that is obvious. Yeah. Yeah.

Hg oh but now takes hg right?

Yes. And then did you assess that you were you got like the hg move was bad? Rook h8 is coming now. Very easy.

And also bishop c6 is a threat.

Yeah, I couldn't see how to stop bishop c6. So e5 and what did you take with? Bishop takes pawn, because if bishop takes, then a4 is hanging, so I don't finish a pawn up. Queen b4 here. Rook h8. Bishop went back.

Oh, I have an idea now. At some point I want to go King g8 and Rook h7, but there's— oh, there's a knight. Is there some mate?

I didn't see that. I was thinking like rook h7, rook c8, but I thought it was too slow.

Ah, but I love your move actually. Rook h4 with the tempo.

Oh, nice technique. Queen goes back.

Okay, now to finish off the game. What? I didn't get this move. Ah, Knight takes h5, you want Queen h2? Yeah, or something.

Uh, no, I just want to take, and then once the knight's gone, the king is just open.

But do you think like there was some better move?

I, I suddenly thought I, um, like equalized after I got To the end position that I had calculated, so but I couldn't see a better move.

Why did you play d3 actually?

Here the d3 is that yeah d3 is the best move here. I had one minute only. Yeah, I didn't consider it in this exact line, but I was looking at that to get like d4 square and things. But also that then. Bishop e5, like these are all tough moves, right? Uh, so keeping Knight h5, very natural. Queen went to d3, but White should have taken here. And all these moves with 2 minutes on the clock must be very difficult. Were you looking at Bishop c6? Yeah, this I thought was— then pawn takes c6, Knight takes h5, and this I thought was Like better for me though. Yeah, that was actually very good. But yeah, because Sagar, look at this. You're how do you find a move like Rook e4 with such less time?

Very difficult. Only an engine can find it.

So anyway, practically this is anyway winning. No, practically this is winning. We can say Knight g3, fg3, and then ooh. रूपी फोर, रूपी फोर। and then you have a passer, yeah now? yeah। रूपी सेवन। and with like double g pawns you have like no chance। oh nice। the resignation fortyth move the game was over। lovely yeah। she got lot of time to think and then she resigned or she resigned immediately? so For like about a minute and then resigned.

You have won all of your games, right?

You have won all three of your games so far.

Yeah.

And this is your second Olympiad, right? About the first one was on Budapest.

Budapest.

First one was on board four or five? Board five. And now suddenly you're on board one. Does that feel kind of similar or you find it weird? How is it? Ah.

Oh, it's the same thing like playing for a team, like playing for England, but obviously playing on like the top board is very different from playing on the reserve board. So yeah, but I'm happy.

You're enjoying yourself on top board?

Yeah, so far.

Is there any team you would like to face here?

Not any team in specific.

Anyone? Yeah, I like both. Nice. Like, I don't care who I face. I don't care which board I am on. I just want to play. Yeah, you just want to play your best, right? Yeah. Amazing, amazing. And Amruta, what are you doing? Are you going— are you taking a selfie? No, no, your hair was getting caught. Oh, that's okay, but the main person is Bodhna here.

Yeah, yeah, that's true. Her brain is more important.

And Bodhna, uh, well, you are— your next round will be very soon. Tomorrow, so we don't want to keep you for too long. But in general, best wishes for your games, and if you ever play a nice game and you feel energized or anything, please do join us again. We really love having you. Okay. Yeah. Congrats. Thank you.

And hope to see you again.

Thank you. Bye. And Bodna, we are hoping that you come to India also for a tournament very soon. Okay. Yeah.

You haven't you haven't played yet, right? In India? No.

I think Bodna would would be amazing for Global Chess League Superstar Women's.

Oh wait. Maybe next year. Did you follow Global Chess League a bit?

Uh a bit. Like the first one or two days, but then I just forgot about it.

Also, did you hear Harshit's commentary? No. Ah. That's I thought you heard him and you forgot about the donut. Sorry, just a joke. But okay, Bodna, thank you so much for joining us and bye-bye.

But Bodna, do you still have as long as she did in London when we were there? No, sorry, Budapest. She had such a long hair. Do you— did you still have that? I trimmed it, but it's still decent. And now, do you— are you doing your own plait or— No. Do your whole life. Yes, I mean for that you need hair. No, I get like first you get there, then then go there.

Okay, before I get roasted even more, Bodna, thank you. Thank you.

Bye. Join again.

We'll see you guys. That's Bodna Sivanandan from England here. Top. Board for England. Very cute, very young, just eleven years old. What a beautiful talent playing for reserve board last year. Harshit Bhai on 2024. Suddenly in two years top board. And I loved what you said that she will be in the female superstar board in Global Chess League next year. Very likely, I feel.

I was looking. I was just observing how she calculating and very much.

Harshit Bhai थोड़ा उठा के थोड़ी मेहनत करो भाई कुछ तो क्या हुआ ये ये क्या कर रही हो तुम बब्बू का मैंने पूरा गिरा दिया है पर भई यहाँ से पूरा अभी उठना नहीं what what impressed you Harshid when you are looking at her analysis was there anything specific the focus you know there was a certain focus that I could see in her eyes and that was impressive for you Her focus, basically.

Her focus and also, you know, how pragmatic she was. She was never over-evaluating a position. She was keeping everything Which country is it?

Oh, from, uh, which is this one? They are from this. They're all together here. And let's see what Harshit does. He's going to play, guys. The sound is it back? Yes, it is back. He's going to play against four players of one country. Five versus one is the time control. Fine now. Fine now. Sorry. Sorry. By the way, I must say that having Bodna here was perhaps the highlight of.

Absolutely.

Uh, she analyzed wonderfully well, and she's also very, very strong as a player, and we could sense it, um, through whatever little things she was analyzing. And as Harshit said, the focus in her eyes was just too much.

And what I really loved about her was like she didn't care about her own rating, she didn't care much about even opponent's rating. You know, that just shows that the whole thing is about playing chess, improving chess, and those strengths and weaknesses rather than the numbers where they are going, how it is going. And this has been pretty common in general for the youngsters like Prague and Mukesh earlier also. So very nice.

By the way, not a big result, but a result has happened. Divya has drawn her game. So Board two. So we have updated the score with two draws. Humpy is completely better, but she she needs to take her time and figure this out how to get an advantage because it is bishop exactly.

And I want a queen on h three. कैसे तो करते हैं?

I mean you would want queen g eight to mate here, right?

But maybe I would look at queen.

Okay. And that's possible, but there is this very only move, cheeky move to defend with bishop going back. So instead of going there, maybe a move like g three is giving a big advantage, although it's tough to make moves like g three. So my feeling is that Humpey still needs to play a little bit more carefully in order to win this, but she is better. And on board number two, draw by Divya and Vantika is delivering here. She has very good control over the position. Everything looks good. D six, D seven, D eight is coming. And meanwhile, Savita Shri is now no longer worse, Amruta. That was a big scare. So Indian team back on track in the women's. Section. If Hampi manages to win and Vantika managed to win and Savita draws, we would have a 3-1 victory.

Yeah, which is, which is good. And, uh, I would love to—

Arjun's game everyone wants to see. Let's go there.

And Sagar Patil has super chatted ₹501. All the best to Team India from my 1-year-old daughter Ovi. So cute.

Such a cute name also. Ovi. Yeah, Ovi is very nice, very nice. Meanwhile, oh, we have a guest joining us here and we have an amazing— thank you to our team members Himank and Abhudaya to get us the number 1 board in the team of Italy. Lorenzo Lodici is here. Hello, Lorenzo! Hi, hi.

Thank you very much. Thank you for having me here, Lorenzo.

We were so excited that today Team Italy was playing India, and we were following your game. But because there is a fifteen-minute delay, we can now have two Lorenzos.

I see. I see myself. Yeah, I feel very okay. Quite calm now.

Yeah, I feel there. But tell us, did you beat Prague? Did you drop Prague, or what happened?

We had a big fighting game and it ended in a draw. Yeah. Oh, actually we see it right now.

Yes. Ah, it's happening there. Yeah.

Yeah, it was a big fight. Okay, the team match was never in doubt. India played very well today. Like they just crushed us on board 3 and 4. Nihal game was impressive. Yeah. What did Nihal do actually?

to hear the result. No, it's over.

Draw. Yeah, yeah, Niall won. Game is already over. By the way, just because this game has ended, we have, uh, we are going to add half a point more to both the teams, and that means India did win against Italy thanks to this. But there's one more game going on.

Yeah.

Lorenzo, maybe first a bit, few thoughts about Your game, because you know what was very impressive for us is that you assessed this position with allowing bishop g5 as okay for you perhaps. Yeah, yeah.

Was it in preparation anytime you had seen something like this? How was it?

Yeah, like it's very strange, but it looked a little bit a little bit like the variations in. In Italian, like, there are some variations in Italian where, like, you just let the white take on f6 and double the pawns. And then, uh—

Is that— does that anything have to do with you coming from Italy?

Yeah, I mean, maybe, like, because I really play Italian a lot, so I mean, like, maybe there is something there. Yeah, but, uh, yeah, and, uh, it looks a little bit like this, and I thought it should be okay.

It looks scary, but it should be okay. And, uh, did you get this sense that when Prag pushed h4, it's actually bad for him?

Honestly, I thought he was overpushing. Yeah, I thought he was overpushing because like, he— okay, he was of course ambitious and he thought that this, this idea shouldn't be good for me, so he wanted to punish me. Yeah, but— and I thought it should be too much, but I still thought this should be equal while okay seeing that I already have some.

I think you played this next phase beautifully.

Thank you, thank you.

Rook d six and it was already looking very scary. Also queen d eight is a nice move because if you play rook d eight then maybe h five and e five with f seven.

You were never worried about the g six bishop?

Yeah, like no because like I thought there's the g six bishop and the g two bishop. I thought that they were kind of equally bad. Yeah, so like I thought, okay, mine is bad but his is bad too.

I thought they were kind of equal. And, uh, and yeah, around here maybe was the— yeah, okay.

Why did you play c5? Did you feel like there were no plans for Black, or what did you feel?

I thought I should be happy if I managed to play c5 and Knight d7. I felt like, like I'm in the game, I should just be happy. But, uh, it's not what I should do. I also talked briefly with Pragg after the game, and he also said it, like, I mean, you should not go c5 and you should just, like, uh, go for b5 instead at some point, which I did not really understand. But okay, there is a reason why he's Pragg and I'm not. Yeah.

Uh, and this was a huge error, but I felt like it was practically very difficult to find the move Knight h5 here.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you both सो या मैंने सुना था हमने सो द मूव बट द पॉइंट वाज समवेर बिशप ह थ्री एंड पुटिंग द बिशप यार एंड देन आई थिंक यू आर इन ट्रबल ओके या दिस वाज वेरी टफ या या वेरी टफ बट वेरी नाइस एक्चुअली क्योंकि लाइक आई कैन आल्सो नॉट टेक ऑन ह फाइव सो आई थॉट लाइक या या बट आई गेस लाइक ही Interesting.

Yeah, it is very interesting. Check. Actually, this one—

but did you see Queen a5 also?

Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Queen a5. I saw Queen a5. I thought, uh, no, I— it will not. Yeah, I saw, I saw it. I thought I could somehow— yeah, I thought Queen c7, and if he takes on a7, now I can, uh, I have some Yeah, I saw 97. I didn't see c3, but I thought 97 and some. I have some b5 and like if he goes back. Yeah, so I thought this was kind of kind of okay. I thought yeah, but no, knight h5 I didn't see. Yeah, this okay. It goes back to equal. Okay, okay.

And I think this phase of the game was very nicely. Played by both of you, and then you went into this endgame. Yeah. Did you assess it as equal?

I thought I should be more pay more attention. I but I thought like dangerous. Yeah, but I thought very slightly. I thought it should be kind of easily draw. I thought this g four is important because like at least yeah at least like practically because like I have to like stop this bishop and like never get it into play. Like at least practically, I thought this was very important. Yeah, right.

And then you went b four.

Yeah, yeah. Rook b six. And somehow I I just have this.

Oh, what was that against your king?

Yeah, I don't know. I mean the thing is a five. Yeah, I don't know what you would have played. Yeah, I would check. Yeah. Check. King f2. King d6.

I thought h2. Ah, king h.

Why king h2 normal?

No, I mean in general I don't even understand what's happening here. Yeah, perhaps you go like queen g3 and try to win the pawn.

I thought queen c7 is coming.

Yeah, I thought like king d6 probably to stop it.

Queen g3. Okay. Still what?

Even after Queen g3, what next?

Yeah, actually, okay, I can also go— yeah, take a5.

I don't know, it's very okay. So in the game you went here?

Yeah, yeah, we made a draw here. Yeah, yeah, like, because now there is no way to, to improve because he can never take g4 now. Maybe in the other variation at least he could try to take g4.

Because now it's too risky. Yeah, now it's too risky.

Yeah, yeah, basically, actually, yeah, in any, in any situation. So yeah, okay, Knight h5 was actually very, very surprising. Very, because I, I thought, okay, shouldn't be that dramatic.

But, uh, okay, it was a very fighting game at least. Yeah, very nice game. And in fact, right now Pragg is at his peak, you can say, after winning Grand Chess Tour and Norway Chess and all of that. So to play against him and hold him would be a nice feeling.

Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm of course very happy because like, yeah, it couldn't really go better than this. Yeah, like, like, uh, there is no better result than this. I mean, it's practically impossible already, like, already to make a draw with him with black. So like, it was very— it's very, very nice. And okay, maybe also Luca is like making Draw with Arjun. So 3-1 for Team Italy is, considering how the match was going, it's already enough.

Maybe Luca also tries to put some pressure on Arjun.

Yes, that is very surprising because before it was not like this.

Okay, the thing is it was actually winning. Yeah, yeah, at this point when Arjun took this pawn, he was winning.

Yeah, I thought so.

Yeah, but then He blundered a pawn, which was very surprising. Maybe Arjun missed it that here he could play c6 and be pawn up, but he went to b8 and Luca was very alert. Okay, and got back the material, and then it was equal. But I think Arjun never really settles for a draw, you know, whatever it may be. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's playing for a win here, but in that Playing for a win, maybe he's giving his opponent chances.

Wow! Wow! Crazy. Okay. Okay. I would still bet on a draw personally, but crazy. Yeah.

What do you feel about Luca in overall as a player? Do you think that if he gets his chance, he can convert it, or he would be a little bit right now intimidated? How do you see it?

I think he would be a little bit intimidated because like. Uh, especially after like this, uh, game in which it was worse. And like, it's not easy to understand that this is +1.8. Like, I don't know, in a game like you understand maybe you're a bit better with white, so okay. That's why I think still it's probably gonna be a draw. But, but yeah, I mean, if Arjun keeps overpushing, then I mean, you can like, you understand. Yeah, like he has to understand in the center for a draw, I think, at some point. Try to play for a draw. Yeah.

Uh, Lorenzo, when yesterday you got to know that you, Italy, would be playing India, how was, uh, the, the mood in the camp?

Uh, how did it feel?

I mean, it's a great opportunity. Like, it's great to play against these players. Uh, selfishly, I wanted us to have white because I wanted to have white, but I mean, Apart from this, no, it was it's a great feeling because like if you can play like against such a team, you just you're just happy that you that you can. And this is why we we can we play Olympia. Yeah, because like we can we can face them. It's funny also because it's not the first time we played the team with with them because we faced them in Chennai 2022. Ah, the young girls team. Yes, yes, we faced India too. In Chennai 2022, so basically the same team because it was Prag.

I mean, who was on board one?

Who cash was on board one?

But you were not on board one at that time.

No, I was on board three and I made a draw with Prag also then. Who was on board one?

Was it Bocaturo? Ah, Bocaturo.

Yeah, I remember. Bocaturo was on board one.

Yeah, and Bocaturo played a great game against Bocaturo and won. I made a draw with Prag.

And then you're not bored enough.

You know, two draws with three draws.

Three draws. Yeah, yeah. Three draws somehow all with black. So I don't know. Yeah, yeah.

Wow! It's working. Yeah.

But did in post analysis did Prague saw knight h five? Like did you analyze or? Yeah, we were talking a bit. Knight h five was he had seen, but just after that bishop h three was not.

He understood like there should be something there. It was not like this knight h five didn't. Really come up, but he understood. Like he said, okay, like I should have something instead of knight f five. And okay, he was more on point than me because yeah, he told me that I shouldn't go for c five, which was correct. Like I mean, he was right. And like he should have something instead of knight f five, which was again correct. But okay, in a game, it's I mean chess is a very difficult sport, Justin. Like everything can happen.

But yeah, sometimes when we are looking at the engine and it gives like a huge edge, you never know it's a huge edge, and that makes all the difference. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So sometimes you understand and then it's easy, like you're confident and everything, but when you don't understand it, then like no point. Yeah, in knowing the engine. Yeah, yeah.

And by the way, very cool, uh, game by Gukesh against Sabino Brunello. I think, uh, he played perhaps One of his better games in the last few months. So maybe that was, uh, not great for Sabino, but very nice for Gukesh, actually.

Yeah, and like, I mean, we have to be honest, also very nice for the chess world in general. Yeah, because like, we need Gukesh to come back to form and fight. Otherwise, like, yeah, no, I mean, it's simply— I have nothing in the, in the World Championship. Yeah, but like, I want to play well because otherwise it's simply not— will not be a world championship. And, uh, yeah, the game, like, I don't know, from inside it felt like a totally, like, just one-sided game. But I'm really curious, like, I will check it in the room.

And, uh, yeah, I can show you.

It was very amazing play by Gukesh, actually.

Actually not totally. I mean, if you look at this, there were times when, uh, like here G five was a nice move.

G five was excellent, no?

Yeah, it was very strong. And here there was a very nice move knight G three, which was not played by Mukesh because of this analysis that you are doing. Knight E five. Yeah. Knight E two. King H one. And you have to find the move bishop G seven, which is very tough. But maybe you could look at.

You can, yeah. There are okay, okay. And he went first. He went after knight e three.

He went knight d four. And here knight g four was the only move that Brunello did not find.

Yeah, knight g four is very very strange move.

Yeah. And why would you call it strange?

Because it is because like you are helping black with f five. Yeah, somehow. I don't know. It feels like you are helping black.

Intuitively it doesn't.

Yeah, but somehow you just hold with these pieces. Okay, okay.

But he played Knight c2 and now this very strong move Bishop g7. I mean, I couldn't believe that this position is +4.

Yeah, yeah, +4 is a lot.

Yeah, yeah. Takes Knight c3. I mean, he played like an engine today. Yeah, yeah, he played all the best But I think knight on h3 was the problem.

Yeah, no, it was not so difficult, let's say, for him, but he played very well. So I mean, you just need these things for, for confidence. Yeah, like even if it was not objectively so difficult, but, uh, just confidence. Yeah.

Explain to us king f1. Well, I mean, we, we thought, what is— what the hell is this? At least online we could say mouse slip.

Yeah, I mean, no, like, it's, uh, kind of a very subtle—

because like you're trying to—

okay, you really don't want Black to short castle. Yeah, because like if she short castles, then now there is g4. So like you're kind of waiting for that. Um, but again, I don't think Black wants to short castle anyway. But, uh, yeah, that is kind of the point, let's say.

And in fact, in the game, uh, uh, Francesco got inspired by Nihal and he himself here played King f8, but perhaps not the best.

No, no, not as good as Nihal.

Yeah, in this. Yeah. And then it was, uh, I think Nihal played a good game here and won it because the rook on h8 was just out of Yeah, no, no, it was very like, okay, unfortunately, because this—

I was— I had some hopes before the game that Francesco could do a good game. It was not today.

Yeah, well, but, uh, it could be 1 and 2 and a half, 1 and a half right now for Italy, which would be excellent. Yeah, if Moroni Luca manages to win, which could be possible.

Yeah, he's fighting hard. Yeah, yeah, I mean The match is over. I mean, but yeah, yeah. I mean, any any point we will take. Yeah, any point we will take.

Do you remember that you had played in Trieste? Yes, yes.

I always remind him because he keeps on doing well and that helps. So I keep on telling him like thank you for you know losing to me. But you know Lorenzo, the way you are improving. improving the way you are playing is, is very inspiring. We spoke about this when you did amazingly well at the P-Day World Cup. Lorenzo went on to round 4 by beating Hans Niemann, and there was one more player whom you beat who was strong.

Adams.

Adams, Michael Adams. And that was very, very cool. And by the way, the entire chat is very much like, you know, there is this Political relations of India and Italy. Very nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Somehow it's kind of this new relationship that really somehow happened. And I mean, okay, I can just be happy about it because like I I'm always happy when I come to. I mean, I came twice to India and they were both great times. So I mean, like I can just be very happy.

So you liked India even before all of this happened?

I I believe you. Yes, in general, yes. I think I had. hopes, uh, when I came to Chennai first and then to go at this time. Uh, so I mean, I will wait for next event. Yeah.

Amazing. Well, Lorenzo, thank you for stopping by, and also huge congratulations for beating— uh, for drawing with Prag. And hopefully, uh, this game goes Italy's way. Uh, if it has to, maybe. It's a great position. Yeah, especially from the Position.

I'm sure you would be hoping for that. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you, guys. That was Lorenzo here, number one player of Italy right now. Board number one played a very nice game to hold Prague to a draw, and you could see Amruta as he said it was like the perfect result for him to draw with the black pieces against Pragnananda.

And yeah, and also the analysis does you know give us insight because we have been looking at online analysis, the three different perspectives, also the engine, and then when the players come out, Knight H five was a difficult thing to consider. By the way, Vantika has gone, so Vantika OP हो जाए.

Amruda, time for you to add one more point. कौन सा वाला? ये नहीं ये ये Let's go! And Harshit bhai is back. Bye, how was your game? You won all?

Wow!

Hi man, Harshit bhai crushing it here.

Meanwhile, Humpy most likely he played with both Suana.

Ah yeah, Humpy is winning and Savita is even, so that should be Pretty decent result there. The main problem here for Arjun is yeah, this is not ideal what Arjun is doing in this tournament, and perhaps he's trying a bit too hard, Amruta. And last move by his opponent was a very nice move, Queen a two, because he's preparing the rook to come in and attack the pawn.

Oh my god! If you b six looks very deadly.

Yeah, if you play b six. Then suddenly the rook starts to enter in, and it could very well be a checkmate.

No, no, no, no! You can't go b six, but then you can't defend the a five pawn. And if you lose a five, then it's very clear that white is just going to win this.

Sometimes I feel that Arjun, like even in this equal position, he goes too hard. Like rookie one, he took here, rook f eight, and You know, just okay. Hang in there. Yeah, you are in a tough position, but he goes like a rook h eight a five, and I think yeah, this is really.

Yeah, you know sometimes this is also like in a team when you're playing and wow, that was something where you know we just wanted to wait till the end what happens and great play by Hampin from the beginning as we have seen. Yeah, a lot of pressure giving a lot of psychological edge to. To her teammates, so women players doing really well there.

So take, and I I thought G three was a bit tricky move because you do open up this diagonal. But how much?

Ah, जो मुझे चाहिए था, क्या बात है?

Ah, it's not just a defensive move; it's also an attacking move. And here Stavrula resigned because this position is really really bad for her. C6 is hanging. Rook is very active, and that means that Indian team goes on. Amruta, you can add one more point here. अभी तुम कर लो सागर. Let's go. We have won both our matches today, both open and women with one game each left.

Yeah, we want to score maximum over here. And going back to Arjun's game, Sagar, I wanted to say that like Arjun is trying to make. The maximum points. Also, he lost the first game somewhere you want to win. And it reminds me of, you know, Gaurav Rakshit, who has been the, uh, uh, who has been the commissioner of GCL. And he said something very important, uh, on one of the days where he was trying to give some, uh, leadership advices there. He, he said perfect is the enemy of the good. And sometimes when you want to When there is something which is good, but you want to make it perfect, it can backfire.

So you are saying that Arjun is trying to play perfect chess?

I mean, he definitely tried in that situation at some point when he wanted more and he felt intuitively he was right. His position was good, but sometimes things to find is difficult. Harshit bhai who has come after winning all the games, Harshit bhai se jata hai 10 minute ke liye.

But I would suppose how was it to play five versus one against I think the team of Botswana if I'm not mistaken. Yeah.

Did you get a minute? To Botswana? Did they call you? Not yet, not yet.

I don't think they were very happy. Yeah, they're not happy.

Wait, I'll ask him. I'll ask him. Do you speak English? Did you invite him to Botswana? Did you invite him to Botswana, your country? No, I'm from South Africa. He's from South Africa. Ah, so you all are from South Africa also? Ah, so you can ask them to invite Harshit bhai.

हर्षित इन योर कंट्री डिड यू प्ले विथ हिम? या आई डिन प्ले विथ हिम. हाउ वाज इट? इट वाज इट वाज गुड. यू एन्जॉयड? दे ऑल प्ले वेल एक्चुअली.

दे ऑल प्ले वेल. थैंक यू. सो दे ऑल प्ले द सेम सिस्टम.

ओह ऑल वेंट फॉर कैटलान. ओह. हर्षित साहब. राइट. मैम. दैट्स दैट्स नाइस. थ Have a good tournament. Right. And Harshit by winning against South Africa, तो हर्षित भाई वापस जाने नहीं वाले हैं। एक बार मोबाइल चोरी हो गया उनका उधर। No, but he's playing with many, many of I think it was a mixed crowd like many countries were there. It's very nice to play here because for many, many teams they haven't ever played with a GM. It's their first game and Would be a very memorable one. So thank you, Arshid. Bye. Yeah, of course.

But Arjun, practically, practically just tell me, Harshid, that I don't care about the bar. This is a draw.

Well, uh, I, I would love to have said that, but I think like, uh, there were certain bridges that were burned already, and, uh, and in the current position, Arjun has a Has a long way to climb towards equality. I mean, Black— and the biggest reason is that, uh, the pawn on a5 is right in front of the king on a7, and pushing it too far is only going to weaken Black's king. So I think like king safety is one of the biggest reasons why Luca is better. I don't think it's as winning as the engine shows, but, uh, we were mentioning how, you know, there needs to be, uh, Some sort of a stable performance by Arjun to get get his confidence back, and he had a winning position. But I don't know where he went wrong.

Yeah, he just gave up that one pawn. If you remember, rook takes c seven. No, oh yeah, it was equal.

It was equal.

But that was this. That was I think that moment basically he had to pull the brakes.

That affected him, and I think he missed it.

He would be very upset.

And I think emotionally it's hard to you know. digest just giving up a free pawn like that. And I think after that, Arjun was, uh—

oh, Rook d5 hasn't been played, but I think it's a very strong move, kind of provoking a4 and then maybe trying to find a way to attack further.

Absolutely, guys. And there is absolutely no reason to, uh, have bad comments about these players. I mean, if, if without these players there would be no stream, there would be no Indian team, there would be no 2 gold medals that we are defending. They are the pride and joy of all of us.

Anban Shan.

And just besides the fact that they are players, they are close to us. Yeah, like we know them for more than 10 years, all of us. And we want them to do well. We have a personal connection with them. And guys, you know, if you don't have positive comments, then why to say something? Spread the the like the opposite of that in the world. Just spread positivity, guys. That's the secret to doing well.

Spread positivity or not spread anything. Exactly. That's what he was saying. That's a good good advice by Harshit Raja. He goes Rook B one.

If Arjun holds this to a draw, it would be a miracle.

I feel yeah. I mean, I feel bad. Of course, I know him for a long time.

I feel he will. He will find a resource. Arjun has been one of the most resourceful guys out there. Don't you think so? How many positions he's, you know, got out of problems?

Amruta, we have a member for 61 months, Nap Sleep Relax, who says Amruta is like my mom talking about me to random people. Like how Harshit went and played and you asked like him, will you invite Harshit? So if I remember, it reminded him of his mom.

Oh, that's nice. I don't know, I like it. I, I like, um, that I— you know, the older you are, the more wisdom you may have. You may have, I'm saying.

By the way, guys, the biggest thing for us to be happy about is India won both. We were playing against Italy, a very tough opponent.

भाई एक ताली तो होती है यार ताली नहीं बोला डांस डांस अर्शित भाई आज हो जाए भाई आप दोनों का डांस चालू रहे आज गाना भी नहीं बजा उधर डिस्को नहीं कुछ भी नहीं ऐसे कैसे let's do some Bollywood step भाई you decide ना भाई हमेशा भाई कुछ तो आओ like cool dance बताओ भाई भाई मेरे को आता नहीं है ना, but if someone can help me. धीरे आरोही, आरोही is so good at you know. भाई धीरे-धीरे से करेंगे। Last में last में अगर जीत जाए तो सही है कि ये करेंगे। Last वाला। Okay. Let's go. Let's go. Chat suggest करेगा ना? दुरंदर, दुरंदर, साकार chesses। हाँ, that's a good idea। वो तो पता ही है ना दुरंदर आपको। चेस पंप, three two one four let's go। बाहर लगा लगा दांत टूट गया बाहर लगा लगा no are you okay?

बाहर ठीक हो ठीक हो पक्का if tomorrow I don't come guys कुछ भी अगर इसको हो गया तो देखो मुकाबला मेरे साथ है देखा Sir, are you okay? Let's go, let's go.

This is not what we wanted you to see at all, guys.

It was a very, very weird moment because right now we had, uh, yeah, the former PDA president here who just came in like, what, what was happening here? And you're like Sorry, focus on chess people are saying.

But guys, it's like बच्चे जब स्कूल में full ऐसे chaos करते थे and suddenly teacher आ जाती है। हुआ था क्या ऐसे सागर तुम्हारे?

By the way, Arjun come back.

Arjun come back. भाई बोला था ना मैंने, बोला था मेरे पे विश्वास करो तुम लोग। But just trust me because I trust Arjun.

It's complex and look at this he's about to make a move he's going to play. Queen e7 played, I guess.

No, he hasn't played.

Yeah, he played Queen e7. White, ah, he looked at the board and he found out Queen e7 has been played. Can I try to think from black what is the best move?

Yes, Samruta. e4.

e4 does block your queen.

Oh, I would be so bad of that. Oh guys, white to play and win. Lose.

pieces drop off.

In the chat, very nice to see you here. He says, I want to do something for chess in Ireland. By the way, Sandeep, your gift, it looks very nice at our house. So thank you so much. Yeah, yeah, what do you want to do? Lots of possibilities. You can set up some clubs, you can do some, uh, blitz tournaments, some To start with short tournaments.

So Divya Rani, Babar, Bhav Arnau Sharma, Sandeep Kala. Well done, guys.

Queen e5 is found and e4 is a blunder. So what is the move? We look at that move and we will be checking out.

But that's tough because you allow rook takes b7.

No. Oh, queen b7, queen e8. I'm talking about perpetual. Queen B1, Queen E4. You can't escape. You can easily. Oh no, this is very tough because Queen endgame में तो जाना ही नहीं है सागर। Chance ही नहीं है। I cannot assist. But it's a draw. Very tough draw. Very interesting. It will be Dvoretsky's endgame manual. We have a news coming up that Savita is winning. Oh wow! Let's Can we zoom in over there?

Wow, man, that's crazy how Savita—

Unknown says, very nice, everyone has faith in Arjun, now only Arjun needs to have faith in Arjun. Wow, nicely said. Yeah, Chandra thinks I'm one of the sweetest people on the planet. Absolutely not true, bhai. I'm absolutely not sweet. Everything else but not sweet.

You? Yeah.

या चिंद्रा में भी यू आर मिस्टेकन मैन। या इट्स इट्स हार्ड टू बी स्वीट इन द वर्ल्ड इन दिस वर्ल्ड। तो डोंट वांट टू गिव एनी रॉंग इम्प्रेशंस, बट रुकी फाइव How did she? Ah, she got a passer.

Yeah, yeah, and she started playing when she had time on the clock. She started making all the best moves.

So one Savita may give India three and half half victory without moving anything on the board after Queen C to watch it black play.

I mean, there could be many moves, right? Queen.

But what's the most direct way to win? Queen b6 with the idea of. Is there any? You can't do that immediately. A check, no?

Ah, that I've seen already, by senior. So Harshit Bai was trying to tempt me into this move with a check, and I had seen it that you have to make something like this, but it's also not the best.

Bishop b3, guys. तुम्हारा गोल हो गया है ओन गोल, because queen takes b3 is a check.

Actually with the goal he reminds me and your football theorem also it reminds me of a book which is about chess and football by Simon Agdestein.

Ah yeah, rook to h5 was played by Arjun.

Magnus is ये ना coach, Magnus का coach.

And if Moroni Luca He's feeling confident he will push his G pawn.

That's very, that's a brave move.

Or else he would not do it.

That's a very brave.

It's very tough. Would you really be as brave to go for G four?

I would think twice.

Hi, Harshit bhai. Can we, can you do a reel for the Olympiad? Remember when Argentina was winning? There used to be always these reels happening like. Polina, and Messi, Messi, Messi. So can you do it for Indian team? Hi, it's possible. Yeah, Pragnananda, Arjun, and Nihal Sarin.

And Pragnananda with the calm.

Goo, cash, goo, cash.

But we need to think about it.

Yes, we need to think about it. Can you make this one?

I'll think about it. I think people would love it. The World Cup song, guys, that Argentina had made. Bolina, bolina.

I used to always enjoy, and they used to do all the steps of those players. So you can do like, for Frog, you can drink water. Yeah. For Arjun, uh, you can play with your left hand. Yeah. For Gukesh, you can do the collar move. Why?

We should think about it. For Vidit, you can do France actually had a very cool song as well for the World Cup. Ale la blo ale engolo engolo kante maestro keepembe keepembe. If you know, you know.

Anyways, Rook H five played by and let's oh wow because you know I was wondering whether he will play but he will because. It's a very clear path. जैसा मुझे भी नहीं है कि you have to go rook at six fours and and queen if you go rook at eight तो और भी tempo में आ रहा है rook at seven आ नहीं रहा है you have to go here and after this this is hanging and if this is hanging if you have to make a move like king a six I do feel that Arjun will get his chance because of this move g four because his opponent's king is a bit exposed now no but what will you do like rook e six yes your rook is getting activated yeah wait he played rook at six by the way yeah that's four on the board that is Arjun fighting hard, guys.

Come on, let's fight. Maybe we can go full screen on the players. Ah, full screen.

Queen takes e5. We can see them clearly now as Srinath is hoping and praying that Arjun saved this because we need Arjun to be in good shape for future matches. Imagine when we play US. Imagine when we play China. We need Gandhivam in good shape and this match will, you know, really Affect his confidence a lot. If he saves it, that would be huge for Team India. By the way, Rook h four is a blunder. Did you show that?

Yeah, we saw that because of takes check king here and then queen d eight check exactly and win the rook. Beautiful. No, he didn't take it. Sorry, guys. Did he play king a six? I think he must have played king a six.

Best move played.

And h5, I'm pretty sure Moroni will—

h5 is very, very logical. Yeah, 9 minutes, about 10 minutes each for both the players right now, guys. 6,000 of you watching as Arjun tries to defend his position. He's the last player playing in the open section. In the women's section, it's Savita trying to convert her advantage. And this would be a big win for Luca Moroni if he manages to do that. I mean, uh, although his team has already lost, this would really motivate his team to keep fighting in the future rounds.

Yeah, we have seen so many times such positions, like you have to work so hard to actually get it to a point of absolutely winning, right? So, uh, for Luca Moroni It's— he has 8 minutes on the clock, and as it goes under time pressure, there the more possibility for Arjun to find more resources. Um, it's not easy, but definitely—

I love this camera angle, by the way. I love this camera angle, zoned in on both the players. The rest of the boards have concluded. The only 2 players fighting it out. And Srinath is there, right there.

Oh, by the way, we have a news that Avander Leong is losing. What happened to Fabi's game, by the way? Do we know that? Because it was a very big result. I think he must have drawn. Check and, uh, get back to you.

Yeah, so we have Fabi drew.

Fabi drew. Yeah, Wesley won, Niemann won, and Avander is Losing clearly, still they have won.

USA has won. He's winning clearly. He's winning?

No, he's losing. No, no, he's losing. Oh wow!

Wow! Wonder is losing.

My goodness! And for Uzbekistan, we had Nodirbek who drew his game on his birthday. Sindarov won. Madaminov won. So two and a half already. And Yakubov is drawing his game. Most likely could also win. So they are doing really, really well.

And he plays H5, the best move in the position found by Luca Moroni. He is determined to not let this advantage slip away.

Yeah, doing his best he can. Yeah, but let's find even in your worst position, guys, what's the best. And that's what Arjun goes for. I like this move B5. No more waiting, just चले चलो अभी pressure डालो। This is not at all an easy win for Luca. Agreed, agreed.

Because the black pawns are rolling down the board. B4, A4 is coming very, very quickly.

हाँ, ये तो race हो रहा है. Sixth rank is guarded well. I like that. G5 push हो नहीं रहा है. H5 मरने वाला है जल्दी. By the way, we must tell everyone that there is also Uzbekistan second team because it's the host country and Waqido Johangir is playing in that and today he lost against Vincent Kaimer. Because they were playing against Germany, and Anish Giri is still playing with Australia. अरे भाई!

उल्टे खोपड़ी वाले हैं हम। सरदार ना defeated Banerjee Loek and it's one end off, one end off.

So Anish has Is Anish's position good? Slightly better.

Yeah, Anish is pressing for a win.

Oh, quite better.

But opposite colored bishop convert भी हो सकता है। Wow, Anish getting the win for his team.

Oh, Anish made a mistake last move bishop d five. अरे अरे अरे नहीं it's not easy it's not easy.

And by the way Hungary में Richard Rapport lost.

हम्म या रिचर्ड राकोट लॉस दैट वाज़ अ बिग बट ही लॉस तो इस दमचंद को वो हैज़ बीन प्लेइंग वेरी वेल ओ क्वीन जी फाइव प्लेड हियर बैक तू दिस गेम अरे अपुन भी आ गए क्या इधर हाँ इधर वियर्ड सीन बना रहा है और एक्सटेंड करो बिकॉज़ वी कैन बी लाइक दिस ओवर हियर नो इट्स ओके Wow, one of the legends, former PDA world champion Kashim Zhanov looking at Arjun versus Luca Moroni.

We have Kashim Zhanov is the captain of Team One of Uzbekistan. By the way, I do get a feeling that after Rookie Six, oh, Arjun has the plan of B four.

Yeah, this is a this is. Far from, far from over. Arjun is gonna get a lot of chances in the game, I think.

6 minutes for Luka, 9 minutes for Arjun. And I think for Team India, what is very critical is for Arjun to make a comeback and not kind of lose here. This is the tournament where non-top seed countries get exposure as to how top-level Play pressure. Yeah, that's right. I agree, GPS. Um, as, uh, we had, uh, Lorenzo coming here, Harshit bhai, and he said like, this is the reason why we come to the Olympiad, to play against, to play against such players.

I love Lorenzo. He's a good friend of mine, has great energy, and has, uh, been developing as, uh, he's rising. You know, in chess, after the age of 25, 26, it's not so easy to progress. But he has kind of broken that plateau and is kind of climbing higher, which is very impressive to see.

Yeah.

Is he same age as you? He's a. I think he's one two years older.

Hmm. Jai Karsisagar Erdogmus playing a same color bishop in game with an extra opponent winning as his opponent made an elementary blunder.

Erdogmus is also someone we would love to have here today. We were able to have an amazing talent join us. बोधना सिवानंदन, we'll have more such people joining in so that our visit to समरकंड is very useful for all of you. Not just to get insights on the games, but also meet new people. Look at what all is happening here.

And Swindon incoming, says Rakshit. Well, let's go. Let's let's wait and let's find out because Rook C1 was played by Luca Moroni. Oh, he's down to five minutes.

Sir, do you have the new link of Shikaj? Whether it puts us the goal?

See one played.

नहीं भेजी नहीं है। ये रहा ना?

अच्छा And Arjun's queen is currently under attack, needs to move it.

Okay, do you think Luca will go down to 1 minute? Because many times, you know, you are clearly better, but then you also want to find the best way to win.

I think he'll try his best not to. I think he'll try to keep at least 2 minutes on the clock because with less than 1 minute it becomes a bit too random. Uh, Arjun did make a move. I am expecting Queen to e4, centralizing the queen. That's generally a very good idea in queen endgames to keep your queen centralized.

Amit Rao says super chats. Guys, please check score of our neighbors like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, as we have some people from there in the chat. Thanks. Actually, that's a good suggestion. We will check that out.

Yeah, queen goes to f3 actually. So Arjun is eyeing on Potential rook to d1 check ideas does seem a very logical move. Queen to f3. Luca Moroni is ready with his next move.

However, by the way, Vera says a nice comment. I like the stream because it's busy enough that my messages can get lost. That's a very interesting way to put it.

Very cool.

Luca is down to less than six. Minutes. Now he does make his move quickly though. Yeah, he does make a move. I'm trying to find it out. I think he has made pawn to h six and a big mistake.

Whoa! As I told you, I mean nothing but you know this is what Arjun is very good at. Look, but छुपी बहुत हुई. That's how he brings the resources. चुपके से. Nice.

Wow. Pawn to h six and Arjun is completely back. But what is the move now?

D1 check takes takes.

No, I don't think you want to exchange the rook with the rook h6.

Queen h6 is a check, so you can't do that.

Nice save.

Rook d4. Rook d4. I like that. Rook d4. I don't know. I have not seen engine.

Rook d4 will lead to checkmate, right?

Rook c6. Queen c6.

Queen g6 and queen g7, and you lose the rook, I guess.

Oh, rook f6.

Yes, rook to f6 is a great move here.

Rook f6 को you have to defend f2 point. You can do it very easily, no?

By f6 is the best move. Can Arjun find it?

But let's analyze it a little further. Rook f6. I also was looking at Queen h3.

Yeah, that's also a good move. And you lose the pawn, no?

Yes, you do. Oh, then this is simpler. भाई मैं pawn खा लेती हूँ। Yeah, Queen h3 is the best. खाना तो इधर। भाई कल कल हमने Indian खाना खाया। एक इधर का करंट करके बहुत हेल्प किया हमको, but it was so good.

दो-तीन दिन से। This is the kind of comeback we were expecting and hoping from Arjun. Needs to be clutch here though. This is the chance he's gotten.

He needs to use it. अजूबाई, let's go!

Don't get many of these chances.

And guys, this is what we call resourcefulness. कितना भी खराब पोजीशन हो, try to be a problem solver in your life. Because every moment your life is going to give you problems. Just be a problem solver. आने ही वाले, है ना? मैं जैसे तुम्हारे life में आई सागर। Yes. Solve कर नहीं पाए हो अभी तक। पर मैं ही solve कर रही हूँ ना तुम्हारे लिए। हाँ। By becoming better and better। वाह! वाह! We have happy Vinay Nagar Chaturthi guys। Vinay Nagar Chaturthi?

Why not b4 there, Rakshit? After Rook b1, just b4. Doesn't it defend the pawn on h6? No, Rook a1 is losing. Wow! I guess this was the reason. This is what potentially Luca is banking on. Good point, Rakshit. Yeah, yeah. This was the point, I guess.

Well, also time pressure is going to come in now with Arjun having 5-6 minutes, Luca having 6 minutes. If Arjun draws, India will win 3-1.

Wow! And Sagar, would you say, like yesterday people were talking about the gold medal chances and so on, uh, right now would you say that India has the gold medal chances or not?

Oh, I think— oh yeah, I, I mean, it's too early to say, but I think we are doing pretty well today. Today with Nihal doing well, it's, uh, pretty good.

Absolutely. And can I just very quickly show them this?

So we have a friend, his name is Shitij from USA, and he has made a very interesting app here where it shows the victory chances of various teams. And you will see that United States has 17%, Uzbekistan has 11%, And India has eleven percent. There are many more facts which we will see. So big shout out to him for yeah.

But we are in top three for goal chances, which is great. We are the third seed.

But right now, I'm looking at H six.

Which one will you choose, Arshad? Queen H three or Rook F six?

I personally like Queen to H three. I I, I think like that's the move that I would be, I would be considering right now, but it won't be easy for me because I would have 5 minutes and I wouldn't know whether I should play fast and try to put my opponent under pressure. I would definitely need some focus here.

A lot of energy and focus needed in these last few minutes in the game, guys. That is what Neuro provides— big focus, big energy. As Arjun tries to win this one, let's go, Arjun!

And we also have in support a member, a new member. Sagar, what's the name?

Idoros My Din R9964. Welcome to Backer of Indian Chess. It's amazing.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, and we have Shreshtha who says, I'm from Andaman. I have a request, uh, to CBI to cover some content here and like Organized tourneys like you did in the mainland.

For sure, I mean Andaman and Nicobar is something that we love, and in fact one of our team members has been there. We hope to do more over there in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Savita, yeah, but I think this is a big moment, bye, because what to do with Arjun?

Yeah, Queen h3 or Rook f6, he has to find one of the moves. That is a big chance. Any other move you would consider apart from these two? Which look more natural, right?

Because h7 and the pawn is queening. Like I have to do something now. Now right here, right here, right now.

In a way, queen h3 is a very first.

Rook f6, I don't think is so tempting because there is also queen h4. Queen to h4 seems ah but queen f4. That's the point, I guess. Queen to f4.

No, queen f4 is good, but the strongest here black is winning with a check.

So I guess Rook f6 is a very nice move.

There are chances for Arjun to press here if he finds some— if Luca goes wrong.

Yeah, he will try to go for Rook f6 if he wants to keep it tricky.

But Arjun down to 3 minutes, 2 minutes 50 seconds. Arjun, play!

But 30 seconds increment is there, which is very good for them.

This move will go to Savita's board as well.

No moves yet. No moves yet by Arjun. Oh, he played a move, I think.

Oh, क्या खेला?

No, he has not. Rook f6 on the board.

Wow! Wow! That's a great find.

Which means, अगर he has seen Queen h3 and he wants to go Rook f6 because that has more chances for white to go wrong.

And if Rook f1, Rook f4 is winning. If Rook f1, Rook f4 is Arjun actually turning it around.

But then there will be perpetual, right? Can you just check?

I he might get some chances here.

पर पर king निकल नहीं जाएगा क्या king b seven check mate हो जाएगा भाई.

This is actually a very interesting position.

King b seven king c six rook c one के बाद lost है. Yeah. Shouldn't get too excited. Okay fine.

But rook f six is I think I think draw is enough today for Arjun. Too many adventures after that and let's go quickly check Savita what she is doing.

We have Imu Ma, Imu, Imu Ma Maheshwaran, who says, "Vanakkam from Tamil Nadu. Proud to cheer for Indian chess with Chess Biz India." अरे थैंक यू फॉर योर सुपरचैट. सच्ची स्वीट वन. Vanakkam. Remember Chennai Olympiad had that? Vanakkam. Thambi. And now it's over, right?

Like for example, King G. G three. I want to play C two, but there is a perpetual, I believe.

Well, it feels like it's a perpetual. It feels like it's a perpetual, but in fact it's not because after Queen F five check, we can go King to H six, and after Queen E six G six, we have no more checks as white.

Wow!

That's a tricky line to calculate, but if Savita does it, I think she has found it. Ah, really? Yeah.

I don't know. Haris Savita exactly with winning with minus ninety. 5. That is insane.

Yeah, Savita is gonna win her game. By the way, there is a move played by, by Luca. Oh, let's, let's go there, Sagar.

Not really, I guess.

Did he make a move? Not yet. It seems like he did. Not yet.

He has 3 minutes 54 seconds. Arjun has 3 minutes on the clock. It's getting very intense now.

Yeah.

And it will be all as planned, as I said in the beginning of the stream. 3-1 score. Yeah, 2 draws, 2 wins.

Arshid bhai, the Nostradamus, he knew it already before all of us did. But I think Arjun is taking too many risks here and he needs to be a bit careful.

Yeah, for sure, guys. The venue is getting a little Because it's more than five hours into game time right now. So most of the games have concluded.

Let's have a look at yeah this view.

It's lonely there now. Wow! This is not. This doesn't seem. This is already a purana.

But let's switch over. And Moroni Luca is down to two minutes fifty five seconds. Arjun has three minutes. Wow, I can't sit now anymore. Anything can happen. Bye.

Yeah, I think, uh, well, I think only good things can happen for Arjun though, because Luca is getting a little nervous.

I, I think he realized what is Luca Moroni's also one more connection to Indian chess. He actually was the one who lost Prague when Prague became a GM. Like, oh wow, the game that Prague became a GM was by beating Luca Moroni, I think, uh, when he was 12 years and 9 months old or something like that.

So he would be super junior.

He's about to make a move.

Is he about to play Queen h4? Actually, no. Rook to c2 played. He keeps the game going, Luca. Rook to c2 played, and now the ball is again in Arjun's court. I think—

oh, but now you don't have anything like Queen h3. Threatening checkmate. Ah, there is no time to h7. Then they will repeat. Yeah.

Luca will start to feel like, oh, I missed my chance, and will be upset and then overpush. Because I think that could also happen. Or he may be like, okay, draw with Arjun was anyway a good result and I'll take it.

But how can he overpush?

Like, I'll show you. Rook d6, Rook d2 would be a blunder because of Rook e6. And now suddenly you can't— don't have Rook d1 anymore because the queen on f3 protects it. So this could be a way how Luca—

Oh yeah, because your only move will be King h2. Yeah, but that's a bit tough already. No, that's the only move. No, but he will find it because it's the only move.

Yes, Paul says my dad is hooked to this stream and is refusing to go to sleep despite being very tired. I request Amruta ma'am to crack a joke.

Yes, Paul ने कल मेगा रेंटों के बाद his dad slept. That was his super chat. है ना सागर घर पे भी जाके तुम बताए क्या मस्त जोक था?

नहीं कल तुम्हारा तबियत खराब था ना तो मैंने बोला वो अच्छा फील करे। What what is the opposite of यशपाल?

यश का opposite क्या है? Something related with that? No, Yashpal. Absolutely not. Harshispa is not even listening.

At least मेरे joke के लिए कोई reaction रहता था। No, now his father can sleep, right? I just wanted his father to take rest. अच्छा that. Then so I basically did your duty. By the way, Rook d six threatening. Well done, well done, well done, Ajubhai. One by one, one one.

हर पाल बहुत कुछ चल रहा है इधर। and the question is whether you know सुनील पाल, हरिश्चित हरिश्चित cannot enjoy the jokes moment। but वो है chill। but somehow जब jokes आते हैं ना उसको थोड़ा digest नहीं होता है क्यों ऐसा है तो अगर वो अमृता right now सविता क्यों ऐसा है बोलो ना he prefers natural life jokes rather than made up jokes हर्षित भाई को बहुत परेशान किया हुआ है। Thank you, हर्षित भाई, still for joining the stream. Traveling to Samarkand inspired us to see this.

But now what the hell is like? Oh, she wants to do a check. King g2. You can make a queen and then check. You can come out. And now there will be checks that will stop at some point. You can even start. Not to. Oh, there could be a draw. Always potential for blunders exists in chess. So here king h five and then eventually you block with the king.

अरे बाप रे इतना easy है क्या? हाँ easy रहेगा। Kind of.

We have to calculate. Let's go back to Arjun's game. Savita will make it three and half half for India while Arjun trying to make it three one.

Okay, now they can actually repeat if Luca goes Rook c1, correct? Yeah, no moves yet by Luca.

One minute down to one minute, and I think he is going to repeat because he's not going to take risks with such little time on his clock. I think we are going to see repetition. Luca looks a little unhappy because he was winning previously.

After Sagar bhai's joke, I am also going to sleep. Oh, draw, guys! Tomorrow Thank you. I think everybody wanted to sleep.

Arjun also, Luca. Bye, Arjun. Bye, Bajiya.

Resourcefulness, guys. Arjun का भी result कभी भी until it's over, it's not over. Well done, Arju bhai. Well done.

Well, I don't know. I mean, it's I mean, I guess Arjun is going to be happy that he didn't lose, but he'll also be a bit upset that he came into this situation. He allowed himself. himself to go from a winning position to almost losing.

Yeah, but he has to not be upset. The point is he has to be okay, not be too hard on himself, because that's what happened in the game. He's being a bit too hard on himself.

Yeah, but at this level, I think, uh, you know, you never expect someone like Arjun to go from a winning endgame to almost losing. So I think something is, is wrong. Yeah, something is wrong which needs to be fixed. in the crucial rounds. I mean, here we did have some margin that his result did not matter, but there will be games, Amruta, where his results will matter. And for those games, we need him to be at his best shape.

Yeah, and exactly that's the point. I really like what you have made, because in those critical situations, maybe everybody is not able to give their best in terms of, you know, the result, but that time, Arjun will raise up his game.

बस टू एंड हाफ पॉइंट्स करना है इफ़ वी डू इट ऑल 11 गेम्स गाइस एनीवे वी विल बी द चैम्पियंस करेक्ट या वेल इट जनरल यू हैव टू कंटिन्यू दिस परफॉर्मेंस अगेंस्ट स्ट्रांग टीम्स विच विल नॉट बी सो इजी बिकॉज़ दे विल आल्सो हैव प्लेयर्स इन फॉर्म सो देर विल बी वेरी इं Flourishes on another day where we beat Italy three one, and oh, maybe Savita is still playing two queens on the board.

But queen at six, hey, the other queen comes too cheap, and she wins. Let's go.

So the women's team defeat the team of Greece with a score of three and a half half. That's a very promising victory by the Indian women's team. The men team. Winning three to one, which is also a very good result. We won on boards three and four. Nihal and Gukesh giving us the wins today, and it was Prag and Arjun who drew their game. Yeah, yeah.

Prag and Arjun, I think showed Prag showed good spirit on board one. Very solid draw. Arjun played really up and down, but I think the heroes are Nihal and Gukesh today. Yeah, खेले भाई. Absolutely. Also Mukesh, incredible chess. Masterpiece, masterpiece.

But I think Nihal three out of three. मतलब now it's more and more happening that when you're playing so well, firstly opponents will be intimidated. Secondly, you yourself get such confidence. And thirdly, your team is like okay Nihal is doing well. You know? तो काफी elements आए गए Nihal ने इधर लेके आया है। So actually three Indians are on three out of three.

Savita, Vantika, and Nihal. Exactly. So, and there we see Savita winning her game three and a half half for women's team.

Three one. Ah, three and a half.

And that's Savita's first Olympiad. Yeah. And three out of three is incredible.

Doing well. Doing well. Yeah.

What's that?

And I think she's perfect for board four because she's a hard hitter. You know, wants to win every game. And we need this fresh energy, right?

And she's recently coming off a victory. In Asian juniors, I think it's the it's a perfect match for the Indian team.

And Anish is making it happen for the team. Oh, Anish का draw था पूरा। Yeah, he's won it. So that means Anish will help Netherlands win.

You know what, Anish? Wait a second. We'll stay at this game. Everyone wants to see this for a while. Yeah. Anish is so good at opposite colored bishop, guys. Like really amazing. And if you want To improve that, you can check out Silman's endgame because उसमें एक opposite color का बहुत important chapter है। बहुत अच्छे से देखें। And the idea for white here is bishop e8, bishop g6 to protect the pawn on f7 and then move the rook from h8 towards the queen's square.

Nice.

But you know, even if we do two and a half every round, ठीक है? Suppose that may eleven rounds मतलब we are actually scoring eleven out of eleven.

No, I mean clearly.

तो उसमें अपने को we will we beat Uzbekistan ये वैसे हरी है। One and half. But उतना ही enough है भाई। If you keep winning, it's clearly fine.

But when you don't win, then your game points are also very low. So in general, this has been China's strategy every year. If you see even today, I believe that China was very clinical. They didn't overextend themselves. In fact, if we look at them, Ding won. Okay, today they did. They crushed three and a half.

What a day! And it's only gonna get better from now, guys. Three rounds in the books, eight more rounds to go, eight more countries, eight more teams that our players are going to play against. And I think the competition will own. Only get more stiff from now.

Yeah, it will be super super exciting. What's going to happen next? And I think all of us are super thrilled that India is on full points right now. Every it seems like oh we should be doing this. कि ऐसा ही होना चाहिए but not necessary right? It can we we shouldn't take anything for granted.

Not at all because you know this. प्रिन गाय ही अगेन वन अगेंस्ट जीएम टुडे। सेम, सो इट्स थ्री आउट ऑफ़ थ्री। वाओ। प्रिन इज़ एक्चुअली थ्री आउट ऑफ़ थ्री ऑलरेडी। एंड ही वाज़ द वन हो बीट अर्जुन इन द फर्स्ट राउंड। या। या एस वी गो अप विल प्ले द स्ट्रांग टीम्स। अलरेडी आई थिंक 2600 का एक प्लेयर तो आ जाएगा। फ Other teams में से that you following?

I think Germany is doing well and they are always relying on Vincent and he has been delivering. You know, the team of Germany is actually also quite well rounded with Vincent playing on board one and with Vincent in the team, I think it just makes the team very dangerous. You know, because Vincent is someone he can just score points one after another, right? So Germany is going to also be a big competition.

Oh, for sure. This year I think Germany has come up with an amazing team. And meanwhile, guys, while our teams do really well in such tournaments and we are looking at top players here performing, it's also very important that the grassroots of Indian chess are strengthening, that we are doing a lot of work for growing chess at grassroots. And I want to give a shout out to here to a very interesting thing that's building up. Sorry, this is the format, but I wanted to pull up an interesting slide here, which is this thing here, that Chola Phoenix Chess Club is expanding. And they are now— already there are clubs in Mumbai and Chennai, and now in Bengaluru at the Phoenix Mall of Asia, and in पुणे एट द फीनिक्स एवेन्यू ऑफ स्टार्स, दिस इज़ इन विमाननगर एंड इन बेंगलुरु इट इज़ एट बेलारी रोड, थ्री टू सिक्स पीएम, 19 सितंबर, दैट इज़ टुमरो, कम लर्न एंड थिंक एंड कनेक्ट, एंड दिस इज़ अ जॉइंट इनिशिएटिव ऑफ चोला चेस, फीनिक्स एंड चेसबेस इंडिया तू ब्रिंग च In the country, and I hope that if you are in and around Mumbai, sorry, in Pune or Bangalore, you will visit because youngsters like Charvi are going to inaugurate and Avira Chauhan, and you get a chance to play them. They they are the future stars of our country. Harshit bhai, are you aware of Charvi? Yes.

He met also.

Yeah, she is very very talented.

Very talented. Like Bodna in some ways. Yeah, I mean Bodna is.

It's it's quite strong, but Charvi could very likely get there.

And Avirat is also very strong. He made an IM nom recently. He is around 2350, I believe, from Pune and 2014 born. So 12 years old. And let's see. So see you guys tomorrow.

एकदम हो रहा है last one minute. Wait, I want to be there. And Anish clearly converting it. Important one. Oh, by the way, Jagger says Sagar, Singapore defeated Norway today, and I did meet Kevin. Wow, he was here.

Well, Norway is missing Magnus and Aryan Tari, so, um, Norway—

why did Aryan not play?

I'm not sure. Maybe, maybe because Magnus didn't play. Yeah, maybe because Magnus didn't play. He's also in school right now, so maybe it was hard for him to get 3 weeks off school. So Norway isn't as strong anymore as it was last time. Yeah, I have a question by Suyash. I was playing this tournament in Italy, I forgot the name, Bari Open, I think. And I was doing— that's the event that I defeated Brunello. But in the end, I didn't have— I think I made a draw and I lost one game as well, so I finished 3rd in the end. Second or third something did not win the event.

Harshit bhai goes to exotic places to play the tournaments or उधर के beaches और क्या-क्या ही kind of and wins it always enjoy so many tournament wins you have yeah Harshit bhai I think how many tournaments have you won international opens well recently in the last one year I won maybe five four five Wow!

Do these tournaments call you again because you are the defending champion, right? So they would love to.

For example, I won twice. I won it last year and this year as well.

So मुझे लगा तुम ऐसे हुए कुछ पे कोई ऐसा कुछ भी किया इसने कि इसके लिए उसको वापस नहीं दिया। And by the way, Anish did win.

Yes. Oh wait wait wait! Opponent is still not resigning.

What a trick! Queen King C six. So tricky. Naughty naughty. ओह नाइस नाइस नाइस सोनोती चेंग बॉबी बट ओह आल्सो रुकीफाई डज़न वर्क है या बिकॉज़ किंगीफाई इज़ अ चेक चेक किंग मूव्स एंड देन रुक डी एट या आल्सो अ ड्रॉ वेरी ट्रिकी आईम शुरू अनिश मस्त हैव अ स्मайл ऑन हिज़ फेस राइट अनिश विल बी लाइक नॉट टुडे आईव सीन ऑल दिस बिफोर म ग्रैपा अनिश गिरी वाह क्या बात है सुपर कूल बाय द वे वी विल बी जस्ट लेटिंग यू नो द रिजल्ट्स ऑफ़ आर नेबर्स आल्सो बोलो गेम होने के बाद देखना भी ये जीत रहा है वो Okay guys, I will take some rest, get something to eat. But well, let's go.

अरे अपन इंडियन खाना है कि नहीं?

हाँ इंडियन खाएंगे। इंडियन ही खाएंगे। और देखते हैं क्या हो जाता है। But मजा आएगा। Guys, thank you so much for your support and I will be back tomorrow and hoping for another win by.

You're going home or you're going anywhere else? Home, home. घर जा रहे हैं भाई। हाँ। और किधर भी नहीं, no partying.

Struggling guys in Budapest, in Samarkand.

Struggling. Struggling with no parties and all. तो फिर then I'll also join you.

भाई there are भाई there are parties which I got to know that they have organized here. For example, not parties but meetups and all. For example In the hotel Minion, there are some meetings happening.

Yeah, but we are staying far away, so it's a bit tricky.

Yeah, but you could meet them and then come later. Yeah, because in Olympia there's always some party going on because there's so many people.

True, true. But are you sure you're going, uh, to the hotel back?

Well, first I'm going to the washroom, so okay.

And then you come and tell me, tell us, huh? Yeah, so I'll come, I'll come. मिलेगा मुझे लगा होने का मैं इधर और जा रहा हूँ। हाय अमृता, are you why are you giving mother vibes?

Bishop f7 good move good move by Anish winning this I think Amruta Anish is going to win here we have some results for example let's look at what Nepal has done today in the open section Nepal lost to Albania three and half half. Rupesh Jaiswal managed to hold a draw. I have seen these names a lot, Rupesh Jaiswal, Shushrut Dahal, but a new name I think on top board is Silwal Purushottam. Maybe I haven't heard of him, so hopefully they do well. Bangladesh is definitely missing Ziaur Rahman, but you can see that his son Zia Tahseen is there and they managed to beat 3.5, half pure to Rico, which is a good result for Bangladesh.

Um, also Andaman and Nicobar will— no, they will not have a team. Sorry. Um, Sri Lanka, we can check Sri Lanka.

Manage is still playing against South Tom and Prince. Strong team actually. This लिनायांगे रणिंदु दिलशान इस अ गुड प्लेयर। ओह यू वुड यू हैड गोन टू श्रीलंका राइट एंड यू वुड हैव यू वुड हैव प्लेड विथ मीबी ऑफ़ मीबी इज़ अ वेरी यंग गाई या नॉट येट आई वाज़ व्हेन आई वेंट देर ही वाज़ नॉट देर। एंड लेट्स सी पाकिस्तान हो डिड दे प्ले टुडे। ओह पाकिस Yeah, but in Egypt we don't have Amin Basim, right? Amin Basim are not playing. Basim is the coach of the team and Anish Giri wins, which means Netherlands score a win thanks to him over Australia. Very small margin, but Netherlands keep going, Germany keep going, India keeps going, China keeps going, USA keeps going, and all the teams are going On and on at the top boards. So we are Thailand draws against Portugal, which is a good result because their team is clearly inferior, but they won on top two boards.

Yeah, Prin and Thanadom. That's a good result.

Okay, okay, perfect. Time for us to call it a night. And thank you all, thank you for supporting. Maybe you want to say something, please?

No, I, I mean, we'll have to call it a night only.

No, you can just end stream here when you finish.

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