FIDE Chess Olympiad Round 4 | India vs Spain in Open, India vs Mongolia in Women

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome everyone to the 4th round of the FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026. This is your host Sagar Shah welcoming you to another amazing day of chess. Today India is going to play against Spain in the open section and against Mongolia in the women's section. It's going to be an absolutely epic, epic day of chess that we are going to have. The games are going to start in 10 minutes from now, and I'm going to tell you all about the players whom we are going to face. Spain is a tough opponent, guys. It's not at all an easy opponent, not at all a pushover team that you can just win like that. All our players will have to be On top shape if they want to win today, and joining me all the way. Very quickly, she's gone there to drink some water. She will join me very, very soon. Amruta Mokal is going to join us, and a warm welcome to everyone in the chat. Let's have a look at how does it feel to be in Samarkand right now. This is how it feels if you are at the venue. If you ever decide to visit. The Chess Olympiad, this is what you will get to witness. And you can see so many people here at the venue. And let's have a look at another view.

Wow, look at that, guys!

It's just epic what you can See if you are at the playing venue right now. The players will arrive. Let's see if the Indian team is here. No, the Indian and the Spanish team have not yet arrived on the board, so they will join us in a bit. And Shaniwar Market says my life gamer. अरे भाई भाई भाई Okay guys, so right now the team that is doing exceedingly well, uh, with almost 11.5 game points— because there are on 6 match points, there are a total of 21 teams and India is at 19th place. So our team score, like the game points, have been very low. Only 8.5 points we have scored in 3 matches. Which means that we have been winning with kind of narrow margins here. 2.5, 2.5, and 3. So, that's not been the best for Team India. But we managed to get through. And there you see Gukesh coming in, shaking hands with Leoncho Garcia, who is one of the well-known Spanish journalists working for decades and decades. You will find many interviews of him on our channel. Now today India is going to take on Spain, and on the top board we have Anton Guijarro David versus Pragnananda. It's a 2632 rated player. All opponents are about 2600. Board number 2, Arjun Erigaisi faces Maxime Chigayev with the white pieces. This would be a good idea For Arjun to make a comeback. Maxime Chigayev is was you know representing Russia, but now plays for Spain. On the second, on the third board, we have Jaime Santos Latasa, one of the top Spanish GMs, taking on Nihal Sarin. That will also be a super exciting clash. And then we have Alexei Shiro versus Domaraju Gukesh. Guys, I need to bring my face here. To show you my excitement for this one, guys. What exciting game this is going to be when Alexei Shirov, the fire on board maestro who was the world number two at some point, played like the top top events faces the world champion Gukesh, and this is where the game is going to happen. You can see Gukesh in there. Why is Vidit not playing well with it? Is right now rested. He played the first two rounds. He's rested. If some player is not in good form, for example, if one of the player loses today or doesn't feel well, then I'm sure Vidit will be back on the board. So Vidit is the fifth board. So ideally, many more rounds will be played by the top four players. But it's not always the case. Sometimes one of the players is off form. For now, we can see that Arjun is not really playing at his highest.

Level.

We hope that he comes back, but if he doesn't, then maybe with it we'll have to play more. And that you can see, Gukesh, here. Let's have a look at the women's boards. And there you see, today Team India takes on Mongolia, and this is going to be a tough clash as well as Indian team is facing almost all opponents who are rated close to 2300 to 2400, in that range.

The top—

on the top board we have Bat-Erdene Mungunzul. She, uh, is one of the young talents of Mongolian chess. She's born in 2005, so she's only 21 years old, and she's taking on Koneuru Hampi, the legend. Of Indian chess on board two, we have Mung Sul Turmung. Mung Sul Turmung, well-known player. She is born in 2002. Another quite young player, almost same age as Vaishali. And on board number three, we see Divya Deshmukh. Today, it's Vantika Agrawal who's gotten a rest, which is a bit surprising for me after she managed to score three out of three. But I guess. It's a good idea to get everyone playing here. This team, Divya, and by the way, handshake there. The game has not yet started, but they both arrived and you know they hadn't shook hands with each other. So now they have. Divya Deshmukh is taking on Bias Galan Kishik Pater. That is 2255 Bias Galan. Actually, it's one of the first times that I'm hearing. बाइस गलान्स नेम एंड ऑन द लास्ट बोर्ड आई थिंक सविता विल हैव अ वेरी टफ ओपोनेंट एक्चुअली इन द फॉर्म ऑफ मुंगुंतुल बटकुयाग। शी इज़ अ वेरी वेरी स्ट्रांग प्लेयर एंड लेट्स सी इफ़ वी कैन सी व्हाट्स हैप्पेनिंग हियर ऑन द बोर्ड Hello, hello, and, uh, I hope that you can hear me, guys, that everything is fine. The players are ready, they have taken their chairs, and there you see Srinath Narayanan coming in and giving a pat on the back to every single player. Sound is back. Well, what do you think, guys? How is Team India going to perform here? Any thoughts on what the scorecard today is going to be? Do let me know your thoughts in the comment section. Play Tantra says, "Sagar in 2000, Shirov reached finals of FIDE World Championship, losing three and a half half to Vishy Anand." True, I was ten years old back then, and I did read about it. And the players are standing up one minute in silence. I'm not sure. Is it for Georgius? Makropoulos could be for the well-known, um, FIDE, uh, official, or you can say the person from Greece who did quite a lot of work for chess. And, uh, perhaps in his memory, everyone standing up for a minute. 3-1 is what everyone in the chat is saying, that maybe that would be the score. And you can see all the players standing up here. And we have Amruta Mokal here joining us. Hello, Amruta, how are you?

Hello, everyone. Okay, there's a lot of crowd over there.

Yes, one minute of silence in the hall. And there you see, guys, Amruta is here. And the players take chairs. Amruta, today is going to be an epic day. As we see on board number one, we have Pragnananda taking on David Anton Guiaro. This is going to be an epic clash. Arjun Erigaisi versus Maxim Chigayev. And a handshake, and off we go. What is the first move going to be? He pushes his pawn to D4. Okay, that's the first move. And what is Gukesh's first move? He plays pawn to E4 against Alexei Shirov.

Ooh! And did you ask them what's going to happen on the board today, guys? Between Gukesh and Shirov.

Yes, I did ask them, Amruta, about the entire what is going to happen today.

But there's only one word, one right answer, Sagar. There is no other answer over here. So not sure if people got that.

What is the answer?

I thought you will get that.

Fire on board is going to happen.

Absolutely.

And joining us all the way from the playing hall, the man who's gone there and found out what's happening. Hello, hello. Harshit bhai is here. Hello, Ramrata.

कैसे हो?

Hi, very good, Harshit bhai. We are very excited to have you here, and can you tell us why did the players stand for one minute? For whose memory were they standing up?

I think I probably reached there after they did that, but I'm assuming it would be for the micro polis.

Yes.

But guys, what a crazy playing hall! इतना बड़ा है and There are also a lot of visitors who have come to watch.

Did you meet anyone, Archibald?

I mean, the game's already started, so I am not allowed.

So you didn't get to meet any players. So tomorrow maybe you'll go a little earlier and then hang out with few of the players there.

Exactly.

And the first game that we have on our board is Pragnananda versus David Anton Guiaro. Please tell us a bit about David Anton Guiaro. I think you know him well. He's also Someone who speaks Spanish and you know like he's from Spain, so you also speak Spanish. Do you know him well?

Yeah, so I actually had a training camp with some members of the Spanish team in 2019 in Kerala in Kochi, and it was organized by La Liga, which was crazy. So La Liga had organized a camp where you know there were football players and there were chess players as well. So we kind of like met.

When this was announced, you would have said like I have to be here.

I was like no, I don't care. Yeah, I'm going to attend. That no matter what, and at the end they also gave us the original La Liga football to each of the members.

You have it?

I अभी तो puncture हो गया बहुत खेला उसके साथ पर बहुत like you know very fond memory. पर हाँ football once is gone is gone.

Really?

Yeah.

क्या बात कर रहा है?

Yeah yeah.

Oh looks like.

क्या था मुझे football gone is gone.

Sounds like our relationships, Amrita. Knight F6.

But it will never be gone, Saget.

Not our like in general. Once gone, it's gone. Knight f3 and b6. What's up with Indian team and everyone playing the Queen's Indian?

Yeah, everyone is going for this very solid opening actually, where they can go for bishop to a6. And, uh, I think this basically gives black chances to fight. It's, it's solid, but it's not a draw. And I think Parag, you know, is 140 points higher, so he wants to have a game. Guys, today is a big match. Spain is a very, very decent team. All of their boards are 2600+.

Yeah, all boards, all boards. And you know, the top board is 2632, last board is 2605. So actually the difference is not much between them.

Yeah, absolutely. In fact, somebody said that if Bhukesh wins today, then it will be 2705.

Okay, rating. Okay, yeah, maybe. But you know, it doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. I mean, even if we draw, then the team wins.

It will matter if Gukesh wins all the games and reaches 27-30. Yeah, I mean, then it would be nice.

Exceptional, it's fine. But 5-10 points here and there in Olympiad, as Gukesh said, nothing comes before the country. And that was, by the way, that Gukesh dialogue was like amazing.

He won so many hearts with that. You know, he said about, uh, how, uh, Uh, how he has— it was his decision to play on board 4 along with the team, and even if the team requires him to rest all the rounds, he would do that.

Yeah, and that's a classy statement by the current world champion.

Um, yeah, because everybody wants to play all the games, like as many as you can get, and kind of you don't feel good if you don't get to play. So this is an absolute team spirit shown over here by Gukesh. Yeah, it's nice.

And by the way, just to talk about the Spanish team, one advantage the Indian players have is that all of the Spanish players are slightly older. And we have this youthful energy in our team with—

But you were talking about this La Liga and all. Did you meet Anton Guijarro there?

Yeah, exactly. I met them there.

And how was he as a person?

No, I think he had a much higher peak than his rating right now.

I think he has 2690 almost. Or maybe he crossed 2700.

He was really close, basically, of crossing the 2700 mark. Now he's down to 26-30. So the Spanish team, they have had a very high peak, all of them. I mean, Shirov, one of the legends of the game, is also in their team.

Let's see if we can get Shirov on our screen.

Guys, how many of you have been to Spain? Barcelona.

And I want to check Shirov versus Gukesh.

Oh, wow!

Gukesh, you have to set the fire on the board like crazy. So Gukesh will need to be the dragon today.

But Amruta, he might have to beat your favorite opening, which is the Sicilian, if he wants to win.

Yeah, that he can. Uh, I think actually Shirov wrote a book, very famous book, Fire on the Board, for all the aggressive players. Like, Shirov has been one of the amazing attackers in chess. That book has been very popular. And if Gukesh manages to beat Shirov in his time, then to the dragon, Gukesh will have to be the mother of dragons.

How to tame the dragon?

There was a movie.

Yeah. And I loved that movie. How to train your dragon?

Yeah.

By the way, guys, in 2022 Olympiad, when India India B faced Spain, Gukesh and Shirov did play on board one. Wow! Back then.

And did they play?

And yeah, Gukesh won. Remember he had started off with eight out of eight, right? That was the first time Harshit Bhai was commentating with ChessBase India. And this is how Harshit Bhai we have come full circle to once again see Gukesh and Shiro. But this time on board four, not on board one.

Otamendi, Kevin De Bruyne, Silva, Sterling. Do you know this one? They were investments from the past, not from the last two years. But investments from the past. Do you know this famous Jose Mourinho quote?

Oh my God! No, bye.

अच्छा मैं आपको दिखाऊंगा भाई football crazy भाई football heritage.

He's in अभी दिखा रहा है कि finance guy I'm a finance guy. By the way, we have Nitin Pai in the chat. He says been there played my first Europe tournament in Lorca in Spain.

Lorca.

Lorca went from Barcelona looking forward to my next tournament in Spain.

Hi Nitin bhai, what are you doing home? You were going to come here at the Olympiad. You had mentioned that you want to see the Olympiad. It's now, as Harshit Bhai has proven, you don't need a visa. Just book a flight ticket and come here. But yeah, um, it will be a lot of interest to see what Gukesh's next move is going to be. I'm very surprised he hasn't made his move yet. He's thinking for 7 minutes already.

So he did not expect this. Must, must be not expecting this. But also the question is Open Sicilian or not is the main thing what he's thinking about, right?

And I think he might go for c3.

Oh, c3, or maybe Harshit bhai, g3, or maybe even b3 or d3. You know, d3 is not such a silly thing. You can play d3, d5, Knight d2, the King's Indian Attack. Is possible. Yes, we have very cute kids here who are here, who have come. Are you from Uzbekistan? Ah, do they want to say hi? No, no, better with them.

They'll come.

You want to say hi?

Come.

No, no, they are very shy. Okay, thank you. And while Gukesh thinks, let's head over to the game of Nihal Sarin. M.U.

Man of the match who has been three out of three, a hundred percent score. Joe, most of you who are studying right now are not gonna get it even in your exams.

Oh, ऐसा मत बोलो अमरुदा। अरे hundred percent objectively नहीं मिलता है ना?

किसको मिलता है?

But you know what Nihal has played the opening that I You know Nihal is playing. Do you think Nihal is studying my games? Because he's playing every.

कल मुझे लग रहा था he's studying my game.

हम दोनों के games study कर रहे हैं। देखो हर्षित भाई ने बोला दोनों के games। अगर सिर्फ तुम्हारा game नहीं study कर रहा है, आपको आपको मिला मतलब हर्षित भाई did you ask?

I don't think he he just said oh nice like I don't think he had seen it maybe.

Oh nice. So by the way this is one.

What is new राजा हो OP या Manchester United? Oh, Manchester United back then was an excellent team when Alex Ferguson was the coach. Like he was one of the greatest managers and coaches of football ever. अच्छा and he was also Cristiano was also in Manchester United at some point. So they had a very very powerful team back then.

Right, nice. I think like the Indian team right now.

It's possible. I mean the Indian. I mean depends on the form right now.

By the way, this is the opening that I've played all my life with black. A lot of it. I love it, by the way, because it's that typical opening where you don't really threaten much.

But can you show why bishop f7 is not working?

It's a beautiful move actually. If you take, I take with the king and then a check. And now it may feel like the queen is going to get trapped.

King e8, then queen trap. If king f8, then also knight e6.

But you can go king g8, and once you come here, you bring your queen here, and it takes.

It's very important queen g6 again as well to take the pawn on g2. And there is a question: How is the tiebreaker calculated? So the tiebreaker, Jay Krishna, is calculated based on the game points. For example, India अगर 4040 जीतते जाता है, then it means that India is gonna have excellent tiebreaks. And that's why we are emphasizing a lot on क्या मार्जिन से हम जीतते हैं, you know?

Because but our tiebreak is very bad. अर्जुन भाई right now we are on eight and half points, which is out of the twenty one teams who are on full score, we are at nineteen position.

Yeah.

What this means for everyone watching is, for example, I am playing Sagar. Let's say I am from India, you are from China. What this means is that I cannot afford to do a two-two draw with you.

Correct.

I have to win against you in order to get higher ranked on the leaderboard. Absolutely. Yeah, guys, starting stages of the 4th round here in the Olympiad, but a very exciting match, uh, this one against the Spanish team. And, uh, even though we are favorites, it's— we are, we are not very big favorites.

I would say it's something— I look at what Amruta is bringing up. She is bringing up a forecast here, press. And क्या?

Crop करना है। But mainly if you go to the main screen.

Ah okay okay. So Amruta has brought some data with the help of one of the people whom we had met in USA, Shitij. And medal probability is given here, Harshit bhai. Already with seven rounds, eight rounds to go, what is the probability, Amruta?

Yeah, exactly. It is eight. I can't see. It is United States of America fifteen point three percent. India is on fourteen point four percent. Uzbekistan on fourteen percent.

Why did Uzbekistan go below?

अच्छा मैं भी because of the seeding also.

Could be.

I think they also consider the seeding over here and there is also women. उधर ऊपर, if you click on the women's board left में नीचे, then we have India with the highest chance of winning because we are doing well 14.8 percent. U.S. 14.8 and China is 13.

But guys, take this with a grain of salt all of the statistics that we have here because in sports we have seen unprecedented upsets and and comebacks as well. So even though on paper we have Excellent chances. We still need to prove it, of course.

And and in sports, the main thing here, by the way, a big shout out to Shitij. Thank you so much for making this. It will get more exciting as the days progress. One of the things that we should remember is that it's not one move can make a difference. Up एक गलती कर लो and you are done. By the way, just finishing my. Thing on, uh, on Nihal's game. So the way in which Black usually plays is Queen c7, Knight f8, Knight g6. Sometimes the knight goes to h5 and f4 trying to put the pressure there. Sometimes you take on d4 and try to play, but this is essentially a very passive, like a spring-coiled, um, coiled spring approach that it will be like ऐसे ऐसे ऐसे and then खुलेगा। क्या passion है तेरा ये opening के लिए?

मतलब जिस तरीके से तूने समझाया, ऐसे क्या बोलते हैं जान। I have great memories of this opening actually.

And I think Nihal definitely did some homework before playing this opening because he might have understood that Jaime Santos Latasa likes to play open positions and he wanted to you know play a very closed and strategic game with him where white But it's not very direct. He needs to play a very slow and long game. And Nihal is, uh, going to play something like Queen to c7.

Like, by the way, Vinod is asking you, Harshit bhai, thoughts on LeBron joining 76ers?

That's a great question. I mean, if you look at his contract, it's not very big. But, uh, I think it's important for the league, NBA, to still have LeBron. Because having LeBron just, you know, increases the Increases the viewership and everything. So probably the last season that we see from LeBron, but he's retiring.

I would guess like so LeBron and Magnus are almost like on the verge of retiring. Yeah, both of them.

No, I think LeBron is much closer.

I think Harshit bhai can become all sports commentator, right? He can become a lot, you know.

Harshit can become a lot, but amazing. He prefers to be with us. I know not much.

पता नहीं कि But yeah, with the white, just the way Sagar explained from black, it might feel that wow, black is doing amazing. But it's not the case, guys, because white say there are a lot of plans. Like for example, uh, there's one interesting thing after Queen c7. Sometimes, you know, Sagar, the queen is on c4 and you have such ideas like you have to be careful about it over here. The other thing is, let's say if you take, this is the main tension which is in the center. So if you decide to take, then my knight is going to jump in over here. If you don't take, then at the right time I might take it over here. What happened, Harshit bhai? Some comment you put there.

Someone said I will soon be commentating on NASA launch. Okay, but by the way, for me, uh, just before—

yeah.

Oh, you want to chase?

I, I like— for me, when I was playing white, I was always, uh, you loved playing this. I was always unsure of What to recapture back on d four with? With the queen or the knight?

Knight.

So let's say e takes d four. The problem with knight takes d four is that black used to get this e five square for the knight.

Yeah, but later you get f four at the right. So Parimarjan Niggi's very nice game with white is there in this line. Okay.

That book famous book of Parimarjan one e four.

Parimarjan Niggi has given me so many classical points. It's crazy because He made a book before he went to the U.S. to study, and in Stanford, if I'm not wrong. By the way, one of the youngest grandmasters from India, and then he maybe thought that he wants to explore more than chess. He so he gave most of his chess preparation secrets in that book in Nachtdorf, and through that book I have developed a lot of understanding. और मैंने कैसे किया था पता है क्या भाई? It was a like a hard copy book, right? So I used to input all of the moves of the book in ChessBase and create a ChessBase file.

Wow!

Do you have the file, by the way?

Now, the thing is that, you know, variations have changed because of new developments in the opening. But back then, you know, that was the level of work you had to do to get it in PGN. Nowadays, it's so easy that you can just, you know, like, do it with the help of AI. But back then, you had to do it manually.

Right. And actually people used to. कभी मेहनत करता था, कभी लगाता था उनको। I think Harshit has done all the hard work that he has to do in his life already. Now it's all about reaping the benefits of that hard work.

नहीं भाई, long way to go भाई.

Long way to go of course. By the way, Arjun and Maxim Chigayev, you can see Arjun's time one hour thirty two minutes. Once again he Arjun has played an opening which I love because You know, Arjun has been shaky, correct, in this tournament. But he's chosen an opening in which he has very little chances of losing. Because Queen c2, takes, takes, opponent has the bishop pair. But look at Arjun's center, very solid. Castles, e4 can come. Or sometimes you can play Knight e1, trade the bishops, and just play the position.

I have this feeling today. You know, before I had the feeling yesterday that Nihal is going to strike. Today I have a very strong feeling that Arjun is gonna win.

Oh, let's go! We want to trust your feeling and we want Arjun to actually strike. And I love that he has kept a lot of time. That is Arjun.

Time पे बहुत pressure डालता था वो। Because you know with Arjun, it's very important for him to gain momentum. And if he does and if he gets even close to his best chess, Amruta, we don't need Arjun at his A game. Even Arjun, that is B like B game or B plus game, is an excellent addition to the Indian team.

Wow, that's that's a good point. Just begin आज, simple simple भी खेला तो भी no blunders and then you are there.

Yeah, momentum. I mean easier said than done, but look at how Anton Chigayev Maxim is playing. He has played G6, B6. He has this very hyper modern setup.

While that's for black though, so whoa! Vamos!

Pawn to h four. भाई वो भी सोचे बिना। Seems like preparation. Wee!

Sweet. Okay, first question. Normally h four is answered with h five. So if h five, of course we know that square is weakened for life. And then what's the next?

And also, also Amrita, the problem is that once you play h five. It's very hard to castle short because you're always going to be afraid that the white knight will jump to e4 and, uh, and, and then to g5. Because after h5, uh, the g5 square, as you highlighted, becomes weak, and we can actually reroute the knight on c3 to that square.

But what will you play right now? Will you go Ne4 immediately?

I, I don't mind castling. I really don't mind castling here.

And, and suppose I say okay. I also don't care. I am gonna short castle anyway.

Yeah.

Right now looking fine. Knight e four, bishop g seven. I go back.

Knight e three five.

You have the g five square.

Or maybe knight f g five would create a lot of tension.

Ah nice. Guys, there is a threat in the future or something like this.

Oh we have the cap. Manager of Indian team. Can you call him?

Really?

Let's call him. Maybe he can say hi. We have Abhijit Kunte here, who is the manager in the Expo Zone, and it would be very nice. Oh, we have the president of AICF also here, Nitin Narang. That's very interesting.

Lovely, lovely. We have a lot of people actually, a lot of people. The whole this thing is full.

And guys, it is very exciting for us to be joined by the one and only Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte, who is here all the way from the playing hall. You can sit here in the middle, Abhijit. And a warm welcome to the manager of the Indian team and one of India's top grandmasters, fourth GM of India, and the coach of Indian women's team last year in 2024, which won the gold. Abhijit, welcome!

And me also, right?

Oh, your coach?

Yeah, and actually me also.

Wow! I think anyone who is in Pune has learned from Abhijit, so that's not a surprise here. Abhijit, how are you feeling?

I'm fine. I think very excited to see this टूर्नामेंट बट नॉट एस अ कोच बट एस अ हेड ऑफ़ डेलीगेशन इटिंग इट्स अ डिफरेंट फीलिंग बिकॉज़ व्हेन यू आर कोच यू आर कंपलीटली इनवॉल्व्ड एंड यू आर यू नो वर्किंग 24/7 एंड एस ए होडी द जॉब दिस चेंजेस अलॉट एस एन होडी कैन यू टेल आर व्यूअर्स व्हाट इस द मेजर रोल The HOD is responsible for both the teams, and he has to take care of all the matters.

I saw that on the day when the Indian team did not get their rooms on time, you were there at the reception solving everything. So I think that was already like you reached here and you had you had to do some a lot of work then.

Like they wanted me to work from day one and starting from the zero minute.

Yeah.

But but maybe it's a good moment to also tell our viewers that. Did things work out? Did it all pan out well?

Yes, I think it's a very important tournament because we are the winners for the last time. And, you know, first year we won in '24, both teams gold. '22 was 2 bronze medals. So I think we are here to prove our supremacy again. And if we can do it in both the categories, it will be a great achievement for India. And the dream what we all, all of us saw for so many years that India will become a number one country in chess. I think we are very close to it, but I think this double victory last year and again this year may be very good.

Amazing. And what are your feelings about the the team's performance until now? The men's team looks a bit shaky. Uh, as compared to last year, women's team looks more solid.

Yes, I think in women team Hampi has come in and Harika is not playing, and instead of Tania, Savita Shree is here. So the team is more or less balanced very well. So we are hoping that— there are of course strong teams like China, USA, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Poland, and a few more teams. Which we expect that we will start facing them from tomorrow. But in the main, of course, the competition is very high. The USA looks very formidable. The Uzbekistan team is also very strong. So the competition in men is of course cutthroat, and I'm sure that Srinath is a very experienced coach, so he will guide the team perfectly. And the main thing is the players are extremely motivated. They have a great team bonding. Like I see them every day and they all are rooting for each other. So we are hoping that things will fall in place very soon. Okay, we had some first day Arjun was a surprise. Then of course Nihal gave some shocks for everyone. But I think yesterday it was more or less clean. We had two and a half very clean victory and then Arjun was. a little bit minus, but he, he was playing very well to defend that game. But I feel that once we have more, uh, known players, I think then of course the level of play, they will automatically improve.

Why do you say that? That's a very interesting point. Usually we are thinking if they are struggling against 2500, then how will they play against 2700? Maybe you can tell us a bit about that.

So, you know, like the rating is one of the important criteria, uh, where they always feel that, you know, you have to win, you have to win, and that kind of pressure प्रेशर बिकॉज़ एवरी ड्रॉ आल्सो यू लूज टू और थ्री लॉस एंड दैट इज़ ऑलवेज़ साइकोलॉजिकली अफेक्टिंग आल्सो सेकंड थिंग इज़ नॉट इनफ़ गेम्स समटाइम्स आर अवेलेबल फॉर योर अपोनेंट सो इट्स वेरी डिफिकल्ट तू प्लान लाइक व्हाट यू वांट टू डू थर्ड थिंग इज़ ऑफ़ क But here it doesn't work in Swiss League formats. You know, you need to have some strong opening preparations where it is always double-edged. So, you know, like suddenly shifting your play from one style to another is always not easy. So I think after 3-4 rounds they will also get into that groove.

Very interesting insights. Uh, do we— can we go through like all the games and get your thoughts on them? Let's start with Pragnananda's game. He play— he's playing against Anton David Guiaro, and we saw it was a Queen's Indian, um, and he took on c4, a slightly risky approach.

It's not slightly risky, but, uh, I think it's very risky. Yes, but it must be preparation. What is the time?

He has 1 hour 31 minutes.

तो तो दिस इज़ ऑल मस्त प्रिपरेशन बिकॉज़ अदरवाइज़ यू डोंट कमेंट तो दैट व्हाट आई वाज़ टेलिंग यू लाइक यू नो लाइक दे हैव अ वेरी सॉलिड ओपनिंग रिपोर्टर एंड व्हेन दे वांट टू डू समथिंग लाइक दिस यू नो दे विल हैव टू क्रिएट सम प्ले एंड दैट्स ऑलवेज़ नॉट इजीली प You know what is interesting is the rook is attacked and the engine's best move here is c5. Yes, wow! But the whole idea is that when you're opening this diagonal that you should be ready to sacrifice the exchange.

So now playing rook b8 is not in the spirit.

Rook b8 or rook c8?

That means if you play rook c8, then b takes c4 and already white is dominating.

By the way, queen a4 traps the bishop after that.

Yeah.

And if you play Bishop e7, you're lost after Queen f4. So, but I think, I think Prag will play c5. I mean, he is in preparation.

And then first of all, if you just take here, then Black is very happy. Yeah, yeah, exchange.

Okay, okay. So early days but good preparation.

Yeah, I think we can see it from time.

Yes. Next game is Arjun, who is playing against Maxime Chigayev. And also Arjun had a lot of time on the clock. Again, a Queen's Indian, but this time a little bit of a slightly more solid approach by Maxime. And Arjun goes h4. Were you surprised by this move?

No, but it's not very attacking. Basically, it's stopping g5. So both have delayed the castling because black is threatening to maybe castle long side. I think Arjun played one more game in this line, yes, second round, and he lost to a similar Bogo Indian, Queen's Indian, Bogo Indian mixture.

So you mean against the Thailand player? Yes, yes.

So hopefully, you know, he will navigate this time better. But this is a very common position where, you know, you have control of e4 square or complete center. But you don't want to push e4 early because then c5 and this d5 structure, e5 square becomes weak. So he will need to calculate it accurately to, you know, when to punch e4, whether to keep castling or first start on the queenside.

Oh, he goes h5!

This is typical Arjun.

Arjun plays the most solid opening and then creates chaos. I thought, you know what I was saying? Like I was saying, oh, today Arjun nice game. He will play castling. He will bring knight to E one, exchange the bishops, have a center, no tension, and suddenly he goes H four and then H five, and already like chaos.

But then how does these kind of decisions, Vijay Dada? When you go H four and H five, there is some like these kind of weaknesses there. You are risking it, and you may not have had the best. 2 rounds earlier. So how is he able to do that? Because sometimes people go very safe, right?

But you know, Arjun cannot play safe. The thing is, you know, he will always go for the most aggressive or most complicated variation, and I think he feels very comfortable when there are a lot of complications over the board, and he feels that he can outwit his opponent in this kind of positions. So he will always try to do it. But of course, h5 is not a mistake as such, But maybe it was not required at such an early moment.

When you say Arjun cannot play safe, can you tell a bit about that? Have you like interacted with him?

So because he was in my team in the GCL, and so—

Oh yes, the PPG Alaskan Knights.

Yes. So when we were playing, you see his games and you will always feel that he's always trying to do something, something very chaotic.

But most—

yeah, so d5. It's a very interesting idea. He's trying to make the holes on the white square. So now black will have to keep, uh, like Queen e7 and keep defending this e6.

So e5 is a positional mistake, right?

e5 is a positional mistake.

If black plays e5, that would be a terrible move.

Because this f5 square and e4, this whole diagonal and f5 square, white will be just better. So Bishop h3. So either he will have to go Knight f8 or Queen e7 and keep defending.

मुझे क्या लगता है पता है अर्जुन का ऐसा like two people are fighting or arguing on a street they are like saying something अर्जुन will suddenly raise the stakes he will be like अभी मार्ता wake up you know that kind of chess he is playing like शांति से खेलो ना but but you know it's not easy to play this position from black because queen e seven so natural and it's not the best move maybe d takes e six right because now g six square is also weakened perhaps You know, one thing I learned when I also worked with Dada is like we should try to play to our strengths.

So I like, you know, back then I was good at opening, so he said I should focus on openings. If Arjun is good at attacking, I think he should focus on the— his aggressive play. So even if it's not going well for him, I don't think it makes sense to suddenly start playing positional. I think you should just keep on playing what he's good at and wait for the form to come back.

That advice won't work for intermediate players.

No, actually I had this question. I had this question.

No, it's important that you should find what you are good at.

Maybe it's not chess. Yeah, that was my next question. What was— what is Amruta's strength when you were teaching her?

Do not get into this. I will tell you.

She—

but memory will be right.

But Amruta was a very Tricky player, I will say. She used to always do small tricks, but you know, too many small tricks, the opponent will fall for one of them. You know, too many—

Thakur fell for it.

But it's important what Arshith said, you know, for any player who is trying to come up, it's important to play on your strength because many a times we just try to avoid opponent's strength And try to get into something new, and it just boomerangs very badly. So always play on your strengths. Weakness can be covered later.

This is everything that Abhijit is saying comes from years of experience of, you know, training so many different players. Even Vidit has trained with him. So he has trained right from like players who are at the intermediate level to super GM level. So it's incredible.

Started with Negi. Started with Parimarjan.

Oh, your first product was Parimarjan?

And coincidentally we today spoke about him. Wow!

Wow! Okay, can we go to?

Yeah, by the way, just to tell you everyone that. Let's see.

Let's see.

Arjun का हो गया निहाल, right?

Yeah, let's go to Nihal Sarin's game.

Nihal has been some of the most stable player for our team. I mean, of course his games are shaky, but—

His second, only one game.

Yeah.

Only one game was shaky, but it happens when you are playing in a tournament. But he was also my team member in London when we played the GCL, and he was the most, what I will say, go-to player for me. Like, if I wanted him to play a long game and win, so I will just tell him that what is the strategy, what you have to do, and he will just execute it. So nicely. So it's always a big strength for a captain to have Nihal with you because, you know, he can— he has this ability to play aggressive, play solid, and, you know, also be tactical.

Yeah.

And he has amazing speed when, you know, time is very less. Very difficult to match his speed.

Do you think Nihal has evolved in these last 2 years? I just feel like he has become a more rounded player.

Yes, all-rounded player. And I think he's extremely motivated. In between, I thought that, you know, like psychologically he always felt that, you know, some people have gone much higher to him. But I think he has recovered from him and, you know, he knows that, you know, he can be there and he's pushing himself for that.

Do you know how he got back his motivation? Like any thoughts on that? Because it's very difficult sometimes to get back the motivation.

Yes, I have not spoken about him, but about that particularly. But, you know, the way in which he's having his seconds every in every tournament, like even in Olympiad he is with his own second. So that helps that, you know, like he's very serious, he's very focused, and he just wants to carry it forward. Like Olympiad is not just a tournament for him, he wants to show that, you know, he is there to make a difference. I think that kind of motivation is very crucial.

Basically, and Abhijit, your thoughts?

Working on with Vishnu, that has also helped a lot because Yeah, since two years ago, you know he started.

Yeah, now he I don't know if he works anymore, but he worked a lot in between.

Yeah. So this kind of positions are normally slightly better for white, but you know like white doesn't have a very clear plan how to progress in these positions. So I would just say that you know that slight advantage will be there because of this d six square. It is slightly big. But you know why?

It's e6 or d6, both are weak, right?

Yeah, but e7 bishop is protecting it. Finally, somewhere you will have to go because that a5 pawn, if the bishop remains, then the a5 pawn will remain weak. Finally, at some moment, you will have to either go e5 or you trade e4 pawn to d6, then everything will get exchanged, and that time this endgame may— a5 pawn माइट बी अ चैलेंजिंग पार्ट। The thing is this knight on c3 stuck. Normally that is a problem for white because this knight doesn't doesn't have any square d5 b5 and if he cannot bring it to g3 fast to attack on knight f5 or something then it's a problem. Then black will be easily able to equalize.

I think he has a good position.

I mean, like Bishop e six, right?

Bishop e six and very solid. Very solid.

It's about very close to equal.

And how about Bokesh?

Wow!

Just the opening.

What did he play? Because he took a lot of time here.

Knight c three and then Shirov took eight minutes here. So they played the opening very slowly and we have.

Abhijit sir has played it so much.

So here all Sicilian Khan experts are sitting.

He's actually an expert. Like I only played it, but would you play knight?

Don't say that you are my student. But would you play queen c seven or knight c six?

I used to play queen c seven, but knight c six. So this is all theory. d five castle knight f six okay one bishop b It's actually funny.

They have taken so much time. Yeah, 9 and a half minutes.

Maybe Gukesh played E4 by mistake or what?

What is your feeling for Gukesh being on board 4? He spoke about it yesterday. He said that it was my decision and the team's decision, and everything that the team needs, the country needs, I'm ready to do. I'm even ready to rest out The entire tournament. What do you feel about these statements by the world champion?

I think it was a tough decision, I will say, because he's playing on four and twenty-two and twenty-four. He played on first board and he scored extremely well.

What individual golds both times?

And he was a major factor in making make sure that India wins wins the medal in bronze or gold. तो इस टाइम ही इस कमिंग डाउन सो दैट शोज़ एक्चुअली द स्ट्रेंथ ऑफ़ इंडियन टीम या इन द मेंस बिकॉज़ यू नो लाइक वी हैव वी हैव अ सिचुएशन वेर एनी ऑफ़ दिस थ्री प्लेयर्स आई विल से गुपेश प्राग और अर्जुन एनीवन कुड हैव प्लेड ऑन गोट वन सो दैट किंड ऑफ़ स्ट्रेंथ आई थिंक इट्स अ प्र This is just the opening stage.

I think Gukesh may be thinking whether to go b3, whether to go Queen f3.

Can we go to the women's section?

Maybe because maybe he was expecting French. That also can be the—

is, is generally playing French?

Hero was like a master of the French.

There are a lot of moves in the women's section actually.

Humpy versus Bat Erdin Mungunzul. She is actually a very young player. I saw 2005 born. Okay. So 21 years old only. And she has played this opening very quickly. The ragos in.

But Sagar, it's so good to have Humpy in the team, right? Like, you know that there is that one board where you have so much experience that you don't have to worry or like, you know, you have to Tell anything to her. She knows what to do.

This is again all theory. Here, would you say ninety six?

Ninety six. Oh, look! B one.

How long she took? Oh, she didn't think at all.

Maybe she won. I'm not sure.

Yeah.

She really mixed something up, I think. But what is the point of rook fd one? Because you can't play b three. The knight is hanging. Maybe you want to go a three. So like, no, after Rook fd1, Knight b6.

But imagine after a3 we just come back with our bishop.

What if the Rook on b1? I think the Bishop d7 was taken early. That's what I heard because they play e4 first.

So 12th move. Yeah. Ah, here it's Rook b1 is the best move, and after g6 only then to take. Yeah, he missed it. Oh, this is such a big move.

G six at and you are now.

Yeah, yeah.

G six is also bishop h three one idea.

Actually, can you go on? I'm looking bishop takes d seven knight d seven a three. I'm very surprised that you have to take on c three.

No, you can also go here.

Go back. And then b four is the point, right? Then you go back and yes and b four. And you have to take, otherwise you lose the d five pawn. So now rook takes b five.

And rook b five is coming. So this is what she wanted, but she mixed it up, I think. And now Humpty has a very good world champion expert.

Yeah, because there's no no g six also. Okay, but now in the same scenario, knight b six. But wait, after a three takes.

Now you can take and play bd7.

Yeah, but take. But if bishop f8 is not, but then you allow b4, right? That's why you take.

Bishop d7 is also maybe good here.

No, actually bishop d7 is a4.

You have to stop.

Uh huh.

How is it working? Well, you can simply take b7.

So if you go back, what's the move?

Queen a four. Wow, very tough.

But I think Hampi will find it. Like once you reach this position, it's not so tough, right? And and actually, if this happens, Hampi will have a huge advantage.

But also you can come back, bishop f eight. Because now b two takes takes. You also have b d seven stopping rook takes.

Yeah, this is also very good.

And rook c eight.

Can you can you explain Abhijit in simple words to the viewer what exactly is happening here? Like why is this position getting better?

That position is so basically when white white just played bishop f five, white has to wait one move where black plays g six. So this one tempo is very crucial because you know white has to break on the queenside very fast. तो ये वन टेम्पो लॉस इज़ गोइंग तू बी प्रेशर्स फॉर व्हाइट इन डेवलपमेंट। नो लाइक ब्लैक इज़ अलाउड तू डेवलप इस पीसेस क्विकली बाय वन मूव। तो दैट इज़ गोइंग तू इम्पैक्ट। सो सो द बेस्ट सो इट हैप्पेंस वेरी कॉमन। दिस इज़ अ वेरी कॉमन प्रॉब्लम, यू नो?

व्हेन यू वो एग्जाम में एक आंसर जो भी क्वेश्चन है लिखो लेकिन एग्जाम में क्या है एग्जाम इधर पढ़ेगा नहीं पढ़ेगा चांसेस इधर वो चांस नहीं है हमारे पास you know but there was one very nice thing Avijit Dada had told us when we were preparing a new opening that don't see any lights just play a lot of blitz games in case because that could also give you a lot of some creative ideas novelties and all And then only after that to see the line. That was very useful.

Okay, so this one is equal. Uh, sorry, slightly better for Ampi. Let's go to the next one. We have today Vaishali taking on Mungsool for the Petrov.

Somehow, you know, that's a good strategy.

If you—

I don't know if you think like this, but like I kind of feel like Petrov is the opening which does very well at the high level. But I think these 2200 to 2400 rated players, they're not— I think for them to play Petrov can be very risky because you have to play very accurate moves to equalize, right?

Or do you think it's, it's fine? So it depends because the team strategy wants you to play solid finally. And if you don't have any— the main advantage of Petrov is you don't have to prepare a lot of variations because otherwise you have to prepare Scotch, you have to Prepare, right? Okay, many other positions. But here the advantage is this is one of you, right? So this can— this is normally a second choice for many players. So they play something else and Petrov. So if they don't have enough time to prepare, they just go and play Petrov.

I love this for white actually. Look, I don't know about engine, but like it looks Rook b1 is going to come. And very easy to play with white.

Very nice in the style of Vaishali. She'll go all in.

Yeah, this I think Vaishali should be happy because she's gonna get so much attack and all.

Okay, let's go to the Divya board.

Vaishali looks good.

Yeah, yes.

So Hampi looks good, Vaishali looks quite, quite fine.

Divya is black. Ah, she goes for this. Oh, this is very good for her.

We have solved all her problems.

She already, she already has both the bishops and rook. Which Prag is trying very hard to get it.

By the way, a very cool trap here I will show, Amruta. Let's say you play Queen e7 or h6, doesn't matter, one of the moves.

Queen e7, Queen e7, I think it's white to play.

Yeah, h6, let's— Rook d1, let's say h6. If you play b4 here, what should— don't play it on the pawn. Like, a trap here is generally Bishop takes f2, King f2, and Rook takes c3 in some variations.

Yes.

It's working. Yes, it's working.

And then there is this knight.

Where did you get this ability to look at blunders for opponent and find the best? Like remember in first game also, or in some game you said c5, Queen a4, bishop will get trapped. You are talking about—

I mean, you need to feel, you need to find ways and or give yourself confidence that okay, if this happens, I can win.

बट उसका नेचर ही काफी है ना वो ज़्यादा नहीं है। No, this is actually very rare that people can think very quickly mistake for opponent.

For the opponents, yes.

And then find them and just hope he does it.

So he has that wishful thinking. If you think many a times same thing, it might happen. So that's how you win in Vietnam.

Yeah, somehow it has Like you know, at least you know that what your opponent cannot do.

Do you believe in power of manifestation?

Yeah, for sure.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Wow.

So that's how we manifest things. Okay, last board left now.

Okay, so all three boards looking good by the way so far. And Savita is actually they have put a strong player on board four. Interesting.

She is very experienced.

She is the most experienced player.

By the way, Abhijit, what do you— what are your thoughts on Savita, and what does she bring to the team according to you?

So I saw her first time in 2021 for this online Olympiad. She was in the team, and she was that time only 16 or 15, I think. And that time also she was playing Sicilian. Very aggressive, very aggressive and very sharp. The most I think what I like about her is when she gets the position, she will convert it. She will not miss. And she has very clear ideas about the opponents. She's very good to have and very young, so you know, lot of energy. So you know, we have this Bantika, Divya. And, uh, all this young brigade here, they are very aggressive if you see their game. Okay, Divya is more professional, correct? Because, you know, she has capacity to handle any kind of position, right? Which is very rare. And she waits, so she's a very smart player, I will say. Like, she knows that she can do something, but she will make sure that opponent goes into time pressure and then she will start acting. So you know that kind of smartness is not very common.

Actually, India is very lucky to have all players who are playing dedicating their all the time to chess. Yes, actually that is not very common in almost like very few teams will have that. People would either be doing something else on the side, teaching, playing, you know, like I'm not sorry, Arjun bhai, आपकी बात सुन रहा So हूँ। like just entire ten players being completely focused on professional chess is is rare.

But only those are in top, right? So अगर USA, Uzbekistan, right? Like those who are completely free.

The women's team, by the way, Savita also has thirty minute time advantage. I think all boards are looking good for the women's team.

So I think the the credit goes to the second.

Oh yes, can you tell a bit about the second? Because everyone knows. knows the coach, like Swayams Mishra is the coach of women's team and Srinath is the coach of open team.

So Srinath is accompanied by a team of Sankalp Gupta, he's a grandmaster now studying in US, and then Vaibhav Suri. I think everybody knows because he's a traveling coach with Prag. So these 2 are there, and for women team we have अर्जुन कल्याण एंड दीप्तेंद्र गोश। तो वी हैव दिस टू प्लेयर्स होअर डूइंग। एंड एक्चुअली दिस पीपल आर वर्किंग रियली हार्ड, यस? तो द जॉब ऑफ़ द सेकंड्स इज़ नॉट इजी। दे हैव टू वर्क 24/7 एंड नो यू दे हैव टू मैनेज व्हाटेवर प्रिपरेशन दे डू इट्स नाइट अवेलेबल फॉर Normally in the night, you know, the pairings whom probably you can play, and they have to make sure that all the variations are ready for the players when they get up in the morning to see.

So this is a time when they will be sleeping.

And sometimes, sometimes the opposing team will have like—

So they just want that, you know, the players play long games so they can sleep for more number of hours.

Oh, right now they're sleeping?

Yes.

Wow, it's very tough To be a second, but also very rewarding. I think all those who do this once, they go on to become like seconds for top players and so on. Amazing, Abhijit. Thank you so much for giving us incredible insights. You know, being with us, sharing analysis on the board, off the board, and also thank you for being such a.

पुणे का जमाई है। Thank you.

Thank you, Chess India. And thanks.

Continue your good work.

Thank you.

Bye, guys. Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte joining us, a rock-solid pillar of Indian chess, you know, helping teams in different capacities from coach to now head of depart, uh, head of delegation. Like, amazing. Of course, Indian chess is blessed to have people like him. Very good energy.

I love this, you know, like earlier in delegation We would not have such strong players, right? I mean, it's only now that we are having, and this really is very helpful because they themselves have been a part of these top events. They have played like with all the top players, and that helps a lot.

Guys, वो सब ठीक है। Look at Prague.

Look at Prague.

Why?

Why?

He is just blitzing out the moves, by above. पूरी को एक बार मिलना है, भाई। Chat में सब लोग क्या?

Chat को भी time देते हैं, दो minute. ठीक है चैट में सब लोग बहुत पूछते थे एन्जॉयड द यू नो अभिजीत दादा इज़ ऑल कमेंट्री एंड हिज इंसाइड देर वेरी हैप्पी सो एवरीवन इज़ थैंकिंग हिम यस थैंक्स गाइस बाय द वे बिग शाउट आउट तू अभिजीत विच वी डिड बट आल्सो तू रक्षित वो इज़ इन द चैट वो आस्क्ड अस तू रिफ्र टीम मेट आरिया टुगेदर दे क्रिएटेड न्यू डिजाइन्स फॉर द बार। That's awesome but I want to later मैं टाइम नहीं मिलता है रक्षित भाई जो पहले वाले आपने जो कलर्स थे वो बहुत अच्छे थे। नहीं ठीक है ये भी अच्छा है। नहीं इसमें अपना जो बार के अलावा जो ये है वो कंट्रास्ट नहीं दिख रहा है ब्लू के लिए। So it's difficult to read.

B takes C four, Rook B eight by Prag is like you know he prepares these small ideas.

उसका time देखो। Exactly.

Which the engines you know the thing is when you're preparing guys, जो top three lines रहते हैं ना everyone analyzes them. But somehow Vaibhav is able to find the fourth or the fifth line and prepare it so deeply that his opponents get confused.

मैं भी किया तो वैसे preparation fourth और fifth line का ही preparation मैं भी करूँगा क्या? But problem ऐसे तो कि फोर्थ फिफ्थ लाइन के आगे फोर्थ फिफ्थ बेस्ट मूव कर रहे थे भाई। हर्षित भाई, ये देखो। बताओ। One one hour thirty minutes and अंकन का टाइम गुजारो गुजारो forty seven मिनट। यही तो बात कर रहे थे हम अमृता इतनी देते। अमृता थोड़ा रिफ्रेश खुद का माइंड रिफ्रेश कर रही थी so she was not yet in the zone but yeah by the way अमृता The new look is good, better than before. Eval is clear now. Thank you so much. Also, guys, you suggested that we should have the flag of opposing team. So we have put both those flags. Harshit bhai, if you see Spain and Mongolia flag are there. So every single day we are taking your feedback and trying to improve upon it.

Let's go.

While Amruta is opening something here.

क्या लाया भाई?

ये रक्षा बंद And another very quick move by Prag Bishop to D six.

रक्षा बंधन में मुझे लगा ये थाली था वो आरती का and she has brought gulachi puri crazy no he got gulachi puri from Pune oh wow I mean hats off guys Amruta's real brother Pratamesh Mokal is here he is the coach of the team of Cayman Islands. Many people here from India are here supporting teams and training them. Like for example, Niklesh, who is Hindi Chess Base India head, uh, his better half Angela Franco is here supporting. Um, I think she's training one of the teams here. There's also Praful Zaveri here. There is— bye— who else? Uh, there are many Indian players who are here, right?

Yeah, there are a lot of trainers, uh, As you said, Prapul Zaveri is training for one of the African teams, if I'm not mistaken. So very nice to see them being involved at the Olympiad. Let's go back to some of the games.

Would you like to try?

No, no, no, no, not yet. And guys, did we have a contributor on Help Chess? We have Sahana Ajiz who has— Ajish who has contributed ₹100. Thank you so much. And now So here, Harshit Pai, can you break down this position? Like, what exactly is happening? While Prag has the queenside majority with pawns pushing forward, White is going to push forward with the central pawns and try to push it forward here. e4, e5.

Well, he is going to try that, but look at the Black bishop on a6. He's ready for, uh, he's ready for White's pawn advance on e4 because he's going to meet that with His pawn to b4.

Okay, got it. So let's say, let's imagine that if you play the move rook e1.

Yeah. Already, you know, in the game of Poneru Hampi, we were talking about the power and importance of a tempi. Yeah. Already here, b4 followed by c4, and it's suddenly black who's actually having problems with the pawn. And I like, I like how Prag is playing bishop to d6. Putting pressure on the clock, and also such a dynamic position that if you haven't prepared this, it's not going to be easy to come up with the best moves in person.

And where is Prag actually? We can't even see him here. If we look at this view, Prag is not on his board. Gukesh is not on his board. Nihal is not on his board. सब लोग गए क्या भाई?

अर्जुन बैठा है। सिर्फ अर्जुन अकेला बैठा है भाई बोर्ड पे। And we will go slowly towards this board as well. Let's go to his board actually as As Anton is thinking, down to forty-four minutes now.

ये पूरा analysis किया क्या? बहुत exciting है। हाँ, we'll come back when he makes his move.

Oh, by the way, excellent.

पहले what is the prediction of the move you have decided? Yeah, because it's a I think a lot of analysis there.

Oh, by the way, excellent decision by Chigayev. As you know, we are waiting for Prague's opponent to make a move and then we'll go there. But look at Chigayev's decision to Take the knight on c3, and only then play e5. And the difference—the difference is that if you had played the move pawn to e5 immediately, your bishop on f6 just becomes really passive. And this this understanding shows that you know this match is not going to be easy. Yeah, Maxim Chigayev, a 26 former 50 player, is showing a classy understanding here. I've played Maxim Chigayev.

Really, me too, bye.

मेरा draw. Draw. Let's go, bye.

So bye, Arjun bye. Come on, you need to better us. Oh, Queen c two. Not the best move, but a five. And now the problem is, if we think about like taking control of the f five square, and even if you, bye, you know, can I be honest with you?

As much as I like white's position, I've I really am not a big fan of this move. पॉन्ट टू डी फाइव। हम्म, आई रियली एम नॉट। इफ यू गो बैक वन मूव। बट भाई व्हाई इज़ इट? लाइक नॉट गो यहाँ। फॉर एग्जांपल, द डार्क स्क्वायर्स आर इन कंपलीट कंट्रोल ऑफ़ ब्लैक, अह, द बी फोर सी फाइव स्क्वायर्स, एंड इट्स वेरी हार्ड फॉर उस टू मेक अ ब्रेकथ्रू। हम्म, सो Because otherwise there is no reason to rush with this. I don't know why Arjun doesn't castle and just wait for the right moment. Maybe now he can. Okay, already knight. Oh, what a tactic here! Boom, boom. So I think castling was because guys mate.

So if you take on g two, it's a mate. Otherwise, if you take here, I take your bishop. Yeah.

So I think castling was a very mature decision by Arjun. D five a little hasty. In my, in my opinion.

By the way, this is one thing we see Arjun doing repeatedly in his preparation. If he does like some sort of preparation, he looks at many moves where there could be problems in each one of them for the opponent, but there would be one move which could be equal or causing even slight trouble to him, and he will go for it. He'll take that chance many times, you know. And maybe Pragg doesn't do that. He's more like Okay, I think my opponent will find it. It's a lot about psychology.

It is, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to the form. Because if you're in good form, you can make anything work. If you are not in good form, even you would struggle in good positions, right? So yesterday, Arjun having a winning position has nothing to do with psychology. It's completely down to the form. And Arjun simply hasn't found his form yet. It's the 4th round. 3 rounds have passed. He took a break in 1 round. And already in this game, his position is is not inspiring. It's not inspiring.

But you know there are players like for example Nepo. Okay, before he played World Championship, he was all completely chaotic player, very rash, and he would do very well many times. He would do also bad sometimes, and only after the World Championship his style changed. I believe that was the time when. You know, he had to face matches. So, I think you also need to feel the joy of playing in your style, right? And that is very important. So, yeah.

I guess that's true. And also, your experiences make you evolve. So, if Arjun doesn't have good results with this style, he will evolve eventually.

Yeah, because, you know, me and Arjun— I mean, Arjun is a, like, 2x superior version of me. But in some ways, I do see Arjun liking these, uh, dynamic and aggressive positions. And d5, you know, I, I very often have said this, that I'm generally not a big fan of closing the positions. And here, after d5, I feel like we just get rid of so many of our possibilities. And I'm just coming back to this move again and again to just emphasize how it completely changes the character of the position.

I mean, it's not a bad move.

It's not, but it changes the character drastically, right? We go from a position with a lot of flexibility to now a position with, uh, only fixated maneuvers.

But also, if black— by the way, that's actually—

I mean, it's a very interesting, uh, perspective because in life or on the chessboard, having many possibilities, eventually you have to choose one thing, right? And when to choose it is important. It's not easy. Yeah, and it's never easy. Like, Arjun chose it a bit too soon perhaps. But maybe if we hadn't done it now, it would have been a bit too late.

So yeah, and also if black could not take on c3, we would have said everything very differently, right? What we are doing is giving a story.

No, no, no, I mean objectively though, she can't play it well. Objectively, like objectively speaking, we cannot in general hope that our opponent makes a mistake, right?

We need to, especially as the rounds progress, That's what I'm saying at it. He will never reach a 2700 by just hoping his opponent.

Yeah, for sure. You have to play. I mean, you obviously you need to make play a position which would make it more susceptible for your opponent to make mistakes. But at the same time, you need to play objectively good. So there needs to be a balance of both.

Every every style is this. No, but the other thing is, have we have we have we deducted it correctly that when Arjun is in good form? He will make much more trickier decisions for his opponent, right? But when he's not in good form, he will make such a move where bishop c3 is not that difficult. You know, you know, you guys might—

I mean, maybe I'm, I'm being harsh, but for me this is a positional mistake.

This is a— it is a correct thing. It's a positional, uh, positional—

it would be, but I'm not sure because the thing is I don't really find this position to be so bad. निहार तो वन सी थ्री विच विच गेम वाज़ दैट गेम नंबर वन या दैट वाज़ दैट वाज़ बिट डिफरेंट बट या आई काइंड ऑफ़ सिमिलर आल्सो वेल दिस पोजीशन लेट्स सी हाउ दिस गोज़ ऑन बाय द वे अर्जुन गोज़ नाइट ह टू ही स्टिल प्लेइंग वेरी अम्बिशियसली यू नो ही कंट्रोल्ड एफ फाइव ही इज़ Mm-hmm.

And now that he knows that this has happened, he now adapts to the position and is now finding his way towards the f5 square. And guys, by the way, Arjun by no means is worse. This is just an equal position which, uh, you know, Arjun will try to outplay his opponent. At the end of the day, he is 130 points higher than his opponent, and even in an equal position, Arjun has full ability to outplay his opponent. Full ability.

Let's hope he does that. Meanwhile, we have contributors on Help Chess. Aarti Partha, Aarti, thank you so much for contributing ₹2,500 and becoming a believer of Indian chess. Srinivas Varanasi contributing ₹1,000, thank you for becoming believer of Indian chess. Very, very grateful to you. And we had a Super Chat as well. Maybe Harshit bhai, you want to read it?

Uh, hi team, This is Ayush Arun. Met you all at GCL. You guys rock always. Please wish me for my exams going on. Arrey, Ayush, hi! You will rock it as well. And very happy that you are here giving us your energy, guys. Uh, I love that from yesterday you are sending a lot more positive messages. That's the positivity that is going to, uh, you know, attract, uh, attract positive emotion from us as well.

Absolutely, we are very positive right now. And let's look at this game now of Nihal sir. Hi, Nihoo!

Nihoo is doing so good, bhai. He has gotten better suddenly, bhai. क्या क्या आदमी है निहाल?

Nihal is like going धीरे-धीरे देखो यहाँ पे he first played bishop e six the move he said. Too good. Take take. He attacked the bishop. You don't want to give the bishop up. So opponent went back. Then he went night descent. छोटा-छोटा move कर रहा है यहाँ पे जा रहा है। He went here, attacked. भाई you know Nihal came in.

भाई Nihal somehow just ends up being the only player which we can always rely on. Yeah. So far the other players are trying to find a good shape but Nihal is just playing absolutely amazing on his board board number three. Guys today he texted me. 13 minutes before the match.

Oh, wow!

13 minutes before. I couldn't believe it. Like, I didn't know if he's like on the way to the playing hall or like what's happening.

Did he tell you not to go to any party?

No.

What did he say then?

No, but just in general, Amruta, like, I mean, not going so much into like what our conversation was, but like this guy's like just enjoying chess, you know? He's enjoying chess, and I think that's, uh, propelling him to playing his best chess.

By the way, we can see Arjun Erigaisi today in a very nice view here. That is very cool to see. And Harshit bhai, as I've always told you, talking to you really inspires people to be in good spirits. So bhai, it's not a coincidence that he's only replying to you and not anyone else. मजाक कराओ दोस्तों। I have not messaged him, but Harshit bhai really very energized, energizing and yeah. So right now this is by the way I just wanted to show this view because this was not there before for our viewers to see Arjun up close because many times we are looking at it.

So this is a cool view here. Actually I love Arjun's last move as well. I I I maybe Criticized d5, but, you know, the way he has managed to continue from there shows that he had a plan. He actually had a plan of rerouting the knight to f5, and his opponent is trying to find a way to defend it. Because knight h2, bishop goes back to c8. This game is suddenly becoming very strategical, and it's all surrounding and evolving around the f5 square.

Nice. So this game will come back.

If it goes to major piece endgame or something like that also, C7 will be weak over there.

True, that could become true as we go into the game. Let's quickly head back to the game of, uh, I want to just check Gukesh once because, uh, I, I'm curious what approach he took. We left Wow, to Roman Detharov, who is the current European champion.

Yeah, I do love Arjun, of course. So I, I am a big fan of Arjun.

I, I just feel like Mukesh is not showing prep here, and maybe he's taking a bit too much time. I hope he makes the right decisions because it's not so easy.

This is a classical position. I'm sure, Gukesh. Why do you take so much time? Because there are a few approaches, right? One approach is to play b3 and c4. That's a very classical approach in these positions. Well, first we need to think about defending the e5 pawn. So we can go queen g4, for example, and queen g3. That's the way to defend it. Generally speaking, you know, when black played a6, and after, if you go back on third move, d4 takes takes knight d4 knight c6. This is It's considered to be, according to late modern engines, a slightly inferior version of Sicilian Kan as black. And the reason is that the black pawn on a6 generally wants to be on a5, uh, because that allows black this idea of playing bishop to a6, exchanging white's light-squared bishop. So in general, but of course Shirov is a very classical player, and in, in old times this was one of the main lines, and he's It's very hard to play against these classical players and prove why the modern engines think this is better for white. So this is a stylistic clash where Gukesh is this like very modern player, you know, of course very well equipped with the engines, whereas Shirov has this classical understanding of chess, right? I, I love this fusion of battle that we have.

And generally the classical players, if they get the position of their liking, they become very dangerous.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering because this is a very standard Position for black, like Shiro would have maybe seen at least so many games here, even if he's not played as much. And but for white has a lot of a lot of ideas for attack. So that's what I think Mukesh will need to take time, which is dangerous.

This game is developing slowly. By the way, Akshay Kulkarni has super chat. All of a sudden now it feels like Nihal on board three and Gukki on board four was actually like a chess. Board like move itself.

Yeah, a strategic maneuver. Let's hope it works out well. By the way, guys, we don't really have a neuro focus moves of the day today, right? अभी तक ऐसा कुछ नहीं हुआ है दमदार that we can say.

नहीं करा है नहीं प्राक का C five.

I think we need to wait for it. The the the important moment is yet to come.

I think it will either happen in Prague's game.

The thing is, it's very important to know, Amruta, not just for us but even more so for the players, when is the critical move and decision. Because, uh, in a game of chess, generally there are 2 or 3 big critical decisions that you have to make and where you can afford spending more than 10-12 minutes. And these are the decisions that very often decide what happens in the game.

Also in life, right?

Yeah.

It's like the job you chose or the work you do. That was a big—

that was very— he could not deal with it. Correct.

By the way, guys, this is— Neuro is our partner and sponsor for this entire Olympiad, and we are doing daily recaps in which, Harshit bhai, we are giving away 10 of these to everyone who— not everyone, to the best comments. So do check out the daily recap of the day. We've already done 3, and every day there's a new question. So big shout out to Neuro here, which is into mints and gums that give you energy and focus. And we have many times we bring up this thing for you to watch the energy and focus. And we also have it ourselves. It's only for people above eighteen.

क्या बोल रहा है? मतलब Neuro is saying कि if you are above eighteen, तभी हमलोग आपको gum देंगे। उनको gum क्यों चाहिए life में?

हाँ, nice अमृता, very nice। तो बोलो ना कि 18 साल के बाद you know how to deal with the girl। हम्म। इसके लिए only above eighteen you can be given girl। yes by the way I feel like। अर्जित भाई never you see he never reacts। अर्जित भाई what a message। by the way I want to show our viewers। air dog mush more कैमरास दैट वी हैव लुक एट दिस दिस इज़ द बिग क्लश ऑन बोर्ड वन टुडे नौदिरबेक अब्दुसत्तरोव टेक्स ऑन द यंगेस्ट 2700 इन द वर्ल्ड फ्रॉम टर्की इट्स उज़बेकिस्तान वर्सेस टर्की याज़ कान एरडोगमस इज़ प्लेइंग नौदिरबेक आई आई एम अ फैन ऑफ एरडोगमस सिंस द ग्लोबल चेस Because in the evening after the global, he used to sit down and just play blitz against whoever wants to. Bye. आप भी खेलें? I also played with him.

How did you?

He was trash talking a lot. Did you fare well?

I did decently actually. I did. I did very decently. What is decent in your language? I mean, I. I only played three games and I think the score was two one or something, but I don't think he was very serious. In your favor? No, for him. But Amruta, the thing is like I can sometimes play well.

So I really know you both are good players.

Amruta, you underestimate Harshit Pai a bit too much. He's the winner of 5 or 6 open tournaments in last year, he has gained 50 Elo points.

I played with Yaz and I got good position, but I know that it was basically he was not like very, very serious. Like he can— I agree, like he will not give a moment otherwise.

But we were playing 1+1. In 1+1 it's a bit random, 1 minute plus 1 second. Of course in classical it's not—

I'm not a match. We'll challenge Yaz at some point. Okay, not in the between the Olympiad and three games Harshit bhai you have to play with him. Okay. And I'll tell Yash that you have to crush Harshit. Okay.

Like भाई ये तो अमृता वो ये रहते हैं ना कि यश मेरा यार है वो जो मैं बोलूँगा वो बोलूँगी वो करेगा ऐसे। So good at trash talking and he is so good.

वो सुनेगा मेरा मैं बता रही हूँ। Okay.

By the way, Javokir Sindarov is playing on board two against Edis Burel. And this is also a very interesting clash because Edis is someone who is kind of slowed down a bit when you compare him to Yaz, but he's a tremendous talent in Turkish chess. And I do get a feeling that today Sindarov will have a tough time to win his game.

Yeah, I mean, a very solid player, Edis. We saw him playing in the Prague Masters last year when we were covering it. He won the Prague Challengers. Yeah, so I think this is one of the toughest matchups that Uzbekistan is going to have in the first half. I mean, not they play with India also. Yeah, but it's very clear that this is a very tough match. You know, I would even say that we can see an upset today. Wow! I think that Turkey can easily draw or even win against Uzbekistan. Easily, so. They are really good, Amruta. I mean, I don't see why they are even a big draw. Like, Erdogmash is equal against Nodirbek.

Gurel, uh, sorry, Nodirbek is slightly better.

Yeah, but I mean, he can fight on equal terms.

Even Sindarov is slightly better than Edis, and you can say Yakubov is slightly better.

They are getting whites on perfect boards. Like, Edis has white against Javokhian. No, Edis is—

yeah, correct. And Emre Can is pressing against Samshidin. So yeah, could be there could be an upset. We have an insane matchup at the other board. Let me just bring it up. I don't know if I have this one. Yeah, that is नहीं ये नहीं है करुआना versus इवानचुक This is a very interesting battle that we have here.

I don't know, but something I remember last year, Ivanchuk played with Caruana, right? Or Ivanchuk beat somebody, like was it Wesley?

Was it Caruana? Maybe, I'm not sure.

Guys, do you remember in Budapest when USA versus Ukraine happened? Ivanchuk का result क्या था?

I think he won. Ivanchuk won. I have.

I I somehow think that he had won his game.

Oh, by the way, Jaykar Singh Amrita, you should read the chats. Lot of interesting comments getting missed. I will do that. But Sundaram has asked, sir, my first FIDE Under-19 State Championship is in first October to fifth. I am confused about how to prepare these two weeks. Opening calculation tactics, end games, time management and tournament basics. Anything? अर्शद भाई इस द बेस्ट पर्सन क्योंकि बहुत बार टू वीक्स बाद ही हैज़ टू प्ले अ टूर्नामेंट, but मेबी ही विल आंसर। ओह माय गॉड!

लेवोन अरोनियन एंड विथ लेवोन द एंटायर टीम ऑफ़ यूएसए इज़ इज़ लुकिंग इन इन ग्रेव डेंजर ऑफ़ परहैप्स गोइंग डाउन अगेंस्ट द। नो नो बट लेवोन इ Yeah, but Amruta, we've seen him making swindles in in rapid. This is classical. This is a different ball game altogether.

कितना time है Roman के पास?

And look at how Roman slowly manages to push his pawn majority from a three to b four to c five. And now he can play the move pawn to e five, which just wins him.

Like let's just break it down. We go pawn e five. Yeah, if you go back bishop e7, then b5, you are getting really squashed.

By the way, this is a pawn sacrifice, right?

It's a beautiful positional pawn sacrifice. But natural question of course comes is why can't I take knight takes pawn? Because this is the best move. But then I take pawn takes pawn, and suddenly this is hanging. So. The next question is, can I take with the bishop? If I take with the bishop, you take here, knight takes, and after rook takes, you lose a piece here.

I mean, you can go back knight c6, but b5, and you lose a piece.

Queen d6, and you take here, and this is a long line, but it's not such a difficult line to calculate.

And d5 played. Roman Detharov and e5.

E5 on the board.

But he's not even taking much time.

Yeah, Amruta, this is, this is a big storyline potentially. Do you know Roman? I actually don't, but you know, I will say this, guys, that historically Ukraine has been one of the most dangerous teams at the Olympiad, even though, uh, their rating average is not very high right now. Let's not get confused at all. They have won gold before, they have won medals before. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if they managed to defeat the almighty USA.

Well, and I can only add here, I completely agree with you that I interviewed Roman Detharov after he won the European individual this year, and he actually met the president of his country, Zelensky, after winning that. If you remember, he was only an IM and he won the European individual ahead Of many, many GMs. So a fantastic, fantastic player and so good. And right now he's crushing it against Levon Aronian. Yeah. And we have a very special person. I mean, you want to take a break? We have a very special person joining us in the broadcast who may know Roman Deterov. Better than all of us.

Hello, Angelica. Hello, everybody. Hello, chat. You know, I was just checking the games, and once I saw it, I thought I should come to you. I should come and pay a visit and then see what's what's happening there.

Can you tell us a bit about Roman Deterov? Is that correct? How to say? Deterov. Yeah. And he is crushing Levon Aronian.

Absolutely incredible. First of all, I didn't know also. Much about Roman Dehtarov before the European Individual Championship, which happened this year, uh, because he's quite young. Yeah, we have like 10, 10 years difference around, and he was playing the European Individual Championship when he was 17 still, and he was absolutely crushing it as International Master. I don't know when the last time it happened that International Master won the European Individual Championship, and he Did it in in such a fashion. Everyone started talking about him, and then I realized also I saw him in the tournament together. They were always with Igor Samunenko. Of course, Samunenko we know he's also rising Ukrainian star grandmaster doing well with Hans Niemann.

Yeah, he's doing so well actually. I mean Angelica here for all those who are not aware, maybe everyone knows her. She's a well-known commentator, presenter, player, and she is from. Ukraine, right? And today Ukraine could actually stun USA. That would be crazy.

You know, I have a funny story. Before the round started, like around, um, 15-20 minutes before the round, I was wandering the playing hall greeting some players, and then I saw Anton Korobov, and he's like, you know, doesn't look happy. And I'm like, hi, hi Anton, how are you? Uh, who are you playing? But actually I didn't check the, the, the know, the pairings. And he's like, oh, we play against USA, please pray for us, you know. So, and we're like, uh, okay, okay, I will, I will pray.

It seems like you prayed well.

Yes.

Well, it seems right now Ivanchuk and Fabi is equal.

Yeah.

Then, uh, Wesley So and, uh, Korobov is equal. Samunenko and Niemann is equal. And Roman Deterov Is winning against Levon Aronian. So this could be a big upset. Also in the Turkey versus Uzbekistan, it's a very close fight. The same can be said about India versus India versus Spain as well. Look at this. What's happening in Prague's game?

King is not castled here.

The king is not castled. Up to B five.

We we look till here. Prag brought his bishop out. Bishop b2. I mean, Anton Guijarro is playing incredible chess, by the way, because he is finding all the best moves but taking a lot of time.

And that actually also works even if the position is equal and your opponent has a lot of time pressure.

e4, all center is a fight.

And now you can't— you want to push e5, but you can't push it.

But maybe some Bishop b6.

Actually, it's a good moment to ask our viewers after yes check king h one. Yes. What is the only move here for black to to keep the balance? Otherwise, black would lose the game because look at white pawns. What is the only move you can play? That's a big question.

Let's see if the chat answers. We have some replies coming in.

Fun with Giant already has crushed it. Chaitali Mehta. Chaitali Mehta. Maybe I should start reading.

Yeah, please, please go on. So, okay, multi-caching, human in— okay, human in the loop. It's not dynamic.

No, that was the wrong answer.

After that, after that, can you read the name?

गीता हरि गीता हरि हाँ ओके ओके विल हैव मोर विल आस्क मोर क्वेश्चन सत्य सत्य सेखर मित्रा ओह लेट्स ओह गुड वन सत्य सेखर मित्रा सत्य सेखर मित्रा दैट्स अमेजिंग ओके कैन यू रीड वन लास्ट नेम ऑफ़ द हेल्थचेस कंट्रीब्यूटर ओवर यह इज़ इट द कंटिन्यूड नेम और इट्स Yeah, you can read as much as you can see.

आरती पार्तार सरात। Whoa! Not bad.

आरती पार्ता सारथी। Wow, that's a great one. And by the way, all those who found the move B four, it's the perfect move here. B four, let's go. Because if you move the knight, suddenly these pawns move, and if you Take here. I can even decide to take, in fact, with the queen, because if you move here, I have c3, and this is the dream position for black. And this is what we're talking about.

Yeah, when you have a strong center, you have to always watch out because your opponent can strike on the flank, and that's what Prague can do in this position. Anton David Anton from Spain, he is a Number one player in Spain, and now he's having this full control in the center. But if Prague is going to push on the flank, there is going to be big danger because they'll be vicious with the bishop on b2.

But you know what? Twenty-three minutes, and he has to make twenty-seven moves, and super complicated because all decisions are so tempting. Like there is e five. There may be many other decisions, I believe, where you want to think of a four, which should be bad. Yeah, because But yeah, it's a dangerous position, no?

And I just realized he just castled on move 17. Dear viewers, don't repeat it at home. Don't castle so late. Please castle a bit earlier because it is quite late. Yes, 17th move.

Very, very daring play by Prag. Also, I think he's playing a bit psychologically here against David. If David Anton plays the move a3, Prag will have difficulties because that stops His majority on the queenside, and then does threaten e5. So I'm actually a bit scared about this position for Pragnananda. I do feel like he has the resources, but he might come under a lot of pressure.

But Sagaramruta, look at the time. Look at the clock situation. One extra hour for Prag in this position. So very, very comfortable.

The only thing sometimes I've also seen what happens is one move. You use like forty minutes, and the gap is gone. So the position, if it gets very dangerous, where even Prague needs to find accurate moves, that could happen. But let's hope like it doesn't happen.

I think he will be able to. Yes, he is super strong. He's showing so much recently. Such such great results. Also great great play in the Olympics so far.

Right. Well, let's hope he does well. And by the way. Guys, I am today wearing a t-shirt of the Chess Olympiad.

Chess Olympiad Summer Camp 2026. And it's very nice.

And if you want to get this, it is right here at the FIDE's lounge and you can get it. Uh, and I managed to—

yeah, you managed to steal one. You got— you gifted him this shirt, so it was very nice. Very nice.

Yeah, because you know, dear viewers, you, you have to rush to get it because there are so many people getting here buying all the, all the merch that your size might not be even already here. But no, I'm joking, everything is here, at least from this Olympia. There are also some other very nice merch— shoppers, books, cups. So some promotion of our FIDE shop.

Very cool. And we are very happy to see how many people actually come to the store and they buy so many things. It's always full and busy.

But look at this, Arjun has managed to actually get a very good position. I mean, where is Harshit bhai? Because he was telling about Arjun's position being slightly not up to par, but he has— Arjun has managed to convert this.

Arjun plays, and that's what I was talking about, because when there are so many weak squares over here in general I believe for Arjun, he is feeling comfortable to play this. Look at this amazing knight over here and a permanent weakness over here, where in the future the knight is going to be sitting over here. Crazy! But you know what, guys? Okay, have you seen the engine? You have not seen this. There is a very, very crazy plan. Like, let's say I go a move like Queen d7, and guys, white to play. Can you suggest a crazy plan? Quite to play. You know, sometimes there are things in life which are very real. Oh, King. Sometimes there are. You understand me so well. See, Angelic, because King Nato is artificial long castle we are talking about.

Oh, you're clicking, you know. That's why. That's why you're together.

Yeah. So you should not have answered. She should have answered.

I didn't actually get the. I was not listening to you so much. I was just thinking what to do in the position.

But look, all everything is gone. सब कुछ गया मतलब जो भी बात किया तुम समझ पा रहे थे वगैरह ये सब सही नहीं है। That all I understand. Do you do you do want to learn some Hindi? Yeah, of course always. Just say this. मज़ाया, मज़ाया। Do you know what it means? I hope something good.

I hope we're not learning bad words.

No, it means had a lot of fun. Had a lot of fun. Had a lot of fun. So मज़ाया, मज़ाया। Easiest.

मज़ाया with सगार and अमृता। Very cool, very cool. So look at this, like we have this position of the king. Indian without the bishop on g7, but because there is no light-squared bishop, the square of f5 is going to be very weak, and he always has to have the knight on e7 to cover it. So yeah, very tough position for Chigayev here.

Castles here, and now will Arjun Erigaisi— let's go to our very cool view that we have here, which is this one, um Where we get to see Arjun and Chigayev, and you can say, and they're not touching at the ports. Yeah, both are looking elsewhere. It's white to play and get a big advantage. Can you find the move?

White to play, and Angelica is going to read out the names for those who get it right. I mean, top three who get it right. Getha Harrip.

Yes, dynamic. Yes. Okay, there were also someone, uh, Soham. Soham, yes. Okay, top three. All the rest were a bit too late, but this is very challenging. One second. Sidharthan Dajini. Sidharthan Dajini.

It's tough for us. Sidharth is his name.

And all the people, Siddharth and Zazini.

So maybe they are a couple. Oh wow, Siddharth and Zazini. What a break!

Take, take, and take here is met with a check. So the king has to move, but if you go here, suddenly my queen can unleash. So you go to h8, which is the only logical move. And then I go knight g4, and this is looking really scary for black pieces. Arjun Erigaisi, if he plays f4 in this position, he would be clearly better.

And also look at this diagonal, the long diagonal a1-h8 is getting open in that position. I mean, everything is just opening up, and you don't have this King's Indian bishop on g7 which would defend the king in that Situation here you don't have it because usually the rule is you don't play a four as white because you don't want to have a bishop open. But bishop is not there anymore, so the rule doesn't apply. Will Eric Geissi find it? Will Arjun find it?

Actually, very important part that we were looking at the move king d two earlier. Okay, and even now it can be tempting. But Arjun will know that the last move castle you have to ask what is my opponent's threat. And the reason he will not go for King d2 is because black to play, guys. What is the move over here? Also, always keep in mind, whenever there is a closed structure, the closed center, what is very important is a break, pawn break. And yes, we have his name.

I thought maybe Jason Name or some.

Jungka Jungka is yoring like there is a yoring. Ankush Goel.

Okay, cool gamer. It's easy. And again, Gita Harib. Gita Harib. Gita Harib again.

Wow! Gita is lucky. Gita is always very good, very strong, very strong. Have you heard about Bhagavad Gita? What? What? Bhagavad Gita. Bhagavad Gita? No. No problem.

So, player?

No, it's a, it's a very interesting book. You can, uh, check it out. But f5 is what Black wants to do, and then Black gets a very good position here in this if Black gets f5. So I'm actually curious to see if Arjun finds the move g4. Or f4. This is the move. One of these moves he has to play, but g4 is more positional while f4 is like giving away a future f4 possibility.

So it is going to be f4, guys. How many of you think that Arjun will go for f4? I will go to Prag's game, but here, how many of you think— and Angelica, do you think he will go for f4? And Sagar, If he does, do you want to put anything on at stake?

Well, I would love to actually celebrate that move here, uh, in some way. Like, will you dance? No, I would dance when India wins, but that is already decided. You mean Olympiad? No, no, every day. Every day we dance. Yesterday me and Harshit had a dance step, so every day we have it. But if this happens, then maybe I would give Angelica a very nice treat. We can go to that shop and we can smoothie.

Yeah, he already lost one one more move ka thing and he has to give Harshit Bhai smoothie now. Oh, forgot about that. So now you also have to give.

I will recall, Sagar. But talking about this position, you know, I think Arjun already knows right now he has G four in the pocket, so to say. G four very good positional move. He understands that after this it's a great position, just positionally squeezing in the win. But I think he's still watching. He's looking out for this F four because once you castle, you you you must look at it. You must look at this move. Try to open the file. I'm wondering what happens if F four and no takes happens. Like for example, F four.

We will come back to detailed analysis, but something is very big happening in. Prague's game because f4, bishop c7, and e5 was played. Prague finds the move.

So basically, basically, the way Anton would have kept his edge was by playing the pawn to a3, stopping b4. But that—

oh, that is logical, but stopping opponent's idea.

But the moment he played this, all of a sudden now Prague is in the driver's seat Even, I mean not drivers, but at least very decent position.

Yeah, Prag can drive.

Yeah, he can. Yeah, I think so.

Once again, how many people from the team can drive?

Oh, I think Arjun can drive, Rukesh can drive. Ah yeah, Arjun got this.

Nihal can drive, but they are all very.

Oh yeah, even Prag has the this thing. Correct, correct. So your my car. Hello, hello.

Arjun is training. Training. Time out. Give clarification on the position.

Okay, I want to look at problem.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's, let's look what is happening. Uh, b takes c3. If he takes, my question is, is there an intermediate first? Because we should then say, no, this is not working at all. c takes b2, queen check, queen check, rook b1.

Yes, c3 and then—

c3.

And even if black is what actually wins the fight, you do everything.

Yeah, this is insane.

Wins the fight, you do crazy. Finito, finito, finito la commedia. How to say in?

ख़तम ख़लास टाटा बाय बाय.

ख़तम ख़तम ख़लास ख़तम ख़लास टाटा बाय बाय.

ख़तम ख़लास टाटा बाय बाय. Yeah. Can you say it again? Khatam khalas. Khatam bye bye. Bravo. How do you say in Ukrainian? Torba. Button up. Torba. One.

It's like no, it means like so direct translation. It's a bag, but it's like it's used like to say it's like over, you know, like finished. You say like this.

Okay, so the live position is this.

No, wait, I'm seeing— yeah, we are seeing b takes c3. He cannot take on g7. He has to—

no, bc3 will not happen for sure.

No, of course, um, it will not happen.

This is a mistake because after bishop c3, white is happy. Yeah, this is hanging and this will spoil.

I don't think Prag will give up those 2 connected pawns.

So Prag is going to take on f6 with queen takes f6.

Yeah, and now if knight a four c three right?

This is clearly. And the rook is also falling on.

Oh, the rook is falling. Also c two is there. Wow!

By the way, guys, Brad needs to find queen f six, but Arjun is much better on board too.

Yeah, we saw that.

Harshad bhai. Arjun is much better.

Yes, yes, yes. He played it. Yes. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Let's go.

We said it will happen.

Yeah. And guys, very important. I had a feeling that today Ajubai will strike. Yeah.

So now Arjun is gonna is gonna strike today.

Yes, and remember he started not so well, but now he's recovering. And also, you know, when it's like a team competition, yeah, you, you can lose one of the days, but the most important that the team wins. And one of the important days, you will, you will contribute to the victory of the team.

Yeah. And you know, you were asking that what if Black doesn't take at all? Like, we looked at takes, takes, and all of that, which White is very happy about after gf, gf. For all those who are trying Joining late, g1 and so on. It's incredible. But if he ignores, then my threat is anyway takes six. I am sure you don't want.

Also, the thing is like white can just go king d to king c one, artificially castle.

You're you're you're clicking. You're having a commentary, you know. Right? He got the right plan, guys. See, this is how a grandmaster very quickly sees things. King d two, king c one. Bring the pieces over here. When you were away, Amruta already in Sagart.

They immediately clicked. This idea.

Really? Yes, yes, yes. They were like, so yeah, B3 I think we have done.

By the way, by the way, Prague did play Queen F6, I think.

Yeah, I think did play. Yeah, let's go.

So we need one more, guys. दोनों के बीच में interesting चल रहा है। कौनसा? कौनसा देखना है आपको? Prague, Arjun. We'll keep shifting.

So if you can just say board one, let's say Prague is around equal. Arjun much better on board two.

Equal नहीं। One hour almost On clock, so time bar if you consider and the position, then I will give Prag minus zero point seven. But I have big question.

Yeah, I have big question here. What do you do as black? Because you don't want to take first, I think because bishop c three maybe some tempies. Maybe you can somehow wait a little bit or or it's okay or you still can do it maybe.

Oh, so it's maybe converting even if you give a check first and then if you Do you have Bishop d4?

No, no.

Yeah, actually, maybe, Amruta, you know, Black practically has a slight advantage because of the clock situation. Uh, I like— I do think that objectively, however, White is not much worse. Yeah, uh, because at some point, you know, Black will need to take the knight on c3 because we cannot just wait until forever, right? But can we play instead of Queen f5 Here, bishop d4 because I just want to oh but this oh knight d4 oh my god yeah yeah of course just immediately but actually in general that's a decent idea because queen d4 with a similar idea maybe which Angelica wanted and I think this can happen actually this can happen so if Anton does not make mistakes in time pressure then objectively it may not be easy to you know beat him right.

But best try with the black pieces for Prag to put him under so much time pressure.

And again time.

We should be at Arjun's game at this point. Yes. No?

This is a big move. So I think Arjun after f4, what I was gonna say is like doing really well on—

Yeah, but we have to see.

g4 f5 is just over, no?

You really want to— Oh, wow!

I mean, I'm winning the pawn on g4 like for free.

Okay, this is always a very easy way. Correct, correct. Makes sense.

I mean, g4 is— no, you can never play g4, I think.

Actually, guys, uh, yeah, the idea is if you take on g5, I take with the f-pawn. Yeah, I'm opening up the f-file.

That's a very good point.

Okay, and so you don't take, you just wait.

Mukesh is winning, the people are saying.

Yeah, that's what I wanted to ask. What's happening with our world champion?

He's much better.

Oh wow, okay, let's go e5, knight d7. We saw till queen c7 and he Took a lot of time over here, guys. If you remember, he is down to 46 minutes. He thought for 20 minutes here and decides to go Queen g4 because now the bishop is over here. g6, dark square weaknesses. He goes b3. Actually, why did he not go for Bishop h6?

I think he wanted to bring out the bishop via the b2 diagonal, so this was also possible.

And also, I think in this position, because it's quite Close center. It doesn't matter if king castles or not. So kind of king on a eight is safe in current position.

Look at this. This could be very okay for black. Yeah. So that's why okay he go he went for b three. C five was played, which was I think the most natural move for black. I have played this kind of so you you would also go for c five. No, yeah.

I think c five is a you know very logical move by black and. He did.

He's also got a run. He's fire on the board.

So Angelica, what would you like to have as a drink? Uh, you're already celebrating or what?

Okay, not yet, not yet, not yet. Get the results on the board.

You have to get at least 2.5 and then you can celebrate.

Okay, okay.

But actually, Gukesh is having a great chance to win. Uh, then we saw Arjun is almost winning and Prague will never lose. So we are getting 2.5 points without considering Nihal's game.

Yes, yes, that's probable, but let's see.

We need to wait.

Yeah, yes, of course. There is like a lot—

No early celebrations.

A lot of pressure right now on the players.

I like this, like, you know, very controlled approach of Angelika. She knows that in these team events, just one switch, one evaluation switch, and the match can turn.

But over here, Shiro decides to simply develop the bishop. Okay, when he could actually short castle as well. I think what he did not like was something which could be h four, h five. Definitely looks very dangerous for black, and Shiro can you know see the attack. When you are an aggressive player, many times what happens is you see opponent attack also very quickly. Right. So he played bishop b seven. Okay, stop the short castle over here now. And, uh, you know, sometimes such a move like Bishop f8 works, but in this scenario, even that is something which is not the best thing happening.

Do you have some Queen a takes and on c4 and Queen a3 check or something, or not?

Ah, wow, b takes c4 and Queen a3. I mean, I don't know, but it's so good that you saw it. g7, and I know he— if he takes over here, I thought Queen a3, but I see computer—

okay, it's okay.

But we can continue with h4 and h5, the same plan.

Ah, okay.

So the main problem for Black is the king in the center, and that should come to haunt Black here.

And I think in general, this move c4 is kind of against Is is against the the way black should play because if you have your king in the center, you don't want to open the center. And I think a better way for black could have perhaps been to go bishop b seven or even try and go h five g five to create some counterplay towards the white queen and keep the center closed. So now I think after c four things are gonna go wrong for for Shirov. So things looking very promising for Kukesh.

And to have a quick look at Nihal's game, he's doing well. Is he going to equalize this? Maybe even try and put some pressure.

I think I think draw would be amazing for Nihal on this board because Arjun is totally winning.

Oh what F five man ya!

Is it the mouse slip you know F six F five?

This reminds me. You know, from airport to the hotel, we it took us five hours to reach the traffic.

Yeah, but it looks very scary.

Will Arjun play G four? You know, to have all the fun.

Let's try it. Please. One sec. Wow! It's not that very difficult. Wow!

But again, an important move for Arjun now.

This. Yeah. If we find the best, he played it.

Get. He played it. He took on E five immediately. Arjun there.

Arjun bhai, Arjun bhai. This was Arjun bhai.

She's learned it. She's learned it. This was so tempting as well. F G five, H G five.

And look at this H pawn. Yeah, running for run.

Yeah, but he understood.

No, he is in form here. And this is plus five now.

Oh my God! It's over.

He takes F five. He has to play.

It's over, bro. Knight f5 and just castle.

Arjun in prime. Bye, it's easy, bye. No, no, no. Queen g6, Queen h6, Queen g5.

Ciao, ciao. Ciao, cacao. Ciao, cacao.

Everything is check, guys. So you know white doesn't lose a tempo. That's the whole point.

Arjun is going to win in 2 hours. Wait, wait, don't take, don't take. अरे पहले f8 मार। Don't take. First take on f8 and then take the knight.

Ah, yes, you don't want to blunder the queen. Yeah, what is gambit?

Yeah, instead of taking on g3, could you take on e3? Maybe that is a bit more challenging. Check.

And then you can pick it up without even—

and you know, you can even take the e5 pawn with a check. That would be so naughty. Yeah, just take King h8. We take e5 check as well.

Yeah, just take everything completely. Like Arjun will have so many points, he can do whatever he wants.

Crazy! Guys, this is what we needed from Arjun.

चले tiger, अजूबाई tiger. Arjun by tiger. Let's go.

Say it like गोड़ा, गोड़ा means horse. गोड़ा, चले, चले। गोड़ा चले, tiger.

गोड़ा चले tiger. अर्जुन भाई टाइगर, गोड़ा चले ढाई घर। One more time.

गोड़ा चले ढाई घर। ढाई घर। ढाई घर। अर्जुन भाई टाइगर। अर्जुन भाई टाइगर। Yes.

Go guys. Okay.

With bringing all the amazing.

Absolutely incredible. Yeah. He's crushing so so quickly. You know, I would like to if we can check briefly what's happening on the fourth board of USA against Ukraine, and then I would leave you just to update.

Roman is positionally crushing.

Yes, that's what I want to hear. Yeah, is there higher? Oh, they are a bit higher. The fourth board, board four, a bit lower. Yeah, here. Yeah. So what happened? So last position we saw e5 was played.

Yeah, we saw e5, um, which was a great tactical idea.

Yeah, so first of all, this a5 was a mistake of black. Yeah, this, this is how it started.

a5, e5, b5, knight c4, knight e3, bishop back, and now after knight g4, Dethiarov is going to strike.

Okay, but probably you don't even need to Find the only move knight g4. You have probably some other moves, but what's the idea? Knight g4. Do you want to like go all in for attack?

Yeah, knight f6.

That's a moment. Maybe rook e3.

Yeah, that's a great idea because all of the pieces of black look at them. They are all on the queen side, and also this knight on d8 is just blocking all the pieces. Rook cannot go to the king side. Queen is not there.

Actually, guys, seems like this year Ukraine will fight. For the top medals, for sure. Hopefully.

Wow! Wow!

You have the experience of Ivan Chuk and Korobo on the top, and the youth of Samonenko and Deterov on third and fourth boards. This is looking really strong.

Really great combo. But Angelica, I'm very sorry to say, but I am like I do feel that Levon is very tricky. Of course. He's a good friend.

Let's not forget about.

But you know, you haven't seen Roman's. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, not enough.

Uh, this thing, very good. He's very good. So if he finishes this off, then it's insane, like, because with this kind of a player.

And also imagine, you know, you're on the place of Roman Tefterov. I think he recently just, just got 18 years old. Oh my God, you are playing against such a legend, Levon Aronian. I mean, he's such a creative chess player. I mean, absolutely. I mean, he, he started to participating in the Olympiad when he was 13 years old. I mean, like He's one of the most decorated players of the Olympiad with all the medals, and you have such a respect for him. So of course it will be also very difficult, you know, and also he will trust him.

I think he has to keep the respect after the game. After the game, during the game, maybe he has to just go all out, and I hope that he manages to do it. I actually like him a lot because, you know, when I interviewed him, he also mentioned that he watches ChessBase India regularly. Roman, no way. Yeah. Oh wow!

So he's fan number one.

Not number one, but maybe he watches it from time to time. Top top ten.

Okay.

So Santa says Angelica's presence increased positive vibe.

Oh wow! Thank you. Thank you.

I think we needed lot of positive energy because today Harshit bhai's energy he got some something in the eye, right? No no no, I'm okay.

Yeah yeah. Yeah, I do anything. So guys, somebody reminded us, it was very nice of him, that the new move of the day needs to be F4. Yeah, let's go!

I think we need to have that right away, that this, dear friends, is the Let's see. Neuro move of the day. The focus move of the day. F four. Yeah. Four. Because it was such an amazing move. It may give India the win. We have seen.

What is it?

Neuro gum for energy. Oh, it's for Arjun. It's.

This Arjun.

Wait, this is not the one.

Arjun must have— I think Arjun must have had it before the game for sure. To find this move, he had to have the gum before the game for sure.

What is this?

Can I try it?

Yeah, it's actually gum, but it looks like not the gum. Yeah, it is. It's like some the cinnamon coffee, you know, because you you drink coffee with cinnamon. So so what's right now is the position.

Ajubhai has taken out the Gandhi one. By casting.

Is perfect because you want to connect the rooks, right? You want to connect the rooks, and your king, I think, is better placed on g1, away from the action.

I think Arjun wants to win the prize, you know, who castled longer, you know, because who didn't— the latest. Yeah, because Prag castled on move 17, Arjun castled on move 26. Yeah. Okay guys, I mean, I think it's going to be a victory for sure for Arjun. Yeah, so congrats on that. And yeah, Maybe I'll sweep in at some moment.

It might be good news for you as well, Angelica, because Ukraine can potentially score a big upset. But it was, as always, great to have you.

Thank you so much. Whenever you can, just come back.

Thank you. Thank you.

Let's go, let's go! Angelica, bye to us. And so much positive energy. She came here and suddenly everyone started winning. Let's go. It was really, really cool to have her. Thanks, Angelica.

Okay, we have a lot of things to catch up.

Like Pratichi के comments जो मैं पढ़ा when Abhijit Kunte was also here, she gave such amazing comments. So thank you so much, Pratichi, for following this tournament. And I think she also wrote on Twitter. By the way, you can follow her. She writes some great tweets that after a heavy day of admin work. That she has done. She finds the time to follow the Olympiad, which is her way of relaxing.

You know, I met Pratichi for the first time, if I'm not mistaken, in Chennai. Chennai Olympiad. She had come, and already back then she was so sweet with her positive messages and encouragement. And now she's still here, which is which is just amazing to have to have such support.

And actually, when the guests are there, we do have our phone right in front of them, and they can.

Actually, I was gonna say actually that maybe we should not have our phones because sometimes when the guest comes and there are or the other option which is much easier guys positive comments लिखो यार positive comments लिखो make everyone feel comfortable.

But yeah otherwise that is the best.

One last thing before we go to women's section because we haven't seen too much there. Because this is actually full of I just want to say. That after take, take, it's not 100% clear on how to win this game. Yeah, like because you can see it shows +7, and these days the engines have become so strong that I would say +7 is more like +3 or +4.

Suppose my first candidate move is Rook f1 and Queen g6, right? Yes. And Knight g4.

But look at the move, which is super tough.

Yeah, all are wrong. My God, wait, let this चैट किसी देखेंगे लेट मी हो हर्षित राजा विल फाइंड इट। अरे आर यू ओके? सॉरी, आर यू ओके? इसको देखके आया आप?

नहीं नहीं कुछ किसी को नहीं देखा मैं। बोलो भाई क्या हुआ?

बोलो ना किसको देखा? किसको देखा?

मैंने किसी को नहीं देखा जस्ट समटाइम्स यू नो विद अलॉट ऑफ़ लाइट्स अह द भाई हार्ट फेक तो कैसे स्ट्रेन आएगा भाई क्या पता कोई आपका दिल तोड़ दे भाई दिल भाई इतना पावर नहीं इतना पावर नहीं देता हूँ मैं भाई जनरली डेट मतलब but भाई someday you will have to give someone that power yeah maybe अभी तक तो नहीं हुआ भाई भाई you will have to commit like अर्जुन D five you will have to play भाई yeah but beautiful game भाई by the way what a beautiful move this is That here you want to play rook f one, but when you do that, the queen comes here.

So you start off with d six. Take here, get the d five square for your knight, and then finish off the game. It's it's still tricky. It's not that clear, but it's a straightforward win.

I think Arjun will find it. You know, I think he's in good shape today.

Some result happened or? Not yet. Not yet.

Well, it will happen. It will happen. I think board two and board four are going to bring full points, and I think the score again likely for Team India will be three to one.

अच्छा आप सोच रहे हो wins with white and draws with black. Mukesh will strike. Yeah. And Prag, भाई Prag में strike right or not?

No, I think this game.

I think D2 is such a cool important question. Did Harshit see anyone losing?

He sounds so off. I sound off?

No, guys, I'm not off. I, I'm feeling, I feel very, very positive about, uh, the chances of our open section. I think we're actually gonna have a clean day. Uh, maybe if I sound off, maybe it could just be some tiredness in my voice, but I, it's not because of the games. I think in the games, I think we are doing exceptionally well.

And round four of the Olympiad often sees a lot of upsets. So get ready for a lot of upsets today as we go to the women's section. Amruta, can we go to the women's board?

Let's start with Humpy's board over here because that is the top board. And Humpy is better. She was better, I think after.

Yeah, she found Queen A four. That was a Very important move. Very important move.

Camera नहीं आ रहेगा?

He'll come, and we are gonna get the camera.

And there we have it, Hampi.

Okay, yeah. Oh, she found Queen A four. So she played the best moves. Hampi understood the needs of the position. Yeah. And now.

And after queen six a four, she goes a five, which now permanently creates a weakness on the a four pawn. Exactly, right on cue there. Rook coming into a six, protecting the knight on b six, ready for queen to e six, ready for queen to e six, hitting the rook on b five, and also indirectly the pawn on a four. And I think Conero Humpey is is doing her magic. She is Likely going to win on board one.

A small positional advice to everyone: if there's a knight and if you manage to put your pawn two squares away from it, the knight gets a bit dominated. Yeah. And you can see this knight doesn't have good squares to go to. Let's go to Vaishali's game, and we have a help chess believer. क्या बात है? Abhinav Shetty has contributed. 2000 rupees. Thank you, Abhinav, for becoming a believer of Indian chess.

All the money contributed on Help Chess goes straight to Sagar Bhai's account towards the talent of Indian chess.

It is also not my account; it is the account of a charitable trust that we have formed to support young talents, and it has helped a lot thanks to your support.

Of course, actually, Vaishali's game. Seems like Mongzul's strategy of being solid is working out because she goes Bishop d6. I'm a bit surprised by Rook f5 because I was thinking maybe White could play ah Rook e1 is a blunder. Okay.

Because of take take Queen d5.

So that's why Rook b1 was not played. Rook f5, Queen d7, Queen d3 and just giving you an update Nihal drew.

Nihal drew.

Okay. Oh. Amrita, can you do the honors of updating this?

Guys, that's a very good result. Nihal drawing with black, very, very solid on his board with the black pieces drawing.

दोनों का होना चाहिए ना left right.

And there we have it, half-half. And as Avijit Dada mentioned, a draw with black in upcoming rounds is going to be a great result as we are going to try and push with our White pieces.

Oh, Divya Deshmukh!

Oh yeah, Jaikar and many people had said about g5.

This is a classy move. This is a classy move by Divya. This requires a lot of understanding of the position, and Divya, Divya had it. Divya had it, man. Divya Deshmukh, too good. And now after King h1, Rook d8, I think she is, she is Much better, more than the engine says, because it's so easy to play with black here.

Why, Harshit bhai?

Because the white bishop on g2 is, uh, is looking at the pawn on e4, and the queen on e5 makes sure that we have total control of the dark squares. Bishop d4 next. f4 can't really happen because of the pawn on g5. And look at the time as well. 20 minutes for Baisagal and I think Divya, even though she's playing with black, is very likely going to win this game.

And we have yeah, she'll win.

She'll win. Very nice.

We have a we have a very nice super chat here, especially for Harshit Bai to answer this. So the question goes to from Ray Piano.

Ah, hello. Hey guys, I say. Recently got my FIDE rating of 1470, but now I'm worried that if I perform bad, I will lose my rating. How do I progress from here?

But guys, even if you lose your rating, so what? I don't understand the root cause of the fear. I mean, the fear could be if you actually, uh, like get worse at chess. That, that is a fear. But I think losing shouldn't really be a fear, uh, and I think the goal in general should be to Improve your game, because if you do that, rating will automatically come. So I think very often, including myself, you know, made this mistake of caring too much about the rating, and in doing so, I forgot that actually the goal is to improve at chess.

And as Ravi Kishan would rightly say, पैसा या पहचान? हाँ पहचान, my friend पहचान पैसा follows. Let's go. Same way, level, my friend.

Rating follows. By the way, Rook D1, big mistake by Divya. She's totally winning now. Oh, total, totalmente, totalmente plus three.

That's over. By the way, we had earlier a few years ago a very popular shirt which said rating पैसे की तरह होता है, आता जाता रहता है. So rating is like money. It comes and goes.

So guys, 6,000 of you watching. We are getting a lot of positive news today from our Indian team, both in the open section, in the women's section. Divya winning on board 2, Hampi doing well on board 1, Savita also having a very stable position and time advantage. So, uh, not too worried on this board. What about our— okay, this is the final board. Got it.

We go to Gukesh's board. Now, and you can see here, Gukesh playing against Alexei Shirov. That's the board. And you know, if we break down this position a little bit, we see that bishop has come to a3. The black king is in the center. You can open up the position. And as Arjun made a mistake What happened?

Now the time has come to leave you.

Amruta, why are you acting like this when he's like winning?

One more chance.

Yeah, well, he didn't go for the most— g2 is very good— most accurate, or you can say the, the most decisive way was to take.

Yeah, but I don't agree that you, you know, you have to play the best engine move because practically many times you should Actually, not go for the best Indian move. Some things are easier practical level with the second best or third best engine.

Arjun will win, guys. Mark my words. Arjun is going to strike today on his board. So don't really worry about it. Queen g six and knight f five. Knight g no one second. Rook f eight, queen f eight, and then rook f one. That seems to be very good here.

Yeah.

So Arjun is winning. By the way, Bhau Kaka says a nice comment. Anish said once, if you worry about ratings, don't play chess. Yeah, that is, that is a bit strong.

That is a bit strong though. I mean, you can—

of course, half of the world will stop playing chess.

Yeah, that's a bit strong.

They want to keep playing, that's why they will get rid of the rating problem, you know.

Yeah, but I mean, everyone needs a purpose to play chess, so I think for some it comes from rating. It can be.

It can be. They will never enjoy because at the end of it, well, if they're improving their rating, they'll enjoy.

I love how Amruta and Harshit have these very nice debates, but the unfortunate part—

special one, five minutes every day, debate of the day.

मैं जीत नहीं सकता अमृता के साथ। The unfortunate part is that I am in the middle.

That's the fortunate part. No, I can go. You? Because your debate.

You are the judge. We'll always, always support.

My result is already out that you both have very good perspectives, but keep it to yourself. Sorry, sorry. Why should we keep it? No, no, no, no. Perspectives are generally shared. No, we can share, but right now, guys, Mukesh versus Alexi Shirov.

Yeah. Tiger is about to hit from room when they got He has a great position, but he has 21 minutes.

I was wondering if we should take here, take, take, and then take the open file. Maybe that looks—

there are 2 open files. There is the b-line and the d-line. I think it's a lot more logical to take the d-file, uh, but ah, we have a problem. Yeah, wow, problem of the knight getting— but I don't know why we should take the pawn on c4 actually. So taking on c4 is a bit, uh Like for me, quite illogical because we are opening up the b-file. But at the same time, we open up the light-squared bishop of black.

Yes, but also the king is in the center. So there are some advantages, some disadvantages. But you are right, why do take?

Yeah, I would even consider h4 here.

h4, h5, just a waiting move, keeping options open.

Exactly, I would consider h4 or Rook ad1 immediately. I think these would be the two moves on my plate.

Keeping options open again. Yeah. Whether to take, not take. Exactly. I'm seeing a pattern in your way of playing. You will have to change. Otherwise, people in the chat know that you will always keep options open.

Why? And just when they start to think this, I will take the pawn on C four.

Let's go. Change. And by the way, guys, we today. हाँ ये गोअन। अरुण चौधरी है सुपरचैटर। ओके। सो वी हैव सम मोर बोर्ड्स, आई जस्ट वांट टू शो बिकॉज़ दिस वुड बी इंटरेस्टिंग फॉर मेनी पीपल टू वॉच। वी हैव सम अदर कैमरास एस वेल। लुक एट दिस। डिंग लिरेन इज़ प्लेइंग एलेक्सी सराना। द पोजीशन इज़ इक्वल राइट नाउ। भाई डिंग होले होले बढ़ रहा है आगे। That's their strategy। उनका एक board, Wei draw, sorry Wei win, Ding Liren draw, Yu Yangyi draw, Yu Yangyi draw and Kong will win। भाई ये Kong Jiangru कौन लेके आए वो दोने? He's beating everyone। Oh he's playing like King Kong। Yeah Kong Jiangru Rui is maybe stronger than the last time they had fourth board Bu Jiangzi or someone। And look at the difference.

Difference of pawns. Black has four pawns on the sixth rank, whereas white's pawns are such nicely advanced, controlling important squares, kicking the black knight from h five away to g seven. And I think Kong is totally winning.

And then we have a big clash on the next board. Let's see if we are able to load that camera. Vincent Timer. Vincent versus Duda. It's Poland versus Germany.

Look at the move King f one again. Oh my God!

But this time he got a check.

But does that remind you with the same structure of the pawn on H5 and H6?

Agreed. By Nihal Sarin is in fashion right now. Everyone is like we want Nihal Sarin tattoo on our hands. Look at this King F1 and then H4, H5 will happen. So this is looking very interesting for Vincent Keimer. If Poland versus Germany is a very strong. Clash. You can see on second board it's equal between Bluebaum, who is a candidate, and Gumularz Szymon, who is the national champion of Poland. Then on board 3 we have Malek Jan versus, uh, Swana Fredrik, also equal. And Donchenko versus Kosakowski, also around even. Very strong match.

Even, even, by the way, there is I just looked at the bars and Anish versus Theodore, and if someone is completely winning, who is winning?

Always Anish, bye. Anish bar never goes down, and there you see Anish Giri coming with clear intentions for his Dutch team in 23 moves. How?

Bye, Anish Giri है वो। Can you just please check? I'm very curious how Anish is winning in 20 moves.

So Anish had a normal position, normal. Normal, normal, normal, normal, normal, normal. And then suddenly it became not so normal. He gave up a pawn. No, it was sacrifice. Yeah, what is the sacrifice here?

Oh, Knight c3 in the end. Is it? Is it Knight c3 in the end?

Can you check? Takes. Uh-huh.

f4. But oh, he lost another pawn. Takes, takes, rook f8, and Anish is completely winning. A very, very weird game. Bad game maybe by Nicholas Theodorou on board 1, as Anish is completely winning.

And on board 2, Jordan is around even against Mastrovasilis. On board 3, a lot is holding his own.

No, no, no, Banerjee has a fantastic position.

Yeah, but he's holding his own, like You know, you won't lose. He's good. Yeah. And then on board four, so Dutch team, thanks to Anish Giri, might score a victory against the Greek opposition. Yeah. And then we have the next one more. I mean, I'm very.

But let's go back to this now.

एक बार पटपट सिर्फ देख लेते हैं ना और कौन-कौन हैं मतलब लोगों को भी पता चलेगी ओलंपिक में इतने सारे टीम्स खेल रहे हैं। कंप्यूटर, if you walk inside the hall, you will get lost. So many teams. जैसे मामेदियारो is playing with थाईडाई वन। अजरबैजान is a very strong team, guys. Good point actually. And आइडिन सुलेमानली is drawing, so equal equal. Oh bye! मुरादली मोहम्मद is beating फिनेक and एलताज सफारली। So here अजर अजरबैजान team Guys, do you know who's the captain of the Azerbaijan team? Do you know, Harshit bhai?

Uh, it's Temur Rajabov.

Yes, Raja bhai is here. I spoke to him the other day, was great fun catching up with him. And then we go to the next clash between Richard Rapport and Maxime Rodstein. This is the other game. But yeah, these are few games that we saw. And last, I want to show you guys, because that is the most Interesting one. Let's go, baby! Faustino Oro, the 12-year-old boy playing on board number one for Argentina.

I love him. The Messi of chess.

I think Harshit Dad played with him.

Harshit and Harshit and Oro का vibe काफी match हो रहा था। दोनों एकदम enjoy कर रहे थे in Peru.

Yeah, we had a very good time with Fausti actually.

So he's holding his own here against and maybe the Argentinian team, thanks to Foschi on top board, has a fresh energy with them. And you can see here, maybe they will be able to give a tough fight to Armenia. Who knows? Yeah, exactly. Bye, Gabriel Sergisian. What danger player! वो सबको धोता है टीम टूर्नामेंट में सिर्फ। Last one thing I want to show is in women's board. I hope I can show it because her board was not there. She's playing Fatalieva. Fatalieva, she's playing and I don't have her camera. It's not working, but Bodna is holding against Fatalieva. That is amazing. भाई आयरीना क्रश भी है। हाँ। Let's go our co-commentator.

She's playing for board three for the United States of America.

And we have Karisa Yip on our screen. भाई आज अपन सब कैमरा को लेके आए, thanks to oh no that's the mouse slip of course.

What? That's a transmission error. She probably went back queen to b six. Got it.

You know Karisa is so sweet. Day one when you know she was going to the tournament hall and she saw me, she just came and hugged hugged me. Oh really? Yeah.

What why why did she hug you like any particular reason?

Nice, like whatever the as a friendly.

Okay, got it. I thought maybe she got to know that you are not well.

No, I was well only. Finally, days are tiring. Initially, we had all the mic and a lot of issues.

And Divya is completely winning as her opponent is struggling to make a decision on her board. Finally takes back on D1 with the knight, but queen to D4 is the killer move here.

Women says मतलब Yeah, yeah.

They clean sweep. Do you feel like this time's team of Indian women is slightly stronger than last time? On paper, I think so.

No, not on paper.

No, Harika is of course very strong, but Hampi wasn't there last year. Yeah. And Tanya was there and Savita is here. So you know the team is a little bit different. I think Tanya played incredibly well last year.

Divya is a better player than two years back.

Divya is important. वैशाली हैज़ बिकम वर्ल्ड चैम्पियनशिप चैलेंजर, सो आई थिंक ओवरऑल द टीम दिस ईयर लुक्स इवन मोर स्टेबल एंड लास्ट ईयर ऑल द प्लेयर्स प्लेड इंक्रेडिबली वेल टू विन द गोल्ड। इफ दिस ईयर दे कंटिन्यू दैट, वी कुड वेरी वेल विन द गोल्ड। फॉर सुर। इट कुड बी अ स्विचर हो लाइक ल ना भी स्क्रीन स्वीप तो बोल नहीं सकते, but yeah it is for oh Divya is winning look at that bars showing us the update.

Yeah that's a very actually you know guys it's very difficult to include these small additions to the stream and I am unaware of all the all the people who have contributed but I think it's amazing to to see these additions in the stream.

Wow.

अर्शित भाई, do you think you will ever go in tech?

I don't think so. I think like I have always been someone who enjoys sports quite a lot, so I don't see myself going.

I think if Harshit never. If Harshit is given a chance to be in sunshine or in outside or be inside the room, he will always choose being outside. Yeah. Over being inside. So Guys, if you ever want to invite Harshit anywhere, try to make it an open door invitation rather than you know inviting him to a restaurant or something. Just ask him let's go and play something or let's run. Yeah, let's jog.

If you invite me to play football, I will.

तुमको invite करता run के लिए तुम जाते ही नहीं हो सुबह। मैं दूसरों को अगर उसको invite करना है। But if he is inviting you know respect करो हर्षित। No, no.

Sidpai को I respect a lot.

By the way, Rook D1 played. This game is around equal. Equal. Let's go to.

सागर भाई जस्ट join now. What's the update?

तभी किया था। हाँ नीचे नीचे के बार देख लो। वहाँ पे update मिलेगा और ऊपर का score देख लो। Like we have made the stream in such a way that you get your updates immediately as you'll watch the stream. But just to tell you, the women Is doing well because of Hampi and Divya. Vaishali is equal and Savita is around even. In the open section, Ajubai is crushing it while Prag is even. And on board number three, we have Nihal who has drawn and Gukesh is better. So today India has a very stable. Oh, and Gukesh took on C four. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of that.

But you know, guys, I am my analysis is based on intuition, whereas the players are basing their moves on calculation. So the moves that intuitively might not look attractive might have a deeper meaning behind them. For example, it's possible that Gukesh thinks that he has enough time to go knight b two, knight d one, knight e three. Or one of these maneuvers. It seems slow. So, I'm, you know, intuitively, I would be a bit, uh, hesitant to take the pawn on c4.

You know what I feel Mukesh does is he often gives opponent chances and he gets his chances. So, like, as you rightly pointed out, the bishop has opened up, but with that, more chances have opened for an attack against the black king, right? And he's going for that approach where it's like push and pull. Correct. He's not keeping it stable, right? And that has been Bukesh's way of playing chess, correct?

And he, he is down to 13 minutes though, which is a sign.

Only one move to be made and oh God, that's dangerous. Slightly worrying. Okay, if you go Queen h4, then the problem is the bishop goes back according to the engines, uh, and if you go Queen f4, is black going to Amrut, I want somehow the knight to come into the game.

Exactly.

And that I will do when you attack it. Why will I otherwise move at this point?

Yeah, I want some knight b6 tactic to work, something like that. So we need to make it like I was thinking.

But look at this, guys. Here for black, he needs to find important move. Yeah, one is either a simple challenge the rook, but the other move is g5.

Not g five. Once again, the move that comes to my mind is bishop f eight.

No, then he had to play it much before. Yeah. Otherwise h four, h five is the problem generally.

If you take, take, knight is not the best to attack c four. Maybe c four becomes a small weakness even.

Yeah. But after knight b two, three attackers.

Now Harshit bhai's plan: knight d1, knight e3, knight g4, and no no no no.

You still continue with attacking this. You're winning a pawn. इसको और defend कोई नहीं करेगा. Knight b6 आएगा, but then you have h4, h5.

Yeah, I think Mukesh has made it quite wild.

He plays queen f4. Wow, that's a great move.

But but the problem is rook b8 is. Oh, rook b8 is tough. Where you will challenge? Why is it tough?

I think rook b8 is a very good move because if you capture and I believe queen takes, right?

Queen takes is a mistake because of knight.

No, because of bishop. Oh, but then knight b8, then can I go rook b1? Just take the open file.

And if knight c6, then c4 is hanging.

Knight b7. And then you will have five pawns hanging.

This one is. The rook is not in the game. How is this equal? I love it for white. I'm so surprised about the assessment. Maybe this is hanging. I have to go back. But then my knight turn eight.

It's not hanging actually.

H four gela toh idar.

It's playable. I think this position is very rich. Yeah. And it'll make Alexei think a bit. But Gukesh having 12 minutes is a worrying thing. Now imagine if Gukesh by chance goes down because of time. I mean, position is okay.

Then I mean, let's just make sure Arjun is winning.

Oh yeah, let's check.

Because then Arjun and Prag both have to do well. And well, oh, Prag is king G2.

And you know, it's always about taking the weight off your teammate's shoulder. And it was Nihal who was doing it and carrying the team so far. Nihal again making a solid draw with black, a good result for the team. But there needs to be like someone who is the heavy lifter. And I think today— oh wow, wow, oh wow, oh my God, guys, that is the move of the day! Really, can you ask after Rook to d1, can you find the best move very quickly? After bishop e three, queen a three. What is the neuro energy and focus move of the day? This is a huge move, guys. Black to play. Can you find it? Can we go full screen on Prag to see his expressions? Big moment. A very big moment on this board. Can Praghu find the move, guys? Yes. Yes, exactly. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Stockfish, Ayandash.

Bye bye bye bye. Tejaswini. Bye bye. I want to find.

Bravo. Sain Krishna. Aparna Chowdhury. Guys, well done. No way. Seven thousand. No way. Watching. Do like the stream.

No way. अमरदा रेडियो See it? As Prague is playing the move, bishop d2.

And look at him, he gets up from the chair. Chigai looks at their board and is like, what just happened?

By one more neurofocus move of the day. What a move! Insane! This is too good. Can we, can we explain it to the viewers, please?

Guys, look at how he gets up. If you take with the bishop, you lose the queen on a3. Look at this, Fabi comes and I'm gonna keep looking at Rook b1.

It was not working.

If Rook d2, Rook to b1, and you're gonna get back rank checkmated. What a beautiful little find by Praghu there. And this worry that we had, you know, that will the top 2 boards strike? Well, they will.

Wow, Harshit bhai, you're so quick at finding this.

And look at Fabi, look at Fabi, he's squinting his eyes. It's like, wow. What just happened? As he's gonna come closer to Prag's board, he's looking at it. Of course, it doesn't take long for someone like Fabi to spot that this is winning for black.

And you know, Anton Guijarro looks a little bit similar to Fabi. Yeah. And, uh, you know, and he just took a deep breath there because the thing is now Prag is simply threatening to take Queen takes c3. There is a question here: what happens if I take On a six, but queen takes c three is just a better position because a pawn is very strong.

Yeah. Wow! Look at Anton there.

He just like shake his head there. Shocked. He's shocked. भाई प्रग्नानंदा इतना sharp है tactics में too good. Wow guys!

This is going to be huge if Prag wins with black and this is the reason why we put him on board number one. He is perhaps—I mean, not perhaps—he's quite likely the strongest player in the world right now, considering the form he is in. And to win with black against Anton Boyaro, man, that would be a statement. You know that I am here for a reason.

And he found this move in like one minute. And you know, we didn't even have time to discuss. It's such a difficult move. Whether he will find it, he will not find it. Incredible.

You like, uh, Harshit, Amruta, Sagar, I will save you guys the discussion time. I will find it. And one of the reasons why Anton Guijarro has blundered is because he was put under immense pressure from the opening. He had to find all the moves. Meanwhile, Pragg was in his prep. And I think this is one thing which shouldn't be underestimated. Good opening preparation not only gives you time But it also gives you a lot of energy because you are able to actually play your moves faster and save your energy for later moves.

Absolutely. And now you can see that Anton Guiaro not only is having a difficulty on his clock, just 11 minutes left for 17 or 14 moves, beg my pardon, but He is also in a much difficult situation on the board now.

Yeah, and look at Ajubai walking there. I'm sure Praghu is also walking there. Let's have a look at the Indian team here. We can see Arjun walking around, Gukesh on the board, Nihal has left. Prag is not to be found somewhere.

Where is he? By Srinath, को देखो। सुनील का गेम देखने का रहेगा प्रग। सिनाथ इस गेट गोट अप फ्रॉम इस चेयर, and I'm sure he's gonna be like. Wow!

It's so amazing to see a move like Bishop D two, which always comes in book black to play. Find a move. Book name, book name.

Chess rank tactics पे आता है. By the way, you know Indian team has this tradition which they did last year. I'm sure they have continued it that at the end of the day everyone meets in a room and they give the best game of the day award to one of the players. And I believe that maybe this today, if that does happen, Arjun should get it. Should I get it?

I am Arjun and Prag.

I would be kind of, you know, because, you know, I'm sure Prag is someone who would understand that, you know, for the team to do well, we need Arjun to do well. Correct. He is right now in some ways the focal point of our team because everyone else is in somewhat of a good shape, but we wanted Arjun to make a comeback. And I think this win would actually boost a lot of his confidence.

As coming to Bhukesh's board, John Sturgis says the amount of black games Prag is winning recently is crazy.

Very nice, very good point. Yeah, and I think, I mean, the amount of, uh, just opening prep, everything that Prag is doing, very professional, guys. Uh, I must I would say that people like Pragg work very hard on chess every single day. They hardly take breaks. They try to actually focus and keep themselves updated, and the result is this. And you know, one of the things that top players, professionals, have to avoid is burnouts, and I think he's managing to do that quite well this year.

Yeah, he decided to take a break from the Global Chess League, uh, to take some rest after his amazing performance at the Grand Chess Tour. And it's reaping benefits. I mean, he's well rested and he's playing very energetic chess with the black pieces. Uh, on Gukesh's board, coming to board number 4, as we see board 1 and 2 doing really well, this takes a lot of pressure off of Gukesh's shoulder because, uh, this game likely wouldn't impact the result of the entire match.

If Pragg wins.

Which likely he will based on the time advantage he has.

Wait, why did he play Bishop d2? That is completely winning, no?

मतलब I wouldn't say completely winning. I think he has a strong advantage on the board. But the shock factor, you know this move Bishop d2 comes with a very big shock factor. That's true.

यार कल मैं खाना खाने जा रही थी और नीचे जा रही थी जब हर्षित ने से walk करके ऐसे इतना डराया। Bye bye bye. Crazy shock factor.

हर्षित भाई you should be careful doing this to heart patients. अच्छा हाँ उनको कुछ हो जाएगा भाई मेरे जैसे फिर तो एक स्पेस मिलेगी ना लाइफ में मैं हूँ ना भाई हार्ट पेशेंट फिर अभूता को सेफ मिलेगी स्पेस मिलेगी मुझे भी चाहिए स्पेस ओके सो भुकेश इस ट्राइंग टू मूव हिज नाइट इनटू द गेम अटैकिंग दिस पॉन एंड मीनवाइल वी हैव अपडेट दैट यास कान एर्डोग्मस ह To a draw. Yeah. Meanwhile, Edis Gurel is not giving an inch to Javokir Sindarov. This could also potentially end in a draw. Sanal Wahab is going down to Yakubov Nodirbek. So very good news for Sanal actually will manage to beat Yakubov. And this one, Shamshidin is holding his own. So Uzbek team looking very strong to win. But then going to the US team equal on Fabi one show. Wesley भाई। भाई Wesley show क्या आता है भाई?

भाई हमेशा वो opponent के G two pawn की तरफ आता है। White से he went towards the G seven pawn if you remember. Yeah, exactly. Sacrifice now going for the G two pawn and Wesley might be the savior.

There's always one advantage for Wesley you know what he has.

उसकी नींद हमेशा अच्छी होती है। क्योंकि वो सोते आता है। so वैसे ही है ना वो nice too good and by the way Hans has drawn his game and has made a comeback yes I know oh good I thought Levon Aronian guys in a winning position I was talking about if you know Levon he's so artistic कि वो कैसे ना कैसे करके art दिखा सकता है गाय करती गाय करती देखते हैं रो Roman ने by going knight to f6 he could have simply played rook oh bye bye देखो और चल रहा है। रुक टेक्स पॉन ही टुक इन द एंड। दिस इज़ क्रेजी, but very complicated हाँ। Now if you take here, this is hanging and which is winning. So you have to take here, and this position is not so clear.

Yeah, black might be better in this position because the bishop controls the dark squares. I like black's position quite a lot here.

Guys, the chat wants you to go to women's game because something is Heating up, बहुत कुछ हो रहा है and we have not seen it since Vaishali is winning क्या first of all just check that out.

Vaishali is winning? No way.

Oh better. No way. How? How exactly? That's a very good question.

We thought it's going to end in equality but Vaishali goes Queen b3 opponent doesn't capture they were repeating Vaishali said I want to play on.

ओह ब्लैक को लगा है ये भी इक्वल एंड गेम है बट फॉर सम रीज़न व्हाइट हैज़ दिस एडवांटेज मेबी बिकॉज़ यू गाइस आर गुड एट एंड गेम डू यू वांट टू एक्सप्लेन?

बिकॉज़ शी हैज़ कंट्रोल ऑफ़ द लाइट स्क्वायर्स एंड द ब्लैक पॉन्स आर फिक्सेटेड ऑन ऑन द डार्क स्क्वायर्स Very good.

Good play, and Divya's advantage has dipped a bit.

Yeah, sorry, where am I going?

Which means Prag and Vaishali both can score a win today.

Whoa! Divya is still better clearly, and Savita Shri is also slightly better. Women could really aim at a three and half half victory. Yeah.

वाव अच्छा एक सवाल है कि यहाँ पे ये दो बिशब हैं और यहाँ पे नाइट और बिशब हैं तो इनमें अगर भागने की रेस होगी तो कौन जीतेगा?

I think the bishops right क्यों?

Because the bishops are long range pieces so no the reason is wrong but I think chat को आ जाएगा कौन जीतेगा रेस Meanwhile, we have a message by Kailashkar Chinmay, member for fifty seven months. Thank you.

Ah, he says three and a half hours.

Winning will go there, guys. Bishop जीतेंगे because bishop pair, bishop को pair है तो fast भाग सकते हैं। हम्म। भाई मेरे आँख में अभी सर भी दर्द कर रहा है भाई। I'll just take a few minutes break. अरे रुक जा हर्षित पे प्रगति स्विनिंग ये देखो, दोनों आजाओ। Guys very sorry for the situation that has been created over here. I am switching to प्रगनानंदा who is clearly winning. अच्छे से break ले लिया है इन्होंने वो बोल रहा है कि हमलोग आ रहे हैं रुक जाओ एक चक्कर मारके सागरशाह look at this position queen a seven oh my god here we have a camera and wow she's from which country somali wow There is a girl who is playing, who is playing the Olympiad, and she has called somebody from Somali, and he's on a video camera, and right now he's talking to Sagar. Santos says it's fun to see Amrita ji's joke, and then Sagar bhai's reaction comes up. मैं बताती हूँ guys एक चीज आपको. Sagar काफी हँसता है, you know when we are in the room and when I crack jokes he laughs a lot. So I think he really likes my jokes but here he doesn't want to tell everybody that he likes my jokes.

Actually in the room I don't want to tell you anything. यहाँ पे तो है ना साढ़े सात हजार लोग सपोर्ट कर रहे हैं प्लस अर्चित भाई रूम में क्या होगा मेरा?

Spiderman is saying my Wi-Fi guy cut cut off my Wi-Fi. Only married people understand, Sagar. Oh God! Jokes so voted boys can't handle it.

I would be surprised if girls liked it. By the way, Queen D3 with the idea of C3 C2. Is winning. Yeah. But what if I pin the pawn?

Ah, then you can force the queen away from that diagonal.

With attack, attack. Yeah. And finally, when the queen goes, boom bam bim bim boom boom boom bam.

मतलब ये dead winning बोल सकते हैं कि अभी एक बार बताओ कि black is dead win. You know, I want to hear that line.

Yes. Black is completely and totally winning here if he finds the move Queen d3. Anton only has six minutes on the clock.

So then we have to go to Arjun's game. I mean, also Prague's time management has been incredible, no?

Oh, hi! Prague has invaded. Arjun, Arjun. Prague has invaded. Arjun has also invaded, भाई. The Spanish team is really feeling the heat right now.

Also, right today, if India wins, can we do the salsa?

Ah, bachata or tarta. Yeah, tarta. So, आवामेंटे पीआरटी से the excitement from Olympiad coverage, right?

From Batumi to now have always helped through some rough times. Now back just in time for Prague's Bishop D2. Let's go Team India! Let's go PRT! PRT! Thank you.

I met him at the Delhi IIT. He was studying in Delhi—not studying—but he was doing research there. I think it was very nice to see him, a very old follower of the channel.

I mean, he's very young. But he's following us from a very long time.

Yeah, I'm very interested in, uh, Gukesh versus Alexei Shirov game because that one seems still like a fight while the other games are definitely looking very, very one-sided.

And look at the clock, like this is gonna really come down to the wire because f6 is a brilliant find by Alexei.

Queen h four also he finds brilliant move. And now if you take the pawn, okay, black is a pawn up.

My first instinct would be to take. Ah, you can't take with the knight because f six is hanging. Okay.

Yeah, knight e five, queen takes f six.

So take with the pawn.

Now what's your first instinct, Sagar? And the chat.

My first instinct.

Is a threat. Checks captures and bishop g seven. Absolutely. And if rook g eight over here takes h seven over because you take this. But does that mean that white is actually winning material here? Because only bishop e seven.

It's very natural.

But then queen h six same ही तो है rook g eight को queen takes h seven. Wait wait. Wow! Good move to find. What a defense! Black to player, guys. Think of the defense. Every time we are asking you tactics to be found, aggressive moves, but defense do.

Don't draw. Bishop f8.

Oh my God! Bishop f8 is the natural move, but does not work. Right.

Because takes takes के बाद सविता winning no way and did anyone find out king f7 is too tough yeah my Alexis Giraud is going to have a tough time I feel well he is known for his dynamism and the question is if he still has that spark in him right now to to come up with this exchange sacrifice f6 was A nice move by him. He needs to continue playing in the same spirit.

Yeah, if he finds that, then I think Gukesh will also get a bit surprised that to see such a great defense, it will definitely become very difficult for him. But let's see, not easy to find. Savita is winning. Should we check that game? Savita Shri.

Hi, Savita Shri. If she wins, she will make four out of four.

नहीं भाई नहीं It's it's still just it's still just a slightly better position for for her.

Like, she's not winning.

Super Sid says, "Sagar bro, enlighten us about Shirov's style of play." I I can tell you one thing that whenever I when I was growing up, Shirov's style of play was something I never understood because he was like Mikhail Tal. He would sacrifice his pieces without a care in the world. He used to create so much chaos on the board that he actually wrote a book, his autobiography. Basically, his own games he has analyzed. It's called Fire on Board. It became आग लगा देते हैं आग लगा देते हैं वो full and I think he has managed to keep that spirit. By the way, he is a student of Mikhail Tal. Did you know this, Arshid? I actually had no idea. Because he is from Latvia, and Mikhail Tal also was from Latvia. He was called the Magician of Riga. And so there was him, and there was also another player from USA. Let me see if anyone in the chat is knowledgeable enough apart from Shirov, who had a similar style but couldn't become as great a player as Shirov. Who they were working together always.

And Queen D3 found. Let's go, Praghu! Guys, Pragnananda OP. Let's go, guys. Not Bobby Fischer.

Come on. Prag is Alexander Shabalov. JP64. I think JP64 is a creator on Instagram. Very knowledgeable.

And look at Mukesh there. He's he's locked in. He cannot get up.

Oh, question of the day. Jaikar has sent. Let's. See if we can get it, Jaikar.

Oh, and play them to this fun fact: In 2000, Shirov reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship, losing three and half and half to Vishy Anand.

Oh, very good question by Jaikar. He says in the Caro-Kann there is a variation where white plays knight to c3, and what is the name of this variation? As we have a new Co-commentator joining us, a little kid who is here. When he was crying earlier, everyone was like, "Oh, commentator, new commentator." So he has resumed. No, the right answer in that one which I had asked for U.S. player was Alexander Shabalov, and Knight C3 here is the Shiro variation in the Caro-Kann. Harshit Pai, were you aware?

I, I was not.

Crazy, bye! Prag and Guki both playing, and Ajubai as well. What a team!

What a team! Yeah, Nihal making the, the solid draw with black pieces there. Exactly what the team needed. And now the onus is on Arjun and To convert their advantages as did we see resignation? Not yet.

No, he just wrote a move.

Yeah, Queen H8, King F7.

Bye, R I R I Knight G4, Knight G4.

Queen and knight together.

Oh, kill dia bhai, Ajubhai ne Knight G4 is on the board and look at how Arjun is not even looking at the board. I think that he's just looking on the इधर उधर इधर उधर.

I think Harshit bhai had mentioned.

मोमेंटम वाज़ नीडेड फॉर अजूबाई और वो आज मिल गया है मिल रहा है और फिर अभी कोई रोक नहीं सकता। I agree अमृता, घोड़ा चले ढाई घर। अजूबाई ढाई घर। Perfect। घोड़ा is going tiger and अजूबाई is becoming the tiger here। Wow!

Actually what a moment to say this dialogue which happened World Cup में। We had an audience, a guy who had come up with this.

Yeah, वो पूरा तैयारी करके आए थे। I think Chigai with just you know trying to muster the courage to throw his hand in resignation because Arjun has managed to completely outplay him and there no he makes a move he actually takes the pawn on h5 with the knight doesn't give up just yet.

Chigai very quickly will make the move.

But I think knight takes e five. Yeah, it's going to be one of the last moves. He takes the pawn. King comes into e seven.

Chikai is like by my cue, Kail Rao. Queen to h seven check and oh if king d eight knight f seven loses the queen and if king e eight Then we can just go.

He played king e eight, queen to f seven check, and after knight to c six check, we are going to checkmate the black king on a seven.

Wow! And resignation. Let's go. The first victory for India today.

Look at Chigai.

Like what the hell did I do? Yeah, exactly. From a completely fine position, just lost control, and not just first win for. The Indian team first win for Arjun, and this is a very big moment, guys. Arjun OP in the chat. Gandhiwam has struck with his bow straight into Black's king there.

Actually, Arjun's once again we see his unconventional style, his approach, which did not have anything where safety measures होने चाहिए थे। He just went in completely commit. D five खेला, फिर H four खेला, क्या-क्या नहीं किया? And then in the closed position, the right break with F four. That was the neuro focus move of the day. अगर if you could show that once again, it's a once more move.

Yeah, I'll show it as we get the board. But Harshit bhai, would you do the honors of adding one point to our team? And boom! One point five half. To Team India. And there we have it, the move that Amruta was mentioning about that Arjun found here. Oops, sorry, this is Prag's board.

But Arjun's board, the move that was really, really special was this 23rd move after castles. Boom! Pawn to f4, just blasting open the position. And this was the neuro-energy focus Of the day.

Yeah, f5 takes takes, and I think Arjun really didn't put a foot wrong after getting a winning position. Yeah, he converted it very well. Check and check here, and opponent was like, let me resign because if I go here, check, another check, and king c8, we don't pick up the knight.

We go queen e8 check, king b7, queen b8 check, king a6. And queen to a seven is a beautiful checkmate.

Yeah, beautiful.

क्या बात है? जुवाई ओपी हो जाए, guys. Chat में अर्जुन ओपी, जुवाई ओपी, whatever name you want to give him. But it is a great moment. Prag is also winning. Hi Prag.

के game में the same move that we were discussing has happened. He's trying to pin this pawn, but rook a eight and rook b eight will follow.

And we are well moves to be made and only five minutes for Anton.

Guys, I will respond this on behalf of Harshit Bhai. Manav Huma says, oh my, Harshit Bhai, which football club do you support? Real Madrid is what he supports. Big fan of Real Madrid since a young age.

No, guys, I've always Manchester United.

I have, uh, traditionally been a very big fan of Barcelona. Well, especially when like Iniesta, Xavi, and by the way, there was a podcast of प्रकार विच्छाबी अ वेरी कूल वन, but when चाबी इनेस्टा एंड मेसी वेर इन द सेम टीम.

It is going to release today.

Yeah, it's gonna come today. आज आने वाला है.

आप देखोगे आज. Of course. अर्शिपा how do you find time for everything?

Why? Because I'm not editing videos. No.

No because he's single. Oh. How do you know?

I know guys. Not sure, not sure.

If you know, if No.

If you know, you know.

मुझे ही नहीं पता। I've been trying to you know sign him up for chess matrimony somehow, but अभी तक deal हो नहीं रहा है, तो still नहीं होगा, नहीं होगा। Aura Chess Official says thank you Chess with India for always making these good videos and live streams to not only entertain us but also teach us a lot.

Thank you. More Real Madrid fans in the chat.

Guys, भूलना मत चला Madrid. I mean both are fantastic teams of course.

Like Benzema was, I mean, it wasn't Madrid.

नहीं नहीं दिल से बुरा लगता है। नहीं नहीं भाई जब Benzema was there in Madrid, you know he was a star player, one of the best strikers for Real Madrid back then. And I think it was always very close. Like Madrid had some nice wins, Barça had some nice wins. This El Clásico जो match होता था ना भाई, that was one of the most exciting clashes between those two teams.

I am just Real Madrid fan because I saw once Magnus Carlsen kicking off a game for Real Madrid and I was like, "Bye, ये टीम ने चेस को जो ऐसे रिस्पेक्ट दिया है मैग्नस को इनवाइट करके I respect it." So then then उसके अलावा मेरे को कुछ पता नहीं है.

Yeah yeah it's a controversial opinion in some ways but I I don't think we'll ever get to see someone like Messi and how like you know in some ways I find Messi to Be similar like Carlson, very talented and gets this natural feeling about the game. Whereas Ronaldo in some ways is similar to let's say Mbappé or like you know these goal-scoring machines basically.

Similar to some chess player you have to say. Fabi maybe.

Come here and maybe Cristiano is similar to Fabi.

Yeah. Who is the machine?

You can take a selfie with you in the frame. Thank you, guys. We are right now in the P-Day lounge here. A lot of people all around who want to, uh, you know, just finishing their games, coming here Sorry, ah, I will come out in some time. And Bishop d2, and now the move that we are expecting here is Rook a8.

But I want to read a comment by Sohit Kishore who has been actually writing some very good chats.

Bye bye bye fight चालू कर दिया chat में bye bye at the end of the day नहीं bye we we At the end of the day, both are great players. So like you know, I love both of them and we are blessed to have them.

Yes, yes. I love both of them, but Messi slightly. I love Real Madrid and Barcelona, but slightly Barcelona. Bye bye. ये क्या चल रहा है आपका? दोनों ये but थोड़ा तो रहे favourite. आप बोलोगे I love both Sagar and Amruta, but slight favourite Sagar.

Without Madrid, I would not have appreciated Barça as much as I do.

So good one भाई good one हर्षित भाई कम not committing in many things but committing in many things also इस पहली बार मुझे ऐसा लग रहा है कि भाई बस करो अभी let's come back to chairs ऐसा मेरे को लग रहा है वो देखो इतना अच्छा comment था वो भी गया चलेगा आ जाएगा वापस हाँ भाई बहुत अच्छा comment sorry अमृता maybe वो हर्ष हुआ सुपरचैटेड थैंक यू सागर और अमृता जी फॉर टेकिंग चेस को योर शिप तू मैग्निफिशिएंट लेवल भाई हर्षित भाई के बिना और आपके बिना नहीं हो पाता था सही भाई मैंने I तो जस्ट I'm chilling guys I think सागर and अमृता are doing the hard work I just come on stream and enjoy myself guys enjoying in life very important Queen a four my main problem here is even though Humpty is a pawn up progress करे तो करे कैसे because the rook Is coming to B five, pressurizing here and here.

It's not going to be easy.

She's a pawn up. Yeah, but how? Very accurately. Bishop D seven. It shouldn't be so tough, I think.

Very important to play these moves. But Rook B one.

We have always. So ah. Can I read?

But boom bam. Yes. Can we go to Gukesh's game for a moment and oh, वापस. अच्छा गुकेश के गेम पे जाके ही read करोगी। In last Olympiad after Defeating Shirov in interview, Gukki said, "My strategy was to provoke him, and being an aggressive player, he could not resist aggressive moves, ones which I anticipated." Oh! The last Olympiad, Gukki beat Shirov. That's amazing. This is what yeah, which is interesting because Shirov was also on board number one, and now he's also playing on board number four. Very interesting. Okay. Go ahead, go ahead with what you were showing.

You were showing this, right? Yeah, I was just showing the Humpy game, which will be quite interesting. And Humpy is actually finding it difficult to make progress. We can see the mood here on our full screen. She is very focused, very calm, and all 4 women players are still playing, but all of them are doing well.

Like, Humpy is playing for a win, basically, uh, can end in a draw but playing for a win. Vaishali has a huge advantage, uh, against Momzul. And, uh, so this is a board that we can look at. Divya, by the way, Divya's opponent is down to 1 minute 25 seconds.

Oh, and Divya is having 35 minutes on the clock. That is huge. 8 moves to be made for Bayazgalan.

Yeah, and I think at some point the idea would be to give up this dark Squared bishop for the knight and win the same colored bishop endgame. Generally, opposite colored bishop endgames very hard to win, but in same colored bishop endgames we have a very high chance of winning. The white king is stuck to defending this pawn to f2. If the pawn moves, bishop g1 can come in and fifty seconds now for Bayasaglan.

So Divya is also doing well. All three are. Doing well, and Savita Shri.

I think Divya's board maybe this is around solid, but I think this is important, right? Forty seconds. I think we can stay with this game because we might see a result. Thirty-five seconds now.

Level is now winning. That is crazy. Needs to move.

F F four. What bishop G one?

Ah, king F one.

She wants to give E five check, but there is the possibility of playing the special move that we can in chess the en passant. And after G takes F three, king takes F three, the pawn on E four becomes quite weak.

But actually it's not so simple, Amruta. If we can just show it, en passant. King f3, King e5 is the best move. I would be very afraid to give up such a pawn, but you get the a4 pawn.

You get the a4 pawn, which is just going to go all the way towards touchdown.

And this is something which Divya has to assess correctly, which she may be able to. And she did it! Oh no, she did it! She did it!

She did it! Let's go!

And she's playing so fast to put pressure on the clock as well, not just on the board. And look at her, by the way. If you can see the third player in this row, she is very focused. She's not like moving around because she has 35 minutes.

She's like, "I want to finish it off when my opponent is under pressure." Yeah, before she reaches the time control move forty and gets the additional time, Divya wants to make sure that the result is basically sealed. And it seems like with her last move king to e five, it is sealed, and that she is going to win her game. Very nice performance by Divya on board number three there. Both board number three is doing fantastically well. Nihal for the open section, Divya for the women's section, and yeah, what an asset for Team India.

Divya Deshmukh here striking hard, and Bayas Aglan now. Bayas Galan goes. What is that? Why not bishop takes?

B two. You can play that. It's a good move.

You can also first give a check.

Ah, check would be check would be really cool. Even F six. Many other options. Even F six. Yeah, this is over.

Gukesh is very low on time. Oh, but he's got a nice edge in the position. Can we go to Gukesh's game?

Yeah, this is winning. Let's move now.

Oh, this has happened.

F takes E five and Bishop G seven on the board.

Oh, what a moment, man!

That is Bishop e7 and king f7 is something which Shirov needs to find with 16 minutes on the clock. Guys, do you think he will find it?

That's the question, that's the question. Let's go India! Thanks ChessBase for your hard work, says Samir Kulkarni. Thank you so much for your positive wishes. Let's go Team India!

Thank you. And Sagar, right now the guy from Cameroon— you know, that is the beauty of Olympia, so many different Different countries and people have been watching the streams, Harshad bhai. When you go to Africa, so many people recognized you, which is insane, no?

Yeah, it's, it's actually a blessing to have so many people from different places watch our stream. And, uh, Olympiad of course is one of the most enjoyable events.

Yeah.

Dukesh has a big moment on his board right now as he played bishop to g7. Can Shirov find the only way to save himself?

पाइशीरो इस सिंगिंग अरविंद गोकुला कृष्णन हैज सेड अ नाइस कमेंट लेवॉन इक्वलाइज़ द एडवांटेज अमृता यू आर अ जीनियस मस्त पढ़ा कमेंट तूने अमृता फ़िल्टर्ड कमेंट थैंक यू अरविंद भाई बट हाँ शुरू से बिकॉज़ यू हैव सीन सो मेनी टाइम लेवॉन डूइंग दैट एंड इट जस्ट ह Score for Team India.

And Bishop e7 played. Prag is also doing well, so we are going to win this match. The question is what will happen on Gukesh's board, because Bishop e7— Shirov finds the best move.

If he finds Bishop e7, he'll find King f7. Look, exchange sacrifice for the classical players, you know, who has— who have—

Prag mistake! Prag mistake!

No, no way!

Why did Prag not go rook fb8? That was not so tough. But maybe he saw c3 d6 and he got a bit worried that the d pawn is—

what, what is happening here? a8 is hanging or something.

He might have felt a bit worried or not.

Yeah, I guess he was worried about something. There are moves on Gukesh's board though.

Okay, because white needs to find a move d6. Otherwise, even white still is in trouble. But let's quickly go to both the games are interesting. We'll keep switching.

And King F7 also found. Man, Shirov.

Bro, this guy Alexei Shirov. He's going Petrosian. यही तो है। उन्होंने Petrosian के इतने game देखे हैं कि he knows this exchange sacrifice. What does it mean? Ah.

Well, the position is still very complicated and it can go in any direction. But I think now Gokesh— no, no, I, I like the move Knight d1, Knight e3 now to get the knight to e3, which would be like a very natural idea, Knight e3. And I think Gokesh's moves are not so difficult. You can play Rook b2, Rook b1, try to double, try to enter maybe by taking the bishop. I think Gokesh, for me, practically his position looks Quite easy to play.

So if I go something like, I need to bring my pieces in the picture. Yeah, if I go Knight f6, you'll go Rook b2.

I go Knight e4, maybe even Knight takes d5. Okay, something like this is—

you have to be very, very careful because there are also tactical shots in the position. So Black will have to be careful. Yeah, yep, crazy. But then in time pressure, you will be, you know, it will be difficult.

I like, I like Mukesh's chances, but I hope that he doesn't take too much time here. He's down to 5 minutes 50 seconds. Very intense. By the way, one person just came in and told me that he was from Cameroon and he had won a prize of last year. Where we had to guess who would win, and he had written both Indian team will win, and he was supposed to get a signed chessboard, but unfortunately we couldn't send him. So he was like, "Can I get it here?" And we said, "Okay, we'll get the Indian team to sign and give it to you." Ninety one on the board.

Wow! That's a great, great gesture by you to make sure that he gets the prize.

By the way, we are selecting from India because it's difficult to ship. Yeah, but we are. If he's here, then we should definitely.

We should. We should. If a team is lost, are they eliminated? No. Nap, sleep, relax. It's called a Swiss system. They have to play every round, eleven rounds, and the one who scores most points wins the tournament. So no one goes back home before the eleven rounds are completed. How can Prague blunder with an advantage? That's true. That's true. It's not not an easy thing, Harshit Pai, to believe that Prague can go wrong with so much time. But I do think that Prag also is human. Sometimes he goes wrong as well. And e four played by Shiro. No, but he's he's coming with knight e five, knight d three. I think that's a.

But मार दोगे ना कभी भी चाहिए तो worst to worst case. Knight e three तो खेलना ही है and if knight e five.

Yeah, it's a good practical move by Alexei Shirov to make sure that the knight has this outpost on d three. And you never after rook d1 want to take that knight on d3 because that would just give black two connected pawns.

Unbelievably, the engine says you have to take, and it's so difficult.

That's not gonna happen.

Impossible almost.

Yeah, but there is there is a trigger now. Trick c four. No, I think no.

No, this is very tough. I don't think this will happen. By the way, ninety three played.

Three is the move.

Let's go back. 93 played. 95, I think, will Shirov play that? Let's try to zoom in on this camera because I think both Arjun and Nihal have finished their games. So there's only Gukesh remaining on this angle. And also, did Frog's opponent make a move?

Because he's down to 3 minutes. Did he find d6 or not? Let's— oh, he found d6 because the engine is equal. Prashant says, you helped me to cope up with the loneliness during COVID times. While participating in summer streams, thanks a lot for all you. Yeah, very.

Bye, summer. Bye, OP. Bye.

Yes, Divya is winning in the in the women's. Yeah, OP is clearly better. Savita is equal unclear kind of a thing. And your Prag, by the way, Prag's opponent did find a move D six, but he's Down to three minutes.

Hi, Prag does not win. Then the match suddenly becomes wild because Bukesh and Shiro lose. No, we can't lose.

We cannot lose. We already are.

If Bukesh loses to Shiro, it will be two-two. Yeah. So right now we are a one and a half half ahead. But if Shiro manages to beat Bukesh, it will be one and a half one and a half. And then Prag draws, it will be two-two.

And knight to e five.

शिरोक इज़ जंपिंग इन विथ इस नाइट टू डी थ्री, पांच मिनट्स, ट्वेंटी सेकंड्स फॉर गुकेश। टफ मोमेंट नो बिकॉज़ लुक रुक डी वन इज़ नॉट नैचुरल बिकॉज़ वी फील व्हाट इज़ द रुक डूइंग ऑन डी वन? या। रुक बी टू यू कैन't प्ले बिकॉज़ नाइट डी थ्री कम्स विथ अ टेम्पो अग To take, take, and take a pawn.

So you have to play knight d3, and now I chop it off. Now the point is, if you take with cd3, I will break with f3 to win this pawn.

And pawn e1 is putting pressure on e6, so discovery. Correct.

And the other point is, if you take ed, then I have knight takes, takes, and you need this rook here. So in a way, If Gukesh plays Rook BD1, we will all stand up and give him a standing applause. But where did the camera go?

Guys, 8,500 of you with us. These are the final moments of the open section between India and Spain. We are leading 1.5 to 0.2 boards remaining. Prague's game has went from Winning for Prag to equality, and Gukesh's board is complicated. Four minutes for Gukesh.

Ah, we need to stay here because Rook d1 is important, and I don't think it's very easy. f3 तो खेलना मुश्किल है ना नामुमकिन लग रहा है मेरे को। So all top three moves, guys: Rook b d1, Rook e d1, and f3. If Gukesh plays any of the move, like it's still a very safe situation.

Prag made a move. Can we go to Prag board?

No, he hasn't made a move yet.

Play it, play it. Okay, D8 played. Okay, that's not so bad. That's actually the best move here. But now for white, he has to find Rook c1 attacking the c4 pawn.

That's a very tough move.

Why would you say that? Because c3, it does— it feels like— yeah, makes sense.

Less than 3 minutes for Anton now. He has ten moves to make, and A four is a very tempting move for me in this position.

Trying to push A four is a very good move, Harshil.

No moves yet, guys. This is a critical board. If Prag wins, we clinch the match. If he doesn't, the match goes on to board number four. Down to two minutes thirty seconds now. Anton needs to move.

Okay, down to three minutes is. Still thinking over there, not yet made the move.

Two boards, so he's actually stressful situation. Actually, he's about to move the rook and he finds rook ac1. Anton Gujaro showing why he is a top class player and board one for the Spanish team here.

And now Prague c3 has to be played because if Prague takes on b6, then rook takes c4 and let's. Not forget that there is this extra pawn over here, unnecessary. You have to you know fight against that.

Yeah, and and by the way, Gukesh finds the most important move. Oh, lovely, lovely!

What an important move!

He finds Rook BD one, Knight D three, Bishop takes D three.

Bishop takes D three is a mistake. Yeah, big mistake by Shirov. Natural move when it is a mistake. You are very happy. So oops, very well done by Gukesh.

Yeah, and now F three is the move that Gukesh needs to find. If he finds it, he plays it.

Oh, that was a lovely move to give him plus three advantage. If he would have missed it, it would have been equal, literally equal. So well done. कहाँ खेला अभी तक?

It's not over until I win. And Gukesh seems to have played the move pawn to F three.

Yes, yes. Okay, important.

Lovely, lovely, Gukesh. What a fighter Gukesh is! And now you cannot take here because ये मर रहा है और फिर queen अंदर घुस रही है इधर. So that's not possible. But what else do you do? Because anyway the threat is take, take and blast open the king and you are an exchange up. So let's not forget that.

Absolutely. Through all this tough period, through all this negative comments, Gukesh still finding the energy. To play his best chess. Inspiring story of this young boy who became a world champion at 18, had a difficult period for the next one year, but is making a comeback again. He is making a comeback.

I'm so excited for the world championship between Ding and Gukesh. Do you guys think that Gukesh can win this night? But I don't know how this comment is being made, but थोड़ा सा time travel से बाहर आ गया। Cookie Monster, Cookie Monster. Guys, you can appreciate Gukesh only if later you don't want to criticize him. Otherwise, don't appreciate, don't criticize. But that's how the nature of the sport is. f3, Anton is about to make a move.

Goes Bishop to c5, and now again a critical moment, but Gukesh is doing it with 3 minutes 40 seconds. On the clock.

Oh, it's back! The camera is back.

The best move in the position.

Oh, did he play Rook c d? Yes, yes, it's happening.

And Sagar, he found f three also the only move.

Wow! Gooky OP guys in the chat. We went there. I think the camera I thought would not start, but it has started.

Great, Sagar. Wonderful. Whatever you did, I didn't do anything. No, Leonard.

So Rook b d one, he went Knight d three, he took and he took c d and f three भी खेल दिया भाई. Let's go Harshit. Bye. Come on. It's too good. Come on Harshit. Bye. It's too good. Bye. Okay sure.

Bye. He's down to less than three minutes now, Gukesh. But King h one or f e four both are winning. I think he's gonna play King h one. Let's go. I think he will. I think he's about To make the move with his king, which is in fact a winning move by F E four.

Yes, King H one.

And you see guys how the pendulum turns on the top board. Prag went from winning to drawing, but then on the other hand, Gukesh went from a complicated game to winning. This is what we need from Team India to stand up for each other.

And Raghuendra super chats as fans we can support and criticize. It's just not fair to ask us. Just to support and not criticize. We are humans with emotions. Aapra kadeti. Agreed. Yeah, yeah. Criticize actually criticizes you should definitely hate you should not. Yeah, that should be the word.

Okay. By the way, now maybe move Ochubia.

We should just quickly go and check that out as well. क्या कहला? Rook C one, C three was played and D seven. Yeah. तो draw की तरफ जाएगा या?

Oh, by the way, very tricky है रूप Rook takes d7, rook takes c3. Oh wow, that's the plan! Because if you take with the bishop, you lose the queen, and if you take with the queen, you lose the rook.

And this is perhaps what was missed by Pragnananda. But guys, it doesn't matter because Dukesh is doing the job on board number 4.

Let's go to Dukesh's game right now because it's, uh, he's under big time pressure. So that's something which he has to be very careful about, guys.

I like that Gukesh under time trouble is also being able to find the best moves. Somehow it reminds me of him in good shape. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, like this is— this— because earlier in time pressure he would blunder something, you know. In last one year we saw that.

And if we get to have an informed Gukesh on board 4, you really need to start praying for his opponents because Gukesh is going to try and win as much, uh, as He can here finds king to H1. Shirov under big, big pressure.

It's so interesting that a few days ago Javokir Sindaro came to India and played, and now Bukesh is in Uzbekistan and playing, and both of them not looking at each other. No, no, it's brewing there. It's super exciting. Woman can make 4-nil. Is that true, Amruta? Harshit bhai?

No, I think Savita was playing, and I don't think she. She was winning back then. I don't know right now, guys. How is Savita's position? Can you give us an update? Because we are going to be staying here. Very critical game. King H1. Like if for black, he can never take here. That is one amazing thing. If he ever takes, then takes, takes, and the black king is going to be blast, blasting open.

Yeah, she is having a small advantage, Savita. The women's team always looked in control. We were slightly nervous about the open section, but with Bhukesh just rising to the occasion when we needed him.

Fine, we needed him. B1 and F3, that's classic.

These were difficult moves, ah, in time pressure especially. Oh, Aditi Singh Rattor says was a pleasure meeting Harshit at the ITC Windsor. Thanks for the dinner, my man. I really am wondering who this person is.

Someone who knows you well, for sure making fun of you.

Dinner कहाँ गए थे हर्षित भाई?

हाँ सही तो मुझे ही नहीं पता। एक दिन याद है अपुन बोल रहा था हर्षित भाई साथ में खाएँगे और हर्षित भाई said today I cannot.

Oh God! And I think Shirov has come. To realization about how difficult his position has has become, and what if Shirov goes Bishop a8?

Maybe that seems like a logical try. Fe Bishop e4 Knight g4 because now the bishop is attacked and the e6 pawn also attacked. So I go Bishop f5 and Knight at Yeah. And then take the bishop, take the pawn on d3, and it's game over. So let's go to, uh, women's section, should we? I think, yeah.

I think they are winning, but right now I think we are at critical moment, so we should stay over here.

Okay, okay.

d7. Prag is still thinking, is down to 12 minutes. The clock is very, you know, similar to Gukesh and Shirov, just the opposite.

Gukesh is like relaxing.

He's like, ah, जीत गया। And sometimes, you know, Sagar and Harshit, the move King f7, which was the best move which Shirov found, but practically there was so much more to continue. So we should not fall for the engine evaluations.

Yeah.

By the way, you know, Gukesh is one player against whom practical chess doesn't necessarily work quite well because he's the calculator. So he just calculates his way, uh, to find the best move. And I think Magnus also mentioned this once, that, uh, Gukesh in terms of calculation is just, uh, just right, right up there, uh, amongst the best players.

Guys, how many of you remember the best game last Olympiad? Mukesh, first board and insane calculation. Who remembers?

Let's see the top opponent, right? Advantage. Okay, yeah, who was the opponent? But Hampi's position was looking like always she had to make these only moves to stay better. By the way, if you want to take some—

No, no, no, no, no, I just—

people are playing some music, so in case.

Yeah, yeah, that was Shitij, the top three ones instantly.

So if we just quickly check where did Hampi lose her edge because she was better here. She played the best moves. She was doing it. सब कुछ कर रही थी Hampi rightly and now Bishop D seven was also found. E four was last chance I think for Mughzul. Now rook b3 had to be played, but suddenly Humpy went f5 and the position. Oh, but he took here. Oh, I thought she should take here and knight c4, but she took here. That's also equal.

That's actually the best move.

Oh, she will sacrifice the next king.

Wow. Hey, but this is not so easy at all. That's what.

Even here, you have to take this. अर्शित पे पीस डाउन पोजीशन कौन खेल सकता है? या से नाइट है नहीं?

That's very tough.

So MP actually not equal. MP is better guys, but it seems very difficult for our opponent to play that equalizing line. Meanwhile Vaishali is still trying very well.

Still trying to win. Divya is completely winning.

Okay, Divya's opponent could resign any moment.

And Savita also has an edge.

Oh my god! Savita Shri is impressive. She's impressing one and all. With her feisty play.

Yeah, by the way, actually Shirok decided to take the pawn on a2. I don't think that the pawn on a2 was very important.

But that was a nice move, you know. Oh really? It's unbelievable. I also never thought bishop a2 pawn.

And he after f takes e4 moves the king to g7. But that means that Mukesh can simply chop another pawn on d3. Which, uh, which he will soon, as, uh, Gukesh is ready to make his next move. He's going to have a clear exchange up and an exposed king for his opponent.

Do you think this pawn can cause any trouble?

It's too, too long. I think by the time the pawn advances, Black's king is going to get checkmated because Rook d3 doubling on the d-line, and that's going to be it.

निशांत शर्मा सुपरचैट सागरन हर्षित वैरार तानिया एंड सहज कमेंटेटिंग। they are on the chess from India and chess twenty four India channels and also Tanya commentates both on the chess twenty four international and chess twenty four India channel so you can catch them all there. There are two different broadcasts this time we are here they are commentating back.

From home, and also there's today broadcast over here like from the venue.

There's Swidler, there's Christian Chirila, and there is also some interesting broadcasts happening in different languages.

Yesterday Ramesh was doing with his students.

Oh, by the way, I should tell there is one broadcast. Maybe our mods can help. Padmini Raoth, who is a former Indian Olympiad gold medalist on the fourth. Is right now doing live streams, Arshid bhai. She's doing an incredible job. So if some mod can put the link to Padmini's channel, guys, you can go and follow her. She's doing amazing job. She's creating amazing content.

Please do support her. Yeah. And also let's absolutely leave a raid on Chess with India Hindi. Nikhil Jain Hindi में जिनको भी सुननी commentary definitely वहाँ पे जाके Nikhil Jain Yes, Mayur.

Thank you so much for putting in the link of Padmini's channel. Anton in time trouble.

Oh yeah, he actually makes a move with just eight seconds on his clock. That game is heating up.

I think Prag may not give up his chance. He's like by मेरे को जीतना है. Dot. Thank you so much for your super chat. And going here to Pragnananda's board. We are on move 34. Six more moves to make. Anton Guiaro has just 38 seconds. Prag has 11 minutes. Yeah. Queen e4. Can we take here? Queen takes d7.

Tempting, but loses the pawn on c3.

You should not take. Take. Take the queen. You don't have a check here.

Exactly. 11 minutes for Prag is utilizing his time advantage.

I think Anton Guiaro has things under control somehow.

I mean, soch रहे हो even if you make a mistake, this is not a position where you will completely crash, right? Not much is happening even if you make a mistake.

Well, the thing is that he has the position under control, but the time is really worrisome for Anton Goyaro with just 38 seconds on the clock.

सहरे शॉट का क्या किया? Oh, we have Jay, Jay in the chat. I think Jay is Padmini's better half. Wow! Please share the link, guys.

You can go and subscribe to our channel also. Amazing. Okay, यहाँ पे ten minutes for Pragyananda. Mukesh वहाँ पे Shirov is thinking. So we'll stay where Prag is thinking right now.

Yeah. More critical. Ten minutes for By the way, you can see Shreenath a bit worried there. We can see this entire view, the tension. In the air always with all the people around. But today I think India is in control with Arjun having already scored the win.

Exactly. I don't think that the match was ever like the match result was ever in question. The only question was with what margin we are gonna win this match because Arjun winning on board two was just a huge boost for Team India.

But today after a long time, like normally the women's One of them is finished, right? But अभी तक everybody is playing.

Yeah, no move yet by Prag. You can see him on the camera there. Prag, come on! Drinking some water. He's bobbing his head, feeling confident.

Like my point is, stop who is to go Queen c five. Exactly. Queen f two, Queen e eight. Is Queen f two a possibility, Sagar? Yeah. Because I want to go Bishop takes c one.

I'm just worried that. Would you get some kind of trouble? Oh no no wait wait wait! Oh my God!

By the way, let's think.

Oh rook takes pawn, bishop takes, and now queen and you lose because if you take, it's a checkmate. So you have to defend this pawn, and queen c five is the best. Okay, awesome.

Mukesh Kapoor, zero played. Dukesh is down to 1 minute 43 seconds.

5 moves to make for him though. He is up an exchange. I don't think we need to worry a lot, guys. Knight to g4 is a killer move here.

Knight g4, but have to be careful about the e1 rook, bishop f2 ideas. But knight g4 stops it. Queen e5 check, and the knight and the queen is a Great combo.

It's a deadly combo. Sagar bhai, you're doing a great job rooting for Team India to win this all of us.

It's all of us together here. Ten thousand people and three of us. I think we're all Queenie five check.

Oh, is it winning? Like Queenie five.

Yeah, and he plays knight f one actually.

Even better. Even better. You know, it's a calm aggression.

If Shiro is not careful. Queen e5 check will drop the bishop. Amruta, check and your bishop is lost.

Buki is back, guys, back and alive. He's going to win this game and that's a big win for him. Back-to-back wins. Won his game yesterday with black, now with the white pieces played a super game.

It has been an amazing— I would call this a very geometrical game. It was so good.

संबसिवम इन द चैट, लेट्स गो सेज़ गुकेश विल विन, ही फाइंड्स द ओनली मूव्स। यस, आई थिंक गुकेश इज़ गिविंग एवरीवन नॉट जस्ट द हैप्पीनेस ऑफ़ हिम विनिंग, बट लाइक एवरीवन वाज़ थिंकिंग कि भाई क्या हो गया है गुकेश को? एवरीवन लाइक अच्छा ठीक है, चलो वापस तो आ रहा है, धीर Then 2300 or 2400, then 2500, now 2600. It's muscle memory, guys.

It's muscle memory. Gukesh has done it before, is finding his form once again here in the FIDE Chess Olympiad. Shirov has no good move than to just stop the clock right now because Queen e5 check.

Queen f2, I thought, was a move. Queen f2 takes, takes. Oh, Rook e2. Can you show it, Amruda? It's a beautiful line. Take, take, e2.

That's it. Very quick to spot tactics.

Or double attacks, Arshid is very good at. He can focus on one place and do something else.

Queen d6 played. Queen d— but trade. Yeah, trade and Rook a1.

Let's be very accurate, Arshid bhai. Maybe Knight e3 first to stop Bishop c4. Or too much?

I think it's you know we now have the luxury of of choosing because the advantage is simply too big for Gukesh. Four more moves to make until the time control.

But one minute on the clock and you know even if you guys said takes let's go to Prag's game because Gukesh is winning. Yeah yeah yeah he played he played.

Let's go over to the Prag board and here we see queens have been traded which means that Anton Guiaro gets a lot of stability here. He should have kept the queens perhaps. But now after Rook d8, Rook c2 again. Anton finds the best move. And if you take here, take here and take this, this will be another long game. a4 and I think this is very difficult to win, right?

Yeah, very tough to win.

c3 pawn and a4. फिर चलेगा अगर.

But if I do this, but Dukesh's board पे result आने वाला है। चलो उधर रखते हैं दो final. Rook a1 played. Rook a1 played and result No, not just yet. Just yet.

Gukesh is already looking at other games, and he's like, "Ah, by Jitray." Bishop to C four, Rook A one, Bishop C four has happened, and now Knight E three. Hello, hello, Bishop C four. No, no, no, no, no.

I think Knight E three is it because Bishop C four is Rook D one.

Ah, and Bishop B five C four.

What if Bishop E two directly?

C four played.

No, knight e three played. Bishop e two, rook a two, rook a two.

Savita winning. What? Vaishali lost on time?

No way. Oh no, by forty first move. Ah guys, bishop to b three played by Shirov. But guys, this is over. This is over.

Mukesh is winning. Once he loses the a pawn, I think Shiro will resign then. Yeah. Bishop b three. Marlow by a six. This is also attack.

Guys, we have a new commentator joining us. The most talented boy in the house. We have Vedant Shetty is here. Vedant, hello. How are you? Vedant, how was your game today? Good to see you. I'm also. Wow. Wow, your second win! Yeah, 2 out of 4. Yeah, man, you're killing it! Thanks. Are you enjoying, uh, these victories, or you are like, okay, it doesn't matter whether I win or lose?

Enjoying a bit, but after some time, well, I just get prepared for the next one.

Oh my God, wow, too good! Very professional.

You're for a bit, but after some time I just prepare for the next. Yeah, I love it.

I love your approach. Uh, you, you come from a country where— are there any IMs?

No.

Any GMs?

In our country, uh, we don't really— we only have 2 title players, I believe. Only one FM, CM.

And one F2M is starting very soon.

For me, traveling is very hard as it is pretty expensive to travel to other countries, and it's difficult. So I would love if I could get some sponsorship and Man, are you ten?

Yeah. How come you know you're so smart? Harshit bhai. Crazy. You are amazing. So you want to become a GM or a world champion?

I can go for both. For both? Yeah. Bye, Harshit bhai. ऐसे जवाब कहाँ सुने हैं कि नहीं? Hindi आती है तुम्हें? I'm learning Hindi just recently. समझ में आता है Hindi?

Can you say one line? नहीं अच्छा हूँ। All right.

इतना क्यूटी है ये बाप। Vedant, that's amazing.

Vedant, do you enjoy Prag's games or? Yeah, he is really aggressive. Or Gukesh's games? Because both are playing.

I mean, I like both for the different styles. Prag is generally more aggressive and his games are really intense. But Gukesh also his way of playing is real. Really strong, in my opinion.

Would you like to ever come to India and play? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think like there'll be very strong players there, so you don't want to come?

Could you repeat? No.

In India, there are very strong players. Yeah. Yeah. So it can be. Oh my God! Humpy is losing. Humpy in trouble. Oh my goodness! Things have turned around. Vedant, Humpy was winning since the opening.

अंकित लूजिंग, वेदा सॉरी, बाईशाली इस, वाशि विनिंग?

नो शीज़ आल्सो नॉट विनिंग। दिव्या इज़ विनिंग एंड सविता इज़ विनिंग। थैंकफुली दिस हैज़ चेंज मैन्स। सविता इज़, सविता सेव्ड है। बट आई थिंक सविता का गेम इज़ स्टिल अ फाइटिंग गेम, राइट?

हाँ हाँ, बिकॉज़ क्यों Is she? I think she should be able to win considering her opponent doesn't have enough time, but she can blunder here, so it's definitely possible.

Any move that comes to your mind, white to play, what would you play? Knight f5?

Yeah, that or knight g4, I think. Knight g4 or knight f5. Hey, Gupesh, what?

Just a moment. No, 40 moves are done, guys.

No flag. It's 40 moves are done and both of them would Have gone to washroom.

But Savita is just Knight f5, it's the easiest, I think, right? Threatening checkmate on h7 and you cannot stop it.

Yeah, I like that.

By the way, look at how—

which one is it?

Everyone is surrounding this.

No, no, this was, I think, older one.

Knight g4 played by Savita. Wow, very clean.

Oh, all our players are still there.

Yeah, still playing. Crazy, man.

सामिता विल बी द फर्स्ट प्लेयर तू विन एंड वेदांत हाउ वाज़ योर टीम स्कोर टुडे आई थिंक वी गोट टू टू एंड अदर टीम गोट टू विच आई थिंक इट्स प्रिटी गुड वी गोट ड्रॉ आई मैनेज्ड टू विन एंड अ टीम कैप्टन आल्सो मैनेज्ड टू विन सो इट वाज़ प्रिटी गुड आई थिंक आर योर आर योर ब्र So you were born in India? You know, you know Tulu language? I used to be able to speak a lot, but now that I moved to the Caribbean, it's more English. But I can understand, you know.

I'm, I'm so much in awe of your maturity and your— the way you are talking. I really hope that you get a sponsor to support your journey of becoming the first ever GM from The Saint Vincent and Grenadines. Grenadines. Thank you. Thank you. You're amazing and all the best, Vedant. Whenever you have time, whenever you finish your game, dude, come here, okay? We are— you have a lifetime pass to this studio. Sure. I mean, this tournament is only for 5-6 days, but you have a lifetime pass.

When's your birthday? January 13th.

Good luck. Thank you. Let's go, guys! That was Vedant Shetty from Saint Vincent and Grenadines. Insane! Two out of two. The boy just knows his stuff there. By the way, Savita has a big moment.

Two minutes for her. Thirty seventh move. She needs to find a win here, which is which doesn't come very easily.

Yes, but meeting eleven क्यों दिखा रहे हैं? It's not easy to find it actually. Not seen the move yet, but let's try to find check.

I'm thinking knight f six check first, but maybe it doesn't work.

Gf queen f seven king h eight queen f six king h seven.

Yeah, that's winning, right?

How? Knight f six check is winning.

Okay, that's no, but knight f six gf six. Can you show it?

Ah, got it.

Queen f seven. Yeah. King h eight queen f six queen g six king h seven जाएंगे ना and so king h seven पहले यहाँ पे Queen f7 and Queen f8 and Rook f7 and that's game over.

By the way, Savita played Queen f5 check.

That's also a great move.

That's actually the best because now after King h8 she can actually go Knight to f6 with the same idea.

Wow! Mate is threatened. Wow! It's going to be the same thing after Queen takes f6. Yeah. So that's happening.

So Savita हंड्रेड परसेंट इस विनिंग अगेंस्ट मुंबई टोल। शीज़ द ओनली प्लेयर फ्रॉम बोथ द टीम्स आउट ऑफ़ बोथ द टीम्स हुआस वन ऑल ऑफ़ हर गेम। ओह यस, द ओनली प्लेयर। नॉन, शी विल बी फोर ऑफ़ फोर, दैट्स अ हंड्रेड परसेंट फोर ऑफ़ मीनिंग। शी माइट बी लाइक वन ऑफ़ द वेरी फ्यू प्लेयर्स। It's okay.

Yeah, let's let's stay here for a while because we know that open.

I was bit winning. I was a bit.

Divya is winning. I just checking that she's.

Amura, let's stay with Savita's board because look at her in the distance there. You can see her. She's like sitting on the board like as if she wants to pounce on her opponent because will she find knight f six? And she does, I guess. I wait a second. What did she play? Not sure. रग ड्रू चेक डब ओह रग ड्रू। so we'll win three one in the open I think because Mukesh is winning and let's go। what shot?

yeah he has got it। Samita OP crazy crazy let's go Samita। I have played against Mungunpal by the way man she is striking she is striking on board four for Team India it is great news for everyone watching Because Humpty was in some small trouble, but this is the team India that everyone fears. Because if they are struggling on one board, suddenly there is one player who you know manages to counter that.

And what about King G six here? Do we see a mate? I think King G just move the knight and Queen F five is mate.

Yeah, Knight E eight maybe. Wow! For Knight H ninety eight is good.

Yeah. Mukesh won.

Mukesh won. Mukesh won.

Let's go, Gukki boy!

Let's go!

Actually resigned after h5, rook c6.

There you see Gukki gets some on the shoulder. Let's go!

I've done it! We have done it!

Lovely!

What a beautiful moment and gesture there by Gukesh saying that like, Prag, I know you are better, but you know, we have done it! We have done it! The final score being 3-1 for Team India against the team of Spain.

3-1, amazing score. And there you see Prag, Gukesh, Srinath, everyone celebrating here. A very steady performance thanks to Ajubhai leading from the front, Nihal having no problems to draw his game with the black pieces, and then striking Gukesh. I mean two white wins, two black draws. Prag would be a bit upset that he could have also scored a win.

Yeah, that would have been. But he did well. And you want to win when you have played such amazing opening. You have so much time, one hour more on the clock, and you find a move like bishop d two. You want it to be master piece.

So थोड़ा सा सारा वहाँ पे। Let's go to the women's section now, Amruta Harshibhai. Finally, let's do the honors of updating the score. Four card, maybe. हाँ, of course we have to change the board.

Shiro definitely not happy with what happened. Oh, she played King G six.

Yeah, but move forty has been reached.

अच्छा, Savita can take her time and then we need to look at Hampi's game because Hampi and Vaishali both of them. Vaishali. Oh sorry.

The party has begun here guys. You can hear a bit of music. In the background, Humpy's move forty also done. I'm pretty sure Humpy is like what went wrong?

Yeah. Yeah. Open game suddenly finished before like nobody thought that they are going to be the ones.

Why Humpy ने ये pawn मारा वो बहुत गलत हो गया I think.

Yeah because now Rook a seven.

Just gave she gave all the white pieces are now active.

So the women's team still have some work to do. Their work is cut out because Divya and Savita Shree are winning, which actually saves the day for us. The women team might have a close victory today. Two and half, one and half.

Maybe three one. Oh, if Hampi loses, right?

Yeah, guys. Men team won three to one. That's a big win for the Indian Open section. Women's section में Hampi wasn't in complete control but fumbled a little bit there and now it's Savita Shree who is Hey resignation! Savita wins.

Let's go. Oh no, it's Divya who wins. Divya की opponent resign. I think Savita's opponent will also resign. Yeah. So Divya Deshmukh scores the first win for Team India here. And she played well today, actually.

Very smooth. Very smooth. Very clean game by Divya. And here you can see the scorecard is updated one to zero for the women's team. Savita Shree's game पे जाते हैं because that game is also going to be over any moment now. She is just making sure that you know after reaching the time control she doesn't rush with her decision. Well, many moves are winning here. Knight e8 is winning. Knight h5 is also winning.

Rakshit bhai saying I'll also give you the automatic scorecard tomorrow, brother Ling.

Which one? कौन सा automatic फोर कार्ड। अच्छा। I think automatic, automatic chat translate। देखिए क्या है? हाँ, because of the English translation। भाई वो कैसे turn off करने का? Guys, how to turn off this English?

I don't want only। नहीं वो कल भी last time भी बाद में करके नहीं हुआ था। कहीं पे तो सेटिंग्स आ लाइव चैट ट्रांसलेशन हो गया या टर्न इट ऑफ़ ये जो पिक्चर है मेम्बर यू हैव टेन थाउजेंड पीपल वाचिंग सागर शाह एंड विमेन्स गेम्स आर स्टिल वेरी वेरी इंटरेस्टिंग वी आर गेटिंग टू विंस राइट नाउ But very important is Vaishali's game and Hampi's game because we need to score at least half a point over there.

Yeah, which, which I think we will get from Vaishali.

I was wondering if Vaishali, you know, was so better. Anything can go wrong.

By the way, she's down to 6 minutes. I hope she knows that she cannot take further risks. She needs to pull the brakes and, uh, get India the half Point to make sure we win because we don't want everything to go down to her board with one minute on the clock, still needing half a point. Let's go, Team India! Let's go!

We have to do the dance.

Ah, bye! For the men's open section, let's do it.

And we have to do the salsa dance, bye. You have to teach me salsa and bachata, whatever you know. Okay. सीट प्रॉपरली है भाई। For the men's team, open team। भाई, it's not that I am an expert, but you know it. You have learnt it.

Okay, let's go.

Guys, for having the score for team India three one. I think after two and a half one पहली बार हुआ ना?

नहीं, day one के बाद हुआ three one। No, we have won one match three one and now the second one and two matches two and a half one। ओके भाई ये बहुत साल से क्या कर रहे हैं भाई ऑप्शंस इस स्पेनिश विक्ट्री हम बीट स्पेन राइट हाँ वी हैव टू डू दैट स्टार्ट वी कैन जस्ट डू लाइक दिस होल्डिंग हैंड एंड देन भाई तुम मुझे घुमाओगे मैं तुम्हें घुमाऊँगा आपका स्टेप पता है भाई भाई पर जस्ट वन सेकंड गैस अरे हर्षित भाई Know salsa who are in the chat, you can please guide over here.

While the you know women's games are quite stressful, we are hoping that they will also convert it.

Advanced चाहिए भाई. एक पैर पीछे एक पैर अगेन देना है जस्ट turn हो गया। Okay done. Guys ready? Today is our dance and all the people are watching here can. See us and bye one pair again. And let's go, bye! Let's go, Team India with the win!

That was good actually. Let's go! Much better than what you do the dance with me, Sagar. Harshit के साथ ज़्यादा अच्छा किया था। Thank you, Ambita. Exactly. Congratulations. And we have Manasvi who says this is the only commentary which is multilingual, multi-genre, sometimes comedy, sometimes dance, sometimes भाई मैं तभी आया एक मिनट में हाँ हर्षित भाई हाथ दो क्या ना भाई अपने चैनल में कुछ भी चल रहा है देखना नहीं कोई भी अबाव एटीन सॉरी गाइस सॉरी भाई इफ़ आई एम सो इर्रिटेटिंग तो देख क्यों रहे हो समझ नहीं आ रहा इतने सारे चैनल हैं तो जाओ एंड ऑल दोज़ वांट टू रिमूव मी कैन प्लीज So they write to you, guys.

थोड़ा अमृता के लिए प्यार हो जाए। Her throat is paining.

I don't care. It doesn't impact me.

But her throat is paining.

I'm super thick skin. मतलब मैं पतली हूँ but I'm super thick skin, guys. What a joke! कैसा लगा jokes आए? बढ़िया अमृता। बढ़िया। Guys, सागर का shirt if you like it come to the P D store बहुत सही। अरे guys Don't worry, don't worry. I know you all love me. Like I that's the only thing. वही positivity देखती हूँ मैं। I have only one thing. All those who write negative comments, there is something negative happening, so they have to express and it helps them. So I only feel compassion. So nothing to worry. Don't worry. अरे सागर तुमने क्यों? Hey in the chat. Let's go.

Thank you guys for all the love and support. Very kind. Meanwhile, can Vaishali convert this into a win? And you can see Humpy is trying. We, we did speak a lot of nice stuff about Humpy today, but it seemed like under time pressure she did lose her way, and that could cost her the full point. But maybe she'll be able to defend it is what we feel is also possible. Meanwhile, Lakshma Sharma, love to Lakshma, love to all three of you. Bye. Thank you.

Bye. Let's look at Amruta.

How many people actually send love? It is 100x more than the hate. Actually, love is always there calmly sitting. Uh, there, while hate is very vocal. So we sometimes think there is more hate, but there is more love, I feel, in the world.

Nice, thank you very much.

Savita did make her move. Let's go and see, did Savita play Knight e8 or Rook f3? Let's go, Savita! Savita moves her rook one step ahead, threatening Rook g3, and these are the basic Forms of attack which she learnt as a little kid. Savita will have no issues in finishing this off, and her victory is even more commendable because it comes against a very well-known player. I am Munguntul Batkuyag. If you just search about Munguntul, which I'm going to do now, uh, she has achieved So much. So just to see, Munguntul Batkhuyag is a Mongolian chess player who is an IMW GM, and she has competed in 2 world championships, 2008, 2010. And, uh, Munguntul played for the Mongolian team in Chess Olympiad as well as Nations Cup, Asian Games. Many, many achievements to her credit. Yeah, so good to see that a youngster like Savita is getting the better of her. Mandy says lots of love and respect to Amruta and Sagar. Bye, thank you, thank you. Super chat, Amruta plus Sagar is equal to Amrit Sagar.

Delhi में sorry Bandra में एक restaurant Amrut Sagar करके सागर साकार चेस सेंड फाइव चेसबेस इंडिया गिफ्ट मेंबरशिप्स थैंक यू साकार चेस संकेत जोशी अमृता हेटर्स गोना हेट लेट्स गो टीम सीबीआई लेट्स गो भाई लेट्स गो दक्षिण सर शर्मा से लव टू ऑल थ्री ऑफ यू पापरे इतना तो सोचा नहीं था सागर ने जो बोल दिया और इतना प्यार मिला क्रेजी क्रेजी so that is really important and I do not let anything negative impact me and it also helps you know the mental strength so I think screening has helped a lot because छोटी-छोटी चीजें impact होती नहीं है so that is really really good that way और समय रहना यार एक दिन हमलोग कल zoom setup एक काम करते हैं the बरमुड़ा party days अगर we should call समय Try to call Samay and see if he's available. कल ही आया लेटन नया। Oh Mayur Gondalekar member for sixty eight months, backer of Indian chess. Says I can give you salsa lessons अगर Mayur को पता है salsa क्या? और तुम दोनों को नहीं पता। You are absolutely Useless, not at all. For salsa, I mean.

But Samay is in Switzerland, right?

So five children in their gift memberships. वो Switzerland में हैं, तो वो vacation पे रहेगा ना?

I think so. From his stories, I see that he is in Switzerland. So maybe right now let's not disturb him. Let him come back. मतलब समय काम में है तो actually call करना easier है but vacation पे है तो नहीं। Well in general his vacations में also he's working because he edited an episode so I think he mixes it up everything.

Exactly. No I think we will definitely call बोमुड़ा पार्टी लेके वाली है पहले ही message करके रखना सागर। हाँ। So we can call him that time. That will be awesome.

By the way let's analyze Vaishali's game because her opponent played a very good move. Bishop H2, knight takes A5. As we can hear, hey Macarena being played in the background here. So the thing is, in the Expo Center, they have this amazing thing where they are dancing on every single day. Maybe yesterday they did not. So every alternate day, and everyone's just going wild. So that's really cool. And Amruta, I'm going to start. The television here. I was a bit worried about the internet because at some point it stopped working, so I thought this would take up more internet.

Anil bhai, thank you for your super chat.

Okay, that is. Can you please ask Bukesh to join you for commentary? I think Bukesh usually. Likes to join after the tournament ends, so we will respect that and we will ask him after it is over. But maybe we could have asked Ajubai to join today, but I think Arjun also won't join until a few rounds.

I think it's very important for them to to see their wife. If like Wesley joined, he felt like at that time he was relaxed. किसी का गेम जल्दी खत्म हुआ. If at all they finish their game.

Maybe they will join. Yeah, by the way, Karen says at GCL we met Amruta. She signed on our chessboard while leaving some space for Sagar in the same square, but we unfortunately couldn't meet Sagar. Sorry, bye. Sorry, Karen. Anyway, Amruta was very sweet. Someone said Amruta is a beautiful soul. Bye, Amruta. क्या चल रहा है? Everyone's like amazing. Vidit can join. Actually, we can ask. विदित तू ज्वाइन एट सम पॉइंट मेबी ही विल हैव सम टाइम सागर भाई आल्सो ट्राई टू अपलोड रैंकिंग ऑन डेली बेसिस ऑन आर सोशल मीडिया वी हैव रैंकिंग्स बीइंग अपलोडेड एवरी सिंगल डे नाउ नाउ इट बिकम्स मोर रेलेवेंट बिकॉज़ अंटिल नाउ देर वेर लाइक 21 टीम्स ऑन फुल पॉइंट्स बट A view of what has happened today because everyone's thinking. Let's take it from the top. We have Uzbek team actually winning today because there were two draws on top two boards with Sindarov and Nodirbek drawing, but Nodirbek Yakubov struck gold and Shamshidin Vokhidov drew with Chan Emre. In the USA versus Ukraine match, Ivanchuk is slightly worse against Fabi. Wesley beat Anton Korobov. Levon Aronian is now winning against Dvetyarov, and Samunenko drew Hans Niemann. So it will be 3-1 in the favor of US. In the India versus Spain, it was 3-1 victory for India. In China versus Serbia, draw on board one between Ding and Sarana, where he completely crushed his opponent here in Jik. Yu Yangyi versus Predke very likely to end in a draw. Maximovich versus Kong Xiangrui will end in a win for Kong Xiangrui, so China will win three one. Meanwhile, we have a super chat by Tathagat. Person comments negative is just suffering from achieving nothing in life, not even love from close ones. We can't imagine chess without Amrit Sagar. That's very kind of you, uh, and thank you for your super chat. And also, we had a contributor on Help Chess Amruta, Raja Ram. Thank you for becoming believer of Indian chess.

And moving on, Amruta, we have also the next section where as we are giving a round up all those who are joining a bit late. Giving a round up. Sai Sian says what Harsha Gupta was.

अरे इतना नहीं मैंने Anjum Chopra. Anjum Chopra, not sure.

खत्म हो गए सब games?

नहीं just देख रहे हैं दूसरे boards.

Thank you but Sai.

And by the way, we have Vincent and Dura is ending in a draw. Yeah, draw there. Bluebaum Gumulars drew. Draw in Suana Frederick versus Jan Malek. And Donchenko is beating Kosakowski. Meanwhile, Anish Giri won. Jordan won. Luke Van Veli is losing to Porculus Adretis Tamatis, and Chopin Casper is losing by two-two. हो जाएगा because Anish won, right? Anish and Jordan won. Yeah. Well, that was always going to happen. The Dutch Dutch team was very strong on one and two, but on three and four they are a bit weak.

Actually, Casper Chopin is The second loss of the event.

If you remember, he already lost a game before. Azerbaijan versus Czech have draws on top two boards, while on board three equal. Hi, did you go and dance little bit? Why not? Sorry. Amazing. Let's go and dance.

Actually, I never thought Harshit bhai is going to come back.

You know, I thought इतना म्यूमेंट चल रहा है तो फिर डांस मैकर होना नहीं अमृता। हाँ, फिर मैकर माकर रो ये माकर है ना माकर है ना हाँ जो भी चल रहा है वही and okay just to see oh Begim won okay माकर होना कौन है मैरा मैरा डोना है वो okay by the way खामदा मोवा is still playing and गुलरुख बेगिम won उमोद उमोनोवा won I think oh And Karimova is winning. I think the Uzbek team is looking good. Yeah, it's a good team. Hi, look at this! People can follow our stream here.

But you chat signal. Hi all. Oh, this looks so good, man.

I want to show people. Yeah, let's show it. अच्छा आप आगे लेके जा रहे हो भाई crazy and this okay press enter and whatever we are showing अच्छा it's not coming full आई नहीं रहेगा oh they are show oh TV is being shown in the TV it's an inception अमृता आराम से slow pan And guys, this is the Friday lounge with lot of people here. Amruta, can I send you a Zoom link? You can show what's happening outside. Maybe I'll Zoom link. थोड़ा complicated है। रहने दे। क्या हो रहा है by the way?

Humpty is still in trouble here.

Yeah, this is going to be a long trouble for Hampi. I think it's going to be very tough to hold this.

This is a long struggle. She's down a pawn, and actually the material is not down. She's gonna lose this pawn on d5 soon. So Mungul is going to press for a long time here. Vaishali's game. This is a board which was very important, but I think it's Vaishali who's playing for a win with. The pawns on D five and C six. Yeah.

Oh my God! Why? Looking so good.

Started from the bottom. Now I'm here. You, भाई?

हम तो भाई नहीं भाई ऐसा कुछ नहीं। Guys, the one thing that we don't think is that we started from somewhere. But so many people help. That is the main thing, Harshit bhai. Cannot really say that we did anything.

It's okay, Amruta. I'll actually go and eat soon.

कहाँ जा रहे हो भाई? हाँ? Where? I don't know.

Maybe here or something because I didn't have lunch.

So today, Harshit bhai, your health is looking a bit low.

I don't know. Like somehow I think this light affected my eyes.

Which light? This. I don't know.

इतना छोटू सा नहीं मैंने इट्स इट्स हाय यू हैव डन ईडब्ल्यूसी वगैरह में इतने बड़े-बड़े लाइट्स हाँ आई थिंक टुमारो आई ट्राई टू वेयर लेंसेस नहीं बट मैं ऑफ रखती हूँ ना डोंट हाँ वी कैन कीप इट ऑफ एंड आल्सो हर्षित भाई यू वेंट ऑन अ बाइक टूर नो येस्टरडे हाउ वाज इट हाउ इसे हैपन व Cycling, cycling. So you can go. How many kilometers?

There is a tour. Where did you get the cycle?

So you go to a location, the mall, and then you meet the tour guide, and then you cycle for two hours, two and a half hours, and he shows you around important places of Samarkand. No way!

And पूरा समरगन देख लिया?

पूरा नहीं, जो दो घंटे में साइकिल से देख सकते हैं। कैसा था? It was very. I just wanted to like get up early and do some exercise. So I felt very— Who told you to do this? I only felt this.

No, like, how did you get to know about this?

Generally, like, you know, I'm not going anywhere in the night, so I felt like I should maximize my time, my morning.

So I felt to do that.

My option was either horse riding or a bike tour, but the horse riding was like 4, 4 and a half hours, so I decided to go with the cycling.

Wow, amazing! By the way, guys, very beautiful move played by Savita. She was going to give a check, but the rook was blocking. So she just said, "Let me stop that with H four." That's a top move. And if you take here, I have check king here, check king here, and mate.

Top move by by Savita Shri. And she she is proving again and again why she has been a part of this Indian team, and she very well. Could be the reason for Indian team's success.

But this does remind of you know Savita first Olympiad four out of four. Mukesh does it not remind you of Mukesh's seven out of seven?

Well, she she is gonna face some stiff competition from tomorrow. But to defeat an international master from Mongolia is is a is a big feat, especially in In the Olympiad, where every point has a lot of importance.

I want to also tell you everyone here that while the other countries have usually four or five good players, India currently, if Savita after Savita, we have players like Dikshita Modipalli who is around 2400. Then we have someone like Shubhi Gupta who. Who's in the chat? Then we have Sahiti Varshini. We have Patmini Rao. We have Pratiti played. Pratiti Bordoloi. Tanya as well. Tanya Sachdev decided to make a decision. She's not going to play much. But we have a very nice group of young girls who are coming up, and actually that means that Indian chess is not only about let's say Hampi Harika. और वैशाली, दिव्या, वंतिका, but also the next generation is churning. And I can say the same in the boys section.

That's happening. By the way, people are.

Who? Rakshita. Rakshita. Rakshita Ravi. Correct. So in a way, there is a very high bench strength, you know, of the team. And maybe if we have now, if we soon have ten players about 2400, that would be really cool. I think India is right now six or seven about 2400, but maybe we need ten twelve.

And and and you know like I have said this before on stream, but you know many very often we see the players growing up and becoming top players. But this their journey of becoming a top player actually has needs a lot of resources. And I think Sagar bhai, you, Amruta, the team of ChessBase India has been. Giving people that opportunity to make it to the next level. And I think the seeds, you know, very often, you know, when the tree goes up, before that, the seed needs to grow down. And I think you are doing a big part of making sure that the fundamentals are being met for these players.

Yeah, thank you, Harshit bhai. I think we start to identify the youngsters from Under-7 or Under-9 Nationals already. So you will see that we did try to support young girls. For example, Arshia Das is one of them who is now the first WIM from Northeast India. Then there is the girl named Maitreyi Mondal who's born in 2012. I think she's 13 years old. She's someone we are supporting. Then Pratiti, who's now reached a really high rating. Not just us, like the thing is Ours is a small part of contribution financially. There are coaches, there is, uh, there are Group E4 is another such place which is supporting. There is academies like Chola Chess who are really contributing. So a lot of people coming together, and I think Help Chess is one more resource which is helping these youngsters. So whenever you contribute, we use those funds very carefully in building these next Gen of Indian chess, and Savita is one of those examples whom we had supported with our YouTube memberships back in 2020. So, and currently now, I am sure this performance will give her more sponsors, more supporters in the years to come. Absolutely. Yeah, well said, guys.

Well said, Sagar bhai. Guys, you as well, you know, thank you so much for being with us, giving us so much support. As the Indian men's team are you know counting on your energy and well wishes. Well, we are doing well so far. So good so far. Yeah. Won all our matches. The women's team also on course to win their fourth game. And कल से बहुत ही tough competitions on your way.

शिवभाई की जाने की तैयारी चल रही है। इसके लिए पूरा round up दे रहा है कि अभी मैं party चल रहा है। नहीं नहीं नहीं I'm not going to party.

हर्षित भाई के चेहरे पे दिख रहा है कि he's going to have a quiet night today. Yes, maybe he will order a soup. He will maybe.

Sir, guys, I can tell you there these two guys. Are they here?

Can we call them? He's there. See. Very very. Can we call Karan? He's standing there, I think. Who are helping us with the food, I guess. Yeah. Yes, because here it has been quite difficult. To find food because where we are staying there are no restaurants nearby. We come home around ten, ten thirty and then we are trying to figure out कि भाई कहाँ से खाना मंगाए, where to get it. So just two days ago we had Karan bhai who joined us. आजा भाई Karan bhai who joined us here and that's Karan. He's भाई Karan आपके यहाँ पे रहते हो। You he lives in Uzbekistan in Samarkand. He's studying and he said like I will help you guys with the food. So he basically orders food for us and gets it delivered.

या और he books a taxi. वो तो पहले I will cook, I will cook and I will bring. I will मतलब नहीं भाई ऐसा कुछ नहीं सिर्फ restaurant को बोलना है taxi book करता है every night we are getting Indian food. Food since last two days and it has that feels amazing. Yeah exactly. Thank you, thank you so much.

Thank you, thank you sir.

आप लोगों को स्क्रीन पे देखते थे sir। बस एक वही था कि आप आए हो कोई हेल्प करते बस इतना ही होता sir। मैं तो क्या ही हूँ वैसे। Thank you और आज आप इधर काफी enjoy कर रहे हो आज expo में कैसा रहा experience? काफी अच्छा sir। मजा आ रहा है? जी जी जी बिल्कुल। बढ़िया। ये सब आपकी मेर Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And this is the reason why we always—

without you guys, bless you, Sagar bhai, because there are people, yeah, who are supporting.

So if, if there is ever a thought that, oh, I did it or we did it, I think that would be an incorrect Feeling because without food, Arshid bhai, what would we have done? Yeah. Sound is there.

हाँ गया था बीच में। Okay guys, I will take your leave.

What a nice day!

Another day at the Indian women have not yet won. Yeah, but I think you are leaving at a time where you are like Arshid bhai बोल रहे हैं भाई जीत ले। Because Savita is completely winning after the last two exports.

So I think. I think we are basically have won the match because Vaishali will draw for sure.

Exactly. She's pushing. Yeah. Okay. Arshid bhai, see you guys.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Arshid bhai.

कल का प्रोग्राम बता देना सागर को भागने बुला देना। And guys, let's go now to People were saying, Amruta, if we could explain Savita's last couple of moves. Because in this position, if you see, guys, Savita found first a beautiful move— knight jumping in with a check. And we analyze this. You can't take here because of a very important check. King goes back. Only move check. Very important again. King can come here or here. If you go here, I check and it's a mate. And if you go here, then check, check, check, check, and mate. So these this is a way to checkmate here. So, her opponent decided not to pick up the knight, and she came up. And Savitha had many ways to win. One of the prettiest ways was knight e8. Whatever you take back with, queen f5 is a checkmate. But, uh, she went for a very interesting idea, rook f3, with the idea of mating this way. Opponent tried to block here, and this is where Savitha unleashed an incredible move. H four calmly controlling the G five square so that check cannot be met with a block.

That's no, that's really impressive. मतलब four out of four this tournament could be a game changer for Savita's career. I mean, two words. Yeah, and firstly you feel very nervous sometimes when you are when you first go to the hall. It's so intimidating.

Actually, Amrita, the thing is. Olympiad is an intimidating tournament, but when your abilities surpass the environments you are in, you usually don't feel afraid. And I feel for Savita, she, she has been feeling that she belongs to the top of Indian chess or the world of chess for quite some time. Do you remember the time when in 2020 23 or 22, it was when we went to the World Rapid and Blitz in, uh, Kazakhstan.

Yeah.

She won a bronze medal when she was 15 years old in World Rapid Championship. Think about it, guys. There were players like Maria Muzychuk, Anna Muzychuk, um, world-class players. I'm sure the Chinese Girls were there. So many players were there, world champions, former world champions, and she finished third there in such a field. Was it 23 or 22?

I think it was no exactly or when you said 22, I thought it's 22 because I think if you are no it's it's the one where Magnus won came two and a half minutes late. That is because it is 22.

Yeah. So yeah, it was the same event where she was the first one where Freedom Broker actually. Yeah, and even before that, Savita has won. And I think we had a very early interview with her dad. Her dad's name is Bhaskar. If you just search on ChessBase India, this was done in 2018 when Savita was just 11 years old. Her father spoke about how he was living in, I think, one of the countries in the Middle East, and— or it was South Asia, I, I don't remember, Southeast Asia or Middle East, I don't know. And he was working there, and in order to sustain her daughter's chess career, he gave up the job. He came back, then put things on stake, and I think now this moment has come where, uh, she is performing incredibly Something about Savita where she, uh, you know, in order to improve her English, she actually watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Yeah.

And her English was so good. Yes, she— that was very nice.

Yeah, it's a, it's a great story. It also shows how Savita, uh, believes in, uh, how she can improve on her own. Yeah. Uh, her English was not at all good, and now if you talk To her, she has learnt it by watching movies. Think about it. That's just amazing. By the way, rook block. And now the thing is, Amruta, you can win in multiple ways. No, don't take that. Your queen is hanging. So maybe you can take the queen. That might be the easiest way to win.

Queen next queen. Checkmate. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, there is h5 check.

Okay, let's try to all calculate together. Forcing moves help your calculation abilities to improve. That if you are in the beginning stage, that's how you start. Ah, Sagar is calculating blind. So h5, king f5.

I was thinking now only move is knight e8. I felt queen is giving a check and now you can go king e5. King e6, King e4. These are the three moves that are possible.

Suppose I go King e6.

Yeah, King e6, Queen takes d6 should be strong, I believe.

King f7, h5, King f5, Knight e8 is a very good move found. If King e6, then there's a better way to checkmate with the rook. In the picture.

Rook e3, King d5, Queen d6, c4, Queen d— oh wait a minute, Queen b— wait a minute, let's mate properly. I think rook, maybe queen, queen b four.

Mate नहीं है, guys. The king is going back to d five. But it does look like the king is in the center. But you have to mate.

By the way, Amruta Savita found a very nice way, and I think that is the way. That's the most human way. She took the queen, and then she took the rook, and she's saying like. Why should I even bother here? And she will win. And I think Munguntul resigned, or well, they are looking at the other boards.

Munguntul may want to play on because she may want to, uh, yeah, just be there sometimes when your other teammates are playing. And Schrödinger is saying Munguntul and Mungun Tul. For a moment I thought both the players had the same name. No, no. One is Mumun Zul.

One is Tul. Now take on D six.

Take on F six.

F six नहीं अभी बस pawn push, pawn push, pawn push. Crazy जीती है सभी ता। You can see in the distance.

Can we go full screen on this one? Oops, not this has been stopped, but this one gives a good example of how team tournaments work because Savita is more now interested in the games of her teammates than her own game. She has already won it, and meanwhile Vaishali and Humpy are fighting. Savita's win will lead India to two-nil victory. We have the coach of the team, Swayams Mishra. प्रणय नाइन थैंक यू सो मच सेइंग दैट थैंक सागर फॉर प्रमोटिंग अदर ब्रॉडकास्टर्स। वी ऑलवेज बिलीव्ड इन दिस दैट वी डोंट वांट टू जस्ट बिल्ड वन कंपनी, वी वांट टू एक्चुअली बिल्ड द इकोसिस्टम ऑफ चेस। दैट हैज ऑलवेज बीन व्हाट वी आर टॉकिंग अबाउट And ecosystem means that you basically encourage more and more people to join in rather than alienating others. And I think that is something that really will grow the sport because chess is growing now and it needs to grow even further. And we need more people to come in. Like for example, you can see Rakshit Bhai here making his own entrepreneurial endeavor, which is Chess Hero. We see Circle Chess coming in now. We see Chess.com doing a lot of things in India. We see so many people coming in. I think it's just incredible. And talking of people who have supported Indian chess, we want to invite one guest to our live stream who has come all the way from India as just a chess lover And an incredible photographer, and he has been supporting Indian chess for years and years now. It gives me a great, great pleasure to invite Ashwin Subramanian here. Hello, Ashwin! Yes, Ashwin, can you come in a little bit? So Ashwin is someone who lives in Bangalore, and, uh, you know, he's— he works in a very big company, but he loves chess. And he has been attending every single big event for now almost six years, seven years, Ashwin. Yeah, almost like 2019 onwards. 2019 you haven't missed. Did you? Did you come to Chennai? Of course you came to Chennai Olympiad. Yeah. Then Budapest and now here. And how how are you enjoying the vibe here, Ashwin? Incredible amount of energy.

Wow! Attention to detail with the organization, but chaotic at the same time. So, so enjoying all aspects of it. Wow!

Look at the people dancing there. That's crazy. It's like you know there is Balbuda party happening every day here.

Are you planning to dance, Ashwin?

I didn't dance enough for that. Exactly.

But you know something very nice? Like Ashwin takes amazing. And over the period of so many years, his photography is just going more and more incredible. Right now it is at a very peak level in general, and he has this big lens.

And he also has an Instagram page which is called Ashwin Subramanian, right? Is that his name? A.K. Subram, A.K.S.U.B.R.A.M. And he makes these very interesting kind of ideas that twenty days dedicated to Prague, twenty days dedicated to Bukesh. Right now what is going on?

Right now I just finished Nihal.

Nihal Sarin.

I wanted to start a series with the women players.

I've not done that for a while. Or maybe now you will start with this Olympiad. Also, I have GCL as well. GCL pictures. So you can follow him. And by the way, Savita has just. वन हर गेम कुडोस तू सविता एंड अश्विन सविता इज़ ऑन फोर आउट ऑफ़ फोर एंड एस इंडियन प्लेयर ऑन हंड्रेड परसेंट स्कोर एस वी हैव अश्विन हियर अश्विन कैन यू डू द होनर्स ऑफ़ प्रेसिंग दिस बटन दैट विल अपडेट द स्कोरकार्ड देयर फ्रॉम वन जीरो टू टू जीरो नो नॉट दैट वन विमेन ल To India against Mongolia, and we have two boards going on. Humpy is in trouble, but you can see Humpy is losing here. But Vaishali is holding her own, and I think we should be able to get half a point from two boards to win this match.

By the way, there was a super chat by. Really bad gameplay. You aren't really winning against Levon till you see him offer the handshake. He's completely winning now, if not won already. And talking about Levon, exactly this is what we have seen. There are some category of players who we never know until the game is over. In fact, Mukesh Arjun are also those people.

But Ashwin, uh, you know, at GCL, uh, with Levon they had with the मैसूर सो हाउ वाज़ दैट अच्छे में यू नो एक्सपीरियंस जस्ट स्पेंडिंग लाइक 14 आर्स विथ हिम यू नो गोइंग तू मैसूर एंड कमिंग बैक वाज़ जस्ट इंक्रेडिबल वी हैड अलॉट ऑफ़ फन टुगेदर हाँ स्ट्रीम के बाद मिलता हूँ थैंक यू यार इंटरेस्टिंग थिंग अबाउट लवान्स गेम हर्षित ए In the media room, you were saying Levon is completely losing. I said you never know with Levon. And Arshad's, you know, thought process was in classical it's very difficult. Look at Levon, he's incredible.

Yeah, I think in general Levon is someone who never gives up. And I think he is also very positive. He sees positive sides. So maybe when he's playing, he's also looking at, oh, this is nice in my position. Let me try this. And very tricky there. And overall, Ashwin, now that you have attended so many tournaments, how do you see the chess developing overall from 2019 to 2026? I mean, extremely vibrant community, right?

A lot of, a lot of attention all over, and people are seeing the benefits of playing chess as well. A lot of, especially in India, I mean, it's very, very years we saw the GCN, kind of crowd that came in for that event was phenomenal. And what I'm seeing here in Uzbekistan is just incredible. I heard the Prime Minister was here today.

Yes. Oh yeah, nobody, you know, Prime Minister. Wow. You know, uh, even here, uh, in one of this booth we have the former Prime Minister of Mongolia. Who is here? Yeah, he's playing chess. He loves chess. So you know there are many amazing personalities just hanging around casually in this environment.

So it's beautiful to see this. Amazing. By the way, we have Vaishali's game and she's down to one minute. Yeah. Which I was not aware of at all. I did not expect. So that's 27 minutes. Can get very complicated. A six pawn cannot be saved. क्या जीतने का चांस हो सकता है क्या? अगर यार like this is absolute.

In general, Amruta, G five knight takes A six is hanging.

So you cannot save anyway. A six is gone. I think it's only up to H R to control.

Yeah and overall I think Uh, the time can play a factor here because already if Vaishali sees on her adjoining board that Hampi is losing, then it can put pressure on her. As we can see here, this is the kind of environment that both the players are playing in. Hampi looks quite stressed out. Her opponent is playing incredibly well, and Vaishali also can feel the pressure with just 1 minute. If both lose, it will be a two-two draw, and that wouldn't be a great result.

Material is equal actually over here. Maybe right now she is losing a pawn. Yeah. King f seven four. If you take here.

Yeah, I think there are some drawing chances. Yeah, there are some chances to draw the game here. With Vaishali and I mean in Humpy's game as well. But Humpy under pressure, she has twelve minutes, nine minutes. Her opponent has twelve minutes. And by the way, Ashwin, what did you go inside the venue and saw the teams playing like the Indian team? And how did that feel? I was I was a bit late.

Today, because I just came to Samarpan this afternoon, but I could spend about thirty minutes inside and it was fascinating. Just being there right by the I mean the energy, right? Being around the Indian team, the Uzbek team, the American team—they were all in three different rows pretty much right next to each other. And of course, the Chinese team with England and playing two world champions today. Actually, all of them are winning.

All top teams are winning. We thought there will be an upset. Set with maybe Ukraine beating USA or at least holding them to a draw. But with Levon turning it around, it is not happening.

But you got good photos. Yeah, absolutely. In Global Chess League, you was also we were at the stall and we were having fun. And as I was telling me, you know, I really. I want to be like Ashwin. Like, you know, I'm working somewhere, it's a steady thing, and then I'm also traveling for chess, right? Always able to contribute in some way to the chess ecosystem, which was, uh, very nice. I mean, you like— you don't know how you're inspiring.

Well, the thing is, I think in general Ashwin took the initiative on his own for many things. For example, he started the Pursue Your Chess Scholarship. Uh, for Help Chess, uh, way back in 2018, where the first scholarship had ₹50,000. And now that scholarship is into its 7th year, and that amount has risen to ₹2 lakh. So that is one. Then he also gives scholarships under Chess Gurukul Foundation of RB Ramesh. He's helped at least— maybe would the number be around 100 to 200 kids? For the right laptop, or maybe higher?

Probably around that number, maybe a bit higher. I don't remember, but yeah.

So many kids reach out to him to get the right laptop to work because he has knowledge of engines, what is used, and so on, and he helps every single one of them. So actually speaking, bit by bit, he has actually nurtured the chess ecosystem so nicely, helping so many people. So Ashwin, thank you for for doing that.

Also managing his job well and also being able to whenever you know he's able to take out time do that is incredible.

Just very grateful to be able to do everything.

Also improving his chess level. He is very strong. Yeah, guys. He's also like he he does coaching but not too much.

It's just a light, light kind of ATO World Amateur Champion. So that was a few years ago, back in 28.

Maybe when you retire, Ashwin, coaching can be an option. Playing coaching. Get your rating.

Yeah, that time you will be able to.

2403 is still there. Yes. By the way, Amruta, the move you mentioned is the same move that was Played by Mungunzul. She took on b6, which was not the best move because now allows Humpy to get some activity with knight d6. And if you take here, this position with knight coming here and opposite colored bishops could hold good chances for draw. And I must say that Humpy will have good chances, and that is happening. Knight d6, she takes the rook.

Let's Because yeah, knight b six would have been disastrous. You will end up in this situation with a superior knight and equal more. Well done. Let's go. We can't discard this. No completely.

What do you think? I think Humpty might get a draw, Amruta. Yeah. That's my feeling.

She trades knights. I think it's it's a draw.

For example, just to show if knight f five and you are careless enough to take. Look at this. It's already a draw.

Yeah, this one is a draw. But if you have to keep the knight under attack, if you were playing against me, yes. Do you think you will win this position?

I think an experienced player would draw this with black against an inexperienced player, and an experienced player would win this with white against an inexperienced player. And because Humphrey is the more experienced player, I feel she'll be able to hold this.

There will also be a touch win.

That these are the experience. By the way, we have a super chat here by Schrödinger's Cat. I've always been a huge follower. You and Samay made my COVID days. I was in Mumbai till recently, came to the club regularly on Saturdays. Is it still active? Also wishing India great tourney. Yes, it is still active. In fact, we want to share a very good news today that the chess club which we started in the Phoenix Market City Mall, and Ashwin, you've been there, is now expanded into 4 different cities thanks to Chola Chess. Uh, in Chennai they are doing it today. It opened in Bangalore in the Mall of Asia, that's your city, and in Pune today in Viman Nagar Phoenix Market City, Phoenix Mall. So actually 4 places, and maybe Chola Chess will start it at more places. Kudos to them for, you know, taking this initiative to do more.

You know that little cute little kid is so cute. He's wearing a shirt with Sundar.

Oh, on his shirt?

Yeah.

I saw a kid playing over here. He was 7 years old. He's strong. He's very strong. He's 2500 on Chess.com.

What? 7 years old?

7 years old.

Did you play with him?

No, I didn't play with him, but he was playing against some Somebody from Jamaica. Okay. And he was winning. I mean, he was—he lost one game on time, but he was winning and super strong for that age. And I heard he trains for nine hours a day. Really? So we probably are looking at a future next Indaro. Maybe one champion.

We need to have Harshit Raja versus seven-year-old.

So maybe you, Amruta.

Now if he's nine, like practicing nine hours, he's twenty one red on chess.

You can try. By the way, a question to everyone who's following this: knight takes d5. What is Vaishali's plan here? Not so simple. Knight takes d5. What to play? And the move here is the stunning, stunning. क्या दोनों को RCS asks, how come Ashwin is everywhere? Well, that is amazing. Ashwin is there where there is chess. King e4. Oh, sorry, double attack. And knight b6, only move. Take, check. Take, take, and most likely this will end in a draw because Vaishali can just sack here, go here, pick this up, and then it's a draw. And actually speaking, this would be a huge relief for India if that happens because she should think about drawing this game now because she has 1 minute 9 seconds. Meanwhile, Humpy on her board is Yeah, it's still a complex game.

Is that Vaishali on that?

I'm sure that there are players. Yes, that's Vaishali.

There are many players there. That is Vaishali.

I can't see it, it's too far. We have Basil Sylvester Pinto in the chat who is a well-known journalist from You might be aware of him. He says Ashwin is a legend.

That I agree.

Oh, by the way, knight d two played by Humpty. And now the thing is that this knight, I don't know where it is heading.

Knight b one maybe so that you want to tie down the a five for sure.

But there is a Beautiful move here, which is very tough to find. But if white finds it, would be very powerful, and that is h four. And the main point is, if you take, I go f four, f five, king h three, win this pawn and get a very strong bit of pawns. She goes king g three. Very tough.

But now you're threatening h four.

Guys, if there is a lot of surround sound, it's because the music has become very loud here.

Salutation to Ashwin sir.

Ashwin, after this, what are your plans? After the Olympiad, you are planning to. Go somewhere?

I'm going to Budapest for the Global Chess Festival for few days.

By Judith Polgar. That's the one.

Ashwin, uh, is a speaker at Global Chess Festival, which is one of the most amazing, you know, festivals Judith has, uh, managed to create. We were very lucky to attend during, you know, last Olympiad where, uh, like, guys, you remember Botvinnik was here and we were talking about a final which happened against Judith, and that one was where Sagar and Bodna and a few others, they got to play. Uh, it was a nice one.

Oh, meanwhile, Amruta Vaishali's move has come up, so let's just— and she does— oh, this has happened or something. So she did take bishop, Knight a6 takes and goes back with a check. She's a pawn down now. This can get a bit tricky because if Vaishali is losing and Hampi is losing, that could be dangerous.

नहीं but I think Hampi will manage a draw there and Vaishali will also manage a draw because at the end you are going to give a sacrifice at move.

Oh by the way, look at that knight. It's a bit trapped right here. It has but if you go knight b four for example. Let's say I go king d8, you go knight b4. I take, take. I don't know, I feel like, ah, you're coming in here. Maybe you have some tricks. Yeah, like bishop a5. Yeah, maybe Vaishali has enough activity to hold this. To a draw. That's actually good news for India, but the way in which the Mongolian girls have fought is very, very good.

I love your work.

You did go and follow it.

Anjana Devi says, "I am Indian. I live in Malaysia, and it's going to be 11 p.m. at night.

I have unrated." टूर्नामेंट तुम्हारा मॉर्निंग एंड आई एम स्टिल वाचिंग एंड दैट्स द रीज़न यू वाचिंग बिकॉज़ सो दैट यू कैन प्ले वेल बाय द वे वी हैव अ मैसेज फ्रॉम नील हु सेज आई मेट अश्विन एट सिंगापुर रिमेम्बर दैट वी हैड अ कलेक्टिव गैस्प इन द फाइनल गेम व्हेन डिंग लिरेन मेड अ हिस G five, Vaishali down to twenty seconds.

Okay, time का थोड़ा tension तो है यार। Knight b four, I like. Because either you take it, if you don't then king d four knight.

Yeah. Oh no, I don't want to go in bishop endgame. No, you could potentially go because your king, these pawns are on dark squares.

But I would like to avoid. Meanwhile, Ashwin is not analyzing chess with us.

Yeah, I can't match your speed.

No, no, you can suggest some ideas.

By the way, here she should have gone h4. Like, when King f7, h4. I'm pretty sure h6 would have been played, and maybe trading one pawn could have left it a bit weaker. She didn't do it. She went King f Knight b3. This game is still unsure whether it will end in a draw or will Mungunzul convert it. Very talented girl from Mongolia, Ashwin. She's born in 2005. I think she's the next, uh, like the big player of Mongol chess in girls.

Coming. This is white bishop low on square. Can Hampi trap it?

So white bishop has a lot of That's not going to get trapped.

Watching from Canada, says Vinod Amin. Canada candidates are you know forever etched in our hearts. You went to Canada also, Ashwin. No. Do you plan to go to Switzerland for the World Championship? For sure.

And total chess in Switzerland?

I want to, but I don't think I'll be able to do both.

Probably do just the World Championship this time.

Maybe next year. You could do the final days of, uh, but then you will miss the Switzerland final.

So it's just like you enjoy chess Do you enjoy chess players? What do you, what do you like the most when you come to a tournament?

I think every aspect of it. I mean, I, my chess, at least I feel like my chess improves when I come to a tournament, just watching people play. I enjoy doing photography, I enjoy interacting with players, I enjoy talking to both of you because most of the tournaments I come to, you both are there.

We are, we are traveling a lot, so we are there always.

Yeah, it's probably what, apart from sleeping, every other hour I'm thinking and breathing chess. So wow.

Actually, Ashwin gave us the books which really changed our life.

Oh, there is a, there is a video in our channel where you can see all of Ashwin's book collection. More than 1,000 chess books he has. So original. Yeah.

No, many people nowadays are having ₹100 pirated copies, right?

Okay, going to Humpy's Game.

He won, by the way. He won. Wow. And I've always admired his resilience. Also a great person. I always His love is drawn with children in India when he comes to Kolkata in winters for Tata Steel.

Yeah, Levon is like this guy who has somehow has so much resilience. If you think about him, he has seen so much in his life, right? Like overall, apart from chess, just the person that he is. He has lost someone very close in his life, and then he's. Gone on to come out stronger out of it, has a wonderful partner with him right now, a daughter. Then he shifted from his country, which is Armenia, now is in US. All of these things has put so much perspective and so much of different things in his life, uh, that when you meet him, you meet a man who has seen life in depth, in totality, like the full spectrum And so when he's in a bad position, maybe he just doesn't, doesn't worry too much. Like, you know, he's seen too many things in his life. Who is Rajesh Shukla? Do you know?

I don't know.

JP says, I've seen the personal book collection at Ashwin sir's house. It's amazing.

Yeah, he had visited us home once.

Nice.

And Prabhat does very good videos also.

Ashwin is from which district of Karnataka? I mean native. I'm a native of Chennai.

Native of Chennai, but I've lived in Mysore for many years and then Bangalore for many years. So I did a lot of my schooling in Mysore, college in Bangalore, and of course work Oh, and king g six and Mongulzul Mongulzul made the next move.

King e two calmly playing here.

Where is the king going? Like does she want to enter?

Yeah, king d one, king c two. Well, I'll just keep improving. You know the thing is one of the most important thing is to bring humpy down on the clock.

But I'm also going to go look, maybe h5, maybe h4, or if I get a right opportunity, even g4. Yeah, yeah, the knight on b3 is definitely not going anywhere, right? So that's a bit of a—

so I have a feeling that Hampi's position is much tougher to hold than Vaishali's position, because in Vaishali's position it's getting clarified quicker. Like you can go king d four, knight d five, and so on. By the way, Ashwin, where where do where are you staying here? I'm staying in Mohan. What is it? It's outside. It's outside. So you have had a long day.

So if you want to hang, you know, stay here, please feel free.

Whenever you want to go and we will go to your hotel. Yeah. I'll probably, I'll see. Yeah, because this might also get late in terms of the transport and all.

Is it first time Ashwin has joined our stream? Yes, actually. Yes. He's maybe said hi or something.

No, he has come once and played online on the stream with Jagdish.

Yeah, the energy you both bring throughout the day is incredible.

Thank you. Thank you. I think, uh, one very, uh, interesting thing we have this time, the sponsor of our stream, and that is Neuro, and it brings a lot of energy and focus, uh, in what we are doing. So thank you, Neuro, for supporting us. By the way, अश्विन सर आदर्शेश्वर सेस ही हैज मेट यू एट एन इवेंट आफ्टर गुकेश वन वर्ल्ड चैम्पियनशिप आल्सो एन अमेजिंग वीडियो ऑफ हिम हैविंग कलेक्टेड मोर देन थाउजेंड बुक्स ऑलवेज रिप्लाइज नाइस्ली तू द चैट्स दैट आई कैन अटेस्ट तू दैट इज़ ऑलवेज ट्रू आल्सो नूतन वांट्स टू नो How long were you there in Mysore, sir?

Like, I was there—

I was in Mysore for at least 7 years or so. Mysore is a pretty small city, so yeah, wherever you are, you're pretty close to each other.

Tej Kumar is in Mysore.

Yeah, I think he lives in this—

he lives— he has an academy in Mysore. Um, and also, guys, if you ever want to check out what Ashwin is doing, you can also check out what Ashwin's better half Aruna is doing. She has a brand called Mane Bakes and she does amazing stuff with cooking, and you can just search about it online. It's also very cool.

The sourdough breads, it's one thing I'm going to miss really badly the next 10 days. The food, the food of Aruna. Oh, breakfast, lunch, dinner, all three.

Oh, meanwhile, as Vaishali down to 40 seconds, g4 played. She can take— no, actually, no, she can take knight g4, king e4, and now f4 is hanging. And if you take here, take here, knight d5. So actually, I think, yeah, this is, this is good news for क्या बात है मैं भी F three oh my god what is this G five right no saga G five lose this everything else loses let's see if the guys can find it Ashwin looks like the scientist yes come on Ashwin can you find it King E three check King F four F two this will queen in forty five seconds actually a tough moment Bishop E one Bishop E one would lead To f two, I think, and then bishop f two you lose the knight. So perhaps king.

Oh man, how can you find?

King e three is only by method of elimination. Beautiful play by Mungzul Turmuk. She's only move is knight c two twenty seconds and she finds it. Oh, wow! She found it. I saw it on the video. Let me just confirm if that happens on the board. She played it. Knight c two only move.

Why was this the only move? Because I'm not everything else.

Why was it not working? Which one? You said king e three. King e three bishop f four check. Directly king takes f two.

कुछ भी नहीं रोक सकता f one.

And um and g five you said that one had a knight g four. G five knight e four. Very tough.

Um, g four was also working or it didn't work?

Yeah, it didn't work somehow, Amrita, because knight can come back. But here after knight c two, she takes on g four again. Vaishali down to twenty seconds, but this time the margin is slightly bigger perhaps.

I just have to go. 93. Now 93 can be fine. 93, king e3, and I win the—

I'm a bit worried about 93 check and winning this pawn.

93, 93, king e3, bishop f4 check.

Yes, she plays 93, but she will take with the bishop. No hurry. Then king e4 and win this pawn.

Oh, but my God, look at this!

93. You can't take with the king, right? Check, as we just saw. So bishop takes, and now bishop g3 threatening f2. And you have to be very careful here. But maybe just wait, do nothing. Like wait here. If f2, come back, come back. Because if you try to be active, you will lose with f2. So maybe waiting is the best.

So you have to be accurate actually.

You're very, very accurate. Tricky endgame. Even if it looks very simple, I mean, somehow Mungzul took things like, you know, she said this is the moment where I have to try because Vaishali is down to 1 minute, and she tried, but that made Vaishali find those couple of accurate moves which gets her a draw. So I think it was a very exciting few moves that happened, guys. All those who are joining in right now, Indian Open team won 3-1 against Spain, and Indian women team is leading 2-0 with Hampi and Vaishali playing. And if one of them makes a draw, we win today's match and both our teams go into round 5 with 4 victories.

See who makes the first draw.

Yeah, people were a bit stressed on that move.

Knight c2 was not easy, and I think Vaishali shows that being a world championship challenger is not Only about winning games, but also holding inferior positions.

What about Humpy? Anything has changed? Well, Humpy is getting closer to draw because if this three versus two, if it gets exchanged, then it's awesome.

Let's go, Humpy! As we said, the more experienced player often is able to outwit the lesser experienced one in such games.

Who asked such thing? Yeah. Question for you. How long have you been in chess for? Please tell us something about your journey.

Yeah, I learned— I think I played chess competitively for about 3 years in the '90s because I moved to Mysore. I used to play a lot of cricket. Mysore, there was not any cricket, so— and the World Championship was going on between Kasparov and Karpov, so that got me into learning chess and playing it competitively. And then I gave up for a long time. It was just playing online, and when I started teaching my daughter, I resumed playing open tournaments again. So that's how my journey went.

So your resume— resumption of your chess journey was not very old, like maybe 2015 or something? 2000— yeah, I think 2013.

2013 onwards. Nice. 2012, 2013.

By the way, what happened? Argentina lost to Armenia. That's what. Ah, because Postino may have drawn, but others may have lost. Tomorrow is pretty strong. Sorry, Armenia has a very good team now with Haik Martirosyan on board one, Shant Sergisyan, and also Gabriel Sergisyan on board number four. He is like this legend of of Olympiad victories, and he always wins kind of his games. So I think Armenia has a strong team. And there we see the variation panning out. She will take another pawn, she will take here, and this will be a long endgame because, you know, Vaishali cannot risk, I think, going like— let's imagine a move like Knight e7. You go here, this should be still a theoretical draw, this position, but I don't think anyone would risk risk it in a game, like going there and taking.

Why not? This is—

yeah, no, no, it's a draw, but somehow you feel like, I mean, why should I give up my piece for a pawn? I will hang in there. And so this will go on for another 50 moves, I feel. This is my feeling. Oh, by the way, f2 played. She's like, I don't even— and now once again Vaishali has to find the only move, Knight f1. Oh my God!

But तुम वही कहलोगे ना? You want to bring the king to E3 or bishop to E3?

Yeah, she finds it. Well, Amruta.

Tia Saman says that's vitality. Vitality. Nightboard अभी वो काफी अच्छे से सिंधारा को पेश बोलने लगा। Until for two years he is talking about Ding versus Dukesh. Even after candidates. Did did Rakshit change it or test somebody? I don't know.

Maybe AI. By the way, Pushkar Kale says only two players on four out of four in the open section: Anish and Khuyak Sok, Mongolia. Wow! So Anish Giri on four out of four? Incredible. That's insane. Anish playing in Inspired chess at the Olympiad.

He looked very happy when he came out.

Yeah, what happened in Germany and Poland? That's a very good question. Yeah, but very quickly, let me just check. Came out pretty happy. I think Vincent must have drawn against Duda. Uh, draw. No, there was draw, draw, draw. Top three boards draw and the last board Donchenko is still winning. So I think Germany will beat Poland two and half, one and half. No, Knight f1 Turmu has not played. Ah, she played Knight.

The only thing is fifty seconds and if you keep landing in position of like for example if you play bishop.

E three, I think you will lose because after takes takes a check defends the pawn and then the king will come and round this up. So actually speaking, Vaishali now needs to carefully move her bishop away, but maybe here and here. Yeah, bishop F four. Yeah. Well, it's okay, but I think Vaishali is playing with fire here. What if I take? Take next move you are coming and easy should be easy.

So but what if you don't take? Yeah, what if you don't? Bishop c five then bishop g three.

No, bishop c five king d five king d five and I somehow you are still surviving with bishop d six because I take you take back but I mean this is proving to be quite स्टोन टेस्ट फॉर वैशाली और इट्स नाइस टू सी एप्लीकेशन ऑफ़ सर्टेन कॉन्सेप्ट्स यू ओनली हियर ऑफ़ नाइट बीइंग द बेस्ट ब्लॉकेडर और पासपोर्ट बीइंग सीन इन एक्शन सिस पेरिनियल वांडर ओह पेरिनियल वांडर गुड वन लेट्स ज़ूम इन ऑन दिस टू बोर्ड्स नाउ विथ देम ओनली वंस गोइंग We are actually streaming this. Here is only our board and camera which is going. We have this entire OBS on a remote computer, remote machine, a virtual machine. Thanks to Nordwin Gaming who has set this up for us. Yes, with with stable internet, so we don't have to worry if the internet drops here. Even if We go away and we can just change— someone can change the scene to a full screen here like this, and then people can continue watching.

All the worst-case scenarios were prepared. Well, Arbiter is giving score sheets, uh, because I think they have completed 60 moves. So normally you need a new score sheet.

Wow, it's like, you know, the past, the present, uh, Indian chess and the legend of Indian chess both fighting together. Vaishali and Hampi. So nice to see actually, because Humpy has already played a world championship match against Ho Yifan, and now Vaishali will play against Ju Wenjun.

These will be the only two people from India who have played women's world championships.

That was nice—the present and the legend.

Yeah.

And meanwhile, let's check Hampi because if Hampi is able to hold, then the pressure on Vaishali reduces. But even here, you know, somehow this game will go on.

Go on कितना जाएगा? Two minutes, three minutes, and one and a half minutes.

You can go on for thirty second increment for another two hours.

No. No. Two hours maximum maybe.

ओह बाय द वे निर्जर शर्मा सेज़ आई वांट टू ड्रॉ द अटेंशन टू द हार्डवर्क ऑफ़ द आर्बिटर्स दे कीप स्टैंडिंग देयर कीपिंग एन आई ऑन द गेम पर फाइव टू सिक्स आवर्स दैट्स इंसेन ट्रू ट्रू आई थिंक आर्बिटर्स आर द अंडरअप्रिशिएटेड पीपल इन द वर्ल्ड ऑफ़ चेस विदाउट देम आई थिंक The arbiters and also the organizers. These 2 people always get a lot of flak when things go wrong, but when things go right, no one talks about it because it's just meant to be, right?

And you know, arbiter role is not easy actually. The one if we are talking about very focused, because there are many arbiters but they are not focused also during a chess game. But, uh, many of them are focused, and if actually that is also one career possibility Yeah, for sure.

I think arbiters is becoming a possible—

fair play officers are there, that's another one. So chess is, uh, you know, growing in the branches of careers in a way.

Tremendous opportunities.

Yeah, one new field which is opening up— oh, sorry, I— one new field that's opening up quite a bit recently, by the way, they did trade bishops here. And she's gonna give. This should end in a draw after take, take, but she will lose the c6 pawn.

But you can't lose this in any way, right?

Like, yeah, you have to somehow figure out way to sacrifice your knight for the pawn.

Yeah, I don't think Vishali will lose.

It's a draw. Yeah.

Yay!

So then, by the way, on Help Chess we had a contributor, Venumbakka. Thank you so much for contributing to Help Chess and becoming a believer of Indian chess. And we also had Vidyut. And yeah, I did read about them, so thank you all who have contributed.

You know, Indian teams getting two goals and at least two players getting two individual goals.

Last time we had four players getting individual goals: Divya, Vantika, Gukesh, and Arjun. All of them won goals apart from India getting two.

So this time the reason in twenty two.

Mukesh got a gold and Nihal got silver.

So Anish is trying for a gold because on top board, I think, uh, Nihal on third board would be definitely in the race.

Nihal is 3.5. Savita on board, 4 out of 4.

But I think other people maybe will have to wait.

You, do you know Savita well? Have you interacted with her?

Yeah, quite a bit. In fact, when Frederick had the 2020 camp, we all met at a coffee shop, and even when we did the heart rate monitoring, we like—

oh yeah, Tata Steel. Tata Steel, actually Ashwin had—

she was playing there, right?

Made the heart rate.

Sagar bhai, do you think we'll get the double gold repeat? I think we have to take one match at a time. As you can see, every match has its own ups and downs, and what feels very good at some point, with one blunder, can turn around the entire fortune of our gold medal journey. So you cannot ever be sure in the Olympiad. But if you are careful enough, if you have a strong team, someone is losing, someone rises up. Like today, we had Pragg winning. And then suddenly he made a mistake, but Gukesh started to win. So it's always nice to have like strong players who stand up for each other.

Guys, I just want to show you for a moment. These are the goals. These are the chances. So the goal chances for you to see for the Team India, India 24. Women, this is women. But that is life-changing. So this is, you know, connected at school.

Live it's 24%, while in open India has 14.1 and US has 16.4, Uzbek has 13.5. This is all based on game scores, victories in matches, and how the tournament is progressing.

Yeah, until we are in top. 3 all the time. I think that helps a lot. We'll bring more statistics, but thank you, Shidish. Oh, and this game is moving towards a draw.

And by the way, people now can watch our live commentary here in the Television as well. So if anyone wants to follow, it's a new new thing introduced. Yeah, it's like I saw some people walking here and looking at oh what's happening. Nihal Sarin had won the individual gold in 22 as well. Oh, so it was the individual gold on board too. Sorry, in my mind it was something related to. But it was board two, not silver. Thank you, Pratichi, for correcting. Oh, Chess with Krishna says I had emailed for collab in Maithili language. I had read it actually. He had written about the Maithili language. I read it actually, but I was also a bit kind of confused or I didn't know how to proceed there. So we'll see. I'll think about it. Oh, Vaishali drew! Oh, Vaishali drew! This is a draw already. They accepted a draw. I thought they will keep playing, but no. Nice! Which means that let's do the final honors of updating the score here, and maybe Ashwin, you can click these two. Sorry, women. Women left, yeah, or both? Left and right because it's a draw. And there we have an updated scoreboard: 2.5-1, 2.5-0. India has beaten Mongolia.

But Hampi is not stressed about, you know, the result of the team, but our opponent also kind of like even loses motivation a little bit.

It does impact in some way, so She's playing Humpty, so she's gonna keep fighting because winning against somebody is like this.

It would be a big achievement for her, just like how for Prin beating Arjun in round 1 from Thailand was a big thing. Uh, so yeah, yeah, that's right. For, uh, Mungunzul Bat Erdin, this could be a life-changing moment, but her team can no longer win.

Or draw.

Sudan Shu Ranjan says, "I took an autograph of Hampi Vishy Sindarov Aronian Arjun in Bengaluru." I think the GCL was such an insane event for Indian chess and Indian chess fans. Usually you have to travel to at least four or five events to get all these players, and here you go to one event and you. Meet everyone. It's very rare. So GCL is truly a boon for Indian chess and the chess world. I hope it keeps growing.

I hope it keeps happening in Bangalore.

Oh yeah! Actually, everybody loved in Bangalore. Yeah. Prem Krishna says, "Tell a hi to Ashwin." This is Prem, Ashwin's friend from Bangalore, watching your stream from Chicago, U.S. since five a.m. in the morning. Ask him how's the food in Uzbekistan.

I've not yet eaten food in Uzbekistan, but hopefully it's good. I mean, the I did have breakfast in Tashkent. The spread was actually very nice. Quite a few people scared me when I met Vidit at GCL. He was like, "Why are you coming to Samarkand?" We just met here in Olympia. He said food is tricky there. Divya told me the same thing. Why Samarkand?

Yeah, I think the food has been pretty decent. But did you come by bullet train?

Not bullet train, it was a fairly normal train.

From Tashkent to Samarkand?

Yeah, it took 3 hours or so. It was not bullet train. When I'm going back, I'm taking the bullet train. Oh, but the breakfast spread in the Tashkent hotel was very nice. I was happy. So I'll have to figure out the rest of it. So Prem, I'll let you know.

Yeah, might be the wrong occasion to ask this question, Perennial says, but do you have any thoughts about Fabi's general criticism of GCL as an entity? He said global— the global spirit of the league no longer exists. Well, I think it's an interesting point, uh, because 2 years back to back it has been in India. Also, the team owners are all Indians. It started by an Indian company, uh, I think it's fair to think of it as more Indian than, than global. But at the same time, we have to remember that they did 2 editions in Dubai and in London, and they also have the best players in the world without really saying that, oh, we want Indian players. So it goes rating-wise. There's no real, um, There's nothing like, you know, in IPL you have 4 players per team can be Indian or, you know, minimum. There's nothing like that. In fact, I think one of the teams last season or this season had no Indian in the team. So, that brings the global aspect. I would think that if 2 or 3 other teams from 6 increases to 10 and there will be more global owners of the team, that would already bring another global element. And the only thing is that everyone has kind of agreed that the love for chess that is there in India is kind of not so easy to compare anywhere else in the world.

Like the fans which come, the spectators who are really interested, so many things can be done, you know. I think once it settles a bit in India, then it's easier to do more in the foreign countries because you exactly know what you want, you have polished it.

So well, but I I can get it what Fabi is saying. At the same time, I do feel that the organizers are also battling with this question of what to do.

So maybe the next couple of years, owners have to come forward then from foreign countries also. That could help. Seems like a possibility. Yeah, Uzbekistan in general.

Definitely. I mean the the reception at the hotel. This morning, the person knew Gokesh. He knew Sindara. He knew about the Olympia. He knew World Championship is happening. He knew what's happening in Geneva.

Like when he actually even in our hotel, he asked for Pragnananda, Gokesh, like their name. It is interesting.

By the way, Hampi's position, if you think about it, this bishop is calmly protecting this pawn. Correct? And the knight is attacking, but there's no way to introduce another attacker. So this is a very solid structure. At the same time, the knight is always hassling by attacking this, so the bishop has to constantly tend to it. The only way that white can try to create something— King g3 checkmate. Yeah, king g3 would be a check and losing the pawn— is to create a passer here. But even when you create a passer, how do you move forward? Because the king on g6 is a nice blockader. So You may have to try and bring your king in here, which is again very tough with this knight always controlling these key squares. So in a way, the resistance that Hampi can provide in this position is very high. It's not at all easy for, uh, Mungunzul to win.

Because then if the knights get exchanged, most likely this will end in a draw. So she can't do that. Bishops can't get exchanged with each other. फिर तो दिस इज़ दिस इज़ सागर एक्चुअली इट्स अ ड्रॉ या लाइक एंड द ओनली वे फॉर व्हाइट टू स्टिल ट्राई द बेस्ट इज़ टू पुश द पॉन एट सम पॉइंट अदरवाइज़ तो 50 मूव्स यहाँ पे होएगा देंजिल पुश द पॉन एक्सचेंज हो गया अनदर 50 मूव्स एंड यू आर मेबी राइट दिस कैन गो ऑन एंड ऑन By the way, K.

Naveen says, "I don't understand why every time something is put together by Indians, a ton of criticism is there one way or the other. If this done by anyone else, no questions would be asked." Thank you, K. Naveen, by the way, for being a pillar of Indian chess for 62 months. I personally think that. Being like this sentiment of Indian versus this. I don't think Fabi is someone who believes in this. Maybe he's someone who's very objective about his things. Uh, he in fact praises Pragg whenever he does well. He praises Gukesh when he does well. He also speaks bad about them when they don't do well. Very objective person in general. So I've never really felt from him that, oh, he's biased towards this nation or that nation or so on.

Yeah, Ravi is a nice guy. I mean, in general, he's objective.

That's my— that's the biggest thing I've always seen about him. He's very, very objective. By the way, Humpy taking a bit of risk by pushing her pawn one step forward, because if this pawn is lost, then White would have 2 passers. But Humpy essentially saying, now I control this square. Yeah, and this square. So how do you get This, of course you can attack with the bishop, but then my king gets and defends it.

ये तो ऐसा लग रहा है, guys. If you have to come to Samarkand, okay, to watch this thing, there is a Silk Route. तो वहाँ से this whole road is the Silk Route, but there is a barricade over there. So taxi has to drop us down, and only from there we will get a shuttle bus or a golf cart. So you think this is the barricade? Yeah, and then you go inside in a golf cart. Nice. Direct taxi से फटाक से दो मिनट का रास्ता था, but उधर रुकना पड़, उधर ना पड़ गया। That's how it is. Aniksha Sagar, I am a big fan of yours and I have been watching you for the past 2.43 years. Great, 2.43. It's a good calculation. So it would be good if she could give me her autograph next year at GCL.

It would mean a lot. So will you give her the autograph?

Give him the autograph?

Yes, I mean next GCL if you are there. I'm there also. कल का किसको पता?

ना यहाँ मरना यहाँ एक बार जाना and bishop d8 let's go king h5 to defend this pawn. Kudos to Humpty actually by the way is the Oh, it's— I thought the camera was stuck, but no, it's going on.

We can also go over— like, is this the only game in that area going on?

We can check. By the way, we also have this nice view here. We have this overview camera where we can see it from here. The other one has some more games going on. Oh, that's the Greece game. Greece versus, I think, uh, some other country. Kourkoulos is playing there. Let's go back to this view. I think this one is a nice one. And you know, fighting such games requires so much energy. It drains. I think for Humpty, it will be maybe an even an idea to take rest tomorrow after such a long game. But then again, your team needs you when you face a top team. So you need a lot of energy here.

No, but the good part is like everybody is strong in the team and she can afford a rest.

I don't know, I don't know if you need— if your opponent is 2450 on top board, you want Hampi to play? By the way, Ashwin, you, you know this maybe better than others. If you could answer this for our chat, that how much of physical effort is needed when you play chess? Like, how intense is it as compared to any other physical sport? Is it the same? Is it different? Is it way lesser?

It's actually pretty intense. I mean, I wouldn't say it's as intense as another physical sport, but, you know, when you're playing chess, your mind is very active and your mind burns a lot of calories. Your brain burns a lot of calories. So that's one thing. Second thing is your heart rate can go up Quite significantly. I've seen heart rates go all the way up to 160-170 while playing chess.

Yes.

I feel during classical, it probably goes even higher. I mean, we normally tend to think that heart rate goes up when you're playing fast. That's not the case. You know, in slower games, you have more time to think and more time to feel scared of what's going on or what might happen and, you know, things like that. So it is physiologically and psychologically quite draining. And you do need a lot of rest to recover.

So that's why when chess players say I need rest, many people think like, what, why do you need rest? You are anyway just playing chess. But it's like, like mentally you need to recover.

Not only mentally, I think physically also, because you are burning a lot of calories, you are, you know, losing a lot of energy. People have lost weight just, yeah, you know, just going through a tournament.

I mean, it has different effect on different Did you only tell that there is this?

So there was this book, *The Longest Game*, by Timmins, where Caspero versus Carpo all the world championship matches were covered. And in that, so the longest game they mentioned that Carpo actually lost like ten kilos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you went.

I think I had read about it. Yeah.

I mean, it was mainly for the fear of Carpo's health that that match was cancelled, right? And Caspero was protesting, saying, you know, he didn't want that match to be cancelled because he was coming back. Well, it was 5-0 and it was 5-3, but they said, oh, they were worried about Karpov's health. Wow. Right? I mean, they said health of both the players, but it was really Karpov's health that they were worried about.

If you like such stories, you should check out the book Longest Game. And in fact, we've never done what we should always do, that people who have very many, many books They should tell their top five or top ten best books because Ashwin has also opened and looked at many of them, right? So we should do that with Ashwin later. And can you guess who is in the chat?

I saw it.

Avir is there. Avir is live.

Hello. Amruta. Avir from.

Can we make him a mod? Yeah, from your one. So Avir is our nephew.

Good to see you guys live. And I chat. I will tell you please if you can go and subscribe to his channel. He's streaming, he's playing. Has he started already? Many times. He did such amazing in the beginning only when you taught him a bit of OBS. He was already so good in talking. I can't believe he's very young. But check it out.

Maybe Avir, you can send one more message so I can make you a moderator on this channel.

But yeah. And Rooney has super chatted. Very talented boy. Yeah. Don't you think GCL first needs to cover Indian audience? That's easy. Hundred K Indian live viewership possible. Maybe renaming it to Indian Chess League, drafting one player to each team and live auction main.

Yeah, I think it's it's a very.

To get the name Indian Chess League is not a.

Not not like that. I think Amrita, it's possible to have it rebranded, but it's just a question of whether you want to rebrand it. It's also the vision of Tech Mahindra, Anand Mahindra, that they wanted to make it a global tournament. It's also the team owners who have invested 4 years of their, uh, journey in naming a team, building up a fan base. So whether to change names and all, it looks easy to suggest, but there's a lot of thought that needs to go behind such strategic decisions. So I also would many times think, ah, let's introduce the name of a city. It would make it so easy. Instead of, let's say, uh, you know, for example, American— Fyers American Gambits— let's make it Fyers, uh, Bengaluru Gambits or something like this. And, uh, you realize that, okay, that's also a brand, Fyers American Gambits. People have invested in it, there are sponsors who have backed it, and so on. So to change names may not be as simple, but I do get it that there is a need To think through this, and I'm sure that the key stakeholders are already taking this into consideration after a very positive addition that happened. Because I think in the end we had close to 20,000 concurrent viewers watching the finals. So that was already a nice thing. And what you say is right: if it reaches 50k, 100k, that would really push it in the right direction. Oh, they drew! They drew! Draw. Let's go! No loss today. No loss today.

Oh, we won in both open and women's sections. So that was okay. It was a long game for women's, but a very good result. Yeah, man, that was such a fight. We all know India can win the Olympiad. I was 1600 पे डे at at nine no tournament since now eighteen can I become a CM in six months chief minister का तो पता नहीं chess में CM तो बन पाओगे six months का पता नहीं right and by the way somehow in this position We have the other view. Let me just put it up.

Yeah, like she.

I think she's just she's also low on time actually.

And maybe G two अभी तो H four के बाद it became like a fortress. No, you can't really do much. King on H two is also trapped.

Yeah, I think at some point the players also might have lost energy and.

I feel the way Hampi played this is really instructive.

Yeah, she actually just kept on fighting, and she had a better position out of the opening, but she didn't really then worry about, oh, what, what had happened, you know. She just focused on what she had. Great fight by Hampi, and the women's team hasn't lost a single game yet. So, uh, neither of the players have lost Which is quite nice. And with these two wins, we will face a very strong opponent tomorrow. It is already going to be the fifth round. We are closing in on the halfway mark, and at sixth round, after the sixth round, we will have a rest day. So that that is when the rest day will be. There are many interesting things that are going to happen on the rest day. There's also the FIDE Excellency Awards here that's going to happen. There's the Elections that's going to happen. There's the the tournament that's going on. So too many things that will happen here over the next few days. Thank you all for being with us.

Bermuda party is going to happen. मतलब that is one thing which I feel like everywhere people talk about it, so excited about it. कि maybe more tournaments need such a party, Sagar. Get to see Sagar dance.

Yes, I will be looking forward to it. We have also invited some of our players. They said depends on the result. So we hope that India keeps winning so that we have more people like Arjun, maybe Gukesh, all these youngsters coming to the Bermuda party. That's pretty well known. Yeah, he dances well. Yes, we saw it at Vidit's wedding. And, uh, just a quick recap for everyone. Indian Open team won 3-1 thanks to victories by Gukesh and Arjun, both with white pieces, and draws by Nihal and Prag with the black pieces. Very solid. Prag was winning but couldn't convert. 3-1. Then we went to the women's section, and that win was against Spain. In the women's section, we faced Mongolia. It started off with a very smooth win by Divya Deshmukh. She was never really in trouble, just won her game. And the second win came by Savita Shree, who is on 4 out of 4 in this tournament, and she beat one of the most experienced players of Mongolian chess. That was 2-0. But then came the pressure with Vaishali being worse on her board slightly and Humpy being seriously worse on her board. Both of them showed great experience and calmness, drew their games, and 3-1 is the score against Mongolia.

Wow, that was a quick, quick update.

No, very quick update. And, uh, thank you.

Are you gonna shoot recap?

Yes, I will go and shoot a recap now. Uh, and thank you, Ashwin, for joining in. Thank you. And, uh, thank you, Amruta, for being here. Ashwin is really handsome. Oh, I don't know what does mogger mean.

No idea, no clue.

But that's why I wrote read only till handsome.

Okay, and cool. And we want to thank a lot of people here who made this stream happen. First of all, a big thanks to FIDE because we are in the FIDE store and this is a nice place where we get to see what's happening and sometimes players also to join. It's very easy. We also want to thank them for the shirt, very nice one. Show them the summer concert. We also want to thank Nordwind Gaming for you know making the stream so easy that way. We also want to thank so many, so many more people. हाँ, सबको आज कैसे thank करेंगे? मैं तो कल सबको thank किया था। मतलब जितना हो पाया हो। We want to thank Iman and Abidaya who are here and working very very hard and the team back home where you know they are editing and they are doing. So all of them last day सागर सर की बहुत लोगों को thank तो करने ही वाले हैं। तो let's not forget and also and mods को thanks yes mods thank you mods को भी because they are on unpaid service ऐसे chat में चल रहा था so really thank you and we hope to really make more mods in this tournament but it is very difficult to like थोड़े लोग अभी आ रहे हैं नाम but I believe over a period of next few days it will become easier to keep the names in mind and we'll definitely do it. So thank you all.

Take care. See you tomorrow at 3 PM local time, 3:30 Indian time. Bye-bye.